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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Published serofsseekly during the College Year. except on holidays.
by students' of The Penn'Oran!. State College. in the Interest of the
College. the students. fssufty, alumni, and friends.
=ARLES A. MYF.RS '34 FREDERICK L. TAYLOR 14
Editor Buainese Manager
GEORGE A. SCOTT '24 HAROLD J. lIATSCII '34
Managing Editor Circulation 31 anger
WILLIAM M. STEGMEIF.R '34 11. EDGAR FURMAN '34
Aestutant Etlitor Loral Advertteing Manager
BERNARD If. ROSENZWEIG 14 JOHN C. IRWIN '34
Nova Editor Foreign Adveriiiiing Manager
JAMES M. SHEEN '34 FRANCIS WACKER 14
Snorta Editor Chi:Wiled Ailvertieing Manager
'tutu N. D'ARMON '34 MAE F. KAPLAN '34
Women's Editor Wornen'u Managing Editor
• EVA. M. RIACIIFELDT 14
Woolen's Nev. Editor
MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 1934
VERBAL BAFFLERS BAFFLED
The debating team here is confronted with a prob
/cm. They've been trying to get students to come to
their meetings, and the students persist in going to the
movies. They've tried signs, pastern, COLLEGIAN stories
blazoning their appeal to "at limst'drop in on the way
to the matches." The stud , tmts don't [lron in.
Rather obvlously, with everything except an audi
eneo taken care of through student funds, the problem
is a x4ery real one to the squad. "Students aren't inter
ested," they wail, and the students blithely reply, "Why
should ire be?" People outside the oratorical world
have:often remarked the pzeuliar aversion students pos
sess for things intellectual. The orators have a point
in their favor there. In this instance, however, it ap
pears that the points for the disinterest'ed student more
than justify his position.
Students don't avoid .dcladcs because of lack 'of in
terest in the efforts, anMeurish though they may be,
of their public speaking fellows. They probably go ...Ise
where because the verbal battlers delft put on a show
that will interest them. The chief difficulty seems to hi
in the matter of subjects. This year, for instance, the
first few debates on the NRA question attractzd con
siderable interest. However, regurgitation of what was
at best second-band matelial week-end afbcr week-end
certainly ()Ailed to get student support. Students can't
be criticized there.
The inahility of the debaters to cover more sub- .
jests seems to lie with thc intercollegiate organization,
•Which limits the topics for the convenience of arranging
schedules. Thbaters here aren't alone at fault, but be
.fcra increasing complaints are heard, it might be well
.for them to look to their association.
In actual form, the debates, as run off this year,
•seem to be some improvement over the more old-fash
ioned, "canned" style of judges deeiston affair. The
Oregon style at least offers to the speaker some spirit
of conMetition. Its most freqUent criticism is that it
leaves ,the audience in a quandary as to just who did
the best piece of work. People have a natural desire for
a fight to the finish, and without some form of decision,
:audience or judges, the idea 'of competitions at least as
far as the audience is concerned, is la . eking. Without
real controversy, the term "debater'? is farcical.
Unless tho teams as sponsored here now can come
back, unless they can get students to show More inter
est in their oratorical work, there seems to be no jus
tifiable reason why registrants should: be forced to con
tribute fifty cents apiece, well over fifteen hundred dol
lars a year, for the subsidization of Penn State's public
speakers.
The debating team must make a real &fort to put on
a show that will interest the "public" or prepare to face
increasing student demands that the subsidization of pub
lice speaking he either reduced or cut off cornpletely.
—J. B. Wt
"THE DARING YOUNG MAN . . "
,Secretary of the Commomeealth Beamish's advocacy
of enfranchising voters in Pennsylvania at the age of
nineteen is not particularly new. From time to time
during the last decade the Wen has been suggested,
chiefly' from the classroom But it is the first time that
any ...1-xemitive, so high in the State's officialdom has
broached such a plan in recent years.
Coming as it does with a turn=over of tuhninistra-
Worts in less than a year, it slay not atean very much as
far as having Oho Slate Constitution amended intmedi-
ately. But, at knit, it is a definite indication that those
who hold public trust are giving some consideration to
the merits of Youth's fovesight.
Not since the frontier days has American youth been
brought so close to realities as today. Pour y.mrs of de
pression have taught him, it not to think, to wonder
"Where tal I fit in?" and "Why are they doing it that
way?" The tightness of money has taught him to watch
closely over economic, political, taut social progress, and
even, in Come instances, to demand sonde part in winking
decisions. There is no doubt, then, that he is ready for
the responsibility. The original age prerequisite of
twentyone was only an arbitrary decision. Only a State
amendment—voted upon by an electorate older than
twerity-one-- - -would be necessary to modify the set-up in
stalled in 1873. If n. Stale Constitutional Convention
sixty-one years ago could write in a twenty-one year age
voting requitannent,then reducing that limit by two years
yearn would not endanger the goal of intelligent voting
or sane .government by admitting "rattle-brained" adol
escents to the executive council of the country's govern
mental machine.
" Men in Pennsylvania colleges and universities would
create tho ieast,par , t of the problem of , zducatin2, , voters
up to "unemotional standards." Just what those stan-
datds are, no they exist mow, remains to be defined.
Gaining an intelligent vote is not something that can be
atfaircznl through legislation. Certainly "immature"
Minds could not make More blunders than have been
made in past elections. College' and university students
would have .had the benefits of the elements of an educe
tien and instruction in the theories of economics, pol
itical; and social questions. The mass of high school
graduates or less could be instructed toward intelligent
OLD MANIA
Shoot If You Must
Penn State drama reached new heights last night
and no mistake. You remember the scene front/"Uncle
,Tom's Cabin" where Liza crosses the ide, followed by
a pack of yipping pombranians? Well, that wasn't in
"Redemption," but at one spot in the &ow, this col
umn thought they'd run it ill as urn• "out front" bit.
It would have. been oil right, we guess, if the script
hadn't called for Kutzer Richards to shoot himself, a
thing he does in princely fashion. Tolstoi would have
,tnjoyed tine shooting scene, else he would have rushed
.to the nearest exit and poisoned him'self.
"Redemption" got up to Kutner and six-shooter
in line style, but that's another stay, 'handled by the
Footlights guy. Stiff-legged, resigned nobly to his
fate, Kutzer leveled the gun next his s'olar plexus and
made ready to end it all. Ife snapped the trigger,-
horror of horrors, he was going to kill 'himself for
weal. "Click," gent the deadly.instrunknt,and
rclick-elick-click" it went some more.
Now Elsie Eouthett had eharge of the ofT,stage
.noises. Elsie had done her ddoty all right, but the
cartridges she bought, at the last minute, were rim
fire, and the gun wanted center-fire. If all had gone
well, there would have been explosive noises similar
to a gun shot when Kutzer pulled the on-stage trigger.
You, dear reader, know well enough what happened.
Put yourself in the gun's place and devise tt way out ;
if you think it was easy.
Nothing to do, then, but die somehow, said Barry
kutzermore. Ile died, all right. Ho made out as if
101.3 gun were a stiletto 'and rap himself through,
groaned, folded, and was •no mbre. Bravo! He died
with his gun loaded, amid the frantic "clicks" of the
backstage mate to his weapon. But after all; it's for
Ithc , best that things turned out as they did. Think
bow his friends would feel if he actually had shot
himself!
IliM:MM:fl:1
Later, in the place unusual, three witnesses avere
commenting on the brain-blasting scene.
"Lousy."
"Lousy." •
"Lousy."
Over the top of an adjoining bo'oth popped 'Cut
zer!s devilish mop of stage,hair, and down it popped
again. He had heard all. 0, Fate is erool.
* * *
NOTICE
,the slug who filched the ex _Maniac's over
coat and the Maniac's hat rilease get tint'Of tcnvnin; a
heap of a hurry? Pinkerton and his entire; force are,
this very minute, combing the sewers foe Yoa. Any
way, how did you get into n publications dance?
I:M=M=M3
Wild westerners aren't the only people who speak
to strangers. An inno. cent male was nibbling a bite in
the Oh Mane Santwhich Shoppe 'when QM heard the
drawling voice of Co-ed Dagmar Hansen; the, gal who
wore the cellophane gown-at.ll,. , eent poyertg:Drutee
up oh the =mous. - '
, "Hay neighbor, got a eigaretite?'!. she soothed.—
A little 'surprised, becalm ihe .didn'.t. know the
girl, the man fumbled for a fag; produced one and
tossed it over the flower bed to her, them turned back
to his food.
"Say, neighbor, Otto. match?" fli - igrnhr again.
W' can't go on. She got 'Ora snatch, but dear
goodness, isn't it awful?
Much as wo hate to tell you, Operator No. 6 of
the night squad for .the College switchboard, that
heckler who bothers you every nightis'a curly-headed
Sigma Chi, which makes you the far-famed Swett
heart of Sigma Chi, doesn't it ? _
voting as easily and successfully at 'nineteen as at twen-
The Penn State campus might become something
besides a center of mere dabbling with undergraduate
playthings that sumac" .of "theory, training, mat eperl
ento for the future." Pennsylvania, backward in. Blue
Law and child labor legislation, would bein the vanguard.
And a voting franchis'e to idealists' of nineteen Would
go a long way toward stamping out the evils of vote
control which gains its opening thothold among the
pseudo-cynics •of twenty-one.—F. W. W.
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THE PENN. STATE COLLEGIAN
"Redemption... Enhinted from mfhe Live
Come"' by 'Leon Tolstoi. and presented
by . the Penn State Fleeces under the dime
dun at Sir. Fronk Nensbaurn. Faterdo
night,. Meech 24.
TIES CAST .
Anna Peg Grionitt
Samba _ —hot nits Someno
Victor _______ . Aloe Segal
Lieu Protogovii— _Kohl Stage
Fedor Pernonn , titter Uighur&
Alnxhu Roth (lemlnto
'Sophie Koreninn.....--__Therem Alriteimg.
PITLe Segstius..... Brig/Amen
Ivan Alexandrov— ------ .Itiehnrl Allen
The Magistrate Roger ILOtel
'rwenty minor character, it Grimy ..hom
on; policemen; 01111 men ;Ind wom,” in the
dloc. The Gyp,. (Morino directed by Ilelen
Alusie . by the Penn State
Little Symphony Oreheotrn. diceenn by
John K.' Ryan.
When .the curtain dosed after the
last of the ten scenes in "Redemption"
on Satuiday niglht, the audience wait.-
'ell a inoment and then began the. usual
.desulforY amount of handclappinz Af
ter a minute of this, the applause sub-
Isided. Then, as though they had ben
lin another world and were just corn
ing back to State College, they re
'sunned the applause. This time it was
'louder and muse insisicut. The audi
, enee had seen a good, entertaining,
well-handled show, and they were just
beginaingla realize it.
The Players' version :of the Tolstoi
pi ay was of such calibre that the aud-
New Library - - -
This is the first of a series of
letters by Willard P. Lewis, Col , .
kjje librarian, on the need for rt
new central College library build
ing.
One day last week Professor Hunt
er of the. faculty in lowa State Col
lege; taking special graduate work
here in .Industrial Education, came
seeking library privilege' and parti
cularly a library faculty study or
locked stack cubicle where he might
keep the bOoks with which he was
working and his papers. This was a
privilege . to which he was accustom
ed is his own library and which fac
ulty members in many institutions
enjoy.. Scarcely a week goes by but
what we are obliged to deny a simi
lar request from members of our own
or other faculties because this crowd
ed. building possesses neither faculty
studies nor stack cubicles nor other
space available for' such purposes.
Such facilities are essential for re
search work; particularly in the hu
manities, social sciences, languages,
literatures; edUcation and psychology:
Willard P. Lewis, Librarian.
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-THE MANIAC
Footlights
Of this pure-to,
acco cigarette; its
ience scoured to live, along with the
cast ; back in pre-war Russia. The ex
cellent and numerous stage szttings
may have had something ,to da with
this. At any tate, the scenery was so
well-executed that no imagination was
needed to visuailizo scenes of the Rus
sian period that Tolstoi meant to por
tray.
There was a huge cast, thirty or
forty in all. However, only the leads
fiend be discussed. Miss Stage as
i Lisa would pfzeive prat: from most
lan)* critic. Although her enunciation
was not always of the best, she ac-
Jcemplished the 'difficult task of play
ing with ease and naturalness an ex
tremely emotional part. As in previ
lous productions, Kutner Richards
(Fedor) was superior to most collegi
ate player. . ;Alt once again he had a
ttnzlency to over-act, thus jading those
of his scenes which really called for
intense, dramatic acting.
Quite a few 11111112 S apneared, we he
'Hem in a Players' Dramatis Per
scnnae fcr the first time. Half of
these newcomers were unworthy of
m'sniton; 11,3 other half we consider
as definite Mark" for. Messrs. Glee
tingh and Neusbaum. Alex Segal as
DADDY' GROFF TO RETURN
FROM CHINA THIS SUMMER
George W. "Daddy" Groff will re
turn. from China early this June, to
visit the College, according to Dean
Ralph 1.. Watts, of the School of Ag
riculture.
The botanist will study citrons
planks here. The rest of his time will
probably be spent visiting his par
ents in California and, at Washing
ton, D. C.
GLEE CLUB ELECTIONS 11E1,1)
Anna C. Strong '35 was elected
president of the WiJneen's Glee club
and Mildred F. Nieman '36 was chosen
vice-pree:dce in the elections held
:ass week. The pest of secre
tary-treasurer will be held by Enid A.
Stage '35.
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Victor• Karenin handled his part just
about as intelligently as , it could' he
I handled. For thiS reason, we humbly
offer. him first honors in the made div
ision. Theresa MraVints (Sophia Kar
enina) and Ruth Goodman (Masha)
were also new to our eyes. Both gave
performances whirls we flattlningly
term, "sensible," for lack of a better
word. .
The phoney shooting, incident in the
last scene was unfortunate, but thanks
to Mr. Richards' spd2dy presence of
wind in thinking *of another way to
die, it was not particularly noticeable.
Perhaps a repetition of this could be
avoided if the Players at their next
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RED 1 Nr
Monday Evening, March 26, 1934
;show would hand out guns and cut
Pheets to the audience instead of pro
grafts. One out 'of a couple !hundred
should surely give the desired effect:
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