PAGE TWO THE COLLEGIAN 'Tor A Better Penn State" Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Colleg ian, established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1877. Published every Tuesday and Friday morning dur ing the regular College year by the staff of the Daily Collegian of the Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second class matter July 5, 1934, at the State College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscriptions by mail at $1 a semester. Editor-In-Chief Business Manager Woodene Bell Mary Louise Davey Managing Editor Advertising Manager Peggie Weaver Rosemary Ghantous EDITORIAL STAFF jjpnfs Editor .. Gloris Ncrcnbfirs Women's Editor ; Turk Feature Editor • Mervin WiU Sports Editor George Sample Senior Board Barbara Ingraham, Audrey Ryback Junior Hoard Larry Foster, Kay Krell, Lynotte Lund quist, Caroline Manvilie, Lois Marks, Sur.anne Mc- Cauley, David Nalven, Doris Stowe, Gwenneth Tim mis, Jane Wolbarst Graduate Counselor ADVERTISING STAFF Senior Board Assistant Advertising Managers': Sally Holstruin. . , Advertising Assistants.. .Dorothy Leibovitz, Ria Hanzlick Circulation Manager beima saoei STAFF THIS ISSUE Caroline ManviUe Gwynneth Timinis, Nancy Shevrif Lucy Seifinff Kay Ktell Manaping Editor Copy Editors News Editor Women’s Editor The Anti-Slack Campaign Are you a slacker? According to the latest daffynition circulating around campus, “slackers” are women who have surrendered one of the fair sex s duties in life, that being to attract, and vamp men by exhibiting her shapely legs. They have, the more rabid an ti-slackers claim, forsaken their heritage for the silly and mundane purpose of keeping their pins Warm by wearing a pair of men’s baggy toreetches. Some even wear pegged pants, which is rubbing salt into an open wound.- Most of the griping seems to come from ex-ser vicemen on campus. After spending too many months in isolation from women, they feel that they are being victimized by the slack brigade. ‘.‘While in service, they gazed longingly and lan guishingly at the works of art drawn by Messers. Varga and Petty and hoped that they would some day return to the States to do their gazing on live specimens. And what do they find —women mas querading as men. Ex-Gls don’t say much about wartime slackers, but they have to wipe the foam off their mouth when discussing these post V-J Day “slackers.” 'Leaving the sensual and getting.to the more down to earth reasons of the anti-slack campaign, a lot of fellows get pretty angry when after they walk futily from, store to store in pursuit of pants, they make a date with their current choice, and find her sporting a pair of grey flannels that he could have been, wearing. The clothing situation is bad enough without females helping it along. The only merit in slacks is that they leave some thing to the imagination. —CASSIUS All’s well BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF ALTi Louis Bell Phyllis Deal Dorothy Leibovitz, Old Mania By BARBARA INGRAHAM This weekend the holiday dance season gets uvfder way. The AOPi’s will celebrate Founder’s Day with a dance at the SPS-ATO. house tomor row night. Among the AOPi’s and their dates are Jane Wolbarst' and THE Frank Schneider . . . Charlotte Scibetta and ATO Bill Krauss ... Jo Campbell and ATO Bud Brown . . . Kay McCor mick and Lyle Wartz . . . Alice Hooper and Clair Hess . . . Doris Stack and A/S Jim Jones . . Mi mi Dowling and ATO Bill Hubbard . . . Gini Pershing and Lyle Koenig . . . Ann McGovern and Bob Steigle. up for the day from Franklin and Marshall. Lots of Penn State coeds treked down to Phil adelphia for the Army-Navy game . . . Shirley Bremi<?r, Dolly Breiner, Doris Dittman, and Bev erly Joyce . . . AOPi’s Marlisse Muller, Ann Black burn, Carolyn LeWorthy, and Jackie Struble who saw Navy ple'be Meredith Nicholson, former Sig ma Pi on campus . . . DG’s Jean Briner, Jeanne Sickle, and Pat Bergey . . . Susy Braude saw An napolis Midshipman Ned Cook . . . AEPhi Jeanne Rich saw West Point cadet G.eorge Levenback. Alum Bob Schire came up to see ChiO Jean Schrumpf . . . ditto Gordon Strunk to see AChiO Ruth Bollinger . . . also Pharmacist’s Mate 3/c, James Hutchison to see ZTA Norman Van Tyle. Weekend Visitors Alum Weezy Gwillum and Marine Pfc. “Jimmy” Minchell were back to see their KD sisters . . . On the SDT guest list' were alums .Teddy Rappa port, Til Bronstein, Carol Ginsburg, Hats Miller, and Raisa Poser . . . Beta Sigs back were Pvt. Art Bohard, Capt. Dave Goodman, and alum ad visor Lou 'Harrison . . . also AEPhi alums Helen Beth' Orange and Lois Cohen . . . ditto AChiO Alice Mendenhall. Phi Ep Mel Livine visited.-AEPhi Sherry Feld man. Lt. and Mrs. Geist visited on campus. She’s AEPhi alum Addie Gluck. Kappa Audrey Hartley went home to see recently discharged Marine Bill Cahill. Jimmy Antinof visited Alethia Blanche. Vail. ChiO pledge Jo Ann Beaver went to Pittsr burgh to see Pfc. Walter Baxter. Among the Gamma Phi Betas and then- dates for an informal party at the Ski Lodge last Satur day were Doris Strandberg and ATO pledge Ralph, Schumack . . . Peggy Wasson and TKE Ed Fels . . Sally Pollard' and TK Pete Haust . . . Carolyn Currier and Delta CnlJEddie Hawn ._. . Marigolde Kinney and AZ Paul Gift . . . Doris Handwerk A/S Ted Cline . . . Ginny Gallop and Phi Kappa Psi pledge Fred Keeker . . . Marge Dunmyer and A/S Ed La Voice . . . Marge Seyber and PiKA J. C. Ferm. Ring Department KD alum Jane Page is .engaged to George. R. Jacobs, former Phi Sigma Kappa now in the Air- Corps . . . ditto DG. Anne Siebrecht and PiKA Alan Bentz . . . also KD alum Norma Lee Hoover and PiKA grad student Bob, Graver. DG. Mary Lou Waygood is pinned to A/S 'Bob Foote, Phi Psi. DG alum Allene Babbitt will say “I do” to Ensign Donald Swenson in Erie tomorrow. Ed Sullivan will visit Gamma Phi Beta Jackie Er vin' this weekend. THE COLLEGIAN Back In Mufti Four years ago today Japanese bombs rained down on Pearl Har bor. Four years ago today' American ships were carrying British sol diers destined to fight the Japanese. Singapore was the destination of the 15,000 Tommies jammed aboard five troop transport's, three fly- > -ing the Stars and Stripes,, and two, the Union Jack. Protected by the bulk of the US Atlantic Fleet, the. convoy slipped out of a Nova Scotian hanbor on November 2*7. Its coursewas to circle the Cape of Good Hope and deliver its precious cargo to the British stronghold before the Japs would strike. The race against time was lost as, on that fateful December morning, the 'convoy, had just sighted Capetown, Union of South Africa. Largest of: the three American vessels was the USS West Point, former luxury liner of the US Lines. At 111 :45 that morning the loudspeakers of the eamoflauged ship reported the news to a start led crew. Then there was silence. Moving swiftly, the Atlantic Fleet headed full steam back to the East coast of the United States. As bllalck as the situation was in the Pacific, there would be trouble ahead in the Atlantic, and it had to take up “ defensive positions against the German threat. This action left the five troop trans ports in Capetown with only a few English' ships for protection. The convoy moved out of- the security, of the harbor on the sec ond leg'of its odyssey. For CPO Joseph Dunst, ths was the curtain raiser of battles against' the.ene my that were to carry.him to all corners of the. globe. Bombay, India, was the, next stop, land there was-no : Christmas-.for-Dunst and his shipmates-aboard the. West 1 Letters to In reference to your “Letter to Editor” on page three of Friday’s Collegian, II 'feel that some com ment Should be made. Perhaps one cure for the members of the Bur "sar's Office would be to enter the armed forces '.where they would learn the. art of .living together and helpyig their fellow men. As an Officer, I can say-this war was won by men working together, helping each other out in time of distress. In looking over the men Who won the Congressional Medal of Honor, I am sure you will find that most of them won it through violation of the “rules” or in an attempt to help a fellow soldier for whom he would risk his life. (No deed is for gotten—war or peace—that comes from the bottom of a person’s heart, even if he' must violate a “rule” in order to do it. In a case such-as the one pre . sented, I feel that some allowances should have been made. Since I -started to work my way through Penn State before the war, I know how it is to under-estimate your expenses. In short; I shudder to think we fought a war to make in human people, such as we .have in the Bursai’’s Office, free to keep up their activities, . Sincerely, \ An Ex-GI Dear Editor: Prof; Charles Winthi'op Copp’s Chapel address -on Sunday caused several whispered comments throughout his . entire talk and many heated discussions at its jjj^ssSSSjafSJ a^ss^s^ssBs«ss!ajas'. I^oo^ t' \ a • a.-- ■ 15 . a- ■ ft a a a Go Horae A v •fashion. Major The holiday season will''soon be'here and you’ll want to look ex tra special. Our mix ’ems are the clothes with the highest “eye” cues. THF J. J^JUui FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1945 Point that December as the crew had to be on ‘constant alert in. the sub-infested waters. In Bombay, the English troops went into jungle training for the new:brand of’flighting that was.to face them. Training over, they embarked 1 to meet the real stuff, and were landed at 'Singapore on January 30, 1942. Fifteen thous and., men left their-transports to meet their -death or imprisonment by- the Japs. Subjected to enemy.. - air born- - bardment while unloading the . troops, the West Point came through without physical damage, but a few of the crew were woun ded by shrapnel. ' Singapore sur- . rendered just five days after the giant liner cleared the breakwater. Christmas caught up with Joe -Dunst in Aden, Arabia. All the mail and packages arrived on April " 27, and he had his Christmas din ner under the sun of the Near East. Four months late, but ths ,- will be remembered longer in the . ' mind of Joe than 42 months of combat against the enemy. 'The 24. year old' Erie student., was discharged on points in Sep temiber and entered the. College, this semester.. IHe is. enrolled in , the School of Liberal Arts, maj oring in • industral psychology,. . the- Editor His statement that, the number. ' of Japanese killed by the':Atomic: Bomb ..,was equal to,'the entire number of Americans killed in the Pacific. War brought -smiles and. sarcastic remarks! from his' listen -ers. “The Jap toll, should have been higher” attitude was evident in'the face .of every ex-service nian present. The mere mention of more lenient American immigra tion laws, for the Japanese people appeared shocking to many.. Professor Winthrop "pointed out. that many of the Japanese were good,, hard - working : people, and': that the military class ara for theO most part' responsible for Japan ese aggression. He related, that ihis.; Japanese' cook had- hiked three: -miles each day to-bring him food?. duritigTSis - five-months- internment'- in a prison, camp. • h,'.'. - Yes, it seems to me .if- we are to secure the world peace and harmony w-e are now- demanding,'-’ we.should lay aside at least some of this war- hatred - and prejudice and try to visualize the Japanese-; through the -eyes of someone who really knows them. . : ,'f Professor .Winthfop: has ..lived and taught-in Japan for-19 years. He "survived five months in a" Jap prison camp. This I mentionto'as-- sure-you-that-he.-knows both sides of the Japanese people.-: . Do we really want - ah. enduring world peace? " Our attitude -in the l occupation of Japan- willfdeterm--. inei-this. -V- 1 - I SMART SHOP —JBRfRY THUMPER A student.
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