A Bill For Hill and Dale Work VOL. XXIII, No. 6 SEVENTH ANNUAL DADS' DAY BEGINS WITH GIANT MASS GATHERING FRIDAY Organization Will Hold Business Meeting Saturday Morning To Receive Report of President Hewitt HETZEL MEETS ASSEMBLY Mothers of Students Will Be Guests of Girls Saturday Afternoon—Bulletin Is Sent to Homes With tr tao-day program -organ ized, the seventh annual Dad's Day festivities will begin Friday night It, ith a giant mass meeting in tae Auditorium At this gathering E E Hewitt, m esulent of the Association of Pat ents, will welcome the assembled fa theis of Penn State students. Seven al student and faculty representatives will also speak. Convening at ten o'clock Saturday morning the Association, which was mganived src yea's ago, will hold its annual business meeting The sesi.on will open with the Lenart of the pies 'dent, Mr Hewitt, after which Pres ident Ralph Dom fetiel will make an address, marking his !list appear ance before a Fathem' Day assem blage here. Dean Sackett Speaks Providing a short program, sever al of the Conege musical organw.a bons will then appear before the as semblage for a few minutes. Dean R. L Sackett, of the School of Engin eering, chairman of the faculty sen ate committee of the Athletic Board of Control, 'sill tall, to the dads concerr mg "Athletics for All " Closing with a business discuss on the group will (Continued on last page) PENN STATE PROFESSORS GIVE EXTENSION QUIZZES Arrange Apprentice Wage Scale Fol. Nat'l Tube Company In Elwood City INSTRUCTOR RETURNS FROM STUDIES ABROAD After intense prepai ations of plans for an apprentice teaming system to meet the needs of the National Tube company, Piot. J. 0 Keller and Mr. II 0. Pyle, of the department of en gineering extension, en eat to Ellwood City last week and spent sevcial days there in giving entrance csammations to appientices, selecting esperienced teacheis to take charge of the vai mos classes and to aid in planning for the opening of the classes, Sep tembei nineteenth. NON Vagc Seale Ps G Forbes, winking with others of the management, has made a new wage scale for the apprentices, AO that the salary depend:, on the pie gloss and the glades of the individ ual The glade of each apprentice Is considered, the class mock grade given by the engineering exten , ion department, counting one-thud, and the glade awarded by the foremen on the efficiency of the student count-. ing two-thuds Courses have been outlined for ma chinist apprentices, electrical ap-, entices, pipe-fittets, cat pcnters, bricklayers, and tinsmith apprentices These curricula are planned so that they will continue for a pet md of font ymus, although students with excep tional ability will be given the oppm tunity of completing the coats° in three or three and a half yems. DEPARTMENT OF FARM MACHINERY DEVELOPS NEW GRAIN THRESHER Dining the past summer, the de paitment of farm machinery conduc ted experiments with a new type of machine for harvesting grain. As a result of these experiments a machine called a "combine" was developed. This combine was used hi the harvest ing and threshing of sixty acres of wheat and bats The neas of this new machine was smear' throughout the state and at present quito a number are being us ed by the farmeis throughout the „_,.., ..„, ft t zt t r , „,,,. , New College Laboratory Solves Textile Problems COLLEGIAN Subscribers Must Verify Addresses Those who have given into addresses, have changed reb alances 01 have failed to re ceive thier issues of the COL LEGIAN regularly are request ed to apply to the COLLEGIAN office and have matters adjusted. PLAYERS ENGAGE STOCK SHOW FOR OCTOBER EIGHTH Hanes and Allais Company Will Stage C. R. Kennedy's "The Servant in the House" SELECT "THE ENEMY" AS FIRST LOCAL PRODUCTION Organization To Hold Tryouts Next Week for Cast of Pollock's Drama "Servant in the house" staged by profess , onal stock com pony, and booked by the Penn State Players for October eighth at eight fifteen o'clock will be the initial dram atic offering of the season. This is the rust time that a pro fessional,company has come here an del tho auspices of the Players and marks a diversion from the maul rout me of the organization Hanes and Alla. in Cast The play Nuns written by Chas les Rann Kennedy who with his wife Edith I Wynn Mattlueman took the leading roles in the premier allowing, in Ch.- (Continued on last page) POULTRY CLUB PREPARES FOR ANNUAL EXHIBITION Purposes To Stimulate Better Breeding of Fowls in Pennsylvania Puiposmg the stimulation of the growing of higher producing bads of better breeding, the fifth annual Penn sylvania State Standard Production Poultry Shoes, sponsored by the Penn State Poultry Club, will be held here nom October twenty-seventh tc twenty-ninth inclusive. At the same time the Pennsyhanin State Baby Chicle association and the Pennsylvania State Poultry associa tion urll hold their meetings hese. The show is the only state I,IIIC exhibit. that lays stress on the standard and production qualities of poultry. At present there have been entered about a thousand birds, a great in aces° over last ycat'x entries SC,. oral of last year's exhibitors displayed their fowls at the Sesqui-Centennal and the New York State Fair, only to find that the competition had been greater at State College Tho allow affords poultry bleeders rho opportunity of comparing buds and exchanging ideas with other poul trymen to tho advantage of all con cerned. L M Black, poultry spec ;dist lions the New Jersey experiment station eind a recogniled authority on bads, will pidge the exhibits. Lockwood '29, Reports On Sale of "Y" Tickets Ticket sales for the "Y" Entertain ment Course are passing all exptt.ta tons, reports E. J Lockwood '29, chairman of the committee in chniv,c. Providing a plogram of eight var ied and interesting attractions, spread over the winter months, this course is one of the highest quality obtain able Sent checks will be issued at the Hut in about a week's time upon Ine sentation of the ticket vouchois A diem= showing seat and price ar rangement has been posted in the win doe of the Athletic Stoic. LACROSSE ELECTIONS R. M. AlePhetson '2B First Assistants C F. Enaction '29 .1 A. Hawke '29 E. A Walker '2O Captain J. C. Belfield 27 STATE COLLEGE, PA.:;TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1927 Recent tests of clothing samples that shooed the most expensive of a certain group to have the poorest 'nearing and cleaning qualities have influenced the division of industrial research at the College to open a tot tile laboratory, which is in charge of Prot Pauline 13. Mack. It the laboratory gets the support and comment it needs the housewife lin the near future will have infoim, ,tion from the College that should ease her clothing worries down to noth- Inl, but tho cost. The garment or r.bbon counter cleik will get a bar sage of scientific questions instead of the customary "will it weal well?" "What is the tensile strength of , this sheet," is a query that well-m -formed houseuife buyers will ask What is the ueight pet square yard? HI AN much dressing is in it? What is (Continued on last page) 1931 TRACKSTERS COMPETE FRIDAY Aspiring Entrants Battle For Honors In Annual Meet On New Beaver CARTMELL SAYS PLEBE ATHLETES MAY SIGN UP Three da}s remain before the fresh man tracksters engage in the annual cinder, pit and field meet on New Bemer field Friday afternoon at four o'clock Keen competition is expect ed between the former high and prep school luminaries and the athletes of the dark Inn.. %array, according to Coach Car tmell. All men ni , shing to enter any of the fifteen events offered may sign their r.r.a.ous and chei.kithel . t..,events on chiti cardboard pasted dear the tracklock I ms, states George Fencil, manager of tioek, although it isill be possible to enter each molt as its ocean in the meet. I=l Entrants mill have a choice of fif teen e;ents in Friday's track fest Thole will be a bundled yard dish two-twenty and foul-forty runs for the splintms, half nude, mile and Om mile coins.; for the distance men both high and low huidies, and the blond and high Jumps, pole ,ault shot put, dise,s, hammer and ,lave lm thte,s for the field and pit hope New Denser ti sek will be dressed or foe the nev.comels to Penn State (Continued on last page) Penn State Club Has Organization Meeting And Announces Plans Meeting for the first tune tins sem ester the Penn State Club elected two tumoral , : secretaries last week. IV. II Royer '.28 and C. IV. Garrett, '2B were elected temporary social sec retari, to fill the post of IV. I Fiel der '2B A tentative program for the yen! was announced as follows Fathers' Day snioker, October first, Freshman Smoker, October twenty first; Hallowe'en Dance, October twen tc-elghth, dancing chases, month of Do ember; basketball tournament, January and February, Town Culs' social, March, baseball tournament, May; May Hop, May twenty-sixth. All non-fraternity men are rented to attend the Club's meetings It was announced that dates of all meetings would bo announced in the COLLEG IAN and would be posted on the camp us bulletin boards Revengeful Plebes Will Grasp - Legs Of Spirited Rivals In Bare Struggle Aspiting plebes, intent upon twin t mg the aikantri of spit nod sopho mores mill be given then initial op poitunity to ietaliate in the tradi tional Pants Snap on New Beaver held, tentatively scheduled for next Wednesday or Thursdal, tevengeful yearlings will be permit ted to bleak another, and defeat by the sophomores will accomplish that. To all intents and purposes this year's separation of pants legs still progress in perennial fashion, ba ring the possibility of the second yeat men tinning out en masse to pro,ide opposition and pants legs for the con fident plebes The Pants Soap is one of the mote recent underclass conflicts, com ing Into existence a few yeats ago. in actual battle, two clam groups of hfty men don ancient anima.' and make valiant attempts to remove steal trousers. The vias is determined at the end when a count of intact pants "lintel Item the spung to the fall—l legs is made. Cheeileader Blankenbillel together with his committee has been working on plans for underclass encounters and huh deuded to hold the Pants Scrap next week, tolegating the Tie up Scrap to spring competition. This decision, however, is still open to change. Sleeking precedent in but one re spect—moving the uppeidlM en- 1929 Yearbook To Use Age of .Chivalry Motif Selection of 'lie age of ehnalry sn its relationshClo - the Penn State code as the malt theme of this year's La Vie, junior doss publication, has been announced by Eilitoitin-Chief J V. Brant. . • . In addition, Editor Brandt announ ced the appointment of L II Bell, Ji athletic editor and A. It Foote pho tographic editor. Further appoint. ments will be made as the need of them aimes. Announcement concein ing the taking of indurilual photo. graphs will be nude within the nci.t reek. ROTARIANS MEET HERE NEXT WEEK Clubmen Plan To Inspect Life And Activities of Land Grant College DELEGATES TO ATTEND LUNCHEON ON SATURDAY Favorable responses to the official invitations sent to the one hundred end fifty Rotary Clubs throughout the State last week by the Rotary Pil grimmnge committee are ind , cati,e of an influx of mo4e. than one thousand members to the consention here on October seventh - end eighth, accord mg to E K. Hibshman, secietar) of the committee , Outlining the uthantages of the gathering here Mr. Hibshman cited the leading busidess and professional'! men of the State comprise the mem bership of the organization, thus add ing significance to the occasion. Interest :M College "The primary purpo,e of the con c'aNe mall be to acquaint the leader , of the State with Peiguylvanms land-giant college and give fr.ends and c,ollege,n more intimate knowledge of student activ ity and progress," the secretary stilt. ed. "Thin is particularly true in the case of the fraternities who will house the sorting delegates," he added, "be. (Continued on last page) Axton Emphasizes Love as Essential To Christian Faith Stressing spiritual and human love as the most essential force of Chits tianity, Colonel John T. Axton, chief of chaplains of the United States Army, delivered the chapel address Sunday morning in the Auditorium "Lose the Lord thy God with all thy soul, with all thy bruit, with all thy might, and with all thy strength," Ulls tFe hrlArcal tine of Colonel Ax ton's address "It is most necessary that the younger generation today be taught that commandment" he de dared, "for it is that generation which Is assuming social leadership' The speaker cited many actual in. stances where loin, either of God or of fellow man, proved a triumphant foe of dmnstm and sor row. lie closed with the statement that not coved and not chinch denomination, but a deep abiding love of God makes a man a Chi istian. Dr. Hetzel To Speak Before Upperclassmen There will be a combined meet ing of Juniors and seniors at eight o'clock tomorrow night in tho Bull Pen. Pies:dent Hotscl will speak. Tollrgiatt. NOLL AND BENTLEY FILL AGRICULTURE SCHOOL VACANCIES Professor Bentley Adi ances To Occupy Post of Animal Husbandry Head BOTH APPOINTEES HAVE OUTSTANDING RECORDS Doctor C. F. Noll, Breeder of Wheat Variety, Will Be Farm Supervisor Two major appo'ntments to vacan cies in the School of Agriculture were announced last week by President It D Iletrel. Prof F. L Bentley is the new head of the department of animal husbandry, and Di. C. F Noll, who developed the famous Pennsylvania !41 wheat, becomes superintendent of the College fauns. Professor Benteh was giaduateu from the University of Migsoini in 191:1 In September, 1916, he came to Penn State as instructoi in animal husbandry his special subject being beef cattle. Ile earned his master's degree in 1918 Two seals ago he became acting head of the department when Professor W. H Tomhave went to the Ammican Aberdeen-Angus Breeders' Assoeation as national sec retory'. Under Professor Bentley's supervis ;or nc, honors ha% e been added to the existing fame of the department Only last iseek the livestock judging team coached by Pi °lessor Bentley scored an outstanding, triumph over other college teams at the Estate. States Exposition in Spiingheld, Mass (Continued on last page) COX SCORES FIRST ' IN HARRIER TRIALS Fifteen Freshmen Cross Country Candidates Also Work Out In Saturday's Run LEE EXTENDS HILL AND DALE CAPTAIN IN RACE Led by Captain Bill CON, the Nit tany squad of moss country men held their fast official hauler trial Sat o, day afteinoon after the football game pith Lebanon Valley. Approximately fifteen candidates for the freshman hill and dale group ran oser the shoat coarse immediately preceding the yaisity .upirants woo ran a five-mile grind Getting off with a flashing start, Bill tools the !list thin on the flack to enty yards ahead of the nearest man and gamed steadily during the running of the pichminaly too lap, on the quarter-mile Neo Beaver cin der path. Lee Dogs Bill At the tim,h of the grind Bill heAd ed his blot follow et by only twelve seconds. Louis Lee, pushing the lc W ei balder than usual, took second Place with Ulu ti-tuo seconds advan tage out number thice, who was Rat dare. Pettit, Kittle and OtTenhauser fol lowed in iapid older malt OfTenhaus et showing a Return to ha former splint Ilaskins traded Geoige by an ability nod form by a sustained final scant foot-seconds (Continued on last page) "Y" Delegates Will Meet Here Next Week For Annual Convention Representatis es of the Middle At lantic Field Council of the Y M. C A. will comene lime next week-end for then annual meeting. This council of the student donna ment of the 'V' nill meet in Joint 309. slon with the Eaglesmeie council of the Y. W. C. A. Delegates tun be present fi om lime of the Middle At lantic States. W. F. Mall 'l7, mid Miss Gladys Taylor, executive sec etat les of the men, Nodl be in charge of the meetings uluch will lie held from Friday evening to Sunday af ternoon. All work for this area, including the appointment of a committee for the Eaglesmero Conference of 1928, will be handled by this group The local representatives ale H. L. Kissel '2B, vice-mesident of the Y. tl. C A. and Helen Geoige '2B, president of the Y. Lion Gridders Subdue Lebanon Valley, 27-0 Annville Eleven Surprises by Unexpected Strength---Dangerfield, Roepke, Wolff, Lungren Score IMakes Long Run .k/ '• • te-fP'',)4 C) Luagren '2.5 BRITISH DEBATORS TO APPEAR HERE Cambridge University Will Meet Penn State Spokesmen On November Eleventh ORATORS TO DELIBERATE VALUE OF CO-EDUCATION International debating mill make its debut here, Nor ember eleterth mhen the vaisity debating squad e .11 meet the But sir National Student's Un on team, from Cambridge Unic.ci say, on the subject "Co-education is I failure," m.th the Cambridgi tram tat cng the negatt-co c do, Last tear a debate mould hate been scheduled math the University of 0% ford, had not the English team wish ed to be home for the Christmas hob.' days. Although Oxford is not send-, mg a team to America this year, the: Cambridge squad, mlnch mill nrikel tour of the mentor n inn°nal., Is considered equally as good But rah debating so tle is far d ffei rot from the Anceocan style, btu,' less formal and more discursite Irl usually trot ides tient% of opportun itv for fun In the ty pe a rl English' debate, the students g,rther yr the on I ion hall shot tly after stricter The, chart man announces the tope for dis CL16.01 and the house is divided into' tmo sections, negatite and allirmative, uhich sit on opposite sides of the' loom Then the eh...commit begins, emir debater being permitted to spea's (Continued on last page) DR. FOSTER ADDRESSES COSMOPOLITAN GROUP Sets Forth Ideal of Fostering Good Will Among Foreign Students in College Acquainting new members Isith the purpose and Ideals of the otganiva lion, the Cosmopolitan club met at the home of Di I L Fostm, hone,- ary menthol, Wednesday mooing. Introduced by F N Reach piesldent of the club, Doctor Foster state,' the tenets and puipose of the oigamaaton I', y among the ideals as set forth by Doctor Foster is the fostering of a slum of good mill among the feu Igo students at Penn State 31 N. Gosh '3l, told of his life in India, and of his pm pose in coming to Annulcn to school, follocced by shot. talks by Keghani Vattelossian and Fund Tayinant consmning then le spectico countries ttgs pt and Spite Jean Ilugonet also stated lus unities stens of France and especially of Pai ls. Thu club will hold another meeting sonic time nest reek, which will be the flint business meeting of the year All foimgn students are iequested to attend COLLEGE SENATE ELECTS FACULTY SPORTS BOARD Dean Sackett, of the School of En gineering, ens appointed chairman of the faculty board of athletic coati of, at the meeting of the College Senate, September fifteenth. The appoint meats of Prof. R. A. Dutcher, of the agi cultural chemistry department, Prof P. W. Ouens, head of mathe matic., and A. It War nook, dean of Bent of Annville Chorus PRICE FIVE CENTS Lebanon Valley', plucky team of lam ans giouhcd ILtIC in defeat and gain a noble demonstiatnon of grit soil determination on the gi idnon Satin day often noon in the initial game of the season for Coach Bezdek's seen. The Lions tiiumphed, 27-0 aftei consuleiable difficulty, in sone,- thing the despciate march to siLtory that the Ann,die opponents have planned since the opening day of piattpe. It mas not the usual set-up type of team Ina one of unexpected stiength that pilgrimmaged to Nen Beaver fill to aid Captain Roepke and his mates to Inaugurate the local football season and pax homage to the grid god in his autumnal domain. And mole than cute the Blue and \\gine foimation from the s alley institution il . ten feat into the Lion Lamp. Gelbert Causes H urr Captarn Chathe Gelbert, slippery Lebanon Valle, haltback, was the Lour, of most of the nosy that Be.. deb's charges e‘ricr ironed Time and • gain he broke his nay through Penn 'tate': line .rnd almost outgeneraled I is team,' hope for a stoic had he not tripped and fallen. From ~11 .nrlarat ens, Penn State= loam of attack this season roll rest rromly in the for oar d pasrong dopsrt- Tlnce of the four touchdowns resulted fto.n :tertal heat., too ex ecu'ed by the Lungren-Dangerfield co nbinat on, and one ftom Pincurn to flog)le. In all. the Lions attempted ni.teen passes thtough tie ether, el e‘en of which 1101;1 completed to to tal .R,B yards Roephe Scores First I Captain Roepko was the fir.t. to tote fox Penn 'Btate. Unprofitable ;line thiuktb by both teams followed the kickaff ftoni llamas to Colbert land allot an ckehonge of punts, the Nittan,l backfield, n a series of first coons adcaneed the pigskin front titer _s•3atd line to the opponent's J5-3ald btrli.e flool .liele the blond lender coated ale of Plneura's pi etty passe., and sin ailed o.ei the goal Roopho kicked ,uttesbfully for the e‘tla Dumf. In the betoni quarter, the Nutley awn offeled stubbcon I e.stance to the \ittarn ofTen,e, holding. Bezdek's (Cont.nued on last page) RESIDENCE ENROLLMENT TOTALS FOUR THOUSAND Engineering School Leads With Tst els e Hundred—Liberal Arts Os ercross ded A total tes,dence cut ollnient for the year eseceiling foul thou.and is the pi ediction ot W S Hoffman. Col lege Ikg,sti at. This number will ex ceed the tocot.l entailment of but sear 1/0 neat!, one hundred, and Will in. dude all tout e , go aduate, special, le-adept slant coutse students Fi.o nI tho sic schools in the Col lege thin fall hat o the lot gest enroll ment in then histm;,, the exception Lem,; the School of Labetal Arts u bete a cut in the number of fresh men admitted oas necessaty ico n ic of the lack of c' tssroont facilities The School ot Engtneet Int:, with !malls mtelse hundred students, con tinues to lead all othets, and the School 01 Cliem,stm and Phystes has a (Amami; entailment. The recent Summer Session, st nth I icgisti Awn of awe than twenty set en In tubed students, WAS the latg c.t m.ot held at Penn State, and the 00100 eat 11027-28 has cools Indira !, on of being a iecotil one In teseatch trstt uctton and extensmn Dean Watts To Talk At Grangers Meeting Motion inclines, talks and pep songs 5511 1 mosaic the plogiam for a meet m;, ot the Penn State Giango tonight at seem o'clock in loom one hundred, Hot ticultme ',inkling Done It L. Watts and Piot II G Parkinson, both of the School of Aglieulture, still be among the speaLins. Motion wallies shun by Prof. W. A. Bio;.les ot the department of ag taultuial education, atll pot tiny the In,toit of fashion , : Olganmation and plane for the coining year soil be out lined by W. C Gumbel '27, local mas ter, \those main topic still concern the intei-colleg.ate Mange content, stint ing thin fall, in Minh the Penn State chapter and the Ohio State Grange still be been 11N
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