Page Two Penn State (Collegian Published Scml-UL'eklj during the Collate >cnr by students of the Ponnsyl vnn|a SllUo college. in tho intercut of the Students, Faculty, Alumni nnd Friends of tho College EDITORIAL. STAFF F 11. Lcuschncr *2l— S. Davis *2l H* M.’ Sheffer *2l SENIOR ASSOCIATES W. D Lclnbnch *2l ASSOCIATE EDITORS A. G. Pmtt *22 O. II Lysle, Jr. *22 Woman’s Editor... REPORTERS XV. R. Auman ’23 C 13. Gross '23 C. 11. Landofcld *23 13 D.-Scl)lvo ’23 business STAFF R U Parker Fred Hazelwood '2l— A. R Baturin '2l ——- ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS II R. Workholflcr ’22 W. E Perry, Jr. '22 Tho Collegian lnvlteo all communleaUona on any oubjcct ol college Intercut. Letters must bear signatures ot writers. Subscription price- (11.7 D, It paid betoro October 10. 1820.- After October IG, 1820, *3 00 Entored at tho Foatolllco. Slate College. Pa., as second class matter, omco. Nlttany PrlnUng and Publishing Co Building. Office hours. 4.20 to % 20 overy afternoon except Saturday. Member of Intercollegiate Newspaper Association FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1920 WHAT DOES AN HOUR MEAN TO YOU? At several instances this year the COLLEGIAN has advocated that the students make more use of the extra hour granted by the college for the sole use of providing a time for student mass athletics. There has been much discussion recently about the advisability of allowing'this extra hour inasmuch as the students evidently have made no appreciative response to the opportunity thus afforded. On the contrary it has resulted in on almost universal movement forward of the evening meal hour, so that such a thing ns coordinate student athletics has been impossible. Many of the sports have suffered con sequently and the reason has been more because of the rearrangement of the meal hour than from a lack of desire on the part of the stud ents to participate in the athletics offered. Now the situation that faces the students is that unless they make a united effort to make this hour worth while to themselves, there will be a change made in the daily program. This extra hour will be taken away and in its place substituted the former routine day of fifty minute class periods. As advocated before, there is only one way .to make this hour worth while. It is through the cooperation of the students for whose sole benefit it was first instituted. The students must see to it that th&meal hours throughout the town be changed from the present time of anywhere from five to six o’clock in the evening to a set time The classes for the day close at four-thirty o’clock. From then on till five-thirty, is set a time for pursuit of athletics. Consequently six o’clock is the most suitable time for the evening meal hour. The students must consider this matter seriously. It means just this, that unless they do make use or the extra hour, it will be taken away from them. We all realize ; the importance of the period set aside for mtra-mural athletics and so it is our duty to cooperate and make it a success SUPPORT LOCAL MERCHANTS Many students do not realize just what the merchants of State College arc doing for the town and college. They do not realize that the support given by them is a large factor in the existence of many student publications and activities State College merchants are re quested to advertise and support many student propositions and in most cases their aid is readily forthcoming In return they have re ceived student support in the purchase of the articles they have for sale. However, during the past several years, and especially this year, the support has fallen bff, due largely'to the invasion of representa tives of out-of-town firms who have offered goods for sale. These dealers have given little or no support to the students. They have only taken. They have no expenses to bear in the same proportion as do the local merchants Consequently many of their articles have been offered at lower prices and have been readily accepted. That there is much in this that is unjust to the local men may be readily seen. There arc many arguments pro and con and we shall.attempt to consider a few at this time. For a better and bigger State College we must in large measure depend on the merchants. Their aid has meant much to student af fairs as well as has student support meant added life to their busi nesses. The two must work hand in hand for mutual benefft. Stud ents arc always exacting in their wishes and often selfish. The same is often true of those in business. It is agreed that there is room for more cooperation on the part of both. Many complaints have been raised against the prices merchants have been asking for their goods. For this reason much of the trade has been diverted to channels where prices arc not so high. In this respect, the merchants must consider a change, one which will undoubtedly mean more to them in the end. Students must also realize that their reciprocity to merchant aid is as essential to better relations all around. So, as prices should be per haps rearranged, so should student patronage return to the home mer chant. We believe that the two will work hond in hand. One must give ns much ns the other. There is much good to be gotten from o “trade at home’’ policy. By this is meant, however, a support of those merchants whose busi ness means added conveniences to the town and college and whose support is such an essential to civic improvements and students activi ties. No good comes to the town by a support of dealers who do not have an active interest in the town’s welfare, but whose interest centers alone on what they arc able to extract from a college town population. And so it is cooperation that is needed. Why should students support merchants who do not in return give aid to the college and town? Why should student patronage extend beyond that of the local merchant whose sole interest is centered in this community? We believe thnt through the agency of the new Chamber of Commerce, relations be tween the students and merchants will' become better as time passes, but it is also necessary that this relation, as far as patronage is con cerned, be made better now. Support the local merchant first. He is a vital part of the town and its growth. He deserves your support much more than any outsider who has no interest in the welfare of this college town. Let’s be fair to him. It is assured that he will return to us in like fashion. Situated on the campus, near the main drive, is a large pine tree that for many years has served ns a community tree at the time of the annual Christmas celebration. This festivity, however, always comes when the students have departed to their respective homes and con' sequent!}' has always been solely a town affair. Penn State has never had a real Christmas celebration of its own. , The women students and the fraternities hai)c always, as a rule, had some sort of celebrn tion during the closing days of school for the old year, but it is behev' cd by many that the entire college should unite at such a time in a celebration distinctly its own. The large tree could be very prettily decorated with lights, the college band could furnish several members, trumpeters for instance, to furnish appropriate music. The Glee Club could render several Christmas carols. Students, both men and wo men could produce a pageant illustrative of the occasion. -About all of it might be wrapped the spirit of the entire college over the ap proaching occasion, a spirit of thanksgiving to God for the gift he made the world on that day of days in the world's history; a spirit of realization of the power produced and the effect of that birth on the peoples of the world. It would be a period of rejoicing over the col lege's success during the present school year, one full of hope for the future. It would not, ns some cynics might suppose, be a time of childishness, and buffoncry, but one of happy union of the entire stud ent body for the last time in the old year. The spirit of Christmas and its meaning would predominate and in it would be woven the magic, the eagerness, the expectation, the thankfulness and the hope which is a part of each one’s life when the Christmas period approach es. Let us all unite at this time for a better and closer relationship with Him from whom alt good gifts come and to whom we arc all in debted for what we have received of life. Let this be a time of "Peace and Good Will” at Penn State* Editor ______ Assistant Editor J W. Solovor *22 Mian Helen E Field ’2l A. D Pout '23 D. It Mchl *23 B E. Watkins '23 Bualne33 Manager .——Advertising Mannger —Circulation Manager E. S. "Yocum *22 PENN STATE COLLEGIAN A PENN STATE CELEBRATION ! IRST LADY OF LAND LECTURES ARE POPULAR Last Tuesday evening Dr. Sparks do- Ih creel the fifth lecture of the Liberal Arts series in Old Chapel on tho sub- ject “Ruche! Jackson, the Frontier Woman" He portra>c<l vividly the ll\ eft of Rachel and Audi o\v Jackson and Incidentally gave a remnrkublo plcturo of frontier life in general at that time, lie also gave a splendid tulle on the pi ogress of Anieiium polities by con trasting the methods of political pro cedute In IS2O with those of tho pre sent time Dr Spatks told his audience that Rachel Donaldson was born of a family of fionllci people In North Caiollna When sho was onlj twolvo jeara old, hoi father, Captain Donaldson, set out on a two thousand mile journo* over perilous waterway a to Nashville, Tenn essee, taking his \vlfe and daughter with hint, Rachel grow* uii In Nash ville amid wild and tugged suriound- Ings and very llltlo Ik known regard ing her enrl.v education Ono sovero wlntei, Donaldson took hla family to Kentucky, which was then a part of Vhghfla, and hole Rachel, then grown to womanhood, mot and later married a man named nobnrts After the death of her husband, Mrs. Donaldson sent fot Rachel and her husband to coino to Nashville and live with her which the* did Their mnirlcd life! was very unhnppy and Roharts Is said! to hnv o abused his w ife a great deal. J Dr Sparks then w ent on to tell some-; thing of the life of Andsew lackson and Its subsequent telusions with that of Rachel Donaldson *Ho said Jackson also was (torn of a fiontier fmnllj In North Carolina. Ills mother sent him to collego to stud) for the ministry but Jackson decided that he vvas never in-, tended for a preacher, so, at thd hgjsj The Varsity Pool Room UNDER POST OFFICE POOL and BILLIARDS CIGARS, CIGARETTES and CANDY H. G. MORRELL, Prop. FOR XMAS GIFTS THE ATHLETIC STORE On Co-op Corner i noiiDatmuQmmiiiiiiaiiitiiniiiiDiiiiiiiiiinamiimmtai'iiiiiiiuiaimiiiiiiiiciiiiitmimoiiimimiiamimmiiaiimiiiiiaaouumiiiamnM Useful Gifts That Please BLANKET ROBES Sweaters and Sweater Coats SCARFS—SiIk and Wool SHIRTS COLLARS v GLOVES TIES HARRY W. SAUERS ALLEN STREET. of thh Icon, he Joined Colonel Davies' regiment for military sei vice. After the win was over, lie taught school for a tiino and iutci studied law At tho age of twenty ho was admitted to tho liar and, having received an appoint-, jnent as Justlco of the pence, ho started for Nashville, Tennessee in 1788 to prac tice hlx profession When ho airived at Nashville, Jack son seemed board and lodging at tho home of Mrs Donaldson nnd ho and Rachel became good friends Robarta was very Jealous of Jackson and finally left Ills wife mid secured a dlvorco fiom her. Rachel then wont to Missi ssippi to live because Rohnrts had threatened to kill her Immediate!} after tho divorce was grunted, Jackson also went to Mississippi tyid ho and Rachel vvuro man led. After 1870 Jackson began to rlso In politics. He was a member of both houses of tho legislature at different Whiles and a Judgu In suveral courts be sides being a prosperous faroior. In the war of 18115. Jackson mndo himself a heio nnd tire Idol of the pcoplo In tho southwest by winning tho battle of New Orleans After war was -over and poaco declared, Jackson travelled In Mississippi and Floilda nnd tho peo ple everywhere hailed him ns a hero, By this tlmo tho southwestern states wero beginning to get some political power and In 1821 Jnckson was nomln- MIMEOGRAPHING PROMPT, ACCURATE SERVICE Mathematics and the Sciences our Specialty. Let us bid on your work. Edwards Bros. Ann Arbor. Mich. UMBRELLAS uled b) them foi President. JIo was defeated in tho election by John Quincy Adams but in 18828 his campaign was successful and. ho was elected Presi dent l»> an overwhelming majority During tills campaign, attacks wero mndo on tho chnrnctot of Jackson's wlfo by political onemles and, a short tlmo after Ills election to olllco, his wlfo died. Jackson believed tlmt she was killed by slander lie was always de- ted to ItlH u ifo and after hci death had a nioniiiiu>nt erected with the follow Ing Inscription upon It, “A Be ing so gentle nnd vhtuous that slandor might wound, but cuold not defame her" Dr. Sparks pointed out that woild de mocrat} was started and largely In fluenced by the lives of such pcoplo us Andrew and Rachel Jackson elections to i*j:xn state MISSION BOARD ANNOUNCED The lecent vote Last by the student body to determnio the members of the Penn State Mission Board icsulted In the election of Piofessoi F. if. Torienco of the Department of Mechanical Rn glneering. ns the faculty representative, nnd II M. Grittner '22. R. II Rauch '22 and C. E. Mow ter ‘2l. as tho student members This board will have active Hupot vision of all money sent to China by tho college In support of "Daddy" Gioff and thu Penn Stuto Missions. PATRONIZR OUR ADVERTISERS MEAT MARKET Six kinds of Fresh Meats J. D. KELLER ALLEN STREET' 1 _ 1 DRESS SUIT FOR SALE Worn only two or three times. One half the cost of a new one. Coat 38 breast. Trousers 321-2. Apply to D. I. WILL ARD Bellefoijte, for Particulars. pTHE BON MOT | | HOT AND COLD DRINKS j S Candy and Confections ■ j Reymer’s and Charter Chocolates g. J Opposite Bush House Bellefonte, Pa. J THE OLD ! RELIABLE x BOTH | 1 DEPOT PHONES | | | f Buy Useful Christmas Gifts! j | If you want your Xmas gift to | | make a lasting impression, give | | something sensible and practical. | I The presentation of a fine piece of | | furniture will prove a delightful | | surprise. § I I I | FURNITURE | Gate Leg, Davenport | and Sewing Tables •E | Cedar Chests | Reed Chairs and Rockers | Floor and Table Lamps I Livingroom and | Bedroom Suites | Everything in furniture from a | matched diningroom suite to a I child’s rocker. All appropriate for | Xmas gifts here for your selection. I w. R. BRACHBILL Spring Street . . Bellefonte, Pa. % Friday, December'■lo, 1920. HUM)AI CONCERT POSTPONED UNTIL AI'TKH THU HOLIDAY: DeciiUKo of tho fact that an Important conference In connection with tho Wll- Hon World Merlon liiih boon nchcdulcd to take place In tho Auditorium at tlr K .time time uh \vuh iilntmcd to hold Sun day afterloon ooncertH by tho Collette Orchestra, ll has been doomed wise to linHt|>one tlio latter uffali until Home date In tlio future Dhcctor ThomhHon of tho oiehoHtm, however, linn piomlH ed to hold tho concert uh noon after tho ChtlmmaH liolldiiyH uh poHHiblc. In nil ’piohabilU}, tho etent will take place the fit Ht Sumlny aftet tho iccchh, or on Jumiuiy ninth. CANDY GIFTS We can mail your candy box two or three days before Xmas so it will reach the time you want it there. You're assured of fresh candy here at reasonable price. Our Milk Chocolate Nut at $l.OO per lb. cannot be equaled. 'fake along some good can dy that is made in State College. Candyland & Cafeteria Established :j: 1841 I x
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