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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
Established 1940. Successor to thte Penn State Collegian,
established 1904, and the Free I*ance, 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 5, 1934
at the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of
March 8, 1879.
Editor Bus. anc * Adv. Mgr.
Gordon Coy '43 Leonard E. Bach '43
Editorial and Business Office Downtown Office
Carnegie Hall 119-121 South Frazier St.
Phone 711 Phone 4372
Managing Editor Tins Issue
News Editor This Issue
Sophomore Assistants
Women’s Editor This Issue
Graduate Counselor
Junior Editorial Board—Benjamin M. Bailey, Fred E.
Clever, Milton Dolinger, Larry T. Chetvenak, Robert M,
Faloon. Robert T. Kimmcl, Robert E. Kinter, Richard B.
McNaul, Richard D. Smyser, Donald L. Webb, Paul I. Wood-
J.ind, Sally L. Hi&shberg, Helen R. Keefauvcr. Jane H. Mur
j»hy, Mary Janet Winter.
Junior Business Board—George J. Cohen, Richard E.
Marsh, Philip P. Mitchell, Donald H. Shiner, A. Kenneth
James B. Vosters. Jane L. Ammerman, Eugenia D.
Rundick, Eathermae Hartos, Mary Louise Keith
Business Staff—Credit Manager—Philip Jaffe ’43 ; Circu
lation Manager—Robert E. Edgerly ’43; Classified Advertis
ing Manager—Roy E. Barclay '43; Promotion Manager—
Jack E. McCool ’43; Senior Secretary—Frances A. Leiby '43;
Women’s Advertising Manager—Sara L. Miller '43; Assist
ant Women’s Advertising Manager—Marjorie L. Sykes '43,
Editorial Staff—Women’s Editor—Louise M. Fuoss '43;
Managing Editor—Herbert J. Zukauskas '43 ; Sports Editor—
Donald W. Davis ’43 ; Assistant Managing Editor—Dominick
L.-Golab '43; Feature Editor—David Samuels '43; News Edi
tor—Janies D. Olkein '43 ; Assistant News Editor—Robert E.
Schooloy '43; Assistant Sports Editor—Richard S. Stebbins
'43; Assistant Women’s Editor—Kathryn M. Popp *43;
Assistant Women’s Editor—Edith L. Smith *43 ; Women’s
Feature Editor—Emily L. Funk '43.
Wednesday, May 27, 1942
It’s Up To You!
It’s up to you!
Yesterday, that campaign slogan was born in
a Collegian editorial. For several weeks you,
;your roommate, your best triend will come face
to face with that slogan as The Daily Collegian
launches the most extensive subscription cam
paign in its history.
'But, just what is behind that slogan?
It means that The Daily Collegian has been
frank enough to 'admit it will be under a terrific
financial strain if it continues to publish daily
during the Summer semester. In other words,
q successful daily paper hinges on the outcome
of the subscription campaign. If you subscribe,
you will endorse the need for a daily paper.
Looking in one backyard, you may be interest
ed in knowing that the College has already en
dorsed The Daily Collegian. Feeling that a daily
paper is a necessity during the present emergency,
the Administration has 'appropriated a small surfi
which will help lessen the financial strain.'
•In our own backyard, the Collegian has done
its share by cutting entirely the compensation of
all staff members.
Only your backyard remains. There it’s up to
you! The Collegian is not asking for charity or
a handout; it is merely offering you an invest
ment—an investment that will yield a dividend.
Stop for one minute and consider how much you
depend on a daily paper for important campus
announcements. *
But again, it’s up to you!
We’ll Deliver . . .
Old subscribers of The Daily Collegian will
probably jump with glee at the present assurance
and guarantee of regular delivery which the rap
idly graying heads of this organization are now
making.
Despite a somewhat badly organized circula
tion 'and the resultant complaints of the past we
step forward boldly and make the following as
oertions:
This year’s delivery of the paper will be im
■provted beyond criticism. We believe this be
cause of definite steps which have been taken to
assure circulation. Each carrier who receives a
complaint will be charged two cents fine. This
irieans that laxity or carelessness on the part of
:lhe delivery personnel will probably become nil.
From the fund thus created the carrier with
'the best record will receive the total for the
month. This system combined with warm weath
er, absence of snow storjns, and freedom from
school should insure delivery at the breakfast
However, should the circulation go haywire on
occasions when the printers ink has flowed too
fast and sleepy heads refuse to leave their pillows
The Daily Collegian has still another safeguard.
Complaints received at the offices by 11 a; m.
will result in delivery by noon!
If this newspaper continues on a daily basis,
although stories may be written on waste paper
■and staff members work day and night for noth
ing more than the experience and dreams of
\vh:'f might have boon if compensations had list
hot. i, ol'minatod entirelv . . . then subscribers
in the l :- guaranteed delivery ol
e ,n he hap
Milton Dolinger
Richard D. Smyset
Walter Fischmnn, Otto Reiser
-Helen R. Keefauvei
Louis H. . Bel)
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
A Worm! s Eye
View . . .
We’re Still At It—
It seems like such a long time ago that we hate
to bring it up now, but when our angelic friend,
Gabriel, (you remember him, no doubt: he’s the
little guy who shoots a miniature comet down
this column every Friday morning) .mantes caustic
remarks about Mortar Board, we feel that some
thing ought to be said in defense.
Gabriel, we think you’d better make a bigger
hole in that needle of yours so that you can see
things better before you tell everyone that Mor
tar Board is “piddling” around with defense pro
jects.
Mortar Board, Gabriel, is composed of a small
group of women who hold their annual Spinster
Skip in the women’s White Hall so that women
may invite men to attend in order to raise scholar
ships for women. In other words, it’s a women’s
organization, and as such, it functions primarily
in the interests of women.
And Furthermore - -
In so doing, it sponsors a freshman orientation
program. These aren’t just words, Gabriel. They
mean that Mortar Board puts a certain number
of senior women in charge of different groups of
freshman women, maps out a program for them,
and takes charge of weekly meetings in which
new freshmen are given advice and assistance
concerning study habits, extra-curricular activi
ties, customs, social functions, and a host of other
things. If you think it’s wasted time, consult
any of the freshmen who have received such assis
tance in the past.
And that ain’t all, Gabriel. Last year Mortar
Board members, only 14 of them, managed to sell
$l5 worth of defense stamps every week. If you
think that six fifty-dollar scholarships raised from
their Spinster Skip is a paltry sum, talk to the
Penn State women who denied their support of
the project toy failing to attend the dance. We
don’t think that the fact that they set up two
addiional 500-dollar scholarships for this year is
exactly “piddling” either.
Listen ‘Angel-Face’
Let’s get this straight, Angel-Flace; Mortar
Board isn’t perfect. No organization is. But
when we think of “piddling” we mgan giving teas
and parties and making business meetings into
bull sessions. Mortar Board doesn’t do this.
Right now it’s' planning its annual dance, this
year called a “Draftee Drag,” and, with student
support, it hopes to m;qke even more than that
■paltry $3OO. And let’s remember that the
Draftee Drag isn’t the only function that the or
ganization intends to sponsor.
Government Gets Worried
WASHINGTON (ACPI— Government war
agencies are worried sick about the growing
shortage of college-trained physicists, chemists,
engineers and other technicians. As quickly as
experts in these fields are hired by some eager
government department, Selective Service steps
in to divert them to one of the military branches.
The problem of shortages in critical occupar
tions is two-headed. At the same time that war
agencies find themselves unable to hang on to
what men they are able to hire in scientific and
engineering fields, young college men are apa
thetic about applying for such jobs because they
figure they soon will be drafted anyway.
The new War Manpower Commission, headed
by Paul V. McNutt, probably will soon take a
crack at solving the dilemma. Look for the Com
mission to attempt to work out with Selective
Service an improved system of occupational de
ferments in fields where the most pressing needs
occur.
A total of 28,800 college people filed to take
the Junior Professional Assistant examination,
filings for which closed April 27. Here is what
will happen to the examination results:
• The list of “eligibles” will be sorted into occu
pational fields, and Civil Service will draw on
tiie list as neejls occur in various branches-of the
government.
i Students who passed a similar examination giv
en last January will got. first chance at jobs;
eonscnuently. tiro April applicants cannot expect
lighiniu" nation.
Junior Professional Assistant jobs pay 52.000
unless an applicant indicates lie’s willing to take
’46 Campers
Filling Quota
Applications for Freshman
men’s camp have been coming in
to the PSCA office at the rate of
twenty a day, Jerry Stein ’44,
chairman of the camp committee,
announced last night.
So far 53 freshmen hav'e paid
their registration fee to attend
camp, next weekend, June 5-7.
Since plans have bden made to
accommodate only 100 freshmen,
Stein expressed confidence in
reaching the goal before next
Monday.
He added that his plans have
already been completed and that
it is now only a matter of waiting
for the freshmen to appear on
campus.
However, restrictions on trans
portation has made it impossible
to secure buses to take the boys
to the Diamond Valley camp,
which is 18, miles from State Col
lege. The only solution lies in
the use of trucks or private auto
mobiles.
Design Show
In Gallery
The first exhibit of the Sum
mer semester, a group of designs
for “A Community Day Nursery,”
is being shown in the College Art
Gallery, 303 Main Engineering,
through this week until May 30,
J. Burne Helme, in charge of the
division of fine arts, announced
yesterday.
The exhibit is being sponsored
jointly by the College Library and
the division of fine arts and in
cludes the first three prize win
ners in a national student contest
for solution to a current problem.
The contest was held, and the ex
hibit is being circulated by the
American Institute of Decorators.
The drawings are done and ex
hibited in pairs to show how each
one serves as a solution to this
problem made so important by the
war conditions.
Music Department
Adds Opera Course
An opera course, not listed in
the catalogue or time-table, will
be given this semester, the depart
ment of music announced today.
Attendance at the organization
meeting in Room 201 Carnegie
Hall at 4 o’clock this afternoon is
the only prerequisite for the
course.
—FERDY
Collegian Campaign
(Continued from Page One)
newspapers by noon.
With this revised circulation
set-up promising to increase still
further the service of our college
paper, the entire newspaper staff
has united in a gigantic subscrip
tion campaign to insure continued
daily publication. Enthusiastic
approval of the effort was express
ed last night by official College
and campus leaders.
Typical of the comments was
the statement made last night by
Ralph D. Hetzel, president of the
'College. “The Collegian has earn
d a place of importance in the life
of this institution,” Hetzel said.
“The staff is to be commended for
this helpful contribution to college
life during these war days.”
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1942
CAMPUS CALENDAR
TODAY
PSCA Cabinet meeting, 304 Old
Main, 8:15 p. m.
American Chemical Society
meeting, Room 119, New Physics
Building, 7:30 p. m.
Candidates for the junior board
of LaVie report to 318 Old Main,
4 p. m.
Louise. Homer Club meeting,
200 Carnegie Hall,' 5 p. m.
Watch services at Wesley Foun
dation, 7 a. m.
Archery Club meets in Room 3
White Hall, 6:30 p. m.
Reorganization meeting Campus
’44 in Old Main, 7 p. m.
Campus ’45 meeting. Soph Hop
committee announcement, 405 Old
Main, 7:30 p. m.
•Bowling Club meets in White
Hall bowling alleys at 6:30 p. m.
All coeds may attend.
•Lakonides will meet in WiRA
room in. White Hall at 6:30 p. m.
Sophomore women will meet
senior women in first interclass
softball game on Holmes Field at
4:15. p.m.
TOMORROW
Coffee hour for State College
High School seniors who plan to
enroll at Penn State, 304 Old
Main, 4 p. m.
Old Main Open House commit
tee- meeting in Room 304 Old
Main, 4 p. m.
Religious Study group meeting,
Hillel Foundation, 7 p. m.
College Choir rehearsal, 117
Carnegie Hall, 7 p. m.
Sophomore candidates for Froth
Business staff mbet in 2nd floor
lounge, Old Main, 7:30 p. m.
Men’s. Glee Club rehearsal, 117
Carnegie Hall, 7 p. m.
Students interested in new
opera course report to 201 Car
nejgie Hall, 4 p. m.
•Bible Study class at Hillel
Foundation, 7 p. m.
. Tryouts for Thespian show
units will be held in Schwab Aud
itorium,., 8 to 9 p. m.
‘College Days’
Radio Topic
Penn State’s speech department
will sponsor a series of nine radio
programs on the theme, ‘College
Days,” o.ver station WMRF, Lew
istown, during the Summer
months. The first in the series
will be presented Thursday, June
4.
Prof. Joseph F. O’Brien is in
charge of the program which is
entitled, “Study Hour.” Partici
pants will be Robert S. MacNabb
’45, Earl R. Booser ’43, Louise M.
Fuoss ’43, and Samuel G. 'Fredman
’43. Prof. John H. Frizzell, head
of the speech department will
speak during this program also.
The second in the series is en
titled, “College Activities,” with
Prof. George Rice in charge. Carl
H. Bergey ’45, Bernard M. Wein
berg ’43, John B. McCue ’43, and
Ruth L. Kiesling ’43 will partici
pate.
“Recreation,” is the topic for
the third program. Harold D. Ep
stein ’44, Carroll P. Blackwood ’44,
Harry M. Vosburgh ’44 and Mar
ion E. Fogel ’43 .will speak with
Prof. Ralph E. Richardson presid
ing.
La Vie Calls Candidates
A call has been issued for all
juniors interested in trying out
for the editorial staff of LaVie to
report to 318 Old Main at 4 p. m.
today, Martin H. Duff ’43, editor,
announced yesterday.