PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The fires Lance. established 1887 Published semi rieehir ',paint the College rear, except an holid.os ht student• a' The Pennsrlsania State Collme In thn Interest of the Collier the students, faculty, alornn', and trends TR? MAII ACING BOARD A WILLIAM FiiiGEL. JR '4O, Editor C RUSSP LI. ECK '4O. Boldness Manager HELEN L CAMP '4O Women s Editor MANUEL ROTH '4O BURTON C WILLIS, IR '4O Managing Editor Advertising Manager ROBERT I, WILSON .10 MORTON NIEMAN '4O Snarls Fit for Circulation Manager BERNARD A NIiVIMAN '4O DORIS GUTMAN '4O News Editor Senior Secretary GEORGE Ii SCHI rsq '4O JANET STORY '4O Feature Editor Assistant. Seam Secretary PAUL lIALDLMAN JR '4O W BRADLEY OWENS 'lO Assistant Managing Editor Aasktient News Ftiitor HERBERT NIPSON 'lO MILLIS R CORDON '4O Assistant Sands Editor Assistant Wigton s Pet for Associate Editors ila,nril Bloom '4l Robert H Lane . 41 VVVIInto E Fowler '4l teleran! I K 'McLane . 41 Kix, V Hail '4l Robard C Peters '4l Women's Associate Editors 1:415 , the 11 1t10.1'41 AntlL 1. Hat., '4l Vern L , Romp '4l Associate Business Managers Lass rence S 0r1i.% er 11 Itos ert G Itobarnon 41 EIIMI= Slnnntrina INltor Thiel loue Nev. Zlitor Thk ilgue Women 4 lan. tilitor - - - Palrred am <mand-elam matter Julv•s 19J4 at the poet. office at State Callen, Pa under the tazt.'of March 8 1879 Tuesday, April 9, 3940 THIS THING CALLED COMPENSATION MANY EYEBROWS were, lifted high er than usual recently when the All- Coilege Cabinet announced , to the stu dents and the administration that a com mittee had been appointed to study and to revise the present system of compensation There is probably no other subject which receives more unfavorable ci iticism and about which a majority of the students know less, than the present compensation system. The invisible veil of secrecy which for msny years has been almost entirely ie psnsible foi the complete lack of knowl edge coreerning compensation by the ma misty, can be attributed to two factions 1.-1)ile men who have received the compensation, who in 95 out of 100 cases undoubtedly deserved' it, yet feared to make the truth public, through fear of ignorant student derision. 2—The students themelves, for' not showing sufficient interest in their own student affairs to discover the truth, in stead of believing the multitude of ru mors floating around concerning graft and corruption, which each year ineN itably sweeps the campus. The new movement to study and revise the present system is in connection with the change of student government institut ed here last yew Under the present compensation appot- Lionment the Semoi Class President re ceives approximately $5OO a yea', while the All-College President, who shoulders even gi eater responsibilities is , compensated slightly-less than $lOO. When the study and revision was first announced, rumbrs immediately began to circulate, that graft and cprruption had at long last been definitely confirmed, and that a scandal was about to "break " Such ideas could not have been farther,fi om the truth What was not known was the fact that the Senior Class President, feeling the present system was unfair, under the new system of government, instigated the movement for a change in the ap portionment of compensation between the two officers, under which the Senior President would receive a cut. The four class ptesidents, the dance chairmen, the heads of the cap and gown, lion's coats, junior blaze's, clinks, and graduation invitations committees have been tinder vigorous condemnation from many of the students for quite some time. However, the compensation from these positions is not generally awarded for the work which they do in connection with these offices, but these committee heads are appointed for the hundred-and-one odd Jobs which they perform dating the course of a year, for which they receive not one cent of compensation. It cannot be denied that these are some cases where men receive more compensa tion than they are entitled to, but this evil will always exist under any system of re muneration. That compensation is necessary 19 gen erally agreed upon by an overwhelming majority of students and administration members. It is the secrecy and the ignor ance which surrounds it, that is under a blistering fire of criticism. Robert South, an English author, once wrote, "Ignorance has been said to, be , 'the mother of devotion; it is rather the' mother of superstition."—R. H. L. The Weekly Mailbag BILL FOWLER—As a Collegian junim board man you did the i fight thing by inviting the sen ior board's Paul Haldeman to the deltachi ranch {laity but you lathe' mimed his vote when you forgot to tell him it was a costume affair, thus leaving him on the outside looking in PHI KAPPA TACT—Tf we were you, we would iesent that notation on the pingiam at the dx dance Modem out-house accomedations—phi kappa tau house next don " PHYLLIS GORDON —This k the telegram Ed die Nichols got in the class sou cut Fliday "Sot ty I couldn t get to class Sailed on S S Mark land at noon Ses getting ioughei by the min ute Will be theie Mond-iy with assignment" It was signed Phyllis' Go' don, Class Skipper " It s'a• sent by Rise goes Groige Selfless, Len Coo pci, and Ernie Berkaw, who almost passed out when Eddie fell for it WARNER BROS.—Expect capacity crowds at the next Cal.) Giant picture you show, after the wiling of Helen Chiappy nod Knobby Hetfeian who met him at an Jlfachi conclave at the Uni versity of Viiginia Saturday John II Thomas '4l ' Huth Golclstt In '4l -Adam A Smyser '4' __Edward J IdeLmie '4l _ ___ll..en 1 Camp '4O SIGMA Pl—Why don't you tench you' flesh men better , Ed Meyers, your frosh drummer-boy, rutted a beauty when you had Ki upa's band at voui house for a visit He asked one of the mu t ician's "Does your band need a good (hummer"' BILL LAPORTE—Next time do your friends; and fiaternitv brothers' shopping in Belletonte We hear you were very, very embarrassed Friday when 3 , orn mother an into you in Tyrone, your arms laden with brown-papered packages BEA WlNN—That guy whose pin you wear, Heinle Sandson, is having 'a little houble at Cheensbing High, whei e he's pi actice-teachmg Walking into his home loom the other morning, .11 decked out in colleg'ate finely, he was greet cd by a sign leading "SMOOTH," which one of his students was holding up in the back of the loom _ U. S. MARITIME COMMISSION—Watch close ly ships sailing between New York and Panama around June 10, for there'll be lots of excitement on the one cairying attach! Norma Stillwell, het fellow Panamanian nom Penn who kappa-rigged het duting Easter vacation, and the ship's par cr,, who thinks he's leading the Still Well league L. C. BALFOUR AND COMPANY—Evidently the fa aternity boys here at State don't think much or those jewelled ti inkets you unload on them annually They've been giving them away by the dozens now that Spring has aimed A thetaxi named Bob Kindle observed foi a whole yeas how well his room-mate, Willie Hog e', gets along with gammen Rocky Rockwell. Last week he did his pmt towatcl furthering thetaxi gammon relations by pinning Harriet Dayton Buzzy Sheai ei llsigmadeltaed Shereley Lewis, hamlet. from Wisconsin two kappas made the glade—Betty Musser is weal ing Cliff Shedd's eicltachi pin and Pat Behney got Charlie Mattern's ;Welt Jewelry the same day he was initiated gammasig Dave Oikin bestowed his badge on ,ephi pledge Millie Speiser Prof Hawk's '-on, Bob, now graduate-stooging at Michigan, fin-ed theta Jean Babcock They'll see each other only_thiee times a yea! I'm the next three years ALUMNI OFFICE—Bob Hughes, ildelt and An chorage flash who was graduated last yeah, will many a Scranton gul-friend soon He has .1 honey of a job at an Elwood in Tennessee Russ Gohn, '39 BMOC, and the Missus (Bun Acker, '39 kappa BWOC) reunioned in the Colleg ,an Ofnce w, ith Johnny Tioanoyitch, who made ene of his weekly visits horn Pittsbtirgh DISPENSARY—We think you're rats After dinner Friday theta Jeanne Stiles took the pills you gave hei for a cold A few hours later she left ill, took a nap When she woke up, all ready log IF Ball, it was 8 a m Saturday ENGLISH COMP 12 CLASS. Prof Galbraith is going to get even with you for walking out en him Fiiday when he went after the stories you convinced him he had forgotten KATHERINE ANNE PORTER • "Kiss Porter has contrived to achieve an emotional effect that few, if any of her contemporai ies would have been able to match Hei reputa tion was not gained by chance or sleight of hand, and 'Pale noise, Pale Rides' conlhms it "—Ralph Thomp son, New York Times. • "Katherine Ann Porter moves in to the illustrious company headed by Hawthorn, Flaubei t, and Henry James. It is the company of story tellers whose fiction possesses distinct esthetic quality, whose feelings have attained harmonic expression in their work.",--Paul Rosenfeld, 'Saturday Review of Literature. , "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," $2.00 OLD MANIA Kee,ler's PEN.NSTAT.E COLLEGIAN CAMPUS BULLETIN Notices of meetings to be pub lished in this column may be left al Student Union Office in Old Main up to 1 pm. on the day preceeding publication _ Spring sports schedules are now available at Student Union , Special GI ange meeting in Room 405, Old Main, at 8 p m Di Fianklin Banner will speak on "The Fiee Press, a Champion of Democracy," in the Home EC auditor nun at 7 30 p rn , All students interested in sailing report to Dr Elwood C Davis, 214 Rec Hall A crew ha's been invit ed to pm ticipate in a three-cor net eci sailing race 0 ' - Meeting - of fiesliman women ed itorial candidates for the Collegian in Room 318, Old Main, at 5 p m, Penn State Club softball meet ing in Room 321, Old Main, at 7 P m _ TOMORROW Sigma Xi, national honorary SCl entitle fraternity, will hold its ini tiation banquet in the Nittany Lion Inn at 6 15 p m Scouts and scouteis arc invited to attend a meeting of Alpha Phi Omega, national sei vice frate-r -nity, in the Sandwich Shop at 7'36 p m Bruno Ewen will speak 'on scouting in Czechoslovakia Phi Eta Sigma will hold. a' sp end meeting at Theta Xi at ,7 30 p in Registrar William S Hoff man will lead the discussion Student Union Dance in the Ar moiy, 4 to 5 p m THURSDAY Penn State Zoology Society meeting in -Room 2, Zoology Build ing, at 7 p m Dr P P English will speak on "Wild Life Census 'Actin:clue% ", MEN OF MARK PENN STATE'S RESEARCH THE SCOPE To most of ow people, research is not, cannot be, a very exciting thing No layman is likely to get the same thrill watching a scientist la boi iously extract a new formulator mix and painstakingly test some new compound that he will get if he watches his favorite halfback clash 63 yards to a touchdown Yet far closer to Penn State's heart than any athletic triumph, far nearer to its purpose than a glorious football' ictory over Penn of Pitt, is its ieseai ch , Penn State spends, $53,000 ;to please or disappoint the, 100,000 fans who watch its football efforts each year, but it spends $673,000 each year in the interest of those same fans and the 5,800,000 more Pennsylvania citizens who con tribute to its support It may not excite the layman to know that Penn State has learned how to determine the geographical source of lubricating •ods, that it has pushed the development of hy cli ocai bons, that it has developed a standard ,dirtyl shirt, that it has manufactured artificial manure for mushrooms, that it has discovered a (ohm diagnosis to tell what kind of fertilizer a plant needs, that it has forwarded the nutrition and breeding of animals, that it has studied personality development, that it is making a scientific study of local government, that it has discovered strange things about the sex hormone But wait , There is something exciting, the sex hormone Time Magazine has written it up' three times Prof Russell E Mark er got more letters from excited and assistance-seeking fans than a high-paid movie star He deals in sex and he hates the publicity. But able Penn State men deal as well in fertilver, tobacco, speech, personality, health, insula tion, petroleum, food, minerals, building foundations, stress, blood pressure, culvert flow, and a hun dred other things On the College staff of 1493, there are 300 men and women en gaged in research, 155 of these, men devoting their principal time to the work Giaduate assistants working for degrees carry on a large part of the study Last year, research here cost $673,497 60, with more than half of this amount spent in the School of Agriculture Private industry, the federal government, and the state government carried the bulk of the expense with the results published in scientific journals where they would be of benefit to the general population , The Collegian cannot hope , --to fully acquaint its readers with'all the research that is going on,.‘at Penn State This demands a tech nical knowledge, a wide prepara tion, and a , specific backgrotlnd that none but the scientist is ex pected to have , , ,But, with this beginning, s the Collegian offers a series of random glimpses at the research Penn State men have done in the serv ice of• Pennsylvania and America Watch for !The Dirty Shirrxef . Heat Annual Recephor Mary R. Wirtz '4O and Gertrude Hellmers '4l have been appoint ed co-chairmen' of the junior-san.; for women's. reception held annul ally for women faculty members.' PITT YMCA OFFICER I William L Hammaker. '3O. pictured above, was recently named secretary of the Univer sity of Pittsburgh Y. M. C. A. Hammaker was associate secre tary of the PSCA from 1930 to 1935 and served as executive secretary of the Johns Hopkins University Y.M.C.A. since 1936. Tennis Star, Competition hr‘Six Activities Head Sports Day Program Mary K. Br °mine, instructor at Lake Erie College and former national tennis singles champion, will conduct a tennis clinic and delegates from 21 Pennsylvania colleges will compete in six actry [ties on WRA's first Sports Day on Saturday, April 27, Jane B Hoskins '4l, general chairman, has announced - Miss Browne will highlight the piogiam with instruction in ten nis stiolting and techniques, and about 200 coeds will meet in round robin tennis, badminton, archery, golf, swimming, and bowling matches. - Committee heads are Betty M. Strayer '4O, tennis, Janet L Flem ing '42, golf, Muriel E Engelke '4l, badminton, Louise B Clark '4l, swimming; Anita M Knecht '42,i bowling, Gertrude L. Hell mers '4l, hostess, Satoh H Faber '92, registration, Ruth F Barker '4O, banquet, Louella M Bell '4O, program, and Josephine M Wer ner '42, correspondence An informal banquet at the Nit lany Lion Inn which all women may attend for $1 will follow the tout naments 'Coed Regulations' Set As Discussion Theme "Should regulations for Penn State women be revised' , " is the topic for the eighth annual wo men', intramural discussion April 22 to '3O, co-chairman Lois E Notovit, '42 and 11 Helen Gordon '42 have announced Delta Alpha Delta, women's speech honorary, will present a cup to the winning team Rules state that there will be two women on each team, that teams may rep resent any sorority, dormitory, or combination of two coeds, that each speaker will give a six to eight-minute talk on any phase of the question, that teammates do not have to speak on the same phase, and that there will be no rebuttal Names of women on each team must be turned in I to Room 8 at Atherton Hall by 645 p m Wed nesday April 1 Preliminary rounds will begin Monday, April 22 Home Economics Meeting features Guest Speakers ',The rsecond annual meeting of the home economics alumnae teach ers and the teacher education di vision of the department will be held Saturday, Jean D Amberson, chairman, has announced James P Mitchell, of the Pro gressive Education Association, New York, and Miss Florenceaen- Inns, acting regional agent, Wash ington Office of Education, will he the principal-speakers Fordham University SCHOOL, OF LAW New York Case System i , Three-Year Day Course Four-Year Evening Course - Co-Educational - Member of Assn 'of - • • ,American Law Schoo'ls - College, Degree or Two Years of College Work with Good, Grades Required for Entrance Tritnscript of Record Must Be , Furnished „ , ' 7 _Morning, Earli'Afterrumn and Evening Classes For further information address Registrar' of Fordham Law • School 233• Broadway, New York Dean \GenevieVe Pool Will Address Mortar Board Parley Here Bars* ' Personnel Head To Talk On Vocational Guidance; Dr. - Bernreuter Will Lead Convocation Here "Choosing a Vocation with a Pm pose" will be the subject of the meMal address by Miss Genevieve E Poole, clean of womeni and read of the - personnel department at Lock, Haven State - Teachers College, at Mortar Board's All-Women's Conference here Thursday After giaduation from lowa Wesleyan, Miss Poole continued her studies at the University of lowa where she 'wits a member of Pi Lambda Theta She was dean of women at the Teachers College at New Britain, Conn, until she came to Lock Haven live years ago Cwens and Freshman Council 4 . are sponsoring a tea at 4 p m. • , Thursday to honor the Lock Ha- beau Ray Makes' yen dean who will speak at 7 30 ' : P m , ' .. The conference at 11 a. m will ' Coed Job Survey be led by Dr Robert G Vern reutei associate professor of psychology. There will be discus sions by Miss Maiie Haidt, pia- 64,Pd. Of '39‘Greduates lessor of physical education, and Dr Charles C. Wagner, assistant Employed; 10 Pd.,Marry dean of liberal arts, at 1 p m ; by Mrs Elizabeth W - Dye, assn- Over 10 per cent of last yea'r's crate profAsor of home economics women graduates are married, 641 and Dr. James H. Moyer, assist pei cent employed, 10 per cent out' ant professor of education, at 2 p m on their own vocations, and of woi k, 11 5 per cent taking grad by Miss Julia G Brill, associate uate work, and 4 psi cent attend professor of English composition, mg business schools, according to at 3 p Jr' on avocations a wpm t compiled by Dean of Class 'excuses to women attend- Women Chailotte E Ray and her • coed m the conference will be issued assistants by a member of the dean's office Of the 216 coed graduates in and a Mortai Board member eta- 1939 the largest number, 60, are boned at Atherton Hall teaching Others, in older of fre quency, are engaged in* graduate study and business school, 33; die tetics, food demonstration, exten sion, 25; marriage, 23, accounting, ileucal, seci etarial work, 21, newspaper and advet Using, 9; lab ,oratmy technician, 5„ store, ,4, social work; 4, dm Ist., 1, miscell aneous, 8 The department of 'home eco nomics has a high Jecord of em ployment with only 5 of its 84 graduates listed as unemployed and of the 8 physical education grad uates 6 are teaching 1 doing,secre lanai work, and 1 unemployed Proportion of the coed class now unemployed fell to 9 per cent Former unemployment statistics showed 6 percent of 1937 women graduates and 18 5 per cent of the 1926 coeds unemployed ' Co-Edits Chi Os celebrated their 45th an niversary with• a dinner at the house last night and presented Jane Stanton the sophomore cup foi being the mbst outstanding member of her class Following installation of officers Sunday afternoon, AOPis held a banquet at the Cornet AEPhis will be entertained by Mrs Schlow tonight to honor Dor= othy Abramson, a soror 'tom then Univeisity of Michigan chapter ZTA actives and pledges will be entertained by Mrs Jack Haswell, alumnae rushing adviser, at het home tonight Pill Mu pledges were honored at a chapter supper at the home bf Mfs Charles A Morgan, patro ness, Sunday night Sigma Deltas pledged Vera M Neal ;41 Alpha Chi 0 pledges were en-, tei tamed at a,supper by Mrs Wil ham S Ho ff man and Mrs George F Mitch at the latter's home Sun day ZTA pledges will party the ac tives at the home of Mrs James Howe Thursday night . - Knobby Hefferan and Helen Chiappy represented' the Alpha Chi Os at then Tri-Province con tention at William and Mary this week-end Pi Lambda Theta initiated un- I dm graduate and graduate students in the Hugh Beaver room Satur day afternoon Undergraduates in itiated me Margaret M Cimaho sky '9O, L Grace Nolt '9O, Lois C Rankin '9O, Ruth E Wagner '4O, Doris A Arnold '9l, Ruth L Bach man '4l, Annabel Boyd '4l, Belly M Brown '4l, Edith A Burrage '4l, M Janet Gillespie '4l, Helm M Hazard '4l, Grace M Hender shot '4l, Frances E Hohn '4l, Ja net N Holtanger '4l, M Jane Kistler '4l, Thelma R Kluger '9l, Bai ham G Kurtz '4l, o Lola Sas ka '4l, Dorothy L Schnerr '4l, Floience M Smith-'4l Graduate students . are Eli7a beth C Bell, Matilda E Bell, Ma tilda A Bentley, Bonnalee M Brown, Clara E Cocker'lle,, D June Freed, Lots J Harrier; Mar garet L Hopkins, Ethel M McCor- Mick, Barbara A Turner, and Dor othy E Williams , , IFS- HERE AGAIN - - r‘ - , The Freshman s • with the • ' mpus OWLS . _ ~ 4 44 49th ' 31 2c per „ , „ Informal-- - 9'1+1.11 . Rec Hall You Mound! Changes Name, Gets Constitution .Changing its name to the Penn State Student. Federation' to avoid connection 'with the; American Youth Congress, the local Amer ican Youth Council last week ad opted a Immal constitution and is rapidly going ahead With organiza tion, • Put it off till later. Get your formal. suit cleaned for the null big dance,', NOW Hiland Shop -220 2S. Allen St. = 14one 317 i Tuesday, April 9, 1940, U Gals One thing we can say for the . weather, it offers a good Eiripor tunity to use some of the bad poetry we' wrote for Jour 22. Here, you are , Slate College Lament , , Rain, rain ,go ,away Come again some other day ' ' My feet get wet. For all' Women who' don't al-, ieady know or aren't already looking forward to it, we call at tention- to the SU dances which will he held in the Armory from 4 to 5 p m tomorrow and, after this week, every Tuesday:- Wed nesday, and Thursday -It's , a Dent chance to find a new man, hold the, one you've got, or just have some fun - In the Spring an Us Gals ,col umn turns to verse and we .luau thought' of another lousy, limerick. There was a young lady from , - State - Who kept tiara getting over _ weight By thinking of calories, Fat_Ladies' salaries And the tumble of getting, 7 a date' The Mortar' , Board en's Conference Thursday paiintl JSCS - to bring out a practical angle to vocations and jobs that hisn't been touched on campus befOre: Even those who have - aired - ay', Selected' their apartments-for-tWo will find plenty to interest them And now, we aren't taking a ,ciack at our coeds or anything; we're Just getting this poetry bug over with once and for all That a promise, so you can stick with us _ , r - -,„ ',.. Maiy Coed has lost her Fred And can't seem to get him agiri 4 But let hei alone and she'll-: come home— • , ..:;, Wearing anoth?es - fraternitr, pin - , DO YOU KNOW' ' That' t' Leo Houck;'`' -"- Penn State Boxing.: - Coach had to , inake decision,. betieeenl o , professional ' bate 7: :, ' ball 'or boxing. early in his career? ' ' r e -j FROMM'S _ ,
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