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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.
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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
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Donald L. Weld)
Mary Janet Winter
Seymour Rosenberg
_ Donald H. Shaner
-_ Howard Schwartz
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Lion
A Tales
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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.
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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
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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,