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THE 'COLLEGIAN PLATFORM . . .
... 'For A Better PeHH State'
1. Open the new buildings
2. Pa} higher faculty salaries
3 Relieve the housing situation through in
spection and new dormitories.
4. Centreltse agencies for student financtal
help.
5. Change the College name
6. Postpone Penn Slate's enrollment in
creases to allow lime for internal devel
7. Build a strong, active alumni
8 Erect a Student Union Building and a
Field House.
9. Improve student and faculty relations
10. Inspire a growing College spirit and pride
and encourage increased participation in
extra-curricular activities.
IT'S ABOUT TIME
THE
, PETTY THIEVERY which receives
publicity on today's, front page is nothing
new. It went on last yea', and it piobably
went on a good many years before that.
It has been going on all this year. Earlier
this yea' Collegian was asked and consent
ed not to give any publicity to the matter
because an investigation was underway.
That investigation may still be underway
but it has not had much success The Col
lege has declined iesponsability for most of
the stealing because the money was taken
from rooms that were left unlocked
But it is no fun to live in a dormitory
where you must lock you' room every time
you step out of it.
It is no fun to be always afraid that some
one of your friends may be going to take
your money as soon as you tm n your back.
And that is what coeds must believe as
long as the robberies continue and as long
as the thief responds to announcements
made in the women's dining commons.
The year is almost out now This outcry
can not do much good But it is about time
to decide that next year there will be no
idle promises of investigation
II is about time to decide that next year
the College will clack down And it is about
time to men it
LA VIE ISSUE
LA VIE THIS YEAR believes it has one
of the best yearbooks it has printed.
It believes the book which will be distrib
uted beginning today has in it some of the
finest LaVie art work
It believes a revision in the content of
the book to shift the emphasis alinost en-
I irery to seniors will be popular
It believes the vai iety it has introduced
into its serum section will be much copied
by other colleges.
It believes the Old Main color plate which
appears as a fipntispiece will be extremely
popular
Collegian believes LaVie is right
END OF - A GRIPE
PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS who
foi yeas s have had a legitimate gripe
about jumbled exam week schedules have
their last inning this week
Again serum exams begin early and for
I hree days professors will try to straighten
out lecture ochedules in classes deserted by
a sizeable chunk of semen s
No more of this Under the new ruling of
the College Senate, classes next yeas will
inn 15 weeks each semester and then senior
and undergraduate exams will get undo
way, simultaneously with no classes torn
up or schedules disrupted.
PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887
Published semi-weekly during the College year except
m holidays by the students of the Pennsylvania State
College, in the interest of the College, the students. facul
ty, alumni and friends
Tuesday, May 28, 1940
THE MANAGING BOARD
ADAM A SMYSER '4l. Editor
LAWRENCE S DRIEVER '4l. Business Manager
VERA 1., KEMP '4l. Women's Editor
ROBERT H LANE '4l JOHN H THOMAS '4l
Managing Editor Advertising Manager
RICHARD C PETERS '4l 40BERT G ROBINSON '4l
Sports Editor Circulation Manager
WILLIAM E 'FOWLER '4l RUTH GOLDSTEIN '4l
Secretary
- ?gents Editor LESLIE H LEWIS '4l
EDWARD .1 McLORIE 41 Senior Secretary
Feature Editor ARITA L HEFFERAN '4l
BAYARD BLOOM '4l Women's Managing Editor
As4lstant Managing Editor EDYTHE B RICKEL '4l
Assistant S po rtsLL 41 Womens Promotion
Editor Manager
JUNIOR FDITORIAL BOARD
lohn A Baer '42 Mice M Murray 42
R Helen Gordon '42 Pat Nagelberg '42
Ross 9 Lehman 42 Stanley J PoKempner '42
William J McKnight '42 Jeanne C Stiles '42
JUNIOR BUSINESS BOARD
Thoinas W Allison '42 T Blair Wallace '42
Paul M Goldberg 42 Margaret L Embury '42
James E McCaughey '42 Virginia Ogden '42
Charles L Van!Meagan '42 Fay E Rees '42
Managing Editor This Issue Stanav J. PoKempner '42
News Editor This Issue William J McKnight '42
Wornen's Issue Editor Mice M Murray '42
Entered assecond-class matter July 5. 1934. at the .polt
°Met at Stet* College, Pa under the act of March 3, 1879.
OLD MANIA
Despite the fact that Penn State played host
•o the Navy, scores of high school track stets,
•end a few of otu lessee-known columnist col
leagues such as Ray Clapper and Mark Sullivan
at the Pa Press Conference over the week-end,
incidents funny and anecdotes dirty were few and
tar between Instead of making news for us,
people are crawling into their little holes to study
for finals But the Nays (bless 'eml took State
by storm and are we glad ,
Convoy
On Friday night Mollie Bleloch went to the 11-
>vary to study (good for you, Mollie) and when
at ten o'clock she was ready to come home she
was afraid It was dark, t'ainy, and the campus
walks were very lonely She had just about re
signed herself to limning home alone when she
spied two catimus cops Breathing a sigh of >e
lief, she went up to them and asked if one of
them would desert his post long enough to take
her home They both would It wasn't until she
was half-way home that she found that hem camp
us cops were midshipmen The lest of the time
she spent explaining why she had asked foi an
escort
The fisi's, out spies tell us, did a grand Job of
entertaining 12 midshipmen. and their dates. The
,arty was complete even to hot dogs Jeanne
Stiles, Margie Strode, Peggy Sherman, Baibara
Newton, Ruth Adams, Beetle Bidlespachei, and
Eleanor Warr were all thei e with the Navy Con
nie Smith was there, too, but no one is sure just
whom she was with We'd like to know who the
girl was who ran around with some sailot's hat
on She disappeared before they could find its
owner and before the middies in the room could
decide which one should lake over in his stead
lnd kiss her
We had thought of i eserving this spaCe foi a
neat little sketch of a long, heavy lead pipe, - and
labelling it, "Next Year's Rushing Code," as a
gentle reminder of things to come, but discarded
that idea to devote all the space we can to get
CAMPY a date
Button, Button
Two events of major importance were sched
uled for last Friday night One, the Phi Dell
Bowery - Dance, came off in grand style, the other
was rained out and no lain checks were dish ibut
cd Event No 2 was the annual beet party held
at Whipple's Dam each year by a mushball
Teague composed of seven frateinities which is
known by the simple, laconic, and descriptive ti
tle, "The Beer League" Seems that after the tam
.based the boys back into town, a small group
in the party spirited most of the refreshments
away to an obscure fraternity and leisurely par
took of the loot while the rest of the ex-mush
halters, armed with ball bats, played "Keg, keg,
Peg, who's got the keg"
Highlights we remember of the very success
ful Melt , shindig were Walt James owing notes
of unearthly beauty from a slide trombone
English prof J A Mitchell resplendent with dm -
by, cane, and black cigar Gorgeous Gloi is
Hneppei and beauteous Jeanne Smith with their
handsome swains, Don Davis and Hal Fry
Addenda
Seen about campus over the week-end were
Georgia Powers, Bill Sutton, and Jack Kennon,
ex-campus queen and ex-campus bigshots ie
,nectively Georgia was up to we Jei i y Wein
stein and Jack and Bill aie in town to contact
seniors for insurance accounts
Loving Cup of the yea: goes to Kappasig Jim
Lindsey A few weekends ago Sunny Jim set
Ins blase brothels back on their well-worn heels
by entertaining a stunning brunette of the D
Lamour type, who came up from his native Dela
ware for the week-end Somewhat taken aback
by her beauty himself as he had not seen her fog
len years, Jim asked her to Hpty only to find
she had a fiance Imagine his surprise when he
.eceived a letter from her Saturday saying that
:he was now on a trip with her fiance but would
Le delighted to come to houseparty' And the
letter was postmmked Niagara Falls'
TAKE ,NOTE
• of the items you'll need
for Houseparty. Then get
them at Jack Harper's.
GABARDINE SLACKS
White, Light Brown and Tan
MANHATTAN SHIRTS
Oxford Cloth Button-Downs
We Have Just Received A
New Supply
CAMPUS KHAKI COCONUT STRAWS
WHIN BUCK CAMPUS SHOES
Most Important .
... NEW PALM BEACH SUITS . .
Attigt:
PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
WOMEN'S NEWS
260 Coed Cases Tried
By .Judicial Committee
Customs Extended
Fin. 12 Freshmen
Prom the 1,350 women enrolled
in the College, 260 cases have
been tiled before WSGA Judicial
Committee, now beaded by L
Eleanor Benfei '4l, since Septem
bet 28 Of these, 19 women were
h ied twice, and six, three times
Penalties received by these
women were varied One hundred
and forty-five one o'clock permis
sions were removed and six wom
en were penalized by the removal
of two one o'clock permissions
Lenient campuses, the removal
of a weekend's dating privileges,
wet e given to 39 coeds Penalties
of one week cluiation were dealt
to 22 College women, and five
were denied dating pi ivileges tot
two weeks
Seniors Best Behaved
Five women jeceived strict
campuses of a week duration and
five weie sti ictiv penahred for
two weeks A sti ict campus in
cludes remot al of dating privil
eges, being in the dormitory for
the night by 5 45 p m, i eceiving
no telephone calls, and not leav
ing the campus din mg the pen
alty
Blackmaiks were chalked up
for three women who appeared
before the Committee Twelve
freshman women had then cus
toms extended for failure to ob
seive them Excuses Caere issued
to 18 of this year's defendants
Serums weie the best-behaved
this year Of the 296 seniors en
tolled, 45 appeared. before the
judges' Forty-six of the 285 jun
iors weie called to appear and 67
of 417 sophomore women sum
moned Ovei 281% of the fresh
man women have appealed—in
sound figures, 102 of the 352 en
oiled
WSGA Senate Announces
Hours For Rest Of Term
WSGA Senate announced the
following permissions for all ,
coeds Memorial Day and kcal,
week, 11 o'clock's, Fiiday and;
Saturday nights of houseparty„
3 o'clock's, Sunday and Monday
before graduation, 1 o'clock's '
Coeds who go home after finals
and return for houseparty are
under College Jurisdiction and
must stay in the dormitories
Freshman women must have -
wt itten permissions I': oin home
foi'housepai ty
Pan-Hel Appoints Reeves
Stunt Night Chairman
Pan-Hellenic Council appointed
Dorothy B Reeves '4l to chairman
Stunt Night, October 4, with Helen
L Mazur '42 and Betty .1 Patton
'42, assistants, at its meeting last
Wednesday night
The tea next fall will be headed
by L Eleanoi Benfei '4l with
Mai ion M Ebel is '42 and Carolyn
Moorhead '42 on the committee
CLASSIFIED ADS
Classified ads are accepted on
ly at Student Union Office in
Old Main and must' be paid
before insertion. Ads are ac
cepted up to 1 p' m. on the day
preceding publication.
TYPEWRITERS—AII makes, ex
pertly repaired Poi table and
office machines for sale or lent
Dial 2342 Harry l Mann, 127 W
Beaver avenue. 16-Sept
ENGAGE ROOMS now for house
party, Summer . Sessions Elec
tric fans, shower Call 2283 232
E Nittany 264-3tp-BR
PASSENGERS wanted to Chicago
or in between points Leaving
after Houseparty Call Mclntyre
at 2561 269 A tc-GD
WANTED—Several students for
Summer emplohnent See Mr.
Knox at Hotel State College on
Wed., May 29, or Fri, May 31,
from 10 a m to 6 pm
268-2tp-TH
FOR RENT—House, Sept I 7-
room brick house, garage, gar
den, shrubbery, 1 1 / 2 blocks from
campus Write Box D, care of
Times office ltp-EK
FACULTY—Have your academic
hood relined, tassel replaced, Or
an AII.TCRAFT outfit Call E
Willard King, Hotel State College,
from grand Rapids 265-11p-DLG
MODERN AFARTMENT available
to students next Fall Private
bath, completely furnished - Call
4092, 1 266-Itp-GD
L. ELEANOR BENFER '4l
Chairman of Judicial Commute
Coeds Reveal
Secrets In
New Booklet
Camp Confab Book
Provides Valuable
Hints To Advisors
At last—the key to power, the
road to success, and assurance of
an easy, well-paid lob All is re
vealed in the startling, enlighten
ing book put out by Penn State
coeds who have tasted fame and
fortune and who ate willing to let
out their sect et
These counsellors explain in
the first Camp Conclave Booklet
how to amuse campers even on
the drew lest ,rainiest, cat-and-dog
day. They intimately disclose the
water-proof method of teaching
six-year-olds to swim and the
foolproof way of bribing them to
eat spinach with promises of sec
onds on dessert
They show you how to keep
campers from pulling hair during
rest hour, how to maintain discip
line when the campers know
you're only 18, and even how to
m un off with your boy fi lends
According to Co-editors Lenore
M Hem? '4l, and Mildred R
Plappinger '4l, "It's a best-seller,"
seem ding to the coeds, "It's on the
must list," and according to the
White Hall secretary, "There are
only 50 copies left Order yours
todayll"
Senior Women To Aid
War-Stricken Nations
Money . formerly used for a din
ner preceding the Senior Women's
Dance which has been set for the
Nittany Lion Inn from 9 to 12
p m Saturday, will this year be
sent to aid war-stricken countries
Final decision of the recipient
will be made among the Red
Cross in Europe, Friends' Com
mittee and Chinese Relief
through votes cast by women at
tending the dance at which Rex
Rockwell's band will play. ..
Senior Breakfast June 1
The annual breakfast for all wo
men graduating m June or August
will be held in McAllister Hall, at
3 30 a m Friday, June 7
DORM COMPROMISE
(Continued from page one)
that they are not coining back in
the Fall after reserving rooms
The new proposal will attempt to
eliminate the large number of va
cancies which existed iri the dor
mitories during the second semes
ter this year
Contract Clause Explained
Another clause in the contract
questioned by the students was
interpreted by Loman The clause
reads• "If one of the lessees of a
double room is released and an ac
ceptable -substitute is not fur
nished, the College reserves the
right to require the remaining les
see to move to a single room,
where he will be charged the
single room rate, or at the discre:
tion of the Director of Dormitories
he may, be permitted to remain in
the double room, where he will be
charged the single room rate the
balance of the term."
Loman explained that the clause
was meant only for those students
living alone in double rooms who
'would not move into another room
to make the equitable adjustment
necessary. In no other case would
the College take advantage of the
,clause, he said.
We Women
Next month 1,294 seniors will
leave the College—the largest
class yet to graduate. But they
are only a minute part of the 1,-
750,000 students who will leave
Ameilcan schools and colleges` to
begin looking for work.
Penn State women' will play
an important part in the Motley
of job-seekers who will flood
the business world after dusting
saddle shoes and storing cardi
gans in moth balls. Lion coats ,
and Old Main chimes will be
come just memories •
Whether you seek a business or
marriage career an essential part
of your life will not be forgotteh
These past four years, spent' in a
community ruled by youth•where
world affairs take the back
will be Missed in the daily shuttle
for a pay check -
Penn State has given you
much It put you in the midst
of over six thousand students of
your own economic , class and
gave you the opportunity to
make peisonal contacts which
will remain always You are
enriched by the desire to learn
mole, and because only two
per cent of people all over the
world'have the chance of a col
lege education you are in an en
viable position
You can give Penn State much,
too Wherever your path leads,
you will be identified as a Penn
State woman The responsibility
of bringing honor to the College
now rests on you
With you goes the trust of all,of
us We give you best wishes for
success in whatever you attempt.
Co-Edits
Sigma Delta, local sorority, in
stalled Naomi Goss, president;
Jean Womer, yice-president,'Dor
othy Thomas, secretary, and Eliz
abeth Rank, treasurer They held
their Spring formal at Phi Kappa
Tau fraternity recently
Resident and Mrs Hetzel en
tertained senior Mortar Boards
at a cabin patty Thursday bight..
Lakonides entertained Dr Wil
ham Skarstrom, professor emer
itus of Wellesley College, at a cof
fee hour in White Hall last Tues
day
Theta Sigma, phi entertained
the wives of the Pennsylvania
newspaper publishers at a tea in
Atherton Friday Mrs Wilhatti
Ulerick poured
Charitides pledged Martha Jean
Olson '42, and Ruth Porter '4l;
and'had a hot dog roast in Hort
Woods Seniors dined with Kay
Lang and Mrs Lowman, patron
ess, last week
, Emanons were entertained at a
luncheon by their sponsor, Mrs
H Zelko, at her home on Satur:
day
AOPis partied sehiors last
Thursday and breakfasted with
Alice Cullane, chaperone, and
Jane Dill at Jane's honie recently
Home Ec Club held a tea re
cently and their final council
meeting Thursday night
Anne Winter was showered at a
pajama party in Ath Hall lounge
last Tuesday
Fuoss, Sykes Will Head
Cwens Society Next Year
Louise M Fuoss has been
elected to head Cwens, sophomore
women's honorary, for 1940-41.
Other officers are Marjorie L
Sykes, vice president, Nancy E
Gosser, secretary, and I Jacquel
ine Shafer, treasurer.
Initiation for the 18 new Cwens
and Miss Mary J. Stevenson, hon-'
orary member, was held' at the
Alpha Zeta house, last Sunday
Miss, Charlbtte E Ray, Miss
Marie Heide, Mrs Caroline Hal
ler, Georgia W Owen, and Ruth
K. Kistler '4l were guests.
Japanese interests, plan to es
tablish two can manufacturing
plants to' supply rolling' stock to
North China's railways ,
Salaried men' and
wcmen „(single .or married)
can get s2Sto $250,0r Mete
' entirely, on earning timatity
and ,petonte responsibility.
We prefer to -make these ,
loans the way most ~ , p eople
like —without socuritY,
without endorbeio.
FINANCE a CO.
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f C7Pr.:' /3ank Building'
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Milted Ilwolie
Florence' Fisher 'Parry
Has Varied Career
Considers Readers' Interest Prime Requisite
For Writing Successful, Interesting Comments
Jouinalist, .phOtogispher, actress, lecturer, drama critic, an 4,
broadcastea is Mrs Florence Fisher Parry, columnist for the PAW:
burgh Press who spoke at the Press ConferenCe in the Nittany Lion
Inn Saturday - 2
"The more you can express what the reader feels he himself
could have written, the better columnist you are," — said the,author
of two„ daily pillars "I Dare Say”
talk on the "Benefits of Wrihng a
FLORENCE , FISHER PARRY
Phys,Ed Honorary To ,
Organize Official's Club
LakOhides, women's physical ed
ucation honorary, Will organize an
Official's Club next year for all
women interested in official's rat
ings_ in baseball, basketball, dr
hockey '
HOW -TO START ,YOUR SUMMER V
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Column "
"You must keep in mind,r Mrs'
Parry stressed, "that you are writ-
Mg not for yourself nos for your
paper, but for the reader" "Does
it matter to him what I say 9 How
can I make him mterestedr
should be your prime considera
tions
- Mi s Patty began hei education
at Mrs Smaliwood's select school
in Washington,. D C , a tel cry
from her birthplace in Smoky'lle
Possessed with a variety of inter
pets, she transferred to the Whek
croft Dramatic School ' in geir
York and later to the department
of Joutnalism at blew' Yorlc Uni
vet sity ; t'
Was Actress
From 1907 until the outbreak of
the fist Woild War she performed
on the stage as a leading woman
with such personalitiii as Alla
Nazimova, Walter Whiteside, and
Otis Skinner • She was one of the
first leading ladies in the experi
mental silent movies which ap
peared at that time
Her journalistic career com
menced in Pittsburgh when she
began writing foi the ' , less- in
1925, but after 15 years she still
feels insignificant in the news
paphr office because she knows
nothing about make-up, copy read
ing, or the other complicated pro
ceases involved in newspapep.pro
duction.,
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