' • COMPLETE • . •. CAMPUSj.. - .2;.1. i tatr COVERAGE 1 ritt, 5 .32-- Volume.Bsf—Number 22 Gen. Butler To Lecture On War Evil War Is a Racket' He Says After Years Of Service. Speaker Engaged By Committee on Peace Major General Smedley D. Butler will address the student body in Schwab auditorium tonight at 7:30 O'clock on the subject, "War is a Racket." The general, who retired from army life in 1931, has written a series of -articles exposing the military situa tion in this country, and is being brought here under the auspices of the Penn State Peace Action Com mittee. Seats are on sale at the Stu dent Union office fo o r• twenty-five cents. General Butler has seen thirty years of active service with the Ma rines, and calls the expeditions of the Marines . into Central and South America "bill collecting expeditions.", Promoted by 4 Presidents After his retirement in 1931,. he said, "As a soldier, I long suspected that war was a racket; but not until 'I retired to civil life did I fully re alize it." , The general has received promo tions from Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt, Wilson, and Hoover. He has served in Cuba, the Philippines, China, Panama, Honduras, Nicarau .gua, Haiti, Mexico, and in France. Upon retirement, he became director of public safety in Philadelphia. .Recently. General Butler has been writing a series of .articles for Cone soon Sense. magazine entitled: "Amer ica's Armed Forces," which follows a previous series by him on William Randolph Hearst.. Of General 'But ler, the magazine says: ."The public. his been aware'•of encOmPromis 7 :directOr..oLpublic safety in'earrupt Philadelphia, of .his forthright eaposure.of Muisolini;. Of his refusal. to traffic with .the .Wall Street Would-be foists. He takes his place with Senator Nye in the front ranks of those courageous few who would sacrifice anything to keep America from repeating the tragic folly of 1917." "U. S. Threatened by War" In one of his, articles, called "Mill tai•y Boondoggling," the general says: "We are one short jump away from the second World War. The United States looks grotesqe waving its olive branch toward Europe. We are really waving a lighted cigar over the international .powder•. keg." Continuing, he says: "We possess a unique set of war mongers, dollar patriots. and military chiselers." General Butler is the only officer in the mstory of the nation who has been awarded two medals of honor by Congress for bravery on the field, and has been cited on numerous occasions. Called "Gimlet Eye" and "buck board" by the Marines he command ed, General Butler was cited by The odore Roosevelt as the ideal American soldier. And Butler says, "War is a racket and always has been. It is the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in'scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and losses in lives." The general proposes a way to smash 'this racket. Relations Conference To Meet at Syracuse Dr. Jacob Tenger, of the depart ment of history and political science, and four student representatives will leave today to attend the third annual Middle Atlantic Region conference of International Relation Clubs held at Syracuse University,, Syracuse, N. Y., today and toinorrow. The students who will attend the conference are William - Egli .'37, presi dent of the local club; William G. Balderston '36, Israel K. ;Shulman '37, and Johnson Brenneman !37, who will act as chairman of one of the roundtable discussion groups. Tli'e conference this year will deal with the general topic of internation al efforts to preserve peace. This will be divided into discusiion groups on ,sanctions, American neutrality policy, and economic conditions which tend to engender war. Last year's conference, which dealt with economic nationalism; was held here. It'was attended by nearly 200 students from about thirty colleges in the district. About the same num ber are expected to attend the Syra cuse conference. . . Leaders of Lions and Bisons Who Will Mee t on Memorial Field Formal Banquet To Follow Rites Mortar Board To Install Local Chapter at Ceremonials . Here This Week. A formal banquet will' follow the installation of the Penn State chap ter of Mortar Board, national senior women's activities fraternity, at the Nittany.Lion Inn at 3:30 o'clock Sat urday. The theme of the banquet will - he "The Archousai Ritual." Anne B. Fagan '35 will be the toastmistress. Speakers will be: Mrs. F. W. Haller, MisS 'Charlotte E. Rayi...Selena.,T-A. Wunderlich, and: Miss 'Katherine, KahlinaiOnstalliaLeiricer:lioln pa.y: From 10 to 11 o'clock the're will be a formal reception in the Nittany Lion lounge for prominent faculty members and student leaders and members - of Lions' Paw, senior hon orary fraternity. A group of junior girls will assist as ushers. Evelyn Al. Van Antwerp '3B will be the pi anist at the installation. . The honorary will hold a breakfast at the State College Hotel at 9:30 o'clock Sunday morning. A business meeting will follow. The active members of Arehousai who will •be received into Mortar• Board are: Selena A. I,Vunderlich, president; Amelia Brooks, vice-presi dent; Emma Jane Hosmer, secretary; Katherine L. Wagner, active treasur er; Ruth E. Koehler, historian; Janet hi.. Behan; and A. Frances Turner. 5 Students Withdraw Five students have withdrawn from College and one has been dropped,-it was announced by the Registrar's of fice early this week. Those who have left school are: Harold S. Ray '36, J. E. Mumford '37, Lawrence E. Boy er '38,• Walter W. Janke' '3B, and Robert S. Hollenbaugh '39. Samuel T. Huntingdon '37 was dropped be cause of unexcused absences. Reasons for the withdrawals include - lack of finances mainly, and illness. - Dean Steidle's Office Contains Unique Industrial Art Collection Dean Edward Steidle's office and al spacious suite of conference rooms to the right of the lobby in the Mineral Industries building serves as an art gallery of oil paintings of mineral in dustrial scenes in Pennsylvania, a unique collection in that, so far as is known, it is the only gallery in exist ence which is devoted to that type of painting's. The present collection is. composed of 45 paintings and is val ued at $15,000. The collection, which is made up of original oil paintings depicting the mineral producing and primary pro ' cessing industries in this state, was painted expressly for the place it occupies. Thus far forty-five paint ings by seventeen different artists have been 'secured and twelve addi tional paintings are in the making. Eleven of the collection are coal min ing scenes, three quarrying, seven pe troleum, one natural gas, five ceram ics, three fuel technology, and fifteen. metallurgy. An appropriation for such a collection has never been made, but the works have been contributed .by alumni members and other inter ested individuals. • - A number of the paintings arc al- STATE COLLEGE, - PA.:F i RIP . AY, NOVEMBER 22, 193 Democracy Fosters Educational Gains, Hetzel Tells Conference Democracy, the most promising ve hicle 'for the advancement of modern civilization, has fostered a net gain in the fortunes,. of .public education, President Ralph D. Hetzel told mem bers of the National Association of State Universities, assembled in Washington for their fortieth annual meeting, yesterday. • Addressing the meeting in his cap acity as president of the association, Dr. Hetzel stated that the status of higher education had improved ma terially in the past two years. This statement' he qualified by saying, "Ed ucation has emerged from the conflict Plan'Rural - Motif For Harvest Ball Dancers at Affair in Armory Tuesday Night Requested To Wear Costumes. Rustic decorations will be featured at .the annual Harvest Ball which will be held in the Armory Tuesday night at 9 o'clock, according to Har old W. Graham, chairman of the deco rations committee. Another feature of the dance will he the appearance of ...Tames P. Un angst, who will repeat by popular re quest "Minnie„ the Moocher," one of the songs which he sang in "Fools Rush In," recent Thespian show. Entrance to the Ball will be made through the rear door of the Armory. Couples will gain access to the floor by jumping off the stage into a hay maw and from there to the floor. Bill Bottorff; orchestra, which is playing for the affair, will.play from a raised platform, composed of two hay wag•. ons, at the opposite end of the Arm ory. Since it is an all-Co/lege dance, co• eds will be allowed 1 o s 'clock permis sion, according to A. Frances Turner, W. S. G. A. president. ready of considerable historical sig nificance in Pennsylvania. One is of the Diamond Colliery near Scranton, one of the oldest collieries in the an thracite region. Another is of a bee hive coke oveti in the coke. region of this state. Another painting made at Johnstown represents one of the first by-product coke plants installed in this country. Another is of the now dismantled Schollenberg rolling mill on the MonOnguhela river, Pittsburgh. Then there is the Lucy Furnace, one of the eldest blast furnaces on the Allegheny River, and a picture of a typical oil . derrick at Titusville where oil was first discovered, and another of bringing in a gas well in Potter county. Another painting is of and of the last drift mines employing mule haulage in operation in western Penn sylvania. One shows an abandoned limestone quarry near Bellefonte, and another an offhand glass blowing' at Pittsburgh. Then there arc compa nion pictures showing the ladling and the pouring of the large .telescopic disc, Made by the Corning Glass Works on December 2, 1934. These are the onlY , Paintings in the collec tion which are not Pennsylvanian. in a cloud of criticism, but below• the surface of criticisnOve, nevertheless, find faith in the potency of educa tion universally acknoiyledged. The situation of'education abroad 'he found less inspiring. Where peo ples arc free, he remarked, there is a net gain in the present. disposition ; to make relatively': heavier invest ments of public 'finds in support of education. But in other circumstances such investments have involved in in creasing measure the; prostitution of education and the"•abject surrender of freedom of teachiniaml of thought. He urged upon thein his belief that "yielding-neither . toii'_smch:to ,the left nor" too: Mach .t.0.--theTfight,Thve-shall in the present crisis make our decis ions and steer our 'course in the di rection of justice , and freedom." The topic of democracy revealed it self at recurrent. intervals:in the pres idential survey of the contemporary Scene, a survey which each succeeding president of the association makes in review of the 'high spots in the pro.' gress of civilization during the term of his office in the association. In tracing the gains that have been made in the last three years Dr. Hctzcl quoted a paragraph from a predeces sor in office which indicated how at that time "the whole civilized struc ture seemed to be wobbling," and the general attitude Was "one of fear and panic," a condition which has since disappeared. "Democracy has been pronounced (lead; but democracy is not dead. It has been subjected to extreme strain and long and debilitating counter-ac tion, but it hag not been broken or seriously impaired. Indeed, there is reason to believe that within the year it has passed the crisis and is even now on the road to convalescence and to a position of new authority in the world. "And so it seems to me that there is adequate. justification for the con clusion that in this nation at least, and, I have faith to believe, in the world, too, democracy 'emerges from trial by fire as the most promising ve hicle for the advancement of modern civilization. , "If this is a sound observation, then we must concede the corollary that since democracy as a political concept is the - expression of the determination of men to be free and to establish and maintain justice in the world, then freedom and justice remain the. fun damental motivating forces of our present day. civilization." The sessions opened Wednesday fol lowing the meeting of the Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universi ties-and came to a close this morning. Other members of the faculty who are attending the sessions include Dean Ralph L. Watts, of the School of Ag riculture; Dean Robert L. Sackett, of the School of Engineering; Prof. Ste venson. W. Fletcher, of the depart ment of horticulture; Prof. Marion S. McDowell, of the department of home economics Director Edith P. Chace, of the department of home economics; and Prof. Pauline Beery Mack, of the department of textile chemistry. Who's Dancing Friday Night Varsity Hull (Subscription) /till //olio/ rgiait 1.F.C., Counsellors Hold Joint Dinner Professor Tsclian Toastmaster At First Annual Aaffir Of 2 Groups. Conducted for the purpose of pro viding a spirit 'of coordination be tween the two bodies, a joint dinner attended by members of the Fratern ity Counsellors' Association and the Interfraternity Council delegates was held in the• Old Main Sandwich Shop last night. The dinner,' the first of what is planned to be , an annual affair, was attended by about seventy-five Per- Sons, representing the: two - gretips... 10. Prof. Franc of.:the . de;- pertinent of history and political sci ence, presided as toastmaster. Addresses were, made by Prof. Clarence E. Bullinger, of the depart ment of industrial engineering, and Prof.. Clarence S. Anderson, of the department of agriculthral education. Representing the counsellors' group, Joseph P. Swift '36, Interfraternity Council president, and Henry D. Brown.'36, chairman of the I. F. C. committee in•charge of the affair, also spoke. Assisting Brown on the conimitte• in charge of arrangements for th• affair was Herbert E. Loomis '36 and I Swift. Prof. Charles C. Wagner, of the department of mathematics, rep resented the counsellors' group on the committee. Student Patrol Office To Dispose of Articles The collection of articles that have been lost and turned.in to the student patrol since school started, has stead ily been increasing. Umbrellas, hats, coats, hooks—even slide rules are among the articles awaiting claim in student patrol office, Room 800, Old Main. All articles not claimed by Christ mas vacation will be disposed of by the beginning of the year, according to Captain William V. Dennis jr., head of the patrol. Students Keep Dean Warnock Busy With Variety of Excuses In keeping with the ComzotAN's policy of more and better service to its readers, and knowing of the com parative horror which seizes the av erage student when he is faced with the problem of explaining an unex cused absence to that uugust person age The Dean of Men. your faithful servant, a COLLEGIAN reporter, recent ly bearded this great person in his den .and picked up .a few pointers which may prove helpful to frantic sleepers-in, hangers-over, and just plain class cutters. In explaining that all of the excus es which he'vould . mention were de finitely on the up and up and quite bona tide, Dean Warnock stated that were he to go into the rather doubt ful absence explanations it would be going from the ridiculous to the sub lime. Probably the most unusual ex moo tendered to date, the Dean said, was tendered by a boy who desired to go home in order to be present at the trial of his father—charged with Mur der. One student, who we suspect is Lions Close Gridiron Season With Bucknell Tomorrow Afternoon Intercollegiate Dance To Open Week-end With Bucknell. Mal Hallet to Feature Sophomore Ball Tonight As the opening event of ale Penn State-Bucknell week-end, the sopho more class at the Lewisburg school will hold its annual Cotillion tonight as an intercollegiate dance. Mal Bal let and his orchestra will play. The dance will be held in the Wom en's College Dining Hall, on Buck nell's lower campus. Dancing will begin at 9 o'clock and will last until 2. Tickets for the affair are $3.50. The dance will be informal. Ilallet has played here on sev eral occasions, his last appearance being at Interfraternity call last spring. He has also played for dances at several parks in this vicinity. A number of students from here attended the Sophomore Cotillion last year, when it was also held the night before the State-Bison game. Arthur Calvin, sophomore class president, has announced that all Penn State stu dents will again be welcome. Berl To Lecture On Coal's Origin Eminent Research l'rofessor Studied Under European Chemical Masters. I Dr. E. Berl, research professor of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, will deliver an open lecture in Room 315, Mineral Industries building, on Tuesday night, November 26,, at 7:30 o!clocic. Dr. Berl will -speak on. "The Origin of Coal, Petroleum, and As phalts." The School of Mineral In dustries and _Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Mineral Industries honorary fratern ity, are sponsormg the lecture. Dr. Berl has studied under and col laborated with sonic of the greatest scientists of Europe. He studied at the Technical University at Vienna and at the University of Zurich, where he was u scientific assistant to Alfred Werner. Dr. Berl collaborat ed with-Richard Lorenz and George Lunge, the famous 'teacher of chent :cal technology. In 1910 Dr. Berl became the chief heinist at the rayon plant in Tubize, Belgium. When the war broke out in 1914, Dr. Berl was appointed chief chemist of the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry, which post he held until 1010. Until 1033 he taught at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Since 1933, Dr. Berl has been research professor of chemistry at the Carnegie Institute of Tech nology. Dr. Beil will show how broam coal, bituniinous coal, asphalts, and oils can be produced in the laboratory in several hours. These same products took nature millions of years to make. The process involves geo-chemical conditions, combined with high tem perature and pressure. It was long thought that the products of the new geo-chemical process could only be obtained by using the theory of War ren and Engler. slightly older than the general run of education seekers, wished to at tend the wedding of his daughter. Al though excuses to attend funerals are legion, the Dean stated, none received by his office is quite up to the one presented by the student who wished to be present at the interrment of his grandmother 103 years old. Slightly more prosaic, but equally as interesting. was the excuse pre sented by the student who wished to go home in order to testify in the di vorce proceedings of his parents. And then there was the student who want ed to see his new baby... In summing up the situation, Dean Warnock, stated that the excuse which is presented with the most fre quency this year is for permission to return home to tulle over finances with parents. Running a close, second to the financial excuse in the number of times presented, injuries to members of the family• usually through auto mobile accidents, appears with alarm ing frequency, the Dean said. ESTABLISHED PRICE FIVE CENTS Scrimmage Is Renewed To Tone-up Squad For Final Fray. Bison Squad Planning To Annex 6th Straight By PHIL HEISLER Tomorrow's game will be an anti-climax for the Lions and ' the climax of the season for the Bisons—Penn State has not beaten Bucknell in the past five frays—the Lions are still suf fering from the humiliating de feat from Penn—Villanova and Western Maryland, both of whom the Lions defeated, de feated Bucknell—the Thundering Herd has had a two weeks' rest. It all adds up to the fact that tomor row's game will be one of the closest in the series, which dates back to 1887, closer than any Lion followers would have predicted three weeks ago. Completely dominating the collegi ate grid stage for this week-end's sports drama in central Pennsylva nia, where it is the only game sched uled for that date, the Penn State- Bucknell game will determine wheth er or not the Lions will be able to complete a season with more than a .500 percentage. Higgins Renews Scrimmage Coach Bob Higgins was faced this week with the difficult task of bring ing the squad back to top pitch. Al though he had announced a scrim mage before the Villanova game as being the last, he has changed his mind and the team has undergone active scrimmage games every night - this - week. Last night'S scrimmage •was the most successful we have had this season, Higgins reported. Injuries have again weakened the team. Economos, who entered the Penn game in an injured condition, has not improved, and it is doubtful if he will be able to play. Owens is again hurt and will also be out of the line-up. Knapp and Andrews are suf fering slight injuries, but will be able to play. Bison Reported Strong Al Mikelonis, who has been scout ing, reports, "They have five good backs, two good ends, but are weak on substitutions." However, the Thundering Herd will be in perfect physical condition, no person being out from injuries. A wave of optimism has swept over Memorial Field in Bucknell. "Buck nell hasn't lost to Penn State in the last five games and we're not going to start losing on Saturday," Captain John Sitarsky announced recently. His idea seems to he the general opinion of the whole Bison squad. Bucknell has been admittedly "lay ing" for the invasion of the Lions. Although they have had a two weeks' lay-oir, they even left several of their regular players home front the De troit encounter in order to avoid pos sible injuries. State Line-up Penn State's probable starting line up will be: Fry and Smith at ends, Miller, who is suffering a slight in jury, will also see some action; Web er and Schuyler, tackles; Latorre and Wisner at guards; and Cherundolo at center. In the backfield will be Knapp and Donato at halfbacks; ("We never lost a game in which Donato started."— Higgins); Cooper at fullback; and O'Hora will be calling signals. N.S.L. Chapter Names Goldsmith Chairman The proposed Penn State branch ;of the National Student League, un I organization designed to achieve unity among students in colleges and uni versities throughout the country, met lust night to elect permanent officers. Robert Goldsmith 'J6 was elected chairman of the organization chapter. Other officers were: Richard Lewis I'3'l, membership secretary; 'Leon M. Lurie '37, literature agent; A. Sandy Morrison ':l6, chairman of the educa tional committee; and Jules Vernik publicity chairman. A tentative program for the year was outlined by the group, to be taken up by the executive committee of the .officers. The group took an active part in supporting the recent mobili zation for peace, and is planning to engage in other campus activities.
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