Page Two --' PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887. Published send-weekly during the College year, cunt on holida”, by students of The Pennsylvania State College, in the interest of the College. the students, faculty, alumni. and friends. Tnn MANAGING BOARD JOHN A. DRUTZMAN '35 Editor JACK A. MARTIN '35 .Business Manager FRED W. WRIGHT '35 GEORGE A. RUTLEDGE '35 Sports EctHoe Circulation Manager KENNETH C. HOFFMAN '95 B. KENNETH LYONS '35 Managing Editor Local Advertising Manager JAMES B. WATSON JR. '35 HARRY J. KNOFF '35 Assistant Editor Foreign Advertising Manager PHILLIP W. FAIR JR. '35 JOHN J. MATTHEWS '33 Atmistunt Managing Editor Asst. Foreign Advertising Manager A. CONRAD HAWES '35 EARL G. KEYSER JR. '35 News Editor Asst. Local Advertising Manager JAMES It. BEATTY JR. '95 MARGARET W. KINSLOE '55 News Editor Women's Managing Editor MARCIA B. DANIEL '39 ELSIE N. DOUTIIETT '35 Women's Editor Wumen's News Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS John K. Barnes jr. 1G W. Bernard Freunech .36 Vance 0. Packard Barry B. Ilen.lernon jr. '36 William P. McDowell . 36 John E. Miller jr. '36 Donald P. Sandere . 36 Charle M. Schwartz Ir. '36 ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Philip r:. Evans '36 William IL Heckman '36 Leonard T. Sidi 16 Roland W. Oberlin!tsar Jr, '35 William 11. Skirl& '36 Monopine Editor This hour Friday, March 15, 1935 DR. 0. F. BOUCKE The passing of Dr. Boucke brings to the College its most serious loss in many years. Budgets can be juggled and balanced; administration officials may come and go; but a loss such as this affects vitally the students themselves. As an instructor, he was without peer. His pre sentation was inspired by a rare combination of ir refutable logic, progressive reasoning, and an enter taining sense of humor. As an economic authority, he was recognized 'as one of the outstanding men in his field. As an author, he produced many works which will be turned to for many years. Dr. Boucke has left Penn State, but his influence will be felt so long as one of his students should sur vive. His life is a challenge to today's youth. Fortu nate indeed are those who had the opportunity of knowing him. AGAIN PENN STATE has the privilege of play ing host to the Eastern Intercollegiate Boxing Associa tion. This is not the first tournament that has been here, but from all indicaions, it should be one of the best. • As guests of the College, visiting boxers and their managers will he greeted with every consideration. Penn State is proud of its reputation as host to such affairs. This week-end will be no exception. WHICH WAY, MR. ROOSEVELT? The N. R. A. eagle was two years old last week. Franklin Roosevelt's first term as President of the United States is half over. It is a good time to .stop . and take stock. Just how far has the country 'gone . on the road to recovery r and, - What is still more im portant, what lies ahead? Even before his election, President Roosevelt gain ed the confidence of the American people. An almost evenly divided Congress was solidly behind him, passed all his legislation, gave him practically dictatorial powers. Just what did Mr. Roosevelt accomplish with all this power? The President's original planS called for a $l2 a week minimum wage for all the codes. And it was understood that the minimum wage was to be increased just as soon as this was feasible. What has happened? The rubber tire and the cigarette minimum wage has been chiselled down to $10; excelsior products, $8; tex tile bag, $8.60; retail grocery, $lO for fifty-six hours; wholesale grocery, $9 for forty-four hours; cleaning and dyeing, $8; handkerchief .makers, $9; and the laundry code for the South, $6.60, the low mark. IncOme tux records shoo . / that incomes over $25,000 have increased while incomes under that amount have decreased American Federation of Labor reports show that average wages of the sixteen chief producing and dis tributing industries rose only three Scents, from $20.53 to $20.56, in the year preceding November, 1033. But food prices have gone steadily up, having risen seven per cent in the same year, while clothing and furnishing costs rose twenty-one per cent. Profits on Wall Street in 1934 were more than double those of 1933. Real wages have thus rapidly decreased while cor poration and individual profits have gone up. After the first re-employment spurt, employment has gradually increased. Relief work, with its un satisfactory wages and stigma of charity, has aided a small percentage of the unemployed. What is the situation now? While Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Richberg clamor for a "new" N. R. A., Con- gross—this time an overwhelmingly Democratic Con gress—refuses to pass any of the President's relief and labor legislation. The President says that the "new" N. R. A. is to he "anti-monopoly." The fact that he stresses this "anti-monopoly" function only emphasizes the strong pro-monopoly tendencies of the "old" N. R. A. And just what is to be new about the N. R. A.? Only', the methods. The purpose remains the same. President Roosevelt, either viciously or innocently, has delayed the cause of recovery at least two years. Ile must. realize that profits for the labor leaders do not indicate prosperity for the country at large. If recovery is to continue, the President must de clare himself in favor of the masses, not the bosses. He must abandon complex trade regulations, price fix ing, the whole idea of running the country from a Washington bureau. He must restore the element of competition which is the basis of the capitalistic sys tem. If •he continues in his present plan, he must 15e.„ ready to take the consequences, Which way, Mr. Roosevelt? CAMPUSEER BY HIMSELF AS OTHERS SEE US These literary guys who are always writing about our College and ain't never been here really get us down. For instance, Leo Knopf, of Phi Sigma Delta had to write a letter to a Mr. Dick Cullum, one of Esquire's literary gents, just to point out that "the Columbia Lion is just an . everyday city lion while that of Penn State is a strong and sturdy Mountain Lion named after the beautiful mountain within sight of our Campus." On top of that there's a swell passage in Ham lin Garland's 'Our Friendly Contemporaries' which reads: "I found the school pleasingly rural. It lies off the main line of railway and has a decidedly back country tone which I like. I am in the real Amer ica." We don't know just when Mr. Garland visited our Campus which he describes in such a bucolic fashion, but we're willing to bet that he doesn't have any fraternity brothers here, that he never met any of the Phi Mos, and that he missed the Corner Room . by a wide margin.—And what do you think, Mr. Werner? To get back to Mr. Knopf's letter, we might add that it brings back vividly the lady New-Yorker who stood next to us at the Columbia game last fall squawking, "Yeah, Penn! Yeah, Penn!" We tried to interest her in some gin, but she refused and burh- led, "No, thanks, but I really do think you boys from Philly are putting up a wonderful scrap!" Dr. Hartmann, the ponderous gentleman who prowls about the Ed. building with his eyes on his book and his feet on somebody else's, decided a while ago that too many people were forgetting too many things such as, we suppose, Karl Marx, John Dewey, and the Socialist Candidates for office. At any rate, Herr Hartmann planned another campaign this one against forgetfulness and its attendant evils. He arranged to give several radio talks on the subject Tow TO Develop Your Memory' and went to work with his usual gusto. The first talk was swell and the primary steps toward remembering were ab sorbed by a number of radio fans who eagerly await ed the second talk. From all reports the half-re formed, absent-mindeds are still waiting because Dr. Hartmann forgot to make the second talk! The other. night in the little theatre, the cast of 'Peace On Earth', the latest Players' production, was going through the rehearsal of the ariti-war drama in fine form. Throughout almost the entire play the phrase, "Stop munition shipments," is repeated over and over again. One of the lads designated to supply the voice shouted this one line vehemently through most of the rehearsal. No one saw, him because he was behind the scenes. Eventually he stepped forth clad in full Rotissie unie with special decorations. "Mr. Neusbaum," he said, "may I be excused now? I must attend a meeting of the Pershing Rifles!" + + + PIN POINTS . . . Bill Skirble is still hunting, for Mannie Katz and Leon Lurie ... he wants to reform them with a rope ... Frankie (hillgartner for Presi dent) Hillgartner has sold out his friends in favor of a couple of clique politicians—phooie . . . The Blue Band boys were really sober, all of them, on this last trip ... Kelly Houck, boxing mgr., had a little trou ble getting back to town recently . . . Joe Hurwitz plays a brilliant game of blind chesi ... Most Naive Guy In College: The lad who thinks be is out with Kay Bloom ... Let's Go To The Corner Alter the Fights Tonight! This week's prize-Winning smart:crack in the "Heard-in-a-Corner-Robm-Booth" Contest. Frank—`l'll give you $5OO if you'll marry me!" Jean—"Oh, trying to bride me, eh ?" The winner: Miss Jeanne English, 231 South Allen Street. The prize: A check for $l.OO Next week's contest, the winner to be an nounced in next Friday's Collegian, starts today. The rules are easy. You may get a copy of them at the Corner. No strings attached! The .Corner "Complete Restaurant Service" --.D. P. S KNEW CRAZY PEOPLE HERE IT IS THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Glee Club's Victory Adds Weight To Tradition As 'Singing College' Penn State's Glee Club added to this College's claim to being the tra ditional "singing iollege" when they won first place in the Eastern Inter collegiate thee Club Contest-Festival at the Hotel William Penn ball room at Pittsburgh Tuesday. Scoring 246 out of a possible 300 points, Penn State won the unani mous verdict of the judges who were M. Claude Rosenberry, state music director; Osbourne McConathy, New Jersey composer and author; and Ralph G. Winslow, music director of the Albany public schools. George Washington University, champions of - the District of Colum bia and Maryland, gained second place. Other contestants were Wes leyan University, New England lead Co-ed Chatter Mrs. Norman Smith of Minneapo lis, Minn., national chairman of ex pansion for Gamma Phi Beta, has been a guest of the local chapter this week. Four of the woolen's fraternities have elected their officers for the coming year. They are: Delta Gamma—president, Evelyn M. Girard '36; - vice-president, Bar bara J. Howarth '36; treasurer, Eliz abeth Balderston '37; social chair man, Anne M., Bowers '37. Theta Phi All Ma—president, Alma J. Blocker '36; vice-president, Mar garet M. Waters '36; treasurer, Gel sie M. Ferdinand '37; social chair man, Frances M. Gates '37; and Pan hellenic representative, Gelsie M. Ferdinand '37. Kappa Kappa - Gamma—president, Margaret E. Laramy '3G; vice-presi dent, Emma Jane Hosmen '36; treas urer, A. Elizabeth Brenneman '36; social chairman, Gretchen H. Diehl '36; Panhellenic representative, Jean B. Northrup '37. Kappa Alpha Theta—president A. Francs Turner :'36; vice-president, Margaret M. Campbell '36; treasur er, S. Elizabeth Sharer '36; social chairman, Jane A. Parker '36; Pan hellenic representative, Jean H. Schantz '37. . The Kappas entertained the Thetas at a swimming.Lparty at the Glenn land pool last .night. . : Letter Box To . the , Eaitor For your entertainment, a fable: Once upon a time, Ibsen's play, "Peer Gynt," was 'scheduled for pro action by Penn State Players. One R. G. tried to muscle into the cast, couldn't make grade. Not R. G.'s first failure to get desired role in pro duction superviSed by able Players' Director Cloetinih, he planned re prisals. Penn State's COLLEGIAN, offical stu dent news organ, has no staff member qualified to write criticisms of stu dent dramatic productions. Grossly incompetent It. G., nursing grudge, penned criticism of "Peer Gynt." Masked by imprgssionistic opinions of cast, staging, slanderous personal at tack on . Director Cloetingh was launched. Net result: writeup of superior stu pidity. So inept that he failed to, recognize members of cast in dual roles, following few intelligent critic al standards, R. G. thus obtained r-r -r-r-revenge. On long-suffering members of Penn State Players, final straw was piled. Too often had unintelligent, impres sionistic criticism been leveled at Players' productions—now was added an "ad homineni" on Director Cloe tingh, an unjust' attack upon one of cast who had refused a date with R. G. Was this to be the publicity ac corded Players! , ' productions hence forth? Favorable or :unfavorable, mature, intelligent criticism.. would be dis agreeable to no' one, be helpful to cast and directois, accurately inform many interested COLLEGIAN readers outside of State College of student dramatic activities. Suggestion: •. Either COLLEGIAN should publish criticisms of student products written by. fully competent, fair-minded, with no. ax to grind, or cease reviewing shows. Hillside Ice and Coal Co. ...Dealers in the Highest Grades of Coal. and Coke Call Us for Your Supply of FIREPLACE WOOD • Phone 136-J. ere; Dennison University, Ohio cham. pions; and the champions of New York, Union College. Wednesday morning the Glee club broadcast with George Washington University over station . I