Pa'go WO Penn State Collegian Published aemkneekly deli. College year event during College holidays by Penntyhanla State College eludenta In Interest of College. minder. alumni, faculty and ellen& THE EXECUTIVE BOARD PAUL C McCONNAUCHEY /9-- WILLIAM S TURNER .19 ___ HARRY P. MILEIIAM .2.9_---______Manarin. Editor lIFRMAN E ROFFMAN .29-----___---Associato Editor JUDSON LAIRD 19_....----________----Absocidtd Editor THE BUSINESS STAFF WILLIAM 9 TURNER IS-- PAUL C MeCONNAUCHEY .1 HOWARD REII7 -Motions Manson --Circulation Dfanaocr .--Advertisine Murmur NEWS EDITORS Itobert P Stevenson 'BO Ullales A. Menzel '✓lo flenre I tinlvtifeld 'OO Quinton F.. Itenuuti . 10 Jatit. U Coounn. Jr. IQ Ilember of Eastern lute r,"lleginte Newspaper Association TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1929 AN OPEN LETTER De: rest Mother, It's dollars to doughnuts that you are worrying about me, wondering whether I fell and broke an arm or flunked out of school happily it is neither But, truly I have been plenty busy trying to get out a couple of reports, nark on the lawn, and stay out for baseball Too, I've practically given up the idea of a neck-end at home before the Junior Prom. And be fore I for get it, did I tell you that Mary has changed her mind, or rather, her mother has changed her maul, and she will be here for the Prom? I'm elated, lam The boys decided at meeting last night that we will have a log spi cad Satuiday night, May 11, for our mothers. A teal, honest-to-goodness banquet. All the mothers are clashing through for the week-end, it seems, and you have me guessing since you haven't told me definitely whether you'll be hese. Here's my ultimatum. if Dad won't let you have the car you hop the tlain Friday morning and I'll meet you at Belle fonte. I'm not fooling, either, because I'm not going to be the only boy without a girl over the week-end So these! You remember the fine time you had last year. Well this year will he even better There'll be a mass meeting, I guess, maybe a vaudeville show or a Players' production and a couple of athletic contests. Then there's the May Day exercises you enjoyed so much last year, the banquet at the house, and a tea by the women students. You don't want to miss it, and I'm sure I don't want you to miss it, so make ar rangements to spend Mothers' Day with me at all costs. I'll write again later in the week. My best to Dad and Sys. SONNY P. S —Don't forget the dates• May 10, 11 and 12 University courses in "the art of love making" are strongly advocated by Judge Ben Lindsey, well-known juvenile count magistrate. Which noises the question as to whethei the courses should be compulsory or optional. NON-COMPULSORY R. 0. T. C The popular belief that Penn State is forced, by the Momll I and Grant Act of 1862, to include compulsory nublmy tiaming in hei curricula is unfounded, an exam lotion of that and other federal laws clearly shows. The csisti.nce of this belief, and likewise its fallaciousness, is panted out in a communication which is published today in the "Letter Box " Military training, according to the Morl ill bill, is plated in the same category as the other branches of learning _which are, named; and, as our,eor, respondent remarks, not every student is compelled to' study Greek and Latin. The original Morrill bill, vetoed by Piesident Buchanan after having passed both houses of Congress in 1859, included no reference whatever to mili tary tactics This was inserted, it is behaved, because . the bill was passed during the war period. There was no indication in the debates that the addition of this clause aided in the passage of the Act. Furth. proof that military training is not mandatory under the Morill Act was furnished in 1922 when the University of Wisconsin, a land grant college, abolished compulsory drill without suffeung any dimunition of federal appropriations. Statements by Secretary of the Interior Work in 1927 are reassuring on this point. That the National Defense Act of 1920 likewise makes instruc tion in military tactics optional with the authorities of the school, college or university, was affirmed by Secretary of War Weeks in 1924. Boston university, College of the City of New York, and De Pause university are a few of the institutions that followed the example of Wisconsin and discontinued com pulsory military training. The consensus of student opin ion at Penn State is opposed to compulsory R. 0. T. C. The increased enrollment during the past year in the ad vanced comes reveals, nevertheless, an interest in military training on the past of n large number of undergraduates. This interest is reassuring, since it is fate to believe that a large enrollment would likewise be possible In the Flame course. kforeover, military authorities bore admit that the course should be mei eased to three credit hours. This change would undoubtedly assure the College of a repre sentative militaty unit. Under these conditions the COLLEGIAN is convinced that the time has come for the Administtation to consider abolition of compulsory R. O. T. C. A scientist claims he has invented a mechanical man who can listen and think. But lie can't Into notes: 41.1 Z lit # J " ' • bEI9 --Vlee•Pmldant --Treuuter MIZIEZI An eminent French philosopher—or perhaps he is a connoisseur of coiffeurs--claims that a man's hair reveals the nature and chalacter of has religion. If Monsieur Le Connoisseur were to visit our campus, he would be surprised to discover the number of atheist., we have on our faculty. So many readers have made inquiry concerning the meaning of a certain paragraph printed in this column two issues back that we hasten to extend apologies for ove, estimating the intellect and mental dissecting powers of college students, and in the next breath, to lop] int the far fetched crack (it came from Africa) with copious foot rotes If the poet Pope' could have lived in our day and taken time out from his physics experiments to witness the St. Vincent's' baseball game' on Saturday, he would have tetuined to his sacred diary and probably have written: "Ah, how St Vincent's stooped before our boys, and yet what superhuman' ball they played' Famed for the bromide .. to err la human, Aprt 23, 1929 to ((waive ravine 2 Name or a college nese Latrobe (Pa ) 3 Se-called became It tvav an the boo-ball schedule ...... At-choo, Baby Dear Mlle child IVho Po) eue,ythlng aim Rees ` Pa: Indy That yole,c amt mound Wher 1 anee.:et The alumnus of thirteen years standing (hush, Tim othy, he consist a floorwalker) was enjoying his Sunday dinner with some of the brothers, swallowing some food and then some words and so on far into the dessert. Sud denly the cons ersatien drifted to women and the alumnus of thirteens years standing, began, strangely, to delight the boys with words about his wife, a college graduate. "When was your wife in college?" asked one of the brothers seriously. The grad of thirteen years standing thought a moment and after sonic calculation responded, "Let's see. She graduated in '18" "Eighteen what , " innocently asked a co-eater whJ had been memorizing the dates of the Civil War all aftei noon. Now that we have open polities we have "mutual mis understandings" which, like "miscellaneous," may cover a multitude of sins. One nay to correct the fault of swallowing words is to refrain from eating alphabet soup But if one will persist in swallowing his words, the next best bet is to send for a Liteiary Digest. Fate or Fortune When all the famed Journalists have passed, Including Pulitzer; including 8., including B, Unnerved, unerippled, they may look hack at the woild And, in relief, sigh one of two things• "I missed a striking figure in my day." Or, having had him, smile and whisper "He missed me!" The Boston jurors who convicted a New York publish er for selling "An American Tragedy," an obscene book, two years ago, probably forgot how their ancestors made "whoopies" at a so-called "tea party" some decades ago. Drops ,argl Drops ' • - %;-.2 Texas Gamin, queen of clubs, who is spending most,o'f. her time Suing shuttled in and out of - courts, declares trait: she never took a drop in her life. Yet, in the estimation of the Anti-Saloon Leaguers, Tex seems to take a drop every time she appears in court. • 7,4 --- ' STARK I. 3 -- -n e s el ' IiARPEP.; --- 71.fiberdashers A Special Value in Linen Knickers MADE OF REAL IMPORTED FLAXEN LINEN, LINEN THAT STAYS FRESH AND CRISP THROUGH REPEATED TRIPS TO THE LAUNDRY. FULL CUT FOR COMFORT IN PLAYING AND LOUNGING ROOMY POCKETS AND REALLY TAILORED. $3.50 Others at $5.00 Stark Bros. & Harper NEXT TO THE MOVIES Hair and Relegion Footnotes For Columns ...••••••• Agreeing To nsagree e • e eee• Sure Cure ..... 50• v...• slaking Whoopee 112M=I I'M MIST STATZ C3LLUZIAII Letter Box April 20, 1020 To the Editor of the COLLEGIAN: Zona Gale, in a recent issue of The Notion, has pointed out the mon sistency in the Interpretation of the Morrill Act under winch Penn State was founded. The Minnll Act, as printed in the College catalogue, reads as follows: "The lending object shall he, without eNClildifig other scientific and classical studies and including military tactics, to teach such branch-' es of learning as are related to agri cultme and the mechanic arts ... in order to promote the liberal and prac tical education of the industrial class es in the several pursuits and pro fessions of life." Nowhoe does the law read that military Limning shall be compulsory —only does it state that military tac tics shall lie taught. In fact, the bill as it was first pi esented to Con gloss did not have the words inctild my military tactics These three I winds seemed to have been added as an afterthought, and did not intend to convey the meaning that the main I impose of the school should be to teach military tactics, but the main purpose was to teach such branches of l icaining as were related to agriculture and the mechanic ails If the Morrill Act compels students to take military training, it also com pels them to take agriculture, mechan cal engineering, Greek and Latin The absurdity of such an interpreta tion is ohs 10119 Compulsory military training is neither compatible with the Morrill Act, nor in keeping with the desires of the students The Uni versity of Wisconsin has already -abol ished compulsory military training a step which would be welcomed here at Penn State both by the students and by fair-minded citizens. Sincerely yours, (Signed) GEORGE MORLAN (Ed Note Mot lan is hated In the directory as an unclassified and spe cial student) FACE CIRCUMSTANCES, DECLARES McCONNELL Deploring the fact that most of us fail to face the circumstances in life squarely, Di. Charles lif McConnell, faculty member at the Boston Uni versity School of Theology, addressed the chapel audience in Schwab audi torium Sunday morning During his talk Dr. McConnell cit ed numerous instances in which men have submitted to circumstances in stead of rising over them "We are continually forced to sub mit to conditions over which we have no control," he said, "and it is impera tive that man should change these conditions "Consider well the circumstances and set out to overcome them," he declared "Also look the-facts square ly in the eye and work ahead, trying your best to understand the conditions of life. x-x-:-:-1-:-:-:÷:»x-:-:-:-:-H-8-s-x- MEN'S WEAR 1: v X For the College Students 4. 1 : , - GERNERD'V T T T A. 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Stahl Edgewokh Extra High Grade Smoking Tobacco Under The Spotlight In selecting a mystery melodrama as a show to present from the Schwab auditornim stage, the Penn State Players made a happy choice, a choice in keeping with the current rage !among novel and short story readers for things mystifying "At 9.45" was a beautiful bubble in the contin uous stream of Players' productions and markedly different from the sog rhy and worm-eaten driftwood that as so often floated by in the past. A bubble, yes, but one sufficiently minty Ito befog the penetrating eyes of even 'confirmed admirers of S S Van Dine and other emulators of Woodrow Wil son in the matter of perusing detect ive thrillers for relaxation. Readers of mystery stories and audiences at tending thrilling draMas want to r.c their wits in seeking a solution for stated complications They like to be fooled. Only a genius—or playwrite Owen Davis—would not have be. n fooled by Saturday night's show. All of which is another means of saying that Owen Davis' mystery melodrama as staged by the Penn State Players was a success If the directors con tinue making equally good selections, future Players' presentations will un doubtedly draw even larger houses than the one Saturday night. "At 9 45" was the vehicle by which three aspiring amateurs made their debut in Penn State dramatics Miss Alberta Lum, Miss Grace Tomlinson and John Rutherford comprise the true. In our humble opinion Directors Cloetingh and Mason have found three Impersonators whose work should prove an invaluable asset, that is, if they are cast in equally suitable roles for future plays. Combined with an easy stage presence, Miss Lum has the knack of making an audience eat out of her hand, as it were In her role as the redoubtable "Margaret Clancy" she brought roars of laughter from the house at every appearance, providing a bit of merriment in an otherwise sombre play. Playgoers can look forward to much more hu mor of the same kind, for Miss Lum is but a freshman now. Evidently, Charles May knows a little atiout acting, too, judging from Saturday night's performance. He was one of the strongest charade's of the entire show, not alone because of the vibrant detective he Imperson ated but also because of an inherent sense of the true dramatic art A sole For 131.TILDING and LOAN 4. MORTGAGES I: EUGENE H. LEDERER •;• Avision come true In a part of Africa little known to the whites, where obscure trails ran, Cecil Rhodes dared to envision a railroad. He lived to build it. The railroad itself was part of a vaster dream, a dream of a far inland colony linked fast to existing coast settlements by rail and wire communication. And he lived to build Rhodesia. First the dream, then the reality, is the tel natrofl-curde system of Inter-eannetting telohanti "OUR-PIONEERING WORK - HAS-JUST BEGUN" almost as equally well filled was that of "Doane," portrayed by Paul Sun derlin. One could say that it would I not be amiss for Sunderlin to apply somewhere for the position of butler; he fills the type so Just an impertinent question, now. Does not the death of a son call for a marked display of anguish on the part of the immediate family? If one were to di ow an inference from "At 'J 45" as presented by the College di amatists, the answer would benega tive The entire cast appeared to take' the sudden death of "Halyard Clayton" as a matter of couise, ex cept fin a few squeals when the news vas first broken. Perhaps it is a sole of dramatics that no over-display of sentiment be allowed, but such a regu lation in teal life does not hold. Ac cording to all past histmy mothers and slate's milinamly faint or at least I become hystmical upon learning of the death of a loved one. If the part of the mother and sister of the murdered man were played correctly Saturday night, Owen Davis must have hail two sti ong charactei s in mind when he wiote "At 9 45." .Dolit Experiment • with your Appeal:ma. ' , NI lOC 4 NEttOTHt.:' 7 .1.A.7.,=7.--;,15-"' Montgomery & Co. State College, Pa. i.•:-:-t-:-:-:-:-:-:-:4-:-:-:::-:•4-:-:-:-:-:-x-:÷:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:÷x-1.4-:•++.:444.4- "YOU CAN GET IT AT METZGER'S" ..i: REWASHED GOLF BALLS Dunlops —60 c —50 c Repaints 3 far $l.OO SPECIAL 75c Ash Tray —25 c L. K. METZGER 111 Allen Street Tx rule with telephone men too, as they work to greater heights of service. But in be tween, they know, must come periods of careful planning and smooth coordination of many' elements. Scientific research, manufacturing, plant construction, commercial development, public relations, administration—many va ried telephone activities offer a widening op portunity to practical-minded visionaries. BELL SYSTEM Tuesday, April 23, 1329 I,Twenty .Yggrs Ago In the second inter-class game play cd this year, the, juniors defeated the freshmen; wbo had beaten the sopho , mores last web, by the score of 16-to-3 last Saturday Due to frequent errors on the part of the freshman team the score was higher than it should have been In the sixth inning alone, there I , were five errors and.two hits made, which accounted for seven runs. Aillal 1111114.171 Illatinee Daly at I:3o—Last Complete Afternoon Showmg Begins at 3:00 TUESDAY— Buddy Rogers, Nancy Carroll in "CLOSE HARMONY" All-Talking, Singing, Dancing Picture WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY— Dorothy Mackin', Milton Sills in "MS CAPTIVE WOMAN" Music and Dialogue Sequences FRIDAY— Ruth Chatterton and All-Star Cast in "THE DUMMY" 100% Taiktug Picture SATURDAY— Lupe Vele., Gary Cooper, Lotus Wolheim in "WOLF SONG" Music and Singing—No Diologue NittanyfTheatre Showing Silent Picture Only EMEMEZ Laura La Plante in "SCANDAL" THURSDAY— Line Basquette, Jean Herstiolt in "THE YOUNGER GENERATION' Laurel and Hardy Comedy
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