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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
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X 879.
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Friday Morning, February 12' 1943
Students At War
Further clarification of the status of Uie Ra-
il cited Reserve Corps and the Army's taking over
American colleges and universities has been made
by the Associated Collegiate Press through an in-
terview with Brig. Gen. Joe N. Dalton, the Army's
chief of stall' for personnel. Starting tomorrow,
the Daily Collegian will start a series of questions
and answers concerning the student’s status in
the war, what he can expect now, and what wilt
probably happen later on. Material will be used
virtually verbatum as received from the Office
of War Information.
• Guesses on the date for selection of schools for
the Army-Navy college training program have been
moved a notch to March 1. A nine-man board rep
resenting Army, Navy, and War Manpower is
plowing through questionnaires describing facili
ties of nearly every college in the country. Secre
tary of War Stimson has warned schools it will
do no good to try lobbying for their institutions.
Colleges are taking the hint.
: Brig. Gen. Dalton says “The trainee is not a
college boy in uniform. He’s a doughboy in a mili
tary unit located at a college. This program is not
designed to offer a nice, soft spot for young men
who have been inducted into the service.’’
, Education in Britain hasn’t been hit as hard as
many other thing's in that country: Registration in
British Universities has fallen from, the 1939 fig
ure of '50,000 students to 37,00. The number of
women enrolled, 11,000 remains the same.
■ One opinion on the situation is that of Ernest
Handley, Washington commentator, who feels
' American higher education is about to undergo
;.i drastic upheaval. The war and navy departments
nlan to train from 150,000 to 250,000 men in the
colleges; and the war manpower commission is
developing a separate program for training spe
cialists for private industry and government. The
depletion of undergraduate bodies is unavoidable
in tune of war. Many liberal arts educators argue,
first, that some of the most promising of these
young men would be more valuable, even to the
armed services, two or three years later if allowed
to mature in college.
“And they argue, secondly, that if the war lasts
several years, the suspension of liberal arts stud
ies will create a serious hiatus. Doubtless many
of these young men would be more useful as offi
cers a few years later, after receiving a general
education. But they .are useful now and, in many
ways will mature more rapidly in the army than
in the colleges. Many of these more capable
younger men will want to go to college after the
wav.
“They should bo encouraged and enabled to do
so by the government. Funds can be provided to
support the best of them, chosen strictly on a
merit basis. If the war does not last too long',
•such an arrangement will help to bridge the hiatus
feared by college educators.”
Brighter Army
Draftees in the present war are educationally
head and shoulders above their counterparts in the
last war. Twelve per cent of the present draftees
have a college education, as against five per cent
of the college trained men in the 1918 army.
While only about 17 per cent of the draftees in
die last war had a high school education, over 55
per cent, have the same amount of schooling now.
The remaining 78 per cent of the draftees in 117-
'9lB had only been to grade school or had no edu
cation whatever, while at present only 33 per cent
of the men who have been drafted fall into this
low education group.
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Clever Comments
llllllllllillllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllißy FRED E. CLEVER
Bocal theater goers will have a chance tonight
of taking sides on the current controversy sur
rounding John Steinbeck’s “The Moon is Down.”
Officials of the OWl—our government’s equivalent
to a propaganda bureau—have accused “the moon”
of portraying Germans as human, beings. Most of
the critics say “phooey, it’s good theater,” and Mr.
Steinbeck merely counters with a “Oh, AREN’T
they human?”
The only thing we know about the local produc
tion (except, of course what‘we read in the Colle
gian) is that Milt Dolinger, whose verbage some
times fills this space, will wear an honest-to-good
ness Nazi uniform for his characterization of the
German Lieutenant.
We only hope that his lines are more in the ver
nacular than his column.
XrOuiß H. Bell
We Gotta Do It
This Lincoln’s Birthday Balt tonight in Rec
Hall is really going to. be the nnts.With two great
bands like the “Campus Owls,” and the “Aristo
crats" providing the music, this shindig is going
to bo one of the biggest non-big-name dances in
Penn State history (the editor says). It’s cheap too
(says the business manager). What’s more, a lot
of former Penn Staters now in the army are go
ing to enjoy getting the Collegian every morning
(we say).
ROTC’s Sacred Cow
We have been hearing so much lately about
physical fitness and how Secretary Knox likes his
young men to have bulging biceps that we were
naturally surprised to hear of the dilemma of a
dozen lads who sought exercise in the Armory
last Saturday afternon:
Having previously arranged with the bigwigs
of the department for the use of the Armory floor,
the lads arrived there anticipating the benefits of
some much needed exercise..
Upon arrival they found four officers playing
•badminton. Their reservation called for the use
of the floor after 4 p. m., so when that hour rolled
around the boys started their game. However,
they were notified by the then departing officers
that they (the boys) would have to produce a
written. permit (short for army red tape) before
they' could use the floor.
Believing that verbal permission was sufficient,
the would-be athletes hadn’t bothered to get it on
paper. They left.
Comment: Please, says the army, get in shape,
but stay away from our Armory.
Buy-War Bonds And Stamps
THIS'WEEKEND...
Tine Comer
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THE DAILY’ COLLEGIAN
WRA Invites
‘Cadettes’
To Playnight
An invitation for Curtiss-Wright
“Cadottes” to attend tomorrow
evening’s White Hall playnight as
guests of WRA, was extended by
Adele J. Levin,. WRA president, at
last night’s board meeting.
• WRA board members will be
hostesses to the Cadettes at White
Hall to show them around the
building and acquaint them with
its facilities. The playnjfeht is
under the sponsorship of bowling
club members who will serve re
freshments to coeds and Cadettes
who attend.
As a special feature, the gym
will be open to women who want
to sign up basketball interclass
tournaments and have not as yet
put in their two required hours
of practice for the matches, which
begin next week.
Final plans were made at the
board meeting for the co-rec hike
to the WRA cabin February 21,
Hikers may sign up at Student
Union, Rec Hall, White Hall or
women's dormitories. Coeds and
men students will meet at White
Hall at 2 p.- m. to hike out to the
WRA cabin where supper will be
served, at a charge of 25 cents per
person.
Lincoln's Birthday Bali
(Continued from page one) '
“Knock Me a Kiss,” “Mr. Five by
Five,” and “Amen.”
Washko’s Campus Owls will
really send with numbers like
“Joshua Fit the Battle of Jerico,”
“As Time Goes By,” “Hodge
Podge,” “Blue Moon,” “One
O’clock Jump,” “You’d Be So Nice
to. Come Home To,” and Duke
Ellington’s popular “Don’t Get
Around Much Any More.”
'Betty Platt is the featured vo
calist with the Owls,
There are still a few tickets left
at the Collegian office and Stu
dent -Union at 55 cents for Col
legian subscribers and $l.lO for
those who missed the chance. Tick
ets will also be on sale at the door
tonight. A special price of $1.75
for a dance ticket and a subscrip
tion to the Collegian for the rest
of the semester has been announc
ed by Phillip P. Mitchell, business
manager.
Players'New Show
(Continued from page one)
stage is Martin Shapik, who will
depict the town doctor and con
fidante of the mayor. Captain Loft,
an officious and militaristic officer,
will be John Miller, another gradu
ate student, who appeared iii “The
Little Foxes.”
Molly Morden, the pretty town
girl who killed Tonder, is played
by Janet Dayton. Molly’s husband
was executed by the Nazis for
causing disturbances which inter
fered with their enforced town
labor in the productive coal mines.
Her husband Alex is played by
Alexander Taylor.
Will and Tom Anders are played
by Gordon Fiske and McKay Car
son respectively. The Anders
brothers had to flee the town be
fore they would meet the fate of
their friend Alex.
William Reimer is cast as Cap
tain Bentick, a typical German
soldier, imbued with a sense of
duty to the “Vaterland” and
anxious to return to the Reich."'
Major Hunter *is played by
Douglas Peck; James McKechnie
plays Lieutenant Prackle; Robert
Kidder plays - a corporal, . while
Robert Bruce depicts a sergeant.
Two servants of the mayor are
Annie who is played .by Anna
Radl'e and Joseph Reid who is cast
as Joseph.
< Dtxe Wjov'uu
/!, 1:30-4 p.m.
Meeting "of Penn State “Engi-
CATHAUM— neer” staff in 1 Armory -at 6:30'
“Commandoes Strike at Dawn” p.m. Candidates for staff should:
STATE— also attend.
“The Crystal Ball” TOMORROW
NITTANY— “The Moon Is Down,” Schwab.
“Pittsburgh” ‘ ■ auditorium, 8:30;p.m. '.•••• -
FRRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1943.
We, DL Women
Shortage Cramps
Style, Not Food
When students returned from
semester vacation recently, they
did so with a more complete un
derstanding of rationing and the
nation's general food condition. A
situation which they had formally
considered local took on a national
importance, or at least it should
have.
This week a nutrition drive be
gan. It was started in an effort to
convince students that the dishes
they pass up daily are really an
important “must” in their daily
diet and should be observed as
such.
Despite rationing and food
shortages, dormitory meals are
still well-planned. Trained dieti
tians are employed by the College
to carefully plan, beforehand,
meals -which develop into. well
balanced diets. Students need
these meals, clear down to the last
vegetable they may dislike, if they
expect to healthfully withstand ah
accelerated school program and
extra-curricular activities.
Meals, as they are being served
today, may seemingly lack vari
ety, but behind those swinging
doors, everything is going on just
as it ever was, and plans are for
students’ benefit just the same as
ever. ■ - . ’
lee cream, for example, has be
come one of the limited products
and the amount alloted to dormi
tories has been decreased. • • ■'
To combat this, dietitians have
decided upon a plan which they
believe will meet the limited sup
ply. A combination of ice cream
and sherbert, to be served in mold
form, will take the place of ice
cream, possibly once a week. The
molds will be given to . the hostess
to divide and serve. Possibility of
individual molds, formally served,
has been abandoned, because. of
the labor shortage at the College
Creamery. - 1
Butter, too, has become a limit
ed quantity. Coeds who have pre
viously started to pass' the-butter '•
around before the actual' serving
of the 'meal are asked to wait’uri- '■
til the meal is ’ brought. Many ‘
times-butter ; is put dn 1 a' plate' '
rnerely as a form of habit, and •
later- when the dinner is brought,
coeds discover that-there is noth- -
ing 'being served which, warrants .
butter. - Butter, once it has been ,
removed from the butter dish,, is
not re-used by the kitchen. The -
same rule applies to bottles of
milk, where the top jhas been '
opened or removed; and desserts ■
in which a spooii has been “placed. ;
The nutrition drive has funda- \
mentally tried to emphasize just ;
how necessary it is for students '
to eat the right foods. Last No- :
vember, howe.ver, when plans for
the • drive were first discussed,
school dietitians were approached
with the prospect of posting break
fast menus.
Many students had complained
about the uncertainty of getting
up early for a breakfast whose
contents were still a “kitchen”
secret., To answer this and. because
breakfast is the most important
meal of the day, breakfast menus
were posted.
Right now -coeds have a fair bat
ting average, but with just a little
extra care on their part, they can
turn those errors into direct hits.
—S. F. R-
CAMPUS CALENDAR
TODAY
PSCA Music Hour,
Main,' 4 p.m.
.Collegian Dance, Rec Hall, 9-12
p.m. -
.“The Moon -Is Down,” Schwab ■;
auditorium, 8:30 p.m.
Last day for seniors’ La Vie
pictures, Photo Shop, 9-12 a.m. and -