Page Two --' PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887 Published semi-weekly during the College year, exeunt on holidays. by students of The Pennsyltania State College, in the interest of the College, the students, faculty. ntuntni, and friends. HARRY R. RE.NDERSON JR. '36 WILLIAM li. SKIRDLE 'l6 Editor Bailouts Manager DONALD I'. SANDERS '36 ROLAND W. OBERDOLTZER '36 Maratainer Editor Circulation Monomer W. BERNARD FREUNSCII '36 WILLIAM 11. 111 , ,CKMAN '36 Sports Editor Local Advertising Mummer VANCE 0. PACKARD 111 PHILIP C. F,VANS '36 Amdstatst Editor Foreign Advertlaina Manager JOHN E. MILLER JR. '3l LEONARD T. SIEFF '36 A‘tistailt Munnainu Editor Crto Mantua, CHARLES" M. SCHWARTZ JR. '36 L. MAHYBEL CONABEE '3G Arrirtnitt Stintto Editor Wonien'd Editor WILLIAM I'. MeHOWELL '33 RUTH E. KOEHLER '33 News Editor Woinen's Montitrinst Editor JOHN K. BARNES JR. .35 A. FRANCES TURNER '35 News Editor Wotnen'a News Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS J. Kenneth Denver '37 Lester M. Benjamin '37 Johnson Brenneman '37 W. Robert Crubb '37 Philip K. Heisler '37 Richard Lewis '37 E. Townsend R.valm '37 WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Marlon A. Ringer '37 Regina J. Ryan '37 31. Winifred Williams '37 I=l George W. liird '37 Kenneth W. Engel '37 Senn C. Hoover '37 Philip A. Schwartz '37 Alan A. Smith '37 Robert J. Siech•r '37 Sole anti exclusive National Advertising Representative NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE. INC. 420 Madison Avenue. Nov York City 400 North Michienn Avenue. Chimes Editorial Office, 313 Old Main Telephone 500 Applied for entry on .001111 CIO. Platter at the State College Post Office, State College, to. Associated"irolle 4 : .1934 GlitAafiYijotzt 1 ..rsco3ws 9 , was. . Managing Editor This Issue._ News Editor This Issue W. Robert Grubb '37 Philip S. Heisler '37 Friday, May 3, 1935 SOAKED Monday afternoon some 1800 basic R.O.T.C. stu dents were forced to submit to a thorough soaking of their personages because of the colossal and inexplic able stupidity of the military department in insisting on holding a parade despite the threats of rain all afternoon. The most unexplainable part of it all was why those sturdy minds who shout such unintelligible com mands to that sterling bunch of "Hay-foots" and "Straw-foots" couldn't have marched their forces back to the armory immediately after it began to sprinkle rather than wait for the terrific downpour that ensued. If that course had b t een , follpyo, perhaps Colonel .Venable could have saved the reputation of that great discipline which is supposed to be fostered in the R.0.T,.C. course. NEWS COMES FROM the,Syracuse Daily Orange that the students at Williams College, WilliamstOwn ) Massachusetts, have boycotted-:the moving picture the atres in that town and in surrounding towns if they persisted in showing William Randolph Hearst's Metro tone News. The managers of those theatres .boyeotted readily complied With the demands of the students. It has often been said by some of the old, old patriarchs who seem to be greatly amused by student demonstrations, that students' opinions and actions will - result in nothing more than the blowing off a little steam. We do not hesitate to say that if such actions happen in several more colleges, and there are similar movements on foot in other institutions, Arr. Hearst would be more than a little put out about the matter. THE FUTURE OF FRATERNITIES With the merger of Chi Upsilon, local fraternity, with Pi Kappa Alpha, national social fraternity, only one other local fraternity remains on this campus. The gradual combination of local fraternities to those already holding national• charters has been steady and consistent here, especially in the last three years. The lack of dormitory facilities here during the earlier years of the College's development caused the rapid .and parallel development of fraternities and clubs from rooming and boarding houses. 'Undoubtedly these fraternities and clubs were primarily founded upon true friendship and the desire of certain students to work and live together. • Once such a group had been organized, this desire and friendship found itself in a different channel. It was replaced by the desire to win recognition, prestige and honor for the group. The ultimate aim of the local fraternities Was to be accepted as a chapter of some national group. But with the gaining of charters in national fra ternities members in many groups lost interest in 'seeking prestige and honor for their fraternity. It has meant that some national fraternities have declined to a position where there is nn prestige, no honor, and little reputation. ' Yearly freshmen get wiser and wiser in regards to their choice of fraternities. They are forced by the disappearance of the rah-rah age and money in their pockets and at home, to be a bit more shrewd when picking the fraternity house whose pin they will wear and whose brothers they will have to put up with. They do not want to join a dead fraternity nor one that is dying. The COLLEGIAN does not like to sound warning notes, but unless a few national fraternities on this campus wake up to the slump that they are in and begin working again to regain some of the prestige they once held, they will suddenly find themselves forced to dis band because they won't find any freshmen who would like to join their house. CAMPUSEER EIZZEIM PROMISSORY NOTE After instituting a. very searching inquiry we feel impelled to record here that we don't know very cinch about the rumor that Glen Gray and his crew of hired help won't be around to play at Junior Prom tonight and neither, it seems, does any one else. Bob Small and his committee are all set to dash up to the band stand right after intermission is an nounced so that they can compare fingerprints on the piano, saxophones, trumpets and other hardware with the set of Bertillion specifications received by wire late yesterday front the booking agency in New York. If the orchestra is discovered to be not Casa Loma but Joe Jukes•Kallikak and His Melody Boys from Allentown, Small will utter a peculiar cry not unlike that of a wounded antelope whereupon things will begin to happen. Get Eddie Nichols to tell you about "telephone" bands sometime. Apropos of the morning after: Saturday classes Make positive asses Of those who make passes At potions in glasses. + + + LION SUITS Nomination for most exotic drawing: Harry Grier's bright orange lion stalking through brilliant green patio trees with blue mountains in background you can't wear a white linen coat on the campus these days for fear some stooge . will grab you and sign it ... why doesn't someone invent a typewriter to autograph the thing .. Mel Fox wandered around a whole day trying to get somebody besides Lipsius to sign his ... the gag of walking up to a senior and seizing his Lion coat with the crack: "Swell material. Why don'tcha have a coat made out of it?" has made its second annual. appearance ... you will recall that it was first pulled on Bill Edwards in the Thespian show, "Old King Cole," two years ago ... + + + CORRECTION Tragedy lurks in Journalism Alley these nights. The .COLLEGIAN has printed an nu/nail! The whole sordid business came about in this way: From the COLLEGIAN'S "Co-edits" a week ago to day: " Others who spent their vacation in travel were ... Betty Welles, Washington, D. C.... " From Miss Welles, who had been forcal to cancel her plans at the last minute: "Well, if I couldn't go, at least I had the satisfaction of seeing it in the COLLEGIAN.". Note: She phoned the item in after she learned that the trip was off. ' Campy :commiserates with Miss Welles in her disappointment, but prints this to preserve .the jour ; nalistie integrity of the sheet we,love. +++ LOYALTY Coincident with the union in holy wedlock of the Chi U. and Pi K. A. manses, comes a tale of devotion to a cause. Red Ochsner, erstwhile third baseman and erstwhile Chi U., scarcely could bear the shock. He was resolved for a. while to nail the old Chi U. charter on the wall of his room and carry on as prexy, vice-prexy, etc., himself. He further deter mined to spike shut his door and enter and leave his room via a rope ladder. PICKUPS: Adele Luries (alias "The Little Red") has. temporarily deserted Communism to col lect and read William Faulkner ... Phil Evans (try ing to sell an honorary fraternity to prospeetives): "You get a lot out of this one. I know. I belong to quite a few around the campus myself" . . . Doe Marquardt refers to Crete Steuckgold as "a handsome woman" in a gem of understatement ... Norry Mc- Farland and ex-money bags Ray Smith were back over the week-end . . . little Mary Gravatt has a swell profile .. . Dr. Pauline Mack to co-ed during Bull Pen lecture: "Young lady, I see where your bloomers should. be" . We'll See You at The Corner unusual THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Pre-Medical Society Holds Pariel Discussion The Penn State Pre-Medical soci ety will present a panel disCussion on "Socialized Medicine," or "Health In surance," in the Home Economics au ditorium Thursday, May 9, at 7:30 o'clock. The chairman of the com mittee in charge of the program is Ralph T.. Irwin The four speakers for the discus sion will be Prof. Elwood C. Davis, of the School of Physical Education and Athletics, who will chair• the panel and summarize the discussion; Joseph P.• Ritenour, director of the College health service and College' physician who will discuss the prac tice of socialized medicine on the cam pus; Prof. George W. Hartman, of the School of Education, who will pres'ent the case for socializing medi cine; and Walter S. Brenholtz, M. D. secretary to the Lycoming County Medical society, and editor of the so ciety's medical bulletin, who will pre sent the case from the vices of the general practitioner. Prof. Green To Speak Prof. George. It. Green, of the School of Education, will speak to the Bellefonte Garden club on May S at 2:30 on the "Conservation of Wild Life." Letter Box Ira the Editor Now that "Black 'Fury" has left the local theatre, we'd like to say a few words about it, The movie was not such a "drab" picture of mining life as a recent issue of n popular screen magazine claims it is. It was really quite a happy picture. Joe Radek, a good natured bohunk, is dis covered counting out the money ha has saved up to buy a farm with. That an ordinary coal miner 'should have more than is enough for his next week's meals is a vicious un truth. That mine police and miners should fraternize is also quite un likely. The film was a subtle attempt on the part of the movie magnates, in conjunction with the American Fed eration of Labor, to blur the real is sues confronting the miner. The agi tator who inveighs against the dead work for which the miners are not paid, such as timbering and so forth, is discredited as a stool pigeon in the hire of a scab outfit, who want to break up the, union. Joe Radek, who leads a rank , and file movement aWay from the local union, is made out ,a drunken fool,. lie is promptly black balled with the union. After a street scuffle with the com pany police which his friend, a loyal union supporter, is killed, Joe determines to settle the strike hint self. By u., threat of sabotage, he wins the strike for the miners who were locked Out With him.' When a settlement is, made, lie comes up out of the mine shaft with his sweetheart —a hero. Newsreel cameramen and reporters greet the victor of a one man strike. It is the triumph of rug ged individualism again. What stuff! Anyone must know that a man who has not only' threatened to blow up an entire mine, bathos already blown up some passageways, will not go scot free. He is an anarchist. In real life, Joe would be immediately drag ged off to court on charges of crim inal syndicalism. Something else which wasn't explained was the fact that the coal baron as well as the thugs whin ,he hired to do his dirty work was perfectly. within the law as it now stands. The whole thing capitalized on the phenomena of wishful thinking. Be cause the scabs were hooted at, does not change the fact that there is nothing to prevent such men from going to work. The picture was sub tle because it pretended to be a true picture of mining conditions in Penn sylvania and wasn't. ' Robert Goldsmith '36 State Highway Patrol Conducts Brake Test A braking test conducted last Fri day afternoon by officers of the State Highway Patrol at the request of D. R. Clemson and D. K. Hughes, State College and Bellefonte Hudson-Terra plane dealers demonstrated the abil ity of the new Terraplanes to stop in one-fifth. of the distance specified in the inspection rules of the Pennsyl vania Motor Code. A Hudson-built Terraplane was used in the .tests, witnessed by more than one hundred persons. From 20 miles per hour, it stopped in 11 feet, four in., instead of the required 18 feet. From '3O miles an hour, the car stopped in 26 ft., 11% in., the re quired distance being 90 feet. The Terraplane required only 33 ft, G in., to stop when travelling 90. miles an hour. The required distance for this speed is 71 feet. Tho legal stopping distances used are those of the National Safety Council. The legal requirements of the Pennsylvania Department of Highways are at present more len ient, but legislation now pending in Harrisburg aims to make braking re quirements more rigid. Efficient brakes greaSy increase the safety of both motorists and pedestrians. Everyone:is, invited to inspect the new Terraplanes with these new effi cient brakes at Clemson's Garage, located on•McAllister street in State College. (Advertisement) Our New Library There is no building on the cam pus which requires as satisfactory heating and ventilating conditions as the library. Here the students as semble in increasing numbers to study and read. Here many thou sands of books and periodicals are stored. A temperature that is too warm results in drowsiness. If it is too cold readers become uneasy and restless. The heating and ventilating sys tem in the present building are anti quated and very unsatisfactory. It depends in part on radiators and in part on old fashioned registers with fans to drive the heat in waves. Fur thermore, there is no system for mois ture treatment and the dry air is particularly bad for books and pa pers. In summer the rending rooms, because of lack of ventilation, are very discouraging for the Summer Session student who is generally more zealous than the student of the ac ademic year. In these days air conditioning is being successfully installed in libra ries, ill railroad cars, and in build ings where people gather or where things are stored. But to try to in stall a satisfactory air conditioning system in this present structure, which is in so many other respects unsatisfactory for its purpose, would be a very expensive and well nigh impossible task, because of the plan of construction and arrangement bf the building. Last Priestley Talk The final Priestley lecture will be given tonight in the Chemistry an nex at 7:30 o'clock. The topic of tonight's talk will be "Special Appli cations," and will deal with the ap plications of nickel with respect to electron =mission tubes and automo tive ignition. The chairman for this final lecture will be Herbert E. Long =her, graduate student and presi dent of Phi Lambda Upsilon. New York Orchestra To Play Here Monday (Continued front page one) tra,,but has been with the New York group for tile past two years. The orchestra has given six con certs in Carnegie Hall, New York City, and played a series of twelve outdoor concerts last summer at Mu sic Hill, Weston, Conn. After playing at the Musical Festival at Cornell University last spring, the orchestra was booked for concerts at Smith College and Wellesley College. In reference to the orchestra mnd its conductor, the New York Herald Tribune reviewer, •Lawrence Oilman, said: :."Mr. 'Sokoloff , achieved, an en viable :reputation during the fifteen Years in Cleveland, not only as the virtual. creator there of an intelli gently responsive public for symphon_ is concerts, but as a program maker of exceptional enlightenment and progressiveness—one whose breadth of sympathy matched his alertness, his intelligent curiosity; and his free dom from the shackles of deadening 1 , routine." Pennsylvania has nine medical col leges, seven of which are in Philadel: phia. NEED MONEY? Bring your old books down to MONTGOMERY'S 4)- ) 41100 .• Never make a blind date with . BEAUTY! Use only the purest, most Ben eficial beauty aids! You can be sure of the effectiveness of Helene Rubinstein's beauty cre ations. 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It was decided to investigate the advisability of group or central buying, particularly pertaining to canned foods. Phyllis K. Sprague, of the home economics department, will speak to the group.at the next regular meet ing to be held in two weeks. . , Money for Tonight Bring your. old books today to MONTGOMERY'S DISTINCTIVE GIFTS SHOMBERG-JEWELER SEALS (College Ave.—Opposite Campus) SOUVENIRS Remember Your Mother on her Day—May 12th with a Gift or a Card from Old Main Art Shop PR I / 4 .,M • SPECIAL GARDENIA CORSAGE • . . . . $1.50 With three (3) Gardenias Other Corsages . . . . . .$l.OO and up !. STATE COLLEGEFLORAL SHOPPE 127 IV. Beaver ' - -PhoneB(l4:' • • THE UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY* ./k. three year course .of instruction, quarter plan. The dental and medical divisions arc closely affiliated. Dental students have two years of basic medical study, under the direction and supervision of the medical faculty. Clinical practice of dentistry,' in all 'its varied aspects, is supervised by the dental division and is connected with the clinics of several hospitals. These combined institutions offer an unusually helpful experience in clinical observation, diagnosis, and treatment of dental conditions. The next•regular session will open July Ist, 1935. For further information address School of Dentistry, 25 Goodrich Street, Buffalo, N. Y Protect • I Your winter garments during the hot sum mer months by having them de-mothed now, and make arrangements to put your rugs in storage early. We are furnishing moth-proof bags free of charge. • •• State College Dry Cleaning Works "The only dry cleaning plant in or around State College" 1000 W. College Ave. Phone 955 Hillside Ice & Coal CO: CLEAR SPARKLING ICE SCORED TO INSURE FULL WEIGHT . Dealers in High Grade Coal and Fireplace Wood Phone 136-J Friday; May 3, 1935 'EIRCE SCHOO OF 'BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION College Men and Women may begin courses In business training at the opening of the Summer Sessions of six weeks, commencing July First. Provo to yourself that thrift does not mean doing without. It means doing with just a little less. The First National Bank of State College John T. McCormick, President • David F. Rapp, Cashier BRACELETS ++++
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