r PAGE TWO THE DALLY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" Ektablished, 1940. Successor to thte Perm State Collegian, nstablished 1904, and the Free Lance. established 1887. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students of .The Pennsylvania °tate 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. and Adv. Mgr. Gordon Coy '43 Leonard E. Bach '43 Editorial and Business Office Carnegie Hall Phone 711 Managing Editor This Issue -- News Editor This Issue Assistant News Editor Women's Editor This Issue ____ Graduate Counselor ---Louls H. Bell Friday, August 14, 1942 Who's Doing The Work While a majority of students are relaxing and enjoying life to the hilt, even though there is a - war going on, there are a few people connected with Penn State who are plenty conscientious and are doing their best to further the nation's war effort. These persons that we're talking about are The students who are not present at Penn State in body but who are surely present in mind: namely, the correspondence course student. A glance at the application blanks for the cor respondence courses given by the extension serv ices of different schools and departments of the College will support the fact that these persons are doing their best to help this nation adjust it self to the war. Although they . have other jobs to earn a living, the correspondence students man .l.ge to find •time to study their mail lessons, get their required work done at all times, and learn so they can help their country. Up to this point, the reader of this editorial is probably wondering just what point is being em phasized. The point is this: many students have still failed to realize that this nation is at war, tand that they are needed to help the country win this war. They don't realize what the results will be, if at the end of the present conflict, the United ilgations are beaten and the Axis starts to institute its policies here in this country. They go on lead .ing a normal, pre-war life, doing little extra work, and getting all the enjoyment they possibly can. We do not believe that students should turn into - a- group of radical workers. However, we do :believe that students should begin to feel that they .do owe something to Their country and begin to get into the swing of a nation at war. Some oft-repeated suggestions for doing "your share" are to see only one movie a week, thus saving a bit and spending it on war bonds and stamps; get into the scrap metal drive and bring in some of the much-needed materials for Uncle Sam; in general, "get on the ball" and show an :interest in all that this democracy stands for. The Marines on Solomon Island are leading the way. The least we can do is to follow. Truce hi Civil War Now that the Collegian women have enjoyed :their annual fling of putting one issue of the -paper to bed, the fairer sex will again retreat to page four where they dominate their own five col umns for 364 days out of the year. • Comments were varied as surprised students glanced over the "job" that the women did on yesterday morning's paper. Several readers were subtle enough to remind us that the paper was The best one that they had seen this year. Of course we had to hesitate in agreeing with such •a statement, but we did admit that the women's staff did a commendable job. From a more serious side, however, we saw the handwriting on the wall as we reflected a moment •after reading the women's parody issue. For with it came the announcement that women would be , assigned to cover a number of campus news beats that were originally held by men on the staff. The reason for making such a move is two fold. First of all, the day may come when it will lie necessary to have a Collegian staff comprised mostly of women. In order to win this war, Un cle Sam intends to build a mighty army which :t11:1Y eventually drain U. S. colleges of most of their men students. If such a crisis does arise, 'Collegian women will be prepared to take over 'this paper. Secondly, there is no doubt that Collegian wom en must receive more adequate training while in College, so that they will be better qualified to step into metropqlitan newspaper jobs which were ; z,riginally held by men who rare now in the armed ,ervices In other words, the tradition civil war between ition and women on the Collegian has been post iv,ned for the duration, in an all out effort to help America wage a far greater war. Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St. PhOne 4872 Robert T. Kimmel Mark I. Davidoff _ Dill Reimer Jane H. Muipny THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Dear Boss We were wandering around checking on lost souls and listening to a block of Grade-A Parents' Worries about those Penn State students, and we stumbled over a funny little one-paragraph pray er. It was from an engineering student and he was bemoaning the passing of the first floor back. Down on that Penn State Campus place, they're thinking about making the first floor lounge in Old Main into a eatin' and drinkin' lounge. This engineer had a sort of wistful little prayer, be cause now he wouldn't have any place to go and read the paper, or sleep through sandwich hours. You know, Boss, that's a fact, too. That first floor lounge was a superior kind of a place. There's 5 leather-covered couches that you can put your feet on, while you're sleeping. It's much better than the second floor lounge; you have to be sort of a gentleman there, and keep your feet off the furniture. Besides they don't have any newspapers there. Of course, there are other places, Boss. The men's room in the Library has a swell beat-up leather couch, just measured out for sleeping. But, a lot of stuff is going on around that cam pus now, Boss. They just invited the students to move out of the mens dorms, because on account of now they're womens dorms. It was•a surprise to almost everybody, but especially to a guy nam ed Fred Clever. He's 'Chief Potentate, or Tribal Medicine Man, or something plenty impor6nt on that Student Housing Board thing,• and these fellows who are kissing the dorms goodbye want to put him on the spot. They sent up a whole batch of Fervent Cries and Prayers for some decent rooms to live in. This clever Clever is supposed to do something for them. Trouble is, Boss, that he can't do much without the students helping him. The College can't order the townspeople to fix up the rooms. About all a student can do, is refuse to take a sub-standaM room. That's where the Housing Board is sup posed to work. Maybe, if they'd put the oAc. on town rooms, the students would know which ones to stay away from. The dorm kids want to help, Boss. Makes us think of a saying we just heard: "The difficult we do at once; the impossible takes longer." The difficult (moving out of the dorms)) the students are doing at once. The impossible (making town rooms better) will take longer See you, Boss, II I • Refreshing • II FOR WARM AFTERNOONS I I II jite . I I PCI.4 hy Shop Beside the Allencrest I "I I Through The Needle's Eye -GABRIEL Gas Rationing, Puts Warneke On Back Road Travelling back and forth be tween his farm near East Haddam, Conn.. and State College, Heinz Warneke has made two startling discoveries. He has found another use for back reads, that is besides the use college students know for them, and a way to beat the gas oline rationing system. The answer to both these prob lems is the same. In fact, they answer each other. He travels the back roads because there he finds greater possibility of finding gas when he needs it. Most service stations along well-travelled roads, he said, often have no gas, but back where fewer people travel, there is much less' sign that there is a shortage at all. He said the worst places to trav el were near the big seaboard cities, especially New York and Philadelphia. Gas was scarcer there than at any other place along the road. His trip here early this week took him two days because he travelled the roundabout way. This was the last trip he will have to make for a while, however, be cause now he is here-to finish the Lion 'Shrine. • The reason for using his auto mobile to make . the trip was to bring all the small models he made in designing the lion. Because of their size, he said, the models were very hard to pack.. As for the work on the shrine, he says, prolonging the time limit placed on the work by Joseph Garatti, that they will make an effort to have the lion finished in time for the first home football game with Bucknell. ' All the roughing out work, even that around the base of the huge lion, has been completed now and the taking off of the last sixteenth' of an inch began yesterday. De spite the fineness of the work from this point until the shrine is com pleted, the tine of completion, he said yesterday, would be depend ent on how many hours he would be able to work each day and the lateness of the first heavy frosts. Ag Hill At War-- Foresters Test Plywood For Use In Training Planes Tons of metal now reserved for the construction of Army training planes may be freed for other wartime uses, as a result of exper iments with plywood now being conducted by the forestry depart ment as a part of the School of Agriculture's wartime program. Tests to determine• the stress and strain, the relative bulk and weights, and the best type of ply wood are resulting in a collection of data that may prove wooden training ships entirely adequate for Army purposes, according to Newell A. Norton, assistant pro fessor of forestry production. Norton was chosen to direct the research because of his past ex perience with airplane construc tion, Victor A. Beetle, head of the forestry department, stated yester day. Testing plywood for use in air plane construction is the latest in a series of special projects includ ed in the School of Agriculture's wartime research program. Research sections of every Ag School department have united to perform their part in the Ag School's three-fold victory pro 7 gram of instruction, extension, and research. Theirs has been the back-room task of improving the food produc tion techniques that the Ag in structors pass on to the students, and the extension workers carry directly to Pennsylvania's wartime population. Even while maintaining their behind-the-scenes testing, the School of Agriculture's research FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1942 Four Profs Join Music Fraternity At initiation ceremonies recent ly, Alpha Zeta, the Penn State chapter of Phi Mu Alpha, initiat ed four nationally known men in to the professional music frater nity. Those initiated were Pierre Henrotte, a member of the Sum mer School faculty and former Konzertmeister of the Metropoli tan Opera and professor of music at the Ithaca College of Music: T. K. Karhan, Of the music de partment and head of the Harris burg Symphony Orchestra; and S. A. Kurtz and P. D. Hamer, members of the Summer School music faculty and nationally known music educators. Conrad R. Hilpert '43, president of the fraternity, was in charge of the initiation. Professors Hen rotte and Karhan were initiated as honorary members while the others will be actives. Firemen Will Hold Convention Here The effects of the war on com munity fire-fighting organizations, and the resulting inroads in mem bership caused by the draft, will be one of the principal points of discussion at • the Fourth Annual Pennsylvania Firemen's Training Conference, to be held here from August 31 to September 5. Sponsored by the Public Service Institute of the State Department of Public Instruction, the confer ence will feature several nation ally known lecturers and techni cians in fire fighting methods who will address the daily sessions. A special section to . train fire wardens, auxiliary firemen and rescue squad. members, has been added as a service to Civilian De fense, it 'was announced by Arthur W. Espy, director of the school. State Fire 'Marshall Captain William Treager of Harrisburg, Director Harry D: Iminel of the. Bureau of Inspection, State De partment of Labor and Industry, and Dr. Hubley R. Owen, director of the department of Public Health in Philadelphia, will be among the featured speakers and consultants at the conference. division has made special discov eries that have brought it consist ently into the limelight in wartime America. • To Ag School research workers; for examples, goes the credit for long-range tests that have deter mined the diet of America's armed forces; their experimentation with concentrated foods has revolution ized the Army's field rations. • The nation's production• chiefs have taken special interest in the School's experiments with Russian dandelion as a source of rubber. A test crop of the rubber-producing "weed" - is now under cultivation by Ag School research workers. FDR's plans for 50,000 planes were being bottlenecked by a lack of landing fields, and the turfing of new fields was a process that took at least a year's work. The Ag School's research workers stepped in, developed a new sys tem that literally grew complete airfields in three months, and re leased two of its members to sup ervise building Army landing fields on a national scale. To halt the spread of "silvertop", an Ag School researcher hit upon a plan for burning out the deadly fungus. Crop sprays, meanwhile, have been invented to replace those of foreign make blocked by wartime shipping restrictions. President Roosevelt has issued a call for increased food production; the full force of the School of Ag riculture's instruction, extension, and research is helping answer that call. Ag Hill is at war•.
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