Page Two Penn kLolleosieiu .'•'J.i 'luring the Co'k-gc your by students of the PennayJ r.ifiia'ijTatVoili-w. in t.V.* inl-.-rv.-t of Ka-nUy. At-iynm. ;tn«l Fronds ~1 Col'wgv. KDITOIIIAL STAFF ASSOCIATE l-.TJITu/lS i:. i:. BLSIXESS STAFF H. T. Axford. C. lJ- (i. Ij -.-. ix, ASSISTANT UKSINKS'S MANAGKUH H. li. McCulloch. '-4 IiEPOKTEKH L .'I. Aroa.~o:». H. 1.. Firing. '2O }>. George. "20 F. W. Gobi. A. I'. Mayo. ‘2O jj MorrU. "l‘> A. W. I‘f.ic U. A. Wlir'.xn’}. "Ju v> - f v.'anl. .fr.. a AVv/s. '.V. L. l*raU, Th«* I'yr.n rtito CoJl‘*:j. r an jnvj;»-s coi r uuunl<::i lions on any of in *L<-r.«Ta Ui'isi l**-ar in*- signatures of the '.vriiers. Subw-riptiou Kico: JiSO. if l«ia before October IS. 1952. After October 15. Kir.V-i *-d .!•- Hi*: IViSloffl-.e. Hlale Coll'--*;'-. I'*.. = ,;tor:(1 Niuauy Print.ns and PuMithins Co. Building. .McmltiT of Eastern Intercollegiate Xew*|iai>er A-'ociation TUESDAV. SEPTEMBER 25,^9 22 WE CAN NOT AFFORD TO FAIL No matter how hard pressed we may be for funds, we can not af ford to reiuse to subscribe to the 52,000,000 Emergency Building Fund. It will he more costly for us to fail to pledge our support to the cam paign than it will be to save one hundred dollars by not suscribing. We who are most vitally interested in the welfare of the college must stamp the campaign with our mark of approval. Before we can prevail upon our friends to subscribe, we must prove to them that we believe in the Future of Penn State. A one hun dred percent participation on our part will be of inestimable value to the success of the state-wide campaign. The citizens of the commonwealth are watching us. We are a barometer for the big campaign that fol lows on the second of October. We cannot afford to fail. The faculty drive has blazed the way for us, and we can now do nothing but follow the example which has been set by it. About forty thousand dollars have been pledge by that group and the percentage of response has surpassed ninety-eight. When complete returns have been made the officials predict that the number of non-subscribers will be almost negligible. Those loyal older members of the faculty who have grown with the college and who have spent every ounce of energy in striving for its advancement did not hesitate to back it in this new undertaking. The newer members of the instructional staff were quick to grasp the vision of the Possibilities of the Pennsylvania State University in becoming one of the leading educational institu tions of the country and they have pledged their support to the cam paign. If the members of the Faculty back the campaign of their adopted Alma Mater so heartily, should not we who are Penn State men give still greater support to a task wffch concerns Penn State? Three hun dred thousancf'dollars, the quota set for the students, seems tike a paltry sum when we stop to consider our debt to the college. With mnm •yiZug'd 'VUTifej* *‘VrtC place of the class endowment which it is customary for the seniors to give, we see that the college is asking us for nothing more than it usually does. This is a combined senior memorial of four classes into one great memorial. Are we content to see Penn State stand still and remain a college fore'er handicapped while every commonwealth to the west and south of Pennsylvania has helped its state educational institution grow into a large university.? Do you want the unbusinesslike finan cial support of the state legislature to continue? The appalling need of Pennsylvania for a state educational insti tution of higher learning is adequately expressed by President War ren G. Harding: I have learned with surprise that it is necessary for one or our national colleges to refuse a thousand qualified students each year because of lack of facilities and 1 trust that your efforts to remedy this situation both by private gifts and public support may meet with success." It is unthinkable to consider what the failure of the student cam paign would mean. We must set the example for the people of Penn sylvania. All eyes are upon us. We cannot afford to fail. FOOTBALL AND BETTING Is it wrong to bet on a college football game? Is wagering a per sonal matter or does the act of one student affect others? Does the placing of money on the Penn State team hurt that team? If gam bling in this form does not harm the team, does it impair the one who gambles? • .-3j These questions have been raised as the result of a resolution which Student Council has endorsed opposing gambling and betting in connection with football games. Was it justfied j n doing such a thing? Has that body the right to express its opinion in a matter which seems at first thought to be one of a purely personal and individual nature? The fact that the council without a dissenting or protesting voice, passed this resolution indicates that there must be some just reason for the action. This resolution states that public interest has been focused upon gambling in connection with football games through comments and discussions in the newspapers and magazines. Would such interest be aroused by anything which is an accepted fact? There must be something out of the ordinary about gambling which does not meet the approval of the ordinary man to cause such comment. We find that the king sport of them all, horse racing, was killed because of ex cessive betting. Would it not then be safe to conclude that betting and gambling, if not restrained, will seriously injure the standing of intercollegiate football? Upon reading further, we find the statement that gambling pre vents the development of the best type of college spirit by substitut ing the expectation of personal loss or gain, by making it less easy to appreciate and applaud the good work of the opposing team, and by making it difficult for those who bet to lose with the good feeling 01 true sportsmanship. What is your opinion on gambling? Can you do it with a clear conscience? Do you believe that it violates the spirit of true brother hood which chould characterize relationships betweetn Christian insti tutions? TKXX STATE IS VISITED HY FOUMEIt FACULTY MKMBKU Doctor Sherman anti Ur. Albus were visitors in State College last Thurs. tlay. Doctor Sherman was formerlly ..Mitiu-Jitu: ilU'u .Vs.*is;a!iJ IC.Jit-./ is. Tikon. E. M. J lfllO.SOli .livaiuv&.-i ._A<l\eriwirss; W. W. Stahl *:M a professor in the school of Agrieul. ture here five years ago. Mr. Albus graduated from Penn State in 1919. They are Imth now in the Department of Agriculture at Washington D. C. clean pair of pajamas. With fireworks , 'ih-jt mu> uiul everything, they’re going to start I would not venture •«» m*‘t one • “ , , , .t. , . . ~ rtr „,» to give us our three hundred dollars p ] , '£ in the present generation. Area t»> me * tducation * line enthusiasm of a Lincoln. could not ' v,,lth at onf °- #( , i edncntc Wnurff. b»t 1 »"> certain that The „ f „ allege education lh ‘ m > ,wlly nt , lUt ; ra ;;!- ,„a„v. Upon reviewing our nccom ”*"****•'*' "l" „ hivg co.no to the con-, cone, „r the world, an,l the m-mcn,!,,..* f h „ a „ hyalcal lm „o a8 ibll- , - In tin- iwonilot , century ,, y t ,,,. !t B „ e n freshman make i ;u-at;on. Move than Half of the group m:lk ** 1 J'K-re:isiii«l.t diiheiilt fm one Ah; CMo:.” sound like "Shlioomi- j ,i ; fl .v „ y „„o - ilo.rliy tin- most successful men in h , element.-, ~t In,nil,age. s, i. l'*-,‘ 111 c - j A„i-ric:,„ ill-1,1.ni-y ~,,'t husim-ss ,11,1 nuvornnn-m. liislorv. amt other . ", . . not have till,- a.tvantaitt-a of „ higher ~ejects ot slu n s - " V !111 I ’ , ' nlm " t aloa at Saturilay a «1„e„.i..„. Those tad .UBl« the „ . . ! im'ne. After roasting m the hot sun. we as to Whether or not „ college; besire hillli-st.ot, 1 biinglH » hag of l„-:,m>ts. When tl cuttle .■•iijcatioii is essential tu success. Tin* tlm- of surest progress t" success . f t„ cheer wv discovered that we «*n». third of the presidents of the of 11,.- urn- prwl.l...nw who did ho-omlna »,w and moiv cloirly de., I ~011..5 0 . four ~i lout uru num- «»«1- T »<-- urthoilox ruutu lo h- B lu.-r, 1,.,r0l ih„ 1,.-ai chief oxuouilvoul out Is u firm u.muluwm 01, v..- luivo hsul.. Wushimllon and! kmovlodut. -Ami that firm foundation l.notln. lh- only two presidents whose | Is built best by the curriculum of the mrihdays We celebrate. never shared j college. the advantages of the training given, The world has long since passed the •y the colleges. Jackson and Clove- time when any such discussion as this ijtjid. whom most historians would serves any purpose than to add to our probably pla»‘e aim'iis our greatest conviction as to the value of higher ed. ten presidents, were without the. back- i neation. Our chic/ concern at the pres, ground given by a college course. lent time Is how shall we make it pos. Moi eneVer, if we consider men of I slide for more men and women to ae. the present generation, we have an 1 cure a college education. .•ven better argument ns to the pos-. j n j 300 Lincoln would find scholar., -ihle failure of the colleges to Justify K hips and opportunities of self-support themselves in the production of sue- • so available to a hoy of his do. •essful men. It is diflicult to define- Vol j on to intellectual development that what constitutes success and even t j }yre j s ,j o ubt that he would he nmre ditlicult to determine what men cni . o jj o( j j,, one 0 f ;h e American colleg •umy within the bounds olf our defln- ; cs Jn a< jdUion, in all hut a few states, ;ti«.n. it. C. ponies, tue e itoi. would t\,nl free state university. I'or- Mis -election upon the opinion of bu.s-; h . jjjs u WUfJ tho , lnlkat | tuls of hiß own iness »‘<-* n in all i»artß of the country, whil-h made him sign the "«>' S Morrill Act. the basis at most of those i » business and tinunce whom he calls he ••men who are making America.”' The group does not include statesmen, -demists, artists, or authors, or even on* great railroad executive's. It is -•onllned to business and financial men. Yet it will servo well as n selection ‘nun which to make a study of the part played hy the college In the edu. railon of successful men of this type. Tvvemy.nine of the tlfty never en-, ered college. while the remaining; twenty-one had a year or more of col-t lege training. Among the leaders whose education was terminated he-1 fore they reached the doors of an In-j stltution of higher learning are such men as Andrew Carnegie. George East man. Thomas Edison, Henry Ford John D. Koekerfeller. and F. W. Wool worth. On the other side, among the men in the group who have received the benefits of a college course. are-J. Og den Armour. Alexander Graham Bell, George W. Goethals. J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Frank A. Vanderllp. ' Between the two groups there is little io choose In the character or comparative success of the men. Hut the non-college men outnumber the college men almost three to one. And/on the face of things, our first argument might seem to indicate that i college education is not essential for success. College vs. .Self Training Hut some further considerations are iuawssary. ,\Ve Jiaye.not.been fair to the >f the country. The wonder is that hey have come anywhere near supply, ng one half of what we have agreed to call our “successful" .business men and two thirds of our presidents. For. after all, a college training need not difTer in great degree from the sort of diligent training that Lincoln and Edl. sou laid out for themselves. Of equal importance to an opportunity for ed. oration is Lite receptivity of the indi. vidua! to he educated. Lincoln sue. oeedod because he was Lincoln. He succeeded in sidle of his failure to have my definite schooling and not because )f it. And the same deduction has been drawn hy one who made a study of the 211,000 names in the volume of “Who's Who in America". College men are there in higher percentage by far than their general percentage among ail men. More and more a college education will come to play Us part in the life of the man who attains success. The men of the past generation who climbed the topmost rung of that dillleult ladder without college educations have sent their own sons to college. When thoy, themselves, have not had a college ed. ucatlon, the reason in the majority of FREE FREE Thursday and Friday 1 Pound Cascade Linen 50c 50 Cascade Envelopes FREE Rexall Drug Store Robert J. Miller Between the Movies. THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN 'of cases been a financial one. Free Universities All of our young men and women may not be inspired by the Intense spirit of that outstanding example of a sue. cessful non.college man. Hut there are thousands yearly taking advantage of the scholarships and opportunities for self-support provided by the colleges. , In the specific case of the Pennsylvan. in state College, which Is seeking now j to become a state university in nunc ns In fact, hundreds of students who. in ! an earlier generation, might have had to j routine their educations to the farm or shop are now finding it possible to earn a large part of the cost of their eduoa. tion. • Hut the State College is not doing ns much as it ought to be doing. Each year it is finding it necessary to turn a. way a thousand men and women who seek college education. To take care of those who must be turned back, and to provide for an eventual enrollment of 10.000. the college is now undertaking ■a two.miliion-dollar campaign as the first step of a program of expnsion. If the colleges provide presidents and leaders in industry in greater prnpor. fion than the actual general propor tion of college men and women, then the colleges a# jusitled! and wo owe it to the new generation to provide ade. quote means of education for all who deserve it. ■. • - . Campus Gossip We can’t give one hundred dollars to the college. We never had that much money all at once in our life. Hut the canvasser who came to sei us had a good line. He explained how it didn't take any money to subscribe to the campaign. .So we signed the dotted line and now we’ll gladly makt payments for the rest of our life. The editor said that when we sub scribed, the campaign ought to coma out one hundred per cent. If our sub scription will do such a thing, wo arc of the opinion that we might be per suaded lo sign away our life for an other hundred. When the stunts come off Thursday night, wo don’t want to see our class colors on that goat. But if our worst expectations come true, we want to be the one to lead the animal. We have to get our two hundred dollars worth out of the campaign Rome way. We wouldn’t be nt nlf adverse to be able to lend the lion around, either. And. speaking'of the Thursday night stunts, we hnvc been advised to save a had swallowed our voice with the pea- j nuts uml the cheer wouldn't conn*. W*- were then forced to lnw.fi it ilhtio in a bottle ot pop to get some relief. This all could have been averted If we had ! bought a package of Smith Rros. or i some other voice lubricator. The boys I at the game ought*to be instructed to Sell them. Tor the most original letters on the reason why freshmen have to paint their numerals on the sidewalk with road oil that sticks to the shoes, the COLLEGIAN will offer an unlimited number of prizes valued at live cents each. The only rule of the contest ir: that the letters be short and snappy. Sign your name so that we know where to deliver the prize, which we guarantee .gS&TfolManil Tfeafre j “Phofcpimj r of ftato CtAry. Tk PLEASE NOTE —Nlttany The atre Open Tuesday. Friday. Sat urday PASTIME THEATRE TUESDAY— (U Y HATES POST in a S “THE MASQUERADER" JOHNNY HINES in "Torchy’s Feud" Adnlls SOc, Children Lie, and Tnx N* ITT A NY THEATRE TUESDAY— NAZIHOVA In “The Doll's House" JIMMY AUBREY in “The Chicken Parade PASTIME THEATRE WEDNESDAY— DORIS MAY In “UP and At ’Em" ‘Pop Tuttle’s Movie Queen’ COMEDY THURSDAY and FRIDAY— ? UOOOLPH VALENTINO In “BI.OOR and BAND” FOUR (4) SHOWS DAILY Commencing at 2: HO, 4:510, 8:80 (and 8:80 MERMAID COMEDY Special prices—Adults 40r, Child -wwJ-Tnz ' them Meal Dt an Instill be help i L ever mint? department of the boron,*. , . . didn't turn out Jn fuJJ force to rem« As It >:tnrt<-r. uv that the! the ey*.mres fur pleasure.alone.-:h,!J rl.i ;n:ist ?<«• ri‘dr and wants to sjnmd : in y*>ur s utuestirm early and avo j a :ta dollar damage fee. The street- waste imsket. 11l tic- .a sur-t-rize. Pastime Theatre THURSDAY and FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28-29 . 4S HOWSi' /A 1 1. V A Shows start at 2:80, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30 JESSE L.LASKY RODOLPH VALENTINO Blood and Sand WITH LILA LEE a*„ NITA NALDI CC paramount Qidure Imagine—Valentino* a dare-devil toreador, a fiery Spanish lover! In the greatest story the author of “The Four Horsemen" ever wrote. Produced from’! the man; who made.“ The Three Musketeers." See the Perfect Lover as a hot-blooded toreador, the idol o! Spain. See him hazard his life in the spectacular bullfight.- See him yield to the lure of a titled Spanish temptress. You haven't seen Valentino till you’ve seen “Blood and Sand!” SPECIAL PRICES-Adults 40c, Children 15c. and tax. It will pay you to listen to this music ■ ALL over the country the whistle is blowing for ±\. the kick-off, the start of that great game — another college year. - Be on your toes when the whistle blows. A good start will carry you well on toward your goal. Let the football candidate start by working away till his muscles ache from bucking the line. Let the aspirant for manager put in careful study of his team’s needs, always eager to help arranging a trip or carrying a pail of water. Let the publications man be alert for news and tireless in learning the details of editorial work. Whatever activity you come out for, crowd a lot of energy into these early Fail days. And if a good start helps win campus honors, it helps win class room honors, too. The sure way to be up in your work is to aim now for regularity at lectures, up-to-date note-books and particular attention to the early chapters of text-books, thus getting a grip on the basics. This is best in the long run, and—selfishly—it is easiest in the long run. That is, iflifeaftercollegeis made easier by the things a bigger income can buy. tern Electric Company : Since 1869 makers and distributors o r electrical eguipxxzt Tuesday, September 36, ljg PRESENTS Number 21 of a series
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