Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Pulilinhcd semi-weekly during the College year, except on holidays, hy students of The Pennsylvania State College, in the Interest of the College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends. THE MANAGING BOARD CHARLES A. MYERS M 4 FREDERICK L. TAYLOR *34 Editor Munmcer GEORGE A. SCOTT Ml HAROLD J. IIATSCH Ml Managing Kiiitor Circulation Manager WILLIAM M. STECMEIER Ml 11. EDGAR FURMAN M 4 Sports Editor Jak-uI Advertising Manager RERNAIU) ROSKNZWEIG Ml JOHN C. IRWIN M 4 News Editor Foreign Advertising Manager JAMES M. SHEEN Ml FRANCIS WACKEK Ml News Editor Classilled Advertising Muiuigor RUTH M. HARMON Ml MAE P. KAPLAN Ml Women's Editor Women’s Managing Editor EVA M. BLICIIFELDT M 4 Women’s News Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS James R. Reatty jr. M 5 John A. BniUmnn M 5 Phillip W. Fair jr. Mf. A. Conrad Haigcs Mr. Kenneth C. HolTntnn Mr. Burton Rowles jr. MR Jatm* H. Wats-on jr. M 3 Fred W, Wrtelit M.' ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Harry J, KnofT Mr. Konnetlj B. Lyons M 3 John J. Mathews MR George A. Rutledge Mr, Earl A. Keyser jr. Mr, Member Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association Entered at the Postefl’icc, State College, pa., as Second-class Matter Editorial Office... Business Office Phone 292-W TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1933 WHY VOTE? "With men’s class and -Student JCouncil elections polls opening this afternoon, the usual editorial talk about voting’s being a privilege and a duty comes to mind. However true this contention may be, it fails to in fluence the student voter. Philosophical discussions about “exercising the franchise" leave him untouched, and his main consideration in marking a ballot is often what good jt will do him or his friends. Fraternity brothers of potential dance chairmen or committee heads flock to the polls'for that reason rather than impelled by a holy sense of exercising a privilege. Yet' there is one reason for voting which is not en tirely permeated by personal motives. The student gov ernment of this College, after all, is responsible to the students. If they desire a certain type of class officer, they can secure that typo by the force of their numbers. Every year approximately one-third to dne-fourth of the men students in each class don’t vote. If the students in this group, then, fail to vote again this year, they have no one to blame but themselves if’ the type of ad ministration elected doesn't meet with their approval next year. With cliques as evenly matched as they arej these non-voters have the power to put the best can didate in office. They can make that power felt in the next three days. , The clique system here has come in for a good deal of criticism at various times; ’But compared to the'situ- 1 ation on many campuses, Penn State is fortunate in having relatively clean politics. By the nature of ‘the political system, the cliques are forced to nominate the best men for each office. It is then up to the voter to select the best of the candidates. Often this choice is based on the clique affiliation of the candidate rather than on his relative merits. Perhaps this cannot be avoided under the clique system. But every effort has been made by the elections com mittee to .make voting at the polls as free from outside influence as possible. Certainly, qualifications rather than clique affiliations should in the final analysis be the basis on which student government officers arc chosen. After a lapse of one year, the CoLlecian is again publishing the platforms of candidates foi’.the thre<y men’s class presidencies. Voting without some knowl edge of what a candidate stands for is over-emphasizing the clique system a little more than necessaiy. There fore, it has seemed desirable to query the candidates as to what they would support or oppose if , elected to office. • ORGANIZING STUDENT OPINION ■ The Pennsylvania Association of College Students, which was formed here last week-end, is a step forward in organizing student opinion in the State and solving problems common to every campus. Its success in the future will depend on the survival of the same active interest that was displayed here at the first conven tion, and extension of the membership to include larger colleges and universities in the State. There is no doubt that an organized student group can accomplish much which individual college groups cannot. For instance, in the matter of securing lower rates for dance orchestras, a united front presented by -a State-wide student organization could force booking agencies to be more reasonable in their fees. Also, resolutions adopted by the group as a whole could be a material aid to student bodies in opposing narrow ad ministrative policies. Common problems can be solved more thoroughly and organized opinion will be much' more-potent,-however, if the larger institutions such as Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh; Bucknell, Franklin and Marshall, Lafayette, Lehigh', Temple, and Washington and Jefferson become members. Valuable publicity was accorded the College as a result of the high school music and journalism conven tions held here on Saturday. Nearly 2,000 high school boys and girls, many of them potential college students, received’ first-hand knowledge of the physical plant of the College, and caught a glimpse of extra-curricular life here that they' \vill undoubtedly remember when making their selection' of a college or university in the future. While the essential purpose of the conventions is not to advertise the College, it cannot be disputed that they serve such a purpose'and that it is a worthy one. Jack A. Marlin Mr, 313 Old Main .„Nittany Printing Building OLD MANIA You’ve got to hand it to the Army. They never forget their training, and can be depended to carry off any difficult situation with diplomacy ami a con siderable amount of tact. A large number of buttons were in evidence at the Student Union affair on Sat urday evening, although many left shortly after the intermission. And therein, as the saying goes, lies a tale. Mr. (t’Duke) Morris and various members of his band trailed out to their alleged automobile at the close of the dance with armfuls of instruments to deposit in that machine; only to find upon opening the door that one of the West Point gentlemen was entertaining a young lady inside. Upon seeing Mr. Morris, West Point got out of the car. Followed: West Point: “This is your automobile, I pre sume?" “Why, er . . . uh. yeah, yeah Mr. Morris: s’my car." West Point: “You’ll pardon me just a moment, I’m sure.” He climbed back in, and for ten minutes Morris and company stood around,- uneasily shifting musical paraphanalia from one arm to the other. ' At the end cf that time he assisted the young lady from the machine, thanked Mr. Morris cordially for his hos pitality, bowed to the rest of the group, and beat a masterly retreat. Yessir, you’ve got to hand it to the Army AflAocitf/ed Press. 'Clear all tvires! FLASH! Miss Helen Rountree, popular State College girl, reported engaged to Branson A. Erskine. Story later. FLASH! Rome, Italy. Mussolini denies engagement or affair with Helen Rountree. Just friends; he says. FLASH! Moscow, Russia. Stalin engaged to American society girl, Miss Rountree. FLASH!. -Berlin, Germany Hitler quells Nazi uprising. Will not marry until political situation settled. Miss Rountree reported as ready to break engagement. FLASH! Great Britain. George Bernard Shaw denies engagement to Helen Rountree. All Americans arc fools, he says. Much as we hate to do it, we feel that the beer problem must come in for just a little more discussion. We understand that a few fraternity houses have been serving beer with the meals and consequently have been having trouble with “Burpers.” Burping has become an accomplishment of late, what with Mr\ Barrymore et al, but nevertheless our better fraternities are all agreed that it just won’t do’ to. have' the members;, constantly burping during meals. As one of the fraternity presidents put' it, “Either the beer ov the burp must go.”' .Finally they hit upon the idea of.* fining offend ers ten cents a burp, which -seems to-.us like an ex cellent idea. Pardon us .... ! s' $ $ The girls at the Theta House have been having a perfectly awful time what with nocturnal prowlers and such .... “Nifty” Nicholson is going to make a swell “Most Attractive” coed .... Eddie (John Silver) Carr is responsible for that crack about “Moonlight on the Ganses” .... The umpire was just about all in after that second home run Saturday .... Who was the gent who spent the whole hour glueing new soles on his shoes during Knutson’s bacteriology class recently? .... And of course there was the lad and his pet goldfish. He had a porpoise in life .... Around the Corner RADICAL COLLEGIANS Apparently because the majority of college news papers are prone to break out of the rut of conser vatism which has trapped many of our American dailies, tho latter get all steamed up over what they term the “radicalism” of college editors. To be dif ferent, in their estimation, is to be undesirable. Lately, another in the long series of attacks on the college press was offered to the public, this time by a Columbus paper. It lamented,- “The truth is, sad to say, that the college undergraduate paper which seriously and consistently aims to be truly rep resentative of its institution is a ‘rare bird’ in the college life of the present genei’ation ...” To which we reply, “Hooey.” If the attack went no further than that, it wouldn’t be worth noticing. But it continued, “And, sad to say again,- the fields of sensationalism most easily worked are pictures going far into the territory of indecency, jests, poems, and supposedly humorous nritcles which deliberately violate ordinary rules of propriety, and ill-considered assaults on the policies of the managing board, the professional ability' of members of the faculty,- ov the conduct of groups of individuals in the student body." Such condemnation is absurd. It is true that liberalism probably pervades collegiate newspapers more thoroughly than it does the general American press, due, perhaps, to the youth of the college editors and the fact that they have nothing to lose in any upset of the established order. -On the other hand, in our opinion they tend to regard things through the eyes of their professors, which is only natural, con sidering the time spent listening to them .... —Ohio State Lantern, THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN To adorn this column with all the earmarks of a wideiy-road line of chatter there could be inserted here the familiar italics ' apology on the part of the paper to the effect that the substance does riot necessary con form with the editorial policy. How ever, we’ll make no effort to get into trouble, and since those upon whom we may have the occasion to heap abuse will think nothing of it, neither shall we. One thing more—Being possessed of philosophical minds and critical na tures, many Penn State students of ten yearn to make rash statements and to decrie the trend of affairs in this world of ours. Well, here’s an invitation for you to pass your opin , ions on to your fellowmen. Pertinent observations addressed to the Col i legi’an will be duly honored. At the outset we’ll take our hats off to President Roosevelt. “The New Deal" was not an empty promise. F. D. R. has from the start evidenced his ability to act, and with his recent in flation proposal. has injected in the governmental machine the needed power to turn the corner on to' the road to economic rehabilitation. According to the proposed plans the President would be empowered to ex pand bank credit up to $3,000,000,000 and if necessary issue the same amount in currency. With the pres ent dire need for bolstering the fall ing prices and stimulating the sales of American commodities abroad, Con gress will in no way flaunt the prin ciples of American democracy by en trusting this power in the very cap able hands of the chief executive. Then again the proposal- conies as a noble gesture to the debtor nations in pulling down the dollar from its ‘excessively-nigh pinnacle of value. It’s about time that the disdainful money changer has abdicated his throne of gold to play ball jn a really coopera tive manner with-the other countries. By allowing the dollar to seek a low er and more satisfactory level'in in ternational monetary Relations, Roose- The Junior Prom THE GIRL THE MUSIC „ : THE CORSAGE . ' Roses, Peas, Valley Orchids, and Gardenias ’ - • i h l: 't ' State College Floral Shop Allen Street Phone 580-J NOTICE If you are. interested in aviation and would like to secure a pilots license,, do not fail;to attend thfe special meeting-to be held at the State College High School auditorium at 7:30 p. in. on Wednesday, April 26th, 1933. Let us prove to you that the bottom has dropped out of flying prices. Hear our club plan —the maniac: How To Bonerj* BACCHUS was A FAMOUS GREEK BOOTLEGGER TRY to forgive him. Poor chap, he really mgansfVell, even if he does' think his posterity Is the thing he sits on! IfyoU’reTeallysorryfofßill Boner, , . give him a pipe and sdrnegood to- Y ™ «“>/ *** Edgeworth anywhere bacco. That win straighten him out. R*ay -for a pipe filled,with Edgeworth R“ bbed and Edgeworth Plug. Shoe. Smoking Tobacco clears the brain AU P°9 b ?‘package, to for straight thinking; As you know, pound hum.dor tin. Or-pefhaps Edgeworth wds proved by a recent ■ y°° d ’ llbe o trY before J™ W v investigationtobethefavoritesmok- Then write foraged sample packet, ing tobacco at 42-out of 54 leading jgjßgp^ Thecollege man likes that distind- Richmond.-Va. pMjpife tive flavor that edmes only from this pygMfi&H blend of fine old ; -burleys. It’s differ- . ent. It’s asoothing, relaxing sort of smoke that makes the job. in' hand EDGEWORTH SMOKING TOBACCO a ■ '. .. ...... OVER'WILL LECTURE AT YORK INDUSTRIAL MEETING Looking Over The News Prof. Harney W.' Stover, of the on jgineering extension department, will give the second, in a series of lectures ! before the industrial conference in York tonight, discussing prices, money, and banking. The series was opened last Tuesday by Dean Robert L. Sackett, of the School of Engineering. Dean Sackett also addressed fifteen hundred stu dents of York high school the follow ing day. velt has opened the way to a solution' of the war debt problem. Unbelievable as it may seem the flamboyant Hitler has given his sanc tion to having the Nazis worship one other than hiniself. In the revision of the German national religion arid the establishment of the new" Aryan church, Christ still* remains Lord. Or perhaps Adolf wasn't consulted in the matter? New banking legislation recently in troduced in the State Assembly will go far in placing the State bank in stitutions on a safe basis. The re strictions closely parallel the new na tional bank requirements. Strict lim itations arc placed on loans to direc tors, officers, and affiliated corpora tions. The code also limits hew in vestments in stocks to twenty-five per cent of the capital and surplus of the bank. + + + Yesterday afternoon the coal oper ators renewed their battle for a thir ty-five percent wage cut on the min ers. In view of the > inflation pjans such a reduction would have a drastic effect on the already hard-suffering miners. + + + ♦ + + + -t* + —B. H.' R. a ■ EXPERT Hat Cleaning Shoe Shining JIM’S PLACE South Allen Street PENN STATE ALUMNI HOLD DINNER AT WASHINGTON, D. C. Attended by 110 graduates, a lunch eon meeting of Penn State alumni was held Wednesday in Washington, D. C. Made up largely of chemists attend ing the American Chemical society national meeting there, the group was the largest of the twelvealumni lunch eons held that day by graduates of other eastern and middle-western col leges. Among the speakers at the lunch eon were Dean Frank C. "Whitmore, of the School of Chemistry and Physics; Dr. Grover C; Charullee, head of the chemistry department; Prof. R. Adams Dutcher, head of the agricultural chemistry department; and Prof. Clin ton L. Harris, former head of the ar chitecture department, now. on leave of absence. DOGGETT WRITES TEXTHOOK Prof. Leonard A. Dogg'ett, of the department of electrical engineering, has written a new textbook entitled “Alternating Current Analysis.” The book'will be used;next year,in con nection with'a special course,,which will-be .’offered < to senior electrical erigineers,* , .! “You Caii Get It At Metzger’s” ' Playground (Mush) Balls and Bats 35c to $1.50 All Makes of Tennis Rackets Restrung and Repaired Here ait Our Store Golf Sets—4 Clubs and Bag—ss.9s and Up BALLS 15c TO 75c tion of Nature’s friendly regu* lator, branj' Eat Shredded Wheat any< way you’ like it—with milt' or cream, with fresh or pre. . served fruit, with butter or poached eggs. Eat it every Niastra Fail, day for ten days straight mitejaetasa, (your pocketboofc won’t bavf sbrtddtd hick); And watch this Wtoa,. 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