PAGE FOUR THE COLLEGIAN tstabliished 1940. Successor to the 'Penn • State Collegian, eetablished 1904, and the Free Lance, established. 1887. Editor-in-Chief - • Business Manager Lee H. Learner Rosalind Becker 411 611 0 Advertising . Manager Managing Editor Herbert Hasson Serene F. Rosenberg STAFF TUTS ISSUE Managing Editor Bernard J. Cutler Assistant Managing Editor Nancy Carastro News Editor Gertrude Lawatseh Sports Editor Arthur P. Miller News Assistants—Bennett Fairoth, Lynette Lnudnuist, Bar bara Ingraham, Fay Young, Woodene Bell, Gloria Nerenberg, Audrey Ryback. Friday, May 5, 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. Red Cross Helps Again . . . Judging from an informal survey, not many stu dents seem to understand the meaning of the Red Cross symbol standing in front of the Armory. To members of the military training programs on campus it is an indispensable organization, the Military and Naval Welfare Service, where finan cial, morale, and communication problems are discussed and results are sought. At the head of the welfare service is William A. Staffon, field director of the local station as well as of installations at Lock Haven, Bedford and Hollidaysburg. A member of the Air Corps, Army, Navy or Marines has but to see Mr. Staf fon, and if ,the 'problem at all merits attention, Mr. Staffen contributes his time until the matter is solved and becomes a material benefit to the needy party Besides making loans which have totalled $3,- 938 since it was established August 12, 1943,. the Military and Naval Welfare Service deals with problems concerning communication. If a ser viceman's presence is needed at his hOme, the campus office gets in touch with the enlisted man's home service Red Cross chapter to obtain the whole story. The home office then sends in the information and a decision is made. Final say about any case rests with the serviceman's com manding officer. Trainees at the Infirmary also receive cig arettes, candy, shaving needs, cards, recreational equipment, and various other useful articles from the Red Cross service. All campus servicemen are entitled to finan cial aid if the situation warrants it. Members of the reserve are not included. No maximum a mount is specified and the aided man in uniform is allowed a considerably lengthy period in which to s pay the loan or grant back. 4lthough Mr. Staffon wears an army officer's uniform, he has no official military rank. The purpose of this action is justified by a cautionary measure. Capture by the enemy would automa tically give him a rank of captain for the time, so that he would be treated as such. Instead of the customary commissioned officer's rank insignia, he !wears the emblem of the Field Director. Turned Away . . . 'J.'S° dances are only for servicemen," was the snappy greeting the returning veteran received fro6l a pretty GSO hostess. Embarrassment could not heal the added wound she had inflicted. The ex-soldier was one of the many more-to come 1-C's. His wallet carried his honorable dis charge papers. He had drifted back sto college to begin life anew. And it was a new life the veteran discovered. As a serviceman he had known his place, even as a civilian he had fit in, but- now as a crossbred-that was different. The returning hero should not be allowed to develop that problem-child-complex. Tact and courtesy on the part of everyone can make him fit in again. From now on more and more of our serjously wounded will appear in public. Intermingled a mong students on campus, dressed in plain cloth es, these ex-servicemen can be distinguished only by their small gold lapel pins. According to Emily Post the greatest kindness we can show our injured is not to dwell on their handicaps. Ask no questions unless . in reply to what he says to you. Above all, Miss Post adds, re member that the one thing that helps is to make him realize he is not different from the man he was—and to assure him he is not to be set apart. So think before you speak. Remember that the misfortunate experience of the GS° hostess might have happened to anyone but let it serve as a warning to all. • lIIIIIIMIIIIMIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII I I IIIIOII 9 I p IIIII , IIIII , CqUegiate Review Sponge-rubber noses and vulcanite ears in the best Hollywood.rne-up tradition are now being built on the San Francisco campus of the Univer sity of• California. A class in the division of oral facial prosthetics under Dr. Charles Lipp and Dr. W. Rector Smith, clinical instructors in dentistry, is now in pro gress to instruct navy personnel and other den tists in the art of making artificial noses, ears, and other parts of the face and mouth. Many of the war injuries to the face, the in structors said, require restoration of jaws and other features. During the long period necessary for plastic surgery, it has been found that the morale of the patient is considerably improved if his appearance is not too unpleasant during the months of treatment. From the make-up studios at Hollywood, the university instructors learned the art of transforming faces by means of latex, resins, vulcanites, and porcelains and are teaching it to 'others so that the wounded veterans home from the front may be helped. —Associated Collegiate Press A soldier on guard one night on hearing a slight noise challenged bravely: "Who's there, friend or foe?" "Foe," came the prompt reply. "Oh goodness," prayed the soldier, "What do I do now?" In a letter to his parents, a Nevada soldier now in a Japanese feeling pretty of books sent tainly'help to Converse College in South Carolina, one of the first liberal arts colleges for women established in the South, has opened its classes to male stud ents. Reversing the present normal procedure. Who is the over-energetic student running a round on campus taking more midterms than he has to? , At a recent meeting of a University of Califor nia English class the professor confronted the stu dents with a blue book from the first midterm written by someone. not enrolled in the course. Perhaps advertiseMent of the grade would en courage the mysterious author to identify him self and fill out the necessary enrollment card— or perhaps it wouldn't. -E.A.K. COLLEGIAN * * * —The Gamecock— * :1 * prison camp writes: "I have been good lately. nve been reading lots from the United States which cer pass the time." —Editorial, The Daily Californian EM=l I:==:1 -- ""7 . ..*1Ni1i100104.... -• 6 T Z" ••,. - -1- iitori. ) •.-;...‘ . ;',1 , .", ‘. .... . '- i ,;O : 4 . . 4 a 1 !.‘1.1. v. - •- . - - ...) „ ~..:,•••• .. ~_ ... 00' ar . ....."" . r . Tri .4.,511111r1111N 8 11 ± .0 0. , ' , ~... ..e, .... .... -;.,..........._-_-.-. 00 . 4 0 • KID SALVAGE Front and Center Among the "hell from heaven" men who won their wings last. week at the Big. Spring Bombardier school is Second Lt. Edwin Krane who graduated as a flying . officer, in the Army Air Forces. Already_ skilled aerial gunners before.their training at Big Spring, the men have been thoroughly schooled in -the ',use of the American bombsights and have mastered the art of precision bombing as well as the principles of dead reckoning and pilot navigation. Aviation Cadet IrVin Fished was recently commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces after completing bombardier train ing at the Carlsbad Army Air Field, while Aviation Cadet Dick Reit ler has just reported to Carlsbad for the same training. • Hither and Yon Former DU Walt. Cleeland is now in the South Pacific with the Amphibious Corps of the Marines •in the Radar Division. Pvt. Paul Tompkins, former Delta Chi,.recently returned to Stuttgart, Arkan sas after spending a few days here preparatory to attending glider school. Robert Geigler recently won his Navy "Wings of Gold" and was commissioned "a second. Lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve fol lowing completion of the prescribed flight training at gebsacola, Fla. ,SCheduled to receive his silver pilot's wings and officer's , bays soon at the twin engine advanced flying school at Pimpa, Texas, is John Dobelbower. He received;, primary flight training at' Ballinger, Texas and basic flight training at Sherman, Texas. At the completion of his flight training at Pampa Field, he will be assigned to dtity as an instructor or a combat pilot.. Names and Fields • -Former students and Present second lieutenants Harold Pratt,Don ald Geogre, and Norris Slack are now located at Ellington Flying Field, Texas; those now at' Eagle Pass'^Field include Second LieUenants John Miller, Clarence Corey, Donald Stock, and George Schaffner. Second Lieutenants Clifford Rocker •anif'John Charles are at present station ed at Altus Field. • Back Again • Eugene Rifkin and Eugene draebner, Phi Kappa Sig, former Penn Staters, are stationed here now •as sailors in the V-12 Unit. •••••••••••,•••••••••••••••• AXIS LINE SMASHED BY WASTE PAPER! Fantastic? Not at all! The equipment our fighting men use is often paper. Vital parts of airplanes, bombs, and tanks are paper. Paper makes or wraps more than 700,000 vitally needed war arts= des. But there is today a nation-wide shortage of waste paper. You can help smash the Axis by sav ing paper. Turn it in every week! U.S. VICTORY WASTE PAPER CAMPAIGN i • • • • • I • •:••• • •,••• • • • • • • • ,so • By RITA M. BELFONTI PRIDAY, MAY 5, IW44' zAls SAVE • A BUNDLE A WEEK ' t...,_ ,_,e-,----. SAVE SOME BOYS LIFE
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