ISV3 cnn State ,ollegian td,:isheri semi-weeidy during. the College year by students Pennsylvania State College, in the interests of the ac students, faculty, alumni and friends. THE EXECUTIVE BOARD W. P. REED '27 - H. G. WOMELEY '27 5. U. ROLE '27 - THE EDIT6IIIM. STAFF VI. P. REED '27 G. WrIMSLEY '27 G. F. 1.1741 m: '27 FRANcEs 1.. FO! ES '27 - - - NEWS EDITORS P.. M. AtkinFnn '2S D. Kapir.r. '26 W. S. 'Tann:Fon '23 WOMEN'S NEws EIIITORS Natherinelb:oo: '2B Lillian Bell '23 THE BUSINESS STAFF - - - Easiness Manager - - Advertising 3lanager - - Circulation Manager GI 'SIN E:if3 M A NAG ERS R. B. Kilburn '2. W.. 1. McLaughlin '23 S. P.. ,T,:c.:11: '27 '27 FS; .1. on '2 (:. F. Fl:nn Tr - .A i•. •. are+ rommunication4 far any nnr• •• ' r•~• •11 .n •+mr t.i . .1.0.1 ',twit 1.-a, tile 'L.:nature % , 1 the will corn. woritly POP however, for t,t the bitliir Loc. ranrh- a:A rnnnea ordnr4 nntnina nap, nth, than — The Penn ~ LtJt acaantefl inr archants tine tillA nea, F,l, , ,j{rtirl7l trice- I,4ra, tioventle, I. nt th, Protoffir... St.ln l'a.. n 4 .o , on.l•elutu Ne.tur.7 rtiLting und PubliAkinu Co. (Wilding. Flute Col- 2:f2AV. 1:«IL 11:0 IME= FRIDAY. MARCH 18, 1927 BEER AND LIGHT WINES! Whatever charges may be hurled against Mi. Vd.,1.41. , ..ad for his more or less efficacious moral rare it cerainly is beyond the realm of any Penn State student fasten the blame on the Penn State and Michigan Mate debating teams. They had nr.thing to do with it. However, having noth inL: to (4 with a thing does not eliminate one's intt-r.:ist, and there is, every one will admit. an undeniable charm about the question of the liquid ornposition and consumption of the product of the greatest of pre-war industries: beer making. It is not in the hope of settling the argument that the two colleges will debate the question. "Resolved. that the Volstead act should be so moliiied‘ as to permit the manufacture and sale of light wines and beer." It is in the hope Of arousing student opinion. Partly as a result of this wish and partly as a safeguard for securing decision that shall recognize the skill of the de bater,. the college has arranged an open forum discussion to follow the formal argument in the Auditorium. The problem of filling the Auditorium for a debate usually meets with astounding diffieul t.:es, ,v,teb ibere 1, - ,appens to be con event. - fhb , Fp.l9rdny. gam.,—and thal Aarts Thc MED Too often has the plea for attendance been based on an appeal to the student's college spirit; toy• infrequently to his intellect. In, reality, the plea is not a plea at all; it'is an offer. To refuse it shows more than insulting ignorance: it proves a desire to perpetuate a tradition of stupid dis interest: incapable of action and intolerant of thought. SPRIG HAS CUB l'ho gentle zephyrs of something that resem ble:: spring have wafted their way through these part:: with such consistency during the past week that one cannot help find himself repeating over and over to himself, "Sprig has cub. sprig has cub." (If there arc several inches of snow on tho ground this morning you have our permission to stop reading.) Spring is near at hand. (For verification consult any almanac.) And everyone knows that mi spring is complete without :warm days, ,green trees. coatless collegians,' ; hatless. fortable). juniors witif . head:COVering' . (iiiidoinfor able) and the like. Spring is almost upon us. It will receive a warm welcome on the campus. Accompanying every spring season is a de sire for recreation. That desire conflicts greatly with class attendance: Lack of class attendance will bring about poor grades. And everyone knows what poor grades do! Spring fever also lurks in the atmosphere that results in near per fect weather. Spring fever, the bane of all schol ars with hitherto good intentions! The Easter vacation that has been long-await ed ever since Father Time called a halt on the Christmas revelry is less than a month distant. When the College resumes activities after the Easter period it will be a matter of only five weeks until the semester exhausts itself. Then the fin als! Mow we love 'em.) Woe he then to the "stude" who heeded the•call of the great out-of doors. who succumbed totally to that dreaded dis .xtse. spring fever. Perhaps a little sacrifice at this time will save time and worm• later. Perhaps it might save five dollars a credit, too. Perhaps., The Bullosopher's Chair SESSION ONE "Well, Smithers, I suppose Reverend Griffin impressed you favorably Sunday :iorning." Smiiiters:—Reverend Griffin? Oh yes, the Chapel speak- Say, Pullosopher. that brings to mind an excellent review of Sinclair Lewis' latest creation. "1 fail to Fee the connection." Smithers:—Well you see I read the review while Reverend What's-his-name was speaking. Chapel's a bore at beit and the Sunday paper does help one through the hour. - Don't tell me, Smithers. that you belong to that class of numbskulls who make the Auditorium their Sunday morning reading room. I should think that you Would blush svarlet at such a confession. With all my white hairs. I am a firm believer in the spirit of youth, but die eGartzsy I can't sanction. I--" Smithery:—But there's nothing discourteous in that. I don't go to Chapel because I enjoy it and as long as I bother no one else, I see no reason why I should not use the hour as I wish. "You're talking like a boy. Of course you bother other people. Have you ever considered the men to your right anti left. Do they look upon your opened paper, or do they endeavor to give their attentions to the speaker? And there's Doctor Iletzel in the balcony. As I know the man, he would hardly be indifferent to looking down on r. rustling sea of Sunday papers." - President Vice-President - Treasurer Smithers:—They can go their ways and I'll go mine. There are no strings attached to this person. "Independent soul. aren't you: Smithers. take that copy of Emerson's essays down from the shelf and what he has to say about the non-conformity of man. And remember :hat you can't satisfy even your own con science by railing that thinker a mid-Victorian fogey." Editor in-Chief Assistant Editor Managing Editor 11* omen's Editor W. Lord. Jr. '2B P. IL. Swim '2S Mildred A. Webb '2B "Mail, Smitheril" SmitherF: Mail? For me? "For Loth tis! We have received a communiza tion; and while it is to he regarded as itnignilicant in content and point, at least it provoke.; a smile—and i don't want to keep it to myself. Li,iten to this: Gratb , ,iten i f yO,l ore S:lrch: (Note the gentlemanly opening; See Espenshade':: -Composition and Rhetoric" for cot reel punctuation!) I'o:n• yeah/. (thank you) in rar n •ereutionol form is only (misplaced adverb, Smithery) exceeded by year of' of a. • nndrrfr4 (note the definite adjective) English, cope chelly as applied to no• institution. ( - Applied English" —l'll wager he'.4 an Engineer) / rlislilr your eonstont de scriptive ase (I don't knee.w• what other use it could hove) of the term "row mellege" as applied to urn• Penn State oe its atmosphere. ,in wonderful (good word, that!) to believe that any loyal Penn State rot o r et4neld besmirch her (the man's) fair memo , tlu•ough one of her mouthpieces (take note, Mr. Editor) however, (again see Espenshade) sorb things tr) ore possible an they (?) hu re been erhleoeed in yorn• rr rent articles. (We have at least one reader, Smithers! Alany thanks.) .4 gentleman worthy of l'enn State n•nrld hare ooiti ei:ed rnastra•tirely, or pointed directly 100 coo? frill' IN and suggested a possible method for Iffifivtion. Naar:e the attached portion of !pm'. hontriloide (thank you) paper and in the footsore ',hide by its statement (sec• masthead) rood make it on abxnloM 11 . 11111. (IVe should like to see an absolute truth!) • Truly imam. (sarcastic?) Just one of Penn Stute's student.% (Ilope the others can c(mpoFe a better letter:) "Smithers, if I were a character analyst. I would forsee in that young man a Babbitt of the future: a mem ber of the anti-anti society who would surpress Meicuries because of llatracks; one who would gasp with affected horror at the realism of a Saldburg, or en Anderson, or a Drieser; one who would fear Truth and prefer to walk around the proverbial bush to avoid meeting her face to face; one who would tread with bent iiead and unseeing eyes in the wake of Hypocrisy o• Indifference; one fed an traditions however smug, on conventions however on customs however superficial. "No one maintains Penn State is a cow-college. but it cannot be denied that the remnants of a former cow college cm persist. For proof turn to our 'gentlemanly frateraity initiations, our freshman penalties that smack resonantly of 'culture,' our whole-hearted and genuine enthusiasm for aesthetic flpportunities—and see the rem nants of an outworn and inappropriate cloak which we still fling about us in spite of its bedraggled edges. "How to get rid of them''—Brrag Penn State men and women to a full consciousness of the absurdity toil disaster of their presence. And that result cannot be ob tained by singing "Glory to State" and patting ourselves on the back. "Praises have their place. But does it follow that there should be nothing but praises? is a man to be branded as a disloyal Penn Stater simply because he is loyal enough to see foibles as well as virtues and brave enough to shout his message into an ear clogged with cloying self-praise or indifference? Is a man besmirch .ing the fair name - of Pena State when he faces truths and fears not to trove his standards for a better Penn State before unpe•ceiving eyes? Who is disloyal—the one who says 'lle•e is a fault. Go to attend'—or the one who says 'Don't say 'cow college' It isn't pleasant.'? "Let us have eyes that hear the truth! "Let us have ears that hear the tom-toms of falie virtues! "Let.,..us.ll:lSP hands to upinpletc. inn. 'task! • ~."11.ntus Imre' hern•ts,to . fierceivo.and Sustain! Lel ._ coils to iyhelirnniie Justice, and Truth and us!" BOOKS STATIONERY FOUNTAIN PENS SESSION TWO ELMER GANTRY by Sinclair Lewis The Novel Picked BY THE "BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB" for March COPIES FOR SALE OR RENT KEELER'S Cathaum Theatre Bldg PEN STATt• COT.T.I: THREE MEETS LISTED ON SPRING TRACK SCHEDULE Nittany Runners Oppose Navy, Syracuse and Pittsburgh In Dual Matches Three dual meet= and two annual intercollegiat e tiNtures are the events in which the Penn State track team will participate this spring, according to the schedule announced by Alan age: J. li. Sherts.' "It is better to use a bucket of, II(IY water and some good "elbow greasy" than a dozen sulphur candles tc fumigate a house," de . clared Dr. .1. l'. Ritenour, head of the College Health Service, in the second of the Liberal Arts lecture series last week. After a brief his.tor:.• of medicine, from the time of Ilipprocrates, the lather of medicine. down thr . ough the ages to the present. Dr. Ritenour dis cussed various common communicable Because of a recent out break of scarlet fever in the State College public schools, particular at tention was paid to that disease. Dr. Intmour quoted several eminent au thorities on the subject of closing pub iie daring an epidemic. It was the concemus that it is safer to keep school children in schools under prcper supervision than to have them going to movies or playgrounds where I the flOOrfOr of communication of Ills (Continued from first page) of methodical habit. into their lives "-e "rea d . "Germs don't witlk, climb or fly." cames a daughter of a woman whom a n t h ree l ere d in e,,rli,„ years. F i .„, a :said Dr. Ritenour. "liov: many of you that moment miraculous changes be -;cough into Y uur hand '' then wall' down gin to take place: and about them the the street and hand over a few million ..,tory. blended with pathos and enn- . gerim, to your best friend that you've edy, is woven. ; not seen for a longtime"" The 100- Henry du Mar Vin, Vincent Jenkins idle closed with a plea for a bet :ad Kenneth Marvin, all popular in i and more universal interest in Western Reserve dramatics. are dist ' P r ' ve " tin "* . signed the leading roles of the three The Nittany track team opens its season with Navy at Annapolis on May fourteenth and on 3lay twenty tir:.l will open the Syracuse season. On June fourth the Lions meet Pittsburgh on New Beaver field. Besides this trio of dual events the team Will participate in the regular intereollegiates on May twenty-sev mith and twenty-eighth. and the l'enn Relays on April twenty-ninth and thir tieth. Cleveland Players To Perform Here Tonight . . " 1 " I- ""Crockett, On Tour of lending female'character portrayal. Tickets. fifty and accents•-lice rents Sophomores To Choose Class Pennants Soon Sample.; are now being considered for the sophomOre pennants. The pennant committee will show speci mens submitted by various manufac turing companies at a meeting of the class in the near future, when one will be elumen and individual orders taken. Garnet it'nfl steel gray are toe colors. Baseball Team Holds First Outdoor Session (Continued from first page) Ilez has Jacobson, NO11101:111 and the two llamas brothers, all with former experience in grOund covering, in the outfield. Now that basketball season is over. Johnny Roepke and Lefty Page have joined Styborski, Haines, Van Atta and Plotts on the mound. Harrington and Lesko are doing most of the catching. t , i RAY L. SHOWERS Everything in t BRICK AND TILE i Fireplaces and Flues i i Willi a Draft 800 W. Beaver A've. Stale College, Pa. I . . Bell Phone 477-W ; .4. , *O. ;INIIP 4 , I , ••••• 3 QigiEiaiiiiiiQiiiiLi r, /./ Al not dump gall-Mather Vhen 600 d 9elloica get to 9ether in the 4n-cntr ?ut its hqhfolyou have, ne ofthem new9opoonh Montgomergs •61 • TML LOW SOAP AND WATER BEST FOR HEALTH-RITENOUR Current Diseases, Causes and Remedies. Explained by • College Physician World, Writes of Trip (Continued from first page) which was crowded with folk cf many nationalities in as many costumes and in quite as many colors. the fez and the turban bring particularly in evi dence. •And all this while there was a perfect babel of •loises. Almost im mediately i caught sight of Mr. Nis iaire. who after a while came aboard. Into his hands i deii•rerul our lug gage and felt that for four maths a , least I should be relieved of all care as to the moving of baggage. Soon we were being jostled by porters, with :bouts that became More deafening with each moment. Then with the gangway made ready and thepassen- Three Wise Fools Tonight FIREPLACE WOOD State College Fuel &SupplyCo I=E] RE NT A CAR FROM DRIVE-IT-YOURSELF l .✓C.'\ ~~~' at Penn State gers in line all prepared to land, came the most tiresome of waits, which seemed to us who were not interested but who knew not the whyness of things Egyptian, to depend upon the mere whim of the policel But at last they gave the signal for us to leave the steamer: and a moment later as we stepped from the gangway to the landing, I remarked to Mrs. Crockett in the most matter of fact way, "So wearer in Egypt at last!" But she retorted. "I should say that we had been down here for some hours!" There! You can sec how well our tales of this trip are likely to agree when we get home! En !finite Three Weeks: We had been en route from New York just three weeks, our party of four. which conAists of Mrs. Pond, long known to State College and now of New Haven, Connecticut. of Miss Howe, of Princeton, Mrs. Gussey,'sis ter of Mrs. Samuel Martin of State College, of Mrs. Crockett and myself. It was very cold that January morn- ing a we found our way to the piers of the North German Lloyd Et Ilobo ken and sought our rooms on the "themen:" and it continued cold for the next thirty-six hours. Then the weather grew warmer, or rather it was not so cold for the rest of the way to Cherbourg. • But on Monday morning a storm broke; and though it lasted for only a day, it left us with high seas, which'attended as far as Queenstown, which harbor we reached the next Sunday"evening. Only one of us was seasick en route and but for two days. But most of us felt the effect's of the rough voy- GET YOUR Shoes Shined —AT— Jim's Place Try a scrub shine-- It lasts. -Good Food - 1 AtiD-, Real Home Cooking % AT THE • CAMPUS TEA ROOM Opposite Front Catniius ••••••••••••••••••41NININININNWANN14,1,04.: 1 v_43l-1, • Is•-0 ~ v , - ,-- liketelmq... - 44 , 1 -• j 4 7 , - - - - ',i' . , , A ~2 Execpt .its . .conyenient bisCuit form, its taste inviting liiispness, its Nature given,.. iefreshing;•:fonic benefits. KE A ,D-AII4I47'i.HAICI T friday; March 18,1921 age and we were glad reach bourg. The service and the table-or the Bremen were excellent. - , Two days after the storm whey the waves were still running higia; saw a phenomenon the like of whi c h. I have never before beard of at>Ka. On the horizon to the south the wave s formed themselves into what see rn 4 to be three parallel mountain rang 6 between two and three miles i n length. And there they stood,• here and there decked with 'white whop the wave broke. as if they were snow capped peaks. and the while my we t . der grew, till after a little they m e lt . ,; ed away. and all became heaving, t 0,,, sing sea once more. I looked many times , later hoping and ever hoping that I might :look upon the like again. But the nearest that I came to doing so Was in _ t eeing one :atm-nor:a a Angle range of mountains. and at various times lone baby peaks that _reminded me con. stantly of the puffs- in the Moat Dome 3 region of Central France. 711/::47Y* . - Nittany Theatre (Matinee Daily at Cathaunt) FRIDAY- Corinne Griffith in - THREE HOURS" FRlDAY—Nittany Colleen Nl4thre in "ORCHIDS AND SATURDAY— Ettwaid Everett Horton in - TAXI .TAxi" SATURDAY—Niitany -THREE HOURS MONDAY— . Mary• Brian and Ben 'Lynn in t'lllllll BAT TUESDAY- TIIR ovERLAND STAcE•" frUESDAY—Nittans -HIGH lIAT I - r . i .• • L., ft.) 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