PAGE FOUR Editorials Your Duty As many Penn State Alumni battle all over the' world the ’ few who are fortunate enough under existing conditions return to the campus this weekend for the third time since Pearl Harbor. This group of former Penn Staters will not com pare in size with crowds of prewar days. There will be a new note included in the Alumni Home coming plans. Alumni will be back in the Nittany Valley to participate in the All-College Convoca tion to be held at New Beaver Field tomorrow afternoon. Alumni, faculty members, students, and service men will gather to pay tribute to approximately 10,000 men of Penn State who are now in the arm ed forces. The number of killed or' missing in action is nearing 200, and before the complete subjugation of the German and Japanese nations, this total will be an enormous increase over World War I figures. The alumnus, the faculty member, the service man, and the civilian students each will have his or her special reason to be at the Convocation. Some of the individuals will be. there with the ir emory of a father, son or brother who will never see Penn State again. Some will be there because of an inner sense of duty to fellow Americans, be cause of a want to pay honor and reverence to people they never knew, yet know what they stood for. But all should appreciate these men in the service, and especially pay homage to the men in uniform who have died by being present at the All-College Convocation. Statement of the ownership, management, circulation, etc., required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, of The Collegian, published weekly at State College, Penna . for September 29, 1944: State of Pennsylvania SS., . County of Centre. Before me, a notary public, in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Betty M. Federman, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that she is the Business Manager of The Collegian and that the following is, to the best of her knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management, etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the act of August 24, 1912, em bodied m section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, to wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, mana ging editor, and business managers are: Publisher, Col legian Inc., State College, Penna.; Editor, Emil Kubek, State College, Penna.; Managing Editor, Bernard J. Cutler, State College, Penna.; Business Manager, Betty M. Feder man. State College, Penna. 2. That the owners are: Collegian, Inc., a non-profit cor poration. .1. That the known bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders, owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: None. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security hold ers as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other judiciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant’s full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and condi ditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold: stock and securities- in a capacity other than that of a bona fide o\yner, and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him. BETTY M. FEDERMAN Business Manager Sworn to and ascribed before me this 29th day of Sep tember, 1944. . C. RUTH PORTER, N. P. (My commission expires February 1, 1947) THE COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State.’,’ THE COLLEGIAN Established 1940. Successor tb the Yean State - Collegian, established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887, REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING A, National Advertising Service, Inc, College Publishers Representathe » 4*o Madison Avr. • New Yore, N; y. Chicago • Boston • Los Anouks • San Francisco Ediior-in-Chief Business Manager Emil A. Kubek Herbert Hasson Advertising Manager Managing Editor Kathryn Vogel B. J. Culler Editorial Board: News Editor Helen V. Hatton Feature Editor ‘.Nancy • Carastro Sporty Editor : Victor Danilov Editorial Assistants—Ruth Constad, Gertnide Lawatach, Peggie Weaver, Fay Young. .Reporters—Bennett Fairorth, Gloria . Simon, Pat Turk. Assistant Business Manager Betty« Federman Junior Advertising Board —Bernice Fineberg, Eluine Miller STAFF THIS ISSUE Managing Editor Assistant Managing Editor Sports Editor Assistant Advertising Manager News. EJdltor.... Friday, October 13,4944.\ Nerenlterg, "Estelle Bennett Fairorth Estelle Simon .. .Victor Danilov ■ Ev Wasson /,.'.£eda’ 'Aaron;' <? ; McAllen, GwyffieJlvTimmfs ’; ? "I y.’.V. " ;; 7V'V' *• • .... »•. T.?- '4 •f • —-r . _ © ESQUIM, INC.. 1944. / T Feprint«d-from th& November issue of Esquire. • 1 /c Gflßt£S!% News of the Week Lynn Chrisiy, Assistant Professor of English Composition Western Europe: Canadians in northern Belgium are meeting fanatical resistance in their drive to clean the Germans from the Schelde Estuary and to make Ant werp an Allied port. At Aachen, the ,U. S. First Ar- . In Italy, the Nazis are making my is pulverizing the - city with a final effort in the last fringe of artillery and bombing planes. Ad- mountains that protects the Po vance units of doughboys, with Valley. If the Allied Fifth Army tanks and flamethrowers, are' can break this line, it will be able making their way toward the to make effective use of its ‘armor heart of the city. The example of and motorized, power on the re- Aachen’s destruction may give latively flat floor of the Po Val the Germans some idea of what ley. ' lies in store for cities which choose to resist the Yanks. Further south, the U. S.- Third Army appears to be making its way between Nancy and Metz. If Patton’s forces are able to by pass these ancient strongholds, they may cross the German fron tier ahead of schedule. However, the fierce struggle at Fort Driant has slowed the American .advan ce and has now progressed into a grim, Wellsian battle amid the subterranean mazes of the fort. Another U. S. Army, the Sev enth, Under Lt. General Patch, is closing in on Epinal. In front of the German defenses at Belfort, the commander of the French _First Army has predict ed that unless the Allies can make a break-through within the next three weeks the French winter will make it impossible to conduct major operations.until spring. Southern Europe. In Greece, the Allies have taken Corinth, while the Germans are making frantic efforts to get out of the peninsula. !l O " THE COLLEGIAN “I T'e made it” Kid Salvage To do so they must run a gaunt let of British, Yugoslav Partisan and Russian soldiers, with the ever-increasing possibility that their escape' route ma’y be out off before they can cross Yugoslavia. Eastern. Europe: From (Riga .to Belgrade the Russians; are moving toward Berlin. Below Riga a Rus sian force has, isolated • 100,000 Germans in Latvia'. Further, south, three Russian, columns are con verging on East Prussia. The port of'Meme!" has: been.-cut off.' and fighting ’is going on : in; the city outskirts. • - • ■ Along the Warsaw -front, the Russians. seem to be stalemated, but further, south, in Hungary, the Soviet powerhouse, with aid from Marshal:Tito,.is rolling up to Budapest. The fall of: this, city, would open up the- Danube to Vi enna. ' Far East: In. the Far East, the Americans are losing the war in China and winning the war .in the Pacific. News dispatches do not play up the great gains, which the Japanese war machine has. been, making, on the Asiatic mainland,’ but the decreasing activity !of U. S. land-based bombers, and espe cially that of the B-29’s, is sub (Continued on page, eight) Cassius Writes Dear Brutus, A deathly pall has fallen over the quiet hamlet of State College. The faces of the students are grim and somber. It is going to be an ordeal and those who hope to survive are steeling them selves. The local drug stores have reported a run on their small stock of No-Doze and Sta-Awake pills. The town has taken on the aspect of a plague spot. To some of its inhabitants a bout of cholera would come as a welcome relief from the terror. Cholera strikes seldom and without warning, run ning its vicious course and swiftly residing. The plague finales, on the other hand, appears on pre scribed days of the year with the monotenous reg ularity of a trip hammer, and all the precautions of a frantic student body serve in no way to les sen its ghastly effect. Final examinations were introduced into this country in 1702 by Professor Gonzales Shurdlu of the University of Greater Tough Apples. He ini tiated the infamous practice in order to flunk the entire senior class at the University, including one Eager Beever, who had not only .been' taking up too much of the time of. his wife,‘the Tbeautous Peaches Shurdlu, but also too much room on the old man’s couch. The plan was a success. Beever flunked out of school and the. Professor wap aide to call the luscious Peaches his own again, because as an old diary records it, ‘She luvved only col lege-men.’’And for some reason or another final, exams have never since left the American aca demic scene. . . Naturally you will want to know why the mere thought of this summary test at the end of the semester should cause so much frantic cramming and misery. Well, that’s easy. Take the .depart ment of hysterical horticultural hedonism for hn example. The department head is known as Bar-2 Kloppagain. There is another man in the depart ment who wants, because of the greater prestige, to be called Bar-2. Ponball. At present he is only called Bar-1 Pinball and he is doing his best' to steal Kloppagain’s title. He is drawing up an incredibly tough final in order to flunk the whole class and Kloppagain, who is trying to protect his reputation as the toughest squirrel to crack, has already flunked his class before final week. This state of affairs is technically known as the “mousetrap” or the “squeeze play” and the stu dents, to quote that outstanding figure in early English parliamentary law, Jack the Ripper, “are getting the dirty end of the stick.” Of course there is another side to the story. Kloppagain’s house burned down four, times last year, and Ponball' spends the between-semester vacation in the infirmary recovering from severe bruises and lacerations. CASSIUS. P.S.—Can you lend me five bucks? . I want to buy a three gallon can of kerosene and, a box '• of matches. . . FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1944
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