Page 'Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887. Published semi-weekly during the College year, except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvanio Stain. College, In the intercut of the College, the students, faculty. alumni, and friends. TUE MANAGING BOARD JOHN A. DRUTZMAN '35 JACK A. MARTIN .55 Editor Business Manager FRED W. WRIGHT '35 GEORGE A. RUTLEDGE '35 Sports Editor Circulation Manager KENNETH C. HOFFMAN '35 IL KENNETH LYONS '35 Managing Editor Local Advertising Manager JAMES It. WATSON JR. '35 HARRY J. KNOFF . 35 Assistant Editor Foreign Advertising itinnager PHILLIP W. FAIR JR. '35 JOHN J. MATTHEWS . 35 Assistant Managing Editor Asst. Foreign Advertising Mannger A. CONRAD lIAIGES 'as EARL G. KEYSER JIL . 35 News Editor Asst. Local Advertising Manager JAMES D. BEAITY JR. '35 MARGARET W. KINSLOE '35 News Editor Wonten's Managing Editor MARCIA 11. DANIEL '35 ELSIE M. DOUTIIETT '35 Women's Editbr Wunten's News Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS john K. Barnes J. IC W. Bernard Frounsch . 36 Vance 0. Packard '36 Hurry B. Henderson jr. '36 William P. McDowell '36 John R. Miller jr. '36 Donald I'. Sanders '36 Charles DI. Sehwarts jr. '36 ASSOCIATE ItUSINESS MANAGERS Milo G. Evans '3G Willium It. Heckman 96 Leounrcl T. Sluff '36 Rotund W. Merl.°ltzer jr. '3G William 11. Skirble '36 WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS L. Mnrybel Conabee Ruth E. Koehler 'aft A. Frances Turner '36 ' , Anode' Office, 313 Old 3lain__ Ms...eine Editor This Issue—___ !dews Editor This Issue Friday, March 22, 1935 HIGH SCHOOL HEROES Times are still hard; appropriations are slashed right and left; hospitals find themselves with inadequate support from the state; millions are still unemployed but one good old American institution is getting the ad ditional support it needs so badly. The War Depart, merit appropriation bill passed by the Senas a few days ago, carried a sizeable increase under the item R. 0. T. C. In fact, nearly five million dollars were recommended for this most worthy cause. The debate in the Senate chamber about the bill brought out the interesting and very pertinent fact that this appropriation was large enough to insure es tablishing R. 0. T. C. units in at least 113 new schools and colleges. It is not known exactly where these units will be placed, but it is believed the majority of them will be in public high schools. The majority of them will be operated on a compulsory basis. This means that about 60,000 more young people will be enabled to receive the splendid physical and mental training that a course in fire-control or the best way to shoot the enemy will be taught. It will give mothers something to tell naughty boys. "You'd better b!! good, •or I won't send you to Central high school where you can play intramural murder." Their object, we learn from War Department bul- ]etins, is to educate the impressionable minds of youth. The courses will "train the public mind to the neces- sity and needs of defense." No mention is • made of teaching arbitration or the use of a World Court which is already set up. "The high school hay in his sopho more year is in his most plastic and enthnsiastic stage." Thus, in high school, monkey suits will by intro duced, and instead of wild west novels, military manu als will become the outside diet of our clean American youth. It is the duty of the government to catch youth in its most plastic stage. This done, perhaps the nation can he prepared to swallow another liberal portion of making the world safe for democracy or some other phrase which will be coined by a hack publicity agent in Washington who will be getting thirty-five dollars a Verily, good Mr. Hearst must have felt extremely complacent the day his newspaper carried the news of the largest army budget ever drawn up in peace time. Hurrah, hurrah, and God help us if he and the rest of the fascists manage to strangle the country as they so wildly dream now. ANYHOW, THE SNOWBALL menace has passed. No longer need we worry about falling down and whether somebody is going to throw coal surrounded by a thin layer of snow. All we have to avoid now arc bicycles and roller-skaters on the sidewalks about the borough. Let's clean up State College and make it a safe place to walk about. WE'RE ASKING YOU If the trend of thought at a recent fireside session of one of the women's fraternities may be taken as a fair indication, it may safely be said that the women students view the hazing of freshman men with the most complete contempt. They consider their own at titude of friendliness toward freshman Women far su- perior to the out-moded one of condescension which rnen Their reasoning follows this course. Take, for in stance, a certain freshman boy who comes to school as young and as much at sea as any girl. For the first few weeks he shifts for himself—makes his own acquaintances—and if he happens to be the type that can afford fifty-two fifty per month, is rushed in an in- sane manner until he is either pledged or gets wise Not having pledged a fraternity, he is on his own now and lives in a small boarding house blocks from the campus. lie is not allowed to date. He has no Creek letter brothers to lead him around and make him feel "unusual" in the Corner. He can discover no meaning to college. Suddenly he finds himself either wearing a dress or sandwiched between two ridiculous signs. The women may have used an overdose of black paint when they drew this picture, but black or gray, is it any way to help a freshman adapt himself to col lege? Does the endorsement of hazing add any dignity to Student Government? Or does it bring nothing but humiliation as the women students believe? As columnists we're all for functions like the Ile-She dance as long as they're held on Wednesday night and keep our phones ringing. A lot of people went to the dance and then there were those, like Bud Pennypacker, A. K. Pi frosh, who had fun lend ing assistance. Bud was told to cart one of Johnny Beech's suits to Mae hall for use by one of the maid ens up there who got an invitation to the reverse costume affair. lie not only carted it up to the hall, but right up to the second floor where he stood wait ing for something to happen. It did. He saw a Bryant-Lane model. She saw him. She screamed. Bud gasped. Eventually a more fully clad damsel came along, grabbed the suit'out of Bud's arms and Bud out of the daze, and told him to scram. Ile scrammed. Out at the Alpha Chi Rho manse a lad called Phil Dibert also got the He-She bug. He decided pretty late that he should take in the function and had a devil of 'time borrowing the necessary femi nine apparel at the last minute. However, after a couple of hectic half-hours he rounded up a stray skirt and blouse with its owner and was all set. About this time he had another last-minute idea. As he prepared to depart in quest of the young lady, he asked one of the bros., "Say, this Ile-She dance 'is an all-College brawl, isn't it? Everybody gets in _Telephone 5O __Nonce 0. Puckaril '36 __Donald I'. ganders '3G free, eh?" It wasn't. They didn't didn't.He Ile didn't get in at all. " And we also wish to present our personal choice of the lad who most completely transformed him self: George Martin, - who pounds on the music box in Lynn Christy's outfit. Mr. Martin's complete en semble (supplied by Frazier Street dorm. acting en moose) boasted lipstick, powder, red earings, red dress, silk stockings, a green jade bracelet, a pair of red satin slippers, a set of pink silk undies, and a regulation bra to match. Incidentally, we wondered whether Perry Rav enscroft Smith, of Delta Chi, went to the affair. - The reason we pondered over this was on account of how he might have insisted that his date don those beautiful, long, woolen drawers that lie persists in Out at the Phi) Sigma Delta house there resides a gentleman:named • lCtik' Kleinberg who is . favored with .. thC degree of caterer. During the Past two months. ho : -has displayed .0 -definite:4oio . ritiam for corn: which. resulted in menus •cenileteritlY ; ,Ciiinposed of Corn Bead, Corn Meal, Corn Pciiie,*.el:.The other :day, just to prove his versatility, he nepPed 'up with- Corn Fritters. The lads were all getting pretty corny by this time, but they didn't say' anything. However, that night when Caterer Kleinberg crawled into bed he discovered the reason for their noncom mitality. As he roiled in, sighing sleepily, he felt his pajama -clad frame encountering what felt like for eign substances. You got it. Every last one of the Corn Fritters was right with him. PIN POINTS—Speed Swerman, Phi Sigma Delta, standing around bitching because dinner isn't ready ... he didn't know his roomie had upped his watch two-and-one-half hours . ..•Pinzy Needles,•it is ru mored, will snort his Brown Derby at the Publica tions Dance ... he won with ease ... Frank Hill gartner, one-time presidential threat, playing tag on front Campus with Jean English ... The Wrestling team too tired to play with the cast. of Life Begins at 8:90 on their train ... they Couldn't understand why the dames all . went'for that runty guy . he turned out to be Bert Lahr. Are You Planning a Trip By -Boat This Summer? If you are, we will be glad to obtain any information you may desire on the various tours to Europe, regular and for students. Likewise, if you are planning a trip to Bermuda or .to Nova Scotia, for in stance, we will obtain all the neces sary information for you. Above the Corner Winner in the Heard-In-ACorner-Room Booth Contest Will Be Announced Nexh Week IMIE CAMPUSEER 131MMEM THE DANCE CORN.!I%; Consult Your Local Travel Agent The State College Hotel TRAVEL BUREAU +++ THE PENN STATE 'COLLEGLAN Art:.and Artists Beginning his' studyf painting with the great teacher and" artist, Robert Henri, ~Stuart Davis, whose "Landscape" . is on display, in the en gineering exhibit in Room 305, Main Engineering building, has developed into one of. the outstanding artists of the twentieth century. lie is as sociated with the early group of lib eralists in which are included such other men as John Sloan, Kenneth layer Miller, and Glenn Coleman. After the War, Davis returned to the more extreme modernists' tenden cies. He was 'atrongly influenced by Picasso and Fernand Leger but, above all, he borrowed his bright raw color technique and gay pattern design from the Frenchman, Raoul Dufy. Among the painters of abstract ten dencies, Stuart Davis is the most Prominent in America. He uses broad flat areas of bright poster-like color fused with structures of lines and planes that achieve some of the most, brilliant decorative ef fects of the day. His popularity can be deduced from the fact that he has particularly . good examples in the 'Whitney 'Museum of American Art in New: York and that he was called*pairitthe murals in the base ment lounge of the Rockefeller Center . Music Hall i n 1932. The pictOre in the College's collec tion precedes most of his abstract. work. It is a spontaneous landscape sketch in a sensitive color pattern of green . and violet with the values deli cately handled:' to give the effect of distance.. This painting, while it may he 'puzzling to some observers, is one of . the most , striking and • decoiative pictures of the :collection. 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Theatre Building Phone 300 1 Letter Box To the Editor It was with tears welling in our eyes and a sob tearing our throats that we read the impassioned plea of a tattered, worn Old Maniac for the purity of co-ed elections, specific ally of May Queen. Such sublime in nocence, such baffled dissillusionment as he reveals in the words: "It's pol itical, it' seems, and this lady wasn't political enough" is particularly path •etic coining from one whose worldli ness and cynicism we felt we could count on. The greatest favor the co-, ed populace could do Old Maniac, we guess, would be to rid him of the me dieval notion that women on this campus are incapable of dabbling in politics. And dabbling it is—a pretty mess they make of matters. Raving heard of cliques and running elections from the men, they madly collect a few of this group and a few of that together for the purpose of saying, "Now, if you'll play ball with us . " Non fraternity women are the source of much concern—who are the best bets for support in view of a return,fa 'Vor? These votes of the ostensibly unorganized women are a vital fac tor in swinging electionS and as vo ters they are not unaware of their Drexel Library School A one year course for college graduates. Confers the degree of B. S. in L. S. The Drexel Institute PHILADELPHIA HANN'S WATCH SHOP power. The real cliquing is done by the fraternity groups, however, and the strength of a particular faction is determined by the number of votes they can count on, not by the poten tial or real ability of the candidates supported. There is none of this that is not generally known—it's essen tially the same set-up as the men of the College have. However, there are real advantages to be realized from the men's elec tions—what they may be is not the subject of this letter, the ppr Pose of which is not to muckrake the politics played by the men of this College, but to question the necessity for the women of the campus to play politics, considering the doubtful benefits to be realized from office holding in the women's organizations. It is ques tionable whether the claim on so niahy campfis officers brings much prestige to a women's fraternity, for . they are still judged on a social stan dard at Penn : State, yet that is the justification for the mad struggle for offices. It makes it practically im-. possible for even the most deserving of candidates to rely on her personal qualifications and the force of pub lic opinion to secure her election. ..,„,..,.„...„., •,,,',.-,,:-.i.,-.,:,,:if!..,:ggt1ti11i,,,g11111111,11,101111,1111i211,1.1n,giggiit0., It's an ultra-short wave radio telephone antenna before being raised above the dunes of Cape Cod. , For some years, Bell System engineers have been studying ultra-short waves. They have developed automatic trans mitters and receivers which maybe connected with regular telephone lines at points far from central offices. They hope such radio links will be useful in 'giving telephone service to points difficult to reach by usual methods. The installation on .Cape Cod—which is now under- going service tests—is just one more example of Bell System pioneering in the public interest. BELL TELEPHONEO) SYSTEI Friday, .11fitrch 22, 1935 The ultimatum is, "play politics or get out." Office hording-, so far as the wom en's organizations at Penn State are concerned, is an individual distinc tion. It ends at that whether the election is achieved , by organized ef fort or on the basis of individual . merit. The reward is hard work and criticism. If the women voters for student officers would stop to figure out how little they .realize from the surrender of their vote to a group, the. messing around in politics that characterizes women's elections now would die g sudden and deserved Now is the time to buy your supply of Fireplace Wood . State College Fuel & Supply Co. • Phone 35J-3 >~>..., ~:~n: t C~: r<i9S i.;
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