PAGE FOUR Defense Courses Provide Wage, Job increases A total of 1,145 men and women in Pennsylvania industries who re cently completed engineering de fense • training courses offered by the College extension srvice have received promotions or wage in creases, according to Dr. Joseph W. Bird; in charge of personnel for the special program. Dr. Bird's report is based on in formation supplied by workers themselves in 50 cities who have taken courses under the first two government - financed programs. This work was offered tuition-free to help supply technically-skilled workers urgently needed for key defense industries. Penn State is now launching its fourth program, offering courses to more than 14,000 workers in 114 cities and towns of the state. Dr. Bird's report revealed that 1,385 of the students were unem ployed at the start of the first pro gram and 701 at the start of the second. A total of 111 are now un employed. • "The decrease in unemployment may have been due to present labor conditions," Dr. Bird ,said, "and our figures are not submitted as proof that students secured jobs or were upgraded wholly as a result of taking the College courses." The largest number of men to se cure better jobs were from: the Pittsburgh district where 452 in 20 cities reported an increase in sal ary or position. In 11 cities in cen tral Pennsylvania, 311 were tip 'graded; in the Wilkes-Barre dis trict, 141; Allentavkin, 120; Erie, - 1 - 109; and Philadelphia, 12. Coeds Offer Dating I HMIs To College Men Never beg for a date is-the ad .:vice University of Utah coeds of t fer. Men are urged to sweep women r. - off their feet. They are further cautioned not be' too prompt for dates. , A new method of meeting "profs" hhs ben devised at Evans ville College. At a Big and Little Sister party a treasure hunt with clues leading to professors' homes was used. Although Carnegie Tech coeds maintain that slacks are comfort able and practical, men label,them. as, - disgusting and eccentric." CORSAGES FOR CWEN DANCE AND Flowers For All Occasions Roses Gardenias Orchids mAREmoR 222 W. Beaver Ave. Phone 3151 Witt,Vocalist, Stars De W. th Savitt's Top Hatters * .* * TOP. HAT SWING—Jan Savitt and his orchestra will swing into State College two weeks froth to night, November 7, to play for Soph Hop. Dancing will be in Rec Hall from 9 p. m. until 2 a. m., and will feature the vocal har mony of the four Top Hatters. Officials Support PSCA Campaign With the kick-off dinner at the Nittany Lion Inn at 5:30-p. m. Sun day evening 450 workers will be gin a five-day drive for funds to support the PSCA program for the remainder of the year. Adminis tration officials last-night indicated their support of the campaign. President Ralph D. Hetzel said, "I am greatly interested in the plans which are being inaugurat ed for enlisting the financial sup port of the student body in behalf of the Penn State Chritsian Asso ciation. I believe we can count upon the hearty participation of all those who believe with us in this vital force on our campus. "Thinking students who have faith in a well-rounded program of education will lend support to this organization which vbelongs to the students themselves. I recommend to every student this opportunity to share in the work of the Associa tion." Charlotte E. Ray, dean of wom en, expressed her approval of the association by pointing out, "The work of the PSCA cannot be meas ured by statistics nor appreciated by mere words. That which goes into the making of human person ality does not adapt itself readily to analysis nor to display. In this connection one real task is the orientation of freshmen in group meetings and in personal interview during Freshman Week and later. "Perhaps the greatest contribu tion of this organization is in keep ing always before us the vision of a better world and the obligation of college people in hastening it." In a recent discussion group, Un iversity of California coeds were told that the best way to meet a man is to drop your boks in passing and then let him do the rest, THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Featuring the four Top Hatters and Allan De Witt, vocalist, Jan Savitt and his 16-piece orchestra will inaugurate Penn State's "name band" season at Soph Hop two weeks from tonight, Novem ber 7. Co-chairmen R. Kemp Noble '44 and Jack J. Bard '44 have an nounced that dress will be form al, with dancing scheduled for Rec Hall from 9 p. in. until 2 a. m. As for Savitt's background, the band has gained its popularity in a little over three years. In 1939 the orcheitra made a tour of barns, ballrooms, and theaters throughout the East and near Mid west, winding up with a nine month stand at a prominent• New York hotel. Savitt stylizes his music with a distinctive off-beat, known fa miliarly as "shuffle rhythm." The title, Top Hatters, was tagged to the band while playing in Phai delphia. Exiting from a concert one - evening, Savitt was photo graphed in top hat and white tie regalia. When fans saw the pic ture in the morning papers,, they began to call him the top hat band leader, and eventually his orchest tra became known as. the Top Hatters. Meal Judgers Win Fifth Place Penn State's meat judging team placed fifth in the American Royal Livestock Show held in Kansas City, Tuesday, it was an nounced by the team's coach, Wil liam L. Henning of the Animal Husbandry department. "George R. Krupp was the high est individuatscorerfor the team," continued Henning, "and placed fifth in the entire contest with a score of 826 DLit of a possible 900." Krupp was second' in the pork class with a score of 283 out of a possible 300, and sixth in beef with a score of 366 out of 400. In this event, KrUpp was closely followed . by James H. Swart '42, who scored 356, and James A. Kennedy, scoring high with 353. The teams that defeated. Penn State in the finals of the contest were as follows: Oklahoma A & M, 2491; University of .Minnesota, 2452; University of Nebraska, 2444; and University of South Da kota with a score of 2420. Other State men in the contest were Donald S. Gaige '42, Robert S. Christ '42, John A. Smith '42, and Almon K. Birth '42, all con tributing to - the final team score of 2411. Work On Lodge To Start Nov. I Construction on Penn State's long awaited Mountain Lodge which was scheduled to begin Oc tober 1 has been.delayed and will not get'under way before the first of November, it was announced last night by Ray M. Conger, in structor in charge of recreation. The well, which is 106 feet deep, is complete and has been pumping at the rate of 40 gallons a minute. H. 0. Smith, contractor, has not been able to start construction be cause the power lines nave not as yet been put in leading to the lodge site. Conger stated that in all prob ability the lodge will be complete by the middle of December, in plenty of time for the use of ski ers. Plans for the cabin call for a rustic exterior and one large social room inside with fireplace. Future plans will include a large kitchen and dormitories for both men and *omen. The lodge will be available to any student group, Conger has announced. ead The Collegian Classifieds Teach English ' Correctly—Gales Stop sugarcoating edttcation if you want high school students to learn to read, write, and speak correctly, adV\ises Prof. Thomas J. Gates, head of the English com position department at the Col lege. Advocating a return to - old fashioned straight teaching of grammar, punctuation, and spell ing, Professor Gates . expressed disapproval of any tendency to treat young people of high school age as children. "Teaching them to use slang terms and colloquial English is teaching them What they already know," he said today. Students who are approaching manhood and womanhood, are old enough to call commas and per icvls by their right names and to use them properly, whether they are going to college or not, Pro fessor Gates added. "Making a diltinction in the kind of English taught to .the non academic and the academic pupil destroys the first principle of Am erican education, which is equal ity of opportunity," he said. Without a knowledge of gram mar, students who are confronted with an incorrect expression have no- means of knowing what is wrong or how to make it right, he pointed out. "Spelling has apparently gone completely out of fashion," Pro fessor Gates declared. "I pre sume that choral reading or ap preciation of the movies has dis placed it in the curriculum. It is a rare student who guesses right on more than half of the words\ included in the English placement test at Penn 'State." • Declaring that most students do not even recognize slang and collo quial expressions as unfit for form al. Use, .he added that many young people who converse wittingly with their intimate contemporaries are tongue-tied in the presence of their elders or large groups: Urging a- return to the Greek ideal of thoroughness in gather ing and organizing facts, he con trasted Athenian youths who had to'know their subjects before de livering orations with today's students Who are often encouraged to write descriptions of sunlight playing on the dew. "The modern boy can develop his imagination as well by dig ging for facts as by dripping with dew," he declared. "Organiza- - tion, or at least orderliness, can be taught." Like spelling, paragraphs have also gone out of fashion, he ob served. Yet learning to para graph, like learning to draw, re-* quires merely attention, practice, and discrimination. In addition, 'teachers should in struct their pupils in using the dictionary for pronunciation, he believeS, and should force them to use it if necessary. A MODERN Studio— Using MODERN Methods— MODERN PHOTOGRAPHS Al Your Individual Direction Penn 214 E. College Ave • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24;104I Wy!and Urges Youth Make Wise Job Choice Since America is one of the few countries where youngveople ,can choose their own work, youth should gdard that privilege by choosing wisely. "Youth can avoid disappoint-.. ment by eliminating wishful think ing about jobs for which they hnVe neither the talent nor the physidal requirements," Miss Mary • Jane Wyland, associate professor of 'ed ucation at the College, said today. Miss Wyland recommended that youthful job-hunters consider the follenVing things before making a selection: their own attitude . to ward -the plain, everyday tasks which are a part of the job the length of time necessary to pre pare for the work, and whethetr their own talents fit the particular job they are seeking. We Produce -
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