4 4 COMPLETE CAMPUS ESTABLISHED COVERAGE „ .11 ,taitg e ct urgia n 4 1904 VOL. 28, No. 27 FACULTY MEMBERS SUBSCRIBE $17,456 FOR RELIEF FUNDS 910 of College Staff Contribute To Unemployment Cause, Report Reveals DEAN STEIDLE DIRECTS GROUP ON DISTRIBUTION January 12 Set as Final Report Date--Subscription Drive Terminates May 1 Funds totalling $17,456 were sub scribed by 910 staff members of the College to the unemployment relief fund, according to a report by Dean Edward Steidle, chairman of the ap peal committee, Friday. The time for receiving subscrip tions was extended by the committee. to January 12 when a final report is to be made. Any subscription, how ever, will be gladly accepted by the committee up to Slay 1, Dean Steidle said The disposal of $19,537 from the fund was left to the discretion of the disbuising committee by the givers while $1,922 was specifically marked to go to the student loan fund The sum of. $368 was marked for special cases with $395 assigned by the givers for local relief. Other as signments included $l9B for State re lief and $93 for county relief. Cush Fund Distnbuted Approximately $6OO, or half of the amount teemed in cash, was distrib uted by the committee before the end of the holiday season to a certain sec tion of Centre county known-to be in dire need The first progress report of the Lommittze is being mailed to faculty membem today in the Faculty Bac he It is apparent that the greatest amount of relief should be given to isolated, poorly organized regions where there is actual starvation and suffering, the report states. "The committee is now making a suney of all recognized relief agen cies in the State and is engaged 3n assimilating data on every county.in the State which has been collected by the College staff and from records oh tamed though the State Welfare Bu reau, Department of Public Health, and other authentic sources," the re port showed, STATION RESUMES DAILY BROADCAST WPSC Presents Talks by . Members Of Paean) After Recess During Vacation Radio station WPSC recommenced its regular daily broadcast yesterday with two talks by faculty members. The station's program had been dis continued during Christmas vacation Prof. Ina Padgett, of the home eco nomics department, spoke on "Glimp ses of Our Vitamin Knowledge" in the d o'clock program. Prof James B lielme, of the architecture depart ment, gave the first of a series of talks on "Our Changing World of Mo tel ads Used in Construction" In tomorrow afternoon's broadcast, Prof. Mason Long, of the English lit erature department, will discuss "The American Ballad" and Prof Franklin B. Krauss, of the classical language department, will speak on "Educa tion and Youth." Agricultural news notes were an nounced in yesterday noon's program, and College news briefs will In pre sented ut the same hour today. DUTCHER, HALEY TEXTBOOK RELEASED BY PUBLISHERS "Introduction to Agricultural Blo chenustry," a textbook written by Pi of. It. Adams Dutcher, head of the department of agricultural and bio logical chemistry, and Dr Dennis E. Haley, professor of soil and phyto chemistry, was released by the pub lisher for distribution Saturday. An outgrowth of lectures presented to agricultural students over a period of twenty years, the book is designed for those students interested in the pail that chemistry has played in the development of agricultural science. ULERICII ACCEPTS POSITION William K. Ulerich '3l, editor-in chief of the COLLEGIAN Ina year, has accepted a position on the staff of the State College Time. He assumed Lis duties yesterday. - Hetzel Envisions University Of 15,000 Within 50 Years Students Here Equal Those at Endowed Schools, President Claims in Speech Before State Educational Meeting A university of twelve to fifteen thousand resident students with a comparable research organization is the vision of Penn State fifty years from now which President Ralph D. Hetzel pre sented to the State Education Association at its meeting in Pitts burgh last week. Speaking on "Certain University Progiams in the Common wealth," Dr Het: eel outlined the present and fu ture policy of the College. He de fined the College as a "public in stitution in the field of higher education in very much the same, sense as are the public schools in secondary educa tion " "On account of ulmission require. DR. HETZEL ments, the stu dents of the College represent , in terms of ability and attitude a group definitely superior to those admitted to the state untversities and colleges of the county and comparable, I am sure, to those granted admission into the most discriminating of out endow ed colleges and umsersittes," the president said Dr. Hetzel definitely committed the College to a full and fair trial of an athletic policy which emphasizes the attempt to "make every possible and reasonable effort to improve the health and physical well-being of all the young men and young women seho come to it seeking the benefits of its educational ministry" above any other objective. "The funds Da' the maintenance of the work of the ir..' , tutior hire lag- (Continual on page two) SHOW TO FEATURE MYSTERY EFFECTS Players Will Employ Intricate Sets In Production of 'The Black Flamingo' on Jan. 16 Trait des ices for mystery effects v.lll make the single set used in ''The Black Flamingo," to be presented January 16 by Penn State Players, one of the most difficult to build, according to William II A Laudon singer '32, stage manages for the pro duction. With the action of the play taking place in the interim of an old, broken down castle which has been trans formed into a tavern, It will be neces sary to create an atmosphere of mys tery which the play demands, Laud . enslager said. Gilbert S. Shutt 'l2 will design the scenery. The name of the play is &lived from the scene of action, the Black Flamingo tavern, so-culled because of a painting on the huge stone fire place in the main room Located on a load leading from Paris to the bor der, the tavern is the stopping place for a party of fugitive nobles. ' An attempt to lob, them, followed by an attempt on the part of einzed peasants to kill all in the Thirty adds zest to the main theme of the stusy, the mysterious disappearance of a Jeweled necklace. Student Leaders Oppose Prohibition, Score Compulsory Military Training Opposition of prohibition as it now exists but refusing to condemn the Volstead act sins the action taken by the National Student Federation of America at' its seventh annual con vention held in Toledo, Ohio, last week, If. Aubrey Mye,s '32, one of the two Penn State delegates at the convention, reports. A resolution denouncing prohibi tion in its present form was intro duced by James C. Wilson, of the University of Missouri, and adopted by a vote of 63-to-10. The second Imotion made by Laurence A. Pratt, of Kansas State University, asking the convention to go on accord as op posed to the Volstead act was defeat ed by a 50-to-31 balloting, with thirty delegates declining to vote Many of those who favored the previous °so lution refused to support Pratt on the ground that his motion was unwise as a matter of policy. At one of the sessions Dr. livery STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1932 ORATORS TO ARGUE ATHLETIC SUBSIDIES Dual Debates Scheduled With Franklin and Marshall On February 12 A dual debate with Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, on the question of athletic scholarships has been scheduled for February 12, ac cording to Prof John H. Frazell, of the public speaking division With one Penn State team defend ing one side of the question here and the other supporting the opposite side at Lancaster, both contests will be held in the Oregon style The first scheduled debate is with Juniata College on the State Social ism-Capitalism question at Hunting don on January 20, with Penn State defending the negative. Arrange ments have also been completed for a radio debate over WPSC on the same question with Dickinson College on February 28 Hold Extension Debate Pairing with representatives of American University, Washington, D C, "and William hnd Mary College, Williamsburg, Va , Milton I. Balding er '33 and Charles A. Myers '34 each won one debate by an audience decis ion in two split-team contests on the State Socnalism-Capitalism quustion on December 16 and 18. In the debate at Washington, D. C, on December 16, Myers supported the affirmative side with W Earl Mem sup '32, of American University, to defeat Baldinger and W. Yule Fisher '32, of American University, by an audience vote. Ballinger, pairing with J. James McPherson '33, of William and Mary College, upheld the negatne side of the question to win an audience de cision over Myers and Mernll Brown '32, of William and Mary College, by a vote of twenty-one to fifteen on December 18. This debate was an extension contest held before the Women's club of West Point, Virginia MOTORCYCLE CRASH KILLS STUDENT DURING VACATION Kurt Zimmer, 20, a sophomore in the mechanical engineering curricu lum, died from Injuries received when his motorcycle skidded last Saturday afternoon at Swarthmore. &annul, who lives in Ogden, was unable, to tell how the accident hap pened when he regained conscious ness for a few moments before his death. DEUCHELE, DEIKE ENGAGED The engagement of Miss Anne Bue chel°, Student Umon secretary, te, George H. Deike Jr. '3l was announc ed Friday N. hfcCraelcen, president of Vassar College, said, "Students are not people because they do not function as people should They are not influ ential enough either on the manage ,ment of then own collegiate affairs or m the determination of public opin ion and public policies." Dr McCracken urged greater stu dent participation in the operation of colleges and stressed the fact that if students are to be influential mem bers of their civic communities after their own graduation, they must learn to manage their own affairs as college students. The convention went on record as I opposing compulspry military train ing, favoring America's entry into the World Court and the League of Nations, deploring armed interven tion to protect Amen can investments abroad, and advocating, arbitration to settle international disputes. South ern delegates dissented. LIONS WILL MEET EASTERN LEADERS IN SPRING SPORTS Baseball Nine's Schedule Places Harvard, Yale, Princeton On Proposed Trip TRACKMEN MAY TRAVEL ' TO LOS ANGELES TRIALS St. Johns, Maryland, Terrors Included a' Stickmen's Home Opponents Penn State's sin mg sports teams will encounter nmoy of the leading teams in the East in intercollegiate competition this year, an early glance at the tentative scheduling arrange ments reveals Although the baseball team will not engage to a southern training trip for the first time in years, an attrac tive eastern trip has been arranged during which the diamond represen tatives of the "big three"—Harvard, Yale, and Princeton—mill be met The usual northern gaunt for Triangu lar Association games with Syracuse and Colgate 4 m also scheduled, May Compete in West State College 'aisehall fans will have the opportunity of seeing the Triangular Association champions in action against Army, Lehigh, Temple, Colgate, Syracuse. Juniata, Susque hanna, and Dickinson Since the scheduling arrangements arc not com plete, it is possible that several more games may be added to the home card. The track team, undefeated in four dual meets last year, mill defend its laurels against three strong oppon ents, present arrangements disclose Pittsburgh will bednet in the only en counter on New:Beaver Plaid, while North Carolina and Army will pro vide opposition away The cmdermen will also compete in the Penn Relay carnival at Philadel phia and will probably send represen tatives to the intercollegiates being held at Los Angeles this yeas under the auspices of the Olympics commit tee. St. Johns of Annapolis, internation al champion, is a newcomer to the (Continued on genic Ion,) SANKEY RECEIVES $lOO SCHOLARSHIP John W. White Spanish Allard Gnen To Junior Following Apprinal Of Preudent, Senate Nancy B Sankey ',13 was awarded the John W. White Spanish scholar ship of $lOO following an examina tion conducted by the department of Romance languages deportment and the approval of the president and the College senate. Although the original giant pro vides for the awarding of three schol arships, only one was given because then mere no candidates eligible for the other two No anent noes made a student from a Spanish-speaking muntry oi to one enrolled in coning or engineering for this reason The price which Miss Sankey gain ed was open to any school of the Col lege The examination on the basis of which the award was nude consist ed of translation, composition, and conversation The Senate endotsed Student Coun cil's recommendation to the Trustees advocating change in the manner of awarding the White and Carnegie class scholarships. The proposal places the selection squarely on the basis of need. ANNUAL INSTITUTIONAL WEEK FOR FARMERS OPENS TODAI The sixth nnnuul Institutional Farmers' Week conducted by the School of Agriculture opened today and will continue tomou ow and Thursday Superintendents, manag ers, and farm operators as represen tatives of charitable, and educational institutions are attending the there day program. Included an the list of speakers foi today are Prof. Andrew A. Borland, head of the department of dmry hus dandry, Prof. Frank D. Cimino, head of the agronomy department, Dr. Charles F. Noll, superintendent of the College fauns, and Prof. Ralph U Blaslngame, head of the agricultural engineering department. Sports Heads Favor Change ' In Athletic Letter Awards Lasich, Lewis, Bezdek, Higgins, Fleming Score Present Classification As Antiquated But Give Varied Solutions II) Stclncy H. Benjanuti '33 A change is needed in Pep athletic letters if the opinions are to be believed With one accord, Judy Lam Higgins and Neil Fleming have cation as antiquated and outwore BYRD TO LECTURE HERE IN FEBRUARY Noted Arctic Explorer Will Give Illustrated Talk Under P.S.C.A. Auspices Admiral Richard E. Byrd, conquer or of the North and South poles by air, will lecture under the auspices of the Christian association in Schwab auditorium at 8 o'clock on the night of February The address of America's most famed explorer will be supplemented by illustrations of slides and motion pictures collected on his many scien tific expeditions. Some scenes de picted in the recent film success, "With Byrd at the South Pole," will be elaborated upon by the explorer in Ills talk Began Travel Earl> This 11,111 be the first opportunity for students here to hear America's most decorated son Admiral Byrd has been officially cited twenty times for bravery or conspicuous courage sus conduct. He has received th-., thanks of Con ' gross as 'well as the four highest medals the country can give, the Con gressional Medal of Honor, Congres sional Life Slicing Medal, Disting uished Service Modal, and the Flying Cross. Every expedition Admiral Byrd has undertaken has been in the interest of science The noted a, iatoi began his scientific pursuits at the age of twelve when he tra,elled around the world The explorer has been lecturing throughout the country since his re turn from "Little America" near the South pole nearly two years. • He has given accounts of his trii, in most of the large cities of the co. by and has appeared at a large numbei of the colleges and universities in the United States Paul Siple, who at commned Byid on his last expedi tion, spoke in State College last spring. AGRICULTURAL DEPART:BENT PUBLISHES GRADUATE LIST The publication of a directory of its 'graduate, ,as announced by the dc ointment of rigneultural and biologi cal chemistry, Saturday. Issued through tine cooperation of the Fislyir Scientific Company of Pittsburgh, the directory gives a complete listing alphabetically, geographically, and by classes. Almost four hundred students have graduated from this department since its inception in 1910, a survey of the director y shows The department is no, the largest of its kind in under ginduate work in the United States Connoisseurs Delight in Kuniyoshi Lithographs Displayed Here Today •Pictures that make connoisseurs laugh math pleasuie' is the characteri zation often given of the pictures by Yasuo Kuniyoshi whose lithographs will be exhibited in the top nom gal lay room of the Main Engineering building A select collection of the punts mill be shone for two weeks begin ning today. The collection was loan ed by Charles Daniel, of New York city. A sense of line and form inherent in the tradition of Eastern painting make his lithographs among the most pleasing of his - works, critics say. Ile won honorable mention at the 1931 Carnegie International exhibition with one of his paintings and is represent ed by work in the Metropolitan mu scum, the Brooklyn museum, the Car negie Art Institute, and other noted collections of the country. His mink is clunactenaed by his n States present classification of of leading campus sports figures ieh, Al Lewis, Hugo Bezdek, Bob chaiaeterized the pi esent elassih- , but then efforts at solution of the problem show a wide divergence of opinion In fact, they have athanced foul different theories as to ,hat changes should he made Judy Lasich and Al Leans unite in advocating that awards in hosing, wrestling, cotter, cross-country, and lacrosse should he raised to the st, Inch letter n o w9i0.1 given to tette, Iwinners in basketball, baseball, and track They mould keep tennis, golf, gymnastics, and rifle on a malting list with these sports to be given the six inch letter when they hate champion ship or undefeated teams at present and when increased popularity justi fies a Chanr.2 in the future "All spurts should hate the same accord," Director Beadek dams, "I believe that the six-inch letter mould be an ideal award fa all sports with the possible exception of football, which might have a distinctite foot ball letter in mess of its singular po ,sitton in intercollegiate athletics To give snecial awards for undefeated and championship records isto place (Continued on page foto ) CHALFANT NAMED AS NEW TRUSTEE Of SARI Recent tddgion To College Board Appointment of Mis James C Chalfant, of Vi illansburg, to the Col lege Board of nuste, last neck com pleted the list of six membeis of the !bomil appointed by the goseanoi of the State Othoi meinbeis of the board ap pointed recently by Goveinoi Gaud Pinchot are Miss Min once Dthert, of Johnstown and Di Hannah McK Ly on, Osford Othm membe, appoint ed by the goveinin arc Mis Clara C Phillips, of Washington, It W qua, of Chicago, 11l , and E. B Dorsett, of Mansfield Trustees who ictire fiom office at the 1932 meeting of the board ale Holly D. 13toN‘n, of Philadelphia, J B. Wintmer, of Lansfmd, and Sohn II McCormick, of Williainspolt Mrs. Chalfant is a membin of the school [maid of Wilkinsbuig And is active in the State Fuderation of Pennsylvania Women She nas than man of the education department of the federation foi tin yams. At present she is president of the southwest district of the oigiam cation. own statement "I have wish it to es mess the thought of the East, my t wee" He has bsen ihscoveiud laugh ing um 0111. Musty ,01110 sitting alone in his studio, painting 'I hus a subtl, eaticatui e is appment in a number of had human figures Bain in Japan, he came to the Unit ed States at Hi, age of thirteen and studL , d art.in this country Hoacvm, his woi k was enthusiastically rem, ed at a lucent une-man clinic in Tokio, Japan Prof. Remold E Dickson, of tho ar chitecture department, will speak. on "Signs of Vitality in American Paint ing" next smock in connection with the exhibit. "These unusual and highly personal hthogiaphs offer an excel lent mmsme of the weak of one of the most Intel citing paints, in America today," Ptafessoi Dickson said He paused the delicate line quality of the exhibited winks, PRICE FIVE CENTS TAI, HENRY'S BAND TO FURNISH MUSIC FOR SENIOR BALL Orchestra at Fraternity Dance Last Spring Inaugurates 1932 Social Season ARMORY SELECTED AS LOCATION OF FUNCTION Shepard Will Beech e Students' Poster Designs Before Tomorrow Night, Tel Remy and Ins Nei th Catolin. mans home been signed to play lot the Semoi Ball which will be held in the Armory Friday, January Hi, Basil C. Chute '32, committee chairman, an nounced yestm clay. This will be tl. second tune within a year that Tat Item y has played at an all-College dance as he Journe)ed to State College for the second Inter fratermt} Ball which was held in Recreation hall last April Aftiiir playing at the Hotel New Yinkm, New Yolk city, dining the summer, Tal Henry moved West Ilc has now begun a month's tour in the East during which he will make the trip to Penn State before proceeding southward Following a month's tour of the South he will lama to New York city to pilot on location 81=1 Beliesing that it 14 to the students' benefit, Cline said, the committee ha, selected the Aiinory because music the, can be apprecmted The Al mory is lingo enough for the Senior Ball attendance, lie added, and it can be decorated mote completely and elaborately The caliber of Tal Henry's musici ans, the chairman said, is indicated by the fuct that the plat.t. of tric North Carolinians in Nen York city was taken by the Coon-Sanders band when the fomei's engagement was complet ed In addition to it new singing trio, Tal Horny will bring with him Tas IValteis, his well-known soloist. Postn a made by students adsertis ,mg Semi Ball are to be submitted to Robert 0 Shepard '32 at the Alpha Chi Rho house by (3 o'clock tomorrow night, in milts that the tuo prize winneis can be announced befrac neat week. BEZDEK APPROVES INFORMAL DANCES Student Union To Hold 3 All.Collugn I=l EIMEMEI Approcal by Ito ector Hugo Benl.tk, of the Phystcal Education School, pav ed the way oesteiday Inc the holding of trammel dances aftm three of tho basketball games this syastin Under a pnto,al made by the Stu that Bawd, the I-•ticlent Union 'm sponsor dances to ,luch admission may be old tined ho meson" , at the games ot by Athletic assochttion cards. David P. Young '.32 is chair man of the committee making al tangenrents lot the fut,hon4 The dances NOl be held on thi or of the followmg four dates, Januaty 00 ,Ith the S}tacuse game, belt! nary b with the Bucknell game, Fclnuary 20 with the \Vest Vlrguna game, and March 5 with the Pitt game. The dances will hewn Immediately .diet the games and LI - nt:lac until 12 o'clock, Young said Thy purpose of the danc, is to provide more all-Col lege fum.tions and to ant in entertain ing ctvdug teams I=l I=l The n Intel shots cool ses m agri tultute and dory manufaLtul ing of. feral by the School of Agrmulture opened yesterday it ith v'.ty students on oiled. Coin ses in genet al fuming, hoiti- Lulline, poultry husband! y, vegetablo gardening, ice "cam making, mill. testing, dun y pt oduction, and butter and eli,esc malting ate among the mile range of subjects being given. BRESSLER TALE CANCLILLED Dr linyinond G. Bressler, pre,dent of Rhode Island State College and foiluer sico-dam of the School of Ag ileultuic hole, law cancelled the lee tom ulnell he was scheduled to give at I o'clock tomes l on aftei noon, Dean Ralph L. Watt., of the School of Ag licultule, announced yesteiday
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