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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
Itablished 1940. Successor to thte Penn State Collegian,
mtablished 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887.
Published daily except Sunday and Monday during tht
regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania
plate College. Entered as second-class matter July 6, 1934
at the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of
March 8, 1879.
Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr.
Gordon Coy '43 "r'el' Leonard E. Bach '43
Editorial and Businesa Office Downtown Office
Carnegie Hall 119-121 South Frazier St.
Phone 711 Phone 4872
Editorial Staff—Woman's Editor—Louise M. Fuoss '43;
zi,znaging Editor—Herbert J. Zukauskas '43; Sports Editor—
D 0n a1...! W. Davis '43; Assistant Managing Editor—Dominick
L. Golub '43; Feature Editor—David Samuels '43; News Edi•
tor--Jamel D. Olkein '43; Assistant Ne*a Editor—Robert E.
l3chooley '43: Assistant SpOrts Editor—Richard S. Stebbins
*43; Assistant Women's Editor—Kfithryn M. Popp '43;
Assistant WOMOII . II Editor—Edith L. Smith '4B; Women's
Feature ,Editor—Emily Funk '43.
Business Sta ET—Credit Manager—Hilip gaffe .'43; Circa.
lotion Manager—Robert E. Edgerly '43
ing Manager—Roy E. Barclay '43 ; Promotion tianageF-4
Jack E. McCool '43 ; Senior Secretary—Frances A. Leiby f 43
Women's Advertising Manager- 7 Sara L. Miller '4B Assist
ant Women's Advertising Manager—Marjorie L. Sykes '43.
dui,:..?! Editorial Board—Benjamin M. Bailey, Fred E.
Clever, Milton Dolinger, Larry T. Chervenb.k. , Robert M.
7aloon, Robert T. Kimmel, Robert E. Kinter. Richard B.
McNaul, Richard D. Smyser„ Donald. L. Webb, Paul Wood
land, Sally L. Hirshberg, Helen R. • Kiefituver, Jane H.
üb.Y. Mary Janet Winter.
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'Junior Business Board—George J. Cohen. Bichlird E.
:Yr arsh, Philip P. Mitchell. Donald E. 'Shan er. A. Kenneth
Sivitz James B. Vosters, Jane L. Ammerman. Eugenia D.
Bundlek. Esthermae . Hartos, Mary Loulie Keith
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GraduOte COunselor ___ ---
Thursday, August 20, 1042
Sinooth Sailing Ahead
There has always been a weakness among
newspaPerthen to take time out from the daily
un of events, in order to review in several brief
glances just what has happened during previous
weeks or months. Now that the Summer semes
ter is bowing out, we feel that the time has ar
rived when the Daily Collegian can yield to this
inherent weakness, so as to interpret what the
last three months have meant to Penn State's
daily newspaper.
When the College Magurated its first Summer
semester in the middle part of May, The Daily
Collegian seriously considered the possibliity of
limiting its publication to a semi-weekly basis.
But on second thought, it was finally decided that
the paper would at least attempt to maintain daily
:Publication, because of the great importance of
releasing daily bulletins and announcements dur
!ing a time when quick action was needed to help
insure the success of the accelerated semester.
in making this decision, the Collegian felt that it
was offering its best contribution to Penn State's
effort.
Along with. the determination to maintain a
daily was born the campaign slogan, "It's Up To
'Y'ott.". Then came several months of hard, up
hill fighting when at times it looked as though
the Collegian had made a mistake in attempting
to remain a daily paper. Hundreds of newspapers
throughout the nation were flirting with financial
worries, and the Collegian was no exception to
this situation. Now with the end of the Summer
semester in sight, the Collegian realizes that it
has won a close battle, and is now looking for
ward 'to a bigger and better Fall semester which
:promises smoother sailing in many respects.
Graduation To The Army?
Last night, as he addressed the campus lead
ers, President Hetzel, stressing the idea of "stay
ing on the ball" during the rest of the Summer
semester and in semesters to come during the
war, stated that a large percentage of the lead
-2.l'S in the armed forces are college graduate's.
He said that of the total number of men draft
d since the beginning
, of the selective service
campaign, only 12% have been college-trained
men. From that 12%, however, have come 88%
of the men accepted Nr officers' training. Is this
dot evidence ellOugh that, even though our
graduation will lead only to service for our coun
try, we should strive to do our best while here
to become better leaders?
So much has been said about the students' lax
attitude during the Summer semester that no
more need be said about it. Whether it exists or
not, we can not say. If it exists, however, can
not the idea of bettering the service we will give
'to our country be incentive enough to lead us to
more intensive study?
The Prexy stated also that the number of be
low grades for the Summer semester, when final
ly compiled, would not be greater than the num
ber for any normal semester. He said, though,
that the war effort and our country's need for
our more complete training should lead us to
make this semester's work even greater than the
work in a normal semester. Why not work with
the Prexy? Why not show the country what kind
leadership material Penn State can turn out?
—R. E. K.
,
Riebaril. D. . Sms , set
_________ Jane 11. hlntln!Y
___ Walt riechintin
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Tales
Finale
The semester is blue-booking to an end. The
picnics at Whipples and Greenwood, about which
we beat out our brains in May were only half
hazardly realized. The draft blew over the Mall
and left many of us breathless. Doggie cut the
foam on lotsa our beers. We've accelerated
ourselves to capacity and now it"s almost a
thing of 'Summer '42. So here"s an eulogy to the
days which whizzed by.
A Mast
We learned to cram beneath a tree
But the mark was 'zip' and not a '3'
By Whipples Dam we did swim and drink is
Still our grade sheets strangely stink
Chorus
, .
To days gone by we raise this toast
'Long live the prof that lets us coast.'
Blach Fantasy
This Summei: , - was made memorable with the
appearance (or disappearance) of the black-out.
It originated in England and was carried into this
burg with all its curtained gloom. Some amus
ing, some tragic stories have immerged from
black-outs. The most recent yarn is concerning
The Happening in the Establishment on the
Corner of Pugh and College.
The sirens were blasting out the final warning.
There was a scramble of feet. Suddenly the lit
tle room on the right was filled. Boomer, the
lamplighter,•escaped with his life. •
Then in Ath Hall, a half-baked gal started to
out-wail the sirens. Her sisters thbught her, ill.
They succeeded. in quieting the distraught coed.
She kept murmuring, "And Happy New_ Year,
too."
Gory Gossip
Tess Nolte, ZTA, and Eugene Scherr, USA boy,
were recently united in Smokey City. . . . Walt
Cummings, Kappa Sig, bestowed his pin upon Peg
Campbell, Alphachio. . . . Norm Barrett, also one
of the big brick house boys, clapped his emblem
on a cutie from Scranton who matriculates here
in September. . . . Bill Hughes is sore cause he
didn't make out for our King Sandwich Shoppe
crown last week. . . . sorry, Bill, we think .Ma
whinney has you beat. . . . •
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TODAY (Continueii horn Page One)
Meeting of the PSCA Personnel been made, but a Senate commit
committee, 304 Old Main, 7 p. in.
tee has been named to study the
Student counselors meeting, 110
Home Economics, 7:30 p. m. problem. The number of below
One-act plays, Little Theatre, grades was not higher than usual
7:30 p. m. Admission free, but this semester, however. When
the tickets must be obtained in finally compiled the total. should
Dramatics Office, Schwab Audi- be about the same as in other
tcrium. semesters. We have seen noth-
IWA meeting, second floor• ing, though, to keep students from
lounge Old Main, 8:30 p. m. doing an even better job than they .
TODAY did in other semesters.
WRA Golf Club instruction un
der Bob Rutherford on golf WRA room at 6:30 p. m.
course from 3:30 to 5.p. m. WRA Swimming Club meets in
WRA Executive Board meets in White Hall pool at 7:30 p. rn.
Dairy Building Uses 120 Ton
-THE CUB.
Steel Brace As See=Saw
building. Engineers drilled un
derneath the foUndation and un-
An architectural triumph stands earthed the cause of the trouble,
on Ag Hill, mute evidence of an 18 foot deposit of soft gummy
man's authority over the ele- clay into which the building was
ments. In July of 1939, the Dairy sinking at an alarming rate.
Building began to tremble and • 'Going out into the woods, they
spread out at the foundation. cut down huge trees •and used the
By WALTER FISCHMAN
Later when it started .to sink trunks to prop . up the sagging
into it's own grassy lawn, the walls. They then built a steel
Githinds and Buildings dePart- structure 'Out of 36 Inch beanis on
merit called structural 'engineers the &Mind floor and used it as a
and building, contractors into a fUlcrinn to support the rest of the
conference that reSUlted in One of
the weirdest htit, most 'praCtiCal All Went Well they .st rte `d
bits of engineering 'ingenuity 'ln 'to put 'rn 'thP 'tieinianent lil Vices,
these 'Parts. when the building started to sink
The night Watehinan as he made again. The efiginders . inNigtriatei
his 'rounds on 'iii6t,SnlY night was found a long 'cavity o a f
suddenly • aaitied by a low. ledge rocks in an 'even larger):bea
rumbling noise like a gun being of clay.
. .
....
fired. in a barrel, He hurried to They put their heads together
the north wall arid found crumb- again arid decided to attack the
led plaster exposing large gaps in `Problem . froin another riere-71 - ieSr
bricks that should be close to- would Put steel girders iiridei., one
gether. part of the building, rest'them on
Acting swiftly, he Phoned Piers sunk into the grotind - and
George W. Ebert, superintendent let another part of the 13tiiIding
of the Grounds and 'Buildings De- act as the counter-weight to hold
partment, who after surveying the it LIP.•
damage, decided on a test to see To this end,construction crews
if the building was still moving. drilled caissons or wedge shaped
He simply hammered iron nails holes, some of them 80 feet deep,
into the space between the floor in the ground and cemented iteel
braces and the floor. In a few "I" beams into them. Steel dirct
hours they were loose enough to ers were then laid on top of the
be pulled out by hand and their piers, one tend under the weaken—
suspicions were confirmed. 'ea structure and the other ';end
Slowly some tremendously pow- Under an Opi)Osite wing. -• in 'ithis
erful force was .pulling the build- manner, the two wings acted . 'as a
ing apart
This construction puzzle requir- as the bar.
ed a full year of investigation to • ,For the first time in architec
solve. Workers, laboring in three tura' history, a Penn State build
shifts toiled 24 hours a day, con- ing played see-saw with itself on
structing a firm footing for the a 120 ton brace. .
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 19421
huge balance, The beams serving