Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Pobliehed seil-weekly during the College year, extent on holidays. by students of The Pennsylvania State College. In the Interest of the College. the stulents. fatuity, alumni. and friends. Tit TIM HANAGING BOARD ROBERT E. TSCHAM '93 ALFRED W. HESSE 311. '33 Editor Business Manager RALPI HETZEL JR. 13 ROBERT 91. HARRINGTON '33 3henaging Editor Circulation Manager, SIMIIL'BENJAMIN 13 PAUL BIERSTEIN '33 port , . Editor Local Advertising Manager RIC/ARD V. NVALL 13 9YILLARD D. NESTER '33 F A istant Editor Foreign Advertising Manager D LD I'. DAY '33 ARTHUR E. PHILLIPS '33 A. Aunt Managing Editor Credit Manager ERNEST 11. ZUKAUSKAS '93 MARION I'. HOWELL '33 • Assistant Sports Editor Women's Editor ROLLIN C. STEINMETZ '33 ISABEL MCFARLAND '33 News Editor Women's Managing Editor W. J. WILLIAMS JR. '33 ELIZABETH AL KALI; '33 News Editor Women's News Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Charles A. Myers . 31 Wm. 3. Prothero '34 Wm. M. Stegmeler '34 George A. Scott '3l Bernard 11, Rosenzweig '34 James 31, Sheen '34 Harald J. Balath '34 11, EtlKur Furman '3l Frolorlck L. Taylor '34 WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Eva M. Blichfcidt 11 Ruth M. Harmon '34 Entered at tee Poetotace, State College, Pa., as second-elan matter. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1932 A MOMENT'S THOUGHT At 8 o'clock tonight fraternity men will have done all that they possibly could to impress freshmen with the advantages of becoming members of their respec tive houses. Freshmen will be left safe in their rooms to think over the fifteen days dtiring which they have been surfeited with the highest type of collegiate courtesy. Fraternity.men and freshmen alike will have once again weathered a severe storm. Tired and bored with the superficiality and front which they have been obliged to put up, they welcome the close of the period. Everyone believes that something must be done for the better. Whatever it is the change should be effected im mediately before interest has died down among fresh men and fraternity men. That has been the case in the past when revision of the rushing code was put off until the second semester. Only a few freshmen will be fortunate enough in possessing a clear-cut idea of what fraternities and rushing are all about. The remainder, in preference to tossing coins to decide the issue, will try to remember all that has been said to them at the different houses. This year finances will probably play the greatest part in the selection of fraternities—say what one will .about fellowship, strong activities' lists, and so on. The one pitfall that prospective brothers should watch carefully for is faulty fraternity finances. Does the fraternity run on a nine or ten months basis? Do the monthly payments, together with the initiation fee, include every thing or are there ndditional assessments for dances and incidentals throughout the year? The answers to these questions should be known before any step is made. After the rushee has satisfied himself on the fi nancial features of the fraternity he is considering, he should analyze the type and personality of the men who compose the chapter which he may join. Most of the fraternities still place desirability above the mere abil ity to write checks that won't bounce. Rushees, in turn, should decide whether they will fit in with the group, whether the contacts that they will make daily in the fraternity will be any better than those which could be secured in a boarding club. The freshman will consider the scholarship of the fraternity—if not fof his own en lightenment, at least, for the satisfaction of his parents. The activities and general prestige of the fraternity should also come in for consideration. All this weighing of facts and evaluating has been going on during the entire process of rushing in a hap hazard and confused manner, of course. Some oppor tunity for deep thought on fraternities was afforded in the silent period last week. But tomorrow the decision to join or not must be made. It is imperative that there be no interference with the freshmen during this silent period. The majority of fraternity men are decent enough to appreciate the position of the freshmen. Above all other violations, breaches of the strict regula tions affecting the silent period should be reported for prosecution. THE DEATH OF MOLASSES AND SAWDUST Those gruesome matted masks of molasses and sawdust which once befouled the heads of freshmen one night each year have been hung back in the gallery of past things. The sordid tradition of injustice and vul gar brutality which hung menacingly over the sensitive freshman each year has died. That old, blind war song which exalted everything that the past had done now is hummed in a lower pitch. The clear-headed action of Student Board in bidding a thorough good-bye to stunt night in all of its mani festations marks another mile Post in the march towards the mature college. In so large a student body as this, stunt night became only a mean little mockery of what was a mockery in the first place. No use bothering with it anymore. The theory of the thing was that it provided an initiation and a chastening for the over-bearing fresh man. The practice of the rite brought only the sen sitive und meek to its tortures, and allowed the over bearing and sophisticated lads to slip away because they were wise to the obvious laxity of the performance. The idea• of a super mass-meeting to replace this other affair has real attraction. It is an explosive gath ering calculated to instill pride in the heart of the fresh man rather than bitter resentment. And th,e upper classmen are not above being stirred either. If Mister Dickson thought he was going to make this colyum by audibly hoping that his male progeny, if any, would grow up like Harps Marx instead of like George Arliss, we just want him to know that he wasn't fooling us a bit. The aforementioned ephe meral young gentleman probably will resemble Harpo more closely than he will George anyway, so why worry. Well, why? :What with the end of rushing season crowding the end of the depression out of its long undisputed place around the corner, there appears to be nothing much left for it but that somebody will have to pay the leadpiper. And how is your plumbing holding out? One of the fraternities fronting the parking space is planning to allege its name to Phi Delta Straights, 01l account of how a freshman was dealt a bridge hand of thirteen spades there the other night. To what lengths this'rushing will go ... I=9 Our ex-ho-hum caroled "hello" so amorously the other day, we just couldn't help thinking that the automobile we were driving had something to do with it. It's only fair to explain, you who have become one of our more easily suppressed desires, that our "gas, oil, and a honk of horn" is only in town during rushing season, and furthermore it belongs to one of the brethren who won't lend it out of nights. We're pretty sorry. It's too bad that Franklin C. "Fling-out-tha" Banner and G. B. Shaw, England's best dressed nudist, can't come to an agreement as to the habitability of Russia. Their only point of mutual agreement seems to be that neither allowed any Muscovitish accent to creep into his particular version of the King's Hinglish. An izvoschik is the same thing as a taxi driver, in case you should have that word sprung on you in a journalism class. Burgess Lederer as a seer. (There's something to conger with, you 'eel). We found one of the estim able borough official'S blotters of some years ago with the inscription "1931 is going to be a hard year for a lot Of folks." Why doesn't Eugene fit up his office with dark hangings and buy a crystal ball and hang out another shingle? . Ossipgay •• • The gels at the Gables aren't keep ing up appearances . . thui swiftly does tradition go into the discard . .. Have you heard the "almost human" song . . . Quasi-People . . . A new and louder racket .. . conniving fraters open and close doors on long winded profs ht the end of the hour . . . What athlete stopped a freshman on the campus . for smoking a pipe? .. . and had to be shown in the bible that it wasn't unethical . . . and still didn't be lieve it . . . We know a guy who has the low-down on a bird who is acquainted with the gentleman who invited Cherille Merrill to her first Penn State house party . . • she brought her mother along as a chap- The Mills Bros. praetice . in the Pugh street end of the SAE house at a late hour . Freshman asks sophomore for a match . . . oh, the flame of it . . Yours veritably is laboring over a little ditty to spring at the next dance . . . it's entitled "We Got Our Orchestra for a Song, But It Was So Lousy We Left It Flat" . . . Driving a car while enrolled at the U. of Michigan constitutes a violation of a State law . . . You've probably heard the story about how Grit savage got marooned in a shower compartment in the women's dressing rooms at the Olynipies ... it really was a mistake, he claims .. . If you want to call somebody something narsty and still have time to walk away without undue haste, tell him he's just Achilles' weakness . . . Hi-de-hi for dear old Rutgers. REMINGTON PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS $19.75 "Pioneer" $34.75 "Scout" $60.00 "Standard" $65.00 "No. 5" $69.50 "Noiseless" May be bought on a time basis. A price to suit every purse and purpose All On Display At • KEELER'S Cathoum Theatre Building CAMPUSEER I=l I=l £s*#**** THE PENN• STATE COLLEGIAN SPEAKER TO TALK ON CHINA SUNDAY Dr. Fletcher S. Bradman Will Lead Annual Chapel Services in Schwab Auditorium Speaking on "China, Today and To morrow," Dr. Fletcher S. Brockman, secretary of the Committee for the Promotion of Friendship Between America and the Far East, will ad dress the Penn State in China chapel audience in Schwab auditorium at eleven o'clock Sunday morning. Dr. Brockman has been associated with missionary work in China since his graduation with honors from Van derbilt University. He was first in terested in this work while travelling secretary of the Student .Volunteer Movement for FOreign Missions, and later became the counselor and friend of Sun Yat Sen, the first president of the Republic of China. Penn State in China chapel ser vices are held once each College year in the interest of Lingnan University, Canton, China. Two. Penn State men are. members of the :faculty. of the university, George W. Groff 'O7 being Dean of the School ,of Agriculture, while Lester AL Zook '29 is an in= structor in.animal husbandry there. Lingnan University, formerly call ed Canton Christian' College, is one of the four large Chinese institutions sponsored by colleges in this country, the others being those of Cornell, / Princeton,, and Yale Universities. This is 'the twenty-fifth season. that Penn State students will. have con tributed their chapel donations to the welfare of the far eastern university. VOMEN WILL ORGANIZE BOARD FOR I. M. SPORTS Group To Include Representatives Selected by Dormitories A'n intramural board to control all women's intramuraLsporti wil be or ganized for the first time this year, according..to Reba M. Michener '33, intramural manager. One representative from each dor ' mitory will be elected to serve on the board, the intramural leader announ ced. They will cooperate with the ! three seasonal managers in handling the sports program. 'An intramural service ball ,tourna went will be included in the fall ac- tivities this year, in charge of Bernice If. Jarck '34, fall manager. Managers for the other two seasons will be se lected later in the year. Part-Time Selling I • t enneetion Is offered to serious student who .is anxious for. job which will contribute largely toward financintr college career. -- -.4tfp investment required. Write Room 801, Wear St., Roston, Moss. Personalor Grou Classes • BALLROOM DANCINGINSTRUCTIONS MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY EVENING 7 to 10 P. II FOR APPOINTMENTS CALL 474 106 West College Ave. 4, College Cut-Rate Store Corner Opposite Postoffice • WATCH OUR WINDOWS FOR SPECIALS FRIDAY & SATURDAY 50c' Toys. for Cladren, specialS 25c ' National Garment Moth Bags 39c $l.OO Pipes ; now special .___.3sc $l.OO Penn State Seal Stationery____69c sl.ooSquibb's Dusting Powder 69c 4 oz. Mr. Goodbar 5c THE NITTANY LION On The . Campus Entertain Your Friends Here Orientation No Problem for Oriental Student, Lingnan Instructor States Students of Lingnan University at Canton, China, would have no diffi culty meeting the problems found in the modern American environment, according to Lester Zook '29. Rook, who returned recently from - Lingnan University where he instruct ed in animal husbandry during the past three years, was recently made a member of the Penn State in China committee, of which Dean Ralph L. Watts of the school of Agriculture, is chairman. "Many of the students would be quite at home on the Penn State cam pus since they dress and act much the same as our own students, although they are, perhaps, more mature since they are seldom interested in activi- Stack Up Your SPARE DOLLARS in THE First National Bank OF STATE COLLEGE' State College, Pa. It's a Good, Safe Place for Them And They'll Grow here John T. McCormick David P. Rapp President Cushier A Complete Set Of 20 Campus Photographs for $l.OO at the Penn State Photo . Shop 212 East College Ave. ties or social events during their uni varsity life," the former Lingnan in structor pointed out. , :"Practically all classes, even though taught by Chinese professors, are con ducted in English since many modern scientific terms have no Chinese equiv alent," Zook said in commenting on classroom procedure at Lingnan. He said the apparent difference between the Chinese and the Anion-- can university is found in the archf: , lecture. "The campus buildings are typical Chinese; most of them have gracefully curved roofs and are paint ed imvery bright colors," he said. PARK — KUUMOQWLLM LEWISTOWN E. Saturday, October 1 VARSITY TEN ORCHESTRA 5 A Penn State Favorite Band "Splendid Floor—Trelly Girl. Galore Give Duke Morris and Boys a Good Turnout ATTENTION The - Auburn Club State's Finest Non-Fraternity Club Room and Board at $7.95 a Week Complete satisfaction in _good clean, airy rooms, right off Campus with an abun dance of good food and extras Why not pay 50c more and have satisfUction? (We are only able to offer such a stupendous price and help thrifty. students obtain, satis !faction providing the minimum • number. served served is 24). We help you to help yourself without membership cards sor deposits; un familiar, unaiding and uninteresting organi zation that detracts from your study. - • It is desirous that inquiries be made • Friday and Saturday Location—Corner N. Burrowes Street and Ridge Avenue. 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These are Parker's latest and smartest colors, in cluding Burgundy and ,Black, Sea Green and Black, 'Jade, Plain Black, etc. All have streamlined non breakable barrels—the pens with' super-smooth, pressureless writing Duofold points, and quick starting, non-clogging feed. . Take your old pen or pencil •to the nearest pen counter before this offer expires and walk out with a beautiful new Parker Duofold Pen, or Duofold Pencil, or both. - The pen you trade in must have a'l.4k gold point but it does not have to be a Parker. The Parker Pen Company, Janesville, Wisconsin. "7 Friday, Septethber 80, 19 Matinee at 1:30 Evening Opening at 6:00 FRIDAY— Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette Donald, Charlie Ruggles an Charles Butterworth hr "LOVE ME TONIGHT" SATURDAY- Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jorda "70,000 WITNESSES MONDAY and TUESDAY. George Arliss, Mary Astor i "A SUCCESSFUL CALABITT "WEDNESDAY— . Clive Brook, Charles Ruggles Lila Lee, Atlrianne Allen in - "THE NIGHT OF JUNE 13" TtIURSDAY— Juel McCrea. 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