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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
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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.