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Editor's Mai!call
How It's Done
TO THE EDITOR: To the Chess Club and other
interested organizations.
In general, the chemists are supposed to keep
their heads and necks in the laboratory. However,
I shall take exception and lean out of the lab
window for a moment.
During the year 1946-1947, Phi Lambda Up
silon, honorary chemical society. successfully
carried out the following activities:
I. Sent a representative to the national con
vention at West Point for a period of five days.
The expenses were paid by the local chapter.
2. Presented an attractive cup to the sopho
more with the highest scholastic average in the
fields of pure or applied chemistry.
3. Once again presented the annual Priestly
Lectures. These are a series of lectures by an
outstanding scientist. The expenses of the lec
tures are paid by Phi Lambda Upsilon.
Now, the question arises. "How are the activi
ties carried out without begging or borrowing
the money from All-College Cabinet?"
Phi Lambda Upsilon each year publishes the
manuscript of the Priestly Lecturer. The copies of
the lecture are sold and distributed throughout the
world. The text is received by the outstanding
technical journals of the United States and Canada.
In this way we plug the College, the Department
of Chemistry and Phi Lambda Upsilon. We obtain
funds for carrying out our activities. We distribute
important technical information throughout the
scientific world.
Perhaps this letter will serve to give other
organizations a push. You know, fellows, it's
great to be independent.
Sincerely,
—George T. Kerr '45.
Walks to Walk On
TO THE EDITOR: How about an article calling
the campus engineers to put a walk on both sides
/f the road from the parking lot to the corner.
Perhaps there could also be a walk from the
itop sign coming in this direction so hundreds
:and there are that many) of commuters don't
Ather have to:
1. Walk on the road amid all the car traffic
and possibly get hurt.
2. Wade through the mud and get splashed
during bad weather.
We must commute. We can only park there, so
.an't we have a few conveniences?
College Calendar
All calendar items must be in the Daily
Collegian office by 4:30 p.m. on the day pre
publication.
Friday, October 31
CAMPUS Center Club Cabin Party, meet
in rear of Old Main, 7 p.m.
PEP Rally, Old Main, approx. 7:20 p.m.
MORTAR Board Carnival, New Physics
parking lot, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 1
WRA Play Nite, WH, 7 to 9 p.m.
HILLEL Foundation. Hallowe'en Dance, 9
to 12 p.m.
BELLE Hop, Rec Hall, 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 2
EDUCATION Student Council, Organiza
tion Committee, 418 Old Main, 6:30 p.m.
HAT Societies Council, 417 Old Main, 9 p.m.
IZFA, Balfour Declaration Day, Hillel
Foundation, 133 W. Beaver Ave., 2:30 p.m.
Monday November 3
IWA meeting, 107 Temporary building, 7
p.m.
PENN State Club, 321 Old Main, 7 p.m.
JUNIOR Service Board, Dean of Women's
office, 8:30 p.m.
CAMPUS 4-H Club, 100 Hort, 7:30 p.m.
BROTHER Rats, 228 S. Allen St., 7 p.m.
College Hospital
Admitted Wednesday: Richard Weil.
Admitted Thursday: Richard Goldey.
Discharged Thursday, Paul Sebastian, Fred
Bliss, Betty Gibbons.
At the Movies
Cathaum—Welcome Stranger.
State—Desert Fury.
Nittany—Framed.
Placement Service
West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co., Oct. 31
eighth semester men in EE, ME, CE, Chem,
and Comm Chem.
Chance Vought Aircraft, Division of United
Aircraft Corp., Oct. 27, eighth semester men
in Aero E, and ME.
The Armstrong Cork Co., Nov. 5, eighth
semester men for sales training from C & F
(single men only), lE, ME, CHEM (PhD and
BS), CHEM ENG (PhD and BS).
Carborundum Co., Niagara Falls, N. Y., Oc
tober 30 to interview eighth semester ME in
terested in sales or development.
The Phillips Petroleum Company, Octo
ber 30, ME, EE, CHEM ENG, PETROLEUM
ENG.
The General Electric Company, November
3 & 4, eighth semester men in EE, CHEM
ENG, ME, lE, Metallurgists.
Babcock & Wilcox Co., November 7, eighth
semester men in ME, Met, FT.
Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company, Novem
ber 3, eighth semester men, PhD (Organic
Chem), Chem, Chem Eng, ME, lE, Bus. Ad.
(Accounting, Sales, & Marketing).
Arrangements for interviews should be
made at once in 204 Old Main.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
THE REAL MENACE
So what if they are loafing? At least we know
Communists.
One Man's Meat
It had practically slipped our mind that Halloween is coming up]
tonight until Phineas T. Glockenspiel, Collegian's roving feline cor
respondent dropped in to the office yesterday for his weekly report.
P. T. was carrying a large jack o'lantern and he nearly frighten
ed the wits out of Editor Ostar who was diligently planning an
editorial campaign against mixed
dating on campus.
"What's new, Glockenspiel?"
we asked as he put his pumpkin
aside and crawled up on the desk.
"Well, since this is Halloween,
I think it's only proper to talk
about witches and that brings us
to the big witch hunt that is go
ing on all over the country. Would
you believe it, I'm now on the
blacklist as a Communist sus
pect because I wore a red tie three days in a row last week?
"Don't think I'm kidding either. It's coming to that. You'd
be surprised how many students right here on campus are be
ing investigated for almost as silly reasons as that. Several
fellows we know are on the list because they are active in..
groups who are trying to better the conditions of the veterans.
"And did you see the list of movies that are supposedly pro-
Communist? Take for instance, 'The Best Years of Our Lives' and
'Margie.' I wouldn't be a bit surprised if soon when Tyrone Power
takes Lana Turner in his arms and tells her he loves her someone
in the audience stands up and shouts 'You dirty Communist!'
"But it's getting to be more than just a joke. Already over
four million citizens are on the blacklist. That means about one
in every 40, you know. So in every class there's probably a
Communist. You can spot him. He's the guy that knows all
the answers. Watch him, he's dangerous!
"And you students who are taking Russian this semester are
being watched too, as are the fellows who don't get a haircut every
week and wear horn-rimmed glasses. Statistics have proven that
nine out of ten of that type are at least Fellow Travelers."
A Commuter
"Better watch your step, P.T.," we warned. "You're beginning
to sound like an 'undesirable.' To change the subject, how are
things in Pollock Circle these days?"
"Still the same, Ben. We continue to have good meals when
the College officials come over to inspect but other times we re
ceive the same old unbalanced, unwholesome meals slung at you
on broken-down Army trays. It's darn unappetising. There's no
doubt the food is top quality but you should see the bulging gar
bage cans after each meal. However I guess that it's not too bad
for a chap in the Nittany Dorms told me that his chow is so bad
there that he sneaks into the Circle mess hall.
"By the way, I understand that the meals at the Sandwich
shop have greatly improved this semester, and the girls who
eat there pay the same as we do, you know."
"Anything to say about the football team?" we asked
Glockenspiel.
"Yes, I think they did a very fine job in downing the Moun
taineers last Saturday especially when they were outnumbered on
the field 14-11. Several of those officials played a better game for
West Virginia than did some of the boys on the team—but I guess
I'm getting bitter again,"
"What about the Sunday Movies vote coming up at the next
boro election on Tuesday?" was our next query. "Do you think
it has a chance of passing?"
"Seriously, I doubt it very much. A good many townspeople
still believe that attending a movie on Sunday is sacriligious al
though they still allow some of the private clubs in town to serve
beer on Sunday. Then they turn around and drive to Lock Haven
where Sunday movies are legal.
"I honestly believe that the townspeople owe it to the students
to present Sunday entertainment. It would do much to dispel the
campus idea that 'townspeople do everything they can to spite the
students! Movies have always been recognized as a wholesome
family entertainment and the propaganda that Sunday Movies will
commercialize the Lord's Day is poppycock to our way of think
ing. When the shows begin at 2 p.m. they can't possibly draw from
church attendance.
"To the good citizens of State College I say this." said
Glockenspiel as he turned for the door. "Before you cast your
vote next Tuesday think of the students. decide for yourself U
seeing a movie on Sunday is as wicked as it is painted, and then
vote the way you think it right!"
Halloween Witch Hunt
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By Ben French
Operation Co-op
air Jo Fox
Steward Union sits at his desk, calculating his
financial situation. Tearfully he pictures himself
in the breadline. 'Tis Hallowe'en, and ghosts of,
lasts months' expenditures haunt his morning mail.
He dreams of the midwestern colleges where the
co-op movement is in full swing, and wonders
how many credits hed's lose in transfering.
Emory Brown and his six man co-op committee q,
have found the medicine for Stew's blues. With
in two weeks, a skeleton plan of a Penn State ' 3
campus co-operative will be submitted to the Board
of Trustees. if the plan is approved, the store will
be a reality February 1!
Using the Student Book Exchange as a nu
cleus, the campus co-op would sell incidental
school supplies. As the venture grows, so also I
will grow the variety of merchandise. But the
project would suffocate in an atmosphere of .
student apathy.
"But my house bill!" wails Stew. "Who's doing
what about cutting food prices?"
One buck will buy Stew or his fraternity or in
dependent group a membership in the State Col
lege Consumers Co-operative at 123 West Beaver.
Though long in existence, many groups are just
beginning to learn its advantages.
Take beans for instance. For $3.63 a fraternity
purchased the same brand beans at the co-op
that were offered by the local wholesaler for $5.
In addition, the co-op gives its members a re
bate at the pearl; end in proportion with their
purchases. Last year this rebate reached 13 per
cent. Coop-ers receive a 15 per cent discount on 4 ,
all book and records bought at the College Book
Store.
The present policy of the co-op is to sell at cost
plus ten percent. When group patronage increases,
this percentage will be cut,---and meat will be add
ed to the store list.
hey're not
If Stew would like to stop crying in his mar
ket basket, and bury his budget zombies, he might
lend an ear to Em Brown's project and its ad
vantages.
It Can't Be Done
No one was more anxious to help get the Blue
Band down to Philadelphia to play, for the Temple
game than members of the Collegian staff, but in
an editorial last week reasons were stated why the
band would be unable to make the trip.
The reasons stated in that editorial were given
to Collegian by the director of Blue Band, Prof.
Hummel Fishburn, and as such were unquestioned
by Collegian and accepted as true. However, these
facts were questioned in a letter to Collegian
printed Tuesday morning.
Now, without any feeling of animosity or ill
will, may we again state why Blue Band will not
play at Temple.
1. No organization can provide the money
necessary for the band to make the trip.
2. Eleven men. not two, are unwilling or un
able to make the trip. even if funds were avail
able. At least six of these men have dance band
engagements.
This second statement alone is reason enough
why the band will not make the trip, because un
less all 80 members can go, the idea of taking an
incomplete organization on such a trip is out of
Ithe question.
Also, the number of men in Blue Band who
would undertake the trip at their own expense,
provided their uniforms and instruments were
transported for them, wouldn't number enough to
complete the sax section of a 14 piece band.
William L. Reimer
A Full Coverage
Being one of the reporters assigned to the Ox
ford debate, I feel it is necessary to defend my I
colleague and myself for our interview of the Ox
ford debaters.
It is the aim of every progressive newspaper
to have an all-inclusive coverage of pertinent news.
We on the Collegian felt that an interview of the
debaters would be a valuable and interesting addi
tion to the article on the debate itself. The inter
view was carried on page seven of Friday's Col
legian.
As for Interrupting an informal discussion on
student life at Oxford (which. Weldon/4. was
on why there are women at Oxford and not at
Cambridge). it must be remembered that Col
legian had a deadline to meet.
We had extended the time three hours already
for this story and felt that the few minutes we
took would be for the best interest of the Col
legian readers on the whole. If the students we
interrupted suffered greatly, we are most apolo
getic. Another point which seems to be forgotten
is that coeds have time restrictions.
Now as to the quality of questions asked. if the
interview mentioned above is carefully read, I
think that several points were mentioned that
aren't in the usual run of articles dealing with the
present government of England. Here we had a
chance to present points of view of two persons
with definite political opinions on the Labor gov
ernment. The fact that they spoke here should
bring these viewpoints closer than an article in
the Bulletin or Times.
We asked the British speakers to compare the
College with the English universities and other
campuses in this country which they have
ed on the tour. We believe that this would in
crease college interest.
The defense rests.
Editorials and features in The Daily Col.
Wean reflect the opinions qt the writer. They
make no claim to represent student or College
opinion. AU unsigned editorials ate by She
editor.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1947
Selma Zasofsky