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iarlac ti»* Collage year by the staff of The Daily CoUegias
•f The PfazuiyJrama State College.
Entered aa second-class matter July 6, 1934, at the State
College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. 1
Collegian editorials represent the eiewpoint of . the
writers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Un
aigned editorials arc by the editor.
Dave Pellnitas .33SB&*, Franklin S. Kelly
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Managing Ed., Andy McNeillie; City Ed., Dare Jones;
Sports EtL, Jake Highton; Copy Ed., Bettie Loux; Edit. Dir.,
Hiaai Ungar; Wire Ed., Chuck Henderson; Soc. Ed., JLaVonne
Althonse; Asst. Sports Eds., Ted Soens, Bob Schoellkopf;
Asst, Soc. Ed., Lynn Kahanowitz; Feature Ed.. Barry Fein:
Librarian and Exchange Ed„ Bob Landis: Photo Ed., Bruce
Sehroeder.
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Virginia Bowman; National Adv. Mgr., Alison Morley:
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Moslak, Don Stohl; Classified Adv. Mgr., Marty Worthington;
Office Mgr., Mary Ann Wcrtman; Senior Board, Nancy
Marcinek, Rath Pierce, Betty Richardson and Elizabeth
Widmsn.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Editorial staff: Night editor, Jane Reber;
Copy editors, Gus Vollmer, Marshall Donley;
Assistants, Lauranne Wiant, Mary Loubris, Roy
Williams, Shirley Musgrave, Rog Beidler; Photo
grapher, Bob McCabe.
1953ers Should Be
‘Roaring Lion’ Class
One of the least known but most important
organizations on campus is the Penn State Foun
dation, designed to raise money for the College
from its alumni and friends. Under' the direction
of Bernard Taylor, a well-known money raiser,
the foundation has made great progress in its
short time of operation.
Formed last summer through the efforts of
the Board of Trustees and the Alumni Associa
tion, the' chief aim of the foundation is to solicit
money for sorely needed projects on campus
for which money cannot be obtained from state
or federal funds. A great many projects are
already in the planning stage.
Among these projects are an all-faith medi
tation chapel, furnishings for the Student
Union building, various scholarships and fel
lowships, and special research projects. Ac
tually, the foundation consists of iwo pro
grams to gather funds for the College—=lhe .
Penn State Alumni Fund, and a development
program designed as a means for soliciting
non-alumni, including individuals, corpora
tions, foundations, and various agencies?
The alumni fund is one of the largest alumni -
soliciting organizations in the country. In order
to raise interest in the fund-raising drive, the
eight schools of the College will compete to
see which classes have the largest percentage
of alumni contributing to the fund. The compe
tition will be based not on the amount of the
contributions received, but rather on the per
centage of alumni in each school contributing.
To further heighten interest in the drive,
each week the first five classes in each school
with the highest percentage of alumni con
tributing wifi be termed "roaring lion" classes.
Fund literature is being mailed now'to some
40,000 Penn State alumni. They will undoubt
edly contribute generously. When the Class of
1953 leaves the College, we hope it will im
mediately rise to the top of ihe "roaring lion"
classes.
Soph ‘Poverty Day’
To Revive Tradition
All-College Cabinet has passed a proposal
designating tomorrow as “Poverty Day” for the
sophomore class. The purpose of the day, as
explained by class Vice President William
Rother, is to preview the class dance that night,
the Shantytown Shuffle. It will also revive an
old Penn State custom followed for years by
students dressing in old-fashioned or “hobo”
clothes.
Tradition is overshadowed to some degree in .
most large colleges. Size seems to have a mini
mizing effect upon active student participation
in events or projects of a traditional nature.
Everyone is too busy to be bothered. Penn State
has been no exception; consequently “Poverty
Day” went by the way some years ago. s
Perhaps this was an unavoidable move during
the war and immediately following it when en
rollment of women was low and veteran enroll
ment high. There were relatively few students
who could be expected to be interested in some
thing that essentially was play.
However, the scene has changed and float
parades and lawn decoration projects are
drawing more support each year. But class
unity is still pitifully feeble. "Poverty Day."
in addition to reviving tradition, carries with
it a chance to bring meaning to a class under
taking. Sophomore dances for the past few
years have been supported by small groups—
the same people who carry the class through
most of its activities. The rest just don't care.
“Poverty Day” is a start, and a good one if
actively supported. Rainy days and snow storms
bring out coeds wearing slacks or dungarees,
and professors seldom object. Little opposition
should be expected to a class project backed by
All-College Cabinet.
—Nancy Ward
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Tension Increasing
In Hot ‘Cold War’
A United States Thunderjet and a British
bomber were shot down while flying in legiti
mate areas over Germany last week; they didn’t
fight back. Sunday a 850 was attacked by two
Russian MIGs over international water. This
time we. shot hack. It may be mere coincidence
that this happened right after Malenkov came
into power; nevertheless, it shows that the So
viet Union is as much of a menace as it was
when Stalin was head of the government.
Both diplomatically-insulted countries have
sent demands for apologies for the first two of
fenses but have received no' civil reply. What
are England and the U.S. to do now to maintain
their pride? This is the question that haunts
diplomats. The British people become panic
stricken when they think of saving face by a
war they can’t afford; the American people,
we hope, realize that anything, besides the
physical destruction of our own country, is
better than war. War may save face, but it has
the opposite effect on life and limb, and perhaps
this time to the country.
This country would have a difficult lime
expanding to wartime production because we
are already at full employment. But what
short of war are we to do? Can we ignore such
insults to our prestige? The Communists -have
found a fertile Reid for agitating the Western
countries. It is a vicious circle of losing face
—saving lives, and perhaps country, or saving
pride—destroying humanity.
The free, but complacent, people of this coun
try must begin to think, for that seems to be all
that can be done in this cold war between dip
lomats. This time it may be more than our be
loved fathers, sons, sweethearts, and friends
that will be lost—it may be our home,- the very
being of our so far,’ God blessed America.
—Nancy Gray
Safety Valve
Reaction to I Lute' Letter
TO THE EDITOR: Concerning the attack on
the' review and production of Players’ “Lute
Song” in yesterday’s Daily Collegian I would
like to remunerate the perversions in Mr.
Craige’s dubious premises. Obviously he knows
very little of the purports and dimensions of
presentational theater as contrasted with the
goals of a representational production which Mr.
Craige uses as criteria for his criticism. “Lute
Song” was not intended to parallel reality, it is
fantasy; it is not a classic by William Shakes
peare, nor was it staged by Actors’ Equity; nor
was it very likely that Mr. Craige paid a $6
top for his perch in the Schwab orchestra.
Players shows are designed to afford drama
majors a practical supplement to classroom
instruction. With people preparing for thea
trical careers, are cast rank amateurs. They
do not profess perfection. "Lute Song," be il_
good, bad, or indifferent, was such an expert-'
ment. Like ihe Collegian reviewer. Players
are hot infallible. We are all here to learn.
To the chagrin of Mr. Craige it is indeed Un
fortunate that we all exist in a world of human
imperfection spiked by prostitution of the arts.'
If Mr. Craige feels that Players' latest show
violated his ethereal standards of a cultural
millenium. that's his prerogative, but why
doesn't he pick up his little dictionary and
come down to earth with the rest of us—
who knows, he might enjoy it!'
Gazette...
March 19, 1953
AIR FORCE HONOR GUARD, 7,p.m., Armory.
Class B uniform. '
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION,
6:45 p.m., 304 Old Main. y
DEMOLAY CLUB, 7 p.m., behind Old Main
for trip to O. W. Houts.
FENCING CLUB, 7 p.m., Rec Hall.,
INDEPENDENTS COORDINATED SPRING
WEEK COMMITTEE, 7:30 p.m., McElwain
Lounge.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH>AS
SOCIATION, 7 p.m., Northeast Atherton Lounge.
INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL SCI
ENCES, 203 Eng A. .
JUNIOR BOARD LAVIE, 6:45 p.m., 412 Old
Main. /
PENN STATE HELLENIC SOCIETY, 7:30
p.m., TUB. \
PORTUGUESE CLUB, 4:10 p.m., TUB. '
RIDING CLUB, 7 p.m., 317 Willard.
- THETA SIGMA PHI, 6:30 p.m., Grange Play
room. ’ '
WRA BEGINNING SWIMMERS CLUB,
7:30-8:30 pan. ' ■
WRA BRIDGE CLUB, 7 p.m., White Hall game,
room.
WRA OFFICIALS CLUB, 6:30 p.m., 2 White
Hall.
WRA SWIMMER’S CLUB, 7:30-8:30 p;m,
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Camp Conrad Weiser, Pa., will interview March 17.
Boys wanted to work for meals on Fridays, Saturdays, and "
Sundays, for the rest of the semester.
Summer resort seeking three or four piece combo.
Camp Redwing and Winnicnt will interview March 18 and 19.
Camp' Skycrest, Pa., will interview boys March 28.
Camp Sinking Creek, Pa. will interview boys March 18.
Couple without children wanted for summer employment
near State College ...
Boy with experience wanted as linotype operator.
Waiters wanted for permanent work in fraternities..
Interviewers for survey.
: —Chiz Mathias
little Man On Campus
I suppose you guys haye
never borrowed any of my clothes."
Sealing Wax
and Cabbages
Children’s literature has come a long way. since Hansel shpved
the witch into a stove. In what direction, I leave up tp you.' ’
The original intent of this article was to expose the current
juvenile horror fare. I thought that before I started lambasting,' I
I ought to first look at the literature I was condemning. I ran, down
town to a newsstand to leaf
through the objects of my vitriol.
I wound up buying four comic
books: Weird Tales, Marvel Tales,
Adventures into Weird Worlds,
and Haunted Thrills. What hap
pened was I became engrossed in
them. Who wouldn’t be with such
stories as “Dial Z for Zombie,”
“Waitin’ for Satan,” “Too Horrible
to Live,” “Don’t Lose Your
Head!,” and many, many more?
My first contact with these
works came a year ago when I
boarded a bus for Washington
D.C. My seat-companion for the
trip was a female-type urchin
of about eight. She carried with
her a library of such books as
I have already mentioned. I'
opened my New Yorker and be
gan chuckling .at the Charles
Addams cartoons. After a while
I put down the revered maga-.
zine, content and filled to the
ears with sophistry.
Thinking I was out of reading
material, the girl-thing proffered
me a “comic.” For the next 15
minutes I was frozen with horror.
Superb art work. Never have I
seen so arresting a portrait; of
boiling eyeballs as was oh the
Wild Lifers Live it Up
As Naturalist Protests
By BYRON FIELDING
Once again those of us who
have not been celebrating it all
year, commemorate Wild Life
Week.
For those of you who earned
some money last' year or just
picked it up some other way, arid
have not filled out that little gov
ernment tome on your economic
situation, we suggest- a trip to
the Amazon jungles to observe
the native flora and fauna. By the
time you read .this .article, . the
heht around here will be very
unhealthy for-y0u.;...
However, since most of us up';
at the College never will get in: '
trouble with anybody over earn*: ;
.ing power, if. is .safe.to assume;
that we are going to celebrate'
Wild Life Week up here in the; <
dew of ole Mount Nittany.:
Therefore, we m u s t - caution
those of you who will be travel- j,
ing to Beliefoxrte (during, the;;,
week—the'- Highway Commis-;':
sioa wams us that the road !
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1953
Pig
By ROBERT LANDIS
cover. Equaling the art were the
story plots.
Mind you, it has been-a'year
since I've seen that comic, and
I still remember one story vivid
ly; A man loved his wife'very
much, but she-thought he was
a bore. One night the kindly
wife bathed his face in acid,
A court trial followed. Hubby,
however, still loved his wife and
therefore refused id bear wit
ness against her. He was quite
pathetic there on the ’witness
stand with his face all swathed
in bandages. The court released
the wife in his custody-
Later, at home, the Husband
closed the door and locked -it. His
wife looked on in askance, while
he unwrapped his. head repealing
a face whose lips had been eaten
away so that the gums arid teeth
showed white and red arid...the
rest of it a bloody, scabby' mess.
He seized her, poured acid. on
her face, and gave her a iriighty,
bloodcurdling kiss, tooth-to-tbbth.
Chilled, I handed the maga
zine back to the little' .animal.
Thai moment I felt very-very
old, "What is the younger gen
-1 eraiiori coming to?" I wondered.
between; State College and
Bellefonte ..will not be safe for
driving' fori at least a- week.
The. State ■ ■-Commissioner said
that" the road is dangerously
slippery "when wet.
—Xt-is-appropriate that Wild Life
Week' should fall on the same
overweighted week as .St. Pat
rick!?Day., The poor Irish will
only have enough : strength to
whoop it-up for just one-day of
this, 'glorious weekend,.' But we
must warn all Irishmen that this
is not a dirty English plot to steal
the rest of the week along with
Northern-. Ireland. This is a true
blue, American Legion approved
week. 1 . ; , .
Pardon us, we always see
double • this week, someone is
glancing over our shoulders.
"You don't approve. You mean
that is not what this week is
for. No fooling? Say, who are
you? Oh! I'm sorry Mr. Bur
bank; I'll see that it doesn't
happen again." . , ...
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