Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887 Published sami•tecesly during. the College year, 'except on balkier.. by students of The Pennsylvania State College. in the Interest of the College, the students, faculty, alumni.. and friends. THE SIANAGING BOARD HARRY R. HENDERSON JR. '36 WILLIAM H. SKIRDLE '36 ?ADM,' Business Manager DONALD P. SANDERS '36 ROLAND W. OBERHOLTZER '36 Managing Editor Circulation Manager IV.. BERNARD FREUNSCH '36 WILLIAM D. fIECKMAN '36 Sports Editor Advertising Manager VANCE 0. PACKARD '36 PHILIP C. EVANS '36 Assistant Editor Local Advertising Manager JOHN E. MILLER JR. '36 LEONARD T. SIEVE '36 Assistant Managing Editor Credit Manager CIIARLES AL SCHWARTZ JR. '36 L. MARIUS:I. CONAIIEE '36 Assistate. Sports Editor Women's Editor WILLIAM P. McDOWELL '36 RUTH E. KOEHLER '36 News Editor Women's Managing Editor JOIIN K. ISARIsIES JR. '36 A. FRANCES TURNER '36 News Editor Women's News Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS 3. Kenneth Beaver '37 Lester 3!. Benjamin '37 Johnson Brenneman '97 W. Robert Grubb '37 Philip S. Heisler '37 Itinhawl Lewis '37 ES= George W. fin] '37 Kenneth W. Engel '37 Joan C. Hoover '37 Philip A. Schwartz '37 'Alan L. Smith '37 Robert J. Siegler '37 IVONIEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS • Marion A. Ringer '37 Regina S. Ryan '37 N. Winifred Williams '37 Friday, September 20, 1935 Mani:,l,lw Editor This Issue_ News Editor This Issue---_ E. Townnend Swain, .37 . .7 Kenneth Beaver '37 DON'T CHEAT YOURSELF During the silent period yesterday freshmen filled out preference cards at the Student Union desk in- dicating the first three houses of their choice. Rushing for the remaining three (lays that the rushing code is in effect, will take on a much more serious, and in some cases desperate, angle In this mad scramble and grabbing of freshmen, both the fraternities and freshmen should endeavor to main tain a common sense attitude. Fraternities desperate for men ,will not hesitate to use the "lead-pipe" and freshmen are still as gullible as they ever were. The "lead-pipe" is a weapon of rushing which has done the fraternities on this campus more harm than good: It may at the time get a few more men for a house but in the end it has most disastrous effects. Many houses, which have been forced to use the "lead-pipe" system to get their men, have found that despite the number of men that they acquire they never seem to be in any better shape. That is because men who are "lead-piped" are usually not sound fraternity men, either spiritually or finan cially. A reflection indicating that this is true may be found in the number of fraternity men who move out of their houses and in the number of pledgeships dropped. The reasons for most of these break-ups are of both a social and financial nature. Many men join fraterni ties to find that they really don't enjoy fraternity life; that they prefer to have one or two friends rather than living with a group of men to whom , they are supposed to he brothers. Also, many, men jOin fraterni-, ties and knowingly assume' financial obligations which are too extravagant for them and which they cannot meet with ease. In either case, it is the fraternity which is hit be cause the men, unable to live under such a set-up, leave the fraternities, often with long over-due house bills. Fraternities with an eye to their future stability will hesitate before applying the "lead-pipe" system regard less of their need for men. .FOR DAYS THE COLLEGIAN has sent its spies through the hinterland in a desperate search to find out what is behind the red paint campaign of Burgess Wilbur F. Leitzell who has left scarcely a street cor ner without a band of scarlet, not to mention the rib bons of red and yellow paint which decorate Allen street and College avenue. At last the complete report has been filed. It states that Burgess Leitzell has planned this paint campaign so that when he runs for re-election in the future he may have printed in nice little italics beneath his name the following slogan: "He Painted the Town Red." A SLIGHT CASE OF NEGLECT From all sides comes the deluge of distractions at ill . ; beginning of school—rushing, pep talks, drop-and- adds, and—magazine and newspaper salesmen. In the hubbub of building up the circulations of the COLLEGIAN and Froth, another pubicution has been forgotten.—The Old Main Bell The Bell is the undergraduate literary and opinion magazine and due to the fact that there is no financial gain for staff members, the magazine has never been "pushed!" Yet the Bell is the best student magazine in the country, from both the literary and typographical viewpoints, and has been judged so by leading writers like Wm. Mcßee, Archibald MacLiesh, Heywood Broun, Louis Adamic and others. So last yeal• the leading un dergraduate literary periodical in America had barely enough subscribers to exist! It N shameful that this college and community has done so poorly by such an asset. 'At - the present time there are quite a few Bell salesmeit abroad and if they do not receive a better reception from people interested in the literary work of the undergraduates here there will be no more Old Main Bell. It is the smallest gesture in the world to give one of these salesmen your dollar and receive the Bea for the year. The other night the harassed staff, in order to spur subscriptions, each and every one of them gave their dollars to keep it going. It would seem evidence of their sincerity that they subscribed themselves, rath er than sec the magazine fold. Can theliterate people of this campus do as much? CAMPUSEER BY HIMSELF Questionnaire The scene was the office of the College comptroller on the second floor of Old Main where students were filling out applications for NYA jobs. One freshman femme in particular was having trouble filling in the dotted lines. About half way down the page she stopped writ ing, turned the color of the-last Old Main !Se ll cover and looked about her furtively. About this time the office .staff began to realize that a climax in the drama of youth was being un folded before its eyes. The maid left a space blank until she had filled out the rest of 'the sheet. Then she hastily scrawled a few words there, tossed her application on the desk, and dashed out of the room. After she left the financial wizards of the College gathered about to see which question had caused her , embarrassment. Iler blank read: SEX: Once in a while. =MI Class Local Big Men on Campus who have been wan dering about rushing freshmen and the giowler in in the lush largesse of pre-registration prosperity might take a hint on how to play big shot from an ad in Tuesday's New York Times. Tor only thirteen 'slugs a party of six can be driven to the Louis-Baer ,fight in a 1935 V-12 Cadil lac with uniformed chauffeur. May Queen Material In order that you and you and you who arrived in town just in time to copy 'a good schedule that your roommate worked out and tear up to Rec hall for a place in the 'Tees Deferred" line will not be out distanced by those who arrived early, the Campuseer' presents below his nominations for the ten most love ly and trim-torsoed of the frosh dolls: Blondes: Brunettes: Betty Eminent Mary Jane 'Fisher Mildred Humes Jane Gruber Hermine Hunt Beatrice Quinn • Emma Jennings ' Lois Wells Doris Krieger • Irene Schubert N. B. Any girl who feels that we may have slipped up on the COLLEGIAN credo "Complete Campus Cov erage" and over-looked her particular example of pulchritude may interview the Campuseer person ally at 4 o'clock Monday ,morning - at the . affice.) ". ++ + . .. • High-Pressure . ' This man Skirble, COLLE6IAN business manager, has something. Wednesday night. after an impassioned talk on selling the'gki Main Bell Which he donated to editor Dugan free of charge, he and our ed. Har ry Henderson and fourtecen members . of the Bell staff plunked down a•total of sixteen dollars of their own dough for subscriptions and went forth to spread the gospel' of contemporary literature about town and campus via Bell subscription sales. After the speech Mary Lou Freer, one of the stair members, was approachCd in the Cr. Room by a Froth solicitor. But applying the old gkirblo technique, Mary Lou event to work and signed him up for the • Bell in three minutes flat. She departed Frofhless. • Campusettes: That 1914 Maxwell roadster Museum piece in two tone tan belongs to Bill Diefenderfer out at the Pi Kappa Phi manse. It has acetylene headlights and an air compression tank on the running board . The Campuseer once came closer to asking Donn Sanders' wife for a date than he'll ever suspect ... A rushee at the D. T. D. castle made broth'er Judd Youtes stop the car at a drug store and make a trip inside to get him some corn plasters EL CAMPO THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Second of - 100-Foot Chimneys Destroyed Last vestiges of two ancient land marks in State .College were being removed today, as workmen neared completion of the razing of the sec ond of two 100-foot brick chimneys on the old power plant at the Penn sylvania State College, • torn down because they were unsafe. The east chimney was razed to the roof line by noon. George W. Ebert, superintendent of grounds and build ings at the College, said that the work will not be completed today, since con siderable work below the roof re mains to be done. • The east chimney, which was the last to be destroyed, was the older of the two, having been constructed in 1893, while the west chimney was built in 1913. Vent pipes will carry off exhaust gases• and fumes from laboratories housed in the building. Do You Know— Some of the best views in the Alps may be enjoyed from mountains that can be climbed by . Mule-paths. It is cstimated.that China's uncov ered coal exceeds'ihat of all Europe. If the Mendelian law of heredity controls the relations between the dif ferent races of the human species, there cari be no biological objections to the fusion of different races.' On the contrary, the future development of strong and vigorous racial types de pends upon periodical crossing be tween the different races. The great vulture rises to a height of 7500 to 15,000 feet. The soil of Liberia is extremely fer tile but agriculture is undeveloped there. The English know our literature a good deal better than they }calm our history or polities.. "In the olden days men were willing to renounce the world in the hope of gaining ,a heavenly treasure; today, men are also willing to renounce the world—to get on the relief rolls. Sparest the brim, not at the bot tom. BUY YOUR RADIO . . BUDGET PLAN THE MUSIC ROOM RADIO REPAIRS - ALL WORK GUARANTEED GLENNLAND BUILDING I C • i The l- lardni r - lorj Shop • L The Student's Florist • Bidif Welcome to the Class oF '39. and Welcome Back to 'Our Old Friends We are ready to serve you again with the very best in flowers for all occasions. We Welcome Fraternity and Sorority Accounts FRESH CUT FLOWERS DAILY CORSAGES OUR SPECIALTY . Phone 795 Soul h Allen St. - WE DELIVER TEXT, BOOKS New and Second- Hand NATIONAL SLIDE RULES LOOSE LEAF NOTE BOOKS PHEYPHANE DUPLEX 1 to $5 LOG LOG DUPLEX . Price Includes Leather Case and Fillers to Fit all Size Note Books Book of Instructions Typewriter and Fountain Pen Repairs The Athletic Store Inc. • . Opposite Main Gate_ CINEMANIA "Annapolis Farewell," which plays at the Cathaum on Saturday, is the story of the rivalry between two foot ball-playing midshipmen who are as signed to be roommates. The mid ship Men are Tom Brown and Richard Cromwell, and the feminine lead is played by Rosalind Keith. Sir Guy Standing is the ,venerable Conimand er. Not only are the roommates rivals in football; but because one of them has no date for the Prom, they be come rivals for the same girl, too. Every bit of the picture was filmed at the Naval Academy, so the atmo- ! sphere should be correct, and the story rings true. The screen play is an adaptation of a short story written originally by Stephen Morehouse Avery. After five months' work, MGM has released its musical of the year, :'Broadway Melody of 1.936," which plays at the Cathaum on Monday and Tuesday. Roy Del Ruth directed the picture, and Jack Benny heads the cast. • The whole stage, which is the lar gest sound stage ever built on an , MGM lot, was given over to a repro duction of the latest in Manhattan penthouse designing. For the picture, there is a melodi ously brilliant musical score by Na cio Herb Brown and Arthur• Freed, who did the tunes in the first "Broad way Melody." Among the songs are "I've Got A Feelin' You're Foolin'," "On A Sunday Afternoon," and, "Broadway Rhythm." Dave Gould, who created the dances "Continental" and "Carioca," has done a new one called "Broadway Rhythm," that promises to surpass both in popularity. Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, -and Una Merkel are starred. The story is by Moss Hart; the adaptation by Sid Silvers and Jack McGowan. Teachers to. Confer Teachers of physics in the colleges of Pennsylvania will hold their sec ond conference here on October 11 and 12. The top ten per cent of sen iors majoring 'in physics at the var ious coilleges are also invited to at tend and will have a separate pro gram of their own during part of the FRESHMEN.. TAKE A DOLLAR TO • ENGLISH COMP CLASS MONDAY 'OR TUESDAY The Best Jewelry Store in the .Best Town in Centre County - • CRABTREE'S One-Three-Two Allen St. Friday: September 20, 1935 FRESHMEN . . . TAKE - A DOLLAR . TO, ENGLISH, COMP CLASS MONDAY OR TUESDAY Improve Youi Menus by serving seafood over this week-end. SUGGESTING: MACKERAL FLOUNDER BUTTER FISH r TROUT- FILLETS CRAB MEAT : • - . OYSTER'S SWORD PISA STEAKS "Front sea to table in 24 hours" . Cook's Market Phone 267
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