PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN 'Tor A Better Penn State" Establisbcl I’.tlii. Suceosmn- to the Penn State Collegian, lentnblishcd 1004, and the Free Lance, established 18S7. Published dalle except Sunday and Monday during the rest ular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-class matter July 5. 1934 at the X>ost Office at State College. Pa., under the act of March 8, 1079. Editor-in-Chief Business Manager >?aul I. Woodland '44 Philip P. Mitchell '44 Managing Editor Advertising Manager Orchard D. Smysei '44 Richard E. Marsh '44 lEditorial and Business Office Carnegie Hall Phone 711 Managing fUlitoi’ ... News Editor Assistant Advertising Manager ■Graduate Counselor Saturday Morning, January 30, 1943. There’s No Letdown One of Penn State’s students, in a letter to the -editor, expressed his belief “that the college is not ‘all-out’ in its war program.” He asks “Is the Col lege going to provide the proper training in the future, or are Penn State students to turn else where in providing for their own part in the pro gram?” Main reason the letter is not printed is because : ;it is unsigned, but there are some false impres sions which should be clarified. . To quote more: “Why haven’t the facilities at the present disposal of the College been entirely /rallied forth in this ‘all-out’ war program. I am referring to the physics courses, meteorology •courses, pre-flight training courses, and the ignor ing of the adoption of Civilian Pilot Training and ■Civilian Aeronautics Authority courses which' would be willingly taken by a large number of .students?” In the first place, these programs have been worked on, planned, thought out and worked on -some more. Much time has been spent trying to get the programs set up. Many are in the realm of immediate possibility, and much goes on be liind closed doors concerning military war train ing programs. Naturally progress of attempts to In'ing them to Penn State cannot be made public, since such programs are never certain. The meteorology course has been set up. Quite a few students have taken advantage of it. But many have not. The writer of the afore mentioned letter claims certain courses would willingly be taken “by a large number of students.” That state ment is extremely doubtful. Penn State has thrown many military preparedness courses open to students, but few have taken advantage of them. It’s encouraging to note that the adminis tration and faculty war cabinet have not thrown in the towel long before, when student indiffer ence was evident. Instead the College heads keep working—trying to establish all types war training courses here. To the author of the letter, Collegian would mere ly instruct: Look back at what the College has already done through enlisting students in Re serve programs, and opening new branches for poossible entrance. Then have patience while con tacts' are being made for bigger phograms for se'rv ' icemen on campus, and try to realize that every ounce of progress cannot be announced. President Roosevelt’s recent African trip is a good example of this principle. '* Penn State isn't letting any student down. It's doing all it can to help. It has offered the govern ment use of all facilities so that uniform Army or jSTavy programs can be set up. What more can any one expect? The Wounded Don’t Die New techniques devised for the treatment of soldiers wounded in battle are performing mira cles in saving the lives of these men. Russian Re lief, Inc., says that on the 2,000-mile battlefront in Russian, only 1.5 per cent of the wounded have died. Nearly 40 per cent of the Russian wounded are back in the war and one-third are fighting soldiers. The Russian record is slightly higher than the remarkably recovery rate at Pearl Harbor, when 0 out of each 100 wounded were saved. The Rus sian recovery rate of 98.5 per cent of all wounded, however, is not as good as the Guadalcanal mira cle of one per cent of wounded dying. Three main causes of the high rate of life sav ings include the use of sulfa drugs to delay infec tion, blood transfusions and prompt methods of getting the wounded to field dressing stations and permanent hospitals. It is little short of amazing that, any system of treating wounded men i> able to prevent the death of all except less than two per cent.* Downtown Office 110-121 South Frazier St, Phone 4372 Stafl This Issue Stephen Sinichuk Peggy L. Good Herbert Hasson liiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiinuiiiiimiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii This snow may be pretty and all that, but it definitely has its hazardous aspects . . . students and profs having snowball fights, avalanches slid ing oil buildings, and worst of all, those little snow plows sneaking up behind innocent people. It might be a good idea to equip them with horns, sirens, whistles, or something to warn the unsus pecting pedestrians. Apologies Although we had our agents at , work shoveling all day, it was almost impossible to get even a handful of dirt for the weekly item through the drifts . . . something might have developed, if Uncle Sam hadn’t gotten there first. The ro mance of Bob Weitzel of football fame and Skeets Wolf was intercepted by Bob’s sudden call to the Army. Must be 'love—they were strolling along campus at 8 a. m. last Sunday, cramming in their last few hours together . . . WSGA and AEPhi seem to be running in competition tonight, with the V-Male Special scheduled for Rec Hall and sorority formal set for the Nittany Lion. A few of the couples at the formal will be Adelaide Gluck-Shelly Marks, Daisie. Kranich-Buddy Mil ler, Shirley Fierman-Hal Chidnoff. Hell Bent .Louis H. Bell Seems like hell week is in full svflng around a couple of the Greek abodes. Sigmadeltatau pledges looked like kindergarten broke loose yesterday, carrying teddy bears and pandas to class. Juve nile, isn’t it? . . . Phidelt pledges needed publicity, that’s what the “big boys” told them, so they had to have their names in the Collegian. You may have noticed classifieds ’with such comments as— “Wanted—Ride to Casablanca,” “Lost—43 hours sleep,” etc., with .names attached. Just in case some of them didn’t succeed in getting the needed publicity, here’s something might help—Bob Be decker and twin Ray, Harry Brerineman, Dick Buckheit, Bill Clark,, Paul Daugherty, Fred Fa ber, Dave Hess, Frank Mattern, Bob Pomerene, and Lynn Taylor. Here And There Joan Clark, zeta, and Evie Kohler, theta, plus a few other coeds have turned imports for the weekend —at Cornell Junior Week . . . Marie Ellen Tome is back for the weekend to see all the kids and Bob Lyman, phipsi . . . the kdr’s knocked theinselves out last night at a Zoot Suit clance . . . The Epstein brothers of Hollywood, phiep alumns, really packed ’em in at the local flicker house with their latest offering, “Casablanca,.” Local boys really made good . . . Marcia Crichton made out with a dozen red roses from a local hotdog the other day. How’d this happen?. Her man’s basking in the Florida sun prior to adding his number to the Old Main service flag . . . Pat Pear sal and Ginny Carter helping Mr. Bell along. The phone calls from their hometown heartbeats have been piling up lately. Don’t Question Cheerleader’s Intelligence; He’s Brighter — When the cheerleader pleads hoarsely for a “Fight, fight, Siwash” and then does a cartwheel through the rain, don’t question his intelligence— he’s probably a little brighter than the average: „ That’s the finding of a survey conducted at Col gate University. The investigation was aimed at determining what relationship, if any, existed between intelligence of Colgate seniors and partic ipation in extra-curricular activities. Long suspected, the fact was established that the varsity letter for skill in major sports usually adorns a strong back and an I. Q. 11 per cent. And as for the meek little student whose name never appears on a committee, he’s 3 per cent below average. The survey revealed that 30 per cent of the nearly 800 seniors engaged in no extra-curricular activities. The most intelligent group, 16 per cent above the average, worked on student publications. Ratings for men participating in social religious, dramatic, musical, managerial and cheerleading activities were found to be “slightly above aver- Men in the student government were second only to those men on publications. The rating for in minor athletics coincided with the average, while the standing of the men in departmental clubs dropped C per cent below toe average. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Bv Associated Collegiate Press We, JL Women Inhale, Exhale... Let Hitler Gasp Fifteen minutes aren’t many but they can do a lot for you. , Fifteen minutes late for class; fifteen minutes more sleep; fifteen minutes for breakfast; or fifteen minutes more study- for a blue book are essential in their respect ive situations. The fifteen minutes about which s ' m P^ e parts, they are: - . we’re talking- today refer to ah "1- People at home have alvvayk exercising projgr'am which wiil be- been quick to criticize Penn State gin Monday and continuing every : —when you go home and tell them night. ■ that you can’t travel back and WRA will ask yofi to get out in the halls and Inhale, exhale, bend over, touch the .floor for just that amount of time daily. Students of Mrs. Ivalclare Howland’s body mechanics class will direct the calesthenics which are aimed at limbering up the average dorm inhabitant. Even though it should prepare a' who as . sm ;? stude * ts “• lot of coeds for some good defense crease ,n the timber travelmg by action, it can be scheduled foi* the Public conveyance (which save gas mere purpose of reducing. That’s and tlres ! h f* are essential) can up to the. women. be accomodated. • . 3. Rather than create unfavor- The exercising will fall conve- able cri ti c ism ’thf bah has an op niently during the noisy hour in- posite effect and has provided gen termissions which come for the erous pubUcjti y for the College frosh from 9 till 9:30 p. m. and ( no t e front page story in Post for the upperclassmen from 10 to Gaze tt e , etc. for January 27.) • 10:30 p. m. They will last for just <, lt doesn > t Matter whether yob half that period. use the gasoline'here in State Col- in this new project where White lege or to travel home you are Hall actually comes -to you, direct- still permitting empty tankers to ol’s ask at least a trial week. sit in New York waiting for gas You’re right-when you say it and oil* for transportation to sounds queer.and you’re probably American forces ifi Africa. i, wondering -what’s coming - next. . “Most erroneous conception But it’s just the fact that we don’t heard though was ■ that, students know what’s around the corner could absolutely not have cars’, that causes plans of this kind to That is not true. The only effect be inaugurated. the ban will have is that in order Opening the windows,and inhal- .-t° have a student car you must ing long will make you feel great Sive ample reason for its main and might make Hitler gasp. tenance to Tribunal. If there is no means of public, conveyance to . your home, you should so state Rachmaninoff To Play that to Tribunal. : For Course Subscribers S^SaiS (Continued from Page One) . that your attitude and crime are Rachmaninoff composed his first of such a nature - as to" warrant it opera at the age of 19. For this they have the poweV to expell you, achievement he won a gold medal, but it does not mean that there Soon afterwards he made a tour are no other milder forms -of pun which disclosed him as. a pianist ishmetjt. ' ■ of amazing gifts. At 24 he was ap- “This attempt has - been made to pointed conductor of the Moscow avoid the possibility of a ratiou- Private Opera, where his own mg case in a Federal Court in work had been produced with sue- which the name of Penn State cess. ■ . ’ would be besmirched because of His first concert was played, at th{ - attitude of some, one student a concert of the Royal Philhar- ‘ Need I point put further that monic Society in .London when he 25 suph c^ ses , . aPPfe was only 26. The same year he bended so far by OP A officials and made his debut in America. By this . that this ban, which gets the prob time he had already achieved the tem at. th 6 quick, will eliminate distinguished position he holds to- the possibility of criticism. - day as one of the greatest pianists “ We are. living here at Penn of all time ’ state on borrowed time to pre- In addition ito Rachmaninoff, ourselves for a better life.in Carmen Amaya and her troupe of the future. A man in uniform has gypsy dancers and musicians will every . vight 1° crab, lets inakp appear Monday, February 22, and sure ls not at us. Gladys Swarthout, well known for See you on the Greyhound, her appearances at the Metropoli- ' RWBE ...• tan Opera, on the radio, and in • ..... ; . , .~ , r-= — —The Cub moving pictures, will appear Mon- SUBSCRIBE NOWI—FOR YOl?ljfc. day evening, March 22. DAILY- COLLEGIAN. i; The " - v First National Bank Of v State 'College Member of \ Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation . \ / . ..•* • • SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1943. Letters To The Editor-— • “Dear Woody and Fellow Penn Staters: “It is with some feeling of alarm akin to shame that I view the student reaction to the recent au tomobile ban formulated by their AU-College cabinet. “The attitude seems to be, best expressed by a comment I heard today, “Why did you put that through?”. The' answer is simple as broken down into three or four forth- by car when other forms. ; of transportation are available that criticism may abate (they are es pecially critical in wartime when they have some sons and daugh ters in the armed services.) "2. No transportation shortage will exist for State College accord ing to bus and rail executives,
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