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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Published semi-weekly during the College year, except on holidays,
by students of The Pennsylvania State College, in the Interest of the
College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends,
THE MANAGING MAIM
CHARLES A. MYERS '34 FREDERICK L. TAYLOR '34
Editor Business Manager
GEORGE A. SCOTT 'l4 HAROLD J. BATS= '34
Managing Editor Circulation Manager
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A...i.itant Editor Local Advertising Manager
BERNARD IL ROSENZWEIG '34 JOHN C. IRWIN '34
News Editor Foreign Advertising Manager
JAMES N. SHEEN '34 FRANCIS WACKER '34
fitiort4 Editor Classified Advertising Manager
RUTH N. lIAR3ION '34 MAE P. KAPLAN '34
Wonun's Editor Woolen's Managing Editor
EVA N. BLICITFELDT '34 .
Women's News Editor
Janie, B. Beatty jr. '33 John A. Brutrmun '33 Phillip W. Fair Jr. '33
A. Conrad iln4res . 35 Kenneth C. Hoffman . 35 Burton Rote jr. '35
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Manning Editor :This 1.._
MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1933
ORGANIZING STUDENT FINANCES
The effort on the part of Interfraternity Council to
organize its finances is entirely commendable. Although
there are some faults with the plan proposed by the
Council's secretary-treasurer, there is no doubt that he
and other officers of the organization are sincere in en
deavoring to put their finances on a sound basis. Now
th. 3 question is which means is best to attain a coal
nionly-deired end?
It is suggested in the proposed plan that the Coun
cil's books be audited each semester by Student Union,
and that the secretary-treasurer of the Council be bond
ed for $5,000. The first objection to such an arrange
ment is that the Student Union has no auditing facili
ties. The means by which the Student Union directs
the finances of student publications is not by auditing,
but by continual contact with - the receipts and expen
ditures of the publications. The second objection is
that it is unlikely that any insurance company'would
bond a treasurer under the proposed arrangement.
Evidently the best way for the Connell to avoid
repetition of last year's chaotic financial situation is to
go under the Union plan, as the publications did last
year. According to the present graduate manager 'at
publications, the Union office is in a position to handle
the Council's finances in the same manner as those of
the publiCations. The only possible alternative is to
have the hooks audited by the College auditors or by an
outside auditor. The main objection to this sort of ar
rangement is that it defeats the ideal of a centralized
organization for the direction of student finances. In
view of this, the Council would do well to consider the
arrangement under which the student publications now
Contrary to fears expressed by, sonic people, in-
dividuality and reasonable authority over finances haVe
in no way been curtailed by the now publications system.
About the only control exercised by the graduate man-
alter is seeing that all the receipts are in and that all
outstanding bills are paid. The honest' business man
ager has nothing to fear tinder the arrangement, and it
is unlikely that any member of the present publications
staff's will maintain that the 'systein has unfairly hamp-
curd his activities. The only activity that it has hamp
red i:: plain graft, which ran rampant. in 'the old; un
regulated era
As advanced as the present system may appear,
Penn State is certainly not in the vanguard of finanCial
supervision of student organizations. Purdue, Stan
ford, and the University of Southern California, among
others, have elaborate set-ups for maintaining efficiency
and honesty in the conduct of student finances. At the
close of each academic year, a complete financial report
for 'Teri/ student organization on the campus is pub
lished in a combined booklet, somewhat in the manner of
the mimeographed financial rePOrt Which the Interclass
Budget committee and Student Union issued for the first
time here this year. It should be emphasized that such
a report includes not only dances and publications, but
also the men's and women's fraternity organizations, the
non-fraternity group, all clubs, all honorary societies,
all hat or campus societies, all music and 'dramatic
groups, and in the case of Stanfm:d, the student Y. M.
C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Students are thus able to see
just where every cent of the money in their * organization
goes. The cloak of secrecy thrown around the finances
of most groups at Penn State is therefore not present
at universities With the above system
Honest financial administration of student organiza
tions is a wholly desirable goal. In the past two or
three years, much progress has been made along this
line, Graft has practically been eliminated from class
finances, and publications arc on a sounder 'financial
basis. Now the Interfraternity Council has expressed
its desire for honest and business-like financial idminis-
trntion. Yet there is need for further extension. it'or
instancz, men's political cliques, some honorerica, and
clubs, and most of the campus hat societies are Still in
the realm of chaotic finances. There is no particular
virtue about these groups that excuses them from the
necessity of maintaining orderly finances.. If they'do
We think so, too. It was quite the nicest "Moral
Victory" we've ever seen
And aside from the fact that Mr. Nittany Lion's
football team acquitted itself so nobly, Philadelphia
was a most interesting. place this past week-end. Ydu
couldn't turn around without bumping into a State
co-ed or Marge Kusehke, and at approximately one-
thirty on Saturday afternoon the Wanamaker Hoagie
(not blue) rooked like a mother hen brooding over a
lot of suspiciously State Collegeish eggs. Let's: se:,
Jane Lee was there, and June Brown and MeMasters;
Sue Reovs, Mary Weber, Harvey Ward, and Sit Runkle
passed by; Rosamond.Kl , lines, Paul Filer, Marge
Fisher, and Betty Ste Clark were among those looking
sheepish and at their watches
But last and most crushing of all .... before our
startled eyes as wofought our way out, and right un
der the very claws of said Wanamaker Hoagie stood
Sally, Queen of the Corner Room. We felt guilty
without a check
Kenneth C. Holtman '3.
a cup of coffee
The Campuseer got an invitation to Jane Town's
party on Saturday night, but he didn't show up. There
was a man there who everybody had spotted for The
Campy though. Ile had long hair and his tux didn't
Et right. But he turned out to be just another Delta
Sigma Phi.
Which somehow reminds us of a story about
Frank (big-foot) Musger. He was around Jane's hotel
FIMMIIVIIIMIVIETERNIMMTIT
Some shoes, those. When Frank got them at the store
recently they were done up in two separate boxes
More d•eek-end yarns? Dope. We quit. And
there's our Satch Club to be considered. There were
a lot of complaints last week because our organization
seemed to be primarily masculine. This week's nom-
Sunny Merrill
Helen Ileinbauch
Jane Lee
Helen Wthnlen
Then there's the very interesting Prof. Isenbtirg
who after years of being ridden,- on the subject of
whether o not he was cuckoo, went up and had him-
self examined
lie passed the exam all right, and now he's going
around bragging to his friends and daring them to
have themirdves examined
Suggested title for the next Thespian Show
"Let 'E'm Eat 'Pastry."
The Chi Phis at the Riverside Cafe on Saturday
Ed Yorke and Laurabelle Lee looking fondly at
City Hall
ensconced in a clothes Closet in a hotel room while
the House Dick embai:ras ' Sed various ladies with quas-
What proniinent Lion's Paw went to a meeting
of that club lately bearing the imprint of an overly
enthusiastic admirer's lipstick on his forehead?
and that Old Maestro Bill Bottorf took the wrong turn
in Lancaster, ending up in Wilmington, Del., 'after
leaving State bright and early. Saturday morning to
make the game . . . . "Hail Pennsylvania"
not voluntarily organize their money matters on a nzw
basis, then it Would be within the province of Student
Union 'or Student Board to re'quire them to present a
plan for reorganization. A system of completely open
and orderaillinances for 'each organization here is bound
to come, and the sooner the better.
Tomorrow a student committee, cooperating with
the P. S. C. A. and the local Red Cross group, will begin
a thfee=day 'drive 'for 'old clothes in Order to help relieve
the diStress of 1,400 'destitute families in Centre county.
It goes without saying that this . is a worthy cause to
'lVhich every student should feel ObHinted to hive his
support. Almost everybne bas 'a few old clothes around
which he needs no Idnier bdt whiCh Would be gladly wel-
nomMi by more unfortunate people. InstruetiOns have
been Piintednlsevihere in this issue for the dispdsition of
the eloth'es. 'When 'So little nffOrt required on the \
part of the studints, there shoMd be - no excuse for a
floor fispbnite
OLD MANIA
and all of a sudden we wanted
MEM
CEMZI
June Brown
Carolyn Manifold
' Mae West
Junie Leitzell
Fauxwand Passes
State College at Pierre's on Friday night
Mr. Ed Carr and Mr. James 'Hornbeck
pardon;,that was not over the week-end
-THE MANIAC
OLD CLOTHES NEEDED
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Speaking
Of
Books
Two unusual features of the new
books this summer and fall are first
the falling off in the total number
published—showing a desire on the
part of the pUblishers to live up to
their 'slogan "Fewer and Better
Books," and 'second the unusual pre
ponderance of fiction and biography.
That second feature we believe to be
a direct result of the long slump find
the desire of people to forget their
troubles in the world of fiction and in
following the careers of others—par-
I ticularly those careers which have
been successful.
Historical fiction is well represented
by "Anthony Adverse" by Hervey Al
len. Allen has previously written a
fins biography of Poe and composed
some rather ordinary poetry. With
"Anthony Adverse" he comes into his
own. The book is some twelve hun
dred pages long btit so exciting are his
adventures and so varied and interest
ing tho description that time slips by
rapidly. The scenes range from an
' Italian monastery to Spain, an African
jungle, New Orleans in 1830 and fi
nally to Mexico City and the Sierra
Madre mountains where lie spends the
last years of his life. Excellent pub
licity by the publishers, Farrar and
Rinehart, added to the excellence 'of
the story itself, have resulted in its
being very much of a best seller.
Another fine new book centers
around one of the world's best known
love stories; that of Abelard and Hel
(rise. Their romance has often been
told in many , forms. The historical
Abelard was a learned scholar and
dialectician yet his name has come
down through the centures only as the
lover of Heloise. George Moore wrote
ono of his finest novels with the same
characters. Mrs. Weddell has done
something equally fine., She is a me
dieval scholar of note and has already
published "The Wandering Scholar"
and "Medieval Latin Lyrics." She has
told the story of Abelard and Heloise
from the standpoint of Abelard with
the qualities' and background of the,
day in which they lived and yet per
fectly comprehensible to. the modern
day. Later she expects to write more
intimately of !Heloise.
There was "No Second:Spring" for
Allison HamiSh, the wife of a dour
Scotch Presbyterian minister. Her
life was singularly repressed and
wearisome in the village of Glenlee
and the arrival of Andrew'Simon, the
portrait . Painter, brought spring and
bope and Apopiness. He starts her
portrait but'it is never finished. It is
all she has left ip after years to remind
her of youth ant lover, for her coven
ant and conscience will not permit
her to run away to happiness with
the painter lover. "The book is chief
ly distinguished for its very convinc
ing and beautiful picture of a simple
and gentle woman." Miss Beith is
wise in chdosing for her subject the
type of feminine mind she best com
prehends. It was so well done that
the volume won a $20,000 Stokes prize
in competition with six hundred manu
scripts. Miss Beith is a niece of lan
Hay Beith, famous English author of
"The First Hundred Thousand" and
other books.
Hugh Walpole's "Vanessa" is the
last and best of its series and almost
raises the Herries family 'history to a
par with ,the,Forsytes at least in in
terest. The tlarnole story is roman
tic;--Galsworthy's satiric. Vanessa is
the grand-daughter of Rogue Herries
through his. gypsy daughter ; 'Jtidith,
and she, weary - of fashionable London,
'runs away in true gypsy fashion whit
her cousin, Berijy, back to the Cum
berland Hills Where the Herries saga
first began. Sally, Vaniessa's daugh
ter, and her .half brother, Tom, are
lost in the hills and Tom perishes in
the violence of a storm.
Almost at the same time there
comes from the press the lag of 'the
long Forsyte. series—" One Id or e
River." The Forsytes and the Cher
cells make their last adieu to the read
ing public. Their creator, John Gals
worthy—to many the most talented
British novelist Of recent years, is
dead. Nine novels in three volumes
are concerned with the history of the
Forsytes irielffding "The Forsyte
Saga," "The. Modern Chronicle" and
'finally "The End of the Chapter" in
eluding "Maid in Waiting," "The
Flowering Wilderness" and "One More
River." This itist is more diiectly
concerned With the marital adventures
'Of the Cherrell sisters, Dinny and
Clair; though Fleur Forsyte; heir
aunt, comes inlOr a brief appearance.
LaCking the 'dignity and strength, of
the early Forsyte novels Yet it pic
tures sympathetically England in the
years of uncertainty and change 'and
points honefuly to the future.
Oliver La'Firge has written well of
the AnieriCan'lndians. He has writ
ten well of Central Arderiean revolu
tionists. He writes'ndiv of 'in Amer-
ican privateer,',"The Glimpse .", Part
of her crew were detailed to 'rain a
' captured sloop and bring' er into port.
But the sloop wrecked 'and the
crew
r lost. The Story is largely con
cerned with the adventures ''of the
prize crew in ieteraini‘to their native
land. One man, is tont at sea, another
dies of a fever and the two survivors
Do's and Don'ts for Decorous Debs
Disclosed in 'No Nice Girl Swears'
"Anyone will admit that in the long
run the'reputation for being a heavy
necker doesn't really add to a girl's
popularity . . The day will inevit
ably come when your name will be
brought up ever a bottle of -brandy
and your falents discussed."
This terse but pungent (if not acrid)
criticism of a prevalent node of past
timing is included, along with a good
many similiar cryptic comments on
properly meeting situations coinci
dent with modern manners and mor
als,,in "No Nice Girl Swears," a sort
of revamped and reworded "Emily
Post" written by one Alice Leone
Moats, ex-deb turned pen-woman.
Among other social practices ma
ligned by Miss Moats is the business
of blind dating. The undesirability
01' such affairs from the woman's
standpoint is shown by the following:
"One man's opinion of another is
usually founded upon whether he was
once able to drink the entire Univer
sity of Virginia under thy table (on
impossible feat, we understand) or is
a good football player. Undoubtedly
worthy qualities, but:of little use to a
girl."
Of ballroom behavior, Miss Moats
has the following words concerning
the female dancing posture: "Only a
debutante can understand why putting
her head on her partner's shoulder
and playing London Bridge with the
rest of her anatomy should bear any
reiemblance to dancing."
Miss Moats staunchly supports the
feminine invasion of America's most
ii‘raitieed minor vice, namely smoking.
"Nowadays," Writes bliss bloats, "a
woman smokes at any time or in any'
place. There are few men left who
wax sentimental when a girl says she
doesn't smoke .. .. 'lt's just smug to
say, 'No, I don't smoke,' when eon-
On Other
Campuses
Earlham College recently held an
entertainment in which the co-eds
were clad in the costumes of famous
literary characters. The "books"
could be borrowed for a period of ten
Minutes and fines were levied for late
returns. Fines ran heavy on a large
number of copies.
• Only senior women are granted
the privilege of using lipstick at
Connecticut College.—They prob
ably need it by that time.
At Chicago'lJ. a masters thesis en
titled, "Four Ways To Wash Dishes,"
*as accepted while a Ph. D. was
awarded a Columbia student who
wrote of "The Duties of A School
Janitor." We are personally contem
plating a treatise on, "Four Ways To
Win at Tick Tack Toe."
In 1732 co-eds at Salem College
could take baths only by special
permission at times indicated by
the instructors.—. This should be
censored!
Ninety-five students, including five
women, are enrolled in the embalming
course at the University of Minne
sota.—Stiff stuff, eh?
ahnOst make trouble on their return
for their captain.' A real adventure
story and worthy of the author's pre
ceding books.
Of course it is time for another IL
G. Wells book and it will have to do
with Mr. Wells'. ideas of the futut.e.
"The Shape of Things to Come" tells
Of the world in 2100, reviewing the
history of the past, the great world
depression, Roosevelt the Second and
finally Of Complete ruin and pestilence
in 1060. Another and new world or
der based on the author's own pet
ideas follows and one reviewer chal
lenges anyone to find, a better way
out.
Shelia Kaye Smith's "Gypsy \Vog
-1 gon" is a pitiful story of the down
fall of an honest Sussex ploughman
who could not or would not turn to an
other means of livelihood when his
Master's farm went under the ham
mer. And he became so enamoured
of the gypsy way of living that even
a later opportunity to return to his
former - occupation could not tempt
him.
MEI
Finally let me mention one more
novel which came out last summer but
Which has been so significant and has
so caught floc hearts of the people
that it still remains upon the lists of
best sellers in the booksellers lists and
Iliigh 'upon circulation lists in the li
braries: Mrs. Gladys Hasty Carroll
is the wife of a professor in Min
neapolis but .she remembers vividly
her childhood in Maine and her book
"As the'Earth' Turns" is more than a
spleridid novel of farm life. It con
tains Much of the author's love and
longing for the New England whiCh
she has lost temporarily. The story
'o'utlives in turn the work on the farm
during the succeeding seasons—spring
planting, summer cultivating,
harvesting 'and • winter's Preps - ration
!towards a new season. The interest
' iS very' inuel heightened by the mov
ingin of Czech neighbors and the ul
timate love .story of John Shaw and
one of their neighbors. 'The wharac
ters 'are real, arcinteresting, and the
background sincerely painted.
fronted with a cigarette case. 'No,
thank you,' is quite sufficient."
Conversation at 'any, gathering is
more or less unrestricted' as to sub
ject matter, according to Miss gloats,
who believes that the
,chief object is
to make one's meaning clear. She
qualifies her dictum to the extent of,
"And if you are a lily or sweet and
girlish, stick to 'your type and mind
your conversation .... Coming from
you, any remark, be it ever so slightly
off color, will sound raw." '
Baying what it takes to win and
hold a 'yohng handsome' is for the
most part born in people as- far . as
personality and sex appeal are 'con
cerned, "But," Miss Moats says, "the
all-important 'line' is something which
can be cultivated . . The object is
to give the young man You're after
the feeling that he is the most wonder
ful creature on earth."
There are a host of other sundry
little things
. covered in the treatise,
among which Might be mentioned
ful• formulas for a successful coining
out party, inside information on how
to become. a bona fide Junior Leaguer,
and a humorous and interesting
,dis
cussion of the proper and decorous
handling of male inebriated, of Whdm,
according to Miss Moats, the Worst
and most prevalent type may be
labled, 'AMorous.'
Movie Book Drama
Reviews Featured
`Digest' Suppteni ent
Movie, book, and drama criticism is
a regular feature which the code-
MAN brings to its readers in each
issue. of the COLLEGIATE DIGEST, na
tional collegiate picture section.
Expert comment on the latest filnis,
books, and plays appears on page
seven of each issue of the DIGEST.
The department is entitled, "Report
Card," and Marks of "Poor," "Fair,"
"Good," or "Excellent' are giVen for
the particular thing'revievied. 'ln ad
dition, a feature headed, "Books, 'of
the Week,' apPears On page six.
Some ot.the filins * WhiCh "Report
Card" has reconimen r dea'rocently in
clude "Private Life 'of - Henry yin,"
"The Bowery," "Berkeley Square,"
"Morning Glory," "Ann . Vickers,"
"Lady for, a Day," ;and "'ruin Back
the Clock." BoOks 'Marked highly
were "Flush" by:Virginia Woolf, "No'
Castle in Spain" by McFee,
"Entertaining the Islander's" by'
Struthers Burt,—and' "The Woods
Colt" by Thames Williamson.
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ANDERSON, SHIBLI SPEAK AT
BUCKNELL CONCLAVE NOV. 13
- Prof. Charles E. Anderson, of the
agricultural education department,
and Prof. Jabir Shibli, of the mathe
' unties department, were speakers at
the eighth annual Conference on Edu
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at 'Bucknell University.
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MunitieS," While Pr - ofessor Shibli spoke
on
. "Recent Developments In the
Teaching of Geometry."
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