Page TWO Penn State Collegian Pnblhhed Sarni-weekly durlna College. rear eanot dmialr Conan* holiday. by Peanrylvanla Slate College studenta In Interest of Cone s% studenhs alumni. faculty and friend. THE EXECUTIVE BOARD LOUIS H. BELL. Jr. '22 PAUL 0. MeCONNAUGHEY WILLIAM S. TURNER 19 THE EDITORIAL STAFF LOUIS B. BELL, Jr. It HARRY P. MILEHALI 79-- HERMAN E'HOPPIIAN JODSON LAIRD 7.9_ TUE BUSINESS STAFF 'mum' a TURNER 19 PAUL C. XeCONNAUCHEE L HOWARD REIFF 29 NEW§ EDITORS • . Charles P. 81ersasee t lta Charles 'A. Vans& 10 Henry Thaleateld lap Quinton E. Beauty 40 /ammo IL Cug.ay. Jr. 'SO ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGERS Cabin E. Bomb Romell 1.. Reines fto Emu R. Dowdy. Ir. 'll Milton M. RounEkomm7• ifember of Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association ==l,=E=M===:l FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1929 ATHLETICS FOR ALL Citing the overcrowded conditions of New Beaver field, the tennis courts, and the golf course during spring competition, Hugo Bezdek intimated, in an interview story published- in Tuesday's COLLEGIAN, that expansion of Penn State's intramural program of athletics is practically im possible. Limited facilities, in the opinion of the. Director of Athletics, prohibit a more extensive' system of Mass .athletics; but he maintains, nevertheless, that the present program is producing results. "We have here,," he "ex plained, "about 150 different athletic teams participating In interclass, interfraternity, and non-fraternity group competition each year." With this conclusion the COLLECLU4, disagrees. The figures, no doubt, are correct, but the risults'are doubtful. Under the present plan a large number of teams compete in each of the groups‘mentioned but probably only once during each season. During basketball 'season, for In stance, a league is organized by each of the groups; the member teams, however, only play until they are defeatedi Which, in the great majority of cases, is in the first game: . And so, with few exceptions, each-team plays only one or two games during the two or three months of competition: , This situation exists likewise in baseball, boxing, wrestling; and tennis tournaments. By substituting an aVarage rat ing system for the present elimination plan this objection would be overcome. Another moot point is the neglect of freshman athletic schedules. In support of this the:COLUCIAN points to the four-game schedules of the freshman baiketball and base-, ball teams, and the one dual meet for the yearling track team; the first-year cross-country, boxing, soccer, and wrestling teams were disregarded entirely. How a coach can interest the aspiring freshinan athlete, and send Ifirit through the rigors of a training period, without assuring . Itlm of active combat against formidable foes is a Prob lem for a diplomat to solve. Freshman athletes intiably rook forward to to display theft eratealefore public eyes; it is! human failing. Meteoric, there are a number of nearby college and preparatory- tea* that would be only too willing to place -Penn State teams on their schedules. And, If preparatory school Itiminarim are to be attracted to Penn State without the assuranee of financial help, more extensive schedules might serve as the Magnet. To make this possible the ban an athletic con: tests against preparatory school teams should be lifted. The foolhardiness of certain "Bell, Week" practices was illustrated in Pittsburgh last week when a Carnegiei T4i[fie•shiiiiin collapsed after walking the eltystieata all night as iiiit;•of.a , feafetsitlx•ilitttiaii.ii:;.::l;.... , ... • UNLOCKING HER DOORS Unrelenting in their efforts to 'mita bllsb a irbi Bea Kappa chapter here, faculty members Of the tuitional .hon orary scholastic fraterniti are preparing ietitions In the hope of gaining membership at the TrienzdatiOnventiAtt 1931. Unsuccessful in previous attempta to secure* Penn State chapter, the faculty association is responding: to its task with renewed spirit; already . .the group has begun work on pamphlets to he - disttibuted to the various chapters in this district, and later to be' presented, with the signed petitions, to the natidnal Senate of Phi Betel Kappa. Organized since 1016, the faculty 'association besmisde a number of attempts to gain admittance Into the nation's fraternity. Last year sentiment favored the. Penn State, petitioners but it was thought advisable not to force the matter to a vote. A revision of districts since last year's eonventien ' believed to have increased Penn State's ehaneis of securing a chapter at the nett convention. Formerly this section had a membershipof 44 chapter,; new this district, which is knotin as the Middle Atlantic district, has a membership of 24 FlUtpters.' Since two. thirds of the district members must vote favorably on-a new member before a charter is limited, there ate, faculty members who bellaie that it will be comparatively easy to gain the assent of stztehn chipters in this diedrict. Membership in the fraternity is based primarily on the character and organization of the School Of Were Atte: There are chapters of Phi Beta MaPPa.whioll was bonded December 5, 1716, at William and Mary co/lege, at more than one hundred colleges and universities throughout the United States. The more prominent schools !n•the Den that are represented are the tlifivernity:ot Piraneylvallik, Lafayette, Lehigh, Dickinson; Colvin; Celliate,'Prkloetoll.l, Syracuse, and-Rutgers. If Penn State I to'be.adinittecr into the Inner circle of the educational eyelid, aha muse first unlock her doors with a Phi beta kappa key, WHIE 4 1rOit s i LIONS ,t_ . 7 t ItEl9 -e - . • bv DAPIII3, e. Aubtint Editor _Rumen 841t9? .. tato Mar Pi Editor Instead of soliciting similes by means of a contest and allowing the:likeable little things to accumulate on the desk for days and days, Daniel has decided to pick the winners issue by issue and to announce them semi-weekly. This Friday's "as-dash-as-a-so-and-such" winner is a blonde-haired youth, a most unusual chap who prefers to have himself announced as W. K. •(The initials, to ex plain; mean Which Kind?)., a sobriquet which the'modest youth acquired during his four years experience as a soda jerk, known to polite Boston as a refreshment dispenser. And the winning simile. Yes, the winning simile: "He was as big and red as a Lancaster barn." That literary delicacy won first honors from a' select field; it was the only one submitted. But, as in the club room of a newly built fraternity lodge, the crack still go:?::. It won honors from a select field. OEM • We remember having alluded to W. H., this week's Simile king, as a most unusual chap. He has. only three gold keys, two gold teeth (a practical use indeed for ex cess keys; that is, for all of them) and not enough shingles to .patch the roof of a bird-house. He belongs to a board ing house (with rituals), wakes every morning at seven without-the aid of an alarm clock—or freshman, and has been seen on stormy evenings carrying his own laundry pack . tv the post office. Our hat is off to a most unusual chop—W: K The World At Its Worst . , (Likeirise, Poetry) When the prom is but three daze off an, amid all the happy anticipation of a week-end with thelnimrite posh, comes suddenly, unexpectedly a slip of paper (usually yellow) froin a Anil - of a girl (usually red) cancelling all the expected terpsichorean hostilities, and you feel as though 'the end of the world has come, be brave (or even dramatic, if you will) and pen a Classic comcbtick, like the following: (It came back.) • When first I read • Those disappointing word.% • I felt the I world Conte to on end t - For being "left" is Hell— lint gettitig rid of sou - Is Heave • Thank G,dl - Bophomorl. l Between the last bee had to' pause for breath, Portune moment to awe who had to listen, with t his sinus operation. (it be lost part of his nose.), "Yes,".he sighed. "I've went through it all. No ether, no gas, no nothin' except a local anesthetic (;roin the Na borhood4ruggist) to dead the pain. Then the doctor, lie took a skinny chisel and 'alittit up my nose, took a little . hammer—" And' the fascinated freshman, agog, unable to wait,' • whispered, "And did he put your head in a vice?" "The only difference between a working man . add a college boy," pays a contemporary wit," "is that the work ing man says "I seen" and the college boy says "I have . saw!' -An excerpt from the Pentiatilvanian, daily newspaper of the. University of- Pennsylvania, states something like this: ... sonic startling; end runs were made by" Rosenbloom, QUalcer halfback Little Bow Peep • Press agents for 'Clara Bow, having outworn' the re • 1 • ~~e propaganda, the red.hair and-personality stuff , atesee aulong'...oolage>..plaidents< (and. ejsewhere); fdr4iiew fish te4ollli',*ititti'liileOtiO,lit,crha • . lii/hvind boost, her nsthe‘girl with - the most beantifu Bow-legs -In the world?, • -NEW ADDITIONS • to our RENTAL ,LIBRARY "THREE JUST MEN" by Edgar Wallace • "PATIENT IN ROOM 18" by M. G. Eberhart • • • "DUSKIN" • . by Grace' Livingston Hill "DARK HESTER by Anne Douglas Sedgwick "STORM HESTER" • • , by Kathleen Norris Eitra.Copies of "CRADLE OF • THE DEEP" • by Jean Lowell • "PROFESSORS' WIVES" • by Bravig Imbs We have listed only the best new Action and the currentbest sellers; yon will•find many other gaxl in 4ooks in• • the You am order f us any book in print: . • •KEELER",S • Cithaum Theatre Binding The Simile King Biography of W. K Wit (Premature) and the 'dessert, when the lioie Daniel saw an opening, an op believing freshmen, and others Ie ghastly, nauseating details of should. be called minus, because The _Grammarian's Funeral Tan Shoes With Tuxedo PENN SIAM cozzaaw I Twehty,Ye4rs Ago The sophomores met the freshmen last Wednesday, in the initial struggle of Penn State's first inter-class• bees-, ball gamethat is—the first one since way back in the fig's.' The freshmen won 6-5 throtigh costly errors, fitir Mc- Cain allowed the freshman only four hits. -0- The proposed honor , system, as pre sented for signatures has so far failed I to gain the necessary number of names, for its adoption. Though practically all the students in the engineering and agricultural schools have signbd the measure, it still lacks sufficient power to institute the change. ' A. crowded house witnessed the in itial performance of "Popocaterpillor VII" 'jest Friday night. To say the least, no College organization could be expected to furnish a more finished production than that offered by the Thespians. The scenery was good, costumes splendid and the dancing artistic.. EMEMI Last Thursday night the props-of 1913 held their class banquet in Mc- Allister Hall. The - banquet was a great success and tho preps are look. ing forward to a large freshman class next year. -0- Not only was the final baseball game of the Pastern trip called off at the University of Pennsylvania on account of rain. but .tho annual Princeton struggle had to be called off on .the same account. DEAN DESCRIBES STATE RESOURCES IN SURVEY A picture' of Pennsylvania...as the greatest industrial commonwealth. in the world is painted by Dean Edwaid W. Steidle, of the School of Minea and Metallurgy, in bls recently completed survey centered on the economic out look of the basic industries of the State. "The importance of Pennsylvania as a mineral territory," declared Deep, Steidle, "is clearly shown when We stop to consider that our mines.and products derived from minerals ac count for approximately two-thirds of the State's productive wealth, and that the Keystone State 'alone pro duces about one-fifth Rf ; the nation's wealth.. "No single political unit," the dean states, "can display such a firm grip upon resources and such a valuable use of mineral products,• Its relative Position as first in production places it as the trustee of that share of this nation's wealth which determines in dustrial 'progress or decline." • DAIRY'GROVP WILL HOLD EXPOSITION HERE MAY 11 The seventh - annual dairy most; tion will be held here ffiay,ll, officials of the local chapter of the American, Dairy Science association announced yesterday. Six Contests Will be run'in conjunc tion with the show. Four breeds of . Cattle will! be judged and various dairy products will also be rated: Other contests will be the fitting and showing of the five major dairy breeds in the college herd, clean milk pro duction and a eb-ed milking contest. ' Following the show, milk_ prises will - be awarded to contest winners and medals will be preiented to mem bers of 'the college dairy teams. ;~~ NOTICE— Fertilize and Re-seed your Jawns . now. • V. C Fairway , • will make your lawns look like . new, and our grass seed can't be beat.. STATE COLLEGE . FLORAL: SHOPE Allen Street Side Phone 5814 Collegia.n.et _A profeasor at Columbia_University 'He re-enters at 7:15 with a eat, despises the sharp, jingling sound "Time to stAtch the right leg, sir" the American alarm clock and redom- and leaves quietly. • mends a Large Benjamin with a more pleasing and musical menher of alarm- At 7:3o—"Your left leg needs cx ing those who would be startldd into ercise, m'lord." Leaves as stealthily consciousness in .the morning. • as he entered, ' He would have men wakened not suddenly and quickly but by degrees. They are. In winter, it is ten below that chills a man back to consciousness. Or may be two below in more than half his credits, In summer, it is 90 above that melts him out of bed. But perhaps the Columbia educator meant something different: that a man should be first wakened softly, then stretch himself limb by limb until he has come into full consciousness. That would entail extensive super. vision end make a useful animal out of a freshman. For instance, - the underling enters timidly at raven o'clock, strums a few soft chords on the banjo - until his over• seer wakes and then leaves. Co-ed Chats The best methods of helping the freshmen have been a topic of polleg iota interest during the last year or two. A few years ago the University of began a movement among its women which was known as. the "big sister" movement. By, this plan, members of the upperclasses were as signed freshmen whom they were to help. Wheq this plan was adopted at Penn State, juniors, as the sister class of the -freshmen, were given the sole duties of directing them. Every year this relationship has grown firmer as far as class functions ae concerned. At many. other colleges "little sis ters" cannot be assigned until after registration because of the many girls who apply but never enter. Also„at some institutions, -an early system of pledging frequently causes -a breach, between the girls when the "little sister" joins a different sorority from that of her "big sister." We have fewer of these difficulties at Penn State. Most schools dO not have such an appreciative body of freshmen as the class of 1932 proved itself to be When it presented a be:auti ful net of jewelry to its advisor from the junior class. Frequently individual freshmen fall in their respect to juniors but more NEW Wrist Watches THAT PLEASE at HANN & O'NEAL'S .Opp. Front Campus • •Ar • IFben."whent—itoil'iuniie Dana and zr.frelh Towel 9'Aa C-^c.-o^4da Co:: : Adam. Cr MILLION' - DAY At 71 , 15—" Please, yopr right arm." By tho tine the student has careful ly stretched leg, toe, ankle, thigh, neck, arms, fingers, mouth,.eyes, ears and a few miscellaneous segments of the anatomy, the freshman, tired, droop ing,-worn, exhausted, enters ‘(now it is 12:30). "Time to eat, please." And the the student, hampered by the strenuous waking, is forced—ac tunny forced to cut the first hour in the afternoon to eat breakfast. If musical alarm clocks are the ideal means of gently and harmlessly wak ing college students • • *es * • Why not replace the Ohl 'Main Bell. With chimes? often we find juniors, who for no rea son at all or for an insignificant one, have failed to do their duty. Juniors should realize that it is their place to make advances. The "big sister" sys tem can be well applied at-Penn State .and it can prove the most effective means of giving individual direction 'to etch, freshman gir4 ,This can be accomplished only when .juniors are unselfish "and farsighted enough to take the time to supervise a freshman or two. Juniors, let's dd it! r • c4444+4444491 I; " You can get it at Metzger l s • FREE use of the Dayton Steel 'Frame Tennis Witt .t; ,INQUIRE AT OUR ,STORE - Tennis Rackets Repaired and Restrung ' L. K. METZGER 111 Allen Street ...:t . till tt, THE true use of the mouth is not merely to make a 'noise, any more than-the propel' use of money is to make a show of the spender. !i h. PEOPLES NATIONAL BAND;: Nkiow; and RefreW4 WiTH BUT .E THOUGHT SE AND , 'HIMSELF EVEN A FROM LINE 4d to. Work ' rs and. *l4u " Nnr Friday, April 19,1929 -_ ~~i ~~ Matinee Daily at I : 3 o—Lant COiC Afternoon-Showing Begins atl.. FRIDAY— Raymond Griffith. Raymond Rab*ii Marceline Day in 'TRENT'S LAST CASEII. Synchronized Picture--Musle;oilil,: M=E Sue 'Carol. Nick Stuart "GIRLS GONE ,WILD!.. 'Synchronized Picture—hitude , Oit y -MONDAY and TUESDAY— •-•;::',,,ta • Buddy Rogers, Nancy CarroWl& "CLOSE HARMONY" All-Talking, Singing, Dancing'PQ4.) 44 WEDNESDAY and THURSDAV Dorothy Mackaill, Milton Sills it ."HIS CAPTIVE WOMAN" Music and Dialogue Sequen , :a4 NEXT FRIDAY— Ruth Chatterton and All• Star Cait ' "THE DUMMY" • 100% . Talking Picture • ".-41,; - • Nittany Theatre:. Showing Silent Pictures - belt'-., SATURDAY— '' Sue-Carol, 'Glenn Tryon 10%! .. - .i .. , "IT CAN BE DONE" , . ~... • TUESDAY— - - .4i , ' - Laura La Plante-In - i4,2 "SCANDAL" • , THURSDAY— "TEP Lina Basquette, lean Herahillil„ , e4- 4 "THE YOUNGER-GENERATPOr7 k THE Drink , l II IRSX Flf, 'TOE/ CAN'T SEAT THE pAysfs THAT REFRESHES
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