Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887 Published svmLweeMy during the College year, except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvania State College, in the interest of tnc College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends. NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE. INC. Chicago—Boston—San Francisco—Los Angeles—Portland—Seattle Applied for entry as second class matter at the State College Post Office, THE MANAGING BOARD JOHNSON BRENNEMAN ’B7 Editor E. TOWNSEND SWALM '37 Managing Editor PHILIP S. HF.ISLER '37 News Editor \V. ROBERT GRUBB '37 Sports Editor RICHARD LEWIS '37 Feature Editor MARION A. RINGER *37 Women’s Editor M. WINIFRED WILLIAMS '37 Women’s Managing Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Woodrow* W. Bierly ’3.1 Fronds H. Szymczak ’3B • Jeromo Weinstein ’33 Charles 11. Wheeler jr. *3B ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Jay 11. Daniels *3B Carl IV. Diehl ’3B Robert E. Elliott jr. ’3B Kathryn M. Jcnni>gs ’3B Robert S. McKclvcy ’3B John G. Sabclla ’3B WOMEN’S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Shirley R. Helms *3S Georgia H. Powers ’3B Caroline Tyson *3B 1036 Member 193 7 Associated GoUeesiafe Press Distributors of GblleSiafe Di6est Managing Editor This Issue.—. News Editor This Issue— - —. Tuesday, October 20,1936 THE LETTER BOX To the Editor May I add from the wilderness an unwelcome word to the choral shouting about athletics at our College? I am an alumnus, an alumnus intensely proud of having been graduated by the College. And I find that I share with other prideful alumni a view about the athletics situation that hasn’t been much expressed. We came to the College because it had a fine repu tation as an educational institution. And when we were graduated we found that we had a deep respect for it, and that we were boastful about being part of it be cause we came to know its real strength and power as a citizen-making apparatus. We think it is great be cause of its teachers, its campus, its laboratories, and its students—yen, even because of the violated privacy of the Penn State Jessies’ stomachs. We think it has really great teachers and that it has done grand service to the world in its laboratories and its classrooms. This Penn State, you see, is the one we’re proud of, and the one we want people to know as our Alma Mater. But we find that in the hubbub of the last few years that this isn’t the Penn State that lots of people are hearing about. They hear rather about Nate Cartmell leaving and about the alumni drive that got Hugo Bez dek and about how we ought to get a good football team and how we ought to keep tossing coaches out until we do. In brief, our complaint is that far too much good time and attention— studentca, faculias, et alumni —is being wasted on a business that is at best a side alley off the main streets of the College’s purposes. We find our College invidiously compared with Pitt, ‘Notre Dame, Villanova, Bucknell, and such be cause their football teams can lick the pants off ours, while as educational institutions they don’t touch our own College. We find that the clear-cut non-subsidization policy of the College is being undermined by sneaking in through the back doors of fraternities, and that the whole purpose of College athletics—to cultivate the old sound body for transporting the old sane mind—is be ing forgotten" because Bucknell can buy a better foot ball team. We find that the natural loyalty and helpfulness of alumni is being drained off into playing nursemaid to every high school kid who has snakey football hips, while, for example, the library, a far more accurate in dex of the greatness of a university, is allowed to struggle along in deep inadequacy without an audible alumnus chirp. And we remember, too, how this athletics busi ness can destroy a college as an educational agency. Don’t get the idea we dislike a good football team.- But if Max Schmeling wins the heavyweight title we wouldn’t think that the U. S. is thereby automatically relegated to a place beside Lichtenstein as a nation. And it’s ditto about Penn State if Lebanon Valley takes a football game. It seems to me a lot more important for the College to be concerned about the five or* six hundred guys who play their own football in local vacant lots every night rather than to worry and spend thousands of dollars on a bunch of fifty who would be better off as men if they had more time to do things besides practice football. I write about football especially because it is the glaring example, but the same goes about the placing of some sort of decent logical emphasis on all the other intercollegiate sports. And if gate receipts fall off, let them. The College can put provision for proper sports in its budget. That’s its job. It doesn’t need to run a semi-pro athletic circus in order to keep itself decently equipped to do its work. I don’t think we are alone in our feeling about the athletic situation; There are certainly a good many of us who don’t go to alumni meetings in the various cities to express interest in the College because we don’t care about football forums. And it’s time we put in our two bits worth. Sincerely yours, Quote of the Week “Harsh tho’ il may be to Mr. Bezduk, and others in similar roles, it looks like Penn State and Wiscon sin have found the answer to their football perplexi ties! Two cooks arc said to, have spoiled more than, one broth!”—Excerpt from the column, “Probing tho News” in the Pennsylvanian after the Muhlenberg ALAN L. SMITH ’37 Business Manager KENNETH W. ENGEL *37 Advertising Manager PHILIP A. SCHWARTZ *37 Promotion Manager GEORGE W. BIRD *B7 Circulation Manager IRWIN ROTH ’37 Foreign Advertising Manager JEAN C. HOOVER ’37 Secretary REGINA J. RVAN ’B7 Women's News Editor Unfinished Business: Harry Henderson started it all with a little para graph in his “Proofreader” column in the last Froth when he nominated the Clearfield Progress for assi- ninity for some reason or other. In the last issue, under the caption, “Journalistic Brew,” Campy ran part of the Progress' retort to Froth as printed under the heading, RASberries.” Richard A. Stewart cx-’39 (Get it?) ended this vi tuperative Bronx-jecr at Froth and Henderson’s nomination with the punch line: “I read the Colle gian.” (Harry Henderson may be remembered by some of you as having had something to do with the Collegian last year). If the thing had ended there . . . but, no! Norm “Hczy” IJalprin, jittery business manager of the Bell, saw the Progress' article, gasped at the free publicity ‘ accruing to Froth and Collegian, and immediately took steps to get the Bell in on the gravy. Hastily and nervously, Hczy dictated a letter to his secre taries asking, “Where’s Clearfield?” Here Hczy made a slight mistake. In his at tempt to get the Progress to say something nasty about the Bell, he sent his letter to Jack Rowles, Froth editor ’35 and now reportorial stooge on the .Clear field Republican, which paper is a bitter enemy of the Progress. Excerpts from Rowles’ answer to Halprin follow: My Dear Mr. IJalprin: ...Francis H. Szymczak ’3B Woodrow W. Bierly ‘3B You’re cockeyed . . . I'm delivering your letter to the proper libelee, who may do with it as he pleases . . . What’s it all about—the Henderson crack in Proofreader? . . . Froth editors took an awful beat ing in the defense article ... Paradoxically, this week ly is a Democratic paper and always has been. That's something you didn’t know about Clearfield. Anyway things must be on the up and up with the Bell. I can remember when a business manager with a stenographer was a museum piece (Ed. note: was?) . . . Give my love to Lewis, and never, never again address me as the Editor of the Progress, be cause I really am’t. Progress is asinine . . . Froth editors are more asinine . . . Collegian is swell (advt.) . . . Ex-Col legian. editor Henderson is asinine . . . Where’s Clearfield? . . . Republican reporters are Progress editors .. . Progress is Republican .. . Republican is Democratic . . . Please, Major Bowes, the Bell! Be Sure Your Sins, etc., Dept.: We had forgotten all about it until we got the following curt note in yesterday’s mail: ■* Yeh, I know that I owe you a buck and a half. TRY AND GIT IT ! I I Remember the dirty write-up ya gave me last year? Hch, hell, heh .. . Regular readers of this column will have no trou ble placing that despicable abnegator of lawfully con tracted debts as none other than the Sex Crazed Wombat of Brazil, Frank H. Hilgartner, cx-Froth ed itor ’36. And in reply to Mr. Hilgartner we wish to • say that unless he remits $1.50 IMMEDIATELY wq*; will tell an eager world just WHAT HE BORROW ED THAT MONEY FOR! OLD MANIA Hoping you flunk out of school, I remain lov- Carrick’s Favorite Son Heh, heh, heh, yourself, Mr. Hilgartner. . —THE MANIAC THE PENN STATE 'COLLEGIAN Pine Conifer Display Exhibited at Library The current exhibit at the College library is a display of conifers. The cones in all shapes and sizes were col lected from the various parts of the United States, and a few from other countries. The exhibit is a pi-oject of the vis ual instruction classes of Prof. Oliver P. Medsger, of the teacher training extension. Il is used as a demonstra tion of the method for setting up school or college exhibits. The speci mens were colleced on the campus, in the mountains cast of State College, and from the private collection of Professor Medsger which he has been accumulating for years. There is a cone at least eighty years old from the cedar of Lebanon, origionally collected in Lebanon by a missionary. There are cones from the Abe Lincoln tree, a sequoia gigantea, and from the General Sherman tree of the same species, the largest and oldest tree of California. One section of the exhibit is devoted to the nut pines, whose seeds arc used for eat ing purposes. CINEMANIA Tonight, “The Big Broadcast of 1937” plays at the Cathaum. This su per.musical stars Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Bob. Burns, Martha Ray. Featured are Benny Goodman’s hot outfit and Leopold Stowkowsky’s symphony. Story is comparatively in significant. Mainly dancing, singing and comedy, with a couple of new gags, hot jazz and symphonic num bers intermingled. At the Nittany tonight, another Gaumont British production, under the dramatic title “Everything is Thunder” comes to town and remains over tomorrow’. Constance Bennett, Douglass Mont gomery play the parts of a beautiful German girl and a dashing British officer respectively in a war-time saga with high romance. Montgom ery, as the story goes, kills a sentry to escape a German prison camp and flees to Berlin. He is picked up by Anna (Constance Bennett) whe thinks him a fugitive from a front line trench gang. They fall in love and are saved by the self-sacrifice of Anna’s former lover. . Kay Francis* and George Brent are together again., in “Give Me Your Heart” whiqh is on tomorrow at the Cathaum. Kay. Francis is a mother less English-.igirl who has been brought up bjr ; her scientist father and acquiyed a taste’, for the gay life. Georgel-Brent is : an American business man. Burton Rowles, Jr. Kay falls in love with a British nobleman whose wife is an invalid and becomes the mother of his child. She gives up the child at birth so that he can inherit Kis father’s title-Then Kay Francis marries George Brent and tries to forget her former by becoming a socialite. Cast also in cludes Roland Young. Comes to the Nittany Thursday. If looks like pro-British week with another GB production playing at the Cathaum Thursday. George Arliss, the grand old gent of many a fine pic ture, has been residing in England recently making “East Meets West.” Arliss plays East and lovely Lucie Mannheim plays West, and the twain meet. Arliss is the suave Sultan of Rungny, whose’ little dominion is a buffer between "a great colonizing pow er and.another Eastern power. The jewel-bedecked! plot develops when the Sultan’s son, also an Aryan, falls in love with somebody else’s wife. After a series of entanglements, his suavity, the Sultan of Rungay, man ages to stick the British and the other colonizing power for ten million dol lars, the husband and wife are unit ed, and the sutanate remains a buff er between two great colonizing pow ers. I See the New 1937 Chevrolet Saturday, Nov. 7 at McClellan Chevrolet Co. 1000 East College Ave. State College EVERY NIGHT THIS WEEK ; BEGINNING. OCTOBER 19, . ■ i we will feature ! CHICKEN AND WAFFLES Mashed Potatoes, Stewed Corn, Baked Apple, Pudding or Ice Cream 40c ALL THE EXTRA WAFFLES YOU CAN EAT BURKEY’S DINER 110 East College Avenue Scarab Begins Series Of Monthly Lectures This.'* year Scarab Architectural Fraternity is inaugurating a series of lectures relative to architectural topics that will be held monthly in Room 107, Main Engineering build ing, at 7:30 o’clock. Student Union To Hold Dance on Sat. Night The first Student Union dance of the year will be hold Saturday night CAMPUS BULLETIN The Sophomore seminar will meet in room 405, Old Main, at 7 o’clock. John H.' Ferguson will discuss “Mod ern Political Trends.” Freshman women’s discussion ser ies will be continued in Room 302, Old Main. Harry Seamans, P. S. C. A. sec retary, will discuss “What Do Stu dents Really Want?” All those interested in coming out for the business staff of the Bell may report to Room 412 this after noon at 4 o’clock. Students desiring to sit in the Penn State Club section for the House party football game should turn in their AA tickets at Student Union office before 5 o’clock. Red Wing Bird Club will meet at 7 o’clock in Room 35, Education Build ing. Varsity rifle team will meet at the Armory at 7:30 o’clock. Chess Club will meet in Room 418 Old Main, at 7:30. Dr. C. A. Rupp will discuss the Allgaier Gambit. TOMORROW Freshman commission will meet in Hugh Beaver room at 7 o’clock to nominate officers for the year. All members are urged to be present. Phi Lamba Sigma, pre-legnl hon orary society, will hold a smoker at Beta Theta Pi fraternity at 8:30 o’clock. All pre-legal students are in vited. Attorney Edward Willard ’27 will discuss “Problems Relating to Students in Law School.” Fraternity presidents will moot at Sigma Nu fraternity at 7 o’clock. Dean Arthur R. Warnock is the speak- All interested in the study of Bible history will meet in Room 407, Old Main, at 7 o’clock. Camera Club will meet in Room 418, Old Main, at 7 o’clock. Ralph Cohen ’39 will discuss “Microphoto graphy.” THURSDAY Louise Homer club is sponsoring a series of musicales at the Presby terian church every second Thursday night. Lcs Sabreurs will meet in the Ar mory for fencing and a'short business session at 7:30 tonight. Advertising committee of the Play-! ers will meet in the Player’s office j at 7:30 tonight. New applicants are. invited to attend. Interfraternity .Council will meet in Room 405, Old Main, on Thursday at 7:30 o’clock. MISCELLANEOUS Second assistant manager candidates for the swimming team will report to the Athletic Association office. ! Tickets for the Students Union dance are now on sale a Student Union office. For Courteous, Efficient Service Cassidy’s Barber and Beauty Shop Permanents . . $2.75 to $5 DIAL 3194 in Recreation hall. Bill. Bottorf’s band will play from 9 until 12 o’- clock. Customs for freshman will be lift ed for the affair, Joseph M. Bray *37, president of Tribunal, has announced. It has not yet been determined wheth er the freshman women will be given a free 1 o’clock that night. Co-Edits Harriet L. Lamb ’36, president of Kappa Alpha Theta, gave a tea for the presidents of'the.women’s frater- For the Social Season ... - ” ” ‘ Enjoy ike Satisfaction ~ ~ Tailored Tuxedo Styled for MODERATE PRICES. It fits The MAN WHO WANTS TO LOOK Handsome. Select Your Tuxedo Now at Smith’s Tailor Shop PRESSING,.CLEANING AND REPAIRING 110 East Beaver Avenue Call 2162 FALL BOOK NOTES The tough boys are at it again!- With THE TALLONS, by Wil liam March, and 'Faulkner’s ABSALOM coming up, the South is in for another hard season. . THE'TALLONS is guaranteed to give you the same kind of hangover you had from SANCTUARY— if you got one—for March dips his- pen into the same can of anae sthetic used by Faulkner. Or, possibly, Faulkner and Erskine Cald well wrote this book in collaboration with-March, George .Milburn helping occasionally, providing low-comcdy relief'during some of the more morbid moments. . • The central theme of THE TALLONS is jealousy, and Andrew and Jim Tallon plus Myrtle Bickerstaff form the menage that is wrecked by the horrible conflicts arising from the hatred of the two brothers in their love for the same-woman. The murder which comes off has a distinct Russian flavor. March is not yet a Dostoyevsky but he may some day. write a very important novel. THE TALLONS gives every indication that he will. (350 pages, $2.50. A Random House book) . • Lincoln Stoffrens wrote a book shortly before he died— LINCOLN STEFFENS SPEAKING will be published on October 29th at $2.50. His famous AUTOBIOGRAPHY now sells for $1.09. Note to local Swing fans: Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong has writ ten a book. .We haven't seen it yet but if some ghost hasn’t made a stock arrangement of it SWING THAT MUSIC will be a natural, be cause the great Louis writes the way he sings—we refer you to his introduction to LE JAZZ HOT. Satchmo tells the story of Swing in America, the publisher tells us, in terms of his own rise from newsboy and reform school inmate to one of the world’s greatest hot artists. Ho also includes scores written by eight famous American Swing artists, each showing how he handles a given melody. In addition, there is an original Swing number written by Armstrong and Horace Gerlach. -Rudy Valleo predicates SWING' THAT MUSIC by contributing an introduction but that probably won’t take up much of your time. Ready Novem ber-4th, $2.50. « KEELER'S * Cathaum Theatre Building Tuesday, October 20,1936 nities Saturday afternoon. Alpha Chi Omega held a formal tea for transfer students on Sunday afternoon. Jean Mclntyre ’33 spent the week end qt the Kappa Kappa Gamma house. Arlene Weaver '3B visited the Gam ma Phi Beta house for the week-end. if . * * State College
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