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"For .A Better Penn State"
Established 1940 a-. Successor to the Penn State Collegian,
established ISD4, and the Free loanee, established 4887. -
Published flatly except 4 Sunday -and .Monday;, duringtithe
regular College 'year by the studejats of; The Pehnsjlvijii*
Etatd College,!, Enteredybn--becond-olass mattpr July 5,, 1934
at the Post-office at State College, Pa., Under the act of
March 8, 1879.
Ross Le&a ifmei
Editorial .and .Business, Office - ~. Downtown. Office
818 Old Math Bldg. 119-121 S'ottth Frweler St.
Phone 711 Phone 4872
Women’a .Editor—Jeanne C. Stiles '42: Managing. Editor—
John, A. Baer '42; Sports Editor—A. Pat Nagelberg *4B;
Feature EditotK-rWilliamJ. MoKnight .142: t.News,.,Edl(j»kh-T
Stanley J. PoKccnpner ’42*, Worilen’s Feature , Edifbr'-rrAllce
Mi Murray' 142; .Women’s Shorts AEdltor —R, HaUn Ododotti*42.
Credit Manager—Paul M.' Goldbecg ’42,’iu.Circulatfon 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, Boards—Qordi’tt, ,L. Coy., DoimldicW. ®»gto.
Domiriick L. Golab, James;Du.Olkein. David Shtnilelsjißoban
E. Schooley, Richard S. Stebblris, SdritUel L. Bttohi .Nlaholaa
W. Vozzy, Herbert J. Zukauskas, Emily L. Funk, Louise M.
Fuoss, Kathryn M. Popp, Edith L. Smifhi ), >{ i
Junior Business Board—Leonard E. Bach, Roy ; .E. Barclay,
Robert E. Edgerly, Philip Jaffe, Frances A. ■ Lelby, John E.
McCool, Sara L. Miller, Katherine E. Schott, Marjorie L.
Sykes. • ■
Managing Editor This Issue James D. Olkfiin
News Editor. This; Issue Dominick L. Golab
Women’s Editor This Issue Louise JM. Fuoss
Sophomore Assistants Bob Kinter, Fred Clever
Graduate Counselor -
Tuesday, December 5, 1941
We Show Steady Hands
• We signed Japan’s death warrant yesterday,
'With the formal declaration of war By,. Con
gress, the last barrier to the Japanese jiafi-kari
Was hurdled. United States’ only .. aliernakiye,
War against Japan, climaxed a situation . iliat
America .didn’t want, didn’t invite; a war which
Was forced upon us by Axis powers.
The reverberations of the sudden arid fantastic
attack upon American , possessions in the Pacific
Ocean threw,Penn State students into a ppak of
excitement .and anxiety. The .inevitable Ameri
can. declaration of wal* heightened their emotion
al perplexity. ' ,
. The,macabre hand of. Wav tkrust itself into
student life, and.demanded of. American youth its
price, because from the youth of the nation Will
spring the nation’s victory or defeat. All the
fascination, terror, uncertainty, and upheaval of
war wrote itself upon student faces.
“What pajrt am I going t 6 ’play?” was the
anxious question asked by deferred students,
'potential draftees, and coeds. “lVhat are we to
do?” they inquired of each otker. The answer
is not simple, probably not entirely coi’rect, but
it is an answer which springs from common sense
[thinking.
As students, we have a job to perform, bloody,
senseless, and heartbreaking as it seems. .We
must win. We must win. by utilizing our natural
resources, our wealth, our strength, and our lives.
We must barter ourselves in the warring market
for the attractive and costly package of peace,
an established peace at our own terms.
War is a job of legalized murder. As much as
individuals decry the practice of .bloodshed to
assert tlieir privileges, society still clings to its
first natural law—that only the fittest of its group
shall survive. Today, Jaj?an has forced us to
prove that law.
We must sacrifice. We must give Up our ideals,
careers, homes, and lives to help maintain our
chosen, method of living. But, above all, we must
think. The utilization of our mental and physical
advantages will be wasted unless we learn to ap
ply ourselves.
Our job? We can serve our nation as effective
ly as possible by staying where we are, keeping
our heads, and pursuing the same objectives until
we are called upon to do a specific task. Like
squirrel hunters, who run from one tree to an
other, we are of no use to the nation by running
from our present duties. Only by mobilizing the
total strength, the coordination of forces behind
the army, can the United States best carry on its
war against Japan.
Students play a big part in smoothing out this
behind-the-scenes organization. By doing the
tasks they are assigned to do, by staying in' col
lege and educating themselves until Uncle Sam
'beckons his long arm, students are helping to
maintain a national equilibrium.
In these abnormal times, students must estab
lish • a normal attitude. They should not hap
hazardly attempt to leave college to join the army
or take national defense jobs until the need is
apparent. By attending college, they will im
prove the orderly system of war which the United
(States government is setting up.
In this ugly business *in which we are now en
gaged, we find no savor. In this picture of deadly
strife and bloodshed, we find no relief. But we
can find one satisfaction—the fulfilling of a duty,
however unpleasant, which may lead to the most
elusive ghost in the world—peace.
GIA
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Double feature':
We heard one of jfoe few. remaining clear
thinking adults, one who went through, the last
World War, expreSsf his views on the current
slaughter-to-be. '“Fye seen this,picture before,
with :ihe same overtures, tile, same pfeyues, and
the,same sickening ending, The only difference is
that most' of tfie torn and skaftereci bodies of
the .1918 cast are lying beneath the poppies of
Flanders Field. Others are still existing in a
patHetic soft ; of ' a way.” (Campy wonders on
what, date wili fall our World War No. 2 Memor
ial Day.)
Cahipus Snapshots:
i/tianiac caused a .mild furore when he erron
eously (as usual) reported that Walt Gamble had
pinned Poliy Vanneman. Peggy Colvin, the gal
who. got the ornament, was plenty burned tip . . .
G-54 sidles in to report thdt Jane Gibboney has
the pins of both Jimmy Leyden and George'Par
rish in ah all-out attempt to make the former
'Stooge sit up and take notice . . . Talk in the
Sandwich Sh6p that Benny Goodman, will be
■brought to a Locust Lane frateriairy by one of the
we.ll-she.keled brothers out there; It will rock
him si,sbij ’tis rumored . . . Pakty Wakty, the
new. campus fad, is rapidly gaining in popularity
with hundreds of. would-be members clamoring
lor admission . . . Sharpy noticed on an LA black
board: ‘.‘Don’t shoot until you. .see the slants of
their eyes.’,’ Flash! Johnny, Pearce, kappa sig
’39, dropped in. last last night, to get a grade trans
cript. He enlisted in. the , Navy Air Corps . . .
Mary Lou Keith finally took Don Hart’s phi sig
jewelry . . .
Time Saver:
The boys at one of the local sleep-eat (and. drink)
clubs were having trouble collecting, enough dona
tions to pay., Mr. Hickey when one got a, bright,
idea. They quickly enlisted ;the aid of a, brother
who was a psych major and who promptly hyp-
notized one .of the hesitant contributors and told
him that when he awoke he would give brother
S 50 cents for the “good of the house.”
When he awoke, the poor guy hadn’t a penny to
his name so he ran frantically all oveif*the house
hunting a loan, finally getting a buck and turning
it over to the Cause. (Hrn, the thing has possi
bilities.) . . . Keep ’.em.Fiying! CAM^Y
"Yeah, but Clark Gable can't ialce you to
The Corner"
‘Search For Peace
In World War 1 ? \
LA Lecture 'f o‘|lifc
°n J'Ttie ,Se§tcfi‘' for
Negotiated Peace Dtiring the\First
World War,” Dr. kent Forster,
instructor in history., .will: be, the
second speaker, injthg cyyrent Lib*
grgl.;Aris,,,L,e,qturg, Seine?, ip 121
Sparks Building at 7:30 p. m. to
day. •
Dr. Forster has just published
a book entitled “The Failures, of
Peacp,” tinder .tee auspices of
American ..Council pn Public Af
fairs, Washington, Di. C. He has
spent . the ~ las);, four, years doing
research on this, subject,. accord
ing to Morris bench, instructor in
romance languages and chairman
of. the lecture.
The speaker did his undergrad
uate work at Washington and Lee
University and his .graduate .work
at the University of Pennsylvania,
cattle to the History departrneht of
the .College from the University
0f,,. Pennsylvania where he ,had
been a member, of the teaching,
staff for the past three years.
Collegian Elects
Soptibmbre Boatd
Thirteen sophomore' Editorial'
"candidates were chosen for fh'e
Collegian Sophomore Board.,in an
election held Sunday by members
If you couldn’t hear .your own voice, you couldn’t regu
late its volume. If airplane pilot's had to ii§e an Ordinary
telephone instrument to talk to the airports, they’d find
it impossible to hear their Own Voices above the roar of
the motors.' Therefore, they’d yell into their telephones
and no one on the ground cduld understand them.
So‘telephone engineers have developed a special
radio-telephone instrument with two earphones and
special circuits which "feed back” soiciie of their own
voices into the receivers. There’s no mouthpiece to get
in the way, either. Instead there’s a throat microphone
which picks up the pilot’s voice with a minimum of
motor noise. Now the pilot can hear himself talk and
so he naturally speaks in the normal tone of voice which
carries best and clearest.
You’ll find that on any telephone, the best results
come from speaking not too loudly, nor in a whisper,
but in a normal voice. Speak distinctly with your lips
one-half inch from the transmitter and you’ll be heard
without trouble.
Good? Telephone Habits Are
a Business and Social Asset
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Blue Key meeting;. Sigma t»hi
Epsilon, fraternity, ,7jX6 p. m.
Spanish €tub! meeting in Grange
Oflie. "ift.
|L (peit%s. WiiSefiijf: IS; Hdlrie
Ilcrfripnilcs.SSildSHi'Ak fii; Cofri
p'lilsprj' jdir alkmemfenj.
.iHtjergl &rts Oeture, toiligiit;
12i 9:Bb jb./iri. ; -ph Kent
Forster speaking on “f’eace Proß
leinsof trie Frist World'W&r.” !
• WSGX House dl KeprSserifa-’
tives nieetiiii; 316 OIS -M&iii, 5
£• .**!• . , . , . • •
Caffdidates tor Madera’ lecKrii
cal crew for “thd of the
Shrew,” meet in 405 Old Main, 7
p. mV ; V
; Pre-VeteririarS' Club meeting
for tonight- postponed, indefinitely.
TOMORROW
' Watch. Service at Wesley Foun
dation, 7:15 ai. m. .
• Rifling. Club .. meeting; . Stock
Judging Pavillion; 7 p. m. for in
instruction... , ■
oilHrtie, Junior fefliidriai fearfl. :
r include
Benjamin ft/f.- • JT-
Cheryenajc, Fred ,F..jClevlr; Mil
ton Dolinger, Robert Wti
Jay. M- , Crfcoss,\ jftorart,,T. .Kimmel,
Robert . B, ■ Mc-
Naul,’ Richard Di Smyger,
Vogel, Dpnald L. Wpbbr.arid Paul
I. Woodland.
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