Vage Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887 l'tiblinhctl xvmi-wcckly during the College year, except on holi-lnyg. by KluilcntH of The I'ennuylvania State Collette, In the interest of the Collette, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends. TUB MANAGING BOARD . JOHNSON BPXNNEMAN.’37 -XL ALAN L. SMITH ’37 Editor Business Manager E. TOWNSEND SWALM ’37 KENNETH W. ENGKL ’37- ' Managing Editor Advertising Manager PHILIP R. HKISLEU ’37 v . PHILIP A. SCHWA3OTZ ’37 News Editor promotion Manager Wi ROBERT GRUBB ’37. GEORGE W. BIRO *37 • , •" Sports KrtiOir. * v \ 1 . Circulation Manager.*" RICHARD LEWIS '37 IRWIN ROTH ’37 . reaturc Editor Foreign Advertising Manner MARION A. RINGER '37 JEAN C. HOOVER '37 Women’s Editor Secretary Ml WINIFRED WILLIAMS ’37 REGINA .T. RYAN ’37 Women’s Managing Editor Women's News Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Woodrow W. Bierly *33 Stephen Campbell ’3B Francis 11. Sxymewik '3S Frank 11. Titlow '3B Jerome WdnMcin ’3B Charles M. Wheeler jr.. '3B ASSOCIATE IiUSIN’F.SS MANAGERS ,7ny H. DanieN ’3B E«lwnr<l H. Elliott ’3B Roberi E. Elliott jr. ’3B Kathryn M. Jennings '3B Robert S. McKelvcy *3B John G. Subelln ’3B .. WOMEN’S ASSOCIATE EDITORS •Shirley R. Helms . Gwigia 11. Powers *3B Curoline Tyson ’3B Thursday, September 10, 1936 HEAKST, BENEFACTOR During the past summer the Ilearst papers have again worked-lhemsclves into quite a dither over college students;*’According to sudli authorities as Gen eral Bullard, who as the former head of the army cer tainly ought to know about, such things, communists and reds are now at work openly, indoctrinating inno cent students with -their. Moscow lies. Anyone who has been on this campus long knows that the Ilearst papers have not exaggerated these conditions. >! The various peace demonstrations Here last year, for example, wore inspired by the Reds in the Chris tian association. Two students here are known to have copies of “Das Kapital” and one is supposed to have reu'd part of it. Walk through any fraternity or room ing house and you will find that the red banner of Mos :cow has replaced the blue and white pennant of Penn 'State. Students are cancelling" their subscriptions to Colliers and are reading instead the A hw Masses. The “Internationale” Has replaced “Alma Mater”.as the Col lege anthem. In view of Ch'is deplorable situation one of the Ilearst papers in* the State, doubtless to protect naive freshmen from such insidious nfluences, has made plans 'to distribute a number of free copies during Freshman [Week. They probably feel that in this way they can ■expose the snares which the radicals here are setting for the unwary freshmen. Some of the freshmen might •even subscribe. ’! It’s hard to get ahead of the radicals here, though. No sooner did they learn about this splendid project • than a bunch of them, including the editors of the '.Froth, the lUII, and the Collegian —all radical publica tions —wrote to three other left-wing newspapers, the 'New York Times, the Philadelphia Record, and the ■Pittsburgh Press, and induced them to give away free samples too in order to neutralize the effect of Heart’s * Sun-Tclcgraph . \ Yes sir; there ought to be an investigation of these dirty reds. AN ANSWER *> We do not doubt the sincerity of the Alumnus s\vhose letter we have reprinted. Yet it must,' p.yove -something or othdr when the only person to. write in “defense of the fraternity system is one who never be longed-to it. j Why is it that the most violent critics of fratlrnUj 'ties are often men who are members of a house, while •those who w r cre unable to join one are often strong de fenders of the system? Why do" non-fraternity mqn. o-speak so much of the advantages of living in a house fvhile those who lived in one talk of the ‘independence to he. had..hy being outside? -,r -* It’s the old story of the fields on Ine other side of -the fence locking greener. . <. • £ Of course there are always those who, without, in itiative to investigate the other side of the 'fenct*, ra tionalize for a short time and then announce that their -own is the best of all possible fields. Such individuals v usually turn out to be rushing chairmen or fraternity -haters. " But anyone who looks over all the fields usually decides that there are bare spots arid green spots in all -of them and that it doesn't make much difference in •' which one he settles. Although he may not have realized -it at the time that is precisely the conclusion to which \,the letter writer came in his last paragraph. We feel that the importance of fraternity affili ations is usually overemphasized and that in the final l -analysis they will not make much difference in anyone’s .jcollege career. r s IN MEMORIAM The Collegian joins the College in mourning the recent deaths of Prof. William Futhey Gibbons, for eighteen years a member of the journal- V, ism, and Dr. Joel Andre*': Sperry, head of the bacter iology division. Dr. Sperry came here in lOflO, after serving on the New York State Board of Health. Holding several de crees, he received his doctorate at ..Yale University. ./During his five years here, he served as head of the : bacteriology division and was an illuminating figure in his field of scientific endeavor. V Professor Gibbons entered the department of jour ' nalism in its infancy and was one of the most dynamic •-"'figures in promoting the development of the department r to its present proportions. He was widely read in many • fields, and became known as a writer through three pub lished works. Professor Gibbons was perhaps better .known outside of the College community than in it, for • ‘he worked quietly. s PRESIDENT HETZEL’S REQUEST that fresh- refrain from staging such puerile demonstrations .'?as have taken place for the past two years is one that '■ needs to be repeated to upperclassmen. The freshmen •' may carry the wood but the sophomores and juniors * usually supply the idea. We believe that most students, vhere are intelligent enough to recognize the asinihity of •• / these demonstrations. We suggest that any other/ if C they must go “Joe College” try more-harmfess 1 meth-„. ;od of doing it. „ . x “WHITEY” RIIODA COULD ALWAYS get ’ a ■„ bigger hand from the crowd than other men who. were -* better football players or better boxers';because “Whit > cy” never stopped fighting. Durnjg themextrmonth He’s •‘'going to have a tougher fight than he’s on the /gridiron or in the ring. There won’t be many around to * cheer out loud, but “Whitey” can know that every stu dent who knew him, either on the field or personally, Ms rooting for him to come through the way he always tm fft i*n sr> - k: OLD WANIA4 Prexu by Proxy Indications of the far-reatfung .of . the Spanish Revolution are.jpnjy. _ make themselves felt in State College. First victim of the attempted Rebel putsch is none other than A 1 soccer, manage,}* suul Esquire fashion plate.. T-j It happened like this: Frankie Osterlund, senior class president and star forward on the same soccer teani A 1 Newmoyer manages, spent the summer in Portugal, which as anyone knows who has taken geography from Mr. Murphy knows, is too close to Spain for comfort. Along about midsummer, just after the gpitoishTrafias got.well started, ~Al.received < j a letter from senior class proxy Osterlund to the ef fect that Frank would be detained—supposedly due to the Spanish situation —in Portugal and would re turn to State College on or about Sept. 2f>. In clos ing, Frank suggested that it would be just swell if Al would go around and deliver a few of the speeches at the beginning of school, which is part of the pen alty of being senior class proxy. Al merely blinked and decided to laugh it.off. Along about Inst Monday or Tuesday when Al got back to school and even before he had time to put his twenty-six sports jackets and unmatched, trousers in his capacious wardrobe a telephone call from Dean Wavnoek forced him to make a hurried visit to the sanctum of that dignitary. Vainly did Al argue that his was not the position to make the so necessary speech in question. Al pointed out that not only was he not even a minor ofTice holder iii the senior class but that he wasn’t even in the same clique as Osterlund! What about Cherundolo, vice president, or George Hacker, clique chairman, or Bob Morini or some other recognized big-shot. No, no, no, no good, any of them. Hacker and Morini were al ready signed tip for a speech or two apiece and who ever Heard of a football captain making a speech! Hemmed in on all sides, his every argument knocked into an honor society’s hat, Al could do nothing .biit acquiesce with as good grace lis the exi gencies, of the situation required. Speaking to a huge knot of newspaper reporters yesterday, Newmeyer is reported as saying: “ . . . Edward Everett Hale to the contrary net withstanding, this being a martyr to the cause of Spanish nationalism is nobody’s dream of paradise . . . ami wait ’til I get my hands on Frank Osterlund!” Orchestral Interlude We knew that trying to fill the shoes-of the now sainted and much reminisced upon Lynn Christy would be a job of no niean. proportions and history bears us cut. When Christy departed to take the world, in his diminutive stride he left his 12-piece band, bag and baggage, trumpet and sax, to his-oc casional vocalist and last year’s Thespian star, Chuck Walters, and now with school only just begun the band has passed into the hands of Ernie Delphi, r clarinetman extraordinaire. According to our secret information bureau, Jf’s a real break for Walters—or a very, tough one, ’ depending or how you’look at it.'. Dame rumor hnth ‘ it that Chuck will, give life of t\ie \ college lncl for the Hazards-and uncertainties of pro fessional singing and is- scheduled to’ appear next month with some unnamed big-name band in the • Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City. ’~'Pi'cit-ups' 1 ... . , First., one,., now two streetlights,..an intricate ..system o£.police:callsT- ? ihew-mptorcycles''fof-*the cam pus cops,.an'd};as la'ktfmfl gesture, l ' after • eighty-one years, street signs.)'lt could probably be proved with little difficulty that' Staie 'College’ls better equipped -per to'cbmtfal ‘crime''tTiatr*Chicago, New York, San Francisco oy.- HolU 3KcJiigan,T Aside . to the’ Daily Half-Colyumnist: (sur nomination for the*'most’matfgned phrase of.-the year, “the tradi "■'tidh'Ul American 'way.”?... If you get around to it , ask Mablc Hirst what cx-Maniac James Beatty was ' doing-“JJp In'Mable’s Room” about 4 o’clock the oth er' night . . . and did Profs. Druckman and John stbn have a simply s-w-e-1-1 time this summer! How .•many cans of fruit.did you put up, fellows? And won’t, those jars of hc-me-made preserves be simply g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s on cold winter days? Whoops! . . . Publicity, Director Dantzschev has a brand new son ... .Cr. Rni: cashier Ruth lost her tonsils . . Rabbi Fishoff turns up .with -a better half, or did he have it all along? ... Skirblc back, pugnacious as all hell .. . ' ' , , ‘ —THE MANIAC Hello, Everybody! We’re happy to welcome back out bid friends and to greet new ones, too. - We hope .that you will, find The Corner a. con ' yenient place in which to spend, some..bf youi’ lei sure time; . ■ it will-he‘l a .pleasure to serveyo.u-oricambi'e. ‘ r ,- ; - . The Corner unusual THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Letter Box' To the Editor: The - casc for the fraternities is not given fairly in the recent Collegian at, least, that is my Even th<* advantages-enumerated, due not -those.that..tUe .majority:.of JJliulfcv ing fraternity men would name. So cial position? Prestige? ‘Perhaps, (but only the greenest of freshmen will, swallow this kind'‘of’ rushing -'guff. Friendships? Certainly._ and only those who have seen seniors pocking their belongings at the end. of four short years in “the house” can realize the difference fraternity membership meant in those four years. Orienta tion ? Not mqch $f sirfceThc College instituted Freshman Week. By the time classes start, each new freshman, regardless' of his fra ternity rushing or lack of it, is far better settled than was the most’re ceptive pledge in the years when I was a student. As for the disadvantages—where is the organized group that is not divid ed at times by cliques? That never ex perienced occasional ill-will ? Con formity? What is it? But. these very conformities are frequently es sentials. Frequently the non-fratern ity man, a college graduate, is lack ing in those graces that all expect of the college graduates. How frequent ly we of the/ alumni sec graduates who cannot shake- hands properly, or j cannot eat decently, to mention only two of the commonest failings. Where, at Penn State, outside of fraternities are these items stressed, or even thought of? I The non-fraternity man rents a room, and at the very best, gets noth ing else. The fraternity man lives more normally—he does not live in one room—or stand in line to brush his teeth, to mention only one con venience. Dormitories? llow many of Penn State’s '2OOO non-fraternity men live in dormitories? The fra ternity man does not.run through snow and rain to his boarding house. He cats where, he lives. He may, “gripo” about the food but so does his non-fraternity brother. 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