iuccessor ‘o The Free Lance, Established 1337 ]p§ ©lf? lailg @ ©nllfgtan VOL. 40—No, All-College Census Shifts To High Gear Deans Release Plans For All Schools ' Ail All-College census, which began yesterday, shifted into high gear when plans for immediate registration of all students were feleased by the deans of Penn State’s seven schools. - The census, being taken to de termine the number,; of students to attend the Summer Semester and .to aid'in the solution of the ..problem that would be created should servicemen toe assigned to Penn State for training. ; “The'registration is part of an All-College census, but the actual planning is determined by each dean,” announced William S. Hoff man, registrar. jin’ the School of Liberal Arts, students • may fill out their cards from 9 to 12 .this morning as well as all day Monday,- according ,to a statement by Charles W. Stod dardt, dean of the School of Lib eral Arts. Every student must file a card. . » ; 1 .Stevenson ,W. Fletcher, dean of the School of Agriculture, states that all agriculture students will obtain their cards from their fac ulty advisers. All cards 'should be returned' by Wednesday. :In the School of Engineering, according to Harry P. Hammond, dean, students will be notified by the heads of the departments where they may. get their regis; •'t rat ion 'cards.'"" ;\• y • - :" v ' ’Students enrolled .in Physical Education will 'be able to register early : next week in class. Presum ably .Pehn Staters .'in Mineral In dustries and .Chemistry: and .Phy sics ■ schools will .'.register "in the same'- way as 'those---in ■ other, sdhools. • Door Sep Five Dollars Grows Info Thousands Since Found In 1939 .- Even with the aid of six percent : interest, $5 bills seldom multiply themselves' oyer a thousand' times iriv/three, years. But-the one thai ; Mrs. Hetzel found' on .her from ‘poVch" in December, 1939 did jusi i. that. .. That $5 was the nucleus of Mrs. - -Hqtzel’s Emergency Loan Fund: She turned it over to the bursar who announced that it was avail able, as a loan to any needy stu dent. After several months it was borrowed, and soon returned. Word . spread about the. -fund which quickly came to be considered as a godsend to financially embarras sed- students. With the help of gifts and vol untary interest, the fund has grown, to astounding proportions and, as the record stood yester day, 651 loans, totaling $6,266.37, have been' given out in the past three years. 100 loans have gone to • women students, leaving 551 which have been applied for by men. ... .1 Some loans have been only $1 or $2, antf some have hit $4O, tout ;; the average is about $lO. Gifts, ; such as proceeds from dances, do nations from .WRA Christmas . • Drive, and individual contribu tions, have amounted to $2,825.15. . ■ Two-fifths of the money bor rowed has gone toward food and -board, but graduation expenses, books, glasses, and clothes are al “ so on the list of articles that would have thrown quite a few students . into debt if it hadn’t-been for that .; original $5. •"»«1 SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1943, STATE COLLEGE, PA, Signal Corps Offers Mohe Code Classes To Faculty , Students Morse code classes will be held for faculty members and students three nights weekly, in 204 Engi neering “B,” the Signal Corps an nounced last night. .. Classes will be held from 7 to 8:30 p. m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. The first session, at' which time .men will enroll, will be held Mon day night, February 15. Men applying for the class are asked to use the north entrance of Engineering “B” to enter the building. From the office of the Faculty Advisor on War Service, Prof. Robert E. Galbraith, came word that the use of Signal Corps equip ment is. now'available for dll Air Corps Enlisted Reservists who wo'uld like to learn the : fundamen tals of wireless, telegraphy. Since ah force personnel are re quired 'to learn telegraphy, Gal braith advises ACER men to 'sign up for the offered course- of in struction. College Ranks 19th In War Enrollment Figures from the journal of the American Association of Collegi ate Registrars reveal that the Col lege had a wartime student en rollment in 1941-42 which ranked •it-rnineteenth-. iii the-nation.-: , Nearly seven hundred member institutions were listed in the AACR report, which was dated November, 1942. The Penn State enrollment at that time was 7,236. The" report also shows that this college ' rankedi sixteenth.in the number of bachelors’ degrees con ferred and fourteenth in the num ber of total degrees conferred. In the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania, Penn State ranked first in studeqt enrollment, first in the number of bachelors’ degrees, and third in’ the number of total de grees conferred. . Gel In Good Phys Plenty About This War, Advises OWI War developments have raised many questions among college, stu dents about, their situation and their future. With this article, Col legian starts the first in a series of questions and answers prepared from numerous governmental ag encies by the Office of War In formation. What is the most useful thing we cap do in these several months before we are drafted? The President and other • Gov ernment officials in the War and Navy Departments have consist ently urged that students who are competent should remain at their studies until in the regular course of Selective Service they are called to some'other duty. Tlie Govern ment needs tr*med men and wom en for both the armed forces and civilian life, including war indus tries. However, you should get in to good physical condition, and spend some of your spare time reading about this new kind of war we are fighting and the rea sons we are lighting it. Now that we aren't allowed to enlist, how .are they going to decide who goes to the Army, who to the Navy, who to the Marines, who to the Coast Guard? How will they decide whether to. send us back to college for more s^udy? S'"''' I'"’*'’* 1 '"’*'’* T< OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Guest Writer Calls Players' Show 'Stuff of This War' Wide-windowed Schwab Auditorium, a few hours ago, focused attention of more than a thousand students, faculty members and townspeople upon what might have happened here. That it shan’t will in some measure be due to a valiant company of thespians led by a likable Nazi, Assistant Professor Raymond Tyson, which presented air enthusiastic audience John Steinbeck’s hard-to-forget "The Moon is Down." Professor Tyson, in real life a speech instructor, on Schwab stage vied with Mayor Orden, done by Robert Herrman, and George Corell, smirked by Robert Lei-- bacher. That -is he competed with Orden in culture and with Corell in a realistic interpretation of the fact that Herr Hitler’s supermen are exceedingly shortsighted. ; Others, who in the opinion of this writer should seem to deserve especial mention are: Newcomer Martin Skapik as Dr. Winter, Milt Dolinger as the disillusioned Lieu tenant Tonder, Janet Dayton as Molly Morden, John Miller as Captain Loft, Anna Radle as An nie, Douglas , Peck as the quiet Major - Hunter, Verna Sevast as brave Madame Orden and John Prackle, played by James Mc- Kechnie. Costumes, lighting, stage effects, sound and . timing, all were good. To miss seeing this play, and to miss' hearing the lines of all the students who together with the villain of the piece, the unforget table Colonel Lanser, offered, is to miss much of what this semest ter has to offer in what might be called extra-curricular education and; entertainment.. ; “The, Moon is Down” is veri tably:'fii«? stuff-of~this war'.’ lt’s tit-* fluence will take a long, time to :go. :It; will endure in power just as long, as the lights are low over Europe, just so long as the world thears the tread of .the Nazi- heel and' just as long as men. and wo-, men refuse' to' believe it can hap -pen' here, Players should be congratulated for having done a fine piece of acting. Those who coached them are also to be congratulated. Ad vice of the writer in ending this story is-very editorial, he admits. It is: See this play tonight at 8:30 o’clock. cal Shape, Read How will they decide where we belong in- some branch .'of the service—that is, in the Army Air Forces or the Rangers or the Mili tary Police or the Infantry? Men who enter the armed services through Selective Service will have opportunity to indicate their preferences. Naturally no as surance can be given in any indi vidual case that this expressed preference will be followed, be cause each branch of the service not only needs a certain. number of inductees but it needs inductees of certain types of ability and training. From those inducted each arm-, ed service will determine how many and for what purposes men will be sent to college for train ing. In selecting these men, the services will have the assistance of special personnel officers from col leges appointed for the purpose. By this device it is hoped that each man will be enabled to prepare for that arm of the service for which he is best suited. The Army and Navy will do their utmost to give you the kind of training and the kind of work for which you are best fitted. Their classification systems have been developed to a high degree of ef ficiency. By STUART A. MAHURAN Owls, Aristocrats Deadlock In Bailie More than 500 couples were equally enthusiastic in their praise of George Washko’s Campus Owls and . Jack Lord’s Aristocrats last night at “The Lincoln’s Birthday Ball” held at Rec Hall. . After due consideration of the applause that was given to each band, the Collegian staff' decided that the only fair thing to do would be to call the “Battle of the Bands” a draw and give equal honors to both bands.. George "Hot" Lips" Washko, leader of the Campus Owls, was unable to lead, his band last night in the "Battle of the Bands" at "Lincoln's Birthday Ball." Washko is a patient in the infirmary with a high fever. ' "Hot Lips'' is hot all over. The Aristocrats featured' their .new., five-man sax section . for -the. "firsttime arid If was given a large, vote of approval by all for. its ex tremely mellow tone and dynamics reminiscent of the now-broken-up Glenn Miller aggregation. . The Campus Owls,- minds their leader-man, scored a hit with their novelty numbers with the Owls Octet and Betty Platt. Their large library of latest popular hits also went over with a'bang. The dancers were particularly pleased with the Owls’ treatment of Duke Ellington’s new - hit, “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore.” All proceeds from last night’s dance are being used to send copies of The Daily Collegian to Penn State men-in-service." This service will be started immediately, Phil lip P. Mitchell, business manager of . the Collegian announced last night. , ; • College Health Service Handles 9391 Patients Increased by over 2;000 vaccina tion patients, the total number of cases handled by the College Dis pensary rose to 9,391 for January, as compared with only 3,175 calls for the same period last year, Dr; Joseph P. Ritenour said yesterday. Ritenour also announced that physicians at' the dispensary issued 721 student excuses last month, and examined 855 athletes for sport permits. Military examina tions showed a marked decline, with only 66 draft cases being re ported. Infirmary calls also showed a surge in most departments, with a definite increase in the number of bed hours spent in the institution being noted. During January of 1942, a total number of 174 hours were registered by' student pa tients, while the amount jumped to 257 last month. . . Typhoid inoculations numbered 34, while 74 Wasserman tests were administered, and a like number of X-ray pictures taken, the Health Service head concluded. PRICE: THREE CENTS 'Cadefles' To Meet Their Instructors At Convocation Curfiss-Wright Women Begin Course Monday A convocation for all Curtiss- Wright “Cadettes” at which Dean Harry P. Hammond, head of the School of Engineering, will pre side, will be held in 121 Sparks at 8 a. m. Monday. At this time, the women engi neering students will meet ■ their - instruction committees, including Dean Hammond, Royal M. Ger hardt, associate professor of archi tectural engineering; Harold A. Everett, professor of mechanical engineering; Frederic T. Mavis, professor of civil engineering; and Frederick W. Owens, professor of mathematics. The 44-week course consists of a curriculum of 40 hours weekly and will be divided into two 22- week semesters. The first semester- will include background material: Applied mechanical drafting, slide rule and shop practice, elementary • engi neering, physics and mathematics have been scheduled by the stu dents. The second period involves spec ialized train irig in either airframe or propeller division. Aerodyna mics, stress and .analysis, orienta tion and j>roduct terminology, elec trical currents and systems and production engineering will be emphasized in this advanced cur riculum. . .More than 100 “Cadettes” have arrived on campus within the past two days. They are living in-Watts Hall- and have their meals in the Sandwich Shop. . Miss Eleanor Tilford, corpora tion personnel director, will -serve the group in this capacity for the ten-month period. Having recruited students for three pionths from New York to Mexico, Miss Tilford stated, “My experience in Curtiss-Wright work has . proven to me that a patriotic attitude on the part of,coeds all over the country is prevalent.” The average “Cadette” age is 19, the director added. liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiHKiHiiiiiit LATE NEWS FLASHES! iiiiiiiiiiimiiuiiiiimiiiuiiiiiimmiimumiiiiiiumiiiiiui WASHINGTON —President Roosevelt in a speech before the White House correspondents of America, last night remarked that the American people had too lit tle recognition of the war but he believed that they have given up their privileges and luxuries will ingly. The highlight of the Presi dent’s speech came when lie an nounced that 1943 would mark ike beginning of an all-out push against Japan, and that Germany would be driven into the sea. -Mr. Roosevelt-further staled that these plans had been outlined at the Casablanca conference. LIBYA General Dwight C. Eisenhower did not know of his elevation to the rank of full gen eral, nor of his assumption of the Allied African command until the appointment had been made pub lic it was announced last night. A British merchant vessel captain in the immediate vicinity of General Eisenhower heard the news over short-wave and cabled the news to the General. .
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