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VOL XXIII, No. 20
PI DELTA EPSILON
FRATERNITY MAY
CONVENE HERE IN
1929,F0R PARLEY
Prof. M. M. Harris, C. F. Flinn
And W. Lord, Jr.","Attend
National Convention
At Clainland ,
RECEIVE APPOINTMENTS
Conference Names Atlanta For
Next Year's Conclave• Over
Penn State and Miami
Delegate Petitions _
With the hope and possibility that
Pi Delta Epsilon, national journalis
tie fraternity, may hold its 1929 con
vention in State College, three dele
gates from Penn State returned last
Sunday night from Columbus, Ohio,
where the convention of the society
was held
Bids for next year's convention
were presented by State College, Mi
ami, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia.
The bid of the latter city was ac
cepted. Places of convention are de
termined according to sections of the
country. The meeting-place last
year was Berkeley, California, this
year the middle west. Next year it,
will be held in the south and in 1929 ,
the eastern section of the country
will hold the society's convention.
Penn State Delegation
The three delegates from Penn State
were Wheeler Lord, Jr. '2B, C. F.
Flinn '2B, and Professor H. H. liar.'
ris A fourth delegate was J. H. Erb
'27, who is taking graduate work at
Ohio State at present. He was a
former editor of the Penn State Farm- Debating negatively un the sub.
er and secretary of the local chap- Jed ."Resolved that Co-Education 10
ter of Pi Delta, Epsilon. a Failure" rthe College forensic team
A ritual committee, composed of was awarded the popular decision over
Lordf-Professkir . llarrietnieFltini . Clan 'team in'
Penn State and W. G. Wykotr of the engagement herd of eight-thirty
Union college, Schenectady, New York. o'clock Friday, ,eyening, after the
with Flinn chairman, was formed to Thespian Show, in the Auditorium.
improve the piesent ritual It was Andrew Haddon, Edinburgh Urn
accepted and passed in its new form ‘ersity, Frank Darvall, University of
by the body. Reading and John Rania'ge from the
Professor Harris was one of thel London School_ of Economics and Po
speakers at a luncheon on Friday. laical Science were the debators rep
csenting the Notional British Union'
The Penn State train was composed
of William Brewster '29, A. J. Gans
'29, and S. L. Burt '2B
PLEBE CROSS-COUNTRY
MEN SWAMP PANTHERS
Detweiler Defeats Gus Moore,
Touted ex-St. Bonaventure
Schoolboy Champion
Jumping into the lead at the start
er's pistol shot, Dick Deßveiler, plebe
ace, maintained his premier position
throughout the entire Penn State-Pitt
freshman cross-country race to de
feat Gus Moore, former national
schoolboy mile champion and two-year,
St Bonaventure, New Yolk, runner
who is now entered In the Smoky City
university. Moore was a member of
last year's national championship St.
Bonaventmo harrier team.
Detv,eilei, conceded no chance for
victory before the race, breasted the
gusty weather to place first in easy
style over the three-mile harrier
course. The Nittany team earned a
10-JO win, scoring with first, third,
fourth, fifth and sixth places.
200 Yards Is 111aratn
A distance of over two hundred
yards separated the Lion cub from the
veteran lull and daler as the plebe
crossed the finish line. Following af
ter Moore came Nichols with Art:A,
Meissenger, Ken Moose, Reikers, King
and Robinson crossing the hne in
close order.
Gains, a Pitt man, lan tenth, besting
Williams by a dash which placed hint
three feet ahead of the Nittany har
rier at the end-post. Nicolette, Dover
spike and Caeser filled out the Penn
ther quota of cross country men.
Grange Editor Picks
Staff of Publication
I Departmental editors of the Grunge
yearbook, which will make its debut
about the last of December, have been
announced by F. W. Crittenden '29,
editor-in-chief of the publication. Past
and future functions of the Grange,
campus scenes, and degree team pic
tures will be featured in the maga
zine.
R. B. Smith '3O, is in charge of
dramatics, H. A. Berge '3O, eduction,
H. P. Fox '3O, ritual; Miss Sarah
Goodheact '29,,home economics; J. B.
Hund '29, entertainment; Miss Jane
Cresy '29, lectures; and T. H: Patton
'3O, photography. _ —
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Coy Co-ed Scores One Point As Diners
Debate Tomato's Mystifying Category
It was not a long and bitter argu- eluded in the category assigned to
ment. Nor was it a heated d4cussion fruit s 01 to vegeta b les.
about a le h s el'on of word. ,
about the football spectacle, the 'jury
of the fruet
see I r n e. favo;
'tampering' case or even themesidelf- forces and then the vegetable support
tial possibilities foi next year. er.i. With 'the addition of a trio of
full-fledged Ag a s e t r tats, the titlit
In fact, it developed in a friendly
conversation user the dinner table. rst r Nen ° the vegetable adherents
and its inception was traced 'to the were about to concede victory to the ,
caterer who included tomatoes in the fruit banner bearers, the coy little
menu. Two opposing groups organ- Co-ed with the big brbwn eyes,d "But
as
tied forces in the miniature debate
Irtrl g vh ' y ta irthe v y 'ce lw qu rs e p ' ut ‘ to
as to whether or not it tomato was in- wet , i s vegeta bl e soup?"
Ticket Sale Fdr Pitt -
came Begins Toinorrsiw
;Sensoss may buy tickets for
the Pitt game at the A. A. office
. tomorrow, juniors on Thursday
and sophomores and freshmen
on Friday. Tramirrovi ' and
Thursday the faculty can get
. tickets at tl'e treasurer's office.
There will be a general
Co-op from seven to nine o'clock
• every evening beginning. toms:-
row. All tickets will be Pura
dollars.
NITTANY DEBATORS
BEAT BRITISH TRIO
Forensic Meet Marks Beginning
Of International Matches
For Lion Speakers •
WIT OF UNION ORATORS
AMUSES LARGE AUDIENCE
The audience, unexpectedly large,
was kept continually amused by the
wit of the speakeis, especially that of
i the British repiesentatices An en
thusiastic welcome nes, extended to
the visiting team by those attending.
• This is the flist time that a debating
tram from the British Isles or any
• foreign nation came here so this en
gagement masks the beginning of in
ternational competition at Penn State
end can be consideied a step in ad
vance rot the College It is expected
that this ground-breaking is ill pace i
the way for future relationships be
tv.reen Penn State and schools in for
eign countries, in particular the lead
ing British arch elsaies
SHAAD 'OO HEADS KANSAS
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Penn State Alumnus Served as
Acting Dean Previous to
Recent Promotion
Announcement of the uppomtment of
a graduate of the School of lingmem
mg at the College as a dean at the
Unives oily of Kansas Mils made here
today.
The new dean of the School of En
garnering and Architecture at the
Kansas institution is George C. Shand,
who was graduated In electrical en
gineering from Penn State in 1900,
receiving the advanced degree of nice
ti cal engtnem tuo years Wet.
Dean Shand has been acting dean
of the Kansas school since the death
of Dean P F. Weikel, and hs appoint
meat is effective at once. Dating the
world war he was also acting dean,
and has been head of the department
of electrical engtneenng there for a
number of years. He formet ly taught
at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and the University of Wis.
consm
SKULL AND BONES ELECTIONS
B. M. McPherson '2B
B. D. Jacobson '29
C. D. Felght '29 .
C. P. Griffin '29
B. M. Marshall '29
S. D. Kolskoski '29
STATE COLLEGE, PA., 'TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1927
CAGEMEN TO BEGIN
'PRACTICE TONIGHT
Veterans and - Promising Reserve
Players Will Report to
Armory for Drill
LIONS HAVE DIFFICULT
BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
First practice for the basketball
squad will begin tonight se hen the can
didates for the team will report for
initial mstiuctrons
At present there are lour varsity
basketball men on the football team
in addition to several others who are
expected to put up a fight for regu
lar places on the quintet and these
men will not bo available until after
they have finished their gridiron work.
Of the basketball men from last
year's team who are not participat
ing in other shorts and who will be
on hand tomorrow night ,there are
Captain Von Nieda and Ed Baron,
guards, Lou Reilly, center, and Dick
Reinhold, forward. Von nods and
Reilly played regularly last - winter
and made thew letters but Rein
hold at into only a few games
chiefly because of the wealth of
llamas and Phil Page 'were the'ordy
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'SENIORS LEAD LACROSSE
TOURNEY WITH SIX WIN'
Coach Ernie Paul Works With
Underclass Stickmen To
Build Strong Team
With the playing of two games
this afternoon the interclass lacrosse
tourhey will be completed and Coach
Elmo Paul wsll then resin t chiefly to
lectures for the instruction of the
stickmen during the so inter months
Statistics compiled by Coach Paul
show that to date the seniors hose won
all six games that they have played in
the touinament. Thp Juniors won
four out of seven, the sophomores
lost four and won one and the fresh
men lost all foul of the games 111
which they competed
Although nine members of the var
sity squad were lost by graduation
last year Coach Paul hopes to have
built up a team that will rival any
intercollegiate squad is the country
by the beginning of the season in
March
This fall Paul has been Ipending
the greater part of the practice per
iods working with the freshmen and
sophomore wiz ants Despite the
fact that the average steight is very
light, all of these men have been show
ing up well in the practice scrim
mages and tournament
By working with the new material
the coach expects to build up the squad
in such a manner that only a few men
will be lost by graduation each year.
Dm also hopes to make lacrosse a
sport of major impel tone at Penn
Stato 'thin the next few years.
Underclass Scrap
The freshmen and sophomores sou l
play a series of five games newt spring
ea alio annual underclass scrap. The
team first winning three gasses will
be declared the winner. At the same
time the four neahman teams will
play u seues of practice games among
themselves.
MATH PROFESSOR'S WIFE
TO OFFER SCHOLARSHIP
In memory of the Into Dr. 11. Free
man Stocker, for many yours a pro
fessor of mathematics at the College,
Dimelle Hams Stocker, his widow,
today authomzed the establishment
of a 4eholurship. It is an award of
fifty dollars cash to be given each
leer to that member of the jumos
cluan in the School of Liberal Arts
oho attains the highest marks in
mathematics. The awind is to he
made each year on Scholarship Day.
NITTANY HARRIERS
OVERWHELM PITT
WITH 15-40 SCORE
Cox, Offenhauser, Oesterling,
Ratcliffe and Lee Are
Winnineßunners
I
LIONS TAKE TWELVE OF
TWELVE
FIRST THIRTEEN PLACES
HeMich' Moveii Up in Team
Rating—lnareollegiales
Take Pl;ce Soon
A clan, gusty tend from the bar.
lens in their faces and soggy footing
under foot failed to'rieter Penn State's
harriers from scoring a perfect win.
15-40, over the cross-country men of
Pitt in Saturday's glins oi,er the five
mile course.
Captain Bill Cox, George Offen
hauser, Jim Oesterling, Hen Ratcliffe
and Louis Lee were the first five
scorers and the mda.to total the un
beatable mark Adams of Pitt came
sixth while Holimall,' the next Pan
ther to cross the line, came four
teenth .
Only a minute 'and six seconds
elapsed after Bill's ; winning mask of
thirty-one minutes and six seconds
was recorded by the timer and the
four othei Lion hairiers had crossed
the scoring stripe.
Lions Sho're Well
The some leg ohlch Bill developed
recently did not manifest Itself to any
noticeable degreeltithe Pitt runaway
Taking his usual 'Sprinter's start, tae
brittany leader took-the 'list turn of
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i•
Collegian Candidates Tp
Report Tomorrow Night
Freshman candidates for the
I,—eihforial„stattarf.the COLLEG
IAN will meet. tomorrow night
at eight o'clock in Room 25 Lib
eral Arts for the fourth of six
i instructional pounds.
Materialistic Aims
Decried By Luccock
"To what worthwhile purposes are
the 'marvelous' accomplishments of
scientists being advanced?"
In answer to this pertinent query
put forth in his second address this
year betel e chapel-goers on Sunday
morning, the Rev If E. Luecock,
contributing editor of the "Christian
Advocate," decried the materialistic
tendencies influencing the uses to
which inventions are being put.
Depicting the most secent instance
of misused genius, the Reverend lan
ce& declared that instead of promot
ing international good will by blond
casting stews and problems of vital
importance, a recind "hook-up" was
arranged for the Dempsey-Tunney
battle.
"Then are too many better uses
for a hook-up of this extent to place
it at the seivice of 'wallop.' Scien
tists toiled on radio for years to per
fect it but Lot a much greater, big
ger purpose than biondcasting a phys
ical combat between two men"
Ho concluded his address with an
earnest plea to College students for
then support in the realization of Ins
personal ideal as set forth in his
speech
"SHIFTING ELECTRONS PRODUCE
LIGHT," DECLARES DEAN WENDT
Declaiing that present day illum
ination is not own in its infancy as
a science, the belief that "cold light"
of one hundred per cent efficiency
such as the fit elly boasts will come
etentually through the study of atoms
is expressed by Dean G. L Wendt, of
the School of Chemistry and Phys.
writing in the current issue of
the Nation's Business.
"Light 14 produced by the shifinig
of the electrons is am the onbits rn
the atom like a microscopic solar sys
tem," soya Dean IVendt. "It should
hot be necessary to move the entire
atom in older to make the electrons
s brute, for Inc have phosphorescent
substances which give cold light, and
coon the humble firefly proves every
summer evening that it can be done.
"This problem illustrates the close
connection between matter and ener
gy. Within the atom they are so
closely bound together that they are
one. We need first a means for mak
ing the electrons vibrate, then an
atom so built that the vibrations lime
Totirgiatt.
Active Red Cross Drive
For Funds Among Men
Students Begins Today
Because of the nummous events oc
casioned by house-party week-end the
student Red Cross drive has not pro
gressed to the extent expected though
the women students have contributed
almost one-hundred pee cent
The active campaign among men
, students, especially non-fraternity
' men, xdl begin today. P It Smaltz
'2B, chairman of the Red Cross com
mittee, avers that last year's mark
will be doubled if the remainder of
tho student body responds as enthu
siastically as have the vomen stu
dents.
PITT TIES PLEBES
IN NO-SCORE TILT
AS SEASON ENDS
Errors Are Costly in Robbing
Liohs of Touchdowns in
Panther Encounter
COLLINS OUT-KICKS ALL
BLUE AND GOLD TRIES
Nittany Team Advaces Steadily
In Second Half—List Class
Scrap For Saturday
Failure to grasp elusive opportuni
ty when presented was the principal
cause for the 0-0 score of the Pitt-
Penn State freshman grid battle held
on Forbes field Saturday.
Three times the Nittany plebes him
chances to score on passes that mete
tossed beyond secondary defense men
and the reams ens fumbled. Two
other times a Blue and White hall
carrier had only one man to esade to
reach the final stripe but his interfer
ence failed_ to-remoi.e the- defender.
Captain Spike Collin,' quick kick
from immediately behind the line of
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COLLEGE WILL EXHIBIT
LIVESTOCK AT CHICAGO
Animal Husbandry Department
Representatives Expect
To Attend Show
Penn State will be represented at
the International Livestock Expon-
Iron in Chicago this month by fifty
six head of purebred and high-grade
livestock, F. L Bentley, bead of the
depaitment of animal husbandry, an
nounced today.
Nine head of fat cattle oil! be ex
hibited This is the same group which
was shown at the recent Eastern
States exposition, Ashore the Ileiefords
captured two first pi ices and one third
place and the Aberdeen-Angus ani
mals soon four second prize aumds.
In the su me classes the college will
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YALE GRADUATE WILL
TEACH FORESTRY HERE
Professor Claude E Sutton, a grad
uate of the Yale forestry school, has
been added to the 'meshy mss action
al siaff. Piofessos Sutton has had
thirteen yews' experience an the Unit
ed States State forestry semee.
Ithe right quality, and cold light will he
here
"If we can leach one handled pci
cent efficiency, which see already have
with elects ic heat, we shell have
to enty e times Os much light foi
the same cost The Dail. Ages will
be gone foi good"
Dean Wendt tins conducted some
experiments on the explosion of the
atom in which lie has cleated tenipei.
stoles nix times as hot as the sun,
using one handled thousand volts of
electiucity. Continuing, lie says about
light. °One of the greatest challenges
to ieseinch is our present wasteful
ness un the production of light In:
the best lamp we have a metallic fila- I
went which is heated by a cull ent of
electrons When it gets hot enough
the collisions of the atoms with each:
othei loosen and shake up the nor-,
face elections sufficiently so that they
cause vibrations in the other, which:
I constitute visible light. Of the en
orgy put In ninety-six per cent goes
to heat the wire and Is lost Muni.'
nation Isn't even in its infancy as a
science."
Lions Battle N.Y. U. To
Fierce 13-13 Deadlock
Potent Violet Juggernaut Outcharges
Bezdekians Whose Headwork
Almost Earns Victory
Almost Made It
J. P. Roepise '2B
INTRIGUE PERVADES
PLAYERS' OFFERING
"The Family Upstairs" Wall Be
Green December Seventh
As First Number
MISS GREER AND R. S.
-PRITCHARD TAKE LEADS
Dealing 55th an aserage Amencar
home, the plot of "The Faimh,
Lp
stains," farce-comedy by Harry Delf
' to the gi,en December ses enth an the
fast presentation of the Play ens this
yeas, one of light intrigue
In the play Joe Heller, sticet-cgr
irsinetoi, has three children Anna-,
belle, about (mu teen, who hates piano
lessons, Willie, whom his intim wants
pint at woik, and Louise, twenty-one
and attn into, At dinner Loinge an
nounce, that a young mule collet .
soon due to al iive and that she wants
the pallor "to themsehes " The
soung man, Chan les Giant, enters and,
often intioduetnons, Louise and hi
hod theinselet. in hone They become
engaged and the nest dly. Mother 'M
ien, skilled in goesip, puts net tinge.
in the pie.
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KDKA To Broadcast
"Penn State Night"
Prior to Pitt Game
"Penn State Night" at KDKA v.ill
bo obseived as usual on the night be
foie the annu Cl Thanksgiving Day
football game so ith Pitt, aeLinding to
anangements made by D. M Ciess
v.elh ihrectui of the depaitment of
public informat,on and pi ogram dace
tor at hITSC
The Blue Band and Varsity Quartet
urll furnish entertainment front toll
to eleven o'clock, and an innuration
udl be a dialogue botueen announcer
Loma Kauffman and members of the
Penn State entertaining delegation
Seventy -fir a members of the h nd mill
gather at the Post-G:l,2[th studio of
IDEA for the broadcasting, and the
quartet Nidl be composed of Paul Nagle
C. M. Peels '2B, .1 E. Dickson '2B,
and LI T. Eggers '2B.
The band and quartet urll al.o ap
peal at the Penn State smoker green
by Pittsburgh alumni at Kauffman%
+torn auditor mm earlier on \Veda°,
day evening. Notembet tuenty-tlind.
H. N. REISI"I3 ACCEPTS
AG EXTENSION POSITION
, Mr 11. N. Heist, Waiien county ag
multuaul agent, since 1915, will as
,unne the duties of agricultund eco
nomics estensien .specialist at the
College this neck. He succeeds How
ard C Hanley, sOlO recently
chosen akistant director of agricul
tural estension work in this ktute.
Reibt, graduated front Penn State
in 1913, taught, agriculture in a Min
nesota high school Lot too years he
roin going into county agent work.
In 1913 ho calmed a higher degice to
agi wafture! economics at the Unnel
stty of W1J1.0143111.
The Lion Ties
A Bunch
Of Violets
PRICE FIVE CENTS
In ono of the fiercest gridiron bat
tle., nice waged on the Neu Beacer
loam, a caliant Penn State force,
checking the onslaught of the power
ful New York univeroit3 charges
on hen impending scones loomed gigant
imill3, gained an even break ninth the
Violent Violet hoot. After four tor
rid periods, replete with punting
, duels breaks of the game and heroic
Efforts from every combatant, the ri
val ;Tr alders ner e forced to content
themselc cs urn a 11-13 deadlock
Brains vied with broom as the
lighter nanny contingent outnitted
the Metropolitan huskies from the
start. In less than three minutes af
ter the opening cm hustle had sent a
Violet and Scarlet tide rushing head
on, Roepke startled the spectators by
circling left end foe the first Lion
touchdoun Caught unawares by
Roepheyo uncspected long low kick
from stn right formation, the Violet
backs were forced to retreat to their
2b-yaid line after the ball hail trav
eled 75 lards and across the goal line.
On the hist play Connors, visiting
captain, fumbled and Rog Mahoney
recovered It was then that Penn
State's sensational leader sped over
Non finishing stripe. Ills placement
goal counted
Punting Duel Ensues
With neither team able to gain ef
fectually, the lemainder of the per
iod developed into a punting duel be
tween Strong and Roepke As punt
cis, the too were evenly matched. In
the fePowing period, howecer, ,he
-tellai Connors lora around left end
in a mad dash that ended near the
:,-yard line Aftei too unsuccessful
line thrusts and a penalty setback fa
young the Lions, Hall, newer suspect
ed, pounded the center for a counter
Sti ong kicked the extra point goal
Before the half had ended, the
Lions had tallied sr, more points by
virtue of Wolff's touchdown on an
off-tackle play horn the 14-yard
stripe Aftei two fumbles_ the ball
left Penn State's po,semion and re
tained again From their own
yard line, the Scan let warriors began
a march that ended only when Wolff
had Limbed the goal line Roepke's
contribution of a 10-yard run, Leslso's
shy: t pa., run, .1 25- card penalty rol
Violet slugging and Woltrs thrilling
all were factor; in the second
Penn State touchdown Roepka's
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TRUSTEES WILL RECEIVE
OLD MAIN BELL COPIES
Editorial Staff Stresses Need of
Poetry, Short Stories
And Criticism's
Members of the beau! of trustees
will be presented With copies of the
lust issue of Old Venn Bell no soon
a- it is published. according to R
Atkinsor '2B. eilito,n-chief
In Nine of the fact that there ale
sei. mai stoile4 of seal mein on hand
for the ne it issue, the editorial staff
has announced that there is consul
crablo need tor sliest stones, poetry,
ciiticisms and other material. The
eclat:us usgo all students of literary
ability, gals especially, to submit
mork in support of the student pub
lication Misses S E. Hartz '2B, and
Katherine Holbiook '2B, will receive
the ccoinenq' contributions.
The Ohl .11ruot Bell, oluell is issued
to ice it veal by the local chapter of
Pt Delta Epsilon, national Journal.-
, ic Nate, rote, is is successor to The
ertid 11l,dr, the forme' college
hteuuy publication
Members of the faculty and :nonstu
dents having contributions for the
first issuo may submit them to R M.
Atkinson '2B, Pi Kappa Phi house or
J N. Mill. '2B, at the Phi Kappa Sig
inn house.
Senior Section Printed
As La Vie Progresses
The senior section having been
completed and submitted to the print
' er, the La Vie stall is now turning its
attention to the junior division of the
annual. The pictures of the members
of the elan, of 1929 have been taken
and platen me being made up.
Fiatetnity group photographs are
nearly all finished and work on the
campus :meiotic, as begun. The art
stall of the publication bus submitted
senei al sketches for the cover design
ono sketch of which will be selected,