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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Puliltshfti Kcml-«e«kly durinir the College year, except on holiday*,
l>y student* of The Pennsylvania State College, In the interest of the
College, the student*, faculty, alumni, and friends.
THE MANAGING BOARD
ROBERT E. TSCIIAN ’33
RALPH HETZKL JR. '33
Managing Editor
SIDNEY If. BENJAMIN *33
Sports Editor
RICHARD V. WALL ’33
Assistant Editor
DONALD P. DAY *33
Assistant Managing Editor
ERNEST It. ZUKAUSKAS ’33
Assistant Sports Editor
ROLLIN C. STKINMETZ ’33
Nows Eiiitor
W. J. WILLIAMS JR. ’33
News Eiiitor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Charles A. Myers ’3l Wm. B. Prothero ‘34 Wm. M. Stegmeler ’34
George A. Scott ’34 Bernard 11. Rosenxweig ’34 -James M. Sheen '34
ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS
Harold .7. Batsch ’34 H. Edgar Furman '34 John C. Irwin '34
Frederick L. Taylor ’34 Francis Wacker '34
WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Eva M. Rllchfeldt '34 » Ruth M. Harmon '34
Entered at the Postofficc, State College, Pa., os second-class matter.
Member Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association
Editorial Office 313 Old Main
Business Office Nittany Printing Building
Phone 292-W
TUESDAY', OCTOBER 18, 1932
DANCE ECONOMY
With thoughts of economy influencing all the ex
penditures of the College as well as of individual stu
dents, it seems reasonable to insist that dances this year
ho conducted to conform with the cutting down process
last year. . •
Although advances have been made in bringing the
cost of tickets for all-College dances somewhat within
the range of the average student’s purse, further pro
gress must be made along that line this year if dances
are to be successful both from the financial and from
the social standpoint. Perhaps some of this year’s
economy can be made along the lines of decoration.
Simplicity designed to camouflage the harsh interior of
Recreation Hall should be the purpose of decoration,
rather than the creation of an expensive fairyland.
Although the student body thrills* to the knowledge
that a nationally known dance band will play for its
functions, it soon forgets this passing charm and looks
deeper for more than a famous name. The quality of
the music is the deciding factor of a band’s popularity
and the success of a dance after the excitement has all
died down.
Fortunately for the students, uncontrolled checking
practices are a thing of the past. The times are gone
when a student was forced, by circumstances, to pay
exorbitant fees for checking that was very poor. The
practice of having regularly employed checkers charging
a nominal sum is one of the milestones in the removal
of potty graft from student activities.
Indicative of the fact that the fraternities know
what the present financial situation holds in store is the
large number of houses that are holding joint dances
at houseparty. At least not every house is going to
proceed like the grasshopper of fable and have a pice
deficit to make hideous the hours after revelry, (
,Loud lamentations arise from the office of the
keeper of grounds and buildings. For some time this
department has been directing the cultivation of the
campus that it might lose the aridity that came of ex
cavations for new buildings. With the goal of a well
groomed lawn almost a reality, misfortune has now
struck. Thoughtless students who, insist on playing
football on ground sacred to the appearances of the
campus and those who must take short cuts across beau-
tiful vistas of grass are the cause of the present sad
ON LETTERS
Believe it or not everybody likes to get mail. That
may explain the fact that even such word/y-wjse per-
sons as publications editors like to receive comments,
suggestions, upbraidings, compliments, and other liter
ary contributions besides the stacks of annoying prop
aganda letters that request the aid of the editors in
sponsoring democratic clubs, republican clubs, birth
control clubs, the green shirt, movement, and so on.
Letters arc interesting—especially those addressed
to a newspaper. They can hurt. They can make warm,
happy sensations run up and down the spines of people
for whom they are intended. They can teach lessons.
But most of all they are a help in giving the editor a
well-rounded picture of all the things that are going
on about him. * \
Especially welcome are letters of controversial
subjects when they contribute something, to the building
up of one side or the other. Their appearance in the
columns of this paper arc reasonably assured if they
fulfill two simple requirements. First of all they should
be writton in recognizable English—experience has
taught that there are such beings as ignorant under
graduates who have thick fingers as well as skulls. The
second condition is one of good faith. A signature
means a lot these days on a letter even if its exchange
value on a check is prnctically nil.
Police Car 78
ALFRED W. HESSE JR. '3B
Business Manager
ROBERT M. HARRINGTON *33
Circulation Manager
PAUL BIERSTEIN *33
Local Advertising Manager
WILLARD D. NESTER '33 .
Foreign Advertising Mannger
ARTHUR E. PHILLIPS ’33
Crvdit Mannger
MARION P. HOWELL '33
Women’s Editor
Isabel McFarland '33
Women's Managing Editor
ELIZABETH M. KALB-NJB
Women's News Editor
Ave. and Allen St.
nnd Allen
legian is responsible for what appears in this column
Once a-punster time a school by the name of Penn
State went all the way up to Cambridge to play Har
vard at football, and a goodly company of loyal rooters
followed .the said team on its journey . . . How sad,
how sad that a few of the more wayward souls should
partake all too freely of whiskey-sours, highballs,
cocktails, gin-fizzes, beer, and other alleged drinks!
Well, anyhow one of the aforementioned became en
amoured of a winsome lass outside the Hotel Statler
and wended his precarious way in pursuit. Lam
posts, taxicabs, pigeons, streetcars, all sorts of ob
stacles arose to come between him and his find, but
grimly he carried on . . . until at last he fell in the
street exhausted ... to rise and fall and rise again
to fa 11... crying, "I gutter ... I gutter ...” and now
he’s going to sewer for damages! ,
Mao P. Kaplan '34
We spent three hours the other day watching a
man giving a manicure. ‘He was standing right across
from the Library tenderly coercing slices of reluctant
wood from the top of one of the splendid additions in
tho line of posts. Oh, there were lots of great big
men giving manicures—and boring holes—and putting
tiny chains through the little holes. And when they
finished they all joined hands and rather boisterously,
we thought, sang "Wring around the wrosy” ... and
mamma, bimeby some other men in pretty blue uni
forms came and danced and sang too , .really,
Augustus, it was splendid entertainment. Oh, quite.
Did yon go to the mass meeting? Did you see the
Chi O's with Helen (call me Franklin D.) Hoover at
the head make an entrance? And Johnny McAndrews
dirty-looking the Frosh? And didn’t you think that
Woody did a nice job of it, until that last, dulcet
phrase which swept out over the hushed crowd, that
whispered, that single Vallee-Crosby-Columbo-Dot
Johnson word—"Goodnight'. . .” Now we know who
really did the announcing for the local station!
Here’s one we bet you hayen’t heard. There’s a
Freshman in town who likes Spanish. He thinks it's
great, and gets all he can from it. He has it so often
that he dreams about it. His whole future is built
around that, one thing. Yessir/he. told: a-pal of ours
that he liked Spanish—-because -.there was iron in' it.
Steel our stuff will you! Nuts.''.- He bolted ...! '
Famous last ones . r . "He-.was a great speaker
' but he talked half an hour overtime” . . . "D. U, im
bibe?” ~. "Beta make up your mind” .. . ”Auf Wie
dershen Mateer.” What's”become of: Ruth Bartels,
last year’s best dressed man, the Fink Elephant’s Seal,
various and sundry pledges, Joe filler, lost winter’s
derbys, Angie (play girl) Bressler’s modesty, the
Kappa's incognitoes, prosperity, and the dances just
around the crooner, the girl with Doggie Alexander
in Horyard 5q.... we were only kidding ... we know
where Ruthie is! ... Nate CartmelFs boys run around
a lot (at night) , , , And then there’s the one about 1
the State student who planned to eat at the Boston
Commons! '
OLD MANIA
Edtrl. Note: "Calling Police Car 78 .. . Calling
proceed to the corner of College
proceed to corner of College
find the guy who said that the Col-
find the guy
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THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Library Officer
Willard P. Lewis, College li
brarian, was elected vice-president
of the Pennsylvania Library asso
ciation during its convention held at
the Nittany Lion, on Thursday, Fri
day, and Saturday., C. Seymour
Thompson, librarian.at the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, was named
president- of the association, and
Miss Harriet T. Root, of Bethlehem,
was re-elected treasurer at the same
time. <,
Speaking
Of
Books
"Red Smoke,” by Isaac Don Levine
No less an authority than President
Hoover says that there are more min
erals in the State of Montana than
in the entire Soviet republic. "Red
Smoke” portrays tho tragedy of the
Five Year Plan—the tragedy of try
ing to make a vast industrial state
out of with a lack of raw ma
terials and transportation.
“The Fortress,” by Hugh Walpole
This is, the third volume of a quar
tette picturing an English family
from the early eighteenth through the
Victorian era. More romantic than
the Forsytes—the Herries were yet a
part and parcel of England and Judith
was more Herries than gypsy.
“Josephus,” by Lion Feucbtwanger
One of the most widely read novels
pi the nineteenth century in - the Unit
ed. States .-was Lew Wallace’s "Ben
Hur” perhaps because of its pres
entation of biblical scenes. "Joseph
us” —part novel and part history—
goes back to biblical times in pre
senting the life of the Jewish his
torian of bible times, against a color
ful -background and bringing out the
for existence of the
Jewish people.
‘‘Owen DeYoung,”' by Ida M. Tarbell
A writer in, a current journal won-
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Co-eds To Voice Uncensored Opinions
Of Men Students in Alumni ‘Froth’
. Penn Skate co-eds,-long the object
of sarcastic darts hurled ‘by the male
gentry of the institution, have broken
precedent and will voice their uncen
sored opinions of various and sundry
men students in the Alumni Day issue
of Froth t the campus humor mag
azine, which will be on sale Friday.
Revenge would be sweet after fifty
years of grinning and bearing it. So
thought the co-ed itors of the funny
magazine when they asked seven prom
inent fraternity and unaffiliated co
eds to list the defects of .Penn State
Adonises.
Nearly fifty men, who % are promi
nent on the campus, have been stung
ders how. long we. can continue to
draw on public spirited men of ability
to leave their private positions of re
sponsibility for the public good. Mr.
Young is a striking example of this
for he has spent weeks and months
of his time both at home and abroad
solving public financial problems.
“Through the Hawse Hole”
By Florence B. Anderson
One of America’s lost industries —,
whaling—is pictured at a prominent
center, Nantucket, in the .life story of
Captain Seth Pinkham. A bit of the
briny deep, too.
“Beveridge and the Progressive Era,'’
By Claude G. Bowers
American history from Roosevelt
to Coolidge is enlightened through a
carefully -yet interestingly written
life of the former senator from In.
diana who was at the 'same' time a
biographer of .note.
Greetings - Alumni
A Welcome
Awaits You
at
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of Gifts
ALLEN STREET
Nerhood’s Garage
West College Avenue
Phone
405
Quality Service
At the First Sign
Of a Cold
' Get a Box of
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SAVE, with SAFETY at
T/k*?qkcJL DRUG store
ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF
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Oysters, Served in All Styles
Crab Cakes and our Own Make Frankfurters,
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Sandwiches—Deliciously Different
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by the caustic comments of the curt
and conyulsive co-eds. Uncensored,
the essays were sent to the printer in
sealed envelopes, without even, the
editors having read them. : •
A second feature of the current is?
sue will be a vigorous exposure 'of
turtle neck- sweater scandles.*..- Inven
tions for man or beast will appear on
a “mail order page” which is appear
ing for the first time, •
Drawn in blue and silver, the cover
design will express an appropriate:
Alumni Day theme. Four pages of:
the Mug and Jester column, instead!
of the usual two, will also appear in'
the magazine.
TO HOLD ORCHESTRA TRIALS
Tryouts for both old andnew mem
bers of the women’s symphony -or
chestra will be held in Room 401, Old.
Main, at 7 o'clock tomorrow night, ac
cording to Charlotte L. Summers ’33,
president of.the organization.
Schlow’s
Quality Shop
Displaying the Newest in
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FOR ALUMNI DAY
. ' Look Your Best
Let Us Reblock, Your Hat
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: Morrell & Company
. 153 South Alien St—
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AN INCUBATOR
IS SOMETHING'YOU
BURN RUBBISH. IN’
TSK! TSK! Isn’t it too bad!
Boner thinks a blizzard is'some*
thing you find inside a fowl!.
Why, doesn’t somebody give him a - -tween bis teeth,
good, pipe and some tobacco? For a Buy Edgeworth anywhere. iri tWo
pipe helps a man to think straight, Of , f o hhs - Edgeworth Ready-Rubbed
course, it’s got to be the right tobacqo. Plug Slice; • All sizes
But any college man can guide him pocket package to‘pound; hu
in.that. A recent inveetigatidn showed . It you’d like t o try before
Edyewprlh to be the.favorite smokiny\ buy,, write for a free sample
tobacco at 42 out ofSl leading colleges, -packet.. Address
■Which is only: natural—for In all Larus & Bro. Co.,
tobaccodom tliere,’s'no blend like the • 120, S. 22d Street,
mixture offine Qld burleys found in Richmond,‘ Va,
Edgeworth. In that difference there's,
a new smoking satisfaction, a new
comfort," for‘.the man who'likes to
EDGEWORTHSMOKINGTOBACCO
Tutesday, October 18,1982
GOVERNOR APPOINTS .WEAVER
_ ,Prof.‘ Frederick P. Weaver, of the
agricultural economics department,
has' been “appointed"as a' member of
the Mineral and Forest; Land Tax
ation committee by Governor Gifford
Pinehot. ''
.T/ A
Matinee at 1:30
Evening Opening at 6:00
TUESDAY —
■ Jimmy Durante, George M. Cohan,
Claudette Colbertiri
VTHE PHANTOM PRESIDENT”
WEDNESDAY—
Walter Huston-, Kay Johnson in
MADNESS”
Masquer's Club Comedy
THURSDAYS- ' ' ‘ ■ *
•' Dick Barthelmess, Bette Davis in
. “CABIN IN. THE COTTON”
1 .. ' Charley Chase Comedy .
FRIDAY— -
-Jack Oakie, Marian Nixon in
. “MADISON SQUARE GARDEN”
Slim Summerville Comedy
SATURDAY— . 1
Lee Tracy,' Evalyn Knapp in
“THE NIGHT MAYOR"
THE NITTANY
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY—
- Return Showing of Frank Buck’s
, “BRING ’EM BACK ALIVE”
THURSDAY—
“AMERICAN MADNESS"
FRIDAY—
“CABIN IN THE COTTON"
SATURDAY —^
"MADISON SQUARE GARDEN"
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