PAGE FOUR THE COLLEGIAN IWO. Successor to the Venn 1904. find .‘-he FrW Lance, > established ♦ 1887. Published every Friday during tht regular College' year ky staff of the Daily Collegian of The Pennsylvania Htate College. Entered ns' second class matter July 6., 1034 at the Post Office at State College, Pa. under -the act of by mail only at $l.OO a semester. Editor-in-chief Business Manager - Emil A. Kubele Herbert Hasson Advertising Manager Managing Editor Kathryn Vogel B. J» Culler Bditorial Board: v . HaWoli ‘SSK Editorial Assistants—Kutfi - Constad, Gcrtiude Lawatsch, Reporters—Benn^tt UV Fairorth, Ncrenberg, Estelle Mumiger .--——Betty . Fed Junior Advertising Board—Bernice bineberg, Elaine Miller STAFF THIS WEEK Managing Editor ——————Fay E Young News Editor ®* n Assistant Advertising Manager -p v Wasson N'evt's Assistants —Richard Sehlegel, Gwenneth Timmis. Friday, September 29, 1944 Pep Rally A pep rally and bonfire has been planned for tonight to’build interestand enthusiasm in the 1944Nittany Lion football team’s fail campaign. If this is to be a means for the student - body to show its support of the team then attendance tonight should be one hundred 'per cent. It is compulsory that freshmen and hat men be present. The bulk of the spirit is expected to come from the fresh tnen who will have their first opportunity to take part in a collegiate pep rally. It will be the duty of upperclassmen to |be there and show the freshmen that such affairs are vital for victory on the football field. Confidence does not originate spontan eously in a group of men who have been se lected to carry football hopes for a college. If the team sees a rousing crowd tonight, and hears “Beat Muhlenberg” throughout the rally, much will have been done in giv ing the team cause to go out to Beaver Field tomorrow and begin the season with a Nittany victory. And that’s what the stu dents want.' Special permission has been given to the V-12 unit to attend the rally, and it is ex pected that all will take advantage. Why is this pep rally being held? Because tomorrow the team is going to have a rally qf its own. Student spirit means team spir it, and victory. V-Day Plans The College has cooperated with State College citizens in completing final plans for V-Day. Someday Germany will fall, and their battle will be over. Many Germans will be sad and many will be happy. America’s reaction will be undoubtedly unprecedented. Emotion will stir, especially tftat of people with relatives in the armed forces. Optimism will sweep the land and poison the minds of individuals with the hope that our men soon will be homeward bound across the oceans. And yet Germany’s end will only mean the beginning of a new drive, a drive which in every respect might result as a more menacing, more costly price for total world peace . . . the elimination of Japan. Let us not be too hasty in our varied preparations for V-Day. Adhere to the plans of the au thorities but don’t be original in your own. Originality has meant doom. Hitler’s ideas are now backfiring and he is in trouble, un avoidable, ugly trouble. We can be thankful for that. When V-Day comes to State College, re member the lives that had been sacrificed since Pearl Harbor. That wouldn’t seem to be reason for rejoicing. The only reason for rejoicing would be the fact that America tagainiproved herself a member of theadaM ♦ • r'l'-'- . *;JfV fjrrt Hews^Of The Week; : JAMES Hi MOYER Assistant Professor of Education The military and naval activities of .the past week have not resulted in any'major triumph for the Allied forces. Steady, and somewhat increas ing'pressure, is being'exerted on the Axis defenses in the various theaters of the war. On the western front in Europe, comparatively little progress has been made by the Allied armies. The fate of General BreretOn’s airborne division, which captured and held Arnhem for ten days under murderous enemy fire, is still in doubt. Late reports indicate the Nazis recaptured the north approach to the strategic Nijmengen bridge in Holland. It is evident that the left flank of the Allied line has suffered at least a temporary set back. , Nazis Dig In Farther south, along the Siegfried Line, num. erous reports indicate that the Nazis are frantically digging in for a bitter, last ditch stand. Due to a news blackout for the past few days, little is known concerning. the activities of the Allied forces which have been probing for weak points in the Siegfried Line for the past few days. The only report .available is that this- sector of the front is in a “fluid” state. The fact that General Eisenhower has called for a' slave revolt inside Germany-may indicate that he is expecting a ma jor break through soon. In the Belfort area, Gen eral Patch’s 7th Army.is making slow, but steady progress.. • , • . - On the eastern front, four powerful Soviet armies have virtually, completed the liberation of Estonia and Latvia. Riga, last Baltic capital in enemy hands and a highly valuable naval base for the newly unfettered-Red Baltic fleet, is ex pected to fall'soon.'-v It .'is 'significant that the Red Baltic fleet is reported to be working in coopera tion with the land armies. In Poland the Reds continue to tighten the arc around the Polish cap ital of Warsaw. Huge air armadas of more than 1000 Flying Fortresses and Liberators with strong fighter, protection continue .to hammer freight yards in Frankfurt, warehouses and rail,yards at Coblenz, and rail yards and synthetic oil-chemical plants at oft-bombed Ludwigshafen. Royal Air Force Lancasters and Halifaxes ;pounded the besieged Nazi garrison at Calais. > Fighters and fighter bombers worked in close' cooperation with the ground forces. In the Balkans developments;'of:-major propor tions are now in the.making. : The'capitulation of Rumania and Bulgaria,'and .the swift advances of Russians to the frontiers of Hungary, Jugoslavia and Greece has placed the'outflanked "Germans in an untenable position. .The position of, German (Continued'on 'page eight) ■ THE COLLEGIAN A Lean And Hungry Look Dear Brutus, This has been a frenziedly busy week for me. I have been conduct ing a poll to find; out how much fireshrrtart women know arid after the most scientific consideration's my conclusion is, “Not a : damn thing.” The methods used' in gathering the needed information were novel, but nevertheless effective. I sta tioned myself near the main gate in a clump of bushes with my equipment and waited for the first victim. In interviewing women I have found several articles necess ary—a pencil, a loose-leaf note book, an eraser, an assortment of flavored lollypops, and a small chintz. covered blackjack. It was quite a problem to know which women were freshmen un til I hit upon the happy solution of assuming that every pretty co ed who was not wearing an en gagement ring, a fraternity pin, or •a black iace negligee had not been on the campus .more than one ' se mester.' As soon -as ’I had. identified the little ;■ darling , as a’ frosh, the rest- was- easy. • T am. Cassius,” I -would, say, “andl want.to ask you a few. ques tions.” . “Help!” they- screamed in terror as they began to flee; A rapid lunge and-a shaip.tap behind the ear with the blackjack and they were ready to. answer my ques tions. ,- My.poll consisted of queries con cerning Penn State customs and traditions' and I was shocked at the appalling ignorance of an all too large number of coeds. For example: Fifteen per cent do not know where the Lion Shrine is; 22 per c6nt do not know what it stands for. Seventy-five per cent of, the co eds asked were unable to sing the third -'verse of the Alma Mater; eight per cent did not know that there is a third verse to the song. Sixty-three per cent of them did not know where or what the “Old Willow” is. One freshman woman thought it was the name-of a song .by Gilbert and Sullivan. (When this particular question was asked the coeds were stand ing within thirty-five yards of the tree.) One hundred per cent of the co eds knew where the Rathskellar, the Corner Room, and the movies are. And this ignorance of what they should know and revere, Brutus; is what hurts'. I suppose we are Ship Ahoy Before the rumor gets any fur- the most G.I. sailor in the Navy ; ther, those men digging up Miles . . . Pvt. Del Elders has slowed Street are not making an under- down considerably since the Ham- ; ground tunnel from Bks. 20 to ilton Prop girls returned from ■ Atherton Hall. They’re just lay- vacation . . . Maybe he’s under ; ing telephone wire. Just ask A/S the thumb again . . . After hear- j Tom Greweling ... He tried to go ing that coeds at the University through it . . . The “weed-ah-be- of Wisconsin outnumber males by ; ; deet’’ twins, better known as A/S a 9 to 1 ratio, A/S Lou Piha has ’ Bobbie Ulmer and A/S Robert his sea-bag packed to go West Shaw expect to organide a secret Piha will also handle the quota society of the same name .. . alloted to those who don’t date i Ulmer’s hard work has been tell- . . . Pvt. Walt Kemmerer and Pvt. ing on him of late ... It says here' Ray Jackson have applied for . a , that the young lady A/S George first mortgage on Mac Hall . . . - Hofmeister is interested in has They anticipate taking it'over . . - something to do with basketball. A/S “Pretty Boy” Hannum isn’t .. . . . There were two celebraties bashful. He just has too many ; at the St. Louis-Phillies baseball women to care for . . . Even a game on Saturday . . . Pvt. freshman named Phyllis ... A/S “Whitey” Kurowski watched his Elmer Schmitzer rode, in from / famous brother live up the fam- Autoport on the seat of a bi . ily tradition. cycle . ~. It was the young lady ’ More of the Data ... aid the baling. Who knows but what a certain tSGQJtI • » ► apprentice seaman in Bks. 26, At the big “411” dinner-dance ! alias “The Nose” will be Dick tonight will be A/S Harry Dun- Tracy’s next opponent .. . Speak- ham and Pat Kell . . . A/S ■: ing of said detective, that was not “Frenchy”. Franch and: Jenny j Gravel Gertie With A/S Smokey Keeler . . . A/S Bob Zusman. and j Stover on Saturady ■ night . . . Rose Sherman .'. .‘'A/S Ed Ernst, | Smoker .:. Apd t ',thi% ancU Ginqy,Keck ~, • -week’s >Medal»-of Victhiyf' goes- to' Phatr <and. Jane -Watson; .Jig FftIDA^’SEPTEMBER 29,<1944 - getting top sophisticated to care about -what other students'; at the: - College thought important enough i to make into tradition.' .Cassius is going to dej something about it. First,-1 am going to propose that freshman women be required to learn all the songs, cheers, and tra ditions in addition to the names of all the handsome male students on the campus about which they have already informed themselves. Sec ondly, that Tribunal be given the power to enforce these customs and punish violations, women obvious- 1 ly being unable to govern them selves. (I am sure the fellows will not object to the extra work. And now let us take a gander at this week’s mail. Dear Cassius, I had a date this weekend, and he asked me why the middle of the back of White Hall is painted - white. Of course I said that' it was because it was White Hall.-. But he said, “No,- that couldn’t be, because 1 one side of-Atherton Hall is paint- 1 ed. white too.” Cduld- youl tell- meV why.? Dear- Perplexed. . ! .* . It is paintedwhiteto prevent,the'. squirrels for. trying to get ,irt and.; drinking the water \ out .of • ••tfijS*? swimming pool. Also, because if ft' .were not, .people.like you would' go' around all semester asking why', the hack of White Hall isn’t paint ed white. ■ - Dear Cassius. I’m in a terrible fix! I’m toeing' threatened! Attempts have been made on my life—l’m too young to die. What can I • do? ' Please help! HELP! It will soon toe too late. Tearfully Pursued . Dear Tearfully Pursued, You had better stop that canned heat toefore it is too late. If by any chance I am doing you an injustice in assuming that' you are a hopeless alcoholic, I am very sorry and for five bucks I will arrange to give you a' decent funeral. - Well, Brutus, old boy,, that’s about all. I. don’t want you te feel too badly about getting drunk and writing me that terrible, letter last week. What’s done. is done. Forget about it. P.S.—Can you- lend me five bucks? I aim trying to hire some-, body to • take . my. final' examina tions for me. . . By A/S FRED VOGEL Perplexed Cassius Cassius Your Pal .Cassius
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