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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Pulillfthed srmi-WMkly during the College year, except on holidayi,
hy fUudentfl or The Pennsylvania Stale College, In the Interest of the
College, the »tuden<«, faculty, alumni, and friends.
THE MANAI
ROBERT E. TSCHAN '33
RALPH HETZEL JR. *33
Msnuging Editor
SIDNEY H. BENJAMIN ’33
Sports Editor
RICHARD V. WALL *33
AsaUtant Kdilor
DONALD P. DAY '33
Assistant Managing Editor
ERNEST 11. ZUKAUSKAS *33
Assistant Sports Editor
ROLUN C. STEJNMETZ ’33
News Editor
W. J. WILLIAMS JR. 133
News Editor
FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1933
ULTRA-SPECIALISTS
From all sides come scathing comments on the gen
eral lack of information of college students. One dean
of a law school says that students prepared in the pre
iegal course know nothing of art, literature, or of any
thing not directly in-line with the law., Graduates of
journalism schools are scorned by publishers for their
lack of basic knowledge which has been sacrificed for
materiul that could be gained much more quickly in
cctual practice.
Graduates of technical schools probably receive the
most criticism for their narrowness. Engineers are
painted as knowing nothing but slide-rules; chemists arc
lost without their tost tubes. Not even education stu
dents are exempt from attack. Prominent educators
claim that subject matter is lost in the welter of method
that'year by year is increasingly emphasized by the
teachers of future teachers.
And somehow, hard though it may be to swallow
such bitter pills, there seems to be something reasonable
about these comments. Certainly the narrowness of
college students is not all-inclusive. The more optim-.
istic observers console themselves in the belief that,
after all, the number of students who let themselves be
come one-tracked is small. But pessimism would seem
to prevail in a situation where the very curricula em
phasize the wrong thing and thereby enable free and
easy undergraduates to lend themselves as willing vic
tims.
'An instructor of English, who must he shown before
he believes most things, decided to determine for him
self whether his freshman sections of engineers fell
within the group of students who know nothing outside
of their own field. Seizing upon the theory now being
bruited about in .the metropolitan press, this instructor
began a discussion on ‘'technocracy."
■No, they hadn’t read of technocracy in the news
papers. They don’t read -newspapers. Excused. That
was the way it went the whole class over—neither
knowing nor caring. Although this instructor believes
that anyone who claims to know too much about tech
nocracy is probably fooling his public, he nevertheless
holds to the opinion that the discussion was of interest
to future technicians. And so he believes that if the
world could ever be run*by technicians and if those men
were as narrow as students of today seem to be—then
certainly strange things will have come upon the earth.
(Student attendance/ at the first home basketball
game of the season seems to indicate that the sport has
i;ot lost its grip on Penn State students., To the spec
tators several things seemed missing. One or two cheers
marked tho extent of the cheering-at the game. A band
was not even present. Few students can recall- an
athletic contest without a band playing in the past..
THE HARDSHIP OF LEADING
It must have become a bit boresome by this time for
the director of physical education and athletics to listen
to.the inevitable wails and whines which time after time
have greeted his comments before coaches and athletic
directors of the country.
A large portion of his proposals and suggestions arc
greeted in this wise at eve 17 conference. Visionary,
wild idealist, crepedianger are epithets applied to him
l;y his brethren in conference.
When, not so long ago, he stood up and advocated
for all institutions the system of athletics - in effect here,
he was shouted down by the meeting. Men, waxing
prosperous on the old exploitation arrangements, called
.him names and would not listen to him. And now, the
colleges and universities are all joining the rush to be
under the same banner of sweet reasonableness' in ath
letics which he then advised.
So it has been in each new step. Every advance in
the return of athletics to the student has been cham
pioned by him. Yet so many times has he been ahead
of the rush in these movements that the coaches and di
rectors have thought him the terrible idealist. Soon,
however, the crowd catches up and then they are all
busy patting themselves on the back for doing the very
things which they booed down short months before.
Again, during the holiday meetings, the director
made another comment which was greeted .in the old
critical fashion. Ife bid a good-bye to the days when
football, by the great plethora of gate receipts, carried
the whole expense of physical education and athletics.
He pointed out that justice can only be done to the rights
of tho student in athletics when physical education and
athletics are. budgeted in the same fashion as other de
partments, thus removing the strain of earning from
the game of football. Judging by past success in his
prophecies, it seems to be a step that f soon'will be real
ized widely by colleges and universities of the country,
even as it is being realized here. f
It is with pride that the students realize that their
college and their director have the courage to be in the
forefront of progress in athletic policy.no matter what
the howls from the old czars of the gridiron who feel
their thrones wabbling. 1
JING BOARD
ALFRED W. HESSE JR. ’33
Business Manager
ROBERT M. HARRINGTON ’33
Circulation Manager
PAUL BIERSTEIN ‘33
Local Advertising Manager
WILLARD D. NESTEK *33
Foreign Advertising Manager
ARTHUR E. PHILLIPS *33
Credit Manager
MARION P. HOWELL *33
Women's Editor
Isabel' McFarland ‘33
Women’s Managing Editor
ELIZABETH M. KALB '33
Women’s News Editor
, Crumbs from a.loaf of the bread ol life: Miss
* Bobbie Rhodes, whom you may.remember as having
been mentioned here in connection with freshman class
elections, was highly elated when she heard about all
itho publicity .... so much so, in fact, that she pur
chased a paper from Jerry Parker .... Have you tried
the new "Battleships" game? . T. . one of the greatest
’little time-wasters yet invented .... There’s a move
on foot to make attendance at the Intercollegiate Eall
fin Pittsburgh a legal excuse for coming back to school
late .... It’s tough when you really do have to blow
your nose during one of these weepy fillums .... Ruth
•Niebel, who is getting out of this college after three
and a half years, is planning to study in Paris .1. she
likes pastrami on rye and garlicked.dill pickles ....
It’s an ill window that sells nobody any goods . . . The
SAE’s Fred O’Neill is a double for Boris Karloff, ex
cept that Fred knows that he's not an actor ... Senior
Ball .... a Puddy Good dance .... Bucknell has
changed its mind about Waynesburg, the little team
it never heard of ... . But Mr. Warnock, this “un
chaperoned girl problem” really isn’t any problem at
all if you know how to handle it ... . Who-wns the
bright little missy who said her ho-hum was a Com
munist, on account of he writes the Old Maniac?
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CAMPUSEER
BY HIMSELF
There are lots of ways of filling up a column like
this when you don’t have anything to write about.
We might do as our contemporary on the Daily Penn
. sylvanian, who writes about two paragraphs and
leaves about eight paragraphs of very decorative white
space. Or we might simply resort to that old expedi
ent of running a lot of big type, like this
HAPPY NEW YEAR
On the other hand, we’ll probably get into’ less
trouble from the editor if we run something humorous
sort of, rich but not bawdy. Wiherefore we give you
a few of our acid observations upon general conditions.
The Beer Boys may think it’s tough convincing
the Supreme Court that the 3.2 stuff isn’t intoxicating,
but wait ’til they start trying to convince themselves
that it is.
Trouble with our cheek and balance system is that
that there have b6en too many chocks, leaving too little
balance.
'Anent the current popularity of technocracy, we
are beginning to be convinced that the country is suf
fering from a technical knockout. ,
The politician who goes around with his tongue
»in his cheek can’t say very much without biting the
end off.
Tho Back-to-the-farm movement seems to have
changed to a Back-to-the-wall movement.
*** * * *
Having just called up our co-ed friend, who has
been given up by all the leading alienists, we are in
spired to dedicate a bit of verse to the lady. Besides
being pretty good, it takes up some more room.
For wor<ls that inspire
Hymns of hate,
These are the worst,
“I’ve a tentative date."
*** t * *
The graduate student who left his Botany note
book in a hash house of a nearby city can obtain same
by calling at the Collegian office, if we remember to
bring it with us. The waiter who picked it up orig
inally couldn't figure it out at all. He referred it to
an anthropologist who wandered in, and the anthro
pologist happened to knows yours truthfully, and so
here it is. You’re welcome. We enjoyed this more
than you did. On second thought, we’ll leave it in the
upper right-hand drawer of SHB’s desk, which is the
first shambles to the left as you enter the editorial
sanctum sanctorum sanctorum.
******
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
FACULTY TO HELP
STATE INDUSTRIES
Morse Will Head Temporary Group
Planning Study of Business
Needs in Pennsylvania
Following a recommendation of the
College committee on relief, faculty
members met Wednesday night to for
mulate plans for a committee on re
habilitation of Pennsylvania indus
tries.
Adrian 0. Morse, executive secre
tary'to the President, was named tem
porary chairman of the committee,
which will be selected from a group
of faculty members whose work
touches on ths field to be studied. An
intensive investigation of the needs of
the industries now having difficulties
will be made, Mr. Morse said.
Twenty faculty ' members attended
the preliminary meeting Wednesday
night at which an informal discussion
of the plans in other sections was
held. President Ralph D. Hetzel had
suggested that the meeting be held
immediately following the Christmas
recess. 1
First reports of the faculty drive
for relief funds were submitted at a
general meeting of the committee on
relief yesterday afternoon.
The Letter Box
Editor, Collegian,
Dear Sir;
Shortly before the Christmas vaca
tion, a petition was published concern
ing the curtailment of expenses and
the reduction of the subscription of
the Senior Ball. Accompanying the
petition was an editorial which doubt
ed the success of the proposed plan on
tho ground, that the stu.dent body
would object to paying $2.50 to dance
to orchestras to which it has free ac
cess several times in the year.
I question whether any more ob
jection would follow than to paying
$4.40 for a dance given by such or
chestras as are brought around here
as high class. Anyone will admit the
desirability of dancing to one of-the
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Branch Banking System, Elimination
Of Small Units Favored by Prof. Dye
Elimination of small banks and in
troduction of a system of state-wide
branch banking was given as a solu
tion to the banking problem that is
now confronting the country by Prof.
Earl V. Dye, of the department of
economics and sociology.
In pointing out the unfavorable in
fluence of the small banks upon the
financial system of the country, Prof.
Dye cited the current report .of the
Comptroller which listed 84.5 percent
of the. bank failures during the last
twelvo years as being .in banks under
a $lOO,OOO capital./ •
“(The fact that'the.small-banks are
those that fail indicates that their
management is in tHe hands of incap
able and inexperienced men,” the ec
onomics professor-declared. He plac
ed all the blame - for the failure of the
small banks on mismanagement, since
there is nothing inherent in the big
bank that makes for financial strength
and nothing in the small bank thqt
makes for weakness.
Endorsing the system of branch
banking, Prof. Dye admitted that it
would tend toward cpnsolidation but
he proposed a state-wide limitation
few really great bands in the coun
try, but since our class purse is not
fat endugh to purchase any in that
class, where is the advantage of pay
ing exorbitant'prices for poorer or
chestras? ,Our campus bands are not
that inferior. ’
If the committee cannot see the:
plausibility of the-plan, *;at least let it
put the question to public senior vote]
and. find the true status. Maybe its!
members are right, but a change mustj
be made eventually, unless we are sat-!
isfied to sit back and watch one failure
after another. -
—L. R. C. ’33
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Tho real trouble in unsound banking
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To correct this situation Prof. Dye
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banks to join the Federal Reserve Sys
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FRIDAY— ‘ ; •
Herbert Marshall, Charles Buggies in
“EVENINGS FORi SALE”
and .. .
The Mills Bros, in “Dinah”
SATURDAY—
Lee Tracy, Lupe Velez in
“THE HALF NAKED' TRUTH"
MONDAY and TUESDAY—
Helen Hayes, Gary. Cooper
In Ernest. Hemingway's
“A FAREWELL TO ARMS*’
WEDNESDAY—
Sally -Filers, Ralph Bellamy in
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Chas. Laughton, The Panther Woman
1 In 11. G. Wells'
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