The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, November 18, 1942, Image 2
I•AGE TW THE DMLY COLLEGINN "Tor A Settle Penn State 1910. SUCCO,Wir to the Penn Slate Collegian. ( 1,1. ddished 1901, and the (glace. established 1887. Pluiliqhed .ept Sunday and Monday during the veg.- +i College yedr by the students of The Pennsylvania State College. Sntcrel Him second-class matter July 5. 1954 at the -11'oM 0 Mee at State College. Pa., under the net of March S. 7 1: 7 1. Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Paw. X. Woodland '44 Philip P. Mitchell '44 Managing Editor Advertising Manager likhard D. Smyser '44 Richard E. Marsh '44 111(likirial and Bueinetni Office Carnegie Hall Phone 71t Staff This Issue Magazin* Editor, This Issue . 7V ws, Editor __ _____ _ _ Wainen's Editor __ Asaintant Advertising Manager alreduate Counselor _---____.____ Wednesday, November 18, 1942 ]VJiore About Phi Ely An upset of the Penn-Penn State calibre can ;').(rdly go without comment long after the grid ry-making fray. Long will the 13-7 turnabout remembered, and with it an excellent football goes down in *the books. But something else •- e' which is a step in a different direction cuui although mention of it may belong in a sports ..!,)lumn, the Collegian considers it significant , :»,rugh to treat it here. is in reference to the attitude of Philadelphia :ports writers who have begun to give the Nittany Lions more attention in the newspapers and more favorable publicity at that. Some of the credit for tbe. turn toward better Penn State writeups can r.!)._ given to Ridge Riley and The Department of Public Information whose sports news he edits. Ridge has worked hard for more, intimate rela tions with the Philly sports scribes, and articles and after the Penn game are evidence of Ini:4 efforts. . Some students took offense at Red Smith's Sun writeup of the game, but anyone reading his Monday morning column praising the Lions would be convinced to the other side. What Red wrote Sunday was not detrimental, but merely a method of emphasizing the youthfulness of the icosh stars in an imaginativ'e way. Red has his own style and his own angles from which to cover 4 i . game. Analyzing the situation further, it can be found •liat criticisms prior to this season may also have l'i'en partially unfounded. It is natural for stu .:ints to look at Penn State publicity in a Pitts burgh paper, then compare it to writeups in the "))iLadelphia newspapers and rap the Quaker C.!iy press for its smaller coverage. But as as representative from one of the Philly :o,toers told a large journalism class, the Philadel ]o))io. papers have to first take care of the- local cAeges, Penn, Temple, Drexel, Haverford, P. M.. C, ,and many other smaller colleges in surrounding because most of their circulation is there. :People in that district. with the exception of Penn alumni, want to read of the local teams )Ir,;t, then the ones from regions beyond. In Pittsburgh, writers consider Lion teams as p . irt of their territory, and with only one excep 4.ionally 'large college there, they have adopted :l'enn State as a district team. Another factor, and very important, is the intimate relations Pitt 'writers have with the College and other persons rare. Many journalism grads have gone to Pitts ''u to write and these have an effect on the :oolicy of Lion coverage. Ridge Riley, seeing that personal relations mean. :1 lot, has worked on that angle. The College is i , JON/ on such intimate terms with the Philly wri ^'•ers that the football coaching staff, Penn State :;ports publicity men, and the Philadelphia scribes had an informal get-together Friday before the game. No longer should the City of Brotherly Love press be accused of poor Penn State cover -10: considering their district situation and the way they came through last weekend: Give Thanks On Campus Plans have been afoot, although details have 211::.nged considerably, to sponsor an Aft-College Thanksgiving Service on the morning of Thanks- Day. Promoted by the PSCA and represen q.:itives of town churches, the student service was scheduled in one town church, then shifted to . inothe.r larger one. The Collegian contends the All-College Thanksgiving Service should be held Schwab auditorium and decorated to provide a alma:where. Despite persons leaving :4:211'1, the 1;alie;:. ~~i.~~~~ `ail l~~t;,~ I'nr llui , til Downtown Office 119.-121 South Frazier St. Phone 4372 Peter Scott __William Reimer __Rita M. BeHann Howard Schwartz Louis H. Bet A Lean and Hungry Look Two years ago, in 1940 to be quite proper, there was born a Collegian column entitled by just the Shakes pearian epithet which appears above this opus and signed by the very name which coincidentally enough appears at the end. Written quite brilliantly by a guy bearing the name Jake Hay, of whom only the present Seniors may have dusty memories, the column had its inauspicious na tivity with this dedication: "This is the lean and hungry look• It is the gentleman's intelligencer and the young ladies' companion. It carries a message of faith and hope. Also, it gives the chaps who write the other columns a bit of a rest." We should like At the outset to adopt that as our policy also. But, we digress. Returning to the orig inal Cassius, we might add he performed his .col umning (and calumning) with such verve and vi ger that succeeding Collegian editors have felt there was no one capable of taking his place and so retired a very good column head. But wait, impetuous one. We do not profess to even hint that we are as good as the mighty Hay, nor do we feel that there will ever be anyone who could follow in his inconoclastic footsteps, We do feel, however, that we might essay blind stabs up midnight alleyways—and who knows what the stiletto will bring to bloody light? Unlike the other chroniclers of collegiana, we shall not be a bulletin board for the vagaries of fraternity pins and other sentimental baubles. Let them have the cake. We'll take a short one—and keep the head down, .Spider! By some odd quirk in our makeup, we still be lieve that College students have brains—Yea, ver ily in a Collegian column too. We shall not try to be too erudite. Shades of Bacchus, we couldn't read the balderdash ourselves then. * * So be it. There you have our platform, and may it not be as asthenic as those of our "athletic" politicos. Incidentally, tb leave the aperitif and start on the first course,—Today is Election Day. Who shall emerge With the laurel branch? We make no attempt at prognostication, but pass on a remark attributed to der kleinan caporal Nappy, "God is on the side with the heaviest artillery." That, in this case, gentle reader, could mean a my riad of things. The party with the most automo biles or even with the weightiest tonnage of mus cles might adopt it—if the shoe fits, y'know! If some kind, god-fearing Soul should like to earn our undying gratitude by informing us just what is the score, we would be only too glad to repay in kind. "PHASE DRESS" Make Senior- Junior Ball a realsuccess by wearing the right clothes. TUXEDOS Single and Double-Breasted. in Midnight Blue 525 • Shoes • Shirts • Ties • Ac.cessocies K /"*., MN'S SHOP THE DAILY COLLEGIAN 'l7: SZ.C.'.E: 1 ii:?...:1:".. '::::::::::::;:::'.::: ~..: ....,....:::... . '~•'Si! ....... Theodore Roethke, assistant professor of English composition and a•poet in his own right, has again made the national news-front with a pbem, "The. Minimal," in the current issue of HARPER'S BAZAAR, A snapshot of the professor-poet-tennis coach taken by Bob Jordan '43, is also included in the magazine. The picture .above of Roethke is a drawing sent in by his publishers. CAMPUS CALENDAR WRA Bridge Club meets, White Hall Playroom, 6:30. WRA Rifle Club meets, White Hall Range, 6:30 Penn's Valley Ski Club meets 7 cf the new priority orders recent p. m. in State College High School. ly - placed on castor castor oil .Voting for All-College and class officials assure you that there officers from 12:30 to 8 p. m. in .will be no restrictions placed on . first floor lounge of .Old Main to- itt3 use when "tummy aches". —Cassius Borr,rio UNDER AUTHORITY OP THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY A-0 1.1 , If A ROTTiI.:ING CO NI ri" Y OF ALTOONA. :.' 4 7'cl.TE COLD rr CALL 2731 Poet-Coach Again Breaks Into Print MiEtMM Today WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1942 EMEll== day, .axed from. 9:30 a. m. to 8 p.m. tomorrow. ,• • WRA Badminton Club meets; White Hall gym, 5 o'clock. • Meeting -for all members of -de. bate squad, 316 Sparks. • Note to the Kiddies "Hi.. Recognize me? I'm one of your: crowd. You see, I speck for Coca-Cola, known, too, as Coke. I speak for both. They mean the same thing. The gang say I look just like Coke tastes. And you can't get that delicious and refreshing taste this side of Coca-Cota. Nobody ellso con dupti,.. note it." ~ \ ~{ ~~: ~~k In spite