=NM Penn State Collegian Published semi•wcekly daring the College year by students of the Pennsylvania State College, in the interests of the College, the students, faculty, alumni and friends. THE EXECUTIVE BOARD WIITE7.ER LORD, J It. '2B .111. ATKINSON '2B C. F. FLINN '2B THE EDITORIAL STAFF WHEELER LORD, JR. '2B BENJAMIN KAPLAN '2B R. 21. ATEINSON '2B W. S THOMSON '23 P. R. SMALTZ '2B I=l L. H Bell, Jr. '29 11. E. Hoffman '29 TIIE BUSINESS STAFF C. F. Fr!'c , l '2B TI B K mum.. '2B 4.ll:ertlslng Manager R• I \li 1,,81,,81 Is. '2B CI t eulation Mann. ASSIST tNI 81. 5 K . 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Cheeks and money orders narnlnk a for ether than 'The Penn State Contoun” will not he aceented for ;num.; due this nen. Dane, TUESDAY, MAY I, 1128 TO THE POLLS! With tomorrow and Thinsday morning designated as the periods of annu it class election voting, the. campus is alive, bustling with politics, and the stud ent body awaits in more or less suspense the final results of what are, alter all, thrilling and inlet esting political contests Doubtless, marp, will scoff at the eturns, bewailing the fact that the best man did not tiiumph Yet, it is often the protestant who fails to visit the Noting hoses, when opportunity calls, to support that "best" man It is still a debated issue whether or not voting is a privilege or a duty It a student is to assume the aboNe attitucte alter the count is made, tacit, most assuredly, voting should ben duty to one who regards its importance so highly On the other hand, if it is a privilege, it is one to be used and net abi.sed—as has been the case in the past Whihhever it may be, the entire student body should go to the polls to vute. the one faction to fulfill the duty, the other to enjoy the privilege Those who have not premeditated not already promised their vote may had it difficult to decide the mon for whom their ballot should be cast If an en terprising vote solicitor should suggest his candidate worthy because he is "the logical man," he is giving cause for disillusion, there is no "logical man," none who can be called by one name He is the logical nian who appeals most strongly to the !edit idual toter as the nearest to his ideal of a candidate There is no logic in trying to place at the top of the heap one who is on an equal looting sal, men who would probably fill a position just as capably as he were they elected to the chance Tomorrow or Thursday, every qualified student, seizing priyilegc or sensing duty should trainu to the polls and cast a tote We almost added to that state ment—at least one But the old days of fraud and of stuffing the ballot bos arc gone With the new system of vote-and-check-name, it is almost impos sible to tally more than once. More than seven score candidates for different posts await your various ap portionments of supports To the polls,-eymyone, that the best man may win THE RUSHING CODE After rears of dobbling with serious rushing I codes, the Interfraternity Council has finally devised] a method of procedure that may keep peace among' the Greek] tribes when the rushing warfare begins in late September It is especially gratifying to note that the fra ternity legislators rise to demand politely but Dimly that all traternities which the code will finally aheet' must deposit an honest-to-goodness sum of money with the College treasurer, the same to be returned it no uolations have been made The previous pm :Wel to this ruling which decreed fi eternities tem porarily suspended from the Intertraternity Council for infringements, was discarded because the code i evisers felt it was not a severe enough penalty. The prospect of losing actual money may cause all the liaternities to work above board and so secure the desired result The introduction of sealed bids and the period of silence are perhaps the only other new features at north in last year's redressed pact, although the ap portionment of 'dates" and their ic-definition deserse, honorable mention The sealed bid system, besides: giving may iiaternity an equal chance in the matter: of securing pledges, hill facilitate matters greatly,! will save the prospects embarrassment or contusion and will add a business-like atmosphere to the pledg ing procedure The period of silence, during which freshmen must remain unmolested. is a commendable innovation since it affords a period of rest, one in which the prospective pledge may decide carefully and without outside annoyance his future fraternity And a moment or more of caretul thought preceding the final choice may prose invaluable to the futnie fraternity man Beyond the possibility of accomplishing theaore going results, the revised code may be powerless, since it was concocted by bunion mind and so can exert no superhuman influence Besides, it will take a miraculous code to put an end to pledging in the mid-summer. CUSTOMS REVISION? When a reform of any nature is proposed, those directly or indirectly concerned group themselves along a line between the two e•tremes, conservatism and radicalism, by the attitude they assume toward the reform measure. The reactionaries oppose any change, hoverer slight. and base then view upon the argument that if the present conditions were good 'enough for our lot elather, they are good enough' for us They are usually of the self.satisfied type that prefers to Ise in a rut and fears tilts change !will disturb their comfortable complacency At the y outer extreme, the radicals wish to upset _present ,rules and regulations in order to substitute a set of 'their own, conceived in haste by somewhat unbridled imagination They are usually brilliant in their own 'fashion, but lack breadth of view, toleration and the 'stabilizing force of common sense Between the two extremes one would expect to find the ideal, but unfortunately one does not always find it so In this' middle group are too many of those who ne‘ei ary reed at a conclusion through their own mental ef. forts in their Ines They are gentle, innocent per 'sons who, like the daisies in the field, are swayed by every passing wind To the few rare individuals. 'possessed with foresight, the ability to see both sides 'justly and the power to think for themselves, we 0%, 'intelligent reform Many believe that the time has come foi 'gent customs revisibn The Student Council ap 'pointed a committee to work out such rem iston. Some time has elapsed since that action was taken mid as ,time the Committee has not been bean d from. The question, of course, is a ticklish one It 'always has been. Should the Commatee propose any changes, the conservatives among the student 'body will howl Should the Committee propose no changes, there will be a howl from the other side of 'the fence Certainly the Committee does not lack the courage to speak its mind. At least, we'd hke to hear ,from them. . , President Vice-President BERME As.iistant Editor Managing. Editor Associate Editor Assuciato Editor IL 1' Mileham '29 L. Thtstlfer '29 Business Manager MM=3 The ideal of the student who aspires to the title " a well-educated man," is, we believe, to "know something about every thing and everything about something" The college with a well-balanced cu, riculum, then, should attempt to give its graduates a broad, liberal education in addition to spec'alized training in a particular line of work In a college with as saried a curriculum as that iof Penn State there is a need for organizations that !will band together and encourage students who ate interested in each of the various groups of subjects 'At the present tiine there are honorary societies par posing to stimulate activity in several lines of en !deavoi, but the list is not complete With this in 'mind we welcome the addition of a local chapter of !Pi Gamma Me, national . social sciences scholastic !frxternity, to the group of honoraries at Penn State The organization is a composite honor society serving the departments of economics, sociology, !political science, history!, commerce, law, education, 'psychology and philosophy Many of the above sub beets, important as knowledge of them is to the ao 'erage man in everyday life, have not received the deserved amount of attention in the past. Some out- Isiders, in fact. still believe that nothing is taught at IPenn State except agriculture and engineering We have every reason to expect that the new society will ido much to increase student interest in the hitherto .neglected social sciences. Again, we welcome Pi !Gamma 'Mu and wish them success in their activities 'at Penn State The Bullosopher's Chair "The Thespians, I suppose, ale expecting the annu 'panning' I hate to disappoint theni, but I'm not going to do it. I night say that the plot onus unusually ',seal:, that the 'lsland of Tiuth' idea smacks of a much caution piece of stage builesquing, called "The Naked Huth; and that mans of the jokes nein of ancient sintage, but such obseisations ..ie obvious, and why say obvious Taken all in all, 'Honestly Yams' wasn't such bad sato tuirnrent It was amusing to see bioad-shouldered, nius cuhu masculines masquelading as fan• young damsels And of course, the music and dancing helped to compen sate foi inn th-pi os eking w iseci acl s that pros coked no ninth "Any imitation T may base felt when fun was poked at the worthy menial which I lepiesent was passed oft with a smile when the solume of laughter sleeting the Jibes (theme mere two of them) convinced me that these woe the most p o pulat of the evening. Then too, it was, „Thespians skoufd cppdosdondAte nra,Yee.us at k '• \ ''Y ,t . spite of tha'snoi; , , S'atnitlay;nlght's peifolinOngc': ought to have been n financial success" There Is a Spring Topcoats Montgomery's A WELCOME ADDITION REDUCTION 1=1:=1 An excellent SELECTION Awaits You 111 MONTGOMERY'S AnisSlate =a prim STATTa CULLa-,,,vAR , Remarks Byrn Girth a Alitblo —Booth Tallunglon Doubleday, Doran Co. 1928 ($350) The inut.h-dlsemsed !lappet type is again probed, loaded. Novelist Tat langton is not Intelestml, howevet, in het sins, morals and uncomention alities, hut in het method of attach, het philosophy of life Ile shows the inner woll,ings of het mind, ulna', although blank to oorthlng, but het sell' at lust, gradually expands Its tango until it includes other things, not the least of which is a man, a husband Taikington's flapper, Clone sets comely, scantily diessed, had Jestines and a stereotyped line of chatter that made men fall in love ssith her and kept 'them ftom pie posing She sons Just eighteen ',hen we one intioduced to het, sriphi%ttcat oil and desnoas of attoacting not one male but all males She was uncon sciodslv engaged in' hunting HE, the ono man who possessed IT lot het Hei lust s letun of note coons young Nelson Smock, a sminus sophomme. %oho fell in los e n Ith het at rust sight rifles browsing het for Hone days Thai stiocken youth, title to type, pin clanneil his affection on nonsensical nothings and believed Clime was "doffm ent," belies ed she was the lady of his choice, to fact. After twining the•favoied maiden loose at a stunmet iesolt dance, he vas assailed zith a gtosvceg con s octant that Clone cat cot a soot deal more about populanity than secants sophomin es. Nelson acted fooltshh, .0% all young men ate wont to do in somilao ct. cumstances Ile nearly I (limited .'.tea pt to sip-' pear heroic. Wet. disillusioned, bit tot, Nelson tlc coo in oat fit. , ' the most ; contempt,ble tol.l 'll h.^ socaboolaly. "Plow-Trottel " She mias films, and out of the Cage, pain anti omild , et meat came—het lust thought Remosed to the tomantic setting of an old monastly on the Meditcolanean that lied been tiansfmined into a hotel dot foreign ullms tai Rah, Clone contmued to amble about in the bonito of men. She acquiled an Italian Purace, Attmo Liana, who follows the poomptings of Cupid, and also the Bast= Mothers, chstlibu tots of spurious Jewell), who follow the, pt onytings of Midas Unfit tun ately, however, st.ee causes the Pounce a meat deal of anguish and a beat ing at the hands of the Baste= and becomes sttongls attached to a young English imolai who us fated to die on the following October Close thinks she loses him "fat now, .it last, the num at het side bad become infinitely note to her than the man at a dis tance." Theins said loses her but, of course, Matt age is impossible anal anoil teals and regrets she is footed tr lease Chino's twenty-fifth butliday finds I a, urwcd and woilied She is faced N, .11 spinsteihood oi the e\pedient of gutting mauled, like "all the 'test", The foal of being "left out," of being alone in the would us counterbalanced by a %ague distaste foi mairying, merely fel the sake of being mauled She believes that she can never fall in late and acting on this belief, she trally dismisses Walteu Rackblidge, peisistent suitm and all that one could demo in a hu;band. When, howe‘ei, Clane sees Wailes toning the "squadron" of an attractive eight een-year-old flapper, she has regrets. She warns him against the wiles of this youthful member of her sex at the risk of being thought jealous and :n the course of her admonitions, tells linn to wait until lie finds a woman mho can take some interest in him for himself and not in his moiety - be: mg in love with her, and then marry lieu as quickly as he tan. It slowly donns upon lam that she unconscious ly, meant herself The result is, of course, lasses for tics and a church n odd ing. In one iespyct, at least, Tacking ton's not el is supeuen to the =play of the eutrent exposes of the youngei genciation. Cocktails, immorality and eigaiette smoking ate kept in the backgtound ahem thee properly be long and not flaunted in one's face as stashing revelations The feminine use of tobacco, gin dunking ard the pi notice of a technique known in pop. alai slang as "necking" ate a putt of the life of today's youth, but not the most impoitant pint. Men alto wish to understand wo men, especially the husband hunting netts ties of nomen, trill be fascinat ed and disgusted in taut with Clone Amble, They will find lies interest. ink Many of then illusions about milting will be broken. With nose between the pages, they will iesohe to beanie of het kind in the future, close the book, look into a pan of dancing blue eyes and join the squad ion of a Clone Ambler in the flesh. —BOOK LOVER 1 Letter Box I Edam, Colkilmu It has been my inivilege (sic) to heat the last two lectures given at the Old Main auditorium by a so-called professional psyclattist, but I can not let pass unchallenged cm lain wild statements made by this highly emi nent gentleman Of coat se, I ant not professional psychologist, so that I cannot be accused of professional jealousy not of bins peculiar to the diffeient schools It does not lequile a professional psychologist, however, to detect fundamental minis of a state ment lihe the following that psycho paths ate motel imbeciles, are incap able of motsl Judgment, but are highly intelligent, and ,that they are fond of embracing lost causes and of soap-box mating,. I can go on canal mating other characteusties of a metal imbecile as green by hon, but Intl these qualifications may be genet killed as "those who ale opposed to diis 100 pet cent American, Republic !an, K K K ideas" are, per se, psy chopaths I lease State College re- This Space Reserved SCHLOW'S Quality . Shop Fretful of missing this high form of entertainment for the intelligentsia of this community One more. Anyone uho would say a thing like this stumps himself as utterly unfit to pluetice psychiatry: "What we need is mote inhibition, tf we will heroine a nation-of libei tines, anaichists, and bolsheviks " Shades of Franklin, Jefferson, Thoreau, etc. Gentlemen, we have to thank this shining example of the zealous professional guardian of public thought and public moral ity to keep us in the tight path to 100 per cent Americanism , Y C P. Policeman Praises Student Stability "I feel that the attitude of the Penn State student body is better this yeas than at any ethos motions time." Captain Andy Zarger, of the campus police, yentas.. "We has en't had any ses nous out- Meeks this yens," he continued, "and compasmon with last yeas this is remarkable The pajama parade and ~+evesal other incidents of last yeas will. hardly be repeated this yeas be cause the aserage Penn Stater has found title stability. The bays ale finding nut that they must pay in the end" The capable captain stated that two seats ago when the campus police wets. Lust organired they were given the' "hitch" as Is said in the foto°, but now the student body has found out that the police ate really hole to help and not to act as spies at sat ions functions. This attitude has been ht ought about mainly through the co °relation of Student Council and the Senate, he said. FOREIGN LANDS REQUEST AGRICULTURAL BOOKLETS .Penn State's agt,cultural publica tions have leached fat rigs lands, ac cording to a letter teemed by Prof. Robert H Olmstead, of the extension