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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 <HmrUsh.
They shall unnounco first and second
choices after each contest.
Boforo tho final contest' tho four
speakers who huvo boon awardod seo
ond placo la tho four preliminary con
tests shall bo callod to speak boforo
Judges, who shall select one of the
uumbor to speak In tho final contest
with tho four mon who havo boon
choHon for first placo In tho prelimi
naries. Those flvo mon shall partici
pate la tho final contest.
Tho finul contest shall resemble tho
preliminaries except lu that each speech
shall be ton mlnutos in length Instead
of six
It Is obvious thnt such contests are
worthy factors in stimulating interest
in the work of tho Department of Eng
lish and Rhotorlc. and tho koon rivalry
botwcon tho vnrlous soctlons for first
prize is conducive to Penn Stato Spirit.
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State College, Pa.
W L. FOSTER, President
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“SAM” DEAN WRITES OF
CONDITIONS IN CHINA
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went along And In spite of my trying
to fire some of them, they ull havo
slurted departments In manual train
ing In this Normal School and thnt and
aro In somo cases so much bettor than
1 expected that I almost wish 1 had
kept tho worst man In tho class to soo
whether or not ho might not huvo de
veloped Into a regular Edison
While wo wero still working on tho
problem of Industrial education and
pushing here und there, trying to get
something real started, tho country sud
denly became violently utitl-Japunoso
and the howl wont up for home man
ufactures, Industrial schools and the
llko, so It wasn't very hard to got our
college to change tho whole Idea of our
department to one which was training
teachers of u trado first and of manual
training second Wo then startod to
work out for the government a system
of manual training high schools, or as
we call them trado mlddlo schools. To
gether with this wo continued our work
lu Introducing manual training Into tho
common schools and training teachers
for those com sue and started to work
out a now system of vocational primary
for the education of tho workmen of tho
nation.
Luck Takes u Hand
Of course our shops wero rather
small and 111 equipped for all this but
fortunately Just at that time a govern
ment factory which had been erected to
make educational supplies and had
failed hccuuso no one was trained to
handle It and tho money put in wan ull
grafted, burned down Wo went to In
spect the,ruins and saw tho machines
made up Into piles of Junk ready to be
sold to tho foundry and so wo hired
somo coolies, took them to our school,
then askod the board of education for
them becauso thoy wero useless. Of
course they gave them to us Wt had
them and that Is tho v\a> 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
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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
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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.