Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Published semi-weekly during the College year, except on holidaya, by students of The Pennsylvania State College, in the interest of the College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friend. EMT/ CHARLES A. MYERS '3l FREDERICK L. TAYLOR '34 Editor Businirs Manager GEORGE A. SCOTT '34 HAROLD J. DATSCH '34 Managing Editor Circulation Manager WILLIAM M—STEGMEIER '34 71. EDGAR FURMAN '34 Assistant Editor Local Advertising Manager BERNARD 11. ROSENZIVEIG '34 JOHN C. IRWIN '34 News Editor Foreign Advertising Manager JAMES M. SIIEEN . 34 FRANCIS WACKER '34 Sports Editor Classified Advertising Manager RUTH M. HARMON '34 KIAE I'. KAPLAN '34 Women's Editor Women's Managing Editor ~. EVA M. 171.1C1IFELDT '34 Women's News Editor James 13. Beatty jr. '35 John A. Brutzman '35 Phillip W. Fair jr. '35 A. Conrail Haines '35 Kenneth C. linirman '35 Burton Ronles jr. '35 J 11111,4 B. Watson jr. '35 Fred W. Wrisht '35 I=l Sohn .I'. Mathews '35 George A. Rutledge '35 Earl G. Keyser jr. '35 Harry d. Knott '35 B. Kenneth Lyons '35 Jack A. Alartin '35 Marcia B. Daniel '35 Elsie M. Douthett '35 Margaret W. Kinalne '35 AssociiiteciL g?Pcv,inte 'Press IZEMIZZ Editorial Office, 313 Old Main Telephone 500 Business Office, Nittany Printing Bldg—Telephone 292-W !damming Editor This Issue - Novo Editor This !shoe MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1934 AN AMERICAN YOUTH MOVEMENT? 8. Student Conservatisin "The Student Awakes!" says the idealist, reading of a new undergraduate interest in contemporary prob 12ms. "Impossible," replies the cynic, who is enough of a realist to know that the current student revolts in such colleges as C. C. N. Y. are not typical the country What is the reason for this conservatism and lack of protest in the student bodies as a whole? Why does the American student bring up the rear in progress, in stead of being in the vanguard? One answer, at least, is that the atmosphere surrounding the college student and the background front which he conies are not the sort to breed reaction against the existing order. Most college students, like most other people ; are conformers. Supposedly they are picked men and above tho crowd. Yet they respect tradition and fashion in their own circle, submitting unconsciously, and almost willingly, to undergraduate mores. There is a right way and a wrong way to do things, and the true individualist is not welcomed. Grantng this conformity, then, what are the con ditions which put a premium upon it and discourage revolt? First, there are the innumerable .activities of undergraduate life which so occupy the student's atten tion that he has little time or inclination for becoming interested in deeper problems. The student is encour aged to "go out" for activities. He becomes engrossed in these because they are "closer home" and he under stands them. They are a more real part of his life than the struggles of the workers in a large factory, and he is therefore more interested in them. Then there are the other spheres of undergraduate activity—subjects which are scarcely calculated to arouse his interest in present-day conditions and prob lems. Ho is interested in those things whch are more personal to him—his bluebooks, flunks, dates, dances, movies, bridge, radio, and popular magazines. Why should he worry about the implications of unemploy ment in a remote city, when a discussion of last night's show is much -more interesting and less perplexing? Unless, of course, the lack of work affects him person ally and is'not so d2tached a thing as mere "unemploy- A.decided lack of po'ntnct - with pressing problems, until Very recently alt anaher 'repion for the student's apathy. Alis4rY oppression,• as well as some intelligence, breed ievolt.' The majority of college students have either not experienced any great misery, or, if they have, they have accepted it grudgingly and admirably without thinking through its implications. Added to the comparative seclusion of the campus in making the student politically and economically conser vative, is his background and his reason for being in col lege. A Columbia University survey made several years ago shows that the fathers of students in fifty-five liberal arts colleges and universities, almost half were engaged in business. Equipped with the attitudes of the money-making class—the. men of action, these students could not be expected to adopt the viewpoint of the radi cals. If they are not satisfied with the present set-up, they are at least not dissatisfied enough to support any things which would alter it greatly. So they vote for Hoover in their straw polls. Then, too, the student comes to college not to learn how he might improve conditions or not to seek true knowledge, but to prepare himself Tor making a living. Iris college education, he hopes, will improve his chances under a competitive regime. 'Why should he attempt to change it? He is therefore not intellectually curious or uneasy. 110 doesn't have time to be. There are too many things occupying his attention; things which affect him more personally. His classes and lectures, for the most part, fail to arouse any lasting interest in him, and he turns in his leisure moments to the simpler and pleasanter diversions of college life. He is little concerned with attempting to understand and solve the problems facing his generation. Why should he be? Neither his back ground nor his present environment nor his purpose for being in college encourage it. ONE OF THE MOST fruitful sources of petty stu dent graft in these days of controlled finances is the matter of key and favor "cutbacks." Partly because Na BOARD EIEMZII3 __ Fred W. Wright. 95 _ A. Conrad Heinen 'll being ajar, the picture she got was of the lass sitting demurely on the edge of the bed and King, poor lad, Judy ,Lasich ex-football captain is _married . Orchid's to P:aiiy , ..l,cal BaSt.one . .Nancy Fletcher . C 'smoked a reallY4itie'ciiiti.reeentlY, and maintainediy her health ... Bob EllstrOm and Blackie reunited ... The Varsity teams can't start practice until five o'clock these <lays because the coaches don't finish playing handball until then ... What freshman town girl hiked out to the Chi Phi lodge alone Saturday night to date one of their ultra-smooth freshmen? ... More cowbell at basketball games . . . An orchid to Bill Edwards for his cheerleading . Director Bezdek, Who were the Ragen Colts? they were forced to it by money-seeking students and partly because they found it good business, jewelry salesmen have been in the habit of offering a small sum to the heads of various student organizations in return for the contract for' keys, favors, etc. This year; how ever, the attitude of several student leaders is more ethical and they have attempted to discourage the prac tice. This is entirely commendable, but there is - no cer tainty that when these students leave office their suc cessors will be as honest. In order that this practice may be curtailed permanently, the precedent of calling for sealed bids in all jewelry buying should be establish ed. It would be understood, of course, that the bids would be opened at a regular meeting of the organiza tion concerned, and that the lowest bid would be accept ed. The lowest price, rather than the biggest "cut back," therefore, would be the basis on which the con tract would be awarded, as it:should be. • IN ORDER THAT German students ; and the Ger man people as a whole, may not be contaminated by the .anti-war propaganda of one of their number, iron-man Goering has banned • all :copies• of "All Quiet on the Western Front." Hero is a good example of the militarist spirit. When it cannot answer the truth in a thing, it places a ban upon it. When it realizes that its power may be'undermined, it uses its only possible weapon, force. OLD MANIA It was very annoying. There were a hundred senior E. E.'s in the class and not one of them could Six that broken light socket. Professor Charles Lam bert Kinslee, School of Electrical Engineering, was becoming rather bored with the whole proceedings. It vas disturbing to the routine of the class to have all this exeitarnent over an ordinary socket; they didn't really need the light anyway Ire walked over to the offending and stubborn piece of mechanism and tapped it casually with his "It's broke," he announced 1,17 e didn't go to Pan hell Ball. And neither did the Campuseer, thank you. Not that we couldn't have gotten in; the matter was all fixed ❑n with the Custodians of the Lists. There just wouldn't have been any sense in our going as Philo Hines wasn't going to be there and Jack Ryan (one of the three who rated special invitations) told us Friday after moon that he was going to the Venetian Gardens in Besides, the Campuseer really doesn't look at all well in an evening gown MMMI More Pome The right curve Adds verve I:=M3 Sorno people are always being misunderstood King Burke attended a dinner party not so long ago, a very select and respectable affair. During dinner King struck up an acquaintance with a rather charm- ing miss who sat across from him. And before the meal was very far along they were old friends Then came catastrophe. In the act of stretching across the table for a cigarette he felt something give am! malizecl that his suspenders had torn loose from their moorings and brought the buttons with them Being a matter of fact person he explained his pre dieament to his new feminine pal. She laughed and suggested that they adjourn to the bed-room where she could sew the buttons back on. They did All went well and good. They went into the bed. room, she broke out a needle and thread and to sim- plify matters, he proceeded to divest himself of his But just then the hostess walked by, and the door in the most incriminating act of stepping out of his Yessir, some people are always being misunder CMIEMI "College? ... Give me 146, please." "Good evening. Sigma Tau Phi House "May I speak to Rosenzweig, please." • "Who's calling Mr. Rosenzweig?" • "Does it really matter?" ... "Bernie ain't here, 'Bye." =EI S'now Fakes THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN `Collegian' To the Editor: It is not enough to say that I was dreadfully hurt by your statement that my letter in Monday's COLLEG IAN "might suggest satire." But then isn't it strange What a college educa tion will do for even an editor at times? Neither your initial column attack ing the Senatorial Scholarship awards 'nor your reiteration in Monday's issue !state other than that the peddler in question had "named two State Sena tors and implicated eighteen more, over a third of the total numbers of Senators." To date the names of the two have not appeared with your wri tings. Would it not be best to expose them so that-their constituents may turn them out at the next election? And further, how can eighteen more be implicated without being named? If this scoop is on the level, let's make the whole thing a matter of public 'concern so that an irate public can make some adjustment. Returning to the spirit of my first article, "You !do great injury to the names of hon lorable men who have conscientiously administered their awards according to the worth' and the need of the ap plicant" I want to re-emphasize the !fact that not all of Pennsylvania's statesmen are guilty of such politi !cal chicanery. Nor will I believe , that as many as eighteen have been implicated until judicial proceedings justify this claim. I candidly admit that as yet I hav en't been able to find actual record of tho fact that "all scholarships are worth $lOO a year." I fell guilty of (assuming such was the case on the basis of the amount given here at !Penn State. I do not feel, however, that I can be held unforgivable for, adopting the COLLEGIAN policy in such matters. Your statement that the $lOO award at Penn State covers the cost of tuition is an error of this sort. Students of Penn State will tell you that there is no tuition charge at a State school. In the College Cata logue on page 70 under the heading, Senatorial Scholarships we read: "These scholarships entitle the holder, to an exemption front the incidental' fee of 0100 a year." On page 00 of i the same bulletin under the title "Ex-I Ipenses" we also read among the (General fees, "Incidental Fee of $lOOl per college year as part payment !for heating, lighting, and maintenance of classrooms; laboratories, etc." It lis therefore evident that an Incidental !Fee (the 'fee . which the • Senatorial Award covers) is not a tuition fee. Hence, another COLLEGIAN assumP-, tion. Q. E: 'D. While I'm here at State I'd like tol become as liberally - educated as possi-, Ible,-if you then clarify' I how and' when "evidence" ceases to be. ("evidence." You write: "There is no vidence of racketeering in the distri-I bution of. Penn.. State., scholarships. But there is enough verbal evidence , , that some degree of favoritism exists to,suggest that a change would be de sirable." Intuitive caution must have , prompted your use of qualifying words such as "verbal" and "some de gree." Yet I feel that verbal evidence' doesn't carry ;much weight. At least, such is not the case in high places. Wjith the good names of our Senators at stake, gossip is unjustifiably ma. licious. -ROBERT L. DURKEE '35 (Recognizing the need, the COL• LEGIAN wishes R. L. D. the best of luck in his efforts to become liberally educated.) To the Editor Fpr_six,_years' I have beep popping off about the - fadt that EaSternliatik etball was slower :than Western be cause 'there was' too : little expert shooting from the floor. Big Ten clubs usually depend upon one or two men with good point averages from beyond the defensive cone to suck the opposition out from the "hole." This serves a • double purpose: it gives forwards a better chance to break for the basket; and when the long-shot men are right, it breaks the opposition morale. Fans of several years ago remem ber Sortet of West Virginia and Hay man of, believe, Syracuse. Their time shots from out on the floor wrecked. a sPlendid defense set-up under the basket. KELLER ANNOUNCES NEW EXTENSION COURSE PLAN Arrangements for Foremen Training Made by Tyrone Paper Mill Prof. J. Orvis Keller, head of the department of engineering extension, has just announced completion of ar rangements with a large pulp aril paper company of Tyrone for an ex tension program of training for eight groups of formen. Gilbert D. Thont as, foreman training specialist on the engineering extension staff, will con duct the course of twenty meetings. This company has used College ex tension courses to a considerable ex tent in the past. In 1931, Professor Keller gave a series of lectures on in dustrial management to thirty-five executives of the company.. Each ' year some of, its executives are sent to the campus in June to enroll in in dustrial management courses offered by the department. At the present time Mr. Thomas is meeting nine groups of men'for ex tension courses in New Kensington and five groups at a manufacturing concern at Clairton. Letter Box It is pleasing, then, to note that Coach Leslie is apparently refusing to spend . two minutes at . the end of each offensive drive for playing catch. Thomas and Stocker, particu larly, are beginning to 'throw from the floor; and despite the howls of uninitiated local patrons, when and if these.boYs begin to raise their aver age (and we admit this is essential) you should see a corresponding sieve , like falling away of the inner works through which MacFarlane and Fletcher may knife into closer scor ing position. Now if Coach Leslie should deny any consciousness of this technique, then I am only fooling. —Scrub-Prof Speaking Of Books The Romance of the Fur Trade "Beavers, Kings, and Cabins" by Con stance L. Skinner A romantic book about a romantic period written, autWoritatively from source material by a scholar. The author grew up in the northern wilds of British Columbia and spent much time among traders and Indians. She devoted most of her time 'since to writing and e;nloring. She is a nov ' clist, poet and historian and a Fellow of the American Geographical Society and the Royal Geographical Society. Languages, nationalities and gov ernments were determined by this pioneer industry. The great battle for supremacy in ,North America waged between England and France was partly won by the colonial fur traders. Beaver is the hero of this Look and the fur trade is developed from colonial times to the present. "The Testament. of Youth" by Vera One generation which has lost everything speaks a word of warning to all future generations. This is the tragic autobiography of one growing up to young womanhood at the time of the World War who lost friends, relatives, lover as well as hopes and ideals. •There are scenes on a doomed hospital ship, of the coming of the Americans and of post war Europe' . shattered and broken. The writing is of high calibre. "Ah Wilderness" by Eugene O'Neill. In common with many of his broth ers in the fields of the novel 'and Poetry in the same period, Eugene O'Neill is constantly experimenting with new forms and new ideas.' "The Strange' Interlude" covered a long period of time in presentation. "The Hairy Ape" brought animals into the cast. "Dynamo" included an inam- Mate mechaniCal force. ' "Ah Wilderness" is a comedy, an American folk play of the recent past and will be received with a pleasure and interest akin to that of Mark Sullivan's "Our Times" and Frederick Allen's "Only Yesterday." "King Edward VII" by E: F. Benson. Edward failed to. inherit his moth er's predilection for the Germans and the close relations of England and France in the first decade of the twentieth century were due as much to him as to anyone else. • This is an excellent account of the king who grew up to his future responsibilities in spite of his mother's refusal to have him share in the affairs of state. • :Three Cities";by Shelom Asch. St. Petersburg, Warsaw and Mos cow appear respectively in a ihree: part novel, a vast canvass which pic tures the story of several Jewish fam ilies before and during the Revolution. Here are the tragedies and triumphs of the influential and wealthy Jews as well as those of the destitute and down-trodden element. The last sec tion is largely devoted to the great war in Russia, to the - October revolu, tion, and to the gradual development of the Bolsheviki. The author is one of the best living Yiddish writers and has done a notable piece of work. M. I. BUILDING TO OPEN FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION All Laboratories, Research Projects Will Operate•for Visitors Open house, a popular activity at a number of leading colleges and uni versities, will be held.,he - re for the first time by the faculty and student body of the School of Mineral Indus tries March 21. Under the plan, the Mineral In dustries building will be thrown open for inspectioni of the laboratories And 'research projects will be in full operation and both students and mem hers of the staff will ho on hand to explain the - work. The program embraces the entire field of the mineral prOduction and primary processing industries such as geology, mining, petroleum and nat ural gas, fuel technology,' metallurgy, and ceramics. . . ENGINEERS TQ,HOLI! PARTY .• . . Plans were. , announced today for the mid-wbtter — Engincering faculty get-together to be held, at 'the Nit tany. Lion •Inn at 8 o'clock Monday night. The committee in charge in cludes Kapp, Torpley, Tel)°, and Queer. Hetzel Will Deliver Report Tomorrow 'President Ralph D. Hetzel will Present his regular report to the board of trustees . of the College at their semi-annual meeting in the State Education building at Harris burg tomorrow afternoon. It . is understood that President Hetzel will discuss the necessity for keeping down the costs to students in order to avoid a large drop in enrollment. Business of the day will also include the election of offi cers. KING, PITTSBURGH CHEMIST, TO ADDRESS A. C. S. MEETING "Vitamin C" will be the title of the !lecture to be given by Dr. Charles G. King, of the departinent of diem ; istry, at the University of Pittsburgh at the meeting of the American Chem ical Society, Central Pennsylvania section, in the ChemiStry Amphithea tre at 7:30 o'clock Thursday night. Several research men in foreign countries are working on Vitamin C, and Dr. King has made a through study of the chemical nature of this vitamin and has published the re- sults. his lecture he will discuss the chemical and nutritional phases of the subject. DOELPfI '37, ACCIDENT VICTIM, DISCHARGED FROM INFIRMARY Frederick Doelp '37, injured in an automobile accident Friday, January 5, was discharged from the College i infirmary yesterday afternoon while James T. Stott '37, admitted Friday, was discharged Saturday. Joseph E. Hughes '34, admitted Thursday, and 'Marvin L. Eshelman '35, admitted Saturday, are still patients at the hospital. James N. Fogg '34, Ann A. Green walt, '36, and Thomas W. Hamilton '37, admitted yesterday, are also still in the infirmary. A Rennet!' Maiers '35 was- discharged Thursday from the Centre County Hospital in Belle fonte where he had been under ob. r servation for appendicitis. After NRA, What? (Continued from, page one) class program aimed to proceed be tween the excesses of capitalism and Bolshevism. The future course is a difficult one, he added. If the gov ernment is too severe with capital and big business, a reaction against the present leveling or socializing, will Iset in the form of a well subsidized dictatorship." On the other hand,' he pointed out, if labor is not amply conciliated, a proletarian revolution . with Russian Communism may ensue. The temper of the American people thus far in the depression has been such as to give assurance that a middle-of-the road program can he carried out by civil processes, Dr. Tanger believes. "The choice of means will afford ample campaign materials for the two major political parties," he con cluded. EGOLF'S ,TENTH ANNUAL CLEARANCE AND REMOVAL SALE STARTS SATURDAY, JANUARY 20TH Spring Samples NOW ON DISPLAY WEAR CUSTOM MADE CLOTHES They Cost No More Than Ordinary Clothes SMITH'S TAILOR SHOP 110 East Beaver Avenue Cleaning : . Pressing : Repairing . • "You Can Get It At M etzger ' s " TEXT BOOKS—NEW AND USED For Second Semester • • • ' • SELL US YOUR USED BOOKS SEE OUR WANT LIST SPECIAL-72 SHEETS OF PAPER as With Sea L-406 Plain-50 Envelopes Only 89c Monday Evening, Jantiary 15, 103 d 120 STUDENTS HEAR DR. CURRY SPEAK P.S.C.A. Student Movement Conclave Attracts Representatives Of 7 Institutions With over 120 delegates represent ing seven colleges and universities, the P. S. C. A. Student Movement conference, which began here Satur day morning, came to its conclusion yesterday afternoon with an address by Dr. A Bruce Curry, chief speaker of the conclave, before student and faculty delegates at the Hugh BeaVer Room, in Old Main. Bucknell University had the largest representation at the conclave, with twenty-two men and eight women students registered from that institu tion. Other colleges represented among the fifty-three delegates were Lock Haven, Bloomsburg, and Mans field State Teachers colleges, Wilson college, and Susquehanna University. The conference opened with an ad: dress by Dr. Curry on the topic of his new book, "The Bible and the Quest of Life." The second session, conduc -1 ted by Forrest D. Brown, general• secretary of. the Bucknell association, was concerned with discussion of at tempts to improve Christian Associa tion programs through "Program Building." Saturday night, following a Stud ent Movement dinner in .the Sand wich Shop, which was attended by over 100 delegates and interested Penn State students, another session under'the direction of Dr. Curry was held. A 'doggie' roast at the' Andy Lytle cabin concluded the day's ac tivity. Mr. Brown conducted a ses sion on programs Sunday morning, while Dr. Carry also spoke in chapel Sunday morning. . Young People Detract From Their Charm If They Suffer From EYESTRAIN Red-rimmed, tired eyes can rob even the most attrac tive persons of much of their beauty. Glasses Relieve Eyestrain DR. EVA B. ROAN OPTOMETRIST 420 E. College Ave. Phone 41
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