Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published eerni-weekly during the College year. except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvania State College. In the Intemt of the College, the students. faculty, alumni, and friends. THE MANAG CHARMS A. MYERS '34 FREDERICK L. TAYLOR '34 Editor Business Manager GEORGE. A. SCOTT '34 HAROLD J. BATSON '34 Managing Editor Circulation Malinger WILLIAM M. STEGMEIER '34 H. EDGAR FURMAN '34 Assistant. Editor Local 'Advertising Manager BERNARD H. ROSENZWEIG '34 JOHN C. IRWIN '34 News Editor Foreign Advertising Manager JAMES M. SHEEN '34 ' FRANCIS WACKER '34 Snorts Editor ClassSkil Advertising Manager RUTH N. HARMON '34 MAE P. KAPLAN '34 Women's Editor . Women's 'Managing Editor EVA M. BLICIIFELDT '34 Women's News Editor Munauinu E•litur This Issue Nen, Miler This home-- THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1933 A GENERAL REACTION The. current investigntion of honorary and profes sional societies and clubs is not confined to Penn State The reaction against a situation in which a majority of the students can wear keys on their watch chains has spread to institutions all over the country Last year a group of upperclassmen at Syracuse University made a complete survey of honoraries. They lecommnded that there should be only one honorary fraternity in each college and school of the university, and that both sexes should be admitted to the organiza tion. In addition, they suggested that initiation fes should be limited to a maximum of eight or ten dollars, that each organization should be required ,to keep a model financial report, that not more than fifty percent of the budget should go to the national organization, and that a general scholastic requirement of "B" should be established as a prerequisite for admission to any of the honorary societies. At the present time, the men's senate at Syracuse is holding public hearings in an ef fort to curb honorary rackets. It has already resolved that "every honorary and professional fraternity shall conform to the standards set by the senate , An expose of flagrant financial abpses in honoraries by the Colorado Silver and Gold last spring led to the appointment of faculty sponsors for each organization. In an editorial attack on honoraries, the Colorado Mines ()recliner recently said: "Honoraries cost too much .. . Honor:tries should get ie step with the times and do a little deflating. If they don't ; they will lose all the the purpose that motivated their beginning and mean less Than they do now." Likewise, the Purdue Exponent stated: "Few needs are more apparent than reactivation of 'many of the or ganizationa now existing. It is small wonder that per mission to create others has been hesitantly given. In cases where injection of new life is -net plausible, a com plete and final dispersion would be a logical move." And.at Tulane University last week, a campaign against "joiners" was instituted by the Student Council. /just what the exact results of the investigation here will be, is difficult to say. However, unless the situation is different from that on other campuses, it will probably be found -that there are too many honor aries in a given field, that fees are too high, that some groups are inactive, and that the whole syStem of honor aries is somewhat of a farce; anyway. THE VANISHING RED-BAITERS Almost anything can happen, it seems, in these days of rapid change. One of the most surprising things during the past week or two is the complete absence of any howling about the present negotiations with an em issary'. of Soviet Russia. The "red-baiters" seem to have' swallowed their words overnight. Finding their views now at variance with those of the government, they have apparently gone .into hiding lest they be de nounced in the same wok's with which they have so long branded the Bolsheviki. If only to illustrate progress, the following quota .tion's taken from a 1919 speaker's handbook endorsed by the government are significant: "The rule of Lenin in Russia illustrates for the first time in history the carrying out in practice on a grand scale of a system of sociology evolved out of the brain of a literary fanatic." 'The aim is to abolish human nature .... " "Business (in Russia) is largely a matter of "Every month now sees the founding of ,new pub lications (in America) devoted to Bolshevist propaganda sees nest' efforts of the 'intelligencia,' the highbrow theorists, who have so little understanding of the awful disaster that, would result from the accomplishment of their sophomore yearnings." ' The fact is that Mr. Roosevelt and his "highbrow theorists" with their "sophomore yearnings" have very definite reasons for wanting to recognize Russia. At London last year Litvinoff, offered one billion dollars worth of Russian trade to captitalist..countries which could offer suitable terms. America stands a good chance of getting a large part of this if formal recog nition is achieved. Furthermore, the fact that America and Russia are now on speaking terms again should serve as a check on the sword rattlers in countries like Germany and Japan. liotl? America and Russia are busy with problems of internal reconstruction and neither wants war. Consequently, they are likely to look with disfavor upon any nation inclined to stir up trouble. 'Thus the "highbrow theorists" have again proved themselves to 'be practical. Let those dear old souls, who fear the invasion of Communism as a result of this move for recognition, air their hallucinations if they At least student opinion, as expressed in editor ials in other college and university newspapers, harbors no such worries. SG BOARD 3mm:4 U. Ifeaitt. Fred W. 'Wright '3•u Col. \Tenable was scheduled to give a speech to the Sunday School lads at, the Wesley Foundation the other night, but he never delivered a word of it, not even the words;"Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute." The Venable' gentleman had the best intentions and all that,'but he couldn't seem to find the Tight room! For five, yes ten, 'minutes he groped his way around the subterranean passages of the church. Unfortunately, he couldn't find:his audience, and since ho didn't happen to have any skirmishers along with him, he couldn't do much about it. Finally, he found an exit and vacated the place in a military huff.' ;Maybe it was itist as well—.he was in no mood to speak on "Pacifism," anyway. The w•usga prexie is so straight-laced that she turns her back when she sees a sorority sister smok ing ... Johnny Miller, Campus Owls tooter, lost half of his clarinet over the week-end ...we don't know, but we imagine it would be pretty hard to toot on just half of a clarinet ... PLASH: Mitch will cut a class tomorrow .. Dean Ray would like Leon Mirbach to re turn her wash rag which he swiped from her apart, inent last - week What Musser Club coed rushed up to the Men's dorms the other might with a jar of Vicks and a bottle of Castor Oil tucked under her arm? Yes, the boy friend was sick . Sue Hoffer is that way about Doc Kelly 07: - In Galbraith's class: Q. Naijie one of the lead ing ch;amatist's of our day. Dumb TfreshMan: Irving Berlin. In Wyand's ClUes: Q. Who won the World's Series? Dumb Freshman: I dunno. Q. Well then, orbs won the Battle of Gettysburg? Dumb Fresh man: Gettysburg, 3-0. They took a freshman girl to the infirmary the other week. 'When they dragged her out of the dorm she was ahoopin', and ahollerin', and raising all sorts of commotion. Doc Ritenour . was baffled as usual but he finally diagnoSed her case a a severe attack of hysterics. The cause of her epileptic fit: well— It seems that some catty so-an-so told the little girl that in the estimation of a certain fraternity, her reputation was nil. And furthermore, that she was at the head of an "eas . y": list which 'the brothers of that fraternity kept in a convenient spot. think it's a damn shame and we're out to "get" the brotherhood that "done harm to our little Nell." • There's a girl from Bethlehem in town who says she knew Philo Nines when he was a funny-looking !Boy Scout at Camp l‘Tinsi-on-the-Delaware ... and she adds, "that wasn't so many years ago" ... King Cole hadn't heard from his New Jersey girl friend for two months .. . up until yesterday when she sent him a letter asking for a sample of his fudge .. . Connie' Glace arises at six o'clock every A. M. so xis to have enough time to get just the right amount of lipstick, rouge, etc., on her face ... incidentally, Connie's the girl that is making all the janitors' hearts flutter no end .. .•Item for Bandmaster • Thompson: Did you know, Major, that there was a gentleman ; Hoffman by name, who carried a clarinet in the Rotissee band for two years without being able to play even a note? ... no, you can't do much about it now, Major, be cause fie was graduated last year ... The battle of the century, the Maniac. .vs. Helen Taylor, is still going strong . .. the Maniac had a slight edge in the last round ... incidentally, Jim Norris claims that our con- temporary's most recent sock was below the belt ... can you take it, Helen? Who was the wench who all but drowned Ma Women's Building bath tub the other night? she was slightly under the weather and couldn't turn.the water off ..'. Pledge . Golightly of the Sigma Pi lodge didn't Golightly over the Week end in spite of his name ... as a matter of fact, he , shelled out over sixteen bucks just to bring his . 8 , h4 to and from the old home town that's one far the record books The mascots caused trouble no end at tho Army-Navy soccer game that the co-eq staged last week .. . the :feminine booters' know now that mules and sheep are rarely ."housebroken CAMPUSEER PAGING MR. AESOP Paul Tonks anti Butch Simpson. of the Phi Psi lodge have been — bals for many a clouded moon, but they're not any more. Of course, they still slip each other the fraternal grip and say, "Hello," but it's not a very hearty greeting. At least, not as hearty as the "Hi, Pal," of old. It seems they both had dates for the late lamented bachannalian festivities. But, e'en us you and I, they soon tired of their Queens. Satur day night they both got conveniently tired very early in the evening, so they tucked their women in bed at an early hour and returned to their own lodge. With in three minutes (by the trusty Phi Psi grandfather's clock) after the boys parted, Paul left the house for a elate with Butch's girl, and two minutes later Butch followed with a vice versa act. Not until dawn (in all its rosy splendor) did they realize that they had teen digging each other's cellars. And they didn't see the humor of the situation. Instead they got pretty sore: Now Mr. Simpson goes around saying, "I' Topics' I wont have any more late dates," and Pnul retorts, "You Butch your life you won't." MZMI =ZIZI FOR THE GUINEA PIGS M==:!l DUMB FROSH DEPARXIIIENT. LITTLE NELL AS YOU LIKE IT THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN LOOKING OVER THE NEWS . . The State legislature has been in session only a few days and already various interests are embarking on the famous "blocking and choking" tactics that characterized its session last spring. For the chairmanship of the House Labor committee a man definitely allied with the Pennsyl vania manufacturers has been se lected. We wonder just how the friend of the manufacturers will act on the child labor legislation, minimum wages, shorter work hours and unem ployment insurance bills that are to come up at this term. At the time that the federal government was en acting legislation for the social wel fare of. the laboring classes, a child labor bill could not even be brought out from the House committee for con sideration. Will there be a repetition i of this shameful practice? President Roosevelt's parley with Foreign Commissar Litvinoff on Rus sian recognition Is now in its last stage. The cause for the delay is the failure of the , Soviet to assure Amer icans residing; in Russia freedom for worship. To many the religious ques tion is the greatest major point' ob . jectionable in - the. Soviet government. America's ideal ;for . the tolerance in religious belief 'makes it imperative that Russia agree with the Presi dent's reqUest. ..: • 1 Our federal-administration, we can see, will continue to put its heart and soul into everything it undertakes.. With Secretary Woodin takin a "leave of absence," one of the big obstacles to President Roosevelt's plan for man aged currency is eliminated. Morgen thau, his succeisor,. is an outspoken advocate of the present monetary plan, and the administration is thus giving assurance that the experiment; will receive every chance for success. Orchestra Attractions of America subsidiary of the *sic arpoVation of America announ appointment of RAY:BLOCH . .. • as the , Pend State agent for POPULAR BANDS Beta Sigma Rho Phone 199 Measure the distance you want to go in fife by the the mprtey, you are able to sa v e regularly The First National/ Bank of State College State College, Pa John T. McCormick, President David F. Kapp, Cashier : : lif . iiiit . :'.iift.t.klui . ;l•:.:' PENN STATE vs PENNSYLVANIA Round Trip to $790 Philadelphia Follow your team to the big game, by Greyhound Bus. Con genial crowd—comfortable, cush ioned chairs'— schedules conven iently timed. You'll save money and have 4 . pleasant, scenic trip. Go Together Get the whole crowd together! , / ; Save money by chartering a Greyhound bus direct to l i 3 , the Stadium. ' c' - GREYHOUND BUS DEPOT • , , State College Hotel . College Are. & Allen St. . . , ~• Phone 300 • ;. GREYHOUND FRANKLIN FIELD four blocks from HOTEL NORMANDIE 36th and Chestnut Streets Philadelphia, Penna. Extremely' Moderate Rates Homelike Atmosphere Wire Reservations Collect C. R: English, Manager LIBRARY WILL DISPLAY 32 PORTRAIT PRINTS Exhibit of Soif-Picturizations To Open in Room K Saturday Including self portraits, of thirty two contemporary artists, a special exhibit of portrait prints will open in Room K of the College Library Sat urday,Hard P. Lewis, librarian, an nounced. Representing years of endeavor in collecting, the representatives here are only a small part of the total collec tion of many hundred items in a vari ety of mediums, such as wood-cuts, etchings, and lithographs. A Sew of the artists are George Bellows, How ard Cook, Roger Buck, Timothy Cole, i Rockwell Kent, and R. Ruzicka. Secured through the efforts of Prof. James B. Helme, of the department of architecture, the exhibit is part of a collection of Elmer Adler. of New York City, who also serves as editor in-chief of the Colophon, the book col lectors' quarterly. CHOIR TO SPONSOR CONCERT Sponsored by the 'ftstminster Stu dent Choir, the third in a series of Saturday musical concerts will be held in the Presbyterian church at 7 o'clock Saturday night. MARTIN VISITS WASHINGTON Dr. Asa E. Mt rtm ; of the &pert inent of history and political science, returned Tuesday from Washington, D. C., where he spent two days in his tory research at the Congressional Library. It's the Talk of the College! DANCE To the Blue and Gold Orchestra ON FRIDAY NIGHT Starting at 9:00 P.'M. New Green Room Rathskeller and Beer Gardens UNDER THE GREEN ROOM Opposite Front Campus • • _A._ • • THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - JUNIOR PROM COMMITTEE EXTENDS A CORDIAL INVITATION Penn StateStu.dents s to attend The . junior Prom HUTCHENSON GYMNASIUM Friday, Nov. 17,,1933 • MUSIC BY • FRED WARING AND HIS•PENNSYLANIANS • WITH THE ENTIRE OLD GOLD REVIEW `N.. and:. "DOC" PEYTON AND HIS MUSIC • - SubseriptioU - - - $5.0 per Couple, Includiug• Tax Dancing from 10:30 P. M. to 4:00 A. M. • Thursday Evening, Novnieber 16 A bird's-eye view showed the way Telephone engineers recently found the best route for a new telephone line by taking a bind's- eye view of their , difficulties. The territory was heavily wooded, spotted with swamps and peat beds, with roads far apart. So a map was made by aerial photography. With this map, the best route was readily plotted., field work was facilitated. Bell System ingenuity continues to extend the telephone's reach:—to - speed up service,•to make it more convenient, more valuable to you. SELL SYSTEM HTELEPHONE .fIONIE AT LEAST ONCE REVERSE THE CHARGES IF .TIIE. FOLKS.' AGREE i‘.. W
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