FRIDAY,%MAY 23, .1941
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itzkriegl
Defense Profs
Hold Good Jobs
Responsible positions in indus
try are held by 83 per cent of
the 362 instructors teaching in
the part-time engineering de
fense training of the College ex
tension services, according to
figures released yesterday by J.
Orvis Keller, assistant to the
president in charge of extension.
"Working in industry as they
do, these men!. all of whom are
college graduates in engineering
and other technical fields, are
familiar with industrial needs and
are thus particularly well equip
ped to teach in - our program," Mr.
Keller said. "Most of the remain
ing teaching personnel are mem
bers of the academic profession
who teach the more highly theo
retical subjects."
The engineering defense train
ing classes of the College, oper
ating in 50 towns and cities
throughout the state, are part of
a nation-wide program being
sponsored by the U. S. Office of
Education to prepare men for
more responsible jobs in the de
fense industries. As an exten
sion of this program, the College
will offer this summer a full day
time, 10-week, tuition free course
to more than 5,000 high school
—gzaduates in 100 towns in Penn
sylvania.
The Chinese wall is 17 feet and since .1929 president of the
wide,,and about 16 feet of it re- board; James Milholland, a mem
ber of the board since 1930; and
mains above ground.. Including
the spurs, curves and loops,
it s James L. Mauthe, who has serv
length is 2550 miles. ed on the board since 1938.
_Naomi, lion Tradition Began
As Brainchild OF ° Lemon' Editor
Symbolizing "dignity, courage, the Lion!"
and magnificence—everything that Using the Lemon as a medium,
our college spirit should approxi- Mason kept hammering away at
mate," the Nittany Lion, a 34- an apathetic student body.
year-old tradition, was the brain
child of a student editor.
"Dignified, courageous, magni-
In 1907, back in the days when ficent, the Lion allegorically rep-
Penn •State could with justification resents all that our college spirit
boast, a humor magazine, the idea should be; so why not the Nittany
of adopting an animal emblem as Mountain Lion?" he pleaded. "Why
a collegiate ideal was conceived can't State have a kingly, all-con
by H. D. "Joe" Mason 'O7, editor quering Lion as an eternal sen
of the Lemon, the College's first tinel?"
humor publication. Mason succeeded in putting his
"Every college of any conse- idea across, and student enthusi
quence has an animal emblem for asm for it mounted. The 1908 La
an ideal except Penn State," Mason Vie was the first to give the Lion
argued strenuously in the columns official recognition, and it was then
of the Lemon. "Our college is the that "Old Nittany," as he was
best of all—then why not select named, began his eternal vigil over
for our emblem the King of Beasts, the destinies of Penn State.
May We Offer to the
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EIGHTY-THREE PER CENT of
the instructors in the College's de
fense training program hold re
sponsible jobs in industry, J. Orvis
Keller, above, assistant to the
president in charge of extension,
announced yesterday.
3 Trustee Members
Named for Re-election
Three alumni members of the
College board of trustees have
been nominated for re-election at
the Alumni Day balloting here on
June 7.
Those nominated are J. Frank
lin Shields, a trustee for 36 years
r=iw u wz w a mrla
ilitary ock :attle
'Fake War' is First
•
in Third Corps Area Glen Miller Leeds In Swing P&1I.
Machine-gun fire, rifle bursts• D
and dive-bombers will break the
lancing Listed As NOE ReCrealtielli
calm of State College tomorrow
afternoon, when Scabbard and
Blade stages a mock battle.
The blitzkrieg, which will be
held with the help of the Persh
ing Rifles . and other basic stu
dents, will begin when the Red
forces attempt to capture Bald
Eagle Mountain. The Blue forces
will try to "repel the invaders."
This is the first mock battle
of this sort in the history of the
Third Corps Area, Bernard
Brenman '42, originator of the
plan, reported.
Officials from Third Corps
Headquarters will witness the
"fake war," and if successful, it
will be a permanent feature for
all Third Corps schools with
ROTC divisions.
Four airplanes will aid in the and Wayne King.
offensive, doing some "heavy Miller's band tops all others,
bombing" with flower sacks. More polling twice as many ballots as
than 260 rounds of ammunition any other one orchestra. His
have been given by the War De- music is sought by nearly one
.partment for 'use in the sham fourth of all students. Kyser
battle. was a favorite in the Southern
The Red forces will be corn
manded by Capt. Thomas G.
Towsey '4l and Lieut. Oliver G.
Summerton '4l. The Blues will
be under the orders of Capt. John
P. O'Leary '4l and Lieut. John
W. Maclndoe '42.
Grandstands seating 200 have
been set up to accommodate
spectators at the Water Tower,
about one and a half miles south
west of State College, from where
most of the battle can be viewed.
Harrisburg
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sent maintenance appropriation.
Another bill which has a good
chance is the $300,000 aeronauti
cal engineering bill, which, if
matched by federal funds, would
allow an airport to be built for
the College to help defense train
ing.
Already passed by the Senate
are bills for flax and coal and oil
research.
Many of these bills have been
ready for action since January
but political wrangling has push
ed them aside. The Senate this
year is Republican and the House
is Democratic with the result
that they are bound not to co
operate with each other even if
it does waste the taxpayers'
money.
About the only time the Re
publicans have listened to the
Democrats was when the Senate
okayed a bill for Connie Mack
Day which the Democrats had
sponsored in the House.
The reverse is equally true.
Perhaps as much for the sake of
stirring up political trouble as
anything else, the Democratic
house okayed a soil erosion in:
vestigation. The crux of the mat
ter was that the Republican state
government wasn't doing what
the Democratic federal govern
ment wanted. Into his resolution
demanding the investigation, Rep.
Clayton E. Moul (D., York) slip
ped an ace—no Penn State ap
propriations were to be passed
until his probe ended. ( The
agricultural extension he aimed
at gets only about $lO,OOO but he
tied up $7,444,666.)
Later, though Representative
Moul eased the blow by sponsor
ing two Penn State appropriation
bills of his own, one for agricul
tural research and one for agri
cultural research buildings. Wed
nesday his probe ended and now
his bills are up for action. He
is going to look silly if the Demo
crats defeat them so ther is a
good chance of their at least pass
ing the House.
Far, Far Away
One globular star cluster is so
distant from the earth that it
takes light, traveling at 186,000
miles a second, 200,000 years to
Austin, Texas, May 23—In
practically every section of the old main Rears •
nation the favorite dance orches
tra of the American college stu- 'Cough Un" S4O
dent is Glen Miller's. .
Student Opinion Surveys of In Cigarette Buffs
America, leaving aside political,
social, and economic questions More than $4OO worth of cig
that today bother the world and arette tobacco is thrown away in
the collegian, has turned to the Old Main by Penn Staters in one
field of college recreation, and in school year, a statistical compila
a nation-wide poll finds that the tion has r - evealed.
favorite recreations among col-
A great majority of the 400 butts
lege students are dancing, swim-
ming, tennis, and reading. The collected in a single day's sweep
ing of Old Main are at least half
favorite dance bands of the swing
unsmoked, janitors have estimat
conscious students are Glen Mill- ed. Here and there, it is true, may
er, Kay Kyser, Tommy Dorsey,
be found a "butt definitely" less
and a tie between Guy Lombardo than three-fourths of an inch in
states, with Miller a close second.
While dancing is the one thing
most eds and coeds would' rather
do when away from the class
room, swimming is not as great
a favorite with women as it is
with men. Second choice of the
women was tennis. Bridge was
among the most popular of re
creations. Among the most un
usual mentioned were beer drink
ing, writing, flying, sleeping, sing
ing, eating, and—yes, studying.
Drummond Honored
Professor Laura W. Drum
mond, chairman of the recently
formed Pennsylvania Nutrition
Council, has been invited to at
tend a national nutrition confer
ence for defense called by Presi
dent Roosevelt for May 26 to 28
in Washington. Miss Drummond
is head of the department of
home economics at the College.
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length, but most of them measure
fully one and three-eighths inches.
Granting, then, that 40 half
smoked cigarettes are the equiva
lent of one pack, l 0 packs of po
tential coughs are wasted in Old
Main in a day, 70 in a week, and
2,520 in two semesters. Wasting
eight cents on each pack, extrav
agant smokers throw away $403.20
worth of valuable nicotine in a
year.
If all the butts collected in Old
Main in one year were laid end to
end in a line starting in front of
the main gate and extending east
ward, they would, if not molested.
by hard-up students, reach almost
to Lemont.
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contains a live oak - that grows on
a table of its own roots.
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