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Crusader
In one of Philadelphia’s most squalid neigh
borhoods, a section that in the past seethed with \
racial and religious violence, there’s a small, un
obtrusive buildihg with a small unobtrusive sign *
over the door: Fellowship House. Yet behind
the depressing, red-brick walls of Fellowship
House is an organization which y many think has
done more in its 12-year existence to make the
town deserve its ancestral title “the City of
Brotherly Love,” than any other.
Tonight, the College has a chance to meet
the 20th century crusader who single-hand
edly set out to wipe out intolerance and evil
prejudice—and is winning. Tonight, students
can meet the lady whose work with the Fel
lowship House and the Fellowship Commis
sion has been written up in the Ladies' Home
Journal, the Reader's Digest, and other organs
of national and international scope.' Tonight,
Miss Marjorie Penney will tell her own story
in 304 Old Main.
How well do the students deserve their tra
dition of liberality without bias? Our faith in
that tradition has sometimes been shaken. Per
haps the response to tonight’s lecture will tell
the story, tell whether students really believe in
tolerance, understanding, and the uprooting of
ignorance, or whether they are content to pay
lip service to these principles, pointing to the
past and ignoring the present.
Safety Valve...
Football Protest
TO THE EDITOR: What would happen to
higher education in America if all of the under
graduates and alumni spent as much time and
energy trying to improve educational facilities
at their Alma Maters as they spent trying to im
prove the football team?
Tribute To Leo Houck
TO THE EDITOR: May I be the first guy to
suggest to the Collegian that it might be a nice
gesture if a bust of Leo Houck was erected in
the foyer of Rec Hall? Somehow, I feel confi
dent that his countless friends would whole
heartedly approve of it.
To those who- say that he wasn’t famous
enough, my reply is that Leo Houck is as well
known to Penn State and NCAA boxing circles
as Knute Rockne is remembered to Notre Dame
and football.
Indeed, Notre Dame has a bronze bust of The
Rock in the foyer of its athletic hall and I see
absolutely no reason why one of Houck cannot
be erected in Rec Hall.
Death can destroy the body of a great man,
but never the spirit. Here at State Leo Houck’s
spirit is still alive, eager to lead future Blue and
White teams on to victory. Let’s not quench the
fire and fervor of Houck’s spirit. He was not
only a tradition at State; he was the best
example of Penn State sportsmanship. He loved
everybody and his philosophy of life was of the
very best. Among other thihgs, he was the
founder of the National Intercollegiate Boxing
Association, and he put State on the map with
his powerful boxing teams.
I think that Leo, up there with the best of
them—Ruth, Sutherland, Cavanaugh,. Rockne,
Gehrig, etc.—would like to know that State
hasn’t forgotten him and is still carrying on his
examples of fair play, guts, and sportsmanship
to the best of its ability. Yes, I think he’d be
pleased, even if he also is the kind of guy who
would plead to the One Great Scorer: “When in
the dusk I get the final bell, I ask for no lying,
complimentary stones. I’d only like to know
that You feel I’ve been a good guy.”
Yours for a lasting memorial tribute of Leo
HoUck, one of Penn State’s greatest.
• Letter Cut
Uty? Satly Collegian
Ba.cee.er to TUB FREE LANCE, eet. 1887
Pablbhed Taeadajr through Saturday mornings in
elaair* daring th« Collect year by the staCf o( The Daily
Collegian at The Penneylrania State College.
Catered ae eocend-tlaee matter Jnly 8. 1934. at the State
College, Pa., Poet •ffice assder the act of March 3, 1871).
Editor Business Managei
Tom Morgan Marlin A. Weavei
Managing Ed., Wilbert Roth; Newa Ed. Jack Reeni
Sports Ed., Elliot Krane; Edit Dir., Dottle Wetllnich; So
ciety Ed., Commie Keller; Feature Ed., Bob Kotzbauer;
Asst. Newa Ed., Jack Senior; Aest* Sports Ed., Ed Watson;
Asst. Society Ed., Barbara Brown; Photo Ed., Ray Benfer;
Senior Board: George Vadasx, Kermit Vink.
Asst. Business Mgr., Rodger Bartels; Advertising Dir.,
Louts G. Gilbert; Local Adv. .Mgr. Donald J. Baker; Asst.
Local Ad. Mgr., Mark Arnold; Promo. Co-Mgra., Harold Wol
lin, Rathe Philips; Circulation Co-Mgrs., Bob Bergman and
Tom Karolcik; Classified Ad Mgr., Shirley Faller; Person
nel Mgr., Betty Jane Hower; Office Mgr., Ann Zekauskas;
Secretary, Sue Stern.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor Bill Dickson
Assistant Night Editor Ron Bonn
Copy Editpr Deanie Krebs
Assistants Marguerite Kober, Doris Kulp,
Pat Duncan, Jack Mounts
Advertising Manager Hugo R. Mandes
Assistants Anita Ranallo, Don Schwartz, and
iWmi Vasilakis
—Ron Bonn
—Nelson R. EJldred
—John C. Barner
(Special Student)
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN,’ STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Little Man On Campus
A Bonn Mot . . . .
A Reporters View
On Election Fever
This is what it’s like to cover an All-College election.
* * * ■
RIGHT NOW it’s around 7 o’clock. You and a couple of other
legmen afe getting briefed By the, boys who’ll write it when it’s there
to be written. "I’m going to want a statement from every candidate,”
one snaps, "you’ll take the Lion All-College officers, yoii the-State.
We’re going to want figures tallied like this.” And on into a detailed
explanation.
Then it's over to Old Main and the second floor where, behind
a drawn shade, the counting is going on. Someone, you never find
out who, pops out of the room, and on the way to the john, snaps
back to your question, "An hour more, anyway." You settle back
to wait.
Some of the party small fry start coming in, but none of the
wheels are here yet. Something’s going on across the hall from the
room, and you find it’s an All-College Cabinet meeting. Vaguely
you’re surprised that things like cabinet meetings are going on busi
ness as usual. Then you’re surprised that you should be surprised.
It’s starting to get you.' .
IT'S AN HOUR LATER now, and things have changed. The
hall outside the room is packed. You see clique chairmen, candidates,
and the big men behind the scenes; you watch them light the next
smoke with the stub of the last, and suddenly you’re awfully glad
you’re a reporter without a damn thing to worry about except corner
ing 18 slippery people within the space of five minutes after the
results come out.
There's a faint murmur like wind whispering storm warnings
through tall trees. Someone—someone else this lima—makes his
way out of the room toward the head. "A minute or two, now," he
says, and you tighten Up. God, What those candidates must feel
like, standing around with flushed faces and voices that crack when
they try to talk calmly! Then the door opens.
A guy in shirt sleeves, tie open and askew, sweat pouring off his
face steps out into the middle of the hall and begins, without .pre
amble or explanation, to read totals. You listen blankly; this isn’t
your-job. Yours will come in about 15 seconds when the last figure
is read and repeated for that one fellow in the’ background who in
variably misses, something. Then the assembly erupts’like a dis
turbed ant hill, and you’ve got your hands full just digging up the
one or two men whose statements you need.,
YOU DON'T EVEN remember-whether they won or lost, but you
take a-look at their faces’and Immediately know whether to go up
and slap them on the back or express your sympathy—a real sym
pathy, as you realize what’s happening to these young people. But
slap or sympathy, you’re after a story, and you get that statement
even though it’s tearing the heart out of the guy or girl who’s giving
It to you.
Then you fear back to the office io tally your figures and start
to understand what a true sweep this was. And suddenly you rea
lize what a terrific job this whole thing was; what a charge it gave
you; how it hit you where you live.
then you think, “God, how those guys must feel who cover
the nationals!” And that’s what you want, sooner or later, and that’s
what you start pointing for as you sit with your pencil and pulpy
paper, figuring out who did what by how much in the All-College
elections.
I Spring Is Sprang'
Spring has come to State College . . . Girls playing baseball . . .
. . . Boys watching . . . Boys laughing . . . Dr. Rosan holding philo
sophy classes in hort woods ... Students cutting classes to go fishing
cutting classes . . . R.O.T.C. band marching on the mall . . . Men
cutting branches off trees.
Spring has come lo Slate College ... Keep Off the Grass signs
May Day elections .. . open windows .. . baseballs .. . golf clubs
tennis rackets ... robins ... cameras ... political campaigns.
Spring has come to State College . . . Boys and girls holding
hands ... Sitting on benches ... “Taking walks” ... Leaning against
the wall in front of Ath . . . Walking on the grass . . . Talking to
children ... Eating ice cream cones ... Boys and girls.
T, **t jith Mr u tell when it will snow...
' "WelL Gesundheii"^
♦ *
by Bibler
Too Much Noise
TO THE EDITOR: As X attempt to enjoy a
show in this town, and hear the hissing and in
appropriate remarks, and as much noise as Can
be heard during a Saturday Roy Rogers mati
nee, or as I study at my desk and hear the loud
blasting of a horn for three or four blocks, I
1 wonder if these childish, immature, ; so-called
college level students will ever wise up, and
grow up!
TO THE EDITOR: Collegian’s account of Rob
ert St. John's lecture is little'more than an insult
to the journalistic profession and to Mr. St. John
himself. What conclusions any intelligent reader
could be expected to draw from such vague dnd
incomplete reporting is beyond comprehension.
Not only were some statements directly contra
dictory of others, but it is obviously true that
nowhere near all of the important facts were
given to begin with. .
I heard St. John when he lectured at Schwab
last time and was duly impressed with his great
! store of information and thoroughness of pre
! sentation. If since that he has become as obscure
• in his lectures as Collegian seems to indicate, he
1 would ihdeed be a great disappointment to his
"large following.
, Perhaps the paper’s incomplete coverage was
due to lack of space. If this is true, the article
should have been held over for another issue
when adequate room was available. Let us
keep in mind that knowing half of the facts is
sometimes Worse than not knowing any at all.
—Alvin Reiner
Moore Products Co., April 27. June grads In ME for a
variety of positions: lE, and ChemE.
General Fireproofing Co., Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.,
Timken Roller Bearing Co., and Yotingstown Sheet and
Tube Co., April 27. Juno grads In G&F, Liberal Arts, Fre-
Med, Zoo I, ME, lE, ChemE and Metal.
S. S. Kresge Co., May 1, 2. June grads In LA who are
Interested in retailing.
Atlas Powder Co., May 1.. June grads in Ohem Eng. for
industrial explosives work and ME for works engineering.
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., May 8. June grads In
1 LA for non-technical sales work.
Calvert Distilling Co., May 2. Jcne grads In Bact, Chem
Eng., MB, Architectural Eng., C&F (Insurance major),
and women for secretarial work.
—RON BONN
TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1950
Safety Valve...
Dorm 13 'Wheels'
TO THE EDITOR: I believe that the political
record of dormitory 13 is sufficiently unique to
warrant some special recognition. Within the
past two years, the dorm has been the home of
a class president, a class vice-president, a Pol
lock Circle council president, and to our dismay,
a defeated candidate for a class presidency. I
refer to Ken Rolston, Wally Miller,'Charlie Ed
wards, and Chuck Wysocki respectively. Can
any fraternity or other dorm match this record?
—Frank Wallis
St. John Misrepresented
First Sport at The College
Baseball was the first sport to be indulged in
at the College. In June 1866, permission Was
given to the “Union Baseball Club” to play in
a match game with Lock Haven on the Fourth
of July. In March 1871, the students were allow
ed “the use of as much of the College grounds
as may be needed for a baseball ground,” and
were further permitted to accept a challenge
from the baseball club of the Bellefonte Acad
emy.
Gazette....
Tuesday, April 24
Electronic warfare Co. 4-12,200 Eng.
E, 7:30 p.m.
. WRA BRIDGE CLUB, Game Room of White
Hall, 7 p.m.
SOPHOMORE AND JUNIOR BOARDS AD
VERTISING Staff, 9 CH, 7 p.m.
NAVAL VOLUNTEER ELECTRONICS WAR
FARE CO., Naval Lecture Room: Ehg. E., 7 p.m.
PENN STATE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP, 418
Old Main, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN PROMOTION Staff,. Collegian
•Office, 7:30 p.m.
LEIBIG CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 105 Frear
LAB, 7:30 p.m. '
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Further information concerning interviews arid j*b place
ments can be obtained in 112 Old Main.
Seniors who tamed In preference sheets will be fires
priority in sehedullnf interviews for two days following
th* initial announcement of the Visit of one of the com
panies of their choice. Other-stadehts Wilt be scheduled 'oa
the third and subsequent days. /
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., April. 25, 26, June grads
in Education and Liberal Arts for both claims and sales work.
Mergenthaler Linotype. Co., April 26. June grads in ME
for either sales trainee program or management trainee
program.
' STUDENT PLACEMENT'
Information concerning these positions can bo obtained
at tho Student .Employment Office in Old Main.
Substitute waiter! and kitchen help In college dlnihg
common, leading to permanent positions In September.
Summer camp and resort jobs available to persons with
various specialties. ..
Dietitians for several camps.
Hotel dining room managers and staff. Seats 156. May
be operated under rental agreement.
Salea personnel sought for both current and summer work.
Fuller Brush Go. Full time positions open for summer.
Various counties In Pa. available.
Summer farm job outside Philadelphia. Ag students with
farm background preferred. . ,
AT THE MOVIES 1
STATE—BIue Grass of Kentiibky.
CATHAUM—Paid in Full. '
NlTTANY—Germany Year Zere.
—Ray Whii*