PAGE TWO The Daily Collegian Editorial Page Editorials and columns appearing In The Daily Coneeits represent the opinions of the writer. They make no claim to rolled student o treivendeg minim& Unsigned editorials see wefts,. by the editor. Prevent Fires Now Sympathy can do nothing for the nine young men killed in the dormitory fire at Kenyon Col lege, Gambier, 0., early Sunday morning. It can scarcely dull the edge of tragedy for the victims' survivors, but for whatever it may be worth, we offer it. The gutted building, in the ruins of which six snore bodies are believed to be buried, was 122 years old. This may have created a certain aura of romance about the hoary structure prior to the holocaust, but now it is safe to say that everyone front the president of the college to the last jani tor wishes the building had been modern and fireproof. Fortunately, most Penn State dorms do have some claim to being fireproof. Rules call for three are drills a semester—two unannounced—and Captain Philip A. Mark reported that these are fuly carried out for the coeds. Male students, in pre--war campus dorms, he , said, showed little cooperation in drills, leading to their abandonment. He termed Tri-Dorms "near fireproof." At the very least, the Kenyon calamity should 'cause responsible officials here and in other places where large numbers are housed together to x ircise all precautionary measures to the limit, even at the cost of slight annoyance to the residents. Guts and Glass Not many persons could withstand the well placed, but well-meant remarks that flowed from the versatile throat of Hank Glass, Sunday. as he introduced eight freshman coeds competing in the "Miss Penn State Freshman" contest. Congratu lations should be offered to these brave girls who stood by Glass on the stage of the TUB during the "February Thaw." These new feminine attractions to the College are only part of the contestants who dared enter the contest. Several of the coeds whose names were suggested to the Daily Collegian judging board evidently got cold feet or at the last minute "Chickened out." To stand up to Glass's subtle remarks and ges tures is something. To just stand beside him takes more courage than to face an audience of criti cizing and appraising masculine eyes which largely comprised the audience at the TUB who were there for the "Thaw." Hank Glass was by no means stingy in his in troductions. He gave them everything, including blushes. He gave the audience something too . . . the girls' room numbers. Mr. Glass is the closest thing to the new Student Directory, as far as freshman girls are concerned. Regardless of the chance for a prize of $lOO, a :week in Hollywood, national publicity, etc., and a chance to compete with freshman coeds of the College centers, it took plenty of nerve for the ,girls to face the organized mob of wolves led by 'Glass. Sunday was the day of competition, nerve, beauty and shapes! Collegian Gazette Wednesday, March 2 COLLEGIAN Business Candidates Meeting, Collegian Office, 6:30 p.m. WRA Badminton Club, WH gym, 6:15 p.m. WRA Bowling Club (beginners), 6:30 p.m. WRA Modern Dance Club, WH, 7 p.m. WRA Modern Dance Concert G r o up, WH, 8 p.m. NEWMAN Club Discussion Group, Church Rec tory, 7 . p.m. PENN STATE Bible Fellowship, 417 Old Main, 4 p.m. AG HILL Breeze Staff (all invited), 103 Ag, 8:30 p.m. IFC Meeting, 219 EE, 7:15 p.m. AIM Council, 410 Old Main, 7 p.m. COLLEGE PLACEMENT New Jersey Zinc Co. of Pa., March 3, to inter view June grads in EE, Metallurgy, ME, Min ing Eng. Swift & Co., March 3, Ph.D. candidates for re search work in Chem, Commercial Chem, Ag & Bio Chem, Dairy Husbandry and Physics. Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., March '7 and 8, June grads with 8.5., M.S., and Ph.D. in EE, ME, lE, Chem, Ceramics, Metallurgy, Chem Eng, and Physics. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., March 10 and 11, June grads in IE for management training, high grades are a requisite. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., March 10 and 11, June grads in CE, lE, ME, EE, Metallurgy, and Ceramics. Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., March 9, June grads in EE, ME, Chem Eng, and Chem. Cleveland Graphite Bronze Co., March 10, June grads in ME, Met, interested in the automotive in dustry; also June grads in Chem Eng and Chem interested in the field of electro-chemistry. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, March 7 and 8, men with advanced degrees for research work at Cleveland and grad students and bachelor candidates for work on engineering de sign projects. Men in Chem, Math, Physics, Metal lurgy, Aero E, ME, EE. Ag E, IE, and CE. West Penn Power Co., March 9 and 10. June grads in EE, ME, and Ag Eng. Civil and indus trial engineers for sales. Women June grads in HOLM Be. —John Bonnell. —Arnold Gorton. The Premised Land At Last! Your Lion FOUND: A traitor to the male sex. Don't try to deny it, Mac. Mein boddy Hoagy Carbunkle, recent contributor to the Daily Col legian Safety Valve, has eye-witness proof. We don't know your name, chum, but we do know that you not only upheld a foul, dastardly practice—you gave it a push forward. The male I speak of is the mouse, not man, who dated the coed Hoagy overheard speaking of "allreddy ketchin' sucker for takin' me see Tommy Dorstop 'n orkistra." The practice, which in this case is carried to an extreme, is that of arranging for a date weeks, months, or years in the future. This unidentified yo-yo has contracted for a social engage ment SIX WEEKS in the future. That's more than one-third of a semester. More than one-ninth of a year. Ye gods and little paychecks, man, in six weeks anything could happen. War might break out and you'd be called to the front. You might even be 'Filled. But that's not. the worst of it, uh uh. You might have (if you'll pardon the expression, girls) to break the date. And you know what that means. Even if you live through the combat you'll never be able to take her out again. For- you have committed the unpardonable—broken a date. OR EVEN WORSE. Perhaps you're contributing to the already high incidence of neurotic frustration in the United States. As an example here's a sample telephone call from the Sigma Epsilon Xi fraternity house to the hale chick at 5051 you've already managed to drag out of circulation. Joe Schmoe, thinking three weeks is suf ficient time to arrange for a houseparty date (the madman), calls the coed in question and we hear: Joe: Hello. Coed: Hello Joe: Got a date for the IFC Ball? Coed: I've never been so insulted in my life. Of course I have a date. I had one three-eee-eee weeks ago. Goodbye. And she slams down the phone. Now Joe can join the seven or eight other men, who have already been rejected by the girl YOU dated six weeks in ad vance, in a state of acute melancholia. BECAUSE THIS INSIDIOUS PRACTICE of datings weeks ahead is one of the biggest gripes of Mr. 4.53. He doesn't mind being turned down for date this weekend or even the next. But when she says I'll be busy through May, call again next semester—that's all, brother! Now of course the young ladies aren't to blame. God bless them, they can't help it if they're so demure, attractive, intell igent, AND scarce. Then too the practice has its advantages. Given weeks of warn ing, she has time to check your Dun and Bradstreet rating, genetic background, and decide whether your pin does things for her com plexion. If the man isn't satisfactory in all respects the extended time also enables her to develop an acute case of leprosy. I could delve even deeper into this almost-unique Penn State custom, but there's only a little over four weeks until IFC Ball. If I call now maybe there's still a Class C available. Very Brief • Now that many vets have seen the results of their waiving mid-semester subsistence, one could almost say they have kicked themselves in a wave of indignation. • Among the 48 states, Pennsylvania ranks first in antharcite production, first in steel and iron products, and thirty-fourth in its support of higher education, according to a study by an outside By Red Roth WEDNESDAY MARCH 2 1949 ne Said, Valve Help Fire Victims TO THE EDITOR: Friday evening two boys of a Nittany dorm were victims of a fire which destroyed most of their clothes. If all the men of Nittany and Pollock dorms would pitch in a dime, it would help them greatly in their loss. Just a suggestion. Quick Response TO THE EDITOR: The quick response of the Alpha Fire Department after they had been called to the Friday night fire in Nittany Dorm 40 is to be commended. Fortunately, the fire was out when they arrived and they therefore did not need to go into action. However, had the fire been in a wooden con structed Pollock Circle dormitory instead of the steel constructed Nittany building, the quick ar rival of the Alphas would have prevented much of the spread of the fire. 'Good Neighborliness' TO THE EDITOR: I should like to publicly thank the many people who helped us during the past several weeks. My wife was injured Febru ary, 10 and was hospitalized four days. Until last week she was unable to walk without somone's help. During this time our neighbors, especially Mrs. Clarence Astleford, Mrs. Paul Auchenbach, and Mrs. Ted Barber, took care of our two children nearl 100% of the time. They bathed, fed, changed and housed the children. They did part of our laundry. They even prepared meals for us. Even though we have no automobile we were never without transportation. In an endeavor to hire a full-time housekeeper, I contacted the Student Employment Agency. One of those contacted was Pat Kinkead. She took upon herself to help us and through her efforts there were two or three college girls at our home nearly every day. These girls included Miss Kinkead, Lois Hyde, Nancy Ault, Betty Mae Park hurst, June Kirschner, and Weezie Coleman. They washed clothes and dishes, swept and scrubbed, made beds, dusted, took care of the children and even went shopping for us. February 18 we were able to secure the services of a friend, Mrs. Maxine McClarren, of Woody crest, who has gladly given her time to keep house for us until my wife is able. This expres§ion of good neighborliness is not unique but in an area such as this, where there are so many strangers due to the short period of residence, it is soul satisfying to see a concrete example of "help your neighbor." • Leiter cut Can It Happen Here? TO THE EDITOR: I'd like to call to the atten tion of the student body a joint statement re cently released to the press by Chief Justice James H. Wolfe of Utah and more than 100 other liberal leaders in the professions, arts, sciences, and the labor movement. Excerpts of the statement follow: "Free speech, free press, free assembly, and free petition as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution, have no meaning if they apply to only political friends. The test of the guarantees is their application to political an tagonists in time of controversy, and to the de fense of persons who disagree. "This is the interpretation of free speech applied by Voltaire, Jefferson, and Lincoln and embodied in our Bill of Rights. "In this light, the present indictment of 12 com munist leaders for political advocacy of a domes tically unpopular doctrine is a most shocking exercise of state power. The indictments in these cases allege no overt act whatever, except 'teach ing and advocating the principles of 'Marxism- Leninism.' . . ." If the Federal government can indict these corn muniists for merely ;`advocating and teaching," what will soon stop them from dictating to all of us what we may or may not advocate, teach, or even think? Because good and democratic people in Germany said, "It can't happen here," the en tire world went through a long period of untold sufferings. Let us protest this abridgment of the fundamental rights of an American citizen to the Attorney General NOW and not be sorry later. • Letter cut AT THE MOVIES CATHAUM—Unfaithfully Yours STATE—Command Decision. NlTTANY—Disaster. Pe Daily Collegian Succossor t. THE FREE LANCE, sot 1617 Published Tuesday through Saturday 'mornings inchuolvs der. Inc the College year by the stall of The Daily Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as wend class Witter /sly 6. 1931, at the State College, Pa.. Post Office under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscriptions $2 a essaisster. $1 the school year. Represented to national advertising by National Advert's. ins Service. Madison Ave., NOW York. NY. Chinas% Motekto, Los Angeles, San Frandsen. Editor Lew Stow Managing Editor ex Now. Editor BMyIM rna T Dickson Copy Editor Dottie W AaaWaste Isobel Goole. Illerbera —Two Sympathizers. R. Emory Swift. —Waltor E. Wood. —Alvin J. Heller. oi a llo .. Busimis Manager Vance C. Klepper rwry•wwso.riplirsroirrirwi
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