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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
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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.
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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.) ".
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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.
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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
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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.
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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