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.Vol. 29, No. 17
Lion Gridmen Defeat
University of South
In Houseparty Game
Nittany Eleven Makes 3 Touchdowns Against
Stubborn Sewanee Defense—Collins
Runs 42 Yards for Score
By GEORGE A. SCOI*T ’34
Two warriors of the animal kingdom, a victory-hungry Nit
tany'Lion, and a Tennessee Tiger, just as'greedy for. a .triumph,
put on the football show on New Beaver Field Saturday, and it
was the'Lion’s day to feast. A sharp-clawed'attack coupled with
an alert fighting spirit made the battle very much a-Lion, affair,
and the end came with the Tiger slinking back to its home in
Sewanee with the scar of an 18-to-0 defeat cut into its hide.
. Three touchdowns, every one of them the result of alert play
ing on the part of the Blue and White representatives, were suf
ficient to wreck whatever hopes; the Tiger of Sewanee or the Uni
versity of the South entertained regarding the . game. Harry
Sigel,. "Barrell” Morrison and
Captain "Spike”' Collins crossed
the goal line for the Higgins
coached eleven to insure victory
over the Dixieland team and to
give the Lion its first taste of
Victory since the opening game
more than a month ago.
■lt was a good show that the
two feline jungle beasts staged.
Sewanee’s Tiger made it such
with its desperate, stubborn de
fense to counteract a - superior,
offense that the Lion lays claim'
to, that the result was sixty min
utes of hard-fought football
’Breaks’ Clinch Game
. Dame Fortune was smiling on the
Lions Saturday,, allbeit they played a
brand of football that tfould have de-
served-, a .-.triumph... regardless . of
•.."Breaks',”; A recovered kickoffrat the
waneefumble, and an intercepted
forward-pass were the “breaks” that
clinched the game.
The first play of the game started
the Nittany gridders off to success.
With Sewanee receiving, thp Lion
kickoff sent the ball to the visitors'
thirty-yard line and .“King” Cole
wasJohnny-on.the-spot to snare it for
the Lions. ■ • •
It took less than four! minutes to
punch through the Tennessee line for
the' touchdown, with sophomore Harry
Sigel carrying the ball over on a wide
end run around the right wing. Two
first downs preceded the touchdown
play arid, two -more followed before
the quarter ended.
Cole Recovers Fumble
The next break came early in the
second quarter when Cravens, Se
wance safety man, fumbled a quick
kick to give “King” Cole an' oppor
tunity to recover the hall on the Tiger
thirty-yard. line. Skemp, Lohr. and
Morrison stepped the ball up to the
four T yard mark and Morrison went
around right end for the touchdown.
- Captain “Spike” Collins was the
hero of the third break. With less
than three minutes to play, the Lion
leader gathered ir\ a Sewanee forward
pass and travelled forty-two yards to
the Sewanee goal,line with nary- an
opponent's hand touching him.
Sewanee scored only once and ap
proached-scoring territory on.only
one other occasion. The Southerners
showed the effects of their all-night
train ride from- Washington, D. C.,
the previous night, for they were
sluggish for the most part and only
on rare occasions did their backs show
anything like, speed• and driving
power.:. , ' '
Defensively, however, .they left
little to be. desired.. .Four times'in
; the second half the Lions drove to or
• past the Sewanee twenty.yard line,
■ and each time found the visitors
: strong enough to prevent a score.
The Lions had their bad .moments
themselves.' The running attack fune-
(Continued on j>ago three)
BEZDEK DENIES RUMOR OF
SWIMMING COURSE PROJECT
Contrary to rumor, the College has
not been considering a plan that would
permit students to take swimming
courses as part of the School of Phy
sical Education program, in a local
indoor pool now under construction,
Hugo Bezdok director of the school;
has:announced. . '
Tht project is too incomplete to
'reach any definite conclusion at this'
time,'and College officials have riot
discussed tho matter, according to Di
rector Bczdek. No definite statement
cojujd. be obtaineH as to whether dr
riot the College would consider the pro
posal at - some later dute.
FINAL GRID RALLY
SET FOR THURSDAY
Coach; Teaitv To Attend Temple
Send-of? in Auditorium
. At 7:30 O’Clock
The final football rally of- the sea
son will , take place at 7:30 o’clock'
Thursday night in. Schwab auditorium,
Head Cheerleader William E. Hart
man ’33 has announced. ,
‘Planned as a send-off,to Bob Hig
gins - and the Nittany Lions before
they leave- to. seek a' victory over
Temple, in Philadelphia Saturday, the
rally will offer the' student body its
last opportunity, to, cheer the team
before the clash .with the Owls. ’
v Plan. New 'Features7
As at past rallies this season, mem
bers of the team will, be: introduced
frpm the stage, and one of.the R. 0.
T. C. band units will play. Several
new features arc also! being, planned
by the cheerleading .staff:‘
Hartman,has asked for,a capacity
turnout/as a final'evidence of student
support for the. team. He expressed
the hope that upperclass’ attendance,
which was disappointing >at the Col
gate .send-off, would be more in evi-.
derice ‘ Thursday - " night'.’' Freshmen
who’'do not attend are subject to Tri
bunal punishment.
CO-EDS SUBSCRIBE $346
IN Y. W. C. A. CAMPAIGN
Additional Blanket Tax Will Almost
Fill Quota, Secretary States
. Women students have pledged $346
to the- Y. W. C. A. finance .campaign
which closed Thursday night, Ruth
M. Harmon '34, chairman of the com
mittee in charge of the drive, has an
nounced. . ,v
With the.addition - of the W!. S. G.
A. blanket tax alloted to it, the Y. W.
C. A.-campaign will lack only, a few
dollars of the budget of $520, Mrs.
Harry W. Seamans, secretary of the
association, has announced.
Women members of the faculty
were included ' in', the drive. The
amount reached, this year is fourteen
dollars short of last year's contribu
tions. •
Conservatism Indicated by
College Polls, Warnock Says
Judgment of Candidates’ Merits Unimportant
In Hoover’s Straw Vote Success
Hoover’s success in college straw
votes is an indication of the conser
vative element now present in most
student bodies, rather than a judg
ment of the relative merits of the
candidates, in the opinion of Dean.of
Men Arthur R. Warnock.
“The -swing towards Roosevelt in
the country at large has I ,not affected
studorit votes ,to any great extent,”
the dean added. “The Roosevelt sen
timent. is fundamentally a desire for
a change, and change comes slowly
.to conservative groups such as Amer
ican student bodies.”
Conservatism among .students is
caused-by-the present dislike-for ex
tremists of any sort, Dean Warnock
believes. The average student is just
as much • opposed to the militarist as
he is to the pacifist, to the fanatical
dry as He is to the-rabid wet. 1 Most
students are “middle-of-the readers.,"
MARGARET SANGER
TO GIVE LECTURE
HERE NEXT WEEK
Birth * Control Advocate Names
‘Future of the American
Family* as Topic
DISCUSSION WILL OPEN
‘FORUM* FOR THIS YEAR
Speaker Sponsored by Christian
Association—Sister of.
Lion Grid Coach .
Mrs. Margaret Sanger, organizer of
the’ modern birth control movement
and former president of the Amer
ican Birth Control league/will lecture
in Schwab auditorium next Tuesday
night.
As the first of the series of cul
tural talks planned for the '1932-33
“Forum,” Mrs. Sanger’s lecture will
be open to students, faculty, and
townspeople..'The speaker is~. being
brought here by the Penn State Chris
tian association.
“The Future of the American Fam-
ly” is the.topic which she has chosen
to speak on at the College. Mrs.
Sanger may also talk to faculty mem
bers in a special lecture on modern
trends in sex education, at some time
during her stay here.
Seeks Revised Legislation
Mrs. Sanger, who-is the sister of
Robert A. Higgins, football coach, re
cently visited Washington to conduct
personally a campaign there for the
legalization of birth control. She or
ganized .and is now president of the
National Committee for Federal Leg
islation on Birth Control. .
Since resigning as president of the
American Birth Control, league’,'the
speaker, has devoted.mostbf
f 0 v th^Nb\V- : York
which I 'was • the first'of; its kind" or
ganized in -this country. The" func
tion-of the clinic is to conduct re.
search, for improved contraception
technique. ‘
Organized Foreign Clinics
. Besides organizing clinics in this
country, Mrs. Sanger has travelled
extensively in Europe and Asia, form
ing, similar groups there. In 1917,
sho founded the Birth Control Review,
serving as its editor for eleven years.
Mrs. Sanger has written a large
number of books including “My Fight
for Birth Control,” “Women and the
New Race, ’’ .“The Pivot of . Civiliza
tion,” “Happiness in Marriage,”
“What: Every Boy and Girl Should
Know,” and “Motherhood in Bondage.”
McFALLS WILL SING OVER
STATION WCAU TOMORROW
Robert H. McFalls,' former student,
who was a member of the Varsity
quartet'last year, will sing over radio
station WCAU, in Philadelphia, from
12 until 2 o’clock Wednesday morning
intermittently between anonunccments
of election returns.
McFalls is also entered in a State
wide vocal contest over the same sta
tion sponsoredby a national concern!
Tho winner, which will, be announced
cri'December 18,.wi1l be offered a con
tract as feature singer on the con
cern's radio advertising hour. McFalls
has received Vfan mail” from North
Carolina and some of the New Eng
land states for former, broadcasts.
the Dean of Men declared.
“I don’t think that tire present con
servative attitude of Penn State stu
dents is a lasting one and, certainly
students here have not always been
conservative,” the dean pointed out.
“It just happens to be the prevailing
attitude at'the present.time and the
pendulum may swing- the other way.”
Dean Warnock believes .that student
conservatism in activities is partly re
sponsible for conservatism in other
lines. . When it is a case of following
tradition or breaking away from it,
other things being equal, Penn State
students invariably follow' tradition,
the dean said.
Parental influence,. hofnc back
ground,’the Penn State environment
and isolation from the-depression arc
of relatively little importance in their
effect on the conservative attitude of
students here, Dean Warnock said.
STATE COLLEGE, PA.i|TUESD AY, NOVEMBER 8, 1932
HOOiER WINS PRESIDENTIAL STRAW
VOTE BY OVERWHELMING MAJORITY
Liberal Arts School
. . tl-
ReturrisHighest
Majorities
Fraternity Men
Non-Fraternity Men
• { y ? Women
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
CARRIES Alt 7 GROUPS
G.O.P. Nominee Secures Largest
Vole From Engineers
In Balloting
The School.of Liberal Arts returned
the highest majorityo.for each of the
three presidential' candidates in the
Collegian poll; a.survey of the vote,
by schools in the College reveals. '
Liberal. Arts students accorded
President Hoover a total of 358 votes,
while students in the same school gave
Franklin D. Roosevelt; IS9 votes and
Norman Thomas,' Socialist candidate,
73 votes. Students in the School of
Engineering returned the second high
est vote for each of the three candi
dates. . • -
Carries All Schools
The Republican nominee carried
each of the seven Schools by com
fortable margins, vifegistering his
largest margin . of.*,victory in the
School of-Engineering.’where his total
of 304 votes. surpassed the combined
totals of the other two: candidates by;
164 votes.' A ma'rgini.of 146 votes 'in
the School,of the Liberal Arts placed
that School ; second? in the Hoover
ranks. - •.
•. Fraternity .men iiKthe School of'
Engineering gave'.Hopver 270 votes,
non-fraternity engineers' cast thirty
.three' 'banotsJn^favOT^iof/tHa.Repub
in the. Engineering' School voted for
the winner-of the poll.v Roosevelt re
ceived a-total of 89 votes-from en
gineers, while Thomas received 51.
Gains Large Li A. Vote
The Republican candidate was given
272 votes .by fraternity, men register
ed in the School of' Liberal Arts, as
42. non-fraternity and 44 women Lib
eral Arts students voted, the Repub.
lican .ticket. .'His Democratic rival
received,. 139 votes and Thomas 73
votes.
. Trailing the Liberal • Arts and En
gineering Schools in the total hum-,
oer of votes cast, thp School of Edu
cation accorded Hoover a margin- of
72 votes over the Democratic and So
cialist candidates. The Republican
leader received 192 votes, Roosevelt
81, and Thomas 39.
A total of 261 ballots were cast by
students in the School of Agriculture,
with Hoover receiving 158, Roosevelt
54, and Thomas 49. The School of
Chemistry and Physics recorded 212
votes, in the poll, 139! being credited
to the Republican ticket, 50 to the
Democratic candidates, and 23 to the
Socialist party.
The Schools of Mineral Industries
and Physical Education' and Athletics
ranked lowest in of ballots
cast, the former recording 78 votes
and .the latter but - 84. Ho'over was
victor in the School of Mineral Indus
tries by a 28-vote' margin and in the
School of Physical Education and Ath
letics by a 16-vote margin.
522 Votes Unclassified
Although, instructed-to list their
school on their ballot when voting,
522 students failed to name the school
in which they were registered. Of
this group, Hoover was given 308
votes, Roosevelt 153, arid Thomas 61.
Roosevelt's largest vote was re
corded in the School * of the Liberal
Arts, in which he received .139 pref
erences. 'Similarly, Thomas received
73 votes from Liberal Arts 'students
for his highest vote in a single school.
The largest women’s vote by
schools was registered for Hoover in
the 'School of Education. The Re
publican leader was given 126 votes
by the co-ed . voters in this school.
EXTENSIVE SIAMESE" PLANT
COLLECTION RECEIVED HERE
’ An extensive collection'of Siamese
plants has been given'.to, the botany
department of the will be
placed in the of- the new
Botany building within two weeks, Dr.
Frank D. Kern, head, of the. depart,
ment, announced last week.-
Miss Hilda Cuniff, who-was a grad
uate assistant in botnny.here in 1925-
26, is the donor of the-, collection. She
has spent the last three years in Siam
teaching and vjsiting'hor father, who
is foreign adviser to the'king of'that
country.
‘Collegian ’ Poll Returns
Total Student Vote 1,537 592 304
Faculty Vote 241 87 63
Total Number of Votes. Cast 2,825
SECOND HIGHEST G. O.P.
VOTE RECORDED HERE
Student Total for President Herbert Hoover
Rates Next to Ohio State Count in j
National Tabulations i
Penn State students accorded President Hoover next to the highest num
ber of votes given- the Republican leader-in polls conducted in forty-eight
colleges and universities throughout,the country, with only Ohio State Uni
versity with a total of 2,440 for the President surpassing the vote of 1,537
Penn State students. ......
Wisconsin, students cast 1,481 ballots in Hoover’s favor to take third
place among the collegiate institutions and Cornell with 1,468 and Yale with
-'’1,415 votes respectively stood fourth
and fifth among the colleges and uni
versities supporting the Republican)
candidate. Harvard, Massachusetts j
Institute of Technology, Dartmouth,
Princeton, and Washington Univer
sity are other institutions which pass,
ed the one thousand mark.in votes for
the President. ;
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Democratic nominee, polled the high
est^yote^.institution in .a
poll conducted by t’he Daily' Prriice
ionian, Princeton University student
newspaper, ‘gaining 1,803 ballots at
, Texas University. The Democratic
leader also polled 1,640 votes at South
Carolina University. • •
• The Penn State vote for Governor j
Roosevelt was also correspondingly
high in comparison with returns from
.other colleges and universities. New
York University, which gave the New
York State. Democratic leader, 7GB
votes, is the only Eastern college sur
passing the vote of 592 ballots' given ;
here.
While the vote accorded Norman
Thomas, Socialist candidate, does not
approach the high totals given him
at other'institutions, it is in propor
tion to those at other' Eastern in
stitutions. Although Thomas carried
New York University, Columbia, St.
Louis University, Colorado University,
and Colorado School of Mines, his
greatest support came from Ohio State
University, where he received 1,005
votes.
A complete list of colleges and
universities voting in a straw poll on
the Republican, Democratic and So
cialist candidates is given on page
four of this issue.
STUDENTS INVITED
TO SMOKER, DANCE
Alumni Groups Arrange Social
Events at Philadelphia
This Week-end
alumni Friday night and- a Temple
alumni- dance Saturday night arc the
main social attritions in. store for
students who plaji to number them
selves in. the .annual half-holiday exo
dus to' Philadelphia for the Tomplc
game this week-eqd.
The Penn Athletic club, at 18th and’
Locust streets, will be the- scene :of<
the smoker beginning at 8 o'clock Fri
day night, The admission prief for ;
the smoker will'be "one dollar, accord
ing-to Edward,K. Hibshman, secre
tary of the Alumni'association.
Bezdek To Broadcast
G. Kendrick Bringhurst 'l5, presi
dent of .the Penn State Alunmi club
of Philadelphia, will be in charge of
the smoker. The football team, the
coaches, and the Blue Band will be
present.
Temple alumni have invited Penn
State students to attend'.the enter
tevtainment and dance at Mitten Hall,
North Broad street, at 8:15 o’clock
Saturday night. Tickets for the
dance will be distributed at the smoker
Friday night.
Director Hugo Bezdek, of the School
of Physical Education and Athletics,
will give a radio talk over station
WCAU, Philadelphia, at .7:30 o’clock
.Friday night. No radio broadcast by
the Blue Band has been scheduled.
SKILLINGTON GIVES
CHAPEL ADDRESS
Altoona Pastor Defines Meaning of
"Kingdom of God” at Services
In Auditorium Sunday
Dr. James E. Skillington, superin
tendent of the Altoona distinct of the
Methodist Episcopal church, address
ed students and their houseparty
guests at the regular Sunday morn
ing services in Schwab auditorium.
The Kingdom of God means in real
ity the rule of God, Dr. Skillington
said. He drew an analogy by telling
of the wasteful way coal was used
before men learned how to get the
maximum amount of efficiency from
it, all types of its by-products now be.
ing available. -
People will not know how to live in
a state of perfection until they real
ize that “they belong- to the kingdom
of God,” he said. It is the realiza
tion of this fact that is needed to cure
the multitudinous ills and problems
of modern living, the speaker said.
A- contralto solo sung by Frances
Christine ’34 featured the musical por
tion of the chapel program.. The se
lection was a part of the anthem
“Hark, Hark My Soul” which was
sung 'by the choir. Miss Willa C.
Williammoe, of the music education
department, carried the'solo soprano
part of this number. ’ : -
Hoover Roosevelt Thomas
1,122 423 197
190 95 73
225 74 34
WORK STARTED ON
1925 CLASS GATE
Completion of Stone Construction
Expected Within Month by
College Authority
Completion of the new Class of
1025 memorial gate at the end of the
mall which runs from McAllister hall
to East College Avenue is expected
by the end of the month if weather
conditions are favorable, according to
George W. Ebert, superintendent of
grounds and 'buildings, who is super,
vising the work.
The memorial, which is being con
structed from the surplus of the
class’s damage fund, is to be semi
circular and will connect with the
front campus wall on the cast. Plans
Include a semi-circular walk which
will join the fourteen-foot concrete
strip that runs from center drive to
the new gateway.
Two lantoAis, which will add to the
beauty of the new gate, as well as
the regular campus lights installed
along the walk, will illuminate the
new -mall. The gate and the wall arc
to be topped with limestone, similar
to that of the front campus wall.
Prosent plans cal\ for six piers, of
varying heights to be built into the
wall, each of them with a white lime
stone top. The body of the memorial
is to be made of local 'cut stone, the
same as that used in the Allen street
entrance gales.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Secures 1,537 Votes
In Victory Over
Roosevelt
195 FACULTY MEMBERS
SUPPORT REPUBLICANS
G. 0. P. Candidate Carries 49 of
58 Fraternities—333
Women Ballot
Polling a total, of 1.537 votes,
President Herbert C. Hoover,
; Republican candidate for re-elec
.tion, defeated Governor Frank
| lin D. Roosevelt, Democratic
i nominee, by an overwhelming
majority of 945 votes in a stu-
dent poll conducted by the COL-
LEGIAN last week. Norman
Thomas, Socialist candidate,
with 304 votes, was 288 votes
behind Roosevelt’s total of 592.
In a special faculty poll conducted
by the Collegian at the same time,
Hoover was accorded 241 votes to 87
for Roosevelt and G 3 for Thomas. A
total of 2,825 ballots were cast by the
students and faculty members in the
five-day straw vote.
The Republican candidate carried
forty-nine of the fifty-eight frater
nities taking part, in the poll and tied
with Roosevelt for the lead in one
other house. Roosevelt was given a
majority in six fraternity groups in
addition to tying with Hoover and
Thomas in two additional houses.
Thonia's'-gained it one-vote margin in'
the remaining fraternity to defeat the'
other two candidates for the lead in
that house.
1,742 Fraternity Votes Cast
Complete returns of the fraternity
vote gave Hoover 1,122 votes, Roose
velt 423 and Thomas 197. Fraternity
men cast 1,742 ballots for the. three
candidates.
With 359 non-fraternity men in
dicating their presidential prefer,
ence by.voting at Student .Union desk
in Old Main on Tuesday,’ Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday, Hoover was
i aceorded 190 votes, Roosevelt 95, and
Thomas 73. Wednesday marked the
heaviest voting among the non-fra
ternity students when 115 ballots were
cast.
The Republican ' candidate polled
more than three times as many votes
as did Roosevelt among women stu
dents of the College in the poll. With
a total of 333 women voting, Hoover
was given 225 votes, Roosevelt 74,
and Thomas 34.
Gains 3-tu-l Margin
Similarly, Hoover carried the fra
ternities with a total almost three
times as large as those of Roosevelt
while his vote in the non-fraternity
group was exactly twice as large as
that of the Democratic candidate. A
three-to-one margin of victory was
registered for the Republican leader.
Ballots for the poll were furnished
the Collegian through the courtesy
of the New York Times. The news
paper also furnished ballots for
similar polls throughout the country.
MEN, WOMEN DEBATERS
TO TRY OUT FOR TEAMS
Will Discuss War Debt Cancellation
Tonight, Tomorrow Night
Tryouts for the women’s debating
team will be held in Room 1, North
Liberal Arts building, at 7 o’clock to
night, while men’s tryouts will take
place in Room 405, Old Main, at .7
o’clock tomorrow night.
Candidates should report with a
five-minute speech on "All Intergov
ernmental World War Debts, Indud
ing Reparations, Should be Cancelled.”
This question will be used in the
majority of the debates this year.
Candidates who cannot, report at
the times scheduled should prepare a
five-minute speech on the same sub
ject and report to Clayton H. Schug,
women’s debate coach, or Joseph F.
O’Brien, coach of the men’s team.
DALDINGER NAMED CHAIRMAN
Milton I. Baldlnger '33, business
manager of La Fie, was appointed
chairman of the college yearbook div
ision of the National Scholastic Press
association at its annual convention
in Cincinnati, 0., last week.