Sage Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887 Published semi-weekly duritiK the College year, except on holidays, jy students of The Pennsylvania State College, in the interest of the College, the students, and friends. ' iING BOARD _ ALAN L. SMITH '37 Bunintts Manager KENNETH W. ENGEL '37 Advertising Manager PHILIP A. SCHWARTZ '37 Promotion Mnnnger GEORGE W. BIRD '37 Circulation Manager IRWIN ROTH '37 Foreign Advertising Manager JEAN C. HOOVER '37 Secretary • REGINA J. RYAN '37 Women's News Editor THE MANAGI JOHNSON BUENNEMAN *37 Editor E. TOWNSEND SWALM ’37 Managing Editor PHILIP S. HEISLEIt *37 News Editor W. ROBERT GRUBB *37 Snorts* Editor RICHARD LEWIS ’37 Kcuturo Editor MARION A. RINGER '37 Women's Editor M. WINIFRED WILLIAMS '37 Women's Managing Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Woodrow W. BierJy '35 Francis H. Szymczak *3B Joromu Weinstein '3B Charles M. Wheeler jr. '3B ' ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Jay N. Daniels '3B Cnrl W. Diehl '32 Robert E. Elliott jr. *3B Kathryn M. Jennings '3B -Robert S. MoKelvey 133 John G. Subella '3B WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Shirley R. Helms '3B Georgia H. Powers '3B Caroline Tyson .*3B 1936 Member 1937 Rssocirfed GoUegiafe Press Distributors of GbHe6iate Digest Managing Editor This Issue News Editor This Issue ; Friday, September 25, 1936 END OF THE CHASE IT WAS A pretty good season. Game was plentiful; so plentiful, in fact, that some of the hunters are now huving trouble finding a place to put all of it. A few hunting regulations were broken, but no one both ered doing anything about them. Turning in violations of other hunters invites them to retaliate next fall and every house realizes that it is likely to be vulnerable. Of course there are a few of the hunting lodges whose members didn’t aim so well. Perhaps their aim was bad or their gun wasn’t loaded. At any rate the-game that they had their eye on escaped into the woods or was bagged for other lodges. Whatever the cause, it seems likely that next fall will see a few lesg hunting licenses issued. This year, for example, the fifteen houses ranking lowest in pledges got only forty-eight freshmen, _«or slightly more than three apiece. On other words, a selected thirty per cent of the fraternities pledged only twelve per cent of the total. On the other hand seven houses took 112 freshmen, which translated into per centages means that thirteen per cent got twenty-seven per cent of the total. . How long the weaker fraternities can exist with this condition obtaining is a question. Already there is fear that several will have to make adjustments of some sort if they are to continue. This fall was re garded as a crucial test for a number of them and while more freshmen were pledged than last year the already, strongly entrenched fraternities were the ones which profited most by the increase. A few more seasons like the last and the only rushing some of the houses will do will be away from the mortgage holders. HOW LONG N. Y. A.? According to information released by the adminis; trntion here, N. Y. A. will proceed on the same basis as last year with few innovations. Approximately the same number of students will get jobs, with the same possibility of increase in allotment of funds to this in stitution as last year. The machinery of awarding jobs is already in op eration; it was in operation last year when the College provided application blanks for prospective student workers this year, although at that time, no definite assurance was made that N. Y. A. would continue. Ap parently all the College N. Y. A. committee could work on. was a pretty good hunch. Because of the efficiency with which preparations were conducted for this year’s program, students will receive jobs almost immediately. Although grimly relieved, the populace is not danc ing in the streets. The uncertainty which has. over shadowed youth aid since its beginning as F. E. R. A., is ailayed for the present This year will take care of itself, and possibly about 800 or more students here will be in a position to carry on throughout the year, thanks to the policy instituted with the F. E. R. A. and the N. Y. A. But what about next year? And the year after that? Youth aid has been a matter of some concern, both to the people who receive it and to the people who don’t like it. To those of us enabled to pay a portion of our way through college by virtue of N. Y. A., the youth program of aid is a necessity which must be continued. There is no definite assurance that N. Y. A. will be with us next year; in fact, there’s an even chance that it won’t. Unfortunately, youth aid, along with relief in gen eral, has been sucked into the muddy vortex of polit ical issues. As the Dell has pointed out, youth aid is an economic issue with more dire implications than either party would care to face. As such, it is out of the class of partisan politics. In order to insure youth aid as a permanent gov ernmental policy, the American Youth Act was intro duced into Congress last year. It provides, if passed, permanent machinery for the continuation of aid, inde pendent of the national election, the budget, and ward--, heeling party politics. It is the only social security measure concerning youth of any magnitude before Congress. It is to the interest of the student especially to net on this measure by demanding action from the senator or representative from his district. For, under the present uncertainty, next year N. Y. A. may be relegated to a political shroud. IF THE WRITER OF A recent unsigned letter will make his identity known we will be glad to pub lish it and investigate the condition which he describes. The Collegian invites all communications and, if de sired, will withhold the identity of the writer, but we cannot print. letters without knowing ourselves who ■wrote them. Royal Rushing Ray Pope, Phi Psi, decided that as a climax for their rushing season, they would show the freshmen some life. He arranged to take a group of about twenty rushoes through Rockview pen. Everything was going fine and Ray had gotten to speech no. 23 (“and all Phi Psi, etc.”) when he came to the big cell block. . Right in the middle of of his speech he was ■interrupted by a voice sailing through the bars say ing, “Hi-yuh, Popey, what’rc you doing here? There’s a bunch of us Franklin guys up here.” The fact that more freshmen pledged fraterni ties this year than last will be used to prove that the depression is over; that the freshmen this year are smarter than last year; that the freshmen this year are dumber than last year; and a thousand other things, but we have our own opinion and offer the following resolutions for next year’s rushing code: 1. Fraternities will not be allowed to use lead pipes exceeding three feet in length and one inch in thickness. ..rruncis H. Szymczak *3B Jerome Weinstein '3B 2. In lead piping, the overhead swing will be outlawed and the rushers may not take more than a twelve-foot running start in the swing. Mugs and the Jester: Jim Dugan, chief of the Froth's Foolish Gentle men, has finally decided that all the people around here with a sense of humor must read the Collegian and that therefore this paper would be the proper medium for a call for candidates for the Froth staff. Having found that so few could qualify with the pre vious requirements he has drawn up a new set. “All candidates shall have been dropped on their head when -a child. Juniors with an all-college average below ‘l’ in the L. A. school will be given a prefer ence and although the background of a jail sentence is not essential it will help a lot. In case of no jail term as a background, expulsion from high school, prep school, or any college can he substituted. Sec ond-class Boy Scouts will be considered, but anyone having gained a corporal’s stripes in the R.O.T.C. is automatically out of the running. Two hard knocks on the Froth office door any afternoon after 4 o’clock may bring you the question, ‘Who’3 there?’ and if you have a suitable answer, the door to opportunity will^opeq. Jazz Mania: “Swing music,” according to Leopold Stokowski, “is a conglomerate combination of underlying, vary ing rhythm, with highly syncopated configurations of freely varied melodic derivatives as conceived and ex ecuted spontaneously by individual members of the playing organization without any apparent regard to any previously prepared orchestration.” Now that we know what Eddie Nichols has been talking about all last year we’ll forgive him a stutter or two. Campuseltes Charlie" Swartz and Sybil Hart will announce their engagement next week and plan to be married sometime in February.. . . Our favorite correspond ent writes that it came up heads when Kenny Kagen tossed to see whether he would come, back to school or remain in York, near his summer pash '. . . Our own Ann Very is taking, a course in forging . . . Quote of the Week: Jerry “High Pants” Freuden heim, “I never dress to go out for a date” . . . Shir ley Stack and Sid Jaffe no longer see things the same way . . . No, Harry Henderson and Tom Francis are not out for the Players, despite their nightly trips up to the Auditorium. It’s B. Conford and Gene Wood-, ruff . Norm Halpern, Old Main Bell bus. mgr., is looking for a secretary, for the' Old Main Bell office. She need not be able to type . \ . Banquet Service.. You’ll find the newly enlarged banquet room of the Hotel State Col lege an ideal setting for fraternity, society and for other organization gatherings. THE CORNER unusual WEEK CAMPUSEER —CAMPY GS PENN STATE COLLEGIAN We Women Bv MARION A. RINGER night is one of the real ly good-idea customs of the Penn State women. This year, since a*.l the fresh man women are living downtown, the affair was more of a success than usual. The fraternity women wanted to look out for prospective rushees. Last Sunday night was one time when they could hunt legitimately. This coming Sunday night the freshmen pop in on the upperclass men on campus,’ This puts a dif ferent slant.upon the situation. The 1940 class is not as fraternity-Son scious as last year’s. Let us hc-pe they remain so. The majority of upperclassmen will be in their rooms wailing for the freshmen'to visit them on Sun day night. A more excellent oppor tunity to meet upperclass girls could not be found for the fresh men. They can visit Grange, Mac hall, anil Women’s building and get a good* idea of the atmosphere of each. This is also an excellent time to visit the fraternities.. Some fresh man women will feel timid at the thought of walking boldly into one without Raving been specifically in vited. They should conquer that and visit as many as possible. For thl% is one time when relations will be {almost natural and freshmen won’t get that feeling of being, picked to pieces as at the time of indiscriminate rushing. Both freshmen and upperclass men should talk to as many as pos sible. Don’t" merely exchange names and home towns; draw out some fact establishing personality to en able you to recognize each other again on the campus. There is a rumor about., of a Penn State “Hello” custom. Personally, I’d feel like an inane Tool saying “Hello” to every person I bumped into. So, freshmen and upperclassmen, spill out seme of your personality and get some mutual acquaintances. Mac hall dining commons has al ways been a irproblem. The food question will go on forever, but the seating arrangements can be reme died. Last year the first organized step away from' the helter-skelter scramble for •’"'seats - was gained in .assigned tables. This year a com mittee h’a3 heeK~"woYkingon a plan 1 ,to re-establish Mac ball etiquette and tc acquaint.the large number of new girls with the old girls of the dining hall. There is to be a senior hostess at each table who makes up the rest of the tabic. f£om her own choice. Therein lies the difficulty. There will be a frenzied attempt of all tji© girls to be - seated in their old clique. Fraternities will be able to get together with their senior hos tesses. However, many of these new girls will be seated indis criminately. The old tradition of fraternities having their -squatters’-right sec tion will he removed by changing the situation of the tables once a month. It is to be the duty of each hostess to direct the course of con versation to higher planes and for bid all spoon-flipping of water. A foods and dining commons committee of three,'Gelsie Ferdin and, Rose Nudo,.and Jean Ccusley,’ will take charge of all food com-;, plaints and requests for the dining 1 hall for dances. These girls are to be contacted directly and they will discuss with Mrs. Johnson any complaints or business matters. The plan has good points and the success of it can be determined after a trial of two weeks at the most. For the benefit of all women’s fraternities who are in doubt about the Panhellenic ruling for contacting freshmen women: All personal contacts are posi tively forbidden until the period of indiscriminate rushing. In other words, it is a violation of the rush ing code if you are detected in the act of visiting freshman women. Big sisters arp the only fratern ity women permitted to contact the freshmen. They are to be sure to see only their little sisters. 2 PACKS FOR 29c” REA Takes Mother Role Beatrice Conford ’37 Again, Miss Conford plays the part of the mother, this time in the Players’ first production of the sea son, “Personal Appearance.” State Tax Asked For Building Use No Permission Granted to Any Organization for Events Without Permit A tax amusement permit is re quired by a law passed by the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania in order for an organization to sponsor any public affair in any of the college buildings, regardless of whether or not an admission is charged. Permis sion will not be granted for the use of the building until this $l.OO tax is paid ami the permit issued. The application must be presented to the office of the Department of Grounds and Buildings at least two weeks before the proposed date for the function, as that length of time is required to gain the permit. Approval Required The use of college facilities for public meetings, entertainments and dances is limited to events sponsored by a department of the college or by a chartered student organization. Any exception to this policy must have the approval of the assistant to the President in charge of business and finance. Public meetings, entertainments and dances to be held-in the Audi torium, the Armory, Recreation hall, or the lounges of Old Main must be approved by the department head, in case the event is sponsored by a de partment of the College, or by. the committee on Student Welfare, in case the event is sponsored by a stu dent organization. Permission must also be received from the custodian ■of the building, and the Department cf Grounds and Buildings. Applica tions for such authorization must be made in triplicate on - forms which can be obtained from the offices of the Dean of Men, the Den'll q£ Wom e.n. and .the Department of Grounds and Buildings. Custodian Must Approve Custodian’s approval in the case of these buildings must be obtained from the director of music for the use of the Auditorium, the director of physical , education for, the use of Recreation hall, the" manager of Stu dent Union for the use of the lounges in Old Main",’ and the professor of military science and, tactics for the use.of the Armory. .Meetings on the campus grounds must be approved by the superintendent of the Depart ment of Grounds and'Buildings. * Rooms in other buildings on the campus will be assigned by the cus todian ,of the Building (ordinarily the Dean having jurisdiction-over the building), who shall immediately no tify Student Union. Rooms for single meetings in Old Main, other than the lounges, will be assigned by'the man ager of Student Union. Rooms in Old Main for more extended use will be assigned by the Student Union with the /approval of the superintendent of the Department of Grounds and Buildings. Journalism Students Set Enrollment Mark The highest enrollment in the his tory of tho department of journalism ihas registered this fall, Prof. Frank lin C. Banner, head of the department ‘revealed today. A total, of 367 stu dents have enrolled, an increase of 6? over last semester. [ Professor Banner expected that more students would be enrolled by 1 the end of the week. The number of Journalism students has risen stead lily'since the inception of the depart ment in 1930. Journalism courses have been taught here since 112, how ever. In 1932 journalism students totaled 179, but in 1932-33 the number rose to 220 the first semester and to 264 the second. In 1934 273 were entered [the first semester and 286 the sec ond, while in 1935 the numbers were 291 and 297. CINEMANIA “Lady Be Careful,” a modified screen version of the salty musical, “Sailor Beware,” plays at .the Cath aum tonight with Lew Ayres, hjary Carlisle, Larry Crabbe and some oth er- people. It’s sort of" a'nautical thing which can’t decide whether to be naughty or not about a bunch of sailors on a battleship having gobs of fun in Uncle Sam’s big, new navy. It seems that the original script of the play was a bit too risque -for the public decency people who protect our morals and whatnot, so the spice has been eliminated from tho orig inal and the remainder is a sort of a funny movie" about a romance be tween a shy, young sailor and gal from Panama called Jackson for obvious reasons. Most of it is pretty good farce. There is also a nice battleship. “Ramona” switches to the Nittany tonight in a blaze of technicolor. Tomorrow, “The Last of the Mo hicans” comes to . the Cathaum. James Fenimore Cooper’s most famous leatherstocking tale has been trans-. lated into motion. The cast consists of Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes and Henry Wilcoxon. We remember these long dull tales of Cooper, which seemed full of dreary wastes of words and wildernesses of descrip tion. Occasionally there was a good,' hearty burning "at the.. stake from which the victim was usually rescued in the nick of time, or a cliff scene; with people falling into gorges or be ing chased through the bushes by veiling .redskins. James Fenimore Cooper was a sort of ponderous fellow who romanticized about the struggles of .the Whites and Americans in a very dull fashion indeed. But the cinema seems torhave done something with the book, which probably is a classic in its own way. It takes a few Hollywood ideas to get a little thrill in such weighty ro mance,'and between the two extremes, something approaching a colorful prcduction is achieved. The last of the Mohicans, incidentally, is ENN QTATE JThoto uhop 212 East College Ave. State College Once a Trial,' Always a Customer at - ' THE COLLEGE VALET SERVICE 113 E, Beaver Ave, DIAL 2403 ,' “Well Pressed Is Well Dressed” Friday, September 25, 1938 Faculty Mag Secure A. A. Books Now Faculty athletic books for the, first semester have been placed on sale at the A. A. ticket windows, and will continue until Saturday noon, October 3. The cost for a single • book will be $7.98, the price. including the state and federal taxes. Married, faculty:members may get an "addi tional. book for 98 cents to cover the taxes, the total charge for the two Books being $8.96. The’"first semester book includes admission to the following football games: \ Muhlenberg, Villanova, and Bucknell; Susque hanna, Lafayette, and West Virgi nia. basketball games; Western Maryland in boxing; and Chicago’ in wrestling., - nificent scenes' keeps floating before"’ tfte eyes. There", are more night club artists than you- could shake a cock- tail'at. \ • •- -. *; Having , successfully worked the plan'last'Monday, night of playing' “Swing .Time” in the Nittany. toVtake care'-.of.'.the rush, 'the local-manage ment; will- take the \same precautions' Monday'’night. . AWjirict 'olhcu.llibti6. |