"FOR THE GLORY OF OLD STATE"I I rma a r VOL. 27, No. 19 STUDENTS REVERSE MILITARY SURVEY. _ IN CAMPUS QUERY IVO i. it. Poll Reveals Only 30 Percent Would Schedule R.O.T.C. If Allowed Choice MAJORITY THINK CREDIT FOR COURSE INADEQUATE Consider Discipliriary Practices Satisfactory—Favor More *. , Distinctive Uniform Contiary to a survey completed by the department of military science and tactics last week, only 30 percent of the students enrolled in the basic courses would take 110 T.C. if the course were optional, it was revealed in a poll conducted by the COLLEGIAN this week This survey, winch included fresh men and sophomores in three College doimitories, and eleven fraternity house, picked at random, shows that of the 365 basic students questioned 225 oppose military training, while 110 would have taken 10 O.T C. if it were optional at the beginning of their freshman year. Credit Prows Insufficient When asked by reporters conduct ing this poll why they reversed the cote cast in the military department survey, numerous students expressed that they deemed discretion the bet ter part of valor The R 0.T.0 poll sins corducted in class by a rising vote slide the Army officers looked on It was for this reason that the students dal not voice their true feel ings, several underclassmen disclosed. A noticeable departure was also I noted in the specific question concern ing credit nclien 236 basic students answered that insufficient credit was being given in the basic course while 78 were satisfied with the present c!ystem. Tl4 v 4rmer poll showed a Fmor Present thopline Thule credit should be given for work in the National Guard, C.M.T.C. and regular Army was the opinion of 229 students while 75 opposed the plan If the basic course is non compulsory, 157 underclassmen would fawn the course as an elective and 138 believe R.0.T.0 should be cola logued as a choice between military tiaimng and some other coin se Pen centage9 comparable to those polled in the department survey last week were recorded in the Congcmx questionnaire concerning the um bourn. One hundred sixty-seven stu dents believe that the new basic um beim is satisfactory, while 146 are dissatisfied A distinctive garb is preferred by 231 and 82 students are not in favor of a change One hundred sixty-three under classmen believe discipline in the basic course IS too lax, while 151 disagree. 'lmmobile is too stlict, in the opinion of 84 basic course students and 230 favor the present diciplinary methods SOIL CONFERENCE TO MEET IN JUNE Representatives Will Commemorate Fiftieth Year of Cuottnuous E4perimental Work A soil fertility congress to he held at the College in June, to commem orate the fiftieth anniversary of the old soil fertility plots was announced by the School of Agriculture and the agricultural experiment station yes teiday The plots represent the old est continuous experiments of that type in the United States. It is pioposed to invite represents. tire, hem the forty-eight land grant colleges and experiment stations, and the United Stales Department of Ag manure, the Soil Improvement com mittee of the National Fertilizer as sociation, and prominent foreign re seat ch Institutions. An effort will be made to secure du otter of the New York Agrieul tuial Expeiiment station, who laiff out the plot, in 1881 while a chemist on the College faculty. Ileadquarteis fin the congress will, lie at the Nittany Lion Inn. A recap- JUNIOR CLASS WILL SIILLCT thin will be held in Old Main on the 25 SCHOLARSHIP NOMINEES opening night of the program. Membeis of the junior class will CO-EDS TO ELECT OFFICER meet to nominate twenty-live students Election of a new senior women's I for scholarship awards at n meeting class secietaly will be held in McAI- In the Chenuatry amphitheatre at lister Hall lobby from 8 until 0 oc 6:10 o'clock Tuesday night. clock Monday. Nominees are Miss I The selections for one John W Elizabeth K. Schwalbe and Miss Doro- White prize and four L011:90 Cainegie thy L. Shafer., The new secretary' scholarships will be made at this will replace Miss Miriam Mendelsohn, meeting. The candidates chosen by who will giaduate in February after class members will he supplemented completing her practice teaching in by a list of ten nominees submitted Altoona. by the deans of the College. _ McLaughlin Urges Choice Of Scholarship Nominees By Student Committees Senior Class President Terms Present Meeting Where 60 Select 25 'Farce,' Scoring Incomplete Representation Characterizing the nomination of "ii pitiable farce," David C. McLaughl night urged that selection of candidates Appointment of such n nominatini tern now in use would he in the hand: McLaughlin's plan Lack of interest irom representatives of student opine tended. In commenting upon this year's meetings, the senior president de clared "That prizes for scholarship mean little to an overwhelming majority in the senior class was evidenced when sixty out of 805 members attended the recent meeting to select nominees foi John W. White and Louise Carnegie awards " "Selection of scholarship candidates cannot be called representative when the highc•t vote cast for a single stu dent amounted to but sixteen ballots " Lacks Student Interest Under such conditions, McLaughlin believes, a few ambitious students may secure positions on a but of twenty live candidates with little reference to then merits or needs. "Discriminating in naming those who will represent the dist in schol arship cannot be attained," he pointed out, "when so few students are inter ested that $OOO in awards does not stir them from lethargy long enough to consider the selection of men to te-• ccivo these prires." Under the present system of nom nation, twenty-five students are se-. looted by balloting from the first fourth of the class Front this group, together with a list of ten selections by the deans of the College, five ate authief9"nombirOw.....Csou4. 7 Cell-- ate committee on academit standnithd after concideration of the students') needs and academic ranking Proposes Nen Plan With nominees chosen by a student committee, the 11 , 1 of candidates would be published before final approval was given, McLaughlin suggested. Pro posals of names could be made to the selecting group by members of the class Proposing the adoption of a new plan before the scholarship elections of .1931, the senior class president said "Sonic method of improving the present system of nomination is need ed si about question, if we wish to maintain a propel standard of sele, lion " DAVIS SPEAKS ON NEWSPAPER WORK Williamsport Grit illanaging Editor Lauds Small Town Journals For Training Value r That experience ds seventy-five per cent of the newspapei man's equip ment was asserted by Mr. Hov.ard R. Davis, managing editor of the Williamsport Cut in lus talk to Journalism students in Room 11 Llb cent Arts building 'gaudily night With "The Importance , of a Small Town Newspaper" as his tome, Mr. Davis claimed that many young Journ alias arc overlooking fine chances much nearer home. As training for the profession and us an institution in the community, the small town newspaper offers the best source of experience, he continued. "The best experience is meeting other people, absorbing their ideas, and fusing them into one workable whole. Give the other fellow what he wants and tell it the way he wants, for the newspaperman is it sem antste the people, Mr. Davis declared. Following Mr. Davis' bilk, Prot Frankltn C. Danner of the journalism depot trnent introduced Robert P. Stevenson '3O, forme' member of the COLLEGIAN stuff and piesent Ga it reporter, who stressed the impel pace of securing a liberal education while in college. STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1930 scholarship men at class meetings as hn, president of the senior class, last . be made by a student committee. ig group, replacing the balloting sys- Is of the class president, according to t has tendered present selections far ion. the student government head con DAVID C. McLA UCHLIN '3l CO-EDS GAIN NEW _. PHONE PRIVILEGES W.S.G.A. Senate To Allow Wire Service in Dormitories Until 10 O'clock Ten o'clock telephone permission was mooted to seamen's dormitories by the W S G A. Senate at a meeting Monday attinroos Pievious to thi, time telephone service was limited to • 8 o'clock during neck nights with a 10 o'clock esteosion on Friday, Sato, day, and Sunday nights. Mr. J. 11 Canoe, local manager of the telephone company, suggested to the Senate that the hours be extended in outer that the company could offer effluent service. Ile claimed that the numbei of complaints about pool ser vice resulted limn the clowding of foul hours war into two limns. 0 Install Booths "This change in the length of tele phone service may Intl:acne with tho study or lest of the girls," stated Dean Charlotte E. Ray in conunentmg on the change "We cannot expect the freshman girls to assume telephone duty after b o'clock clueing neck nights, there fore it will be necessary for the girls who room neat the telephones to he iesponsible foe calls," the dean added In order to eliminate the nurse ut the halls during quiet hours and to further facilitate telephone communi cation, booth' will be placed in the three uppel floors of McAllister Hall, with an extra telephone installed on the fourth float. DOAN ADDRESSES DAIRYMEN Prof Francis J. Doan of the dairy husbands y department addressed the inembet s of the Vei mint Dairymen's ii.socintion at Dm lington, Vermont. yesterday Who's Dancing Phi :11u Delia (Closed) (Camp. 00a) Phi Delta Theta (Open) (I aihrly Tee) DVOIN et MeAlhstei (Suhseruition) (Kline owl What.) 'l'uniorrue Night Phi Mu Delta (Open) (Nat.!' Npu) Blue hey at Della Tau Della (Clo.ed) (Camp. OMB) Sigma Phi Epsilon (Closed) (Valnity Ton) MOST CONVENTIONS AT PENN STATE IN 1930 PLAN RETURN Pennsylvania City Councillors Select Statg College As Site of .!oncliiN e 11 ORGANIZATIONS LIST COLLEGE FOR MEETINGS Industrialists, Soil Congress Will Conduct Assemblies Here During 1931 That most of the to gameations meeting here last year have selected Penn State for the place of then 19.11 conventions, is shown on u cal endar compiled by Adrian 0 Morse, !executive secretary to the president Dates have not been set definitely 'for a majority of the findings and further additions will be made to the list during the next kw months Selecting Penn State as a cons en lion site for the first tune, the Penn sylvania Association of City Planning Commissioners will meet here in April. The annual "Ilort Week" ha. been scheduled for Maul 5 and 6 The Industrial Conference of the School of Engineei mg will be held in May. Representatwes of the indus tries will gather at that tone to dis cuss college preparation for enteling industry and to promote cooperation of the industries with the school Plan Soli Congress On June 23 and 24 the Pennsyl vania Waterworks Operators asset,. bon will convene and on the following two days members of the Pennsyl %ma Sewage Works association w ill meet in their yeail, convention The Soil Fertility congress cull 1,2 held in June and will be a celebration of the fiftieth 50n..., iry 01 th ag riculture fertility pl d at Penn State, reputed to be the 41.,t in tile coun add, s tilt o s n .n t s o Si t :I l ls be c t Al-w It t e ' e Y hnic l a n l so scheduled for the May.' and June period are the Livestock and Meat Iconfeience and Funnels' Week. Oil and Gas leaders mill meet bete 'in July. The last week of the sum mer session will be devoted to Super intendent's Wed, which is rained on under the auspices of the School of Education. The following wed will be occupied with meetings of girls and boys' dubs, 35 GROUPS ATTEND FIFTH CONFERENCE Cooperative Meeting Delegates Discuss Means of Aiding Farm Purchasers Fifty mot lbw, , teem counting thirty five cooperative oiganiration. of the State discussed "Ciedit E' tensions and Collection," at the opening of the !fifth annual Cooperative continence lin Room 405 Old lfain yesteidav af ternoon. Sesdons of the conference will continue at the same place today land tomorrow cunning The confeience is designed lo and oneinbeis of coopeintive buying and marketing on gam/alums for farmeis by helping them to perfect a mote icoopeiative system and by ofTming in struction in maraging methods. I Ii D Allenbach, provident of the Inter-State Milk Ptoducers associa (ton, one of the largest mgailtations of its kind in Amelica, will speak on "Sound Mai kcting Oiganuation I and Membership" at 0:45 o'clock this morning At 11 of look John K, Stern,' instructor of too aultuial economies, will address the Moan no "Sono! Re sults of a Stady of Alenn& [slop Prob lems," Quentin Reynolds, g0n,..1 mamktv, or the liahtein States Painters Es change, will speak on the bitagi mind, the accomplishments and the aims of his organization at I 30 o'clock today H Edttaid Babcock, genetal manager of the Grange Foundation, ail! discuss Ins organization, the long est cooperative outman , e in the country, at 2 20 o'clock Piot'. Wlllllllll V Dennis, of the agricultural I:CD !loonies deportment, using incmbei nhgi responsibilitioi as inns topic, will talk an hour later Following the annual dinner al G o'clock tonight, Charle, S Wilson, member of the Federal Farm board, and 11. Babcock will address the body. The Sntmduy mot :ling ses sion will open at 9 o'eloik, when Flank E. Manning, usnistunt in lig, cultural extension, will speak on managerial aesponsabilattes• Tattegiatt. Military Ball Head Chooses Committee Appointment of the committee uhich will be in charge of the Mili tary Ball was made yesterday by wdlmm Pursell %11, student colo nel Those selected will airange plans for the dance which no to be held Febniary 20 in Recreation Pursell, as student colonel of the R 0 T C, automatically becomes chin man of the committee He has chosen to moost him Richard J Det wiler '3l, W Pied Flickinger '3l, Rimy V. Girard '3l, Joseph A Kling '3l, Jesse M. Mac Knight '3l, William H. McCreary '3l, Samuel E McKibben '3l, Richmd J Thomas, '3l, John D Wilding '3l WARNOCK ADVISES STUDENT EXERCISE Urges Undergrads Who Wan Winning Teams To Enter Outdoor Athletics Arthur R. Warnock Dean of Men 'When members of the student body arc considering% what they can do to better the records of our athletic trains, they should bear in mind nor fact which may or may not he sig. • nificant The big athletic teams of the past ueze developed out of a stu dent bode which had a much keener interest in personal pal timpation athletic sports and in onoiloor sports, like listing and camping in the moun tains hereabouts, hunting and fishing, than is present in the student body no, Eight and ten year: ago Penn State students in large numbers nent out for all sorts of athletic teams,—Var city, inter-class, interfraternity et cetera, and literally ‘wanned into the mountains over meek-ends They woe a vigorous lot and they thoroughly enjoyed phNsical activity out of doors Local sportsmen still recall inenaiers of tire famous 1010'foutball team as excellent fishermen and hunters. The students on the bleachers—a, well as the athlete, ',hem they watch ed on the playing field—knee ',hat it sins to exercise their muscles and try their physical stamina in vigorous physical combat There vat, not the gap between spectator and player that is marked today,—in a student body in which a majority exercise their muscles only so much as Is actually demanded of them. Unless a student body buys a team to compete for its own pleasure in looking on,--just as a baseball mag nate buyi a team to olay baseball for the pleasure of Philadelphia resi dent., for instance,—it must prmide a large reservoir of as male !nal from which the combo, can dray mater gal for the teams This is the explanation of Roast , . , ucce, at Notie Dame and Zimpho'k success at Illinois. Neithea bus to sorry about recruiting high school stars. In each ease they know that (Continued on second page ) GIFT ESTABLISHES DRAMATIC AWARDS Freedman Trust Memorial Pm ide Pr", for 2 Seniors Giving Pita, will be given to the scorn elan and woman who contributed most to the diamata tooth at the College through a gift presented by Met Lill ian Freedman, of Sunbuiy, in menioi y of her son, Le , ter 11. F1(.01111111 '2O, Prof Ai thur C Cloetingh, ducdor of the Penn State Playas, annonixed yesterday To be awarded each June, the Prints will be taken from a to List fund. The board of do octors of the dramatic orgamration will choose the winneri each year. Ficedinan was drowned of the sum mer of 192 , 1 following his sophomore year hem c. The prize wa., given us token of the interest Freedman show ed in the production. of the Mayen, in dime of which he played, Plofessi,r eloetnigh explauteil. Airangements foi the fund weir made with Pm ofussol Cluelingh August by Mr. Freedman. The prize, will be awarded for the first tune in June SCRIOI4 ate not inquired to ho members of the Players to be eligi ble for the prises. ADD LA !TAN To AWARD LIST Tile Miele of Sidney ',appal) '3l-11 an addition to the list of twenty-five romineeb for seholin ship awards limn the senior class Lappan's name was omitted from the oliginal list pub lished in Tuesday's COLLELIAN. Bezdek Favors New Recreation Program Advocates Abolition of Last Afternoon Class To Permit 2-Hour Period for All Undergraduate Sports 'BETTER PHYSICAL CONDITION WILL INCREASE ZEST IN STUDIES,' DIREGIOR OF ATHLETICS PREDICTS B> Norman B Culling the 4 o'clock hour fi to p.m ide foi a No-hour teeter at:located by Hugo Bezdek, chi education, in an interview to tin 11155211 .-411 WHYTE TO SPEAK IN CHAPEL SUNDAY 'biladelphia Pastor Will Make Initial Appearance Here Al Weekly Service Sucalanfr to Penn State students fo the first tine, Dr Robert B Whyte, paitot of the Fast Presby terian church of Phdadelphnt, ss dl addles, the chapel audience at 11 o'- clock Sum.* :no! fung in Schwab au dam min Dr Whyte vas bum in Toronto, Canedi, and na. educated at the Urn -I.et-dy of Toronto and Knox Theolog ical college, Tin onto During his ..enurary corny: hnwas assistant nutustel in El, West Posh Annan chinch of Toronto After graduating he became the colleague of Di..f A Tionntill and I tter tho stlCVOS'int of Di Tut nhull at the - ,Vest chui oh Itch crud Canathan Mey.age 1011,0 lug a yc.o at the Wrote, a Pre•bvlm lan hutch, DI Whyte ac cepted a call from the Enos thumb of Ott.% a whet e he roman.' until the lon , tt Presbyterian church, his pi escnt patio ate, extended a call to hint sewn yeats ago In 11019, the speaker u.ts elected to dein ei the Canadian tria,age the Citt tiepin of London, England, at the hat oi Id Bt °the! hood ton t etenie Delegate, I opresenting thn tv-too taunt, les attended this meet jig Although the. Is the Phdadelphta p t.tnl's loot °ppm tulaty to. adds ess Penn State student.% College offittals the received numm ous letters con carving Ins alnlity as a spool et ektnong those aim have recommended Dr Whyte no DI Ivan A. Rose, pas tor or the Flt.t Baptiq cantich of l'lnladelplim ,mini alto may be remem bered for the addreha on hall he gave In the 11,11)01 nu<hrnce w the alltiltor. Imo loot Pcla tatty. CHEMISTS WILL ATTEND CONVENTION IN CHICAGO Prokssoti. 1V ill Delis or Paper on Prepal al zon or 11),Iroge. IS. I'v ht let I' la Imy and IS George V Sat gent el the depat tanenl 01 chemist] y udl attend the meeting of the Anwi man Phy‘o. Snooty at Chigato next I•'i day tuna Saturday. On the cloqini; clay of the conven tion, the tun Penn State delegate., will pi t.enl a paper hid tinning "A Con +onion, Laborattny Source of Hy men." /Vnsted W B do Vol e, of the E f (111 Pont Je Evolve' s Lon, I , anti, Di Duvey Will (1140 re% eel the te,ults of i e,e,in eh in the sum of col loidal purtiele3 m tuttueellulose solu tions. ESTABLISHED 1904 PRICE 5 CENTS rom the daily scholastic schedule !ation period Isas enthusiastically lector of the School of Physical e COLLEGIAN Wednesday. i"Such a pc] and would gne the into who plays for the fun of the g,aine omple oppot family to get out and enjoy himself in a beneficial way," declined the Dnector "At the suite time I do not believe it in ould Intel fete seta ously ninth class schedule" Swinging about in his 5N1.14 ei chair he pointed out the windom to the arc lights on New Deaver preen, field "Those light won't be necessary next yen, I hope And those men," inch cutlet, too fiaternity football teams clashing in the dusk In means of the artificial illumination, "iney he able to play the game under 1.111,1 tomb tion, Later Dinner flour Rich dividends in the wa, of keener zest in study li:saltine. Item bettm physical condition and an victealed reserve of energy would tare than compensate tot the host taken from the scholastic day, the Ditector e- dieted confidently Ile belie,. the I College etaff will :hare in the benefits as well as the students To allow two hems for recreation, (linnet would have to be 'et back urtd 0 o'clock, not an uncommon hour in the Director's opinion Samuel K I Hostetter, manager of elinnutories and dining commons, already nas declared his willingness to scree the evening meal at that tune The (ooperation of fraternity and boarding houses tit this respect would he necessary tot the success of the plan. "Mast people don't cat until 6 o'clock," said "Ber," and the elite not until 70f7 30 o'clock So you see we would be getting into the elite class," I e added with a suspicious glint in his eyes Exercise 1, Optional Plans fora meads- m panded pro gram el int-a-inure! sum t would be fatilibtted by the pi oposul's adop tion Additional and more equip ment could go hen in bond .ith definit, athletics pi i and under Directoi Be/del.'s "rithlttits-fm-all" polity "Participationin toe recreation period's actt.ities mould of tours he r inattet of choice," it v., e‘plained "The tune might he thaoted to a sta oil a. gem al i ela‘ation ac..eviing to individual (ICS!, " Although the ahama tla lathiest, of the a.e, Igo student, 1 would also aide ai,ay teams Cop ! suleral ly, the threLlol !whoa, Wlth cla , Se• contmoing until i tislock and prncdca nece , ,,atily holding the ath lete tv.o hums more, tt , vet y Into be the time he get, domen to studs', 11 all Thn. i.ituallna ha, been r proh lem to College ahlcta authoran, for Aar, Ahead.). Intl (loud to the 'ountil of Ailinirnitti talon the la al t I to beirg mvrtittgnted li, a tiattinittee of Directot Bettie! /lat.:nal, Dean It L Sackett, anal Dean ( hai le, (V Stoddart. It will be tofu lel to Stu dent Council andlra oil iatoritit Council lot andel gi.aluatt Nil! ion FACULTY GROUP SEEKS PHI BETA KAPPA HERE Ontributes Pamphlet Selling l'orili Claims fur Lueal thaptir :making a favolabla to:emanation of their prtltion rot a (Mantel of Phi lleAt Kap pa of Peon Stilt , tlw mein beta of the Gam nay Aluinin A, oti alum at Penn Stole, R,ltedl .t palllpllloL to chapter, of the Immolate •tholas tie orgatmation ieeently •,(I,ting. forth claims fun installation Come.. of the pant,dilet 021‘. •trit to to entry-foto Lhapteil of the na tnonal otganuallon in the Moan° At lantic district, which litchi/les Collett, and universit.es m Nea You,, .Imsey, and Pent.ylvitnin ( hoptei may art on the petition al the me" national convention at Sentembci, 1931 'rile total Phi Beta 1,111)1;11 Alumni A , ..ociatton is ill meet in the Sta ts College hotel at 1i o'iloih Detemlni 'the speaker of the meeting o Di Rao 11. Dotter et a Pmofc.coi of phtluseiiv, who t elm ned to Penn State this year often seveial yearn at Franklin and liitushall college.
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