Aa is TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN •'For A Better Peara Stata” )s:,caMiflhei HMD. Successor U> the p * n ''..^ t < i w | JSS IIe * ,a ”' anl-ihli-itieii 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the rest «t|,.r College year by the students of ll Th %^ en " 3y ' v „ a "‘ a _f t f£? Oollcge. Entered as second-class matter July 5. 1934 at the Pont Office at State College. Pa., tinder the act -or Marcn a, JR79. . Editor-ia-CMaf Business Manager Paul l. Woodland '44 Philip P. Mitchell '<4 Managing Editor Advertising Manager ffichard D„ Smyner '44 Richard E. Marsh '44 *M>h>rial and Business OlHca Downtown OfEica . Carnegie HaU U 9.121 South Frasier St. Phone 111 Phone 4872 Staft This tf»u<> •WtvmgitiK Editor - Editor Anuiatnnt Managing Editor ~ A-*?iiatant News Editor • Assistant ' Assistant Advertising Manager 12 mduate Counselor Tuesday, March 30, .1943, Army Program Delayed Announcement that 500 students in the Army Specialized Training Program will not arrive at -.1 >enn State before May 1 probably will draw con i.irjerable comment from the student body, par ticularly among the fraternity men whose houses have not yet been taken. The adminisrtation has gone out of its way, ihowever, to reassure those fraternities not yet occupied, that it will uphold its end of the busi ,3less transactions between the administration and the fraternities. ' “In other words,” explained one administra tive head, “Penn State’s fraternities which have been vacated and which face the possibility of not being immediately occupied, will undergo no financial loss.” Postponement of the Army engineers coming does not mean, however, that those houses will not be occupied. There is a distinct possibility ' -that 500 more pre-flight students from the Air Corps may take up the vacancies and arrive l us unexpectedly as did the first 500 last night. Concerning the same “landing party” last night; -Collegian is' sorry it could not verify rumors last might, as definite information before completion , of an Army movement of troops is comparable i.o sabotage. Collegian itself had little more to bank on than indications. Students' in the reserve in Advanced ROTC •can now safely make 'plans for the rest of the .semester, or at least almost all of it. According io the wording of the release-from the President’s ■Office, the arrangments for transfer of soldiers in the Army engineers’ specialized training pro gram will not be complete until May 1, at the ■earliest. Members of the advanced ROTC will' have no change in status until the Army engi neers finally arrive, and it is Collegian’s opinion that the-date for the arrival of the latter group will be shifted to a date after May 1, thus allow ing the advanced ROTC students to stay put for the rest of the semester. ' Penn State should also be able to make a good showing in the sports world this Spring with full rosters of players. Why was the Army specialized training pro gram postponed? That is a long story which rests with the Army, but indications are that there was unexpected trouble at distribution centers.' The Army has many places to send its soldiers, and it is possible that men have been sent to other caxhps first, leaving none for Penn State. It is probably only a matter of time before a sufficient number are assigned to this college. Loose lips “Loose lips might sink ships” is a slogan on the wall of the Daily Collegian newsroom. But we’re wondering how many persons at Penn State or even in the Army realize the sig nificance of those words. ■ ■ We’re referring to yesterday, when for the first time secre't word was' passed around that 500 men in the pre-flight Air Corps program would arrive. It was supposed to he secret, but it wasn’t long before words spread all around campus. Collegian, given a tip, pledged itself to secrecy until the event actually took place, and only three persons on the staff shared the information. Ques tions about the. arrival of the Air Corps were di verted with “We don’t know, but we’ll' check.” However, after so many tipsters who had fairly authentic sources of information, Collegian began to wonder if the matter were a secret. * '■ At any rate, it have been. Loose lips .".ink ships, and whispered talk might make the Air Corps walk. Fortunately nothing happened to their train. irairontuiMiiimiitiimimtiiiimmiiiiiiiuiimiiiiimiimiininimimHiimraiHiii ■f- Q Old iiHiiiiiiiiiHmimmiHiunmmimiHmiuimummm By bob kinter Duck Da Cops! If this thing stops abruptly in the middle this morning, we would like it known that we aren’t quitting on the job. It will be merely because we have been quietly and quickly whisked away to the local bastile to have our person searched for the typewriter which someone light-fingered fjom the Rag’s office. And incidentally, we wish,' for the sake of the whole staff, that whoever took it would return it. We now know what a man con demned to die feels-like. Being constantly under ..Mickey Bbita foggy Oiood Rem Robinson Ben French .. .Rose Schutmnn Non . Lipp ..Louis H. Bell suspicion and not being able to answer anything to the questions asked us while under the third degree but, “I don’t know nothin’ ” is one of the most disconcerting things we know of at present. We would like to get out of the rut we’re in with the answers, and the. only. possible way out of it now is to have somebody tell where the old rat tletrap is. Whoops! Gotta duck. Here comes a campus cop. . . Three Cheers Well, it finally got under way after months of wrangling abbut it and was quite the_ popular thing,;it seems. Bill Cisseil said . yesterday that Dry Dock doormen were forced to turn away as many people as they admittted for lack of danc-' ing space and the Lion ballroom is a good sized joint. In the sizeable crowd, we manage to pick-up many faces that we knew too well and the spies were too busy watching the show to notice any of the couples. Makes us feel a little bad, but Well try to 'do better next time. The show was, sa promised, diversified and good to say nothing of the Various and sundry icky- exhi bitions.. by' the local jitterbugs. We bet a good many of them were. awful tired when they got stopped dancing. That seems like' a pretty hard way to get your exercise, blit we think, too that the obstacle course looks a little funny. One way is probably as good as the other. People And Pins After a second check with the spies, we find v that they, have been able to pick up very little of intx-est to our “dear” readers,-and were able to report merely that many of the-dispossessed fratrnity men were present at three house dances “Saturday night. Sigma Pi’s', Phi Tau’s, SAE’s showed up in large numbers at the Phi Kappa Sig Spring Dance. . . The Alpha Chi Sigs had a good many of their, brother chemists and plenty of the houseless men at’their dance. . . The Sigma Nu Bowery Brawl was weU-’coU'pl'ed with the-now apartment-dwelling men. Hat’s oft to these houses for helping out the social' situation some. Pin and ring business'” was slow in the hearts and flowers dept., but we picked up sevSral ring ings arid a pinning to PoKemipner, former Collegian columnist, .and Eanhette Brill were married several weeks ago. . . Marilyn Kindi Kappa announced her engagefnenf to Jim Moi-gan Phipsi alum. . .. the pinning was Adelaide Gluck AEPhi’s' to Sheldon Marks Phisigmadelta. Si ■ Blackout Flaws Friday night’s test blackout, the second'nmder the new blue, red, blue, white signal System was ample evidence that more tests of this type are necessax-y, locally at least, in the yei-y near future. Reports .from the ah- raid wardens indicate that Atherton Hall coeds were the chief violators. A genex-al ignorance of the signalling system as well a* a lack of serious attitude toward regulations seem to be the chief reasons that the test was hot commendable. It’s not hard to take blackout’s lightly especial ly in an isolated spot like State College. The pos sibility of enemy attack actually seems remote in the Nittany Hills. But it just isn’t practical not to be pi-epared, and well, for that one chance in a thousand that bombs may. fall." The new signalling system is relatively, simple but it is surprising tlx at so many students have not taken a minute out to memorize it. These days requests to coopei-ate here and there are numerous. Some of these instances ac quire persona! sacrifice such as rationing and vol unteer work. Learning blackout signals and co operating with them is such a minor task that it’s just plain silly npt to do so. —R. D. S.-- THE DAILY COLLEGIAN We, DL Women Came Like A Lamb .. Better Go As Lion This March Red Cross drive that came in tike a 'lamb will have to go out like a lion it it lives up to all expectations. The only trouble is that some people are doing 1 all the claiming and giving, while others sit back and idly pledge but fail to con tribute. Perhaps you muttered something about pay later on in the drive, but there are only a few days left, so the money should start rolling in soon. We aren’t speaking today ,to those individuals who ' feel that they 'can’t give, but still manage to go to the movies, -drink cokes, read magazines, and so forth. This column refers temporarily to those coed organizatipns who are pass ing up a chance to do something of value. ’ ' H'atmen-and other campus hon oraries have long been the victims of '.jest, “jest” because, they seem ingly do little,for anyone or any thing. It is at a time like this that we are inclined to agree. Many dimes .there is nothing that they can do and so their static positions are imderstandable. Now, they have a huge opportunity in the form of, a $5,000 challenge and they fail to see it, or, more polite ly, they have not yet responded. As useless as the office may be, each of these women’s honor groups has a treasurer who, in a majority of cases, has some money to guard. It’ is in normal times, given as scholarship funds, gifts for needy students,v or kept to finance a later function of the club. • ' , Today there'-iS a definite desti nation for that money planned by national war relief officials. To day our men, fighters, representa tives, need . .or may. need Soon ... doctors,, nurses, bandages, op erations, or relief of some sort. We can’t be there to indirectly help. As in other phases of this conflict; we women have to carry on on the home front’ and . send others to .do for .us what work we ■feel should be done. • ' Therefore, our money merely finances any such help or neces sarv medicinal aides as -the na tion’s forces might need. It’s siily to say that you- have a brother, father, loved- one, or hus band in the fortes, for who knows that better than yourself? It’s silly to’say this is a worthy cause, .be cause who knows that better than you? But it isn’t silly . . . it’s about time y . . that coeds pooled un ' (Continued. On Page Four ) Navy Transfers- (Continued from Page One) manded, from the reservists who will take ’the physical examina tion, arid must be -2VS by 2Ms inches square. Four pri'rfs are re quired, including two full face poses and two profile shots. Applicants who have had pre vious - military or naval service should present their discharge at the time of ''examination. The ERC men jvvill receive • honorable dis charges from the Army after they are sworn into'the V-l program. Meanwhile, FAWS Head Gal braith said that the. A-12 and V -12 mental examinations will be held as scheduled on Friday morning. All men who are not en listed in any branch of the Armed Forces are eligible to fake this test. ...... ■ Students actually registered in the Navy V-l, V-5, or V-7 branches are not eligible to take the V-12 examination, Galbraith asserted. Ear-markees may take the exam if they desire, but the' choice is optional. , Eater this mbnth, however, the reservists who are transferred to V-l status must take a mental ex amination along with other' men enlisted in this program who have : received their orders. Marine ear-marked men must TUESDAY, IyiARCH 30, 1943, immnmnmmmfimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiti iimimmiimiiiamiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiiiiiiuuinlliiiii TODAY Alpha Lambda Delta will tutor freshmen, 318 Old Main, 7 to 8:30 p.m. . ' i , Junior Service Board will take., pictures at Photo Shop at 7 p.m/' - International Relations Club will meet, Room 5, Sparks, 7 p.m. I PSCA Freshman Council-Forum, Hugh Beaver Room, Old Main, 7 t p.m.' . ■ \ . Hillel Foundation will hold date less Tuesday dance, 4 .to 5:3.0 p.m. WRA Tennis Club meets, 6:30 p.m. : "* y ‘i ■. WRA Bowling. Club meets, 6:30 p.m. ‘ - ■ - TOMORROW , Alppa Lambda Delta will hold pledging, ceremony for fall semes ter freshmen,-.Ath Hall southeast lounge, 6:30 p.m. All-College Dating Bureau will be open Tuesday, '5-5:30; Wednes day, 4-5:30; Thursday I ', 5-5:30, 321 Old Main.- T flfie Ifl/Joviaa CATHAUM— . ■ “Air Force”, STATE— ; “Reap the Wild Wind” NITTANY— . / ' ’ “The Keeper' of the Flame” ". 500 Pre-flight Studenk Make Surprise Arrival (Continued from.' Page One) .. favor of the coeds, and those who came, from colleges were surprised to learn that the Enlisted Reserve Corps at the College is still intact. ■ They ' were hajppy. .to • hear': th'af. they would live in-fraternity house uiiits, but' expressed fear- they would be cramped. - - •: “i ) - . They knew little about the dis cipline which-will be imposed bh them' here, but they indicated it. has been very .strict' in the past, Airseemed to 6e jovial, and their singing on the march indicated' high morale. ' . ' Information about the arrival of • the»troops was kept, a strict se'cret until the last few minutes. Only abbut 30 persons were oh hand when the train rouYided the' betid, and several ofthem said "they haa been tipped off by campus patrol men who wfere at th'£. freight atfc'. tion and along the route of march in full force: . . ; . •' . However; word of the Air Corps’ actual' arrival', spread fast\ alter rumors had circulated all dky, and 'in- a hall-hbur nearly fOtftf stddenfs and townspeople had turned out to see thd troops move snappily from, the station, "marching to the' rhythm' of thieir songs. .-‘-i ; Cooks, at forfheV fraternities were given notice to prepare meals-; at one; : hour’s notice,, and. other preparations yesterday hinted that the influx of the Air Corps was on hand. • ' Arfoy Pdiifppnei—- (Continued from .Paige One) . able,” continued "the President, “will be held subject .to use by additional Army' Air' Force mep, should they be 1 sent here at this time, or for the housing of the specialized training groups as scion, as they are sent to the College. “Army officials expressed re-, gret that plans could not be car ried out as originally made, and gave me assurance,” said the President, .“that at the earliest possible date men would be sent to our campus. The Army feels khat the program is of vital im portance and it is anxious to get ’it'into"'operation at the earliest possible time.”' A] report to’Galbraith this week for information . regarding summer addresses. Also ordered to receive orders from' Galbraith are about 50 V-l and V-7 men who .have not received letters awaiting 'them in/ the FAWS office. '
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