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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
Established 1940. Successor to tbte 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
Mate College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934
nt the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of
March 8, 1879.
Editorßus. and Adv. Mgr.
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Gordon Coy '43 - r Leonard E. Bach '43
Editorial and Business Office Downtown Office
Carnegie Hall 119-121 South Frazier St.
Phone 711 Phoue 4372
Managing Editor This Issue B. McNau)
Women's Editor This Issue Jane H. Mumny
.Ansistnnt New Editor
Assistant Managing Editor This Issue __ Mark I. DaMdoff
Advertising Manager Philip P. Mitchell
Assistant Advertising Manager Herbert Hasson
Graduate Counselor ------ E. Bet
Friday, July 17, 1942
Betraying The Lion
Most sophomores, juniors and seniors can re
call days last Fall when it was a common sight
'o see frosh customs violators dragging tin cans
around, or wearing women's clothes, or ducking
at the shout of "air raid." Football games were
always colored by the green-dinked yearlings pa
trading around the track at halftime.
This Summer we have no football games, but
we do have freshmen, even though their ranks
are smaller. Consequently it is almost a rare
sight to see the results of Student Tribunal dis
cipline.
Time and again students have voiced their dis
gust at the laxity of enforcement of freshman
. regulations.
Time and again we have heard upperclassmen
!f3sk for matches, or inquire what pictures are
showing at the theatres, only to get the reply, "I
.forgot to bring them today," or "I didn't have a
chance to find out yet," then dismiss the violator.
Time and again Tribunal has complained about
the lack of ''business" at its Wednesday night ses
sons. Now they kick that those freshmen who
"4have been turned in were reported only as the
:I•esult of a personal grudge.
In short, we're all guilty of a violation much
:more serious than walking across the grass or
wearing a green hat in Old Main.
We're to blame for not carrying on some of
Penn State's oldest traditions. We take an atti
tude of indifference toward violations, then won
,der where the disciplined frosh are hiding. If'
we do turn a '46 student in, it's because of a per
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sonal dispute.
'No use starting to reform this Summer. Mawr
of the customs are off, and the little spirit which
'was evident is now dead.
Let's remember this Summer's lesson in Sep
tember. Let's see to it that traditions of the Nit
tany Lion are carried on more fully and with -a
better attitude. We'll have more frosh in the
. ..Fall, and we'll have football games to exhibit
.customs violators. September enrollees may be
able to get something from Penn State which
freshmen coming to College • this Summer are
Nittany Honor Roll
Shirley K. Smith, former Penn State student
and resident of State College, has reported at
:Randolph Field as an Aviation Cadet. He was a
member of the Penn State ski team while- at col
lege.
. With a degree from Penn State where he ma
jored in economics, Clifford H. Forsgren has en
.listed as an Aviation Cadet and is now stationed at
Randolph Field.
A former editor-in-chief of the "Farmer,"Alfred
H. Austin '4l has become an Aviation Cadet and
is now at Randolph Field.
An ex-member of Blue Key and the Interfra
ternity Council, Donald J. Eyer jr., has enlisted
- as an - Aviation Cadet at Randolph Field. While
-at College, he received his letter for managing
the swimming team.
Recently commissioned a second lieutenant in
the U. S. IVlarine Corps was Frank M. Platt Jr.,
•'4l. He has now been assigned to the Reserve
Officers' Class at Quantico, Va., for additional
training.
Sharpless B. Lee '35 has been commissioned an
ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve, the Navy pe
l'partment has announced.
Graduated in the first class of. Aviation Cadets
rrom the Enid Army Flying School, Enid, Okla.,
were Robert C. Brogan '4l, Claytcra P. -- HaekiriWn
Jr. '4l, and William S. Rlrkp . atrick '4l, former
•1 1 0 m State students. •
Nine Penn State students were recently grad
uated from the Enid Army Flying School, Enid,
Okla. They were A. L. Valentine Ertel Jr., Rus
sell D. Freyermuth, Robert P. Gerhart, George
W. MticSparran, Edwv.rd J. Maslow, Sherwin
Mayer, Harry R. Stengle, and John P. Stief.
Through The
Needle's Eye
One Future—Coining Up
It seems to be the thing to do these days to talk
about the future. Before American Youth, we
are told, lies a vista of blood and destruction,
slums and tenements in a post-war world, too
many engineers even to build up what has been
broken down, once peace has been declared.
We've wondered how the Youth was going to
take all this stuff. It becomes disturbing to wake
up on a fine day in SepteMber, 1939, to find that
one is a member of a War Generation. One be
gins to wonder whether the stuff is there, and
how things will seem "afterwards." We've look
ed at our classmates and had some bitter thoughts.
"Dopes!" we've said. "Won't wake up and find
out that they're on a tough spot." ,
Well, now we're not so sure. Yesterday's sheet
said that 106 Penn State kids had begun thinking
as men in war time. They're the fellows who
have been sworn into the Air Force Reserve.
Dances are being run by the weekend after week
end for the purpose of raising money for this
and that part of national defense. Drafting
courses
,are being given for students who want
to prepare themselves in their spare time for de
fense jobs. The women's student government
analyzed its finances and cut out Co-Edition as
an unnecessary expense in war time.
Pete Scott
All this is very encouraging.
_Until one starts to realize that there are. about
5,000. students on this nice campus beside the golf
course. And 106 of this and a small class of
drafting that don't mount up to too much. What's
the angle going to be? How can you tell whether
or not students are really thinking about the fu
ture?
We've got one kind of idea. We think that the
attendance of girls at Draftee Drag tomorrow
night is one kind of barometer. If this is a plug,
then it's a plug—for a small group of women
leaders who are trying to raise money for some
few of the Penn State American Youth; so that
they'll be able to face that "future." It strikes
us that every woman student on campus should
be at Draftee Drag, oveti if they ha"Ve to get their
date to' fork over the cash. The band is unim
portant. The possibility of having a good time
is unimportant. The fact that we think you
should go is unimportant.
But a few Penn State students going to col
lege for their country on scholarships furnished
'by their classmates are important. .
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The government is after medics and nurses
Fourth-year medical students are being sought by Civil Service
to fill "rotating interneships" in Washington's St. Elizabeth's hospital
for mental cases. The pay, '52,000 a year; the title, "junior medical
officer." 'No examination.
Requirements for those who would be public health nurses haire
been loosened. There are no age limits and no written •examinations.
Physical Tequirements 'have 'been "greatly modified." Salary, $.1,800.
Both nurses and Medics should make applicatiOn 'to the Civil
Service Commission, traShitigtdn, D. C., or at local post offices.
The government, too, is hot after aviation instructors in aircraft
mechanics, erighle . medhanics and aircraft sheet metal work, includ
ing welding. The pay ranges from $2,600 to $3,800 yearly.
In this case, application should be made to the Board of U. S.
Civil Service Examiners at Chanute Field, Rantoul, 111.
* ,
Statistical clerks also are needed in various agencies here in
Washington. No experience is required, but applicants must pass
written test on arithmetical principles. Pay, $1,620. You'll have to
hurry if you're interested in this one for applications close• August 4.
Again. apply at the Civil Service Comniission.
What used to be the OEM Information Division finds itself in an
embarrassing position 'over the 10-minute movie it was making de
picting the contributions collegeS and . universities' are making to the
war effort. ,
A Division movie was on the road shooting its stuff when the
variegated information services in Washington were reshuffled—and
OEM Information, as such, left out of the deck. (Much of the OEM
personnel, however,-has been transferred to other agencies.
The movie men were called in to Washington at once. Fate of
the project now awaits the decision of Radio, Commentator Elmer
Davis, new director of all government propaganda. . .
Meanwhile, a few desultory movie shots are being taken at near
by Cornell University.
The Office of Education's Wartime Commission here has recom
mended that the U. S. Employment Service set up an emergency teach
er placement service—to get teachers into teaching jobs. 'The war
has raised hob with the teaching profession, as you may have noticed.
New Autolab
Tours State
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pull tip and it begins : to spin like.
a top. Thus the principles of el
ementry' physics are brought
home to an amused audience. •
An ordinary length of 'chain is
spun on a large wooden wheel.
When it is spinning fast enough,
it is pushed off the wheel and al
lowed to roll across the floor like
a child's hoop. until it collapses in
a heap against the opposite wall.
Two faculty members alternate
in presenting the three-hour show
when it travels about the 'state.
Dr. Harry Van Velzer and Dr.
Harold K. 'Schilling, both of the
physics department, do the lec
turing.
.--GABRIEL
The new shOw, now on the road,
will tour for about six weeks and
then return to alternate with the
show on electricity.
FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1942
CA2a2"211/ to C 2 IPA
AC P's Jay Richter Roports from Washington
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Senior Engiheering ' lecture,
Roan 'l2l Sparke .Bnilding; 4:1'0
p: m.
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Four one . -act plays will be . pre
sented by Dramatics Department,
.Little Theatre, 7:30 p. m. Admis
sion free, but tickets must be ob
tained. from Dramatics office,:
Schwab Auditorium, at any time.
Hillel Foundation evening serv
ices, Hillel Foundation, 7:30 p. in.
Newman Club initiation, -Theta
Kappa Phi fraternity, 8 p. m. All
old and new membe'rs are asked
to attend.
Manlino -F. DeAngelis '35,
Placement Coordinator for the /Ci
vil Service Commission, will talk
, to -engineers in Main Engineering
Building, 4 p. m.•
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