Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published semi-weekly during the College year, except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvania Slate College, In the interest of the College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends. ELM= CHARLES A. MYERS '3l FREDERICK L. TAYLOR '34 Editor Business Manager GEORGE A. SCOTT 'l4 HAROLD .1. DATSCH '34 Managing Editor Circulation Manager WILLIAM M. STEGMEIER '34 H. EDGAR FURMAN '34 Sports Editor Local Advertising Manager BERNARD H. ROSENZWEIG '34 JOHN C. IRWIN M 4 News Editor Foreign Advertising Manager JAMES M. SHEEN '34 FRANCIS WACKER '34 News Editor Classified Advertising Manager RUTH M. HARMON '34 'Women's Editor MAE P. KAPLAN '34 Women's Managing Editor EVA M. DLICIIFELDT '34 Women's News Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS James R. Dently jr. '35 John A. Jirolmmo '36 ridMD W. Fair Sr. ' 35 A. Conrad Ilaiges '35 Kenneth C. Ramon '35 Dorton Rowles Jr. '36 Joines B. Watson Jr. '35 Fred W. Wright '35 ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Jytrry S. Knoll' . 35 11. Kenneth Lyons . 35 John S. Mathews '35 George A. Rutledge '35 Earl C. Kerner in. '35 WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Marcia B. Daniel . 35 Elsie M. Dauthett '35 Margaret W. Eineloe '35 Editorial Office, 313 Old Main Business Office, Nittany Printing Bldg—Telephone 292-W THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1933 FRATERNITIES VS. LANDLADIES About this time, or soon after, the annual contest for freshmen begins between the fraternities and the landladies of the town. The latter, fearing that they will loos potential roomers ; take every opportunity to keep fraternity rushers away from their houses. The Greeks, on the other hand, do all they can to persuade their pledges that they ought to move into the frater nity, even though they may have promised their land ladies to remain one semester. It is a continual struggle, and one that does not make for good will be tween the two groups. Both the fraternities and the landladies are justi fied to some extent in taking the positions they do. They are both partly wrong, too. Since it is a freshman's privilege to inspect and join a fraternity if he chooses, it is wrong fOr the landlady to keep him from doing so. But it is also wrong for fraternity men to persuade pledges to break rooming contracts Wtih landladies. This is probably the real reason for the present hos tility between the two groups. Landladies, as well as fraternities, depend upon a full house for their exis tence. A realization of this by fraternity men and a more courteous treatment of fraternity rushers by landladies will do much to promote better feelings be tween students and townspeople. WHEN THE SILENT period begins at 10 o'clock Saturday night ; rushees will have their first real chance to weigh the merits of the various fraternities which have entertained them during the past week. With an open period of concentrated rushing scheduled for next week, fraternity men should have little reason for vio lating thh silent period. Most of them, as well as most of the rushees, will be glad for a rest from the fifteen day scramble. ON COLLEGE PROFESSORS Will Rogers i homely philosopher of - America's mil lions, recently made an observation that should be of interest to college professors. In one of his daily bits of newspaper wisdom emanating from California, Mr. Rogers said: "I believe that Mr. 'Maley, chief of the 'brain trust2rs,' getting out is about the starting of the end of college professors in government. "A. professor,gots all of his out of a book, but the politician, is bad, ah ho , is, does have an understanding Of human nature and the mob . . "Theories are great, that is they sound great, but the minute you are asked to prove bne in actual life why the thing blows up. "So professors back to the classroom, idealists back to the drawing room, Communists back to "the soap box (and use some of it), but old Congressman 'Hokum' and old Senator 'Hooey' are still.the blus solinis of our country." As often as he has tried to attain the mark, Mr. Rogers has never before reached such heights of asinin ity. In one stroke he disposes of the value of all theories, all books, all professors, and all idealists, as far as gov ernmental affairs are concerned. By Mr. Rogers' standard, the professor is a political ignoramus even though he may have delved into the wisdom and under standing of human nature which is stored in books. All attempts at political or industrial reform are worth less because they are "theories" sponsored by "ideal ists" who should go "back to the drawing room." The best persons to run the country after all, Mr. Rogers would have his readers believe, are the ones who can fool and cheat the people. Such opinions will not bear 'up under recent ex perience. It would be more accurate to say that this is the beginning, rather than the end, of college profes sors in government. Government has become so com plex in all its phases that all sorts of experts, many of whom are college professors, are being and will be sum moned in an advisory capacity. .The value of their ser vices cannot be dismissed by saying that "they get all theirs out of a book." In in other views, Mr. Rogers represents that,type of reactionary which is the bane of all progress._ At a time when a great social theory is being tried out, and when idealists have proved themselves very practical, Mr. Rogers and his homespun opinions are e little out of place. Fish Story For the last hour or so we've been trying to make up our minds about something. There's a story going the rounds of the campus about Ralph Hetzel and the Guvnor, suh, and we simply can't decide whether its true. We knew Ralph "way back when," so we know that he knows his place and usually stays there. Yet the source of this story is almost as reliable as a 1925 model Big Ben so' it must be straight stuff. Ralph Dorn, Junior, as you all know, has donned the traditional morning coat, white collar, and black foulard to hobnob with Mr. Pinchot as one of his personal, secretaries. Well, one bilght sunny day Hizzoner tired of answering the pleas of striking miners, and, thinking that the trout might be biting, grabbed Ralph and can can of worms and headed for a lake. They found their lake and also a lovely row boat. Into it they scrambled (probably with alacrity) both eager to try their luck. In a jiffy they had hoist ed anchor and shoVed off. Two men at play in a boat—what a sight. Pretty as a picture! . There was Ralph sitting in the stern (rear) making some beau tiful casts. And there in the center of the schooner was the Guvnor sweating at the oars with a mighty yo-heave-ho. ' Letters for All __Telephone 500 While we were snooping around the A. A. office the other day we spied Miss Bottorf ripping class insignia from .numeral sweaters. Immediately ; we proceeded to Brawl from beneath Neil Fleming's desk to ask demandingly, "Why?" She wasn't a bit fright ened by the steely glint in our eyes so she didn't mind explaining. It seems that they had 'too many sweat ers and so now all the collegiate non-athletes who would like to .shelter their puny bodies from the icy wind with one of those very very verile sweaters can do so for a paltry three bucks or so. We don't particularly care for plain sweaters but they gave us ideas. As long as Penn State is going to foster an "Athletics for All" program, why not a "Letters for All" campaign? 'Personally, we'd like to appear on the campus sporting a fourteen-inch "C." The janitors cduld award ".1" sweaters for excellency in sweeping; the Old Main Bell staff could get up a tricky design with an "0MB" and cut-outs of several 'bells in action; and the—oh, the possibilities are in finite. Think of the letters and designs the Crab apple Club and the Block and Bridle could get up, and why shouldn't the P. S. C. A. and the R. 0. T. C. award letters? Now there, there's something that a Penn State man could be proud of. Barnum was wrong, there isn't one born every minute. At least that's what John E. Ryan,•Froth's! bus. mgr., is beginning to think. Eis circulation staff hasn't been doing so well, so he gave them a little pep talk the other night. Johnny must have taken Public Speaking 200, because'-we found an outline of his talk • on the back of an-.old. envelope. To wit: "1. Sym pathy. 2. The start set the wrong pace. Defeatist ;attitude. 3. The Way to do it. (a) For the girl, perhaps.- 4. (a) Any one who doesn't feel quite able to stand the gaff to produce may step up (be sar castic here). (b) We've just written the first part of the preface—now let's write the book." We'll wager that after that talk they sold'a million of them. Residuum- • Peter Gray Meek, of all people, -will temporarily abandon the -boards to ship as ordinary seaman on an oil tanker bound for China, Africa, India, etc ... . he sails October 8 .... and we don't think that he'll have the Tar kicked out of hip ... Tischer, of the Teke.ho . use, was observed playing jackson •Pleming's'front porch Sunday' morning .. Prof. Watkins of the Engelcomp staff has always dreamed of a little English cottage covered with ivy . . . . this summer he planted a lot of the 'guff around his comfy abode ; but the damned stuff turned out to be the "pizon" variety . . . . ivy feeling that his little dream has been sort of shattered .... Consider Your Business This is a good time to take stock of your business—its assets and its liabilities. A definite plan Of advertising is a course .of ;action best calculated to derive :the fullest benefits from your business., An advertisement is an iron clad investment when used cor rectly. Let us help you move your products quickly by ad vertising in the Penn State Collegian CAMPUSEER I=l -OAMPUSEER Tn PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Old Letters Re College Un Freshmen beginning their two-years, of R. 0. T. C. training—and upper classmen who have considered ,those two years- wasted—should harken- to the tale of James McFarlane as re vealed in letters,'written to his mother while he attended State' College many, many years ago. James, who was born on July 29, 1843 near Reedsville, Mifflin County, in 1860 entered the Farm - School eon ducted by the commonwealth at a little town fifteen miles below Bel lefonte. At that time the school was about a year• old, and the following spring the Civil War started. • When McFarlane was a sophomore, the Southern army began a drive to the North. All available units of men in Pennsylvania were organized to stop the invader, among them the 125 boys at the Farm 'School. Hastily equipped and outfitted, the little company began its march over the mountains towards Chambersburg, in the vicinity of which the Army sf the North hoped to stop Lee. On Fri day, July 2, the Farm School soldiers reached Shippensburg, from which town we have McFarlane's first letter describing a Penn State boy's war ex periences. "We have had a busy time of it since we left home. The first night we stopped at Mifflin ' the next even ing we got into Rocktown and yester day we got our arms and got march ing orders for Carlisle and .started the march about 7, o'clock in the evening. It is a distance of seventeen miles. JimMy Kyle and Carson and 5 Years Ago . . . Following_ a trip throughout the eastern part of the State; President Hetzel reported favorable acceptance of the $8,000,000 bond issue. .News papers promised to lend support editorially to the campaign, which was then reaching a climax. • Er. Asa. E. :iNfartin i now profes sor of American history, had just published his book, "History of the United States from 1783 to 1865," for use in the history 20 course. A revised edition of the book was pub lished last:semester. Sealed in . ,the corner-stone of Rec reation hall:were. copies of the Gen- eral CatalOgiioor 1928-29, bond issue their fellow townsmen were Prof. Harlan N. Worthley, .of the literatuM of *every 'hind, the annual depart report of the College comptroller and ment of zoology and entomology, and the . Preside*: and : . .the • .COLLEGIAN, Froth; Engine*,' Mid Farmer. , Charles A. Eder, of the department of • civil engineering, who aspired to seats on the town council. In addition, Prof. "Lefty" .Peke; captain of the 1927: • George F. Mitch, of the economics and Lion baseball , team, won. his Major league hurting debut, beating the sociology department, and Dr. Carroll Washington Senators, 8-to-5. Play- •D. Champlin, of the education and ing with Detroit, he permitted eight ' psychology department, were defeated . hits and seven passes. in the race for school director. .• Under a "Notices" column, the 'fol lowing announcement' appeared: "All students will '.he required to ,attend church or chapel beginning Sunday; September 23. Seating arrangemeats will be posted on the bulletin board in Old Main Friday, September 21." Dean Arthur R. Warnock scored rumors than , the ban, on student cars would bp -dropped, Fq.E.SEIMEN (*.3•IIALTS : . ;;, 1•1 9 3 4,0*4 P.FFO*S Yearlings • Diseusa - • Plans Coricernini Coming: College .Careers • Freshman in:Varsity, Watts, and Freer halls, who last week held a get-together dinner in the Old 'Main Sandwich shop, Tuesday night Cre ated a new section of their first year dramatic, social, and musical associa tion. At the last meeting, the first year men had discussed general plans in regard to their coming ,College _ca reers. Tuesday night, they proceeded to nominate men for offices •in the Class of 1937. Joseph -Foltz was named to run ;for -president with .the support of the hall 'group while Ralph R. Nicholas, Laurence L. Bedard, and Frederick Dorm were also selected to represent the group in office. Laurence Bedard '37 who was one of the original', directors of the get together banquet, spoke at the meet ing-, which was 'ailso addressed lw Ralph R. Nicholas, '37._Further dis cussion of plans for a freshman dance orchestra, as Well as represen tation in intramural and extra l cur, ricitrar activities .also . teoli place ,at the meeting. FOR SALE SOFVCCPAI: $3.00 Net Iron Reasonable Prices on Hord Coal Call John G. Ishler PHONE 979-7 State Co)lege,,Pa. veal Story of it in Civil War myself slept on the pavement in Car lisle. We are , this far oil our i,vay to Chambersburg, where we expect to arrive this evening. There were 250 prisoners in Harrisburg that left the morning we got there. They were the hardest looking set of men that I ever saw for soldiers. . . . are fighting today. We expect to go over the line tomorrow." But Jim was.wrong. The battle of Gettysburg (or Gettisburg, as James spelled it) raged.for three days, from Friday to . Sunday, and the Farm School company 'Aid not receive marching orders until Monday. But let him tell you in his next letter written from Gettysburg on . July 11, • 1862. ". . . On last Monday we , got marching orders.Ment to Harrisburg in the rain, stayed there about an hour and .marched buck as wet , as though we'd been dipt in the creek. On Tuesday we got. another march order.to march to this plaCe (Gettys burg). We came to Carlisle. in the cars and walked to Papertown, about seven miles and bivwacked for . the night. About 12 o'clock it began' do rain again. "I had a rather low place anyhow and the water ran in my blanket, wet me to the skin on one, side. In - the morning it was still raining. We could not make any - fire or coffee. Then we had to'fall back on the dry hard tack and fall infer another march. It was raining all the time;'we were hungry, but had to go." (To be montinued next issue) .Of 7 Professorial Politicians, Only 2 Receive Nominations As small-town politicians, profes sors have been known to make good fisherman—as witness Tuesday's elec tions for loal offices, when out of seven professorial aspirants to posi tions, only two were successful. Prof. Mac Lean M. Babcock, of the industrial engineering department, and Frank W. Hailer, of the horticul ture department, were the victorious candidates. Babcock has as his re ward nomination as school director, while Haller will be the Republican candidate for councilman. Those who dropped decisions to :Stevenson W. Fletcher, vice-dean of the School of Agriculture, who was running on•both the Democratic and Republican tickests, dropped the nom ination on both tickets for burgess to Wilbur Leitzell. LIBRARY PLANS,EXHIBIT OF. 50 SELECTED BOOKS Display of Printing, Bookbinding Art Will Open on Stitu!day . . Displaying • several . specimens of the printers and• bookbinders art, : the College 'library will exhibit a collec tion pffifty books selected -by the American.lnstitute of : Graphic Arts. The display : will ,open• Saturday. Sent .here directly from the Uni versity, of Denver, the book collec; tion will be placed in alcove K on the second floor of the building. The exhibit is hnOwn as "The Fifty Books." Other exhibits already planned by the library administration for' the autumn season include a collection of japanese prints, some ivory soap sculpture, and a viewing of mid-Cen tury fashions taken' from Godey's Ladys' bobk. COLLEGE TO CONTINUE 2 NON-CREDIT COURSES Will Conduct Classes in Shorthand; Typewriting This Semester . Continuing a practice started last year, the College is offering this se mester two non-credit courses, one shorthand and the other in typewrit ing. The courses were started last year upon belief that many college men and women wanted courses in practical subjects, which they had missed while attending high school. At the end of registration fiiesday there Were as yet opening; . in both sections of the two courses for more students who might wish to.schedule these courses this semester. Schedul ing must be conducted through - the office, of the' registrar, according to Prof. Julia G. Brill, who is in ,Fharge of the courses. Plans for the conduct of the courses this semester are for. the courses to follow the same general proceedure used last year. Fees for the courses, five dollars for the shorthand, ten'for typewriting, are the same as last year. College Cut-Rate Store 142 South Allen Street $2.50 BONCILLA (Littleßeauty Shop) $1.50 Perfumed Eau de Cologne and Face Powder Combination in Lentheric $1.1.0 ONE POUND .VAN DRIVARK'S ASSORTED CHOCOLATES 39c ONE POUND VAN DE MARK'S CHOCOLATE CARAMELS 39c New Assortment of Stationery 25c and 50c Watch Our Windows for Other Specials Friday and Saturday •PARKER';S. FAITH IN A SCIENTIST'S "FOOL IDEA'? Il_ Utterly Nero's:lionized Penal Pen inyettors vainly!riedfornearly • pen with twice the ink capacity 50yearsuipimiucellue 'iniraclepen." —a twice .greatcr .licauty Mid - 414 7 Notmetely a pen without a rubber tinction—a 2-way writing point, ink. sacless pen without wiiting . your regular hand on the piston ump or valves—with nothing under. aide, and %nee on the upper to ren,dc p rit useless later. Finally most aide for figuring and interlinmg• m penmakers gaVc it up as"' Actually a twice greate a 'fool idea. Thr HOLDS 102% MORE INK nen a scientist at the University of-Wisconsin conceived this revolution ary principle,—tho ,Vacu r matic Filler. lie brought it to.GeO. S—Parker, and spentwe thousands to isci. feet it. It is guaranteed . mechanically perfect. . . . ' New Ink Discovery Ends Pen-Clogging Parker Quint —the new non- clogging writing ink with the I ii_ secret solvent—cleans a pen as it writes! 'Get Quint from any/,: / /r \ dealer, or send two 3c stamps to , cover packing and postage for.. 1 ,, .. ?•,,,,A1 ;large trial sine bottle " • Thursday, September 21, 1933 r 4 ' ''._ r — ' l, \ - - I t 87 ~ 0:. ? -. s•—. „ . ~.. `J • ,l'J . , ' .e,' 4.1 .. e* .. !" . ,- "'..,:i .. u c,.......<4q), We Sell.)3eer Light Lunches The Old Saint Elmo PINE GROVE MILLS -; Elmer Long, Prop yabic at a favorite price-- $5 and $7.50. Now you can see and try, this "miracle pen" at any nearby pen counter. Co tibia . ), The Parker Pen .Co., Janesville, Wis. tar eqr .144CF-M4TiC,F1147% Transparent Laminated Pear/ P. 17, with .2-way P01nt,3740, Peed! to Maeda:l.so Jet ar Plain Transparent Pen. . loray Point, $5; Pencil,. $2.50
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