roe PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887 Published serail-tveehly during the Collet•.e year, except on holidays. by students of The Peon%ylvanirt Stnto College. in the interest of the College. the students, faculty, alumni. end friends. Applied for entry ns second class matter at the State College Poet Office. State College. Pa. I=l HARRY U. HENDERSON JR. '3G WILLIAM IL SKIRBLE '36 Editor MolineAs Mnmater DONALD P. SANDERS '36 . nor.ANn W. OitERHOLT7.ER '36 Mananinir Editor Circulation Mummer W. BERNARD FREUNSCH '36 WILLIAM 11. HECKMAN 16 Sports Editor Advertisinn Manna, VANCE 0. PACKARD '36 PHILIP E. EVANS MG Assisinot Editor Locni Advertising. Malmo:. JOHN E. MILLER JR. '36 LEONARD 7'. SIEFF '36 losistant Mon: mint: Editor Credit Mit:miter CHARLES M. SCHWARTZ 311. '36 1,. GIARNREL CONABEE '36 Assistnn' Sports Editor Women's Editor WILLIAM I'. MeDOWELL '36 RUTH E. KOEHLER '36 News Editor Women's Mannuitur Editor JOHN K. ISA.RNES JR. '3G A. FRANCES TURNER '36 . Newt iMitor Women's News Editor ASSOCIATE. BUSINESS MANAGERS Geneve W. Bird '37 Kenneth W. Kneel '37 Jean C. Mover '37 Philip A. Sehweirtz '37 Alen L. Smith '37 Irwin Beth. 'l7 ASSOCIATE EDITORS John. , n Wenner . ..an '37 W. P.obert. Grubb '3l Philip S. IteDler ElniEffißMi==2M "OMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Marion A. Ringer '37 Regina J. Ryan '37 M. Winifred Williams '37 !935 Member 1936 Associated C.olteOiale Press Distributor of Collegiate Digest NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE. INC. 400'North Midgluan Ave., Chien. Cltienzu--RoThgt—Sun Franekra--lAH Angeles—Portland—Seattle Montorins Editor This Isst.e News Editor This Issue.... Tuesday, March 24, 1926 RADIO'S WORK IN THE FLOOD WRAK, W illiamsport broadcasting station, deserves the highest kind of service for its work in the flood emergency which has just passed. It operated contin uously:for more than live days, its operators and an nouncers never leaving the station proper. Without it, Willimnsport, harder hit than any. of the other cities in the flood area, would have been corn-_ pletely demoralized and the loss of live and property damage would ha - ve been much higher. It provided the only means of communication in a city of some forty thousand in which the telephones had been out of order for hours because the exchange building was flooded to a depth of six to eight feet. Over its transmitters went the word of the corn tng flood, warning merchants and townspeople to move their belongings and themselves out of the danger area and to higher ground With the telephones for thirty miles around Wil liamsport dead, it established contact between members of families, separated by the emergency, between friends and provided the only outlet to the outside world. • , For hour after. hour krOadomted free of- . charge messages such as: "Airs., James4.'Retersou,'oc Locust street, wishes that anyone in Newark New Jersey hear ing this message inform her Atinghter;MM. John Crane,: on Eighth avenue, that she is safe although their home has been washed away and that she wishes her to get in contact with her immediately at the Curtin school build ing." These messages, transmitted by the thousands over a period of four days, served to eonnect`families with in the flood area and friends on the outside and dispel many worries and fears Not only did the station handle messages of the personal type but it provided an outlet for .police and firemen to give commands to their forces and to .the townspeople regarding the martial law whiCh had been declared. Williamsiort was a crazy city with every ra, dio in the city there hoed to WRAK while everyone awaited words from their families, friends and orders from the police through that station. ..It proved definitely that radio can control an entire city when everything else in the way of communication fails. The .starf of WEAK who worked , themselves into senselessness should he proud of their work and are.de serving of the highest plaudits of the city spite: STUDENTS, STIR YOURSELVES-OR PROPAGATION FOR PEACE It is characteristic of us Americans to devote one week out of the entire year to a cause and then after the celebration relax until the cause's birthday roliti around again. Not so with the Student Peace Action Council on our campus. Since Peace Emphasis Week the small hut active group that makes up this organiza tion has been busy accumulating any material that has a hearing on peace o: war. Contacts are constantly being made with all worthwhile societies active in this field; all legislative measures which have any bearing on this subject are carefully followed. The members of the Peace Action Council aim to be well informed on, all: these measures so they may disseminate this ma terial among the interested members of the student body. Are the members of the student body interested? There is no reason why they should not be. This is not a chauvinistic cause but one that we must all fight for if any real goal is to be realized. Why not have stu dents enroll as Members of this organization as they do in other campus societies? Surely it would only be the bare minority that would refrain front expressing a favorable sentiment towards this organization and its work. So why confine the active move for peace to the small existing group? This is not similar to urging you to join a worthless honorary or to wrap and bind yourself in red tape. It is something at which every college student should be ashamed to sneer. nave some backbone and show some interest for the prevention of a danger that we must all realize and face before it is such an acute situation that no compensation can he Postman's Holiday One\ of our spie (not a staff member, of course) was standing in front of the Ifofbrau about ten o'- clock Alto other night when Jack, one of the waiters, came out with one of his pals. Jack had gotten off early—it being a slack night—and didn't quite know what to do. Finally he and his pal made up their minds. "Let's go get a beer," Jack said, "and then go home." So they went nei•oss the street to the Taproom, got a beer, and then went home, Test Tube: Dr. A. K. Anderson, professor of physiological chemistry or something like that, does not like the home cc gals. Be puts sign on his fine balances "Home Ecs: Do not Touch" . and all kinds of funny things like that. But he still has to teach them in class. One day during elnss some girl came up to him to get a test tube with which to perform an experiment. "Oh, you'll have to make your own test tube,7 Dr. An derson said. "Seal up the open end with wax and then knock out the other end." She did. (This is what we funny men call anti climax.) —Mann S. Helsler 'B7 Johnson Brenneman '37 Flood Noahtes: There were a lot of guys who got past authori ties by wearing rotissie suits . In varying stages of inebriation, six Phi Delts, led by Johnny John son, played newspaper man all over Lock Haven. Johnny had a press card from the Harrisburg Tele graph and went around interviewing the commander of relief work and the president of the Teachers' Col lege ... And the mugs who used a ticket to the Grid iron Dance on their windshield, drove like hell, and took pictures with a thirty-nine cent camera and no film, lining refugees up along buildings . . . thought that the "bulletins" on Graham's windows were very, very sad .. . Sherm Lutz flue yeast to all the surrounding bakeries so that they would be able to bake bread for the flood refugees in Williamsport and Lock Haven ... He also flew quite a hit of serum so that iloodless might be inoculated against typhoid fever . Six Navy planes. flying three tons of food and several thousand cc's of serum. managed to .land at Lock Haven but one of them came into the pasture land too fast and wentthrough .a fake and finally struck a tree before the plane' stopped'.. Lock Haven has•hitil three flood babies already Passes to get through the lines, of the militia, in , the .flood stricken towns wee atet.pymiina . the, 91c1 Penn State fire engine, the blue one with hard tires, is now busy in Lock Haven pumping out cellars. on . Main street . . . • About Town and Campus: Betty Lou Emmert, who lives in Frazier St. porth, is a popular gal. Saturda:y. night sho had , a chance for eight dates, turned them'all dowil,:Washed her hair, ironed some things (Get it—?), went to bed . . . The Newell Townsend-Tat Humes affair has now reached the stage where she is planning to go home with him Easter vacation to meet the folks . . . Jim Cunningham, Beaver House lad, pays a ten buck bet to Johnny Chambers if the latter sees him with a girl on Campus . Realism hits the OW Allain. Bell office. We picked up a manuscript there the oth er night. The former• title, "Farmer Boy," had been crossed out and "Dung" was substituted for it. Then again, it may have been only a comment . And the College took a slight chance last week when they' took all the fire hose out for three days to inspect it.... • Aside to. the Junior Prom committee: Wc•think • Ted Fio Rite stinks . . . OLD MANIA -THE 1:14N;A: YEiE PENN STAVE COLLEGIAI4 CINEMANIA Following. "Little Lord Fauntle roy," which finishes its showing at the Cathaum today that theatre will of fer "Snowed Under," a picture with n release date of April 4. This picture is the story of a writer, played by George Brent, who is snowbound in a New England farmhouse, attempt ing to finish a play. Enter at this point two of his di vorced wives, the can attempting to provide HMI with inspiration, the oth er attempting to collect, with the aid of an . attorney and a sheriff, some back alimony._ Is it 'necessary to add that from this certain complications result? • "Auclioseopiks" ever hear of them? Probably 'not, but if advance press releases are indication this word may be as common in' a short time as the word "tcllkie" is now, for this new development brings to the screen for the first time the illusion of a third dimension, in color. At the.Catheum Thursday and Fri day the first of these—a single reel picture—will be shown. The objects' of the screen rush out into the au dience with : startling reality, and combined with the explanatory re marks of Pete Smith the picture should prove n, minor sensation. Along with "Audioscopiks" the CathaumWifi present "Colleen," the latest of the Warner musical shows, with an all-star cast of Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, Jack Oak ie, Hugh Herbert, and Louise Fazes , . da. The plot hinges on the attempts of• Powell . .to straighten out his uncle's business affairs, but the chief inter-. est of the film is in the mammoth dances staged:on an ocean liner and in a modiste shop. Paul Draper, well known on the Broadway stage, makes his first screen appearance as a danc ing partner of Miss Keeler. The Nittany this week is playing a series of return engagements of pictures which have scored, unusual .hits in their -first showing here. To night the Marx Brothers will be seen in "A Night'at the Opera." The wide ly acclaimed -"Life of'Louis Pasteur" .will play tomorrow. Thursday one of the surprise.hits of the year, "Heads -Across, the , Table" will be the attrac tion. . ~HEAD UP FREE tickets for . ..THE .• OLD AID M .. . ......_. will be dropped on the Campus, . . Tuesday Noon front an airplane! Ticketa niay. :: •.: : . be. purchased , .. : •-:. in the usual way :at: • • ~ the Treas. office ; •:: !', ' .; Yall-Wreelo. l ' ' ' ' '' - : TO BE PRESEKT,ED, . . FRIDAY AND SATUR, DAY, MARCY/ 27. 8.: 28, 8:30 P. N. FOR THE DANCE O.F'THE.:YFAR. A plant, like an ,sinimal, feels, Including the vulture, more, than breathes; breathes, - , digests, growsi l and•multi- 1 ,5 00 species : of •'93jrds . of -Prey" are plies, • known to science. - ' • . TEDHFIO.:RITO Direct From - Terrace Garden, Hotel New Yorker Junior Prom MAY 1, 1936 Tugsflay:,: . .Marelv.24; 193 According to olden .folk-lore, to dream, nf by. • this tle or thorns, was a gait sign, and foretold that pleasing news was on the way. Xll. ~e ~-11,
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