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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887
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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-
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PHILIP R. HKISLEU ’37 v . PHILIP A. SCHWA3OTZ ’37
News Editor promotion Manager
Wi ROBERT GRUBB ’37. GEORGE W. BIRO *37
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RICHARD LEWIS '37 IRWIN ROTH ’37 .
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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
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.. 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.
I believe that in the great majority
cf cases the fraternity man gets value
(Conlinacd on -page three)
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