Page Iwo PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887. Publish.] semi-weekly during the College year, except on holiday+. by students of The Pennsylennin Stare College. In the interest of the College. the student,. faculty. alumni, and friends. JOHN A. lIRUTZMAN '35 JACK A. MARTIN '35 Editor Business Manager FRED W. WRIGHT '35 GEORGE A. RUTLEDGE '35 Sports Editor Circulation 51anager KENNETH C. HOFFMAN '35 R. KENNETH LYONS '35 Managing. Editor Local Advertising Manager JAMES R. WATSON JR. '35 HARRY J. KNOFF '35 Assistant Editor Foreign Advertising Manager PHILLIP W. FAIR JR. M 5 JOHN J. MATTHEWS MG Assistant Managing Editor asst. Foreign Advertising Manager A. CONRAD EAMES '35 13A1tL G. KEYSER .15. MG Newt Editor Asst. Local Advertising Manager JAMES B. BEATTY 3R. ; 35 MARGARET W. KINSLOE '35 News .Editor iIIARCIA IL DANIEL '3 Wonten's Editor ASSOCIATE. EDITORS John K. Borne, jr..35 W. Ilernard Freunsch 'l6 Vance 0. Pnckard '36 Harry 11. Henderson jr. .36 William P. McDowell '36 John 111. Miller ir. '36 Donald I'. Snndera '36 Churl. M. Schwartz jr. '36 WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Marybel Connbre 'll6 Roth E. Koehler '36 A. Yrnnees Turner .33 Application made for entry at the Post Office, State Wham, Penna., as second-class flatter. Friday, January 11, 1935 "FOREWARNED IS This year for the first time, college students were included on The Nation's annual honor roll. This pub lication lists Americans who have distinguished theM selves in various fields during the year. The selection is based on either important and enduring work or personal courage and adherence to high principles in particular situations. The first was John Wechsler, editor of the Colum bia Spectator, who attacked all lanes of reaction through the columns of his paper. Another editor, Jesse 11. Cutrer, of the Louisiana State University paper, together with another undergraduate, also made the list by virtue of their suspension from college be cause they criticized Iluey Long. All of which tends to prove two points: first, at least a few undergraduates are taking seriously the problem of directing progress in thought and action; and second, that if conditions similar to Long's domi nation of Louisiana are allowed to continue, those oft repeated principles of freedom of thought, press, and speech must go by the board. There is little question that the next few years will witness a struggle over this very point. As to the outcome or the proper course, the best experts disagree. •It is the duty of the present college generation to arm itself with enough facts to insure intelligent participa tion when the time for decision making conies. WE AWAIT EXPLANATIONS Penn State this week-end plays host to' the Penn sylvania Association of College Students. It is a. dis tinct pleasure to the College to welcome these visitors from other institutions to this• convention - , the first of which was conceived on this campus. Every type of school in Pennsylvania will be rep resented, with delegates coming from all parts of the State. It is to be hoped that much constructive work can be accomplished during the two-day meetings. Much should be settled concerning both student.govern ment problems and the student's relation to imminent affairs sir campus. The highlight of the convention should be the address of John Lang, former president of the National Student Federation. It is most significant that his speech should be "A Generation Faces Dry-Rot." It will undoubtedly have much to do with the Red scare an the American campus which we read about in a Boston paper. NOW IS THE TIME to dust off the Freshman bibles and look over the traditional Penn State code of sportsmanship. Wednesday night presented a. rather sorry spectacle when the Temple-Penn State game was in progress. It might he well for undergraduates to remember that gentlemen seldom boo, and furthermore, gentlemen never boo experts who have been engaged to handle a situation A FEW DAYS AGO, newspapers carried two stories on their front pages. One had to do with a kidnapping trial in New Jersey; the second told about tha President's budget message to Congress when he presented an unbalanced budget of some eight billions. Which of these stories was , the more - significant; which got the more attention and thought? SLIGHT ERROR Dr. Tyler Dennctt, president of Williams College, recently criticized the FERA program through which college students are provided with $l5-a-month jobs. His was a unique objection—that there were already too many unemployed college-trained men. This should be classed among the prize shallow thoughts of the century. If one argues that there are too many unemployed college-trained men at large today, what can one say about the untrained who are without work? Surely Dr. Dennett does not think that present conditions can be surmounted only by producing a race that can not and does not wish to think. A lot of just criticism could be directed at the FERA and its methods of procedure on the campus, but it is most fallacious to believe that it is wrong to help a few more people to acquire a slight background. This is only one phase of a program which is designed to broaden the horizon of the group as a whole. The day has passed when education is a luxury to be indulged in only by the upper classes. The trend today is advancing the condition of as many as possible. It is up to aristocratic institutions to realize and recog nize such trends. Woolen's Managitor Editor ELSIE' 31. DOUTIIETT Women's News Editor Often, no we slowly slipped away into the dusk, we have thought of this idyllic couple, and, though envying them their bliss, have been able to publicise nothing. For, you see, it's a tradition that one must do something (practically anything)_ to justify free publicity in this corner. Until Friday night Lucy and Bobbie have been circumspect. She has CAMPUSEER BY IMISELF June in January For years and years, while our greying beard has been getting longer and longer, a quiet little Romance has been flourishing nicely on and off this campus. Quietly, but hardly unobserved. The prin cipals in the little affair d'amour are none other than' that s2tter of standards, Lucy J. Erdman, W. S. G. A. President, and Kappa Kappa barn= member prom inent in social circles, and Chemist Bobbie Brown, from the Land of Closed Dances, out Pugh Street his pin, of course, but that isn't news. There was a bit of a rumor that they once kissed sweetly under the Kappa's prominently displayed mistletoe. That couldn't be confirmed. Lucy's been pretty worried. It just couldn't be Romance if it wasn't in the column! Now, however, they've really done something of note, especially when one considers that Lucy is Rule- Maker and Setter-ol'thc-Time-To-Get-Inner extraor dinary. Friday night Lucy and Robert were only to N. L. A. when one o'clock struck. So now Erdman and Brown 'are in the Column. Weather Note As you may have noticed, it's been a bit foggy in these parts of late. B2tween the nice drizzle that has so conscientiously accompanied it, and the fact that our old pal, George W. (Trees) Ebert hasn't gotten around to taking the Xmas red and green lights MT the tower yet, we've wondered just what college we were cutting classes in a couple of times. But now we're reassured. It was dark in Old Main's gorgeous lobby Wed nesday afternoon, and it was even darker on the balcony (o. k., mezzanine, if you wish). We passed by, and saw two dim figures gazing raptly out onto the front campus. We'd just come in and hadn't seen anything interesting while out in the slop, so we shot over to a window and looked out. Fog. Then we looked at the couple. A gentleman, one Richard Errol Snake, was gazing raptly now at the lady, one Harriet Forbes. On her bosom rested his Acacia frat pin.' We couldn't see what they were staring at so intently while looking at each other. Then we realized. Fog. • Correspondence A pal whose name we can't :decipher, tells no of Lou Case, one of the big men (now) at the Theta Xi manse. Mr. Case, it seems, has a father, as is customary in these parts. But his .father is no ordinary gent. For he works in the nail factory from which the nails in the rapidly-becoming-famous ladder in the Hauptmann-Lindbergh case came. The younger Mr. Case is quite proud of his relation ship to such'an important trial. Our correspondent claims that he officially shook the prominent Theta Xi's hand. He says that Mr. Case will gladly oblige anyone else who wished to get in touch with the events of the great outside world. Glimmers in the Rain Ask Spadafora how he sneaked in ahead of Mark Hall in the tangle to become Senior Ball• Chairman . . Charlie Schwartz is this rag's Grange Dorm correspondent—he's temporarily in the Infirmary for repairs, and has been presented with a new pair of field glasses . Kelly Houck naively removes Morty Kagen's coat, after Kagen has slightly ripped hell' out of his trousers slipping into a Cr. booth— Kagen remained there almost indefinitely . . . The (Theta) Smith—(Sigma Chi) Dyson posh is doing nicely, thanks . . . THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Freshman - C.A. Groups Will Convene Tuesday In Hugh Beaver Room Both freshman C. A. groups Will meet TueSday night, the Freshman Commission meeting in the Hugh Bea ver Room, Old Main, at 7 o'clock, and the Freshman. Forum holding its ses sion in Room UO2, Old Main, at G:45 o'clock. Because of the nearness of the rushing season, Mrs. 'Harry A. - SeanianS will address the women's group. on "Fraternities." The man's group will discuss "Re lationships Between Men and Wom en" at their meeting. Election of of ficers for. the coming year will also take place at this meeting, the nomi nations h a v ing been made at, the meeting last Tuesday. Presidential nominees are Victor P. Buell and Theodore E. Smith. The office of vice-president will go to the defeated candidate. Weston D. Gard ner, Michael Nemish, and Robert W. Werts have been nominated for the position of secretary. Nominees for the post of treasurer are Robert G. Danehower, Thomas L. Gilbert, and Raymond H. Henry. There are four nominees for the of fice ,of social chairman: James M. Apple, Richard S. Crowell. Daniel R. Grandy jr., and John G. Sabella. A joint executive committee com posed of the officers of the Forum and the Commission will be formed after these meetings, for the purpose of planning •a program of activities for the remainder of the year. Charles H. Salt '36 and G2nevra C. Ziegler '37 will counsel the Commission and For um respectively. Final plans for the holding of a swimming narty a week from tomor row will be discussed at the meetings Tuesday, as well as plans for a joint meeting of the two freshman groups on Tuesday, January 22. Faculty Men Address Inquiry Trip Visitors Prof. Charles J. Rowland, of the department or economics and sociol ogy, and John H. Ferguson, of the department of history and political science, addressed a meeting of stu dents who made the P. S. C. A. in quiry trips over the holidays, in the Hugh Beaver Room. Tuesday Reports on the trips were present ed by Katherine B. Humphrey '35, on the Pittsburgh,. trip; Charles R. Schlegel on the excursion to Phil adelphia; and Ralph G. Larson '3G, concerning the trip to Harrisburg. A trip to Irvona, -originally planned for the holiday Period, — will probably be made some- Saturday in the near Co-Edits A display of ;the W. S. G. A. con stitution, code book; rules, and clip pings is being prepared for the Penn sylvania Association of Colleges meet ing which'will be held here this week end. Exactly $48.40 was contributed by the women students for the W. S. G. A. Christmas fund. Senate added $11.60 to this amount,. making it pos sible to give $l5 .to the deserving mother who was recommended by the Dean of Women, and $l5 to the fund for the new kindergarten at .Lytle's Addition. It has been suggested that the all.- College dance to he given especially for non-fraternity women and to be made comparable to Panhellenic Ball, be held on the week-end after Senior Ball. No definite plans have yet been made. Theta Phi Alpha is having a coffee hour on Monday afternoon at 4 o'- clock for freshman women. The Beta Province of Kappa Kappa Gamma has accepted the local chap.: ter's invitation to hold their spring convention on this campus. Bausch & Lomb Twisting The Dial All programs will be listed accord ing to the key station in the East, and in Eastern Standard time. Our policy will be to pick the more outstanding air offerings. Hope you'll like 'em. TONIGHT Abe Lyman's music provides swell background for voices of Frank Munn and Vivienne Segal' on WEAF at 0 . . . popular music in symphonic style, with a new use for a voice choir —a new program that is clicking on WEAF at 10:30 ... and after house meeting, there's your choice of two she bands at 11—Ozzie Nelson on WABC or Eddy Duchin on WJZ. TOMORROW No use listing programs before 9:30 —but at that hour Richard...Himber can be found on WABC . . Hal Kemp's syncopation is on WOR at 10:30 .. . and 11's best bet is easily Dorsey Bros. on WJZ ... it has huh buh-Bob Crosby. SUNDAY If it isn't on your program to see the local presentation of "Counsellor at-Law" ... by all means hear Paul Muni play Simon in radio version on WJZ at 2:30 Not one of these Sunday matinees has been sour so far . Be'stor to Parker to Benny . .. fun and rhythm ... WJZ at 7 ... and it's Penner versus Will Rog ers at WJZ and WABC re spectively .. :the Sage of Claremore gets one wavering vote here. MONDAY Jan Garber is packing them in at his Supper Club on WJZ at 8 . . . Dorothy Page, the most beautiful woman in radio, sings surprisingly well, as does suave Lee Bennett ... there's a little plot, but it doesn't get in the way ... at 9:30, on WABC, Block and Sully may not put you in the aisles, but there's always Lud Gluskin's band and torchy Gertrude Wessell. I Roaming Between the Kilocycles MEMO—ask Mr. Fleming if Paul Pendarvis has really been signed for the Senior Ball. Campus gossip would have it so, at any rate. Heard him the other night, and he has what it takes. Try KDKA some time be tween 11 and midnight, and decide for yourself. Other bands said to be on the list are Mal Ballet (Prom band in '3O, Bernie Cummins, Emer son Gill (Senior Ball band in '33), Red Nichols, - the mast torrid of the group, and George -Hall, the most im proved band of last year. Dhncing This Week-end? We offer service at two places 'for last minute pressing. Cash and Carry . 113 Pugh St. Cash and Deliver . Phone 955 State College Dry Cleaning Works Tax on Checks ended Janu ary 1, 1935. Let the end, of the 2-cent tax mark the beginning of a new period of safe, orderly handling of your financial affairs. Pay your bills by check. The 'First National • Bank of State College John T.. McCormick, President David F. Kapp, Cashier CHEMICAL, intelligent use its marks the no, is progres efficient That )mb offers op ined especially lusch & Lomb. Paul 'Street, ' Campus Patrol 'Lost &. Found' Department Boasts Stock from Books To Saxophones Remember that chum book, saxo phone, fountain pen, or slide rule you lost last year? If you would still like to have it, it may be well :worth your while to visit the lost and .found department of the Campus Patrol in Room 321, Old Main, before.you give up hope. A total of $2,258.77 worth or arti cles were found in corridors, rooms, and lounges by the five regu lar and thirty part-time memba:_s of the patrol and returned to the:own ers since last January. A great.mian titY,Of articles still remain unclaimed. "When we receive notice .of a sto len article we check it against , a list of things we have here," Chief '"An dy" -Zarger said yesterday afternoon. "If it is not here we give each mem ber of the force . a description of it and he is on the lookout. It's not uncommon for on officer to recognize a coat reported stolen ou a student and when he questions him to dis coven that is , the roommate of the person who lost the coat and only borrowed it." . • "For some reason, more jewelry has turned up this year than ever U RA, in. the nine years' I have' been on duty," the chief revealed. "Dur 9 Students. Withdraw During Last 2 Months Nhie students, six. freshmen and three sophomores, have withdrawn from College since the middle of No vember. Of the nine,. four dropped out on account of illness, two on . ac count of poor scholarship, one for lack of finances, one because of . the death of his father, and one on ac count of insifilcient preparation. The sophomores are John F. Shu bick, •Charles B. Tilbrook, and Lewis 11-Wendel. The freshmen who have withdrawn are Robert Bohn, George Elliott, Meyer D. Finkelstein, Nich olas L. Keyock, Gust Lithe, and Thomas J. Saurina. Eliminations. Continue For Co-ed Rifle Team Eliminations are being held twice weekly, on' Tuesday, and Thursday, to select the varsity co-ed rifle team. 'Although fifty women arc still in 'the running, the squad will be narrowed down' to • ten. - Twenty matches will oonstitnte the co-ed;' schedule, Which. will!' open, o f-, ficiallg od:'l o ebruarY. 10 against the meres - .-freslimen ripe. groiip. A reporter for a metropolitan daily asked a num ber of persons on the-street, "What is thnbiggest buy fox:a nickel?" Two-thirds promptly replidd, - "Aiele: phone call." ' Americans throughout the'couritry evidently agree with this judgment of value received from the tele; phone. For each day they hold more than 57,000,000 conversations over 'Bell System wires. !ELL tIRLIETTIOE.SYSTEM Friday, Jandary 11, 1935 ing the past year we have found and returned six fraternity pins. None had been found by the patrol before." Textbooks valued at $357.41 were returned after identification by their o‘Vhers during the past year, but $146.50 worth of books still remains unclaimed. Approximately $l5O worth of leather notebooks await their own era although 4136.40 has been re turned during the same length - of time. "When the name is on a book, foun tain pen, hat, or any other article, we try religiously to call the owner on the phone and sometimes have to leave word with a fraternity brother or the landlady of the owner," , the chief related, "but sometimes the own er doesn't receive the message ,and sometimes he won't come up to the office when he finds that it was the campus police office that telephoned." "A lot of people who lose coats don't miss them until the cold weath er or rain comes and then we, get rid of a few things. That green cabinet over there is loaded with overshoes," he said, pointing to the other side of the, room. • TWo of the most. expensive, arti cles Sound! and returned during 'the past year were a bass liorn. , and Geiger Counter, a physics instrument valued at.s3oo. After a reasonable length of time, well-worn . articles of clothing .for which no owner is likely to call 'are given to the Red Cross. • :`l . think some students must leave old coats and hats so that they will be. 'lost' and Dad will come across with new ones," Chief Zarger opined. The' campus patrol office will be open each• night including Sunday, from 7 until 10 o'clock for students wishing to recover articles. And' any one who can identify and carry aivay his property will be doing the• patrol a personal• favor, according to the chief, because the articles take, up so much storage room that the members of the force are gradually being crowded out of their lockers. THE RESIDES TAXI SERVICE Will operate until 3:00 A. Pd., Saturday morning, Jan. 12,. to accommodate attending , *the. Beaux' Aris Year after year Bell System planning extends the telephone's reach —increases its speed— , maims, it, more, coove nient, more valuable to everybody.
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