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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegiin.
established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1837.
Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the
T egular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania
state College. Enteredt as second-class matter July 5, 1934
at the Post-office at State College, Pa., under thel act of
March 8, 1879.
Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr.
floss Lehman '42 James James McCatighey '42
Editorial and Business Office Downtown Office
Carnegie Hall 119-121 South Frazier St
Phone 711 Phone 4372
Women's Editor—Jeanne C. Stiles '42; Managing Hditor—
John A. Baer '42: Sports Editor—A. Pat ,Nagelberg '42.
Feature Editor—Willtain J. McKnight '42; News Editor—
Manley J. PoKempner '42; Women's Feature Editor—Alice
M. Murray '42; Women's Sports Editor—R. Helen Gordon
'42.
Credit Manager—Paul M. Goldberg '42; Circulation Man
rger—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, James D. Olkein, David Samuels,
Robert E. Schooley, Richard S. Stebbins, Herbert J.
Zukauskas, Emily L. Funk, Louise M. Fuoss, Kathryn M.
Popp, Edith L. Smith.
Junior Business Board—Leonard E. Bach, - Roy E. Barclay,
Robert E. Edgerly, Philip Jaffe. Frances A. Leiby, John E.
MeCool, Sara L. Miller, Katherine E. Schott, Marjorie L.
Sykes.
Managing Editor This Issue
Assistant 'Managing Editor This Issue ___
News Editor This Issue
Women's Editor This Issue _____Edith L. Smith
:ioohomore Assistants V. Doris Stevenson, Mary ,T. Whitey
Graduate Counselor
Friday, March 6, 1942
:Foot• Catchers
"We throw to you the torch" may have been a
good high school cry of inspiration, but it is also
the battle-cry of war.
Thousands of soldiers as they leave the ranks
of civilian life throw their torch of sadrifide to
others, who in turn, must step into the ranks of
Uncle Sam's army. This business 'of war has
;made the torch-throwing a rapid-fire procession.
But, we students are poor catchers. In fact, the
spirit of sacrifice is missing from the war voca
bulary of the nation, and particularly from our.
campus. We are on the edge of the W&-torn
world,. a little more re,moved from actual combat
most Men.
We are isolated from the nation's war efforts,
rind are talrdy in awaVe.ning to the full peril that
.?.onfronts us. We don't know what sacrifice is,
and we don't care. Our valley of Mt. Nittany is
;:afe, we think, from bombing and we won't look
"beyond the vale" before we are plucked to join'
one of Uncle Sam's torch brigades.
We have been badly beaten in three months
of war. Our backs have been light from luxur
ious living, and we refuse to take on the added
burden of war. It may be possible that in three
more months of warfare, the packs may be
thrown on our backs by a less democratic means.
This time the danger of defeat will be blazing
before our eyes and we will be told instead of
asked.
We have been asked to save rubber. We pro
crastinate. We have been asked to buy defense
!.?onds. We turn our pockets inside out with a
shrug of the shoulder. We have been asked to
:gave paper, conserve raw materials. We waste
them. .We have been asked to work more and
ask less. We complain
r Now the lanes of coffiWittnicE,ltion from San
'.Francisco to the Dutch Indies are still clogged
after three months of warfare. Supplies cannot
reach General MacArthur. Men cannot be trans
ported fast enough to close the breach in the Java
.end Burma battleground. Planes are being turn
iad out, but not fast enough. The American peo
ple are still smoking their cigars, striking for
more pay, grabbing money needed for artna
meats, allowing fifth columnists to soften their
war attitudes, and slowing up armament produc
tion,
In Corregidor, a small group of men are an
•tiously scanning the skies for air relief, and
watching the seas hopelessly for transports. The
Supplies will come, probably too late, because
.American sea power and air power cannot con
nect its supply bases in a 6,000 mile chain.
This chain depends upon the American people,
their ability to turn out planes, ships, ammuni
tion, and men. The chain depends upon stu
dents, Americans who are willing to sacrifice.
The sacrifices must not come from the "gimme"
urge but from an awakened America, and awak
ned students. The torch-throwing act is t , ,n
idealistic one, but also a practical one, because it
!iignififes a desire to eliminate the petty, selfish
,- .reeds in a crisis where Unity is imperative.
Nittany tnay be a temporary haven, but it
also a Shangvi La', where men walk in and
)001s will: 11 - Te we are not loot: o
of toren-hearers."
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Forgotten Alen Of Fame
With the war and alt. we decided to talk to you
about forgotten men and women today, -the ones
who are "famous" at Penn State. We have a
conviction that the student body has been snub
bing those whom it has made "great" in the col
lege, and we'd like to humbly submit that a per
son can hold an extra-curricular office and still
be a guy or gal who goes to classes and likes to
tell the hot one he or, she just heard, too.
Take Jeanne Stiles, for example. Pretty soon
now, Jeany turns the whip over to the next head
of Judicial. We fervently hope that her succes
sor will not be the conscientious sucker that
Jeanne was. We'd like to spank all the kids who
make the head of Judicial into a bogeywoman
that you have to pass primly in the Corner Room
with a cool hello, be , :ause if you say anything
nice, she might remember you for a campus. We
have foulid Jeanne to be one or the damned few
real people in this college, and we have wonder
ed if the student body realizes what it does when
it honors a student for capability, and then imme
diately refuses to separate the human being from
the office held.
_David Samuels
Paul Woodland
Louis H. Bell
Jimmy Leyden, Thespians' production manager,
is another one. Maybe it's old man jealousy, but
as soon as a guy gets his name in the Daily Colle
gian •as having done something significant, like t
having Waring play his tunes, the cats begin to
howl instead of swinging out. Meanwhile, Ley
den rolls along, quietly turning out the work that
makes his particular organization Move along.
We've chatted with this fellow, and we think he's
pretty much like everybody else: a nice guy who'll
_think a course if he doesn't stop writing tunes for
Thespians and start writing them for classes, who
is headed for the •army or navy with his sheep
skin.
There are those who are sad apples, as were
Ray Leffler and Pat' Nagelberg, not-so-cordially
disliked by most people. There are also some
folks' who are in the grooye, like Jerry Doherty,
who takes his girl's picture with him on debate
trips; like the hypertensed editor of this sheet,
who has fun getting his girl to show him how to
jitterbug; like quiet Johnny Baer was before the
army put him in a rut. We're not a press agent
for any of these peoplN but we think that, before
you get formal with the next person you meet
with a high college office, you should try honor
ing them by being human and interested, instead
of by making them forgotten men and women of
"fame."
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
I. Through The
Needle's Eye
You'll Enjoy
The
-GABRIEL
Corner
unusual
Former Librarian
Dies In Washington
Sabra W. Vought, former College
librarian, died of heart attack last
Tuesday at tier home• in, Washing
ton. Nationally known for her
research work arid student educa
tion, she was, before her death,
Librarian of the United StOtes
Office of Education. •
From the period of 1924 to 1930,
when Miss Vought was librarian
of the College, numerous addi,-
tions in personnel were made tp
the
,library„ The 100,000 volume
mark was passed and the Sparks
and. Ccster • collections of books
were donated to the school,
Just as a friendly warning—ten
inches of skin were grafted on an
Oklahoma man who smoked a cig:-
aret in bed.
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Faculty Changes
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Fourteen new appointments to. sistant Professor of economics; and
the - College faculty, as well as Mary F. Wattles, serials assistant
prOmotioas and trainsfers, were in the Cyliege library.
.
• tions were
announced yesterday by President The following promo
also announced: H. P. Zelko, from
Ralph D. Hetzel. • instructor to assistant professor
New appointees and their posi- of public speaking; J. S. Levine,
tions follow: Robert Stiles Bees!, from research assistant to instruc
photog‘aoher in the School of tor in' petroleum and - natural gas
Agriculture; Charles Stoll Bicks- engineer;ng;• and .R. F. Nielson,
ler, instructor in engineering from instructor 'to assistant, pro
drawing; Orson S. Cannon, ill — fessor of petroleum and natural
structor in plant pathology ex- gas engineering. ,
tension . Liberate, Emmerich, Min- In addition, four faculty mem
eral Industries librarians; Thomas bers were transferred to new posi-
R. Ferguson, Jr., instructor in fine tions. They include: George D.
arts in the Schuylkill Undergrad- LobingiPr, from assistant proles
uate Center; John R. Low z , Jr., sor in the Schuylkill Undergrad
instruc'or in metallurgy. - uate Center to district represent-
Joseph Marin, professor of en
gineering mechanics; Rita Mae
Miller, circulation assistant in the
College library; B. S. Norris, in
structor in metallurgy; John W.
Oehrli, assistant professor of me
chanical engineering; Anna Marie
Teresa Quinn, home economics ex
tension representative; Eleanor B.
Simpson, assistant in economics
(shorthand); J. Donald Watson, as
IFC Changes
Dating Code
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president, announced. This com
mittee, Henson said, was operating
under the provision of the code
that was changed and so their de
cisions are null and void.
In a statement that seemed to
surprise many of the Council's re
presentatives; Henson added that
the code was not in effect last
week-end anyway, since it had not
approved the minor changes of the
Senate. Committee on Student Wel
fare.
Debate began when William F.
Finn '42 proposed that IFC's juris
diction end when properly ap
proved Wednesday by the Senate
Committee on Student Welfare
which "disapproved mixed drink
ing in fraternities at any time and
on any occasion."
As the code stands now it does
not differ materially from the one
in use last semester. The one new
clause that formerly was in the
new code, that regarding chaper
oned mixed drinking, has now been
stricken' out.
A committee consisting of the
members of the IFC Judiciary
Committee, the chairman of the
Association of Fraternity Coun
selors, and the IFC president will
approve chaperones.
To end one of the longest IFC
meetings on record, the executive
committee announced that IFC
elections will be held April 13. The
nominating committee will submit
candidates' names at the next
meeting,
Chewing gum costs Americans
$50,000,000 annually—which is a
lot of money to stick under chairs
and tables.
t”amp the boys are marching."
BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Now it's stamp, stamp, stamp, to
AND BONDS keep 'era flying. Buy all you can!
FRIDAY, MARCH •6, 1942
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CAMPUS CALENDAR
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Vars 4 .ty debating, Ursinus
labor question, 316 Sparks
Building,' 7 p. in., Penn State neg
ative,' I.Trsinus affirmative. •
Freshman women Collegian
candidates meet in 9 Carnegie
Hall at 4 o'clock. New candidates
arewelcome.
Northwest Atherton coeds are
invited to Penn State Club dance
'in Northwest lounge. at 9 p. m.
Newman Club initiation, Theta
Kappa Phi, 8 p. ,m. .
- ,
.MISCELLANEOUS -
Try-nut for Thespian Stage
Crew, Auditorium, 7 p. m. Simday.
Entrias for the ping
.gong and
badminton singles tournaments
must be handed in along with a
25 'cent entrance fee to Eugen - C.
Bischoff in Rec Hall' by 5 p. m.
Vjednesday •
ative in Wilkes-Barre; Leon ,D.
Skinner, from Mont Alto to the
campus as assistant professor of
English crymposition; John Y. Roy,
from the Schuylkill Undergradu
ate Center to . the campus els assis
taut processor of fine arts; and
Duane V. Ramsey, from assistant
professor of spciology to specialist
in community adult education in
the Extension Services.
Politics
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P. J. Jordan; historian, Samuel G.
Fredman and Charles R. Sorber.
The office of class historian has
been vacated by John McLaugh
lin, who has transferred to another
college.
Other. Independent preliminary
nominations follow.
Senior class president: Frank R.
Flynn, J. Hilary Kelley, and David
J. MCAleer; vice-president, William
C. Mazzocco, Glenn W. Ely, and
Charles E. - Gundlach; secretary,
Joyce R. Brown and Lila A. Whool
ery; treasurer, Jess V. -Fardella,
Charles E. Gundlach, J. Hilary
Kelley, and Robert J. Perugini;
class historian, David J. Woods
and Charles E. Gundlach.
Class of 1944
The Campus party has completed
its slate and will run William B.
Prichard for president of the next
junior class. His running mate will
be Robert M. Faloon, Jr., Shirley J.
Tetley was chosen a candidate for
class secretary, and William Briner,
Jr. was named for the treasurer's
post.
No nominations have been made
in the '44 Independent party.
Class of 1945
Campus party politicians put
their heads together in the freSh
man class and came up with James
A. MoKechnie for president of the
sophomore class. Ruth A. Embury
is running for vice-president. Mar
garet L. Good received the nomina
tion for secretary, and . John L.
Pfirm . an was placed on the ticket
for treasurer. •
The Independent party refused
'to reveal its plans for the coming
elections. Party organization is
not yet complete.
It used to be "tramp, tramp