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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
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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
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An excellent
SELECTION
Awaits You
111 MONTGOMERY'S
AnisSlate
=a prim STATTa CULLa-,,,vAR
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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
<iepmtment, (tom Melbourne, Ass
ti ells
The letter from Mi James Carson,
of klelhouine, 'quests a copy of a
tneulta, "Feeding the Dairy Cow."
wiitten by Piofessor Olmstead. It is
a booklet regalding dany feeds and
feeding. which the writer iegmds as
highly important in his farm manage
ment
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'Tuesday, May 1, 1928
E. N. SULLIVAN TO'ATTEND
ANNUAL ALUMNI COUNCIL
Edward N. SulliNan 'l4, secretary
of the Alumni Association, will at
tend the fifteenth annual convention
of the Ammon,' Alumni Council at
the Unneisity of Minnesota, May
thud to fifth inclusive.
The meetings of the council will
be held in the Minnesota Union build
ings on the univeisity campus. Mi.
Sullivan, silo iallic6-piesident of the
council, will mosaic mei the session
on May thud While in Minneapolis he
will lie present at a dinnei of Penn
State alumni which will be held at the
Nicoollet hotel, May second.
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Nittany Theatre
TUESDAY—
Mary Minna, Lionel Barr} more,
Dna lh arado in
D. W. Criffith's
"DRUMS OF LOVE"
Special Prices: adults Mle, children 21c
TUESDAY—Ndtany—
Arthur Lake, 3l,iry Brian, Alice While
WEDNESDAY—
Conrad Nagel, May llcAsoy in
"IF I WERE SINGLE"
THURSDAY and FRIDAY—
Lathan Glsh, Ralph Farber in
"THE DNE\IY"
FRIDAY and SATURDAY—
Regannid Denny in
- "GOOD MORNING, JUDGE"
and
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