ESTABLISHED 1904 Volume 31—Number 20 LR.C. Conference Will Open Friday; 110 Coming Here Delegates To Discuss ‘Recent Trends in Nationalism’ Jones, Tanger Direct Convention’s Program Thirty-three colleges from five Mid dle-Atbntic states are sending 110 delegates, faculty advisers, and ob servers to the International Relations Clubs’ conference on “Recent Trends in Nationalism,” to be held here Fri day and Saturday. Miss Amy Hem ingway Jones, representing the Car negie Foundation for International Pence, which sponsors these annual conferences, and Dr. Jacob Tanger, faculty adviser of the local dub which is acting host, will have charge. After registration at 10 o’clock Friday morning, the conference will bo opened at 2:00 o’clock by Bcrwin L. Miller 'O5, president of the dis trict. Addresses of welcome will be given by Adrian O. Morse, executive secretary to the President, and by John T. Hennansen '3G, president of the local I.R.C. club. Reception at 1 O’clock Representing the conference dele gates, Miss Virginia Plugge, of George "Washington University, will respond to these welcomes. She will be followed by Miss Jones. Dr. J. Paul Selsam, of the department of history and political science, will give the address of the afternoon speak ing on “Nationalism and the World Crisis.” A reception for the delegates will be held in the second floor lounge of Old Main at 4 o’clock and there will be a conference supper in the Sand wich Shop at 0:30 o’clock. Three round table sessions on “Na tionalism and International Trade Relations,” “Political Aspects of Re cent Nationalism,” and “National Defense” will be held Friday night. A student will be chairman of each, and papers by delegates will, be read. Nathan Served in Germany Dr. William C. Johnstone, acting dean of George Washington Junior College, will speak on “Chinese Na tionalism” at the conference luncheon at 12:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Round table conferences will meet at 2:30 o’clock. Dr. Otto Nathan, of Princeton Uni versity, and former financial adviser to the German Reich, will speak to the delegates on “Problems of World Recovery” at the final dinner .in the Nittany Lion Inn at 6:30 o’clock. International Relations Clubs have been organized in countries through out the world in an effort to promote good-will between nations. Besides numerous organizations in North and South America, clubs have been or ganized in Bulgaria, Greece, Egypt, and other countries of Africa. Syria, Palestine, Iraq, India, and Siam hnve clubs of this nature. Oth er organizations in Asia arc in Ja pan, Korea, Sumatra, China, and the Philippines. Australia and New Zea land also have clubs. Class of’3B To Hold Elections Tomorrow Elections for freshman class offi cers will be held in the Chemistry amphitheatre at 7:30 o’clock tomor row, night. Attendance for first-year men is compulsory and voting will be by matriculation cards only. Elections were originally scheduled for last Monday night hut were post poned when it was discovered that the Independent party had broken campaign rules by distributing print ed circulars advertising their candi dates. No candidates have been disquali fied, according to William D. Berto- Jette, junior class president, who is in charge of the meeting. Each of the three parties has a nominee run ning for the lour offices of president, secretary, treasurer, and historian. Delegates From College Attend Labor Conclave Prof. J. Orvis Keller, of the de partment of engineering extension, and Dr. Carl W. Hasok, of the de partment of economies and'sociology, were delegates at.the convention on labor compacts held in Harrisburg, Friday and Saturday. About fifteen state legislatures sent nearly four-hundred delegates. The object was to reach mutual agreements on problems of social leg islation so that similar bills on that subject may be brought before the various legislatures. Prior to the convention, Mr. Keller attended a meeting of the Industrial Board of the Department of Labor of which he is a member. Print itatr (ttallrgi I. R. C. Conference Head AMY HEMINWAY JONES Plans Completed For L. A. Lecture Stephens To Read Several of Own Works To Illustrate Comments on Style Final arrangements have been com pleted for James Stephens’ lecture here on “A Poetry Recital,” to be held Thursday in the auditorium at 8:30 o’clock. He will read several of his own poem's to illustrate comments which he advances on poetic styles. A charge of twenty-five cents will be made for the lecture and tickets may be obtained in advance at the Student Union desk or at Dean Stod dat's office. Prof. David D. Mason, chairman of the committee, Prof. Sylvester K." Stephens, Prof. Ray V. Watkins, Dr. William L. Werner and Prof. Charles S. Wyand, members of the Liberal Arts Lecture board, also are distributing tickets. Wrote “Wise-Cracks” James Stephens comes here on a lecture tour that includes many col leges of the United States. Last Sun day. he .read his poems at a .meeting of tlie Poetry Week Fellowship in Rockefeller Center, New York; Dr. John H. Finley, former editor of the New York Times, delivered the in troductory address. Immediately after Mr. Stephen’s talk at Penn State, he will leave for Cleveland where he will speak the following day. Although best known as a poet and novelist, Stephens began his career as a writer of “wise-cracks” for a Dublin newspaper. Later he incor porated many of these epigrams in his first novel, "The Crock of Gold.” Among them are: “Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more,” and “If every persons had enough to eat therc’d be no more trouble in the world and we could fight our fill.” Stephens himself knows something about fighting, having been prominent in the Sinn Fein movement to free Ireland. In recent years he has done much to preserve and popularize Irish art and folklore. Someone has called him “the shortest Irishman with the tallest tales in all the world.” 4 New Courses Added To Extension Set-up Four extension classes in “Current Social Problems” arc being organized this week here, at the request of so cial workers in county emergency re lief offices, Professor J. Orvis Keller, assistant to the President as director of extension, announced today. The course will deal with sociological principles involved in relief, disloca- 1 Lion of workers, and rehabilitation. The first class enrolled yesterday morning in Philipsburg, meeting in' the County Emergency Relief Office, and the second during that afternoon, in Clearfield, also in • the County Emergency Relief Office. On Thursday afternoon a class will enroll in Lewistown where the Y. M. C. A. is cooperating in sponsoring the course; the class meeting in the Y building. The fourth class will matriculate in Harrisburg on Friday afternoon. J. Howard Rowland, of the resi dence faculty, will teach the classes under the direction of Dr. Willard Waller, head of the division of sociol ogy. The classes will meet for two hour periods once each week for twen ty-four weeks. Satisfactory comple tion of the work will carry three col lege credits. 6 Freshmen Pass Tests Six freshmen have (passed the ex aminations for assistant operators in station WBYA, Gilbert L. Crossley, director of the station, announced re cently. Station WSYA, a short wave station, is one of the army reserve radio posts. These freshmen are Ed win F. Norris, Arthur Kohn, Rear don S. Cotton, John Eachus, Herbert Lott, and John Lester. STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1934 L. A., Education Schools Merger Revisions Approved by President Hetzcl Approves Recommendations for Drastic Reorganization, Introduction of New Upper, Lower Divisions Recommendations for changes in the set-up of the Schools of Liberal Arts and Education, as originated last June when the Lower and Upper division system was suggested, were approved by President Ralph D. Ilet zel late last week. The revisions went into effect Friday afternoon. In order to relieve good- teachers and investigators of the routine de tails of administration; to place more emphasis on merit in teaching and research; to bring about better in tegration among allied subjects; and to centralize and improve schedul ing, the changes have been proposed. It is planned also to devise better and more equitable methods of de termining salaries, rank, the appor tionment of travel funds, and to give aM faculty members more voice in departmental policies. As far as the organization is con cerned, the present departments and their heads will be retained. A divi sion of English literature in charge of Dr. William S. Dye, head of the department of English literature, will be created together with a division P.S.C.A. To Send 20 as Delegation Student Christian Seminar Will Hold Meeting at Bucknell; Dr. Koo Will Preside A delegation of over twenty stu dents will attend the annual ’Student Christian Movement Seminar at Bucknell University next Monday af ternoon and night, with several col leges of tlie Central Pennsylvania dis trict participating. Dr. T. Z. Koo, vice-president of the World Student Christian Federation, and considered by many an outstand ing-leader, of student thought. in America, Europe, and the Far’East, is the principal speaker. He will speak at 4 o’clock and at 8 o’clock,, on the general topic of “What a Mod ern Christian Believes.” The delegation from this campus will be headed by n committee com posed of E. Robert Curry ’B6 and Gene C. Ziegler ’37. The group plans to arrive at Lewisburg in time for the lecture at 4 o’clock, the trip be ing made by automobile. Students or faculty members in terested in attending the seminal' should register before 5 o’clock to night at the Christian Association of fices, 804 Old Main, since the num ber will be limited. The registration fee includes dinner, to he served in the women’s dining commons at Buck nell. Among the colleges to take parL in the discussions are Dickinson Semi nary, Lock Haven Teachers College, Juniata College, Susquehanna Col lege, Bloomsburg Teachers College, Penn State, ami the host, Bucknell. Fraternity Advisors To Convene Thursday “Promoting cooperation between the student body and the town” will be discussed at the November meet ing of the Penn State Fraternity Counsellors association at the Theta Chi house, at 8 o’clock on Thursday night. A committee composed of Prof. Leonard A. Doggett, chairman. Prof. Julius E. Kaulfuss, and Charles Schlow, merchant, has been appointed to lead a discussion of the topic. A report of the recommendations on the rushing code which was dis cussed at the October meeting of the association will be made at this meet ing. The meeting is open to all fra ternity advisors and fraternity al umni. Lewis Adopts Bookplate A new bookplate, with the College seal, is now being used at the College library. It is the first time that deco rative plates have been used and each branch library will have its special plate, Willard P. Lewis, librarian, said. Special plates will be used for the gift collections. Phi Mu Alpha To Stage Fraternity Songfest Phi Mu Alpha, honorary music fraternity, will have charge of the Intorfrntornity Songfest to be held next month. The fraternity will have com plete charge of arrangements and will provide the cup for the win ner. The contest was not held last year because of lack of interest. of (1-amaties under Prof. Arthur C. Cloetingh, director of the Penn State Players. In the department of English com position, a division of English com position under Prof. A. Howry Es penshadc, head of the department, anti a division of speech, under Prof. John 11. Frizzell, public speaking in structor, will be instituted.. A divi sion of French in charge of Dr. Fran cis M. DuMont, and a division of Spanisli and Italian, under Prof. Paul It. Daugherty has Iren approved for the department of Romance Lan guages. Included in the division of Econo mics will also be the commerce cours es in charge of Dr. Carl W. Hasek, head of the department of economics and sociology, whil. the other divi sion. that of sociology, will be headed by Dr. Willard Waller, of the same department. Prof. Wayland F, Dun away, (tf the department of history and political science, will be in charge of the division of history in that de- (Continued on page four) 2 Dramas Ready For Production Cloetingh Will Conduct Try-outs Tonight, Tomorrow By Appointment With two plays ready to go into production, try-outs for students not already registered at tlie office of the Penn State Players will be conducted tonight and tomorrow night by ap pointment. Applications will be ta-’ ken at the Players office, 413 Old Main, between 1:30 o’clock and 5 o'- clock today. • “Counsellor-at-Law,” by Elmer Rice will be presented after the Christmas holidays. Frank S. Ncus bauni, of the department of English composition, will direct. Prof. Arthur C. Cl-octingh, of the department of English literature, and director of the players, will present “Peer Gynt” by Ibsen sometime in February. Orchestra to Reorganize This production will be given as part of the fifteenth anniversary pro gram of the Players. Costume and scene designers are working on the technical problems connected with “Counsellor at Law.” Complete reorganization of the “Players Orchestra is being under taken by T. Robert Bassett, faculty director and Robert E. Carey ’35, student leader. Men and women stu dents who plan to try-out for the or chestra. will meet tomorrow night in the Baud Room, 401 Old Main, at 8:80 o’clock. Prof. Cloetingh is now making fi nal selections for the cast of the York Nativity play which will be present ed as a pan of the annual Christmas program by the Artists’ Course com mittee. It is the same production that was given last year and with the exception of the roles taken by seniors who were graduated last June, the cast will remain as it was last season. Women’s Council Adds To Rushing Regulation Freshmen women may now he en tertained informally by women’s fra ternities with a maximum expendi ture of 81.50 per week, it was decided at a meeting of Pan Hellenic Council last Thursday. The proposed shortening of the time after which a girl who has been pledged to one fraternity can be pledged to another from a year to one semester had to be dropped since some of the national chapters refused their permission. The informal entertainment of freshmen was authorized in prepara tion for second semester rushing in ease it is approved by the Student Welfare Board, according to Jeanne S. Klcckncr ’35, president of Pan Hellenic Council. Group To Study Drive Cllen O. Bressler '35, Ann B. Fa gan '35, Katherine B. Humphries ’35, John B. Bott '36, Lester M. Benja min '37, and Marian W. Barbcy '37 have been appointed by Albert E: Diem 'B5, chairman of the recent P.S.C.A. financial drive, to appraise the results turned in by the division leaders. The committee, meeting la ter in the week, will discuss ways and means of improving the cam paign for next year. Union Completes Plans for Initial All-College Dance Committee Schedules Ball for Nov. 30 At 9 O’clock Customs Regulations Suspended For Night Plans have been completed for the first Student Union dance of the year which will be held in Recreation hall, Friday night. November 80. Harry D. M. Grier 'B5 is chairman of the committee. The dance will begin at 0 o’clock and will run until- midnight. Bill Bot torf’s orchestra has been scheduled to furnish the music. No decorations will be obtained as the committee wants to keep expenses at a mini mum. To cover the expense incurred by the affair, each couple will be charged fifty cents. Matriculation cards will not be required as has been the cus tom with former dances. Freshmen who attend the dance will be permitted to go without cus toms for that night. A check-up will he made by members of the hat so cieties and first year men who are caught without customs, but who are not at the dance, will be dealt with by Student Tribunal-. The committee includes Grier, Ma nilo F. De Angclis ’35, Jean S. Kleck. ner '35, and A. Kenneth Maiers ’35. Two other dances will be held by Stu dent Union later in the year if pres ent plans are carried out, it was an nounced. Hughes Says Moderns Reap Without Sowing i Emphasizing the debt which we of today owe to the past, Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, senior bishop of the Meth odist church, spoke to the Houscparty ‘chapel Sunday morning on “The Cost of Life.” Wo reap the things upon which we bestow no labor and then spend a lot of time in scorning the past which gave them to us,” the speaker de clared. “Don’t bo deceived by a lot of literary ‘smart-alceks’ who seem to think that they can aggrandize them selves by criticizing one of the great est eras in history, the Victorian Age.” Men like Shaw and Bennett in jEngland and certain writers in ; America, Bishop Hughes maintained, have been responsible for the charge of hypocrisy leveled against Victor ianism. These writers have made fun of it, he continued, because they wish to change and degrade our mor al code. “It is easy to make an attack tip on the dead, but some of us find that it isn’t very polite to shake our lists at our grandparents. We have no right to engage in wholesale praise or destruction without Including some constructive element.” Describes Farm Areas Pennsylvania contains twenty-five different farming areas, according to a bulletin written by Dr. Frederick. P. Weaver, head of the department 1 of agricultural economies, and Emil Rauchcnstcin, of the bureau of agri cultural economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Tlie bulletin has been published by the College agri cultural experiment station under the title of “Types of Farming in Penn sylvania.” The Way to a Houseparty Queen’s Heart Was Through Her Stomach Last Week-end “An army moves on its stomach.” That’s what Napoleon claimed and if he’s right, the army of Houscparty Queens and their escorts who danced, pranced and staggered here last week-end should still- be marching onward, judging from the amount of victuals it consumed in the local cash beaneries. Over Friday, Saturday, and Sun day, 4,150 hanibtirgs, both fat, and thin, rare and very rare were more or less digested. Almost a quarter of these “burgers” were made up “with,” (onions to you). And up to the time that this edition went to press, the total number of gallons of Listorine and Pcpsodcnt had not been compiled. That the army was really a rug ged soldiery crowd is indicated by the fact that of the 7,050 cups of coffee that were drank almost a third of them were black. Nevertheless, 1,- 450 cups of hot chocolate were serv ed. However, the army showed its real stamina on Sunday morning when on ly 864 glasses of tomato juice and 673 glasses of orange juice were C-3 0 0 mt Killed in Accident EMANUEL ITCHKIX Tragedy Darkens Houseparty Fete 2 Co-eds. 2 Former Students, 2 Local Residents Killed in Head-on Collision Two co-eds, two former students, and two State College residents were among the seven persons killed in a blazing head-on collision on the Wil liam Penn highway, near Bcllwood, | early Friday night. Emanuel Perkin ’22, Janies Suniel ox-’29, liuth Jackson ’.'{s, Eleanor Webster ’27, Mr, and Airs. Irvin M. Musscr, two local residents, and James Graver, student at the Uni versity of Pittsburgh law school, were trapped in the automobiles when they crashed, and were killed instantly. Funeral services, the tragic after j math of the accident, were held Sun day and yesterday. Services for Mr. and Mrs. Musscr took place in Ty jrone, Sunday, while the* services for i the two co-eds, the two former sui -1 dents and Graver were held yester. ' day. To the many students, faculty, and i townspeople who were acquainted with the victims, their grim deaths came as a sudden shock. Phi Epsilon Pi, of which Perkin and Suniel were members, called off their danee Sat urday night because of the tragedy. While in College. Perkin was ac tive in campus activities. lie was head cheerleader, junior class treas urer, chairman of the Tnlerelass Fi nance committee, a member of the (Continued on juiffc four) Sackett Will Address Washington Engineers Dean Hubert L. Sackett, of the School of Engineering, will adtlre.-s the mechanical engineering students of George Washington University, Catholic University, ami other insti tutions at a meeting tomorrow night, in Washington, D. C. The meeting will also lie attended by members of the A.S.M.K. Dean Sackett will also attend the band Grant College association meeting during that week, whore he will load a discussion on “Industrial ‘"ontnets.” Dean Sackett spoke to Ihc students of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Tech, and to a group of professional mechanicat engineers on a trip to Pittsburgh during this past week-end. As a member of the coun cil of the A.S.M.E.. he represented that society at the meetings whieh he attended. While at Pittsburgh, ho also presided at the convention of the International Acetylino associa tion, at its session on “Education and Safety in Welding.” drunk. That’s real strength. And, incidentally, there were fewer eggs sold this week-end than Alumni week end. Grapefruit juice went down in a larger quantity than was expected with 520 glasses of it being emptied. Next to hamburgers, the most pop ular sandwiches were composed of ham, ham, and ham. In one eatery alone there were 850 pounds of meat eaten by the foraging rna-ss. Heel' accounted for 000 pounds of that fig ure. Ninety-five pounds of cheese, most ly Swiss (domestic, however), was eaten. It is strongly suspected that the rats that follow every army ac counted for the greater part of this substance. Somehow or other 1,7-10 glasses of milk were drunk and at the latest reports the cows were still con tent. • / The borough’s beer joints did a rushing business Friday night am! until midnight Saturday night. Al together there were a total of 000,- 000,000 beer steins drained, And there were twenty-seven chicken club sand wiches, the most expensive in town, eaten. Think of that. COMPLETE CAMPUS COVERAGE PRICE FIVE CENTS jVarsity Harriers Win Bth Place in' N.Y. IC-4A Meet Olexy Takes 3rd Post As Yearling Team Comes in 7th Harvey, in 33rd Place, Is First Lion To Finish I If! sprrial tfirr lt> tin- ('nllii/iini Penn State's varsity harriers look Bth place in the twenty sixth IC-1A emss-country nice run over the six-mile Van C'orl landl park course in New York City yesterday. Captain George Harvey, first State man to lin ish. was Hol'd. In the yearling race earlier in the afternoon, Pete Olexy, Lion yearling star, finished third in Jo:*lG to load the fresh man team to a 7lh place with I G-i points. i In the varsity race it was all Mich igan State. Tom Ottcy repealed his performance of last year hy winning the individual title in .‘11:51 and the Michigan State team totaled 77 points to win the team championship for the second year in succession, giving them two legs on the intercollegiate cup. Maine was second with 92 points. Harvey’s time was 21:01, Hook was Doth in 2J:07. Alexander rap the course in 21:22 to fmi-li l-lth, Crum in -17th place was docked in .‘11:29, and Detwiler completed the Lion score of 201 points in With place in 21:12. Downey finished 71th and Trimble 89th. According to Coach Chick Werner each man did his best and the poor showing was due to the unusually warm day and to what was probably the best competition in any IC-IA meet in recent years. In the varsity race Pitt was the only team which the Lions had beaten during the sea son which finished ahead of them. They were in sixth place with 178 points. The Nittany harriers had not met any of the other first seven teams. Tn the -freshm-m ;-f C luml'ia finished first in 15:28 to lead his team to a five-point victory over Prineeton with a total of fit points. Third place went to Manhattan with 112 points, and Syracuse and Cor nell, both of whom the* yearlings had beaten in dual competition, finished fifth and sixth, respectively. Olexy ran a beautiful race and was always within striking distance oT the leader. Near the finish lie made a gallant bid for first places but fell under a sustained sprint on the part of Sharp of Columbia, who heat him hy 8 seconds, and Williani.-on, of Laf ayette, who cut him out by just a few strides. Student Trials Held By Burgess Leitzell While this edition of the Collegian was being printed last night, nine students wen* being trie*! before Bur gess Wilbur F. Leitzell on charges of disorderly conduct. Eight of thorn were arrested Alumni week-end when it is alleged they were caught, tearing down decorations mi Allen street, be longing to the Alpha Fire company, and which were put up at the request of the College Alumni Association. The* other student, Herbert, 11. Mackay ’25. was arrested early Sunday morn ing by local polio* oificers and was released after posting a $l5 bond on .Sunday afternoon. The only other urre.-l over the week end by local police was the apprehend ing of a man, who gave his name as Stephen Hedgers, uf Wilkes-Barre, and who, police say, \va< posing as a student and passing a number of bad cheeks through town. According to O/ficer Albert K. Ynugel, Rodgers is also wanted in Wilkes-Bam* on a sim ilar charge. Rodgers was still in jail yesterday morning after u bearing be fore Justice Frank 1\ Miller, pending investigation. Earthquake Recorded By M. I. Seismograph Recording the earth’s tremors for the first time on this campus, the re cently completed seismograph of the School of Mineral Industries announc ed an earthquake of minor proportions Sunday morning at 10:12 o’clock. Dr. Helmet Landsborg, of the min ing department and in charge of the geophysical laboratory, reported that the shock was of two and one-half minutes duration and that it was im perceptible except by the delicate in struments. ’flu* seismograph, which was con structed in the College shops last September under the direction of Dr. Landsborg, is mounted in an unused elevator shaft in the Mineral Indus tries building. The recording instru ments were loaned by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, with which the .College is cooperating.
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