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.
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