Penn State collegian. (State College, Pa.) 1911-1940, May 07, 1934, Image 2

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PENN 'STATE COLLEGIAN
Published semi-weekly during. the College year, except on holidays.
by students of The Pennsylvania State College. In the Inherent of the
Callen, the students, faculty, alumni, nod friends.
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JOHN A. ItRUTZMAN '35 JACK A. MARTIN '35
Editor Rusiness Manager
PILED W. WRIGHT '35 cEottao A. itirri.P.Dar,
Sports Editor Circulation Manager
KENNETH. C. 1101+1•'MAN Ti' 11. KENNETH LYONS '33
Managing Editor Locul Advertising Manager
JAMIS li. WA'rSON Mt. '35 HARRY .1. KNOPF '35
Assistant Editor Foreign Advertising Manager
l'1111.1.11" W. FAIR .lit. '35 JOHN .1. MATTHEWS 'Ti
A:els/rut: slttonging Editor I.ut. Forvign Adverti.ing Manager
A. CONRAD lIAICKS 'alt EARL H. KEYSER J/t. '35
News Editor Asst. Loral Adtertisiitir Maintiter
JAMES If. liNAr .111. ':l5 MA/MAIO:I' W. EINSLOE 'Ti
News Editor
It. Itd NiEI '33
Women's Editor
John K. Hartle: , jr. %11l W. ❑crourd Frco.el: Vane° O. Packard
Harry K. Ilend•r.rvon jr. 'ac ' I , lllllorn McDowell ':Ill
John !Mould P. Sunder,. ':III
Charles M. Schwartz jr.
lip ‘VIIILtrit If. Ilrekniun %in Leonard T. stir
Itoland' W. Jr. Skirhla 'B4
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1.. Mho.bel '3O Huth E. Ruelller *:Ii; A. Frani.. Turner %In
Editorial Office, :113 Old Main Telephone
Business Office; Nittany Printing'Bitig—Telepltotie 292-WV
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MONDAY EVENING, May 7, 1934
THE A. A. CONSTITUTION
Following the lend recently set by Student Council.,
when its constitution was revised and brought up to
date, the Athletic Association seeins to have proposed
several amendments that should promote th . e efficiency
of that organization
It is a significant step to abolish the privilege of
alumni becoming members of the Association by pay
ing the regular undergraduate fee of fifteen dollars.
This has become an almost forgotten practice of re
cent. years.
It seems wise to expand the powers of the Board of
Athletic Control so that it "shall represent the in
terests of the Association by advising with the Direc
to• of the School of Physical Education in all matters of
policy and procedure affecting intercollegiate athletics,
and in the selection of such members of the staff of the
School• as may be concerned with the coaching of in
tercoilegiate athletic teams.'
This amendment should help to avoid any situa
tion similar to one tht occurred about a year ago. Such
a representative Board should be Able to assure the
College of a sane middle-of-the-road procedure in the
future conduct of intercollegiate athletics.
The amendments which change the method of nomi-
nating the officers of the Association should be voted
upon favorably. A committee of coaches, captains, and
managers should be able to make.fair, impartitd
nooii
nations which would remove the offices from the present
situation of mere political• footballs. •
Establishing one polling place in Old Main rather
than one in each School may be dbjected to on the
grounds.that many students will fund it inconvenient to
reach such a polling place in ohe day, but this is far
offset by the fact that one committee can more fully
guarantee an honest election, The committee for the
class elections of the last feW years,have demonstrated
that that is the most efficient way to conduct ballot-
If tennis and golf are awarded six inch letters by
the student body, it, will Mean that every sport has
been advanced to a major sport standing. When it is
reindmbered that a year ago, lacrosse and 'cross-country
were advanced from a four fo'a six inch litter, it seems
only fair that these last two . sports-be givezi sonic eon
IS=
OTHER. COLLEGES SEEM to be:;:experiencing
some trepidation regarding upperelass honoraries: rrm
Syracuse Daily Orange comments in rather caustic
terms about junior honoraries Who are' now. holding
smokers for promising sophomores whom they. wish to
They compare these junior societies to the appendix
or the electoral college, both of which today seem to be
uniformly useless. No mention ivas made whether or
not twenty-four men will be taken at one time •followed
by a similar number in the fall. •
AND ONCE MORE the season rolls around when
the cry is 'heard, "We heed more tennis courts." The
annual plea seems to fall on deaT ears as the Athletics
for All program goes merrily on its Way. We are now
waiting for the annual protest from the women students
that they are unable to use the courts hack of Women's
building because of an overflow of male tennis en
thusiasts.
AS THE COLLEGE continues its efforts to inter
est prospective student:: in matriculating iiere, it seems
Paradoxical that visitors climb font flights of steps in
Old Main on Sunday afternoon merely to find the door
to the tower locked—as usual.
IT SEEIVIS AS THOUGH-the campus beautiful is
being sadly abused at one spot. ' If trucks Were to he
driven up to the !Textile CliernisErS , building, it Seems
as though an adequate road should ba built rather than
using the pathways and crags bet Ween College ilVdnue
and the building as an artery Of campus transportation.
was swell and it was sure hot and the girl wasn't,bad
either now that we look hack on it seeing as how she
got away on the hue yesterday afternoon all right
Yeah, now we're really going to get down to work.
Women's I%lnntotion Editor
ELSIE M. Imunirrrt' ':l6
Women's Nom Editor
their spare dime. We've discovered one group of
damosel who've solved the problem very neatly. It's
a sort of game with a' score board & everything.
The gals are the Theta Phi Alphas, who live
on Center Drive, which, it seems is a populous thor
oughfare around seven thirty onwards every night.
Well, the ingenious ones have a porch, the game
starts when about ten of them have parked themselves
in chairs etc. on said porch. Then they wait for cars
to come along. They don't care what kind of cars they
are, just so they have gentlemen in them.
For example. A chevvy roadster containing three
guys rolls along the drive. Sister number I waves, yells
"hyuh," and waits to see what happens. If the gooneys
in the ear shout hack "Hyah. Sister" number 1 gets
eight (A) points. If they just wave, said sister
gets four (4) points. If they don't look around, it's
a foul, on grounds of the guys' exceedingly poor
hearing, but if they look & don't wave or holler,
the waving sister gets four points deducted..
It's really quite a swell game... We understand,
however, that if the autoist stop to chat, it's an error,
and "Oh, we thought you were Joe."
Harry H. Itenderson jr. %In
John E. Miller jr.
The Lion suit signing erase, which always strikes
us as an annual sales campaign put on by the foun
tain pen makers of Americ.; seems to have developed
an interesting sidelight. "Rock" Rohrbaugh watched
people starting private autograph collections all day
the other (lay, and it went to his head. So he decided
to *start one of his own, of a really original medium
for signature getting. He got his little collection in
the unusual corner, and got nourishment at the same
time, It all started because he had a sudden yearn
ing to cat a couple of raw eggs, which; we understand,
is most easily done cutting a small hole in each end,
'and inhaling, dumping the correct quantity of salt
into your mouth at the same time.
"Rock" convinced that waitress that what he
wanted lens a raw egg, finally got it, consumed it,
and then looked at the empty shell and had an idea.
He went around to booth after booth and collected
signatures, inscribed carefully of course, so as not to
break the eggshell. After the first shell was covered
with names, he figured he might as well do the thing
right. He yorked on the proposition some three
hours. Now he has eight egg-shells, all autographed
by famous personages like Hortense Gans, Yougel,
Mateo., and Adelaide Green dangling on a string in
his room. It looks very. nice, they tell us,
Nature note: ambitious robin is 6sconeed in a
nest on an old Phi Psi house pillar ... , Dan Green
blatt crashes the Prom by running around the track
once fast and then telling the 85e an hour cop how
hot it is inside .... Thespian male strutter wanders
out of the show for air, and can't get back in until
he's identified . ffr. Ebert's orders Delta
ing Rotarians drop in at Phi Ep Saturday to see a
in Erie, and borrows a local gas station funnel to get
it into his tar& he'll go far, that boy ,
,Roraians drop in at Phi Ep Saturday to see a
"representative college (lance," and get well trampled
on lim Aikey gives Doc TsChan a large red
apple .... hopes he'll quit getting ridden in class ....
OLD MANIA
Yeah, it was the best dance of the year and Kemp
New Game
What with the summer weather and all, a lot of
people have been wondering just what to do with
Autographicallom4nia
spring. ZerhYyS,
MOTHERS' DAY
SUNDAY, MAY 13. h •
Remember Mother on HER day. Appro
priate Mother's Day Cards—to Send
Seperately or With a Gift. We Shall Sell
also "Mothers' Day" Memorial stamps for
Mailing.
GRADUATES
Place Orders Now for Your Name
Cards. During May and June We Offer as
a Special—
A New EngraVed Copper Plate
and 100 Cards
$2.00
Offer Open to all Students '
• Penn State Memory Books
We Have in Stock a New Style Methory
Book Containing Autograph, Function
and Blank Pages. If You Haven't Started
a Memory Book do it Now. Save Later
Regrets.
Priced $l.OO to $6.00
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KEELER'S
Cathauni theatre ituildhig
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Library's 150,000 th
Book Just Received
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's
"On OUr Way" Was added to the
College 'Amy Friday an the hundred
and fifty thousandth litb.lllle acquired
since the founding of the library.
[looks are being a bird today at a
late otoro than twice an fast as in
1928-29 when the total number of
Ineflointions made was .1,7,90. At the
1 rate in effect today, the College is
acquiring 9,500 volumes per annum,
In 1919, the 75,000 mark was pass
de. Nine years later, in 1928, the
!College had acquired 100,000 books.
In the last six years more than twice
es many were acquired as in the
In ovious nine.
The Ilarvard telephone number is
now E-L-L
If you hold your drink in your
mouth for about ten seconds, you
have less chance fo becoming intoxi
cated, according to the University of
Delaware Review.
A gift of 824 phonographic record
ings has- been presented to Lafayette
College., The records are kept in the
library and may be played in a sound
proof room by any student who wishes.
If you had the choice of weapons
you would choose ginger ale at ten
paces; that is, if you had a difference
with someone, and you attended Wash
ington and Lee University,
Student gate crashing at theatres
in Berkeley, California, is prevented
by a guard of police dogs.
A recent headline in a daily ran:
"Sororities neck and neck in Badge-
Sales Campaign."
All men sayi "I love you" if the
census taken among the feminine po
pulation of Minnie University can be
relied upon.
Dr. Knight DlMlap professor of psy
chology at JOhns Hopkins University,
is doing special, research on the prob
lem of just why babies suck their
thumbs. '
The national R. 0:T. C. conference
held in the nation's capitol recently
asked that the American youth sup
port military training because of the
failure of the League of Nations, the
.Kellogg pact; and treaties and confer
ences to prey - en%yar. The T. C.
was defended a "definite contribu
tion to ducation in general" in that it
"develops leadership among the Splen
did young men in whose trust the
peace and welfare of our. mation and
its instructions must eventually fall."
PHI ETA SIGMA ELECTiGNS
Freshmen Men's SOholistic Horiorary
Bryson M. -Filbert '36
Ralph T. Irwin '36
S. James Zargcr '36
James A. Babcock '37
George W. Bird '37
William L. Wickens jr. '37
Kenneth G: Brown '37
Daniel D. Brubaker '37
Charles P. Case '37
Jesse F. Core '37
William P., Davenport '37
Paul V. Diinock
Vito J. Di Vencenzo '37
Robert W. elder '37
Floyd B. Fischer '37
Kermit Gordon '37
James E. Hackett '37
John D. Hebei. '37.
Fred G. Holahan '37
Kenneth M. Houck '37 •
Rudolph J. Janacek '37
Ell Wood 111. Johnson . '37
Norman E. Krapf '37
William L. Lyter '37 •
James McCracken '37
Michael M. Pochan '37
'Matthew L.Rorabaugh '37
John Sammel '37
. Leo M. Shames '37
Luther S. Singley '37
Herman Skolnik '37
Jack Tamer '37
Robert H. Van Horn '37
Howard C. Watson '37
Jonathan W. White Jr. '37
-THE MANIAC
Dr. Grace S. Dodson
Osteopathic Physician
Ilent Lloom Apartment. No. 3
PHONE 1062.3
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PENN STATE DAY
INVITATIONS SENT
On Other
Campuses
Pi Delta Epsilon, honorary jour
nalism fraternity, was granted a char
ter to a chapter here with the senior
boards of Frelh and COLLEGIAN as
charter members.
800 High School Pfincipals, All
Alumni Clubs Informed of
Prograth for Mii' 19'
More than 800 letters have been
sent out to high school principals in
every section of the state informing
them of the plans for Penn State
Day here on May 10, and requesting
them to notify their students of the
program, and arrange for as many
of them as possible to come. Alumni
clubs have also beeh informed of the
day.
Admission to the athletic events
will be free to those guests who reg
ister at the Student Union desk in
Old•Afain. They will be given a pass,
on the reverse side of which will be
listed the (lay's program and the fra
ternity to which they have been as
signed,
Brandt Urges Cooperation
Each of the fraternities will have
representatives in the first floor lobby
of Old Main. After the guests have
registered they will be introduced to
the men or . women of the house to
which they have been assigned. They
will then go on an inspection tour of
the campus.
H. Carl Brandt Bd, chairman of
the Penn State Day committee; ex
plained that, "If any fraternity has
invited guests up of their awn ac
cord, these visitors will be assigned
to that house."
Brandt urged every house to do
their utmost to mate this first annual
Penn State Day a success by having
its members write personal letters
to their respective high schools and
to their friends who are considering
college for next fall, telling them of
the day and requesting that they visit
the campus.
10 Years Ag 0....
Dean of Men, Arthur R, Warnock
announced permisSion for 'June house
party. to continue kir fire days in
view of the proposal of fraternities,
for reforming social conditions.
Four freshmen were sentenced to
haircuts by Tribunal and - the penal
ties were to be administered at a
public meeting on Co-op.
Lion trackman' were prCparing for
the Olympic games Which were held
in France that summer and "Rags"
Madera, captain' of the Nittany ring
men, eras working out in preparation
for Olympic boxing trials.
knitted .neckties, now so much M
vogue, were advertised for sale at the
"Y" hut. They were made by pris
oners at Rockview penitentiary.
The Thespitins had just returned
from a trip to Greensburg and Pitts
burgh where - they played "The Maga
zine Cover ,Girl" before capacity
crowds.
Golf clubs NS;ere on sale for $1.98
and the Nittany linksmen were re
turning, from Lock Haven having de
feated the Clinton Country club, 11-
to-7.
A Pants Scrap, the first to . be at
tempted here, was scheduled for Spir
it week between the two upper and
two underclass mend Rules for scor
ing were: Whole pair of pants—one
point, one kg—one half point, small
er portions than a leg will not count.
Contestants were requested to wear
a gym suit under clothing to save
them from possible embarrassment.
Music week was being observed by
the music department's production of
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic okra,
"His Majesty's Ship Pinafore."
Pleasant Cheerful Rodms are
Available at
TILE _COLONIAL.
11 r: W. Nittany Ave < Phone 9908
Reservations Made Promptly
Will Insure the Entire Family of
Facilities Together.
Sandwich Men Pray for Nature in
Its Ugliest Moods for Best Trade
There are at least a felir persons on
the Penn State cantons who like
stormy weather—the worse the bet-.
ter, and theSe are the sandwich men
who make the rounds of dormitories,
scrorities, and fraternity houses six
nights a week.
These men, the answer Wu hungry
student's prayer; declare the best
night for selling food is Tuesday. On
other nights they find thht there are
too many things•going on, like chap
ter meetings on Sunday and Monday
nights,. and dates on week-ends.
Confessions were made to a
COLLEGIAN reporter by the invaders
of living quarters in some rather
frank statements. One of them ad
mitted that one of the reasons he en
joyed his job so much was that there
was always something going on at the
women's living centers.
Sunday night, 9:58 o'clock, seems
to be the most intriguing time. ."On
other nights, the men have usually
.left by the time I get around, or else
they're not home with the women yet.
Ten o'clock is a-most interesting time
because When the girls hear the bell
on my wagon clanging, they suddenly
become hungry and send their boy
friends out to get them a sandwich
before they leave.."
`Collegian' AriiiOnneeS
Word Contest Prizes
Five tickets" to the theatre will
be awarded to the winner of the
"COLLEGIAN" missnelled .. word con
test which begins With this issue.
Five other awards of one ticket
each will be given to the runner
ups in the contest.
Answers must be at the COLLE
GIAN office by Wednesday, May 9,
at 8 p. m. Winners will be an
nounced in Thursday issue.
A standard unabridged diction
ary will be used for final decision.
Entrants must list the misspelled
words, The correct spelling and
the advertisement in which the er
rors are found on a full sheet of
paper as well as the number of
mistakes which they find. No mem
ber of the COLLEGIAN staff is eli
gible fol. the contest.
MINNIG NAMED HONORARY HEAD
Margaret A. Minnig '35 was elected
president of Alpha Theta Epsilon,
women's journalism honorary, and
Wilma A. Fieinemin '35 was chosen
secretary at a meeting Tuesday. Kath
erine M. GOrMin i 35 is' the new ireas-
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FRIDAY, MAY 11TH
Monday Evening, May 7,-1924
"We sandwich men don't - go around
on Saturday nights because there are
too many elates," another declared.
"Naturally, we don't object to having
one - night a week off. Of course, we're
not interested in having dates, or go-.
ing out with girls ourselves—but we
do like a little free time. The troul
ble is, some people just won't believe
it." _
Women's houses are much more
popular with the sandwich men for
three reasons, explained another.
First, the men tend to congregate
there; scondly, the girls always buy
inure than the men; and' then, of
course, some of them are much more
congenial customers.
The best time to invade the frater
nity houses with their wares, they
all agreed, is late at night, because
the men, as a rule, do their studying
later, and their hunger troubles thein
later also.
"I find stormy weather to be the
best for business," a little fellow, pip
ed. "During the winter when it was
snowing so hard, and before that
when it rained; there was loads of
_business, because no one wanted to
go out of doors. In the spring they'd
rather go out and eat, and business•
slouli down."
urer. Alpha Theta Epsilon is now,
considering its petition to Theta Sig
ma Phi, national professional wo=
men's journalism fraternity.
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