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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Successor"to The Free Lance, established 1887
Publishes! suerni.weekly during the College Year, except on holichiPs,
by students of The Pennsylvnniu State College. in the intenet of the
College, the students. (smutty. ulumnL and friends. •
Applied for entry as second sloes matter at the State College Poet
Office, State College, Pa.
HARRY B. HENDERSON J 12 . 136 WILLIAM H. SKIRBLE '3G
Editor Business Manager
DONALD P. SANDERS 'SG ROLAND W. OBERHOLTZER '36
Managing Editor Circulation Manager.
W. BERNARD PREUNSCII '36 WILLIAM B. HECKMAN '36
Sports Editor Advertising Manager
VANCE 0. PACKARD T. 6 - PHILIP C. EVANS '36
Assistant Editor Local Advertising Manager
JOHN E. MILLER JR. 1 34 LEONARD T. SIEFF"36
Assistant Managing Editor Credit Manager
CHARLES M. SCHWARTZ JR. 11 L. MARYREL CONAFIEE '3l
AstiLstate . Sports Editor Women's Editor
WILLIAM P. 31cDOWELL '3G RUTII EL KOEHLER' '3l
Next IGditor
.IOIIN li. BARNES JR. '3G
Norm editor
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George W. Dint '37 Eenneth W. Engel '37 Jean C. Mover '37
Philip A. Sehmarty. '37 Alan L. Smith 'B7 Robert J. Siegler '37
Managing Editor Imbue_
Newt Editor 'Chic
Friday, October 25, 1935
SAFETY AND THE LAW
This week the Centro Daily Times carried. an item
concerning the arrest of several students by members
of the Slate Highway Patrol for riding, or permitting
someone to ride on the running hoard of a car. The
driver, in the cases mentioned, was tined $25 and Costs,
and the running board rider $5 and costs.
Of late, riding on running boards around here
seems to have become the big intramural sport, with
the Delta Chi fraternity leading the race with about
$35 sunk towards the trophy.
Seriously, however, everybody realizes that riding,
a running board is very dangerous, even i 6 the fact
that it is a violation of the State Motor Vehicle Code
is not so well understood.
Students should consider the safety of themselves
and the possibility of being assessed a stilt fine be
fore they climb on n running board or permit: some one
else to do it
MORE LAW
Over the' week-end so strenuously just 'passed it
seems that some of the collegfate body went "Joe Col
lege in a big way, for not only was there a hon-fire,
but a half-dozen mail boxes were stolen from an' apart
ment house hall. They. were found decorating the rooms
of a fraternity house , in the best College Manor manner
by local postal authorities several days later.
It. is presumed that these boxes were taken in the
same spirit that the bonfire was built--one lacking in
thought and filled with disregard for the rights of
others.
Perhaps it might be well for these students to con
sider that.they are tampering-with the official property
of the Federal government when. they steal mail boxes,
regardless of whether they. are in the stree♦. with_ the
government stamp on them, or in an apartment house
hall, and- regardless of the spirit in which they are
taken. •
PENN STATE DANCES.
There has arisen a , great deal of . confusion this
past week over alumni dances and. student dances •in
localities other than State College. This week-end, for
instance, the alumni club of Pittsburgh is holding a
dance and there are also two student groups holding
dances the same night. This• situation, which is un
pleasant to all concerned, would not have arisen if . the
students holding the dances had asked' for advice from
the College authorities.
Some years ago out-of-town, Penn State dances
were sponsored by everybody who thought they could
make a nickel out of them. As a result, they took in
everybody in sight, with the•dances usually ending is
a minor riot.
In an attempt to prevent such occurre4es•the. ptu
dent Council, in 1931, passed a ruling which, among
other• things, stated that no one could hold a dance
under the name of Penn State without first getting
the permission of the Student Council and of tho• Penn
State alumni organization in the district in which the
dance was to be held. Another part of this bit of
legislation.stated that applications to•hold such a dance
must he filed with both the Student Council and the
alumni club at least a month in advance of the- date
set for the dance.
If this procedure had been followed in the present
instance, there would have been no trouble.
Students planning to hold such dances should con.
fer with the student government officials and with•the
College authorities before completing their plans, and'
thereby avoid trouble.
THE P. S. C. A
Now that the P. S. C. A. financial drive is under
way, the question of what the organization does and
what it is worth comes up.
Of course, everybody knows that it promotes. and
organizes retreats, fireside sessions, the welcome mass
meeting, student counselors, forums- and discussion
groups, as well' as maintaining an employment bureau..
However, there is one aid that the P. S. C. A. tail
ministers which cannot be estimated in dollars and cents,
or in the extent to which it reaches. And that is the
aid - which it administers to the student who is bewildered
by the new world with which he has come into contact
here, who has some of his beliefs torn down by the atti
tude of his fellow-students and professors, and who; as
a result, is suffering severe mental stress.
The time lias come to set down delicately in type
certain occurrences coincident with the preservation
of the peace and dignity of State College last week-
Chief of Police Albert Yougel, than whom there
is none whomer, was making his nocturnal rounds of
fraternity houses when he paid a call at the Phi Ep
lodge in the early hours of the morning.
Inside the house, the Chief thought he heard a
burglar and dashed in the nearest room for aid. The
first bed he touched happened to be inhabited by Sum
Warwick.
Munarrinsr Editor
A. FRANCE TURNER . .16'
Womeren News Editor
"Get. up," Yougel shouted, "The place is being
robbed."
"G'wan, I wouldn't get up even if you were the
Chief of Police," Sam said, turning over.
A few minutes later the Chief thought he had
the culprit cornered. in the downstairs phone booth.
"Come on down, fellers, I've got. him," La Yougel
-_E. Townsend Swaim '37
Ric'tar& E. towls
called upstairs.
Hal Bennstein tinkled drowsily clown.
The Chief dragged a cowering chap out of the
booth.
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"Know him?" he demanded.
"Naw," replied Hal, rubbing his eyes. Then he
took another look.
It was Paul Moss... Hollywood song and scenario
writer, and the local chapter's chief claim to fame.
ANTICIPATION IN VERSE OF THE COMING
WEEK-END IN, PITTSBURGH WITH THE
! AFFRAY AT THE PITT STADIUM, THE
COLORFUL CROWD AND THE MAD,
GAY WHIRL OF DANCES:
some
Fun.
Pittpourri:
Maybe Tlizzoner . Mayor McNair is a good guy
after all. He gave special permission for.the official
Penn State-Pitt dance 'on the seventeenth floor of the
William Penn to run until Sunday morning in
stead of closing at 1. The battle of music will he
fought to the death between Kay Kyser and our own
Newell Townsend.
Mr. Adrian 0. Morse, who is always around when
things are being administrated, got off a good one at
the Campus Patiol banquet the other night. He was
explaining the difference between diplomacy and
courtesy.
"If a man walks into a ladies' shower room by
mistake and says: 'Pardon me—that's courtesy," A.
0. said, "But if he says: 'Pardon me, sir'—that's dip- .
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. Overheard in Grange Dorm lobby: (Betty Sloan
to Freddie (boxer) O'Neil) : "I don't think these
photograph proofs are as good-looking as I really
am" ... Someone should tell Nancy Drake that, tak
ing Op davenport space in the Fletcher house when
the. other girls are dating doesn't make her popular
with the bays . . . The Werner-Nichols opus on "Hot
Jazz Jargon" in the new Vanity Fair is neat .
Patty Laramy and Hal Hobart bumming a bone from
the Alpha Zeiss for a stray dog they found on the
campus . The rumor that the Gotham was to in
stall a burlesque runway for Inn Ray Hutton next
Thursday is. somewhat exaggerated . . . Betty Me-
Kain objects to Frothy spelling her name with two
"c's" . Obie Oberholtzer is fined $27.50 for let
ting Fritz Andrews ride on the running board of his
roadster. Fritz will pay $7.50 or suffer incarcera
tion . Walt Kinsey should have this football 'man
ager job down cold. He managed pigskin troops in
junior high, high school and—now look . . . The
Sciortini Brothers, who used to run a fruit store on
Allen street are in Italy and are being drafted into
service in Ethiopia ... Thanks for the apples, Dean
Watts
We'll See
You at The Corner
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THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Pundt Publishes Book
On German-Nationalism
"Arndt and the Nationalist Awak
ening in: Germany" is the title
work on the study of German nation
alism ~by Prof. Alfred G. Pundt, of
'the department of history. and
,polit
ical. science, just published by the
Columbia • 'University Press.
The book deals with the popular
nationalist' awakening in Germany
during the Liberation Wars of the
early • nineteenth century and: with
Arndt's role in , the movement.. Trac t
ing Arndt's career' from earliest
childhood• to- his arrest in 1810, the
author focuses- special attention upon
the genesis •of his nationalist creed,
upon his emotional and spiritual pro
gress, and examines, in some detail;
the nature and. extent or his literary
labors in - behalf of German libera
tion.
The scope - of. this - volume is further
extended by description. of the far
flung ramifications of the nationalist
reaction against Napoleonic hegemo
ny in Germany—a circumstance that
brought Arndt into close contact with
Stein, whose favor at once made hint
a national figure. 'Finally, the reader
is presented with an outline and an
alysis of the main features of Arndt's
nationalistic program, and an esti
mate of his enduring contribution to
the movement for cohstitutionalism
and political unification in Germany.
Rain . stories and brain storms. are
combined in RKO , Radio's latest ve
hicle starring Be•t Wheeler and Rob-
Woolsey, "The . Rainmakers," which
is playing at the Cathaum Theatre
tomorrow. The romantic interest is
supplied by vivacious Dainty Lee, who
has appeared in thirteen straight pic
tures with these mad comics, begin
ning back in 1929 with "Rio Rita,"
when Dorothy was seventeen.
Woolsey, as "Roscoe, the Rainmak
er," plays a pseudo scientist called in
save a lima-growing community from
the drought. His . assistant, Wheeler,
a dirt farmer at heart, falls in love
with Miss Lee, who happens o be the
daughter of the local banker, for
whose sake "Roscoe" has been called
in. There are pldts and counter-plots
a deep-dyed villain who stands to gain
if the drought continues, and 'a
smashing- climax that calls 'for the
collision of.two dYnamite-laden 'loco
motives piloted' by Wheeler and , Wool
sey.
In all twenty minutes of climactic .
action involving these- locomotives,.
there is only sih lines of dialogue.
Drama, suspense, and comedy panto
mine fill in the rest .admirably,. the
scene setting a new higlifer,this type.
of humor..
The featured song, "Isn't Love the
Grandest Thing?" is harmonized-by
Wheeler and'. Mica, Lee; and . is one of
the more popular: of the current tunes.
Miss Lee was discovered; incidentally,
by Fred Waring, who gave her a
chance as comedienne after the cast
ing offices. had turned •her • down.
The supporting cast includes* Ber
ton Churchill; George Meeker, Fred
"eric Roland, and Edgar Dearing. The
screen play is by Grant Garrett and.
Leslie • Goodwins, adapted from the
story by Albert Treynor and• Fred
Guiol. The latter also directed the
play.
"The Last Days of POmpeii i " one of
those pictures truly worthy of the
name of spectacular, brings - to the
Cathaum's screen Monday and. Tues
day the story of one of history's
greatest catastrophies. Preston Fos.
ter heads a brilliant cast which in
cludes Alan Hale, Basil Rathbone,
Johrr.WoOd, Lois . Calhern,.David Holt,
Dorothy. Wilson, anil'Wyerley Birch.
The story is tliat..of Maras,. ;a
young blacicsmith. whose poverty costs
Grant Names Singers
Fore Varsity Quartet
Members of the varsity quartet
Were chosen last-week by Prof. Rich
ard W. Grant, of the department of
music, after competitive trials. 'The
quartet, which participated in several
' musical productiohs of the- Thespians
and the Glee Club last year, will' open
its season this year with an appear
ance in the combined Thespian-Glee
Club house-party 'show, to be held' on
Saturday night, October 9.
Those. who- were chosen for the
group are: first tenor, Richard- W.
O'Connor '37;' second. tenor, Ebert L.
Badger '36; baritone, John E. Platt
'37; bass, Charles E. Leigh '3B; k.ac
companist, Donald' H. Dixon '37.
Printing
for
Student. Societies
and•' Fraternities
Chapter Publications
Nittany Printing and .
Publishing CompanY
110 West College Avenue•.
unusual
CINEMA NIA
Dr. Tschan Translates
Slav Historical Work
"'pie Chronicle of the Slays," by.
Helniod, priest of. Boseau•svhich was
translated by Dr. Francis T. Tschan,
of the department of history, was re
leised recently by the Columbia Press,
New :York..
The, book covers the original settle
ment of Europe, dealing.with the ear
ly .invasion of the Germailic tribes,.'
followed by that of the. Slays. • Hek
mod, , a Saxon. Christian parish priest
a': frontier mission,. bore heavy
cross, spending most of hia lifetime.
converting Slays and regenerating
Germans.
He recorded. all that he could:learn
of what happened both before and
during his lifetime,. 1125.1170 A. D.
Through him is seen• the process of
Germanic invasion and the Slavic' re-.
sistance where nearly every. trick, de
vice, and' situation: recorded later in
the story, of the whites against In
dians in North America had its pro
totype.
him. the lives of his wife and. child.
Setting wealth as his only' goal, he
becom# a gladiator and then a dealer
in slaves, risking his life time. and
'agaiii:', At the end of twenty years
he ha . k become, the head. of the arena,
the arrangerof bloody spiectacles for
the ireaple, and' his . only unsuppressed
human instinct is his love 'and. ambi
tion for his adopted son.
The climax. piles thrill upon' thrill .
when'..Tohn Wood, as PlavM, the ad
opted son, is about to die in the arena
of which his father is. in charge. The
volciino and earthquake strikes at this
point - and destroy the beautiful' city
of Pompeii. Marcus, his son, and the
, latter's sweetheart; Clodia, played by
Dorothy Wilson, escape• the city, but'
Marcus is killed in saving his son
froin.the pursuing, soldiery. •
Much !of the color and'humor of the
picture is provided by Alan Hale, as
a rotigh . and ready ex-convict. Basil
Rathb'one re-creates the difficult role
of POntius Pilate, and small David
Holt ;is appealing in his role.
Over a , year was spent in research
on Pompeii and its. destruction; in or
der that absolute accuracy in the, film
ing •might be obtained'. The mob
scene and pictures of the devastation
wrought by quake and. fire required
the use of thousands of -extras
,and
the destruction of an. entire city mod
elleil'iscarefully after the original. Mer
kur p i . Cooper,. noted for his ability
with4he photoplay spectacle,. produc
ed. for. RICO Radio from. an original.
Istorki:by Tames Ashmore Creelmart
land:Melville Baker. While the . pie-
tura hears the. same name as Bulwer.
Lytton's book,, the story is entirely.
original. Lytton's book was , used,
howeVer, for source' material..
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T. Abramson was the winner of the ,
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From's ,
store to the persoM predicting most
nearly the correct scores for seven ,
national football: games, • Abramson
was given a tie and . a pair of hose.
, No
,one picked: thMresults.of all the
games correctly. Two picked all but
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Friday, October 25, 1935:
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