rage TWO
PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Published semi-weekly during the College year, exeunt on holidays.
by students of The Pennsylvania State College, in the Interest of the
College. the students, faculty. alumni, and Mends.
CHARLES A. MYERS FREDERICK L. TAYLOR '34
Editor Business Manager
GEORGE A. SCOTT '34 HAROLD J. ItATSCII '34
Managing Editor Circulation Manager
WILLIAM M. STFIGMEIER '34 H. EDGAR FURMAN '34
• Assistant Editor Local Advertising Manager
BERNARD 11. ROSENZWEIG '34 JOHN C. IRWIN '34
Non's Editor Foreign Advertising Manager
JAMBS M. 1411EF.N '34 FRANCIS WACKER '34
Sports Editor Claisiiied Advertising Manager
RUTH AL lIARMON '34 MAE P. KAPLAN '34
Women's Editor Women's Managing Editor
EVA M. lILICHFELDT '3l
Women's News Editor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
James 11. Beatty jr. •nr, :John A. Brut7ntan . 33 Phillip W. Fair Ir.=
A. Conrad Mitres mr, Kenneth C. Huffman 'l5 Burton Bowles jr.
James IL Wanton jr. Ird". Fred W. Wright 13
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Sala: .1. Ma'am. '33 Ceorae A. Rutledge '35 Earl C. Keyser jr. '35
Harry J. KnOIT '33 13. Kenneth Lyons '35 Jack A. Markin '36
PAnnaging Editor Thk Ismie
Kure Editor This Issue
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1934
AN AMERICAN YOUTH MOVEMENT?
1. Germany: A Contrast
While varioni parts of the American studant body
are embedded in overstuffed chairs reading their five-
cent magazines or are standing on platforms demanding
resolutions "against" something at radical mass meet
ings, a million and a half German young people are
pledging their allegiance to the Third Reich as members
of the "Hitler Jugend." Germany i probably Tor:most
among the countries of the world 'in organizing her
youth—non-students as «•ell as students. For better or
for worse, the German Youth Moverirmt is quite a eon-
tract to the present heterogeneous accumulation of
young people's groups in America.
The Hitler Jugend is essentially a nationalistic
movement. Nazism has captured the imaginations of
the German youth as well as the small middle class. To
youth for whom there was no hope, National Socialism
held out the alluring bait of a new and better Germany.
Hitler knew how to appeal to youthful idealism and
enthusiasm, and the young people turned to him en
masse. Believing that the unification of the German
nation is the only way to insure national well-being, the
numerous youth, organizations have amalgamated into
one—an organization of all Germans of the younger
r,enci ation
Although a great deal of the publicity from Ger
many about her Youth Movement must be taken as prop
aganda 3vhich hides the whole truth, the reader cannot
help but be impressed with the fact that here is some
thing new. The German youth are in dead earnest. They
have forgotten the trivialities of the campus and work
shop, and are embroiled in the struggle for a new Ger
many, however hazy that may be. One young German
leader says of the Hitlet:'Jugend, "The organization is
not there for its own sake or for the sake of the young
man or young woman nor is, it the weapon of a- definite
class oreaste. It is the conummity.oPthe-entire,young
er generation which feels its fate bound up with that of
the nation and which wishes to have its share in the life
and struggles of the nation." The writer forgot to add,
of course, that it is the "entire younger generation" with
the exception of the Marxists and the Jews.
The organization and activities of this German youth
group are tremendous. The network of youth hostels,
where a young person may spend the night for a very
small cost, was a part of the youth movement before
Hitler and has been retained under the present organi
zation. By means of this system; the German youth,
students and workers, can see their country cheaply
and learn to know it. In 1932 four million young people
spent a night 'in these 2,100 shelters scattered all over
Germany. '
The leaders of the m'o , iementare-yoitng' people, one
being orily twenty-two-:yi4rs of age.. The -head leader
is appointed by Hitler:, , Xumei-oti depprtinents, of the
organization handle welfare; hygiene,' labOr service (in'
which nearly every mala youth serves), leadership
schools, seven youth publications, and student affairs.
There are dish-let and local commissioners who make up
the minor executive side of the unified organization.
Here, then, is a mil Youth Movement. The youth
of a whole nation have been fused together into an or
ganization which has a definite national purpose. "These
young men and young women are determined to do their
part in the moulding of the future; they have grown up
in hard times and they are conscious that they are the
Germany of tomorrow." The postscript is, of course:
Are they conscious of just where that Germany of to
morrow will lead? Are they conscious of the implica
tions their Youth Movement holds for them and for the
youth of other countries?
FOLLOWING STUDENT INQUIRIES, athletic au
thorities have compiled a statement of the Athletic As
sociation finances for the last fiscal year. The report
was released annually until the School of Physical Edu
cation and Athletics was established. Difficulties in
keeping student and College financial statements sep
arate as a result of the move and apparent lack of .stu
dent interest led to its discontinuance, until it was called
forth again this year. A $20,000 surplus is revealed by
the report. There are several reasons for this. First,
unusually profitable football contracts were made three
year's ago which accounted for a great deal of the pres
ent surplus. Second, the guarantee for the last game of
the 1932 schedule was paid despite the game's cancella
tion. Third, minor economies have been made in nearly
every sport. But in spite of this surplus, it is unlikely
that there will be any either this year or next year.
Temporary loss of profitable football contracts is one
reason. In vice• of the rather dark f Mancini future for
sports here for the next year or so, this surplus for last
year does not seem unjustified,
Good Old State. Even the janitors are imbued
with the spirit of loyalty which has characterized Penn
State men and :women from the stars - , yea verily,
from the beginning.
Not long.ago a very dignified, respectable, and al
together parsonish-appearing janitor was strolling
along close to the front wall of Old Main. Suddenly
he stooped and picked up an empty gin bottle which
was lying there. Ile turned it slowly in his hands
grimacing his disgust.. Then, apparently, a horrbile
thought hit him. Ile looked up to the second floor
of the building slowly, incredulously. That bottle had
been lying directly under the window of The Presi
dent's office!
Quickly and fnrfully he stuffed the bottle under
his coat and hurried away.
John A. Itrunr.mon 'll3
-.Fred W. Wright '35
1321 Bria
kttraet friends
A bunch of Dells got together the other night and
decided to have some fun. So they got Dave McClay
from the Alnha Chi Rho lodge to come over and dress
up ns a girl. He didn't make a particularly nice
looking damsel and they soon tired of the fun. Then
smoebody had a ,brilliant idea.
They put Dave to bed, turned opt the lights, and
vaited. Not long after Dave had retired one of the
more amorous brothers came in. (Fits name was
"City-line" or something similar). He was called
aside and told that "someone wanted to see him in th
bedroom."
Ile went into the chamber somewhat mystified,
was there about ten minutes, dashed out, vent up to
his room, and dashed back.
About five minutes later he came out again look
ing pretty mad
'—Here is a lightning change of costume
to add to the bewilderment of the world at large.
"Tesoro" is, at one.moment, a casual, tomboy, loung
ing pajama; the next, an elusively feminine hostess
gown with trailing skirt that wraps around the waist
in the flash of a second.
"Tesoro"
Convenient and fa's/ the thing for the - perfect
Professor W. G. C. Thompson, Penn State, 1908,
of the Mechanical Engineering Department, delights
in telling his classes of the jobs he has had, the places
he has been, and the number of years he has worked
in various lands and climes.
But he has some very practical-minded. lads in
his, classes: . They . checked' up . on'ldrii' 7 One‘dii -. zirid •
found that his total of years in various positions added
up to the astounding figure of 160 since he was grad
uated from this our College.
71.1 , aynard Wood fell asleep in a one o'clock to ba
awakbned by the two o'clock class in that room ....
the ghost of John A. Wood, '33 proxy, hovering over
thu Student Government convention It which,
incidentally they. elected a gent president who wasn't
there. He was wandering around town buzzed during
the whole shebang ... . College - Humor went Froth
with a vengeance this issue, using some twelve cuts
from the local rag ..
~. some infidel stole a gallon of
ice cream from tha,!'Y" office recently and left it in
the Men's room on the floor above .... Jim Boring,
Chuck Smith; Hortense Gans and ; ,'Wet , , , Willie" Heine
man switched theirtsignals i SatuAy.night and cyan'
body ended Up W4heirerybodyrelses''flante .... '
Director Bezdek„ who were the Ragen Colts?
—THE MANIAC
For sheer poverty of thought and complete lack
of intellectual courage no recent occurrence on an
American camptia is more strikingly representative
than the refusal of the American Student Federation
to approve a resolution condemning censorship of the
college press.
To the resolution offered by a delegate from Co
lumbia University the reactionary representatives of
175 colleges and universities turned a cold shoulder
and indifferently voted to table it. ,The shoddy think
ing of the convention was accurately expressed in one
delegate's dismissal of the resolution with the asser
tion that he for one "did not want his college's dirty
linen hanging on the - line for public gaze."
In coldly turning their smug backs on the, pro
posal for a free and uncensored college press the Na
tional Student' Federation is definitely committed to
the continuance of worthless campus house organs
which persistently, close their eyes to the real issues
of the present day American university, and, instead,
confine their Pollyanna efforts to continuous glorifi
cation of the picaynne affairs of the campus. That
such a condition of jOurnalistic poVerty exists among
American universities and colleges is amply demon
strated by careful reading of the scores of dailies and
weeklies which'. Clutter up our desk every day.
It seems almosi•incredible that the moss-covered
minds of the delegates who voted for a "kept" press
Were not in some small measure, at least, exhilarated
by the 'wholesome atmosphere of the new, liberal spirit
in the nation's capital. That they have refused to
accept the challerige.for a free press and free ex
change of conflicting ideas is striking evidence that a
great mass of American students trod far behind their
elders in the march toward social and intellectual
progress.
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'HE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Footlights
WHISTLING IN THE DARK, a mystery
com edy- drums, by Laurence GI.. and Ed
ward Childs Carpenter. Presented by lite
Penn Slate Pinyon+. in Schwab maliturium.
Saturday ntahL. -Arthur C. Cloctingh. direc
tor. Music by the Players* Little Symphony
Orchestra, John E. Ryan, dilector.
EAST OF CHARACTERS
._ Eleanor Ferguson
Walter Bell
. Donald Frey
-
Lucas Brightman
A 1.,,. Segal
James Norris
Carl Heel:del
_ Stephen Gillian!
_ Noteer Richards
lielsy Ross
.. Robert 11nrmon
Jock Heel.
Willinm Graffarn
Harriet Lomb
Hilda
Joe tin!mime
Slim Scanlon ___
Hermon Lefkowitz
Charlie Shaw
Jacob Dillon
The Comick
Benny
%Valium Porter
Toby Von Boren _
Cap Oliorke
inure Sorgennt
Policeman
Telephone Operntor
"Whistling in the Dark" as the
Players interpreted it the other night
was a good gangster show which did
not become tiresome with the usual
racketeer cliches, "So you won't talk,
eh?" and "Caton, stick 'cm up." Gory
shootings, "chasing shags," court tri
als, and gunni6n's molls were all con
spicuously absent. Good acting dis
placed this rather worn and artificial
type of action for crime comedy-dra
ma: And the result—first class en
tertainment.
Maybe it was the fatty beef we had
for dinner, or, perhaps, it was the
rather wretched detective story which
we had read the night before. Any
' way, we weren't in the mood for a
gangster drama as we dragged our
selves to the Auditorium. We were
convinced that a bunch of Pennsyl
vania-dutch Sunday school actors
were going to bore us with an affec
ted New York underworld accent.
The opening scene didn't make us
feel any better. In fact, it made us
grumpier. For jUst as we expected,
the opening curtain revealed several
kleig-light novices trying to mimic'
Paul Muni, Edward G. Robinson, the
•Emperor Jones, and Stuart Erwin all
at the same time, and doing a rather
messy job of it, too. Of course the,
opening scene of any piny is usually
the most difficult to put across (par
ticularly if half the audience has had
fatty beef for dinner) but the sordid
fact remains that the prelude of the
show made US clutch our stomachs'
and reach for our mints.
Not until James Norris as Jake
Dillon, the' Boss, strode to "left cen-1
ter" did we ,swallow our mint and
take notice. Our digestion was • im
proving. 'By the time the other leads,
Kutner Richards as. Wallace, Porter,
and Betsy' Ross as' Toby Van Buren,:
made their' appearance the thought of,
the fatty beef had vanished as mys- 1
teriously as Eleanor Ferguson, the
Poker-faced maid, made her exits.
'We particularly wish to commend
Mr. Cioetiiigh for casting Mr. Ri
chards in a part which really permit
ted him 6 - demonstrate his dramatic
ability. We've been following . Mr.
Richards rather paternally ever since
his first ',Play , ' appearance, and
115 first sayers appearance, ark
we've always said that If given the
*right•part, - .lo?&The'-"big-time :Shft."
'ln"-SaturdarisightsholV
right part and he was "big-tiine
stuff."
The part of the conceited young
murder-mystery novelist who is forced
Ito plan the perfect crime in order to
protect both himself and his fiancee
from the ire of a gang of thugs fitted
I Mr. Richards as nicely as vermouth
: blends with gin. His work in the
second act when he loses his nerve
completely was done with a truly pro
fessional technique.
Miss Ross' work in the first act (lid
not impress us. However, she came
back onto the stage in the second
period with great deal mbre enter
ic fortitude and swept through her
lines for the remainder of the show
.like a real trouper. Perhaps the
.abundance, of - liquid refreshments
, Which . seemed to Clutter the -S'et 'had
.semething to. do, with her sudden
burst of inspired ability.
.Before fOrget,,we must mention
our one major criticism of Miss Ross.
Penn State Theatre-goers, She does
not know how to 'kiss! Even if Mr.
Richards did not prove to be an ex
actly amorous partner, she should
have tried to put a bit more feeling
into her osculating technique. There
is' an art to it—an art that the au-
dience wants more of. May we be so
bold as to suggest a few Joan Craw
ford-John Gilbert movies 'as research
work for Mr. Cloetingh before the
next Players' show?
Jake Dillon's stooges were good,
tad,'and indifferent. -We liked Alex
Segal as Charlie Shaw, and Lucas'
Brightman as Herman the Kike. Slim
Scanlon (Donald Frey) was one of
the characters who helped to spoil the
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much-lamented opening scene but his
panic-stricken lines in the last act
when Jake "gives him th heat" more
than made up for , hls 'early- faults.
Walter Ball, alias Joe . Salvatore,
seemed to be trying- too hard. He
didn't click.
The climax of the "toothbrush mur
der mystery" was; completely ,reined
by a couple of boys dressed up in
campus cop uniforms. We felt jus
tified in guffawing loudly becaUse the
scene was good burlesque, not good
melodrama. Boy Stouts playing cops
and robbers would have seemed a lot
more realistic.
There were some other minor. char
azters listed in the cast, but, with the
exception of the telephone • operator
(who really had a "voice with a
smile"), we didn't notice them, Maybe
our eyes are going bad, but we failed
to observe one of the policemen, Ben
ny, and the Cossack. However, we
won't quibble because it's (Mite prob
able that they may have surrepti
tiously slipped on and off the stage
while we were enjoying' the excellent
acting of Messrs. Norris and Rich
ards.
There were a number of high spots
in the show which we appreciated and
I approved. For instance, the beauti
ful silence which accompanied Mr.
Norris' fine facial expressions when
he received a telephone message from
the "big boss" in the first act. There
were also a few picayune things
Which annoyed us. Miss -Ross• should
be taught how to really wallop a man
who declaims her virtue; and Mr.
i Norris should remember to never,
! never, never get names twisted.
! Technically, the show was way
above-the average Players' produe
don. What we mean is that all the
iaccountrements (no; not acoustics)
were prepared anti served 'nicely. The
'set was good, the costumes were sen
sible (only one turtle-necked sweater
in the whole lot), and there were no
audible back-stage noises. In addition
to these, the• Players' Little Sym
phony Orchestra was , most superb.
With art ear that has been ill-attuned
to the Players' music for the past
three years, we felt justified in toy
ing with a superlative so -nonchalant.
Compared with the'Players' mus
ic of the recent past, John E. Ryan's
musicians were really "Most superb."
"Whistling in the Dark," we reit
erate, was first-class entertainment.
KNANDEL TO JUDGE CHICKS
Baby chicks and eggs will be judged
;by Prof. Herman C. Knandel, head of
.the poultry department, at the NeW
Jersey State Farm Show in Trenton
!this week. Professor Knandel has
been a judge at this show for the past
seven' years.
ANNOUNCING
The Formal Opening of a
GENERAL MERCHANDISING
ORGANIZATION
at 129 Pugh Street
Beside Glennland Pool
TUESDAY, JAN. 24th, at 9 O'clock
Featuring a Popular
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PATTY'S
`Collegian'
To the Editor
Following a meeting at Dr. Mar
tin's of all but one of the contestants
in the best-dressed professors cony
petition, I have been authorized by the
chairman, Dr. Boucke, to make pub
lic the following information.
That the shameful smear of pro
fessionalism should taint even acade
mic circles is a sorry confession; but
it is a truth. Mr. John S. Naylor
may or may not win, but we feel that
students and faculty alike should
know that in 192 G only the most
questionable pressure withheld pub
lication at Lafayette of a letter from
a nationally-famous clothing firm
complaining that Mr. Naylor was not
"making a sufficient demonstration
to students of the three riding, habits
you were to have modelled for us.",
Further, there is the still thirefuted
rumor that Mr. Naylor was, induced
by Professor Esnenshade to this
campus under subsidy to 's'erve as
one more spike in the Perin State
campaign against the stigma!of "cow
College."
Finally, it was decided by the com
mittee to omit as injurious to the
reputation of Mr. Naylor's depart
ment evidence that three of his stu
dents were . soliciting votes: ' "For fif
teen votes,' we get a three," they are
reported as saying.
Let it be .known, then, that there
is bitterness among those who are
pure anion - gst , , us (though Gal
braith' was hardly fair in spreading
the rumor about •my overcoat's being
of a decade past—for all that, if I
care to I could let. it out that he has
no. spats) ; no, as of one mind, we
speak only to assure for the under
graduate body an example they may
be' proud to serve.
lERMI!E!M
To the Editor•
Last week . l. was challenged to pre
sent my arguments against Roose
volt's. recovery pldns. Illy challengers .
"can't understand why I have not
come out with a public statement"
justifying my perfectly legitimate
right to believe in the inefficacy of
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the recovery plans. I fail to under
stand why my challengers presuppose
that I must take a public defense of
my insignificant beliefs. I wonder if
there are such things as "presump
tory complexes"? However; I thank
my challengers. for presuming that
I would "be man enough to accept the
challenge." It is indeed an encour
aging sign to see people interested in
"dissenting opinions." For a long
time our elders have made it a crime
to hold unpopular opinions.
I propose to justify my opposition
to the Administration's recovery plans
by showing the lack of any general
direction and confusion within the
plans themselves, by citing the inef
ficacious technique employed, and by
showing the inconsistencies of the
present Administration.
From the beginning, Hugh John
son was asked to administer the first
part of the NIRA, which is essential
ly a reform measure. He. immediate
ly reorganized industry through alit:-
reau which he called the National
Recovery Administration. He per
emptorily attempted to bring recovery
by social measures. For six months
he emphasized the first part of the'
Act under his administration by blat
ant ballyhoo lacking a modicum' of
sobriety, consequently completely epn
fusing recovery plans and preventing
the induction of real recovery meas
ures. Johnson's obfuscation will lie
regarded as.a psychological crime per
petrated on a confused and gullible
pebple, in that he led us from the
real instruments of recovery. Herein
lies one of the biggest mistakes of the
present Administration-confusioni cif
reform measures with recovery meas
ures.
The primary object of recovery•is
to put men to work. These workers
will produce for a market. In our
economic system, if the market lacks
adequate purchasing power that will
equitably compa're with the prime
costs of the products on the market,
real purchasing power will be missing.
The fact that men are working will
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