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'the daily collegian
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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
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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
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By M. J. WINTER
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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.
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News Briefs
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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
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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