VOL. XXII, No. 30 LIONS RUN TRUE TO FORM IN DEFEATING SUSQUEHANNA FIVE Experience No Difficulty Against Weak Opposition—Final Score Is 50-15 VISITORS OUTSCORED BY STEVE AND MIKE HAMAS Game Starts Off In Whirlwind Fashion—Later Becomes Uninteresting' The dope bucket failed to get kick ed all around the Armory when the Penn State basketball team rolled up an expected one-sided 50-15 tally over Susquehanna Saturday. Although the visitors from Selins grove fought valiantly all the way, they lacked natural basketball abil ity and were completely outclassed from every angle of the sport. In spite of the half century total fat the Lions, some of the spectators left the scene of the fiasco feeling that the score should have been higher Haman Brothers Star Three minutes of the game had been played berme Captain Hamas broke the lee with a pretty shot from off-center that !nought a yell flora the crowd Hardly had the teams lined up before Mike again got the hall and dabbled down the floor Cot another score that sent the nosed into an up tour. Then when Page took the bill at the center post and itched it for another two-pointer the crowd went into a henry Eddie Baron then tallied with a side shot that made the count 8-0 That was the chm, of of the game. Prom then an it be came uninteresting. Susquehanna Scores Grace scored Susquehanna' , first points with a long heave from mid court. Two field tosses by Steve Ha man with a foul shot sandwiched in made the score 13-2. Delay seat an other distance field shot thi cough the nets, but the Hams Mothers mole than equalled this with respective two-pointers. Captain Orson and Wall came back with the sum formu la and the count read 17-8 Lungi en made good on both of his tries from the fifteen foot mark while Captain Hanfas and Page brought the Penn State total to twenv-three. Captain Limon completed the Susquehanna to tal for the half by making good on (Continued on second page) CHOSE NOVEL PROGRAM FOR MILITARY FORMAL Cover for Dance February 25 To Be in Tri•colors With Eight l'age Insert A novel and unique program cover with an eight page insert Las been selected by G r Fisher '27, for dis tribution at the Military Ball to he bold in the Armory February tventy fifth The dunce prospectus is approm, ately edged in the national tricolor, with "Penn State" printed fleloE4 the yip in bold lotters in a prominent po sition on the covet sheet. Dnectly beneath the gold nillitony seal is en graved. At the bottom of the same page, the cords "Military Ball" ale pointed in modest type. Attached to the plogoam is a slen der white pencil, suspended from a libbon of led and white. The new rogram is a olepuitine Elmo that of last year, which contained a banded and border oil effect saith a seal similar to that on the 1927 dance pamphlet. Romig Discusses Way To Happiness Through Christ in Chapel Talk "And Jesus soul, 'I am the way' " This was the text chosen by the Sun day chapel speaker, the Rev, E F. Romig of the Middle Collegiate Church, New Yolk city. "When life comes to an intense mo ment, a crisis, or high aspiration en tots in, a 'way' is sought, and this is Chust," said Reverend Romig. He went on to give an interesting com parison of the toms "path," "toad," "street," "avenue,' and "way," none of which have the same derivation or meaning, though often thought of as synonymous. - - Rev Romig is now staying with Registrar 'Hoffman, who nemmiPan-, led him at ono tone on a trip aniem the lifer de Claim glacier in the ... _ 11 • 11, rutt tato , ..,,,,,„5,... f. ,, :; . Ok. , •s' 3_, - . , Nittany Undergraduates Avoid Breezy Literature, Magazine Census Proves If, as many of the modem philoso phers would have us believe, the sale of magazines in a community is the moral barometer of said community, then let us not worry. Penn State morals are ii reproachable What evil effects can come of lead ing the CoB,llollollioll, StMil clay Even ing Post, Laboi ly, AnlerltrllL and Good Hoilsel,eeping , From a statistical av erage taken after a compilation of the number of magazines sold at Metz get's, Serfas', Graham's and the Nit tany News Stand, these five publica tions are the ones most often pur chased by Penn State students and townspeople "Y" ARTISTS GIVE PLEASING RECITAL Hans Kindler, 'Cellist, and Miss Marie Tiffany, Soprano, Heartily Applauded ZIMBALIST, VIOLINIST, APPEARS NEXT MONTH Presenting a pleasing m ogram of classical and popular numbers, Miss Music Tiffany, so eli-bonus soprano of the Metropolitan Opera company and Hans Kindles, noted 'cellist, gave a Joint recital Fuday conning in the Auditorium Opening the entertainment, Mi. Kind lei played five sonatas by Valenti Miss Tiffany followed with foul songs by foreign composers, including a modernized Nersion of "Good Morning, Pretty Maid" In Mr. Kindiees next selections, he received more applause than at any other time dining the evening and responded with an tri- COLO. In their last solo numbers both artists were recalled to the stage for extra selections Two songs with 'cello obligate luought:—Miss Trltany and Mi. Kindler together before the audience tot the final act of the enter tainment Both soloists were accom panied by Miss Anca Seidlo‘a at the piano (Continued on last page) MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS OFFER SUNDAY PROGRAMS Series of Concerts Sponsored By Music Department To Start Soon Purposing to provide a means of week-end enteitamment dui ing the winter months, the department of mu sic will sponsor a seises of seven Sun day concerts to be held in the Audi torium weekly at three-thaty o'clock beginning February thirteenth Appearing in order on the Sabbath musitale will be the Glee Club, the Mandolin Club, the College Band, the College Orchestla and the Girls' Glee Club. Tho semi-final concert will be a combined recital and the final mo gram will be offered by the College Band. According to Director Giant of the MUSIC &pal tMellt, the proposed pto mom will be made more interesting than previous ones in order to guar antee the success of such musical events in the future HEALTH SERVICE PLANS STRICTER REGULATIONS Excuses for Illness Must Be Endorsed Within a Day By Dr. Ritenour Drastic changes in the present sys tem of excuses for illness, aceoiding to Doctor Ritenour, to remedy the practice of handing absence slips in late, will be put into effect next se mester. No excuses will be granted if those front other doctors are not presented within twenty-four hours after return to classes nor w ill soy excuses he granted for eases treated outside the infirmary except upon the presenta tion of an excuse fronts a reputable physician Dr. Ritenour also prom ises that those cutting classes in the I morning will meet with a cool recep tion should they try to get an excuse from hint. The usual post-vacation wave of sickness has set in, filling the pest house with has cases of measles and one each of mumps, erysipelas, cluck cups, and pneumonia. STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1927 Ali , Might not that be the differ ence—the townspeople? Might they not raise the standard? Maybe! And then again who knows but that the rampant college student may in dulge in mole sensible reading than the retired townsfolk? Who knows' What about the other public evils, the popularity of which 15 attributed to the college student, such as Ti nc Stn, y, I Conte., Svappy Sto, ire, Se el the, DI cey Sloe lee, Captain Billy's Whoa Bang and the rest' According b four ploprictors of the four lead ing magazine stores of the town these publications simply—do not rate Thirty-seven Enroll in First Farmers' Week Thnty.seven from managers and operators representing twenty-two Os ganizations, woe enrolled in the lust Penn State Institutional Farmer's Week, according to vice-Dean It. G. Bressler, of the School of Agriculture The visiting fennel.. discussed po tatoes, fruits, vegetables, swine, pout trying and dallying ut meetings supervised by the State Department of Welfare and the School of Audi cultui e INVITE CANADIANS TO BOXING MEET Toronto and McGill May Send Combined Mit Team to Intercollegiates NITTANY LIONS PREPARE, FOR TEMPLE ENCOUNTER If Toronto aid McGill non ersities accept the invitation of the internal- i legiote Boning association. thiasear!sl tournament at Syracuse will be an international alien. When the asso-I elation met in Neon York last month mas decided to ask the Canadian schools a they mould send a combined team to the annual boning tournament in place of Colgate and Yale, mho haw withdrawn from the group Colgate has lost its coach and Yale officials have decided to stand by the Nen England rules mhich eliminate the heavyweight bout, but despite the absence of these teams the tourney this year will include more fistic com binations than any previous one In vitations louse been sent to DI. I T, Army and Virginia, while the mem bers of the association, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, Navy and Penn State, mill send teams as usual Reports from Temple university. in dicate that baying is making an ap peal to the student body This is the first year that Temple had had a nut squad It is unusual in that a stu dent, DUN C Beloff, has organized the (Continued on last page) Blue Moon Smiles As Smoke Covers Charges For Many Free Steaks The noxious aced pieclpitated nn othei outrage Some heedless potion of the Blue Moon, atm enjoying his after-dinner smoke Sunday evening, flicked the ciginette butt under tae display window where its piesence was soon announced by a smoke screen and crackling of flumes The entree restaurant was immedi ately thrown into confusion. .Pans, kettles, pails, even cups and spoons mere ',ruse,' into sets ice to carry ea ter to the fire Diners gobbled whole steaks, giabbed coats and lashed forth. Someone called the fire de paitment, but as usual alien the en gine aimed on the scene, the flames had ceased to crackle and a disap pointed crowd of thiill-seekess grum blingly turned back to then humdrum pursuits The loss suffered ham diners who forgot to pay their bills in the excise ment was gientei than the damage done by the savaging flames Haag Accepts Offer To Teach at Oregon It Haag, of the agr multur al chem istry department, has accepted a posi tion as research worker in animal nu trition at the Oregon Agricultural col lege experiment station - at Corvallis, A graduate of Penn State in 1918, Mr Haag taught here several years. lle was also a research worker ut the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station. He received his doctor's de gree nt the Valera city of Minnesota, returning to Penn State a fear ago. Division Agricultural Extension Conference Starts Wiith Banquet A banquet at the Centre Hills coun try club, Tuesda,O, 'night, at which esident and :qrs. It I) Iletzel, Judge II Walton Mitchell and It W Balderston of theriard of Tiu.,tees were guests of ho oi, began the an nual Division Agr Extension conference held lite last %Neel,. After the bump t a ‘auder.il'e spe cialty dancing it d solos was pie- sented foi the en ertainment of tie diners. The sess ons u hien were held in Room 100 tort, v.ere conclud ed Friday with a c vision to visit the State Farm Produ•A Short, to be held in Harrisburg thu week. SECOND ILE RACE COX TAKE' IN TWO rmond, Rising But Betters I L Showing Loses to Leo 1 Young Star, Last Yea TS SECOND DHAM MEET HELFFRICH C ALSO AT Fl lam the intmeolleg to hamm chain monship failed to meihaul the proving Leo Leim d and Bill Coy, Penn State's sophi Die captain ant foiced into second ace in the 'pee al tmo-mile meat at s e Fez dlmm um venlty meet in N Yolk Satmilay. tsso places buttes an lub last >me% 9 minutes 23 3-5 - con& Allan Hearta '24, Natany half champion an New Yea. A C star, met with a li e fate in the spe cial half-mile roc at the hand, of Lloyd Hahn, Bosto A A wonder and national mile ohs 'pion Hi, time sins 1 minutes 57 -5 seconds, 2 2-5 seconds behind t indoor record , HeUlrich finished • t three yards his heeLs. Morale. former George townholder of the •:"C. 4A , 880 title, trolled - 11011r - Against a Cold oft , 'ght flash% chs /t tance men Cox ran a i ce two seconds than his usual time. For the first mile he uas ',Nell to the fore but the indoniinnbte Lein, time. •biothet of George, form. ri.i anal sm-male .1 champion, stinted a port and took the lead at the mile and a quaff ten mark and maintained t to the end The tun VMS Cox' indoor season debut. His met scnttue will likely be at the Eostm A A. oeet Febitiary fifth • White's Tre4 Shows Contrast in Nature .1 W. Whin, roil iel-ear eh chemist of the Colleg' Aginadtmal Experi ment station, has been 'howl= facul ty friends n picture of a giant led oak tree math , his ems age The tree ens philter' fin ty-tluee years ago 1,1 Professor White's fa ther in front of the fronds hon. in C, the tea. the Amur White was ban While on his vaca tion this fall Pirife—ur Whitt mea sured the tree soluch grew up write him, and found it to he twehe feet fom inches in entumference This is considerel a remarkable gionth for that regan where the a ther sandy "If my father .1, had plantml the whole farm a red Intl, at that tm - e, we would have gate a lumbm mess now," aid Plofesmn NVlnte Faculty Swatters Pineong Nightly Flom gecogY to indoor tennis. Be lieve it 01 .ot, the profess°rs of the School of :Vlning ha% e been guilty of first degieePing-I.ng. In a roes on the second float they gather %%hi the students depart and the shades a even= fall They stop the innocer' looking table of Its covet, open a s p,amen case whmem Ile pad dles, net std celluloid spheres, and with many a laugh they Mtn flout fossils to Prebends and lobs. Thus di they indulge in juvenile pastimes it• of school hours It is whispered unit they ate arranging d ua l mee pwith other institutions and scheming enter past collegmte com petition. SENIOIi CLASS TO ACT ON ➢]DMORIAL THURSDAY The secor endowment committee will subici Its report at the meeting o f th e oluating class in Old Chapel at seven iclock Thuisday night. Tottrgiatt. JEAN GOLDKETTE, JAN GARBER MAY APPEAR AT PROM Tentative Arrangements Closed With Former—Negotiations Pending With Latter COMMITTEE TO SELECT PROGRAMS THIS WEEK Eight Decorating Firms Submit Bids for Contract—Nos el Effect Promised Plans to have both Jean Goldkette and Jun Garber, well-known Victor lecorcling aitists, furnish continuous syncopation at the Junior Prom on apul tnenty-ninth nem oil reality when tentatn e ail angements Mere closed with Jean Golilkette's Oichestia last neck. Negotiations with Jun Gaibei mere tenmounilv halted pending his ac ceptance of a theati seal tour Should Gorki be nimble to appear here the committee scull attempt to conic to tun, pith Fletcher-Henderson, Ted Weems or a musical group of =War caliber Several dance pi ogi anis of claboi (Continued on last page) DEBATERS OPPOSE CALIFORNIA TEAM Audience Will Give Decision in Open Forum Discussion After Contest PENN STATE VICTORIOUS IN FIRST ENGAGEMENTS - -Cahfoi ma and Porn —State will match forensic skill when two speak ers representing each institution will stage the second debate of the season in the Auditorium Satui day night at eight-fifteen o'clock. Accolding to Prof .1 11. Frizoell, coach of the Nittany gi oup, the debate will be a split-team open forum dis cussion, the decision to be gn en by the audience. One man from each team will uphold both alto motive and nega tive sides. The audience will hate an oppoi tunity to plesent opinions alto the debate and to vote before and after the contest Penn State Nidt be lepre,ented on the affaimitne ~ide by Gabel t Nin ILL '2B, captain of the team that non from Washington and Jefferson J W (Continued on third page) Historical Apparatus Loaned for Exhibition At Priestly Museum A collection of 111 , 4011,11 k ,doable chemical apparatus will he loaned in definite!, to the Pt iestley niu.eum at Notthumbeiland be the National mu seum, Washington, D C, ;mem du•g to Dean G L. Wendt, of the School of Chemmt, and Plivsies Joseph Priest ihscoverei cf ox ygen, Ull4 on English cletgymon and scientist who came to America and established his home at Noithumb,- land, where he tallied on much of his research in the field of chemistrc Over seventy-bse years after his death, lel:daces sent a large collection of has animates to the National mu seum, uheie it has been stored Find ing it implactical to eslub.t the col lection there, the museum authorities are loaning it for exhibition hr the Pr cutlet museum. DELTA SIGMA l'l ELECTIONS K Clungeon '27 If 11. Adee '2B J A. Bock '2B NV II Denney '2B C F. limn '2B N 11. GoNalt '2B It H Hassel '2B 11 E Hinkel '2B D L Jones '2B A. A. McLean '2B F Stunned '2B I Chess Club Candidates and 1 Members To Meet Tonight i All member.; and tnnilulates 1 for the Penn State Chess Club 1 ! mill meet tonight in Room 22 of i I the I.O)mA Att. building, at I ,esen o'clock At this tone the 1 hist of a seines of elimination I I tom ailments V.lii be held, to de- i hi I cc the ncisonnel of the team. k •1 Concrete Rink Ready For Student Skaters At last' The skating sink on N. Beam et field has been successfully flooded and an inch of ice is amaitang the numerous scars that Nittany blades mill minutest°, during the pies .: ideal skating weather Numerous previous attempts were mado to flood the idle link but a cel tam unihscom able leak, commonly tel "the missing Imk," allomed the water to escape mvstei iously Dur ing the last flooding, the leak was cos ei et( and plugged and the skating eclair is now at the disposal of stu dents until another leak appeals DOCTOR HETZEL TO OPEN FARM SHOW. Speaks to Public Audience for First Time Since Taking Office Here GOVERNOR-ELECT FISHER ALSO BILLED FOR TALK Making his that public adds ens since a.suming the office of piLsi dent of Penn State. Di Ralph D Het/el will speak to an audience of mote than tssa thousand Pennsy on farmeto tonight at the opening of the nom Products Sho,v in Han s lam, Doctaa Ifet/el mill talk en the se, mice Penn State is t ondor,ng the pea pie of Pennsylvania in the field, of agticultute and tedusttm He Is, ..0 advocate of a still mole comm ehemum e te.:cioch plogi.ant and is healtdy in fain of admanced extension risk among the people of the States 11 w ho Hetzel declares that though he has been lawym, college Plat's , . and college p 1 eselent, lie still holds fat ing us one of his ultimate alms in Mei notable speakers mill be Co - not-elect John S Fisher and Stele Secretary - of •Air.aeultm Prank - P Willits, both of whom delis m ad -1 dt esses of aglawitural signsficAnce o--- MARKSMEN KEEP SLATE CLEAN IN FOURTH WIN Snatch Telegraphic Meet Front West Virginia—Detwiler " Shoats High Card Penn State', title teal son oil Its Rant!, metoly m n, mans slat t, V.hell the Nlttanm sharpshoot,, 111111.1•4 Os es the Drumetsity of Wes: Vu Rica optesentatam es 11 , a telor aplec int Lt held dull. the past meek, the final 'mules leading Penn 3790 and Rest Vu mina 24 Its II L Deliulu '27, shot the Inghost cud wdb a total of 1187, 55 bile A S Bums '27, captain and L Steal ns, '29, with smite , . of 385 moved the nest mo,t :seem ate poi forme, II 1) Butcher '29 also hied creditable The s letol.ool I Iflemen touted in the foßom mg sem es IL L Detmllei 27,137, J 1. Stearns '29,.185, A S Mons '27, 285, It I) Panchm '29, 28.1, C. B Pistchaid '2B, 381, J C Fritt '2'l, 178, W S Yeakel '20,178 FOUR TILTS OPEN GREEK COURT TOURNEY TONIGHT Games Stall at Eight and Nine O'clock—Managers Hand In Excuse Lists • Meeting in the last round of the Intel fi lid nay basketball tom n a ment, Phi Kappa No and Pin Canines Delta will clash ss rah Chl Phi and Cie Upsilon lespectsvelv on the Armory flow at tight o'clock tonight, Both games will lie m jungles, at once, the courts hieing clemed at nose o'clock to make sills fur tilts between Delta Pi nail Plo Kappa Pq, Kappa Sigma and Beta Sigma Rho Mena gm, ale I ennobled to lill out the 03,- 1,11 education excuse blanks sent hi them. Semen *vets mill be escused front physical education classes dm mg the meek el v. loch thine Ti ateue tm plays These lists should he bun . ed sit to the plim•ne it ethicists. ' Games to he plated Thuisday night ate as follows eight o'clock: Delta Upsilon ma Pin Kappa Tau and is Kappa Alpha vs. Delta Sigma Cni, nine o'clock, Omega Mu this ms Al pha Phl Sigma and T.. rh, Delta s, 1 0 110,1,14 Union The complete sell.- . ule foe the lust round of the tomna ' stet will be postul in Co-op o sash, Ilrulvr3 ! Rifle Team Wins! PRICE FIVE CENTS SENIOR MATMEN GRAPPLE WAY TO CHAMPIONSHIP IN INTERCLASS TILT '.i , nnex Nineteen Points in Taking Meet—Juniors Score Second With Fifteen—Yearling Wrestlers Blanked UNLIMITED BOUTS FAST Gairison and Mahoney Matched In Final Bout—Hollobaugh Is Extended by Parana. Plebe 175-pounder A blonder wsperience in the art of gtappling enabled membets of the senior squeal to capture the inter-class urestling meet held in the At mon Sethi day night, sewing nineteen points, four 1 mitts Inure than the June), train, then neatest convent°. The sophomot es gat orient only tiro counters Mille the veal ing aggt e gallon Mir blanked In the scot tog, one point "as :melded Tot a fall in the preliminet,l, bouts and tie points rot e fall and three for a decision in the turtle I=ll Throughout the meet two mats were used simultaneously In the pteliminai ies the freshmen and the Juni° , a met on one and the sopho mores and seniors on the other, in the finals, tun weights acre wrestled at the sonic time Usually the bouts neie fast, hut in the lights; eight chi, ses dui ing the pi elumnal ms, the grap ple,' were turd, in going to the mats The bouts unproved in speed, hones as the meet progressed to the hear}- n eight classes Iv the 115-pound dis rdon, Kaiser and Mackeieth sstne pitted together after iespectrse va.tones over Steele and Gies Kinser Varsity captain, eiisdy demobstiated Ins superiority in the finale b 3, holding illnekercth fov a time ads antage of sis minutes and fm is -hs c second.; PuP.dc and Liggett the Mae, a van an disposed of Staler and Coo %Wilma. much tteuble and %sere matched togethei in the 125-pound (Continued on last page) H. T. COLLINGS BECOMES PHI SIGMA lOTA MEMBER U. of I'. Instructor Taken Into Fraternity—National Body Meets Here in May Ho mat Inembe,lnit in Phi Stgnta iota, I °mum, languntre ft atet nits, hay been bestow ed anon Its 'f . Unto ci vts of Penn:Al, .1111.1, who 0- centl;, uddleyted the ,tudent, on "Op pottunnte, ut South Arum, tea " The leant° attracted an audience of inure thee a thousand D.. 1 L inesulent of the societt announce , a meeting Fauna , y •etenth to setae as n Naledwtoly foi those grolunting in und yed, 'the society'. inentbenhip is limited to Ntuilent; of 1.1.111 t.” I,ng ungca nho stain, in the uppel fifth of thew chins A national coanention of the eight , chant° of Pin lilgina lota mill con vene at Penn State en Man toonty gmenth and tmenty-eighth The lin tel:MN is iapullv Inelensum Its chan tet 101 l nod it is espeeted that in the nem fatale some fifteen of tnenty mill be founded Gains Popularity as Conference Center That Penn St ate as lapidly becoming populaa Lento for agmultm al and 111thl , trlai confea once, nn, 4hon n dun mg the past it eel, nhen no less than foul state-n ale conventions 0010 held bete, dinning uplands of On ee hun dred people The hugest nas the an nual mid-, Inlet agraultan al extension mica:lone which alien , all county ag cans and extensmn speccalasts The st lnsututtmull leans teas' Week nos held, attended by film manage, s of •date-owned anstitutuins In additton, the lust industaml elec t! ic heat continence held in Pennsy !- Nana: nos staged by the School of Engmem mg and Its extension depat mem, attended ha earl fifty 1 cm earn. mines of the leading metal industties at the Static. A stoles of lectures by Victot Cofman, of Chicago, under the auspices of the School of Chem istiy and. Physics, attracted teacher, anal scientist. [tom tine° states.