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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Published semi-weekly during the College year, except on holidays, ■
by students of The Pennsylvania State College, In the interest of the
College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends.
THE MANAGING HOARD
ROBERT E. TSCIIAN *33 ALFRED \V. HESSE JR. ’33
Editor ‘ Business Manager
RALPH HETZEL JR. '33 ROBERT M. HARRINGTON *33
MunnainK Editor. Circulation Manager
SIDNEY 11. BENJAMIN *33 PAUL BIERSTEIN '33
Sports Editor Local Advertising Manager
RICHARD V. WALL ’33 WILLARD D.. NESTER ’33
Assistant Editor Foreign Advertising Manager
DONALD I*. DAY ’33 ARTHUR E. PHILLIPS '33
Assistant Managing Editor Credit Manager
ERNEST B. ZUKAUSKAS '33 . MARION P. HOWELL ’33
Assistant Sports Editor
ROLLIN C. STEINMETZ '33
Nows Editor
W. J. WILLIAMS JR. '33
News Editor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Charles A. Myers ’34 Wm. B. Prothero '34 Wm. M. Stegmeicr *34
George A. Scott '34 Bernard H. Rosensweig *3l James M. Sheen *34
Member Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1932
POLITICAL PLUMS
What should the colleges of- Pennsylvania dp to pro
tect themselves in the future from the sale of scholar
ships that are given to senators for distribution? Every
year three awards, covering tuition at this College, are
given to each of the fifty state senators. Five hundred
and fifty-four undergraduates here now hold these schol
arships. To the College this represents $55,400 that
never will be paid.
'Accordingly, one of the main concerns of the Col
lege should be to make sure that this money is being
distributed to students that actually are deserving from
both the financial and the scholastic side. Fortunately
there are only a few cases where students have bought
their scholarships to Penn State. Why there are not
more instances' is through no particular virtue but
simply because the tuition fees here are not high enough
to make racketeering worth-while. However, this Col
lege might well aid her sister institutions, where the
situation is more serious, in changing the system and
placing the method of award above the faintest suspicion
of graft.
What is there about senators that each of the four
Slate-aided institutions should give to them the disposal
ol three scholarships annually? Charges that this is a
legislative bribe have been emphatically denied. More
reasonable is it to acknowledge this practice as a political
plum—-no doubt the product of some ancient and clever
Pennsylvania politician. Even political plums can be
condoned in a country where patronage has meant and
still means so niuch—but with one requirement. ‘‘The
senators must take the trouble and have the personal
interest to make sure that the scholarships are going to
deserving students. Otherwise they should not be the
distributing agents. '
. To abolish the scholarships might mean that some
six-hundred students who have* known bosses or ward
heelers would not be attending Pehn. State today. No
doubt, through coincidence it would strike down many
deserving students. That is the one reason why the
awards should not be discontinued. But why must they
bo distributed as patronage? Why must they be left in
the hands of senators who have become in cases, and
what is worse may still become willing, or unsuspecting,
victims of racketeers—that peculiar product of the
present American civilization?
'The awards should be continued under different
management!. What better method could be devised than
one whereby the College would control the distribution?
By this method the applicants could be tested much
more accurately as to their scholastic and financial re
quirements. At best the system of making the awards
on the basis of past political services of friends does not
reach the most needy student. It is anything but demo-,
cratic.
THE ART OF DEBATE
Distinct disappointment was the outstanding emo
iion aroused by the exhibit of the art of debate Monday
night. An audience, nearly capacity'size, was treated
to a harangue of mediocre and haphazard quality. Ob
viously the speakers were sharply handicapped by the
circumstances, but it was apparent that they were not
much concerned.
If debating is to receive any moral support (the
financial support being rathfer amply guaranteed), a
largo audience of interested persons must not be affront
on by a set of careless speeches. The finest advertise
ment which the debating squad could have made of its
activities and merit would have been polished speeches
before that audience. Certainly polished speeches from
the College representatives would have had ample op
portunity to shine by contrast.
It is sad comment upon the system of taxing stu
dents to support student activities if the arrangement
ro paralyzes any concern about the quality of the per
formances that its earnest supporters are bored with it.
It is easy to suggest far more entertaining and cultural
purposes to which student fees might he put. Artists’
Course, for example, which would bring real cultural
values.
; Of course, if must be realized that the visiting
speakers were on a violent itinerary. Anybody present
could sec that they were weary, weary even unto re
clining—with a fine disregard for dress shirts. It also
appears that the arrangements for the speaking order
were not conclusively decided until a few minutes of
starting time. That really, was a handicap, it must be
admitted. Perhaps it will be possible at the next
American clash to make speaking contacts sooner.
Without doubt debating is excellent training. It
should have support. But not even an editorial in bold
faco type could bring it support unless a worth-while
ar.d sincere performance is put on. The audiences can
not forever be drawn by desire to have their ear tickled
We’re a decent, law-abiding citizen. At least
wo’re law-abiding. We play square with the General
Assembly and the State Constabulary. But there are
times when it hurts. There are times when we feel
like throwing up the whole thing and going out and
Saying down with the Republicans and to hell with
the School of Education.
One of those times came when we were hitch
hiking our way home before the recent occasion of
igastronomical injudiciousness. We had managed to
make our way down as far as the other side of Sand
and we were high-tailing along at a pretty
brisk rate when what did we see but a sign, brazenly
acknowledged as originating from the Department of
Highways. The sign read, “DANGER, Walk Facing
Traffic." Well, we trudged along backwards for about t
three miles, getting*hotter under the choler every time
we tripped over a stone or bumped into a post. It’s
all a pretty disgraceful imposition, and we think some
body ought to write an editorial about it. An edi
torial, at the very least.
Women's Editor
ISABEL MeFARLAND *3B
Women's Managing Editor
ELIZABETH M. KALB *B3
Women's News Editor
Some days ago the Phi Sig’s Charlie Landis left
a book on the desk of his freshman roomie, with a
note instructing him to “return this to the reserve
room in the basement." Charlie arose the next after
noon and 'went to class, returning therefrom at about
five o’clock. Upon entering the house he noted the
aforementioned roommate, framed in the cellar door
,way, with a vaguely baffled look on his face. “Say,
•just where is that reserve room in the basement?” he
inquired. Charlie isn’t exchanging gifts this Christ-
One of the better known devotees of equestrianism
about the town is a rather pompous gent, who as a
general rule is tricked out in Abercrombie and Fitch’s
latest horsing habiliments. He is the very picture of
what the jolly old English are going to wear when
riding to the ’oumls or bounding for the bow-wows.
He sits his mount gracefully, he rides with ease and
jdignity .... and climbs aboard his fiery steed by
means of a kitchen stool.
This touch football is the Bczdexercise we know
.... Col. Bill Burry’s freshman roommate got himself
a below grade in ROTC .... What DU tossed Sunny
•Merrill out of the card-room window? . . anyway, we
think it was a rothan trick .... The Froth Mugs, or
Ballyhoodlums .... or Old Skirts, as you prefer ....
figuro thusly: “ College Humor uses our jokes, so .why
shouldn’t we .use theirs?" .... Dick Beamish, journ :;
alism lecturer and Secretary of the Commonwealth,,is'
.in his lighter moments for, .the foreign
eights on George Arliss’ movies . . •$ Incidentally, we
wonder if the Board of Censors actually does approve
i of all the guff it soys it does . . . . Another semester
in the offing, whieh will soon be under the awning,
and Shux Tanner is about due to break out the old
mimeograph and write another book-. .. . Heard thdt
the Kappa Sig victrola dance last Friday was really
sponsored by n group of sophomore girls of State Col
lege High School .... Alderfer admits having fallen
asleep while lecturing to a class .... The New Yorker
cover of a week or so agone reproduced the expector
atin’ image of Johnny Naylor in the garb of horseman
sans specs .... Sue Reevs can write upside down ....
write her name upside down, We mean ... .A 1 Nowell,
■AKPi, has a male parent who owns the best bar.in
MicKees Rocks, bar none . . . ; he’s waiting, like the
* rest of us .... A battery of riveting machines across
the way will be replacing the SAE alarm clocks be
fore long .... local chapter of the Sons of Rest perks
up some .... A plaintive harmonica reminds of bet
ter days, when we were rather younger .... dis
tinguished visitor and slightly-too-casual observer in
quires how comes the SPCA to have offices on the
third floor of Old Main .... At least three down r state
peoplo who will read this are expecting letters from
us .... silly of them .... Carl Wilde, cultivated flow
er culturist, preserved his quota of cookies intact on
a surprise lunch-to-dinher air trip t’other day ....
Eddie Nichols is planning to take his new convertible
to a revival meeting ....
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Mjr. Corbett, who addressed several
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“Interest, in communistic principles
by both Chinese and ’Japanese stu
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Campus Bulletin
.Candidates for the varsity boxing
team and all second assistant man
agers of boxing should report to Rec
reation hall eyery afternoon .at. 4
o'clock.
All students who contributed to the
F. S. C. A. finance campaign and have
not yet received their membership
cards may call at the associfttioni of
fice in Old Main for them.
Announcement
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at 139 South t Allen Street
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