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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887
Published sitembetteldis during the Collette Year, except nn holidnyn
by students of The Penney Milan State College. in the Interest of th
College. the stiolente, faculty. nbintni. and friends.
AnnlG• , l for entry tst second emus matter nt the State College Post
Offlee. Stale College. Pa.
HARRY IL HENDERSON JR. '36 WILLIAM 11. SKIRBLE '36
Editor Rosiness Manager
DONALD P. SANDERS '36 ROLAND W. OBERHOLTZER '36
Munarrinte Editor Circulation Glanstrir
W. BERNARD FREUNSCH '36 WILLIAGI • It. HECKMAN . 36
Snorts Editor Advertisino Stoner
VANCE 0. PACKARD '36 1.1111.1” C. EVANS T 6
Assistont Editor 'mat Advortiainn Mnnnvor
JOHN E. MILLER .IR. '36 LEONARD T. STEEP '36
Ass Mont Manoninc Editor Crislit Manager
CHARLES 31. SCHWARTZ .11t. '36 L. MAPvItEL CONAIIEE '36
Assistnn' Snorts Editor Wornen's Editor
WILLIAM I'. Mot/DWELL '36 RUTH E. KOEIILER '36
Neu, Editor Women's Motional,' Editor
.TOIIN K. ISARNES JR. '36 A. FRANCES TURNER '36
News Editor Wornetro News
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Cennte W. Bird '37 Kenneth W. Engel '37 Ivan C. Hoover '37
Philip A. Seimmrtz '37 Mon L. Smith '37 Irwin Roth. 'B7
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
W. Robert Grubb '37 Philip S. MAKI.. '37
E. Townmend Sopi '37
Johnson hronnninnn '37
Richard
wllllll , 4l'S ASSOCIATF: EDITORS
Marlon A. Winter 37 nenlna J. Ilya,. '33 31. Winifred Williams '37
Mmuming Editor Tht IssLe._
!Icww Editor This
Friday, March 6, 1936
STATE'S VESTIGAL HAT SOCIETIES
Of all of the campus organizations that have ap
parently outlived their usefulness, the campus hat Socie
ties are probably the most glaring.
Time was when those societies performed more or
less of a - service to the College in seeing that customs
ware enforced; that there was no booing or smoking in
the gymnasium during athletic meets; that students
were controlled in situations parallel to that of last
Alumni Day.
However, with the passing of hazing and the slow
dPath:of customs, life in the organizations has dwindled
to 'nothing. "Well," say the hat men, "what is there
as'te doe Now it is not hard to realize that the
smoking and booing in the gymnasium could be con
trolled by the. hat societies. But'. unfortunately, the
average hat man has absorbed so Much of the pseudo
sophistication typical of Penn State undergraduates,
that he is prohibited front asking anyone to refrain front
smoking or booing in the hall by the 'fear that. he will
hot be considered "smooth." And, believe it or not,
that's the biggest factor in student life here.
The hat societies can no longer control d mob of
students because they no longer have the, respect of
the student body. And just what the hat societies can
do to win , that respect is a difficult , problem because
students ni•e no longer interested in 'respecting some
thing belonging to the rah-rah era of bell-bottom pants
Undoubtedly the worst feature about the hat socie
ties is their rather barbaric initiation ceremonies, espe
cially in the sophomore,societes. To somejather heavy
thinkers who joined these useless organizations, wear
ing the hat of their society says to every passerby, "I
can take ft." It really- says, "I was a sucker, tqs."
The hat Societies, if they wish to continue and to
gain the respect of the student body, should put an end
to their insane initiation practices, making the initia
tion a more formalized honor instead of a drunken
trawl; and they should drop their smug attitude and
perform a real service to Penn State by seeing that
the booing and smoking at athletic meets is stopped•
Otherwise, they are slated for the fate which met
§phinx, an upperelass honorary, several years ago—
aistandment
(P. S.: I'm glad Pm a Skull and Bones member.—
Ed.)
WAKE UP. ADMINISTRATION
The COLLEGIAN has for some time conducted a
earnpaign against Week." and other forms, of
rough-house,: now thinly disguised in some }Muses as
"iniormalfinitiation." lloweer, the end of what pa
tietre the,dottEClAN has left with the fraternities mho.
continue those activities disappeared •Wedn'esday 'night
when Wiiliam E. Youngdahl '3B was seriously burned in
the "Hell Week" activities of Alpha Zeta, professional
agricultural society
The fraternities of this college have enjoyed free
dom from restriction by the administration for some
time and in times when it has not been hard not to lay
down restrictions. However, it is now apparent that
the fraternities are not capable of handling themselves.
The case of the abolition of "Hell Week" has dragged
on and on for years and while there are times When
progress seems to have been made, Wednesday night's
incident, however, accidental it may have been, seems
to justify the College administration in demanding that
the fraternities cease such activities.
The Cou.r.mt.t has attempted tc show the insanity
and danger of "Mil Week" over a period of years.
But from year to year the roughnecks and "he-men"
in the fraternities have been strong enough to maintain
this barbaric practice. It is apparent that continual
editorial efforts would avail little more than they have
in the past.
The COLL 'auto:, therefore, demands that the College
administration enact regulations governing the conduct
of fraternities in their initiations and that, furthermore,
it enforce thole regulations before some student is seri
ously injured or killed. It is regretable that some
student has already been injured so seriously as YoUng
doh!. But evidently it takes some incident such as this
to awaken the fraternities and the . College administra
tion to the real danger of this practice, so vilely im
bedded in State's tradition.
ADD HONOR ROLL
Fraternities Alpha Kappa Pl, Alpha Phi Delta,
Phi Sigma Delta,' and Sigma Chi who announce this
week the abolishment of their "Hell Nyack."
CAMPUSEER
(This Soph Flop week-end will !wing the us
ual invasion of imports, from naive high school huts
to polished pease trotterk. Jost for fun let's im
agine an invitation. by a freshman and one by a $101).
for that mill lore too of the gals up. Thin We can
estimate the social and cultural adrontuges of three
years of College.) .
Thirty-nine
Dar Dorothy:
How do you like my new stationery with the Penn
State seal on it? I'll bet you didn't expect to get an
other letter from me so soon, did you? Gee, it seems
like a long time since between semesters.
Remember that night when we went to the High
School Senior Banquet last May and you said that I
would forget about you after I went away to college?
Well, just to prove that I'm not in love with any co
ed like you said I want you to come up for Soph Hop
this week-end and stay Friday and Saturday nights.
(They call dances "hops" up here.)
Joe. Sanders and his orchestra are going to play
Friday night and we can dance at a frat house Sat
urday night. The gym where . the dance is being held
is as big as the whole High School football field.
W. Robert Grubb '47
Richard E. Linvlit '37
near Bobby
• Thanks just loads and loads for• you• sweet invi
tation. I'm so thrilled .that I haven't slept a wink
since your letter came. I can come.
Mother objected to me coining and staying all
night at first and Dad still doesn't like the idea but
she told Dad how well they know your father and
mother and how you don't drink or anything and are
nicer than most boys and he finally consented.
I am going to get a new evening gown in blue
with silver slippers and I'm just so excited! •
Thirty-six
Listen Dot:
Just becau.se there's a Gamma Mu seal on this
sheet don't jump at conclusions and think it's from
Hank. But after the way he late-datO you on me
last fall houseparty, the least he could do was to give
me a sheet of paper. If this is never mailed you will
know I couldn't find a stamp in his desk.
Probably I'm an awful 'sucker for punishment,
but anyway come the hell up to Soph Hop unless
you've been campused again. That is, if you think
the student body of Pitt and Penn can spare you one
week-end. By the way, I heard about you dancing on
the piano down at the Bucknell Junior Prom last
month. I'll bet you panicked them. Like a cold shower.
Now get this: if you come you will drink rye and
rye all .evening or else bring your own gin. You know
how I detAt the sight of the stuff but you always beef
unless Tget you sonic. And don't go trying to make
everything in pants up here.
Cordially yours,
Cyrano de Bergerac
Listen yourself, Svenknli
Just because we nappened to get tight together
at the Country Club on New Year's Eve I'm not under
your spell anymore and furthermore never was. And
you can Trilby, that on your flutski.
• I don't know why I should venture away frbm
God's country and away up in those wilds for a pitch
er of Soph Hops or any other kind. As I recall, the
Suspense of your last wild party up, there could have
been duplicated in a Coney Island shooting-gallery.
I've decided to come up just to get even with you
for that last crack about my drinking. Tell Johnny
and Pete and Hank I'm coming. At leant !hell didn't
pass out on me. •
Sign of Spring: Louie Isenberg and Sammy Sax,
for: thirty years. Penn State's favorite old clothes
men, arearound,again . . . The -Borough has bought::
a,Black.ll , laria. after 'all iheSe.years . . .
And - Vernik"has fork4en.Frothing for the comic
paratively honest job of ushering at the Cathium
• Dick Bachofner is engaged to a nurse from Corry
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Steamship Division Louetta Neusbaum, Director
THE PENN STATE COLL:tali/Lis
To the Editor:
When we. elected forestry as our
vocation; we were not motivated by
the stimulus of gaining large wealth
and power, for such does not exist
in the field of forestry; but rather we
were moved by the desire to main
tain and reproduce a rapidly vanish
ing natural resource that is of great
benefit to the country as a whole eith
er directly or indirectly. This tact
alone should be convincing enough
and proof enough that we, as fores
ters, already established Americaniz
ed principles mid ideals, but rather
that we area distant body trying in
one form' to , maintain the supremacy
of the United States. Does it appear,
from this, that there are among us
any who are going to take that "step
. . . into the terror by night in the
Ghettos and the intellectual centers
of tortured Germany?"
What we have done to bear the
brunt of your editorial we by no
means know, or understand. Many
of us -doubt that that letter appear
ing in the February 28th edition of
the Collegian' was written by a for,
ester;. we' believing that the letter
was written' - for the express purpose
Of creating an editorial subject to be
used in your : fight against Wee Wil
lie, Hitler,".and "Hell Week." And if
the letter, wcs written by. a forester
would it not be more fair, more wise
to gain the general opinion of the for
esters before using them as a topic
for discussion about a condition 'that
perhaps you know nothing of ?
Concerning the incident of the bon
fire last fall would it not appear that
the trouble was caused not by the fact
that the Hat Men were Jews, but be
cause tho Hat Men were an authority
that we knew nothing of, and at that
time were.not acquainted with?
There is a 'spirit of fraternalism ex
isting among, the foresters that is
more intense than mi.} , other spirit
found here, 'and that goes farther
than fraternities, and even girls.
With' this spirit we hang together
closely and•strongly, and an attempt
to restrict. one is an attempted re
striction against ,us all.. Such was
the case, we belleVe, at the bonfire.
Lovingly,
Some of us believe in "Hell Week"
as it is,- others in a modified form,
others not at all; and to say that one
addicted to Fascism because he be
lieves in "Hell Week" sounds far.:
fetched. And to imply that the for-.
esters at the bonfire are going to be
the nucleus . of "storm-troops" in this
country sounds equally as foolish.
And we never coupled "Hell Week"
with Fascism until you mentioned it
in your editorial. •
Whether or not we are gentlemen
is. not for to Say, but we do have
thOrighttolprove to you that we are
not in cohorts with Hit.ler.or in sym
pathy will all' of his doctrines. We
have no fights, no arguments with
anyone; we are merely indignant
about your attitude concerning us,
and wish only that you explain your
self while we endeavor to explain our
selves. '
i. We can take it as your knowledge
of us and our school should indi
cate but we do not believe in taking
it when we do not deem it necessary:
._ We would , appreciate it gr'eatly if
'this letter was published for we de
serve the right of the use of words in
an attempt,.a sincere attempt to jus
tify ourselves. .
To the Editor:
Foresters of all classes are asham
ed and disgusted that such an article
as .that signed "A• Pledge" should be
Conceived by one who leads us to be-
Here. that he belongs to the, forestry
Forestry, as 'profession, ids - no
place for thecintolerant one, whet*.
hilint,fierance.be of racial, religiodS,
O'r personal nature.
That such an outburst should be
directed against the members of 'any
One race is not only unsportsmanlike
but distinctly. cowardly for we see
that our outspoken -friend hides him
,self under the indefinite title of "A
Pledge."
Since he has not come into the open
and signed_his name to the article,
the accusations, therein can be dis
regarded. and no further attention
should be paid to an article of such
low caliber.
Letter Box
ksincere forester,
LEROY SIIAYLOR
H. M. GALLOWAY
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To the editor: .
Colonel Venable talked to the R. 0.
T. C. class today. Ills talk was along
these, lines:
• Are you (ROTC students) aware
of the critical situation which ex
ists in the world today?—students
who are straightforward and honest
in everything else still cheat on their
?xaniination papers in college. :Why?
Because, they say, everyone else does
it and the others would gain an un
fair advantage if they didn't also dO
The United States at one time
tried hard to conquer this entire con
tinent but it wasn't able. Still it
gained,. through fighting, , all - of its
present territory. .
Today, persons say they can't un
derstand the dreadful things happen
ing in foreign countries. To them, it
seems impossible that these countries
commit the barbarous acts they do.
However, these .countries can see no
wrong in what they are doing. They .
say. "Look how the United States:
treated the • ppor
,Indians and Mexi- .
cons in obtaining their, land. Me .are
not doing any 'Morse than' they did
then.'.'
Therefore .these countries'. would
justify their right to-conquer the 1../r1
Red &Mei if they. had the, chance:
They say they Would be doing no
more than the United States did in
gaining its land. Think it over . .
gentlemen.
Students said that they didn't get
much from the talk, that they saw
no point to it.•
Whatever,.the "moral" of Colonel
Veneable's "tale," it is obvious to
anyone who wants to think that it has
no place in an educational institution.
"Talk," like this, may imilo in a short
time, the ideals which great think;
ors and educators labor decades to
create.
Sincerely
A 'render
Koepp-Baker, Doughter
Start Scranton Clinic
Herbert Koepp-Baker, director of
the college speech clinic, will conduct
'e clinic at Scranton March 18-to-21.
In this meeting, which is.aMong the,
last of a long program conducted this
year, Mr. KoepP-Baker will be as
sisted by George Doughter, a gradu4
ate student in speech,.
About 200 children and adults from
the Scranton area will be examined
for speech disorders and treatment
will be suggested Lectures will be,
delivered by .Mr. Koepp-Baker in
which slides and motion pictures!will
be used to illustrate the methods and
techniques in treatnmnt. There. will
also be round tables for nurses, so
cial workers, dentists and physicians.
RESIDES 'TAXI
will operate until 3:30 Friday
evening and until 2:30 Saturday
evening.
Phone 750
Dr. M. I. Sbloinon
DENTIST '
117 . E. Betivtr Phone 998-U
Just Around the •
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Coaches Train, Grunt, :Become Apprehensive
As Dark Horse Threatens Handball Tourney
Instead of telling others . ..how to
keep in good condition, si*teen mem
bers of the coaChing staff are dili
gently training themselves for :one.
Of the keenest competitive sports yet
seen on this, campus. . •
While sports - entinisiasts . .,- direct
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their entire 'iatentien to the varsity
teams in intercollegiate: competition;
the coaches are' battling away in
fierce Struggle - to 'deteeinine ". the
much -argued-over. handball champion- .
ship.:of the, phyh ed faculty. For the
past few weeks, eight teams of .. LW°
have been fighting it out in a round
robin tournament. The winners nre
not sways the best players;- often
they are the strongesl. • •
Leading the individual entrants is
Leo Hauck; who received the number
1 ranking from other participants.
Leo, although using different tactics,
than he teaches his boxers,-has a .
technique that usually produces re
sults. Leo:.han three main:ids that
he enniloyS Ito preverkt his opponent;.
froni , scoring' points: -he accidentally .
bunin'S :into his"..Onponent;.lie sadden=.
ly falla",:to the floor in front-of , the
. he' -.accidentally • misdirects ,
the hall' S that ithits hiloppanent
.—„.
Like:"alf'Smajor..toarrianients: and s
."battles of the. eentury," , .this'eompe;
bris - iti'mysterY entrants. This.
team,. which has 'yet to play its first .
leagne game, is composed •of Hugo'
Bezdek and Nels Walke. , There is hid-
den strength here, 'and everyone Is .
waiting • for the boys to show their
hands, • . •
Results of. the early rounds show
no SignS of the ultimate winners.
Thus far, the .teams of Joe Bedenk
and Mike Zeleznock, Bob Higgins and
Al MikelOnis, Spike Leslie and Herin
Eveihardus, and Doc - Davis and Char=
lie Speidel are undefeated . DeSpite
Leo Houck, the team .of, Chick Wer
ner and Hotick has suffered .four
smashing losses, 'while Ike Gilbert,
and Gene Bischoff and Bill Ullery and
Glenn Thiel have lost three and font'
sets, .respectively.
L. E. KLINE
Shoe Repairing
Shoe Shining
Formerly with I'enn State
Shoe Shop
153 Allen St.
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plans, are being made, to determine
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tition to' make, hasty predictions, it
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