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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
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THE MANAGING HOARD
JOHN A. TtRUTZMAN '35 JACK A- MARTIN ’35
.> Editor Uusiness Malinger
FJiED W. WRIGHT ’33 GEORGE A. RUTLEDGE '35
Sports Editor Circulation Manager
KENNETH C. HOFFMAN *33 D. KENNETH LYONS ’35
Managing Editor Local Advertising Manager
JAMES It. WATSON JR. M 3 HARRY J. KNOFF '35
Assistant Editor Foreign Advertising Manager
PHILLIP W. FAIR JR. '35 JOHN J. MATTHEWS M 3
Asftistnn*. Managing Editor Asst. Foreign Advertising Manngcr
A. CONRAD lIAIGES ’35 EARL G. KEYSER JR. ’35
News Editor Asst. Local Advertising Manngcr
JAMES R. HBATTY JR. ’35 MARGARET W. KINSLOE '33
News Editor Women’s Managing Editor
MARCIA It. DANIEL ’33 ELSIE M. DOUTHETT *35
Women's Editor Women’s News Editor
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John K. It.irnes jr. ’3d W. Rcrnnrd Freunsch '3C Vance O. Packnrd ’36
Hurry It. Henderson jr. *35 William P. McDowell *B6
John K. Miller jr. ’35 Donald P. Sanders *3O
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Philip G. Evans ’.36 William It. Heckman '36 Leonard T. Sfcft ’3O
Roland W. Oberholtzer jr. ’36 - William H. Skirhlc ’3O
WOMEN’S ASSOCIATE EDITORS
L. Maryhd Conahee ’36 Rutfi E. Koehler *36 A. Frances Turner ’35
Managing Editor This Issue - Harry U. Henderson jr. ’3O
News Editor This Issue William P. McDowell *36
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Pcnnu.. as sccnnihclass matter.
Friday. September 21, 1934
RESPECT AND COURTESY
As Freshman Week comes to an end, there are two
themes which seem to predominate. Courtesy and re-
spect have been stressed to the utmost. Fraternities
have combined with the various bodies about the Col-
lege to give the incoming class one of the most enjoy
able wseks that a freshman class has ever had.
Mass meetings, designed to acquaint the class of
193 S with the customs and traditions of Penn State,
have been conducted by all- the campus organizations.
Faculty*as well as student leaders have made every ef
fort to put the newcomers at their ease and at the
same lime make felt that intangible something known
as Penn State spirit.
But courtesy is not the only thing that has been
stressed. It is not alone that the freshmen be made to
feel that this is to be their home, and an extremely
pleasant one, for the next four years. Something deeper
and more significant must be firmly implanted in their
minds. This certain something is known as respect and
specifically, respect for the law.
Borough authorities have done all within their
power to bring about a proper respect for the borough
of State College and its ordinances. Naturally, certain
regulations dealing with traffic conditions are import
ant. There can be no question that lives are endangered
by reckless drivers.
However, it seems that there will be little danger
of a great loss of life in the borough. Police authorities
have done everything in their power to impress all
motorists with the necessity of the strictest observance
of traffic regulations. More than one newcomer, thrilled
as he stands on the threshold of a new experience, has
been rudely jolted by his reception at the hands of the
local constabulary and judiciary.
There can be but one way out. Students must re
member constantly that State College must be cleaned
up morally and financially. Strictest observance of every
traffic regulation is the only solution. It is not enough
to enter a through traffic street in low geai\ The safest
way is to go in reverse gear for about three feet and
then proceed in the proper direction.
PERPETUATE POVERTY!
Following the desires of administrative officials
who wanted a large freshman enrollment to show the
trustees back home, FERA officials this year specified
that one-half the jobs provided must go to men who
were not in college last January—in most cases under
this category, to freshmen.
Quite aside from the injustice of alloting one-half
an appropriation to one-quarter of the students af
fected, quite aside from the widespread upperclass dis
satisfaction which has resulted, is what is almost cer
tain to be tragic lack of foresight on the part of those
who desired and enacted the ruling.
What is the purpose of the FERA?
* How long will this subsidization last?
In the replies to these two questions lies the com
mon-sense answer to the main question. And there can
be only one answer to each of the queries. The FE:RA
was intended to furnish sufficient funds for needy stu
dents to complete their education when other financial
backing had disappeared. FERA funds, in accord with
all relief monies which have arrived under the "new
deal” are temporary. They cannot, will- not, last forever.
They are not intended to last four years. What, we wish
to ask, is going to happen to the first year men who
came here on assurance that they had FERA work
waiting when the funds arc no longer available. Fra-
ternity and town jobs are getting scarcer every year.
There ait not enough to go around now, with the normal
number of needy students. What will happen when
the extra 275 start job-hunting?
Obviously, some people will have to drop out. Be
cause of the ratio of upper-class to freshman jobs this
year, some upperclassmen have already left. Others will
have to go. The "lucky” 275 freshmen will find them
selves, when the FERA leaves, stranded, without the
subsidy that enabled them to come here. Many of them
will then be compelled to leave also.
Newly-poor upperclassmen, really in need of sup
port to finish school, and newly-semi-prosperous fresh
men, happy to have achieved a government subsidy,
alike arc going to suffer from the ruling. Those who are
almost finished will- drop out.on the home stretch; those
who just entered will start the race, then trip.
Yes, it’s certainly swell that so many deserving
freshmen have been able to get help this year. It’s
certainly fine to have the enrollment increase.
CAMPUSEER
BY HIMSELF
EASY SUICIDE
Want to get shot? It’s really very simple. Bur
gess Leitzell (Salaam) told the fraternity leaders all
about it the other night, but in case you weren’t there
and have inclinations in this direction (you know,
what with that nasty-word schedule and all) we’ll
tell you all about it.
It’s easy to -arrange, and a bunch of theives are
due to get the credit for fixing it up. These boys, it
seems, have been wandering blithely back and forth
between Clearfield and Harrisburg, casually drilling
.out the locks on store doors, and helping themselves
to any little items that appealed to their aesthetic
sensibilities. But the Law (Salaam) here doesn’t
think much of their tactics. So their going to atop 'it.
They say so, right out, like that. If the officer in
their fast cruiser car sees anyone "bending over”
(stooping, looking suspicious) in the doorway of a
store here, the brave officer is going to get out his
trusty weapon (stopping the car, we presume) and
shoot to kill!
Burgess Leitzell (Salaam) is just a pal of the
students. He doesn’t want any corpses littering up
State College streets, either. So he told the frater
nity leaders what .to do about it. "Keep out of store
doorways, and if you must satisfy a craving to fre
quent such places, stand up straight, don’t do any of
this stooping over, or the officers might accidentally
assassinate you.” That’s what he said, right in the
meeting.
So there you are, merely wander downtown, find
a convenient doorway, stoop over, and you’re practi
cally immortalized in unfeeling marble. Easy, huh?
INDIVIDUALISM TRIUMPHS
We’ve been pretty discouraged about the Old
American Spirit. Even the ‘success after tremendous
struggle’ stories in the American Magazine have
have been darn feeble of late. We were going around
reluctantly admitting that Hitler, Mussolini, the
Reds, and certain Washingtonians, had pretty well
dissolved the good old Algerian ideals and standards.
But a boy in Frear Hall has mended our broken
morale—has given us courage.
This lad’ lives on the right side of the hall liter
ally and figuratively and is capitalizing on the loca
tion. There’s a Jovian view of one of our most Un-
Jovian sororities to be had from his window where
hangs the trusty telescope with which he has been
coining 5c per minute ever since the frosh invaded
the hall-.
And to think the Campy has been wondering
why so many dopes have gone to rooming in the hall
this semester!
The freshman sat there and told us all about it—
about the in-the-basement swimming pool “that campus
house has.” We laughed (a good enough rushing sea
son laugh) and he quickly drew forth his bible and
offered to show us the location. There it was, right
on the guide to campus, a little square labled No. 13.
Eagerly we checked the key at the bottom of the
guide. Opposite the digit 13 in small type the name
of the well-heeled home for well-heeled gentlemen—
BETA THETA PI.
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REGISTRATION CONVERSATION
Upperclassman: May I see your freshman bible, son?
Freshman: Why, I haven’t got one; do I need it?
Freshman’s Mother: What is it the young man wants,
Upperclassman: Why I asked to see your son’s fresh
man bible, but he doesn’t seem to have it.
Freshman's Mother: Young man, I’m sure he doesn’t
need one. I bought him a pocket-size New Testa-
ment just this morning.
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We hear that several years ago it was planned
to call that delicious Pcro Ice Cream, (adv.) P. & R.
Ice Cream, but the manufacturers knew a little more
of student wit than they were credited with,
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~THE PEHN STATE COLLEGIAN
F.E.R. A, Employs 400
Additional Students
(Continued from page one)
type cards for cataloguing, check
newspapers, periodicals and other
documents, and to do extra desk ser
vice.
Alumni Office to Use 35
The Administration will employ
.three men to develop the filing system
in the central office and to copy var
ious types of reports sent to that of
fice. The Alumni office will carry on
their work of checking non-graduates
who are not on their records, revis
ing the files, checking addresses, typ
ing class lists, composing an.alumni
directory, and typing or proof-read
ing manuscripts. Thirty-five men are
scheduled for work in this office.
An analysis of the fees charged by
the College and various departments
to students will give work to three
men. It is in the School of Chemistry
and Physics that one of the largest
numbei’s of men will be. employed,
there being 64 scheduled to date for
work in the various departments.
Laboratory Work
General utility work in laboratories,
assistants and-helpers in preparing
laboratory apparatus and experiments
construction of new apparatus, grind
ing of special'quartz plates, and op
erating.the petroleum laboi’atory ax*e
numbered among the jobs.
Chemical helper, writing of special
reports, cleaning test tubes’, taking in
ventories, preparing bibliographies
and helping keep record of the time
cards for FERA workers in the
Dean’s office promises work to sev
eral men. Additional men will take
readings and make certain observa
tions of tests being run in the various
laboratories.
The largest- number of students
scheduled for FERA jobs under the
»other schools is in the School of Ag
riculture where 110 positions are
available. Studies in deficiency dis
eases of poultry* research on tobacco,
and an analysis of farm costs will
employ a number of students.
Research Work
Preparation of chai’ts and slides
for laboi’atory .demonstrations, draw
ing of graphs on various aspects of
agi’icultural work, a study of the rea
sons why students drop out of high
schools, and an analysis of gradu
ates of the School of Agricultui*e
within the past two or three years
compared with those of the. early
1900’s will give work to several oth
er men.
Research work in rural electricity,
cataloguing of ilantern slides, research
in plant-breeding, soils, farm crops,
bacteriology, dairying, botany, and
so forth are also listed. Paper grad
ing and other*.types-of clerical work
J ' -
Announcing
The Opening
of
Perrone’s
Restaurant
206 South Allen Street Opposite Post Office
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
!
Enjoy a real meal prepared by a real chef.
MEAL TICKETS . .- . $5.50 for $5.00
will give employment while several
students will take care of the live
stock, .work in the zoology laborato
ries, prepare specimens for classroom
use, and dean up the dairy build
ing, as well as the other laboi'atories
in the School of Agriculture.
A study of the place and function
of teachers colleges in the prepara
tion of secondary school teachers will
be made by the School of Education.
Mailing of summer school literature
and other clerical work will be car
ried on in the office of the Dean.
46 To Work in H. E. Department
.Forty-six men will be used in this
work and in the preparation of edu
cational charts, conducting a research
on accidents and digesting theses for
publication. Paper graders and stu
dents for departmental office work
will also be given employment.
In the Home Economics depart
ment, twenty-two students have been
promised work in typing, completing
files, mimeographing, sewing, taking
care of laboi’atories, "assisting in the
nursery school and evaluating tests.
The department of nature education 1
NOTICE
GREGORY’S QUIT
BEER BUSINESS
Harry A. Fogle has purchased
the business of GREGORY’S
GRILL at 109 East Beaver Ave
nue. and will operate same un
der the name of
COLLEGE GRILL
Kisacoquillas Park
PRESENTS
Penn State’s Own
Bill Bottorf
AND
His Orchestra
Saturday, Sept. 22
will use men to label, preserve, and
keep materials on hand in a satis
factory condition for immediate use
if necessary.
Other Projects Anticipated
For the purpose of taking care of
equipment, constructing a peg model
of Pennsylvania oil- and gas fields,
cataloguing rocks, minerals, and fos
sils, preparing crystal models for
classroom use, taking inventory,
drafting, making repairs in the met
allurgical laboratory, and working in
the coal preparations laboratory, the
School of Mineral Industries has been
given twenty-two projects.
Other projects in this school will be
the mailing of extension material, la
beling laboratory .matter, overhauling
mnchineiy in the mining laboratory,
and preparing of metallographic
specimens.
Additional jobs in evei’y school may
become available as the semester pro-
Announcing
the appointment of the
HOTEL STATE COLLEGE
TRAVEL BUREAU
As Official Agents of United Air Lines.
s? Tickets arid reservations for all
points may he obtained at the
p hotel desk. Phone 300.
Transportation to Kylcrtown Airport, near here, may he
arranged at the desk.
UNITED AIR LINES
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Entrances on Beaver Ave. and Allen St.
! Friday, September 21,193^
grosses depending upon the amount
of work that is to be done and-the
rapidity with which the students aruj
able to complete the woi’k assigned
to them this week.
Visits Mexico, S. A.
Correspondence work for newspa
pers during a trip to southern Mexico
and Nicaragua was the way in which
Prof. Franklin C. Banner, of the de
partment of journalism, spent the.
summer vacation.
First Class Meals
at the
KLINE CLUB
248 S. Allen St.
$5.50 per Week.
Are Here,
Ready (or