PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" Eotablishod. P4O. e.stabliA42 , l 1904 to the Penn State Collear:ar. and the Fre.-. Lance. eitabliMei lfe37. Published daily egeept Sunday and Monday during the. regular College year by the student: , of The Pennsylvania fitate College. Pmtered a: , second-class matter July 5. 1.934 rat. the Post-offt:e 'at State Collee.e. Pa., under the :set .I'7. Mareb. S. 1879. Editor Bus. and Ads.. Mgr. Boss Lehman '42 James McCaughey '42 Editorial and BUPATIebti 0 CCi•Z , 313 OM Main 131d¢. Phone Women's Editor—Sea:me C. 'l2: Managin:z Editor-- .jc.hn A. Baer '42; '.:-. 1 ;ort: f.:(litnr—A. Pnt Nagelberg '42 Feature Editor--William .1. McEnicslit '42: News Editor— Stanley J. PoKempner '42 : Women's Feature Editor—Ahee M. Murray '42; .Women's Spwts Editor—R. Helen Gorden "42. Credit Matiamm—Paul 51. Goldberg '42: Circulation ,Man nger—Thomas W. Allison '42: Women's Business Manager— Margaret L. Embury '42; Office Secretary—Virginia °giber. '42: Assistant Office Secretary—Fay E. Reese '42. N't ember Pssocialed Golle6iate PreSS Dis; ribu tor of ColieeSiale Ditsest Junior Editorial Board—Gordon L. Coy, Donald W. Davis, Dominick L. Golab; James D. 'Mein. David • Stunuels,•iti*ett E. Schooley. Richard B. Stebbins, Samuel L. Stroh, ,Nichotas W. Vozzy, .1-lerbeit J. ZUkauskas, Emily L. Funk. Lotiiii.lll. ruoss. Kathryn M. Popp, Edith L. Smith. Junior ,Busineis .Board—Leonard E. Bach, Roy E. Barclay. Robert E. Edgerly, Philip .Jaffe, Frances A. Leiby, John'K. McCool, Sara L. Miller, Katherine E. Schott, Marjorie L. Sykes. Manuring Editor This Issue ____ 7.lews Editor This. Issue ____ Mromen'S Editor This Issue _____ Graduate Counselor _ Thursday - , October 2, 1941 Ihe Flame Is Mounting Fan the flame! Students like bont3res. Maybe it's the mass excitement of seeing huge flames- soar in red columns against a black sky or the burning of ,effigies symbolic of Penn, Pitt, Navy, Colgate, or -Cornell. No matter what, students would rather warm their hands at a roaring bonfire than . at the cozy fireplace in their homes From the traditional Penn State bonfires when upperclassmen armed with paddles for freshmen who ..could not gather wood fast enough to the .present-day rallies attended by thousands of students, a bonfire has captured. the spirit and imagination of Penn State students and athletes. In 1939, a "Beat Pitt" bonfire swept the stud ent .body into such a pre-game fervor that The Hig's football eleven under the leadership of Cap- Itain Spike Alter pushed the famed Pitt line from one goal post to another. The Hig said after the ,game that this display of enthusiasm was re sponsible in great part for the Nittany Lion vic tory. The spirit of the student body. according to Higgins, also is reflected in the pre-game spirit of the football squad. Tonight, students will get a chance to send the 1941 edition of the Nittany Lion football team off on ,the right foot. Whether the eleven is destined to climb to the top of the gridiron ladder or falter on the bottom steps does not matter. What really counts is that .the team, win or lose, knows that the student body is supporting it on every line plunge, pass, end run, or goal-line stand. When Captain Len Krouse ignites the bonfire tonight, he will also start the flan'.e of Penn State football enthusiasm. How that enthusiasm is manifested and displayed will determine indirect :l.y the ..fighting spirit and mental status of the ,squad. On the other hand, the reawakening of a col lege spirit should not be so overzealous that per sonal or property damage occurs as a result of some "hell-raising" by a few students. No one anticipates this, .because rallies like this have been planned. ,to let stored-up spirit run without restraint but in the right course. Every Penn State student. whether he is a ,participant or not, will be held responsible for his action not only as an individual but as a representative of the whole student body. That's a lot of weight to carry on one's shoulders.. So, fan the flame, but make certain it's in the right direction! We Take 011 Out Bandage A perenial sore-thumb to former Collegian editors, the initiation ceremonies of hat societies have ceased to become a paddle-wagging and physical torture process, and, instead, a more vigorous but easier initiation is being Used. Last night, Skull and Bones and Parini Notts, followed the lead taken last year by the junior honorary, Blue Key, by abolishing paddling. They substituted more humiliating hazing. With thy paddles hanging on the wall, P."O take the Trom our sure-thumb and lay .t L.- It: 'O. 1,0 - .2: !lie ..1!:;ue,... Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazio: St Phono 4372 _Donald X',..Davis, Jr. _David Samuels . Emily L. :FUnk. L.)uis E. Bel!. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111101111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ONE MAN'S MEAT The Muse Strikes Room 313 • While staggering about the meager limits of the Collegian's Old Main tubby hole one bitter Monday morn, I stumbled over a young lady in the throes of literary child-birth. Attended only by the movie-wise antics of sophomoric journal ists and the unnecessary battering of typewriters, a sonnet was born! It was as out of place" as you or I would be coming into the world on an escalator. The readers of Portfolio—that literary pearl whose editors cast it so patronizingly before Penn State's barely literate swine—are acquainted with the author of the Collegian-born verse, Katey Popp'. In spite of its odd entrance into this . world, I think it is rather. good and present it with a view a. showing my gentle readers just what can happen, and rarely dces, when Colle'- gian's finer minds are distracted. Due to the exigencies of •its birth, christening services have not been held. "The wealthy, ballroom feet that danced in patent leather shoes, The worn-out soles and heels that shuffled down the avenues, The calloused heels, the naked toes that wriggled in the sun, The stockinged feet that kicked their slippers when work was done. The feet in fur-lined boots that slushed and scraped through winter snow, • The tired feet of factories that lined up row on The aching corns of :toes with coal dust .under neath the nails, The wooden ,shoes; - the high-heeled pumps, the idle feet in ,jails, The crutches and the wooden legs, the lame, the young, the old, The black, the white, the yellow feet, the fear- fut and the bold All these are squeezed - in heavy boots arranged. in careful rows To click :their heels and march The world with regimented toes. And the earth is creaking on its axis, squeaking • from the rust, While ant feet :take the ants exploring over . mounds of dust." _ Dean Ray's Vagaries Dean Ray's chief efforts, as I see it. should be directed toward seeing that all her dear charges stick closely to the straight and narrow path de manded by the conventions of the day. Yet, in a recent issue of that substitute for a bulletin board—Co-Edition—l see her advising the young ladies who allegedly read that sheet to disregard the , prevailing mores and folkways. • 'Her • advice,. and I quote, runs thusly: "No monument was ever reared to the man who merely followed -the customs of his day." No doubt it is my perverted sense of right and wrong which makes me believe that the good Dean wants her girls to go out and find out about life for themselves—and in their own sweet ways. As Cicero once wept, "0 tempores, 0 mores!"' Comes The Revelation These brisk October mornings are filled with warnings that November and its trials and tribu lations will shortly be upon us. Those privileged with the franchise in State College will find themselves faced with that ever•difticult task of choosing between the lesser of two.evils on Tues day, November 4. For on that dread day, two men who have been not a little responsible for the great lack of love between the student population and the officials of the Borough of State College will vie for the tradition-hoary position .of Burgess of said jerk- water town. One of these men was tutored under the able direction of Light-handed Wilbur Ultzell. He was chief of gestapo in Warrior Willy's early days as burgess. It was he who carried out the mighty magistrate's first orders in the great anti bonfire crusade of 1934 and the subsectuent lege Grill raids. The other has tasted the fruits of the high of fice before. The Bible-slinging Burgess, they called him. It was easier on your pocketbook. but harder on your conscience in those brimstone and hell fire days. Parking offenders, Peeping Toms, and other ass'rted State College culprits filled the church pews in penance for their hein ous crimes. Next week, if my able spies fulfill their re search / plan to devote more space to the un . .!oit.liog issue_ 01. the 1941 !)orottLih election —LOKI C:•.!ll[Kt Kathryn M. Popp •'43 PENN ,ST,./).TE" That'S the title of a brief history of the College and its traditions ,written by A.R.:Warnock, above, dean of men. The first summary of Penn . "State's development, this pamphlet was mailed to 'freshmen during the summer and is now available to upperclassmen at Student Union for five gents - a copy - . • ROTC - Band Named (Continued .from Pogo One) Lutz '45, Leonard Dileanis '45; Frank Hess '44, Earle Cressman '45; William Humphries '45, Roscoe „Wady '45, Robert Hastedt '45, and David Robinson '45. Trombones Elwood F. Olver '44, Donald Wilson '45, Lewis IVlammel '45, Richard E. Warner' '44, G. L. Fiski '45, Willard C. Del licker '44, Robert Troscwell '45, and Charles Rutsky '44. / Baritones—Richard Crowers '45, Albert Hillier '45, James Burden '45, George Houck '45, and Robert Beacher '45. :Alto Sax F,pgene Specie4er '45, Robert F. Hibtier '44; Tenor • Sax'— Francis Reltzo '45 ,Baritone Sax Lester Trout '45. Flute aud Piccolo jack B. Is rael '44, Charles ißlakeSlee '45, Warren W. currier '44; Drums— Ross S. Rumbaugn Bartley Lloyd'4s, Albert L. Wilson Jr. '44, Albert R. Yevicle '44, Robert North '45, and Hugh Ridall '45. Basses WilliamlLeisiy '45, Ed- ward T. Chervak '44, Everett Cow an '45, Henry S. Illingworth Jr. !44; Horns— , James A. Harter '44, Law rence V. Rubright '44, Dale Wal demnyer '45, and Milton A. Well man '44. Oboe Robert Apt '45; Drum Major Paul V. Schaefer '45. Urkz.argaZ, 7 ;'7 , r ,7l THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1941 11111111011111111111111iIIIIIIIMM1111111111111111111111111111111 CAMPUS -CALENDAR 111111111111111111111111 1 1 0 111 11 1 1111 1 P11111111111 11111111111111111111, TODAY All candidates for assistant. wrestling managerships should re port to Rec Hall at 5 p. m. PSCA seminar meeting schedul ed for 7 p. m. has been postponed until October 9 at the same time. First rehearsal of College Choir promptly at 7 p. m. ,in Schwab Auditorium. The selected list of voices will be posted, in the lobby .of the auditorium today. Advanced opera course meets for first time in 417 Old Slain at 4 p.m. Lists of successful tryouts for the 'ROTC thfantrr. and engineer hands will be ,posted at 'Student Union, •the Arrhory, and 401 Old Main. • Student• Faculty Relations Com mittee meeting, 302 Old Main, '7:30 p. m. Soph Hop committee meets in first floor lounge of Old Main at 4 p. 'Candidates ,for editorial and business staffs of the Penn State Engineer meet in 314 Old Main at 7:3.0 p. m. It is not necessary to be an engineering student. Compulsory meeting of Philotes„ 302 Old Main, 6:45 p. m. . Forestry Society. meeting, 165 'Forestry Building, 7:30 p. Open to everyone. -Compulsory meeting of Pi Lambda Theta, 309 Old Main,.7 p. m. TOMORROW Sophomore . candidates for 'Col legian Business Staff, 312 Old Main; 4 p. m. All churches will hold their an nual receptions fr)m .7 to 10 Senior -Engineering Leatui;e; 121 Sparks Building, 4:10 p. Prof. C. E. :Bullinger, head of 'the de partment of industrial engineer ing, will tie the speaker. MISCELLANEOUS The following climes have been announced by the department of economics: Russian Monday 4-5:30 p. in. and Wednesday 7. to 8:30 p. in. Russian -111,- .I\ll.on-- .day . 7 to .8:30, -p. M. and Wednes day 4 to 5:30 .p: m. All clas,ses, will be held in 'llO -Sparks Build ing. Fresh Must Make Signs Raymond Leffler '42olo"ad:pf Student Tribunal, last night**arn ed freshman. !without; '304 ,cpl gate" signs , that they .must ; make their own. The Supply . at the Ath letic Stetre . has been exhiusted.
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