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THE COLLEGIAN
Daub Dished .1940. Successor to the, Penn State Collegian,
established 1904, and the Free Lance, - established 1887.
Published every Friday during theretmlar College year
by the stair of the Daily Collegian 'of The Pennsylvania
State College. Entered as second class matter July 5, 1984.
at the Post Office at State College, Pa. under the act of
Mater 8, 1879.
Subscriptions by mail only at $l.OO a semester.
Editor-in-Chief
Lee H. Learner
Advertising Manager
Herbert Hasson
Senior Editorial Board
Service Editor
Feature Editor
Editorial Assistants—Helen V. Hatton, Arthur P. Miller,
Rembrandt C. Robinson, Emil Kubek
. Merkle, Peggie Weaver, Vie Danilov, Ruth Constad,
Gertrude Lewatsch.
Junior Advertising Board—Betty Federman, Bernice Fine
berg, Elaine Miller, Kitty Vogel
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STAFF THIS ISSUE
Managing Editor __ _Emil Kubek
Assistant Managing Editor _.. Helen Hatton
News Editor Ruth Constad
Sports Editor Rem Robinson
Ass't Advertising Manager Bernice Fineberg
Assistants—Lynette Lundquist, Gertrude Lewatsch, Seymour,
Barash, Audrey Rybach, Bennett Fairoth, Fay Young
Friday, March 24, 1944
All editorials represent the opinions of
the writer whose • initials are signed to it,
and not the opinion of the corporate Col
legian staff. Unsigned editorials are by the
editor.
Hot Off The Wires
At an institution where instructors are fre
quently criticized for withholding any timely
elements of interest from their lectures, students
should doubly welcome the opportunity of hear
ing James Young, foreign correspondent and
author, when he speaks in Carnegie Hall 11 a, m.
Monday.
Mr. Young, director of the Tokyo Bureau of
the International News Service, will present a
talk that would be interesting for its timeliness
alone. The correspondent however, had a taste
of actual Nipponese restrictions, when he was
imprisoned in an unheated Japanese cell for 61
days. His interpretation of conditions over there
should present an interesting insight into the pre
sent situation.
Each semester there are many students who
seek courses which will deal chiefly with current
affairs. Needless to say, the continuation of noth.
ing but such courses would be detrimental to
an entire college curriculum. Arts and sciences .
of the ages are not only important as background
for the professions, but have often been called
the foundations for all konwledge.
Mr. Young, then, outstanding in a field where
timeliness means success, comes not only at a
time when a better understanding of Vvorld sit
uations is most important to College students, but
also when the students will most appreciate it.
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It Probably Can Be Done
The people who bother to think about those
things were beginning to wonder whether there
was any group on campus that had what it takes
to back a drive and make a go of it; and it looks
as if ISC, in undertaking to put over the current
! Red Cross Drive, is proving that it can be done.
This joint group, composed 'of IWA and IMA,
has scheduled a dance. the proceeds to go to the
Red Cross Drive. And this will be one dance
,where the "proceeds" and the total profit should
jibe exactly, since the Navy V-12 Band is donat
ing its services for the evening. In addition, a
booth for Red Cross donations will be set up in
Old Main, and ISC is also planning on sending
out a group of solicitors.
But aside from a willing and hard-working
group of backers, another necessary ingredient
to a successful drive is a generous public. And,
unfortunately, Penn State has rarely proved it
self to be such in the past.
It can't be said, as it was once before in these
columns in reference to the $5OO goal of the
March of Dimes campaign, that $3,000, the goal
of the current drive, isn't very much money. It
is, no matter which way you look at it. But is is
money that is needed more by those on whom the
Red Cross will spend it ; than by those in whose
pockets it now reposes.
Everyone is busy paying lip service to the Red
Cross, but it is ISC that is getting down to brass
tacks and putting the capital D on Drive. And it's
up to the rest of Penn State to get down to the
coins, and maybe even the bills, in their pockets
and make that' $3OOO • dream a reality.
Business Manager .
Rosalind Becker
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Managing Editor . •
Serene F. Rosenberg
_Rita M. 13elfonti
M. Jnne McChesney
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"We have been trying hard to think of a rea-
sonable reason why the so-called glamour co-eds
that slink around our beautiful campus believe
themselves to be such dynamite. After all, women
aren't scarce, especially the type with the droopy
hair and the bright eyes.• If every hunk of pass
ing man doesn't give them, the glad glance, they
feel their day is ruined and instead of going to
classes, they rush home and throw their engineer
ing books under bed and themselves into the
nearest tub to drown their sorrows.
And who is it that supports the U. S. tobacco
industry? Well —, it wouldn't be hard
to guess considering that it's hard to find a fe
male without a weed and vice versa.
Amen!
Yours for a stag education and a womanless
campus."
—A Leiter to the Ice-Box, Cool Off Here Dept.
The Daily Californian
The roadster skidded around the curve, jump
ed into the air, knocked down a lamp post, smack
ed three cars, ran against a stone wall, and stop
ped. A girl climbed out of the wreck. "Darling,"
she exclaimed, "That's what I call a kiss!"
Bus conductor, calling from the upper deck:
"Is there a macintosch down there big enough to
keep two young ladies warm?"
Voice from below: "No, but there's a MacPher
son that's willin' to try!"
Pi Lambda Phi pledges at Temple University,
Philadelphia,.are going through Hell Week. They
have to answer the phone thusly:
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"Tinkle, tinkle little phone,
This end of the wire is the Pilam home.
We're glad you called and found me in;
If I didn't answer it'd be a sin.
So please don't worry and please don't cry,
Just give me your name and I'll call your guy!"
—Temple University News
A simple countryman saw a gaudy-plummaged
parrot on the roof of his cottage.
He -climbed to capture it.
The parrot looked at him and said sharply,
"What do you want?"
The countryman touched his cap. "Beg pardon,
sir, I thought you were a bird."
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—lndiana Bored Walk
Campuseer
Gesture •
Sitting around the other night a bunch of us got to talking abilut
landladies who have made life miserable for us at one time or ''an
other. One of the boys was telling about the virago who pulled the
master switch downstairs in the daytime•so they . wouldn't burn the
lights and who forbid them to grab the banisters on the way up the
stairs. She even went so far as to grease it with vaseline. So the boys
got together one evening and did the thing up in toilet paper arid tied
a big bow at the bottom. Just as they finished their labor of love, the
mistress came in with the preacher from her church.
Hair-Raiser
While listening to our favorite musicale on the radio one evert
ing recently, the station to which we were tuned, faded and ,another
came in strong. It was one of - these nasal orators from the south, who
spread the gospel of rhythm, raising their voices to a high pitch at the
end of every sentence. This one was talking about someone who had
caused the deaths of thousands of our young men and who had .cost us
many millions of dollars through this war. Since he mentioned no
enemy, leaders, we began to take notice. From there he went on to
the "harvest we are reaping" from the moral laxity prevalent in
these times. "Why, right down here in Little Rock, Arkansas, I hear
they are building a new jail just to hold the women and girls." And
a little later . . . "The only result will be bloodshed between our Ne
groes and white people because of this meddling. Those damn Yan
kees have come down from the North and are spending hundreds of
thousands of dollars, and all they are doing is creating bloodshed be
tween the colored folks and, the whites."
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By that time we were positively fascinated and were listening
intently, for we had never heard the sermon of hate preached quite
so intently or with such deadly fervor. Somehow, it didn't seem real.
But we couldn't disbelieve our own ears. We can still hear those sing
song words . . . damn Yankees . . . hundreds of thousands of dollars
. . .Negroes, . . whites . . . create bloodshed.
More Money Than
The staff of the Penn State Engineer has a reputation for turn
ing to gold whatever they touch. Their latest little scheme should
indeed turn into a mint. We hear the boys are planning to collect the
ijokes that have been censored from the magazine before being print-.
ed, and bind them in a luxurious little volume in a limited edition,
No doubt it will become a collector's item.
Time Was
It's not so long ago that graduates were scrambling for jobs and
snapped at offers when they were made. These days the choice is, so
wide and varied the prospective employee can afford rt'o be chOosy
and tth companies are wooing them. in style. One fellow we know
traveled to Hartford this week by Pullman foi an interview, and is
being flown back to school in the company's Fairchild. It's only fair
to tell you, though, that the plane was coming this way anyhow to
bring down one of the executives. Just the same, we wish we were
still among the eligibles. Private plane rides come dear these days...
Prodigal's Return
Another of the Greek mansions is due to reopen on the first of
next month. Lee Lutz tells us the Acacia will soon assemble the broth
ers who are still around and the new pledges, who numbered to ten
at the time we saw him. However, the prospects for brew brawls are
not improved for the three major prohibitions at Acacia are wine,
women and gambling.
Front and Center
Commissions and other word from former Students have been
veritablY. flying back and forth from the Collegian office and public
relations offices throughout the country. And when •we say flying,
we really mean it, for the Air Corps news overshadows word from
any •branch of the service.
Aviation cadets Charles Burge, Bob Scoff, Winsor. Bounds,,.and
Paul Shaffer were just commissioned second lieutenants in the Army
Air Forces after completing bombardier training at the Carlsbad
Army Air' Field in New Mexico. So far, innumerable former students
have been graduated from that school as, bombardiers, navigators,
and aerial gunners": .
Second Lt. Sam Brubaker is now taking bombardier training at
the Roswell Army Air Training Command station after recently com 7
pleting a course in navigation at Selman Field, La.• Another second
lboie, John Huck - recently completed the Army Air Forces Advanced
Flying School training at William Field, Chandler, Arizona. Aviation
Cadet Bus Smiley received his commission in the Air. Corps at Turner
Field, Albany, Georgia, and Don Bartell was recently appointed a .
Naval Aviation Cadet and was transferred to the Naval Air Training
Center at Pensacola, Fla., for intermediate flight training. So much
for the Air Corps.
Overseas and Cross Country .
Lt. Aileen Holz is now putting her training in dietetics to good
use while serving at a station hospital somewhere in Europe. Ensign
Paul Handwerk served with the amphibious forces in the invasion of
Sicily. Lt. Roy Bay has just qualified as an "airplane commander"
and will lead the combat crew of a Liberator bomber. Roy won his
wings at Pampa, Texas and took his advanced flying at the Liberal
Army Air Field, Liberal, Kansas.
Richard Waick, who has been in England with the Army Air
Corps for more than a year, has recently been promoted from a cap
tain to major. According to a newspaper story, Lt. (jg) Mark Singley
was a member of the crew of a PTC boat on a trial run prior to giving
the ship .oy,er,:td_RUssi,a::oll;lo4-lease.: . .
FRIDAY, MARCH.. 24, 1044;
By. BOBS KIMMEL
By RITA..M. BELFONTI