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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Published leml-wMkiy during the College year, except on holSdaya,
by students of Tho Pennsylvania State College, In the Interest of the
College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends.
TIIE MANAI
ROBERT E. TSCHAN '33
RALPH HETZEL JR. '33
Managing Editor
SIDNEY H. BENJAMIN *33
Sports Editor
RICHARD V. WALL '33
Assistant Editor
DONALD P. DAY '33
Assistant Managing Editor
ERNEST B. ZUKAUSKAS *33
Assistant Sports Editor
ROLLIN C. STEINMETZ '33
News Editor
W. J. WILLIAMS JR. '33
Now* Editor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Chnrlra A. Myers '34 Wm. B. Prothero '34 Wm. M. Stegmcler ’34
George A. Scott ’34 Bernard JI. Rosentwcig ’34 James M. Sheen *3-1
ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS
Harold J. Batsch *34 H. Edgar Furmnn ’34 John C. Irwin ’34
Frederick L. Tavlor '34 Francis Wacker *34
WOMEN’S ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Eva M. Blichfoldt '34 Ruth M. Harmon '34 Mne P. Kaplan ’34
Member Eastern Inlcrcoilcyintc Newspaper Association
Entered at the Postofftce, State College, Pa., as Second-class Matter
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1933
ENTIRELY FITTING and proper was Student
Council’s reapproval of the regulation passed last Spring
which permits second semester dating by freshmen. An
obvious addition, too, was that of removing dress cus
toms on Saturday nights when dating will be most com
mon. Considered as a trial in many quarters of the
campus, this lightening of restrictions will no doubt be
received with mixed emotions. Some students who hold
to the policy of maintaining that “what was good for me
is good for those who follow,” will, needless to say, call*
for a return to the old order when revisions are to be
made this year. The usual lament of old traditions be
ing lost and of the campus becoming nothing more than
a. gigantic impersonal machine will also arise just as it
did when “Stunt Night,” scraps, and other antiquated
vestiges were eliminated. To these students the facts
themselves should be enough. Is not the student body
much too large for such restrictions? Is there any en
forcement? A Tribunal still functions—without the co
operation of tho student body. Almost any member of
that group will admit that student apathy makes such
customs as now exist even impossible of enforcement.
In a word, the student body has grown; it has other in
terests; it cannot be bothered with such regulations,
childish as they are at best. And so it is that objectors
arc few. Some other students, who see in the changes
of the past year, steps toward a future when customs
may entirely disappear, believe that most of the weeding
out of objectionable restrictions has taken place. At
least they follow hopefully the experiment to determine
whether freshmen are responsible individuals and wheth
er as such they can assume their proper position in a
collego organization without petty restrictions. These
students earnestly hope for no results that may mean
retrogression.
IN PROPOSING to study the problem of uniting
men’s and women’s student government, the leaders
have set for themselves a difficult task. That there are
offices in both men’s and women’s government as mean
ingless and useless as some honorary fraternities, most
students will agree. Whether or not the problem of
eliminating these positions and building up an equit
able scheme whereby both men and women will receive
a fair share of representation can be accomplished it is
difficult to predict at the present time. In fact, from
tho difficulty that lias been met with along similar lines
of amalgamation in other fields, the task seems insur
«mountable. If it can be accomplished, the change will
certainly go on the record of landmarks in activities
improvement.
THE SUPPORT which faculty and staff members
have given to the Unemployment Relief funds this year,
although not in .dollars and cents comparable to that of
last year, is worthy of recognition. Throughout the en
tire country members of the teaching profession have
been bearing a considerable part of direct as well as in
direct relief work. To those who argue that salaried
men in times of depression make up for their lower
financial return, it need only be remarked that this class
is tho first to be called upon for relief. If‘this fact is
considered and the one that salaries of the teaching
profession, generally and particularly, are so low that
most college students spurn the profession if monetary
return is a primary objective, then the contributions
stand out even more as charity worthy of praise. The
allotment to Student Loans of a large part of the fund
raised provides direct relief that is sadly needed as any
cne familiar with the demands for such loans can prove.
Students can contribute to this relief work by taking
advantage of the theater ticket offer which will be con-'
ducted as a campaign by Interfraternity council early
in February.
THE REDUCTION of the price of Senior Ball tic
kets with no attendant lessening of costs may be classed
as another “noble experiment.” Because a group of
seniors held so firmly to the belief that more persons
would attend the function as the result of a reduction
in price, the committee has taken the risk. At least
after the dance there will be some indication whether
crowds are drawn consistently from the same numbers
or whether other factors enter into attendance at dances.
Tho functions to come will benefit from the experience
in having a course to follow. Meanwhile those who have
felt so keenly about the matter might well be drumming
up a little trade to prove their point—-that a lower ticket
prico brings an appreciable increase in'attendance.
SING BOARD
ALFRED W. HESSE JR. ’33
Business Manager
ROBERT M. HARRINGTON ’33
Circulation Manager
PAUL BIERSTEIN ’33
Local Advertising Manager
WILLARD D. NESTER ’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 *B3
Women’s News Editor
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THE HUB
EAST COLLEGE AVENUE
CAMPUSEER
BY HIMSELF
Nifti Nicholson wandered innocently across the
mawl to make known to his Sigma Nu friends the
happy information of his birthday anniversary’s ad
vent. Having somewhat of a flare for the theatrical,
ho advanced to a prominent position in the middle of
tho room to make the momentous announcement. Un
biased observers estimate that it took his hosts just
a minute and three-quarters to strip the aforemen
tioned gentleman of all his habiliments and accoutre
ments and eject him from a side door in a most un
covered condition. After a short period of shivering
and stamping, he was brought back and informed
that it was just an old Sigmanu custom of celebrating
birthdays. It has almost limitless possibilities, if it is
going to apply to visitors . . .
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Track—
Simply the glorification
Of that age-old habit
Of running around
In circles.
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What well known restaurateur wasted herculean
efforts and a long-distance call in a futile effort to
date a little gel in Liberty on Sunday "afternoon? . . .
and succumbed to the flimsy plea that it'was too
foggy to drive over? . . . What SPE frosh was on
waste-basket duty last week... and came to class with
pockets filled with slightly used cigarettes. . . . What
big scholar and activities man mailed his laundry
lease the other day . . . and got it back the next after
noon with seventeen cents worth of cancelled stamps
and the realization that he had forgotten to turn the
address card? . . . Why doesn’t Spike Leslie answer
jail the questions asked in his Hygiene section? . . .
Who neglected the little detail of ballots at the fresh
. man elections recently . . . and had to make a wild
.dash down town and do a bit of expert house-breaking
.to get them out of the printing office? ... Why is Lou
Kreizman planning to change bis name to Bing Cros
by?
******
Sociologist Waller was discussing food habits in
various parts of the world. Mentioned grasshoppers
.. . snails .. . dog steaks turning appetizingly on the
spits ... one place where preserved rats are kept as a
ceremonial dish . . . while Hanawalt, the DU hasher
disher-outer, listened with a peculiar gleam in the
eyes . ..
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As we drivel toward insanity
Final week will fitly
Be labelled a calamity
Like a garlic blight in Italy.
******
For some of us final week is the period when we
don’t shave, but for Veddy “Laßellc” Maimed, it’s
just another week . . . The palm for originality cer-
Jtainly goes to our grand old Tribunal ... we thought
.we’d choke when we saw that uproarious “I am a ham
sandwich” sign the other day . . . which all* goes to
show that some traditions are just swell ... hut Dad
didn't leave those curleycue jig-saw wood-work atro
cities on the front of the house just because they were
old . . Dean Warnock was the only applicant to the
lato Kappasig dance who was not admitted because
of not having an invitation . . . Has Ed Carr shown
you his duelling scar yet? . . . Froth Mug Christy is
the guilty swordsman . . . and is not a little proud of
it .. . Miss Corl-, in the Journalism office, keeps large
numbers of cross-word puzzles in her dictionary . . .
and if you happen to be one of those who is just the
wrong side of a zippo, you might
Insert a five or two-buck
■Bill in'your final blue-book.
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Technocracy Shows Needs, Cannot
Fulfill Them, Engineers Declare
Summing up technocracy as "ex
ceedingly valuable in .pointing out a
need, but of dubious merit in fulfilling,
it,” members of the Central Pennsyl
vania section of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers agreed
that technocracy has performed a val
uable service in centering attention
on the consequences of a lack of
knowledge of economics, sociology,
and technical advance, at their discus
sion here Tuesday night.
Condemnation of the movement
from an engineering standpoint was
voiced by Prof. J. Orvis Keller, head
of the engineering extension,depart
ment, while Prof. Harney W. Stover,
of the same department, pointed out
economic defects in the movement,
during the meeting.
Asserting that instead of reducing
employment, technical engineering
advances have probably increased it,
Professor Keller showed that the num
ber of persons gainfully employed
increased steadily from 1900 to 1910
and that in 1930, a depression year,
39.7 percent of the population were
employed. Much of the stagnation of
trade in the country and in the world
generally is due to tariffs, he hinted.
Professor Stover, in his condemna
tiyi of 'technocracy, pointed out that
Phillipines Capable
Of Self-rule Soon,
Dr. Tanger States
“The Philippine Islands will be
ready for "complete independence at
the end of the seven-year period speci
fied in the bill recently passed by
Congress,”, according to Dr. Jacob
Tanger, head of the political science
department.
Scoring wide-spread opinion that the
Philippines will not be capable of gov
erning themselves, Dr. Tanger pointed
out that an efficient educational sys
tem has been preparing the Filipinos'
for the step since Spain ceded the
islands to the United States following
the Spanish-American War in 1898.
Many of the Central American re
publics seem to be progressing satis
factorily in self-government, he added.
“Complete freedom. will not be
granted, of course, and an arrange
ment-will be made to have the islands
protected from foreign conquest,” Dr.,
Tanger continued. “The United States
will probably not agree to a mandate
over the Philippines, 'as that system
would mean reporting to the League
of Nations.”
Dr. Tanger is not so apprehensive
of •fdreigfo-Mivafcionr'however, as he is
of domestic suppression. If .the Philip
pines’ 'were-to govern themselves, he
fears, one class of Filipinos would,
dominate and subject the government
to its policies.
DR. BERNREUTER TO SPEAK
Dr. Robert G. Bernreuter, of the
psychology department, will speak on
“Mental Hygiene and Efficient Liv
ing” before members of the freshman
commission at the cafeteria in the
Homo Economics building, at noon to
morrow.
FRESHMEN WIN RIFLE MEET
Freshman sharpshooters successful
ly defeated the Varsity R. 0. T. C.
rifle team in a challenge match Friday
night by the score of 901 to 878. Mar
shall W. Mtyers '36: and Charles C.
Pace ’36 held individual scores of 186
and 178, respectively.
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the technocrats hold that the indus
trial age has satisfied the material
wants and desires of mankind, while,
the economists hold that the desires
and wants of man are insatiable. The
industrial age has had the opposite
effect of increasing mankind's desires,
he maintained.
A fundamental revision of the
banking system would go a long way
toward eliminating the present defi
ciencies in the present price system,
Prof. Stover believes. This change
would be immensely easier than to
attempt to teach the people to use
energy as a commodity, he said.
Prominent Names
Feature Library 1
Autograph Group
Over seventy names of prominent
American authors, poets, dramatists,
and critics are on display in Alcove K
on the second floor of the College Li
brary. Among the list are six Pulit
zer prize winners, and recipients of
various other honorary awards.
The names were collected several
years by the College when an
English institute during the summer
session was being planned. Auto
graphs are on the letters of reply to
invitations to give lectures at the ses
sion. Some of the names have been
collected by Librarian Lewis .during
his work at other libraries.
•An interesting sidelight of the ex
hibit is the wording of the letters of
refusal. All replies are worded to the
effect that they sincerely regret their
"inability to visit your beautiful
mountain retreat in the cool of sum
mer, and spend a delightful period of
study in the company of so many
charming people.” ”
Some names among the prominent
list are Stewart Edward White, Rob
ert Frost, John Erskine, Gamaliel
Bradford, Christopher Morley, Sin
clair Lewis, Zona Gale, Genevieve
Taggard, Carl Sandburg, Willa Cath- ;
er, Lytton Strachey, William Daniel
Steele, Hamlin Garland, Edna Fer
ber, Elsie Singmaster Lewars, Will
iam McFee, and Ida Tarbell.
CLUB WILL GIVE CONCERT
The regular weekly vietrola concert
of classical music will be given by the
Social Problems club in the Hugh
Beaver room in Old Main at 7:30
o’clock tomorrow' night. Borodin’s
“Prince Igor Ballet” and “On the
Steppes of "Asia” will be'included on
tho program.
Resolve Not To Be Poor
Whatever you have, spend
less, bank the saving
and let it earn income
THE
First National Bank 1
OF STATE COLLEGE
State College, Pa.
John T. McCormick
President
David F. Kapp
Cashier
, The Letter Box
Penn State Collegian
Dear Sir:
I should like to take this opportun
ity of explaining to the members of
the Class of 1033 the basis upon which
Senior Senior Bril is being conducted
this year.
As drawn up in November the in
itial budget for the dance showed an
approximate reduction of fifty per
cent in expenditures. According to
this plan the admission price was
slashed from $5.00 to $4.00 per couple.
However, this drastic curtailment in
funds was not considered sufficient,
and at the instigation of a group of
seniors the price was further reduced
to $3.00 per couple. It was from these
same seniors that we received defin
ite assurance that the cut in price
would materially increase the attend
ance at the function. Being firmly
convinced that the quality of enter
tainment must riot .suffer because of
the price reduction the Senior Bali
committee refused to reduce the ex-:
penditures and is offering the same
.dance at §3.00 that was planned, orig
inally on the $4.00 per couple basis.
Por this unusually small admission
charge the committee has procured
Emreson Gill and his nationally known
orchestra. A solidly-covered ceiling,
revolving crystal ball, and palm and
smilax decorations will feature the
■theme in presenting the proper atmos
phere for the Ball.
But at this price these very fea
tures reduce the affair to a great ex
periment. Therefore, I :feel that the
responsibility for the success of the
dance lies with the student body. If
the students do not patronize the af
fair the sponsors of similar functions
will not be able to lower their prices.
Lack of proper support on the part of
tlie students will demonstrate that
they are not concerned with the price
of dances, and consequently the ad
mission charge will return to its for
mer level.
It may also be pointed out to the
members of the Class of 1933 that the
Senior Ball committee will make every
attempt to offer them the quality of
entertainment whic& they demand. If
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Friday, January 27, 1933
ARCHITECTS TO SHOW WORK
Representative -work in all classes
of the architecture department will
be shown at a special exhibition in
the Fine Arts building at Lehigh Uni
versity, from February 5 to ID. Penn
State is one of the three colleges in
vited to exhibit work, the others be
ing the 1 University of Pennsylvania
and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Campus Bulletin
Seniors who have not yet received
their commencement invitations may
secure them from Edward F. Balm at
611 South Pugh street.
those seniors who pressed so greatly
for the reduction in price do not, along
with the remainder of the class, sup
port their, own dance, a substantial
deficit, which will necessarily have to
be met by the class as will
show in the dance budget.
The dance is rightfully that of the
seniors and has been shaped to ftiect
their, demands.. I them to’re
member that the success of this price
experiment lies with them alone, and
not with any committee.
Sincerely yours/
JOHN A. WOOD, -l (
Senior Class President
CATmaum
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