THURSDAY, ,IULY 3, 1941 I The s. Reaclers' Ailey— " Recipe For Ice-Cold Relaxation: 'Reacl i Kabloona: Tale Of The Arctic -By ROBERT E. GALBRAITH Associate Professor of English Composition If 'the heat has you down, you trip around the world on his roy , might try a psychological cooler alties—not the Cook's Tour sort of entitled KABLOONA by Gondran travel, but hit or miss, stay or go, de Poncins, a. tale, of the Arctic a take pot luck as it comes. He written in' as descriptive prose as met some grand and some terrible has.appeared since St. Exupery's people, but he never loses his .WIND, SAND, AND STARS. De sense of humor for long. He Poncins can make yoUieel the catches the tension of war over • cold so that 'you'll shiver when Europe, the Near and the Far East the_atmO - sphere is 10, er, well 89, in fine fashion. anyway.- • , Another hot-weather platter is Fed up with the mockery of served up by Negley F.arson in "civilization,'•' this young French- his BEHIND GOD'S BACK, or man decided that the only way lo through darkest Africa in a Ford. .recapture his composure and self- As a nationally famous reporter, confidnce was to. spend a year Farson investigates life among the in the land of the Eskimo, away black and white men from Cape from white men with black hearts. Town up to Uganda, Kenya, and _,,He trekked across the frozen the Congo area. With his wife as wastes, ate the primitive fare of his only companion, he * talked the, ever-sharing natives, bucked with traders, missionaries, mili ; blizzards until he nearly perished, tary men from . England, France, 'and grew so much like the Eski- and Germany. He has brought Inlo thathe was embarrassed when back some rare tales of rest and he ,returned to meet white Amen. unrest among the natives and the. ;But he got out his book and- is supervisors. With the dark con now in the. U. S. A. So, if you tinent as a prize fought over by (would _like to feel wintry blasts, the Nazis; the Fascists, and the blink in the glare of the sun on British, there are endless pages ithe . snow, learn why one has to ot' .fascinating fact that give you crawl 'out of his furs so that they m an idea of why this vast preserve won't freeze to his skin during is a plum for any nation's colon lhis -sleep--Brrrr, KABLOONA is izers. i your ice cream. ' As long as we were at it, we 1 As long as we are stumbling around ,in what might be called thought we might as well go on to I, 'far-corners" this week; we are China, and we did, with Carl ~;happy to suggest 'a volume that Crow's FOREIGN DEVILS IN THE :will let you in on some real heat. FLOWERY KINGDOM, a graphic iPerhaps you can react to LETTER exposition of life among the teem kDoF CREDIT by Jerome Weidman ing millions of Yellow men and the Os we did when he portrayed his history of trade since the advent of - bodily discomfort in the heat of Marco Polo to the - present, with ,high noon while' sailing at two Japan's bombs driving the "fank - iknots- an hour through the Suez wie" or foreign devils back to their Sanal. We decided we didn't own bailiwicks in Britain, America, • _know . what Hades was. Still, if .or wherever they can get- in the ""taughter makes you perspire, skip present turmoil. Having dwelt' _,.,the candid camera shot .of his along the China Coast for over iroom at Tthe Hamiston, in London, thirty years, Crow is well inform .',"no larger than the closet in which ed not only about the meeting of we kept the Passover dishes, home the East and the West, but about in the Bronx. The mattress had their habits of living, carrying - on I;been stuffed with the leftovers of the • framework of the Empire State Building. The rug was wo :yen._ from porcupine quills and .battle tops. As for the 'linen, it hadn't been changed since the last drummer who used a powerful and odoriferous hair-restorer had reclined on the pillow." Mr. Weid ''man, author-of those •rough 7 andz 3 : tough modern classics, I CAN GET ;FOR YOU WHOLESALE and :,WHAT'S IN IT. FOR ME, took Werner Sees War Personnel Man Diverting Authors On Defense Staff Commenting on the, immediate effects of war on literature, Prof. L. Werner, English Literature, de •partment, said: "War increases the price of paper, causes publishers • and magazines to fail, and turns •people'.s attention from . the •en jOyment of literature -- and other arts to the thrills of casualty lists. It diverts authors from their writ ing. Ile remarked that war draws authors from their artistry and 'shifts' them to - such things as re -14 work, the army, jail, and worse- r -death. .° As for the later or after effects of war on literature, Werner said, "The argument that war stimu- latWliterature has never been .proved. Army life and warfare - are brutalizing forces that destroy artistic sensitivity." Werner then intimated that the argument "war is good because it produces great literature" is as •; sensible as saying that starvation is, good because it produced the '"Grapes of Wrath." .'liege is , no evidence," con- `,eluded Werner, "that plowing un half a generation of writers ori "a` battlefield will' imprcA'e the • c.rdP:Of survivors." . trade, and the saving of face, both saffron and white. Again, you meet everybody whO is anybody, and you learn that marriageable women are so scarce that the men, eligible bachelors, have to pool their lives in clubs in order to eat decently; and when they do find mates from the Occident, these "proper missie" never need to ,do s bit of kitchen work or household cleaning. That's the life for a real ladye, if you'd ask us. Dr. Joseph W. Bird, former di rector of personnel at Babson In- - stitute and lecturer at Simmons College, has been added to the College staff. Di. Bird will be in charge-of personnel co-ordination for the college's engineering de fense training program. • As head .of - personnel, Dr. Bird will direct Placement in the pro gram training more than 14,000 men for- skilled jobs in Pennsyl vania industry under the emer gency defense program.. Penn State's engineering de -fense training program is the larg est of its kind in the ,country; op erating in 100 towns and cities in Pennsylvania. It is part of the federally financed program being • conducted in 138 engineering col leges throughout the country un der the, supervision of the U.' S. Office of Education. -Dr. Bird was connected with Babson Institute for more than four years, and with Simmons for more than two years. He has taught at Boston _University, Col lege of the City of New York, New York University, Oklahoma Uni versity and is a trustee and secre tary of the New England Voca tional Guidance Association and a member of the American College Personnel Association. MMMUU 7 WWi ' TMMI . 9 ENGLISH CHANNEL was form ed "only yesterday," says Dean Edward Steidle of the School of Mineral Industries. He says that an elevation of only 120 feet would unite England and the continent of Europe and provide a path for Hitler's Nazis:. England Is Lucky, Dean Steidle Says The English Channel, which so far has prevented the Germans from invading England, was form ed "only yesterday" from a geo logical point of view, according to Dean Edward Steidle, dean of the School of Mineral Industries. _This separation of Great Brit ain from the mainland of Europe, without which the development of the British people and the British Empire might not have taken places, was one of the most sig nificant events in the geological history of the world, Dean Steidle pointed out. "The most remarakable thing about this simple event which has had 16 — much influence is its ex treme youth," he said. "While the data we have indicates that the separation may have taken place some 5,000 years ago, even now an elevation of only 120 feet would unite England and the continent again." The division of the land mass was connected with changes in the pattern of the earth which took place near the end of the last great invasion of ice in Europe. Subsidence of the. land resulted in the flooding of basins in which the North Sea and the Baltic Sea appeared. Contemporaneously - the narrow 'strip of land between what are now France and England was submerged and flooded. "The result of this submergence created a moat which has always been the bulwark of the defense of England," Dean Steidle ex plained. "Its importance today as a defender of the hopes of democ racy cannot be overexaggerated, and obviously its existence also influences the daily life of all Am ericans." Housing Authorities Hold Meeting Here The Pennsylvania Association of Housing Authorities met at the Pennsylvania State College on Saturday to discuss defense hous ing. Principal speaker was Clark Foreman, director of defense hous ing for the Federal Works_Agency. Defense housing accounts for more than 80 per cent of the $40;000,000 public housing program now scheduled or under way in Penn sylvania. Defense Class Graduates At Pittsburgh A class of 94, the first to finish its special technical training under the engineering defense training program of The Pennsylvania State College, has been graduated at Pittsburgh. The clases are sponsored by 'the U. S. Office of Education, and were originally formed to train men to meet the shortage of skilled labor in industry. - 14 Students Win Places On Education Honor Roll Seventy-four students • in the School of Education who earned a scholastic average of 2.5 or better during the pat semester were named yesterday on the Dean's Honor Roll. • Twenty-seven of the students were graduated at June commence ment. There are neary 1,000 stu dents in the School of Education. French Institute Proves Unusual With a return visit this summer from Dr. Mathurin M. Dondo, fa mous French poet and scholar, the Institute of French Education has opened its doors to the many stu dents who consider it the best method of study now that the war has made travel and study in Europe impossible. Since the appearance of Contes Dramatiques, of La France, and especially of Modern French Course, most teachers know the name of Professor Dondo. His book Vers Libre is the best guide for students of modern French poetry. He is lecturing 'in the cvening and gives one course on "French Poetry from Baurelaire to the Symoblists." The Institute is headed once more by Dr. Francis M. duMont, head of the department of Ro mance languages, and offers its students an opportunity to achieve fluency in speaking French, while continuing, at the same time, thp4i academic work in language and literature. With this in view, the Institute provides, in, addition to the adequate courses, various so c;al activities with the life of the temporary community being French throughout.' The "no English" rule having proved a great success in the past, the principal of the exclusive use of the Trench language is being strictly observed. Announcements (Continued from Page One) THURSDAY, JULY 10 2:30 p. m. Conference on in struction. Room 121, Sparks Buil ding. 2:30 p. m. Meeting of Education Dames in Frances Ath erton Hall. • 8:30 p. m. Lecture, "China's Fight for Civilization," by Col. M. Thomas Tchou, former private secretary to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Schwab Auditorium. NOTICES General office hours during July and August are 8 a. m. to noon. and 1 to 4 p. m. The first meeting of the class in social dancing will be held at 7 p. m., July 8, in White Hall. An 8,000,000-volt atom-smashing machine is under construction at the University of Notre Dame. College Has Own Time Capsule Penn State's own "time capsule" —a little less elaborate and exten sive than the famed history coffer that was buried at the New York World's Fair—is located eight or nine feet above the ground at the southeast corner of Old Main. Unknown to most of the under grads, this so-called / time capsule may be better recognized if re ferred to as the Old Main corner stone, which was laid in midwinter, January 4, 1930. Measuring 27 inches long, 12 inches high, and 16 inches wide. the cornerstone contains 66 articles pertaining to College life and his tory. Among the Literary "master pieces" included in the collegiate crypt are the College Catalogue. student directory, issues, of the Collegian, Froth, Old Main Bell, Penn State Farmer, and Penn State Engineer: Photographs also make up a large part of the historic hut un exhibited collection. "Pix" of John S. Fisher, governor of Pennsyl vania, President Ralph D. Hetzel, and prominent student government leaders in 1929 are only a few of the many that are buried in the cornerstone which formed the basis of reconstruction following a dis astrous fire that gutted the original building. The oddity angle of the collection • centers about two coins—one dated 1857 to represent the beginning of the original Old Main, and the other dated 1929 to mark the be ginning of rebuilding. Parking (Continued from Page One) Under a student licensing plan, which went into operation in 1936, students who keep or operate auto mobiles on the campus are re quired to buy license tags, priced at 25 cents each, at the Campus Patrol office, Room 320 Old Main. These permits may be suspended or revoked for violation of campus or borough parking and traffic laws. SUMMER SCHOOL ORGANIZATIONS Don't delay having Programs, Cata logues, Bulletins, .etc. printed at your earliest convenience. Niffany Printing and Publishing Co. 119 : 21 S. Frazier St. PAGE SEVEN