Summer Edition
VOL. XIV, No." 6
EASTMAN TO GIVE
TALK ON LITERARY
. FUTURES TONIGHT
Will Discuss Modem Movements
In Schwab Auditorium
At 8 O’clock
‘DEFINITION OF POETRY’
IS AFTERNOON SUBJECT
Poet, Critic Also Writes About
Economic Inequality in
l Books* Magazines
Max Eastman, poet, editor, essay*
ist and critic, will present two lec
tures at Penn State today, as the
sixth of a senes of visiting lecturers
who. have appeared at the College
.this summer.
Speaking <on “A Definition of Poet
ry,” Mr. Eastman will give his first
talk in room 315 Mineral Industries
building at 3 o’clock this afternoon
He will discuss "Modernism and the
Future of Literature’’ in Schwab au
ditorium at 8 o’clock tonight.
Writes on Politics
Known chiefly for his wnting on
problems of economic inequality, Max
Eastman has contributed to literature
in the field of poetry, poetic criticism,
and political studies. His volumes of
poetry include "Child of the Ama
zons,” J 913, and "Colors of Life,”
1918.,
Among Eastman’s political studios
are* ' "Understanding Germany,’'
1916, "Since Lenin Died,” 1925, "Marx
and Lenin: the Science of Revolu-
in 1926, and "The Real Situa
tion in Russia,” 1928. He also wrote
a biography of Leon Trotsky in 1925
Eastman’s critical essays and stud
ies include "The Enjoyment of Poet
ry,” in which he shows m an inter
esting way how poetry can be made
to contribute -to the enrichment of
life. He also wrote "Journalism ver
sus Art,” 1016, and "The Sense of
Humor,” .1921. He wrote one novel,
"Venture,” in 1928.
Both Eastman’!, parents were Con
gregational preachers., He studied a«.
Williams college, graduating there in
1906. From 1907 luntil 1911 he was
an assistant in philosophy at Colum
bia.
In 1911, he began to give his en
tire time to studying and writing
about the problems of economic in
equality, and in 1913 became the edi
tor of the Masses, a periodical which
voiced his theories, and which be
came,'ln 1917,'the Liberator. He is
a frequent contributor to current
magazines.
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
TWENTY-SECOND SUMMER SESSION
Official Announcements
THURSDAY, JULY 30
9:00 A. M.-12:00M.—Superintendents’Conference. Topic, "Live
Educational Questions of the Day.” Open Air
Theatre.' See special program.
2:00-4:30 P. M.—Topic, "More Live Educational Questions of the
Day.” Open Air Theatre. See special program.
3:00 P. M. Lecture, “A Definition of Poetry,” by Max Eastman,
x ’ Poet, Editor, and Lecturer, Croton-on-Hudson. Room
315 Mineral Industries Building.
6:30 P. M.—Concert by Boys’ Band of Tresslcr Orphans’ Horne,
Loysville, Pa. Open Air Theatre. Free will offer-
ing. , 1 , „
8:00 P. M. Lecture, 1 “Modernism and the Future of Literature,
by Max Eastpian, Croton-on-Hudson. Auditorium.
FRIDAY, JULY 31
9:00 A. M.-12:00M.—Superintendents’ Conference. Topic, "New
Influences and Agencies in Education.” Open Air
' . Theatre. See special program.
9:30 A. M.-12:00 M.—Demonstrations of Educational Uses of
Talking Motion Pictures. Subjects covered, Educa
tional Guidance, Fundamentals of Football and the
Symphony Orchestra. Room 405 Old Main. See
special program.
1:30-5:00 P. M.—Superintendents’ Conference. Demonstrations
1 of Educational Uses of Talking Motion Pictures.
’Room 405 Old Mam. See special program.
3:00 P. M. —Lecture, "Tolstoy as a Dramatist,” by C. W. Hasek,
Professor of Economics. Room 315 Mineral Indus-
tries Building.
7:00 P. M.—Demonstrations of Educational Uses of Talking Mo
% tion Pictures. See special program. Room 405
Old Main.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1
7:00 A. M.—Excursion to the State. Hospital for the Insane, Dan
ville. Will leave from the Auditorium* Transpor
, tation tickets will be on sale at Summer Session
Office, Education Building, and Student Union Office,
Old Main, until Friday noon. Cost $2.50.
% SUNDAY, AUGUST 2
7:00 P< M.—Vesper Song Service. Address by Dr. Raymon
Kistler, Central Presbyterian Church, Rochester! N.
t i . Y. Open Air Theatre.
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flptm itatr @
Ancient Coral Reef
Is Discovered Near
Bedford Quadrangle
DaVid Carter '32, a geology stu
dent at Penn State, while recently
working on a geological survey of
the Bedford Quadrangle, discovered
a coral reef in the mountain side, ac
cording to Prof. C. A. Bonine, head of
the department of geology.
The reef is described as about fif
teen feet thick and has been traced
.ten miles through the Bedford moun
tains. The Lincoln Highway crosses
the former sea barrier about four
miles west of Bedford Springs.
The coral reef, according to Pro
fessor Bonine, is probably several
hundred million years old, a record
left in the rocks of the time when
Pennsylvania territory was under the
sea.
HOMER TO DISCUSS
DRAMA ON TUESDAY
Theatrical Authority Concludes
Series of Lectures Here in
Schwab Auditorium
Frances Homer, nationally ,known
diseuse, wiiT present a series of
sketches in Schwab auditorium at 8
o’clock Tuesday night. She will con
clude the Summer Session series of
visiting lecturers, having ns her topic
"Dramatic Sketches.”
Miss Homer spent an apprentice
ship of five years playing leading
roles in the American theatre. She
has also written and published several
plays. Determining to write and act
her own parts, she has turned to
sketches.
Stresses Imagination
Unlike the usual monologist who
deals with incident alone. Miss Ho
mer contends that action translates
character. Her sketches arc called
by critics "tiny dramas, some of
whose characters are amusingly fa
miliar, others whose charm lies in
their very remoteness, but nil pulsat
ing with life,—a street waif, a debu
tante, a South American Tango danc
er, a high school English teacher, or
an immigrant.” v
"With the swirl of a shawl, the an
gle* of a hat, the line of a negligee,
■she boldl^ 'depicts a living person—a
stool Becomes:a covered wagon, a
chair burned about is a steam ship’s
rail,” said one reviewer.
TO ENTERTAIN ORCHARDISTS
Preparations are being made to en
tertain several thousand orchardists
from all sections of the State at field
days sponsored by 'the College in the
Trexler Orchards, nine miles from
State College on Tuesday.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1931
‘WAR SURE TO COME
DESPITE PEACE TALK/
SA YS JOHN BAKELESS
Disarmament Conferences May Delay .Crisis,
But Balkan Rumblings Point Way To
Disaster, Editor Thinks
"There is no use pretending that there will be no more war,” John
Bakclcss, authority on economic causes for war, told a Collegian represen
tative Thursday night. Behind his statement was an intimate knowledge
<of European conditions, the recollection of interviews in the Balkans, of
armed -troops m peace, of a country where Kellogg peace pacts were things
to be laughed at
“Disarmament conferences of the great powers may succeed In putting
off war, may keep it distant for some time,” the former managing editor
of Forum said, "but sooner or later there is bound to be a big smash The
STUDENTS TO VISIT
DANVILLE HOSPITAL
Witness Corrective Treatment
For Insane With Dr. Pike
Saturday Morning
To view the correctional treatment
practiced at the Danville State hos
pital of the insane, excursionists will
leave at 7 o’clock Saturday morning
to attend the clinic of Dr. Horace V.
Pike, whose scries of lectures will be
concluded here next Monday night.
Under 1 the guidance of Dr Pike,
visitors will be given an opportunity
not only to sec actual cases of insan
ity during a clinical lecture at the
hospital, but to observe the methods
undertaken to cure those who arc
mentally diseased or defective.
“Liquor Causes Insanity”
In the last of his senes of talks,
Dr Pike will deal with “Problem
Children in Our Schools” in Schwab
auditorium at 8 o’clock Monday night.
He explained "Why People Go In
sane” in his last discussion.
The four- most important causes
of insanity arc a combination of poor
heredity and wrong environment, al
cohol,. narcotics, and venereal dis
ease, according to the clinical psy
chiatrist. ‘
"There are only two types of per
sonality m the narrow sense of
•word,” Dr Piko ( said. -/‘The first, is
nqrmal; the second, of-mental
disease or mental deficiency,• is un
able to adjust himself to the, condi
tions in which he Is placed Ho is one
of'"life’s ‘misfits”
"Insanity,” he said, distinguishing
the word from its common usage, "is
a prolonged departure from an indi
vidual’s normal method of thinking,
feeling or acting, so that he is unable
to cope with his environment.”
395,-107 In Hospitals
Mental disease is not ’usually an
overnight affair, he pointed out. There
; are many people who ore mentally
i diseased or defective, who are not
legally insane.
To show how vital was the question
of mental disease, Dr Pike quoted
figures showing 'chat today 395,407
individuals were cared for m hospitals
for the insane, an increase of approx
imately 46,000 over last-year. More
hospital beds are employed to care
for the mentally abnormal than for
all physical disorders, he said. |
Venereal disease has taken its toll
of ton percent of the population, Dr.
Pike warned. He quoted figures show- 1
mg that 423,000 such cases were ob
served by Federal authorities alone,
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OVERHOLTS GETS LEAVE
FOR FEDERAL RESEARCH
College Grants Botanist 5 Months
To Study Plant Disease
At the request of government au
thorities, Dr L. O Overholts, profes
sor of botuny, has been granted a five
months leave of absence from the
College to initiate a new lino of re
search. Dr. Overholts was selected
By the Office of Forest Pathology of
the United States Department of Ag
riculture as the outstanding special
ist in the country on plant diseases
of native forests
The resonreh which the govern
ment is undertaking looks toward the
control of diseases which occur in east
ern hardwood forests by means of
proper management. Dr. Overholts
will spend several months this sum
mer and fall making a general sur
vey of conditions in Louisiana
The attempt to control forest dis
ease through forest management in
(he East is the outgrowth of results
obtained in California Dr Ovcrholts
has a problem more complicated be
cause of a greater variety of trees
in this section of the country.
might well be placed on
In discussing the 'present German
situation, Mr. Bakclcss pointed out
that while every nation was intent
upon avoiding the crisis, a failure of
the present German government, en
tailing a .transfer of power to Com
munist or Nationalist parties, would
be disastrous
Balkans War-like
"Should either communists or na
tionalists step into power in Ger
many, France would again move in; it
is very probable that Russia Avould
move to support any communistic up
rising, and the Balkan states woulc
gladly add fuel ‘to the fires of any
war,” he said
“The Kellogg peace pnet is a mat
ter for laughter m the Balkans,"
Bakelcss said. "I remember Mark
ham of the Christian Science Monitor
asked me if people in the United
States really believed in that treaty ’’
". . . and then people in the mid
west speak of laying aside all arms
It's the good-hearted peace-loving
Kansans w*ho will get America into a
difficult position yet, because they
don’t know what they’re talking about
when .they call for world peace They
can't get the viewpoint of other
countries.”
"The leader of the Intcr-Macedon
ian league told me quite frankly tha'
he was eager for war in 1929,” Bake
less said. "He admitted that he was
not troubled m the least by thr
thought of a w’orld-wule struggle, as
long as his nation was freed ”
"An Open Frontier”
Mr. Bakeless interviewed this man
ifrom a position between‘two’ guard's
As he asked his questions the Bul
garian army was marching in front
of him. He described that moment
as one of the most exciting in his life
He told of stepping up to the bor
der between Bulgaria and Jugo-Slav
ia, and preparing to march across it
There were three guardhouse? on one
side, one on the otliei side of the lit
tle three-inch trench that marked the
frontier. A regiment was on parade
across the line. j
His attendant stopped him hastily,
told him that to place his foot across
that frontier six inches was instant
death.
j "They look at your passport after
ward,” the guard explained Yet this
was a frontier which had been "open"
for eight months.
Germany and Austria could be
made one country by the scratch of
a pen in case of war, according to
Bakelcss He pointed out that the
German police force, numbering 150,-
000 men, was better equipped, and
1 more military, than nn army Hr
(tom of watching them quell a not in
I record time without a single com
■ mand, as he timed them from a posi
, tion flattened against the side of a
wall.
"A number of things can’t he ex
plained just now'," he said "There
arc some who still wonder why a Ger-
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EDUCATIONAL Mi
IN CLASSSOOM, l
"I’m taking n cut m vitaphone 34
today.”
If the Electrical Research Products
corporation is right in its experimen
tation with the U3c of sound pictutcs
in the classroom, a member of the
class of 1945 may mutter such a re
mark to Ins neighbor at breakfast
As part of the Superintendent’s
Conference, a demonstration of the
educational uses of talking motion
pictures will be conducted in room
405 Old Main from 9 30 until 12 20
o’clock tomorrow morning and from
1:30 to 5 o’clock tomoirow afternoon,
with a third program at 7 o’clock to
morrow night.
Believing that fundamental college
courses enn be taught on a large scale
through tho medium of sound pic
tures, the corporation has produced
two dozen reels by famous educator*-
which will be presented here One
argument advanced for this medium
of teaching is that students may
study under great men whom tl,» y
2 STUDENTS KILLED,
2 SERIOUSLY HURT,
AS CAR HITS TRUCK
Robert Hippie, Helen F. Brooks
Die in Accident Early
Yesterday Morning
CASHDOLLAR, KEN MILLER
ARE CRITICALLY INJURED
Car Strikes Parked Machine on
Philipsburg Road 1 Mile
North of Triangle
Two students were killed and two
were seriously injured when the auto
mobile m which they were nding col
lided with a parked truck one mile
north of -the Triangle on the road to
Philipsburg at about 3 o’clock yester
day morning.
Robert M. Hippie, a senior at the
College last year, and Miss Helen F.
Brooks, who has been studying here
'his summer, were killed. Howard
Cashdoltar and Kenneth E. Miller are
both in the Philipsburg hospital.
Cashdollar, who suffered a frac
tured skull, was reported to be in an
■'xtremely serious condition at a late
hour yesterday. Neither men had re
gained consciousness.
Hits Parked Truck
The car, driven by Hippie, was re-,
turning along the mountain road from
Philipsburg when it crashed head-on
into the truck, which was parked for
repairs with two wheels on the con
crete
Miss Brooks was registered in the
graduate school for the Summer Ses
sion and was to secure her Master of
Arts’ degree next Thursday Shi
wa3 a graduate of "Wilson College.
Hoi father, Dr. John D. Brooks, of
Chamborsburg, is a member of the
Wison College faculty and is a lectur
er of education attached to the Penn
State brunch school in Altoona this
lUmmcr
Hippie, who w'as a senior at
College thrs year, was a member of
he Thespians, College dramatic so
:iety, hnd of lambda Chi Alpha fra
‘ermty. His home was in Williams
port
KISJTLER TO GIVE j:
VESPER ADDRESS
Pastor of Rochester Presbj tcrian
Church Will Conduct Last
Service Sunday
Dr Raymond Kistler, pastor of the
Central Presbyterian church, of
Rochester, New York, will deliver the
last of the series of Vesper talks at
7 o’clock Sunday night in the outdoor
amphitheatre
Dr. Kistler made his last appear
ance before the Penn State student
body last May in a regular chapel
oCivice His talk on Sunday will
mark his fourteenth address here.
The New York pastor was graduat
ed from Westminster College and the
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Im
mediately nfoer lus college work he
held two pulpits in the city of Pitts
burgh, and was for seven years pas
tor at the Presbyterian church in
Warrens.
CLASS OF 1922 GATHERS
Members of the Penn State class
of 1922 gathered Sunday afternoon
in Old Main in order to formulate
plans for the ten year reunion in
1932, according to the permanent
class secretary, Elliott Overdorf.
'OVIES MAY REPL
DEMONSTRATOR,
otherwise could never have known.
The demonstration is under the di
rection of Mr. V. C. Arnspiger, di
rector of the research department of
the Electrical Research products com
pany Each reel will last eleven
minutes.
The scries of reels, with uchedulcd
time of their production, is.
I.4s—"The Study of Infant Behav
ior,” bv Dr Arnold Gcscll, Director
of the Yale Psychoclimc.
2 08—“ The Testing of Child Intel
ligence,” by Mrs. Ina C. Sartorius, of
Horace Mann school
2.3o—“Teaching of Reading,” by
Dr Arthur I. Gates, Coluihbia.
2:s2—"The Symphony Orchestra”
(String Choir).
3:o3—"The Elementary Teacher ns
a Guide," by Dr. B. H. Bode, Ohio
State university
3:2s—“Dynamic Learning,” by Dr
W. H. Kilpatrick, Columbia univer
sity.
3:6o—"The Creative Approach to
Barbour To Address
173 Summer Session
Graduates Thursday
Brown University President Will Speak During
Annual Commencement Exercises
In Schwab Auditorium
One hundred and seventy-three Summer Session students will receive de
grees from the College at the eighth annual summer commencement at 7
o’clock next Thursday night in Schwab Auditorium. Approximately 121 will
complete undergraduate work, while 52 will be awarded advanced degrees.
Dr Clarence A Barbour, president
of Brown University, will deliver the;
commencement address Dr. Barbour
is a frequent visitor to State College
and is well known by students here
His visit next week will mark his
twelfth appearance before a local
audience
Award Advanced Degree
After his graduation from Brown
in 1888 with a degree of Bachelor of.
Arts, the present university execu
tive, author and editor, received his
Doctor’s degree from the Rochester
Theological Seminary in 1891.
Also in 1891 Dr. Barbour was or
dained into the Baptist minstry and
held the pastorate of Lake Avenue
church m Rochester for eighteen
years Following his stay in Roches
ter he served on the faculties of Col
gate, Denison, and Syracuse Universi
ties, as well as Colby and Williams
Colleges.
One of the advanced degrees which
will be bestowed by the College, the
first ever awarded by Penn State, will
be the Doctor of Education degree to
Harry Krincr, dean of instruction at
the California State Teacher’s Col
lege
Education School Leads
The School of Education will award
the most undergraduate degrees, 52
receiving bachelor of science degrees
and 27 bachelor of arts. The School
of Engineering will give 12 diplomas,
School of Liberal Arb.ll; School of
Chemistry and Physics, 9; School of
Mineral Industries, 5, and -the School
of Agriculture, 5
Faculty and graduate student ord
ers for academic costumes for Sum
mer, Session commencement should
be presented at 101 Horticulture build-1
mg not later than 5 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon Delayed orders will en
tail additional cost
HASEK TO DISCUSS
TOLSTOY’S DRAMA
Economics Professor Will Talk in
315 Mineral Industries at
3 O’clock Tomorrow
“Tolstoy as a Dramatist” will be
the topic of Dr. Carl W\ Hasek, pro
fessor of economics, in a lecture in
room 315 Mincrul Industries build
ing: at 3 o'clocK tomorrow afternoon.
Dr. Hasek’s discussion will be the
fifth of a senes of talks on drama to
be presented during the Summer Ses
sion In \.he last lecture of the group,
Prof. Arthur C. Cloetingh, director
of dramatics at Penn State, will deal
with “Contemporary Tendencies m
rEnghsh Drama Tuesday afternoon
Dr. George Wurfl discussed "Goe
the's Faust One Hundred Years After
Its Completion” m the talk Friday
; afternoon Previous lectures covered
j phases of Greek, French and English
| drama The scries is presented an-
I nunlly by faculty members interested
I in drama.
A
CE PROFESSOR
SEEK TO PROVE
Education,’’ by Hughes Mcarns, New
York university
4 12—“ The Symphony Orchestra."
(Brass Chou)
4 24—" Guidance in Public Schools,"
by Dr Richard D. Allen, Providence,
R I
4:96—"Finding the Right Voca
tion," by Dr Harry D. Kitson, Colum
bia umveiMty.
5 00—" The Builders.”
Thoic will also be several reels giv
ing instruction in football during the
morning. The woodwind choir and
percussion instruments will also be
demonstrated in reels tomorrow
morning.
Among the Intest of innovations In
educational circles, the experiment 1?
still a novelty even among educators
It has seldom been tried before The
Superintendent’s Conference was
chosen for its demonstration to en
able countiy district school leaders
to view the possibilities of such edu
cative methods.
Summer Edition
PRICE TEN CENTS
STATE EDUCATORS
HOLD CONFERENCE
Continue 10th Superintendents’
Week Program Here With
Meetings Today
With more than 200 school super
intendents from all parts of the
State registering here for the tenth
annual Superintendents' Week, hardly
a county m the Commonwealth is
without a representative The ses
sions opened yesterday morning.
Yesterday die subject which was
dealt w ith by the educators was "Im
provement of Instruction," with em
phasis placed on teacher training. To
day the speakers will deal with "Live
Educational Questions of the Day,"
and tomorrow wuh “New Influences
and Agencies in Education ”
Hold Dinner
The State schoolmen will learn by
observation the latest methods of
instruction as applied m the demon
stration school which includes all
grades from kindergarten to high
school. The pupils ore student from
State College who are taking advan
tage of additional instruction during
the summer.
Prominont speakers who are here
from other States include John M.
Foote, of Louisiana Department of
Education; Percy E. Davidson, of
Stanford University, California, Don
ald J. Kelly, of Binghampton, New
York, Cynthia Ruggles, of Ypsilanti,
Michigan, and George A. McGarvej,
lof fhe Federal Board of Vocational
Training
The Superintendents held their an
nual dinner at the Nittany Lioh Inn
last night. The three-day conference
includes six sessions dealing with
various phases of educational work.
A program of entertainment for the l
visitois has also been arranged. J
POTATO CONCLAVE
LISTS M’SPARREN
State Secrctar) of Agriculture Is
First Speaker Scheduled for
Exposition August 24-26
John A McSparran, secretary of
the Pennsylvania Department of Ag
riculture, will be the opening speaker
of the Potato Exposition here August
24-26, L T. Denniston, executive sec
retary of the exposition announced
yesterday.
Secretary McSpairan will discuss
possibilities and advantages of Penn
sylvania agriculture. He will stress
the economic position of potatoes in
State farming systems. Five thou
sand visitors are expected to be here
uunng the exposition.
Mrs. Clara C Phillips, of Wash
ington, Pennsylvania, only woman
trustee of the College, will address
the women visitors here August 25.
Mrs. Phillips will explain the value
of Penn State to the women of the
Commonwealth
Another speaker of importance
during the exposition will be A. P.
Yerkcs, nationally known editor of
Tractor News, published by the In
ternational Harvester company. Mr.
Yerkcs will discuss "Economic Chang
es Due to Machinery Development."
He hus hod blond experience in re
lating farm machinery to progres
sive agriculture.
WPSC WILL BROADCAST ON
NEW SCHEDULE NEXT WEEK
For the concluding radio programs
next week in the senes of twilight
musicals from WPSC, tjie College ra
dio broadcasting station will open at
6:80 o’clock instead of 7 o’clock, Eas
tern Standard Time.
An additional alti action has been
scheduled tentatively for next week,
the Boalsburg Banjo Band having
been invited to give a concert at 6:30
o’clock Monday. On Tuerfclay and
Wednesday the artists will ngain be
students of music attending Penn
State.