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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,
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Stafl This Issue
Stephen Sinichuk
Peggy L. Good
Herbert Hasson
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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
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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,