#*>/■.<■ JE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "Far A Better Pena State" Plriiablißhed 1040. Successor to the Penn State Collegian, f*inbiißhed 1004, and the Free Lance, established 1887. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the Par •jlar College year by the students of The Pennsylvania State Oobedre. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1984 at the 4?0')i: Office at State College, Pa., under the act of March 8, Edilor-in-CMaS Business Manage* Piuih l. Woodland '44 Philip P. Mitchell '44 Managing ’Editor Advertising Manage* f.H chard D, Smyser '44 Richard E, Marsh '44 nrtuxiriaJ ami Busiaetia Office Carnegie Hall 4?hoT\e 7lt Junior I'Ulitorml Buy rd--Rita M. BeKonti, Michael A. Blut%, A)ioi? It. Fox, Margaret I*. Good, liewio L. JaCfe, Lee H. Loafner, M. Jane McChesney, Serene F. Rosenberg, Seymour fbnvjnherff, Stephen Sinichak. W annsinjr Editor >Vowm Kditor I 1 rtwhrnun Assistants Glorm Whyte Assistant Advertising Manager liiud'iato Counselor Friday, April 9, 1943. ¥e Got A Letter Collegian got a letter the other day. It said: “With the thoughts of your editorials and other articles in ‘The Daily Collegian’ we at home can realize our sons are in the right atmosphere. “In the short time that these cadets were in Atlantic City they were surely handled capably as evidenced by their spirit. And as written in your paper they have come from all walks of ,i!)Ce. Many gave up promising careers to enlist ■and offer their bit for our country. “After visiting them in Atlantic City we did not find one that was sorry he had made his de cision to enlist. . ] “We have entertained several of them at our .home and hope that your townspeople will find .them as we did; a real American group that un derneath the spirit of gaiety fully realize, the job ahead of them. • “May we as parents of . one of the group thank .Venn State and State College for the hospitality trv.tended to our son and all the ‘Cadet Flyers’.” Collegian would like to turn right around and .thank the parents, of one of the-'Alf‘Corps’ boys’ dor writing the above. It is just this sort of corn orient that'helps/-Penn Staters and State'College' •citizens realize' the job they have ahead of them us hosts to the servicemen. • So far the reception and relations have been faultless. But the true test will come only with Hie continuance of their stay. The Cadets are now a very definite part of the rumpus. Walking to classes these days the mili tary element is far in the majority. Between the Cadets and the ROTC students the campus comes close to resembling an Army assembly grounds; Right now it would seem time to revive the ; ‘Hello Spirit’ which is popular on campus during freshman week but soon dies out completely as fhe semester progresses. There's nothing like speaking to everyone or having everyone speak to you to make one feel at home. Ct would seem that Penn State has made a pood first impression. Now its up to everyone to make it a lasting one. —R. D. S. .Summer Changes Penn State in the summer will be far different -from this semester, or any other semester the •College has witnessed since its founding. Even ’the changes brought about by the last war will Ire small in comparison to the situation during the Summer and from then on. Many organizations will not exist this Sum mer; others will be curtailed; while still others will take, on new responsibilities and become more active. A different group of people will be doing what has been done, by students in the past. Thespians have indicated that -their current production will be the last for the duration. Tod bad they can’t find some way to continue on a .reduced scale, as their entertainment is important for morale and.shifts the burden from other forms iff recreation, some already too heavily taxed. Many organizations on campus, active enough now will find themselves with a shortage of men r.tudents, and should they take stock, may find it impossible to continue. LaVie, the yearbook, will probably maintain a ■ skeleton staff, large.enough to maintain a com plete file of activity cards. It probably will not publish. Rapid turnover of the student body, plus the long-time basis on which the. book must op i..-iute, are responsible for this step. Downtown Office 119.121 South Frazier St. Phone 4872 Staff This Iflsue Lee Learner Liui retie Schwartz, Jean Noinley, iiiiiiniiiiiiiniiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiuimm' ALONG NITTANY MALL llllinmilllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllilllll LARRY CHERVENAK Life on the Collegian board has been —until now—a leisurely round of assigning beats, mak ing out issue schedules, telling the Collegian un derclassmen how it was done in the old days, and discovering upon checking each morning’s copy that they haven’t paid much attention to me. The full meaning of “total war’’ finally struck, home last week, however, when one-of Der Rag’s first-string columnists borrowed my battered laundry kit, kissed his favorite girl friends good bye, and lit out for his local recruiting center. Said columnist’s departure brought to an abrupt halt the weekly “Clever Comments” and left a gaping hole in the column-schedule. To fill up that Friday morning cavity, and to wander on where Fred Clever left off, this new column is forced into existence. Nnn Lipp | FAREWELL TO A FIGHTER Uitu Relfouti Before beating my Remington keys on more general phases of the campus whirl, it seems only fitting to stop for a moment of tribute to my predecessor in columning. .Louis H. Bell It wasn’t that Fred was particularly outstand ing as a writer. What he did possess in unrationed portions was a flaming belief in the ideals of journalism. " It was Fred who, in the days when we were sophomore and junior boarders struggling tor top positions, was willing to have it out verb for verb with any of the editors he thought were failing to maintain standards of fairness or fearlessness. It was Fred who took up the cudgel time and again for his junior' board buddies to sustain their viewpoints against the omnipotence of The Board Above. And, less than a month before his final Collegian election, while softer hearts sulk ed in the.shadows, it was Fred who dared help organize against what he considered unfair dis crimination.' To Fred Clever, journalist, we say, “so long”; the Army Air Corps has gained a fightin’ soldier. A DEDICATION And now, to comply with one of the last re quests of both Clever and sports ed Ben Bailey, we’d like to dedicate this opening column to the, Cabinet clique that —at a meeting the three, of Us attended—thought up every conceivable ex--. cuse to sabotage Penn Stated coca -.cola nitery; that was either too short-sighved or too worried about its own entertainment promotions to savor any compeition; and that condemned Dry Dock as an impediment too all-out war effort by Penn State students—a sort of miniature fifth-column. We’d like to dedicate it also to the hundreds of Nittany students who found in Dry Dock some place besides the movies and Doggies to take their dates the past couple Saturday nights .... and, finally, to the guys at the front who will re ceive comfort’and aid from the couple hundred bucks Penn State’s own little fifth-column con tributed to the American Red Cross. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN l^Uomen We, Today Is One In A Series Of Students’ Last Flings Today is the day of the last of our big dances for the duration. And so College coeds and fel lows will go into another of thed last flings. Thank goodness that the College wasn’t called for Army service sooner; it would have been definitely hard on us to squeeze all these last good times into a few days. But, of course, we have to have them. Each one has to outdo the other and we have to spend a lot of money for our own amusement. We’ll pretend to place our form als and patent-leathers away ’til the armistice, but don’t worry, we’ll find some excuse for getting them out. We’ll say that we can’t keep up morale unless we have everting gowns and formal par ties. We’ll listen to the freshmen call for longer hours and we’ll give them because we’H'figure it’s their last fling. We’ll let them fling for the duration, no doubt. ’Cause, after all, what else can we do? This student body will have last flings in every activity until it’s too embarrassed to have another or until there aren’t enough left in school to “fling.” Today, rain or shine (probably rain), the campus will experience one of its series of last flings, a; trite saying, but oh, so handy. • Although government heads have asked 'that ho import's be brought for big dances, many will consider it their last chance and so they will bring out-of-town guests. Corsages will come in.just as large numbers for the same reason.' . . ■ Activities such as the Bed Cross, war relief societies, surgical dress, ing classes, which could really use to -advantage a last fling, have to for Gibbs Secretaries during: the past year I' Many employers specified college girls for. important - positions iA a wide variety of interesting fields. Courses exclusively for college women begin July 6 and 2l. Personal place- • meat iti Poston, New York, and Prov idence. Send for booklet, “Gibbs GIHjLS AT WOttK." GjISJL II 'SECRETAIRH AIL O' U BOSTON—3Q IW4RLUOWOUGW S'f. v WE\W VOl**—23l) pftfin AuitnUit : ■ . . ..h • , WVRNER BROTHERS "MOW SHOWS. AT cumuiur ___ j 1:30 - 3:00 onuwinn • IUITT WAR BONDS AND STAMPS-MEU 6:4S ' 8:45 TUESDAY Erc