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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 Lance, established 1887,
Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the
regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania
State College. Entered as secodd-class matter July 5, 1934
at the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of
March 8, 1879.
Editor - Bus. and 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 This Issue
News Editor This Issue __
Women's Editor This Issue
Assistant Managing Editor
.annistant News Editor --
Graduate Counselor __-__
Tuesday, June 23, 1942
Don't Go To Bed
Students are prone to take lightly the efforts
of the College and local authorities in their pre
paration for Civilian Defense, mostly because they
don't realize the importance of this project. Nor
do they realize the time and effort that have gone
into making the State College defense organiza
tion one of the best in the state.
When Dean Warnock urged students recently
io prepare to study during this blackout so that
they might learn how to carry on as usual under
these conditions, he was hinting at things that may
come to pass.
There is no stretching of the imagination neces
sary to see how a carrier might anchor a hundred
miles off the east coast and send planes inland
from there. Nor does it require too much imag
ination to realize what a landmark the College is
:from the air. Located at the almost exact geo
'graphic center of the state, State College is point
ed out to passengers on every air liner that uses
the central Pennsylvania route at a sign post.
And State College, the sign post, is directly on
the airlanes to one of the busiest industrial cen
ters of the world. There is no danger from bombs
in State College, true enough, but the real danger
lies in brilliantly lighting the way to the heart
of one of our greatest production centers.
. - That is why we must earn to live in the dark.
Don't turn out the lights tomorrow night and sit
around or - go to bed. That's not playing the game.
Prepare to live your normal life as far as possible.
More than 600 people are enlisted, have taken
an oath to serve their country .here. in the Nit
tany mountains. To do that well, they have stud
ied and 'drilled. Penn. State is as well prepared
i'or an emergency as any place in the state: Col
onel Andrews, one of the College trustees, and
head of the metropolitan Philadelphia Control
'Center, said it is the best he's seen.
Wednesday night these people will be on duty
all night. Their families are also involved. An
air raid post commander's wife must stand ready
to notify the men in his corps if a signal should
came in his absence.
It should now be evident to students at Penn
State that the air raid wardens and the defense
workers are not playing at being Boy Scouts. They
are engaged in a grim business that may mean life
or death to men and women at work in the fac
tories that lie to the West of us. You, too, have a
job to do! When the street lights go on tomorrow
night, don't go to bed. Stay up and fight.
Say"No," You Hotdog
Can you say "no"?
A "no" to a few, petty activities. and jobs on
campus, a "no" to five extra minutes of a bull
cession, or a "no" to the question, "Did I fail to
'come out of my Nittany vacuum long enough to
contribute my part to the war effort?"
You probably cannot, because you are a Penn
State student sheltered away like the rest of us
:from the bloody sands of Tobruk and the bombed
hell of Sevastopol, but today with the rubber sal
vage drive you get another chance to do a minor
share in helping ou?national defense. Yes, "na
tional defense" has become a trite expression dur
ing the past few months and your part oday will
probably be minor in the eyes 'of the world at
large, but so will be parts played by marines and
tars in Ireland, 'Australia, and on the high seas if
the recent successes of the Axis on the world bat
tle fronts continue.
You are not in the position of Churchill and
roosevelt, who must answer to their people for
, any failure to do their part, but you must answer
lo yourself and if you answer "no" when you ask
"Have I come . out of my shell?" you can count
:yourself a major aid to the Gestapo, der Fuehrer,
and the spreading of Axis aims of anti-democracy
oncl racial superiority.
Learn how to say "no" to those bull sessions
Paul L Woodland
Larry T. Chervenab
Sally L. Hirshberg
Pete Scott
Bill Reimer
_Louis H. Bell
-E. T. K.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
The 7
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Campuseer
Someone's Slip Is Showing
July 1 is just another day. Some fellows might
consider it important because that's the sacred
day that the old man kicks through with the
monthly lucre. Otherwise it might just be pass
ed off with a casual glance at the calendar and the
thought that the semester is six weeks old.
'HOwever, July 1 is the deadline set for PSCA
to comply with All -College Cabinet's demands of
having their books audited and, accounted in the
manner prescribed by Cabinet.
The snag, is that PSOA will have their books
audited as specified bat refuse to have them ac
counted under the new system, and is willing to
give up membership in 'Cabinet rather than give
in.
A' Hot Time
Collegian's annual rat-race went off without
many hitches Saturday night, and a HOT time
was had by all. Even Campy showed' up and
noticed almost everybody who is anybody in the
throng. We couldn't miss Sammy Brown jitter
bugging with Shirley Tetley, fisigmakappa pin et
al, student editor Gordon Coy and Ronnie Karhan,
THE Jack Hanley and Beanie Siebert, and a few
more Kappas with a few more of those fellows
who were called dirty names during .rushing . . .
We couldn't determine whether it's the weather,
the campus, or Doggies?, but Bill Myers was back
again last weekend. Or maybe it's just Johnny
Fleming. •
Blazing A Trail
Always watching out for the welfare of the
underclassmen Campy noticed - that Junior Blazers
for the Class of '44 hairen't blossomed on campus
yet. I.Bince- -the seniors are getting their Lions
Coats early, hoW about blazers for juniors this
semester?
What's Humming, Hum?
We're still in favor of those concerts for a little
relaxation this Summer, and we understand -that
Hum Fishburn is trying to get them started. How
about a little action so the 15-credit men can go
somewhere on Sunday when the 'Skellar is closed?
—CAMPY
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Jeanne Stiles, formerly this rag's women's
editor, is pedalling to and fro for the Ocean City
Breeze while covering assignments. Mike Brote
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Frosh Debaters
Try Out Tonight
Freshman candidates for the
first year debate squad will try
out in 305 Sparks at 7 o'clock to
night. The tryout speeches Will be
five minutes long on the subject
"Resolved: That Air Power Will
Prove To Be The Dominant Force
In The Present Conflict." •
All freshmen are .eligible to
compete for first places on the
freshman squad...No credit is
given• for the first year, the sill=
dents registering ..as auditors. Joi
eph F. O'Brien, varsity debate
.coach, and Harold P. Zelko, fresh
man coach, will judge the speak
ers.
Late News
(Contimied from Page One)
states have not been made, the
final report is expected to far , ex•
ceed the present returns.
WASHINGTON Harry Hop
kins said yesterday in an inter
view that the United States could
not hope to win the war this year.
He stated that if it is at all neces
sary, a third, and even a fourth
front will be opened by the Allied
powers to win the conflict.
More On Murals;
Dickson Speaks Up
To the Editor:
Your editorial of more than
usual warmth chastising the per
son Who wrote last week's skit on
the murals stands out in contrast
to the Collegian's hearty endorse
ments of the mural project in the
past several years.
For the sake of the record, sev
eral points should be clarified.
Nobody has last - any candy, as
you put it. But Penn State has
lost a work of art of incalculable
value. What was potentially one
of the most splendid art -month
merits in the country was handed
to the board of trustees on a plat
ter—and was sent • back -to the
kitchen. !Unless a miracle hap
pens, the mural project is dead.
It has never been fully explain
ed why the triple class gift plan
so presented was not feasible. Ac
cording to highly reliable ad
vance information, there was little
or nothing to be risked financial
ly. Some $6,000 is now avail
able. No appreciable decrease is
expected in the amount that will
accumulate within the next fiscal
year. Thus two years would ac
count for about 90 per. cent of the
money required, and unless the
COMING .
JULY 10 & 11
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Letters To Editor
TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1942_
Campus
Calendar
TODAY
Freshman debate squad tryouts,
305 Old Main, 7 t p. m. All fresh
men are eligible :to compete. •
Professor Wurfl will talk with
the World Problem Committee in
Hugh Beaver room, 7 p, m.
'F - fosh Courieil Open linuae, 304
Old Main, 8 p. m. .
Alpha Phi Omega will meet in
309 Old Main, 7 p. m.
Freshman women will nominate
senator and WR'A . representative
in 110 Home Econarnics Building
at 6:30 p. in. Compulsory attend
ance. •
• Penn . State Club meeting in 1121
Sparks at 8 p. m.
TOMORROW
'46 Independent meeting, 318
'Old - Main, 7 p. m.
PSCA,.group will 'leave 304 Old
Main for a blackout party at
.Ralph Watts lodge, sp. m. .
PSCA Executive . Committee
meeting, Hugh Beaver room, Old
Main, 6:30 p. m.
PSCA Cabinet meeting, Hugh
Beaver . room, 7:30.
Philotes executive meeting in
302 Old Main, 1 p. m. today.
College should cease to function,
the remainder was bound to ac
crue. This was a way, and
seemingly the only remaining
practicable way, by which 4i!unds
could be obtained for finishing
the murals. It seemed as safe as
the institution itself. •
"'Why," you ask, "waste money
on murals during an emergency?"
The national government itself
has recommended • that worthy
- projects in the fine arts should riot
be needlessly sacrificed during the
war. 'Arid as "ifcir "wasting" mon
ey on 'something of so great and
enduring value to the College,
time would have shown the • wis
dom of
. .it. 1 question whether
even the present emergency should
have made this impossible.
Any way You look at it, the loss
of three-fourths of the Henry Var
num Poor frescoes proposed 'for
Old Main is regrettable in the ex
treme. That is the point to be
emphasized.
I write this not as one of "the
mural boys," but as one who as
student and teacher for more than
two decades has cherished a deep
ening affection for Penn State, and
who sincerely wishes for it the
best of everything.
Very truly yours,
H. E. DICKSON