Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published semi-weekly during the College year, except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvnnia State College, In the interest of the ==! CHARLES A. MYERS '3l FREDERICK L. TAYLOR '34' Editor Business Manager GEORGE A. SCOTT HAROLD J. BATSCII '34 Managing Editor Circulation Manager WILLIAM N. STEGMEIER '34 H. EDGAR FURMAN '34 Sports Editor Local Advertising Manager BERNARD H. ROSF.N7.WEIG''34 JOHN C. IRWIN '34 News 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's News Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Jome B. Beatty Jr. '95 John A. Drutarnan '95 Phillip W. Foir Jr. 15 A. Conrad Haikos Koinoth C. Hoffman '95 Burton Bowles Jr. '35 Garry S. Knorr '35 IL Kenneth Lyona 15 Jack A. Itleortin '33 John J. Mathews '35 George A. Rutledge '35 Earl C. Keyser Jr. '35 WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Mnrela D. Dnniel '35 Elsie M. Douthett '35 Margaret W. Kinsloe '35 Editorial Office, 313 Old Main Telephone 500 Business Office, Nittany Printing Bldg—Telephone 292-W THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1933 ONE MOMENT, SIR Before six o'clock Saturday night, some five hun dred freshmen will have made up their minds on one of the most important problems confronting them during their four years here. What fraternity is best? In this period of open rushing, some freshmen may have de ckled in advance the fraternity they will pledge. But a thoughtful reconsideration will not be amiss for any rushee. Freshmen have heard many times, perhaps, that the calibre of men in the house is'the most diitinguish ing feature about a fraternity. The triteness of the 'ad vice in no way detracts from its truth. Most freshmen who pledge a fraternity intend to live :there for four years. The type of men whom they will have as fellow lodgers is more important than the newness of the house, its social standing, or some other superficial, rushing season talking point. Secondary matters, contributing to the major item, should receive the freshman's consideration also. Have its members shown an active and successful interest in student activities? Do the interests of the fraternity conform with the interests Of the rushee? Is gentle manliness only skin-deep? Is the scholastic standing of the fraternity such that it indicates a real interest in the true purpose of college? Is the cost of joining and living in the fraternity too high? The answers to all these questions will point to the type of men belonging to the fraternity. If the freshman can look beneath the smooth veneer of suave rushers and get at the true man, he will make few mistakes - in choosing his fraternity. Those who do not get 'bids should bear in mind the status of fraternities. They are social groups, not hon orary societies. Their selection of new members is by no means faultless. They are only a part of college, not the center of it. SUPPORT NEEDED One of the many services performed by Penn State men, which undergraduates of late years Seem to have forgotten, is the work of G. W. "Daddy" Groff 'O7 and his associates in Canton, China. Some may smile deris ively when "Penn State in China" is mentioned. Yet behind this phrase is a heritage of unselfish service which has become a tradition here. The Penn State man who left the campus in 1911 to go to China was no spineless idealist. "Daddy" Groff was a very real man, imbued with the spirit of pioneer work for that chaotic country. Armed with his knowledge. as an agriculturist and fortified by the sup port of his friends at Penn State, Groff made real grog. ress. Today he is' a ~ leader in the agricultural recon struction. of China . .. In addition to his activities as Dean of the School of Agriculture at Lingnan Univer sity in Canton, he has distinguished himself as a botan ist. And besides these services he has proved to be a sort of good-will ambassador 'l3t.ween the two countries, as testimonials of representative Chinese show. Realizing the importance of this work, College of ficials have set aside each year one chapel service as an occasion for the honoring of "Daddy" Groff. On Sun day the customary request for student support of this enterprise will be made. At a time when China is more in need of expert services than ever before, students here should not fail in the support which has made some of those services possible. THERE HAVE BEEN MANY rumors of viola tions of the men's rushing code. Some of these may be pure fiction, but there is one fraternity at least that has proved itself as chronic a violator as it was last year. Forfeit of .the fifty-dollar bond seems to be no deter rent for this house. Feeling that a few pledges ac quired by illegal methods will be more financially profit able than the keeping of the fifty-dollar bond, this fra ternity has not hesitated to go forward with its unfair tactics. For cases of this sort, a punishment more se vere than' usual must be inflicted, and the rushing com mittee would be justified-in using some such means as withholding that fraternity's bid cards. A few "terrible examples" will demonstrate that a rushifig code is not made to be violated. THE LETTER ADVOCATING the abolition of Women's fraternities here was publiihed in the sue because it represented the point of-view of a num. ber of sincere Penn State women. An equally stout re sponse from the defenders of fraternities was expected. But the mail box was empty. Either .the sisters were too busy with rushing or they tacitly agreed with , their There's a gentleman up in the English composi tion department who prides himself .on being quite a coanoisseur of tobaccos. 'Most of the time lie smokes a pipe, but sometimes for variety, usually when he's grading freshman theme papers, he uses cigarettes. At these times he insists on Piedmonts. Last month (when it was still hot enough to go swimming at .Whipple's Dam) our instructor walked boldly into the tobacco shoppe of the town and, without even blushing, asked for a pack of Piedmonts. The clerk looked at him suspiciously for a moment. Finally, he drawled, "Sorry, but we're all out of Piedinonts. 12=1 You see, in the summer months most of the working- men in town go away." " The girls in Grange are all sissies! We didn't' always think that, but there have been so many Peeping Toms, spooks, prowlers, morons, etc., making their way up to the upper floors of their dorm - that you'd 'think they'd. do something about it. Anyway, that business is getting monotonous. Why the devil don't they retaliate; the boys up in Varsity Hall haven't had a co-ed visitor for many a moon. We're very glad to hear that Bob Higgins is not ateklecting the aesthetic training of our athaletes. Ever since the beginning of the practice season, Bob has given the boys special'permission to croon in the showers. Of course, they were warned not to overdo the thing. After all, a' Charlie Horse in the throat would be pretty bad for Penn State's footbalrseason. However, the boys are bears for punishment. They just can't get enough! Lately they've been continuing their vocal efforts around the training table in Old' Main. If you're one of these dopesters who like to predict ahout football, you'd better get aroundto the Sandwich Shop about six thirty some: evening. The team's coming along fine. They have a'swell arrange ment of "Down by the Old Mill Stream." Fifty: seven—forty—ninety-siX—hike! F. C. LAMENT . • Sing a song of 'violators, Pockets full of buttons— Four-and-twenty Pledge pins Jingling not for nothin'; Doc Hasek' is the latest addition to our list of absent-minded professors ... Gentle advice to Fresh man Gretchen Stewart: "Tame down!" ... We are charter members of-the Penn State Improvement As sociation ... M. P. K. is Making a strong bid for the presidency of the organization.... Calling Police Car Number 65: Fraternity men rushing freshmen• at Flatrock Inn: Shoot to kill The Seta Sigma : Rho smoker was a wow ... bOrrmaids and everything,. We heard something else about "loop-a-deop" Taylor, Jane Town, and Helen Hinebauch, but we can't tell it . ... And speaking of the Town Jane, it's said that she helped the Thetas no end in rushing ... Friday and' Satuiday howanl d. milli" CUSTOM- TAILOR will be at • STARK BROS. si HARPER. Hatters ; Halieiciash'ers, taifors 0' Morris Clothes are Individually. Tailared . Fit Your Face, Your' Figure, • and Your Personality. CA MP USEER LIMERICK DEPARTMENT Said the co-ed date to the Canmuseer, "Men think of me as they think of Boehm." Said the Campuseer with a sexy leer, "In that case you'd better atone." jb jb jb ff=IM;M •jhb • jhb jhb • When the season's over And The bids begin to host, They'll take 'em out their pockets And pin them on'their coats. pt pt pt SMATTERINGS TIM PENN STATE COLLEGIAN LOOKING OVER THE NEWS . . . . While we're ltusy watching the strained developments between Ger many and the countries interested in saving the civilization from barbar ism, the stage for the next cosmic, cataclysm is being set in the East. Japan has promised to stop her mil itary 'advance in China at the Great Wall, but-latest reports tend to indi cate the contrary. Russia's opinion of the Sino mob is not too commendatory, and since the U. S. A. and U. S. S. R. are be ginning to pal around and exchange favors, it might be wise for Japan to treat Uncle Sam nicely and not to incur the wrath of the American in terests in the Pacific and in China. Taking a few more drags on the 'Chinese dope pipe we can visualize Hitler and his crowd titibulating into the argument because of Adolf's dis respect for words like Bolshevik, Red, and Non-Aryan; and because the en suing excitement would keep his sub jects from regaining their senses and getting wise to him. After . we envisage FranCe and It aly, *blood-thirstedly on the trail of Germany we've just. about succeeded in conjuring up the abut free-for-all devastation. With ruthlessness ad mittedly the penchant of today's "men of destinY," sane thought and fra ternal feeling in, humanity will lose their effectiveness in blocking such a terrible' threat and challenge to our civilization: +++ With Roosevelt's 'statement of the new monetary policy scheduled for re lease next week our journalistic prOphets are preis-agenting•the "com modity" &Alan After stabilizing the value of. the dollar the ensuing prob lem'.for the administration will' be . the stabilization of the minds of hystei ical speculators. cram The athletic and literary worlds Let Us Frame- Your Shingle' Reasonable Prices d \ OLD MAIN: ART: SHOP Opposite Front' Campus AND • PLYMOUTH SALES AND SERVICE • SMITH BROS. 224 East College Avenue • Phone'loS2 ROOMS FOR. FIRST SEMESTER AT THE COLO NIAL . 115 West Nittany Avenue offer: hotel' comfort at Moderate weekly rates of $2.50 and $3.00,. Few choice rooms available: All have running hot and' cold water, plenty of heat and hot water. Homelike, newly' furnished. Inspect THE COLONIAL—you'll like it! "Finest Club Residence in State College" "You'Can. Get It At Metzger's" STUDENT DESK LAMPS RIO z Goose Neck, Green or Brown PARCEL: POST 11UNDRY CASES $1.19 . . 25% Reduction' on. Golf Clubs and Tennis Rackets "HANK" ROGERS TO COACH CROSS-COUNTRY PLEBES Graduate Will Tutor 43 Aspirants For 'Positions on Squad Henry H. "Hank" Rogers, graduate assistant in physics, will coach the freshman cross-country squad this fall, it was announced yesterday by Head Coach Chick Werner, Lion track mentor. Forty.three aspirants for the team have reported this far. Rogers, alormer distance runner to North . Carolina State College, who was considered for the Olympic team in the distance events, will take up his coaching duties immediately. Rog ers is still in training for possible fa ; ture•competition. Coach Werner regards the material in the freshmen squad as exceeding ', ly promising. From, all reports; he said, the squad this year should be the basis of an exceptionally fine team in coming years.. join 'us in mourning the death' of Ring Lardner. It was under his lead ership that sports-writing was ele vated to a more interesting and clever literary style. --48. H. It C. PAUL DETWILER Lemont. Po. Representing • Gonder Kelley & Company I=l RESTAURANT BEER ON DRAUGHT Make - Arrangements for : Private Dinners or Parties Rooming Accommodations Pine Grove Mills Hotel' F. E. Lynn, Proprietor. ..if you've often wondered what to do Saturday nights, watch: this space on Monday "Clbtlies of Distinction" ARE KEPT DISTINCTIVE Oily 'Mien= Properly Tailored. BALFURD; UNDER THE CORNER ' HORSEBACK RIDING • GENTLE HORSES AND FREE INSTRUCTION sl',oo,Per Hour.l2-1-I,oui• Ticket $lO ' t t : MAKE' RESERVATIONS—PHONE 9790 ' 1 ' Open Day and Night . CAMPUS SADDLE' SCHOOL, "N" In Rear of Hotel and Theatre mr College. 'a gate Store • 142 South' Allen Street • • HELENA RUBINSTEIN. 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