AGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN To* A Better Been-State” Jista'nliehcd 1040. Successor to the Penn State Collegian, «ii.abHshed 1004. and the Free Lance, established IBBi. Published daily except Sunday und Monday during the ne«. rilar College year by the Btudents of The Pennsylvania State •joUejje. Entered ea second-class matter July *B. 1984 at the •4?on(; Office at State College, Pa., under the act of Hanch 8, *BY9. Editor-In-Chief Business Manager l»awl I. Woodland *44 Philip P. Mitchell '44 Managing Editor Manager Cflchard D, Savyser *44 Hichard E, Marsh ’44 tutorial and Business Office Carnestis Hall a?hone 711 SUM ThK liana IV) 1 ui OKi n & Ed ito r N -wb Editor A: Distant Man hr hi e Editor. _ f‘Vcnhmnn‘ Assistants— • Elite Strode, Peltry Weaver, Kamie Donahue Avdiitant Advertising Manager Herbert Hasson Ci Jiduate Counselor , Wednesday Morning, March 24, 1943. breams Drawing Closer (Continued from Page 1) ■ Many 'other outstanding colleges and universi ties have magnificent Student Union Buildings 'where every organization has an office; where a huge dance floor is situated; where a sizeable auditorium accommodates the whole student body; where bowling'alleys, lounges, and other facilities Vi lake the recreational problem an easy one. , . Does it. look-like a dream? It isn’t. It can be Gone. Proof of administrative interest in the pro ject is evidenced by the recent. request that the Lxany favorable opinions for the project be put lift" writing, fin opportunity' which All-College Cab inet 'literally jumped.' It’s a good thing. It’ll really make for “A Better Penn State.” ' While the class is waiting for the war to pass before it will see any material start on the pro ject, it will have the satisfaction of knowing that the money is invested in United States War Bonds, drawing interest. It will know that for the pres ent the money is helping Uncle Sam, and that in the future it wii'l help Penn State. This class- will be the first to earmark" fluids for a Student Union' Building. It would be fine for this class to be recognized as the instigator of an edifice which will make for better student activi ties and recreation. It will boost the appearance of •this campus, and will add more appeal for incom ing students. - ' ' Collegian hopes the class gift commimttee seri ously considers this proposition. Invest the money in-War Bonds, earmark it for a Student Union Building but with a clause that a class committee Ijq given' full powers for diverse appropriation if the future proves that the project can never be completed. This paper would like to see idle money from 'other class funds appropriated when ■ the time comes, and future class funds -voted for the same .purpose. With that as a nucleus, then, the Com monwealth could possibly enlarge its appropria tion to provide for the construction .of a Student Union Building, and long sought post-war dream would come true. Who knows, maybe the Class of '44 will have its tenth reunion in the buildings spacious audi torium,. and -the alumni dance on-the beautiful wide dance floor? - .. . . —p. i. W. Dear Prexy Dear Prexy, We happen to know that you have -a meeting with the executive committee of the Board of Trustees sometime at the end of this week. And we know, that having, the last, word on anything . concerning the College, that that' group will want .you to account for our-actions the night of March 33, or the morning. of the 14th. We hope, Prexy, that- they realize you had nothing to do with the fnatter,, that few persons suspected the “good time”'would end up like it 'did. We take the blame all ourselves - and admit that it was a pretty rash act, and that we prob ably made the Nittariy Lion slightly bow his head in shame. . v We a,dmit that independents,, too-, played a big part in the celebration.; We . want to forget the whole incident. . .But tell them, Prexy, that we’ll do. all we can ! io see'that it dosen’t-happen again; Tell them that •we dugt into our class treasuries.aftd used every ' body's money to pay the borough blihof $135. Tell them more fuss was made over 4j;-than it deserved, and it didn’t happen because we were : elfish about moving. ; Tell them we’re patriotic. That we’U give other houses. And last of all, that we’re still loyal to —P. T. IV. ;iState Downtown Office 119.121 South Frasier St. Phone 4872 Serene Roseuberj’: Patterson Miller -John Arthur Stober Louis H. Bell A Lean and Hungry Look j ■"' ■ .ia-l: By Milton Dolinger \ Ornithomancy wasv, an ancient superstition which augured dire or beneficent omens according to the . way a cock picked up grains. And so, if you’ll keep pace with us, we will now “pick up grains.” Know you then that we were quite surprised along with perhaps every other stu dent when we read last Thursday’s JBfiJ, column in this advocate “For a Bet- jgpT ter Penn State,” by name “Campu seer” to the effect that several : BMOC’s (for ..want of a better name) are gamering a hell of a lot of ° money on the various Senior Class committees Brother Kimmell has certainly set himself up as the premier windmill-tilter of campus life, and with good cause. Like Oliver Twist, we want . . . We loathe passing on rumors to others, but here is one vested with a great deal of interest. Not having investigated personally, it neverthe less came to our attention that several of the va cated fraternities had suffered willful damage by their departing inhabitants as a sort of a thumb-the-nose gesture to the omnipotent Army. Rather like the childish trick of destroying one’s outgrown toys so no one else will get them. Faugh! . '. . We believe it was Dr. Dengler who once told us that “fraternities” are misnomers, lie.- insisted they should he called “Greek letter , socie ties!”. But the much maligned Sigma Nu’s are ap parently going to dispute that category with their annual Bowery Brawl' come weekend; they’ve in-. vited their dispossessed brothers. .-. Remsmber Cabinet's antipathy to Drydock?. Well, if advance interest is any criterion, Bill Cissel’s Nittany Liondock Saturday night will haye the mob crying for encores. . . ’Twas very amusr ing all semester to see. the .advanced ROTC men— some of them4-bedecked with all the trappings •and accessories an officer is- heir to, and now that from cadet, shavetail to cadet colonel all will be brethren under the same cloth, that of private or non-com material, we can see hitherto pigeon ches’ts assuming a more concave angle. . . Ted Roelhke, about to leave rather reluctantly the Blue and White, having trouble, gathering his books which have been carried away by. various bantlings who-promised to return them. His defin ition of bantling is just a person. . ’. A grim har binger of things to come, however not without humor, was the Grehound bus driver .who pulled his huge conveyance to a stop in front of Rock view Prison one night last week and announced: “All out! Penn State!” .... Baking pur Sibylline leaves toi the inevitable conclusion, we would further like to give you one more anecdote . ... Lunching t’other day with Edward Angly, foreign correspondent, we picked up his remark that this war had certainly' struck' home to everyone in- the world. The words were, . . even into darkest Africa and densest Pa pua!” Whereupon, Professor Gardner concurred, ,adding,~“Yea, verily even into that most impene trable of regions—-State College!’’ . ■ —Cassius. Clothing For War Effort State College homemakers will make a- definite contribution to the war effort when they list their children’s outgrown clothing‘of good quality that they are willing to sell, says Mrs. George Free of the Committee on Clothing Conservation.- / -• Sponsored by the Committee arid endorsed. by the State .College Homemaker’s Group/this pro ject has as its chief- objective the Conserving of all present clothing so that labor aand materials can be released for war industries. ■ Between now and April 1 every homemaker will have a chance to list every piece of clothing her •children have outgrown and which still is in good condition; Townspeople will be called by,a mem ber of a committee consisting of Mrs. E. H. Rohr beck, Mrs. H. Tietz, Mrs. Paul Selsarri, Mrs. G. Crossley, Mrs. F. Mavis, Mrs'. William Jeffries, Mrs. Emmett Betts,.Mrs. Hugh Pyle, Mrs. C. A.. Morgan'; Mrs. R. Henniriger, Mrs. Janies Siriden, Mrs. Fried Stewart, and Mrs. Free. ' If anyone is not called and would like to list out grown clothilig, she may call Mrs. Rhorbeck,. 2024, or Mrs.-Free, 3338. .»;. ~.. i • : '.When the' lists of .available, elothipg' have been completed; State. College Girl Scouts., will 'distrh-i. .bute therii to . every home where .there rire chil dren.. . : ’ ■College seniors in home economics',-have offered their services to any woman who needs assistance in altering outgrown garments she has bought. Women desiring such help may list their requests with Mrs. Free or another member of the com mittee. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Below ZeroWealher, Howling Winds Interest College 'Degree' Men “There is nothing so invigorat ing as heing up on the roof when the temperature is ten degrees be low zero and the wind is howling at 40 or 50 miles an hour,” accord ing 'to Albert' Miller ’44; who, to gether with Alan Brunstein, com piles the weather report every morning. Both students are official weather observers for the station here at State College. “No two days offer the same ex perience for a keen observer,” Miller commented; “for the weath er is different every day. The ex periences derived compensate for the lack of sleep every morning. An observer’s \ work doesn’t ■ end after the morning’s observation. He must be* observing continuous ly throughout the day, watching the sky for phenomena, changes of weather, and possible indications of future developments.” How would you likti to get up every single morning in rain; hail, or snow to record the weaither for the millions of people who Hhink of your 'word as law? •If may sound.'romantic' and' thrilling, :but when one has to buck, a 40-rnile an-hour gale at 7:30 a.m., your ef forts lose all their glamour. • . A typical routine .of--the- meteor-, ologisfr really.-consists «6f\reading various p r eci s i oif instruments which .record the conditions of the day. First he reads the maximum and minimum temperature of the day and.then the barometer which registers, the pressure.. - He calculates the visibility, -the intensity of the sun, and the wind velocity and direction. Then the relative humidity is checked to see how much moisture there is iff the air; s also any rain or snow preci pitation'is recorded. These records are broadcast to Harrisburg, the nearest weather station. -The Col lege is one of the 26 stations in United States' which has. a. device §. . norriED under authority op the coca.cola company by COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF ALTOONA' WEDNESDAY,-MARCH-- 24^1848, El Circulo Espanol meets in the Grange Playroom, 7 p.m. ■ House of Representatives meets, 318 Old Main, 5 p.m’. Pre-Medical Society meets, 405 Old Main, 7 p.m. Movie, “Develop ment of Medical Diagnosis,” will be shown. All pre-medical, ical technology, and pre-dental students'are invited to attend. , -. Last week for the carnpus Red Cross War Drive. Candidates for Golf seconds re port to Caddy House .4:15 this af - ternoon., ■" Students Get Certificates Undergraduate and graduate stu dents may get then 1 smallpox vac cination certificates by reporting to the Dispensary. No certificates will be mailed except to faculty and staff members, according to Dr. J. P; Ritenour, head of the College Health Service. Jh'llLMovlm CATHAUM— ' , , • ‘ “Happy Go Lucky”. ..- : STATE— ■- ■; 1 -“jacare” V -■ • . •. 1 f. •NITTANY— ' “Arabian' Nights” ' : for recording the amount, of sun shine we receive. . ' Mark Twain said, “Everybody talks about the weather, but no, one does anything about it.”,. But there' are some people whose work it is to do something about it. It is. the meteorologists who compile, the weather reports every single: day of the year. Few people, know anything of the average routine that' the meteorologist' goe~S : through each day. Almost „one is merely-content, toi know if' it’s going. 'to rain or not. ,V . V - l_i ! 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