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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887.
Published semt•weekly during the College year, except on holidays,
by students of The Pennsylvania Stale College, In the Interest of the
College. the students, faculty, alumni. and Mends.
TILE MANAGING BOARD
JOHN A. BRUTZMAN '35 JACE A. MARTIN 15
Editor Business Manger
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Managing. Editor Local Advertising Manager
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Assistant Editor Foreign Advertising Manager
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Assistant Managing Editor sort. Foreign Advertising Manager
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News Editor Asst. Local Advertising Alnnutter
JAMES R. BEATTY JR. '35 MARGARET W. KINSLOE '35
News Editor Women's Managing Editor
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Women's EditOr Women's News Editor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
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Tuesday, April 16, 1935
WASHED UP
With this issue, the COLLEGIAN 'passes into the
handy of a new staff, a staff fired with ambitions and
ideals for making their newspaper greater than any
that have gone before. At the same time, the retiring
members will retreat into long-sought-for seclusion,
content that all efforts have not been wholly in vain.
The CoLLEGinx, during the past year, has at
tempted to be progressive. A livelier style of pre
senting the news was essayed, and a sincere attempt
was made to interpret fairly and accurately events
and circumstances which seemed 'significant.
Despite the best efforts of the paper, considerable
criticism was incurred at various times. A word of
explanation, not defense, might be apropos at this
time. By virtue of contacts and. a knowledge more in
timate than the average individual, the editor often
knows that much of the "sensational" news which
comes to his ears is nothing more than empty campus
gossip. To run it would be to undermine the paper's
attempt to maintain a standard of accuracy; not to
run it calls down the criticism of !'administrative
stooge."
Next year's staff will find itself confronted with
many problems. The .College: is.undergoing• a definite
transition period, and. undoubtedly drastic steps will
be taken in an effort - to - remedy the situation. This
year, the COLLEGIAN has attempted to maintain the
'traditional struggle against certain evils, but the task
will be even larger next year. •
There are many national problems with which the
average undergraduate is none too. familiar. The im
minence of war, fascism, militarism, regimentation, and
a flood of propaganda which will' attempt to sweep this
nation into a war is far too real. With this paper will
rest the task of education , and resistance against the
growing tendency of curbing free speech and thought.
As the term of office draws to a close, the unpleas
ant memories of the' year scene harder to recall. In
their place comes only the satisfaction which honest
effort seems to generate. Four years on a college pub
lication is a liberal education in itself. Through its
channels, faculty members and campus big shots re
veal themselves only as humans. Certain inaccessible
offices become easier to enter; many reserves are found
to be only defense mechanisms. Most important of all,
tolerance and understanding are cultivated.
To the new staff, the outgoing seniors have only
the sincerest hope that the COLLEGIAN . will be much su
prior to this year's. For us, the two nights a week
vigil has ended; your task has only begun.
REACTIONARY PROTEST
As the final editorial is written, it seems to be a
familiar topic—one concerned with the reactionaries
which daily expose themselves in this town. The latest
was revealed with the trouble which the student anti
war protest and "Peace On Earth" brought forth.
Mutterings were heard from many points. Some
doubted if the members of the Players' cast could speak
English or visited the barber shops regularly; others
wished to display machine guns and educate the young
er generation to be men; others deplored the fact that
today's youth were reluctant to be shot through the
middle while the band plays gaily.
The crowning touch, however, was the tearing
down of posters which mentioned the nasty word,
"Pence," and threatening of bodily harm both to him
self and his property if the . owner of a building did
not have some advertising removed from his windows
at once. Needless to say, he removed it; he can be
blamed but little.
It is a shame that free thought should be endan
gered this way. If Communism, Socialism, or any
other proposed form of government is as fallacious as
the old guard would believe, why does not the old guard
allow the clean-cut, clear-thinking, one hundred per
cent American to study the facts and draw his own
conclusion? Does not the old guard. have the courage
of its convictions? Does the old guard realize its own
weaknesses, but feel that rather than attempting to
defend its theories through intelligent discussion, it
should use the mailed first to maintain the present
system?
Patriots .
State College has, it seems, in addition to its
foggy students, its mentally constipated Burgess, and
its absent-minded professors, a group of those who,
having nobly served in the last war for their country,
are hound and determined that, damn it, people from
this College aren't going to be given any opportun
ity to find out that there are some who don't think
that bayoneting of other students is the best way in
the world to settle financial controversies. We re-
fared to several gentlemen who proudly refer to
themselves (over the telephone) as "The Amorian
The Penn State Players, as you may remember,
planned a production of "Peace On Earth" for Fri
day night. As part of the publicity for the show,
there ware a great many posters displayed in win
dows about town. In one window was a display,
connected with the play, of anti-war and anti-arma
ment posters.
About ten o'clock Thursday night one bourgeois
had a telephone call at his home in Bellefonte. "This
MEil
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is the American Legion in State College. We don't
like that display of war posters in your window. Un
less you have them all down by midnight, there just
won't. be any window."
He, of course, didn't want to lose his window.
He called a stooge. At eleven soinething, the stooge
took them down.
That's all very interesting. Even more inter
esting is the fact that Kermit Gordon, Players' Pub-
licity man, got wind of the reactionary putsch Thurs
day afternoon, and called Policeman Yougel. Mr.
Yougel wasn't terribly interested. Mr. Yougel, we
now learn, is a member of one of our prominent ex
veterans' leagues.
Did somebody say something about Fascism?
Futile
A lot of weird things happened all over the
country in connection with the Anti-War strike Fri
day. At Columbia, W 2 are informed by Froth editor
man Bowles, who has just returned from the big
city, that that great liberal, Nicholas Murray Butler,
opposed the strike. The students planned one any
way. Then some wags got an idea.
Thursday night, the wags hoisted to the twin
flagpoles in front of the administration building, two
flags, that of the U.S.S.R., and that of the Socialist
party. To the flagpole bearing the Socialist banner,
they added a pair. of dirty black trousers, just for the
decorative effCct, sort of. Informed New York news
papers sent photographers early Friday morning, to
flash the somewhat. unusual . sight. They wanted a
breeze; so that the .various banners might float in the
breeze.. They waited. The flags hung limply. They
waited soma mare; still the banners refused to move.
At noon, while the photographers still stood
vaguely, and not too hopefully around, the news
papermen still diddled. They never (lid get the pic
tures—the wind just wouldn't cooperate with the rad
ical movement.
About Town & Campus:
To Eddie Binns, all glory for• his guts in at
tempting to add to Anti-War strike numbers with
his "R.O.T.C. Men, Drop your Guns, STRIKE!"
sign. Of course the R.O.T.C. men laughed, but who
ever gave an animated monkey-suit credit for• intel
ligence? .. Jess Hawkins had some little difficulty
getting into his car along about four o'clock Saturday
afternoon—especially after he'd ripped the door han
dle off ... Phil Evans, the greatest little key-amasser•
of them all, has a new one—Sigma Omicron Lambda.
We don't know just what it's for, and there seems to
be some doubt as to whether he does ... To rnank
Neusbaum and his many Players, orchids for the
best play we've ever seen on this campus—and may
the petition to have it given again have many sign
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Tat', PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
"Peace On Earth," a play In three
acts by George Sklar and Albert
Malta, produced by the Penn State
Players, featuring a cast of fifty-six
students under the direction of Frank
Neusbaum, in Schwab auditorium, on
Friday night. -
Rarely, but wonderfully, there
comes along a show which the critic,
risking neither his neck nor his name,
may review without resorting to apol
ogy, equivocation, double entendre, or
the other 'concomitants of praise cov
ertly intended to damn, slightly or
generously.
"Peace On Earth," as presented by
the Penn State Players, was such a
show. We feel (and we aren't taking
any courses from Director Neus
baum),.that it was the best Players
show we have yet seen.
We have, of course, a number of
reasons for indulging in the superla
tive. One of them is the script itself.
We have a regrettable suspicion that
some people, who didn't see the show,
stayed away because of a preconceiv
ed notion that "Peace On Earth" is
a dirty red drama in which all the
characters froth with anti-social ve
nom. We want to correct this idea
because we sincerely hope that the
play will be presented again. "Peace
On Earth" explains, with stark, but
entertaining, accurate, and acceptable
logic, how mars are bred. We liked it
because, in addition to being skill
fully written, it was written about
something—something timely, dyna
mic, and universal.
The efforts to which the authors
went to make "Peace On Earth" a
play worthy of the concept, are ev
idenced in the intricate but gripping
stage effects which they concocted to
reveal the innumerable forces at work
when war is in the making. '
Which brings us to something else.
As it exists in script, "Peace On
Earth" is a play calling for direction
which will guarantee the swift and
accurate response of about fifty-six
people to about 5,600 cues, stage
craft that will afford rapid-lire
changes in scenery, properties, and
lighting effects, and a large number
oC entrances in which only superb
timing and pitch can render effective.
It is, when staged, the type of pro
duction that either clicks or doesn't
—and on Friday night it clicked.,
Practically the same point might be
made about the roles represented in
the show. Most of the principals must
register as highly , individualized
types. Were any of the roles merely
."attempted,!' the resultant character,
along witlu his lines, would verge on
the ludicrous. .In.other words, "Peace
On Earth!( is not a diverting, little
,drama •,well-suited for use ,by
,high
schOol and Church groups.
Because the Penn State Players
took this story Of a college professor,
who is unwillingly drawn into a tan
gle of humanity shouting a great
propagandist peen in which every
note represents a life, and presented
it masterfully by supplying the nec
essary stagecraft, the sincere inter
pretation, the convincing characters
necessary to successful production,
we hand out our orchids with very
little stint.
If we were omnipotent people we
would return, in the form of unbro
ken hours of rest, the sleep which
Frank Neusbaum lost getting "Peace
On Earth" to the point of perfection
it reached Friday night. At the mo
ment, he's our personal nomination
for the man about campus with the
greatest number of new laurels to
lean on.
And, before we run out of space,
may we congratulate the members of
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FOOTLIGHTS
the technical stair who aided in carry
ing. out Director Neusbaum's sugges
tions—as suggested.
In dealing with the cast we face a
handicap in that its size denies an in
dividual analysis of the players.
Those that we fail to mention should
attribute their omission to the fact
that they were, shall we say, outnum
bered, rather than outdone.
Of the cast, we can't help feeling
that Edward Binns, in the role of
Professor Peter Owens, easily eclip
sed anything which he has previously
done. We have seen people that we
felt possessed what is called the "feel"
of a part. Finns had it.
There were three others who im
pressed us as having caught the spirit
of their roles with a great deal of ac
curacy. Batty Leann, as Jo Owens,
was admirably our conception of the
solicitous faculty man's wife. Jules
Vernik managed to give a lot of the
genuine to Fred Miller, the leader of
the strikers, while Frank Warrington,
portraying John Andrews, a muni
tions manufacturer, had everything—
the nervous fumbling with lapels, the
hunched stance, the dictatorial, but
unhurried speech, and the outward
evidences of greed and cupidity.
Among the other bits that we liked
were: Joe Lockard as a hard-boiled
'and. hard-headed copper; Jack Maize
as the chalk-faced Bishop Parkes;
Don McGovern as Bill Prentice, a
drunken alumnus; Sylvia Schindler as
a propaganda-shouting blues singer;
'Torbert gemerolf as Bob Peters, a
student who got the gate because he
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AT TRYING 'TIMES .... TRY A .cmo s otA, OLD GOLD
tried lo exercise the right of free
speech; the excitable speeches of
Theresa Alravintz as Rose, a striker
whose brother has been killed; the
German dialect of John Kreeger in
the role of Max, a sailor; the calmly
belligerent- denials of Israel Shulman
as a judge; Beatrice Conford as Lena,
a striker; and the tremendously effec
tive manner in which the lighting and
entrances were handled during the
kaleidoscopic period when Professor
Owens was in jail.
We have but one other thing to
say. It is seldom that an audience
is so enthralled by the play itself that
it fails to respond with appropriate
applause as the curtain closes. That's
conventional. But extraordinary, is a
moment of suspense when the patrons
sit for perhaps half a minute before
they remove themselves from the
play to the evening in the theatre—
and then applaud terrifically. This,
too, happened Friday night. To us,
that momentary hesitation was a
much greater tribute to "Peace On
Earth" than we could succeed in pay
ing if we typed all night.. So wo.
won't.
-.J. B. B
D. W. Lee Called Home
Donald W. Lee, instructor of
English composition, left here Wed
nesday for Patterson, N. J., because
of the death of his mother.
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UNUSUAL
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When Horace Hippohoof drops one of his rock.
crushers on Ermintrude Muggins' dainty instep,...
Ermie simply grips the injured dog in .one hand
and a sympathetic Old Gold , in the other. Old
Gold has a talent .for soothing stepped-on feelings.
Tuesday, April 16, 1935
Musser Joins Senators
Dnn Musser, forme• infield star o
- the Nittany Lion baseball team, ha:
been adcle'd to the squad of the Her
risburg Senators for this season. Th.
opening drill of the season will b ,
staged on the Senators' diamond to
morrow. -
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