' fPAOE TWO THE -COLLEGIAN "For A Setter Penn Stata" Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Colleg 'lnn, established 1904, and the Free Lance, established •I 077. Published every Tuesday and Friday morning dur ing the regular College year by the sta££ o£ the Daily Collegian of the Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second class matter July !i, 1934. at the State College, Pa., Post Office under the act o£ March 8, 1879. Subscriptions by mail at $1 a semester mef»rtts*i2Nnro i ? oi» wAnwAi. Aoyi2*nj u«. National Advertising Service, fciv t Co/lcsc Publishers llepresentaUte ® AHO MADIGOH AVU. ® NEW Yon* N V Chicago • nofiTMM • Lcn awcki.r j • 3am r.v.M; :o Editor-In-CMef Business Manager .( Woodene Bell Mary Louise Bayey | Managing Editor Advertising Manager Peggie Weaver IRosennary Gfaamtoius EDiTOIUAL STAFF News Editor .. Women's Editor feature Editor Sports Editor . Senior Board ~ Barbara Ingraham, Audrey Ryback Junior Board Larry Foster, Kay Knell, Lynette Lurul quist, Caroline Manville, Lois Marks, Suzanne Mc- Cauley, David Nalven, Doris Stowe, Gwenneth Tim mis, Jane Wolbarst. •Reporters Kay Badollet, Frank Davis, Arlene Green, Jfilsie Harwitz, ;MarUynn 'Jacobson, A/S Fred Keeker, Leo Komfeld. Shirley Lyon, Elaine Mittelman, Kay McCormick, A7S Jack Reid, Nancy Sherriff, Lucy Seifinsr, jßuth Tiahcrman. Graduate Counselor AO.VHttTISiNG STAFF Senior 'Board Assistant Advertising Managers Sally Holstrum. Advertising Assistants.. iDorothy Leibovitz, Ria Hanzlick Circulation Manager Selma.Sabel STAFF THIS ISSUE •Managing Editor Copy Editors ... •"News .Editor Defense Df Batmen It is. one of the great fallacies of the Ameri can public to sit back-and criticize .while making •no attempt to remedy the subject of their criti cism. The Penn. State student body is no except ion. <Much has .been said, and little done about the failure to enforce freshman customs. Hat 'men have born the brunt of the criticism but a glance at the figures will show the fault lies with the student body. In 1942 the active hatmen on campus numbered, nearly 150, made up of such •groups as Parmi Nous, Skull and Bones, Druids, Friars, and Blue Key. It was their job to help enforce customs on 1500 freshmen. Today the active hatmen number 17, approximately one tenth as many as 1942, but they are still expected to enforce the customs on the same number of freshmen. The figures speak for themselves, the •Penn State student body has failed to cope with one of its most elementary problems. PENN STATE'S NEWEST This new and conveniently located shop brings you the. last word in exclusive men’s attire. Here you find original designs at a price suitable to the budget of every student. Outstanding clothes are an asset to any student ! ! ! ATTENTIONS Bwy Gift Ceirtifmcates Mr Yaiu/r Mends A /Move// Christmas Gift 1 '! Hurs Men Shop Gloria Neretiberg ... Patricia Turk Mervin Wilf .. George Sample Louis Bell Phyllis Deal Dorothy Leibovitz, Audrey Ryback Ruth Tisherman, Jane Woibarst Frank Davis —GRS As New 4s The 114 E. Collage^Avenue. Pern Statements By PEGGIE WEAVER Have a little snow? Are you dreaming’ of a white Christmas? Only 17 days until that promis ed vacation day, so stick around here, and you’ll no doubt forget all about your dream. A word to newcomers to State College climate —cheer up, the snow is always gone by May 1. ASTP FinaJe The ASTP's left as they came, with no fanfare and no complaints. But we’ll miss them, and we hope they'll miss us. Can’t miss this chance to print a final story about the “dogfaces.” A frosh coed, resigned to standing in lines, patiently stepped into a seemingly unending one which she thought must be important. After waiting a half hour she nervously noted that there were a lot of uniforms in front and in back of her. [Finally nearing the head of the line, she found she was next in a row of ASTP’s handing in their over shoes. IFflorida Cure On the premise that Penn State women look slightly beat, the girls have instituted a coed sun lamp treatment. Treatments are by appointment, only, and the charge is 25 cents for six minutes ■plus a rubdown. Their slogan—“ You can be healthy, too.” Six coeds are regular customers,; ■but the girls expect a rush before vacation. Order of the Day The NROTC boys have bfeen dreaming up some; weird station memos: We were told about one ordering that “all trainees are ito report to the infirmary for vivisection between 1 and 1:30 p. m,;” and another that stated;' “It has come to the, attention of the commanding'.officer that hate been smiling. Any trainee seen smiling will report to jsick bay.”, Success Formula w • (Professor R. ;E. Dengler from the Greek De partment handed this bit of wisdom to his stud ents as the key to health, wealth and happiness: Early to bed, Early to rise, .. -. . Work like , hell, ~ And advertise. - ' Ignorance Is Bliss ■A coed sat in her fourth, floor room in Atherton Saturday night waiting for her date. Other girls lounged around on the bed and floor helping her pass the tune. Suddenly there was a knock. “Who is it?” asked the coed, and a masculine voice re plied, “Are you ready?” It was her date, a green frosli, who didn’t know men were not allowed above the first floor. Prof: I won’t lecture until the class settles down. ; Voice: Sleep it off, old man. Come In And See The New Bair!'! Jacks':. Smart and Practical For Everyday Osj. THE COLLEGIAN A Lean and Hungry Look Dear Brutus Among the least publicized of Penn State’s virtues is its weather. Of course, this merit is purely a medical view point of the cold, clammy climate that annually throws the. non-hibernating natives of the Nittany Valley into the hands of the pill-dispensing specialists. Being a fairly normal .person, I succumbed to the dread local malady, Galloping Consumption or Cemetery Cough. This latter name is in memoriam to those less har dy sufferers who now use a tomb stone for a pillow. After being of ficially pronounced sick by the house pre-med, who takes a fiend ish delight in using thermometers other than the oral type, I start ed the trek to the dispensary. ■ Ah, the dispensary, the protec tor of the ailing, the infirm, and the students who seek to nullify the classes they cut. As the pla gue-ridden population was partic ularly heavy that day, I sat down to read the magazines provided for waiting patrons. I was lucky to find a recent issue of the Police Gazette, August 1909. The pictures in it raised my temperature a few degrees. Two hours later my name wa s called, and I went into a back room where an alluring female dressed in white led me to a dark : corner, sat down- beside me, press ed her warm hand in mine, and. asked me to open my mouth. I first thought , that 1 had somehow wandered into a sorority house, and eagerly obeyed. iLittle did my fevered brain realize that she was only a nurse taking my pulse and temperature. • - While waiting, (for a change) for . the -doctor to come in, I was puzz led by signs on the wall reading; “Let Underwood Do Your Under taking,” “Underwood the Reliable Undertaker," and- “Make Your Last Trip via Underwood, the Master Undertaker:” What could they mean? 1 later found out that; Mr. Underwood is the doctor’s brother-in-law, and that thef me dic gets a 10 par cent kickback for his “talent scouting.” " ! • I finally walked into the doc- Back In Mufti 'Dreadfully long minutes -of un certainty and suspense' preceded the crash landing they made in a desolate part of Jugoslavia near the Alps. Whether German or Al lied soldiers occupied the emer gency air field was the question that bothered the crew members of the 13-2-1 “Just for Laughs.” The twisted wreckage came to a jarring stop amid a cloud of snow and dirt. The emergency hatch was flung open and the plane’s ten 'crewmen cralwled out. What they saw startled them. A German air officer’s cap top ped her '6-foot 200-pound frame. With, long, sure, strides she. ap proached the plane, keeping the crew covered with an American made sub-machine gun. Strapped to her hips was a pair of German for the Perfect Gift . . . Wood ering'sFioral Gardens 117 E. Beaver TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1945 tor’s office, with niy face flushed with fever, coughing like a con sumptive, and shivering from chills. The vet, I mean the MD, told me to put my tongue out and then said, “Son, you have a very bad case of athlete’s feet, I’m afraid we’ll have to amputate.” But after putting on his glasses so he could see me, he diagnosed my -case as a rare French disease, LaGrippe, and ordered me to the infirmary. Ah, the infirmary, the house of malnutrition. It seems that some potato growers built this pastoral sanitorium, and so, to repay them for their kindness, the only food served is potatoes. Of course, you can have french fried, mashed, or other varieties, but the name giv en to this virus villa, “Pelagra Place,” still continues. I hate po tatoes. I was greeted.at the door by .the warden, or rather the favorite nurse of the institution, Miss Chubby. After, being at the in firmary for a number of years and subsisting on its potato diet, .she acquired this name automatically. In fact she even loks like a pomme de terre. ' After spending a few starving days in Pelegra- Palace, - existing solely; on the food that my fra ternity-brothers gmuggledinto me, I was cured. No longer did I have La Grippe; I-had pneumonia. So the moral of this story is, ,i£ -you’re sick, stay in bed and write your will. It makes no difference. • —^Cassius.. P. S. Lend me a buck for some vitamin pills. ’’ revolvers; lhand (grenades were at tached to the 'belt. Presently, a Jugoslavian boy about 14 approached the plane. He .spoke a little German that' he had learned while with a forteed labor group in Germany. Lieutenant Ralph Lewis, nose turret navigator- on the crashed B-24, “Just for Laughs,” spoke to the boy in German. Under -cover of darkness the fen Americans made good their escape. They were guided to the icoast of the Adriatic Sea, and (from there they were taken down the coast in a fishing boat to a small British held air. field. The next day -they were flown back to their base by American C-74’s. Ralph Lewis, now an Industrial Engineering major at Penn State, flew with, the isth' Air Force through, four campaigns. Probably his biggest' job came during the ■battle ;of the Poe Valley. While his crew thought he was at rest camp,' Lewis was secretly flown to the Poe Valley. There he was assigned do do reconnaissance work flying aboard a ‘Droop Snoop” P-3 1 ? —(LARRY FOSTER i v ; ... .. .., •• / f Phone 2045
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