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-
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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
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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
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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.