The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, July 08, 1942, Image 2

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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
Tlitablished 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 second-class matter July 5, 1934
at the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of
March 8. 1879.
Editorßus. and Adv. Mgr.
. 'mi.) •
Gordon Coy '43 • g Leonard E. Bach '43
Editorial and Business Gales Downtown Office
Carnegie Hall 119.121 South Frazier St.
Phone 711 Phone 4872
Editorial Stat f—Women's Edicor—Louise M. Fuoss '43;
Dianaging Editor—Herbert J. Zukauskas '4B; Sports Editor—
Donald W. Davis '43; Assistant Managing Editor—Dominick
)h. Golab '43; Feature. Editor—David Samuels '43; News Edi•
tor—James D. Olkein '43; Assistant News Editor—Robert E.
Schooley '4B; Assistant Sports 'Editor—Richard S. Stebbins
°43; Assistant Women's Editor—Kathryn M. Popp '4B;
Assistant Women's Editor—Edith L. Smith '4B; Women's
Feature Editor—Emily L. Funk '43.
Junior Editorial Board—Benjamin M. Bailey, Fred E.
Clever, Milton Dolinger, Larry .T. Chervenak, Robert M.
)Faloon. Robert T. Kimmel, Robert E. Kinter. Richard B.
McNaul. Richard D. Smyaer, Donald L. Webb, Paul I. Wood
)and. Sally L. Hirshberg, Helen R. Keefauver. Jane H. Mur.
thy, Mary Janet Winter.
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.
Managing Editor This Issue Robert T. Kimmel
News Editor This Issue Larry T. Chervenal:
Women's Editor This Issue _
.Assistant Managing Editor
Aroiistant New. Editor
Advertisirei Manager
.A;;4istant "Advertising Manager __
Graduate Counselor
Wednesday, July 8, 1942
The Battle Continues
OVER A PERIOD of several months, Penn
State students have watched the progress of the
battle between All-College Cabinet and ,the Penn
State Christian Association.
Outwardly, the issues have been so involved
rnd the fight so lengthy that most of the bystand
ers have finally assumed an indifferent attitude.
But, now the battle is drawing to a climax, and
forthcoming decisions will greatly influence the
lf.uture status of local student government.
Tonight the Senate Committee on Student Wel
fare will meet to discuss the PSCA-Cabinet ques
libn. There are strong indications that the Com
mittee will not offer a decision which will favor
.either faction; but the meeting will at least bring
out some of the Administrative opinions which
4Jave' been anticipated by both disputing parties.
More Laughter Wanted
"SOME THINK the world is made for fun and
laughter . . ."
- Far be it from us to drop our mourning robes
sand pick up the epheneral veils of a gamboling
pixie to run madly across the Mall. However,
when we hear such lifting tunes pouring from a
community sing in Schwab Auditorium we tend
to forget weighty problems about- which we are
worrying. We are referring to .those problems
which concern us no more and are worth no more
than last week's unused sugar coupon. Still we
worry.
• One of the best things to worry about now is
the. Summer sessions recreation and social pro
gram. It is amazing how few people other than
the Summer sessions students themselves find
time to worry about it. These school teachers
and graduate students certainly didn't come up
here merely for "fun and laughter." Yet there
has been a traditional acceptance of Penn State
as an institution where the lighter side of college
life balances the rigors of piling up credits for a
degree. This year the lighter side is•being buried
under the accelerated program.
We have heard Summer sessions students voice
their opinions on the lack of expected recreation.
This year it seems there .are fewer mixers, fewer
informal parties and it is a real job to get ac
onainted. Fun nights help but the job is too big
'to be handled like that. The Summer sessions ..
recreation committee is faced with .a difficult task
arid is meeting the situation as best it can. •
Mere events like the open air square dance to
be sponsored by WRA would be helpful. However,
it seems that if any further decisive action is to
be taken it must come from those directly con
cerned. Other people have their own worries. If
there is enough initiative on the part of a small
group of Summer school students to start a series
of hot dog parties, vic dances, etc. the group may,
with enough .publicity, rally all interested to the
shindigs.
Cooperation of undergraduate organizations will
probably be forthcoming once Summer session
desires a;stime concrete form. We can help.
For a while at least we are not going to worry
bout it
____ -_____Maiy Janet Winter
Pete Scott
Adolph L. Belser
A. Kenneth Sivitz
John D. Neel
_Louis H. Bell
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
A Worm's Eye
View . . .
Basking In Butter
We were contentedly basking in a butter-pud
dle of sunshine on a corner of the carpet in the
Hugh Beaver Room when a piece of paper flut
tered on top of us. We measured it, and found
out that it was 8 1 / 2 xll inches. From where we
were sitting it looked like a letter. And it was.
With all the loud voices shouting in the PSCA-
All-College -Cabinet feud, we didn'•t want to get
stuck in the slapstickiness of the brawl, but we
read that letter, and it didn't measure up.
Bitter From The Sweet
It was written by a sweet girl named Jean
Hershberger, who to our jaundiced eye would
much rather be embroiled in the Penn State Play
ers than in a feud for PSCA. In fact, the letter
didn't sound 'as if it was written by that sweet
girl at all. -
We squinted a couple of times and read: "Mem
bers of All-College Cabinet knowingly and delib
erately had the Collegian Publish a new edition
of the Constitution which contained language suit
able to the purposes of the leaders of All-College
Cabinet." That didn't sound so good. That sound
ed as if PSCA said Cabinet was a group of scoun
drels swayed by their feW leaders.
'Taint Basic .
Then sweetly Miss Hershberger said: "Cabinet
. . proposed two amendments . . . While these
amendments do.not touch the fundamental ques
tions at issue, they do affect the discussions... .
Cabinet wishes to . . be able to eject 'the - PSC:A
for failure to comply with its mandate." We wrig
gled out of the Hugh Beaver Room as quick as a
date to Soph Hop. •
We were going to shrug our shoulders like the
rest of the campus until we realized we don't have
any shoulders. So-we just figured that PSCA was
pretty silly to talk about the Collegian printing
any kind of official copy of the constitution when
Collegian is not The All-College Cabinet.
It seems to us that the whole Cabinet voted on
this situation—not just a few student leaders.
We'd rather sleep in a puddle of sunshine, but
we've been so confused about the PSCA's attitude
of mixing a technical constitutional question on
one hand with the question., of PSCA's attack on
edbinet's fundamental power on the other.
For Rent: One Mess
We think if PSCA wants to fight the Constitu
tion, let it do it properly—through Cabinet. If
PSCA wishes to question Cabinet's poiver,
PSCA work through the six-man investigation
board suggested by President Hetzel. But let's
not mix the two.
In Other Colleges
CINCINNATI, Ohio—CACP)---Luther S. Rose,
73, ,retired Big Four railroad executive and form
er general manager of the Peoria and Eastern
railway, this month celebrated his fiftieth anni-•
versary of his graduation from Rose Polytechnic
institute, Terra Haute, by receiving a degree from
the college of law, University of Cincinnati. He
was the oldest member of the graduating clas..
MADISON, Wis.—CAXDP)--University of Wis
consin athletes this 'Summer are forsaking the
traditional jobs of life guards, icemen, boys' camp
directors, etc., Which have been the Summer pas
times of Badger competitors for years, to move
into defense work.of all kinds.
Leading form of erriploythent for erstwhile
Cardinal gridders, cagers, milers, wrestlers, and
other varsity men this Summer will be in con
structive work on defense jobs throughout the
Middle West.
PRINCETON, N. J.--(ACP)—The war has open
ed doors of Princeton university classrooms which
have been shut to women during the 196-year-old
history of the school.•
Tuition-free classes in engineering are offered
this Summer to both men and women.
They will study high-sounding photogrammetry
and map-making as part of the United States of
fice of education's program to train men and wo
men for war jobs.
That Jap boast
. about taking the Philippines in
a month suggests a new calendnx-21 days to the
`Three Things
Elude Bombs'
"This is the seventh day of the
seventh month since the bomb-
jugs of Pearl Harbor.
"And in spite of all the bombs
dropped by the Japanese, Ger
mans, Americans and Russians,
there remain three things, three
survival values that no bombs can
ever touch," Rabbi Alexander
Alan Steinbach, of the Jewish
Chautauqua society, asserted last
night before a group gathered in
110 Home Economics to hear his
address on "Things That Bombs
Cannot Destroy."
In his address, Rabbi Steinbach
stressed the importance of a per
son's individual standards, main
taining the necessity of "striving
for the 'promised land' which lies
beyond the 'Red Sea' that keeps
us from performing our duty."
To emphasize this point, Rabbi
Steinbach retold the story of the
flight of the Hebrews
. from Egypt
across the Red Sea.
Rabbi Steinbach stated that the
spirit of altruism, a selfless devo
tion to others, while only a spark,
could not be destroyed arid that
"love thy neighbor as thyself" is
a standard to : strive for even
though it seems psychologically
impossible at the 'present.
The third value that Rabbi
Steinbach felt beyond the reach of
bombs was men's common ances
try with each other. Again look
ing into the .future, he told his
audience that one day men will
realize their common ancestry.
9 Freshmen Make
Debate Squad
Nine freshmen have been sel
ected for the yearling debate
squad, according to John B. Mc-
Cu, debate manager. The fresh
men were chosen from' candidates
who made five-;minute tryout
speeches a week ago. •
The men selected for the team
are Joseph Erlich, Martin A. Kut
ler, Bayard• 'McWilliams, David
Newton, Louis' Ullrrian, Byron
Shumaker, John S. Thorpe, Jr.;
Victor 'Wein, and E. Lorie Van
Deusen.
Ag Hill At War—
Tests Set . Ar.i,. piet
Penn .Staters who land in the
armed forces can thank their ."Al
ma Mater" for the kind of food
that is dished out to them.. Their
every meal. in the army will be
planned on the 'basis of College
conducted research in nutrition. -
For seven years the College's
Ellen H. Richards Institute, di
rected by Pauline • Berry. Mack,
has been conducting the most in
tensive mass studies In human nu
trition on record in' all history.
'As phrt of the Ag part
in the war effort, the 'lnstitute has
recently concentrated its attention
on nutrition of soldiers and de
fense workers. The accomplish
ments in this field, according to
Stephenson W. Fletcher, dean of
the Ag School, constitute "one of
the most important contributions
of the School of Agriculture to the
war effort."
The Institute's nutritional re
search, known as the !Pennsylvan
ia Mass Studies in Human Nutri
tion, has always been on a mass
production -basis.• Diets of thou
sands 'of Pennsylvanianscross
sectioned according to 'income,
race, occupation, and - age- : -.-are ob
served and recorded by field
workers. Possible improvements
are suggested and the results tal
lied.
-FERDY
Research data, correlated by
still other Institute workers, show
the percentage of people who ae
320 W. Beaver Ave.
For A Satidactory Service
PENN STATE LAUNDRY
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1942
Campus
Calendar
TODAY
Pi Lambda Theta picnic in Hort
Woods, 5:45 p. m.
Watch services, Wesley Pounda
tion, 7:15 p. m.
Dance Club meeting, Rhythm
Room, White Hall, 7: 1 15 p. m.
"Alpha Phi Omega meeting, 41'8
Old Main, 7 p. m.
Bike trip leaves Miles street bi
\cycle shop, 7 p. m.
Delta Sigma Pi meeting, Lamb
da Chi Alpha, 7:30 p. m.
WRA Bridge Club, White Hall
playroom, 6:30 p. m. Mrs. Nich
olas guest instructor.
WRA Golf Club postponed.
Practice at caddy -house, 3 p. m.
tomorrow. .
WRA Badminton Club, '6:30 p
Campus '45 meeting, 418 Old
Main, 7:30 p. m.
Penn State Hour
Airs War Facts
Penn State's .Radio Hour will
present the second of the War
Facts series of programs tomorrow
at 2:3o—p. in. over radio station
WMRF, Lewistown, when the top
ic, "What are the, warring powers
like?" will be discussed.
- Under the leadership of Paul R.
Beall, instructor in public speak
thelpanel will talk on the na
tional characteristics of the, war
ring nations, their peoples, .and
their ideologies.
Membership. of the round table
is made up of Walter Q. Gerson
'44, William E. Pomerantz '45,
Robert McNabb '45, and George
A. Burns '43.
Tribunal ,Meets Tonight-.
All freshmen custom violators,
Who were turned in to Student
Tribunal are to report to• the
Alumni Office in Old . IViain at 8
p. m. tonight, Charles H. Ride
nour '43, chairman, announced
list night: All men penalized
last week are also to report at that
time, Ridenour said.
undernourished; how dietary de
ficiencies- can best be cured, and
what "'constitutes optimum ,diet:%'.
typical
. of the ‘Vartirrie research
projects -is the one novVbeing' con
' ducted with: three groups Of :
:adelphia defense workers. One..
groupis following its normal diet,
:the second is being given added,
vitamin s and mineral concentrates, '
and the third receives food stip- •
plements under Institute direction.
;Medical examinations, responses
to nutritional , tests, and efficiency
on the job are used , in judging re
sults, according to Dr. Mack.
: Complete results of the mara
thon study series have been used
by the nutrition scientists plan
ning United States army dietarfes,
and supplementary information is
turned over to the food special
ists each month.
Importance of the Institute's
work is proved,.....Dr. Mack said,
by the number of organizations
using its findings*.for wartime nu
trition problems... These groups,:
according to Institute director, in
clude.the Pennsylvania Council of
Defense, Pennsylvania Nutrition
al Council, and the National ale- •
search. Council's Committee on
Food Nutrition.
An army, they say, runs on its
stomach. 'Helping keep that sto
mach filled properly is part of the
job of our Ag School at war.
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