.Penn sfate Collegian Do you BELIEVE IN SIGNS? A long time ago. when this institution 11P- Published semi-weekly (luring the College year by students proximate(' the bovine stage. the campus was of the Pennsylvania State College. in the interests of the punctuated at intervals with sign boards. The collev, the students, faculty, alumni and friends. years passed and the campus, while still fortunate in having sign -boards. is unfortunate in having the old ones. Many are the nails and thumbtacks that have been the means of securing notices on the various resting places. These boards contain the signs that the av eragt student fails to read in passing. "they are queer objects. Weather-beaten into complete sub mission they assume. in position. all sorts of an gles. A trip around the campus walks (remem bering to - keep off the grass") will reveal to the tripper that one sign -board slants forward, an other is about to fall forward-backwards, still an other leans to the right while its neighbor inclines to the left. Every position is followed out by the boards--even to the horizontal after a wind-storm. The insidious (apologies) thing about the sign -boards is. oddly enough, not the boards them selves. It is the content that does the damage that we are soon to mention. Signs are placed on each of the boards about the campus—along comes a severe wind or min storm and the boards arc soon shorn of their adornment. The signs. thus involuntarily removed from the boards: where do they go? All over the campus—trans forming beauty into a scene much resembling a second-hand picnic ground. Glass-enclosed sign -boards would be a remedy but that would require money. A gift of glass enclosed sign -boards to replace the present mes sage-bearers would be greatly appreciated. In the next few years a senior class would do well to consider suitable sign -boards when its time tames to remember the College. THE EXECUTIVE BOARD W. P. REED '27 - H. G. WomstEy "27 S. R. P. 081: '27 - THE EnrrotuAL STAFF' W. REED '27 IL G. Ww.isl.r.y '27 - - - - G. F. Fismat '27 Fp • -•crs L. EiAltr.s '27 - - NEWS EDITORS I:. :tl..Atkinsnn I:. W. S. Thomson '23 WOMEN'S NEWS EDITORS Katherine Holbrook '23 31ildred A. Webb '2 Lillian Bell '23 . THE IILSINESS STAFF S. R. Rout; '27 Business Manager S. C. WHARTON . 27 - - - Advertising Manager I.'. Wu, , NEit---- Circulation :llanager r:'S!NESS MANAGERS d. Fer2:l: C. F. Flinn '2.! Ail er,7 for 7. Sub , rri,oiqn Now.rub., 1. 192'. Lut.l,l ,ronel-clus, rnattur. !any tn.11.1i.11i14: Co. Slate Col. 1P•11. tpr.r.• 1: :r. , 1 :n. m 12:00 m: 1:00 On p. rn 4 TUESDAY, APRIL. 5. 1927 •1 STEP FORWARD The Interfraternity Council is to be commend ed for its efforts to provide the national fraterni ties. 11::ri: with a rushing system that approaches the sensible. For the code that will be voted up on for approval by the Greek letter organi -2a tiOnS. is a tremendous stride forward. True. it is not the ideal. But it is decidedly superior to the present system. The new code is a means to an cad—a foothold in the attempt to free Penn State fraternities from the mire of helplessness brought 09 by the present "hit-or-miss." what have you. system. The proposed code affords the freshman more than ten clays in which to learn something about any fraternity which he may consid6r. Converse ly it gives each fraternity just that opportunity to size-up the prospective rushee. First appear ::sees are generally the most impressive and the most lasting. Oftimes they prove to be erron eous. Under the present system the rushee and fraternity must resort to snap judgment and when that judgment later happens to be wrong there is occasion for general dissatisfaction and embar rassment on the part of all concerned. If the new code becomes adopted, both the fraternity and rushee will resort to snap judgment but the addi tion of ten days will also give both a further op portunity to bring sagacity into play. The ad ditional use of judgment will save many a fresh man from taking a step that he would afterwards regre':. Many a fraternity would be spared from pledging a newcomer who would lit in very well with any group but the particular one that was collecting money for the room and board of the "misfit." Every fraternity at Penn State will be given an opportunity to express its opinion on the ques tion in the form of a "Yes" or "No" ballot. At the present time theh appears to be a group that threatens to provide a stumbling block towards the efforts of the I. F. C. to legitimize the new code. It is hoped, and with a sincerity nothing short of pathetic, that the group can see the light and vote "Yes". to the adoption of the rule that ge a long way toward clearing up the rushing "mess" that is now all too apparent. No one fra ternity ::•ilI benefit more than another by the new rushing code: all will be materially aided. The new rushing code is plainly a mighty step for ward: the goal lies just ahead. LITERARY SOUNDINGS Pre-eminently a college is an institution where one is free to teach and free to learn; and norm ally the best means.of learning and teaching are to be found not within the: !certain and rigorous classrooms. 'muttered strategically with Eng. AG or 815 in the catalogs, but within the broader, franker atmosphere created by the students themselves. In brief, it is through or iginal. if .speculatory, ideas that education is achieved: and in every instance. it is through stu dent publications that genuine experimental thoughts are expressed. . Strange as it may seem l'enn State was with out a literary medium for several college gener ations. Then came the Old Main Bell: what an opportunity was ours! A literary magazine! A publication to which all students, even the fresh men. could tell what they thought about Meneken, Lewis. Ford. Wells, Erskine! An outlet for ar guments. pro and con. a river on which 1.0 set a- Iloat stories, poems, plays! The Old Main Bell was indeed an event. - Here, the editors told you, was the place for yon• theories concerning literature and history and science. here was the waters for your original thoughts: there were no profes sors. no cribbers. no .examinations: you were left alone to sink or swim. Since its inception the Old Main Bell has, things considered. not received the support it has merited. Contributions, even for the llay issue. are slow in forthcoming. Judging by the amount of material received an idea is at a prem ium. Vet there is an enormous field which stu dents. with any literary inclination, can plow ef fectively. Enough themes, enough reviews and essays and short stories, are written for class room purposes daily to fill a dozen volumes of Old Main Bells. Why then the sluggishness? Surely it is not prudery: and surely it cannot be that the . quality of the classroom work is of such stuff that it cannot be published in a magazine. That would be a calamity: in . that case there would he ne need for a magazine. The issue, if we may be pardoned for any oratorical fervor, is clear: either to contribute, or to confess ignorance. For it is the ignorant who neither read nor write.. _ - Prestnt Vice-President - Treasurer: to-Chief Assistant Editor Munazing Editor IVomerra. W. lArd. Jr. 'n P. R. Srnal.tz '2B H. Y.. Kilburn 'Z W. J. :%lel.aughlin '23 in the office by twelve n'elnek by twelve o'clock Wedneicley It is with gratitude that we acknowledge the granting on the part of the Senate Committee on Student Welfare, of a half holiday to the Easter recess. Classes close for the holidays at twelve twenty o'clock instead of five-twenty as was orig inally planned. On account of the inaccessibility of State Col lege to the main highways of travel, it would ap peal' that the most sensible time to start a holiday is at noon. ft is. Now that the Senate Committee has come half way in giving in to the wishes of the student body, it is up to the undergraduates to do their par'c. namely, return to College at the designated time. "Ileard the latest in college fads, Smithery?" Smithers:—You mean drinking? "I said later:." Smithery:—Rut what. Bullosopher. is drinking, but a re suit of prohibition: which. may I remind you, is of coin paratively recent enactment. "Still. Saddlers. prohibitions are hardly recent, al though I admit—" Smithery:—But what's that fail about? "I was about to suggest it. Smithers, when you, with hardly decorous continent, interrupted. However, I ad mire candor. That is, when it is not too inconvenient. In this case. Smithers. you may have lead me to observe that, even as his jungle brother—or cousin if you feel that way ;thou': it—needs chains, so does the human animal require restrictions. Prohibition, in the matter of drinking, does not. I agree with you. eliminate that pleasure—for it is a pleasure, after all. Rather it incites a feeling for inure pleasure. And feelings of that nature are disastrous to the Constitutional Amendment. That is distressing.—" Stoll hers:—Then you admit prohibition wrong? "No matter how much I try to Prevent it, you seem destined to become an ass. Don't bray when spoken to. The Amendment. Smithers. cannot lie wrong: It is in the Constitution: don't you read the papers? Practically, of course. Prohibition. to judge by the resulting intentpe•- :unce, has failed. Rut Rules have no reason to 'fear the a:attic:ll. Rules must be only theoretical: they need not bC, logical. For the ideal, Smithers, engenders progress; and Progress is beautiful. Smithery:—Rut this fad. Bullosopher? "Al: yes. the fad. It seems that students at Illinois univers:ity either incensed by the automobile ban, or in spired by the nceessity of spring sports, have taken to 'onyx skating as a means of campus promenading. Skat ing. of course, is not as virile, or as statuesque as horse back riding; certainly it is nut as dignified, nor, if I may use the word, as profound as bicycle riding. Now in the gay nineties SMitlters:—At Illinois, you say? Why that's peculiar. I noticed that nine Illinois students. three of them women, were dismissed within the last three weeks, for drinking, or for being members of a drinking party. Since:they were members, it was assumed that they were active. So they were expelled—the efficacy of prohibition, no doubt. But, . missed .thaf.,item , abotit skating.. "1 stippoSe that studenti wished to show their contempt of Regulation, and so adopted rollers. They should have taken cover in baby carriages." THANK YOU The Bullosopher's Chair At Montgomery's Special for WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6th ALL $1.50 TIES For This Day 40111 Y 85 cents 3 for $2.50 1:07.1,1;',131A1i Garber Provides SpecialiHelme Will Deliver I • 14:ntertainmentforProin! Talk on Art Tonight) (Continund from first page) Jan's southern reputation was! tacttlar pageantry of mediaeval his gained while ri member of the Garber-! tory. This subject has lbng fascia- Davis combinittion. Now, however.! ated Professor Helme who will cor- Garber has made the longest stay en • relate the art and state of record at the New York Hippodrome. affairs existing in France in the in additionito the regular orchest..' twelfth and thirteenth centuries, &ar ras. Cu rley Miller. who has recently :'.sr the rise of the great structures completed fotlr years on th e K e ith. ; which tell the Christian story in stone Orpheum circuit. has been ea:raved to i cnd entertain on the banjo, piano and other musical, instruments. :Willer, ...„....„.„..,,,,..,,,„,,,,,,,,..., by virtue of radio broadcasting. has ; earned for himself the title of "Ace.t)- I Junior Prom Booth Sale i The-Air." I! • ... . . ... I I Scheduled for Tonight i i Miller has (also performed %chit i , Gotrs Miami club orchestra as well as I i Fraternity booth drawing far with other lea l ding bands of the north I j the Junor Prom will be held at and south. I 1! Co-op this evening at seven Booth drawings will be held at Co-op I I (). e.h'el" The price for booths at seve.l o'clo i ck at a cost of tea dol. 1 wil! be ten dollars. Inns. 1 ; i 1 ~,...,...„,.....,,,,,.„,,,,„.........0.,..,...„.. 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NEWCOMB CARLTON, pßEcotto GEORGE E L SPITLER EX SOCCER MGR PENN STATE COLLEGE STATE COLLEGE PA 12 Nominations Made For Y. M. C. A. Officials President L. L. Gwin 2nd Vice President IL L. Kinsel '2B A. J. Cares '29 C. B. Lane '29 Earl Mulvaney '29 Secretary L. W. Barton '29 J. It. Ileess '3O W.. 1. Wood '3O Treasurer W. W. lloekenberre W. S. Seibei t Special Combination Package F R E•E With every box,of COTY FACE POWDER —A 60c Bottle OF Coty Perfum In the same odeur Rexall Drug Store "See Your Orders Cooked" CLUB - DINERS INC. Cleanliness Courtesy Excellent rood OPEN ALL NIGHT PHONE 9480 another to , ,,day. A Orli 5, , 027 , . 'lay Order Invititions Programs After Easter ' -1 " Seniors may.phic'e ordeis [(IC . Commencement programs, tations and announcements with: I the committee on Wednesday and Thiirstiay. April twentk; . l seventh and twenty-eighth, at ! Glg jfj( TIIEJ‘ Nittany Theatre (Matinee Daily at Cathaum) TUESDAY— Simultaneous First Pa. SitawinCo/ Jetta Gouda! in . WHITE G 01.1)" TUESDAY—Nittany— First Pennsylvania Showing:id . William Ilaines in "SLIDE. KELLY. SLIDE!" Special Prices Adults 504% WEDNESDAY— First Pennsylvania Showing - or harry Lamplon in -LONG PANTS' TIITiRSDAY and FRIDAY— ' Gloria Swanson in 'THE LOVE OF SUNIA: Special Prices: • - Adults 501:: Children 25c. FRlDAY—Cathaum Simultaneous First l'a..Shatving or Constance Talmadge, Antonio 31oreno VENUS OF VENICF c~TARIi, lloßg S, • aberclashers' -AT Children
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