Peg© Four Penn State (Eollegian Published weakly during the College year by students of the Psnnaylvanla ittAto College In the Interest of the Students. Fnuulty. Alumni and Friends of the College. EDITORIAL STAFF a. 8. Wykoft '2O ». C. 'BlaUduU *2O G L. Wright '2O ASSOCIATE EDITORS H 8 Davie '2l FH. Leuuchner '2l W D Lelnbach '2l H. M Shorter '2l Miss Holon M. Zimmerman '20.. REPORTERS B. S Leathern '22 XUUiurd Lincoln ’22 G If. Lyelo Jr ’22 A. G Pratt 22 C Q Scharar '22 J. W. Solovor '22 J L. Stewart ‘22 P. H. Strobel '22 •• H. R Tlolilck '22 BUSINESS STAFF R. s. paxßon '2O B. R. Neln ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAOERB Fred Hazelwood '2l A. IL Baturin '2l Tho Collegian Invitee all communications on any subject of college Interoot Letters must boar signatures of writers Subscription prico. 11 60, If paid before October 10, 1019. After October 10 1919, 11.10. Enured at the Postofflce, Bute College. Pa., os second doss matter. Office, Nlttany Printing and Publishing Co. Building. Office hours, 4.20 to o*9o every afternoon except Saturday. Member of InU'rcolloglato Newspaper Aeioclatlon THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1920 Nows Editor for this issue THE TRANSPORTATION SITUATION Tho roceot vacation has brought to light and still further em phasized tho fact that something must be done in regard to the trans portation situation. The task of bringing three thousand persons to this placo within a short space of time is one which is not easy to do, and as a result, traffic has been time and again congested to the limit In fact, one of the reasons for moving tho Holiday vacation forward several days was to permit everyone getting home in time for Christ mas. At every vacation period there is one I>ig rush to leave, and on the return fellows dash from trains at Tyrone, Lcwistown, Bellefonte and Lemont, and crowd the busses to several times their normal capacity. Complaints havo recently been made because there were not sufficient cars at the Lemont station to transport every one within a reasonable spaco of time; and yet the reason for this is quite evident. Not many years ago, many of the local citizens took their autos to Lemont al most for accommodation's sake, but because so many fellows piled on, tho machines were virtually ruined, and as a result today only the reg ular busmen make the trip. The same crowded condition exists at Bellefonte and Tyrone, and many students who failed in the first rush were compeJed tn wait from one to three hours before being able to secure transportation. Surdy there must be some remedy to alleviate such crowded con ditions. State College mu9t have either a railroad or a street car line which will connect with tho principal pomis around the borough. How or when such an arrangement can be effected is not at present evident, but ways and means must be found,,if this college is to develop in the future a 9 it has in the past. - There is another problem in connection with the transportation situation, to which the COLLEGIAN has already given quite a bit of publicity. That is the policy of "Ladies First” upon returning from vacation. It was successfully inaugurated at Thanksgiving, but un fortunately the same cannot bo said of the Chirstmas vacation. Le mont was tho only place where the policy was lived up to to any ex tent and oven thero many cases of ungcntlemanlincss were evident. For iastance, on the first trip up, there were almost enough cars to care for all tho girls, and yet because a few fellows monopolized sev eral of these, despite tho fact that they were told they were reserved for ladies, quite a fow of the women students were compelled to wait until the second trip Outside of these few cases of non-gentlemen, all of the other fel lows did their part m a splendid manner and helped make the move ment at Lemont a splendid success. Great credit is also duo tho bus meo at that station, all of whom agreed to bring up ladies first, and tho only reason why some of them were unable to do so was because of the attitude of the above mentioned non-gentlemen. The action of these few, we feel sure, is looked down upon by the hotter class of students However, rather discouraging reports have come in from the various stations at Bellefonte and Tyrone, where the fellows, without any regard for ladies at all, dashed for the buses, and allowed the women students to secure transportation as best they could. Such a condition Jins existed for a longtime. Can it never be remodied? Surety there is no ronson whatsoever why those students who return by way of Bollefootc, Tyrone, or any other station, can not follow tho precedent which is being set at Lemont end carry out to one hundred per cent efficiency the policy of “Ladies First” The first exhibition of its kind this winter, the novice meet for unskilled boxers, will be held this week in the Armory. The COL LEGIAN expresses the hope that all students who possibly can will attend, that the men may be encouraged in the ring game. The pa9t convention of college athletic associations was featured by the enthu siasm with which the promotors of the sport advocated its adoption as a national intercollegiate sport, with the result that a committee is formulating rules for that purpose Boxing, with its birth as an inter collegiate sport promulgated by Penn and Penn State, is due there fore to become one of the most prominent and popular sports. It is up to ovory Ponn State student to do his bit in encouraging and patron izing tho sport at this institution In an issue of the COLLEGIAN several wcoks ago, the Depart ment of Music issued a call for new college songs. The COLLEGIAN heartily advocated the idea and wishes again to call the attention of the student body to the need of originality and variety in these songs. Such songs should bo of a character as to make them available for singing at atl college affairs for the entire year. In thi9 connection the COLLEGIAN desires to call attention to the combined musical clubs concert on Friday evening Near the dose of tho program, several new colloge songs, prepared by the Glee Club, will be presented for the student body's approval. It is hoped that each student who attends will enter into the singing of these new 6ongs with a whole-hearted fervor and do his part toward making them a success. Tho next Y. M. C. A. entertainment course number is the Adams Company whose concert will be given Saturday evening. The prev ious concerts have been very poorly attended by the student body and for no conceivable reason. Surely Penn State students are of a suf ficient musical trend to make them appreciate the value they can re ceive .from entertainments of this type. If the students of other in stitutions can turn out in full force to musical attractions whereat some noted personage is the attraction, 9urcly Penn State students can do tho same. Editor Abe la tarn Editor ......Senior Associate Editor ..Woman's Editor .Busluess Mnnugor .Advertising and Circulation Managor R. L. Parker *2l F. H. Leuschner 1.-F. BASKETBALL SEASON HAS BEGUN An Inlerfruternlty basketball leaguo !uu» been formed and already tho open ing games havo been played The plun iu Identical to that which was no suc cessfully curried out luat season and thin year a uoventy-flvo dollur cup will be presented to tho champions Hugo Btzdck Is tho prime mover of this plan. It being in perfect harmony with his maua athletic progrum The league 1h under the management of H L Stuurt '2l, who wuu appointed , by Bezdok and his assistants to be the chairman of a committee of live stu dents. This committee, which In turn won selected by Manager Stuart, will huvo the responsibility of tho drawing up of tho ruleu and tho schedule and hi' gonertU tho uuccessful putting Ouough of the project. Tho flvo mon selected are, J Levinson '2l. J. B Ty son '2l, F M. Smith '3l, C H McFar land '2O. and P B Banks r 22. This season's sehodule will have one Important chnngo as compared with that of last season and that will bo with regard to tho referees Last sea son the students selected their own foul callers and usually It was a stu dent who hnppened to bo nearby when tho teams started to play, his ability not being token into consideration An entirely now- system has been adopted. Certain mombors of the faculty will be chooen by the director of athletics to act us referees and who will In turn receive a small compensation for their work This will facilitate matters and all teams whllo on tho floor will be assured a neutral consideration by tho official. Thlrty-IUo fraternities havo entered teams in the raco for the cup and the touguu has been divided Into flvo di visions of sov en teams each. Thoro will be four games each evening and tho sturt of play will bo sovon o’clock, each gamo being composed of ten mln uto halves. All members of tho varsity and Freshman training [table havo declared lnoleglble. This Is really tho only rule which has been drawn up as yet by tho commllttb, although othors pertaining to penalties will prob ably bo passed With tho schcdulo standing as It Is, the first round will havo been com pleted within four weeks, which will pormlt tho staging of tho soml-flnals about tho mlddlo of February and at their completion tho finals Thoro Is a plan under way whereby tho non fraternity units will havo a duplicate league With tho adoption of this, the playing nights will bo cut in half and consequently eight weeks will bo need ed boforo tho scml-flnals can be played. SOPHOMORES COMPETING IN RHETORIC CONTESTS Following u custom established lost yoar. tho Department of English Is conducting an extemporaneous speak ing contest among the Sophomoro Rhotorlc classes Tho preliminary con tests aro being held Tuesday, Wednes day and Thursday nights of tills week, and Monday night-of next week In the Old Chapel at seven o'clock Each sec tion has seloctod onb member to repre sent it In preliminary contests. Those who qualify in tho v preliminary con tests will aqpoarMn the finals, to bo* held probably Wednesday night of next woek. Some of the' rules and regula tions whioh apply to the contests fol low Each person In the preliminary con* tests shall bo limited to six minutes. Broad subjeots of current Interest, excluding tho Paaoo Troaty and tho League of Nations, shall be assigned. A different subject shall bo assigned each evening Tho subjects shall bo posted twenty-four hours In advanco. Tho Judges shall be Instructors In tho Deportment of wo do things In government circles in China. Our studonts ropnlred tho machines, and ure still repairing them They learned u lot whllo making something out of the Junk and now they are using them to learn on Thoy made patterns for tholr own machines and aro turning them out for ourselves and other schools In the carpentry shop tho matter was an oasy ono to solve Wo took all kinds of contracts for government fur niture and made them In lots of twenty, soiling at a profit desks, chairs, filing cabinets and the like Finally our boys erected a dormitory for tho collcgo In which they did overy bit of the brick, stone, wood and concrete work and now they uro designing and super vising the croctlon of school and gov ernment buildings This summer they will erect 1320,000 worth of such build ings and aro planning one college cam pus of 1200 studonts whllo thoy aro .dunning from tho beginning the cam pus for another college in unothor city, that Is to have seven hundred students. Our boys spend the first two years, twenty hours a week In tho collcgo shops under student foremen, und tho tast two years threo days a week In outside shops, such us Uio railway shops, machine shops, eta Tho rest of their time they oponil In locturos on the theory qf tholr trado (architecture or mechanical |cng.), In. drafting and regular high school study. Later on wo will add the colleglato department but had to fitjit start our own prep school. 1 havo taught everything given In the courses whether mechanical engineer ing or architecture, having an assistant interpret for me and after ho has taught (Coiltinued on Pago Throe) Hartman’s Barber Shop Beneath the Music Room Pool and Billiards in the rear. A SAVING THAT BELONGS TO YOU That you will receive twice this year Right now the stocks we bought for fall are worth a lot more than we paid for them. Market prices have gone up, but we still are determined to clear out stocks of the season’s suits and overcoats by hav ing onr semi-annual reduction sale as usual. Can you afford to miss this? "We really would not if we were you. The following price reductions will prevail. 60 Suits and Overcoats for $45.00 35 Suits and Overcoats f ci 326.5 55 Suits and Overcoats for $41.25 32 Suits and Overcoats for $24.00 50 Suits and Overcoats for $37.50 30 Suits and Overcoats for $22.50' 45 Suits and Overcoats for $33.75 28 Suits and Overcoats for 21.00 40 Suits and Overcoats for $30.00 25 Suits and Overcoats for 18. 75 This Sale will be for cash only - Special price on Leatherette Coats, $18.75 Montgomery & Co. BELLEFONTE AMERICA FACES- CRISIS IN EDUCATION BY ELIOT WADSWORTH Ii lujcomeu mote evident ever/ day that the illicit or the tnlletre profeaaor la not couflned to uny one college or group of collcgeu. The profession oC touching in collcgce la threatened all o\ er America Hardly a day pauses In tho olllco of tho Harvard endowment Fund without u call from tho represen tative of some college which Is plan* nlng a drive for further endowment. Thu reasons given ure always the samo. First, tho existing staff Is suf fering from the high cost of living, tho collogu is unablo to give a square deal and a living vvago to tho men without whom no college can axial. Second, tho recruiting of toochlrs has become utmost Impossible. Man of unusuui Intellectual attain ments, who would bo selected by col lege faculties to carry on tho work of teaching, cannot see tho possibility of self-support in the meager salary of SIUO u month which Is offered as u beginning Even If they are Inclined to try, and anxious to follow tho profos hloii of teaching, tho cull of commercial life, with lts promise of financial re ward, greater at tho beginning and lim ited in the futuro only by their own abilities, Is u sitting one. In evoty college tho men who wore already absorbed In tho profession of touching und whose associations and 9 londshlps tu e well established uro currying on us best they may. These older mon cannot keep up their depart ments without the constant uddltlon of young assistants Tho discouragement of trying to keep up to u high standard of education undor the constantly In ci easing handicap of an Inadequate stuff. Is almost as hard upon thoso older men us theh own Individual troubles with the tent und the grocer’s bill. The colleges of Amciicu are among her groatost assets. They* have grown In number und In slzo as tiro nation has gtown. They have spread from Cambridge, where, in IG3G, John Har vard established our first vcntuic in uiiiimiiiiiaiiiiiimmnuimiiiiiiDumiiuiuaiimmiiiiaiiiiiiiuuiDn I MEAT MARKET I I All Kinds of 1 FRESH MEATS J. D. KELLER Allen street s miiniiiuirnmnimmiiinniiiiimiiiiaiiiimiiiiiDiiimimiinimiiimii THE ATHLETIC STORE INCORPORATED ON CO OP CORNER higher education, to the farthest cor ners of the country’- The money a valluble today for carrying on thoso . priceless plants which belong to us all Is insuiltclent. Elko and public ser vice corporation they must have onough incane to puy uxponscs und upkeep. ? Fiom thOhu colleges America expects to draw a steadily increasing number of young men with trained, alert minds and high Ideuls. America must do pond u|»on these young men for tho leaders of tho future. In medicine, In law, In business. In government, In tho arts This supply of young men, which Is tho hope of tho future. Is seriously threatened both as to quality und stand ard. It’s conservation Is of vital Inter est to every American father and mother, to every individual Interested in tho 'duveiopmont of America along social und business lines. It is not only those who have hud the benefit of a college educutlon who (Continued on fifth page) A- DEAL Heating and Plumbing Highland Ave. State-Centre Electric Co. Electric Supplies Appliances 123 Frazier BOTH PHONES STATE COLLEGE Thursday, Januaty 15,1920 Cafeteria After all sorts of dis- appointments —on the port of equipment, machinery, and the different erectors, we are glad to greet our friends and patrons in our new eating place, with the assurance that we have equipped a fine eating house, for fine eating with- in everybody’s reach. A SELF-SERVICE CAFETERIA Though not as large as those you see in Pittsburgh and other big cities, but every bit as good, if not better," in quality of goods and pure food cooked and served clean in a whole- some way. REFRIGERATION Mechanical refrigera tion for all our iced pro- ducts, thereby assuring a steady refrigeration, and leaving no room for germs or half-spoiled food to be served. OUR KITCHEN Equipped with all mod- ern machinery available Electric dish washer—also intended to assure soli- tary dish washing. OUR BAKING DEPARTMENT With an expert pastry baker for everything we need, will be baked in our own bake shop—bread, rolls, cakes, pies, cream puffs, eclairs, doughnuts, crullers, lady fingers, mac aroons, as well as other fancy pastry, as far as our sugar supply will allow us to go at the present time until a better supply is se- SERVICE Everybody knows that there is no quicker service in the world than a self-service Gafeteria, and while at the present time good help is hard to obtain, our effort will be at all times to organize and improve our service to your satisfaction. You surely can feel at home in our Cafeteria for whether you want just a cup of coffee or a porter house steak, the same" courtesy will be extended to all patrons. We want you to feel at home, for we are here to serve you with just whatever you wish. There will be no special cooked food from' ll'3o A. M. to 1.00 P. M„ but our steam table will have j/ a lot of appetizing dishes —different kinds of roasts, entrees, croquets, fish, soups and vegetables of all kinds. Before 11:30 A ,M. and after 1.00 P. M. you can order what ever you want for we will handle most anything that a first-class restaurant can handle. The Cafeteria For Good Eats Meal tickets can be ob tained from the manage ment. GREGORY BROTHERS CANDYLAND & CAFETERIA State College ,Pn.