ESTABLISHED , 1904 Volume • V, Number-48' Durant Will. Give Speech on= Crisis In American Life Forensic Council Lists Noted Philosopher For Lecture. Reconstruetion Plans Given as Text of Talk On Thursday night, instead of last night as originally planned, Will Durant will Ibe.the-guest of the For ensic Council, speaking. On "The Cri; sis of American • Civilization,"' in Schwab .auditorium" - at . 8 o'clock, Ralph . T. Irwin '36, vice president of the organization, revealed. The lec ture is free and open, to all. Durant's subject will .be a survey of the ecoriothic,r political, and moral crisis in 'American life, and will s of. fern suggested outline for future re construction from the-debacle of the, past half dozen years.: Recently the finance committee of. -the United States Senate reonested summary of views and proposals pertinent 'to this subject... Durant's . lecture be these proposals from' the' point of view of it philosopher and educated scholdr.- Spoke 18 Times in 20 Nights Popularity as trieeturer was ovine; ed . several years ago on the' Pacific coast when Durant' filled 'eighteen en gagements in twenty nights in and around Los Angeles. Since then he has held an audience all over the country through' his articles on Rus sia in the Saturday Evening Poet and 'through lectures'on.such problems as marriage, the wisdom of, the East, democracy, the Soviet Union; and the' United States and Japan. Durant is widely known for his ex tensive writings on philosophy. Such books as "'The Mansioni of Philos 'ophy," "The Story of Philosophy," "Transition," "The .Meaning of Life," and PAdventurea in 'Genias, ' have es tablished his, reputation: His most reCentocairk-iseqlbe"-.Story:. T-he-Stotyy=6f• PhilOs-' ophy," editeit ' • He was educated'at'SL Peter's Col lege.and' received his Master and Doc tor' of Philosophy degrees at-Coluin hitt 'University. He has been at vari.: Gus times 'an instructor in French, Latin, philosophy,'und was . for thir teen years director of • the Labour Temple School. Durant now devotes the greater part of his time to writ ing and editing.'; Whenever Durant: appears at ,an educational institution, he has been willing,'in addition to the lecture, to meet the faculty and a portion of the student body in a seminar of ques tions, answers, and discussion. • Alpha Chi Omega To Convene Here Fraternity - To Hold Convention Aprill7 to 19; fi Chapters To Send Delegate& :Alpha Chi Omega, national ivo nien's social fraternity, will hold province convention here April 17 to 19. Nina chapters are_ expected to . send representatiVes. Dorothy Wiegner '37 has been ap- pointed chairman of the convention, and will serve on the executive com mittee with Miss Anna Marilyn, sec rotary in charge of placement service in the School of Education and. Mil dred P. Gtterson '36. Other commit tee heads . include L. Jeanette Rogers '37, arrangement; Margaret R.. Gif fen '37,.pregruni; Mildred P. Otter son,, '36, fiance .and registration; and Martha Sharer - '37, dance. Caroline Tyson '3B, correspondence and publicity; Jane B. Bechtel '37, banquet; Betty V. Resides ' '37, hous ing; Sara Belle. Reese '36, transpor- - tation; Prof, Julia G. Brill, '2l of the department of English composi.: tion, alumni; Anne E. Johnston .!.37, foods;. Sara G. Willis '36, patroness; and Rosaline Meatrezat '37, cabin party. Colleges expected, include;* Alleghe ny College, New• England Conserva tory of Music, Bucknell University, Syracuse University,- University of Pennsylvania, University of Vermont, University of New Hampshire, and the University of Ontario. Dutcher To Give Talk Pr0f....1t, Adams Dutcher, ,of the School.of Agriculture, will speak be fore the Penn Stateclub of Scranton at a luncheon' March 17. He will talk on "Foods We Eat and Why We Eat Them." At a dinner in the-eve ning he will address the Lackawanna Medical Society on "Recent Develop ments 711 Vitamin Research." 1 roSemt.44le:ekly* • . . , . . ' '<ii -- •" -- ..i" :. 2 .'-'• . . . ~,,,• /, ,, , t -....,..;,\, . s .„,_ ; urgtaii. , • ~....) , „52 . 'l l • n. tat „_,(- , -..J,-/)J To Student : Rally Planned For Ringmen, Mat Men A student rally in-appreciation if, the boring and wrestling victor ies will be held tonight at Rec hall from 7:30 to 8 o'clock. Dean Grant, - head' of the department of music,- Will conduct the singing. Coaches and captains of the two mentioned: sport's -will-give short speeches..-. The Blue Band, under the direction of Major Wilfred 0. Thonmson, ,• bandmaster, and the Varsity Quartet will give several numbers. Lewis To Deliver Scientific Talks Series of Lectures Established 10 Years . Ago as Memorial• To Joseph Priestly. Speaking on "The Physical Chemis try of -the Borderline Between Fluids and. Suspensions," Dr. -Warren K. Lewis, professor of chemical engi r , 'veering at the Massachusetts Insti, tute of Technology, wiil deliver. the series of five speeches which make up. the .annual Priestley Lectures. The first will .be'given Monday, March 23, in the• Chemistry amphitheatre at 7 O'clock. The• lectures will continue until Friday, March, 27. '• Jointly sponsored by the, depart inent of chemistry and by Phi Lamb da 'Upsilon, honorary chemistry fra. ternity, this series. of lectures was established ten years ago as a' me morial to the work of Joseph Priest. Iy in early American chemistry. Each year some prominent ,speaker is brought to the campus to deliver a' series of lectures on the borderline. between physical chemistry and some other science. . Co-Author of Ist Textbook • This year's speaker is One of the founders of chemical engineering, and. a co-author of the first textbook. on. the subject. He has done - research in nearly 'every branch 'of. chemistry, but his 'most - important contributions have been in the-fields orclistillation and : use of -"aryl:in:solutions' and Dr: Lewis did : his. undergraduate' work and received his, B. S. degree. from the Massachusetts Institute at Technology In 1905, and took his Ph.l D. at the University of Breslau, Ger many, in 1908. Ile returned to this country' as, research associate at his alma matter and: . after a year in in dustrial work, he, was appointed to • his present 'position. • Dr..LewiS was 'awarded •the Perkin' Medal for-1935: Ile has been a mem ber of the American Chemical soci ety, since'l9o9, holds memberships in, both the American and British Insti tutes of Chemical Engineers, 'the American, Leather Chemists associa tion, the .American Academy of Sci ences, Alpha Chi Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi. Dengler Named State Forest CoMmissioner Dr. Robert E. Dengler, of the de partment-of classical languages, has been appointed to serve on the state forestry commission by • Governor Earle. The 'commission iti .an - .advisory board of five business and profession al men interested in conservation,. who servo without compensation. The secretary of forests .and waters is ex officio chairman of the board. The state forestry conunission is empowered . to advise and consider the work of the department for for ests and waters. It is empowered to give or withold consent to any act of the department, the validity of which is made subject:to the consent of the commission. The commission is also authorized to purchase forest lands or make exchanges in lands for 'the commonwealth and has the preroga 7 tive of making recommendations fox' the improvement of the department. Sackett Commends 12 For Good ,Scholarship Twelve sttidents in the School Of Engineering were commended today by. Dean Robert L.-Sackett for excel lence in seholhrihip for the last sem ester. Seven. received "3's" in every course, while- the other five made "3's" in every course 'but one and a "2" in' that. • • Those attaining the perfect average Were James A. Babcock '37, Robert S. Boger '39,. Robert D. Heffelfinger '37, Nicholas Kay '39, Wallace Kith acld ,'37, :Matthew I Rorabaugh 'B7, and Lawrence P. Williams" '37. 'John W. Angstadt '37, Harry S. Hull '39, Harold L. Shambach• 'SG, Francis J. Sitek '39, and Leonard F. Wiley '37 Were the five missiing the perfect rec ord. Sigma Delta Chi To Aid Journali Funds from the Sigma Delta Chi celestial Gridiron Dance, which will be held in the Armory Saturday night frdm 9 to 12 o'clock, will go toward journalism scholarships for deserving high school students, the dance committee has decided. Tickets for the affair can be ob tained from members of the fratern ity or from the Student Union office at $1.14 per couple, tax included.. The 'dance, will be like no other dance ever held on this campus, ac cording to several members of the committee, who were, found late last night. Looking up from his pile of paper dolls; a committee member said that it would be heaven on earth. Melody will emanate from one Lynn "Gabriel" Christy and his mad mel- Ody makers, "whose music stirs the sole of many a footslinger. The cur tain. will go up on scenes from hea- Thespianslnclude Gold Room Scene Historical Research Work Done By AuthOri To Gii'e 'Black Friday' Authenticity. A scene in the gold room of the New York Stock Ekehange on famoud "Black Friday," authentic in every detail, will be one of the outstanding features of "Stocks and Blondes;' spring Thespian musical which will be presented here for the first, time on April 4. • - • The show's authors; Dick Allen and JOhnny-Binns, have probed histories covering the post-Civil - War period, characterized by its financial hysteria, in order to' reproduce as authentically as possible the story of the period. The scene depicts the precipitation of the financial panic of 1867 after Jay Gould. and 'Jim Fiske cornered the gold supply of the _world. Bun ning: five minutes,-the scene will con ,yey..,theJnood*...that4Listoriciil ;event by , means of .novel lighting-effects, pantondme,." and music.,. ' • • Fishburn 111 Supervision of the show's. music .has - been placed in charge of Don Dixon, who, with Hummel Fishburn, composed the Score for the produc tion. Fishburn, whq is suffering. from an attack . of intestinal influenza, will not he able to take an" active part in supervising the musical numbers of the 'show. .1. Ewing Kennedy, the show's di rector, and BinnS will go to Phila delphia this week to select the more than 100 costumes which will be used. Costuming for this year's show is bn a larger scale than ever, an attempt being made to depiet the fashions of the times as authenticall:' as possible. J.S. Bowman Defines Proletarian Novel In L. A. Lecture . Tracing the development of the Am erican proletarian novel and attempt ing to erase the misunderstanding wbiCh has arisen in the popular mind 'concerning this class of literature, Prof. John S. 'Bowman, of the de pertinent of English composition, de livered the fifth of the 1936 Liberal Arts lectures in the Home Economics auditorium, Tuesday night. "The proletarian novel is written hy, for, and of the members of the, working class," said Professor Bow man'in defining the term. "This strict definition must be extended, however, to, include any political, social, or, et onomic radical viewpoint." "The forerunners of • the modern novel'were sentimental, melodramatic, and • actuated by sympathy for the poor," Professor Bowman said. "They help only in depicting life in indus try." Passing to the second' stage of de velopment, Professor Bowman pointed out that this stage marks the appear 7 once of the propaganda technique. The novels in this group depict class struggle; militancy, and everything but the modern tear gas. .% "There are an increasing number of these novels being written, as more and more of the Young writers are being drawn to the left: Many of them arc read little, however, because of the mistaken idea that the public has of, the proletarian novel," Professor Bowman said. ALPHA PHI MU (Honorary I're•Medical Fraternity) ,Irvin .I.Belasco 'SG . Morris S. Bergman '37 Morton M. Halprin '37 Louise .T. Hurlbrink Markowitz '37 Clifford J. Sager '57 r = _~--•- STATE COLLEGE, PA:TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1936 Dance Returns ism Scholiqrships von, which have beet} rekoduced by St. Peter. The inner workingq. of a great ed ucational institution Will Le revealed through a series of'skits: Campus luminaries will .receive their- reward as the day of judgMent approaches. Featured among , the sensational awards to be made-during the eve ning will be the.BroWn 'Derby. This award goes 'to that. legendary senior! who has succeeded in-finding his way through four year- Yet college with a minimum of effort; and :Maximum of rest. Who will, it . bet. What will he look like? Will it be iou? • So what? Another award willi be the presen tation to the individual . most skilled in its technique; ':et , a delicately wrought chisel. A glass of water, a brand new rubber heel, and other' priceless awards will al'so be made. Recipients of awards are selected by a 'coMmittee of 75d judges. .The method of selection. Was developed during the Middle Ages and 'brought to light through•tha.researches of a daily local columnisti Awards will be on view . tomorrow.' Entrance to the-dance will 'be made through the back deer of the Arm n.y. Tickets will be- a`vailable at the door.' Bring the kiddies. 50 Attend First Debate Conclave 2 Reports Accepted by Group; Fail To Reach' Agreement • On Veto PrOblem. Fifty, delegates to, 'the first Penn sylvania debaters' convention met Saturday morning .to net on the re ports, formulated by tonimittees on the three topics considered by the group. . , Two of the reports 'were accepted , ] by the' convention'as.pinpared ify the~ oomm~ttces. . T 'the veto power of the - Supreme Court was rejected. . The :minority opinion held that inasmuch as the. Supreme Court was an impediment to effective government, legislation should be en acted to . allow Congress to override by a two-thirds vote the decisions of the Court. The majority maintained that past faults in the decisions of the Court were due, not to inherent faults in the Court,. but in the fail ure of. the Constitution to provide for; certain exigencies which arose. When' The committee. reported their findings to the convention the delegates foiled to come to any definite decision. - Say Trade Disputes Cause War In the topic regarding the con& 'ions most likely to involve the Unit -3d States in war and the best meth ods of. controlling these conditions, the committee reported that the fun damental causes of American entry .nto past wars have been controver des arising out of our financial and trade relations with other nations, and that political and social causes have been only secondary. To prevent these causes-from aris 'ng again, the committee urged an American embargo of loans and cred :ts to belligerents and a complete em mrgo on all economic goods with war ring nations. The committed agreed, however, that a future war was in 3vitable. The committee on the question, 'Should married women holding posi tions be replaced by individuals with no other means of support?" recom mended that married women be re placed when the individual with no other• means of support has superior qualifications. The findings of the committee were accepted. • ' Slate Senator Eilivurd Jackson Thompson addressed the delegates at a banquet in the Old Main Sandwich Shop Friday night. Senator Thomp son spoke on "Problems Facing the American Citizen." Fourteen colleges and universities from Pennsylvania were represented at' the' convention. Eight delegates 'from Penn State were present, • 300 Entries Received ° In Poster Competition Over SOO poster* frOm thirty-seven high schools have been received in the advertising contest of the Alpha Del ta Sigma fraternity, honorary in ad vertising. This contest is under the direction of Louis 11. Dell, instructor in advertising. Using as a theme "Pennsylvania— The Ideal Place to Spend a Vaca tion," the contest- is designed to cre ate interest in the field ,of advertising and .to uncover creative talent in high school students. Entries will be judged by prominent .Pennsylvania advertisers at the annual high school day this spring. Burgess Leitzell Fines Freshman For Drunkeness Borough Officials See Need For Stricter Regulations. Student Relates Full Account of Escapade Increasing drunkenness and disor derly conduct of the students of the College will force the borough offi cers to become more active and strict, borough officials' declared recently after a - hearing of one student on charges of drunkenness. .The case before Burgess Wilbur F. Leitiell, of State College, was that of Philip Hoffman '39, who plead guilty to the charge of drunkenness. Burgess Leitzell fined the defendant $l5 and costs. Prior to the case, the 'burgess con sulted with Arthur It. Warnock, - dean of men, and discussed matters con cerning the case and the general con duct of the students of the College. Bought Liquor in Bellefonte . Hoffman gave a full, account of his 1 escapade in the hearing conducted !Thursday night. He statid that he was twenty years old and that he had become drunk On liquor that he had purchased himself in the State Liq uor store in Bellefonte. When ques tioned as to whether the employee at the.liquor store had questioned him as to his age, Hoffman replied that he had not been asked his age by the clerk and that he had no trouble pur chasing the liquor. Burgess Leitzell pointed out that for the past several months he had left the matter of enforcement of stu dent conduct up to the administrative officials of the College and the stu dent board, but that as a result of the late conditions, the borough offi.; cials would .renew their activities. Hold , Music Contests Here Eliminations for the central dis trict of the Pennsylvania Forensic and Music League high - school contest will be concluded here on April 19 fur for the ninth successive year,. Dean Richard W. Grant, of the department of music, announced. Counties that will send high school competitors in the various musical and forensic con tests are Blair, Huntingdon, Clear field, Cambria, Mifflin, Snyder, Un ion and Center. Judges in the local meet will be members of the department of music. Last year the contest affected over 40,000 students, while 5,000 attended the state finals. This year.the finals will be in . Pottsville. Again the asso ciation has affiliated itself with the Music Educators National Confer ence. Two new events have Neon added to the competition this year by the as sociation, the saxophone solo •and a girl's vocal ensemble. Other contests are in band work, orchestration, boys' and girls' vocal groups, instrumental solos, debate, declamation, poetry, and extemporaneous speaking. Crichton Hails Theatre As Final Stronghold of Liberal Thoughts "The theater is the last stronghold of liberal ideas. The press, the radio and the movies are hopel6s." So. said Kyle Crichton, one of America's outstanding theater critics 1 and master of satire, who spoke on the "American Theater" before more than. eighty 'students and faculty at la dinner in -the Old Main Sandwich , Shop_ Thursday night. The dinner was co-sponsored by the Penn State chapter of the American Student Union and Purple Quill. Crichton pointed -out that the fate of American culture lies in the left wing movements in the theater and in literature. The left wing social the ater i;; the' only - medium through which a playwright can express lib eral ideas, he f tleclared. "The idea of the social theater in this country came .from the German folk theater," he explained. "Group theaters are waning. And they be came interested in the technique of acting which stresses 'bit' parts." Crichton pointed out tlnit social plays find New Ycrk audiences un- responsive and New York critics an tagonistic. "Their main problem," he said, "is at attract an audience. The typical New York audience is an er mine-clad audience. They're not in terested in ideas. They. want enter tainment. "The reception of 'Peace on earth' 2--CoAies Concert of 15 Records Selected for Thursday .. Fifteen popular jazz records, all characterising some phase of mod ern dance tunes have been selected by Bill Bottorf and will be played at a concert in the second floor lounge of Old Main Thursday af ternoon, beginning at 4:10 o'clock. The concert is under the man agement of Student Union who has planned regular Thursday af ternoon programs for all students who are interested. Scott To Design Prize Play Sets Players To Present 'Old Maid,' Pulitzer Award Winner, On March 27, 28. Mrs. Merit Scott, who designed the sets, for "The Pursuit of Happiness" and "The Sunken Bell," will create the settings for "The Oid Maid," last year's Pulitzer Prize play, which the Players will present Friday and Sat urday, March 27 and. 28, under the direction of Frank S. Neusbaum. The scene of the play is in old New York from the 1830's to the 1850's, where a firmly entrenched society holds sway. Regency, Empire, and Victorian period furniture; side burns, high hats, and leg-fitting trousers; petticoats and full skirts are the styles. Each set is being built within the other, so that after each act the only operation required to show change will be the removal of the previous set be achieved. The delay in "strik ing" one set before another could be !'raised" will be eliminated. Albert E. Kline '3B will stage the entire production under the supervi sion of Arthur C. Cloetingh, director of the division of dramatics. Eleanor Saunders '3B, property manager, and Beulah F. Cerheim '39, assistant, have' the job of finding period furni ture for the production. Frank L. Herr '3B will manage the lighting. write that'this'presentation of "The Old Maid" will be the first amateur, Showing of the piny in Pennsylvania. The original company, with Judith Anderson and Helen Menken in the "ending roles, played at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia the week of October 1. Reviews of that run de :cril,e the play as "rich in ironic lin -dications, and of poignantly pathetic appeal." Zoe Akins, who dramatized "The Old Maid" from Edith Whartou's novel, is one of the leading American Ilaywrights. Recently she has been with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stu :is in Culver City, Calif. One_of her vast, successful original stories for ;he screen was "Morning Glory," the picture in which Katherine Hepburn made such a conspicuous hit. Guest Expected Dr. VietOr 0. Homerberg, of the de partment-of metallurgy of the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology, will be the guest of the local chapter of the American Society of Metals at an open meeting to be held April 8 iu 811, Mineral Industries building. Dr. Homerberg will discuss "Surface Hardening of Steels." was terrific. The New York critics damned it. But, the producers didn't chine The play. They went in search of the audience which would sec its own problems mirrored in this type of play. And they 'rental it. 'Peace on Earth' ran fourteen weeks." The fact that. "Peace on Earth" had had such a long run worried the crit ics, Crichton said, especially since their condemnation of a production usually means that it closes. The critics began to be swerved by pub lic opinion, he pointed out. Their re marks. be said, are colored by the public's reaction. "The strength of the' left wing movement hi the theater is that it nays something," the speaker declar ed. "It has a basic philosophy be hind it. A body of ideas, a firmness of mind, a philosophy of thought does enrich an art. When you haven't got faith in an idea, you haven't got much faith in art," Kyle Crichton named his choice of American authors. "I think that one of the finest writers we have is Thomas Wolfe. I think he is a ge nius. I• wish be were a left-wing writer—l wish he were with us." Noting some audible disagreement on the part of his listeners, Crichton went on: "Of course, when that man says, 'Ah, Spring . . . ' I. skip the next forty pages." COMPLETE CAMPUS COVERAGE PRICE FIVE CENTS Council Sets Custom Rules Of Next Year Body Decides To Lift Regulations After Xmas Holiday. Campbell, '3B Appointed Liberal Arts Delegate Setting forth the class cuslomS for next year at a recent niheting, Stu dent Council decided this week that lall customs for the class of 1940 shall be lifted by Christmas vacation of the next school year, Ralph T. Irwin 'l6, secretary of the organization, also an nounced the appointment at the same meeting of Charles It. Campbell 'lB :o fill the unexpired term of Stanley Schneider, former Liberal Arts coun cil representative. Radical changes were effected in the, freshman class customs. Done away with were the regulations re quiring that freshmen wear black sox, carry matches, keep their hands out of their pockets, and not walk or loaf on the front campus wall. Irwin ex plained to the COLLEGIAN that black ;ox were too hard to see, and that most men students who smoked car ried their own matches. He pointed out that this custom only hit the freshmen who were not habitual smo kers. The other customs were drop ped chiefly because of no longer being regal led as regulations, he said. Name Cards for Month , All 1510 men who will embark on a four-year course and are not twen ty-one years old by the time Fresh man Week begins will be required to undergo customs. Students transfer ring from a two-year to a four-year course will be required to serve one year. "Equity can be secured from Student Tribunal at its first meet ing," Council declared. Next fall's men will have to wear 41ein„lireritilication,badgeawith.narno, home town; and curriculum for a .nonth the coming year instead of the Jsual two weeks. Such rules as com pulsory attendance at athletic con .ests, smoking on the campus, walk ing on the grass, and wearing of disk and black tic arc included. The hand book, or "bible" as it is known, is again to be carried at all times. May Date Sooner Exceptions to the dress customs arc mule only on trips, holidays, when entertaining mothers and sisters, or when "escorting young ladies at times of house parties, house dance, or all-college dances." A holiday for Iress customs will exist every week from 12 o'clock Saturday to 8 o'clock Monday morning. PoSsibility that freshmen may be allowed to date after Thanksgiving was implied when the Council said that the three-mile restricted dating cone rule would he enforced rigidly 3ntil Thanksgiving. Oberlin Theology Dean Gives Chanel Sermon Dr. Thomas Wesley Graham, dean )C the Graduate School of Theology it Oberlin College, Oberlin, 0., spoke I"Jesus' Program for a New Deal" at the regular chapel services in ichwah auditorium yesterday morn mg. "Jesus came into a world of prob ems the same as those facing us to lay," said Dr. Graham. "The world It that time, was socially at odds, in :ustrially distraught, and had a high ly organized slave order. filets in those times were profoundly skeptical of religion, as we are skeptical of the sanctions of faith. Jesus found it necessary to look at the problems and :ontrive a program, the application of which he could feel things would in made better." Jesus realized that a new world or der couldn't be made front the old in dividuals and that a different type must come to be, said the speaker. The first need of life was repent ance; the individual should ruthless ly study himself, Dr. Graham said. By the way of repentance we must try to get more men and women whose motives are not those of .the past and whose andlitions are new, Ile said. Until a new character is made there is no possibility of a new society, maintained Dr. Graham. "Life will cone more quickly and closely to the order of design when man realizes that the standards by which he judges one day cannot he used for the next day," said Dr. Gra ham. "If a new order. is to conic, be gin yourself to make the changes that have to he made concerning yourself in family and human relationships, No person can he satisfied with a life that is less adequate than the one that was lived in trim."
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