PAGE TWO Thumbs Down On Nov. 8 Pennsylvania voters will be asked to approve an appropriation to finance a bonus' for World War II veterans. Although this measure has been endorsed by some members of both major political par ties, it is being subjected to sharp criticism. In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, for instance, a group which calls itself “The Citizen-Vet erans” has organized specifically to fight this appropriation. We think the voters in deciding this is sue ought to consider two questions: one— is the bonus really necessary, and two—how will it be financed? 1 Proponents of the bonus say that it is not an attempt to repay the veteran for his patriotism since patriotism has no price-tag. It is, they say, an attempt in some small way to make up for wartime inconveniences and to help in peacetime readjustments. WE WONDER if the highest planned bonus of $5OO could do that. We wonder if any amount could do that. Money obviously cannot restore three or four or five years. And with due respect for the normal problems of readjustment, we think the five-year gap between the end of the war and the proposed bonus payment has nullified its effect. In other words if the. veteran has not readjusted by now, $5OO more won’t help. EVEN IF WE were of the opinion that $5OO will help, we could not agree to the bonus because of its financial implications. Most authorities agree that some new lax will be necessary to finance a bohus. It will probably be a sales tax if we care to draw from the experience of other states which have distributed bonuses. This ipeans that for the next 30 years or more Pennsylvamas, including the veterans themselves# _ will be paying additional taxes for a readjustment fund whose effectiveness is certainly open to question. , In this age when educators are begging for adequate facilities for their school and reason able pay for their teachers, we think the vet erans and all other voters would be doing their children a favor by rejecting a bonus that will use up funds vitally needed on more important projects Gazette Tuesday. October 18 COLLEGIAN SOPHOMORE AND JUNIOR BOARDS, advertising meeting; 417 Old Main, 7 p.m. PENN STATE CLUB, 405 Old Main, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN JUNIOR Editorial Board, 9CH, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF CANDI DATES, advertising meeting, 1 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN EDITORIAL CANDIDATES, 8 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. A.1.E.E.-I.R.E. Subsection meeting, 219 E.E., 7:30 p.m. ®lji? ®ailg Collegian Successor to THE FREE LANCE, cst. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings In* elusive during 'the College year by the staff of the Pennsylvania Stato College. Represented for national advertising by National Ad* ▼crtislng Service. Madison Avc., New York. Chicage, Los Angeles. San Francisco. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934. at the State College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. Editor Business Manager Tom Morgan Marlin A, Weaver '• .STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor John Ashbrook Assistant Night Editor Deanie Krebs Copy Editor Bettina DePalma Assistants ...... Sue Neuhauser, Moylan Mills Advertising Manager Rtithe Phillips Assistants. — Kathleen Robb, Barbara Sprenkle, Pete Vrabel, Thelma Guir. DOES YOUR BIKE NEED REPAIRS? IF SO. BRING IT TO THE BIKE SHOP W. F. KRUMRINE Rear 433 W. College Ave Phone 4723 Machines Wash Your Laundry in Less Than . an Hour. MARSHALL’S Automatic Laundry 454 E. College Avenue—Rear THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA —Herb Stein On the way home from school the other night a group of grade school boys, about six or seven years old, were earnestly discussing an important matter. Ohe scholarly youth had care fully tucked under his arm a- book entitled, “You and Atomic Energy.” Perhaps he should be enrolled in the Chem-Phys school working on his doctorate! At the Nebraska game: A pictorial salesman making the rounds of the crowd during the early part of the game called out, “Buy a program here,” and “Get your souvenir program.” Later, when the sun came out and spectators were reaching for hats and sun glasses, the same salesman this time made the rounds, barking, “Get your souvenir sun shade here!” “Just Some Little Memei Tracking sggj Down /JPjjf Tales For sate downtown. - Post cards of scenic views of State Col lege which looked as though they were pictures of the country side as it appeared in the “year one.” One view of Schwab shows only woods in the background; another card pictures Mac Hall as taken from the “old” Old Main. Tales from the Frosh in Ath. . . somehow a bat got into the halls of Atherton Hall the other night, and swooped through the dorm. Typical female excitement regined for a time, until a coed, April Heirisohn, with broom in hand ended the winged creature’s activities for that night, and permanently. Maurice J. Gjesdahl, mechanical- engineer, professor, in a talk delivered at the annual LSA student-faculty tea, Sunday night said that on the night of his marriage; he instructed his wife that she would have to become acquainted with his definitions of work and energy. We wonder how many couples embark on the stormy marital sea with such a degree of human understanding. • • * That card shark,’ Jim Balog, who is also senior class president, showed his artistry in the hotnecoming display by indicating his own Dorm 13 with an' Ace and a Trey peeping around the corn huskers. ' • . . . to, Perlia With The Staff 20th Anniversary n* C^oiie^e &&iner "Between The Movies" STATE COLLEGE **• tt w»e|h> ,#»*»* tw «v<Mii*i«nw r»f( eg) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, »» Gripes of Roth] By MED ROTH Probably the most popular professorial th» College, and certainly the one least concerted with cuts and grades, is not to be found list.' ed in the faculty section of the student di. rectory. * * * HE'S TALL, lean, George Kahl, P. .CL,'and D. D. Those impressive-sounding titles, stand ing for professor of groovology and doctor' of discology, were conferred upon him not by a university in search of an “angel,” but: by his hundreds of loyal listeners. The course he teaches, Groovology 54, is familiar to any student within listening range of a radio set. i Proof of the subject's popularity is evi- | denced by the amount of mailed requests | the "old prof" receives every night. About < mid-semester, after the guys and gala have warmed up their writing arms in more' bor- j ing classes, the average number 6f recorded ! requests runs about 70 or 75 per night. Oc- ; casionally it will run as high as 90. Sonia of these requests are duplicate, dedications of the same popular musical hit. Kahl manages to play about 25 separate recordings each of the five nights per week his musical lec tures are offered. GEORGE WAS a pte-med major at the Col lege, and Groovology.was the frustrated med? ico’s first venture into commercial radio. He dreamed up the idea for the show himself arid presented it to Bob Wilson, then WMAJ station-manager. It was Wilson who gave the show it’s name. If the records George has dropped on the turntables in six semesters were laid end to end they’d almost equal the ntimber of times Molotov said “Ho” at UN Secdnty Council meetings. Froth all this endless whirling the (fie interested' observer might think disc-joclmy j Kahl would get a trifle bored—-arid he'd be % right. He is a little tired of playing music . and ad-libbing< commercials. But the almost. , endless, rotating hasn't completely unnerved | him. Worried listeners last week thought the 6- foot, 1 inch, 156-pound needle-changer had at last • Blown; his proverbial “stack” when he grabbed up Red Ingle’s classic “Get up off the floor Hannah, the hogs has ' got to be fed" and obliterated the inhuman yowling by smash ing the sshellaced disc. It’s all a trick of the trade,' however. He. merely drops an object on the floor to simulate the record dropping. Actually; Kahl, who likes almost any kind of music, has never intentionally broken a record. 'IN ADDITION to, being a, disc-jockey, Kahl must occasionally, turn displomat. Although 96 per cent of his requests are legitimate,: there are aways a few jokers who use his. program as-the means of perpetrating a practical joke. Seldom a semester goes by that two or three infuriated; students don’t, rush down to the studio swearing by all the, formulas they’ve learned in organic chem they never requested any record by so-and-so for such-and-such. . Every radio announcer is noted for at least one memorable "flub", over the, air. Kahl has made , only one, and that one is unprintable. A less serious; mistake, to every one but Jack Harper, involved a commercial about a shirt sale Harper's was staging. For; minutes on end the amiable Kahl raved and ranted, about pastel shirts, of every color in the rainbow, in Harper's window. He made only two errors. The brand name he mention ed was not one Jack Haxper caxiieiu The '- . second, the shirts he was praising so highly, were in Kalin's window. not Jack's. But as long as he plays their mushy re quests, his listeners probably won’t miqd if one or two sponsors get a little mixed-up. 4 * •
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