$? A GE TWO THE DAILY (COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" sc..thldished 1910. Succ, , Aor to the. Penn State Collegian, 4 • , bliShed 1901, and the Free Lance, established 1087. I , o,H A ti,d daily e N eent Sunday and Monday during the verr -1 1., • College year by the students of The Pennsylvania State ~'• , ;'ccc. Entered ne secomi-elass matter July F, 1934 at the )•0. ,- . Office at State College, Pa., under the act of March 3. )!. Editor•in•Chief Business Manager ??•lul I. Woodland '44 Philip P. Mitchell '44 - .1i . 1;1 • it • Managing Editor Advertising Manager 4 ;f:hard D. Smyser '44 Richard E. Marsh '44 and Busincss Office Carnegie Hall Phone 711 Staff This Issue . 'Editor _ s t;ditor . . .01 ,, men's Editor ~ ..I:tant Women's 'FAlitor _ A --.itant Women's 'Editor _ -_ , lunan Assistant . _ _ _ .s.,istant Advertising 'Manager air, laata Counselor Friday, December 4, 1942 Coinply—Or Else Whether or not democratic methods can win this for democracy is a question discussed and re- .diseussed. So far the government has been taking middle of the road policy. The people are asked do some things the people are told to do (irbers Sugar, gasoline, and now coffee rationing are the results of what at first were only regneSts for con- :;(..vation. Buying war bonds and stamps is still a request. In peacetime joining the Arthy was ypl untary now in wartime-4ieed more be said but all this has a local angle. Rubber conservation is still a nation-wide re quest. True, people can't get more tires Without a priority permit, but at present there are no laws regulating the use of those you have now except the indirect effect gas rationing has. The local situation is that students are unneces sarily using rubber in driving their cars abou't a town and campus which don't ,have public trans portation facilities for the simple reason that they til -2. too small to warrant them. College administrative , official -have repeated I.ltr:e and again their requests that students do not use their automobiles to drive to classes on around campus at other times. Today they made one more ) ., quest but it's a little stronger. In a letter to the rtudents Dean Warnock and Dean Ray have threat .ened to revoke the campus licenses of students ap yrehended using their cars on the campus without t•easonable excuse. With the help of the campus .3 , atral, indications are good that this plan will be o.forced. • Sugar and coffee conservation were only re, quests at first. This plea for saving is still a re auest :but getting closer to a definite law. Prac ttcal students will be smart and take a hint—which a terribly gentle one. Christmas jobs College students who have contracted for jobs at Christmas time will have to adjust their last blue .hooks or final examinations to fall before the time they wish to leave, for word has come from the dean's office that no excuses will be granted for 140.idents to leave early. While such conditions are unfortunate since many students are depending on work during the Christmas holidays to help pay fees for the coming vemester, justification for the ruling can easily be Sound. After all, the semester has been shortened for acceleration purposes, and cutting it further after recent heavy Penn and Thanksgiving wee - end cuts would be going too far. The best way out is to see professors now and Ylna when they plan to give the last bluebook or final. Then, if it interferes with the extra day or two the student expects to cut to work, he should ask the prof if he could either move the exam ahead a period, or if he could take it earlier, ex plaining that he is depending upon the money his •vacation job will bring. Penn State has long been known as a college where it is comparatively easy for large numbers of students to work for room, hoard or cash, some completely through. college. Attitudes of professors in times, similar to the one coming are helpful in maintaining this good regu lation, and if students are fair in claiming that they definitely have Christmas jobs and must leave little early, there is reason to believe the faculty ifs be cooperative. 'However, it that practice is riutated by every T,ith, Dick and Hurry walking up and belting off.' to extend his plcostircs at Christmas, it wilt Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St Phone 4372 _.Mickey Blatz • . I,ew Jaffe __Aliee Fox . . Shirley Rodale _Lee Freedman _Rem Robinson _John D. Neel Louis H. Bell CLEVER COMMENTS iintiiinimiiiinnumilinininittinuu By Fred E. Clever To dispel any suspicion that your columnist pic tures himself as the soul of wit, let it be clearly unders'tood that in the heading of this piece, "Clever" is a noun, and "Comments" is a verb, After all, what's the use of having a handle like Clever if you don't put it to work? Last week we wrote under the heading "One Mait's Meat." Unfortunately, our sophomore proof readers let so many typographical errors slip through that we became discouraged and refused to use the heading again s —somebody's meat turned out to be our poison. ' Disiliusioning, Isn't It? It makes us quite sad to report an incident that caused us to lose our next-to-the-last bit of faith in studentdom. In the past we have been a severe critic of Penn State's campus politics. We never had the occasion, however, to criticize politics on any other grounds than that it was a waste of time. On the whole, campus politics have been rela tively clean of underhandedness. Granted, bar gains have been made (and broken), codes have been violated—beth ethiCal and those that are written, but somehow or other we never pictured it as being "malicious. lkecently it was annoin* in a Collegian : cob:Min that one Walter Price. **going to do a series on "the inside dope on ciiiPuS politics" for .that staniPhig ground of the literati, 'Portfolio. • Which, in itielf;--is §#lte harmless. The 'Other day, hoWeiier, fi.ve er dice cronies received <iva'rning, on What to -''beet. ..,§YeePed With • s'Cieh phrases as "final reckoning will be - acknowledged in the next issue of Portfolio," the notes were a perfect example of what a iCiod loser should not do, regardless of the fairness of the circumstances under which he lost. Fundamentally, campus politics is analogous to most any other form of campus competition. When a loser in this scramble—elections, if you will— forgsts that he first is a man, and second that he 'is a loser, then campus politics acquires an aroma that is unpleasant to the onlooker. If the articles' do appear, we hope that Dorothy Bosley, Portfolio editor, will have the grace to curb Price's impetuosity. We hope that with the elec tion now over the series Will be minus the mali cious sting threatened. • make it hard for every student who honestly needs extra time for work. Rightly the dean will not issue excuses because it would conflict with pro fessors' plans and would be against the accelera tion policy to make issuance of excuses an official. 1 . •• 1 • • .- ' . _. .1 ~. . " I , H•,—,...... : ,.„ i,... - w.., •-•,-,..<,---c- ,, --, ...• ..,. ,:.:. ~„:,4:,"'V,c..:•,;,: • —or ... • —4-4 , t. ... ! ,.. • ~ ... .., . . . ........ .;; v.,.....: . .....• 4: , .• , ,:, p„ ?..;:. '''''"'.....',.. '4 11 ,14 01111•11111111111.111•111110.0 . . • The . • . . - • k m . • • . LI nusurii. _ THE DAILY COLLEGIAN We. 7L. WOMen 'rake Your NUmber, Pick Your Room ...' Now is the time for all coeds to. come to the job of choosing rooms which will be theirs for the next, two semesters. Only those desiring to reserve new rooms need attend drawings and selections which will be held in Atherton Hall lounges Monday and Thursday. A complicnted situation . to straighten out, the drawings are sure to funCtion better if wohien cooperate and follow the schet',ule set by members of the dean of women's staff.. . •' Each' Coed' will draw 'her own number which Will place het• in an order for choosing a room. No number exchanges will be permit ted to push others ahead in the line. According to an announcement froin the dean's office, juniors, who have first choice, will meet in the northivest lounge at 6:30 P. M. Monday to draW for order and Will Select 'rooms in the same lounge at . 6:'30 p. m. Thursday. 'Gathering in the Southwest lobrige, soPhohidres will draw ntifriberS at, '6:3'o p. m. Monday and will 'Make 'room selections im mediately ollowiiig the juniors at 6:4.5 p. m. Thursday. Seccind semester froBh will meet •s: ;O: . • • d's : • %.,:e.:•Nee:•::•:::e.:.:•:.:.:•:ee• ........................... • :..::C :::; ~iti'~.:: '~. ti 4:; 4:}{ WHICH vvould you vote "most likely to succeed?" "The Aircraft. Warning System gives a single plane on ground alert the equivalent striking power of 16 planes on air patrol.'" This startling statement conies from England. Our country's Aircraft Warning Service—quite similar to England's—keeps a constant check on the flight of all aircraft. Should the needarise, it is prepared to send fighter planes aloft; to mobilize and direct ground 'defense forces, to wart endangered areas. EverY step in its . operation requires the. fast, accurate communication of the telephone, . , This is just one of the many. - wartime jobs that are keeping telephone lines busier than ever before. To help us keep liaes clear lot. vital military and industrial calls, please avoid using Long Displace to war activity centers - Unless the call is urgent. Arid please keep all your telephone calls as brief as you can. Thank You.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1942 in the northwest lounge of Ath erton at 6:45 P. m. Monday and will gather to choose rooms at 8:30 p. m. Thursday. With dormitory plans on dis play, women will be able to lo cate rooms that they want and it is expected that coeds will inves tigate rooms . during the days' 1:?e -tween drawings and selections. WESTMINSTER . romP'ATot4 STUDENT TRUSTEE FIRESIDE, ROOM . 6-8 P. M. GUEST' SPEAKER-,-Mrs. John Peach', "My Experiences with: the Flying Tigers in China." STAI4T6DI LAUTERSCM- . LAdEtt of Cheeloo Univer sity, China, Will address the, Three Courses at the Student , Department Sunday, 9:30. A. M. .wirt also address: • InterChUrch Student Fellow ship Monkiair, 7:15' P. 1: 1 1.,' • 'lArekYratigtet Hall: itibb WAR.BONDS AND STAMPS- ~: _~.<``
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