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.1011NNON BRENNEMAN '37
E. TOWNSEND 5WA7.37 '37
31onattins Editor
EMU!. S. HEISLER '37
News Editor
W. ROBEKT GRUBB '37
Simms Editor
RICHARD LEWIS '37
r ...more Editor
MARION A. RINGER '37
Women's Editor
M. WINIFRED WILLIAMS '37
Wornett's Man:minx Editor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Woodrow W. Hierly '33 Stephen Campbell 'la?
Franeia H. Sarmeank Frank 11. Titlow '3B
Jerome Weinstein %Pi Charles M. Wheeler Jr. '3B
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Jay IL Mullet+ '3B Edward 11. Elliott '3B Robert F. Filtott jr.
Kathryn M. Jen°lngn '3B Robert S. McKelvey M 8 John G. Sub..lln '3B
VOMEN'S ASSOCIATE: EDITORS
Shirley R. Helms 'llB Gem;4la 11. Powere %IS Caroline Than MS
Ilaiuminie Editor This Issue._
Ns,.litur This Issue
Tdesday,Mayp,l936
CONTEST WINNER
NOTE: In a contest sponsored by the Committee
on Militarism in Eincation, the following essay by
Rogcr E. Chase, of Columbia University, 'was awarded
first prize for the best editorial on the subject: "Why
Congress Should Pass the Nye-Kvale "Intendment."
"We won some things from the war, that were not
on the program. For example, we had a complete dem
onstration of the fallacy of the old tradition that'pre
paredness prevents war."—George H. Dern in an ad
dress at Riverside, Calif., December, 1931.
In December, 1935, Mr. Dora, as Secretary of War,
is busy spending the largest peacetime military appro
priation in the history of the United States, making
capital of "the obi tradition that preparedness prevents
war" to hasten the drive toward a bigger and better
The patrioteers--including, we trust, Mi. Dern—
have not forgotten the institutions of higher learning.
To date more than two hundred campuses have found
a place for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. An
other hundred are expected to add Military training to
their curricula in the near future. In 118 institutions
of learning drill is not only offered but required.
Senator Nye of North Dakota and Representative
Kvale of Minnesota have introduced a bill intended to
eliminate conscription from American education. The
bill would amend the National Defense Act of 1916 with
the stipulation that no R.O.T.C. unit be approved at
any school or college "until such institution shall have
satisfied the Secretary of War that enrollment in such
unit (except in the case of essentially military schools)
is elective and not compulsory." Mild as it may appear,
consonant with the democratic idea as it is, the Nye.
Kvale Bill is by no means assured of passage.
No sooner did the campaign against militarism in
education begin to assume formidable proportions than
spokesmen fOr "national defense" rushed forward with
euphemisms and counter-charges. The R.O.T.C. was a
higher form of "physical education;" the goose-step was
"character education ;" compulsory drill was "citizen
ship training," an antidote for the subversive agitation
of students who felt, and said, that was unnecessary
and futile and they would have nothing to do with it.
means little to the defenders of the A.O.T.C. that
the best minds in the field of physical education have
characterized as a hollow falsehood the claim that drill
"builds men."
It is irrelevant to the apostles of chauvinism that
the kind of "character" developed by the corps is other
wise known as the "military mind" which—Professor
Reinhold Niebuhr once stated—"makes unthinking obe
dience the summum bonum in - the hierarchy of virtues."
It is not at all alarming to the super-patriots that
"citizenship" as promoted in the R.O.T.C. has meant the
negation of science and democracy, that the training
corps 'have been as culpable as any other group in the
revival of American college vigilantism.
What that "citizenship" implies was once
illus
tratedlin'an,'official R.O.T.C. manual (withdrawn from
cireulatiop;,Jhanks to student protests, ten years.ago)
One passage read: "This inherent' desire. to fight lira
kill must be carefully watched for and encouraged by
the student ...." And further: "To finish an opponent
who hangs on or attempts to pull you to the ground,
always try to break his hold by Ilriving the knee or font
to his crotch and gouging his eyes with your thumbs."
"Citizenship," indeed.
As it berpmes increasingly apparent that the na
tion's military machine is being geared to the inevita
bility if not the early desirability of another war, stu
dent protests against militarism and the society which
breeds•it will be increasingly vocal. At the same time,
R.O.T.C. units will crop up on campuses which never
had military training before. The corps already estab
lished will emerge more clearly as stormtroops of bogus
"Americanism," intolerance, anti-intellectualism. They
are strongholds of reaction today; they may be the van
guards of fascism tomorrow.
Wide public support for the Nye-Kvale Bill may
not signify the beginning of the end for the R.O.T.C.
But it will prevent further expulsions of students who,
on religious or political grounds, refuse to submit to
compulsory drill. More important, it will attract pub
lic' attention to what has long been an anti-social fea
ture of our educational system and today is an incuba
te• of forces which may some day destroy our civili
zation.
The campaign should not be confined to those
schools where compulsory R. 0. T. C. exists. The men
ace of jingoism cannot be isolated. Every senator, ev
ery representative in Congress should be , notified, de
luged with petitions, hounded until such time as he
places his influence behind the bill.
It is encouraging that the tremendous growth of
the R.O.T.C. since the war has not occurred without
artificial stimulation. Although the cavalry went out
of style and utility after Appomatox, thousands of
horses have been provided as sugar-coating for the pill
of compulsory training. Fortunes have been spent on
flashy uniforms. Pretty girls have been recruited as
"sponsors." The enemy has been resourceful.
There is going to be a fight to the finish between a
strong student peace movement and a highly-subsidized
regimen of training for slaughter. The outlook will be
ING BOARD
ALAN L. SMITH 'l7
Bustneo Manager
KENNET:. W. ENGEL '77
Advertising Manager
PHILIP A. SCHWARTZ '77
Promotion Manager
GEORGE W. 111110 'l7
Circulation Manager
IRWIN ROTH '37 •
Foreign Advertising Monnn•e
JEAN C. HOOVER . 37
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REGINA J. RYAN 'l7
Women's News Editor
.Jerorne * Weinstein 'as
—Frank 11.•Tillow 'aft
OLD MANIA
A Kingdom Totters:
"Oh my goodness!" breathed Fran Turner, Penn
State's smiling, May Queen, as she caught her heel
in a wire mat on the porch of Old Main Saturday
afternoon. Things looked pretty dark for Fran, the
May Day prc;cession and the month of May in gen
eral but for the timely assistance of Art Fisher, one
time editor of the COLLEGIAN, Profit, and La Vic.
Leaping from the crowd to Miss Turner's side, Mom
zer Fisher ('10) grasped Miss Turner about seven
inches above the securely wedged heel, and with a
tremendous heave released the Queen from her en
chantment. The sun shone brightly once more and
the procession resumed while• Mrs. Fisher spoke in an
undertone to triple-editor Art.
On Coming of Age:
Paul Langdon Cax jr. known affectionately
as "Eagle" to his intimates out at Sigma Pi, is prob
ably the only youth on record who has actually come
clean from Pittsburgh. All year the Eagle has been
one of those pillars who believe that nicotine tears
out the lungs, alcohol sure plays hell with the lining
of your stomach, and girls—well Eagle actually
blanches with terror at the mere thought of talking
to one of the critters.
Last Saturday night the Eagle went berserk.
Dropping the training of- a lifetime from his shoul
ders he stormed into' the Sigpi boarding. house and
gave a pretty authentic imitation of a bachanalian
ftenzy. He raved, ranted, whined; even swore a lit
tle, softly. Finally, as the piece de resistance, he
called Dory Becker on the phone and dripped senti
ment into her not so unresponsive ear, begging for
a dale. Amazed and not a little alarmed the worthy
byes, who have good reason to know the effects rf
ethyl evanescence when they see it, went into action.
After much investigation it developed that the Eagle
had, inadvertently, downed two ,(2) beers.
Scavenger Scrapings:
As everybody knows who ever dated a Theta,
they don't fool. When they do a thing they do it in a
big way. The other night they pulled off a scavenger
hunt over at the Stone Pile and the sistern really took
it serious. When Chaperon Joey Wardell's list called
for a real live cow, that meant a real live cow had to
Le got. - Up to the Dairy barns in the dead of the night
marched our Joey with the result that for several
hours some close relation of the deceased Penn State
Jessie grazed contentedly on the Theta house lawn.
The sisters offered Bovy a bid but the cow turned it
down preferring, she said, the more pleasant atmos
phere of the dairy barns.
Arid though she, doesn't know. it, Skippy ; Baxter-
Bailey's wedding certificate, uilcin which the 'ink is
hardly dry, was on view at the same little soiree' ...
Item to End All Sam Breene Items:
Somewhat put out by this ! department's buildup
of the Ted Phooey-Rito hucksters, a while back our
Mr. Breene descended upon Willy Skirble, the then
Bus. Mgr. of this sheet, and in no uncertain terms
stated that jr prom would pay not one cent for the
legitimate advertising which it had run in these sa
cred columns—which was all well and good, except
that good Mr. Neil Fleming had paid us off in full
only the day before.
Trivia:
Design for living: Lucile Giles and Luke Bright
ner and Bob Morini (alphabetical order) ...Nancy
Fletcher eating an ice cream cone in ICalin's . . .
Ceo. Doverspike skiing down stairs in his apartment
SOCIETY NOTE: Among the many person's' of
prominence who visited the campus over the i•ceett . -
'end were: Kay (where's: Shirbla?) . Geise '35;:'4-
rnartia6 . .ltiMC;s SeattY^ , ls, Tiger Joe Lockhare,:arid
somebody's mother ... —The Maniac
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to thousands who would otherwise be
in competition in the labor market.
Thus crime indirectly contributes to
the financial welfare of those who
supply' it with equipment and those
who benefit by the spoils.
"If it were somehow possible to
eliminate all crime suddenly, the ef
fect on our entire economic system
would be as disastrous as the col
lapse of any other industry of simi
lar magnitude," they say, foreseeing
the repercussion to be similar in kind,
if not in degree, Its that which typic
ally follows a great war. However,
they do not believe that. such a thing
could happen completely and rapidly
enough to cause a serious dislocation
of industry.
Professors Hawkins and Waller
hold that it is possible to measure
some elements of the cost of crime
but not the cost of crime. The ques
tions that interest them most arc:
What is the effect of crime in redis
tributing the national income? What
are roots of crime in legitimate busi
ness?, and what unintended conse
quences for the large• social order
have such crimes as bank robbery,
embezzlement, counterfeiting, and
racketeering?
Racketeering, the co-authors show,
has been, deliberately invited and fos
tered by big business who seek to pro
tect their investments from the on
slaught of the small businesses. They
point out also that the consumer rare
ly pays thcf cost of the racket, but in
stead it -falls upon the merchants
themselies.
Campus Bulletin i
TODAY
Chess ChM will meet in Room .121
Old Main at 7 o'clock.
Senior class meeting in chemistry
amphitheatre at 7 o'clock. All seniors
should attend.
TOMORROW
FreAmen women candidates for
The editorial board of the COLLEG.
lAN will meet in Room an Old Main
at 4:16 o'clock. Important.
All candidates for the 1938 La Vie
staff will meet at 4 o'clock in Room
412 Old Main. Plans for the 1937
book will be outlined and the next
senior staff will be introduced.,
Alpha . Pi will meet in Room 318
Old Main at 8 o'clock. Attendance
compulsory.
THURSDAY
ImPortant meeting of, the Camera
club in Room 321 - Old Main at 7
o'clock. Dr. White will give an illus
trated lecture on color photography.
Everybody, welcome.
Last day. for orders for graduation
invitations,, announcements, and pro
grams. All orders taken at Student
Union desk.
Nitlany Stamp club will meet in
the Sandwich Shop at 6:30 o'clock.
MISCELLANEOUS
Tickets for the. Penn Slate Day
dance are now on sale at the Student
Union office,
Senior downtown women who wish
to attend the senior dinner dance at
the Nittany Lion Inn, May 22, should
make reservations immediately with
Anna Mary Soisson, Women's build
ing.
The names of all newly-elected of
ficers of all organizations should be
left at the Student Union office. Old
Main, immediately.
S.U. Names Champions
In the tournaments conducted by
Student Union, Harry H. King '37
bectimo • allege : pool 'champion and
Richard SOCiman '39 IVon .the. ping
pOng chamPioashili:, : ;
La Vie Will Have Campus Views
With, Buildings Not Predominant
An outstanding feature of the 1936
La Vie will be the section including
various campus views. Being thor
oughly convinced that the beauty of
the campus does not belong to the
buildings, the staff has organized a
section that shows various scenes
without buildings being predominant.
The section is laid out with a bleed
off on three sides and a one-inch mar
gin, on the inside of the page. The
views are printed on a special paper
stosk known as Skytone. The ink used
is double-tone green and the combina
tion produces an exceedingly pleas
ing result.
There will be a second section of
views. It'will show typical Pennsyl
vania German scenes. Each view
will be titled in language character
istic to ifs vicinity. These titles will
be supplemented with translations in
HAVE YOUR SHINGLE ,
.FRA.MED
at
The MUSIC ROOM
Crepe and Batiste Pajamas
EGOLF'S
FOOT LIGHTS
"Ah, Wilderness!" a three act play by Eugene O'Neill presented by The
Finn State Players under .the direction of Nellie Gravatt, Friday and Satur
day, May SO and 9th in Schwab auditorium.
The Cast
_ ..
Tommy—A Son Johnny Moffit
Mildred—The Daughter c . _Jane Gruber
.
Arthur—Another Son William Cnris
Elsie Miller—The Wife Beatrice Conford
Lily hiller—Nat's Sister
Sid Davis—Elsie's Brother
Nat Miller—Owner . of the "Evening Globe" _
Richard--Another Son
David McComber—A Dry Goods Merchant _
Nora—The Maid
Wint Selby—Arthur's Classmate at Yale _
Belle—A Chorus Girl
Bur tender _
Salesman
Muriel MeCamber
Stage Manager Fred Hoffman
Assistant Stage Manager Alvin Ncwmyer
Electrician Conrad Zierdt
Property Manager _ Dorothy Fish
Assistant Property Manager _Jean Burkholder
Costume Mistresses Ruth Brandt, Laura Kirk Lodge
For her excellent direction Nellie'
Cravatt deServes more tribute than
the spring bouquet which was pre
sented to her on a darkened stage
Saturday night. Working with a
good 'though long play and with a
young but not over-buoyant cast, Miss
Gravatt was successful in eliminating
a good deal of the draginess that has
marked most of 'the Player's produc
tions,
The sets were admirable as they
have been all year but the orchestra
was exceptionally bad sounding very
Co-Edits
June C. Price was elected president
of Alpha Lambda Delta, freshman
wanton's scholastic honorary, at a
meeting of the the new initiates and
former officers, last Thursday. Oth
er officer elections were: Prances J.
Keeskr, vice-president; Muth V.
Koch, secretary; and E. Ruth Breit
wieser, treasurer.
Edna ➢f. Bruno '3B, Alpha Chi
Omega, was awarded the fraternity
honor ring for having shown the
greatest improvement in scholarship,
activities and fraternity leadership
within the past year.
Rose R. Nude '37, was installed its
president of Theta Phi Alpha at a
formal banquet in the State College
hotel. Other officers who were in
stalled are: Gelsie R. Ferdinand '37,
vice-president; Margaret M. Waters
'37, secretary; and Dorothy L. Val
lish '37, treasurer.
Astriad initiated Marthamne Co
hen, Lucille B. Greenberg, Cecile G.
Metz, and Joan C. Sperling '39,, at
a formal initiation in Grange Play
room, Thursday night.
BLUE KEY
(Junior Activities 'Honorary)
John D. Brisbane
Thomas W. Brown
Bernard J. Burkett
Charles R. Campbell
Harold N. Finkel
Harold L. Gordon jr. '
George C. Harkess
George - L. Harwick
George W. Jordan
William E. Lindenmuth
Graham Luckenbill
John A. McLaughlin
Robert S. Mechling
Thomas H. Moore
Robert Morris jr.
Charles M. Robbins
John G. Sabella
Jack E. Saxer
Robert S. Sigel '
George K. Stroupe
William• G. Thomas jr.
Merlin' W. Troy
Chailes M. Wheeler
the glossary. •
The main dividers this year will be
five-tone pictures, printed on a rough
stock paper. The drawings and de
tail were completed by Amelia Brooks,
art editor, under the supervision of
Prof. Andrew W. Case. These divi
ders, used to identify the various
books, are the meet colorful works to
be found in any edition of La Vie.
The book will be bound with a cov
er designed to he a nearly exact
replica of the Bibles printed in Penn
sylvania during the latter eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. The two
major characteristics of those books
will be reproduced perfectly—the
peacock frontal design and the cord
ed back.
A balanced book has been the aim
of the staff in its work through the
year. Previously the interest dwind
led off toward the end of the issue
and the latter part was little noticed.
This year the last major section shall
be that of the athletics—a well-read
part of the book. It will be followed
by a views section. It is hoped that
this will afford a greater cover-to
cover interest.
Margaret Gillen
Morton Wolovsky
Thomas Francis
Harvey Levin
Silom Horwitz
•
Harriet Bartges
__Edward Birins
_Hermione Hunt
_Jerome George
_lrving Telsuhow
__Frances Keesler
Technical Staff
like something from a small high
school.
Harvey Levin gets three stars for
being a natural as the Oscar Wilde
bitten youth as does Frances Keesler
who switches with Jane Gruber. Jane
has possibilities' in smaller shoes.
But for his voice, Which verged on
being just a little too senile, even for
a newspaper man of that age, Tommy
Francis deserves at least a good cigar
on which to learn. Beatrice Conford
slipped a notch (going out of charac
ter several times) and did not give
Francis the support he deserved. An
other ale for Wolovsky who was Sid
Davis was not the over-drunk drunk
who usually flounders into plays of
this kind.'
Silom Horwitz, the man with six
ty-three stage voices, used voice num
ber 16, the oboe to get across the
kind of neighbor of which you have at
least one. He also used facial ex
pression number• six throughout with
two much verve which made .for a
stereoptye rather• than a character.
Eddie Binns was brief but brilliant
as the corrupter of youth from Yale.
llermione Hunt loosened up and
gave her beit performance of the
year. Johnny Moffit is a good actor
and during the water-closet episode
added as mudh color to the play as
George Jerome the bar-keep. The
characters net mentioned gave the
spottiest performances. The play as
a whole was successful.
Architecture Award
Won by Briggs Pruitt
A scholarship was awarded to J.
Briggs Pruitt to attend' the an.:
noal meeting of :the Association of.
Collegiate, Schools of Architecture
being held at Williamsburg and Rich
mond, Va.
Prof. James B. Helms, of the de
partment of architecture,•also attend
ed the early part of • the meeting
which was held in conjunction with
the American Institute of Architects
to celebrate the completion' of the
restoration of Virginia's former cap
ital, Williamsburg. The Rockefeller
Foundation is responsible' for the re
construction. .
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CINEMANIA
Following H. G. Wells' "Things to
Comer which closes'at the Cathaum
today, that theater will show a pic
ture with a new angle on the "shady
lawyer•" plot., This time the lawyers
are played by Margaret Lindsay and
Glenda Farrell. The former is in love
with Warren Hull, the district at
torney, but he has belittled her abil
ity and so shh accepts an offer from
a local racketeer to help him in some
crooked deals. For quite a while she
succeeds, but at the denouement in
a stirring courtroom scene at the
close, she agrees with 'Hull that the
laiv is a man's profession. .
Another film dealing with-a lawyer
who 'uses his ability in' behalf of a
gangster will be shown at the Nittttny
tonight and, tomorrow. In "Special
Investigator" Richard Dix serves in
this capacity' until his, brother, a G
man, is shot down by racketeers.
Seeking revenge Dix goes to
,Nevada
and discovers the hideout of a gang
of gold robbers.
While trailing them he falls in love
with Margaret Callahan, the sister of
the head of the gang. But a typical
whirlwind finish removes, all com
plications. The story . is written by
Erie Stanley Gardner, who is well
known for his mystery stories.
Although it lacks `.'big" names the
picture at the Cathaum Thursday
looks like , good entertainment if you
like thrills. "Speed" is the name of
it and it-features Wends Barrie, Una
Merkel, Ted Healy, James .Stewart,
and Ralph Morgan.
Stewart is a test driver• for one of
the large automobile companies whose
job •is to "crack-tip" cars at high
speeds in order to see how they will
damaged. He is also, at work on a
new style carburetor and in order to
test it he enters the Indianapolis
Speedway race. Ills car crashes, but
through the aid of Miss Barrie he
gets a new car which he runs over
the Maroc Lake testing ground in
Utah, where Sir Malcolm Campbell
recently set a new world's record,
with more thrills and more success.
A return showing of "Rose Marie,'
musical show starring Jeanette Mc-
Donald and Nelson Eddy, will be at
the Nittany Thursday.
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