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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
Dltablished 1940. Successor to thte Penn State Collegian.
established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887.
Published daily except Sunday and Monday during thi
regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania
Mate 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 ° 2 0
Editorial and Suaineas Office Downtown Office
Carnegie Hall 119-121 South Frazier St
Phone 711 Phone 4872
Editorial Staff—Women's Editor—Louise M. Fuoss '43;
Managing Editor—Herbert J. Zukauskas '43 ; Sports Editor—
Donald W. Davis '43; Assistant Managing Editor—Dominick
L. Golab '43; Feature Editor—David Samuels '43; News Edi.
tor—James D. Olkein '43 ; Assistant News Editor—Robert E.
Schooley '43 ; Assistant Sports Editor—Richard S. Stebbins
'43; Assistant Women's Editor—Kathryn M. Popp '43;
Assistant Women's Editor—Edith L. Smith '43; Women's
Feature Editor—Emily L. Funk '43.
Itanaging Editor This Issue
News Editor This Issue Pete Scott
Women's Editor This Issue Helen R. Keefauvel
Graduate Counselor -- Louis H. Bell
Wednesday, August 26, 1942
Facing The Army Facts
Penn State has recently enjoyed the opportun
ity of seeing what the draft can do to the pros
pects of a football team. The inroads made by
'Uncle Sam's selective service were so gaping
that Nittany grid followers are beginning to find
plenty of reasons for questioning the success of
Penn State's football season this Fall.
By this time you are probably asking yourself
why The Daily Collegian is suddenly undertak
ing the policy of commenting on sports problems
in the editorial column. In explanation, may
we say that we are only trying to draw a corn
pc.rison between the football team and the Col
lege as a whole, as far as each is concerned with
the draft.
In the first place, it is much easier to perceive
the effects that the draft has had on football,
because the game and its players are much closer
to the' public. eye. On the other hand, it is diffi
ctilt for most students to understand the irC
iluence of the draft on the College as a whole.
Thus far, the College enrollment has not been
so seriously threatened by the draft, but the
situation does not appear as bright in the near
future. Every draft board throughout the state
has been notified to put special emphasis on
"mopping up" all available 1-A men in, their dis
trict, so that the drafting of married men can be
gin simultaneously in all parts of the Common
wealth. This recent move was made when it
became increasingly evident that a number of
bciards had exhausted their entire supply of 1-A
men, and had begun to induct married men. At
the same time, there were other boards which
still had. a large pool of 1-A's that would prob
ably remain untouched for quite some time.
Present trends indicate that the state quotas
will be altered so that the scattered pools of 1-A
men may be depleted before the drafting of mar
ried men begins in any part of Pennsylvania.
When the respective draft boards begin this
wholesale mopping up of the reserve supply of
1-A men, then it is high tithe for the Colleges to
do some extra worrying about the enrollment
situation.
Don't get any mistaken ideas about our in
tentions. We are not suggesting that college men
Should be considered as immune from this pro
posed clean up of all 1-A's. But we are suggest
ing that college men take advantage of the de
ierment opportunities that have been so gracious
ly-provided them by the federal government. If
you are one of the hundreds who want to gradu
ate before being called into the armed services,
then why not sign up with some reserve corps
that is stationed here on the campus.
The mot recently established and most ex
tensive one is the Army Enlisted Reserve, which
is open to 2,000 Penn State students. By meet
ing all qualifications of this• army reserve, you
will be able to complete your college education
before entering the army. However, if you pass
up these deferment opportunities, there is no rea
son under the sun why you may not find yourself
in the same predicament as half of Penn State's
.football team did.
In contrast, it may be interesting to - glance at
the records which come from the University of
Pennsylvania. Penn's administrators made cer
tain that they would keep their laglys in college,
and so they hiked everyone off to the nearest re
serve recruiting center, where they could sign
up to enter the services after graduation.
Such a system does not only benefit the col=
lege concerned, but also the armed services of the
U. S. By allowing students to enlist in the re
serve and complete four years of college, the
Army realizes that it will fall' heir to a vast
group of well-trained men who are qualified for
officer's training.
__Milton Dolingo?
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
A Worm's Eye
View . . .
Today is our day to drool. This is our last
column, and nostalgia should be dripping from
our typewriter. We are leaving Penn State, you
see, and this is very sad. Very sad. We should
look back on all the years and get soggy with
sentiment. We should ooze paragraphs of goo
about the columns holding up the front of Old
Main and about the stench in Pond Lab. We've
reached the end of all things.
But. as we start out into the cruel world to seek
our fortune, we don't feel a bit sad or sentimental
We've been going to school for fifteen years now,
and we're a little tired of it. And besides, we
never did like the architecture of the buildings
around here.
We don't feel that we've completed anything
by attending college. We think we've just pre
pared to start something more important. We're
not leaving Penn State. We're taking it with us.
at least part of it anyway.
We're taking all the usual things away with
us that other people have taken. Some of them
are a few isolated facts that we got from a
geography course, a little hunk of Browning, a
couple of dates we learned in history, and the
name of the stuff that makes grass look green,
"chlorophyll," they . call it.
And with your permission, we think we'll take
along some of the sunlight in Hort Woods, a piece
of bark from the Willow Tree, the chimes in Old
Main, an ice cream cone from the Creamery, and
a blade of grass from the campus mall.
That doesn't seem like much equipment to
start out into the world with, but we're satisfied.
And by the way, before we go, we'd like to
give the freshmen a bit of advice. It's evidently
the custom for seniors to do so. We want to tell
them to slacken their pace a little between
classes, to talk five minutes longer to their room
mates in the evenings, and to pick out all the blue
spots in Henry's mural.
Another thing we think they should do is go up
to the fourtt,floor of the Library sometime and
look out the window that faces the campus. Then,
too, they might walk down the mall between
those two rows of trees instead of sticking close
to the pavement. (This will make them feel eith
er celestial or conspicuous.) In addition, we'd
like to tell them that they won't be ready to be
graduated until they've, climbed Mount Nittany,
examined the Lion Shrine carefully, seen Co-op
Corner at 4 a. m., and visited the Mineral Indus
tries Building.
These are all the things we partietilarly
measured from out: worm's eye view. Try 'em
for size
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Passage To Europe $B5,
Offer Of Ship Line In '24
By SEYMOUR ROSENBERG
Would you like to go to Europe for only $B5?
You could have done so without joining the
armed forces back in the year 1924 A. D. In that
year a steamship company advertised in the Penn
State Collegian, now The Daily Collegian, "See
Europe—Only $85."
Many other interesting ads may also be found
in the same volume of the Collegian. Among
them are:
"Get your meat at Joe's Shop. Let her have
a treat over Soph'Hop," a phrase used in a butch
er's advertisement at the time of that big week
end of the "Roaring Twenties.",
The Pastime Theatre, now only a memory, Was
showing the "Hunchback of Notre Dame," star
ring the great character actor, Lon Chaney.
Students were called "Ye Studes"' in a billiard
parlor ad which requested them to forget their
"blue book" worries and come and enjoy them
selves. Ah, if ye studes had something like that
now!
A downtown music establishment was selling
"the incomparable Edison phonograph" and Vic
tor recordings of the great tenor, Reinald Wer-
1 en ra th
"It's the cut of clothes that counts" read a town
haberdasher's ad in which round . collars and
spats were also offered for sale.
The new Essex was the car of the year and
Melchrino was being advertised as "the ONE
cigarette sold the world over."
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Articles are "A Moment
Passes," by Ross B. Lehman '42;
"If You Wanna Do Business With
Me," by Ruth Gerber '43; "Coin
mentary," by Weinberg; "My
Father Is A Violent Man," by
Robert M. Kidd '44; and "iMore
Barnes Storming," by Harold E.
Dickson, associate professor of
fine arts.
-KATEY POPP
The poems are entitled "Quasi,"
by Miss Bosley, and "Two
Poems," by J. Edward McCoy '42.
Book reviews of "Poems Froth the
' Book of Hours," by Ranier Marie
Rilke, and "If There Is Time," by
Hildegarde Planner, were writ
ten by Philip A. Shelley, associ
ate professor of German, and
James A. Kerr, graduate assist
ant in English composition, re
spectively.
All Human race, from China to
Peril, pleasure, how-er dis
guis'd by art, pursue,—Thomas
Warton.
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:!SHNH! THERE APE LADIES PRESENT-I THINK
Bosley New
Portfolio Ed
Dorothy E. Bosley '43 has been
elected 'the:new editor of Port
folio, Penn State's student liter
ary magazine, according to an
announcement by Bernard M.
Weinberg, retiring editor who
will 'graduate tomorrow.
Pearl E. Koplovitz '44 will con
tinue to serve in the position of
buSiness manager which she held
the past year. Weinberg has
been editor since the Spring of
1941.
The September issue of the
magazine is now on sale at the
Corner Room and Student Union
desk where it can be purchased
for a dime. In this issue are five
articles, three poems and two
book reviews.
Important Meeting
FRESHMAN CANDIDATES
COLLEGIAN STAFF MEMBERS
TODAY
Room 8, Carnegie Hall
4:00 P. M.
New Candi - dates Ale hunted To Attend
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1942
CAMPUS CALENDAR
TODAY
Book Exchange opens, Signal
Corps Room in the Armory, 9
a. in. • I
Locks, towels, . and baskets
must be turned in by Thursday
at 4p. m. Elective cards are also
due now.
Portfolio on sale today, Stu
dent Union and downtown.
Compulsory meeting for Colle
gian freshmen and sophomore
business and editorial boards in
news room, 4 p. m.
MISCELL,4I3EOUS •
Grades for students not gradu
ating Thursday due not later than
September 2 at 5 p. m. in the• of
fice of the registrar.
• Time tables now available in
the office of the registrar.
Senior cans and gowns at the
Athletic Store until Thursday, 4
p. m.
McWilliams Resigns
(Continued from Page One).
mittee last night to survey the
possibility of making minor ex
tractions,' with consent of organi
zations concerned, Worn the Fall
semester social calendar. The
move is a oart of the Plan for cut
ting down extra-curricular activ
ity during the accelerated pro
gram.
Approved at the meeting was a
proposal to send to the parents of
David B. Alston '45, a scroll ex
pressing the student body's sym
pathy through cabinet and signed
by All-College president and pres
idents of the four classes.
Robert H. P. J. Jordan '43's 'ap
pointment to student tribunal,-to
fill the Vacancy left by Sarn
Fredman '43 when he graduates
Thursday was approved by Cab-:
inet.