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VOL XXIII, No. 52
LION LACROSSEMEN
ENCOUNTER ORANGE
TWELVE THURSDAY
Coach Paul's Battle Array for
Opening Game of Season
Remains in Doubt
NITTANY HOPES REST ON
QUARTET OF VETERANS
Syracuse Stickwielders Aspire to
Olympic Honors—Score '
Two Easy Victories .
Syiacuse's formidable lacrosse
team, leading intercollegiate aspirant
for this year's Olympic games, will
provide stiff competition far Coach
Ernie Paul's inexperienced stickmen
in their first encounter of the sensor
on New Beaver field Thursday after
noon at four o'clock.
The Orange contingent, fresh from
easy victories over the Springfield
college and Alumni racqueteers, ex
pects the Nittany team to test its
power in Thursday's combat. Laurie
Cox, mentor of the Hill twelve, has
hos heart set on the coveted Olympic
assignment this year and is pointing
to an unmarred record for the season
Nitioni Outlook
Coach Paul's combination, excepting
the four veterans from last year's
outfit, will remain in doubt until
game time. Inclement weather pre
vented practice sessions over the
week-end and the Lion mentor is es
pecially pessimistic about the impend
ing fray. Unless the new stickers
display unusual form, the prospects
for a successful season are very poor,
Paul prophesied.
Captain Johnny Bellied, Nittany
mainstay and Paursshope for a berth
on the Olympic squad, will carry the
brunt of the offensive drive at second
attack. Foi a running mate Johnny
will have Shaffer, of last year's squad,
at first attoelc while the third attack.
post is uncslrtam with either Carlson,
hicKlveen, or Griffin the most likely
starter.
At the center post, Torok, cater=
-pl.ayeman 1-Olympic-possibthty; is'the
mamspnr In Conch Paul's team
stmtugen . Dune Kiefer, letterman
of last year, and main cog in the Nit
tany defeime, will occupy the goal pa
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FOREIGN-BORN, AMERICAN
SOCCERMEN PLAN TILT
Coach Jeffrey Arranges Match
Between Alien and Native
Varsity Candidates
In vies, of the fact that many of
the aspirants to Penn State's soccer
team are students who are not natives
of this country, Coach Bill Jeffrey,
mentoi of the Nittany busters, has,
made plans for a game between the
foreign been and American soccerites
to be played within a few weeks
The foreign team will be composed
of several of last yeat's varsity lum
inaries together with a number of
other players who were on the squad
during the past season Coach Jeff
icy will call out nll foreign soccer
men soon in order that he may pick !
a formidable eleven to face the native
contingent which will also include
several of last year's regulars.
In preparation for the annual ser
ies of spring contests between the
four classes thirty freshman dribblers
Are working out daily on the Armory
drill field, under the Watchful eye
of their tutor, Bill Jeffrey. Begin
ning with fundamentals the squad
has gradually picked up a knowledge
of the game that has enabled them to
interpret several elementary plays.
Debaters Argue With
Juniata Trio in Final
Forensic Meet Friday
In its final encounter of the season
the Penn State debating team will en
counter the Juniata trio, Finlay at
Huntingdon
The topic to be discussed, "Resolved
that the United States should cease
to protect by force of arms, American
investments in foreign countries," is
the one upon which the Nittany de
baters have argued throughout the
present season.
^ In their final debate of the recent
tour, Holy Cross defeated the Nit
tany trio by a scorn of three to no
thing. Boston university, recognized
as the champions of the world, also
defeated the Blue and White repic
sentataves. Tho team won from Bos
ipn renege grid Bowdoin,
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Writer Praises Courses in
American Literature Here
Penn State, according to a criticism
in the March issue of the American
Mercury by Ferner Nuhn, a New
York water, ranks highest among the
colleges and universities of the Unit
ed States in the teaching of courses
in American literature
"It seems little enough," Mr. Nuhn
says, "to ask that American literature
Fraternities Draw for
Prom Booths Thursday
Fraternity booth drawings
for the Junior Prom will be held
at Stark Brothers Thursday -
night at seven o'clock The
price of the booths will be ten
dollars and must be paid at the
drawing.
LAWSUIT RETARDS
TYRONE RAIL LINK
Interstate Commerce 011iFiats
Will Decide Question of
, Trackage Rights
LOCAL CITIZENS TESTIFY'
FOR NEED OF FACILITIES
Penn State's chances for direct
railroad connections with Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh remain at stake as the
scene of the legal battle between the
Bellefonte Central and the Pennsyl
vania railroads changes from the
Centre County court house at Belle
fonte to Elarmsburg where it will be
continued at a later date.
Tiackage rights from Fairbrook to
Tyrone otherwise known as the "miss
ing link," were the main issues of the
hearing. Officials of the Pennsylvania
Railroad declared that they would not
grant such rights to , the Bellefonte
Central because of the incapability of
the local road to handle the increase
in traffic. It is the opinion of the
Bellefonte officials however, that the
Interstate-Commetce , Commiseion -will
compel the granting of the trackage
privilege.
Too nsmcn Testify
Several citizens of State College,
fat mers and shippers along the aban
dosed Fairbrook branch, testified as
to the needs of adequate transporta
tion in then respective localities. Mr.
Samuel K Hostetter, Purchasing
Agent of the College, explained the
necessity of an uninterrupted freight
service for Penn State, stating that
the existing system is serviceable but
slow. All representatives of the Col
lege made it clear in their testimony
that the institution had no interest
in what railroad would supply the
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Dr. Wallace Petty
Cites Differences
In Christian Ideas
In an address aimed directly at
the difference between the beliefs of
the modern Christian and those of
Jesus Christ, Dr C. Wallace Petty,
pastor of the First Baptist Church
of Pittsburgh spoke to the Chapel
audience Sunday morning.
Ile cited a number of contrasts,
among them illustrating the devoted
belief of Jesus in the Divine Being
even though he was subjected to al
most unbearable humiliations. Where
as the modern Christian subjected to
nearly no humiliations doubts in his
beret at the first provocation
Another contrast brought out by
Dr. Petty was that of the modernistic
trend of biographers and writers to
Investigate the darker side of civili
zation more closely than the lighter
ones. "Jesus was ever looking on
the better side of human nature," he
declared, "or he never would have
said when He was nailed to the cross,
'Forgive them, Father, for they know
rot what they do.'"
The Reverend Dr. Petty has been
Pastor of the First Buptist , Church of
Pittsburgh since 1122.
COLLEGE ENGAGES ART
, DIRECTOR FOR SUMMER
Leon L. Winslow, director of art
education in the public schools of
Bulamore, has been engaged by the
College to take charge of the public
school ait instauction for the coining
sunnier session, President Ralph D.
Defect announced yesterday.
Mr. Winslow is widely known in
public school art circles and has bad
charge of summer school instruction
in a number of the leading colleges
and universities of the middle west.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1928
be granted a status equal to that now
generally accorded such subjects as
journalism, the Spanish language and
literature, band instruments, hart,-
cultuic, animal husbandry, and mili
tary science and tactics Yet, so far
as I know, only one college in the
county now dignifies American lit
erature by giving it such a status.
This is the Pennsylvania State Col
lege, which offers in an American de
partment of which Professor Fred
L. Pattec is the chairman, six under
graduate courses as compared with
twenty-seven in the English depart
ment, and five graduate American
courses as compared with six grad
uate English courses This is an
illustration of something like decent
academic respect for the native cul
ture of the Republic."
Neglect Proalent
Mr, Nubs continues to explain how
an almost complete ignorance of
American literature will not debar
one from obtaining a degree in Eng
lish literature, which is suposed to
comprehend American literature, in
any =malty in the country, while
the number of universities where it,is
possible to get even a modicum of ad
vanced training in American literature
is not more than half a dozen. Per
haps those best prepared to give such
training at the present time are
Columbia, Pensylvania State, Har
vard, Wisconsin, Chicago and North
Craohna,
TRACKMEN DRILL
FOR BISON MEET
Lions Will Encounter Bucknell
Representatives at Two
O'clock Saturday
UNDERCLASSES COMPETE
TOMORROW Al , rk,RNOON
For the first time in thiec years
Penn - State's track and field team
will engage Bucknell university in a
, dualinect on-Now Beaver'Field Satur
day -afternoon at two o'clock
Although somewhat crippled by the
loss of ton varsity lettermen through
graduation last year Coach Cartmell
expects to have a formidable squad to
send against the Bison luminaries.
The Nittany mentor has made no
definite selections of the men who will
fill the various posts and the following
positions are probable ones Four
sprinters will be chosen from among
Captain Bartholomew, Bates, Mc-
Cracken,•Kilmel, Bowie and Filkins
for the one hundred yard run, while
from the same gioup, with the ad
dition of Karbach, Coach Cartmell
will extract his entrick for the 220-
yard dash
Oasis, Karbach and McCracken
loom as the most promising entrants
in the quarter-mile race The half
mile contingent will probably include
Offenhauser, Davis, Kittle and Bach
man, while in the mile event the
choice will be made film Cox', Hell
inch, Lee and Offenhauser Candi
dates for the two-mile grind are Has
kins, Pettit, Bass, Ratcliffe, and
Moore
nigh hurdlers may include Eggers
and Dolmas with the competition in
the low hurdling class lying among
Bates, Eggers, Brownstein and Mar
sum Bates, Brownstein, Mobley
and Slamp will contend for the blond
jump positions while, Coach Cartmell
will consider Bates, Wood, Sullivan
and Mobley as high-jump material.
Mahoney, Mamas and Morrill will
no doubt heave the shot and hammer
in Saturday's engagement. Morrill.
Esehbach and Mahoney as discus
flingers and Denny, Lee, llamas,
Slamp and Ammerman as javelin
throwers complete the tentative ar
ray of Lion cmdermen who will lace
the Blue and Gold team.
Sophomore-Freshman Scrap
Freshman and sophomore track
men will meet in the annual class con
test tomorrow afternoon at four
o'clock on New Beaver Field. All
members of the tv.o unclerclasses who
havo not scored points in any varsity
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Scientific Club Selects '
Doctor Kern President
Dr. Frank' D. Kern, professor of
botany and Dean of the Graduate
School, was elected president of the
Pennsylvania Academy of Science at
its annual meeting held at the Car
negie Museum, Pittsbuigh, April fifth
and sixth.
At the same time, Dr Henry W.
Thurston, assistant professor of plant
pathology Tins chosen as secretary of
the society.. Penn State was selected
as the next meeting place of the as
sociation.
Collegiate Orators To
Hold Semi-Finals Here
Plans have been completed Los the
regional semi-finals of the fourth an
nual Intercollegiate Oratorical con
test relative to the Constitution to be
conducted at Penn State in the
Schwab auditonum May fourth at
eight o'clock
Eight of the foremost colleges of
Pennsylvania will be, represented in
this contest. Penn State's candidate
has not yet been selected, but Conch
John If. Priztell announces that the
appointment will be ,made sometime
this week,
JUNIORS ANNOUNCE
PROM DECORATIONS
Contract Includes Adornment of
Ceiling With ,Sunhurst
Latticework,' Drapery
BEGIN SALE OF DANCE
I TICKETS NEXT TUESDAY
Final arrangements. for the Junior
Piom decorations received by Harry
E Pfeifer '2O, chairman of the dance
committee, Dom the Silverstein Dec
orating company of APllkes-Barre, in
dicate that the interior of the Armory
will be enhanced in a manner different
from that of any previous function of
this sort.
The contract piondses a square
ceiling, arranged in three sections in
' eluding a sunburst, latticework and
plain drape. One Julif of the side
wall, six feet from the ceiling is to
be covered with white muslin and
overlapped with southern smilax
Two orchestra stands, one on each
side of the ball room, will be decor
; ated with muslin, bunting, birch
branches and southern smilax. Tim
latter will also be used for overlapping
the lighting fixtures and electric light
domes
Nev. Booth Arrangcment
Sixty fratermty booths, made of
wooden frames, painted white - and
decorated with birch branches, will
be arranged in a slightly different way
than previously In,w4lemri..te,a side
paitaiton — tfiere Wilk be partitions fn
the front with an entrance of two
feet between each set of boxes. Dee
stations for the rear stage are to
consist of a small sunburst in the
ceiling and fire moot sheeting cod
bunting as the side-wall decorations
The committee requests each fret,.
nity to supply the floor lamp for the
booth assigned to them.
The dance committee announi es the
beginning of the ticket sale next
Tuesday at Whitey Musscr's The
sale still be contlnued throughout
Wednesday and Thmsday, the i•tkets
selling for men dollars a couple
DR. TANGER GIVES FINAL
L. A. LECTURE TONIGHT
Discusses Alussolini and Itidian .
"Fascism" in Old Chapel
At Ser en O'clock
With "Fascism" and the present
government of Italy cv his topic, Dr..
Jacob B. Tanga, head of the political
science department. will offer the last
of the series of Liberal Arts lectures
tonight at seven o'clocl, in Old Chapel
Di Tanger's tall. was jammed as
the last of the serits inasmuch as it
will be a summary of the Italian
group Although the lectuie will be
chiefly concerned with the govern
ment of Italy, Professor Tenger will
also give sortie ides of the dictator
ships and governments of Europe at
the present time
In dealing with Fascism, Dr. Ten
ger will discuss Mussolini and his
dictatorship in Italy. comparing it
with other forms of governments in
Europe and America
DUTCHER VISITS DETROIT
Prof. Raymond A. Dutcher, head
of the department of biological chem.
ista y, attended a meeting of biological
chemists in Detroit last week A, a
member of the national committee for
vitamin naming he made a report at
the meeting concerning the names of
new vitamins
Manager Requests I. F.
Baseball Tourney Fees
. 1 Fraternales desnung to enter
! the mterfratermty baseball
tournament are requested to
' gwe the catty fee of one dollar
to Fled 11. Yocum at the Delta
Upsilon house no later than "
_ Aptil twenty-fourth
Totirgiatt.
NOTED HUMORIST
OFFERS LECTURE
SATURDAY NIGHT
Geoffrey O'Hara, Composer and
Entertainer, Will Present
Final "Y" Number
MUSIC PROVIDES THEME
FOR ILLUSTRATED TALK
Late President Roosevelt Terms
Characteristic of Author
Unique, Instructive
Constituting the'last feature of the
"Y" entertainment course, Geoffrey
O'Hara, famous as a composer, lec
turer, and entertainer, will deliver a
talk this Saturday night in Schwab
auditonum at eight-fifteen o'clock.
Geoffrey O'Hara is considered one
of America's most brilliant young
composers He first caught the fancy
of the entire country when he issued
"Katy'; the famous stuttering song
of the war. His reputation was fur
ther enhanced when directly after the
war "There Is No Death" appeared.
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His talks, which arc illustrated
with the piano and by songs, are
crowded with facts and humor With
music as his central theme, he builds
arguments in its favor that cannot
be refuted He explains the reason
that humans appreciate music He
explains its value, its science, and
its philosophy in the simplest of
terms. Theodore Rosevelt once sum
med him up by saying, "O'Hara IS
unique, entertaining, and instructive."
COLLEGE TO TRAIN
FOR SOCIAL WORK
Liberal Arts School Adds New
Preliminary Courses for
__Welfare Students
PROFESSION PRESENTS
_ VARIED OPPORTUNITIES
To provide for students uho have
been considering the posslbility of
entering social work as a profession,
the department of economics and so
ciology of the School of Liberal Arts
is non preparing to offer a major in
economics and sociology in which a
definitely arranged sequence of cours
es can be taken preparatory to pro
fessional training in social work.
The course of social work, accord
ing to present plans, will offer spe
cialized opportunities in social case
' uork, social group work, community
organization, and investigation of so
cial problems.
Professional social w °rims are in
demand for municipal public welfare
departments, county and state welfare
commissions, state and national bu
reaus promoting child welfare, com
munity service organizations, com
munity centers, and philanthropic
foundation, according to Dean Stott
dart.
Social Scholarship, Mailable
Students graduating from Penn
State are eligible for fellowships and
scholarships in any professional so
cial work school in the United States,
provided they have pursued an appro
plinth organization of courses in un
dergraduate work. The department
of economics is now prepared to di
sect such work. In addition to tlfe
major work in economics and social
ogy, a wide variety of courses in Lib
cral Arts and the other schools is
provided, allowing for a cleanable
combination of liberal and specialized
traminb
State Dairymen Will
Convene Here in May
The Pennsylvania Dairymen's As
sociation will hold its spring meet
ing here Friday evening, May fourth,
E. B Fitts, college dairy extension
specialist and president of the or
ganization announced.
Piesulent Ralph D. Meted will wel
conic the visiting dairymen, and Dr.
L. M. Thompson, Montrose, vice-pros
ident of the association, will respond
fon the visitors A program of en
tertainment features has also been
anged By holding the meeting at
this time, the dairymen will be able
to visit the Dairy Exposition the fol.
lowing day.
STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTIONS
M=IIII
Nittany Nine Defeats
Juniata and Dickinson
Conquers Huntingdon,
By Decisive Sco
Six Sout
"Y" To Hold Elections
Today and Tomorrow
Y M. C A cabinet elections
will be held today and tomorrow.
Ballot boxes soil! be placed en
the mberal Arts, Agriculture,
Eng t _eying and Old Main build
ings from nine o'clock to the
morning until foul in the after
noon All students arc entitled
to cast one vote.
EMINENT AUTHORS
TO LECTURE HERE
Noted Literateurs Will Offer
English Courses During
Summer Session
PROMINENT POET PLANS
STUDY OF MODERN LYRIC
Well l.nossn authors, dramatists,
critics and lecturers who will join the
staff of the Institute of English Edu
cation at the College summer session
were announced yesterday. The same
courses instituted by Zona Gale, Ham
lin Garland and Fred Lewis Pattce
will be continued.
The authonties in charge of the
session have selected Genevieve Tag
gard to offer a lecture course on the
modern lyric. Miss Taggard is noted
as a poet and critic. She is a con
tributor
to literary magazines and
has aided in the founding of "The
Measure," a journal devoted to the
modern lyric In ing Bachellor, nor-
Jist4nd..author of "_Dawle: and other
popular books, will lecture on the
historic novel.
Rollo Waltei Brown, contributor to
periodicals, will give a series of lee
tures on French and Australian lit-
erature. A course in biography will
be offered to students by A. W. Vol
non, professor of biography at Dart
mouth college Mr Vernon was for
some years an active clergyman and
also taught in the &minty school at
Yale university
Lewis Browne, lecturer and popular
' author of "Stranger Than Fiction,"
"This Believing World" and "That
Man Heine" Mill °fret a couise on
various methods for the populariza
tion el boost ledge Pioneer life in
the west will be discussed by John G.
Neihaidt, literary editor of the St
Louis Post Dispatch, and author of
numeious poems on the winning of
the west
Danville Physician
Discusses Mental
Diseases Thursday
"The Unconscious Mind" will bo
the title of an address to be green by
Di. Horace V. Pike, of the Danville
state hospital, m Old Chapel Thin,-
day night ct seven o'clock This will
bo his second of a seizes of five weekb,
lectuies on abnormal psychology and .
mental hygiene
At the culmination of the five ad
themes here in Old Chapel, Dr Pike
will head an inspection trip of psy
chology students through the Dan
ville state hospital The trip vrll be
made bs bus and the lecturer will
give a snail and final address at the
hospital.
In his fast lecture given in Old
Chapel last Thursday night, Dr Pike
=unnamed the history of mental hy
giene and disease from early times.
He emphasized the changing attitude
toward treatment of mental patients
and told of the men and women who
have clone much to make conditions
whet they ate today.
WPSC WILL BROADCAST
FOREST WEEK PROGRAM
In the Du therance of American
Poiest Week, faculty-members and
students of Penn State will hioadeast
programs pertaining to forestry from
station WPSC Tuesday and Wednes
day nights next week.
Among the speakers will be Dean
Ralph L Watts of the School of Ag
iieultute, who will discuss Pennsyl
vania's forests Music will he fur
nished by members of Tau Phi Delta,
forestry fraternity.
"Missing Link"
Holds Up
Trains
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Carlisle Representatives
es—Wins Four of
Iff=M
With a record of four victories and
two defeats, a successful Nittany Lion
baseball team returned from the an
nual southern training tour last ;seek,
to defeat the diamond pmformers of
Juniata and Dickinson colleges on
Nest Beaver field Thursday and Sat
urday, respecti‘ely, The Huntingdon
batsmen fell by an 8-2 score while
the baseballers from Carlisle were
whitewashed, 14-0.
In the first game of the southern
trip, the Blue and White battlers over
whelmed the Unnersity of Virginia,
12-5, but on the following day fell
before the Duke sluggers, the final
score being 6to 1 Van Atta and
Haines were the pitchers in these con
tests
Roepke pitched the Lions to a 5-2
victory over Wake Finest in the third
encounter but Elon proted too strong
I for the northern invaders in the next
day's play and carried off an 8 to 2
win. The Nittnny batsmen completed
their tour in whithvind fashion, rout
ing Itandolph-Flacon 13-1 and van
quishing the Georgetown nine 5 to 2.
Juniata prodded th 3 opposition for
the Bezilekians in the fast home con
test of the season The game was
called at the end of the seventh inning
because of threatening weather. The
fluntingdon batters nicked flames for
one run in the first mimic. W.llnr
walked and Snyder advanced him to
second with a sharp
Conner fanned and Kent fumbled And
sews' hot grounder, Weller sconnsi
The Nittany slabmen then struck out
Beriy, and :Michaels ended the inn
ing by grounding to Kent, who thieve
him out at first.
Lions Take Lead
The Leen sluggers grabbed the letl
m their half of the second by tall -
mg six runs. Lungren's homer, Dobb
elaar's triple, and Wolff's double
bunched with walks to Rent and
Paines proved a productive offenwi
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COACH 808 RUTHERFORH
DRILLS GOLF CANDIDATES
Captain Bunting, Fritehman and
Hewitt Remain From
Last Season
With three of last year's letter men
lemainim, Coach Robert B Ruther
ford is drilling the candidates for
the golf team in preparation for the
comin& season
While the team has been weakened
materially by the loss of three of
last y em's varsity golfers, sec eral of
the candidates appear capable of fill
ing the vacant positions in a satis
factory manner. Captain James F.
Bunting '29, Ball E Hewitt '2B, and
Batty V. Fritchman '29, are the let
ter men who have returned to the
squad while William II Day '29, and
Ntlham C Bramble '29, who saw ser
vicc to set oral of the Country Club
meets last year, will also be available
for %amity berths 'Purina S. Pan
=ion '3O, Solna D. Leonard '3O,
and Sobel t II Jaclsson '3O, are prom
ising candidates for regular pa:nth:ins
on the team
The inclemency of the weather has
pros entcd the complete preparation of
the course Los play and temporary
gteens are being used until the reg
ular greens eon be put into shape
The latter unit be opened Saturday.
Keystone Agricultural
Chief Addresses Local
Mass Meeting, Banquet
Dr. Charles G Jordan, Secretary of
Agriculture in Pennsylvania and Mr.
Raymond G Bressler, deputy score
faiy of Agriculture in the Keystone
State, were present at the mass meet
ing in the Steels Pavilion and banquet
at the Centre Hills country club, spon
sored by the School of Agriculture,
Satin day.
Air. Reuben P. Rester, edaor of the
Pennspirama FolJne,, together with
several other men prominent in the
field of agi 'culture and interested in
Penn State made addresses at both
gatherings.
Secretary Jordan advised the stud.
ents to make good in their profession
by deriving an adequate knowledge
of the lielk and then putting their
hearts in it. Ms. Rester appealed. to
the group to concentrate on agricul
ture for its own sake and not merely
as a business proposition.