PAGE TWO Today's Events Camouflage College War Training rive Are Penn State alumni celebrating their last home coming for the duration? Will the Blue end White go into action on the Nittany gridiron at this time next year? Today, as Penn State couples its annual Alumni Weekend with Dad's Day, hundreds of graduates and visitors will take time out from war-time ac tivities to celebrate in a manner they used to know before Pearl Harbor. Today, Penn State will make an all 7 out effort on the gridiron, will dedicate a work of art.—the L4Qn Shrine—all 4 ,t. - night, a student stage production and informal meetings will climax the whole affair. To most visitors and graduates, Penn State-will look and act just as it did last Fall or ten years ago. On the surface the campus and all its activ ities will be camouflaged to appear just as it - chxi on Alumni Weekend or Dad's Day a year ago.-But beneath today's festivities, Penn State has under gone .revolutionary changes since war was declar ed ten and one-half months ago. Despite general opinion, colleges of the coun try are not operating on a peacetime basis: Their programs have been overhauled and revised, just as the nation's industrial plants have converted pre-war machinery into essential war produc - lion. At perm State, the administration has acceler ated the study program to include three semesters each year, so that a regular four-year college course may be completed in less than three years. Students have eliminated unnecessary extra-.cur •rigular activities and expensive social -events. 'Both men and coeds are undergoing military and I:lOndrecl.s of students are „enrolled in y#o ,courses offered by the .Col lege and the United States Office of Educatioh. In campus research laboratories, chemists ,and techniCians are working 24 hours a .day, .discozer 'ing^better methods and materials with which Ara.- =Oa will finally defeat the Axis. Can anyone now say that American colleges are not keeping pace with the rest of the nation in the prosecution of the war? Don't let today's .fes- Avities fool you, for it is only a slight attempt by • Penn State to retain some of the traditions ,that, are a living part of the ;College. • As Penn State continues to gear its program to meet more critical war measures, there will un- Aotibtedly be epic changes in every phase of cam pus life. The College may become an armed camp And wax. training .center, lust as it did in the last world war. Regular .solchers taking special tech .nical courses may replace all att4ents, and again, as in 1918, army tents may . be pitched on all parts of the campus=even on New seaver Field, where 'today Colgate and Penn State will battle for foot ball supremacy. • • Tgday you see preliPlin4ry effects of the war on campus life; but tomorrow you may witness climatic results. To The Twenty Once a month, this column drops its editorial dignity in order to take a fling at sports comment. Today's the day, and may it he said without due hesitation that this corner predicts a grid victory for the Nittany Lions when they battle Colgate's Red Raiders in one of the top battles of the East. But when you see the Lions in action this af ternoon, just. remember that there are twenty men who would have donned the Blue and White if they had not entered the armed services of the nation. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" . , Established 1940. Sueeeasor to ,the Penn State Congeal', established 1904, and the Free Lance, establiabefi '1.887. uhnshed tial)Y except' Sande" •AO 'Monday during the ,regulaF .C.9l.leze year by the students of The Perindylvania State College. Entered as second-clans mattr July 5, 1981 pt the roost-puke . at State giAtege, 'Pa:, under the act .91 Marsh 8, gap. Editor Bus. -and Adv. Mgr. Gordon Coy fi43 4 8 1 0 " i ' Lkeonard E. Bach '43 Editorial and Business Office ,Caruegie Hall Phone 711 Saturday, October 24, 1942 Staff Vila Issue Managing Editor This Issue Managing Editor News Editor __ P. S. C. A. Supplement Editor Mickey Bias Assistant Munaging Editor Seymour Rosenberg Assistant News Editor _____________ Joan Piollet Assistant News Editor __________ • Lee Freedman Assistant News Editor Jane McChesney Freshman Assistant Allan W. Qatar Advertising Manager - George J. Cohen Assistant Advertising Manager ___ Rosalind Becker Graduate' Counselor owntown Office 110-Igl South Frtigier St Phong 4372 Prod 'Clever . Paul I. Woodland M. J. Wintei Louis IL Bei; Collegian Records Five Year Swing By ..ARRY CHERVENAK "Nye L'aunches Blow Tt t ank'.' That was the Collegian's . front page headline of less than five years ago; today. it might well be the opening scene in a gigantic pageant—the . story of a nation's five-year - mareh:frota . cbmplete , nei , trality to total war. Pacifism Rides High Nye's attack on compupoiy college :thilitary tr4inipg, recorded in Cpl3O4U. (?4 Ocivirnher 5, 1937, was the prelude to ,!1- campus .'"etneibgeney. pe4ce canTaign," announc4o. in the next issue 94 khe College , newspaper. ' On November L6,—,l , 937,CPae.giqA iirtri6 l . l *Ced tha l t Philip Jacob, assistant;' director of th.e.Stu dent Peace Service of the Emergency Peace Ca mpaign, been ,coAtac,ted" by :the PSCA and would arrive on campus that day to dis Cuss PeaCe cqmpaign plans. • ROTC Stays Under Attack An editorial of the same issue attacked the Sen ate Committee for recognizing an upp.erclass mil itary honorary - . During December, 1937, .a series of three fiery articles sub-titled. "This .Question of ROTC", ridiculed training ;college 'students "at $l,OOO a head" when the Money could be better used for "useful government •actiyities.? Early 1938 saw a continued peace arid neutrality activity.: a peace furum,dekanded• the right'qf a . war referendum, stude:g.t :doaters frailty •as the only sclutiumtsri• our - i4terpatio.nal problems, and the Penn State Peace Action Coun cil brought the Intercpllegiate .. F!pacp• Institute, to canipPS. R,ighpoint of the,aiiti-p.reparedness timent un campus was repAecl On• March 29; when:. —according to a Collegian poll—'79 per cent'of Penn State's students. favored the abolition of compulsory ROTC. • PreparedneAs Makes Debut • . • First indication of a,ny general student interest in preparedness is recorded in the Collegian fpr January 1, 1939—the repprt of the StUdent •Opin ion Surveys of America ,qf 4?::9•Wiltibus three-totwo approval of President Ropseyelt's'Fnuest fpr arm ed forces strong epo,pgh to .defend n . the Wester hemisphere.. A month later, the'records show that one half of America's .College students were willing to agree with Roosevelt that:nited States should sell planes to the warring -democracies. The about-face that was to end in war was next recorded on April 18, 1939,- when the numher of students favoring selling planes to democracies rose to 52 per cent, and. 9 out pf 10 shidents ex pressed the fear that our neutrality. Law could not keep us permanently out of war. ' • pditopial Pleads For' Peace Recogni7.ingfhegroy4pg.wari.r4e.rept,.anedi tonal appearing 1944,..i55i„1ed the : f9pwing plea: "Let us not in the heat of the moment again save the world for democracy. We fought that war to end war twenty years ago. While ydt it is n,ot tree.son we plead for intelligent neutrality. "Let us have peace in our tithe." Pacifism's Last IV,lik News of campus interest in intervention, - arma ment, and lend-lease continued.throtigh t /949-and early 1941, but peace and.isolation• sentiment re mained close behind. Senator zNye Carried. the isolation banner back to "campua; peace groups continued to hold meetings and conferencea; stu dent debaters adopted a discusgon . of. possible union with the warro,o EP*re 4S their debate topic for the sepool year. • Polls 14 student optisica;.mpOrtePl l c,94,0an periodically during - the Fall. 194 x,• showed majority of students on the lend-lease bandwagon, and a. third favoring even . more active pqrticipa tion in the war. Final entry in the peace-to-war pageant came in the December 10 issue, when o:llegian's front page contained a single thought: "College Prepares For Total 'War Effort." Both Army and Navy aviation technical ranches are after instructors in airplane mechanics, radio operating, engineering and general shop work. To get a "student instructor" job, which pays $1620 a year, you must have completed one year of . college—although a (AAA ground instructor's certificate .or satisfactory practicai experience way be substituted for the CQ,llege training. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN At • ROTC, Calls 1 Ty,soja . .lcomos P.yers :Wier L* - W.• ThAYIW . .A.• demon was Lowed in Schwab Auditorium _last night, a grey bearded-.Beelzebub harnessed. to a wheel-chair. His • name was Sheridan White Side, and the Penn State Players put him through. a series of antics called "The'. Man Who Came -T9 Din rler."-- pemon though -he was, the Homecoming audience loved him until the last curtain, and they left .the . theatre quoting to tlie trees on the Mall his acidic and withering diatribes. Mr. Raynaohd . Tyson played Whiteside, the man who came and stayed—and stayed, to the mingled consternation and de light' of the pewildered..Mesalia, Qhio on whose doorstep the farrious raconteur and friend qi the, great and near -great slipp ed.end fell. Mr. Tyson got his teeth solidly into one of the juiciest roles ever written for a post-,draft-age ac tor, and his fluent and maleVoient reading of thepart gave each line its proper sting. He was ably aided in his machinations by Bev erly Carlton, played I:',•y Robert Heymann, and the incomparable I.eqred through by Viliiam Eminons.' ?baying. the rple Lorraine Sheldon,' the actress who mo.,lses her way -in the theatre yia the Pr.#49se P.4.4 1 1-W4S'g'9.4et PFAV f,4.Fe' 4. 4 . P4ing Akciy kmfowa -her. way FolWl" YiUkit cast.s liar.eyes,—aid something elSe—ahOUt the stage in am easy 4 1 4Pr.OesPional ~manner. Lillian l3randt,, playing the role of klorriet Sonley„; . contrilanted an ‘ery but subtly hOrrkOrous bit al the ax-murderess now liy,ing a peaceful and anonymous exist ence. And by virtue of her truly fine comic talent, Marion Daugh erty as Miss Preen, the harassed nurse, managed to deflate even the omnipotent Sheridan White side in the final scene. Miss Scott and her staff set and costumed the piece in a. clean and pleasing fashion, and Mr. ISTeus baum.'s direction was well-paced. The cast will probably remember SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2,4, 1942 To Dimier; Hit Comedy by tonight ii4t finish their exit spe.,eches • they .are , actually tbrougt,i•the eXit,' and the inevit able falling drapery ._will be fas tened more securely. With these 'ey" corrections, the cast will again romp gli'9 l 4o l a most, . 0 U t S piece of stnge,liternture to- "The Man" - is",:o,ne'.of the latest comedies to come *from Ahe mu tual. petl P 1 Nos§,}l4rt: - and. George S. Kaufm ann Charm to their : eee„ T ka*:',hraceiet ;.comedies. riptOu ;. comedies . „It had . a professional - career. several months on l . :!roadw,ayoyith Monte Wooled* the I.q,4iPg, role. Clifton .. Webb took the second comp - any into . the" 'hinterlands„ and - Alexander WOolcott essayed the role •in a third company'on the West Coast. • Wooicott is said to be the, pro totype for Whiteside.• and the' moon-faced, bespectacled radio charmer and sponsor of literary unknowns imps no end pleased with . his dramatic portrait; mer:- ciless and devastating tho Ugh it be. °The New Yorker is, like Whiteside, the friend and co'nfidflit of a .4 9 gt Otrange and dubious characters the like nesses .whm.- - vie. saw • thqt night. . • Whiteside'q wool- of aipco,n tent will 'fall' again tonight at eight-thi,tly for the last time and liacome =Per Ptate PlftYPrs' 14s tAry. Tyson . will go baplc to - ,h4 -; clas . grporn, •but there will be no • student of his w4p ever be • quite certain that he- will not .be called, a "sex-starved cobra" 'or addressed' "Miss Medpan." Such are the 'perils of pitting• at the feet of the master who 'once played Sheridan Whiteside! Nine of ten iron hitching posts in the Grand Island,. Neb., 'court bogse mange have been •enlistell the scrap drive -:-•they'll help do a job „op. three horsesneeks 4 / I .M O. E tler, liirohito, and Mus solini.. •
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