Carnegie Library ESTABLISHED 1904 Volume 31Number 39 Priestly Series Opens April 29 For 5 Day Meet Rensselaer Polytechnic To Provide Speaker For Lectures. Prof. Hunter To Talk . On Electro-Metallurgy Prof. Matthew A. Hunter, of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will speak in the ninth annual Priestley Lecture Series to be held here this spring. The series is Scheduled for the five days from April 29 to May 3. The topics of the lectures will deal with•the borderline between physical cheniisfry , and electro-nOtallurgy. Each year's , Priestley lectures deal with the borderline between physidal chemistry and some other branch of science. The series, inaugurated in .1926, is given as part of a joint memorial to Joseph . Priestley, which was estab lished by alumni and faculty mem bers of the chemistry: department. The alumni purchased the old Priest ley residence at Northumberland in 1919. and erected a museum near the home: Phi Lambda Upsilon, honor ary chemistry fraternity,' undertook financial support of the lectures in 1931. Professor Hunter, this year's lec turer, is a professor of electrochem istry mid head of the department of physics and electrical engineering 'at the Rensselaer Institute. The department of electrical engi neering is co-sponsor, along . with Phi Lambda Upsilon, of the lectures this year. , Previous lectures coribected physical chemistry with bio-colloids, metallurgy,' medicine, ceramics, elec trical engineering, biochemistry, and life processes. 6 Profess Ors Elected To State Farm Posts Six inetribars of the faetiltY'Of. the School . of Agriculture will :serve as officers of Skate ' farm organizations as the result of 'eledtions held in an nual meetings at the recent State Farm - Show' in. Harrisburg. ' Prof. Edwin J. Anderson, .of., the extension department, was re-elected president of the Pennsylvania Bee keepers' association; and Prof. Ric hard H. Sudds, of the department of horticulture, was re-elected secretary of the State Horticultural associa tion. Four associations re-elected faculty members as secretary-treasurer. They are Pennsylvania Dairymen's Asso ciation, Prof. Charles R.- Gearhart, of the extension department; Penn sylvania- State Poultry Association, Prof. Herman C. Knandel, of the de partment of poultry husbandry; Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers' As sociation, Dr. Warren B. Mack, of the department of. horticulture; and Pennsylvania Sheep and Wool Grow ers' Association, Prof. William B. Connell, in charge of livestock .exten sion work. Professor Gearhart Was also elect ed a director of the Federation of Holstein-Friesian Clubs of Pennsylva nia. `Democracy Has Back To Wall,' Gray Claims "Democracy, the world over, has its- back to the wall," declared the Rev. Joseph M. M. Gray, chancellor of the American University, Wash ington, D. C., in speaking on-!'Dem ocracy aid Religion" at the Sunday morning chapel service in Schwab au ditorium. The development of the democratic principle in this country was traced by the speaker through the revolu tionary era and the period prior to the Civil - War, The present critical attitude. toward it he attributed to the writingS and philosophy of Nietzsche. "Democracy Will do for men and women what they are courageous enough to want it to do," Rev. Gray declared. "Today they want _only leisure, liquor, amusements, and ath letic contests." • The defects in democracy are also found in religion today, the speaker believes. ,To remedy the faults of both we must quit *ducting them us if we felt in our hearts that they wouldn't work. The fear of failure and of coming down in the world, he continued, is paralyzing the upper strata of, society: . "Democracy and religion are look ing at us today and asking us if we have courage," Rev. Gray concluded. "Some of us, at least, are answering that we have." • oSemi-likleekly: C-2 9 1 ' .c j, i ~ V. 1 855', . , . . Ancient Empires Depicted By Artists' Course Movie Film Scheduled for 7, 9' O'Clock Performances Thursday Night in Schwab Auditorium. Four great World Empires built Thursday night. Admission prices by ancient man are covered in "The I will be the same for either showing. Human Adventure," the eight reel talking picture to be shown in Schwab auditorium Thursday night at 7 and 9 o'clock under the sponsor ship of the Artists' Course. Tickets for students, faculty mem bers and townspeople are thirty-five cents each and seats are not reserved. High school students and others younger may buy tickets for twenty five cents each Tickets can be purchased today, to morrow or Thursday at Room .107, Old Main, or at the auditorium on Japanese Motif To Feature Hop Freddy Martin and Orchestra Will Play Amid Oriental Decoration Theme. • Alvin S. Newmeyer '37, chairman of the Soph Hop committee, announc ed today that the decorations for the dance, at which Freddy Martin and his orchestra will. play, will•feature a Japanese motif with a general col or scheme of red and white. According to decorating plans for the hall which were drawn up by a nationally known firm that decorates for large dances and conventions all over the country, there will he a large drop at one end of the_ hall showing scenes from Japanese life. Broadcasts Sundays The ceiling will be covered with strings of Japanese lanterns of beau tiful . colors. The' entire decorating scheme will be enhanced. by the elec trical effects . which will be used 'to obtain a truly. Oriental atmosphere. • acordingi,to—Newmeyer;- this.-deeora= tion scheme has never been used-here before. ' / - Freddy Martin, whose orchestra will ploy for-the dance, has fourteen men in . his. organization: Martin's record on the radio has been short, but famous.- He was on-the air for the past year and a half with Grou cho and Chico Marx. Following that program he imme diately went on the air with Cholly Knickerbocker, fambus society coin, mentator. At present he is broad casting on a coast-to-coast network every Sunday afternoon from 5 to 5:30 o'clock. Warnock Calls Campus Leaders For Meeting About one hundred men student leaders have been invited by Dean Arthur R. Warnock to a meeting in the Home Economics auditorium to night at 7 o'clock. The meeting is being held, to dis cuss the morals and conduct Of the student body and other conditions of the ,campus. In the words of Dean Warnock: "Conditions are changing in the college world and also on our own .campus, and therefore it seems timely for us to compare views as to where , we may be going.", Juniors Lead College in Rating Co-eds---O'Brien Suryey Shows College—the means of a liberal ed ucation, the pace to acquire a cul tural veneer, the four year improve ment of one's personality — . yet, as suming that a Penn State graduate has acquired most of these collegi- ate objectives, has he had' an exten sive enough feminine acquaintance ship here on the campus to enable him to distinguish between basic and superficial qualifications in choosing a wife? It is this thought which bothered Prof. Joseph F. O'Brien's class in ar gurnentation. Thus they conducted a survey 'during the first semester. The results will let you decide for - your self. Fifty-five freshmen, including both fraternity and non-fraternity -men alike, were used in the' experiment, while the upper-elassmen totalled for ty-six, forty-four, and twenty-five in the sophomore, junior, and senior classes respectively. Of these, varied curricula were represented. Notwithstanding the fact that the freshmen group are, prohibited. from dating, at least theoretically, they came through with the most numer ous number of casual acquaintances made in a year. Casual acquaintanc es, however, that were merely friend ships., were not included in the date STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, .1935 Produced Under Dr. BrCasted The picture carries the audience to the actual lands of the four great empires and graphically depicts the ruins of temples, monuments, tombs, and whole cities erected by the rul ers. It takes the spectator to Egypt where the first World Empire arose; then to Nineveh, ancient capital of Asyria, the second World Empire, ninth to seventh centuries B. C. Babylonia, home , of the earliest civilization in Western Asia, is shown along with Persia which be came the fourth and largest World Empire of the ancient Orient, from the sixth 'to fourth centuries B. C. The picture was produced under the scientific supervision of Dr. James Henry Breasted, noted histor ian, archeologist and director of the Oriental Institute and required more than three years to complete. A feature of the film is the series of sequences in which Dr. Breasted is seen and heard describing the ex periences of the expedition. Direc tion and narration of the picture is by his son, Charles Breasted, execu tive secretary of the Institute. Foresters Here To Issue Annual 'Sylvan' To Contain Directory Of Mont Alto • and l'enn State Graduates. • Forestry students herd arc prepar ing to issue the Penn State Sylvan, a publication dealing with forestry and graduates of the Forestry School. The issue of the Sylvan to be turned span the, . first -of, W . lll nual numbers. . In addition. to news'devoted to the forestry and two-year ranger classes now in - College, the first isaue . of the annual will contain a directory of all the. forestry graduates of,Penn State and Mount Alto. Articles - on ad vances in the industry by prominent foresters and graduates will also be included in the publication. The staff working on the paper is.: Durell E. Hess '35, editor; Albert 0. Retzold . '36, assistant editor; Vernal C.• Miles '35, business manager; Jos eph T. Radel '36, assistant business manager; Ralph E. Chamberlain '35, circulation manager;. Walter C. Dahulewichz '35, assistant circulation manager; Raymond It. Moore '36, junior representative; and Howard C. Watson '37, sophomore represent ative. Dr. Forbes To Speak Dr. Ernest B. Forbes, director of the institute of animal nutrition, has accepted an invitation of the direc tors of the lowa, Minnesota, en& Wis consin agricultural experiment sta tions to speak on "Pasture Research" at a joint meeting of these institu tions in St. Paul, Minn., March 7 and 8. category: The average was 162 fem inine friends. The sophomores came next with 114, while' the junior and senior average was 105 and OS, re spectively. The average of the highest nutnher of dates made went to the junior group, with eighty-three dates made. The startling news is that of these eighty-three, only an average of fif teen different girls per man was used. Coming a close second, the sophomore class showed eighty dates and but eleven different girls dated. 'The senior average tallied sixty dates in the year. But instead of inflation where the variety of girls were concerned, the results show a disappointing drop to approximately five variations in the co-ed stock used. The freshmen ended last (Hear, Hear, Tribunal!) with fifty-eight dates made, and twelve change-offs to break the monotony. Averages :-.3r the four classes list 130 casual contacts, But, out of all this, only seventy dates have been arranged and only eleven changes made. Obviously the stu dent has either found his "love" the first time, or is skeptical about part ing with his first choice for fear he will lode her altogether or not be able to find one better, Senior Ball Account • Shows Large Deficit Senior Ball thiS year incurred a deficit of $266.95, , Cecil C. Spa dafora, chairman' reported yester day. A total' of 331 paid admis sions, while 103 attended the danco on complimentary tickets. The total income was $1,354.95, while the expenditures amounted to $l,- 621.00. The income came from $993, admissions; $130.20, tax on admissions; $l4O, booth rental; and $91.15, checking. The expenditures were: music, $600; aecorations, $300; advertis ing, $110; compensations, $100; College labor, i $95; checking, $91.75; programs, $89.12; cater ing, $28.50; ticket printing, $23.50; flowers, $11.50;'. doormen, $10; ticket seller, slo;4iano tuning and repairing, $9; women's attendant, $5; invitations, $3.85; telephoning and telegraphing $3.06; and mis cellaneous, $1.41..' Bassett To Lead String Ensemble Players To Use 'incidental Grieir Music For Disco Drama Friday, Saturday. , Converted into a string ensemble for the Penn State ,Players' produc tion of "Peer Gyiit," by Ibsen, in Schwab auditorium . - Friday and Sat urday night at B:3Q o'clock, the Penn State Players' orchestra under the direction of T. Robert Bassett, of the department of Enklish composition, will play several 'selections during the performance. Edward Grigg v'rote the music in 1876 especially for this production at the speCial request of the drama tist, Ibsen. Since that time the play has always been performed with this celebrated incidental_ music accom paniment. 7 Stage to Sing Solveig's Song Four numbeis will be played by the orchestra 'in the first suite and will include "Morning," "Ase's Daath," "Anitra'spance," and "In =the HAll,,ofitheXiihieitain,Kinge.' , This last number will-be laic& as the back ground for the scene of the same name and also for the solo dance of the trolls. For .the second suite; the string group will play "Ingrid's La ment," and "Solveig's Song." This number will be sung by Enid A. Stage '35, who plays. the role of Sol .veig, Peer Gynt's .loyal sweetheart. 'ln addition .to , the numbers men tioned for use in the two suites, a Norwegian dance and "Spring Dance," the wedding scene selection will be played. "Erotik" will be play ed during the loVe scene between Peer and Solveig. Most of the selec tions will be played during the scenes, accompanying the action. Members of the orchestra include Vernon E. Dyer '36, Lucy A. Albert '37, Lowell M. Boorse '37, and Mar tha M. Clark '3B, violins; Gordon A. Anderson '37, viola; Phyllis E. Cog gin '36, cello; and Julius T. Lodzun '36, bass. Dr. Whitmore Named To Award _Committee Dean Frank C. Whitmore, of the School of . Chemistry and Physics, has been appointed to the committee of award of the American Chemical So ciety, which annually nominates for the society's prize in pure chemistry an American chemist not over thirty years of age for outstanding achieve ments in chemical research. • Other members of the committee of award are: R.. A. Gartner, of the University of Minnesota; H. C. Urey, Nobel Prize winner, of Columbia uni. yersity; H. Adkins, of the University of Wisconsin; Dr. John Johnston, di rector of research, U. S. Steel Cor poration; and R. E. Gibson, of the Carnegie Institute geophysical lab oratory. Dean Whitmore also has been nam ed chairman of the American Chem ical society's committee on unemploy ment of recent graduates. Will Fine for Failure To Heed Stop Signs Motorists in State College were warned this morning that • today marks the beginning of a drive by borough police against, drivers who fail to heed "Thru Traffic—Stop" signs, Wilbur F. Leitzell, burgess of the borough. of State College said this morning: • Throtighout the • week, a drive against motorists who drive from side streets onto main thoroughfares without first coming to a full stop will be conducted, Burgess Leitzell said. An advertisement by the bor• ough to that effect appears in today's isue of The Centre Daily Times. Local Milk Prices Uniform, Grades Vary, Survey Shows Product of Several State College Dealers of Low Quality, Health Board Records Reveal. Many of the State College milk dealers are giving their clients much 1 lower quality milk than others, yet they are selling at a uniform price. This fact has been revealed as a re sult of an extensive survey of the bor ough's milk situation, just completed by the COLLEGIAN. The facts arc substantiated by the records of the State College Board of Health. These records, never before published, arc the result of quarterly 'examinations made by Dr. M. W. Ne : dish for the Beard. They show that, while some of the dealers are selling the richest grade milk, others, at practically the same prices, are selling milk that just con forms to the standards. In cleanliness and pure milk the dealers have all averaged more than fifty per cent above the government requirements for the year. That is, they have in bacteria count. However, a number of these milk dealers have been called to account several times during the past year for unsanitary conditions about their farms. Six dealers had their licenses revoked for several weeks last year because their milk contained too much sediment; that is, dirt or foreign matter in the milk. • In Chart I the average bacteria count in the milk of each dealer for the past year is shown. This list, which was part of the Board of Health's records, is the most impor tant means of judging a good milk, according to Prof. Francis J. Doan, of the dairy husbandry department. Professor Doan pointed out that a bacteria count of less than 13,000 con stitutes a very good milk. Between 13,000 and 16,000, he said, was good, and anything below 50,000 was still harmless, since the government stand ards require the milk to have a bac- 15 Pamphleti Issued `- By Research Station Fifteen bulletins, comprising a total of 39,000 copies, were issued during the past year in reporting re sults of research conducted by the College agricultural experiment sta tion, Dr. Stevenson W. Fletcher, director of research, reveals in the annual report of the station. A wide variety of information is covered in the printed bulletins. In addition to the general surmary in cluded in the annual report, the publications carried information on orchard soil - fertility, alfalfa varie ties, electrically heated dairy utensil sterilizers, county government costs, artificial propagation of ring-necked pheasants, polyporaceac of Pennsyl vania, Virginia pine, baits for orien tal fruit moth, the respiration calori meter, vitamin D requirements of chickens, lead residues on apples, types of farming, potato growing with tractor power, and linseed meal for lambs. The bulletin on the respiration calorimeter won first prize in the exhibit of research bulletins at the annual meeting of the American As sociation of Agricultural College Editors. In addition to their reports printed in station bulletins, agricultural re search workers had 69 scientific papers published in technical journals during the year. It May Be Slush Today and Gone Tomorrow—But 'Oh Boy' Friday Penn Stute's winter carnival opened and closed Friday night, leaving be hind it a trail of broken windows, bruised bodies, gigantic, but now melting snowmen, disrupted traffic, and u lot of slush. Activities reached their height, both in casualties and in attendance, about 11 o'clock Friday night. on the west walk of the campus gate. For more than three hours approximately 150 students slid breathlessly 'down the walk, took the "ski-jump" onto Col lege avenue, and landed more or less injuriously on some part of their• body, scrambled to their feet to rush up the walk for another go at the sport. The only reported very near casualty was among three employees of the grounds and building depart ment who miraculously escaped with their lives when they attempted to Put ashes on the "skid-way." Traffic was re-routed without the did of borough officials and every body had a swell time. Improvised toboggans, made out of a pair of skis held together by the weight of their crews, are reported to have passed records set at Lake Placid last sum mer. Some of the more daring clubroom alt. Leila count of less than 100,000. CHART I—Pureness Dealer Bacteria per C.C. TM. E. Homan_ 2,850 IS. W. Zettle 3,192 °Penna. State College (P)___. 3,702 renna. State College (C)___ 0,012 H. C. Dale_ 6,775 W. W. White 7,175 11. Mitchell 7,755 S. B. Wasson__ 8,262 J. W. Bathgate 10,200 N. B. Martz 10,425 .I:Pearce Milk Co. (P) 11,575 J. J. Markle 11,933 °Penn Dairy (P) 13,050 Roy Strouse 14,600 SE. N. Trostle _ 14,600 *Merrill Homan 16,200 J. C. Meyer 34,950 J. W. Klinger 40,900 Government Standards, not over 100,- 000 per c. c. tWarned several times for having too much sediment in their milk. Pasteurized milk. (Certified milk. In Chart II the energy value, as a food, of each dealer's milk is shown. This chart shows the caloric value (Continued on page three) Ball Committee To Choose Band Weeks, Noble, Busse Considered By I. F. Dance Group To Play With Hallett. An orchestra to play a battle of music against Mel Hallett at Inter fraternity Ball on April 5 has not been selected but will probably be chosen from ,a.groUp : including_Anson Weeks, Ray Nobl•a, or Henry Busse, , according to Vernon D. Platt '35 and Robert 0. Graham jr. co-chair men of the (lance committee. The committee has contracted book ing agencies for these bands and is trying to arrange for the date and a suitable price. Played On Stage Mal Hallett, who has been on the Keith circuit for the past year with iniavals at Roseland Ballroom in Kew York, is. a "flash" band some what like Casa Loma. The organiza tion of 12 men and two women voca list has been playing a large number of one night stands at colleges in re cent weeks and have won popularity because of the novelties which also gained them popularity while playing on the stage. Recent college jobs which the band has played are at the Lehigh Junior Prom, and dances at Cornell, Michi gan, and Wisconsin. Others members of the committee on the dance are William J. Booth '35, James H. Boring '35, Frederick 11. Charles '35, Thomas E. Clough '35, Leonard L. D'Amico '35, Thom as L. P. Perry '35, George L. Fisher '35, Richard J. Fisher '35, and Paul C. Haldeman '35. Others are Earl C. Keyser '35, Alexander J. Mae Donnell '25, Ralph P. Needles '35, Donald R. Ross '35, John P. Schwenk '35, and Herman A. Schmidt. '36. athletes came out of their bridge games after looking at pictures of skiing in the CoUrgiutc Digest and went down to ski on the steeply in clined runway at the Dux club bowl ing alleys. Nobody got down the run away, of course, but everyone there had a lot of fun trying. "And any how," one of them said, "if we had gotten down, where would we have gone. Some really industrious students, probably the Red or Workers faction here at State, got to work and cre ated a large snow head on front cam pus which bears a remarkable re semblance to .. William Randolph Hearst. The snow head is melting rapidly. So is Mr. Hearst. It has long been rumored that there is nothing like the weather to make n new man out of a person. That little proverb was proved on - the gala night of the winter carnival when several cutters and sleighs were seen driving about this little hamlet. At $2 an hour, too. That, to some, may prove the proverb, but to those who are still in doubt about it, the follow ing is offered on proof: there wasn't one ski suit seen during the whole winter carnival. COMPLETE CAMPUS COVERAGE PRICE FIVE CENTS Pittsburgh Co-eds Will Meet - Debate Squad Thursday Berbatis, Townsend To Award Discussion • Loving Cups. 2 Sophomores Debate Maryland Club Tonight "When the varsity debate squad meets the Pittsburgh orators in the Rome Economics building at 8:15 o'- clock Thursday night, they will meet one of the most outstanding women debate teams of the cast," Angelo N. Berbatis '35, manager, announced. The debate will be in the form of a split-team contest, with one Penn State man joining the side of one of the University of Pittsburgh women. Marguerite Swank, president of the women's debating club and of Delta Sigma Rho, honorary speech fraternity, of Pittsburgh, with the aid of James W. Townsend '35, will defend the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved: that a. college man graduate earning a minimum salary of $1,500 a year should marry before the age of twenty-five." Roy Wilkinson '37 will argue the nega tive with Marcella Leyton, of Pitts burgh. Bela Sigma Rho to Receive Cups An audience decision will announce the favored side of the question, cast ing a closed•ballot at the end of the debate. This is the first time that such a topic has been discussed be fore a college audience. The speakers will attire in formal wear, as is cus tomary when a visiting woman de bate squad appears on the campus. While ,the ballot is being counted, Townsend. representing the Forensic Council, and Berbatis, president of Delta Sigma Rho will award a rep resentative of Beta. Sigma Rho, win ners of the recent inter-fraternity discussion contest, two silver loving cups. One becomes their permanent possession, while the other is retained r Debate at Maryland Tonight Lester M. Benjamin '37 and Ar thur Pollock '37 will leave this morn ing for the University of Western Maryland, where they will debate an Oregon style contest tonight. A crit ic judge will announce the winner. Tomorrow night, Myra E. Cohn '37 and Helen M .Chamberlain '37 will oppose Ursinus Cielege at the Home Economics auditorium at 7:30 o'clock. They will also debate on the Oregon plan. Friday night the two Pittsburgh debaters will meet a two-woman team at Altoona. 'rho question of inter national shipment of armaments will be the topic argued. 75% of 1934 Women Have Obtained Work Seventy-five per cent of the women students graduated from Penn State last June have occupations, Miss Charlotte_ Ps. Ray, Dean of women, re port/2d today. The 1934 graduates have entered medical school, law school, have continued in graduate work, obtained employment in scout work, extension service and have en tered a number of other fields. Of the 124 girl graduates in the class of 1934, 38 are teaching; 13 have married; live are engaged as dieticians and five in secretarial work. Three have obtained employment in stores, one in demonstrating equip ment, two are in statistical work, two are working on newspapers, two in library work, and two in relief work. Other girls are • selling portraits, working as dentist's assistants and in restaurants. Thirty-one of the 124 are unemployed. Of the 31 who were graduated from the School of Liberal Arts, 22 have occupations. Of the 00 who were graduated front the School of Educa tion, 68 have obtained positions. The two graduates front the School of Chemistry and Physics and the one from the School of Agriculture all have places. Transient Camp Head To Address Engineers Director Spencer R. Cordon, of Treaster ,Kettle Camp, near Centre Hall, will speak to the senior engi neers at their weekly convocation on Friday, March 1, at 3:10 o'clock in the Chemistry amphitheater. Director Cordon has had on un usual and varied experience, includ ing graduation in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, four years study at the Art Students League of New York City, work in the studios of two noted American sculptors, Herbert Adams and Dan iel French, and service on the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation.
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