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Vol. 28, No. 10
Penn State To Hold
Eleventh Dad's Day
Exercises Tomorrow
Van Etten Will Speak
At Sunday Chapel
In Auditorium
SMOKER, CAMPUS TOURS
INCLUDED ON PROGRAM
Informal Gathering Features
Short Talks, Tap Dances,
Piano Selections
Students will welcome their par
ents to the campus tomorrow and
Sunday, joining in the celebration of
the eleventh annual Dad's Day at
Penn State with a program which se
cludes a smoker, campus tours, and
a chapel address by 8.,. Edwin J.
Van Etlen.
"If Cideon's Well Could Speak," is
the subject of the chapel address on
Sunday morning in Schwab auditor
ium Rev. Van Etten is the pastor
of Calvary church, Pittsburgh. He
is a graduate of Amherst and the
Episcopal Theological School at Cam
bridge, Mass.
Rev. Van Etten has received the
doctor of divinity degree from the
University of Pittsburgh and Alleg
heny College. In 1921 he was a
pioneer in broadcasting his church
services over the radio. Rev. Van
Etten is active in work with the blind
and has been honored by being in
itiated into Phi Beta Kappa
An informal smoker in the Armory
at 7 o'clock tomorrow night with
short talks by Prof. John H. Prase%
College Chaplain, and Rotrert E. Gal
braith, instructor in ;English compo
sition, is one of the features of the
mcsk-end, Emanuel Perkin, '32 chair
man of the Dad's Day committee, an
nounced H. Aubiey Myers '32, presi
dent of the Student Council, will in
troduce the speakers
To Conduct Campus Tours
In addition to the informal ad
dresses, 3. Ewing ("Sock") Kennedy
and IL Gmce Baer' 34 will present a
tap dance Prof Hummel Fishburn
will offer a number of impromptu
piano selections at various times on
the program. Cider, pretzels and
cigarettes will be distributed during
the smoker.
Miss Charlotte E. Ray, dean of wo
men, will lra in her office on the sec
ond floor of Old Main all day tomor
row to welcome visiting mothers.
Dad's Day will officially open with
the business meeting of the Parents
pssociation tomorrow morning at 0 30
o'clock in the Auditorium.
Following the business meeting the
visitors will be conducted on an in
tensive tour of the campus by 'mem
bers of Blue Key and the Penn State
club. Additional entertainment will
be offered at the Penn State-Dick
inson football game In the afternoon
where it rs planned to hold special
formations between the halves.
ALUMNAE TO HOLD
RECEPTION OCT. 31
State College Group Will Welcome
Graduates in Second Floor
Lounge of Old Mom
The State College group of Penn
State Alumnae will hold a reception
for the returning alumnae from 6 to
7 o'clock October 31 in the second
floor lounge of Old 31am, as part of
the annual Homecoming celebration
that week-end.
The reception will be so timed that
it will take place in the period fol
lowing the football same and poor
to the Alumni benefit concert in Ree
lection hall at 7 o'clock the same
night. Dinner will be served to those
attending the reception in the Old
Main sandwich shop.
Plans lot the alumnae include pal
ticipaticn in almost all of the events
announced for alumni last week. They
will attend the luncheon Saturday at
noon and plan enthusiastic participa
tion in the annual cider party In the
Armin) , that night.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements for the leturning alum
nae is composed of Ellen Burkholder
'2B, assistant to the Dean of Women,
Prof. Julia G. Brill '2l of the English
composition department, and Mrs.
Mary E. Willard '2l, president of the
State College alumnae club.
WILL SPEAK at Eleventh Dad's
Day Chapel
P.S.C.A. WILL OPEN
FINANCE CAMPAIGN
175 Division Leaders To Attend
_"Kick-off" Dinner at Inn
On Monday Night
The annual financial drive of tin
Penn State Christian association will
open Monday night at 6 30 o'clock
uhen over 175 division leaders and
captains attend the "Kick-off" dinner
'at the Nittany Lion.
Clarence E. Christian '32, head of
the financial committee, will preside
at the dinner meeting and will =-
raeduce the speakers In addition to
short talk by Charles P. Smith '32,
president of the Christian association,
Harry W. Seamans, association sec
retsry, WI explain the details of the
canvass.
Goal Set At $3,5110
The main speaker of the meeting
will be Fred B Igler, secretary of
the Christian association at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. A number
of faculty leaders and members of
the Y. W C. A. are also expected to
attend the opening meeting.
The goal of the financial drive will
remain the same as lost year when
it was set at $3,500, Christian said
The dry, will open hlonday night
and it is hatred that all costs ibutions
will be in the hands of the solicitors
by Friday night when the canvass
will officially close.
Solicitors will make a loom-to-room
canvass of fraternities, dormitories,
and boarding houses. This will be
the first year that the faculty will be
solicited at the same time as the stu
dent campaign is being carried on,
the committee chairman said.
INFIRMARY ACCOMMODATES 37
SINCE BEGINNING OF MONTH
Thirty-seven patients have been
admitted to the College millinery
since October lust, according to Dr
Joseph P. Ritenour, College physi
cian
Thirty of the patients souse men,
uhile seven were women stud
ents. Only one case was serious,
necessitating IVMO% al to the Belle
fonte Hospital for nn appendectomy
Dad's Day Entertainments Change
Little in 11 Years of Observance
Although eleven years have passed
sines the lust celebration of Dad's
Day, there has been little change in
the type of entertainment lions that
used back in 1921.
The mind that first conceived the
thought that dads should In given a
little credit for their part in sup
porting the College was not identi
fied in the issue of the COLLEGIAN on
Friday, Amil 29, the day before the
foumal opening of the first Dade' Day
program The Ainnini Monthly and
LaVie didn't even think the event
worthy to mention.
A Playeis' production, a smoker,
with entertainment by the band and
I ' , in sity quartet, sound familiar
' enough, but giving all the dads a ban
quet in McAllister hall, as was done
then, would probably be more than
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1931
65 DELEGATES OF
ENGINEER PAPERS
TO MEET TONIGHT
Official in Publishing Company,
Deans Warnock, Sackett
Will Give Talks
31 COLLEGE AIAGAZINES
HOLD ANNUAL CONCLAVE
Plan Dance Following Speeches
At 'Nittany Lion—lnvite
Pi Delta Epsilon
Over sixty-five delegates to the
eleventh annual convention of Engin
ening College Magazines Associated
will be addressed at a dinner at the
Nittany Lion tonight by Mr. Leon
ard Church, of the McGraw-Hill Pub
lishing company
Mr. Church, who is an authority on
publishing problems, will speak on
"Quick Assets of College Publication
Work." Dean Robert L Sackett, of
the School of Engineering, and Dean
of Men Arthur R Warnock also will
speak at the dinner Alfred H
Funke '32, associate editor of the
Penn State E , rill servo as
toastmaster
Following the addresses a dance
will be held at the inn Delegates to
the convention as well as members of
Pi Delta Epsilon, national honorary
journalism frateinity, are invited to
this function.
Will Discuss Problems
Thirty-one college engineering pub
lications hair sent representatives to
the convention Of this number eight
are present with the purpose of peti
tioning for membership in the or
ganization.
Registration of visiting represents.
Lives 'VMS held at 9 o'clock yesterday
morning in the Student Union office
Adrian 0. Morse, executive secretary
to the President, gave the address of
nelcome at 9 30 o'clock in Room 406
Old Main, 'where all business sessions
are being held.
A groan photo of those attending
the meetings was taken in front of
Old Main yesterday at noon. Lunch
eon for delegates 'was planned to be
served in the Old Main sandwich shop
yesterday and today Round table
discussions on problems of the maga.
ime me scheduled for yesteiday and
today.
To Attend Grid Game
An inspection tour of the campus
was conducted yesterday afternoon
Last night a pasty Mon held at Andy
Lytle cabin Refreshmenti and en
tertainment were provided by the
Penr State Enguteel, under the di
rection of John B. Henry Jr '32, as
sociate editor, Mho Is convention
chairman. '
Mr. Church will speak on "Editing
and Managing the Engineei mg Col
lege Magazine" at a meeting in Old
Mom this afteimion. Tomorrow af
ternoon, the visitors may attend the
Penn State-Dickinson football game,
whole a section has been reserved for
them, or go on a sight-seeing trip
through Nittany valley.
"Pennsylvania Versus the Theatre"
is the subjoct of an article written by
Dr. William S. Dye, professor of
English literature, and published in
thu October issue of the Magazine of
the History of Pennsylvania. The
article deals with thu history of legis
lation against the theatres in Colon
ial times until they uere finally al
lowed by buoy in 1793.
most of the present generation of
co-eds could manage.
A baseball game with Carnegie
Tech sent the parents away happy
'Alen State staged a slugfest, win
ning 18-to-0. Glenn Singer and
Makes , Haines ware then at the
height of their glory, the latter
smashing out a home run with two
on base.
Nine years ago Plot' A Mowry Es
penshadc, then assistant to President
Thomas, found the Parents associa
tion "without a father." HI; reor
ganized the association and started
the Parents of Penn State, originating
the present publication and sending
invitations for the first tune. The
late John S Musser, of Harrishing,
was the lust president of the assoma
tion
Blue Band To Play
At Maroon Contest
Blue Band members will snake
the trip to Easton to play at the
Penn State-Lafayette football game
November 14, according to an an
nouncement by Neil M. Fleming,
graduate manages of athletics.
This is the only coming grid
game away from State College at
which the band svill play this year,
Mr. Fleming said Last year the
band appeared at .the , Lafayette,
Pitt, and Bucknell gam=s avow
from home. Temple and Lafayette
are the cply games the band will
attend this year
LM. SPORTS HEADS
TO MEET TONIGHT
Will Complete Plans for Football,
Cross Country, Horseshoe
Contests Next Week
Intramural team managers will
meet with sports tournament man
agers in Room 417 Old Main tonight,
pieparation for contests starting
next week All entries and fees must
be submitted at this time.
Managers of teams to be entered
in the football tourney will assemble
at 7 o'clock, those in horseshoes at
7.30, and those in moss country at
8 o'clock Entrance fees for football
and cross country teams snail be $lOO
and for horseshoe entries, fifty cents
This is the last opportunity to enter
teams in these tourneys.
All groups entered in intramural
competition last year must submit re
ports of nines gained other ways
than in tournaments at the office of
Dean Hugo Berdek of tH Physical.
Education School before Wednesday
to receive credit toward last year's
Hugo Dudek cup. Material asked
for includes varsity sports managers,
varsity letter men, — gad intramural
tournament managers
No Playoff for Ties
At a meeting of the Intramural ad
visory council Tuesday, George H.
Young '32, student associate manager,
was named chairman of a commit
tee to investigate the advisability of
bringing inter-class sports nudes in
tramural direction. H Aubrey My
ers '32 and Alfred E. Lea is '32 will
sere on the committee
According to new rulings passed at
the .inceting, no play-offs will be held
for tic games in intramural football
this year If both teams score the
same number of first downs in a tie
game, each team will be given tha
ball on the fifty-yard line for bout
downs The train making the most
yardage in these plays will be
clared Siioovr
AU drawings Avill be held in the
presence of the advisory council in
Dean Bezdek's office next week
(Continued on Ingle five)
Y.W.C.A. TO BEGIN
FINANCE CANVASS
Well Start Soboting of Co-ed, on
illonda)—Secks Contributions
For Annual Budget
The finance and membership cam
paigns of the Y. W C. A. will begin
Monday and continue until Friday
night. During till, timc women stu
dents will be visited personally and
asked to contribute to the drive
Money obtained in the finance dune
will be used to cover this year's bud
get, selects scull include expenses for
social secs ice work, discussion
groups, religious activities, and so
cial functions fostered by the Y. W
C. A throughout the year.
With the signing of a card explain
ing the purpose of the "V", women
automatically become niembeis of the
association. The membership cam
paign will be in charge of Elizabeth
M. Kalb '33, vice-president.
Isabel McFarland '3l, treasurer of
the organization and chairman of the
finance committee, will head a group
of division leaders, who are Gladys
A. Kaufman '32, head of the dolma
ory soliciting„ Elizabeth M. Kalb '33,
in charge of the dine among wom
en's fratetnition, and Margaret E.
Borland '3l, who will head the town
girl group,
ATTENDED YORK CONVENTION
Miss Charlotte E Ray, dean of wo
ven, and Miss Edythe P. Chace, head
of the home economics department,
attended the convention of the State
Federation of Women's clubs held at
York Wednesday and Thursday.
LIONS MEET GRIM
DICKINSON ELEVEN
HERE TOMORROW
Higgins Fears Overconfidence
Of Team After Showing
Against Owl Foe
SNYDER, HURT SATURDAY
MAY NOT START CONTEST
State Handicapped by Visitors'
Weight--Stempeck Slated
To Fill Tackle Post
As a pact of the eleventh annual
Dad's Day celebration at the College,
Lion gralders, rested after their
"lash v 6 ith Temple, will engaged a
determined eleN en from Dickinson
College an Nem, Beaver field at 2 30
o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Fearing that his men have gained
a feeling of merconfidence because
of their spirited defensive play in
Philadelphia last meek, Coach Bob
Higgins is anticipating a close con
test with the Catfish opponnit
Although the Lions returned to
State College in a battered physical
condition, arty Shields, substitute
tackle, resey.e end Johnny McAn
drews, and varsity num teiback Bob
Snyder will not be in first class shape
for tomorrow's fray Snyder may be
replaced by Macalem at the signal
calling post before game time, but
Shields and McAndrews will not be
in uniform as they sustained mail ies
at Tuesday's scrimmage session.
trill Bring Strong Team
Coach Joseph McCormick, of the
Dickinson gridders, plans to offer the
Lions plenty of stubborn resistance,
and Coach Higgins is recognizing the
strength of the Carlisle sloven v.ho,
believes, will be primed for tomor
row's engagement
As usual the Lions will take the
field ouhreighed by the opposing
eleven, but the advantage of the visi
tors vv ill not be as gloat as that in
previous games this fall.
Starting a new regime at thr Car
lisle institution in his thst year as
coach, McCormick, feline), leader at
the Hill school, Roxbury high, and
Meicersburg academy, is in chalge of
the team after a long period in which
Penn State graduates have been at
the helm., Zeis Zeismg, a substitute
lineman on last }car's Lion glut
tram, is one of the mainstays of the
Dickinson foleatil wall
Stempeck W ill Start
Penn State has met Dickinson six
teen yews on the gridiron nith the
Lions gaining eleven shutout tido
lies against foul fos th:. Callisle ma
chine. The opening game in 1888
ended in a G-to-G tie and since that
time th-e isomer', goal line has not
been mossed by the losing chosen.
Although Dickinson has had an un
impressive season as far as victories
ale concermil, Coach McCormick's
CIO en %ton its Clot ictosy in two
years at the expense of Jimmta tno
(Continued on ?mut six)
BRING NAMED FRESHMAN
CO-ED TRIAL PRESIDENT
Erdman, Diffenderfer, Kuphe, Stage
Gain Other Temporary Post,.
Mat tha Minn was elected pi esijent
of the freshman women in the fast
set of trial officers chosen Wenn-9-
day night at a me ling in Old Main.
For Ice president, Lucy .1 Emil
man was selected, with M Elizabeth
Diffendufm as sceretary. and Dor
othy Kuphe us tioasurm. Emd Stage
skill hold office as social chanman
This glow) of officers will sem.
until the election of the second hull
set, for nAnch nominations so ill he
made at a mr•tag early nest meek,
meotchng to Harriet R. Henrie 'O3,
class organi,er.
COLLEGE AUTHORITIES DEFER
ACTION ON BULLETIN BOARDS
No definite pl tr , i egatiling bul
ktin bonds on th, C unpus have yet
been foimulated, Gcmge Ebeit,
superintendent of the depai Uncut of
grounds and buildings, said cam
day
"flowerer, when a definite need
exists for a bulletin board en one of
the College buildings, WC comply
with the iequest," he said. "The
movement fin campus bulletin boards
as being agitated constantly, but us
yet we base taken no definite action
on the mattee."
Lions Will Engage
Penn Court men on
Philadelphia Floor
VETERAN GUARD Who Will i
Start Against Dickinson
$.-
$
TOM CORRY,GuAtco
PLAYERS TO OPEN
SEASON TOMORROW
Will Present 'Broken Dashes' in
Auditorium as Dads' Day
Stage Production
Operant; Penn Slate's th unatic sea
son, the Penn State Players ntll pro
duce "Broken Dnshrn" on the stage
of Schsab andltonum at 8 30 o'clock
tonunro, night
Reginald R Kcarton 'i2 will take
th, leading role in the three-act com
edy with which th, dramatic club will
regale spilling parents The cast
winch enacted the play it Commence
ment is largely unchanged and r, di
tected by Prof .lathur C Cloetingh
Th . ; only new member.; of the cast
a^e Sylvia M Mullin ayd Robert,
W. Rachel '3.3 Rca 31. Bhchfchlt '.11!
and James B Gross '3l are cast op.'
posite each other in the parts of the,
young lovers
Orchestra To Play
As MI, Bumpsted, Mt, David D
Mason still tale pail opposite K.,at
ton Hat mat M. Hint, '32 will play
the put of the thud Bumpsted
daughtm, Miss Bllolfahlt and Miss
Mullin being cast as tin &het too
daughte,
Mahlon L '3g is to be seen
th charactei of the Stiangei who
appears nnstermus4 to bring on the
chma‘ of the plan The part of Sam
Gicene, a bosom °II of old Bumnsted,
till be enacted by Austin B home
'32, oHe Benjamin L Wise '33 sti ll
La neon in .mother character ioN
Incidental music mill be pla3,ed be
a re-organized to entN -I,e piece
Pia} s' oichcsti a Lui7nes "Ballet
Egyptian" a ill be played as meal.°
t‘lule Donald A Shelley '32, dnector
of the ouhestaa, has made art:lngo
meats of populai song, o Foch o ill be
Oared beta een the acts.
TO GIVE I' \ CULTY RECEPTION
Act ng Director and MI:. Henry N
Cope of the Mont Alto school of for
estry, scdl gi‘ e a leceptdon tomol roe
aftunoon to faculty mcmbet s at Mont
Alto
Who's Dancing
Alpha Tau Omega
(Closed)
o eddy Gull
Lambda Chi Alpha
(Closed)
Fm gall Too
Pi Kanpa Alpha
(Closed)
God& it So orage
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
(Closed)
C(1111111,8 Ocala
Sigma Phi Sigma
(Open)
Mac and White
Tomorroo Night
Bela Kappa
(Closed)
condo n
Phi Kappa Sigma
(Closed)
Vormtv Ten
Tao Kappa Epsilon
(Closed)
Comp. Ouda
Tau Phi Delta
(Cloud)
Blue anal White
ESTABLISHED
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Nittany Team to Play
In Quaker City
January 27
1932 SCHEDULE INCLUDES
ARMY. FORDHAM ABROAD
Western Maryland Fn e Opens
Season—Pitt Concludes
Campaign Away
After a lap, of a i litar, Penn and
Penn State v ill :gam meet on the
buslictball court at th • Pun Palestra
in Philadelphia Jtynear, 27, announce
ment or the 19d2 Nit an:, schedule
en valid e•Act <las ,
Lion cool moo Lot net Penn I , •b
-runty 2, 1910 v l•-• 11 lost to the
(lurk. flee, 28-to-22 The engage
ment, this canter et ill Lc the thud of
a fift,n game s,hecich. and will he
one of •it lcitial for foreign CJUI
Besides Perin,olsama, thins othet
elm opooncnts mill be met Arm
and Foulhant, tau of the Mire ignt
quint-As in the Bast, and Sun•ata ate
the nets comets to the Lout tnain's
schedule
Nat y, lia t .1, cite, and
Bethany a,a font of last 3 ca,', op
ponents ho not be eimountcmil
during the 1932 season IN ester,,
Mars land m ill play th, opining game
hate Januar, 9, chile Pittsburgh re
tains its position of lest yeai at the
end of the sehcdule
To Pia; Car' gle lech.
, Aft, :netting it— Tenor, the
lLoons (Ice ltriynesbing hgle January
10 Pollommg th s game comes the
trip to Philadelphi ti meet Penn
hania Fianng S„,i,,ouse in the
G; tit I,mugui.” coihst
January .10, too (men open
tour-genie stay Beam-11 mill be met
Fo'neat eats 6, Junta I on the Leah, And
Colgate, in gnothei association con
test, on the thirteenth
TI,, Lion, ins ide Welt Point Tot
the tilt kith the C idols 1 , ..b11.1.1, 17,
and on the following night then mill
rteet FoidhAin in Ness Yot sits Re
turning to St,cte College, they sell
face the West l liginia Mountaineets
on the tmcntioth
Assn, iation g tires udl be played
ith Colitete an I Si 1.11.11 , 0 at Ilan,
ilton and Sit:Atli, on the 20th and
27th Pitt-bin gh e ill be the opponent
the last neountti it home on
March 5 Ti ac cling . to Pitt. hum gh,
the Lions will ince:, Can n4tie Tesh
en Match 11 and lull dose the sno
son against the P rithets the
night.
TRIBUNAL JUDGES
8 CUSTOMS CASES
Carr) ing Signs, Disguising as
1\ . ,n,nn, Coping Songs
I10 , 11111(01 se In appeal on the
Campus Monti e mg consult,
ously paml,l signs , not ths
mused as a Lo,tl. and
wll WI.. 110,11 p: MAI+ St I itmg . many
colons of the Alma Mate!, the flesh
man olds, sew, and 1).4
I.olo`
At the Student 'liibuntl meeting
tl ednesday night tie se punishments
were meted out Its ,t Jm3 of four up
pmlassnien One ease uiet defeit cil
mad nest numth's met hug, and inm
of the (teslnnen summoned failed to
put m lu, app:unmc Sen tent,
w(10 unposed upon .eight or the ten
(le ,huoin whore 02 112, hut Inca
Imminent m , ui 1.1211, NIOIIIIOIS
off,nde, ahu let.clted pumth
meta u.nr Donald Adam , Murpto
Anth T Kennr lb Hanel,. jr, ,
Pte,tun Jahn, John Ku esln,, Woz..
Jot J. Praia", Jam, Su tbb, and fob
-at Wet th
The signs, v huh ate to be worn
in Nal tog sites hlOlll fit e days to
hsooohs, include the following.
"Keep Kissobls," "I'd Wall, a Mile
lot a nal,,th," "His M s Let 's Voice,"
"3las Wrong," and "Ali, tho
',Jetty giass "
Walking. on gt as, and dot paths,
(mho e to stonily matches upon t e.•
quest, es pt e 'set! t ontempt tot cos
toms and tho, enrol Lois; them, I di.
ing bad, to tippet elabsmcn, smoking
in public, and misting meettng novo
sonic of the offenses.