Friday, February IG, 1923 VALUE OF FOREST EXTENSION SHOWN ppjf.'C. R. Anderson Reports on Importance of Forestry Exlen tion in Pennsylvania Tte following articln is .a report jbe work and importance of the Forestry Extension Department made Professor C. It. Anderson of that apartment. The extension service bjs proven to be of great value to jjmiers in improving small woodlots ar idle land, materially increasing the supply of lumber In the state. A recent report of the State De partment of Forestry of Pennsylvania flow that only sixteen per cent of ,ie lumber now used in the Stato is rt t within the State, the remaining eighty-four per cent coming from other states even so far away as Or ajoa and Washington. This record rones from a state which at one time led the entire United Stateß In lum ber production, not only making more than enough for its own needs, but ,Ibo supplying others with much ot *hat they used. Furthermore, re ports show that this great gap be tween home production and home consumption of lumber, great as It is. ii certain to grow still greater In the tear future, due to a further reduc tion of home supplies of saw timber. Regardless of whether we are students or teachers, dairy fanners, or electrical engineers, college people or non- col lege people, city-dwellers or city-com muters. this problem touches every one through the pocketbook. The sate must grow more timber, or go ‘without some of the things to which we have been accustomed. What is Penn State doing to increase the production of timber in the State? Briefly put. forestry is a part of the Agricultural Extension Service under the Smith-Lever Act of the federal government just as is animal husband ry work, or poultry work, or any one of the other many lines of Agricultural Extension Service. The average Penn sylvania farm covers 57.3 acres of land made up as follow's: Improved land _ 58.6 acres 20.0 acres ..... 8.7 acres Woodland Idle land Forestry* extension deals with that W acres of woodland and with that part of idle land which is suited only for the growing of forest crops. Of this latter there is well on to 1,000.000 teres needing planting. This in itself is a tremendous task and would take the entire student body at Penn State, men and women, between two and two tnd-a-half years to accomplish, assum ing that the young trees were grown and delivered to them, ready to plant. The extension service gives talks on tree-planting, examines lands for plant ing,, recommends trees to plant, gives planting demonstrations in the field, and assists In maintaining what may be called permanent living advertise ments in the form of small planta tions. There is a great deal of work to be dons in connection with the cleaning of stands of young timber. Nature can be assisted in improving both Quantity and quality of timber by the uie of the axe. Extension service as tists the land owner In deciding upon what to use the axe, and in the ways indicated already in connection with Planting. The better marketing of old timber ready to cut Is also an exten- Won problem. Marketing of many Wads of farm products is difficult M»ugh in some parts of the State: knn-grown Umber Is no exception, tad In some sections probably heads the. list. On marketing the extension •ervice is sUll in its early stages of de velopment. To date the planting work has prov *d most popular. Judged from the re vests for assistance, and the amount *** time devoted to It, ®*fln!te figures on assistance rendered flrios 1922 have not yet been complied •o, cannot be quoted at present writ-. To the specialist, the work of ad- T*?clng the program of Forestry Ex- is intensely interesting, touch r*' w 11 does, so many different prob es. from helping a farmer to decide Jfo«her he has enough time to re «Dd his barn which has Just burned J®*®. or advising with a group on how members may attempt better regu- S the flow of their maple sap, to **J w * r ing some letter— written in all ??™tisnesa—ln which the writer asks J*ttsr he should cut his logs in the 9ht or dark of the moon” to prevent ®*cts from later attacking the lum cot from tho logs. He counts it - u a Part, of "Penn State service.” OKI tCHESTRA PREPARING FOR ANNUAL CONCERT Penn state Orchestra, under the jT*7° n o£ O. Thompson, College and Leader of the Col \r will give the fourth of Qbr._*j W ° f Winter ”***** on Sunday afternoon, Feb twenty-fifth in the Auditorium hltWf „ heBtra h «a been rehearsing w"®? 7 ever y week since the begln « the college year and Js now Qia,.- ® g a <*f music worthy of Vofr * A program will a «ed to the student body of Penn - that will include numbers rank v ~Ch in the world of music. ** bdndbed WHITE bats ; BE EXPERIMENTED on hundred white rats were dellv- Bacteriology department nrr^r n f Bdar morning. The rats 81261 Bome being a few days oth era are full grown. rats will be used to test the ,tr *ngth of several antl-tox *erums which the department The principal tests wilt with typhoid serum. MANY STUDENTS CHANGE SCHOOLS AFTER EXAMS The number of changes from one school to another this semester Is not greater than those of previous terms. The latest figures from the Registrar's office show the usual favoritism to wards the Liberal Arts school, there being sixty-six entering that school while only one is leaving It. Tho En gineering school loses the most of any school with forty-six leaving that de partment and seven entering it. The Agricultural department is next with a loss of twenty-four and a gain of thirteen, while the school of Mines takes in five new scholars and transfers seven others. Another school which shows a gain for the semester Is the Natural Science one with twelve new comers and ten leaving, although tho Home Economics department shows a loss of four and a gain of none. Fif teen students have escaped from the Probation section and four more have been admitted. The grand total of changes Is 107. C. W. HOWARD TO TALK ON FOREIGN SILK INDUSTRY C. W. Howard, professor in the school of Agriculture in the Canton Christian College, Canton, China, will give an Illustrated talk on the silk industry Thursday, February twenty second at seven p. m. In room one hundred. Horticulture ' building. Ills subject has not been announced, but he will tell of the industry from tho care and feeding of the worms to the harvesting of the cocoons. In China and in Japan the silk in dustry has developed Into 11.1 intensi fied form of agriculture. Ck\*at care has to be taken to see that the worms are properly fed, and that they are not hampered in the spinning sea son. There are some kinds of worms that are belter than others, and breeds' have been established which eompai'o 1 with the pure breeds of live stock found in this country. Mr. Howard is a specialist in this lino of agriculture. The meeting, which is being held under the auspices of the Crab Apple Club and the Penn State Mission to China, Is open to everyone who is in terested. It will be of especial in terest to those students who are tak ing textile work, to horticulturalists. to foresters, and to natural scientists. EASTERN INSTITUTIONS FORM LEAGUE IN GOLF Eight Colleges and Universities Are Organized to Play for Championships Eight eastern colleges and universi ties have formed the Intercollegiate Golf League, including Columbia, Cor nell, Dartmouth, Harvard. Penn. Princeton, Williams, and Yale, to fur ther the interests of golf. Each mem ber of tho league will meet other mem bers in dual matches so that the sev eral teams will have seven league dates. The team championship and the in dividual championship tournaments will be held as formerly, June twenty sixth to thirtieth. The Siwanoy Club at Siwanoy hae been selected as the championship course. Standings of the teams of the leaguo will be pub lished weekly, but a team will have to win tho final tournament to gain the title. A. P. Boyd '22, of Dart mouth, Is the present Intercollegiate champion but will be ineligible to de fend bis title. Colleges will be represented by teams of six to eight men, the number to be selected by competitors. Eighteen noles, match play, will constitute a .uatch except in the annua! Yale-Har • ard encounter, Memorial Day, which will be over thirty-six holes. Contestants for the individual cham pionship are expected to Include J. W. Sweetster *23, Yale, national ama teur champion and metropolitan cham pion, R. Knepper '23, Princeton, and Bobby Jones of Harvard. SPBINGFIBLD COACH URGES TUMBLING FOB PRACTICE Springfield football candidates are advised by Coach Hickox of that in stitution to practice tumbling in the gymnasium during the winter months as a means of Increasing efficiency in blocking. Diving, rolling over, and getting on the feet are suggested as the best daily exercises to follow. Whether a man leaves his feet prop: erly will determine to a great extent his chances for making the team next fall. SPECIAL SALE In Dry Goods DEITRICH’S 5,10, 25c VARIETY STORE All Footwear Reduced C.N. FISHER DR. PATTEE LECTURES ! ON “AMERICAN HUMOR” Lecturer Claims American Humor Is An Original Creation of the American People •‘American Humor" was the subject on which Professor Pattee lectured last Tuesday evening as the fourth number of the Liberal Arts "Winter Lecture Course. The subject was well brought out in all its different view points, Professor Pattee having trav eled qiute extensively throughout the United States and England. Professor Pattee treated the subject as one of the creations of our own life. His presentation interspersed with humorous expressions kept the audi ence always on the alert for his next thoughts. Professor Pattee said, “Amer ican humor started back on the fron tier. Hero where things were crude-1 ly mado the objects were continually giving subject matter for wL. We had such men as Lincoln, and Jackson whose humorous remarks will always stand as typical Illustrations of Amer ican Humor. It was In this country where resources were abundant that there rose up that characteristic of ex aggeration which is the backbone of humor. As the old story runs, they could not grow pumpkins down in Kan sas because the stems grew so fast hey dragged the fruit after them and wore them out. This type of humor does not appear funny to a foreigner principally because he does not under stand the Jargon that the American will use to put ncross his point. The majority of our Jokes would not ap pear humorous to us if the slang term were not familiar. That is one reason why American humorists can hardly draw a laugh out of a foreign audi ence. The Englishman will look at it from a serious point of view, the Scotch man will not laugh unless operated upon, and the German regards it as a calamity.” One of our foremost humorists was Artemus Ward, who was noted for his colloquial spelling. Ward was also a lecturer. He would* be scheduled to speak on a certain subject,, but when the lecture wns over It would usually be found that he had not touched upon the subject at all. In his writings. Ward used a system of spelling that has never been duplicated. Such ex pressions as “2B or not 2B" wore used by him and gives an originality to his work that has never been equalled. Profeslor Pattee remarked that n writer that is getting distinction to day as a humorist is O. Henry. His works arc not made up of witty sayings but expressions are put in at places where they are least expected. O. Henry is noted for his original ex pressions. In (One' o£ his .works he describes one general as having com mand of the loft wing and second joint 1 of the armj*. OREGON PAN-HELLENIC PUTS BAN ON CORSAGES ic Council took a flnnl vote yesterday on the question of corsages at wo men's formals. the question that has caused a deep sea of discussion for the past two ( weeks. The vote was 9 to 2 against flowers. The house rep resentatives voted according to t/he' concensus of opinion at the houses, and the results thereforo show the decision of the majority of fraternity women on the campus. There Is, however, a considerable minority, which remains skeptical a bout the abolition of flowers at their formals, and after the results of yes terday's vote were announced, they Issued the warning that the men who had been granted an Inch were not to take the proverbial mile. They hence forth be punctilious in every deUil. according to these conservatives, who, though loathe to part with this tra dition, would like to accept the new trend of things, believing that the “chivalry of the past" shall not be entirely wiped out. In the meantime, this rule does not in any way prevent the men from sending flowers on the occasion of their own formals, and it Is believed that even those most radically op posed to flowers at the women’s for mals will revel In any that they re ceive upon the occasion of the men’s affairs. Officers of Pan-HellonJc believe that the women’s fraternities jhave taken a progressive step in making' this rule, and that it will win nation-wide ap proval. .The rule, fosters the spirit of cooperation between the men and women on the campus. It is doing away with a superfluous, though customary procedure, and promoting simplicity. THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN SIXTEEN SENIORS TEACH VOCATIONAL ECONOMICS The sixteen seniors who are pursu ing the curriculum in Vocational Homo Economics are spending the first six' weeks of the semester in practice! teaching in vocational schools in var fous parts of the state. They arc, teaching approximately half time and observing for the other half, though the schedule'varies ami some students do more teaching than others depend ing upon the school. Their schedules are so arranged that they may have experience In teaching several phases of homemaking hut they keep a class long enough to complete one or more units of.work. Each stu dent is under the supervision of the teachers of Home Economics in the school and is visited once every week or ten days by a member of the teach er training staff of the Department of Home Economics. This is the fourth year that this type of practice teaching has been carried on. Only one other Institution in ..he country is following a method at all similar and the plan has been highly commended by federal officials and National Education organizations. The Department of Home Economics has been n?ked to write an account of it for the April number of the now Journ al of Vocational Education. ATHLETIC COMMITTEE WILL MEET TOMORROW Board Will Decide on New Football Field Bleachers Which Are To Be Built in Spring The annual mid-winter meeting of the Athletic Advisory Committee will take place here tomorrow morning at ten o'clock The committee Is com posed of alumni of this institution and takes care of a groat deal of the Rou tine athletic work of the college/ The committee is composed of A. N. Diehl, of the Board of Trustees. I J. A. Watson. W. IT. Teas. .T. A. Ley-1 den, J. F. Rogers. D. R. Henry, and' •Veil Fleming. Graduate Manager of Athletics, who is also secretary of the committee. Besides the regular rou tine work, of which there Is quite an amount, the most important work of the' committee at their mid-winter meeting will be to decide on all de tails relating to the new football field bleachers which will he built in tne! spring. The extent ami kind of con-’ struetion have not been derided on a-: I yet. but large new bleachers arej practically jasHUred for the coming season. | NINE HORT. GRADUATES ARE EMPLOYED BY P. R. R. Nine graduates of the Department of Horticulture are now employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad in the Di vision of Perishable Fruit Inspection. The railroad maintains a school to train men for this work. The school is in Pittsburgh ami from there the men are sent to the leading markets. The railroad is so welt pleased with tiie men they have received from Penn State that they have written for'several more. ARCHITECTS TO STAGE ANNUAL PLAY AND HOP Rehearsals are being held every night for the three one-act plays to be given by the architects in conjunction with their annual ball. Tho characters are limited to an architectural cast since the Beaux Arts Bail is entirely an ar chitects' affair. Tho plays are under the supervision of J. Gordon Amend and will be given in the drawing room of Engineering F on the . evening of March ninth. The dance will be hold on tho fol lowing night at the Alpha Delta Sigma house. It will be a masked affair with; Spanish costume, and Auchenbach’s orchestra will furnish the music. In vitations will be sent to architectural students and faculty of other colleges, so that a great many out of town guests are expected to be present for this occasion. Caterers and Good Providers f Come in and review our up to the.minute . line of FRUITS and GROCERIES. I = HOY & NEIDIGH=f + TRY'OUR FRESH STRAWBERRIES. 0OOOOOOOQQOQQOOQorxx»Q00Q0CKX>000000000000000000i I “Flashlights” | Formal Dances | AND House Parties ! The D E N N GTATE ine Jt~ HOXO H OP j 212 E. College Ave. SEVEN THOUSAND APPLY FOR SOMMER BULLETINS ! The fiict that over seven thousand I applications have been received this year for summer bulletins is . evidence ; that Summer School at Penn State has become quite popular. This school has grown materially so that a number of new features appear in the curricu lum for the coming summer. Among these new features are included a larg er variety of courses, a wide selec tion of faculty members and a series of lectures and entertainments. The new bulletin is now available and is being distributed to applicants. .At least twenty-flive hundred have requested catalogues this year that did not receive them previously, and of this number about five hundred have not had instruction from any college. By far the larger part of the people who receive the bulletins are teachers in the State of Pennsylvania. A greater variety of courses and a larger number of subjects will be given this summer than ever before, and in addition several intensive sub jects will be given. The value of brief intensive unit courses has been clearly deinftnstrated in vocational and professional schools and are Just be ginning to win recognition as aids to teacher training. Among the intensive courses there will be given a course for industrial teacher training. The state department of Public Instruction will have a num ber of its specialists here to give courses and a conference of leaders for industrial plants will be held by the department of vocational teacher training of the college in cooperation with the bureau of vocational educa tion of the state department of Public Instruction. The faculty for the coming Summer Session wilt be drawn from a greater number of other colleges than ever before and an interesting series of lec tures and entertainments has been provided. ELEVEN GLEE CLUBS TO COMPETE NEXT MONTH Seventh Annual Contest Will Be Held in Carnegie Hall On March Third Tho Seventh Intercollegiate Glee I Club Contest to bo held in Carnegie IHall on .March third, will be judged by |.Mr. H. 13. Krohbiel, Walter Dantrosch, and Jlme. Marcella Sembrich. Represented in the Contest are Har vard. Yale. Princeton, Cornell, Dart mouth, Columbia, New York Univer sity. University of Pennsylvania, Ponn State, Weslyan and Amherst, and al though many of the musical critics look to Harvard to win this Contest, at the same time it seems nuite with in the bounds of possibility that eith er Princeton or Yale will win the laurels this year. AH of the colleges are exerting every human effort in the development of their Club into a well rounded musi cal organization, and music of the very highest order will bo in evidence the evening of the Contest. The Contests were organized in 1914 under tho direction of A. F. Plck ernell, President of the Intercolleg iate MusicaT Corporation, and have been an annual event since that time except for the war period. EIGHTEEX-YEAR-OLD SOPH HEADS MISSOURI GRIDDEBS An eighteen year old sophomore will lead the University of Missouri foot ball team through next season. Clyde Smith, called “The Marvel of the Val- Vy" was elected captain of the team bicause of the extraordinary ability he showed this season. Latest Spring and Summer Fabrics Now on Display GERNERD the TAILOR Next door to Post Office “PREXY” THOMAS TO GIVE \n L V ±r\ r Sunday chapel sermons ! i ost Defines Good Grid Mentor Di\ Boyd Edwards. v head master of' the Hill Preparatory School at Potts-i ,town, who was scheduled to take charge' 'of the Chapel services on Sunday will l 10 sucecss f ,, l college t'ootUill coach be unable to be present and President liaS l ° havo u thorou # rh general edu- Thonias will speak ut the services in li ° n ’ J, o.vs Intimately. l» his place. The student body has been aMo 10 plan I>au,e antl develop strat privillged to hear President Thomas CSi " must com ntand the admiration only a few times this year, as he has’ aml ro ® l ’ m of everyone with whom he been busy most of the time out on the; C ? mW? ,n contnct - must be physically road adjusting many of the problems aWe , to stan(l lon ” houra an(i 11 thnt are facing the college at this time. "°” S llfe * E. E. DANCE CHANGED TO COME APRIL FOURTEENTH The date for the April dance of the Electrical Engineering Society has been set on Saturday evening. April fourteenth. The nfralr. which will he held at the Alpha Chi Itho house, is open to members of other engineering societies. Griffith's orchestra will furnish the music for the occasion, and will be augmented by the addi tion of 11. E. Schlosser '24. who ha? recently returned from a trip through the United States with Keith's Vaude ville Circuit. The committee in charge of the af fair. composed of 11. H. Norton ’23. chairman. 11. L. Chapin '23. and .1. L. Garrett '24. is actively engaged in making preliminary preparations for .lie affair. DEPARTMENT HEADS WILL ATTEND AG. CONFERENCE A conference to discuss the means of improving the marketing of agri cultural products has been called by Governor Pinehot and Secretary of Agriculture Wilicts. to meet in Har risburg February twentieth and twen wenty-first. Prominent men from each line of agriculture have boon asked to attend and to assist in the formulating of a program for a more effective distribution and sale of ag ricultural products. Committees re presenting the fruit, the poultry, the swine, and the potato industries will be present to propose aids for their own work. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture McKee, was at Penn State on Mon day to talk over the plans and to solicit co-operation. Heads of most of the departments of the school of Agriculture will attend the confer ence. PATRONIZE .OUR ADVERTISERS 5 EAT EAT | I, • 8 and enjoy c REAL HOME COOKING I At Philadelphia Restaurant f The Laundry of Service and Accommodation Collection and delivery every day Penn State Laundry 320 West Beaver Ave. How aptly that age old saying applies to home decoration, •{• for no matter how well we like our walls and woodwork when X they’re first finished, we do get tired of seeing the same old *!* colors month after month. •$ It’s really foolish to endure them when it’s such a simple & job td use the spare time of winter months,to make our rooms *{• look like new. X Atlas flat wall paint will enable you to refinish your rooms £ in a wide variety of popular effects which bring a cheerful, comfortable atmosphere and at the same time make the walls !£ clean and sanitary. £ You can do this refinishing yourself during the winter let- % up in outside worrk. Atlas products come all ready to use and. X are easjly applied. ’ J We shall be glad to show you color schemes For interior decoration. X I. E. FOUST 228 East College Avenue Gifts of Utility % That is the analysis of a coach ac cording to Fleming H. Yost, veteran team builder of the University of Mich igan. Hard Suceos Measure Unlike oilier teachers in the univer sity, a coach's success is measured from year to year by the victories his team wins over opponents who are striving just as hard for victory. If the students of a professor in any college were required to pass the snmo test in competition with rivals from others seats of learning, and the professors were ranked according ly. there would bo a lot of them doomed to failure. Coach Yost observes. “Too often", he said today, “coaches are judged only by their success in turiting out winning teams. The coach who strives for an ideal and commands the respect and admiration of his men and makes those with whom ho comes in contact better men. is successful as a coach whether his cam's record shows it or not'. The Mtcicss of a winning coach, the MieW'tr a lemkv says, "varies with his * . igina ..y a d strategy in working out means of offen.-e and defense and much upon the personnel which he is given to develop. “His hours of labor are long as he •must do considerable work and study off the field. “In addition, the couch must be ac cepted favorably by the public, alumni and students who arc loud in their praise of winners and equally loud in their criticism of losers". SMITH COLLFGK SHXIOIIS TO . IXSUHK SKLVKS FOR GIFT The senior class at tbnith College has decided to take out an insurance for their class gift. Tuvtuy-iive will bo insured for twenty-five years. The premiums will be collected from the .students each year. At the end of twenty-fivo years the class of 192.1 will give, as a gift ?4ii,000 to the col lege. Phone 124 Hardware 4* •i* Page Three ™ V I I
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