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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Published eenal.weekly during the College year, except on Whim,
by students of The Pennsylvania State College. In the Interest of the
College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends.
THE MANAGING BOARD
CHARLES A. MYERS 'St FREDERICK L. TAYLOR '34
Editor Md..) Manager.
GEORGE A. SCOTT '34 HAROLD J. DATSCH '34
Managing Editor Circulation Manager
WILLIAM M. STEGMEIER '34 IL EDGAR FURMAN '34
A,sistant Editor Local Advertising Manager
BERNARD IL ROSENZWEIG '34 JOHN C. IRWIN '34
News Editor Foreign Advertising Manager
JAMES M. SHEEN '34 - FRANCIS WACKER '34
Sports Editor Classified Advertising Manager
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1934
AN AMERICAN YOUTH MOVEMENT?
1. Present Student Groups
(This is the first of a series of editorials on attempts
to form a Youth Movement in America.)
For some time now, liberal writers have been de
ploring the fact that there is no real Youth Movement
in America. They point to the traditional apathy of the
American college student, his preoccupation with campus
lifo and his indifference to events and situations outside
college walls. And they contrast this with the interest
ml and effective youth groups in such countries as Cuba,
Russia, Germany, and Italy.
In general, the accusations of these writers are
true. It cannot be said with any degree of reality that
there is such a thing as a concerted Youth Movement
in this country. In spite of the increased interest in
.national affairs aroused by the depression and sub-
sequent attempts at recovery, a. great many American
students aro simply not interested.
At the present time, however, there are a number
of groups endeavoring to interest students in national
problems and to adopt a plan of action along some par
ticular line. During the past Christmas vacation, sev
eral of these groups held conferences in Washington,
D. C. They were the League for Industrial Democracy,
the National Student League, the National Student Fed
eration of America, and a combined convention of these
and nine other organizations meeting as "The National
Conference on Students in Politics." The latter was an
effort to convene widely-divergent students groups in
order to consider the question "Must We Take A
Stand?"
The National Student Federation of America is
probably the most representative of any of the student
groups. Delegates to its conventions are usually the
student government presidents of the large number of
colleges and universities which are members of the Fed-
eration. The first concern of the delegates at the con
ventions is the discussion of strictly campus problems.
At the last convention, however, so many of the sessions
wero devoted to national affairs, that the delegates
voted to confine their discussion in the future to campus
topics in order to have "less sleeping in the sessions."
- Contrasted with this group at Washington were the
two radical organizations, the student branch of the
League for Industrial Democracy and the National Stu
dent League: The - Primer is fhe student socialiSt organi
zation in America, and is more or less dominated by old
er, non-student socialists who are members of the
League. Its program is - militant and along socialist
lines.
Tho National Student League is also a militant,
radical group, but it is not officially affiliated with any
poltical party. It seeks to interest the student in na
tional affairs by a militant approach through student
problems on the campus such as R. 0. T. C., educational
retrenchment, and racial discrimination.-
Other student groups, national in scope, include the
men's and women's Christian associations, the League
of Nations Association, the Intercollegiate Council on
International Cooperation, the American Student Union,
the War Resisters League,'and Pioneer Youth.
WE ."HASTILY. GENERALIZE"
. , . • .
An.'thlitorial in Thdrsday's C44mAii on
,scholaiship
racketeering is denotth:ed in s thiirlSsue icy hreddei:l . vtio .
attempts to give the "truth" in the Letter Box this issue.
Although the tone of the letter might
.suggest satire,
the points listed need to,be refuted lest anyone get the
impression that the situation is truly pictured by the
letter.
The "single case" front which the COLLEGIAN (and
the Philadelphia Public Ledger and Record) was "guilty
of hastily generalizing" was the conviction of a scholar
ship "peddler" who testified that he had sold fifty schol
arships at a profit of no less than $3OO apiece. He
named two State Senators and implicated eighteen more,
over a, third of the total numbers of Senators.
Contrary to the writer's emphatic statement, all
scholarships are not worth only $lOO a year. They mer
ely cover the cost of tuition, which-is $lOO at Penn State
but $4OO a year at the University of Pennsylvania. It
is in the distribution of these More valuable awards that
the racketeering has taken place.
There is' no evidence of racketeering in the distribu
tion of Penn Slate ,scholarships. But there is enough
verbal evidence that some degree of favoritism exists to
suggest that a change would be desirable. There are
undoubtedly instances of honest efforts on the part of
Senators to award their scholarships to needy and,
worthy students; the writer cites one touching instance.
In contrast, there are quite a number of cases in. which
student holders of scholarships here admit that they got
the, awards by means of some sort of "pull."
•The fact that there are such instances would be
enough to merit a change. At least, the Ledger and
Record thought so. The former said, "The utilization
of 'scholarships to serve political ends must be endel,
preferably by the surrender by the Senate of this system'
and its transfer to the Department of Public Instruction,
where it belongs. The Record suggested; "This 'depart
ment is now giving competitive examinations for other
classes of college scholarships. It could easily take over
the Senatorial scholarships as well."
OLD MANIA
We've just been having a good deal of. fun glanc-
ing through the College catalogue and noting the np-
parently,limitless number •of extraordinary courses
offered in that volume. For instance the School of
Physical Education in addition to its world-renown
course in Eurythmics offers six complimentary and
successive courses under the title "ACTIVITIES IN
HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION." In the
first course the student picks an activity, in the second
the becomes more proficient in that activity, and so on
until when he's finished with all six courses he's a reg-
afar whiz
Perhaps were not quite clear. Well, suppose a
student wants to learn how to run a flight of hurdles
In course number one be is taken out on the track and
taught how to walk. His instructions would go some-
thing like this. "Place the weight of the body on the
left foot. Raise the. right foot carefully to a distance
opproximately six inches from the ground and ad-
Vance it eighteen inches. Place it on the ground
Now shift the weight to the right' foot and advance
the left foot following the sante procedure that was
used in advancing the right. You have now taken a
By the end of the first semester the student would
have learned how to walk correctly and would be ready
to learn how to run. The same methods would be
used exespt for the fact that the student would be ex-
pected to be more proficient and therefore able to
move his feet faster
It would be interesting to continue the explana
tion of these courses but unfortunately this wouldn't
bo ethical for the reason that explanation makes the
matter so simple that the College would be overrun
with athletes, the Physical Education School would
go on the rocks, and the cause of EDUCATION would
receive a staggering blow from which it might take
years to recover.
FLASH! .Prominent Varsity Football Player
Married During Christmas Holidays!
*** * * *
POME
Bloomers
Prevent Rumors.
*
Economics professors are always taking the joy
out of life. Why just the other day Hawkins made
this statement in one of his classes: "The only hope
ful aspect of Repeal is that a tremendous investment
will be made in capital goods." • • ~*
Aw, now! ...
Just another page has been added to the Saga of
"John Silver" Carr. When the Varsity Ten stopped
in Washington during their• recent travels someone in
troduced Carr to a' beautiful southahn lass. The,
whole band went on a (late at four in the afternoon.
At three in the morning the rest gave_up and went -
home, but the Redoubtable John stayed on. At
nine-thirty, in the morning he showed up at the hotel.
At exactly eleven-thirty the gal called the hotel, and..
he went back on duty and stayed on until the dance
began that night. Yeah Man!
Mania Brave Heart
Cutie (Charlotte Rousse) Caterson with Philadel
phia Charlie at eleven-thirty Wednesday night . . .
Sally Cramer at the Sigma Nu dance ... and Connie
'Glace . . . and Sentner and Boooop Taylor .. . Col
legian neophyte Willie Henderson is minus Sig Sig pin
since vacation . Prankie (Thesbian)` Peck is back
in town ... th - a:geiitWith the.dow!bell at the Susque
ihanna game Josh'Kligerinan Sig Tau Phi has the
loveliest eyelashes' - ...' . ..The 'two peeping Tom Kappas
Who had a bucket of water heaved on them-from
1 1 . 1 atts Hall ... Bhye!
Collegian
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"NO, THIS WAS NOT A. BLINDFOLD
TEST—BUT AN. ACTUAL FACT" •
For after "Buck" Taylor of the Music
Room had inserted an advertisement in
the Collegian of.. Thursday, January 4, 1933
he sold six radios in one day to students.
"Buck" reported this to the Collegian, and
being interested, we impiired further from
him. The genial owner of the Music Room.
pointed out:
1. "The advertisement brotight the
buyers to the Music Room."
2. "The Majestic sets I sold do not
require any outside aerial, and permit
daylight reception."
3. "The budget plan of - $1 a week
Makes it convenient for the boys, to
pay."
'IEE PENN STA'il;] COLLEGIAN
Letter Box
'Ledger,"Record,' Please Copy
To tile Editor:
In your editorial column of this is
sue; your article on "Scholarship
Racketeering" exhibits ignorance of
the subject as well as fallacious rea
soning on the same. I believe that
in fairness to the Senators, their re
cipientg of awards, and the taxpaying
public in general, an emphatic denial
of your exaggerated charges and a
clarification of this so-called racket
should ha printed so that those who
!were unfortunate enough to read your
/flagrant denunciation - may know the
truth.
The basis for the above-mentioned
denunciation was the conviction of a
scholarship "peddler" in Philadelphia.
You have fallen guilty, however, of
hastily generalizing from ; a single
lease. You do great injury to the
names of honorable men who have
conscientiously administered their
awards according to the worth and
the need of the applicant. A true
account of the happening would have
borne the names of the individuals
connected with tits peddler's racket.
You may find that doing violence to
legislators at random may have far -1
reaching effects.
Anyone that makes a statement that
the peddler "had received large sums
of money for his services" neglects a
vital fact. You may be interested in
the fact that these scholarships ace
granted semi-annually in payments of
$50.00. Further, the recipient must
prove his worth of the award by
achieving a scholastic record of good
collegiate standing. Cancellation of
awards because of low grades is in
the hands of the administrative auth
orities.
I do not know your source of infor
mation on State Scholarships, but in
the popular. ,vernacular, "You're all
wet!" There are eighty such scholar
ships given each year on a competitive
basis. The Senatorial Scholarships
can and do supplement these eighty
in meeting the needs of worthy stu
dents. And your statement that "the
more valuable scholarships to some of
the other State-aided universities
were being sold at a profit" is wholly
untrue in lieu of the fact that all of
the awards of this nature are for
5100.00 per year.
The peak of - your misinformation is
found in the following: "It is a well
known fact to most students here that
the awarding of these scholarships
has largely. been on a political basis.
The student whose father knew the
State Senator Was ordinarily in a bet
ter position to 'get a scholarship than
the otherwisC [ Worthy student who had
no political 'KW." Being closelyre
lated to and intimately associated with
.a recipient ofa Senatorial Scholar
ship, I can at._
least state the condi
tions under which that award was
made. I will not, however, commit the
'unpardonable erior of generalizing.
MY friend graduated from a small ru
ral high school' With honors: He had
competed in !the State Scholarship
contest and had placed third in his
district. The inadequacies of the ru
ral system were, no doubt, largely re
sponsible for his failure to qualify.
But he was a student of good charac
ter and scholarship ; an all-county win
ner in oratory,`,a, good debater, a var
sity basketball!, player, and a leader
in civic and church functions. He as
pired for collage training in the
sciences in order to teach. Efforts of
his father and himself aroused the in
terest of his Senator. Upon investi
gation, the Senator found through the
recommendatiort.of his friends. that fie
wash Worthy ;134.. Subsequent . award
made college possible for him.
AGRICULTURE MEN
TO TALK AT SHOW
-THE ICVANIAC
r ,-
Dean Watts•and' Vice-Dean McDowel
To Participate in Program
Of Annual Affair
Members of the faculty, of the
School of Agriculture will take prom
inent parts on the program and the
'judging staffs of the State Farm Pro
ducts Show to be . held in Harrisburg
from January 15' to 19.
Dean Ralph L. Watts and Vice-Dean
Milton S. - McDowell, both of the
School' of Agriculture, W. S. Hagar
'lB, and Miles Horst 'l4 are members
of the Show Commission which is di
recting the program. Governor •Gif
ford Pinchot is also a member of the
Commission.
This is the seventeenth successive
year that the Show has been held. It
will cover 440,000 square feet of floor ,
space, and premiums will amount to '
over thirty-six thousand &liars.
Thirty different agritultural organi
zations are cooperating in the ex
hibits.
Those on the faculty who are to
speak at sectional meetings on the
program are Prof. Mark A. McCarty
and Prof. William L. Henning, both of
the department of animal thusbandry;
Prof. Francis d: Doan, of the depart
ment of dairy husbandry; Dr. Steven
son W. Fletcher,, Prof. Frank N. Fa
gan, Prof. Warren B. Mack ; Gerald .1.
Stout, and Prof. Charles E. Myers, of
th% department of horticulture; Prof.
Ernest•L. Nixon and Prof. Henry W.
Thurston''.jr., of the, department 'of
botany.
STUDENT UNI
TOMORROW
Fraternity house caterers and treas.
lurers will meet in Room 405, Old
Main, at 7 o'clock tomorrow night.
Members of Pi Delta Epsilon will
meet at the Penn State Photo Shop
for their La Vie photograph at 6:30
o'clock Tuesday nlAlht. A short meet
ing will be held following the picture.
Candidates for the editorial board
of the COLLEGIAN will meet in Room
!312, Old Main, at 7:30 o'clock Toes-,
(lay night. Additional freshman can
didates may report at that time.
WEDNESDAY
Dr. Robert G. Bernreuter will ad
dress an open meeting of . the Social
Problems club on "Sex and Sodial
Health—The View of Science" in
LOOKING
OVER THE
NEWS . . .
According to President Woosevelt's
budget message Thursday, the total
cost to be incurred by the national
government in lighting the depression
will be $10,246,773,200 by June 30,
1935, when he says recovery will be
achieved. He places the total recov
ery expenditures for 1934 at $7,523,-
406,700.
• Included in this figure are_the ex
penditures incurred by the R. P. C.,
A. A. A., P. W. A. and other alpha
betic arrangements, and through
which the ' government at present
holds assets of $3,558,516,189 in
loans. This money will 'revert back to
the treasury in time thus cutting the
true recovery cost to just about one
half of the announced figures.
In general, the criticism that has
greeted President Roosevelt's budget
announcement has • been favorable.
Taking in account work that has been
accomplished thus far the cost has
not been excessive. Even so strong
a critic of the President as Senator
Reed of our State has commended the
administration's plan and sees no dan
ger in raising the national debt to
$31,834,000,000 by June 30, 1935.
However, the retdrns to the govern
ment from the various recovery agen
cies, such as the Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation and Home. Loan
Board, should greatly reduce the debt
by that time.
Then, again, the federal• govern
ment's loans through the.R.,F. C. may
be converted into "real" assets soon,
if the banking situation does not clear
up. Great help to the administration
should be forthcoming from the bank
ing interests, - but thus far they hive
not swung into line behind Roosevelt
with proper spirit and support. At
a time when the managing boards of
some of our Federal Reserve.branches
should have strengthened our govern
ment bonds they placed them on the'
market for sale. Excessive rates are
now facing depositor's in banks
throughout the country. Evidently
the banks are unwilling to accept
their ; proper burden, and the adminis
tration already regrets its failure to
take over the banking systein follow
ing the bank holiday last year. With
less opposition from Wall Street, the
financial aspect of recovery would be
far less difficult.
• let'Us 'see in part "just what has
been clone thus far in, chasing the big
bad wolf from our doorstep• Accord
ing to figures released by the Ameri
can Federation of Labor last night,
6,400,000 unemployed were given
work last year. ` Of this number 1,-
800,000 found jobs in industry, while
4,600,000 were aided in work through
the C. W. A., P. W. A., and' C. C. C.
Business actiyity wad' increased over
1932 by ten percent, an encouraging
repbrt, and the purchasing power of
the working classes registered a gain
of $543,000,000 per month. The sig
nificant and very encouraging item is
the laht, showing that the workers'
total income has far exceeded the rise
in prices:
,—Robert L. Durkee
The A. F. of L. report which fur
ther states' that over ten million
workers are still unemployed and that
business is still thirty percent below
normal, vividly demonstrates to the
administration the need for pushing
ahead with the plans it has under
taken. The most drastic consequences
would now appear ff President Roose
velt were to listen to the overbalanced
Douglas and his budget balancing.
When business normalcy is achieved
.in 1935 there will be time enough for
bringing the budget to normalcy.
There is no sense in persisting to
walk about in your raccoon coat when
you are sweltering in the heat and
everyone is , in his shirt-sleeves.
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All notices will be received at the St
o'clock 'Wednesday afternoon for a Th
for n Monday issue. Additional noti
COLLEGIAN °Mee on YlN!mutiny and
. The author says it is not all fiction.
Ife' claims to have heard dt• from the
one hundred, and'ten-year-old lips of
Juan -Colorado (The Flame) himself.
There is much of history, of the mis
sions, of fish and plants that rings
true from the rich California country.
The author himself is a rich and
I mysterious 'character, a man of about
eighty who has lived mostly in Span
ish America ; and owned many peons
and Indians.' Colorado's real name—
if he was real—was O'Brien and he
was said to be the son of an Irish
sailor and a Mexican. O'Brien be.
came Obrigon and then from the col
or of his hair he was . surnamed Col
orado.
The journey itself was taken as a
boy of. twelve in the train of the
Spanish general, Don 'irmin San-
I hudo, from the tip of Lower Califor
nit to the San Francisco region. Of
course, all the Californias at this time
were Spanish. The journey was en
livened with many a rich and inter
esting incident and is so well told that
one is intrigued to know more about
the author, de Fierro Blanco, or at
least his translator, Walter de Stei
guer. A new mine of rich historical
material has been discovered. The
Indian life and customs are graph- ,
ically described. The Jesuits and their
successors, the Franciscians, receive
credit for their effoits. "Hell caused
the only great rebellion in those days."
Father Tamarel preached hell-fire in
-B. H. R.
N BULLETIN
dent Union desk in Old Main until 5
ursday WU, and until Saturday noon
rog may be 'phoned to the Old Main
I Sunday night.
Room 417, Old Main, at.7:30 o'clock
Wednesday night.
The Social Problems Club will meet
in Room 417 Old Main at 7:30 o'clock
Wednesday night.
The Junior League will hold air im
portant meeting in the Gamma Phi
Beta suite at 6:30 o'clock on Wednes
day night.
Prof. Clinton L. Harris, head of the
department of architecture, will pre
!sent an open lecture on "Wind Pres
' sure on Buildings" in Room 107, Main
Engineering, at 7 o'clock Wednesday
night.
:President and Mrs. Ralph D. Hetzel
will resume their Wednesday after
noon and evening at homes on Wed
nesday afternoon.
Candidates for second assistant
managers in track are asked to report
at Recreation hall.
Interfraternity Council will meet in
Room 405; Old Main, at '7 o'clock
Wednesday night.
THURSDAY
' Croups of the Agricultural Exten
sion Conference will meet in Rooms
302, 318, 417, 420, Old Main, from 9
until 12 o'clock Thursday morning.
ACCIDENT VICTIM
RESUMES DUTIES
Assistant to Dean of Women
Recovers From Mishap at
Philadelphia Home
Ellen M. Burkholder, assistant to
the Dean of Women, resumed her
duties with the College this morning
after recovering at her home near
Philadelphia following an automobile
accident ten days ago.
Edward R. Hoffman '34 returned
to State College yesterday after po
lice in Eric had dropped charges
growing out of a fatal accident in
which an automobile killed a bicycle
rider early last week. A verdict of
unavoidable accidental death was giv
en at the inquest. Another. rider, a
man of about forty-eight, is still in
an Erie hospital.
Student Leaves Infirmary
Frederick Doelp '37 was discharged
from the College infirmary early this
afternoon after receiving cuts about
his face when an automobile driven
by David W. Wright '37 and one driv
en by Dr. Charles E. Myers, of the
department of horticulture, collided
near Potters Mills Shortly after noon
on Friday.
Neither Dr. Myers nor Wight were
hurt, but Mrs. 4lVers, wife of the
driver, received internal . strains and
minor bruises about her face. She
is recovering at her home.
The accident-occurred when the'au
tomobile driven by Dr. Myers was
sideswiped by d truck, and skidded
into the Wright car, according to wit
nesses of the accident. Doelp was
thrown against the windshield and'
four stitelles were required to close a
cut in his nose.
Speaking
Of
Books
"The Journey of the Flame" by An
tonio. de Fierro Blanco.
Monday Evening,. January 8, 1934
the coolest weather.' "Father lead us
: to that eternally warm placerthe In
, diens cried as unclothed they shivered
in the chill north winds. But Father
Tamarel, incensed by the demand of
the, Indian flock for hell-fire, curtly
'refused them the warmth they thought
he controlled. Whereupon, rising in
rebellion they killed him and others
saying "They refuse us their corn
fortable hell, why should we servo
these cruel foreigners."
"Over Here, 3911-1918" by • Mark
Allen Nevins says of the author, "ire
has brought into American historical•
writing a current of such originality
and freshness that,his work is likely
to, prove more influential than any
thing else done in years."
Here are the comments and atti
tudes of the American man on the
street during the Great War. Here
are clippings and illustrations from
contemporary newspapers and journ
als. Here are propaganda, Liberty
Loan drives, battle reports and many
other seeneS from the days of 1917-
1918.
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