Pace 'Vwn PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published eeml-wtckly during the College year, except on holiday*. ] by students of The Pennsylvania Stole College, In the interest of the College, tho students, faculty, alumni, and friends. THE MANAGING BOARD ROBERT n TSCHAN *33 Editor RALPH lIEIZEI. JR. ’33 Mumi'/inr Editor SIDNEY H.-JIEN.TAMIN ’33 Sports Editor RICHARD V. WALL *33 Assistant Editor DONALD P. DAY *33 Assistant Managing Editor ERNEST It. ZUKAUSKAS *33 A*«i-?tant Sports Editor ROLLIN C. STEINMETZ *33 Newt E'litor W. .1 WII.LiA.MS JR. '33 N-.'iv* Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Charles A. Myers '3l Win. D Vrothero *34 George A. Soott "It Bernard H. Roscnzwoig *34 James M. Sheen *3l Editorial Office-. 313 Old Main Business Office-. Phone 292-W TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1933 UTILITY OR DUPLICATION? The separate existence of an Interfraternity Council and a fraternity presidents’ organization has caused somo of the students interested in that field considerable ■worry. The problem has been one of deciding what two so closely allied groups could have as their functions and what jurisdiction each one actually has. It has been difficult to explain that the presidents’ group was primarily an organization for discussion whore personal problems common within fraternity groups could be discussed. Solution of problems and the strengthening of individual policies that would come through the ex change of ideas has been the function of this group. Tho Interfraternity Council has been the organiza tion of the united fraternities, taking official action on more specific problems such as rushing, tutors, and mat ters of tho same nature. It has been vested with en forcement powers and has been the official link between tho fraternities and outside agencies. That this division of functions is not difficult to visualize cannot be denied. During the past year the question has been raised whether there is need for such sub-division. The fact that many fraternity presidents are seated as senior members of the Council has added to the significance of the question. It has also led to some confusion between the two groups. The present membership of the Council also provides for juniors from each fraternity who auto matically advance to the senior position and thus form a continuous link in the policy of the organization. To unite the two groups in some cases means the loss of this link since it does not always follow that the junior on Council is destined for tho presidency of his chapter. There is a clear distinction between the purposes of both groups and one that adds value to the separation. The disposition of the proposal depends largely on the value placed on the work that can be accomplished sep arately. If, in the opinion of fraternity men, a single unit could assume both the discussion' and the repre sentative feature, and the loss of continuity due to the impossibility of advancing the juniors is negligible, then such a change seems desirable from, the stand point of simplicity alone. If some loss seems evident from an amalgamation, certainly it is inadvisable. Whether or not the presidents, wrapped up'in adminis trative difficulties of their smaller groups, could ef ficiently handlo the additional problems that-now per tain to tho Council is a factor that seems to detract from tho surface advantages of a single fraternity organiza- INDIVIDUAL REASONING In spite of the swift passage of time and the ever present extra demands of college life, every student, realizing that ha is shaping his later life in this period, can not overlook the setting aside of a small portion of his timo for independent reasoning. Although life is invariably a tricky maze, it can and should be carefully planned. To the ambitious student,- certainly, a college education offers unlimited opportunity that can better fit him to encounter the problems that he will meet in later positions. Tho purpose of colleges that is most commonly ex pounded is that of providing men and women with a means of livelihood. For that reason it is perhaps over stressed in the undergraduate mind. An objective of great importance is that of teaching the student what to do with his leisure time and what he should be as an individual. Colleges can merely offer men a large field for extensive training from which to choose a profession and tho opportunities to absorb the pointers that will make possible this process of self-building. From daily social contact in classes, assemblies', and other college gatherings arise the incentive to succeed in tho future when experiences and positions are beyond academic cloisters. In his college life the student chances upon experiences from which he can develop such virtues as self-control, logical reasoning, and in dividual responsibility. When a man graduates from college today, from the point of view of theories* formulas and book know ledge, ho is ready to buck the world. Confronted by a routine job he is particularly adept in its performance and completion, since his education has seemingly made him proficient in such lines. But when a problem comes up for which he has no set method of performance he may bs unprepared to meet the obstacle. Although he may look to some more experienced person for an ex planation, such an answer is not always possible. De velopment of individual reasoning and thinking power is th-a only solution. | OLD MANIA ALFRED W. HESSE JR. *33 Business Manager ROBERT M. HARRINGTON ’33 Circulation Mnnngcr 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’* Managing Editor ELIZABETH M. KALB *33 Women’s News Editor Wm. M. Stcsmeicr *3^ .JNktany Printing Building —J. M. S. It has long been the contention of college pro fessors that students were the most conservative of people, avoiding, even shunning anything that re sembled true radicalism; tho while shouting for the wildest forms of what they considered to be new and ideal. Students have boasted of Atheism, stated that they were true Socialists, and—voted Republican in straw votes. Whether they’re radical or not we’re not going to state in this column. Just to add fuel to tho flame of discussion we’d like to call your at tention to the very popular local chapter of a nudist colony that we’ve been hearing so much about lately. It’s rather a large organization; there may even be members among your friends. Personally we think it’s a pretty good idea. We’ve always stood solidly behind the idea of a,“Sound Mind in a Sound Body,” and it’s been stated’ that we could use some of each on this campus. At any rate tho idea is worthy of serious consideration by every thinking student. ****** In our opinion tho gentlemen at the Delt House should be congratulated. They've boon taking a ride for tho last couplo of years on the distance of their abodo from civilization. And now, my hearties, the joke is reversed. Someone exercised remarkable fore sight and acumen when that house was built. It’s outside of the two-mile limit! ****** We understand that the basketball games be tween tho women’s fraternities are becoming popular among some of the local gentlemen. Recently the Armory was filled to capacity by a cheering crowd of co-eds, Messrs. Anderson and-Fairchild of Sigma Chi, and those two well-known gallants, Day and Landis, cosmopolitans. *4< * * * * In the course of a conversation recently with a very literary professor, the fact that he was working on an invention was mentioned. Naturally we perked up and started questioning. It seems that he has an idea which is sure to net him at least a fortune. Tho idea is that sounds in the cinema arc never quite right. For instance, when someone is pouring coffee, it never sounds like coffee actually sounds when being poured, but like ginger ale or something. Well, he’s working on the idea, and has it perfected to the point where coffee in the process of being poured sounds like tea. In a week or so, he says, it will sound like Ovaltine, and eventually when you go to a moving picture and coffee is poured it will sound like coffee, which is undeniably a boon to suf fering mankind! Ho hasn’t got around to working <jn beer sounds ****** Practice is practice, and it’s perfectly all right to have a special house for the Home Economics gals to inhabit; but in our humble estimation it’s going to extremes when unsuspecting victims like Nicholson, Beatty, and Hanawalt are lured to a Taffy Pull! Beer With Us At the Sophomore Girls’ Dance .... Ken Lyons and Patty Lou Bastone had the crowd cheering . . . . the Sigma Nus and Sig Eps were certainly there three and two-tenths percent .... and Jack Davies did some lovely crooning in the ears of various part ners .... Did you hear about the fraternity that in vited a Rabbi out for a fireside session and had pork chops for dinner? .... Tin Pan Alley has turned out a new one entitled “Roosevelt is On The Job” and now wo understand Hitler’s savagery .... Bud (Varsity Ten) Wilson saunters about sporting his spring peg-tops .... ONE DAY ONLY Tuesday, March 28th Cash Sale SUITS & TOPCOATS From Our Harrisburg: Store SUITS $19.50 None Higher TOPCOATS $16.50 None Higher One Day Only March 28th ! Stark Bros. & Harper College Avenue State College THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN YALE THEOLOGIAN | TALKS IN CHAPEL Dr. Luccock States “Dignity, Peace, Greatness Most Desirable “Dignity, greatness, and peace are the three things to bo desired most by human beings, when they stop to con sider the relative worth of all their wants,” said Dr. Halford E. Luccock, professor of homiletics, at the Yale University School of Divinity, in speaking at the regular chapel ser vices in Schwab auditorium Sunday morning. 4 “Men strive for unwanted objec tives,” tho Yale theologian explained,” but it is only after times of real stress that they realize what they are most interested in. During normal times men are likely to put greatness, per sonal satisfaction, and all that goes with it, ahead of all the others. How ever, thought and emergencies always bring out tho true aims." Tho speaker .pointed out that many people over-emphasize their need for dignity, which is by itself an empty quality. “Men who stand only on that, do so because they have nothing else on which to base their ‘success’,” he said. “Present day ministers are probably tho worst offenders in this class,” he added. “The desire for peace comes usually with age and surcease from strife,” Dr. Luccock declared. “If more peo ple, especially the younger class, would realizo the real desirability of having pcaco wtih one's neighbors, the world would be a much less troublesome place in which to exist,” he concluded. GRANGERS WILL MEET HERE Grange lecturers will convene here April 13 for their third annual three day short course. ■ Announcement Mr. LeVay C. 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A Ilyou’d like to fay Wore recent investigation showed Edge- y™b»y.w*tefor/r«Bamptepacket, worth Smoking Tobacco to be thefa- r^ S 190 " vorite at 42 out of 54 leading colleges. , Richmond,* Yu JHE> Just one puff will tell you why. It’s that truly individual blend of fine * old hurleys—a blend you find only inEdgeworthSmokingTobacco.Onee you try Edgeworth, you’ll never 1 |||sj|^>J|| again be satisfied with less. jnHjp'r EDGEWORTH SMOKING TOBACCO THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY by Fred crick LuiiHtlulc. Presented by tho Penn State Players under the direction of Prof. Arthur C. Clot’llmth, Saturday, Maivh 25. THE CAST Individual Traits” Chained for all his happy young years to the provinces and the joys of the bucolic life, this reviewer never before Saturday night saw Mr. Lons dale’s bejeweled comedy.' And so it was with unrestraint, not at all fitting a grizzled, grim, and widely unin formed Collegian interviewer, that we enjoyed “Tho Last of Mrs. Chey ney.” But wo won’t swear we wouldn’t like it even if we heard it the first time read by a night nurse while we were coming out of ether. We believe that American ama teurs should be leery of taking on English high comedy and that belief was not shaken by the performance. Where could one expect Penn Staters to pick up English accents, English clothes, English mannerisms, and ; English dowdiness? Not in the geo graphical center. Qf das Pcnnswald. The total performance ‘ struck a high level for hereabouts, but the type of play demands a bit higher. The direction was apparently of a high order - for all the action was smooth and the tone-nicely modulated. We were even somewhat impressed by the way in which the cast accepted the comedy, playing with a conscious ness that it was.comedy. Sometimes they were too obviously-conscious of it, but, then, usually amateurs never let on that they realize whether they are doing Lonsdale or Euripides. No one stood out in the perform- FOOTLIGHTS Charles John Binns <s«>n:o Henry Moulthrop William Milton Carver Lsuly Joan Houghton Theresa Baer Willie Wynton Williur Disney Lady Mnry Sindlcy Frances Inman Maria Marjorie Kuschke Mrs. Wynlon Mmybcl Connboe Lord Arthur DiUtnx Kutxer Richards Lord Elton Benjamin Wise Mrs. Chcyney Phyllis tiddler Lillie Kell Ned Kelly Mrs. Ebley Roberts Caterers i FOR WEEK-END MEALS We Recommend Chocolate Eclairs Parkerhouse Rolls Date and Nut Bread INDIVIDUAL CAKES With Fraternity Symbols In Colors ORDER EARLY The Electric Bakery 127 West Beaver Avenue PHONE 603 ance. Miss Beidler was competent as usual, but more listless than the Mrs. Cheyney of our dreams. About Rich ards, playing opposite, things are more complicated. Obviously he has ability and his performance was de servedly popular. But his work is ragged and uneven with a lack of poise and surety which makes it seem that he is waiting for the audience to laugh before he laughs in his part. An awkward walk deleted, a hand pulled out of a coat pocket, some slight nervous ogling blue-penciled, and Herr Richards ought to shine hereabouts. (And if we didn’t think he was good, we wouldn’t go to all this trouble.) In Binns, we also see promise. He caught the spirit of his part, but he overplayed slightly so that a tone of burlesque overlaid his part. We liked the way he projected his voice. M. ' Kuschke and L. Kell played exceed ' ingly well. Miss Kell’s performance was the outstanding character bit, we ' think. Suggestion to Miss Kuschke: take care that you don’t make irrita tion look like a stifled laugh. .It mixes things up for people. Though hardly touching the comedy possibilities of their parts, Miss Baer and Disney played smoothly. Wise did not convey pomposity and so, pom- There’s Springtime PEP in MILK Daisies look prettier, violets smell sweeter ■ and the world looks brighter after you’ve changed to milk. Try it! Penn Dairy It takes resourcefulness . .. Time and again, Bell System engineers have demonstrated their pioneering bent in .working out unusual telephone construction problems. For example, they laid a huge conduit under the Harlem River. They dredged a trench in the river bottom, lowered enormous sections of iron pipe, sent down divers to join the sections, encased the finished tube in concrete. Through this they ran telephone cables forming one of New York’s main lines of communication. Across the Gila River in Arizona they constructed a catenary span 2373 feet long. To bridge oceans, they developed radio tele phony. They have built telephone lines over moun tains, across deserts, through swamps. Their resourcefulness in getting through, over or under natural barriers makes possible telephone ser vice that is practically world wide in reach. BELL SYSTEM SAY“HELLO”TO MOTHER AND DAD ...RATES ARB LOWEST AFTER 8:30 P. M. Tuesday, March 28, 1933 ' posity being the prime requisite of the role, we assume that he was mis cast. A lack of color served to locate for us both Miss Conabce and Miss Inman, though they looked like the high-borrf English. Moulthrop and Carver had trouble holding on to their English accent. Carver was the bet ter though neither had opportunity to shine. We’d like to say just a nasty word to the off-stage noises that weren’t in the script: Go up and lay your heads on the bell in Old Main at the stroke of midnight We’d also suggest that, since it is apparently difficult to get a large orchestra in shape for the infre quent performances, chamber music' from four or five persons, deciding beforehand to agree, would he suitable to such occasions. 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