Page Twci PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887 THE MANAGING BOARD JOHNSON BRENNEMAN ‘37 ALAN L. SMITH ’37 Editor Business Manager E. TOWNSEND SWALM *37 KENNETH W. ENGEL ’37 Manuring Editor Advertising Manager PHILIP S. HEISLER ‘37 PHILIP A. SCHWARTZ ’37 News Editor Promotion Manager W. ROBERT GRUBB ’37 GEORGE \V. BIRD *37 Sport* Editor Circulation Manager RICHARD LEWIS '37 IRWIN ROTH ’37 Feature Editor Foreign Advertising Manager MARION A. RINGER ’37 JEAN C. HOOVER *37 Women’s Editor Secretary M. WINIFRED WILLIAMS ‘37 REGINA J. RYAN *37 Women’s Managing Editor Women's News Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Woodrow W. Bierly '33 Francis H. Sr.vmc7.nk ’3S- Jerome Weinstein ’33 Charles M. Wheeler jr. '3S ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Joy H. Daniels ’IIS Carl W. Diehl ’3B Robert E. Elliott jr. ’IIS Kathryn M. Jcnoixgs *33 Robert S. MsKelvey '3B John G. Snbella ’IIS WOMEN’S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Shirley R. Helms ’33 Georgia 11. Powers ’3B Caroline Tyson ’3B Managing Editor This 155ue...... News Editor This Issue Friday, October 9, 1936 GENTLEMEN AND SCHOLARS (Continued from pat/e one) Earle was the guest of the town and of President Hetzel. That alone should have been assurance of ev ery possible courtesy. But as the Governor of Pennsyl vania even more regard was due him. It also seems unnecessary to mention the effect it is likely to have upon this College’s appropriation at the next session of the Legislature. George H. Earle is a gentleman. It is not likely that he will allow his per sonal feelings—whatever they may be—to color his at titude as Governor toward Penn State. While he can not help but feel hurt at his reception, we are certain that it will not influence any decision that he may make regarding this College. On Monday night Penn Slate’s students disgraced themselves. They perhaps placed in jeopardy the State’s appropriation to their College. But they did something more serious than either of these. IN HIS term as Governor, George H. Earle has proved that he is a champion of freedom and liberty. Any open-minded citizen or student, regardless of his polit ical beliefs, will admit that fact. He has denounced teachers’ oaths and has, opposed all legislation that seemed likely to stifle academic free- He has announced that the state militia will no longer be used—as it was in the past—as a strike-break- He has fought attempts of the administration of the Mellon-controlled University of Pittsburgh to curb and limit academic freedom there. He has exerted all the powers of his office to pro vide food, clothing, and shelter, for the ; jobless in the State. • He is a representative of the first political party to attempt to do anything for the youth of this nation. And for the man who has done and who stands for these things Penn State students had nothing hut boos and insults. College students are representative of the higher social and intellectual level. If a speaker can expect a fair and unprejudiced hearing anywhere it should be in a college town before an audience of “gentlemen and scholars.” Yet on Monday night, a fair-sized proportion of these “gentlemen and scholars” demonstrated conclu sively that they were neither. They refused to listen to a man for no other reason than that he "belonged to the wrong side.” They would not allow others to hear him. They interrupted his speech with irrelevant ques tions and when he attempted to answer them would not listen. It is axiomatic that we are living in a period of social and economic change. If that change is to be for the better it will be necessary for those 'who are the leaders to study the problems which they face carefully and critically. Our educational system is supposed to train them to do this. Does anyone who was on Co-op Corner Monday night believe that it does? While it is perhaps true that it was only a minor ity of the students who were active in the booing, it is equally true that it is the active minority that leads any movement—no matter how important. The important thing about Monday night is not that a few students insulted Governor Earle while those about them did nothing to stop it. The important thing to note is that these students proved by their actions that the educational system of which they are a product is failing in its function. “HOW’S THE TEAM?” “How’s the team -look?” will again be the most frequently heard question as returning alumni get into town. Impressing them most, however, will not be the football team itself but the general student attitude toward it. In other years it’s been, “Yeah, they look pretty good in practice, but wait until they hit a team that amounts to something. It’s just going to be too bad.” Students this year ore willing to admit that we’ll probably drop the Pitt game. They know that we’ll go against Penn and Syracuse as the underdogs. But they are confident that this year’s football team is good enough that no opponent will be able to look at it as a breather. ‘ Nor is this attitude due to wishful thinking. The long lean years since 1920 have conditioned the stu lent body here to have no illusions about their football teams. Their usual errors are on the side of pessimism. If John J. Student ’37 admits that Penn State has a good football team this year, there is a good possibil- Seein’ Things For the past four years now I’ve been wondering about those fellow’s who are apparently surveying the campus . . . wondering what they were doing, what they saw, and just wondering in general. Well, the enigma has been solved, for as I was walking down the front campus the other day one of the tripods was set up near the walk and I saw one fellow looking through the instrument, another fellow taking down notes, and a few others crowded around. After hesi tatingly deciding that I would brave the stares of the engineers. I walked over to the group and heard the fellow who was doing the looking call out to the fel low wlio was doing the scribbling:. Height—s’3” Neck—l 2.2 Bust—36 Waist—24 Ankle— 5. Woodrow W. Bierly ’3B Charles M. Wheeler, jr. '33 In the mad scramble I finally did get a peek and sure enough, there was lola Murray strutting across the walk in front of Old Main. Surveying is a great thing. Quips of the week honors go to Drs. Werner and Alderfer. Werner was droning on in his dry mono tone in which so many of his dry crocks are buried when he pulled, “London’s most famous work was ‘The Call of the Wild.’ It was put on the stage and on the screen. In the silent version Rin Tin Tin was starred and the talkie version had Clark Gable.” Dr. Alderfer, back from an extended trip, vented this odorous cpigi’am, “In Boston they live on baked beans and in Long Island they live on the sound.” But before you go forming any high opinions about our faculty there’s another story you should hear. It seems that an attorney from Hahvahd, don’t you know, was visiting the campus this week, and having some time to kill he.ambled (all hahvahd men amble) into the Registrar’s office and inquired, “Could you tell me, dear lady, whether or not there is a class being conducted this hour by any nationally known professor that I could visit?” The clerk thought a moment and then confessed that there was none. The Hahvahd man spent the afternoon visit ing the cow barns. Our own Sports Editor just back from the Slate Belt thought he would glim the gridiron greensward when up jumps Jack McLaughlin, first assistant manager and clamorously cries that no common peo ple are allowed on the field when the team is prac ticing. Ye ed immediately implores his friends to establish his identity as not one of the common herd and everything was fine until he challenged us. I still maintain that the best broken field run ning at Saturday’s game was done by the Blue Band. Nancy Fletcher: Please deny or affirm the rumor .that that picture .which you had taken. Wednesday evening was for a application for a position as a Liq uor Lounge hostess . . . When the history depart ment congratulated the Collegian in class for not printing anything about the Earle speech ICathleen Noerr laughed and laughed because she knew the Col legian, was printed before the speech was made . . . And then there is the old, old saying “the Bez is none too good” . . . Marion Ringer’s portrait graces the most prominent part of Walt Peterson’s desk... the Chi O’s got their plaque back . . . the thief was a kappa sig . . . Then there was the Pi K. A. who, when he was losing too much money in a poker game the other night and didn’t want to he a piker and quit, called up the president of the house and im personating the Dean of Men demanded that the poker game be cancelled . . . Aside to the Daily Half Colyumist—stop it, you have us all crazy reading the ads looking for something funny . . . The Mug and Jester sadly laments the innocence of the students since there are so few hellraisers to supply column items . . . we too . . . Hugh Ralston predicts the score, Penn State 33, Villanova 6, with the Wildcats get ting their only goal in the third quarter . . . The main reason for playing Muhlenberg this year was to get revenge at their coach who rubbed it in when they defeated the Lions three years ago and now when the Lions did wallop them they wore under a new coach See you at the Collecl\n dunce . . . CAMPUSEER * / -■ ——— nr TTTMSELV r + + + Faculty Minds ♦ + ♦ Gridiron Groa.ns + + + Addenda: Alumni... Make it a point some time this week - end to visit the new room at The Corner. On its walls are pictures of Penn State “greats,” many of whom you know. You will be interested in see ing them. The Comer THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Letter Box The Idler in Tuesday's Collegian was written by It. Edward Dinnnick To the Editor Enlightened educators and psychol ogists of today have been telling the ncn-collegian world that the average college student of today has become more intellectually alive and alert to local, national and international problems. He is no longer the rah rah boy of F. Scott Fitgerald days, living a life of gin and gyrations. In short, our college boys is now serious minded. Perhaps this newly enlightened group of young hopefuls was not present, on Monday evening when Governor Earle spoke at Penn State. At least they were very much in the minority. Gathered instead was a mob, dominated by a group of unbe lievably crude and stupid morons, who proceeded to insult the Govern or, embarrass the College and insult their own. intelligence'and breeding by a demonstration of the most des picable kind. Grant that many peo ple do not like the Governor either politically or personally—grant fur ther that we as citizens have a right to express our disagreement,—.does *hat-excuse such a scene of booing and hissing and thoroughly disgust ing conduct as to make Penn State Jessie blush in her grave? The facts are: 1. Earle was elected by a majority in 1934 and will continue his four year term as given by the people of this state. Under those circumstances, he is due all respect and honor natur ally forthcoming to that high office. It is therefore this disrespect of the lowest type to act as the Penn State students did Monday night. 2. Although the Governor may not veto bills for further appropriation to Penn State, after that demonstra tion of stupidity, he will certainly not go out of his way to work for the College’s best interests. Yet even so Mr. Earle shouting out thtrough boos and other animalistic noises pledged hin.self to work for the College’s best interests. Those persons responsible may not be representative of the entire stu dent body, we hope,-yet it Is amaz ing to have' to recognize such ele ments in our college. May we hope that we have seen the last of such stupidity and puerile demonstrations. • Edward T. Binns Milton D. Moore ' Harry W. Reed To the Editor: Penn State Jjpirit! To the' Governor of the Common wealth this is bound to mean a gross ly unsporting attitude,—the same at titude which at athletic meets in re cent years has lead to the booing of referees when they have been forced R. F. STEIN MOTOR CO. GULF GAS & OIL STORAGE 121 S. Burrowcs, Phone 252 W. H. Marshall electrical Contractor Distributors for LINK-BELT STOKERS East Beaver Avenue The ,gg|j|DEN Special Breakfast~2sc Special Luncheon—3oc Fruit or Fruit Juices Meat Vegetables Bacon and Eggs Roll Beverage Toast Coffee Home-made Pie GEO. L. SMITH’S POWDER PUFF BARBER AND BEAUTY SHOPPE + + + TWELVE SPECIALISTS BEAUTY CRAFT IN ALL BRANCHES + + + Pioneer Shop Est. 1920 Dial 2201 107 Allen St. State College, Pa. unusual CINEMANIA “Two in a Crowd, 1 ' -with Joan Ben nett and Joel McCrea plays at the Cathaum theater tonight. The story deals with two people who find torn halves of a thousand dollar bill and turn out to be Joel McCrea and Joan Bennett. Neither of them can get very far without the other in this case. The complications resulting jausc comedy. “Dodsworth,” ithe Sinclair Lewis novel that has been adapted both to the stage and screen, plays at the Nittany tonight. The cinemania ver sion was adapted by Sidney Howard, who also prepared the stage play. Walter Huston recreates Sam Dods worth for the’ screen as he did for the play. .Ruth Chattcrton is Fran Dodsworth. The capt also includes Paul Lukas, Mary Astor and a not able supporting group. Tomorrow at the Cathaum, Joan Blondell, Warren William, Frank McHugh and the Yacht Club boys have fun in “Stage Struck.” i It’s about a complex situation that de velopes backstage when the angel be hind a broadway show insists on in cluding in the cast a female blue beard who has kille’d enough husbands to give her publicity rating. The dame breaks up the show. It all ends when the police run in and lake ev erybody away, or does it? Another of Somerset Maugham’s obscure works has been turned into a screen thtriller and appears at the Nitlany theater tomorrow night, “Isle of Fury,” which is the picturizntion of Maugham’s South Sea novel, “Thiee in Eden.” It is similar in ro mantic structure to his “Ashenden,” a spy story which was retitled in the movie version of “Secret Agent” or something of' the sort. Anyway, it was thrilling enough to keep the 1c- lo call decisions against State play ers. The spirit of fair ploy, of toler ance was sadly lacking on Co-op Cor ner Monday evening. J. P. Kelly The Best Is None Too Good for Our Customers l E KLINE 153 Allen Street Shoe Repairing Shining Granberry & Co. Members of New York Stock Exchange and Other Leading Exchanges Williamsport Telephone 2-4651 FAUL 0. BROSIUS Manager WM. L. SCHREYER CHARLESE. LEWIS Bond Dept. Please feel free to phone at any time for stock quotations or re ports on any stock or bond. cal urchins and young collegians un der control. “Isle of Fury,” as you’ve prooably guessed, is about the South Seas, pearl diving and trtopical ro mance. Monday, “Libeled Lady” with an all-star line-up including Jean Har low, William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Walter Conolly and Myrna Loy comes to the Cathaum. It’s sort of a screen remp, one of these extra special rompers in which everybody, has fun, nobody gets hurt and a lot "happens. PLUMBING AND HEATING Heating Systems Installed + V • 808 TAYLOR DIAL 2722 At Your Dealer Who is SALLY? COOK, THE BUTCHER Alumni! We have the'-materials for uour buffet supper or midnight snack S lIOT. BAKED BEANS g MACARONI SALAD P ' . 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