COMPLETE CAMPO COVERAGE Vol. 30. No. 32 SENIOR BALL GROUP STILL CONSIDERING ORCHESTRA CHOICE Bands on List Include Johnnie Hamp, Mal Hallett, Claude Hopkins, Bert Lown NEW TYPE OF PROGRAM CHOSEN BY COMMITTEE Consists of Loose-Leaf Book Featuring .Facsimile of Old Main on Cover • At 4 o'clock this afternoon, mem bers of .the Senior Ball committee were still undecided as to the orches tra which will •feature at the function here, February O. According to Ber . nard J. Duffy '34, Ball chairman, last minute consideration is being given to several bands with a view to sign ing a contract with a bind immedia tely after a final selection is agreed upon by the committee. Among the orchestras from which members of the committee will make their selection are Johnnie Hemp, whose music has featured at the Con gress Hotel in Chicago and at the Mi ami Biltmore Hotel in Miami, Fla., Joe Saunders, who is now wielding the baton for the original Coon-Saunders music-makers, and Husk O'Hare, whose boys broadcast nightly over station W. G. N. Will Change Program Other bands which remain on the list are Mal Hallett, Popular enter-I . tainer at the Hotel Lexington in Louisville, Ky., Bert Lown, who for . merly held a ten-year contract at the Hotel Biltmore in New York, Doc Peyton,•master of musical ceremonies at the New Kenmore Hotel, Albany, N. Y., and Claude Hopkins whose 10, , cation is the Aosciam:Lßaltroom,New_ The type of program for the affair, as selected and approved by the •coin mittee, will 'consist of a small, loose leaf book with a metal cover contain ,•ing a facsimile of Old Main on its center. The College seal will be dis-I played on the first inner leaf• of the] book. Decorition Contract Unsigned A change in the traditional con tents of the program was instituted by the members of the ball committee .who decided not to include the usual list of the evening's dances. The cus tomary list will be replaced in the pro gram by a schedule of the sports events which will' take place during the week-end. A Wilkes-Barre concern has sub mitted a bid for the contract to dec orate Recreation hall for the dance and has received favorable attention from members of, the ball committee although, as yet, no definite award ing of the contract has been made. Because of the temporary deal in awarding the contract, no plan for, the arrangement of booths in the hall has'been . completed nor has color Wilbur 11 Leitzell, burgess of State scheme been decided upon for inter- College, has been confined to his home for decoration. Arrangements with a for the past week with a case of 1 decorating company and the selection grippe. His condition is reported as of a decorative motif will be decided being much better and it is expected upon within two or three days, fluffy that he will be able to be out again stated. . in the first part of the week. , Merchants, Managers Lead as Vocations of Students' Parents if you want to take a shot in the dark at the occupation of a fellow student's male parent, the best bet is the vocation of storekeeper or mer chant, according to an .investigation of replies to the query, 'Father's Oc cupation?' which were submitted by students who enrolled. here for the first semester. • Of the students enrolled here the first serriester,. 410 listed the oceans- Lion of their fathers as merchants and storekeepers, while 385 declared that their fathers were • superintendents, managers, or foremen. As an occu pational class, farming was third, with 320 students being sons of 'far mers. Other occupational groups repre .sented are professors .and teachers, 174; railroad employes, _171; 'miners; 130; salesmen and commercial. trav elers, 122; laborers, 116; physicians and doctors, 103;' engineers, 102; and contractors, 100. • - Ages of the students here vary from sixteen years, to forty-three years, the statistics show. The ages -of the majority of the students range front eighteen to twenty-one years, with'32o4 students -in this group. Although the average , of freshmen is eighteen years, fifteen entered Col lege at the age of,' sixteen, and one freshman gave his,age as twenty nine. Men outnumber the women in . . , ESTABLISHED • -. 4at-IM s;: •;' , - • • 7 •-- ,:,,,;;\ ~A . 1904 S . _. . rti.u. tatr • ( fit , i - :7:--i)': 'Ty Irgiall4 „.....,,.. . , , . ... Platt Foresees One Board T 0... Supervise All Dances `Allocation of Social Functions Only Solution For Crowded Week-Ends', Chairman Of I. F. C. Committee Says "Allocating fraternity house dances over an entire, College year is both an economical and social necessity on the campus," Vernon D. Platt '35, chairman of the Interfraternity Coun cil dance committee, maintains. "Under the present set-up, dances are generally crowded into certain week-efids during the semester, while most of the time the social schedule is bairen of activities. Usually this leads to an over-abundance of dances one week-end, with practically no social functions at other times," Platt said. "Dance supervision in the hands of one governing body is the only solu tion for the present crowding of Cal- $6O STOLEN FROM THETA KAPPA PHI All Rooms Ransacked Early This Morning—Thieves Overlook Clothes, Jewelry . . Recurrence of fraternity house rob beries was evidenced eery this morn ing when members of Theta Kappa Phi fraternity house were robbed of approximately $6O. The robbery was believed to have taken place. between 3:30 and 4 ' :30 o'clock since some mem ber,/ were up with the exception a that one hour. Although an, accurate cheek-up had not been .made at the time of this writing, it is. apparent that:no clothes, or jewelry were stolen. Nearly all rooms were ransacked, however, with clOthes" strewn all , c,Veri•draiverilipen ed, and doors left ajar. Doors .Left Unlocked • Though the doors and Windows were supposed to bave been locked each night, as a result of the series of fra ternity house robberies which occur red .earliei in the semester, they evi dently remaind unlocked which per mitted the culprits to enter. Police started an inveStigation this after noon. . Forty-five dollars, the largest amount of money over-looked by the thieves, and belonging to Francis . M. Kehoe '3ll , was left in a room par tially ransacked. The intruders were apparently interrupted and fled hurriedly when a student arose at 4:30 o'clock to study. • While looting the fraternity, the culprits made known their choice of cigarettes for they collected only one brand and left the others lay. Mem hers stated that the house had never before been robbed. BURGESS CONFINED TO HOME the yoUngest group, although the co-eds have a higher percentage of students under the average age in the respective classes than do the men. Groups with smaller representa tions are clerks; 95; manufacturers, 188; accountants and bookkeepers, 80; !bank employes, 75; insurance agents, 173; carpenters, 68; machinists; 59; electrical engineers, 48; civil engi ricers, 43; lawyers, 39; ministers, 39; postal clerks and postmasters, 39; 'dairymen, 34; dentists, 30; and me -Ichanical engineers, .3q: That many students intend to fol ion, the occupation of their fathers is shown by the fact that more than half of the group who are sons of ifarmers-are enrolled in the School of !Agrculture. The industrial group has ;the largest number of students en ,rolled in the School of Engineering, the School of Mineral Industries, and the School of Liberal Arts, Although the , majority of . students in tho. School of Chemistry and Phys. lies have parents who, are in the met , handle business, a greater number of merchant's sons' are taking liberal !arts and engineering courses. With women students enrolled in every school except the . School of Mineral Industries, the School of Education and the School of .Liberal Arts have Ithe largest percentage of women stud ents. STATE COLLEGE, PA., MONDAY-EVENING; JANUARY 15, 1934 • lege social functions," the dance corn mitten chairman said. "And this or ganization may lead to such a set-up not far in the future." "As it is now, no one person or or ganization is responsbile for approv ing dates set for dances, and naturally fraternity house dances, special events sponsored by honorary groups, and organization dances are going to con flict because each are arranged lode-, pendently of each other," Platt ex plained. "Wlith a single dance sanc tioning group responSible, a more ef ficient calendar could be worked out." One step in this direction will be made when the Interfraternity Coun cil dance committee meets tomorrow afternoon to adopt rules and regula tions concerning dances which will be hold by fraternities next semester. The committee will meet in Room 305, Old Main ; at 4 o'clock. • Scouting criticism of the preferen tial dance elan, Platt said, "I can't, see wheie it is going to Werk'a hard ship upon the fraternity arrange ments. Very likely' the committee will decide that preferred dance dates will not have to ha turned in to us at the beginning of the semester. "The plan is only an experiment and we'll have to go slowly until we got better organized, I realize," hel continued. "If fraternities make known' their selections about six weeks ahead of the date, the com mittee will have time either to. sanc tion or reject the plea and still give the houses sufficient'time to work out other arrangements concerning band contracts, and so forth." LOAN FUND DANCE SErFOR FED 23 • • , Student Union Will Chrge J5t..00 , .Per Couplefoi• Function in : Recreation Hall Anticipating a • "Battle of Music" between two popular campus dance bands, junior membets of the Student Loan Fund committee are drawing up plans for its second all-College func tion'to be held in Recreation hall, Fri day night, February .23. In order to swell the funds in the depleted treasury, 'a charge of $l.OO per couple will be made, according to Carson W. Culp '34 chairman of the committee.' Since 'the Union expecti to hold at least another dance next se mester, it will be necessary to make this charge he added. 1=T1315!Ill!IM To facilitate matters, a checking charge of ten cents per couple for cloaks will be made, with the entire proceeds going to the Student Loan Fund. .By making the dance strictly informal, the Student Union holies to make the• get-together feeling strong er, Culp added. Freshmen, customs will not be en forced for the dance while W. S. G. A. officials are *expected to declare the dance It free social function. In the event , that . the dance is held until 1 o'clock, it:is probable that the co eds will be' given a late dating per misSion. "The Interfraternity dance corn mittee.will be .requested not to permit the scheduling of any house dances on that date," the committee Chair man said. "This' will - be aided ma terially hy the enforcenient 'of rt . re cent ruling of the council which is empowered to regulate all dances," he explained. FRESHMEN 'COLLEGIAN' • CANDIDATES WILL MEET Rosenzweig, To Hold Last Meeting Of SemeSter Tomorrow• Night Freshman candidates for the COL LEGIAN will meet in the Corned- Inc office, Room 312 Old Mairi; - at 7:30 'o'clock tomorrow night nntlei the direction of Bernard .H. 'Rosen weig '34, who is conducting the series of meetings. ' Thii will be the last meeting of the semester, according to Rosenweig. Any freshman interested who has not yet attended may sign up at this meet ing for the course in' instruction,. he' added. Each candidate is to bring a short news story of some campus event to the meeting, RosenOleig . said. 'Will iam N. Ulerich '3l, a former editor of the' COLLEGIAN, and • presnnt managing editor of the State College Tilers. will address the candidates.• Military Ball Be Held on Frhiai Night Featuring an entire militaristic decorative theme, R 0. T.- C. of ficers of Penn Statelwill hold their annual Military Ball. in the Armory, Friday night, with :music furnished by Bill Bottorf, according to Harry 3. Lavo '34, studettt colonel and chairman of the committee. Invitations have been extended to the Reserve Officeri4raining Corps of eighteen colleges,:' Lava stated. Dancing will be held from 9 until 1 O'clock, admission being by invita tion only. A. red, ,and blue decoration theme will: be used, with machine gun emplacements. set in various places ,about; the, room. Faculty Will Vie In SartOiial Poll, Students To Determine `Best Dreised' of College' Staff Professors, that class of campus personages which -has - long been the background against which' students shine, will be given 'an opportunity to see:their names in •:largeS type by means of a "Best-Dressed Professor" poll to be conducted - .by the COLLEG IAN Wednesday, • Thdrsday, and Fri day of this week. Under the rules of the contest, any solon of the classrooM, from the as sistant* statistician of the School of Education to the most austere ' and officiouS 'Dean, 'is eligible. • Realizing that "smoothneis" cannot be mean- , tared by academic standards, the 'com mittee in charge 'of ' 7 .the contest de-! liberatcly attached ablanket signifi-. canoe to • the word, "professor." Women Don't Count e. ing. that- tlie , Clam of women faculty members has influencetrtheir mode. of dress to a point. where; as a ' whole, they .easily eclipse their ,masculine..contemporat , -ies in the. matter of haberdashery, the COLLEGIAN • has .• decreed , that,. the contest shall be• open to men only. The conductors of -the contest feel. that each School undoubtedly con tains faculty members who will be outstanding in competition for the coveted title, but, at the same- time, studenti are urged not to permit school• prejudice and self-interest to . bias their ultimate choice. To Judge ort Consistency According to the rules of the con tests, candidates are not to be judged upon the bizarreness of their cos tumes, but rather on consistent adher ence to a neat, pleasing, harmonious, and fetching garb. This is due in part to the fact that, this campus is notorious for its.conservatism in the matter of style. Ballots will be distributed to all men's and women's fraternities and dormitories Wednesday.... Other stud ents who desire to vote in the contest may do so at the Student Union desk, Old Main, Thursday and Friday. KLEIN NAMED NEW Y.W.C.A. SECRETARY Boston University'. Graduate Arrives To Assume Position us First Full-Time Women's Head Twiln B. Klein has been named as the first full-time head of Penn State Y. M. C. A., 'to succeed Mrs. Harry W. Scam a n s who conducted the position on a part-time basis until early this fall, when she resigned. Miss Klein arrived in. State College Saturday afternoon, and will begin developmental work on th e Y. W. C. A.. program,: immediately. She was one of the Penn State del egates to the Student Movement con ference held here over tho .week-end. Miss Klein is a graduate of Okla homa City University, where she re eeived her bachelor of arts degree in 1930. Since then she has undertaken - graduate work in religious fields at BOS'ton University, where she re ceived her master's degree in relig ious education in 1932.. To introduce their new secretary to members of campus organizations, members of the Y. W. C. A. cabinet will hold a tea in the Y. W. C. A. 'room, on the third floor of Old Main Sunday afternoon. Guests .will be sent invitations early this week. Appointed as • research assistant, Dr. Harlan W. Nelson, who received his doctorate from the University of. Illinois in June, recently. became a member of the staff. of. the School of , Mineral Industries. He will make investigations in - the fundamental properties of coal. LE Ball Budget Too High, Council Delegate Declares Dance Appropriations for Function Should Be Trimmed to Proportions in Keeping With Times, Wolff Holds Declaring that he favored continu ing Interfraternity Ball as an annual affair, Frederick S. Wolff '34, a member of Interfraternity Council, nevertheless reiterated his stand made in the Council chamber last Wednes day night that the dance budget has grown beyond proportions in keeping with the times. "There. is no reason why a budget !of two - thousand dollars would not be i sufficient for the Ball," Wolff said. I "Many major College dances are run on a budget of less than two thousand dollars, some even less. . `Tor instance, one all-College dance this y'ear will have a budget of only $l,BOO, one band, and a top of $550 for its services,". the Council delegate continued. "It seems to follow logic ally that if one major dance can get along with such an appropriation, then Interfraternity Ball can do the same thing. "With a budget of two thousand dollars, the committee could contract a 'name' band and a secondary band for about $1,200, since the Ball is a two-band dance," he explained. "Dec orations, booths, and other expenses wouldn't amount to much more than six hundred dollars. "There is no reason why a repeti tion of last year's deficit should oc cur," Wolff maintained." With around forty houses participating in the Ball, an assessment of fifty dollars should be adequate to take care of all expenses, without reassessing the in dividual fraternities after the dance." . Asked whether he considered the fees paid to the general committee as PANEL DISCUSSION SET FOIUHURSDAY S.- 1 P. 5..c.4. To Sponsor Second in Series:—peters, Kaulfusi, 11 , Iorse Will Speak Determined to come to a definite agreement on at least several points, two professors, and two members of administrative organizations will meet for a P. S. C. A. panel discussion of College objectives in the Home Economics auditorium at 7:30 o'clock Thursday night. Through an organized 'bqll session' form of discussion, the mon will give their views on the statement of col lege objectives drawn up. last spring, and will end the discussion with some answer to the question, "What Chan ges or Additions to the Code are Needed?" Meeting Second. in Series Three men who will undertake the discussion had been named by last night. The fourth will be chosen to day. Those decided on are Dr. Charles C. Peters, of the .School of Education, Prof. Ernest E.' Kaulfuss, of the School of Engineering, and Adrian 0. Morse, executive secretary to the president. This meeting will mark the second of what is planned to be a series of panel discussions. The first, given over a month ago, was on the ques tion, "Will the NRA Lead to Fas cism?" Members of the political• sci ence and sociology departments lead that. 'bull session.' In charge of the , student committee making arrangements for this, discus sion is Berwyn L. Miller '35, who will introduce the speakers, as well as lead the question period which occu pies one third of the time allotted, During this period the audience, which is merely present during the professorial part of the discourse, is allowed to ask questions, either to the speakers collectively, or to individual men on the platform. PROF.' DAUGHERTY TO GIVE 'FIRESIDE SESSION READING Presenting program of readings front, the Spanish, Prof. Paul' R. DaughirtY,of the romance languages department,,. will give the tenth in the series Of Wednesday fireside readings in.the upper lounge of Old Main, Wednesday afternoon at 4:15 o'clock. These 'programs, sponsored by the College library, are usually made of selections from the works' of leading contemporary writers of the various countries in . Europe. GRANT HEADS COUNTRY CLUB Prof. Richard W. Grant, of the de partment' of musical education, has been ' elected president of the Centre Huila country club for 193.1. exhorbitant, Wolff stated that such a system was a fair reward for the work done in arranging the details of the Ball. "I have no objection to the committee chairman getting a fee and the 'cut' that cornea out of the cloak checking concession, but there are certainly leaks in the finances some where. "But I also think that the Ball. should be continued as an annual function of the College. There is no question about that," Wolff said. "You have to take into consideration that a good many men look forward and count on it." THOMPSON INJURED WHEN CARS CRASH 4 Occupants Unhurt in Accident East of State College Saturday Morning Mary Jane Thompson '35 is recov ering today from bruises and cuts about the face suffered when an au tomobile in which she was a passen ger collided with one driven by Will iam Seckingcr just east of State Col lege about 1 o'clock Saturday morn ing. Miss Thompson was thrown by the force of the impact against the metal windshield frame, and was treated by Dr. Ernest Coleman after the acci dent. The other occupants of the car, Wallace P. Ely 'l5, the driver; Jane A. Parker '36, and Paul A. Kennedy '36, were 'shaken up but otherwise unhurt. Both Thrown Into Ditch '• The two cars sideswiped just be yond the borough limits on the road to Lemont and each was thrown into a ditch on the same side of the road. After the crash, the two machines were over two hundred feet apart, ac cording to witnesses of the accident. Although Seckinger was uninjured, his car was stripped of the left front fender, a wheel, and part of the steer ing aparatus„ Ely's car had a fender smashed, and the running board and a front wheel ripped off. Ely and his companion had attend ed Panhellenic Ball and were on their way to an out-of-town restaurant when the accident occurred. Seckin ger was going west. HALEY'S CONDITION IMPROVES AFTER COMPLICATION OF ILLS Dr. Dennis E. Hatay, of the de partment of agriculture biochemistry, was reported recovering at his home last night after being ill of pneu monia and intestinal influenza since last Wednesday. No substitute has been engaged by the College in Dr. Haley's absence. The staff of the department is di viding the work, it was learned last night. After the NIRA, What? In this interview, pr. ranger dis cusses the permanence of thc Na tinned Industrial Recovery Act, and the possibilities of a change in gov ernment should the NIUA "I believe there is sufficient evi dence to satisfy me that the general policy, and program of the NIRA will be continued," said Dr. Jacob 'ranger, head of the department of history and political science. "So much of the New Deal program as is included in the Recovery Act of June, 1933 will by the terms of the law expire not later than June, 1935. "Judging from the position taken by President Roosevelt in his message to. Congress on January 3 and from the remarkable support given him by the new Congress," he continued, "there are not substantial reasons for be-! lieving that the Act will be permitted to run its full course even though Presidential or Congressional action may terminate it." In this Congressional message, President Roosevelt said that in his opinion a permanent featureof our modern industrial structure had been created, and Dr. Tanger agrees in part with him on this point. "One who forecasts always runs great danger of being contradicted and disproved," the political scientist said. "But the danger in this in stance is inviting. We must keep in mind that a program with a some what similar objection was urged in PRICE FIVE CENTS STUDENTS WARNED TO CURB EXCESSIVE WEEK-END DRINKING Undergraduates Admonished by Warnock To Check Small Misbehaving Group COLLEGE DISSATISFIED WITH STUDENT CONDUCT Student's Reminded Control of Own Action Essential to Continued Freedom Dissatisfied with the student behav ior over week-ends, Dean of Men Ar thur R. Warnock declared today that the apparent excessive drinking and ungentlemanly conduct will have to be curbed if the College authorities are expected to continue their policy of non-interference. "'There has been a progressive in crease in the difficulty of dealing with students who have been drinking," Dean Warnock said. "The situation has gotten out of band because a small number of students haven't been checked in their behavior, either by student leaders or faculty mem bers. Heid Conferences "Our problem is to become active in checking this small number who won't • behave," he continued. "The majority of the student body has been acting in a sensible manner concern• ing the. drinking question." Dean Warnock has held conferences with proprietors of several of the lo cal beer parlors as well as Burgess Wilbur F. Leitzell on the subject of student conduct. It is the College's attitude that it is the owner's respon sibility to make certain that no beer is.sold - to 'any student showing - signs of intoxication, the Dean said. In commenting on the situation, John T. Ryan jr. '3l, senior class president, declares that there was no desire on the part . of student authori ties to matte any attempt to control drinking by setting up a group or regulations. Regulation Moderate "At the outset the matter was left up to the students and it is their own obligation." Ryan declared. "There has been less regulation and interven tion on the par.t. of College authorities here at Penn State than at most other educational institutions, and the stud ents should bear that in mind. "The situation in a College town is different than in other places," he added. "It should be remembered that if a person or group of persons creates a nuisance in public, here it tends to reflect on the College in stead of on the individual." The student leader declared that lie did not believe that the misbehavior was caused by an increase in drink ing. Since repeal has become effec tive, drinking has become more appar ent because it is not done under cov er, and the boisterous conduct is the result of large numbers gathering in crowded places, lie explained. the 1890's and later was advocated by Theodore Roosevelt and partially • inaugurated by WoOdrow Wilson. "The Spanish-American War, how ever, entrenched capitalism as repre sented by big business," he continued, "and the World War in Wilson's ad ministration again halted social and economic legislation and restored the old order in 1920. The economic and social disorder following the 1929 crash gave rise to the New Deal just. as siMilar disorder in 1890 gave rise to Byranism anti in 1910 and 1912 to Roosevelt's Square Deal and Wilson's New Freedom." Dr. Tenger pointed out that the program of government in the last fifty years has been one formulated by the capitalistic or big-business in terests and voted into power by the great mass of industrial workers. The so-called middle class has not been particularly active in formulating po litical programs because of their fairly comfortable position and inher ent conservatism. "The depression has, however. deeply affected this class," he said. "Their 'savings and investment are in grave danger. The New. Deal ap peals to them as a means of escape from an order that brought on the crash of 1929. That is the reason the-road program inaugurated by President Roosevelt continue for some time. This is fundamentally a . middle (COll l ii , ltrd !Mg , : f we)
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