Page TW. PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published semi-weekly during the College year, except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvania State College, to the Interest of the College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends. IEI2En CHARLES A. MYERS '34 FREDERICK L. TAYLOR . 34 Editor Business Manager • • GEORGE A. SCOTT 'l4 HAROLD J. BATSCH '94 Managing Editor Circulation Manager WILLIAM M. STEGMEIER '34 11. EDGAR FURMAN '34 • Asiiistant Editor Loral Advertising Manager BERNARD If. ROSENZWEIG '34 JOHN C. IRWIN '34 News Editor Foreign Advertising' Manager JAMES N. SHEEN '34 FRANCIS WACKER '34 Sports Editor Classified Advertising Manager RUTH M. HARMON '34 MAE P. KAPLAN '34 Women's Editor Women's Managing Editor EVA M. 111JCIIFELDT '34 Women's Newt Editor Editorial Office, 313 Old Main Telephone 500 Business Office, Niltany Printing Bldg—Telephone 292-W MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1933 IT'S UP TO THE FRATERNITIES Recurrence of fraternity house robberies over the past week-end, the second reported activity of thieves here within a week, presents a problem which only the fraternities themselves can solve. Under the present situation of wide-open houses, the fraternities are simply. ,inviting disaster to themselves, and the sooner this realization strikes home, the sooner robberies such as have occurred can be at least partially eliminated. The folly of permitting houses containing thousands of dollars worth of furniture and personal belongings to be open to anyone and everyone twenty-four hours of the day is apparent. It is likewise an obvious impos sibility for the local police to take preventative steps as long as this situation exists, and past experiences have demonstrated that once the robbery is perpetrated there is little chance of apprehending the thieves. Two preventative measures are open to the frater- nities, both of which may cause some small inconvenience until. the system is thoroughly in force, but which will at least give the_ outside public, which undoubtedly in cludes those who have visited houses here in the past, the understanding that fraternity houses at Penn State are no longer wide open for petty thievery. The frater nities can and should lock the doors opening on the ground floors. This could be added to the list of fresh man duties, the pledge being instructed to see that all doors and windows on the first floor be locked at 10:30 or 11 o'clock at night. This would, of course, neces sitate individual keys for each members of the house. A second preventative measure would make it possible for the members to lock their own study rooms, and would not only eliminate night robberies but also pos sible thefts during the day where the occupant of the rosin is absent. This system is in use at other colleges and universities, notably Northwestern University,, :and can be introduced at a negligible , expense here. State College police have demonstrated thir willing ness to cooperate with the fraternities in stamping out the existing evil, and their efforts to apprehend the thieves who visited seven houses over Alumni week-end are to be commended. It's up to the fraternities to help themselves. THE ENTHUSIASTIC turnout of students to hear Governor Pinchot's address Friday afternoon and to greet him on his arrival.at noon must have been gratify ing to the State executive and to the College authorities as well. -Such a demonstration, entirely voluntary on the part of the student body as it was, should go far in cementing the already friendly relations between the College and the Governor of the State. NO' NEED. FOR ALARM While the 33-to-0 :defeat at the hands of Columbia Saturday may ,provide fodder for the chronic ,objectors to the present football situation, sane thinking will have difficulty in finding fault with either the coaches or the team on the showing at New York. Despite its defeat by Princeton and the Nittany Lions splendid ex hibition against Lehigh the Saturday previous, Colum bia was admittedly the stronger eleven before the game, and a Penn State victory would have been regarded as nothing less than a startling upset. In other words, there's no need to be alarmed at losing to Columbia. From a publicity angle, Penn State gained rather than suffered by playing Columbia. The gallant and stubborn battle put up by the Nittany Lion gridders against their highly-touted 'opponents drew praise and the contest as a whole served to bring the Nittany eleven into the national limelight—something that games with ordinary run-of-opponents can never do. Just what the effect of the defeat will be on the team will be deter mined this Saturday at Syracuse. If it can forget the disheartening 33-to-0 score and play the same brand of football against Syl'acuse, it can retrieve what glory woo lost Saturday at Baker Field. The success of the 1933 season didn't and doesn't depend on result of the Columbia game—three much more important games re main on the schedule. • In the same vein, gratifying indeed were the com pliments on the athletic policy here given by Eddie Dooley who announced the Baker Field game over Vadio•Saturday. As a former all-American quarterback at Dartmouth, Dooley is thoroughly schooled in the business of football, and has a.high respect for the cour age of this College for being the leader in undertaking . , non-subsidization policies. lie also emphasized that the Present policy was adopted even before the publication of that famous Carnegie Foundation report, and highly Praised the sorong spirit of the student body here for a football team which is competing with scholarship col leges in its 'class without "crying .the blues" over its task. EZEMEI =llll =II Around the Corner Several times each year there comes to issue the old question regarding creation of some new student "honorary" group. - Finding hesitancy upon the part: of faculty on the point of recognition , the student "promoters".have 'been knownto become quite rebid The "local" organizations may claim a right to remain in their present status, even though their major functions through a rather long period have been only the annual elections of pledges and officers. Their soundest claim for continued existence is their low cost of operation and entrance. • On the contrary, national honoraries in nearly every case should be made to show some benefits to members in addition to the doubtful honor of mem bership as such. A pumber of these groups, which must maintain high initiation fees, make a sizeable gross dent in the student pocketbook each year. It was said that the local chapters of national .honoraries "must" maintain high initiation fees. It should -be understood that the high fees are not the choice of local groups, but are a result of enforced assessments from national fraternity headquarters. Failure to meet the assessments of national groups automatically invites a forfeiture of local charter That national honor fraternities do not need high incomes for existence is proven by' a prominent ex ample. Phi Beta Kappa, parent of all Greek frater nities, charges five dollars for entrance, and within that charges includes the price of a key. ' • r The complaint of any single charter would be in sufficient to'ahange the policies of a national group :to the point of abandomnent .of present high fees. It is not improbable, however, that a unified action directed at a national office by a majority of chapters would result in substantial lowerings of assessments now exacted from all initiates. The fall pledging season for groups represented on the university'caMpus is not fur away. Chapter officers would be wise to cooperate with officeis in other chapters to force a great reduction in present costs of membership OLD MANIA In F, P. A.'s (one of our contemporaries) column in a recent New York Herald Tribune, we ran across this squib The Superior Messenger I note that Empire advertises that it is on sale at the better men's stores and I am sending Gunga Din to get my copy. Sahib W. L. Werner Note: Saw Mrs. Werner in a local A. &P. store yesterday Gunga Din-ing for Bill. We notice that Gov. Pinchot looked rather wan and tired during his speech Friday afternoon. His face was drawn and full of pain although he covered up well and smiled gamely throughout his address. It didn't take long to figure out the trouble, either. If you noticed, he favored his Tight arm and didn't use it for the usual forceful gestures—he couldn't, it was badly sprained from saluting that line of Pershing Rifles between the Prexy's house and Schwab auditorium. There's such a thing as carrying militarism too Times have changed all right. In the days of our youth things were different. They used ,to tell us about famous men of the past who gave their lives to make the world safe for democracy; they spent a lot of time teaching us old mottoes and sayings, such as "God Bless Our Home" and "I'd rather be right than ?resident"—Things were different then! Now even the old saws have been modernized. For instance the co-ed version of "I'd rather be right than—" now reads: I'd rather be sexy, Than Prexy. Ah, youth, youth! Compliments to Major Thompson and Dean Grant! The Blue Band Put on the finest exhibition drill that Baker Field has ever seen, (artillery and all) and the Glee club's offering would have been chic if they'd been there, really. r State's cheering was rather fine, too, although the singing was weak in spots. The weather was marvelous; .brisk, bracing, real fall weather. Everything was set, even to a gen erous sprinkling of ,imported and local pulchritude. Ah, it was a colorful, festive occasion! The Score— I= .q99se Eggs .Moonves atColuMbia....ciiss-word for a football team, "Oh, Fudge!" ... Cut! ... : Connie Glace, 927 Alec ; :•Itak 'Longenecker and Di& lifftitin searching for elusiveness Codk and Gorden Dun can at the "Y" affair ... gds. Steidle really goes for Theta publicity ... with an axe . The Phi Kap hearse round and about . .. What's this they tell us about Stegmeier, Old Main and the P. H.? . : . A co ed in Corner Room--."I think the Delta Sigma Phis are a very sweet bunch of boys" . .. So do we! And what Phi Kappa. Sig is now washing the dishes at "Poppy!" Woodruff's manse? COSTS VS. MERIT TEE PENN ST4iLTE COLLEGIAN To the Editor It was proven beyond a doubt that our friend "Pitt" Van Dusen was cor rect in his conclusions concerning how utterly humiliated the average college student would be if he were observed taking a sincere interest in religion. One glance at the handful of students who attended the religious mass meet ing last Monday evening is convincing evidence that Penn State students have an antipathy for topics of a spir itual nature. • Thera is certainly nothing naive about Dr. Van Dusen's religious philo sophy. Whatis more challenging to and more demanding upon the re sources of the . intellect, Character and courage than the sticking qualities re quired by a mature religious life? The time and energy of many stu dents and members of the faculty and administratiOn are expected to pre sent to us, through some of the great est minds and Most forceful speakers in the country, glimpses of true life and methods of achieving true living. The C. A., with its very liimted means, brings to our campus, for our use, some of the intellectual leaders of the day from many and varied walks of life. We are cheating no one else when we do not avail ourselves of the splen did opportunity of hearing such per sons as Kirby Page, Margaret Sanger, Sherwood Eddy, or "Pitt" Van Dusen. With all of the glorification of a lib eral educationj cultural background, and the present day emphasis placed upon learning the "art of living" rath er than how to "make a living," it seems that as students we can't afford not to acquaint ourselves with' every possible school of thought. We have been existing, or perhaps pseudo-living, long enough. It is high time that some genuine thinking and sincere acting is clone by the youth of America. And after all, isn't that why we are students at Penn State? . To the Editor I feel that the letters of. "Loyal Son" and A.' J. K. lack the conviction of their authors.. It looks like a feeble attempt to 'm COLLEGIAiI or any publication.' Furthermore ; "Loyal Son" wants someone to hurriedly and furiously Correa his error cobeernink Leonardo, diiibn — ci's "Sistine Madora,", which is really aßaphiel.. NeVerthe- less, fOr the . student who is cultur ally-minded (not seeking merely a So cial life or , haying a purely utilitarian motive) there-.is much to be gleaned from courses like Dickson's Art 74 and Mason Long's English Literatuie 63. Imagine i teeling , a sense of security :front av RfM.:Coinitt Mish,-"Lo3h9 Son"! If A. J. K. finds this institution so, awful why dOesn't . he transfer? There are 'more schools just as inexpensive and no worse than he feels this is. As for Edward Zernif his idea of, culture is an , S. S. Dine murder serial—and the,[rest 'of his list, he doesn't know• What culture is. And any alumnus who is so bigoted as to generalize ',that foreigners are "greasy" and write trash:has spent four years'in • Coliege in vain. THE MANIAC (not himself) . Penn State has its deficiencies. But don't all schiiols?. Its really fine courses (there are some), its'beautiful natural surroundings, and some intel ligent people should make up for a great 'deal. To the Editor . If you continue your policy of pub liShing junky: letterk expressing the hOrror or pain ofirafe."iyould-be stu 7 dents", thitt.thustilind vent :for' , their 'crushed idealsitbyleontributing to the Comiourr Letter Box, the readers are, again doomed to' peruse the offering of a little lad who has 'just been won dering.' May Y begin' by consoling myself withl the belief that my pain'' Is justified? ThiS great hurt of mine has prompt ed me. to ask, "why do yoU persist in using good - space for such' inarticu late cries of na . mby-pambys when you could more'efficiently add to the irony of college routine by renting the space to some beer-joint?. Such.a change' of policy would bring you' much need ed coin as well as serve as a directory for 'these above-mentioned nincom poops in finding a bracer or two for shaky nerves. 'Shame on you! Why don't you do your part? I shciuld like to continue by adding i a word or two for \ the student body in general. I think, that it can be agreed thatthese letters being printed involve a waste of space, time, and money that could be used in the Cul- tural advancement of 11MM:doss pole- I cats. To say the Idast, one must ad reit that they are chaotic, incoherent epistles, that 'should be relegated to oblivion in this 'era of the New Deal. Anyone that doubts the validity' and logic of such i'eonclusion' should fake another Aspirin tablet and re-read the one hundred and lifty=tWo worde that you have so painfully obierved above. If this effoit of • mine hasn't em= pkasized the futility and complete lack of sincerity in such .letters;l've wasted a Jct . 's/ time.. Was enlist De ha*? —4t. L. D. '35 .CO-EDS TO HOLD FANCY BALL The McAllister t .,..,hall Hallowe'en costume donde for women will be held in McAllister hall lobby tomorrow night, according to Blizabeth K. Bar ton '35, chairman of : the dance com mittee. Dancing girEontinue from .8 until 10 o'clock. . —Purdue Exponent Letter Box Winwar—Poor, Splendid Wings. That a book should win a large prize is no disparagement of the book. But that a book would have been sig nificant without the prize is infinitely more important. The Pre-Raphaelites Were so named because they aspired— or at least the beginners did—to re turn to the simplicity and natural beauty of the artists before :Raphael. But more than art was involved and more than the Pre-Raphaelites them selves—Holman Hunt, the mystic, John Millais; the academician and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, more poet than painter, the central figure in the movement. Ruskin lent his influence and wealth and suffered. Swinburne became even more dilettante than before. The whole movement and its history is accurately and well and interestingly told, one of the tragic phases of the English literature of the nineteenth century. The Joprthil of Gamaliel Bradford The 'intimate story of one of the most abstemious and 'disciplined of men. He had to be for Ids life depend ed on it: And then, too, he was of the great Nevi England Puritan tradition. His Journal is concerned with corn- Mont on .books and the literary men of his time ; with .nature and the world around him, and even more than that, his own work as an author. He wrote poetry and plays. But bi ography was his life work and this is his best biography. Kingdom Coming, by Ri)ark Bradford The Reconstruction was as hard or harder upon the southern negroes as upon the southern whites. This is the story of "Telegram, Penny and Good News," the experiences and . suffer ings of one family. An excellent pic ture of New Orleans and' of planta tion life from a negro's viewpoint and interesting despite some incon sistencies. MEM The Master of Jalna, by Mlazo.de•la The Whiteoaks are brought down to date . in -this fourth story of the series which is ,also one of the best. The same family bickering is offset by the same family loyalty. Rennie as leader of the clan dominates thiS vol ume. . -0-- Mr. Pete and Ca., by Alice Vegan Rice. • • • 'Alice :Began Rice's-first notable , character was a woman; Mrs. Wiegs of the cabbage patch; the next a man, Mr. Opps, and there have been other men and women. "Mr.. Pete" is like them The site is the slums. The peoPle are the people of the slums and Mr. Pete a junk dealer who tried desperately to lift them: up. Hitler's Reich, the First Phase, by The author is .the editor of "Foreign Affairs" and he makes an unusual visit -to Germany. Hence' his obser vations and diagnoiis are the real resuleof study and observation. Hit lerism is the nationlist movement in duced by the psychology of Germany's defeatist years and is the triumph' reactionism over communism. Brief comparison is made with Fascism. —Co-ed G. '35 The Fault of Angels, by Paul Hoigan Endowed music in American cities receives IC,thinly veiled coat of satire, It. is, a . World of . uperas; concerts ant i parties' and rather . uniime and original in fiction: Business Under the Recovery Act, by Lawrence C. Valenstein and E. B. Weiss. American producers and business men are vitally interested in knowing how the "New Deal" will affect the process .of their 'produCt from the warehouse to the consumer. Mr. - Vs:- enstein as an advertising man and Mr. Weiss on the staff of "Printer's Ink" have - had close contact with Man ufactUring and retailing and help to answer the question. ' - yVoi!'deyjiero, by J. B. Priestley The author of "Angel Pavements" writes a new delightful satire this time at the modern publicity bally hoo. Mr. Hubble, the "wonder hero," enjoyed the 'plaudits of London until in the quiet Of the less effusive north country hi realized what it, all meant. , . • ';.Contemporary Roumania," by Joseph • S. Roocek. Professor Roucek is serving as visit ing professor of sociology at Penn State. A native of Czechoslovakia, he has for years been a student of the Balkan states and'their problems. Re Writes authoritatively, interestingly and. revealingly of Roumania, her past history and her present position —her relOtionship to world economics and politic's. Excellent illustrations and striking charieterizations of the Peasant' life and customs add to the interest. Student's Guide to Good Rending The Library has recently received the "Student's Guide id' Good Read= ing" through the good' offices of Professor W: S.' Dye. Professor Dip is the compiler of that' section' of' the Guide devoted to ."Essays, Letters 'and Criticism". Speaking Of ,Books Hamilton Fish Armstrong CO-EDS 4'LAN TO ORGANIZE . LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS Planning to organize as a Junior League of Women Voters, twenty-five Penn State women students have pre sented a petition for a charter to the Pennsylvania League of Women VOters. The group has already or ganized as a public, affairs commit tee of the Y. W. C. A. here. The group as a whole has begun work towards the ,passage of Amend ment Number'B; both by means *of 'it local, publicity campaign, and by post cards to be mailed to friends of voting . age. Biala M.'Douthett '35 is chair man of the organisation committee, assisted by Fern A. Shoemaker '34 and Martha J. Bring '35. PRE-SLED TESTS ANNOUNCED Pre-medical aptitude tests, which are.required for admission to medical schools, will be given here on Decem ber 6. Last year this test Was given Our. Lighting System Completely ,Changed for Better Portraits' J. W. KELLMER PHOTOGRAPHER Second Floor Montgomery-Building "You Can Get it At Metzgeee'.. SHOT GUNS AND RIFLES FOR.RgNT New Type ,Cigarette Lighters , 50c anal $1.0,0 _ . Neyv Fibre laundry Cases Just Arrived—Best •We ,Have Ever Bad At Old Friceof .$2.50 N7OU'L . I. be taking all the 1 hurdles in high, once you switch to that natural ,energy maker, Shredded Wheat. Shredded Wheat is 100% whOie wheat, with • nothing added, nothing taken away. It brings you all the energy= makers ~+l4 essential proteins, minerals, carbohydrates; S} Ja7:l; * ')E o Z7'.---- • • .."Eq Wkos )rom ste sia ra: fails' ay OW 'Shredded wheal. THE VITALLY. DIFFE,qf,t I 7 .F 999 SHREDDED WHEAT A product of NATIONAL .DJSCUIT .COMPANY ,"ynepdo Nonclay Evening, October 30; 1933, CAMPUS, DOWNTOWN DORM WOMEN ELECT PRESIDENTS Dorothy I. Mergenthaler ?34 was chosen president of Grange_d9rmitory, Bernice H. Jarek , y was elected presi dent of McAllister Mill, while Grace D. Moyer '34 ivill head Women's build ing at recent elections. Of the down town doralktories,,,the presidents are, Margaret A. Mianig '55, 228 S. Allen St.;'Frances A. Vick orsham; '35, of 125 Miles St.; Kay E. Keiper, of 140 S. Pugh ,St.;',Pa tricia L. Bastone.'3s, of 440 S;Allen St.; Mary I. Swope of 301 liißaav er ave.; Peggy I. Doherty .'37, ()f. 224 S. .Frazier St.; Ray Van Artsdaler '37, of 138 Frazier St.; and I.,oaiseM. Oappolo .'34, of 119 Burrowes St. to over ,9,09 b students in nearli.sso colleges. ApProiimately sixty dents are expected to take the exam ination here. Here's pjas,=;nd,thi;Nap, *wad in one cereal grain, whole.wheat. Find out for yourself tips a bowlful of these crisp-hOced biscuits is a bolvglil 91.1nimul etkergy:,9rder 7,irat at your favorite S eating place. you 'won't he •Icept waiting, for Shredded 7 . kent is repAY :.C.944Fe.F c k t .°st•P:s.eoe-Ri7 cif 01!c. or cream, and top withyourfavor to LASgfiP up the goodkalsittor at temt ten days, and see how much book) feel.
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