1;:za Ti 7J Penn State Collegian Published semi-nechly during the College year by students of tho Pennsylvania State College, in the interests of the College, the students, faculty, alumni and friends. THE EXECUTIVE BOARD WUFELEB LORD, Jr.. '2B R. M. ATKIN '2B C. F. FLINN '2B THE EDITORIAL STAFF IVIIEPLER LORD, art '23 BRNJANIIN KAPLAN '2S R. M ATKINSON '2S V/ S. THOMSON '2B P. R. SITAI TZ '23 I=l L li. Bell, Jr. '29 H. E Hoffman '29 1512=1 THE BUSINESS STAFF C F. Fuss '2ll Busmers 3lanager Frnnt O' J 3 Athertising Manager B. B hit POrr Ctt eulatron Manager W. .1. Mel. ran ; 2 , * -, t Circa:at:on Manager ASSISTA:.: ~ 1:5.1",S MANAGERS P. C. McCnnilug.hey 29 P McKlught '29 Soblyrical. pr r 2 5,1 pu,oble before December I 1927 Prl the Pco.litio PPP,- Collect. Pa o• and-elera molter °Mee Prmllm. and Pabllshlng Cr, Molding. Slate Col lege Pn leleobone 292.99 11.11 011 ice liners: 11 AO a or In 12 00 m 4 no W s no v m SO:1101101M REPORTERS Q E. Benuge 11. W. Llebet T J Schofield If B. Brooks C. A Monocle E R. Shell. J. H. Coogan L Ii Nieman R P Stevenson W. B. Co,. M. T. Scepansky 11. R Thalenfeld S. S. Geesey W It. Selnonceer 0 A. Weunosky Tl, Penn Stith. COLLYGIAN aetronte4 rommunn atm. on any thlotet of CAMIIIIA Interest All no. , nont hoar the maze of the ont. r Anon, onq eonantont nnona hut be ohnre,nltol In rate tot unt. Ito not anh ho Ihr mat% to menmnant the Itter. th o Sint 1' 'UMW 1,, 30 kmlicn,d iotanon, ntotne ount °nom,. lone that anon fin ohtor n +oleo the real nor ail ronnounan 1101. that nn &anted onnt for o, The COI I.EGIAIN .V.IIIMI no reohotrolahO for n nunanta annx,ll In the Lett. r Managing Editor This Issue Eons Editor This Issue TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1927 WHO IS TO BLAME? The past few weeks hale seen the Penn Stale football team surmount many obstacles to the form; of stiff opposition as provided by gridiron represen-' tatives of Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Lafayette and! New York uniseisity. On each occasion the Nittany Lions hese met their task creditable whether at holm: or on foreign fields Right here at State College, however, a most deadly counterforce has been pill- 1 mg against possible success Brawn is characteristic of nianv athletes None have been known to possess stomachs of iron or any other substance that can successfully withstand all attacks of undesirable vitamines Penn State ath letes are no different and why their training table should be conducted to an unsatisfactory manner is beyond conception It calls for investigation "Walkouts" from Varsity Hall have occurred three times since the beginning of the present foot ball season. Conditions became unbearable at the training table early in September and the first "strike" took place Es idence of improvement was then apparent The day before the Lafayette game the menus and particularly their quality became so obnosoous that a second "strike" WAS held. The var say football team resorted to the town restaurants for proper training diet Still no investigatiors were conducted Probably the managers of Varsity. Hall can offer excuses, but we offer deaf ears to all explanations as to how the entire football squad and more than a hundred other athletes in training were sti icken last l week with an attack of disentery Two days before, the New York university game, the coaches foun d . the entire team suffering From this ailment caused by drinking unpasteurized milk 'this milk was pur chased at an insignificant financial saving front some' neighboring farmer When the College farms offer the finest dairy and vegetable products snd the training table direct ins buy canned goods and cheaper' grades of meat and milk from outside sources, a downright outrage is being conimitted Is there . , any reason why Var sity Hall inhabitants should drink unpasteurized milk except to save a cent or two for the kitchen budget' Can't our athletes enjoy the excellent vege tables raised on the College farms instead of being forced to digest canned products' Ten dais remain before the Pitt game There should he no repetition ofthe situations preceding the La,layetta and New York unit ersity games Hie naming table conditions should be remedied perman• ently. Some one is to blame The present -quad of Penn State football heroes are cei tainly deserving of better treatment ON CONVENTIONS After years of travelling to conventions Penn State may be the host at the next conclave of the Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association. It is even likely that in 1929, Pi Delta Epsilon, the national tom naltistic fraternity may meet here. To the ma ority of students, perhaps, these organizations are little more than names—which is to say, they signify little. But it is a fact that the convention of these organizations invariably act as an incentive to all stu dents interested in Journalism And if Penn State could "land" a meeting within the next several years it is Nery probable that much good would be obtained not only for the delegates and members but for all the Liberal Arts students of the College The chick criticism of a convention is that it reaches only those men who belong to the organiza tion which is assembled and it is our point that a convention of the E I. N. A or Pi Delta Epsilon would extend its merits beyond the petty bounds of membership Located in the heart of the Pennsylvania moun tains, Penn State is an ideal spot for a convention. This has so often been repeated that it is almost as tedious an observation as it is a fact. And though we hate to go through the antics of patting ourselves on the back, we take a certain pride in the spirit of co-operation, the sense of fair-play and loyalty that has been characteristic of the College for so long a time that it has become nadirional to speak of ohe Penn Sits spirit as something to cherish. And so ate hope that when the rime comes tor the next con vention, Penn State will be favored CHICAGO'S DOCTOR JOHNSON . President Vice-President Treasurer 1 he recent decision of Mayor Thompson, of Chi cago, to assume the duties of literary dictator has flabbergasted even Chicago Without going through the benediction of the usual LL. D's and the Ph. D's, Mayor Thompson has green himself the power ofl saying which books shall go into the Chicago Publicl Library, and which shall go out To those who read the Hearst papers, the announcement that Chicago actually had a library (even a slightly used one) may be startling, for some reason Chicago has been noted more for its murders and stockyards than for ita books And so newspapers. with the cold impatience, of the undertaker waiting for his victim to be hang ed, have always looked upon the city as grist to grind its columns It is trite that occasionally a Ger trude Ederle or a Ruth Elder may crowd out several i slags from a neatly done murder and it is not un usual for a Fall and Sinclair conspiracy trial to into [mate ney,spapei headlines for a peri3 , ll of several years; but these persons represent only passing fads I and year in and sear out the city of Chicago sustains Ins reputation in really amazing fashion And some times, as Mayor Thompson has shown, it e‘en adds to it. Editor-in-Cider Amistant Editor Managing Editor Asqocinte Edam Associate Edam. II P. Mich= '29 L Mastlfer '29 .1 It 11.0fT '29 W. S Tuinet '29 From his own viewpoint Mayor Thompson has , done a very shrewd thing Elected by the mob he has become its Mussolini On his shoulders rests the task of restoring Washington's hatchet to the history books, on his gleaming head, the crown of the trium phant friend of the people , According to his modest admission the Mat or has dragged the tyrant from ! the throne of learning and set up in his place the i i i representative of the people It would be interesting" to calculate, however, just how much the average in telligence, of the mayor's electors exceeds that of the I thy's street cleaning force But Mayor Thompson's course is be ho means new. though his threat "to burn alt books savoring of pro-British pi opaganda in a lake-front bonfire" is unprecedented Not many years ago Mayor Hy ' lan of New York attempted something of the sort and Upton Sinclair's "Oil" is the most recent book to be barred from Boston Just what the outcome of the battle of words will he remains to be seen As yet there has been no appreciable rush for the his tories of Mr Muzzcv and his books are still available through me mails Yet the methods of this modern 'Johnson are unique and to the point His best criti cal weapon is the bludgeon, his best argument the ,Chicago police. Of course, the treasonable may 'wonder what Mayor Thompson has to do with bar ring of books since his knowledge of them is so lim ited to the Sunday supplement of the Chicago Tri bune but as the Mayor states his case it is not alone his power, but his duty to drop James Branch Cabell out of the window and to haul up Harold Bell Wright I—with the option of destroying Gibbon's "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" 'because it does not men tion America IL P Mich= ---L :gad.lfel E'en the advocates of world peace are tremblin H. M Tomlinson, the Englishman who wrote "Cat lions Reach" and "Tidemark," has alreadj , blamed the political aspirations of such men as Mayor Thompson as the cause for the nest war Mr Tom linson points out the propaganda which so grossly aroused patriotism and bayonets to the late war may conceivably do it again in the nest. Mr Tom linson intimates that if a war could assure Mayor Thompson's election as governor, Mr. Thompson would gladly go to war and then call on all true men to defend the flag But Mr.Tomlinson's fears, we feel, are a trifle oratorical. Our own concern is that May or Thompson maN apply his principle of selection to college libraries, I f he has not already done so, Some thing of the sort, sue recall , was done in the state of Tennessee The Bullosopher's Chair "Gloat game e, nsn't it. &lithe's?" Smither,—You"ie light Bullosophei. I enjoyed the toughness of the game It cm [amiv was colon ful with the llou, Panty gin IN and the piebence of violet "Iloa dal you like the mucie" Stnither,i;Ltltgat ,, N' everithOug'h."l . d.dp't'like then unifon ms I liked the playing of the coo, boned bands too But I haven't yet dm eloped myself to the po.nt a hen e I tan appirciate two bands playing tao dif ferent numbeis at the name time. Alumni Day Pennsylvania Day are past Now let's get down to some serious Coffee drinking. We CORNER unuhual TM PENN STA7.O COLLEGIAN [ ' Letter Box 1 - ~ Editor, 'flno Collegian Palma:pie here to make a few ob =cl,atnon, concern= cheers and cheer-lending I Our ..College Yell," if restrained inspeed by a heavy-armed but \cell meaning cheer-leader, looses fully halt at its peppy effeetneness Sss-Boont- Ah-Coe . is intended as a span tancouv muption, rnd unless deliver ed a Iu Buck Taylor becomes little le, than a monsttosity. A cheer-leadm's attempting an organized yell immediately after a staring play, n hen the stands are yet riotously disorganwed, is pool psy chology. and nat sort sound common sense Perhaps the attempted cheer at this poirt really demises the ne glect which the stands usually accord '3 When the ssoidg "Penn State" canto in for dtrong =lir:dual accent ir a sell, (bee "Nest Yell") "Penn," I feel should be contained quite as much as "State" To neglect accent ing "Penn" piodirecs but a poorly Lakinec 3 effect (Claes of '32 please 'note ) 4. If the number of "Hold That sseie somealmt standatdized, tho blipshod effect of weak, thuling soiree, altos the sell's completion, es null be loet, and the )ell's effect moro coneentiated 1 offer these suggestions, not in ertt.: felsra of our em.ellent and hattl,,ork log theet-leathog staff, but In the In terest of a mote forceful anti clean out 4lemon.(tatibn of 'the spirit that tn u," RIME] Editor-in-Colef of the Collegian EIMIM2 The letter which appemed in your quoins on Oettber twenty-fifth meld to the Juniois being allowed o go hatless, is indeed an intmesting pit of comment if it is nothing else he untet seems to be a bit old lash oned, although it may be because he not auake to the new Penn tate. SMITH Tailor Shop Ereloon° Ageniv Warm! "14!)? 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When the State baditions and all of its eta. propositon again became a live issue dent customs which ate w col thy of tho Senims remembered their fencer retention I took customs and prob. stand and aftei a brief comdmat,on ably got more of a "kick" out of that 1 01 the question and with the annul olperience than most otheis and I ' mous appimal of the then Junior behevo in them, but I am opposed to members of Student Councol, who retaining ally customs which hose would themselves not be affected by outlived their usefulness the action, favoiml the amendment In considering the "Dobbs vs. Stet- or the Junior hat regulation as it sor" aigument of your crincspondent .stands today. 'armed to 'above, I shall attempt tot Student Council felt that it leas not device. the Junior hat situation as I e case of allowing the Junes "to shove been acquainted 1, all it. Pm get used to it," but label that it }ears back each Junior class has re - : would stimulate a sprit of greater tinned to college in Septembei feeling cooper Minn between the Juniors and that they had 'then completed t h e Senna classes and at the same time undeielass years of then college cat - Imake a teal distinction between errs and were neatly to ii , sunic snow reiclassmen and under clansmen whores or the responsibility of uppeiclass- tho line of demarcation rightfully be.; men. llowevel, They soon found that longs It this result has not been no although not tacit as they had compi.hed it is the fault, themetic been in then first year that the:. Alv at least, of the present Juniors wow bound by piactically the same not accepting the split of the lestuctions as scene the second yen Knew regulation and becoming, in so men. This, quite naturalh, was mole lay as possible, lea' co-se °fliers with than unsatistactoiy to many su that tbo Serums - fat a bigger Penn State. each year members of the JUIII3I CI ISS I 0111 . college is in a stage of trans would start a movement to do 05505 two. It is rapidly changing fins: 0 with the hat lest! tenon upon Junior' !small to a large and influential col- Piobably the most staenuous ob-i loge The college administration has jection that was ever ',weed Tine I chosen itself most progressive in its from the class of '27. Student Coun cil refused to heat their cites and ac- latent actions—witness: the abolition of compulsory daily chapel and the cordingly tho Juniors continued to weal hats. A slam subtle challenge new fillings of the Athletic Assocm was thrown out to this class—that f they were really- sinceic in then plead ings, that when they, as Seniors, came into actual control of student affairs that they would giant thi, puvilege to the pest class. several rea sons this issue sac never hi our ht to the attention of Student Council un Industrial Engineering Department Student Desks and Chairs, Student Tables CHIFFONIERS - TYPEWRITER TABLES - - $4.00 .to $8.50 ,CHAIRS $3.50 DESKS $lO.OO to $40.00 STUDENT TABLES $5.00 COSTUMERS $2.00 to $3.00 GATE-LEG TABLES - • - - $4.50 to $9 DRAWING BOARDS - - 51.25 to $3.00 SWINGS - $5.00 to $lO.OO PICTURE MOULDING - 3c to 20c per foot MAGAZINE RACK $1.73 BOOK SHELVES - - - - $3.50 to $7.50 CEDAR CHESTS - - - $3.00 to $25.00 ROOM 106, UNIT B It costs a lot. but Camel must have the best IT Is true that Camel is the quality ciga• modern smokers a new realization of ex rette, but it costs to make it so. To make cellence. They arc particular and fastidious Camel the favorite that it is costs the and•they place Camel first. choicest crops of Turkish and Domestic Your taste will delight itself in these tobaccos grown. It requires the expense,of choice tobaccos. Camels get betterthernore is blending that leaves nothing undone in the of them you smoke. Their subtle tastes arc ,liberation of tobacco taste and fragrance. unfolded by experience. They arc always But the fame that Camel has won is delightfully smooth. worth all the trouble. It has brought "Have a:Camel!" R. I REYNOLDS TOBACCO .COBIPANY, WINSTON-SALEM, N, C, 14, PETER P. HASSEL SIGNS• 0.2.50 Tuesday, November 14, 1927 ton regarding scouting and scholar ships, all of which are certainly com mendable. Shall student government be expected to stick to outgrown cus toms—Cost because they are tradi tional' Let us wholeheartedly get intaAhe spirit of this new Penn State. I thinly helium in the retention of all customs and traditions in which thero can be found merit—but in the spirit of the age let us be open minded and progressive. It might be well for student coun tit to (rite %cry serious and easeful etnsulcration to the question of cus toms for they play no small part in the student life at Penn State. If these are any which should be abol mhe•l—abolish them. As for the .others, ietam co alter them as they seem to show merit. Then see to it that they ate enforced. ' With eveiy good wish and a belief in an unusually bright future at 01(1 Penn State. Sincerely yours, An Alumnus '27. 27.427 w.. Nittany Theatre TUESDAY- All Star Cast in 'SAILOR IZZY MURPHY TUESDAY—Nrttany— • Georg° CriDten. Vtrgrno Yglli in "EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE" WEDNESDAY— Fred Thomson in ...JESSE JAMES" THURSDAY and FRIDAY— Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Louise Brooks in 'NOW WE'RE IN THE AIR FRlDAY—Gallium Alice Terry in Res Ingram's "TILE GARDEN OF ALLAH • • •:. •:. ,i5.:1'..i- i i• .:. , • 'lra!" , •:. j •:. C , oTAP.IS. Divs. aberciashers In The Un+vorstty Manner :i: tCATHAUM THEATRE BUILDINGS.
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