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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Published semi-weekly during the College year, except on holidays,
hy student* of The Pennsylvania State College, in the Interest of the
College, the students, faeulty, alumni, and friends.
THE MANAGING BOARD
CHARLES A. MYERS ’34 FREDERICK L. TAYLOR ’34
Editor Business Manager
GEORGE A. SCOTT ’34 HAROLD j; BATSCH ’34
Managing Editor ‘ Circulation Manager
WILLIAM M.‘ STEGMEIER '34 H. EDGAR FURMAN '34
Sports Editor Local Advertising Manager
BERNARD If. ROSENZWEIG ’34 JOHN C. IRWIN ‘34
New* Editor Foreign Advertising Manager
JAMES M. SHEEN *34 FRANCIS WACKER '34
News Editor Classified Advertising Manager
RUTH M. HARMON '34 MAE P. KAPLAN '34
Women’s Editor Women's Managing Editor
EVA M. BLICHFELDT '34
Women’* News Editor,
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
James B. Beatty jr. ’35 John A. Brutxmnn *35 Phillip W. Fair jr. ’35
A. Conrad Haiges *35 Kenneth C. Hoffman *35 Burton Rowles Jr. *35
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FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1933
NOTICE THAT FACULTY SALARIES are likely
to be cut here next year does not come as much of a sur
prise. Faced by a probable reduction in the appropria
tion, the College is justified in calling on the members
of its staff to sacrifice something to the reduced budget.
Just what this sacrifice will be, howtver, is another ques
tion. 'Will a flat percentage basis be used, by which
the low-salaried instructor will feel the’cut much more
than a higher-paid professor or dean? Or will a pro
portionate, consistent reduction be made, with the larger
cut (falling on the professor and higher salaried officer
rather than on the instructor? Is there any assurance
that when better times return these salaries will be
raised to their former level or above, as they should he?
Will administrative officers, who are certainly not
underpaid,- be subject to a salary reduction commen
surate with or greater than that of the teaching staff?
Will maintenance expenses, which seem usually high for
these times, be reduced to a greater extent than staff
salaries? Or will the prospect of a more beatiful
campus, more imposing buildings, and an elaborate ad
ministrative set-up, at the expense of poorly paid teach
ers, dominate this College, too?
THE DISPOSITION OF THE class surplus
proposed by the senior men Wednesday night seems to
bo a fair one. The seniors are individually aided by a
refund, the Artists’ Course is given a long-needed fi
nancial send-off, and the depleted Student Loan’ fund
is replenished to the extent of some three thousand
dollars. At the same time an adequate reserve is kept
!for future class expenses. The objection might be raised
that there is no provision for a tangible class memorial.
But the class which would donate a major portion of its
funds to aid worthy students in completing their educa
tion need not be ashamed of failing to present a more
definito gift to the College.
AN OLD 'PENN STATE TRADITION, the planting
of the ivy, was revived with difficulty Monday, With
out benefit of oratory# the ceremony was conducted in
the presence of four seniors and a faculty member, as
a part of the Senior Week program. This is just an
other proof of the contention that students are not in
terested in old traditions, and that it is ifarcial.to retain
them under those conditions. The ivy planting cere
mony had nearly died out before a sincere attempt was
made this year to revive interest in it. Now that this
has proved futile, there is little excuse for holding the
ceremony next year. •However, the idea of a Senior
Week is a good one, and should be continued. Reju
venation by means of more attractive events on the
program will be the major problem for next year’s
committee.
OREDIT IS DUE THE W. S. G. A. officials who
were responsible for abolishing Spirit Day this year.
For many years people at this educational institution
were tormented by the annual sight of freshman women
parading around with umbrellas, paper sacks, and un
matched shoes and stockings. ’How this was ever cal
culated to advance any woman from the freshman to
the sophomore state is a mystery. Finally this childish
custom, a relic of a less mature year, has died of its
own senselessness. Tonight the freshman women are
celebrating their sophomore “coming of age” by holding
a dance. iCertainly this is a much more sensible method
than compulsory degradation.
ALTHOUGH THE ANNUAL CROP of key-seekers
here has just about been harvested for this season, it is
encouraging to hear that pledges to an honorary at the
University of Indiana have refused to pay an exor
bitant fee. A good many Penn State honorary societies
could bo accused of the same fault. Just where these
fifteen and twenty-dollar foss go, few initiates ever
know. National expenses and keys and “shingles” are
the major items# of course. Local chapters can do little
v n reducing these, hut they can and should cut local
dues. A good 'bit of the “honor” is taken out of joining
ai» honor society when it is accompanied by the payment
of a high membership fee.
313 Old Main
..Nittany Printing Building
AS OTHERS SEE IT
CAMPUSEER
BY HIMSELF
The planting of the ivy has again returned to
grace the reborn Senior Week. Monday was set as
the day to perform the solemn feat commemorating
the faithful Class of 1933, while about six. hundred
seniors were supposed to gather on the front campus
as the green plants were to be interred deep beneath
the sleeping limestone gate.
Three seniors with lips set in grim farewell and
loyal to the last were on hand to aid one faculty mem
ber in the task. At the stroke of four from Old Main
tower the lone faculty member stepped forward to
face four neatly excavated holes, which lonesome like
gazed blankly at the low hanging clouds over the
front campus. By 4:02 the first young ivy had been
neatly laid to rest. Glaring rays of the late after
noon sun beat strongly down upon the small party as
the last of the fresh earth was tapped smoothly around
four green plants just starting out in the world.
Hardly had the shovel been rested .against the gate
when a fourth senior attracted by the simple service,
curiously joined the group. One ivy planter mopped
his brow and became slightly exasperated.
Suddenly out of the wistful silence accompanying
the ceremony came a short gasp. There was no
photographer present to record the scene for the pur
pose of inspiring future senior classes to plan an ivy
planting. Wildly a volunteer dashed down the ave
nue and succeeded in engaging a man with a camera.
Four young ivy plants, four especially loyal seniors,
and one commendable faculty member came into
focus of the small lens. A pitiful blanket of per
fumed air. drifted across the unmoving group as the
camera was snapped. iSee the picture in next year’s
La Vic.
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It seems that Syracuse is not the only school in
the country which has athletic debaters. A tired and
weary lacrosse squad pulled into Syracuse Saturday
to finish a disastrous road trip against an unusually
strong Orange team. Faced by the grim facts that
it was practically impossible to win the contest with
many of its regulars disabled from a fray on the
previous day, the Lion team was sadly down in the
dumps. , It remained for “Gib” 'Coskery to come
through and pyll an excuse out of the net. Sidling
up to an ambitious young sports reporter', Coskery
explained as how three regulars on the team had left
to uphold the honor of Penn State’s debating teams,
and even invented fictitious names for.the oratorical
trio. The story captured a place on the sports page
of the Sunday edition of a leading Syracuse paper.
«***«*
The talk turned to dancing the last time the boys
from Army visited a local fraternity. Anxious to
learn if the Cadets were as sedate‘when dancing at
hops as they were in their dancing classes, one of the
brothers very politely put that query forward.
“Yes,” one of the young men in. gray admitted
sorrowfully. >
Further questioning revealed that demerits are
freely handed out if one of the embryo officers so
much as starts a Rosenberg jiggle. Holding a girl
too close while dancing is absolutely on the taboo list.
.But there is always a remedy for everything, and if a
girl insists on forming herself in the shape of a bow
while dancing, the Cadet partner simply whispers
jrif which carries > with it a world of meaning to any
Ifemmo who lias' attended an Army hop before.
Translated into English the phrase signifies “pull in
fanny.” I
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Tidbits
“Hank” HartzTer wearing his Skull and Bones
hat while playing tennis on one of the hottest days
last week .... We’ll bet he even sleeps with it on
• . • . The last of the Phi Psi turtle-neck sweaters
waved triumphantly from the flag pole Wednesday
afternoon .... One of the Beta Sigma Rho freshmen
accepted a dare to sleep on the golf course the coldest
night last week .... and the rest of his brave class
mates in the house picked up a 'blanket or two and
camped with him .... “Doc” McFarland, always
tough on sleepers who tire, at his lecturing, emits a
few snores himself during the talk of a visiting lec
turer recently .... Ben Baron fasted all day Wed
nesday .in preparation for the La Vic banquet that
night.... and ran afoul of a buffet luncheon ....
Mahatma Galbraith makes many a dive in the new
pool .... Grace Baer drags Ken Holdcrman into the
library now and then to help her search for reference
books ....
Along about this time of year, seniors raise their
annual plea for being excused from taking final ex
aminations. (Being a senior, all we can see are argu
ments for the proposal ....
It would give the senior that extra time in which
to do the thousand and one things that call for his
time during the last few weeks of his college career.
It would enable him further to cement .friendships
with classmates who soon will be scattered. The
senior could spend the time profitably integrating
and combining what he has learned during his time
in school ....
The senior could use this extra time, should he be
relieved of the necessity of taking final examina
tions, in looking for a job. He’s going to have to
spend lots of time doing that; why not give him a
chance to do a little of it before he leaves academic
halls? . , • University Daily Kansan
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Looking
Over
The News
Liberalism,* we are told, is usually
stimulated among the intellectuals.
Looking back over history, this time,
wo find that the fjrst to decry the
maladies of existing conditions, and
the first to instigate movements for
change are the College professors
and students. Where are the Penn
State firebrands who think profoundly
upon world affairs?
Students at manyuniversities help
to fire the unthinking people into
activity. Through resolutions and ex
pressions of opinion, they have been
successful in building up demands for
sano and progressive legislation. They
have set in movement democratic
drives that could not be stopped, be
cause of their soundness in principle#
coupled with the (fact that they come
from the minds of those delving into
higher knowledge, those able to think.
Let us see what Penn State students
have done in this line. For recent
years, at least, the crystal is appal
lingly clear. It only .registers a
simple-faced bovine, peacefully chew
ing her cud, effortlessly swishing her
tail, blissfully . staring vacant-eyed
into a fog. And the cow sees noth
ing; perhaps knows nothing. Or may
be we're wrong; perhaps, all’s calm,
peaceful, and Utopian on the Penn
sylvania front.
Tho Pennsylvania State College, hy
reason of its charter, should be the
most democratic institution in the
State. It is financed by the general
public; has been established for the
general public; and it represents the
general public. Let the students#
then, interest themselves in the wel
fare of the State.
Recently an investigation into the
exploitation of woman and child labor
was made in Pennsylvania. It was
found that children were -working for
as little as one dollar a week, and un
der distressing conditions. Wednes
day a move was defeated in the House
to bring a 44-hour week bill for child
labor from the committee, and joint
legislative committee was approved to
( look further into the matter.
Tho signature of Governor Pinchot
was affixed Wednesday, to two long
sustained bits-of legislation, the re
peal convention bill, and the beer con
trol bill. Likewise he has announced
that the bill passed' by the Senate
levying a sl.24‘jtax per barrel of beer
would be signed,today. .There may be
a number of defects in the beer control
bill, but, neveraielessp-it's a relief to
Better Stop in to See
CRUM JENKINS
About That-Fraternity Ring Before School Closes
And How About the Commencement Gift
You Are Going to Buy.
BALFOUR’S OFFICE
Is in Sauer’s Clothing Store
BUYING FOR
CONTENTMENT
IT IS not uncommon to buy something that momentarily attracts your
attention and to scold yourself afterwards for buying it...
Advertising helps you to use your family budget carefully—wisely—
and saves you from after-regrets.
Day by day, in the advertisements of this paper, you see the worth
while enduring products spread before you.
Knowing them before you buy—you are able to judge intelligently
your needs. Never are you rushed into buying; into having first—and
scolding afterwards—
Advertising gives you honest information before you buy. You have
a reliable guide and index to help you plan your purchases wisely and care
fully—taking full advantage of day-to-day opportunities and sales!
Read the advertisements every day! You will find that they make
your money go farther—and that you will be satisfied with your pur
chases long after you have bought!
HONOR MEN NAMED
BY SENIOR CLASS
(Continued from page one)
mittee that of this surplus, an amount
sufficient to establish a fund for class
reunions be created. It was recom
mended that the balance be used to
defray the cost of caps and gowns for
the commencement exercises.
Senior Women Hold Meeting
At the same time,- the senior women
held a class meeting for the purpose
of selecting the honor women for the
year, as well as making recommenda
tions for the disposition of the money
remaining in the treasury.
Harriet R. Henrle '33 was named
Bow Girl, Angelin Bressler '33 was
chosen Slipper Girl, while Helen A.
Hoover ’33 was elected Fan Girl. The
position of Class Poet was awarded
to Phyllis G. Beidler '33, retiring class
president, Mirror Girl will be S.
Louise Everitt '33, while Elsie W.
Darlington '33 will be Class Donor.
Men, Women Disagree
The women agreed to donate $l,«
000 as support for the Artists’ Course,
any balance to be returned to the class
treasury at the end of five years.
However, instead of voting the re
mainder, §3,250, to the Student Loan
fund, as the men did, they recom
mended that the money be invested,
see the end of the deliberation on the
measure. '
By more than a two-thirds major
ity, the House finally completed the
enactment of , President Roosevelt’s
inflation bill. The responsibility in
the hands of F. D. R. is great, and he
has shown his willingness to perform
his executive duties, fully realizing
that-any slip-up in plans may blast
his career. The greatness of his lead
ership has given Congress the cour
ago to entrust in him dictatorial pow
ers in the control of the currency and
credit. In his hand rests the power
to turn the country on the upgrade,
and the tested ability of that hand
tends to inspire nothing but optimism
in the hearts of the people.
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Excellent Bands
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Penn State Collegian
FRESHMAN WOMEN SUFFER
BURNS IN. MINOR EXPLOSION
Suffering burns of the face, neck,
and arms caused by exploding appaiij
atus in the chemical laboratory, four
freshman women were admitted to the
College infirmary for treatment Mon
day.
Those injured were Gretchen H.
: Diehl, Dorothea E. Ruth, S. Elizabeth
Shaffer, and Elizabeth Shivey. They
were discharged Tuesday after treat
ment and observation.
and the interest used to provide a
scholarship. No action was taken re
garding the balance of §2,900 remain
ing in the interclass treasury.
Inasmuch as the two classes did
not agree completely regarding the
disposition of the money, in all prob
ability a combined -meeting of the
classes will be held some time next
week, according to John A. Wood and
Phyllis G. Beidler, senior presidents.
Final arrangements will be announced
in Tuesday’s issue of the Collegian.
Opening Dance
Alfarata Park
Wednesday, May 10th
Silvertown Cord Orchestra
featuring the
SILVER MASKED TENOR
Admission 75c Per Person
Pius Tax
REA & DERICK, Inc.
—B. H. R.
CATH.IUM
- A Wirimr BiobcjJ-ThcJtic. * ■
(Matinee I:3o—Evening Opening 6:
Complete Late Showing After 9 P. M
FRIDAY—
Loretta Young, Gene Raymond ii
“ZOO IN BUDAPEST”
SATURDAY—
James Cagney, Patricia Ellis in
“PICTURE SNATCHER”
MONDAY and TUESDAY—
Tito Stars You Love
Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper
“TODAY WE LIVE”
WEDNESDAY—
Ramon Novarro, Myrna Loy in
“THE BARBARIAN"
THURSDAY—
Bette Davis,; Gene Raymond in
“EX-LADY”
FRIDAY—
“LOOKING FORWARD”
SATURDAY— . ,
“ZOO IN BUDAPEST’
TUESDAY anti WEDNESDAY—
Returned By Popular Request
“GRAND HOTEL”
THURSDAY—
“THE BARBARIAN”
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’’Where Spending Is Saving
Friday,. May 5, 1933
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