Page Two Penn State Collegian .'ubllshed -eml-weekly during the College year by students of the l'ennsyl ranla srnfe 2oi!eglT.he interest of Students. Faculty. Alumni, and Friends of the College. EDITORIAL STAFF E. D. Schlve, ’23— A. E. I'oit. *23 D. R. Mehl. '23 \\\ R. Auman. '23.. ASSOCIATE EDITORS R. B. Colvin, '24 E. E. Helm. *24 Women's Editor BUSINESS STAFF .. _ . , - Business Manager * ‘ X ° ’’ ” ~ Advertising Manager C. D. Herbert. ciiculallcjn Mwe, \v, G. Davis, ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS H. R. McCulloch, '24 REPORTERS * H. L. Firing, ‘25 p. p. George, *25 A. F. Mayo, ‘25 h. S. Morris, *25 D. A. Wieland. '25 \v. J. Ward, Jr„ ’25 L. M. Aronson, *24 B. Ayers, *25 J. H. Lum, '25 "VV. L. Pratt, *25 The Penn State Collegian Invitea communications on any subject of college In terest. Letters must bear the signatures of the writers. Subscription price: *2.50, if paid before October 15, 1922. After October 16, 3922 *Enie£d at the Postoffice, State College, Pa., as second cla*s matter. Office: Nlttany. Printing and Publishing Co. Building. • • Member of Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1922 THE STUDENT CAMPAIGN Official announcement is made in this issue of the drive that is to be made among the students as the third step in the two million dol lJ7 Health and Wclfa're Campaign. The drive is to start next Mon day morning with a mass meeting on the campus and then the stu dent organization will start the work mapped out for it. Closely following the gifts of the potato growers and the poultry men of the state, the faculty drive was inaugurated yesterday with a one hundred per cent participation by the School of Mines. When this'drive is concluded, at the end of the week,, one will boSta^. among the students as the second step. On October second, the third and greatest drive will be started among the citizens of the common wealth. including all alumni and friends of the college. Thus it is seen that the success of the first two drives will be an argument to use in the state wide drive. s ....... It is fitting and proper that Student Council should have entire charge of the drive.. An organization has been planned and the ap pointments to fill the various positions will be presented to this body at its meeting tonight. At this time, the final work will be completed and everything made ready for the start next Monday mormpg. The college authorities haye suggested that Student. Council discourage any other drive that may be staged during the course of the year except that of the Y. M. C. A. In this way it,is hoped to.protect the students as much as possible. , Another noteworthy feature of the drive is the condition that the present undergraduate classes will not be expected .to give.a senior .memorial at their respective gradua tions as has been the case in former, years. In other words, the con tributions that will .be sought next week are but the anticipated pay ment on. the senior memorial. j The amount to""be .asked'from' each, student is.one hundred dollars. Each canvasser will be given the names of ten students and he will be asked to interview each one. With a complete organization work ing in the interests of silcli a cause there’seems, tty.be'no logical rea son why the drive should not surpass the expectations of the most optimistic. The terms of payment ; have been made as easy as is possible and consistent- Each undergraduate.will have a period of four years after leaving the institution beside the time he spends at the college in which to make his payments. Thus it seems that the average student has, been given every consideration and he in turn will be expected to help his Alma Mater in its time of need. The strict observance of college .customs, at. Penn State should receive a distinct boom by the action Student Council is expected to take in substituting a new custom for the.old Poster Night. If such should happen, each.alumhus.would^e, overjoyed,, . This statement is based upon facts. In a majority of cases when an alumnus of the college is given an‘opportunity to,’talk about his, Alma Mater and'the conversation drifts!,around to customs as[they are,enforced in 'these recent years, he generally, deplores the fact that indifference and leniency have sprung up to take the place of the zealous'observance that characterized the .earlier, years of ; Penn State history.. It seems that.the! climax was reached last year when the num ber.of cases presented to the Student Tribunal reached a sorry'mini mum and when Poster Night was made.into .a, feast instead of an oc casion to instruct, the freshmen “in the way they should go”. In the past few years, the average freshman has matriculated with no idea of his own insignificance and he was not taught differ ently. He enjoyed the first two weeks,, of .college and then settled down a life of self-centered behavior. What was' discipline to him? Why should he look up to a senior or a junior? What was a sopho more that he should be obeyed? And the saddest part of the story is concerned with the attitude of the three upper classes. If a freshman was seen to disobey a college custom, he was not even reprimanded, in many instances but allowed to go serenely on his way without being accosted. Student Council did well to take.a.hand.in the matter when!the president of the organization was authorized by it to appoint a com mittee whose duty would be to . consider the substitution of some custom for Poster Night. This committee worked, qn .its task over the summer and is now ready, to present its. recommendations to the Council. A Stunt Night to be held on an advertised date and to-furn ish the upper classes with an opportunity, to impress, upon the Frosh the need for correct .and approved behavior, and .to be free’of those disgraceful features, which have brought severe criticism on the col lege, has been suggested. , . £ Such a night, if it should prove .to ,be successful, would provide an excellent start for a customs campaign to last the entire year. We suggest that each member of the three,'upper classes, consider the'ad visability of helping in the strict enforcement of all. true! Penn State customs and that he act as befits his class rank. Let no infraction of The Law go unpunished. The Student Tribunal is organized, for the sole purpose of interpreting college customs and ,of. meting out . de served punishment. .-Let those cases that .are serious enough be duly reported with the.requisite witness' Now is the time to come to tfie aid of the custom tradition of the; college. THE FACULTY AR£ COMING ACROSS .. It speaks.well for the School of participation in the Faculty drive that is' taking pface this week. Inci dentally it has served to, give, the drive an'imp'etus that,bids fair to duplicate this. feat.in the other gested'that no definite amount be £t as a "goal for'the drive but that an effort be made.to have each member of the faculty make a"volun Editor-ln-Chlel ..Managing Editor ..Managing Editor Assistant Editor E. M. Jameson. ’24 C. B. Tilton. '24 ..Miss S. E. Croll, *23 W. W. Stahl '24 F. W. Gold. *2B A. W. Petre, ’25 STUNT NIGHT tary contribution to the cause. Thus it is hoped to usher in the drive among the students, whfch' is to take place next week. CROSS CROSSINGS CAUTIOUSLY.*- A belated word has come to the attention of the college authori ties relative to the careful crossing campaign that is receiving wide press publicity in all sections of the country. In an effort to decrease the enormous total of’human lifVthat is'paid every year at the grade crossings, the railrbads'afe'sfaging this campaign from June first to September thirtieth. Recognition of .the size of tffe‘student body‘and of the desirability of reachmg the three thousand ‘nine-Hundred stu dents enrolled here has influenced the officials of "the Pennsylvania Railroad System to bring this matter before the sttident body through the medium of the college newspaper. . [[ . A sticker is to be circulated around the college, beginning with this issue, on which are printed seven rules for-governing the'action of the motorist when approaching a Crossing. .THe tendb’rtcy on 'the part of the average human being is to disregard a warning until He comes face to face with the cold circumstances of a dangerous posi tion. Then he remembers; but it too late. "Statistics recently compiled show that during the last five years, over nine thousand persons haye met death at grade crossings* and that over twenty-four thousand have been injured. A needless sacrifice of human blood that could easily be averted with careful driving calls for such a campaign. Remember this when you are behind a steering wheel the next time. ’ It may'pay. Education | WHAT EDUCATION HAS DONE FOK THE UNITED STATES By Dr. John M. Thomas Three hundred years ago this present year the first attempt to set up a pub* He school system In this country met with n temporary reversal. The Ind ian War of 1622 delayed for a time the educational plan of the little Vlr ! ginlan colony. But It was not long before the rude beginnings of Ameri can education had definitely established themselves upon these shores. It was not long before Boston took action to the end that “our Brother Philemon Pormort shall be entreated to become jehool master for teaching and nur turing chldren with us”, and it was only a year later that Harvard College was established. Down through the three centuries that separate that time from this, our educational system has grown until In 48 states we now have a system of ed ucation that, for diversity of curricu lum and democracy of spirit Is not sur passed in all the world. We. may not yet have reached a stage where we dare say that America Is.the center of the educational world. With the old centers of learning sUU calling to grad uate students of the cultural subjects, It woud be presumptuous on our part to make such a claim. Yet we have seen some indication that the medical world begins to look not so miich to Paris and Vienna and London for its leadership .as to Amer ica, wo have seen . fine . art objects brought to us from other shores, and above all else we have seen the voca tional school attaining Its highest de velopment .In this country. . . It is fair for us now to pause for a moment on that upward grade that has been leading America .to higher achievements in education and to cheok up, so far as we may.be able, the re sults that have been attained. Better Diving Standard Probably [the greatest-, work ‘of the schools of the [United'[States’ iuw[[beeh a general elevation of the standard of living to a' r point higher .‘than ( that' reached 'by. the”people* other country . ThoSe* .who hayeVeached the topmost plnnacle of usefulness, in this' country : have climbed' to a'position no less'high thanthelr brothers in fame throughout the'world. 'But It-la [not by the success or the feme of the’few that American education is to be mea sured, but rather by[ the high on which the great unknown' average man and woman.stands.. ' American - education - and American democracy, which has been its greatest ■product. have mear\t the .betterment of the standards of the home and of bus iness; They have meant that millions of homes, have, Uvcflln .greater appreci ation of the condltlons.and facts' of life surrounding them,., .They have : meant that, the young,women .who tp. f be. the,.wlves of the future, or the'teachers, ofyoqth, have been trained, in', the [esf senOalB {l of better, living.', No corner 'of the, American home,'has been,ieft.'un-C touched .. by. American, Whether Tri the. homely art/..of‘.piain. cooking or, in the", cultivation, of .the. flriq arts, the school has taken an'eftecUv? . And.so,,too,.has,the.lndelible, Imprint of, the school.been .ieft .upon,[American,' business. The ago‘of'barter has long ■l'- •t ?■ ; FEES’ | FOR . 4 .ic sr. ■’?. .-.I Dry Goods i r» ■ irl ' -:a 6 ■ " THE ‘COLLEGIAN since passed, and the time has come .when ~the justness . man ,1a realizing more and more that It-.ls only.devotion to principles of sound economics that has brought American industry und banking to their present positions of se curity. He is coming' to realize that only nn'electate’wlth'some' tinder stand ing of the laws of economics can guard the safety of American practices in government and business finance. If at the present., time, for instance, the American people, through the Congress that .represents diem, puts aside all suggestions of inflatatlon of currency to pay off the war debt, It will-be only because of the education that has in stilled In us some, knowledge of the working of economic laws and some ability to prophesy on the basis of his tory. Education In Pennsylvania So much has education dono for tho United States. Specifically, what has It done for Pennsylvania? ,In agriculture alone the service [of education has been 'grent. One needs no extensive statistics to note the bet ter .education of the farmer today as compared with the proverbial rustic of the pa*!, .Taking for his laboratory the .vast fields under.hls cultivation, he is deeply engrossed now In the chem istry. of the soil and of fertilizers, In bacteriology, In plant pathology, and In the keeping of accurate accounts. Yet there are statistics at hand to tell of the.; growing interest among farmers in. scientific, agriculture. Out of 100 young farm managers or man agers’. assistants, recently Interviewed by a Pennsylvania State College Profes sor traveling about the farms of the state,.-9.7. were found to have attended high school,'the majority of them hav ing taken courses In-vocational schools. . .And thus through-these high schools which give one half of their,time to instruction in agriculture ,and,home ec> pnwhi.es" duringtheflret two years of the.pupil’s course, and as much more optionally [during, the, next two years, Ponnsylvanla. whiclv-ranka seventh-.in agriculture among‘the states^fa laying a*foundation,[iri ferniing.that.will keep h;r in the'fqregrpu nd among the agri c it tural, districts of [ the world. Nor. Is 11, alone among the vocational h gh schools' that [training for, particu lar callings 1 '!!! [ belng./glvem Through the; courses’ in mining,, en glneei'ing, h_aturai'&le r nce!'and'home J ec : ofiomies,;/ given 'by’^the,[ Pennsylvania State. Coliege, vocational, training', of a more jadvanced grade’and even pf grad uate &rade Is givon'to students'of this state.' ’ j \ , ~, . [ [ls It -JasHfledl ,And if Jhls .public .educational system, If gtate.College, which is at the. apex of that,system, have auc ceeded In . disease among po tatoes, in making miplng safer, in solv ing^gre^ter.problems of engineering, .and, in .life, more livable, that system jhas • been Justified, It Is'with confidence ■in what- its graduates have ..Quality ,T Efficient Service ‘Reasonable Prices - E PENN STATE LAUNDRY l j'; 320 W. ! Beaver “Ave. ■ I . I ■' V >' •l-i; BAKED GOODS ! “iGEMilHiEAiiff • -y-'y.y*. : ’ We’ i&teFgspejcjidiy tq the Frateinity i J • • Oioj I • . , '' k ‘\ \*\ .A o a , m* ..- ... v'. .-.Tr/o, 220 E.COLLEGE AVE. . . Phone 211 . ■ ' been'able to denand in increased .service 'tfmt'lt that the, 'Pennsylvania S(ate' 'College’"now seeks T to become aUniyerslly[ln f name as well "as In fact,. toward-‘the eVeSt- 1 ual accomodation of 10,000 regular stu dents. It Is to serve Industry of every sort to greater advantage that the Col lege seeks to provide for expansion to a" size"more hearly cbmmensurate 'wlth the demands now made upon It. Notice All radio operators interested in the operation of the College Radio''Statlon ind wishing to try but for a position at the station should notify G. L. Crose iey at the Electrical Engineering De-) >artment not later than Friday noon; September twenty-second. This noti- Icatlon, which is to be made by msril,- should include the dose of license held (If 'any be tieid), experience and the type of amnteur experience possessed ‘(commercial or Navy), class" in' which the applicant 1s registered, course, and State College address. All-Freahmen must have their sched ule cards sighed by the Physical Edu cation Department' before Wednesday, - September "twentieth, at 10:00 A. M. All atude'nts “who contemplate the scheduling of ienhlß for credit in'Phys ical Education' should see 'Mr. Myers this week In order to arrange for per iods. Campus Gossip This Oblyutn Is not supposed tn be humorous. Its tlie editor's fault If It Is. If ever the splcket runs dry, which Is liable to happen any time, then there wont be this eolyum for that time. We notice that a campus fixture Is missing. Where Is that colored hound by the name of "Bob”? That summer session always upsets' things around these parts. And that reminds us of the report go ing the rounds that they had a very fair session here this summer. In fact It was so fair that less work was done than usual,—that is In the daytime. Wc know nothing of the night* practicians that were staged. Much coment Is being made tn the secret places'*of the enormous prices of book's this semester. The bird'behind the counter calls out, "Five ' dollars, please"' without e'ven quivering an eye lash. In one course, the total cost of the tools of torture amount to three dollars and four bits. The rush for that class'whs so great'that the instructor ihnught he had made a mistake and announced n'lecture course. Campaign Headquarters have mod estly asked ? "one hundred ‘dollars' from each ' v stude'- 'tti 4 *' Health \’arfd ,,v Welfare. But what' do . you - want for nothing? Even "Doc’’ Rltqnour will tell you that It runs high to be blessed witfh the wig or and'wUality of life. ’ Well I guess we might as 'well give it now, Instead of waiting tli the end of our glorious course to shell out the huhdred'slmo leans. It Is Interesting to note that the soc cer players are getting away to an ear ly start thls year. We are of the opin ion that It is a wise move after glanc ing over the tentative schedule that feces the hooters. They .have a record to uphold: in addition. Three years without a defeat isn't so.bad when you consider it. . . , If Student Cbuncll r aipproves T of the new 1 ' Stunt ' Night;’- it 'ft«£ha Frbsh' are 'in for a'most ■bnlisual 'tlme; From' the 'advance 1 dopb that' has' been' glVen ' us.''the 'fun ' Wilt '"Commence"'At eight o’clock''and last‘d till '-'midnight at least. That loads to the conblilßlOn that four hours of alxty,;minutes apiece are,, provided for Instructing the new cbmers, in the way they should con-, duct,,themselves. Now. lt is tip to- the upperclassmen to do their part. Per-. Waps, if thla ls pulled off* right* with plenty of 'thorough" teaching, there will be better observance of than in previous fiura. • The girl Btudents are certainly start- wltb‘a' ; fdsh semester, also. It was a mlghty-’flne thing for them to pledge their entertainment pro ceeds to the Building Fund. That is ihe spirit that counts. By the way you've got to hand It to :he Mining Faculty for coming across' with the 100% participation the way they have. They must have some live wires ln that 'school to steal : a march oh the other schobls' and Departmente. Everybody semes to be anxious for the whistle to blbw ; on New Beaver Field. Several new faces are going to be seen in the game this year and the boys are *ahxious‘*to look them over. Coach Bezdek has a tough proposi tfon on his hands but we are willing to wager that he wins qut In \ne end. It ia‘ one of his'admirable characteristics. state Fertility plots NOW FORTY YEARS OLD • thousands of'farmers who an uklly'Vislt Penn State to'attend events arranged for their benefit by the School of Agricblture; invariably devote a large pbrtlon' of their visit ;to a study of -the college’s' historic"fertility plots, far filmed as‘ the oldest in' the United slates. From the time of the first sow irig' of wheat in tho fell of 1881, these plots, located bn the Tesidual limestone soil typical of llmistone valleys in Pennsylvania,' have" been’watched with increasing interest by the farmers of tlie 1 state,'and in thfe forty years that hhvo' now elnp'sed since the* beginning of the'teat,' the results obtained In the State'College'‘experiment with - various fertHlzers,'manure, lime' and land -plas ter,' have'been'of' liieatlmabe value to these farmers In maintaining the fer tility of.their soils. The forty years’ results of the ex periments’ have ' been” summarized by the college' soils ’specialists and will soon’be'lssued In bulletin - form, together , with recommendations based on crop yieds' from ‘each of , the 144 test plots since 1881. The co'ncluslons drawn from tho study of the various treatments and the yields, obtained lend futher em phasis to. the principal facts brought out in the 1917 report. At the end of the yearB-intervening,‘several' other impor tant facts have been revealed, one of < the most ihterestihgof whlchMias to do with th'e‘pioti‘receivihg'nitrogen In the form of ammonium sulphate. During the first ; te'n years of the'experiment, this form of ‘nitrogerT excelled all others in Increasing* crop ‘production,' but in later yearirlts* iendeiicyto increase - soil acidity caused total'crop failure. In April;'a few weeks before - seeding to oats, one of the sulphate of ammonia plots in ? {he' se'cbnd''fier v was ‘given 'an appllcatlon' , of'ground limestone'at the rate of five tons an acre, with the re sult that a fair crop .of oats was ob tained while'other-sulphate of ammo nia plots continued in crop failure. penw staTe CONDUCTS : MAH 'AijD'wOMiNHUNT Usln'g /M twq-cent'.stamps ‘ instead of b 1 ooi-hdiinds, the coliege'office has be-, gun a[ man and“woman hunt that 'is. unique in 'the*annals o‘f 'the’college. ~ In- ah'eh'deavor'to locate lost grad uates of [Penhsiat'e? this hunt is to-get. bn' theirail of all former.students who, never [clld” ’ q’ualify ..Ifor '‘their diplomas.' From 1859‘tp'[the'present[‘time, a total, of more than meh and women en tered"and then ‘dropped out of college before' completing"'their course.* They, are eligible'to membership In' the alum-., ni jSsqciation once,‘they“mre looted. - At least a'dozen'civiV veterans are In cluded In'the'llst You NCed at Least One of I?hese Suits YOUR’wSrdrptc' w'ont be complete without a FJI *uit of Societjr. Brand. The ityle you 'expect, and un*. usually tA select from. Let us show jjrou the styled for Fall~ybullshfc*ttthat you haven’t-seemanything handsomer, and tRAI? Pretty schoblß: , hat li; . -at ss^-SS.SO—“SSfOO % tnakes at s^(H>sndS4ls6 CAPS $1.75 tS-$8 f .op , THE QUALITY SHOP ; Opposite Front Campus. Tuesday, September 19,1922 FROSH ENJOY RECgTJW BY “Y” OROXMzXnbNS The Freshmen thorouihly uUoyM the reception given under l ttie isuspl cea of the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C.'A. and the wives of the faculty members last Friday night er third of thelr-elass. Mr.* DeVore'-ls a' flrm belleVer in-'public schools,’'so thechlldren'entered'State''College: be cause tt-'-te* a' state’ Institution. 'Applications'were mado for them in splte 'of ; the v fact that'the'Cver crowded cohditidns' at-lthe : ceilSge-had necessl tdted the turning awaytof'many* qual ified applicants in'the’paat three-years, aAd On' the basls of' the hlgh -echolaeUc records '-they v were' admitted. Henry irf enrolled'ln the course 'of ad erice,; 'and l Lois' will ctake ci—steal coarse. DB.-'gnnfONSTO *SBFBMBNT *• ’ f 1 PENTf'STATB - * ’ > U. &r Thobjas‘ tbday ‘ap ’pOfrited Dr.' Lucretla V.' T. C Slrhxnons, of the German'department; as tee rdpfesentatfve' 4 of" Pennsylvania,'’Sfate cbllege'aVthe' lnauguration'of Dr/Mar io'n Edwards Park as preside'nfotßryn, Mawr College oh ’ October - fw«ity-flrst President Thomae wiil be[unable tend the ceremony because Penh; State's alumni homecomtaig- day, will, be cele-. brated here-on the*name. date. . 'BTBENSTH OF .ChAiN GAUGED ~ • 'Likewise is yonr -. strength,, mearamd by your -weakest organ. .'Thousands ; who look the picture of health' are burai-. Irig up their vitality unknowingly £ ahd wonder why .they have ,no* energy,. There Is a reason. la wasted-.by >strained, vision 'than >' by • any f other-j defect. Dr.r of 'all >our arevdue» to ‘overt, fexed .-eyes." /' k ßetter«'think thisi over, and’ then consultime. l Havlng'-’hftO , ert'Veard of*itfperieHce I guarantee satisfaction. Mrs. Eva B.‘ 52 8} EL* Cofi^ge; •KNiCKBRS sB^ooands6;s6 "Qoif^stecKbf^i. ;s2:ootosii2s