IPAIIE FOUR
THE COLLEGIAN
Published every Friday during the regular College year
by the staff of the Daily Collegian of The Pennsylvania
State College. Entered nt , i second class matter July 6. 1934
at the Post Office at State College, Pa. under the act of
Marer 8. 1879.
Subscriptions by mail only at $l.OO a semester.
Editor-hi-Chief
Lee H. Learner
Advertising Manager
Herbert Hasson
Senior Editorial 13osrd:
Service Editor .Itita M. Belfonti
Feature Editor _ _ __._ M. Jane McChesney
Sports Editors—Arthur P. Miller, Rembrandt C. Robinson.
Editorial Assistants—Helen V. Hatton, Emil A. Kubek, Ber-
nard Cutler.
Reporters—Nancy Carastro, Peggie Weaver, Betsy Merkle,
Victor Danilov, Ruth Constad, Gertrude Lawatsch.
Junior Advertising Board—Betty Federman, Bernice Fine
berg, Elaine Miller, Kitty Vogel.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
MnaMMEI
Managing Editor
Assistant, Managing Editor
News Editor
Arthur P
Sports Editor
Assistant Advertising Manager Elaine Miller
Asaistanta—Lynette Lundquist, Fay Young, . Audrey Rybach,
Rose Sherman, Bennett Fairorth, Woodinc Bell.
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.
They Laughed When . . .
Jimmy Young, foreign correspondent, gave his
eyewitness account of his experiences in Japan.
Of course, at times he did make it sound like
something out of a musical comedy, but his anec
dotes were penetrating examples of basic Japa
nese psychology and, as such, they weren't funny!
The surprising thing was that most of the stu
dents who attended Young's lecture seemed more
impressed by these supposedly "humorous" anec
dotes than by the hard facts that he related about
Japan's preparations for war. Facts such as these:
That the U. S. State Department allowed the Japa
nese to make complete tours and take photo
graphs of strategic American positions; that the
Japanese are fighting Americans in the Pacific
with our own scrap metal and oil; that 90 per cent
of Japan's military equipment is American-made.
All these facts are legion now. They've been
publicized and discussed and exclaimed •over
since Pearl Harbor. But they were news to some
of Young's audience. And yet, they didn't seem
to sink in. Surprised comments after the lecture
centered around the unique Japanese method of
announcing newspaper "extras" rather than a
round the facts and statistics that Young had .cit
ed in an effort to show the Japanese as a com
pletely ruthless people As a matter of fact, many
advanced the opinion that perhaps Young was
just a little too "bitter" because, after all, no na
tion could be so entriely schooled in terroristic
techniques.
But Young spent 15 years in Japan and he is a
well-accepted authority on that . country. His au
dience's unwillingness to accept his denuncia-
tions is a very pointed example of the prevailing
Penn State "let's-stick-our-heads-in-the-sand
not-look-at-the-facts" attitude Isn't it about
time that Penn Staters rubbed the sand out of
their eyes and woke up to the realization that
here are a lot of facts they'd better look in the
face if they don't, want to break their necks on
them?
One Year Later
Starting a year ago as a result of the work of
the Civilian Military Committee, the Service
Center has continually increased its activities
and next month the workers who have given
their time to make the Center a success will mark
off a year of conscientious effort.
Every activity of the group has been initiated .
with the servicemen in mind. Getting rooms for
visiting parents, arranging jobs for servicemen's
wives, mending Army. and Navy paraphanalia,
the center has come to the rescue of the men con
stantly.
USO dances have been scheduled for ordinarily
dead weekends, and College women - have been
trained to act as hostesses for the Center activi
ties.
Although it is recognized by the national United
Service Organizations, the local service Center is
not supported by this group. The College, the
Borough Council, and local contributions are re
sponsible for the maintenance of the Center.
Many Air Corps and ASTP students have left
the campus recently and at present the Center
finds its clientel considerably cut down. However,
for the men who remain and for those who will
come this year, the Service Center. will continue
its activities with the same enthusiasm that was
in back of this first year's enterprises. S.F.R.
Business Manager
Rosalind Becker
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Managing Editor
Serene F. Rosenberg
_Bernard Cutler
__ _ _ Gertrude Lawathch
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A few nights ago a coed was sleeping peace
fully when one of her roommates dashed i in and
screamed for her to follow. Thinking it was at
least a three-alarm fire or murder, she dragged
her body out of bed and hurried to her room to
see—the moon.
Heading for the definitely non-feminine OCS at
Fort Henning recently was a group of ex-Univer
sity men in the AST-ROTC, one of whom was
evidently worried about keeping his hand in with
the fairer sex. At any rate his one choice of read
ing material consisted of a copy of "The Wom
an's Home Companion."
Required Courses:
English (3 hours) Lesson one.
Incorrect: Shall US take a taxi, dear?
Correct: Shall us walk, Snooks?
Lesson two
Incorrect: May ME kiss you?
Correct: Hunh, hunh, hunh? (Smack) Hunb,
hunh, hunh!
Lesson three
Incorrect: Dad,. may I have $5? We are having
a prom . . . .
Correct: Dear Dad, my new English course re•
quires a new $5 text book.
Grade?
Anyhow, you've learned a lot
Math (1 hour)
Home assignment
Solve this problem. Night club bill.
2 cokes
2 hamburgers
2 straws
$6.65
(Hint: Let x equal your wallet and $ equal
your check. Thus x minus $ equals 0)
Grade?
Same as answer to problem . . .
Child Psychology (1 easy lesson.)
"Come here, Junior." Slap!
Summary.
Glimpses of Shakespeare
"I seen him. He went that way."
Electives
(Grades vary with hbw hard you can fan the
prof; only alternative is to bring him ice cream.)
Economics (1 hour) .
Class discussion
Certify validity of math assignment plus $2.00
government tax.
Grade?
Or were you always a Republican?
"Boston University News"
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"The Indiana Daily Student"
"The Daily Californian"
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"lhoscus - my , house- guests;.. Mr.- Ferguson. I juit want- you to
fusow : that were not hoarding foods."
Buzzing The Fielo.
Today we drop the role of society reporter and assume the the air
of a commentator. The following was prompted by a bit of nostalgia
in print, written by a coed in a campus publication a few months back
concerning the Penn State that was,
In her reminiscing the writer asked her readers, also coeds, such
questions as: "Can you remember how the beribboned female frosh
trooped down every Sandwich hour to meet with the opposite• sex?";
and "Can you think back to all the bridge games you played down
there, to all the hours you spent gabbing, and all the romances that
started and ended down there?"; and "Surely, you, smile
. when, you
think of all the swimming parties'at Whipple's, with more.beer than
swimming?," etc., etc. And at the end of the story the writer asked
her readers to "Just remember and repeat them so that nobody.ever
forgets—ever! And so that some day State will again be the State we
loved best." •
It was quite a picture of bygone Joe College days the writer gave,
and it brought back fond memories to us. Much the same situation
used to prevail at our own Alma Mater the niversity. of Michigan,
so we know something of what she was talking about. Therefore, we
seriously question whether, in the light of what has • happened• since
the "good old days," a return to things "giddy and gay and collegiate"
is desirable or at all possible.
And why? Well, the wan has everything to do with it. When the
fighting is over, and student bodies become all-civilian again, Penn
State and Michigan and all the rest of America's colleges and univer
sities just won't be the same, because the new generation of students
won't be the same. There will be veterans. who had to. leave school
before graduation; there will be new freshman classes who lived
through a war and a peace conference; finally, there will be a large
group of veterans who may be going to college for • the first time and
who will be having their expenses paid by the government as a small
token of their service to the nation. _
The• last group will be created- by what is known as the'"GrEsilf
of -Rights," which the Senate passed last Saturday by an overwhelxm=
ing majority, and which the House of Representatives is expected to
pass this week by a similar top-heavy vote. Under the.bill's educa 7
tional provisions, any soldier, sailor, or Marine, or WAC, WAVE,
SPAR, or woman Marine who was honorably discharged after
.six
months or more of service will be eligible for educational training in
schools including colleges, universities, and professional schools for
least a year. In some cases .the government will keep a veteran in
school for four years. - •
We Mink the veterans Will be the decisive factor in determining
the temper of the new-college life. They will be more acutely conscious
than any other group that something must have been tragically wrong
with the world that we should have to fight two devastating. wars in
the space of thirty years. They will know that education is, the answer
to future peace; their purpose as college and university students" will
be fixed and always in sight. •
Yes, there will continue to be frosh days and hops and proms' at
Penn State and at Michigan after the war. And Skellar,.of:State
College, and the Pretzel Bell, of_ Ann Arbor, wilt doubtless .continue
their former. volume of business. But college life will never again he
"serene and slightly dizzy"—the boys 'and girls who fought for the
"brave new world" will be aware that times have changed.
FFLIDAZ..bIARCH 31;' 1944