PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" • Ditablished 1940. Successor to thte Penn State Collegian, established 1904, and the Free Lance. established 1837. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania 13tate College.• Entered as second-class matter 'July 5, 1934 nt the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of March 8, 1879. Editor •Bus. and Adv. Mgr. =l* Gordon Coy '43 nod.:•- Leonard E. Bach '43 Edit:Orin! and 80/line:la Office Downtown Office Carnegie Hall 119-121 South Frazier St. Phone 711. Phone 4272 Metatict Associated GolleWe Press distritiutdr of Colleeticite Di6st - - Editorial Staff- 1 0,11min% Editor—Wiese M. rtloi3/4 '4B; 7Aanaginfr Editor—Herbert .J. Zukauskas '4B; Sports Editor— :Donald W. Davis '4B: risttint Manakins Qdiab '4B; Feature Editor — David Samueli '43; NOVA Edi tor--Jamesl). Olkein ' 3: Aisistarit. MeWS Editor—Robert E. Schooley '43; Assistant Sports Editor—Richard S. Stebbins '43; Assistant Women's Editor—Kathryn M. Popp '43; .Nnsistant Women's Editor—Edith L. Smith '4B; Women's Feature Editor—Emily L. Funk '4B. - - Business Staff—Credit Manager—Philip Jaffe '43; Cireu ration. Manager—Robert E. Edgerly '43; Classified Advertis ing Manager—Roy E. Barclay '43; Promotion Manager—• :lack 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. Syker.."43. Junior Editorial Board—Beniainin M. Bailey, Fred E Clever. Milton Dolinger, Larry T. Chervennlc, Robert M saloon. Robert T. Kimmel, Robert E. Kinter• Richard B McMull, Richard D. Smyser, Donald' L. Webb, Paul I 'Wood Sand, Sally L. Hirshberg. Helen R. Keofauver, Jane H. Mur• hy. Mary Janet Winter. Junior Business Board—George J. Cohen, Richard E. :Marsh, Philip P. Mitchell, Donald H. Shaner. A. Kenneth Sivitz. James B. Vosters. Jane L. Ammerman. Eugenia D. Rundick, Esthermae Hartos, Mary Louise Keith Managing Editor This Issue ___ Milton Dolingei Women's Editor This Issue Helen R. Keefauvel :News Editor This Issue Robert T. Kimtne! Assistant Managing Edit& Assistant News Editoe _ . Advertising Manager George J. Cohen Assistant Advertising Managers ___ Junior Business Board Graduate Counseloi Wednesday, July 15, 1942 Answering `l.-A' Yesterday's Collegian 'carried a letter, signed •by one who chose to call himself "1-A With My Draft Board," attacking those who favored admis sion of 'American citizens despite their Japanese parentage. The. sincerity of the writer is un riiistionable, his use of sarcasm expert, his ap prodch diplomatic. We feel, however, that his reasoning is fundamentally wrong. His case, When-boiled down, consisted of these four arguments: 1.. The College shouldn't admit American citi zens of Japanese parentage because they wouldn't like it here anyhow. • • - • 2. It is silly for Penn Staters to be "continual ly breaking our necks" to prove our democracy. 3. The education of the 'two students should be foregone for a job useful in the war effort. 4. The committee upholding the students' cause should devote its energy to jobs with more direct relationship to the War effort. On every point, we disagree. Telling certain American citizens that they can't come to college because they wouldn't like it anyhow, is no different essentially from telling people of a certain religious group that they can't go to church-anymore, because they don't want to listen to sermons anyhow. The attack on the fun damental rights of the individual citizen is just as serious, and sounds dangerously close to the type of argument Hitler himself would cook up. "1-A" continues his stand by questioning whether we should be "continually breaking our necks" to prove our democracy. Best answer that might well come from the thousands of young Americans already slaughtered in Bataan and Corregidor, and over Australia. They. were will ing to risk "breaking their necks" in defense of the 'American principles that some of us would give up voluntarily at home. The thousands of Penn Staters who are remain ing in College will find it hard to agree with the letter-writer's third argument—that the two young students in question can best serve 'America by disOntinuing their education and participating more directly in the war effort. "1-A" must have forgotten- our President's statement that a col lege student's duty is to continue pursuit of. an education until the government makes a definite :assignment to another - task. Last argument or "1-A" was that the committee upholding the students' cause should devote its energy to a more practical job in the war effort. It is highly possible that the committee feels that upholding the rights of individual Americans is indeed oractical—even vital—to final victory. Maybe the committee is also opposed to giving up .Jur rights even before we have a chance to fight 'for them on the world's battlefields. Charity, they say. begins at home. So does :Joniocraey and its defense. Pete Scott Adolph L. 13elser __Lotila H. Bell Other works in Washington are the pediment of the Archives Building, the $150,000 Meade Me morial, donated by the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania, the Unknown Soldier's Tomb in Ar lington Cemetery, panel work depicting the trage dies of Shakespeare in the Shakespearian Library. and the keystone of the Interstate Commerce C. Commission Building. THE DAILY COT.TMGIAN A Worm's Eye View . . . We found your "Letter to the Editor" in yester day's Collegian. Measuring it, we liked the first inch or so. After the next - few feet, our yard stick got a little bit weary. But that's not what we're trying to say. You mentioned a fellow who was called a "hypocrite" and a "race antagonizer" for refusing to, "sign up for democracy" to adinit two Japanese students to this little institution of learning. We think you had an angle there. We think you could . have saved a lot of spice by develoPineii, mere. We're not taking any stand. We're, just point-. ing soinething out. It's all right'fbt students to Petition. If this is a democracy,. they have a right to, dorOt they" . l‘ (We know you're agreeable.) But in calling any one a "hypocrite" and a "race antagobizer" they're defeating their own demo- tratia 'Purposes, aren't they? Just as they have the right to start a petition, 'so do others have the right to refuse to sign such a petition, right? (You're very agreeable.) Well, where were you in your letter yesterday then? .Why did you waste so much yardage on such lines as "Let them stay out of the public gaze as much as 'possible for the duration; that would be their contribution to democracy?" Such sentences only Cause antagonism on the petition front, you know. But now, the petitioners will try to remind you that the United Stated government is behind them. They will go finither. They will say that these JananeSe students are really American citi zens, 'that they can't even- speak the Japanese language, and that they jitter-bug just like Penn Staters. And they will conclude, with emphasis, that these Japs were honor students at Washing ton University. • All this wouldn't have happened if you, bad put them ,, lnto a really tight spot by playing up this undeindcratic, name-calling, "hypocrite" angle. Get it? We still maintain that we're not taking any stand. We don't even resent your inference that Penn State isn't a friendly place, that faculty members would refuse a cup of coffee to an "Am erican" bum. The faculty members might re sent it, but we don't know enough about it to be bothered...... . We remember a statement of a graduate stu dent...who was on your side: "It's too bad we can't stay in college all our lives so that we could be impractical." We don't know..whether democracy is impractical or not. That's why we can't take a stand on this issue. That's why we're just point ing something out. Well, you got into it. You wiggle out: Warneke's 'Rougher Outer' Proves 'Finisher Offer' The Lion Shrine's creator will return to the campus today. This does not mean, however, that the "rough ing out" work, now being done by Joseph Garatti, the "stone-cutter" hired by Heinz Warneke, is nearly finished. He said yesterday that it would take at least seven or eight weeks to finish his part of the big job. While he talked he pointed out the pile of limestone chips which were the result of his ef forts yesterday. The pile seemed small to us, but he said it represented a good day's work. "The'trouble with the students," he said, "is that they think the job can be done in a day. They ai•e always in a big hurrx to see it•finished." - Work on the Shrine is progressing rapidly un der the hand of this artisan who has been carving various and sundry forms from stone for. over forty years. Though working here as Warneke's "rougher outer" his usual work has been the fin ishing and polishing job which will be done by Warneke himself in,this case. During the years he has been "chiseling" (with stone), he has been responsible for contracting and completing some of the most famous carved pieces in the country. Greatest of these is*probably the interior frieze and outside Pediment of the new Supreme Court (Building in Washington, D. C. This is among the most phOtographed contemporary carved works of art. PSCA Frosh Council Elects R. Titley Head At Meeting 1) . it k!';..k `7 ... ,----..;,.. Richard Titley was elected pres ident of the Penn State Christian Freshman Council, it was an. 7 nounced last night. Vice-presi dent elect was Jerome Stern. Other officers in the Council, elected at last night's meeting, were Edward Tredway, secretary, and Leon East, treasurer. A formal installation service for the newly elected officers was held after the election and, plans 'for two Prograins were outlined. Rope Tug May End Customs A tug-o-war during Victory Weekend will be the deter Mining factor in the future customs regu lations for the class of '46, stated Charles H. Ridenour last night. Freshmen will compete in a pitched rope battle against the sophomore class. All members of the class of '46 desiring to partici pate, should sign up at Student Union as soon as possible, Ride nour said. In order that the contestants may be more equally matched, plans have been made to divide the classes into. respective wight groups. The first group will con sist of men under 135-pounds; the second, under 175-pounds; and the third will be an unlimited clas§. • James A. McKechnie, sopho more class president, will organ ize the sophomore • tuggers and will assist Ridenour in running the event. "Should the freshmen win," Ridenour said, "they will be per mitted to remove their customs and all regulations governing them will be dropped." Letters To The Editor—, • vitriolic outpouring as the column • A 'Yes Man Says No on the hat inen.for the readers of the Collegian, and especially for lam a hat man, and know many the tender minds of the so-recent hatmen intimately, henCe maybe_ ly indueted freshmen is in decid- I can speak with authority. They edly .bid taste. . are not such bad fellows, really, If Old Mania is so blase and so as Old Mania would try to in- sophisticated that all college tra fluence the tender minds Of :the ditions which seerri to 'ingress freshmen to believe. In fact the and beWilder' the very : young; are whole article looked to me very to him fatuous, then he scarcely much like a mess of very sour belongs on a abliege campus. He grapes. should be in the wide world where In fact those hat fellOws,' as a he woUldhlt ria - d - tii look 'Lipari the whble, work hard at tryingi-- O ~ silly caperings df a college crowd. Penn State banners white , . 'on e of Then( and flying high (if our dear read- . , --.FERDY er can think of a better cliche he is welcome to use it.) I haven't 1 4..' ',,.; * 4 — plz - rat ' i rz ri ,; 'i z i * 4 found the hatthen "yes" men, or • . .. .. lacking in grey matter. They're 16 - , . not Supermen but pretty much the' w .' • • run of the mill "sort," the same / a .- type of fellow one would. find— N I well, let us say on the Collegian . ~. ' • ICI ' ..: . staff. Some good, some bad, N . some just . indifferent. . N As for what becoines of the hat 11 later on: well, what becomes of N N other Penn State collegiate insig- _ nia? The fraternity pin; the foot , il aill. '441411 ‘ . . • I ball letter, the wrestling trophy, i the track- medals = aren't they all " • Bun probably delegated to the -limbo # I of things that mean much at this moment, but whOse memory when 'M. GOODMA we're mundane; fat, and forty, will .kindle not even the most g 'nebulous glow. ' ' I Featured at What is important in all the. silly capering whiCh gdes on in 0 college life? The initiation pla card that the neophyte so proudly it wears, the green cap, and white socks that stigmatize the fresh man, or the hat, worn certainly as the symbol of some small achieve ment. Can it be possible that Old 2 Mania thinks that the drivel which comes from his pen repre sents the real Penn State? • Such p sz p- 4 , ` p pr,4 320 W. Beaver Ave. For A Satigfactory Service PENN STATE LAUNDRY WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1942 CAMPUS CALENDAR TODAY Delta Sigma Pi will hold a stu dent-faculty luncheon in the Sand wich Shop at noon. Numeral sweaters are at the Athletic Office. Students who have orders should pick them up at once., House of Representatives meets in 418 Old Main at 5 p. Victory Girl voting ends at Stu dent Union, 7 p. m. Textbook exhibit, 122 E. College avenue, 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. Meeting of • Stimmer Sessio'n Dames in Rodni 308 llurrowes Building, 2:30 p tn.. Profess& Free speaks on "Eirds and Flow ers in this Vicinity." Pithie §nritther session home €ccei•s in Hdrt vticiddS, 4 p. m. WRA Wilt' Club inebtink on .Holides Field, 8:80 p. m. .Meeting Of the WRA Bridge Club in White Hall playroom, 6:45 P. m. WRA Badmintoh Club meeting . in the White Hall gymnasium, 6:30 p. m. Campus '45 meets, 418 Old Main, 7:30 P. m. Sopli Hop Profits (Continued from Page One) spent on decorations, $347.20 tax on admissions, $l5O for the 1,000 programs, $lOB for advertiing, $lOO for compensations, and $lOO for college labor. Income was derived mainly from ticket sales which • netted $3,634.05. The 46 booth reserva tions brought in .a total of $215, while only 576 Of the 2,000 dancers checked their coats and hats to net $143.40. Other estimated minor expenses included $9O, catering; $9O, check ing labor, $35, clocirrrien; $2B, tick et printing; $29, telephone and telegraph; $2O, miscellaneous; $l5, ticket seller; $lO, piano rental; $5, piano tuning; $5, women's attend ant; arici...54,75, VICTORY WEEKEND Ittfotinal July 31-Aug. 1 Phone 3261
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