PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian, established 1904, and the Free Lance, established. 1887. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania Gtate College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 at the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act sf March 8. 1379. . Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr. Ross Lehman '42 James MeCaugtaey '42 Editorial and' Business Office Downtown Office 813 Old Main Bldg. 119-121 South Frazier St. Phone 711 Ph0ne.4372 Women's Editor —Jeanne C. Stiles '42; Managing Editor— JUhn A. Baer '42; Sports Editor—A. Pat Nagelberg '42; Feature Editor —William J McKnight *42; News Editor— Stanley J. PoKempner '42; Women’s Feature Editor—Alice M. Murray *42; Women's Sports Editor—lt. Helen Gordon '42. Credit* Manager—Paul M. Goldberg *42; Circulation Man ager—Thomas W. Allison *42; Women’s Business Manager— Margaret L. Embury *42; Office Secretary—Virginia Ogden *42; Assistant Office Secretary—Fay E. Reese *42. Junior Editorial Board —Gordon L. Coy, Donald W. Davis, Dominick L. Golab, Jame 9 D. Olkeln, David Samuels, Robert E. Schooley, Richard S. Stebblns, Samuel L. Stroh, Nicholas W. Vozzy, Herbert J. Zuknuskas, Emily L. Funk, Louise M. Fuoss, Kathryn M. Popp, Edith L. Smith. Junior Business Board—Leonard E. Bach, Roy E. Barclay, Robert E. Edgcrly, Philip Jaffe, Frances A. Leiby, John E. McCool, Sara L. Miller, Katherine E. Schott, Marjorie L. Sykes. Mnnaging Editor This ssue - Nows Editor This Issue Women’s Editor This Issue ..Joseph Rudick and Richard D. Smysei* Sophomore Assistants Graduate Counselor Friday, December 5, 1941 A Pipe Dream A good pipe, a bowlful of tobacco, and an ea|sy chair transports one readily from the • practical world of today 'to the “pipe -dreams” of tomorrow. We had such a dream last night. We envisioned the Penn Stefte of tomorrow—a Penn State free from problems of draft, limited budgets, and the petty efforts of -educational politicians to restrain the College from becoming a university. Our pipe dream gave us hallucinations. We saw Harrisburg legislators (fresh from bairber shops, corner drug stores, and grocery stores) recognize Penn State as the hub of Pennsylvan ia’s research on mining, industry, engineering, and oil technology. They saw the average col lege student as a man who is earnestly attempt ing to establish a career—not a college “hot dog,” dressed in vari-colored diids with calf-length trousers, and fortified with a superiority complex and a goldfish appetite. Still more fantastic, the pipe dream pictured these men creating a sizeable budget. They did hot pinch “dollars for education” but proposed that a dollar for education meant $lO for Penn sylvania in research, social betterment, and econ omic improvement. These legislators budgeted the College appro priation carefully, wisely, but efficiently. They advocated the continuation of extension educa tion and College-sponsored night schools' for Pennsylvania miners, steel .workers, and office workers. They awoke from their apathy toward College educated men and cried for more educa tion for those who could not afford “book larn !n’ ” at endowed institutions. The pipe dream did not end here. A few more puffs on the briar created other mental pictures. We saw a continuation of the proposed $17,000,- 000 College physical plant. More than 10,000 students were pouring from classrooms and re search laboratories; hundreds of extension pro fessors were invading the foundry, the coal-pit, and the oil refineries, to teach the mill hands the “inside dope” on their particular jobs. We watched the growth of a healthy interfra ternity system and the unifying of the non-fra ternity man into workable representation. We saw the increase of campus forums, student faculty interests, furious but clean political cam paigns, sturdy student governments, and Presi dent .Ralph D. *Hetzel smilingly wielding a shovel in ground-breaking ceremonies for the new Stud ent Union building. We smiled in contentment as we followed the Collegian editor to the teletype of a press service and read the syndicated columns of the eight page Daily Collegian. We guffawed at the stream line frothiness of Froth and were happy that students still told jokes, subscribed to Esquire, and played football. We wondered at the ambition and energy of youth in reconstructing a world which had been thrown into' whdt pessimistic oldtimers called “the end of the world.” We applauded the blunders and mistakes of students who tried to correct a wrong by attempting to do right. We walked arm in arm with professors who learned along with their students and who believed that growing old was not a physical loss of youth but the loss of a youthful attitude. As the last wisp of smoke curled into the air, we laid our pipe regretfully on the desk, got up from the easy chair, rolled up our sleeves, and started plodding toward that “pipe dream” of tomorrow. Dominick L. Golab David Samuels Louise M. Fuoua Louis H. Bell THE DAILY. COLLEGIAN lummmiuiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiitimiiiiuiiimiiiiimliiuuimuii A Worm's Eye View ... iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiHiiiiiHiiiiHiHimiiiiiiHUiinniiiiiiHiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiii I had a hard time finding Ferdy yesterday. As a last resort, I climbed to Old. Main tower, and there he was, wiggling around in a pile o£ rulers on the wall of the balcony. “Of all the screwy places for a measuring worm to be in,” I said. “And for the luvva mud, what are you doing with all those rulers?” “It’s a‘ hobby of mine to collect rulers and determine the degree of inaccuracy, according to traditional measuring worm standards,” he said, poking one of them with his head. “This one’s about a hundredth of a centimeter off.” “Peculiar hobby,” I said. “Well, I do it only when I’ve reached a con clusion about some campus activity and have nothing else to do.” “What's the conclusion this time?” I asked. “The conclusion is,” he said, measuring his words carefully, “ that if you give a student an inch, he’ll take it.” “What do you mean?” “I’m referring to student-faculty relationships. As far as I can see, there’s no necessity for all the griping going on around here about the fa culty’s indifferent attitude toward students. There are too many people inventing problems so that they can keep their minds busy solving them when they ought to be studying.” “It isn’t just the students who are messing around in this thing,” I said. “Maybe it isn’t, but I’ve found that students do more complaining. about the incompetency of the faculty than the faculty does about the stud ents.” _ “How do you know?” v ' “Well, I’ve been getting around the past week or so, and I’ve spoken. to a few professors, Most of them seem perfectly willing, to speak with students outside of class without considering the apple-polishing angle. Students, on the other hand, are afraid of classmate criticism and resort to complaints about the faculty to keep their social prestige in their own crowds. They should realize that some day they’ll have the same bald heads and twitching habits that they complain about now. Some of them are well on the way already.” “How about the committee that takes care of this question?” I asked. “Such a committee is all right as long as it lets nature take its course,” said Ferdy. “It should concentrate on professors who are already willing to cooperate with students, and there are plenty of them.” 5* « N \ t “I forgot to take her to The Corner” CAMPUS CALENDAR TODAY Meeting of the ’45 class mem bers of the Westminster Founda tion at the residence of Grace Gray, 440 W. Beaver avenue, 7 p. m. PSCA Freshman Council en tertainment committee meeting, 304 Old Main, 4:30 p. m. . . Newman Club anniversary par ty, Phi Kappa, 3 p. m. Engineering lecture in 121 Sparks, 4:10 p. m. Speaker, Prof. C. E. Bullinger, topic—“ The Let ter of Application.” Motion pictures, “London Night,” and two other films will be shown in the Hugh Beaver Room, 304 Old Main, at 4:30 p. m. Address to agricultural staff, room 109 Ag Building, 4:10 p. m. Dr. P. A. Wells, director of the Eastern Region Research Labora tory of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. TOMORROW Taxidermy class will meet in Old Main lobby, 1:30 p. m. ASCE meeting, 107 Mean En gineering, 7 p. m. Movies of the Golden Gate bridge construction will be shown. Advanced instruction for Rid ing Club members, Riding Club paddocks, 2 p. m. Riding Cluib business meeting, Stock Judging Pavillion, 1:30 p. m. Compulsory for all mem bers and. instructors. a type of carrier telephone circuit is now being built into many miles of Long Distance cable lines, to increase their capacity. Engineers at Bell Telephone Laboratories developed this circuit which enables two pairs of wires in parallel cables to carry as many as twelve separate conversations at the same time. K carrier is one of the ways we have found of adding a lot of long circuits in a hurry to meet defense commu nication needs. Such problems constantly challenge Bell System men with pioneering minds. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1941 4 Student-F acuity Poll Announced In an effort to further common interests between instructors and the student body, the Student- Faculty Relations Committee is conducting a survey on student hobbies. Student hobby enthusiasts are requested to fill out this ques tionnaire and- turn it in at Student Union by noon tomorrow. Name School Hobby interests 1 Would, you be interested in meet ing with a group interested in similar hobbies? .....' How often? , > HEY HEADING FOR HOME? Start right and easy! Send yout luggage round-trip by trusty, low cost Railway Express, and- take your train with peace of mind.We pick-up and deliver, remember, at no extra charge within our reg ular vehicle limits in all cities and . principal towns .Yo'U merely phone IUVILWA^EXPRESS NATION-WIDE RjflL-Atlt SERVICE '®v'* N *&AnojS
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