co, =r (ttullwjtHtL 1 e ~ d Vol. 29, No. 30 STEVENS TO OPEN L. A. SERIES WITH TALK FEBRUARY 21 ‘Grover Cleveland* Selected as First Speech Topic of Lecture Course MEETINGS PLANNED FOR HOME ECONOMICS UNIT Speaker's List Includes Waller, Koepp-Bakcr, Whitmore, < Lewis, Daugherty Speaking* on “Grover .Cleveland: A Study in Political Courage,” Prof. Syl-i yester K. Stevens, of the history de partment, will open th'c twenty-third annual Liberal Arts lectures series on Tuesday, February 21. The series of talks this year will continue throughout the months of February, March, • April and May. Unless ‘ otherwise indicated 'by an nouncement, the, lectures this year will be held in the assembly room of the new Home Economics building in stead of in' the" Little Theatre, as in former years. Waller To Speak The change this year was made be cause of the greater seating capacity of the assembly room,. Dr. Harold F. Alderfer,' chairman of the lecture committee stated. Approximately three hundred people . wore' turned away from the talks last year, be cause of insufficient seating capacity, the committee chairman said. Dr. Willard Waller, of the depart ment of sociology, will give the second leolurc in the courso'March.7, speak ing on “.The Professor,Looks at' Him self.” “Habits of Atoms” will be the subject, of ;Doan .Frank C. Whitmore, bead of'the School ot Chemistry, and Physics, in'-the third lecture oh March 21. ‘ v, Tplks End May 9 the lecture 'iscries on April *l, Herbert Koepp-Baker, of the department of English composition, .will discuss “This . Talking World,” while Willard-P. Lewis, College li brarian, will speak on “John Peter. Zengcr: York Printer” in the fifth lecture of the scries April 25. Concluding the lecture course on May 9, Prof. Paul R. Daugherty, of the department of Spanish, will talk on “Manuel.. Ugarte: Anarchist or Patriot.” Other members of the com? mittce in charge'of the arrangements for the lectures are Dr. Franklin Krauss, of the classical languages de partment, and David D. Mason, of the romance languages department. DUTCIIER TO ADDRESS OPEN MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT . Dr. R. Adams Dutcher, of the de partment of biological chemistry, will address tho.'Prc-Medical society on the •subject, “Vitamins,”-at an open meet ing tomorrow night at 7 o’clock. ■ Dr. Dutchcr spoke on the same topic before the convention of the Pennsyl vania State Medical society at Pitts burg last.fall.' STEIDLE ADDRESSES MEETING Dean Edward' Stcidle of the School of Mineral-Industries and Dr. Nelson •W, Taylor of the department of cer amics were speakers at a dinner meet ing of 'the • Ceramics society in the State College, hotel last night. Ap proximately twenty-five ' were in at tendance. News of Speeches, Athletics Given Most Space in College Newspapers News of speeches and athletics is given the ‘ most prominence - on the front pages of student newspapers, a survey of five Issues of I .ten represent ative college and • university publica tions shows. 'Speech write-ups comprise 11.2 per cent of the space on the front page, while 11. percent is devoted to ath letic news. In.addition to. the front page space given to, athletics, each of the ten papers liad a separate sports page. ! In those college dailies which have Associated or United Press service, national news* is given the most prom inence. Stories of national interest compriso 14.8 percent of the front page space in the four newspapers which have this service. Dramatic' and music' news comes next with 10.8 percent, followed by No Exploitation of Student Labor Here, Study Reveals Economics Class Conducting College Survey , Recently, Discloses Average Wage As 39.2 Cents Per Hour Student labor at Penn State is far from being exploited, the average wage'for both men and women stu dents engaged in work here being 89.2 cents per hour, while the average working day is 1.99 hour 3, according to a study conducted recently by mem bers of a class studying labor prob lems under the direction of A. Harold Recdc, of the department of econ omics. • Men are somewhat better paid than women, receiving 41.6 cents per Hour as compared by the average female labor wage listed as 32.7 cents. In the compilation of the general statis tics, a greater percentage of cases involving male labor was used, in or der to approximate the averages ac cording’ to the proportion of men and women in the student body. The ma terial was organized into a report by Keith D. Pfoor ’33, a member of the class. Most of the male students were found to be employed as cither waiters or kitchen help, the former receiving a slightly better wage per hour, be T cause of a smaller working day. Al though both waiters and kitchen help receive an equal compensation per day, tile former are employed for only 2.20 hours while the latter have a working day of 2.29 hours, according to the report. With the fraternity houses listed as the greatest source for employment, other students considered in the study ■were those employed as caterers, treasurers, tailors, furnace men, clerks, and R. 0. T. C. officers.." Me mbers of this group, working, an aver age of 1.63 hours a day, earn approxi-i mately 41.8 cent 3 per hour, the.re-j port , I '•"Women students working' here"were found to be engaged for the most part as waitresses, clerk 3, telephone oper ators and kitchen help, and in the var ious libraries. Receiving the lowest HIGH SCHOOL REPORTERS WILL RECEIVE AWARDS P. N. P. A. Gives $3O for Sigma Delta Chi Journalism Contest An appropriation of fifty dollars to be awarded as prizes in the annual high school reporters contest, sponsor ed by the department of journalism and Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, was m'adc by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Pub lishers association at its convention at Harrisburg last week. Although definite dates for the con test have not been set as yet, the com petition will be held within the next month, according to Prof. Franklin C. Banner, head of the department of journalism. More than 250 entries wero submitted in the 1932 contest. High school students . who corres pond for daily or weekly newspapers are eligible to compete in the contest. Stories submitted by the contestants will'be judged by the committee’on ed itorial affairs of the Newspaper Pub lishers association. MERRILL WILL LEAD SESSION ■ Prof. Dana K. Merrill, of the de partment of English literature, will have charge of -the weekly Fireside reading session sponsored by. the Col lege library in the upper lounge of Old Main at 4:15 o’clock tomorrow af ternoon.. Professor Merrill will read selections from recent American bio graphies and autobiographies in the various fields of activity. stories and .interviews of an academic nature with 9 percent. News of fac ulty and administrative affairs re ceives 8.8 percent of- the front-page space, while social news came sixth with 7.5, percent. Student government and student welfare news figured in 6.G percent of tho front-page space, while 6 per cent was devoted to write-ups of club and fraternity activities. . Publica tions news, features, religious news, front-page columns, debating stories, military. news, ’and. alumni stories ranked next in the order named. • Papers used in the survey were the Amherst Student, Daily Illini, Daily Pennsylvanian, Indiana Daily Student, Oregon Emerald, Oregon State Baro meter, Stanford Daily,* Syracuse Daily Orange, Vermont. Cynic, and West Virginia Athenaeum. ' STATE COLLEGE, PA„ TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1933 | average wage of the groups studied, i the women were listed as working ; 1.86 hours per day. The quality of labor as performed by the students is very high, the study showed. With the longest period of work being only about one hour at a time, the law of diminishing produc tivity does not operate and the em ployers benefit by receiving the great est production at all times, Pfoor pointed out. Payment to students for labor per-: formed in fraternity houses is, for the most part, in the form of board. That the average board at fraternity houses listed in this study ranges in cost from $6.34 to 86.40 per week was also disclosed in the study. I. F. SONG CONTEST SET FOR MARCH 9 Advance Trials Will Eliminate Two-thirds of Competing Fraternity Groups Thursday, March 9, has been set as the date for preliminary competition in the Interfraternity songfest, ac cording to announcement by Wayne R. Varnum 'B4, chairman of the com mittee in charge of the songfest, this week. Letters have been mailed to all fraternities informing them of plans for the contest, Varnum said. One-third of the competing groups will be selected in the preliminary I contest for the final competition to be j held, in conjunction with a ! later in March.-, Entries for„the'firs.t tryouts must be made on or before February 15: ' To Award Trophy An innovation on the campus <this year*, the songfest will feature com petition between fraternity groups of a maximum of twenty voices each, with a silver trophy to be awarded to the winning group. Each group will be required to sing three numbers, in cluding two verses and two choruses of the Nittnny Lion in unison, one of its own fraternity songs in unison with or without piano accompaimcnt, and a second-fraternity song in parts without accompaniment. Solo; duct, trio or quartet singing will not be' considered by the judges in this year’s songfest, Vavnuni said. The fraternity groups will be judged on 'the basis of tone, ensemble, inter pretation and general effectiveness of their singing. The contest is open to all fraterni ties,' Varnum pointed out. The com petition is sponsored by Interfrater nity council with the department of music assisting in laying plans for the affair. INTER-UNIT COMMITTEE WILL ORGANIZE GROUPS Body to Divide Non-Fraternity Men Into Competitive Sections An inter-unit council, to assist in tho organization and correlation of the non-lraternity sports’ units laid out by the intramural board, will be form ed tomorrow night at a meeting in Room 318, Old Main at 7:30. The new organization is intended to divide non-fraternity men in equal groups in. order to equalize athletic competition among non-fraternity men. -The project depends upon the cooperation of every man, according to R. Henderson ‘Beatty, manager of intramural sports. The residence of the student will determine his group placement. Stu dents changing residences after being grouped will continue to compete in their original groups, according to the intended plan. An attempt will be made to place an average of one hun dred men .in each group. CO-ED DEBATING FRATERNITY , WILL INITIATE 12 MEMBERS Delta Alpha Theta, local women’s fraternity; will initiate twelve new members" tonight. The new init iates arc Anna L. Miksch ’33, Mar garet E. Barnard ’34, Edith C. Mac- E. Lesta Reese ’34, and Elsie M. Douthett ’35.. Others to be initiated are Emiiic A. Erickson *35, Jeanne S. Kleckner ’35, Henrietta Woodward -’35, Esther I. Cheney ’3O, Dorothy- J. Ely ’36, M. Bcrnadctta Heagney ’36, and Myra E. Hilpcrt ’36. Freshmen Nominate id Men for Offices Freshmen nominated ten men to fill thfcir remaining class offices at a meeting Friday night. Evan Pol litt and David K. Sloan jr. will com pete for the post of secretary, while William’S. Bennett, R. John Carey, Ralph B. Parker jr., and Charles M. Schwartz will contest for the posi tion of ’36 class treasurer. Following a vote to retain the of fice of Class Historian, Frank Al burger jr., Paul W. Brubaker, Ray mond W. Kohler, and Harry Latorre were' nominated for that office. Elections will be held in the Chem istry-Amphitheatre at 7:30 o’clock Friday.: night, Richard W. Maurer, president of the class, has an nounced.’- . COLLEGES DISCUSS CURRICULAR CUTS Dr. Hetzel, 3 Other Presidents Plan Revision Measures For Economy Measures for the simplification of curricula in the four State-aided col leges and universities were discussed at a meeting of the institutional heads at Harrisburg Thursday. President Ralph D. Hetzel attended the conference, which was one of a series of>meetings held for the pur pose. of working out an economy pro gram. President Thomas S. Gates, of the University of Pennsylvania; Chan cellor John. C. Bowman, of the Uni versity of'Pittsburgh; and Dr. Milton F. Stauffer,' of. Temple University, were alsojpresent at the conference. Economy Will Result Elimination -‘of duplicated courses will less money being need ed for carrying on instructional work, the - college: heads • said. This is in linelwithL/the reduction in appropria- Governor last week. /•' • Definite plans will not be completed for some time, it was understood. However, the. College Senate'made an important simplification move here two weeks ago when it approved 'the elim ination of eight of the seventy-one curricula. *. In presenting his .1*933-35 budget to the Legislature last week, Governor Pinchot called attention to the move for economy on the part of State-aided institutions. He commended, their ef forts to cooperate with the financial policies of the Commonwealth during the present economic depression. KRUMBINE SPEAKS IN CHAPEL SUNDAY Declares ’Personal Happiness Must Important Factor of Our Modern Experience’ “Personal happiness, not the mere amassing of money so that you can make your neighbors jealous, should be, and is rapidly becoming, the most important factor in life to the .great majority of people ,in this country,” said Dr. Miles li. Krumbine, pastor of the Plymouth church, of Shaker Heights, Cleveland; speaking at tlie chapel services in Schwab auditorium, Sunday morning. , “It must be realized that there is a great difference between a search for what is only transient pleasure, and a striving for lasting happiness,” Ine speaker explained. “It is the capa city of acting as sort,of enzyme for the achieving of this goal that religion becomes so important,” he added. “In this modem day, things are as suming a new significance for us. We judge things not so much from the viewpoint of what they are, but from tho more important angle of deter mining just what they will do,” Dr. Krumbine said. “It is more important to observe religion in'this way than to try to analyze it,” he continued. Speaking of the teachings of relig ion, the Cleveland minister observed that probably its greatest lesson was that of showing the need for a per sonal humility, without which no man can botruly worth while. It was be cause of his acquiring personal humil ity that the later writings of Goethe are infinitely superior .to those which he composed when he was young and very arrogant, the speaker said. DAVEY WILL GIVE LECTURE Dr. Wheeler P. Davey, of the School of Chemistry and Physics faculty, wif address an open meeting of Sigma Pi Sigma, honorary physics fraternity, in Room 9, Chemistry Annex, at 7:30 o’clock tomorrow night. Dr. Davey will discuss the “Chemical Physics of Crystal Structural Data.” Bezdek, Fleming Visualize Eastern Grid Conference Include Penn State in Proposed Association Among Colleges for Advancement Of Parer A Hr SIDNEY H. BENJAMIN ’33 Hugo Bezdek and Noil Fleming join the' nation's leading sports editors in the belief that an Eastern Intercol legiate Football “Conference” is closer than it has ever been to becoming a reality. What is more,. Penn State's ath letic leaders give us every reason to believe that, if the association is formed. Penn State will be included in a possible membership of Haivard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Pennsyl vania, Columbia, Syracuse, Cornell, Army, Navy, and Brown. All these institutions, the traditional leaders of the East, are, with the ex-; eeption of Cornell, members of the COMMITTEE .SEEKS COURSE CRITICISMS Group To Make Investigations, Will Outline Plans for Curricula Changes ' Criticisms and recommendations by the student- body as to courses and curricula in the College, are solicited for consideration by <the Student Com mittee on Courses 'and Curricula, ac cording to Robert 31. Maxwell ’ll3, chairman of the group. , Completing the investigations and > study which it has been making for the last few months, the committee is organizing the material into a report which will be submitted within the next few weeks to the Senate survey committee, appointed by the Prcsi .clent„.j)f ,\vhichj.t..is ; To Make Recommendations Divided into three parts, -the report when completed will contain general recommendations of improvement for the whole College, suggestions for the various schools as a whole, and speci fic recommendations for adding and dropping courses. In making the study, the group considered duplica tion and substitution of courses, those with unnecessary pre-requisites, and courses in one school, which are too specialized for students enrolled in another school. 'Recommendations by students, which should be specific in suggesting changes, should he addressed to the Student Committee on Courses, and Curricula, and delivered at the Stu dent Union desk, Old 3lain. Before drawing up the report in its final form, the group is desirous of weigh ing all student opinion on the matter', Maxwell said. Assisting Maxwell on the commit tee are H. Louise Marqunrdt and Mar garet E. Tschnn ’32, graduate stu dents, Andrew L. Bixlcr *33, Jesse H. Brewster *33, Emanuel Frisch ’33, Carrie B. Gibbons ’33, Marion P. Howell ’33, Herbert E. Longeneckcr ’33, Marx D. Mollar ’33, and John T. Ryan jr. '34. JUNIOR WOMEN WILL HOLD CLASS DANCE FEBRUARY 10 Junior women will hold their class dance at the Sigma Phi Epsilon house on Friday, February 10, with music by the Varsity Ten, K. Jane Lee '34, the social chairman, has announced. By class vote the dance will be strictly closed. 3lembers of the sen ior class will not be invited as has been customary in the past Betty B. Thompson ’34 will have charge of programs, and Elizabeth L. Warner '34 of entertainment, while Carlyn V. Manifold ’34 heads the refreshment committee. WINTER COURSE WILL BEGIN The forty-first session of- Penn State’s winter course in ice cream manufacture will begin January 28. The course is internationally known, having attracted students from Eng land, Denmark, and Sweden. - GREENSKEEPERS WILL MEET Greenskeepcrs of the state will as semble here on January 30 for'the annual short course on the study of (grass. Instruction is under the direc tion of the School of Agriculture. MAY ORDER CAPS, GOWNS Seniors who will be graduated at mid-semester will have their last op portunity to order caps and gowns and invitations at the Student Union desk in Old 3lain from 7 to 0 o’clock tonight. A deposit of five dollars is required for caps and gov.n_. ihletic Ideals present Eastern Intercollegiate asso ciation, an outgrowth of a former, similar group for the selection of football officials. The main object of the association is still assignment of officials to games of member col leges, but along with this function genera! discussion of common athletic problems has crept in. Bez visualizes the “conference” more as an association with common athletic ideals and problems,' than as a scheduling group such as the Big Ten. The fact that all the schools mentioned are, to a greater or lessor; degree, leaders in the present trend, towaid non-subsidization and <lefla-j ♦ ton is, he believes, an indication that the group might have ns one of its chief aims the advancement of purer athletic ideals. It isn’t that Bez discounts the value: of such a group's having interlocking j or rotating schedules. He believes it. a logical move for institutions withj similar athletic policies. But he feels ■ that the association will first be a group for the furtherance of certain j ideals and aims, and then possibly an inter-scheduling organization. Neil Fleming has quite the same conception of the “Conference" that Bez expresses. He feels that the group will be a natural outgrowth of the present association. The differ ence, h\* points out, will be the ad dition of more and more functions by the group till it takes on the aspects of a group of a dozen of the East’s leaders joining in competitive rivalry. If the “Conference” does material ize, it will be after two years of wait ing that have seen the major Institu -1 tions of practically every section of .the,. cquiljiry.. Joined - into,.. strong., and famous'groups, while the. colleges of the East have suffered both in pres tige and in athletic progress. DEBATING TEAM LOSES TO ST. FRANCIS SQUAD Heagney, Daltoa Defend Affirmative Of War Debt Question Friday Defending reparations and war debt cancellation, the College debating team, composed of Dan Heagney ’33 and Joseph L. Dalton '34, lost a. judge-.’ decision meet to the St‘. Fran cis College orators in the Little The atre, Old Main, on Friday night. The negative arguments were pre sented by Xavier Crowley and John McCann, of St. Francis. \ The ques tion used was, “Resolved, that all in tergovernmental war debts, including reparations, should be cancelled.” D.\ Carl W. Haselc, professor of economics, Prof. Jo Hays, superinten dent of the State College schools, and Henry H. Rogers, graduate student, were the judges. An open forum dis cussion \va3 conducted after the con test. ALPHA PHI OMEGA ELECTS i Alpha Phi Omega, honorary educa tion and social service fraternity, in itiated three seniors and one sopho more at a meeting Saturday. The Penn State chapter of the fraternity was organized last spring. Conditions at Penn State Slightly Below Normal, Warnock Declares With fraternity expenses reduced fifteen percent and town bills lower, with only twenty-five student leaving College for financial reasons, and with little evidence of undernourish ment among students, “Conditions at Penn State are but slightly below normal,” in the opinion of Arthur R. Warnock, dean of men. A report upon the effects of the de pression upon Pennsylvania colleges by Romeyn H. Rivenburg, dean of men, Bucknell University, was used as a guide in a survey of student con ditions on this campus. “There is little evidence that Penn Stale students lack proper nourish-1 ment or endeavor to live on one meal a day,” stated Dr. Joseph R. Ritenour, College physician, adding, “Only a half dozen coses have been found of students in real need.” “It is not undernourishment, but malnourish-; ment, that is tending to affect the: health of the student body.” In a rough estimate of the number of jobs available, including frater nities, boarding houses, dormitories, und stores, the survey revealed a maximum number of 709 positions in PRICE FIVE CENTS COMMITTEE SIGNS EMERSON GILL AS' SENIOR BALL BAND Cleveland Orchestra ■ Will Play At All-College Function On February 17 BROADCASTS EACH NIGHT FROM STATION WTAM Chairman Announces Opening Of Foster Contest—Programs Feature Celluloid Emerson Gill and his orchestra has been signed to furnish the music for Senior Ball in Recreation hall Febru ary 17, John H. Good '33, chairman of the dance committee, announced yes terday. Coming direct from Cleveland, Em erson Gill’s band will play its first en gagement on this campus at the Sen ior function. For the past two years the orchestra has been broadcasting from the Locust Gardens in that city nightly over station WTAM. Carries 3 Singers The bund of eleven members first opened at the Hotel Hollenden in Cleveland six years ago and has since gained a wide reputation n 3 a record ing orchestra. Emerson Gill, beside leading the orchestra, also plays the violin and saxophone. The Senior Bail chairman has an nounced that the Gill band also car ries throe featured singers. Marion Manse, formerly of vaudeville, Pinkcy Hunter, drummer, and Frank Duval, are soloists for the organization. Plan Poster Contest Plans for programs have been com pleted and will feature transparent celluloid covers backed by silver foil. Price 1 -for the-function -this'year' has been reduced to three dollars plus tax. A poster contest will begin imme diately, Good has announced, with the final date for submitting posters Feb ruary 3. Entries for the content should be submitted to Albert L. Frets jr. ’33, at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fra ternity, while prizes for the competi tion will be announced later. FRIZZELL TO SPEAK BEFORE LEWISTOWN KIWANIS CLUB Prof. John H. Frizzell, head of the uepaKnient'of public speaking, will lecture before Lewistown Kiwanis club on the topic, "Some By-products of the Depression," at Lewistown to night 1 Professor Frizzell, who has been giving a series of lectures on the same topic at meetings 'throughout central Pennsylvania, will speak at the meet ing of the Anthracite chapter of the American Institute of Bnnking at Pottsvilb on Friday. DAVIS APPOINTED CHAIRMAN Dr. Elwood C. Davis, of the School of Physical Education has been ap pointed chairman of the Health and Physical Education committee spon sored by the Association of Liberal Arts colleges in its survey of certifi cation standards for teachers in sec ondary schools. Nelson S. Walko of the physical education faculty was j made a member of the committee. which undergraduate students might earn a part of their expenses. Many of these, however, are odd jobs re quiring only several hours work for completion, and for which the pay is insignificant. From a check of the Penn State Christian association employment files, it was discovered that twenty seven fraternity and 146 non-frater nity men have applied for work this semester. The low number of fra ternity men is accounted for by the exchange of waiters and kitchen workers among the individual houses. Fraternity expenses have dropped fifteen percbnl in the last several years with a proportional decrease in dues and bills, according to Dean War nock. Board, which was $7.00 a week three years ago, pnd rortt, which was $3.00 u week three year’s ago, have now dropped as low us $5.00 and $2.00, while competitive prices in the borough have dropped considerably. "The College has been forced to re fuse admission to more than two thirds of the applicants for transfers from other institutions," Dr. Carl E. (ConU.'i.'fat on piiyc two)
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