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Fate of Germany
Last week. a member of the faculty expressed
the opinion that Germany should be ruled after
the war by a commission composed of England,
the United States, Russia, and the Reich itself.
He believed that democrary could be established
with Allied help.
There is no question that the mentioned coun
tries will have the power of life or death over
Germany. Death of the country and its people
certainly will be an impossibility, but inevitable
liquidation of the Nazi fanatics end their follow
ers must not be of any concern to Reich repre
sentatives at any such proposed commission.
Did Germany send any commission to Poland
asking, perhaps, in what manner the Polish people
wished to be destroyed by the Hitlerites? Or did
any of the other countries which the Nazis over
ran entertain a •delegation of the German coun
try and discuss with them methods of their 'own
annihilation?
The German voice was heard,enough in Poland,
Austria, and outside the doors of Moscow. That
voice has been somewhat silenced, but it should
be completely and conclusively silenced until it
w4ain proves itself worthy of honest cooperation
Frith the rest of the world.
German culture, which has long been ranked
with the foremost in the world, should be given
primary consideration as a postwar rebuilding
program. The people of Germany are not Nazis,
but machines of the Nazis. Fear has forced the
Germans into an unwanted way of life, a life of
false promises, an existence of doubt. The Allies
must forever convince the German man and we
men the Nazi form of government to be a blun
der. But the culture or Germany must be encour
aged, Germany must be made to realize that the
beauty of their past masters should not disappear
with the Mizi.
The old saying that the people of a nation can
not be destroyed should be kept in mind at the
peace conferences. Make way for the good parts
of Germany.
Wartime Thanksgiving
Classes will be held today in the usual wartime
manner. Thanksgiving Day at Penn State will not
be characterized by bus-loads of students leav
ing town, or professors pleasantly sneaking away
for a day or two with the family for just a little
rest with the relatives.
This Thanksgiving Day will see less turkeys
and more war bonds. And especially 'on this day,
as the sixth war bond drive is starting, everyone
should think more about war bonds.
Saturday night, the ASTP units on campus will
offer to the College, the War Stamp Stomp, ad
mission to which is a twenty-five cent stamp. Stu
dents and servicemen, the majority of whom
would naturally not be individuals making stu
pendous sums of money, could attend this dance,
enjoy themselves, and at the same time, help out
a national effort affecting the lives of millions of
people.
Campus Pride?
And then there was the editorial about "let's
keep the campus clean."
A walk up the mall the other day resulted in
the counting of 227 1 pieces of wastepaper lying
around, not on the whole campus, but just on the
right side of the mall from the main entrance to
Old Main. This is a silly pastime one might say,
but it establishes proof of the increasing laxity of
students in their respect for a college campus.
So "let's keep the campus clean."
THE COLLEGIAN
"For a Better Penn State"
Establiished 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian,
established 1904, and 'he Free Lance, established 1887.
Editor-in-Chief Business Manager
Emil A. Kubek Betty Federman
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Evelyn Wasson B. J. Cutler
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Women's Editor Helen V. Hutton
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Sports Editor _Victor Danilov
Editorial Assistants---Ruth Constad, Gertrude Latwatsch,
Estelle Simon. Pegg.ie Weaver, Fay Young.
Reporters —Woodene Bell, Bennett Fairorth, Gloria Nercu
berg, Pat Turk.
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Sports Editor _Fay Young
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News Assistants—Leon Aaron, Barbara Ingraham, Lynette
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Pat Turk
NOME NOW 7714 T TRAINS AND WES ARE' NEEDED. .15?, IfIENTXTRAite;
Old -Mania,
Glancing through some old Col
legians one night we came upon a
column called "Penn Statements"
written by one - Serene Rosenberg,
former managing editor of this rag.
Serene rivaled Max Schulman of
"Barefoot Boy with Cheek" fame
in her bitter essays, and many an
alleged big-wig and campus. or
ganizati on withered under her
biting sarcasm. She spared nobody
in her literary blitzkriegs, not
even, bless 'em, the United States
Navy.
If we recall correctly, her part
ing blast was at the "little boys in
white coats" as she termed the V
l2ers in summer uniforms. The
last brought a deluge of mail from
the swabbies to the Commander
himself who resented the compari
son between our stalwart sailors
and the Good Humor man.
Without Fear
But Sy was fearless and wrote
her 15 inches every week in spite
of the assassins who lay in wait
for her every Wednesday night in
the bushes outside Carnegie Hall.
Last June she departed these
smoke-stained walls with never a
bitter thought for those she left
behind as she went on to higher
and loftier things.
A little more of this will sound
like an obituary, but honest, Sy
isn't dead. She lives on, as far as
we know, in. Pittsburgh, and she
has a position at Gimbel's writing
ad copy for—of all things—infant's
wear! Which, just goes to show you
that ' she's really a sweet kid at
heart.
Way way back in the beginning
of the column we started out to
quote a little item from "Penn
Statements" about the zealous
campus politician who ran around
telling his campaign workers net
to forget to vote. He kept himself
so busy he forgot to cast a ballot
and lost the election by one vote!
Beauteous Betty •
Beauteous Betty Lyman, theta
alum, hied herself to California to
marry Ens. Charlie Good, former
phi kappa sig here . Her theta
sisters say she was married in a
little Spanish chapel . . . Sounds
tres romantic! . . . Theta Tommie
Thompson left school to join her
husband Lt. J.ack Hunter in Kear
ny, Nebraska . . . Delta Gain
Betty Cresswell recently married
Ens. Earl Lines and was visiting
last week . . . Ditto Claire Con
way, theta phi alpha alum, who
came up with her husband Staff
Sgt. Jimmy of the Army Air Corps
. . Jimmy is home from the wars
temporarily after 18 months over- in. Tuesday for a makeup examine
seas . . . Kappa delt Betty Jane tion, announced Bruce V. Moore;
Holsinger has marritdiSeapam 2/o :director of the. psycho-educational .•
By NANCY CARASTRO
. . . AEPhi Phyliss Schweitzer is
engaged to Staff Sgt. Ted Sandler,
AAF, now in the Pacific theater
. . . SDT Lee Berlin wears a
sparkler from phi sig alum Kenny
Sivetts . •
Ghost Town
State College will be inhabited
only by WCTUers and eager-beav
ers this weekend as the rest of the
normal population will be off to
see the team trounce Pittsburgh at
the city of the same name . . .
Among them will be Zetas Bobby
Briggs, Betty Craven, Phyliss
Long, and June Culver . . Going
in a trio are alpha chi Pris Wag
ner, theta Jeanie Weaver, and
theta •phi alpha' Kitty Reddinger
. . . Theta Ruthie Twichell will be
going too . . . She's seeing sigma
pi Jerry Heisler in the Smoky
City . . .
Back Again
Last weekend Larry 'Feries. for
mer sigma pi and All-College
prexy, was in town visiting . . .
Alpha Xi Delt Penny Embury was
tip . . . Kappa delts Betty Farble
and Marjorie Bilstein came to see
some new sisters initiated into the
sorority . . . Gamma phi's Jean
Tritchler, Tommy Ehlers, and
Dotty Monroe all took a weekend
off from practice teaching to come
up . . . ChiO Peggy Trump Metz
and her husband Bill, a former
KDR, came to see their friends . . .
Bill is now in the Signal Corps . . .
Phi Mu alum Mary Jean Hoskins
visited . . . Zeta. Noima Van
Tuyle's man, Seaman 2/c Jim
Hutchison, came from Bainbridge
to see her . . . Lt. Mark Silverman
journeyed here to see his fiancee
AEPhi Joyce Langunoff . . Aud
rey Kreegar, also AEPhi, was vis
ited by Marine Pvt. Johnny Peters,
now at Princeton . . . Kappa
Betty Meyer is still happy over
her visit to Camp LeJeune to see
Marine Pvt. Don Bretherick, for
merly herein V-12 . . . Ex-delta
gam prexy Marge Cherry . Newton
came visiting . . . AEPhi . Adie
Gluck went to Harrisburg to see
Pvt. Jack Geist . . . Alpha chi
Marilyn Globikh, oft - crowned
beauty queen, is expecting Tom
Datz, a sigma'pi at F and M, this
weekend. —MANIAC
Make-up Psychology Exam
All freshmen and transfer stu
dents who have not taken the psy
chology tests given during fresh
man week should report to 207
Home Economics Building 'at 7 p
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER .23„ 1944
A .Lean: And-:llu4gry Look
Today. is Thanksgiving. It is" a legal holiday.
Everyhody•knows what n' legal holiday• is. It is a
day when all stores; banks; and places of business
are closed—a day when tired.rneh who have been
working• without respite •for months, sit down in
an easy chair,•take off their shoes, and beat their
wives with them—it is a day when students at
Penn State attend classes.
However today is not a day of Thanksgiving to
some students at the College, for ' yesterday the
polls closed on another All-College election. Na
turally there will be some cases of disappoint
ment and some who will claim they were shafted.
Shafting, a technique not new to politics, con
sists of a maneuver to give one candidate the
dirty end of the stick. In the past it had reached
such a state of refinement nere that two new
words were added to the campus vernacular to de
scribe respectively, the perpetrator, and the vic
tim: of the practice—shafter, and shaftee. •
At the risk of appearing naive I say that shaft
ing has been diminished this semester and that we
have had a clean election. It was a hard fought
campaign with a normal measure of the tradi
tional mudslinging at, and deadcatting of the op
position candidates. Now that the results are a
matter of record we will see both the victorious
and defeated office-seekers accept the verdict _of
their student constituencies with good will, and
-bury the •hatchets where. they do •the mcik
•,.:
Eager .to do my bit in this 'dernonstration 4f
demOratic student government; I presented my-
self at the voting place carrying with me the in
spiring words of my party boss, Warde Heeler,:
"Vote early, and often."
Voting, I am sorry to say, was no such easy mat
ter. At the table in the first floor lounge of Old
Main where the dirty work was taking place, I
was forced to shoulder past three sinister looking
individuals, who, I learned, were clique chair
men watching each other stuff the ballot boxes.
After a short wait I was able to pry the attention
of an elections committee official from his well
thumbed copy of the Police Gazette.
"You pay yer poll-tax yet?" he wanted to know.
Taking my money and putting it in a box labled
"Fund for the rehabilitation •of needy election
committee officials" he asked for my identificaL
tion. I did not have to show him more than my
matriculation, social security, and draft .card 4,
~.
my reform school diploma, fingerprints, and. pe
digree proclaiming me a full-bred Ilex TerrieV ber
fore he would give me a ballot -1 -'' '1 i " ' " ; i
I found the three clique chairmen only -too will, :
ing to help me mark• my ballois, ,E§6aping. with
minor cuts and lacerations, I deterV npd i to lint
next . time . by. absentee ballot. ; hie pretty c coe .
behind me in line had no diffieultii'in'identifying .
themselves. The elections clerk would expeitlt
slide under the table and gaze fondly at their legs.
"Yep, that's So-And-So," he would say.