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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
State College. Entered as second-class matter July 6, 1934
at the Post-office at State College. Pa., under the act if
March 8, >1879.
Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr.
Ross Lehman *42 James McCaughey '42
Editorial and Business Office Office
818 Old Main Bldg. 119-121 South Frasier St.
Phone 711 Phone 4372
Women’s Editor—Jeanne C. Stiles *42; Managing Editor—
JTJhn 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 —U. “'Helen Gordon *42.
Credit Manager—Paul M. Goldberg *42; Circulation Man
ager—Thomas W. Allison *42; Women’s Business Manager—
Margaret-L. TSmbury *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. James D. Olkein, David Samuels,
E. Schooley, Richard S. Stebbins, Samuel L. Stroh, Nicholas
W. Vozzy, Herbert -J. Emily *L. Funk, Louise-“M.
Fuoss, Kathryn M. Popp, Edith L.Smlth.
Junior Business 'Board—Leonard ,; E. /Bach, Roy E. Barclay.
Robert E. Edgerly, Philip Jaffe, Frances A. Leiby, John *£.
McCool, Sara L. Miller, Katherine E. Schott. Marjorie L.
Sykes.
Managing This Issue ..Donald W.j'Davis, Jr.
News Editors This Issue Bob Faloon, Fred Clever
Assistant Managing • Editor This Issue Paul Woodland
Women’s Editor-This Issue .-Emily L. Funk
Graduate Counselor
Thursday, December-18, 1941
We Strip For Action
The Daily Collegian has a double responsibility
placed upon it since the United States is at war.
We must present an accurate and detailed.account
of all campus activities and also adopt a war
editorial, policy.
We have been accused of concentrating our
local mews too much upon the war angle and its
affect upon the-students. We do not apologize for
this fault, because President Hetzel said yester
day, “The College is at war.”
Students cannot afford to hide their heads from
the present conflict and believe that the Penn
State campus and -war .are two opposite factors.
Like ostriches, they will find that they are ex
posed to the enemy.
If we appear to' be concentrating too closely
upon campus defense groups and their influence
upon the students, it is only that such news is
important -to the general well-being of the stud
ent, -as distasteful as it -may seem to him.
We did not want this war. We did not want
to fight. But, with the battle axe brought to our
back door, we cannot ignore it. Either we forti
fy ourselves, open our eyes, face the realities of
•war, or find what we hold as American principles
folding beneath the crushing blow of Nazi blitz
kriegs.
We consider it the duty of -The Daily Collegian
to publish the facts, even if those facts are re
peated and repeated. As long'as there is a war,
as long as the campus is an integral unit of the
American force which fights that war, as long as
We are the backbone of the trenches and the sup-
ply line of the nation, we will print news which
is essential toward winning that conflict.
, News is news. Information on war activities,
student defense training, and civilian morale may
at times become monotonous. But, we maintain
that by publishing this news, by constantly
bringing the information before our readers, we
may create a consciousness that war is here on
campus. We say that war is in our honles, our
laboratories, our classrooms, our individual lives,
and it is up to us to take our dose of castor oil
and like it.
We cannot compromise with ourselves. We
cannot evade the shadow of war upon our door
step. ■ What we can do is make up our minds as
to what we can do since the circumstances have
'been forced upon us.
President Hetzel also said that the College
must dedicate itself without reserve to the tasks
that it must perform. As individuals, as a news
paper, as groups, we must face this interruption
of normal activity as members of a democratic
way of thinking which believes that force is not
the “way of life.”
In our editorials, we will not hesitate to criti
cize, but if we are in the minority, we will not
obstruct. We will not yield to war hysteria, nor
persecute people for thinking differently. How
ever, we will sternly condemn those who inter
fere with the war efforts of the campus, state, or
:.iation.
We will attempt to interpret the intracscies of
the civilian and student defense structure, and
the part that students must play in this tragic
“game of war.”
Above all, we will be patriotic but fair. Wte (
will place above all other duties as an editorial
staff the facilities of The Daily Collegian as ajn
aid in harmonizing the campus in its war pro
gram. We will strip for action.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
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Some time ago I remarked that it is quite am
azing to see the little things of life go on in thf»
midst of what Dr. Hetzel rightly calls “the most
enormous and crucial contest which has developed
since man commenced to make history.”
Now, nearly two weeks after our 'involvement
in that struggle, I am no. longer amazed by the
unchanging pattern of our life in spite of th£
tremendous strains upon it. Indeed, I am begin
ning to wonder why I ever was_ surprised.
After only a little thought it is easy enough to
see that, unless this pattern remains fundament
ally the same, we have little for which to fight.
The woof and warp of our daily lifq is mtide up
of innumerable small actions, all woven into a
design which gives meaning to existence. It is the
desire to preserve all these irifinitesimal threads
of life that make up the grand tqpestry of what
we, somewhat boastfully .call our civilization that
consciously or unconsciously drives us to resist
the onslaught of those who would have us -accept
their own twisted weavings.
■fhe Corner Room chatter; the relative calm
' .tendant upon our learning of a new World War
compared-with-the boisterous acclaim of a-newly
discovered football hero; the heated discussions
following that controversial last goal in the W ; & J
basketball game and-the quieter-annoyance at-the
Japanese bombardment of Pear Harbor—all
these are just a few of the threads which combine
to form the homespun cloth of American life.
True, that Cloth has its snags, its violent clashes
of-design. I'have never tried to make a case for its
completeness, its For the present, how
ever,' we must sill concern ourselves with retain
ing. the-essential’pattern. More than that. We'must
be sure that as we fight -to keep the design intact
no threads are lost but those we can least afford
to keep; that while our eyes are on the enemy
abroad no home-grown vipers achieve the enemies’
purpose and destroy the woof and warp behind
our backs.
There is little tie now to talk of hoped-for fu
ture gains. The task at hhnd is simply to presfe.rve
the ones we’ve labored over 150 years to achieve.
It is my duty and yours to act with greatest skill
the parts our foremost talents give us to play. It
is our-solemn obligation as the heirs-apparent of
this civilization ■to protect our heritage at home,
in the 'Pacific, in England, in China, in Russia, or
wherever that heritage is' threatened.
For the Fascist way of, not life, but living
death, is so diametrically opposed to the princi
ples of -self-respecting men as practiced in our
own country, in England, in Russia, in China, and
in all the other lands opposing Hitler’s- march,
that we have now but one purpose: To eradicate
forever all traces.of Fascism, domestic or foreign.
Late News Flashes
ATTENDS "CONFERENCE— Harry ... _ _ ,
P. Hammond, dean of-the School ~,, (Contimmd'from Page; One)
df Engineering, will travel to The types-mf .’Jap. vessels,attacked
Washington, D. C. 'today to-attend -it
a meeting of the National Advi-' roK y° Official Japanese
sory. Committee on Engineering .fvernfnent spokesmen -warned
Defense Training of which he il_i apanese manners last night of
a member. The meeting has been he Presence mf at least 20 Amer
oalled to discuss new conditions jean submartaes reported. opera t
which the war situation has creat- te " ltorial waters ‘
ed MOSCOW Ru s s-i-a-n army
spokesmen announced last night
.that. Russian armies, ha veadvanced
90 miles-inthe-lastweekand have
captured-over-50 -new -towns in the.
.last 48 hours -in .a -non-stop ;.pur-l
suit of -the -Nazi armies to the.
on all fronts.
iMANtELA —>2oo .passengers were
New Fitness
Program Set
Emphasizing the importance of
strong' morale .and physical fit
ness, the School of "'Physical -Edu
cation and -Athletics -has -prepared
its facilities, equipment, and per
sonnel to acommodate both the
faculty and the entire student
'body in the present war-time
training prograjn. ' - within ten miles of the strategic
The School’s facilities are taxed e^ngJ S lan< a.
to the limit at present but in- LONDON-Authonties reported
creased emphasis will be placed Messerschmitt fighters.of a Ger
on all phases of the present set- ““Air- Arm-are being-used to
up, Dean Carl P. Schott promised '"V* 1 ® JapaneSe , aUack on ' th ?
last night. Particular 'attention /Malayan -Peninsula in a report
will be placed on subjects more l£St mght
.directly connected with prepara- i
tion for combat and civilian de- >i ( ,
fense dr we Editors
Varsity and intra-mural pro
grams wil be continued -with the
size of the squads- increased and
more terms placed in competition.
The campus defense subcommittee
headed by wrestling coach Charlie
Speidel has made arrangements
to extend regular gymnasium per
iods to upperclassmen not.taking
physical education.
The equipment of Rec Hall will
be available to junior and senior
men students on Monday, Wed
nesday, and Friday afternoons
from - 2:30 to 3:50 p.m. All male
members of the College staff will
be admitted at the same time on
Tuesday and Thursday of every
wreek. This program will start on
January-6.
Immediately after vacation a
short course will be offered in
military and social hygiene. Em
phasis will be placed on the rela
tionship of health to industrial,
community, and military effici
ency.
Open to ia'll students, a course
in first aid will begin with the
first session scheduled from 7 to
10 p.m. on January 5. Bleeding,
fractures, shocks, burns, wounds,
unconsciousness, and all phases of
asphyxiation will be considered.
-Recreational activities ha v e
been suggested for the coming
Winter and Spring seasons. The
tennis court ice rink will be
ready for use immediately after,
the Christmas holidays. “Bring
skates back and enjoy smooth ice”
is the advice of the Physical Edu
cation School. Roller skating ses
sions will be held every Saturday
afternoon and evening in the
Armory.
The women’s program has also
assumed a new significance with
special features improving the
'basic health, physical and mental
fortitu.db to be announced immed
iately after vacation.
York Alumni Plan Dance
The Penn State alumni club of
York will sponsor' them annual
New Year’s Eve dance ait the Ho
tel Yorktowne on the evening of
December 31. The Campus Owls
orchestra ‘Will play for the dance.-
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 194jJ1
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TODAY
Christmas 'Carol Sing, sponsored
by PSCA and Music Department,
Old Main Terrace," 8:30 p. m.
Organization v meeting, Figure
Skating Club, 318 Old Main, 7 p.m.
Reorganization" meeting, ’-45 Im
dependent .party, 418 Old Main,
7:00 p. m. Party elections will be
held.
• PSCA publicity committee, 304
Old Main, 4 p. m.
Fireside Sessions Committee, 304
Old Main,-6:30 p. m.
killed -last night when .-the cfimr
mercial steamer, ""Corigador, sank
after striking- a mine in Manila
Bay, according to eye-witness re
ports frormManila.
SINGAPORE —British military
officials admitted last might -that
Japanese troops diave.advanced -to
Discuss Draft
One of the most "widely dis
cussed questions in -educational
circles, today—whether college
students should -be. drafted—was
discussed recently by five college
editors debating 'the -issue over
Station ‘KMOX, St. Louis.
Representing five of the coun
try’s well-known colleges and
universities, these editors were
encouraged to voice their opin
ions freely. •
Saul Moses, editor of the’ Car
negie Tartan, Carnegie Institute
of' Technology, insisted collegians
•should be drafted- Discrimina
tion on such a vital issue would
have a bad effect on the morale
of the country, he said.. He
thought, however, that a solu
tion might be found by combin
ing education and military- train
ing.
Joan Pinanski, editor of the
Wellesley News, Wellesley Col
lege, asserted liberal arts stud
ents should be allowed -to com
plete their courses before being
drafted. She said educated-peo
ple would be ■ needed during the
reconstruction period after the
war.
Lowell Jones, editor of the
Minnesota Daily, University of
Minnesota, believed students
should be deferred until- their
education is completed.
“During the first World War,”
Jones said, “colleges were forced
to close down because of the de
crease in enrollment. Education
al institutions are too important
in a democracy to allow this to
happen again.”
The editor of the St. Francis
College newspaper, Bob Swopa,
stated that college students
should be drafted /without spe
cial classification.
In agreement with Swopa’s be-...
lief was Charles Harris, editor of
the Emory University newspaper,
who -said, “College students ‘
should be drafted. If this rule
were not ;made, -many •P e fP”'
might- enter college with dhe fid
.of dodging the