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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
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Amienint Managing Editor Credit Manager
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Nare'u Editor Thil Ivsue
Friday. January 10, 1936
STODGY STUDENT PRESS
(The following editorial tour ICI - Well. by Ralph D.
Hazel jr. '34, and appeared in the Old Main Bell, in
May l.'/.g when h,' was editor of that publication. He
was valedictorian of his class, managing editor of the
COLLEGIAN, and a member of Lion's Paw, senior honor
honor society. At present he is studying in. Ragland.)
This is an attempt to captain why during the past
three years the student publications have been editori
ally stodgy. About three bored glances through the
editorial Columns of the COLLEGIAN, Froth, and this
magazine, prove the accusation. They are stodgy; they
overflow with platitudes and generalities, they agree
with student leaders, they commend facility members,
they gravely approve administrative policies, they are
bloated With warm air.
Much Lis the organs of free speech dislike to admit
it, the most significant portion of the campus editorial
attitudes is influenced by the CoiiiciiAN office and its
unofficial affiliates, those publications managed or edit
ed by COLLEGIAN staff members.
Now it so happens that twin or three of the strateg
ically placed editors (alWaYs the COLLEGIAN editor) are
in the center of student activities: student governMent,
student union, interfraternity council, the senior honor
society. With the squabbles and differences of opinion
ironed out in these small groups, few newsworthystu
dent scraps and editorial battles. appear in the. kcal
typography to delight pugnacious readers. These afore
mentioned student potentates decide among themselves
the happiest course of action (us so often happens in
democracies), cover some sad slips of their own, and
concentrate their energies, editorial and otherwise, to
the carrying out of the single purpose. All of which
makes uninteresting reading.
The administration, in canny fashion, consults With
these inner circles of students, listens to their **our
ings, offers advice, and leaves student matters largely
up to them. All of which impresses informed students
with the administrative wisdom and helps persuade
them: that most action from this source must be Backed
up by ,some good reasons'. And.. there is always the
spectre of that body of eminently conservative gentle
men who supply most of the funds for the College, the
State government. Well, it does not seem miraculous,
then, that there have been no luxuriously'blatant stu
dent battles with College moguls.
Nursed then in the belief that most persons in the
organization of this College are decently reasonable,
these student powers of press and navel assume that
faculty members may be included as a whole among
those who are concerned with the progress of the Col
lege. So the stodgy student press refrains from devas
tating, faculty persons until such accused have a chance
to explain. This they often do rather well. And attacks,
highly readable, are forestalled.
So it is that the press is stodgy. Briefly explained,
not excused
KEEP OFF THE GRASS
Everybody should keep aft the giass.
OUR LIBRARY
It is with interest we note that Librakian Lewis
has announced that there are now more than 150,000
bOcks in the library
THE NEW LA VIE
We are anxiously awaiting the , appearance of the
new La Vie. The present editorial staff has a good
policy and is capable of following it to the letter.
URCHINS ON THE CAMPUS
An informant, who wishes his identity to be kept
secret, has informed this paper that there has been
much indiscriminate snowballing on the campus by some
urchins. We all love the snow. But this should be
stopped.
MAY QUEEN
It is edt too early foi our co-ed friends to begin
thinking of the important honor of May Queen. Get
busy, girl's! You may be the lucky one. Lots of luck
to nil our co-ed readers.
GUARD YOUR HEALTH!
In these days of uncertain and blustery weather,
every one should wear his rubber's, a warin garmei
around the neck; and plenty of clothes. At the first sign
of a cold visit the College dispensary. it is there for.
your use!
THINK IT OVER
In the hurly-burly of fast-moving college life, some
students arc apt to forget that their first resporisibilitY
lies in their 1-10111 E.. They Make the mistake elf saer;
ing parental ties. This is indeed an Unfortunate this
take. It is with a great deal of truth that one of fhb
greatest pOets hes said; "Home is Where the heart is."
On Going Literary:
The Phoenix-like rennaissance of Purple Quill
which culminated in a meeting Wednesday' night at
tended by members of the Illerati as •well as the
Literati necessitates, we think; just a word of warn
ing 'to prospective . Quill wielders:
There comes a time in.college years,
(A pause from tossing down the beers),
When•you will find unless you're wary
That you've gone suddenly "literary."
__Philip S. Hailer '37
Johnson Ilnennentnn '37
You'll arouse the brothers' wrath
When you neglect to take a bath.
The pledges Rili forget your name;
..Your profs will think you've gone insane
But later on you'll find it's wiser
To take yotii Allen, Joyce and Dreiser
Casually ... with a change of pace:
Unlike a sir-clay bicycle race
We were bOth surprised and * disappointed Tues
day night when Jimmy Durante exhumed the old
Penn• State-State Penn gag and sent it over the air
Waves. But as we Writhed we thought of some of the
potentialities of the thing that have been over-looked.
Suppose that at a conservative estimate the
Schnozzola receives 3,000 slugs a broadcast. Suppose
again (this is the last time), that he pulls about fif
teen of hid million gags on each program. Then by a
simple bit of calculation the Penn State-State Penn
joke Was worth about $2OO to him. And the profs have
been pulling it around this U. for nothing fot• 10, these,
many years!
Camfiusettes:
The reason Cadet Colonel Bill Leenha•d has been
hannting the electrical engineering depaAment offi-;
ces more than usual lately is, of course, Sally Miller,
prof. Doggett's secietaik . But the catch is that
she's engaged to a riled student at Temple . . .
Louise Berkebile and Walt Freunsch are now defi
nitely pftt (JohnstoWn and East Stroudsburg
papers please cony) ... And Betty Meßain is no
longer wearing a D. U. trinket .
Briggs Pruitt, chief of the Chi Phi tepee, was in
the mood for anything but love the other night when
underclaismen dumped him and some of the other
seniors. in the shower . . . Penn State fashion note:
White buckskin shoes and ski suits on the same Janu
ary day . . -personally, we prefer buckskin shoes ...
Mahatma Galbraith threatened Bill Balderston
with having to run a gauntlet of wet bathing suits
if he didn't make better time in swimming team work
outs .. and the first copy of "The Modern Writer's
Alt" by Galbraith and Gates is off the' presses . . .
The Kappa Sigs are not going to.have any friends
if they keep pelting Passers-by with snow balls from
their second story balcony . . . Pan-Hell, destroyer
Of illusions .
Have You Visited
The Improved
During . the: Christmas vacation
the Dairy . Store was enlarged,
an "Ice Crearn Bar" installed,
and an increased stock ob
tained. .
The Dairy Store is now----more
thari ever—a Complete
delicatessen.
CAMPUSEER , - 1
lii aistb. ;Pt
You'll read Gert Stein and John Dos Passes
thrbugh thick-lensed glasses.
You'il scorn your former pals as rabble
And meditate on Jnmes Branch Cabell.
You'll seek out some Secluded nook
To express yourself and write a book:
Your face.and frame will grow quite gaunt
From absinthe and de Maupassant.
You'll spend your time around the corner
Eulogizing lit prof. Werner,
Disclosing your lack of erudition
To instructors of English composition.
MOM
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Dairy Store?
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
CINEMANIA
"Collegiate" wilt be the film fare at
the Cathaunt today and will go over
to the Nittany,tomorrow. With eight
tine tunes froth the facile pens of
Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, nhiS
the likeable comedy of Jack Oakie,
Joe - Penner, and Ned Sparks, this pic
ture will probably go, on record as
one of the best, light musicals of the
year.
• Prances Langford has a fetching
voice and establish& herself' as one
of the outstanding torch shigera of
the screen as well as the radio. In
the other feminine lead personable
Betty Grable setsrJoe Penner by his
ears—and we can't blame him.
The story has as its salient Point
Oakie's attempt to run a girl's school,
a legacy front an aunt who stipulated
that he was to make it pay for one
year before it .became his permanent=
ly. The school: has ii Victorian at
mosphere—but not for long. It is
rapidly turned into a charm schebi
and here is where the gorgeous gels
start to make life interesting, not to
say enticing.
Gordon .and 'Revel play themselves,
as teachers of songwriting, and lovely
Georgia Coleman, champion diver; is
imported to teach her sport. The
production numbers. are stupendous
and there is much fun throughout.
Penner forgets his duck temporarily
and Joe in an'amorous mood is some
thing to be seen, if not osculated.
Bette Davis and Franchot Tone are
starred in the Cathauni's attraction
tomorroW, "Dangerous." The sup
porting cast is a hand-picked one, in
cluding Margaret Lindsay as the third
side of 'the triangle, Alison Skipworth,
John Eldrodog, and Dick Foran.
Taking their cue front her suc
cesses in "Bordertown" and "Of Hu
man Bondage," the producers have
cast Miss DaVis again in a role that
doesn't paint her in a pretty 'light,
but does give her a strong charaCteri
cation. She plays the part of an
actress wfio climbs to the heights over
a. ruin of other lives and ambitions.
Her descent to the gutter is as rap
id, and she takes down with her the
man she loved, played by Tone. A
divorced husband adds complicatioas
and it is to him that she returns in
time for an amazing climax. Power
ful stuff for Shirley Temple fans, but
good fare for those of average sensi
bilities.
"Tale of Two Oitiesrlatest in the
Dickens cycle, will be shieVii at, the
Cathaum Monday and Tueiday. It is
beyond the province of ,
this scrivener
to evaluate such a picture without
having seen it, but all who have Sean
it say that it is:, a faithful, transla
tiOn from Dicker" and that the - aCtora
are More thin adeunitte' in a picture
that presents a lot. of probletni'.
Ronald Colman (sans mustache);
Elizabeth Allan, Reginald Olken, Ed
na May Oliver, Basil Rathbcine, and
Blanche Yurka head a cast of ink:
proportions. Other favorites that ap
pear arc Donald' Woods, Walter Cat
lett, 11. 18. Warner, Henry B. Walt
hall, Isabel Jewell,' and Tully Marsh
all.
The principal fault found has been
in the stilted dialogue, but this haS
probably come as a result of too faith
ful following of the source. Still,
people did talk like that then. The
incidents included are admirably
handled, according to those who•have
seen this production.
Prof. McCord Delivers
Ist •of Lecture Series
Ten lectures have been arranged
for the general. agridultural series
during the next two months; accbr&
ing to a recent announcement by
Dean Ralph L. Watts, of the School
of Agriculture.
Prof. John L. E. McCord, of the
department of agricultural economies,
delivered the first lecture Wedneidnii
afternoon, using as his subject,
Year in Puerto Rico." Professor Me;
Cord, while on leave of absence &r
-ing the academic year of 1934-36,
was a member bf the staff of the Col=
lege of Agriculture in Puerto RicO.
The second lecture of the series will
be given next week on January 15 by
Dr. Alois L. Rhonton, of the depart
ment of education. He will use "A
World Tour" as• his Subject.
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(Continued h:Ont. Page One)
granted, but not as a resort to invade
the rights _reserved by the Stdtds.
Otherivise the power to tax could be
used to control all industry-through
out the United -States. "It would be
possible to exact money front one
winch Of an indwitry rind pay it to
another branch in every field of ac
tivity which lies within the province
Of the Stnt&i." It was Suggested that
the contracts authorized by • the sta
tute were voluntary,. but the Court
adopted the view that the regulatiOn
:n fact was not voluntary:
. With respect' to the power of the
Ctiart to determine the constitution
.alitY of Acts of Congress; the niajor.-
:ty observed that under our frame of
. .4oVeinnithit lid Other forum is provid
ed. The: minority held that this right
was subject to two guiding principles:
irst, that courts are concerned ohl
'whit the , poker to enact statutes and
_sot with their WisdOm; and second;
:That While the exercise of poWer by
_:he executive and.legislative branches
; It the goverriment is subject to jinn.:
review;' "the only cheek • upoM our
'aim exercise: of power is our oWri
tense of self-restraint."
• The minority also ad'm'inistered
'what is generally regarded .as a re
ibuke; stiying;."Cenits - are not the-on
ly agency Of goVernment that must
ho asSunwil to have capacity to gov
ern."
•The decision of the Court does net
affect the validity of claims against
the government which have accrued
under the statute, even though the
statute itself is unconstitutional. A
similar situation arose in 1890 Wiien
Congreis passed and repealed a boun
ty to sugar growers in lieu of a pro
tective tariff.' It was held that bounz
ties already earned should be paid
whether the statute was constitution
al or not. Congress has power to lay
and collect taxes to pay the debts of
the United States, which,' it was said,
include those "ciaiins which rest upon
a merely equitable or honOrary Obliga
tion, and which Would not be recover.:
able in a court, of law' if existing
against an individual."
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BOOKS
New among travel and adventure
is Anne Morrow Lindberkh's book.
"North to the Orient" (Harcourt;
Brace and CO.; $2.50.) Tile bbok de:
scribes the flight which the Lind
berglis made to the Orient in, the
summer of 1931 by the Great Circle
route. Mrs. Lindbergh tells about her
personal experienCes on the trip, what
they saw, where they went, and what
they had to ,go through to get there. '
: Martin' Johnson, explorer de luxe,
presents a birdman's-eye view of the
*African
_jungles in his recent' book,
"Over African Jtiliklei". (Harcourt
Brace and CO., $2.50). It is the rec
ord of 60,000 miles of airplane travel*
over the big" country, with* 5,-,
000 new plibtri*raphs and tales, <A
higher adventure.
The Noveniber choice of, the book-,
ot-theZlonth Club. was "Old Jules"
by Mari Sandei (Little; BroWn &
Co. $3). This is the story of Jules
Sandhi, who at twenty-two; left his
native land of, Switierland to Settl
in Northern Nebraska as a homestead.:
er. In the new country, Jules Sandhi
lived hard. He took land in the pan
himdle, married 'four wives, had
children, foUght drought, rain; wind;
cyelonda rattlesnakes,*iiiid cattle bar
ons. Stephen Vincent Benet calls hint;
indiVidualist, an egotist;
tyrant, a greet hunter ... and in
hint the Solt of vision most men find
too'hard to keen,"
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Pan-Hellenic Ball
Roses Gardenias
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