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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN j
PuMMicd semi-weekly during the College year, except on holidays, |
liy sludcntn of The Pennsylvania Slate College, in the Interest of the
College, the «ttulcnts. faculty, alumni, and friends, t
THE MANAGING HOARD
ROBERT E. TSCIIAN '33
RALPH lIF.TZEL JU. ’33
Managing Editor
SIDNEY H. BENJAMIN *33
Sports Editor
RICHARD V. WALT. *33
Assistant Editor
DONALD P. DAY ‘33
Assistant Managing Editor
ERNEST B. ZUKAUSKAS ’33
Assistant Sports Editor
ROLLIN' C. STEINMETZ ‘23
Now-. Editor
W. J. WILLIAMS JR. '23
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Charles A. MyorJ *3l Wm.lt Prothcro *3l Wm. M. Stegmclcr '3t
Geors’e A. Sr’olt *:s S Bernard 11. Kosenr.ut.djr "31 James M. Sheen '34
WOMEN’S ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Eva M. Bliidifvldt '3l Ruth M. Ilnrnum ’3l Mae P. Kaplan '34
ASSOCIATE IH’SINESS MANAGERS
Harold J. TlaUeh ’3l H. Eclgur Furman '3l John C. Irwin *3l
Frederick L. Tnvlor '3l Francis Waclier '34
Enured at the BoMoffice. State Ctillrse. Pa., as Second-class Matter
Member Xf.str.r.'. i-.itaroil'ifji'ilc Newspaper Association
Editorial Office
Business Office^
Phone 292-1 V
TUESDAY. MARCH 7 , 1933
SKULLDUGGERY
The taking of books from the College library has
reached such a stage that it may well be classed as u
tradition. An increasing number of students seems to
think very little of taking books from the shelves with
out going through the customary procedure of signing.
Recent cases are cited when* reference books that are
especially in demand have been lifted. Officials have
been reasonably long-suffering about the usual petty
thievery that always, it seems, must be present in a
large group of neoplo. Something now must be done.
Apparently the criticisms launched at this rising
generation are true. ’lt is argued that no longer does
sinning against a God or a moral ideal have its place as
a possible force. Surface indications may lead one to
such a belief. Then again sociologists and others speak
of a "society” that has replaced the older sanctions of
religion—a society where each member works for the
good of the whole. But this ideal is not observed. Cer
tainly the individual has been exalted. But selfishness
has become for many the watchword of the present day
code of ethics.
Nothing much can be accomplished by railing about
selfishness and dishonesty among students. It is dif
ficult, if not almost impossible, to make an appeal to
those who steal from the library and from their fellow
students. Vigilance on the part of library workers
and all students interested in having books when they
need them should result in the detection of a few 'of
fendeis. The situation demands a few horrible ex-
THE FOG LIFTS
Thc proposed merger of men’s and women’s gov
ernments is faced everywhere by raised eye-brows.and
snorts of disapproval until the plan has
and its possibilities indicated, and then nods of approval
'show understanding and recognition of the system. The
advisability of this change seems to be severely ques
tioned particularly by members of the minority group
'concerned, and the problem thus comes to be first that
of convincing the women students that they will not
• have to make any great sacrifice, and then perhaps
mutual advantages can’be pointed out to the student
body as a whole.
Just as the overwhelming majority of men here
has always been the primary cause of the women’s aloof
ness and distrust of any proposal made by the men, so
the present change is pronounced unfeasible on the basis
.that it would take from .the women what power they
have enjoyed and that the present .government would
bo completely engulfed in such a•.’comprehensive : system.
However, the plan provides for a so-called women’s
honor court, which in function-.would correspond to the
.present women’s student government,, and (committees
'responsible to this court-could assume the duties now
assigned to the house of representatives and the senate.
Thus, the essential features would remain the same, and
functions definitely pertaining to women students .would
be reserved for these women’s , governing- bodies. ' 1
The fact that the ratio of men to women is approxi
mately five to one should not be the cause of serious
objection on the part of the women, since representation
in the student council is to be proportioned in some way
satisfactorily to both men and women. Also the women
can consider themselves a strong minority faction in
such an arrangement.
The only loss to which they can possibly point is
that of their class organizations. On the basis of the
poor attendance at meetings and the general lack of
class interest, it is safe to say that this could not be con-
sidered a very serious deprivation. The only positions
of importance are those of junior president, whose func
tion. of organizing the freshman women’s class would
no longer be necessary under the new plan; and the
vice-president of the sophomore class, whose duties as
chairman of the customs committee could be assumed by
an appointed member of the honor court. Another ar
gument in the favor of combined classes is that creation
of class feeling for alumni purposes could be bettor or
ganized in such a group. ,
Under the new plan with recognized cliques under
faculty supervision where both men and women would
work in normal relations to eacli other, actual political
training would be iceeived which could be of real value
to any interested’in our local, State and national politics.
—E. M. B.
The art. of colyming, we heard someone say once,
is to give the reader, what he wants. Figured we’d
boon off on sort of a side-track and would reform.
So we began casting around for things people liked to
see go for a ride and hit on the campus cops but we
haven’t done so bad by them. Not so-so had. Then
there was good old grounds and buildings, the educa
tional school, and other hearty laughs.
ALFRED W. HESSE JR. ’33 1
l!u-*ino-*s Mannjccr ,
ROBERT M. HARRINGTON *33
Circulation Manager
PAUL BIERSTEIN ’33
Local Advertising Manager
WILLARD D. NESTER '33
Foreign Adverti-dag Manager
ARTHUR E. PHILLIPS ’33
Credit Manager
MARION P. HOWELL '33
Women's Editor
Isabel McFarland '33
Women’s Managin’; Editor
ELIZABETH M. KALB *33
Women's News Editor
213 Old Main
Nillany Printing Building
OLD MANIA
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One of the older profs was coming up the side
walk on the approach to Old Main where tho recently
transplanted tree now stands. ’He had heard how this
giant oil the forest had been brought from New Jersey
to replace another tree. He watched the careful lay
ing of planks whereon it was dragged all over front
campus to the final spot. Sagely he had heard moans
about imminent salary cuts and such goings on. But
he knew that tho money had to be spent that way amt
no other way because the appropriation said so.
WeJf, when he passed this old tree, everything flashed
before him, everything. We're not so sure but did he
say, “Baaah!”?
Tho moral:
Flaunting available funds
To transplant trees from Jersey
Is taunting to folks moribund—
A diplomatic heresy
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For some time now we have been watching
amusedly an old gent carefully chisel out the cement
between different layings in the concrete floor of Old
Main. We knew there was something fruitful in it
for us. But not until one of the fellows whispered
over our shoulder did wc finally catch what we had
been so confidently awaiting. Like the Froth- staff
piis gent was making big new cracks out of little old
ones. .
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Could Sen. Huey Long’s vilcncc
Be cured by a good course in Political Silence?
There is really a swell anecdote going the rounds
about a certain picture in the Triangle fraternity
which a certain Dean Sackott gave in token of his
Pickwickian sentiment for the boys. But you’ve heard
how’they take it down'and put it un again just to keep
on the ins and ins.
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To such lengths do some of the co-ed affiliates go
in justifying their use of fraternity in reference to
their lodges that the Chi O’s have now advanced- the
argument that Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee
were charter members, thus making them positively
a full-fledged frnternitce. • But
Andy Jackson and Robert Lee'
Can never be Clii O’s to mo.
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Spindrift
Memories wjth;Tcd Serrill back . . . Jake Win
stead . . . Laudenslager . . . and so on'. . . We doff
our hat to the role gullibles who went to the boxing
formal in their ,basie ( uniforms. If asked some would
go in their underwear as shock troops . . . Dot John
ston at the inaugural ball . . . Vincent Lopez did vot
play for it . . should know by now that
Franklyn Peck went as Phil Hines’ Soph Hop date
and was subsequently late-dated by several of the
rush-em-off-theii‘-feet-gentry .. we know a feller
-who actually crashed that dance ... John E. Ryan who
conies back fronyNcw York with tales of more crash
ing—for him the titanic Rockefeller Music Hall . . .
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THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
‘Pumping Militarism Into College Men
Through R.O.T.C. Futile Curry Says
‘‘The R. O. T. C.’s attempt to pump
college men full of old militaristic
scares is futile, after -they have seen
through history the uselessness of war
in settling international disputes.”
The speaker was Dr. A. Bruce
Curry, professor of systematic the
ology at the Union Theological Sem
inary, New York City, in a group in
terview Sunday night. He had pre
viously addressed the chaped audience
lon "College People tho World Still
i Wants.”
History shows clearly that nations’
can no longer "set themselves off, as
the old barons once did," and declare
themselves independent of the world
outside, Dr.-Curry pointed out. The
world has become too complex; trade
relations arc far too important; pro
vincalism must be u thing of the past,
College Resembled
‘Cesspool of Sin,’
Magazine States
"In the year 1909 the Pennsylvania
State College was a cesspool of sin.
Drinking was the accepted thing;
swearing was'commonplace; tipsy stu
dents accosted decent women on the
streets.”
So runs-a description of Penn State
us it was when Dr. Frank N. D. Buch
man come to this College as secretary
ol* the former Young Men’s Christian
association. The description is in
cluded in an article entitled "Salvation
for the Select” which was published in
a recent issue of the American
Mcrciay. \
Tho article relates how the Oxford
Movement or First Century Christian
beliefs which are Tapidly gaining in
ternational popularity originated here.
According to the article, the move
ment was conceived by Dr. Buchman
while he was converting Penn State
students.
In describing the secretary’s arrival
at .the College, the article states "As
he came in sight of the school build
ings, a pair of satirical signs greeted
him. The students had heard of his
coming and made a small welcome for
him. -One sign read ‘Convert Us If
You Can’; -the other, ‘Welcome to the
Evangelist.’ ”
. However, this made things all the
more interesting as far as Dr. Buch
man was concerned, the Mercury
states. Before long, he had won to
his fold bot only the majority of the
campus leaders, but also the College
" You Can Get It At
METZER’S”
We Shall Be Glad to Have Our
Customers Open a Charge Account
Let’s Have Faith in Our President
And Our Government
Even the Present Time is Prospertiy
Compared to Fifty Years Ago
Few of Us Would Like -to Give Up
:,Qur. Present Day Standards
Forward
Cj-THE mania'c
Hour fo Avoid Boners
A MAYOR. ISA
FEMALE HORSE
AND you haven’t heard the half
J\ of it! The other day Biirßoner
said the Sphinx were,a tribe of peo
ple living in Egypt!
Won’t some kind friend tell him
what to do before it’s too late? What
he needs is a good pipe and good to
bacco. Of course, the right tobacco is
necessary—but that’s easy. A recent
investigation showed Edgeworth to
be the favorite smoking tobacco at
42 out of 54 leading colleges. 1
Ahd.here’s why: Edgeworth isn’t
just another smoking tobacco. It’s
an individual blend of fine old'bur
leys. And you’ll know that difference
with the first cool puff of Edgeworth.
Want proof before you buy? Then
write for a,free sample packet. Ad
EPGEWORTH SMOKING TOBACCO
he added.
"I firmly believe in the time hon
ored quotation from Plato that ‘Any |
citizen who, accepts citizenship l in aj
state, obligates himself to defend her I
in a crisis.’ To me the question isj
purely how best to defend the country j
in which I am a citizen,” he con- 1
linuod. j
“No true patriot cun accept the,cloc-il
trine of the ‘passive pacifist’ who is j
willing to accept all a nation has to 1
offer during peace lime, and then re- i
fuse to try to prevent'crises that will!
injure his mother-country,” Dr. Curry !
admitted. “But it is through work in ’
peace time to avoid war, rather than
by last minute attempts to keep out |
of one, that the world will avoid point- |
less catastrophies such us tho World;
War,” he added. \
Campus Bulletin
' Sophomore women will meet in ]
Room 405 Old Main at G:3O o’clock!
today. ' !
—°— j
All students intending to enter law j
school next fall should leave their
names at the •Student Union desk in
Old Main before Saturday noon.
All money from sale of Loan Fund
Movie tickets should be turned in to j
Jack Munch at the Sigma Alpha Ep- 1
silon house as soon as, possible. [
Sophomore candidates for the bus
iness staff of the La Via should report
for the first meeting in Room 1115, Old
Main, at 7 o’clock tonight.
A meeting of all freshman and
sophomore women Collegian report- j
ers will be held in Room 315, Old j
Main,-at li:30 o'clock tonight. . |
Honor Society council will meet in
Boom 214, Main Engineering build-,
ing, at 4 o’clock this afternoon. !
bootlegger of that time, the descrip
tion reveals.
Dr. Buchman continued his work
here as-secretary' of the “Y" until
1916, when he left to teach his beliefs
in foreign countries. Since that time J
he has had a highly successful career:
especially in connection with the j
wealthier classes in England and to
other European countries. For a;
short time he worked as a missionary j
in China with Dr. Sherwood Eddy, who \
spoke here recently. ,
dress Larus & Bro. Co., 120 S. 22d
St., Richmond, Ya. Edgeworth is
available everywhere in two forms—
Edgeworth Ready-Rubbed and Edge
worth Plug Slice. All
sizes pocket
package to pound
SIGMA GAMMA EPSILON
(Honorary Mineral Industries Society)
Robert C. Baker ’33
James J. Merle ’33
John E. Miller ’33
Henry S. Erisman '3d
Robert W. Fatzinger '3-1
George F. Henkel '3-1
Ernest J. Kaulfuss ’34
Kenneth H. Mail's ’34
John T. Ryan ’34
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Various occasions call for dif
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fit service to the user’s needs.
/
For example, a plan they worked out for a
coal distributor helped him to contact 50%. more
dealers. A manufacturer, using a telephone selling
plan, sold 700 dozen pairs of hosiery through
one Long Distance, call. A great meat packer
handles complex sales and distribution problems
efficiently with the aid of planned Long Distance
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Systematic telephone plans are helping many
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(Matinee I:3o—Evening Opening 6:30
Complete Late Showing After 9 p. m.)
TUESDAY—
Fredric March, Claudette Colbert,
Charles Laughton In
“SIGN OP THE CROSS”
WEDNESDAY—
Jean Ilershult, Wynne Gibson in
“THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY’*
THURSDAY —
Richard Dix, Edna May Oliver in
“THE GREAT JASPER"
FRIDAY— ;
Lee Tracy, Una Merkel in ‘ \
“CLEAR .ALL WIRES”
SATURDAY—
Jack Oakie, Vivienne Osborne hi
“SAILOR BE GOOD”
. NITTANY ■
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY—;
The Russian Film
“THE ROAD TO LIFE" '• i
THURSDAY—
“THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY”
FRIDAY—
“THE GREAT JASrER"
SATURDAY—
“CLEAR ALL WIRES”
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