Winter Ball At Rec Hall Tonight 1.1. • VOL..4O=:No. 12 VVar Dept. Takes AAF Trainees From College Penn State was one of 70 colleges throughout the nation notified by WAVE to Visit Campus Five Vie For Snow Queen the War Department this week that no new Air Corps trainees would ' A representative of the WAVES • will visit the campus Tuesday and ' be assigned to their campuses. The announcement stated "Elimina- Wednesday to interview interested Crowning Of the Snow Queen and the drawing of the winning tion of any particular college or civilian contract school does not re- women candidates. ticket for $lOO war bond ill be the two main features of Winter Ball fleet dissatisfaction relative - to the performance of the school." It is The opportunities and duties of • at Rec Hall from 8:30 to midnight tomorrow night. Bobby Sherwood merely a case of depleted enlistments ruling out the necessity for a WAVE will be discussed' by the this extensive training. representative in 110 Home Eco _ will trumpet both sweet and hot music catering to lovers of jitter-. , , .. C: . nomics building at 7:30 p.m. Tues- bugging as well as Trainee enrollment will not terminate immediately, but as each day. All g girls are invited to attend - • class finishes its course here, there will be no replacements; By this the meeting. Up until the drawing at the Bali chances on the bond can still be procedure, the more than 500 Air ore students at the College will have departed by June. ' • An Editorial • lege Cabinet. . • • - f4l • The Snow Queen will be presented to dancers during an inter... Though unexpected by most A- • . mericans, this notice was released $6.50 For Tribute mission at the dance. Joan Harringtch, Nancy Harrington, Tawny Hill, • by a War - Department - which knew • . that it would be inevitable when . • George Washington vie for the title. their complex training system had The $6.50 profit that the Key party's President's Birth- Tickets will be on sale Saturday '... 'brought the hoped • for reshlts.• day Ball netted might have been a surprise' to the College• in only at the Athletic Association Behind this action lies'the story Steeps Here Tonight window, from Ba. ~ to sp. m., • • at large, but it was no surprise to the committee that ran of the biggest project - ever under- and at the dance. Servicemen's takeh by a nation at War— the dance. of the Another Broadway hit will come t a i n cket e sea i nb s aept $3.85. With th each w hi t purchased $ e 2 a .75 •' successes which the project - should : The purposes of the' dance, as outlined by the con- to Penn State when the curtain d ivnan • briri c ticket bought, the buyer will be gof - the future succesies mitteels chairman, were: goes up at 8 o'clock tonight at. h • the', project' shoilld bring. • entitled to cast a vote for Snow This story . is' related in this . 1. To make money for the March of Dimes campaign. Schwab to reveal the first scene of Queen. i Month's Fortune magazine. 2. To. hold - a dance for the general student body. • Players presentation of "George Chairman of both the dew ..Within two short years, the 3. To give publicity to the Key party. Washington Slept Here." committee and' Cabinet's •wiur ``United • State's - Army air Forces ' .. The Fuller family discovers _the s ;v t w a n i e n in pi fj o in :in ct i : tt nr e t p e , ,(c) S ifl te as i cts H . oefrbiete . . hasfskYrocketed its Personnel from ' Well, the party got its pdblicity; the students got their . 15;60.4,t0 an unbelievable.2,soo 880 • dance; but the "March of• Dimes" didn't make out too well. numerous drawbacks of renovat- - w:_n p n i p e r se o n f t tl , i a e t Te o d r a a n ff c l e e need not . and the . eft' iciency Which Was' en- Of ' course, every dime helps, and 65 of them are nothing Mg property while inspecting a de forced has known no comparison sneeze at. .1.1 - t its not an overwhelming sum and its too , terior t ated country house in Bucks b Additional bonds will be . , , pur-: throughoht the -. centuries of war • tot couny, Pennsylvania. To aggra , • , . .` and. battle... .: . • ~. ,'_.::.,!',.: -•": -• . bad-.••... the - committee was . , willing. to. settle .for. it. - ..That.,they -.,..---•.......- -__ , ...:...,....,i;.-:.•. 1 , ~; -.,,,,,,-..:,-.;.,.-;,.,,,,.••-..-....... , ..,..,,,: . , :. . ~ . , ...,.,..,.- f .. . ~.. • ~ v a.l ,e • the • situation, they find no chased. - with -the remainini'.funds "Midway thrbugn•tnesumnier•or.. - wgre willing is - shown'by the - fact that . aCeording to - the 6Sti-„ . , water -• facilities, road, - window after the purchase of. the prize t b . h o ec n h d d , aannccees accordingeaorcommittee mni now twteo beingmH e e n i rb b e se r or s t i d a nbyd • 1943; .the. :liiireLoff • point - ...was "'ma ' .” ,•• •• " • .•• • : . .• - •• • • - • matect - expense. sheet they 'expeCted to net somewhere• be .,. reached, and since then; physical • • . • panes, or closet,. and the kitchen , is a tweet! s6' and $B.. • „ • equipped with livestock! expansion has decreased .to by members of Cabinet. Supervis . . . . . slight - inkling. ' its • former .self. • . ' _Estimated , expenses for renting Rec Hall, a public ad- ' A series of riotous situations ion of the Campaign to sell tick- Enlistments in the Army Air For- dress system, etc:, were about $5O. The band was contracted: present themselves as these city cos are now feiver. and fewer; the • .4 folk. learn the hard way—by ex many armed services' haying..de-• for abcut .. sl.pf Tfie .- c9niniittee, Was .well aware that. their . perience... . ets for.the raffle was given to the . I pleted..iti,Supply of available Man-- overhead was ;:kirge,..and ,when they-embarked On . the pie-. been. After-many..weeks of work have Winter Ball committee • . power through, caritinhal.drairiage, - . •• • _ ject,. tliey, weren?teven- sure that 'theY'WOuld break '''' even. - .. . . Spent by • the, Fullers, the ' In . 1934,..,the .year Anat saW...the • • '• • - ,-- , . - .• . ..,. •• •... . • .. houie. acquires a brighter interior. . . .IsTatifrally; any ;group has. o contend.: with these :uncer-, -. Jl.it w4e4..they . C.rl :relax and beginning_ of . Hitlees rearinament, ;. .' program,•the 1T... - S.- had les& than . - : ... ' 1,500 military::airplanea; apd- . 1600...... 2 . _ • • , friends to . visit for the weekend, .. they are. almost rained out. This officers, -, Two:Yeara..Aater; e•traint ing. program; rriinnte::in,:..Compari-•:.. : . e , ,- Th .- Ral" - Modi' , .:Se'st-:Fifierid . ..--..' ..-" ~ ~v.hici.,...• -"Dear'' Uncle - Stanley" son "to.. tOday'si.had•-been . geared:•• '•' . • .., ..; • i''' - ' ',.- •.. n• •- • ' • • , choOses, : to 'Visit them, The uncle .._to.turn out . soo.Pilc4a year-: _Flow '/: 'i,.ervekionl-4kiew-fat-41-4.d..#4,-. . :ea .s-.T.-he-:WaiTaCoodDiet . L. ' U play,s . -a.-.twn : - - folcl-,pl..irpose'.f . or they, ,„. ~.„y• ,2 , ..,... . , ...- . .. _ . : . - deftnitely •-spectilate. - up 0 n hi s - .i era. thenAirragitiedztheiiittire.4ieed 1.. •- • , •:- ••-: •• ••-.- -• --„,_ .: ..: -,. •'..- _, - . :.- .•, , -•-- -- ' • • -. ' .. - ' Money ..to • pay. off the mortgage r . for a magnannnow numb F: 1 : 1 , - F7• 2 '.Most.:people would :be ashamed-Modern' nutrition is 'shown byth • -- - • ••• . • '.e brought to light . by.an irateneigh lot.4,:rieVigatOrs,., bonibardiers,- ae- : , to -:. atlinit• that ,theY •haVe'ists; but. fae - Cthat;the Units used to, measure li ' '— - ' • or. .:rial gun - ners, - and techniCiana. ••• .. -.• „ Penn. State' •• •••-. - is piotzdOf the 800 rats :the : amount" of -all the , common The matinee ' will be held in ' SinCe the. I.l.:Owaria Field. attick ~, • .• ~,,, • • - • • here' on the campus. that are mak- -Vitamins'. with the. , exception .of Schwab Auditorium at 2:30 and the i, of .Decerriner:.-1941;• the.program -:- - • - • -- - • .. ..• • a valuable - contribution to•the - vitamin 'C are based on the effect - final performance . begins at 7:15, .has - - ekrianded , 'Nvitlf "such : - 'leaps,, / n a g " . . . • . . • - .. • - • . astounding: • r effort.. They are ,being used they have on rats. - . • according to Lawrence Tucker, as that the: teat •is astounding., En- . by the Nutrition Laboratory under At present the Nutrition Labora- sistarit professor of.dramatics and i. listments .before - Pearl ' Harbor Prof. •N. B. Guerrant to furnish tory is engaged in tests to deter- director of the show. " came 'in sloWly; Wit after that at., • • . critical information concerning the mine exactly where the vitamin `tack, swarms of American ' man- human diet. • loss between the farm-and the din- • - pus. Gi ves • $285 power applied for thii now famous . ram Some of these rats have distin- ner table takes place. Samples of `.-• `'branch of service. . guished educational backgrounds, food taken from every,stage of the The two permanent training_ their ancestors coming from such canning, process are fed the rats to In March Of Dimes; . 1 t . (Continued on Page Three) •., , , • institutions as Yale, Harvard, Co- find this vitamin loSs. . . ,• . • lumbia, and Minnesota. It is not at A:complete record is kept on file . Falis-Sh.ort Of Goal . . 2 Steaming-Graves . all:iinlikely that .the antecedents for every one of the •37,500 rats of at eastl one .of the rats came that have been used at the College Contributions 'to the Campus "Cause Campus Crisi s over, on the Mayflower, and that during.the past 14 years: Froin the March of Dimes campaign totaled Faint clouds of steam coming others were with Washington at moment a rat is born every vital $285.55, falling short of the goal "-out of the ground on Holmes Field Valley Forge. fact about it and its parents .is of $5OO, Mildred Rubin, chairman "several days ago caused only slight Three strains of rats are used at filed. When the rat is put on ex- of the campus committee, an consternation among students and the laboratory. The well known periment, a card is made out with nounced yesterday. The drive ran ':faculty. But when the next day white 6r albino rat; the piebald the rat's number, date of birth, from January 25 to February 1, two grave-like holes dug in the rat, a black and white . breed, sex; day to day weight, food in- inclusive. '• turf began emitting dense billows brought here by Prof. R. A. take, and characteristics. Of the total contributed, $6.50 of Dutcher from Minnesota; and the Many of the rats are identified was netted by the President's ' acrid steam the terror-stricken onlookers of the grotesque scene black rat which was developed by numbers punched in their ears. 'Birthday Dance sponsored by the •'• offered the following explana- and domesticated from wild rats The• holes are made in various Key party in Rec Hall Saturday • found in, the vicinity of the Col- places in the rat's ears; a different night. The remainder of the • tions: . • digit being represented by a hole amount was collected at a table .' '1) Japanese agents had hidden lege. a volcano in the field. Rats are used' in nutrition tests in each sector of an ear. - in front of the Corner Room, with 2) The Day of Reckoning had because their digestive systems, Rats used in vitamin 'D assays the exception of $l2 contributed by guests at a Hillel Foundation arrived. their dietary habits which include are kept in dark rooms- throughout . dance last week. ', 3) A coed had dug a man-trap. both meats and vegetables, and the the Jests. Rats are normally at j• 4) Someone gave a skunk a hot- _effects upon . them of dietary de- -Twine in the dark, for, not unlike "Servicemen comb i n e d gave ' foot. . ficiencies are comparable to -those college students, they sleep during much more to the drive than did ; A fearless Collegian reporter as- of human beings. Rats .are cheap, - the daytime and do their running civilian students, especially worn ,t,emen's - total did not •Isi learned gned to the story quickly leaed' grow rapidly, consume only. small around at :night, en,'; Miss ,Rubin said. "Moreover, i4rom George W. Ebert, head of quantities .of the expensive foods Young rats are used in experi 'the servicemen's in- Grounds and Buildings, that a necessary to dietary tests, and re- ments because many effects due to elude the amount contributed by :steam return pipe had gone bad produce quickly so that several diet are more marked in the grow- the Air Corps, which had a sep •and that ,routine repairs were be- generations of, rats, can .be studied ing animal. At this time a rat arate drive, solicited each aviation . . Weighs about 100 grains and comes student, and met its quota 100 per ;, ing made. , within a short. time., • 'cent " • ' folks. - The inipprtance of , the rat to, . (Continued on , page six) Sorry, iittliil;:e. : i I • Tatirgiatt FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 1944-STATE COLLEGE, PERNA by TED RUBIN Published Weekly by Thy, Daily Collegian Staff Winter Bali Formal, Players' Combine For Weekend Festivities Final Exam Sche(jule— See Page 2 PRICE FIVE CENTS Show SeniOn-Apply .! For todifkafes All seniors taking positions fol lowing. graduation should apply for a 'certificate -of :availability . sued by the United States kin ployment Service, George N. P. Leetch, 'director • of the.: College Placement Service, announced. today, Application blanks are avail. able, at the placement service of fice, 204 Old Main. . . Leetch also stated that .he Would like all seniors to inform the College Placement Service or the placement officer of his school. of his plans immediately follow ing graduation. The information Is needed for placement. records. . Placement officers of the var ious schools are as follows: Agri culture, Dr. J. E. McCord; Chem istry and Physics, Dr. G. C. Chandlee; Education, Dr. C. 0. Williams; Engineering, Dean R. M. Gerhardt; Liberal Arts, Prof. H. B. Young; Mineral Industries. Dr. D. F. McFarland; and Phy sical Education and Athletics, Dr. L. M. Jones. Attention, Seniors! Graduating seniors MUST leave their orders for com mencement invitations, com mencement announcement s, and caps and gowns at Student Union on or before TOMOR ROW. No orders will be ac cepted after this date. Students may order an un limited number of announce ments and invitations at 7 cents each that will be distributed upon arrival with the presenta tion of a receipt. A deposit of 5 dollars will be required with each cap and gown order.
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