PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State rstabliabed 11110. .Successor to the Penn State Collegian established 1104, end the Free Lance, established IRB7. Published daily except. Sunday and Monday during the begular , College year .by the atudenta of The. Pennsylvania Rate .Cgllege. .1 - tottered as second-cleu3s matter July G, 1934 et the "'wit-office itt . , ante College, Pa., under the act at Ilftrah •8, Editor Bus. and Adv. tVigs. Moss .Lehman "42 " " . "*Y I James McCaughey, rldilarial and Business Ofticc 813 Old Main Bldg. Women's I?dliter--tTeanne G. Stile , '42; AL - terming Editor-- Mtn A. Boor '42; 4port'= Editor--A. Pat Mtgelbers; '42 Feature Eclitor---William .T , McKnight '42; News li:filter , Stanley J. ,PeKempesr , Murray t:12: Women': ;:murn. Ifejen Gordon '42 Credit. Manager—Paul 21. Goldberg '42; Circulation Mal)- ener--Thoninn W. Allison '42; \Venice's Busies:la Manager— /Tamara Embury '42: Office Secretary---Virsinin. 'Onllett '42; Assistant, Office. Bettratary—Fear P. Reese `42. C 0 (..10(..!(.1 irtbulAr of Cijlkest€l,e'Dibes Junior ,Donrtl—Gordon .L. Coy, Donald W. ;Davin. Dominick JL. Golab, James D. • Olkein,.David Samuele„Rohert •Sehooley, 'Richard S. Stebbin9, Samuel L. Stroh, 'Niebuhr? W. VOZAY. —Tether!, .1 - ..Zulcausicas, :Emily L. Funk, ,Louise ruoeo,:.Katitryn M. Popp, Edith L. Smith. • tltintor tßusinem Poard—Leonard E. Bach, Roy Z. ,Barclay. Robed ,E. ?Edgerly, Philip .11aCfe. .Franeen I. Leibv. John E. 1 ,4 ^Nil, Sara ,L. Miller, Katherine E. Schott, ,M.ariotite 7/14.4.111:1fUtyr1113 1 , 00 onikTIUNAL A 131.1.1111301 Pia Rittiortat ,Adheatiisipg Service, Inc Pahl:Ashen . Represqntatitv AH.04'6149 . 1001 , :14'irlif. NE:w yrop K„IM. . , Ilo,irtaor oms i100 , 3%as • 'iner fnlnryCtpru 11.Tanarrinp:IEditorlEhis lonue. _ "Gordon 11..fOuy• ticavd (EditoraPhis tissue Women's ;Editor 'Tssue. Kathryn W. ;Ent* go) - ihoniori ASsialnots .Tay Gross, Richard D. ;Einlyser. )Lorin ,EE. moll Graduate ,Counaeloi FriaEA.y . , October 31, 1941 (Onvollit loptilDirail Commiiileo; ti(di lon 'Know lihere . Was 'Onol In nearly every issue of the weekly Faculty 14111.6 tin :;:everal , students are listed as having dropped. .out of the College because they "were cPe r lied the armed .forces." These little au ».ouncernero present no „serious immediate threat o ,onrollutent but they do ,presage a day when students ha drafted .at a rate which may 11. ring male enrollment, especially in the two upper classes, to the lowest level is has been since World. War I. Conscription of large numbers of students is a Crave problem but more for the future than for the .present—,though, .in this case, the future may —uot be many months off, Right now, from a com parative viewpoint, 'the situation affects individual blAgionts ;more ;than ,it does the College. To the • undergraduate John Doe, the important auestion • i:: "How :can gut a deferment which\ will allow , :to finish th.is .academic year?" 'There is no uswer to that question because -there. is .no certain. way. There are some things a.student can do'which may help, but they do not c- "1 sure success. . -When the student geb., his questionnaire, he should :take it to his t3choot draft committee. These committees are familiar with draft questionnaires will .aid students in the important job of . t.bern.•oilt, correctly. Chairmen of the corn- ' -initteic.l: in each school are as follows: '.A.gricitittire, Dr, J. Ben Hill: Chemistry and Physics,, Deal, Frank. P. Whitmore; Education, Dr. Clifford. R. Adams; Engineering, Prof. Charles L. • Y:liodoe,;l4berat Arts, .Dean Charles W. Stoddart; Mineral. kndustries, John W. Buch; and Physical • )Aucation and Athletics, Dr. Lloyd M. Jones. What these men and their associates are , doing )tray - .best ibe illustrated by taking as examples -the groups in Liberal Arts and Engineering. The • V,»gineering .committee will fill out Form 42 (re.- ; quest for roccupational deferment) for seniors, - juniors ;in good .standing, and, under .special cumstances .such ss "unusual maturity," for . sophomores, Feeling that liberal artist 3 are not ".necessary "nen" in the eyes of the government, the Liberal Arts committee does not use Form 42, instead, submits to local draft boot - cis, corn )l,ete information shoot a students stand ing, and his relative 01511103 f.ur , :rl/0 1 01V OA , :zit sae). graduation, Other school committees rollow siotilor pro cedures, The l'!•:»gineerhig committee at one end. of ~the .and the Liberal Arts committee at the..other ,end :may he taken as fair samples. All The groups consider cases individually; the pro codure,they follow varies according to their opin ion of each student's qualifications for deferment • 'Phey are wholeheartedly concerned with helping Students stay in .collegc,/ in order to complete their education, stud student draft r , ,gistrauts Flrould hl;c laiv;i»;;;;!, , I of ti , t 1.1!(,y ;-)1 . (• 0'(') )/1 ) 10 VI • Downtown Office 10,421 South Frazier Phone 4372 Nb. k‘o -t- THE DAILY COLLEGIAN .11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 A WORM'S EYE VIEW liiliiiilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllll I found a measuring worm as I, was walking down the campus mall the other day. He. was hanging upsidedown from the branches of the Old Willow tree and looking very much dis tressed about something, so I stopped • for an upsidedown conversation with him, "Hello, fellow," I said. "Something wrong? "My name isn't 'Fellow,' ", he said, with an im patient wiggle. "It's Ferdy. I come [rein a whole line of .Ferdes, and I resent your dis respectful inferences." ''Sorry, old man," I said. "No 0f1e.n.. , 0. What's your trnuble?" "Well. it's like this," he said. inching toward me. "I have a great heritage. My ancestors go back even further than the yardstick. Before the yardstick, all measuring was done by the measuring worms, but now there's nothing for them to measure but tree trunks." "Well, what's the matter with that'? "It just isn't practical,!' he said, and he began to swing back and forth. • "You see, I .like to measure. clothes,for People just as a • hobby. But these darned college hot dogs are the rudest people. Every .time I try to measure them for a coat or a .pair of pants, they flick'me off into the grass. It isn't. .the flickingl .mind so much, but the supercilious way they quirk their fingers when they do it. Just because their clothes are tailor-made 'and have •padding in the shoulders they needn't think they're .the ,high mucka mucks of the campus. If .they could see :how ridiculous they look from my angle, maybe they wouldn't strut around so much." "You seem to have made a few lengthy .ob ,ervations about Penn State students." I satd "What else do you knoNO" Ferdy was so pleased, at this question that he swung toivard me with .such :Vigor that I had to dodge him to keep him froM hitting my nose.' "Well," he said,'"becauseof my illustrious back ground, having evolvethfroin the lowly tape worm to the highest state of wornikind, I'Ve had the opportunity to observe much about the human personality. I :find that the Penn State campus provides a diversity of material for study. One thing that puzzles me is the way ‘ some of these students go around with cardboard hanging from their shoulders and wearing ridiculous clothes." "Tribunal does that," I told .him. "It's punish ment for freshmen who break rules." • "That's stupid," said Ferdy. - * Any- one . who can't 'think of ,a better punishment than that ought to be wearing the things himself." "You don't think much of, this place, do you?" "There are some good thing's about it. Come around' .tbmetime when I'm in a better mood, and l'il tell you about them." And Ferdy cocked an eye at the tree, swung upward:and disappeared among the branches. Student Committee Will Conduct Survey On Opinion Of Library To' facilitate the work of the Student Library Committee a sur vey. of student opinion will be held in November and December, at which time .students can bare• any grievances they have against . the Library. Members of the committee were appointed Robert D. Baird '42, All-College president, and are under the sponsorship of Miss Katharine M. 'Stokes, assistant li brarian. The committee includes: Ruth G. 'Hoffer '42, psychology, and Charles B. Elder ,'43, Education. both of whom served on last year's committee: Olga M. McCarthy '42, Liberal Arts; Ruth 6tover '44, home economics; J, H. Hender son '42; petroleum and natural gas engineering; Bruce C. Atkinson '43, chemical engineering; and Donald Carlton '44, agriculture education. The committee was founded two years ago with the purpose of bettering and furthering the re lationship between the library stall and the students. Ninety-four high school are re presented by freshmen attending Potsdam (N. Y.) 'State Normal school. FRIDAY, OCTQI3Ett "31, 1941 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 CAMPUS CALENDAR 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 TODAY Senior Engineering lecture, 121 Sparks Building, 4:10 p.' m. Dr. - E. J. Stocking, assisthnt chief; Examining Division, U. S. Civil SerVice Commission, Will speak on the "Opportunities for Engin eers-in Federal Employment." Mortar Board meeting, 305 Old Main, 4 p. m. I-falloi;ve'en party, Wesley Foun dation parlors. II p. m. TOMORROW Varsity soccer, Navy. New Bea-' ver field. 2 p: m. Taylor, Ceramics Head, Edits Rheology Bulletin Dr. Nelson W. Taylor, head of the department of ceramics, was appointed editor of the Bulletin of the Society of Rheology at the society's annual meeting in New York last week. The bulletin publishes abstracts Of scientific papers ,that are of in terest to the socieity and pertain ing to the subject of •RheolOgy, such as the Problems of viscosity and flow of liquid, elasticity of rubber and glass, and the creep of metals.
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