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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
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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 <still
alive up in Connecticut somewhere
looking for a squaw. He claims pure
descent from the sachems, wants, a
pure-blooded Indian wife, and this is
no publicity gag.
Another of the public enemy series,
“Sworn Enemy” plays at the Nittany
tomorrow, with Robert Young, Lewis
Stone and Florence Rice, It is a mel
odrama of the underworld, with guys
taking raps for other guys, 'molls,
gats, and Nat Pendleton, who plays
Sandow. the strong man in:
“The Qreat Ziegfeld,” which comes
to the Cathaum Monday. This super
stupdenous - colossal*, extravaganza
runs three and one quarter' hours so
bring your lunch. Although the local
management has not decided on a
schedule for the picture, the regular
time will be changed to accomodate
the unusual length of the show .
This thing is. too colossal to de
scribe. There are hordes of people, all
doing “numbers.” Everybody is a star
with countless well-known ..names
such as Fanny Brice, William Powell;
Luise Rainer, Myrna Loy, Virginia
Bruce, ad infinitum. A series of mag^
Come to the
Music Room
•. and
Hear Your Lucky Strike Hit
Parade Tunes on Records.
FALL DAYS ARE KODAK DAYS
There’s Something: New Around Every Corner
DAILY KODAK SERVICE
The T>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.
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