AGE TWO 'the daily collegian •Tor A Belter Penn Stale" w-tabliah*! t9>«. Succ*mw to the Psnr State Collegian, «iljibii>heil 11HH. an.) thv Free I.nnce. established 18Si. Published daliv except Sunday and Monday during the reg -ilar College year by the students of The Pennsylvania State Oolleg'i. Entered as second-class matter July 6. 1034 at the IPoid; Office at State College, Pa., under the act of March 8, HRVfI Editor-in-Chief Business Manager >?aui I. Woodland '44 .Philip P. Mitchell '44 Managing Edilor Advertising Manager nicXoard D. Smyser '44 Richard E. Marsh '44 • Editorial and Business Office Carnegie Halt *>hone 7U Editorial Staff—Women’s Editor, Jane H. Murphy *445. tlpons Editor, Benjamin M. Bailey *44; Hews Editor, Larry *T. Chetvenak ’44; Assistant Women’s Editor, Mary Janet Winter '44; Editorial Associates, Fred E. Clever *44, Milton 4)<>)inger '44, Richard B. McNaul *44, Robert T. Kimmel *44, ttobert E. Kinter *44, Donald L. Webb '44, Sally L. Hirshberg *44. and Helen R. Keefauver *44. Senior 'Business Board: A. Kenneth Sivltfl *44, Circulation Manager; George J. Cohen *44, Assistant Circulation Man inter; Donald H. Shaner *44, Assistant Advertising Manager; fOugenia D. Burdick *44, Senior Secretary; Mary Lou Keith *44, Senior Secretary; Janet Ammerman *44, Assistant Secre tary. Junior Editorial BoardI—Rita 1 —Rita M. Belfonti, Michael A. Blatr., Alice R. Fox, Margaret L. Good. Lewis L. Jaffe. Lee H. # <carner, M. Jane McCliesney, Serene F. Rosenberg, Seymour ftofienherg, Stephen Sinichak. tlophomora Board—Benjamin I. French, Arthni •P. Miller. Staff This laBa« Managing Editor K'ows Editor Assistant Managing Editor Ansistant News Editor Anaistant News Editor 3 : V»3hman .Assistant Assistant Advertising Manager 4j»*aduat« Counselor Saturday Morning, February 20, 1943 Newspapers Have Gremlins For the millions who are slightly pixy-minded, the discovery of the gremlins, those devilish little sprites who mess things up for the fliers of the royal air force, has provided one of the major excitements of the war. Come to think of it, it is as easy to believe in gremlins as in banshees and leprechauns or in any of the creatures that dance across the pages of that fine Irish write* - , Mr. James Stephens. But gremlins were not enough. The alert though .sometimes exasperating minds that conduct the radio industry have come forward with their set of cute little people. These are called,grohms. One type of grohm, the slobnik, “louses up” the copy of scrip writers; another, the laffnix, flat tens the lines of comedians; still another, the foo bus, makes noises in microphones. This, also, is an interesting discovery, sure to provide much mer riment among the people of radio, to whom laugh ter comes rather easily. But why the excitement? Journalism itself has long had its own set of little rascals who for gen erations have messed up one thing or another. Various phenomena observed in newspaper of fices leads to the inescapable conclusion that journalism is haunted by as pernicious a set of .-itrange folk as ever harassed an airplane pilot or made life in a radio studio miserable. These troublemakers have been tentatively named mergenfellers, and they come in many guises. Most puckish of the lot, perhaps, are the eternally playful twins, etaoin and shrdlu, who have great fun sliding up and down the keyboard of linotype machines. They can inject a note of nonesense and confusion into the most solomn discourse. There are the slantites, the tiniest and meanest of them all, who have been known to bite all the members of the newspaper staff, from publisher to copy boy, giving them a depressing low-grade infection known as slantitis. Victims are afraid of straight facts; they hoot at the ideal of objectiv ity; everything they touch must be given a “s'lant” or an “angle.” In time they begin to walk side ways. The final result is almost always fatal. Then there are the fixpixies, who are respon sible for putting the picture of Mrs. Plantagenet in the spot where a cut of Lizzie the Chimp was supposed to go; the cackling old greeleybums, who cause people to write unintelligible or abu sive letters to the editor; the orthogreves, who light on the shoulders of reporters and rewrite men and make them incapable of spelling names right—particularly in the matter of middle in-tii als. The list is long. We recommend that the Nleman foundation at Harvard, which is studying the problems of .'journalism, make a definite report on the mer genfellers. editorial sent to the Daily Collegian by William Reed ’27, former editor of the Penn State Col legian.. I: originally appeared in the New York Herald Tribune Downtown Office 119-121 South Frazier St. Phone 4872 .__,latie McChesney ..Stephen Sinichuk Ben French. Rem Robinson Bob Boger .Ruth Twitchell Leroy “Winand -Louis H, Bell * * * * mmmiimmimmiimmiimitimimiiiiimmiiiiiimiimmmiHmiimmmmmiiii By M. J. WINTER iimiiiiiiiiiiiiimtiiiiitiiiiiimtimmiuiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiimmiimmimmiuMuiiiiiKitiii Ah, Spring. It’s really here, it seems. Of course, the weatherman probably has his schedule made out for a blizzard next weekend, but in the mean time, students are coming out of hibernation. The signs of Spring are really here—coeds and hot dogs lounging over Old Main steps, surveyors out on the job, and Walt Gerson really giving the 'coeds, one at least, a thrill on the way to class. It must, be true-that the season brings that feel ing to everyone. Ring s, Pins, Etc. Senior class prexy Rube Faloon tied the knot yesterday with his hometown girl, and they’re back in town already . . . Back to the Nittany Valley for their honeymoon, too, are Red Caputo, phikappajau alum, and bride , . . Harry Bland, Penn State Club vicerprexy and Ann Carter Scrugg will tie the knot March 1 . . . Bob Ross planted a diamond on a Weliesley glamour girl last weekend . . . Among the pin jobs of late are Betty Thomas, achio, to Bob Booth, achisig . . . Blanche Edeiken to a Penn alum . . . Dick Duffie, betasig . . . and the kdrs are minus one more pin now that Johnny Grimes turned over his jewelry to Bev Moses, achio . . . 674 reports, too, that Connie Halberstadt and Warren Currier, pikap paphi, are unpinned but adds that it probably won’t last. Here And There The Curtiss-Wright girls made out last night with a dance at the Lion. The Cub hasn’t the latest reports on any excitement, but if Penn State wolves are in their usual form, who knows? . . . Speaking of wolves, the boys in the Army must be worrying. According to a classified ad in the best morning newspaper in the county, they don’t trust the boys still hanging around. In case you didn’t see it, it said, "WANTED—AII State wolves to leave my third floor Irvin girl alone for the duration. Thank you. A. U. S. Army Phi .JCappa Sigma.” There will, no doubt, be a door to door canvass of said dorm looking for the lonely coed . . . The boys over at the sae housing are expecting a big-time jam session next weekend. Seems Les Brown and the band took them up on an invitation to rest their weary bones there after Soph Hop. Not wanting to revert to 60 dollar words or stick out an innocent neck as is the custom of fellow-columnists, The Cub gives up at this point, with" the hot tip that Players’ next show will be an old-fashioned melodrama—“ Love Rides The Rails or Will The Mail Train Get Through To night?” . —The Cub. Amaya Leaves Halls ‘Smouldering Ruins’ Balletophiles who prefer the flit-and-leap diver sions of swans and sylphs in woodland glens may shiver at the contrast which the dancing of Car men Amaya presents. Nevertheless, she has been hailed as the best in her line sine th day of that paragon of paragons, La Argntina. Since her arrival in America early in 1941, Carmen has erupted in every entertainment field with phenomenal success. At the Beachcomber on Broadway she spent seventeen consecutive weeks rooting the spectators with her amazing spins and whirls and sprinkling the surrounding tables with bobby-pins as her raven hair became unleashed. ■ Next came engagements in theatres in a series of eastern cities, after which she invaded austere Carnegie Hall and according to witnesses" “left it a smouldering ruin.” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer claimed her for the dance sequence of the forth coming super-musical, “Panama Hattie”; after which she fllew back to Broadway to headline the Ed Wynn laugh hit, “Laugh, Town, Laugh.” The Amaya tribe, originally from the gypsy caves of Granada, Spain, migrated to South Amer ica in 1936, where their success was signalized by having a theatre named after them. The oodles of money they make, as it does with most Gyp sies, slips away except for Investments in dia monds and furs—for which Carmen has, a pas sion. Lounging about the house in pajamas, she sometimes wears over them a covering of mink or chinchilla. Buy War BuMiids And Stamps THE DAILY COLLEGIAN VUe, Z)he VUomen I Are Coeds Bending Or ; Haven’t They Begun? j It coeds are bending down, two,' three, four, and if WRA repre sentatives are still offering todi-l ,rect the exercises each night, a person would never know it. One of several conditions might be in existence. Either the approximate 1,000 women on campus are being aw fully quiet about their fitness pro gram or two or three are partici pating and are bashful about say ing that they like it. Either WRA has given it up as an impossible venture or its re presentatives are getting tired of showing up to instruct an empty corridor. Whatever the cause, there has been no report of its progress, its failure, even its start. It was three weeks ago that the' announcement was made, and evi dently coeds used their first 15 minutes laughing about it and, in cidently, forgetting it. Those same 1,000 women have been complaining that they need , exercise- to reduce or athletic ac tion to build, them up. Those two or three to which we referred are no doubt the same few who visit White Hall frequently. WRA is that recreational nu cleus that has tried several times to plan a worthwhile program of physical fitness which women have requested. It is the organization which has sponsored leadership training in body mechanics classes to fit instructors for the 15-minute intermissions. Too many of the projects spon sored by and for women have taken the same flop without rea son. If we’re going to bend, let’s do it more than once, so that some good may be derived. If‘we’re go ing to discontinue the scheduled set-up, let’s hear about it. iiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiii Campus News Briefs iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiii Sponsors Cabin Party Interchurch ■ Council invites all student organizations to.'be repre sented at a party at the PSCA cabin today and tomorrow, accord ing to Cleo C. Mellotty council president. Miss lone ,V.. Sikes will lead discussion groups. Persons interested in attending should meet at Wesley Foundation at 1:30 this afternoon, and should bring blankets and 50 cents, Miss Mel lott said. Co-op To Hold Party Nittany Co-op will hold a party in- honor of George Washington’s birthday at 8 o’clock tonight. Mem bers of the Allen Co-op have been' invited to the party. Forestry Society Elects Thomas Blatt was named , vice president of the Forestry Society during, a recent meeting, Leßoy Schaller, head of the organization said last night. Blatt fills a va cancy made by the recent induc tion of one of the club’s officers. Russians To Meet All members of Alpha Rho Omega, National Russian Club on campus, are urged to attend an important business meeting in 318 Old Main, 2:30 p. m. tomorrow. College Releases Bulletin The College yesterday released a new edition of The Pennsylvania State College Bulletin titled Path ways to Service. The pamphlet was published as a service to women who are planning to enter college, and will be sent to coeds who apply for admission for the summer semester. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1943 CAMPUS CALENDAR TODAY Exhibition of -Jewish art and ceremonial objects at the Hillel Foundation. Also Sundav. The Cabin Conference group will leave from Wesley Founda- Dr. Max Artz, professor at the tion, 1:30 p. m. Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, guest speaker at Hil lel Foundation at 3 p. m. Sunday. WRA Intramural Chairman meeting, WRA room, 11 a. m, Thespian Tryouts for piano players, Schwab, 1 p. m. MI Society Meeting at Art Gal lery, Feb. 25, Thursday. Students attending Tnterchureh. Council cabin party meet at Wes ley Foundation, 1:30 p. m. TOMORROW Russian Club meets,'3lB Old Main, 2:30 p. m. Father Charles Owens Rice, director of St. Joseph House of Hospitality in Pittsburgh, will speak on-“ The Dynamite of True Christianity" at Chapel, MONDAY- Central Pennsylvania Meteor ological Seminar will meet in 121 Mineral Industries from 7:00 to 9:00 p. m. Students Will Register • (Continued from Page One) Headquarters in the Armory will be open during the lunch-hour for the benefit of those who have all hours between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. filled with scheduled, classes. This registration is for College students, graduate and under graduates, who arfe not members of a family unit within the limits of Ration Board No. 26142 of Centre County. Mr. Clark stated : that students will find it compara tive easy to register, since maxiy of the rationed quantities such as canned goods will not apply to them but will be accounted for by the College. ' . ; SOPH HOP Feb. 2(6 At!m, s3.Bs
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