Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887 Published sembweekly during the College year. except on bonder/, by students of The Pennsylvania State College. In the Interest of the College. the students. faculty. alumni. and Friends. MITZI ED= JOHN A. ILL I LIT7.SIAN '35 JACK A. MARTIN 15 Business Manomer FRED W. WRIGHT 15 GEORGE A. RUTLEDGE 15 Sports Eattor Circulation Monomer KENNETH C. HOFFMAN 15 IL KENNETH LYONS '35 Managing Editor Loco! Advertising Manager JAMES 11. WATSON JR. '35 HARRY J. KNOFI' '35 Assistant Editor Foreign Advertising Manager PHILLIP W. FAIR JR. '35 JOHN J. MATTHEWS '35 Assistant Managing Editor Asst. Foreign Advertising Mannger A. CONRAD lIAIGES '35 EAST, C. KEYSER 311. '35 News Editor Asst. Local Advertising. Manager JAMES B. BEArry JR. '35 MARGARET W. KINSLOE '35 News Editor Women's 51anoging Editor MARCIA 11. DANIEL '35 ELSIE 51. DOUTHETT '35 Women's Edith,' Women's News Editor ASSOCIATE. EDITORS John K. Barnes jr. Mr. W. Bernard Frounwh MG Vance 0. Packard MG llarry 11. Minder:non jr. %in William P. McDowell MG John Mllier jr. Mr; Donnhl P. Sanders '36 Charim hl. Srliwartz jr. ASSOCIATE BUSINESS NIANAGERS Philip O. Evans 'Sr 11. Harkin,. 'MI Leonard T. Siva' '36 Roland W. Olierho jr. .36 William 11. Skirl,le ':l6 WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS L. MArybel Connie", •IA 'Nth E. 'Koehler . 3G A. Franc, Turner 'SC ' , dilorial Office, 313 Old Main_ Manuttinu Editor trio Issue__ News Editor This Issue Tuesday, March 26, 1936 IT'S SPRING AGAIN Yes, it's spring again; it must be, because along comes the annual plea for help from our friendly cnemy, Mr. Ebert., of the grounds and buildings de partment. Ik's still trying to make the campus a rather attractive place for loafing, one not tarnished with bare areas which reveal the rich, red clay which scams to be the base of Centre county. There's only one thing Mr. Ebert forgot about— human nature. Ile forgot that despite pleas for beauty and what not, men will continue to walk across the grass in a straight line from Pond Lab to the 'men's ilormitorio3. 112 also forgot that co-eds and ninth profs are too lazy to walk clear, way around by that nasty old sidewalk which leads into North Liberal Arts when they can sail their own course north by west somewhere above the other Liberal Arts unit. He failed to realize, too, that as long as IL 0. T. C. is com pulsory, the little boys in brown uniforms are just go ing to trudge across the grass between Old Main and the Armory •in moral protest. Mr. Ebert turned out to be a pretty decent indi vidual. Ile even forgot his plans about a Greater Penn State and put in a lot of asphalt paths where they should be becaus2 he i thought that would help . keep students where they, belong. He was wrong, it seems. They just won't keep off. It's spring again, nice outside that we just. can't call.lany invectives to our aid about this grass situation. We just feel too charitable about every tiiing tonight to call a stack or corn a stack of corn. A GIFT FOR THE GRADUATE As future taxpayers, the message of ex-President Hoover to California Republicans on Saturday should be of interest to the students of this as of all colleges. For, as Mr. Hoover pointid out, it is upon us that payment for today's blunders will rest. With the nation facing the greatest debt it has ever known, the President is still asking for more funds. Saturday the Senate succumbed to his demands and passed the $400,000,000 work-relief bill, probably the largest appropriation ever made by any legislative body, with the expenditure being left almost entirely to the discretion of the President. Mr. Hoover's outline of the present plight of the country is harsh but inescapable. Every point may be checked and found true; any thinking man or woman must agree with him. There can no longer be doubt that the New Deal has failed in almost every on 2 of its alphabetic subdivisions Mr. Hoover . is merely expressing the changed atti tude of a good part of the American people who have grown tired of Mr. Roosevelt's experiments and wish merely that they he left alone. Some even go so far as to say that the country would already he out of the depression and much better off if the government had kept hands off entirely. Whether or not we agree with the solutions of Mr Hoover is immaterial, but we should at I2ast be inter- ested in this, the first important opposition to the New Deal. For it is urgent that some changes be made, and perhaps, as Mr. Hoover says, it is solely through the Republican party that the changed wishes of the voters may be expressed at the polls. One statement of Mr. Hoover's, however, suffers no argument. "Government expenditures which, if con tinued on the present scale, can create only bankruptcy or calamitous inflation, must be curtailed." Here is something which vitally affects all the members of our generation, fur these debts must eventually be paid and this payment will be in the form of increased taxes in future yearp. Inde2d a fitting graduation present for the student going out into a world of upheaval. Even though, through the expenditure of billions of President Roosel volt's money, the young graduate should be able to get a relief job, he would still return what he made to the government in taxes. • The answer? By influencing voters and writing letters to Senators and Representatives, the college men of the country could make themselves sufficiently felt so that our worthy lawmakers would worry about this future voting class, and action would be taken to stop this unnecessary, senseless, and disastrous spending. That movement might well start here. Lassies Perhaps you've noticed the little brown 'Austin, with "Salvation Army" proudly engraved on the doors, that's been floating around State College.for the last couple of weeks. Well, that's Captain Mason and her 'aide.' We had decided that Captain Mason was the most determined of the two, but that her companion had more T. A. (Tambourine Appeal), and were going to do our best to just go along ignor ing the pair of them as best we could. But no more. For they've invaded one of the most sacred precincts of the un-Saved human—his beer cellar. (These foreigners from Europe call them Rathskellers, or something.) Yes, that's just what happened. Bravely, the other night, softly chanting "Onward Christian Sol diers," and shaking their tambourines ever so sug gestively, the two lassies strode into a Mr. Alexan der's place. They stood near the door. Then they walked around. Nobody bothered them much—peo ple are used to odd figures walking around in the half-gloom. Baffled, the Army burst into song. That; even the Salvation Army people them selves should admit, was going a bit too far. The --Telephone HI W. liertiswol Frol.rh _John K. linrnes jr. '3f; . . clink of glasses stopped. The joint was quiet, and then has made himself known in art n t e g r s s : , , One T people were in danger of getting Saved on every I,c4ireclueslacaks. School, ez l ev o olutionary king of side. Not for long, -though—pretty soon all the of his most fam ' ons r I P e a r i o n r t i i spare pennies had been tossed, and the gallant col- Coffee Line," which depicts Madison Square on lectors trudged dutifully outside, and headed (shades . ' her where cold, bitter, night in win the shivering unemployed of Carrie Nation!) towards a Beaver avenue .estab lishment. Whether they got there or not, we don't know. When we saw them defivitrly out the door, we, un saved and still thirsty, stuck our good elbow back on the table, jingled our change, and firmly enun ciated, "Two ales, Charlie." Kleptomania Whether it's . the advent of spring, or whatever the hell, people seem to ha . ve suddenly found them selves with an urge to borrow stuff from places of late. Sundry gentlemen have been coming to us from time to time with gleeful tales of how Charlie swiped a whole pie, from the Corner, and how .Toe got away with a carton of cigarettes from the Tap Room, etc., etc., and practically ad infinitam, etc. The neatest little tableaux along this line that's come to our attention, though, occurred up at Sky- . Top the other night. A gent whose name withhold, as he's promised to split'ev&Wf&as'On hiS • next haul, almost got, away with a bridge lamp. was a nice one. He liked it. . . . So: he stood next to itp ?! ..a.whij e ,, with longing in his eyes. Then, determinedly, he set to work. Carefully, cautiously, he rerfidved parts of it, stuffing them into his top-coat the while.. He started for the N , door, but something went . trolli._ Just as he was gaining freedom, lie felt In faCt,pon sarn. The cord had slipped—too bid. Even worse, , the manager had spied it, and acted. He'd put a heavy foot out—stepped neatly on the cord, and then smugly waited for the inevitable hitch. It came. Our friend went away onietly. • About Town & Campus: Publicity Note: We've been reliably informed by the gent who originally 'collected' it, that the famous pre-Hauptmann case Flemington Court Rosin Bible will be used by the Players in "Ladies of the Jury" Friday night ... And, by the way, will we see you at the gorgeous Publications' Dance after the show?' ... A gent named Haven, who used to raise the very dickens with a publication known as the 'Lemon,' back in 1909, was in town—a lot of people want to Make him a Trustee, or something important like that . . :The Jane Parker-Paul Kennedy bust seems to be un-busted once more . .. We were glad to see Sam "Mountaineer" Bayard back from Hahvand for a spell ... —THE MANIAC OLD MANIA THE PENN STATE' COLLEGIAN Art and-Artists Among th r a better known artists of the present day who have contributed some piece of - their work to the art collection of the School of Engineer ing is John Sloan, one of the best known and most important figures in American painting today. He is rep-' resented in the collection by an early seascape, "Rocky Coast." Sloan's subject matter Is not land scapes, but Human beings. He is a great illustrator and inclined to be slightly satirical in his observations of people. Some of his best works' are in prints, etchings, and litho graphs and can be found in the Whit ney Museum series in the architec tural library. Sloan was born in Lock Haven -August 2, 1871, and while he' studied for a short time at the Penn sylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, it can be said that he is a self-taught artist. For a while he was. an instructor of art at the Student's League in Philadelphia aft er which he served for several years as an artist on the Philadelphia l'ress. Ile early learned to handle the brush with a measure of natural dis tinction, but did : not seriously take up painting until about ten years ago. In 1904 he left Philadelphia and since are forming their regular waiting line at the rear of a coffee wagon, reveals Sloan in one of his most tense and•dramatic moods. In 1905 Sloan formed the group known as "The Eight," whose mem bers included Glackens, Luks, Shinn, Lawson, Henri; Davies, Pundergast, and himself, and whose aim was to secure freedom in art' expression. He works in his studio in :Washington Square, New York, painting and etch ing subjects of city life, except for four months of the year which he spends in New—Mexico painting In dian life and landscape of the South west. His works have received the fol lowing awards::' honorable mention, Carnegie International Exhibition, Pittsburgh,l9os; The Beck Medal for Portraiture, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 411:11; Medal for Etch ings, Panama Exposition, 1915; and the Medal for. Etchings, Sesquicen tennial Exposition, . Philadelphia, 1920. ' ' '" " Milk 'Problem Studied .The department .. of agricultural economics, in.cooperation with Cor nell University and . the Farm Credit 'Administration,* making:a:study. of the surplus inilk situation • in the marlidta:. of the northeastern states. 'StUdent union Bulletins TODAY Student Tribunal will meet in Room 318, Old Main, at.li3o'co'Clock: - . Students whorare going on the Sociology field to Huntingdon Re formatory .must he ready to leave front the rear df Old Main at 12:30 o'clock. ; • Dr. Pauline 4eery Mack will ad dress an open Maeting of Sigma Xi on "Textiles, an Ditegrator of Various Sciences" in the". Home Economics auditorium at 8 o'clock. • Second call. for Freshman lacrosse candidates. Report' to the lacrosse room after d o'clock today or tomor row. Freshmen women candidates for the editorial board of the Collegian will meet in the News Room, 312 Old Main, at 4 o'clock. , Les Sabreors will' meet in Room 4io, Old Main, at 7 o'clock. IME=I Interfraternity Council will meet in Room 405, Old Main; at 7:30 o'clock. There will be a meeting of the Cer de Francais in the Women's Building at 8:15 o'clock. THURSDAY The Ag Student .Council will meet in Room 418, 01 . 11.2dain, at 7 o'clock. FRIDAY The International Relations Club vill meet in Room-405, Old Main, at 7:30 o'clock. MISCELLANEOUS The P.S.C.A. Planning Retreat will discuss work heat year: at the P.S.C.A. cabin Saturday and Sunday. Charles R. SaIOMG will be in charge. Tennis Rackets Restrung 112 Hour Service Prices $2 to $8.50 ... at. .. The Athletic Store On Co-op Corner Phone 158 Behind the Podium Sunday afternoon witnessed this year's Mid-Winter concert by the Col lege Symphony Orchestra a pro gram made up of compositions by• Berlioz, Tschaikowsky, Liszt, and! Wagner. It was a good program, well arranged by Director Fishburn of the Musical Department. Start ing off with Hector Berlioz's `Racoczy March' from the 'Damnation of Faust,' a brilliant piece of orchestral dynamics. Next the 'Allegra Congra zia,' from Tschaikowski's 'Symphony Patetique,' and 'March 'Slav,' also by Tschaikowski; this last is pretty bombastic music. After the intermis sion came Liszt's Symphonic • Poem, 'Les Preludes.' Last of all, we had the 'Wizard of Weimar,' himself in what is probably the peak of Ger man romantic music—The March of Knights of the Grail,' from Parsifal. We heartily approve of the OM adage, `better to have great music badly played, than to have poor or mediocre music played, with finesse,' yet there is plenty of good music of the classical mold that is far less dif ficult to begin with . We are of the opinion that it requires greater skill and technique to interpret free and formless music than to portray the classics. Why tackle anything seem ingly so difficult when it isn't pos sible to give it appropriate rehear sal? Certain choirs and sections of the orchestra showed woeful lack of re-I straint. To hear some of the toot-1 ers, we might think that we were in the grandstands watching the home team make a touchdown. That may be good school spirit on the fciotball field, but it is certainly bad taste in the symphony hall. We felt that the preponderance of brass was out of all proportion to the string and woodwind sections of the ensemble—especially were there too ninny trumpets. Cutting down the brass choir to avoid an unnecessary doubling on parts, would have helped. The woodwind section was entirely too feeble, especially for Tschaikow ski, who scores heavily for those in struments. On the whole, the strings were rather good, although they scorned a little mechanical in Tschai kowski and the Wagnerian excerpt; however, the bass sections were' not solid enough. Three more violincelli and another bass fiddle would have helped a great deal. -But it was not so much in the proportion as in the distribution of the instruments that the trouble lay., Volume isn't so all important that orchestral balance should be sacrificed. . . !If• it does not seem too impertinent, May we suggest the seating arrange nient of 'the . New York "Philhannonie Orchestra as a good example to fol low. There, the brasses are(onjAhe. extreme .right backstage*lfei?eellit are spread Out in the,liftlfaegrotind and are backed up Wtlie'liass.viols: The brilliance of the higher ,'StringS offsets the effect of the brass. The woodwinds are •.evenly distribUted olOtig;the centre of the stage and arc more prominent. However, these are, all- minor criticisms." We went away from the symphony concert glad that there was some attempt at good mu sic on the campus. We look forward eagerly to the next in the series of Sunday afternoon concerts Dr. Katz Will Address Chemistry Group Here Dr. J. R. Katz, of Cornell Univer sity, will address the sixty-first meet ing of the American Chemical soci ety on "Thz X-ray Spectography of Rubber" in the Chemistry •amphithe ater Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock. There will be a dinner given in honor of Dr. Katz in the Old Main Sandwich Shop before the lecture Thursday night at 6 o'clock. Anyone desiring to'atiend should make reser vations with Clifford 0. Jensen, sec retary, in Room 301, Agriculture building, liefore noon tomorrow. The price will be fifty cents per person. Dr. Mack Will Lecture Dr. Warren B. Mack, of the depart ment of horticulture, will present an' illustrated lecture on wood • engrav ings in the. exhibition room, Main En gineering building, Thurtday, night at 8 o'clock.. In his lecture Dr. Mack will demonstrate the various steps and processes necessary in making a woodcut. . Among The Greeks Alpha Tau Omega: Albert T. Stohr '34 visited the chapter aver the week end. Beta Kappa: Brother Adrian Linch, of Wilmington, Del., an alumnus of the University of Denver chapter, vis ited tin house over the week-end. Chi Phi: Joseph F. Balls '3G was pledged recently. * e * Phi Delta Theta: Oliver J. Kreeg er '37 was elected to the Interfra ternity Council. Dean Edward Steidle, H. L. Stuart, and several members 'of the class of 1934 were guests at the second of a series of monthly formal banquets on Sunday night. Phi Kappa: House elections Thomas C. Roantree '36, president; Joseph F. Borda jr. '36, vice presi dent; John 11. King '36, secretary; and Robert J. Devaney '36, house manager. Phi Mu Delta: Rodney Artz, presi tint of the alumni association, visit ed the chapter on Sunday. Theta Kappa Phi : Eight men were initiated at a •formal initiation Sat urday night. Tan Sigma Phi: House elections— Steven J. Mellon '36, president; Wil liam E. Pisklak '36, vice president; Georgc D. 2urine '36, secretary; Ju lius E. Smariga '36, treasurer; and Victor J. Bunch '37, caterer. Henning Talks To Club Professor William L. Henning, of the department of animal husbandry, spoke before a meeting of the Block and Bridle club in Room 20G, Agri gultural building, last night on the subject, - "Livestock in Europe." Pro fessor Henning also showed slides to illustrate his lecture. Frank Medico Pipes Sold in State College by REA & DERICK, Inc. 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