PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" Established 1940. Successor to thte Penn State Collegian. established 1904, and the Free Lance. established 1887. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during th 4 regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania Ut.ate College. Entered as second-class natter July 5, 1934 nt the Post-office at State College. Pa.. ender the act of March 8, 1879. Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr. Gordon Coy '43 Leonard E. Bach '43 'Editorial and Business Ottko Downtown Office Carnegie Hall 119.121 South Praetor et Phone 111. Phone 41172. • Business Staff—Credit Manager—Philip Jaffe '43; ircu• ration Manager--Robert E. Edgerly '4B; Claaaified Advertis. fug Manager — Roy E. Barclay '4S ; 'Promotion Manager— lack E. McCool '4S; Senior Secretary—Frances A. Leiby '431 Women's Advertising Manager—Sara L. Miller A. Assist.. nnt Women'a Advertising Manager—Marjoris L. Sykes '43. Junior Editorial Board--Berdamin M. Bailey, Fred E, Clever, Milton Dolinger, Larry T. Chervenak. Robert M, Faloon, Robert T. Kimmel, Robert E. Hintr, Richard' McNaul, Richard D. Smyser, Donald L. Webb, e Paul I WOod. B. land, Sally L. Hirshberg, Helen R. Eeefauver. Jane H. Mur. vby, Mary Janet Winter. Junior Business Board—George J. Cohen. Richard E. Marsh, Philip P. Mitchell, Donald H. Shaner, A. Kenneth Sivitc, James B. Vosters,mmerman, Eugenia D. Dundick, Esthermae Hartos, Mary Louise Keith :Managing Editor - Dims Editor Assistant Managing Editor Advertisiing Manager Assistant Advertising Manager to Counselor Friday, September 18, 1942 Your Collegian Delivery Two years ago this month the Penn State Col legian closed shop as a semi-weekly newspaper, and, amid the backslapping and well wishing of :friends and neighbors, started gingerly up the dark alley of daily publication under the revised :named of The Daily Collegian. In the five semesters since that initial step, cir culation has been handed the unwelcome distinc tion of being Collegian's most notorious weak ness. Complaining subscribers 'have become a !perennial joke on campus. • Wising up to this fact, successive Collegian air iulation staffs have frantically experimented with 'Various methods of securing improved delivery. Although encouraging, the results of these exper iments are still far from perfect. With the special bummer semester, Collegian did manage to attain a new high in carrier effi iziency, however, and believes that it can main tain and even improve upon this . record during 'the current ,semester. Under the. present system every complaint re ceived in the Collegian office is checked, and if confirmed, marked against the carrier who is then assessed for -the poor service. Carriers found to be giving poor service by this method are warned and subsequently discharged if no improvement in delivery is noted after a reasonable period of time. Complaints made fre quently by the same customer are investigated, and if the carrier is found to be at fault, he is :immediately discharged. . This system, adopted and put into practice last igemester, cut delivery complaints in half in its first six weeks or use. It has been the most suc cessful of all Collegian circulation programs to date, and Collegian believes that with the coop eration of its subscribers it can obtain even bet ter results. Customers are urged to help by reporting, promptly,- all legitimate delivery complaints. Only in this way can better circulation be attained. A survey of Collegian delivery under the new system during the Summer revealed that approx imately 30 percent of all complaints received were sent in by complainants who had changed places of residence without informing Collegian of the fact. In many cases, however, the names were either lost or unreported to the circulation man ager, and the subscribers were not listed correctly on the . circulation rolls. Every effort will be :made this semester to eliminate complaints from this source. Another 30 percent of the total complaints, af ter a careful check, were found to be for minor faults such as the failure of the carrier to place the paper in a specific spot or position each morn ing, or, as was confirmed in several cases, the carrier's walking too heavily on the porch of the !iubscriber and thereby disturbing his sleep. Col legian cannot begin to eliminate all complaints from this source, but will follow its policy of in vestigating each complaint and fining the carrier if the complaint warrants such action. Nearly five percent of the total complaints were . found to be frauds, either sent in by fictitious cus loniers as a twisted form of self-expression, or by "outraged" students seeking to gain free delivery (Continued on Page Four) Donald L. Weld) Mary Janet Winter Seymour Rosenberg _ Donald H. Shaner -_ Howard Schwartz -----__Louis 11 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Lion A Tales ,-1F Uncle Sammy isn't the only one who alters his program in keeping with being accelerated . . . the Cub, too, sets herself at the Remington to bat off a new program for Friday a. m:s readers. Phooey • Now that we've worked all Summer to get our fingers on a premature sheepskin, WSGA, which always has the welfare of the coeds at heart, says no shut-eye plus no dean's list may equal no three o'clocks for big weekend dances. To those who moan the three o'clocks' • approaching death, we dedicate this dirge. We thought we had the Import licked With these new lovely babies But from its realm, dear WSGA kicked And added a lot of "maybes" • "The gals are tired, they need a rest Return early," thus was spoke At present Import stock is best For the coeds' just went broke. Honest To Pete Honest to Saint Pete these tales of frosh lore are true . . . wacky as they may seem. Number one on the anecdote list concerns the ladies. In crowded-quarters Mac Hall, coeds were drooling over a chunk of birthday cake which had' been plunked before a froshwoman. From happy birthday serenade the young potentials boomed into another medley. Miss Ray lowered her eyes. It was the renown chug-a-lug rounder. Number two deals with a type who wanted to know if exams came wrapped in blue books. For The Books With Greeks knocking themselves and non combatants out in the biggest pledge-u-first rush season of many years, we add more fuel to burn with sorority logs. ;Rhea Silverstone ) Peggy Lou Leach, Ruth Williams, Evy Williams, Harriet Hawes, Tommy Thompson, Marge Blackwood, Judy Richmond, Barb Burwell, but gosh girls, look for -yourselves. • Trivial . If Zippy Wood can manufacture a word from tripe and drivel, guess he won't mind too much if we swipe it for the issue being. Dick Wamsley, pika, bestowed the pearls on Dottie Roush, theta. Jeanne Stiles, exy on this sheet, is now a poten tial WAVE; also the former Campy Jack Olkein will bivouac with the khakis in New York. Ru mors ugly as they are say, and don't quote us, Bill Scott, sae, and Beanie Siebert, of the glamor are a pinned twosome. THE CUB We, slte Women .Glamour Ain't AB— Brains Still Help I Students, faculty, and towns people are invited to the first Old Just as World War II has made Main Open House of the semester, the last war look like a high Friday, September 25, from 7 school football frolic, so this p. m. to midnight, OMOH chair season's sorority rushing has man Gerald B. Maxwell Stein made that of past years' appear '44, announced last night. as harmless as first-grade chil- Dedicated to the entering fresh dren squabbling on a playground. man class, the program has been The fault of this season's rush- arranged to help members of the ing is. not obvious. On the sur- yearling class become acquainted face,. things are smooth: the code not only with fellow classmen but has not been violated. with such Old Main features as • Underneath, things are plenty the president's• office also.. rough. We don't mean the in- Frosh customs will be lifted for cessant coke dates nor the tire- the evening, according to a joint some conversations—they're to , be statement from Charles Ridenour accepted and tolerated. We mean '43, Tribunal chairman and Mar the criteria by which rushees are jorie Sykes '43, Women's Judi- being judged. ciary chairman. With 500 freshmen and 142 Students recently appointed to transfers from which to choose, carry out program plans are: houses can afford to be fussy. As Social dancing—Jack Jordan '43, a• result, false standards have chairman, Robert H. Roy '43, Rich been adopted It used to be that a woman with and. Muriel Taylor '43. Games.— brains or personality or activities William C. Patterson '43, and potentialities was rushed as hard Nancy Zartman '45, co-chairman, as the gals with the long, blond Ralph W. Yerger '44, Lou Ullman. bobs. Not so this year. Movies—Paul Alamar, chairman, With the war challenging the Barbara E. Whitbred '43, Phillip very existence of sororities, a few Lieberman '45. Gameroom, Fourth , capable women with brains might Floor—William H. Cissel '44, prove of value. George Donovan, adviser. Square Dancing—Max H. Chenoweth '43, caller, Adele J. Levin '44, Ralph W. Harris '45, Hazel E. Gassmann Crossley Calls '43. Recordings—John C. York '43, chairman.Entertainment—Jack All. Radio Men R. ThompSon '43, , chairman. Hos tesses—Mabel E. Satterthwaite '43, All amateur radio operators, chairman, Pauline Crossman '43, licensed by the Federal Commu- Mary Grace Longnecker '45. Ush nication Commission, are request- ers Seymour Rosenberg '44, ed by Mr. Gilbert L. Crossley, chairman, Robert M. Faloon '44. • assistant professor of electrical Campus groups that have coop engineering, to apply at once at erated in sponsoring Open House his office, 103 Electrical Engineer- Programs include Student Union, ing Building, for acceptance on PS Club, WRA, Panhel, IF Coun the College radio station staff. cil, IMA, School of Physical Edu "A group is to be organized cation and Athletics, teachers of visual education, and WSGA. immediately," according to Pro- fessor Crossley," as we must pre pare for important work which Clauss Announces. may occur in the near future." Although operation of all ama- 13 New Thespians teur stations is now suspended, there is still much to be done by Thirteen students will be form all amateurs as WHYA, or Army ally initiated into membership by control station WLMA may at Thespians in the Thespian club any time be given responsible zoom, Schwab Auditorium, at 6:30 work in the war effort. . p. m. Sunday, according to Ed- Professor Crossley urges op- ward R. Clauss, president of the erators to turn letters of applica- organization. tion in before next Wednesday Those who will be initiated are . evening. . Joseph Cannon '43; Paul Galva nek -'45 ; J.. Michael Kerns '43, Vergil B. Mulholland '44, K. V. CAMPUS CALENDAR lyrellott '45, Victor V. DiMeo '43, TODAY George P. Washko '45,- Dayton G. Newman Club; Theta Kappa Greenly '45, Robert Williams '44, Phi, 7:30 p. m. _ John K. Riedel '43, Franklin P. Book exchange money and Birchard '45, Raymond T. For books may be picked up at Stu- tunato '45, and. Lester G. Stine '44. dent Union after 1:30 p. m. • According to Clauss, freshinan . Meeting' of the executive board tryouts will be held next week or the Russian Club meet in the for parts in the new Thespian second floor lounge of Old Main show, which is to be presented' at 7 p. m. during Senior Ball weekend, and Friday evening services, Hinel also for spots in the Thespian Foundation,.7:ls p. in. mobile units. NIGHT FOOTBALL STATE. COLLEGE HIGH Vs. . BELLEFONTE HIGH . Friday, Sept. 18 At. 8:00 P. M. HIGH SCHCPL STADIUM STATE COLLEGE, PA. Admissions: $.55 and $.BO Tax Inc. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1942 Stein Plans Open House and S. Kurtz '43, Richard Kuder,
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