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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.
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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 ....
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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.
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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.
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142 South Allen Street
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Perfumed Eau de Cologne and Face Powder
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