Page 'lwo PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887. Published cembwc,kly during the College year. except on holidays, by atudents of The Penneylvania,Stahe College, In the interent of the College, the eV/dents, faculty, alumni. and friends. THE MANAGING BOARD JOHN A. BRUTZMAN '35 JACK A. MARTlN .nager '35 Editor FRED W. WRIGHT '36 GEORGE A. RUTLEDGE '35 Sports Editor Circulation Manager KENNETH C. HOFFMAN '35 D. 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. '36 JOHN J. MATTHEWS '35 Assistant Managing Editor Asst. Foreign Advertising Manager A. CONRAD lIAIGES '36 IAItL C. KFWSER Jll. '35 News Editor Asst. Local Advertising Manager JAMES D. BEATTY JR. '36 MARGARET W. KINSLOE '35 News Editor Women's ?Flemming F.dltor MARCIA IL DANIEL '35 ELSIE M. DOUTHETT '35 Women's E d tt b r Women's News Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS John K. Barnes jr. '35 N. Bernard Freunsch . 36 Vance 0. Packard '36 flurry B. Henderson jr. '3G William P. McDowell '3G John E. Miller jr. '3G Donald P. Sanders '36 Charles M. Schwartz jr. '36 ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Philip G. Evans 'SG William 11. Heckman 'PG Leonard T. Sic 2 'PP Roland W. Oberholtrvr jr. William 11. Skirl,le 'PG WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS L. Marybel Connhee '3O Ruth E. Koehler '3G A. Pounces Turner '36 Manse.. Editor This Issue __Harry 11. Henderson Jr. T.O Venn Editor This lisue --Charles M. Schwas!. jr. Tuesday, April 2, 1935 BLUE LAWS AND TIME LOSS Many years ago a set of regulations was drawn up, designed primarily for protection of the sanctity of the Sabbath. These regulations have been called "Blue Laws" iind have to do with things. like fishing, dancing, and movie-going on Sunday. A rather inter esting situation with a distinctly local flavor came to light here Sunday. The Thespians, musical comedy amateurs, have, for some years, been building their scenery downtown in the basement of a local theatre. For some years, too, they have moved this equipment up to Schwab auditorium on Sunday and erected their sets. Not so, however, this year. Chief Burgess Leitzell denied them permission to do this, pointing out that an ordinance forbade dis turbance of the Sabbath's peace in State College. It would be most impractical, he believed, for them to move this material at such a time. Custom had noth ing to do with the matter; the law was there, and he was sworn to uphold it. The Thespians moved their scenery directly after midnight. It is well, very well,•that Burgess Leitzell acted in this manner. The peace of State College must be protected, no matter what the price. After all, mu sical comedy productions are merely extra-curricular activities, and if students want to participate in them, let them do so in a legal, civilized manner. The village is very fortunate in having at its helm a man who takes an active interest in the promotion of peace. Undoubtedly, it would be most helpful if some FERA worker could he given the task of determining if an ordhlance exists which,deals with bicycle riding . that quitinC cuSteni of explodir;g fireworks in the late lamented month of March. THE PENN STATE DAY committee has been named, but the responsibility for• the uncross of this project rests with every individual in College . If such a number of high school students are to be entertained properly in order that they leave with a -favorable im pression, all units will have to 'cooperate. The affair last year was successful, but many suggestions tendered then should be incorPorated this year. The most im portant is working together. A CALL FROM ARMS A group of students on this campus have..initiated plans for participation in a nation-wide strike against imperialist war. This demonstration ought not to be permitted to become only a futile gesture, a handful of sand to plug a fast leaking dike, With student and faculty support, not only by attendance but by sober consideration of the facts to be presented in the case against war, it win not be a futile gesture. • With war as imminent as it appears to be, this is no time to temporize. Education against war must be carried out now, must be in the minds of everyone 110711, before a sudden turn of events throws us into another world conflagration. When the storm breaks, there is no time to recruit for the cause of peace; the animal passions in man are only too easily swayed and con trolled by the master propagandists of the government. It is only while war is yet some time away that we can survey the international scene with a true and dis passionate discernment. Once in the swirl, there is no time for reflection on the matter of whether we want to participate. We will, because our prejudices will be played upon. Our ignorance of the opposite viewpoints will result in blind hatreds because a government will tell us that we must hate. It is up to the youth of this country to take a stand on this question; it is this same youth that will• be called upon to go to war when it comes, unless they act now. When our lives are at stake, surely more than a passive attitude should be adopted: Instead of re garding war as a remote possibility that may exist only in some distant page of history or in the brain of some fevered "wolf-crier," it should be regarded as a personal experience that can be averted only by a con certed front presented by the intended cannon-fodder of the nation, the youth in our schools and colleges. Imperialist wars are fought for the attainment of new lands and new markets, and never result in a re turn to the status quo. Should the aggressor be de feated, he in turn, is gouged by the treaties inflicted upon him by his intended victim. A vicious circle is the result, and whatever the upshot, it is the youth of the world that is sacrificed. OLD MANIA Spring We were pretty sure that it was here this year, this Spring business, but we became positive when we found the annual "Freshman Reporter Spring Feature" in a convenient wastebasket yes terday. Here's the definite report of one of our young enthusiasts. We print it -just as it hit the copy basket .. -. —Feature 'Wide flush the fields, the softening air is balm, Echo the mountains 'rownd, the forest smiles, And every sense and every heart is joy." "In other words, spring is here! Anyone who happened to be on the front Campus Sunday eve ning would have realized this fact, for thousands of robins were having an old fashioned reunion in a most joyous way. The place was literally polluted with them. They must have been glad to be back at Penn State. • "The co-eds are taking to the brighter colors of dress and are letting their auburn hair blow in the wind. "The men have dusted off their spring suits and are wearing their white shoes. "The students are enthused to activity, at least some of them, for anyone passing Main Engineer ing on his way to his '8 o'clock' one day last week .would have seen one Bob leap to the sill of one of the windows and enter into his math class. Spring must have been his inspiration, or was it' math?" —W. C. Waschoe '3B So now everything's all set—we can get out our ice cream pants and semi-white knicks and greet the season just like any other undergraduate—sprig is defidedly heah. • Promise Maybe you remember a gent earned John Coiling wood Phillips '3G wlio was the little be-Homburged God of the Junior Campus Clique a while back. Well, they don't like him any more,. and what's more in teresting, he doesn't like them—in fact he's gone over to the Locust Lane boys, with all his influence and everything.' We wondered why, and asked. Now we know—one of the Locust Lane boys promised Phillips definitely that he'd be made Senior Ball Chairman • next year. • What was it Barnum said? System Young Harry Cromwell has been having trouble getting his multitudinous dates in on time this year. He's been worried, and put his somewhat sleepy mind to work on the problem. Now he's set—although the brothers at the Phi Delt manse aren't any too pleased. • They don't like the idea of an alarm clock going" air , in the r4oni' at 'ten ,minutes of ;ten_ every: week night, and 'at ten of one on week-MI(1i; S'damm nuisance, they think, even' if the A. 0. Pi chaperone does like the idea.' About Town & Campus: People we were glad to see again:—Bill Besse '33 and Yutch Dunaway '33 (up from Penn Law for a bit), Lee Schwartz '33, Betty • Brice '33,' Tommy Church '34, Hugo Frear '32, Jack Ryan (last year's proxy—down from fair Hahvand for a breath of fresh t air), and, while we're at it, Johnny Rathmell, who cried on our shoulder before dropping back to grady ate-studenting at Pitt. His two friends in Pittsburgh, Mjerowiez, and Polifotxnilk, weren't along ... Is Lou Kriezman really hitched up tandem? ... What Kappa conventionite insisted on bawling "Wanta play Hop scotch?" all over the third floor of the Phi Psi shamb les Saturday night? . . . Yeah, Publication's Dance was a swell turkish bath . Bad-News Balderston, Beaver Club hot-shot, has to kick through with $2O for a pair of shoes—size 14 .. . Quote by a visiting, sister: "These Delta Alphas (local Kappa crew) , have some nice girls, but aren't they the snootiest things?" Whether it be a tab—;:a button down—a tableau tab or the new short collar with buttons —we have them. Ask for Manhattans. It pays. r d -11 21 STARK. HIVS. z HARPER., , • HABERDASHERS TAILORS THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN League Will Sponsor Latin Contest The American Classical league will sponsor :a nation-wide contest of translations of the odes of Horace in coMmemoration of the 2,000 th anni versary of 'his birth, Prof. Robert E. Denier, of the department of clas sical languages . , has announced. Prof. Franklin 8., Krauss, of the same de partment, has accepted the post of chairman of the committee for Penn- According to.the rules of the con test; each State •will haVe a different ode to translate, the one allotted to this state being • "Carmen Seven lace." Translation's must be submit ted to the etate.Committee by June , 1. Several prizes, not yet decided upon, are to be awarded to both state and national winners. Letter Box To the Editor: A touching •'picture of the fact hungry stuclent,:blocked at every turn in his desire to . find out "what goes on" by an. inert faculty and a luck of appropriate. courses, is presented by your editorial writer in the issue of March 29. What is needed, says this analyst, are some good ,courses on Socialism, Fascism, etc., or open forums dealing with the same ques tions. A glance at the College catalogue and back issues 'of the COLLEGIAN will show that the facts do not fit the argument. There are courses in this College which would have given your writer an insight into some of the problems he is so eager to have cleared up. Economics 430, for in stance, under such a teacher as the late Dr. I3oucke, would have been an ',eye-opener, but.then it was what is known as a "tough. course." Polit ical Science 421, a course dealing, with recent political , theories, would have helped, too; although there is a long term report to do and this scares a lot of ;people away. Quite a few other economics and political science courses, when taken together, would have built up a fairly coherent pic ture of "what goes on." But econo mics is a dry subject. There have been open forums on current Problems, too, but apparently not many, people were aware of them. If your writer will look over past is sues of his own paper he will notice that 'in 4cldition to holding fireside sessions on such "nicely. irrelevant" problems; as God, Personality, and Sex, the: Christian association has sponsored forums and 'lectures on some of the very subjects he wants to know.poiwabout. The C. A., with all — its faultsZ has brought some 'out 'standing <splakers to this campus, such 'as.',l3ltaliold: Niebuhr, . Kirby Page, and Sher Wood Eddy.; One could seareely-call. Reinhold Neibuhr's re cent series "irrelevant." Then, too, forums on current questions and "isms" have been sopnsored for the past several years by Pi Gamma Mu, but the attendance has been woefully small. - The situation, which might as well he faced, is that Most of the students here are not too anxious to find out !!what goes on." If they were, they could go to the library, take out any Of the recent books by John Strachey, George Soule, Harold Laski or oth ers, and find out for themselves. They could read a few of the multitude of magazine and netvspaper articles that have appeared on the New Deal and the "isms." Education, after all, is largely self-education. But this is a quiet place, and it'S easier to sit over a "coke": or i with Collier's than to spend one's . One: reading weightier matter which: might lift the fog yolk writer says he is in. Although it may ne true that many of,_ the professors here or anywhere else are uninspiring and their courses "irrelevant," it ,is rather unfair to THE RAGE OF THE EAST COMES TO STATE COLLEGE! CORN FLOWERS • We add this beautiful flower as, a feature for Mira Fraternity Ball ORDER NOW—also the finest O'RCHIDS : GARDENIAS : ROSES ' CLARON FLORAL SHOP •_ SOUTH ALLEN STREET TELEPHONE '795 Behind the Podium The third in the series of Sunday afternoon musical concerts opened with "Two American Sketches" by Thomas Gyisell, played by a small en semble composed of members of Phi Mu Alpha, honorary music fratern ity. We especially like the "Nocturne" in this group. The ensemble; about the size of the Paul Whiteman band, certainly know their musical onions. Rube Bloom's "Song of the Bayou" led the second group of selections by this ensemble. We think it's pretty swell . music; but who dOesn't. The Ferde Grofe music was also well re ceived by. the audience. Lowell Boorse played the, opening. cadenza for violin excellently. We didn't feel that the amount of real music in this com position warranted such extensive treatment by Mr. Grofe. Miss Barbara Troxell exhibited a fullness of tone and a sustained ity of voice in the Handel Aria, which many mature artists might well envy. We couldn't help feeling that she was wasting her• efforts in the lush senti mentality of the other songs. The "Rhapsody" for piano and or gan by Demarest impressed us least of all. Somehow it didn't quite click. Whether it was in the music or the interpretation. we .can't be quite sure; probably it was both. The pianist got lost in several passages, but'she tried hard. Much has been written about the place of jazz in modern music. Has it contributed anything of importance in the field of serious music? And if so, just what is its significance? Miss Willa Wililammee conducted a mixed chorus composed of members of the Louise Homer Club and the Phi Mu Alpha in three folk songs. The last of these was probably the best received of the group. In this Czecho- Slovakian folk song, "Waters Ripple and Flow," Mr. Griffiths, of the mu sical department, sang . the baritone solo; Mrs. Grant assisted at the or gan accompaniment. The program, as a whole, appealed to the students in' the audience—particularly the symphonic jazz portion. place the entire blame on the fac ulty. There are a .few - courses deal ing with today's world, ,but they are not "snaps" and so are not very .crowded. And forums there are, too, but the show 'is . better downtown. Some day, perhaps, somebody will in vent a course that will tell you all there is to know about the "lone in five easy lessons, with no bluebooks and no term reports. Then, presum ably, we shall all find out "what goes on." • —An Alumnus P.S.: If that editorial was written at 12 p. m. to fill up space;thep I am only kidding.. Evening Slippers . . by Waynes Black Faille Sandals . $3.50 White Faille Sandals, $3.50 silver Sandals, low heels . . . $5.00 Silver Sandals, high heels . . . $5.00 Gold Sandals, high heels . . . $5.00 satins dyed to match your gown • • WAYNES Footwear of Distivetion Allen St. State College Prof. Simons Returns Dr. Joseph H. Simons, of the de partment of chemistry, returned on Sunday from Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, where ne had spent a week in connection with his duties as con sultant for the Chemical Welfare Service of the United States Army. Dr. Simons is also secretary of the chemical section of the American As sociation for the Advancement of Sci ence. Frank Medico Pipes ' Sold in State College by. REA & DERICE - , Inc. A Satisfactory Service by a Modern Sanitary Plant Penn State Laundry.' 320 W. Beaver Ave. Phone 124 Tuesday, April 2,193 j PEP on the A IR COLLEGE PROM 'RUTH ETTING and. her melad4. RED NIEDOLE , and his risfills;n: JOIN the happy party next Thurs day night. Ruth Elting will be there, singing her stirring songs. • lled'NiChols will play the music for dinning. Enjoy all'the ihrills ' ed:rcal college•annosphere. Tin ' glineeiCitcment. from the world •• of :ssPoris..' Don't miss`.Prom" night•Ttme in! . EVERY THURS. NIGHT .7:45 . Eastern Standard Timet
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