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Vol. 30 No. 29
COLD WAVE BRINGS
$2,500 DAMAGE TO
FRATERNITIES HERE
Injuries to Plastering, Study
Room Equipment Results
From Broken Pipes
LOSSES OF SSOO.AT TAU
KAPPA EI'SILON, TRIANGLE
Delta Chi, Theta Nu Epsilon, Phi
Sigma Delta, Beta Kappa
Among Houses Damaged
The unexpected cold wave which
gripped the entire country lust week
took a heavy toll- in local fraternity
houseS where damages totalling $2,-
500 resulted from broken water pipes
and plumbing fixtures.
The greatest damage occurred in
houses which were unoccupied during
the Week, and plumbers who were
called in to repair the damage de
clared that although fires had beew
maintained in several cases, the tem
perature had been too low to protect
the water systems. Destruction of
plastering and furniture was caused
by the water which poured from the
broken pipes.
Water Floods Study Rooms
At the Tau Kappa Epsilon frater
nity a loss of $5OO was suffered when
the bathroom fixtures and water
pipes were damaged: The Triangle
fraternity suffered the loss • of an
equal amount when water damaged
study room furnishings, 'floors and
electrical appliances.
Replastering of a large. part of the
ceiling and replacing of plumbing fix
tures will be necessary at the Phi
Sigma Delta fraternity, with the loss
estimated at $2OO. Bursted water
pipes on the third 'floor of the Delta
Chi fraternity house caused water
damage amounting to $3OO.
Plastir, Varnish Injured
.
AlthoUghjia' definite: figure was sat
by Thetia Nu..Epsi on, it I,ois Finirffed.
that ceiliit6 in . several. rooms will
require replastering . and reVarnish
ing of floors' and woodwork will be
necessary. A loss of $lOO was suffer
ed at the Beta Kappa house where
furniture,Was damaged.
.Wald paper was ruined at the Phi
iifu Delta house, while the Phi Sigma
Kappa ,fraternity found that several
parts of the heatinglsystem will have'
to be replaced. The damage at each.
house was estimated at M.
The ,snowfall which accompanied)
the sub-zero weather started the day
after Christmas and fell to a depth.'
-of five and one-half inches. The drop
in temperature Tuesday and Wednes
day sent the mercury down to the
zero mark, with three below zero be
ing the low point to be recorded at
the College weather bureau station.
A number Of . State College resi
dents who had been out of town over
the holiday; had difficulty in return
ing home Tuesday morning. After
the snow had been cleared off 'the
highways ice,forined on the roads to;
make driving more dangerous.
EDITOR TO SPEAK
ON PRESS LIBERTY
Fred Fuller Shedd To Open Series
Of Liberal Arts Lectures
On Monday Night
Speaking on "The
. Freedom of the
Press,""Fred Fuller Shedd, editor-in
chief of the' Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin, will give the first of the
series of Liberal Arts lectures in the
Home Economics' auditorium at 7
o'clock Monday night. He will be
honored by Sigma Delta Chi at a
dinner preceding 'the lecture.
lir. Shedd has selected this topic
because of the prominence which 'it
has received in the formulation of the
newspaper code under the NRA,
which has been marked by unrest for
fear that the proposed codes would
place the newspapers under direct
government licensing supervision.
Although it had . been reported that
General HughAlohnson, administrator
of the Natiodal Recovery Act, was
opposed to having any definite state
ment providing for the freedom of
the press included in the code, he has
publicly stated recently that the
newspaper rights would be safe
guarded by a .specifically Worded
clause in the code.
Mir. Shedd is deeply interested in
journalistic education, and during the
past three years he has spent one
day a week on this campus as a spec
ial lecturer to journalism classes. He
was personally responsible for .the
establiihment •of a joint State com
mittee on journalistic education com
posed of editors, publishers, and
teachers in the schools of journalism.
Students To Have Voice in
Make-up of Artists' Course
Will Vote Tomorrow, Saturday on Preferred
Groups Permitted Under $2,000 to
$3,000 New Appropriation
With the approval by the 'execu
tive committee of the Board of Trus
tees of President Ralph D. Hetzel's
recommendation DeceMber 15 that the
College resume subsidization of an
Artists' Course after a tw o-year
lapse,• machinery, for making use of
the indeterminate appropriatioon Of
between 52,000 and s3,ooo'has already
been set up.-
As a result, students and faculty
members of the College will be given
an opportunity to express their pref
erences on five classifications 'of en
tertainment and educational groups
comprising the Artists' Course for
this yea• in an all-College poll which
CWA EMPLOYS 87
DURING VACATION
.61 :Students Woik Over Entire
Holiday Period-2 Other
Projects Approved
Civil Works projects on the Col
lege campus employed about eighty
seven students during the first week
of the Christmas holiday period, with
sixty-one students working the en
tire period, officials in charge of the
work stated yesterday.
• Two additional projects were ap-1
proved by the State iioard over the
vacation,. bringing the total number
of projects-now listed here to eleven.,
Funds for field research by ten mem-
hers of the School of Agriculture were
appropriated -for contluuation ,of
ivork "stopped Li - recent - budget par:-
.
Work 1 rnpbi`arily Ddiiyed
'lmProvement of walks and 'service
roads and the grading and seeding
of the area • around - the dairy barns
was thp other MA plan approved
at that time. Due to tool shortage
and weather conditions; the work has
not been • started, but will be under
way 'by the end of the week.
About forty additional men will be
employed on this project which will
take' approximately sixty wooking
days to complete. George W. Ebert,
superintendent of Grounds and Build
ings, who is in charge of the local
work, said.
Extreme cold and the heavy snow
fall of the past week delayed the
work to some extent. While the ma
jority of the projects will be finished
on time, the storm sewer along East
Drive will not be completed much be
fore the middle of May, and applica
tions for work will still be accepted,
officials said.
STUDENTS ATTEND
GROUP CONCLAVES
15 Penn State Alen, Women Join in
N. S. F. A., Joint Conferences
In Washington., D. C.
Two national student conferences
in Washington, D. C. attracted a to
tal of thirteen Penn State students
during the holiday period. Repre
senting the student governmental
agencies here were John T. Ryan '34,
senior class president, and Eva M.
Blichfeldt '39, president of the W. S.
G. A., both of whom attended the
National Student Federation confer
ence December 27 to 31.
• Campus problems, as well as those
of national importance were discussed
at various meetings of the conclave,
which was attended by reresentatives
of hundreds of colleges 'from all parts
of the United States. Among the
speakers addressing the groups were
Senator Elmer Thomas, Speaker
Rainey, of the House of Representa
tives, and members of various sec
tional groups in Washington.
'Eleven students, two alumni, nail
several representatives of campus or
ganizations attended the National
Conference on Students in Public Af
fairs, which was held in the United
StateS Chamber of Commerce Build
ing December 29 to 31.
•
Attending were 'William E. Bell
'34, Fred Bettleheim jr. '34, Carson
W. Culp '34, Charles A. Myers '34,
John E. Ryan '34, Manlio F. DeAn
gelis '35, • 'Elsie M. Douthett '35,
George W. Grisdale '35, Wesley Man
kern '36, Jules Vernik '36 and Ralph
R. Nichols '37. William L. Ham
maker '3O; Pied Vreeland '3O, and
Betty Bell '32,•a150 attended. •
STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY EVENING; JANUARY 4, 1934
will be conducted by the COLLEGIAN
tomorrow afternoon and Saturday
morning. •
lolls To Open at 1 O'clock
Nearly two thousand ballots will be
distributed among the various frater
nity groups by the COLLEGIAN. Non
fraternity men and faculty members
will vote at the Student Union desk
in Old Main tomorrow afternoon and
Saturday morning.
The polls will be opened at 1 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon and close •at 5
o'clock. To permit students to vote
I during any off:hour, the polls will be,
open from 8 o'clock until noon Satur
day morning. No matriculation card
will be required.
Ballots will be distributed to affil
iated units tonight and will be col
lected tomorrow. The Coi,LEGrArst
will publish the expressed preferences
Monday and administrative author
ities twill use the results tb guide
their negotiations.
To Record 5 Preferences
Balloting will take less than thirty
seconds,-as only five choices will be
recorded. Preferences on five classi
fications—a symphonic orchestra, 'a
vocalist, an instrumentalist, a dram
atic production, and a speaker 'of in
ternational prominence—will be listed
and voters will select one of three
possibilities under each classification.
Educational an d entertainment
units listed for possible incorporatiOn
in the course include the Cleveland
and Minneapolis Symphony Orches
tras, Richard Crooks, Lawrence Tib
bett, John Charles Thomas, Rosa Pon
sells; Zimbalist, the Little Theatre
Guild, Will Rov,2rs, and William
,Ttie, .p iererminate.:;-oppropriation.
wad grtanted bYthedxecutiVe commif
tee of-the Board bf Trustees to carry
out the work with the stipuation that
the money would be continued as a
yearly allocation only in the event
that student interest warranted con
tinuation of the course.
Administrative authorities stressed
the fact that the Artists' Course is
an all-College project and not the
function of . any special department
or course. Definite negotiations will
not be made until student preferences
can be ascertained.
"With such qualifications as a ba
sis for the appropriation, it is obvi
ous that student choices in the mat
ter must-be considered along with
recommendations made by the student
committee appointed lost year," they
commented. "Here is an opportunity
for students to express their prefer
ences on a project that has beCn made
again available after two years of ag-,
itation for a feature that will lend
to the College's cultural background."
SHORT COURSES OPEN TODAY
IN SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE
• Short courses in agriculture, to last
for eight weeks, will open today, ac
cording to Dean Ralph L.. Watts, of
the School of .Agriculture.
Three dairy manufacturing courses
of two weeks duration will also be
offered this winter. They are test
ing dairy products, the manufactur
ing of butter and cheese, ice cream
making, marketing milk, and milk
control.
College Speech Cl
In Overcomin
Reputed to be the only clinic of its
kind in America, the speech clinic
conducted by the College under the
direction of Herbert Koepp-Baker, in
structor in Public Speaking, has as
sisted 288 persons to overcome serious
speech,defects during the three years
of its existence.
The work was started in 1929 by
Prof. John H. Frizzell, head of the
division of public speaking, and the
following year it was taken over by
Koepp-Baker. He organized the
clinic in addition to his regular teach
ing duties, and (luring the school term
twenty-nine students were admitted
to the clinic, with a total of 167 treat
ments given.
The public speaking instructor con
tinued the work during the summer,
conducting four clinics at Bellefonte.
The following summer the clinics
were conducted at Philipsburg, and
last year they were held here in State
College:,
For the past three years diagnostic
tests haVe been given to all freshmen
Lions, Will'Supply
Invaders'? Uniforms
Susquehanna's court quintet will
play in Lion uniforms here tonight
as a result of a'.fire last night
which destroyed the Susquehanna
gymnasium
. whichihoused the Or
ange and Maroon eaurt equipment.
When notification of the incident
was received here , early today, im
mediate:
mediate arrangemOnts were made
to supply the
. inVaders with the
necessary equipment to compete in
the contest.
COLLEGE DELEGATES .
WILL CONVENE HERE
• •
Student Association. Will Hold
. Second-Annal Meeting
January:l9, 20-
Delegates fronf-. approximately
twenty colleges of , the State will dis
cuss present-day student problems at
the second annual Convention of the
Pennsylvania Assocjation of College
students which willonvene here Fri
day and Saturday;Otinuary 19 and
20, Phil F. }lined executive sec
retary of the association, announced
today.
Although a number of the colleges
have not yet definitely. signified their
intention of sending delegates to the
association -.conference, - ,Hines stated
that Dickinson, Gettysburg, Bucknell,
Lehigh, Layfayette, and Carnegie
Tech will be among the institutions
represented.
Organized . .,l,aat Year
The association :which was organ
ized by means. ,af iipecial action last
year by Pennsylvania delegates at the
National Sfudent'Yederation conven
tion 'at New. Orleans,, held its first
convention at the College last year.
Colleges may sera] . any number of
delegates to the . Cor . vention, according
to ; Hines,. who . adard,:tilat three men
collPrinithe:cgsii.4,l*oo°l..- Of_ Oe
three repiesentitiives,one,rnaii-iept7e
aents his school in •athletle• problems,
another in student. publications work,
and the third in questions of student
government, Hines stated.
Final arangements for the conclave
including the selection of speakers,
and the establishment• of a definite
schedule of meetings for the delegates
will be concluded *ithin the next two
weeks, Hines said.
DEAN SACKETT TO. TALK
AT OIL CITY MEETING
Dean -To Represent College Athletic
Control Board at Conclave
Dean Robert L. Sackett, of the
School of Engineering, will address a
meeting of the young peoples societies
of Oil City tonight on 'The Necessity
for Leadership in .Industry." The
lecture is one of a series sponsored
by the Y. M. C. A. of that city.
At noon today he made some "Com
ments on the Recovery. Program" be
fore the Oil City Lions Club and
spoke to the high school students on
vocational guidance in the afternoon.
The dean was guest of honor at a din
ner tonight for Penn State alumni
and a discussion of College affairs
took place.
Dean Sackett will attend a meeting
of members of several athletic boards
of Pennsylvania colleges in Harris
burg Saturday to discuss a possible
Pennsylvania college athletic confer
ence.
inic Helps 288
g Serious - Defects
upon entering the College, and re
ports show that nearly eight percent
of those examined were suffering
from some defect in speech. A total
of 1,588 treatments have been given,
and in many cases the patient has
been able to give public recitals fol
lowing the treatment.
Roepp-Baker is a graduate of the
University of MiChigan, and has
studied at the University of Berlin,
in Germany, lie has had clinical• ex
perience at the University of Michi
gan Medical Center, at the Univer
sity of Rochester Medical School; and
at the University of Berlin, and has
had general experience at the Public
School ' Improvement Program in
Lansing, Mich., and in Binghamton,
N. Y.
The instructor holds a fellowship
in the American Association for Cor
rection of Speech, and upon several
occasions he has been called into con
ference by leaders in that field, both
in' America and abroad. Recognition
of. his work has come from leaders
as far west no' Minnesota.
3 STUDENTS FIGURE
IN AUTO ACCIDENTS
OVER YULE PERIOD
Hoffman Held on Involuntary
Manslaughter Charge
After Crash
MISS BURKHOLDER HURT
WHEN AUTO HITS TRUCK
Rowles ':36, Cope '34 Injured
In Warren, Clearfield
Accidents
Three students and one member of
'the College administrative staff fig
ured in automobile aczidents over the
holidays and as a result one under
graduate is being held under bail in
Erie on a technical charge of invol
untary manslaughter.
The student, Edward R. Hoffman
'34, was held by Eric police after an
automobile which he was driving ac
cidentally struck a bicycle, killing one
and severely injuring the other rider,
early this week. Another student, L.
Stetson Rowles '36, who received head
injuries when his automobile crashed
into a truck in Clearfield on Christ
mas Eve, is recovering in State Col
lege.
Cope '3l Injured
Ellen M. Burkholder, assistant to
the Dean of Women, is recuperating
at her home in Philadelphia after suf
fering concussion of the brain, lacera
tions of the lam and knees, and minor
abrasions in an automobile accident
at Paradise; near Lancaster, last Fri
day afternoon. She was released
'from the Lancaster General hospital
Monday.
The other student hurt in a smash
up was John A. Cope '34, who receiv
ed severe lacerations of the scalp
when the car in which he was riding
crashed into another automobile at
Warren on his way home after Col-,
lege: closed_for, the _hol iditys., 6 ,lthOugh
both cars were .demolished, Cope was
the only occupant of either who was
seriously hurt.
Victim In Critical Condition
Although complete details had not
reached here late last night concern
ing the amount of Hoffman's bail or
last-minute legal steps, it was known
that a boy was pedaling the bicycle
and a girl was seated on the handle
bars. The girl was killed outright
and the boy remained in a critical
condition at an Erie hospital late last
night;
Miss Burkholder is expected to be
able to resume her duties as assistant
to Dean of Women Charlotte E. Ray
by next week. The accident occurred
when her automobile skidded in wet
street car tracks and crashed into a
truck. Removed to the hospital in an
unconscious condition, she did not re
gain consciousness. until Saturday
morning.
I. F. C. ASKS HOUSES
FOR DANCE LISTS
Council l't) Arrange Dance Schedule
For Year—{Deadline Set
For Wednesday
Preferential dance dates, exclusive
of regularly-scheduled all-C ollogc
dance week-ends,. must be filed
with the Interfraternity Council dance
committee by the fraternity houses
before the Council's first meeting of
1034 in Room 405, Old Min, at 7
o'clock Wednesday night, according to
President Herman C. Brandt '34 and
Vernon D. Platt '35, dance committee
chairman.
Passed by the Council in its last
meeting in November, the new regu
lation giving Interfraternity Council
the power of scheduling fraternity
house dances will go into effect im
mediately. The yearly deadline for
selecting suitable dance dates was set
to enable the Council dance commit
tee to work out an uncrowded frater
nity social calendar for the remainder
of the year, according to President
Brandt.
Fraternity house treasurers and
I caterers will meet in Room 405, Old
Main, at 7 o'clock Tuesday night to
discuss methods of budgeting, and at
tempt to work out a solution for the
present telephone situation, Whereby
no definite verification other than
verbal is possible on long-distance'
calls, it is charged.
.The Council will begin discussions,
on the 'rushing code for next year at
its weekly meeting Wednesday night.
House representatives have been giv
en nearly two months to file individ
ant suggestions for the revised code;
and the rushing committee will sub-1
mit its report for approval by the
main body then.
Penn Added to Lion
Mit Card for First
Meeting in 3 Years
State PWA Approves
2 Loan Applications
Approval of applications for two
loans totaling :51,516,501 to con
tinue the building program of the
College was made by the State Ad
visory Board of the Public Works
Administration last week and sent
to Washington for final sanction,
Raymond 11. Smith, comptroller,
announced yesterday.
Final approval of the loans will
enable the College to complete the
main building of the Liberal Arts
units, to construct a group of wom
en's dormitories near Grange Dorm
itory, and to rebuild the College
water supply system.
MANAGER 'TRADE'
RULING APPROVED
Manager, Second Assistant, May
Not Have Membership in
Same Fraternity •
In an effort to break up the al
leged 'trades' in managerial elections,
the executive councils of the varsity
sports have approved a ruling which
declares a man ineligible fora second
assistantship if he is of the same fra
ternity affiliation as the manager of
that sport.
It was agreed that the rule will not
apply to football, since third assist
ants arc used. The third assistant
puts in one year's work before he can
be affected by the system, and to de
'dare hint ineligible at that time would
Ibe decidedly unfair,' it was decided. •
Neil M. 'Fleming , 'graduate man
ager of athletics, in explaining the
ruling declared that it had been pass
ed by the sports councils last year,
but later had met opposition. Recent
developments, however, have influ
enced its opponents to give their ap
proval, and the policy will 'be given
a year's 'trial, he declared. .
•"We are making every effort to
eliminate politics from these man
agerial elections," Mr: Fleming ex
plaided, "and this ruling is merely.one
step . in - that 'direction.' White it: may
be unfair in that some good men will
be prevented from receiving the po
sitions, the policy will prevent the em
barrassing situations of the past when
a manager's fraternity brother re
ceived
an appointment as a first as
oistant."
The executive councils who are in
charge of the elections vary with each
sport, being composed of the coach,
captain, and manager of the sport in
addition to the president and secre
tary of the Athletic Association, and
the graduate manager of athletics.
The secretary of the Athletic Asso
ciation cannot officially vote in the
elections.
I STATE COLLEGE MEN GET
POSITIONS IN LIQUOR STORES
Four State College men were award
ed positions in Centre county's two
Stete liquor stores, it was learned
when the appointments were an
nounced last week. The stores will be
located in Bellefonte and Philipsburg.
J. Fred Harvey was named man
aged of the Philipsburg store, while
Roland G. Aungst will manage the
Bellefonte store. Arnold L. Kalin and
Paul N, Beardslee received positions
as clerks in the store at Bel!Conte.
Honoraries Asked
To Answer Query
Eight societies have not yet re
ceived or have not replied to the
Honor Society Council question-
noire recently issued, according to
Ernest J. KauHuss president
of the Council. They ore Alpha Tau
Alpha, Xi Sigma Pi, Louise Homer
Club, Phi Eta Sigma, Cosmopolitan
Club, DeMolay Club, and the His
pano-American Club.
Representatives of these soci
eties should report to the Student
Union desk in Old Main and re
ceive the questionnaire within the
next two days. Replies must be
returned to the Student Union desk
not later than Monday, Kau'fuss
said. Societies from whom no re
ply has been received by that time
will he listed in the report as not
cooperating, according to Kaulfuss.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Syracuse Chosen for
Intercollegiates
March 16-17
MATCH WITH BUCENELL
APPROVED FOR FEB. 7
Boxers To Meet Philadelphia
Opponents at Palestra
To Open Season
After a lapse of over three years,
Nittany boxers will resume relation::
with the University of Pennsylvania
at the Penn Palestra, Friday, Janu
ary 2G, where they will open their
season in a foreign tilt with the Red
and Blue.
The University of Syracuse will be
the site for the 11U4 intercollegiate
boxing tourney.
These announcements were released
last. night by Leo Houck, lion mit
mentor, and Harry H. Balthuser
boxing manager. In addition, Baltha
ser.stated that the home contest pre
viously slated with Bucknell on Feb
rural's, :;, had been re-scheduled for
Februrary 7.
Orangemen Chosen at Meeting
Negotiations which culminated in
the addition of the University of
Pennsylvania to the list of Lion ring
opponents, began over two weeks ago
and were completed near the close of
the Christmas vacation. The contest
will mark the first Pennsylvania-Penn
State boxing meet since the 1930 in
tercollegiates.
The choice of the Orangemen as
intercollegiate tourney hosts was
agreed upon by representatives of col
, loges :in the - Eastern „Intercollegiate
York City last -Thursday. Final ar
rangements for housing and caring for
teams entered in the tourney will be
completed at Syracuse and submitted
to the association within-the next two
weeks.
Tourney Invitations Planned
Delegates at the meeting of the
association who concurred on the
choice were Harry H. 'Balthaser, re
presenting the College, William Bir
chen of Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Dr. Francis Grant, re
cording secretary of the association,
Dick Herlowe, coach at Western
Maryland, Lieutenant McAnary of
West Point, president of the associa
tion, and Roy Simmons, mentor at
Syracuse.
Concerning plans for the intercol
legiate meet, members of the associa
tion suggested that several colleges
which are not members of the East
ern Intercollegiate Boxing Associa
tion should be extended invitations to
enter teams in the tourney. According
to Balthaser, Colgate, Franklin and
Marshall, and Harvard will probably
be among the institutions to receive
tourney invitations.
LEWIS ANNOUNCES
LIBRARY CHANGES
Staff Person lie I Rearrangement.
Becomes Effective Early
EIZZIE=I
Changes in the personnel of the li
brary staff were announced this week
by Willard P. Lewis, College librar
ian. Marjorie Trotter, order librar
ian, a member of the staff since 1i129
resigned to be married.
Katherine Dwyer, assistant cata
logue•, a member the library staff
since iJJi, will take Miss Trotter's
place in the order department early
next month, according to staff changes
made by 'Lewis.
Olive A. Smith, graduate librarian
assistant, will be assistant cataloguer
in Miss Dwyer's stead. Miss Smith
is a graduate of Earlhum College and
the Drexel Institute Library School.
Julia Whitmore, d graduate of
Hood College and the Drexel Insti
tate Library School, has been select
ed by the librarian to become a grad
uate librarian assistant in the cata
logue department.
LEITZELL ASSUMES OPFICF
Wilbur Leitzell, - recently elected
Burgess of State College, took over
the duties of that office on Monday,
succeeding Eugene H, Led e r
George Jackson, Frank Haller, and A.
L. Bowersox were also sworn in as
councilmen and will take their places
on the Borough Council at the first
electing Monday night,