Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free .Lance, established 1887 Publifthed semi-weekly durimr the College year, except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvania State College, in the interest of the College, the students, faculty, alumni, and friends. NATIONAL ADVERTISING SEP.VICE. 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 '37 ALAN L. SMITH '37 Editor Business Manager E. TOWNSEND SWALM ’37 KENNETH W. ENGEL ’37 Managing Editor Advertising Manager PHILIP S. HEISLER '37 PHILIP A. SCHWARTZ '37 News Editor Promotion Manager W. ROBERT GRUBB '37 GEORGE W. BIRD '37 Sports 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 '35 Francis IL Szvmczok '3B Jcromo Weinstein '33 Charles M. Wheeler jr. ’SB ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Jay H. Daniels '3B Carl W. Diehl '3B Robert E. Elliott jr. '3B Kathryn M. Jcnnogs '3B Robert S. MeKclvey *3B John G. Sabelia '3B WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Shirley R. Helms '3B Georgia 11. Powers '33 Caroline Tyson '3B Managing Editor This Issue... Woodrow W. Blcrly '33 News Editor This Issue.... Francis H. Szymcxnk '3B Friday, October 23, 1936 REMEMBER FRESHMAN CUSTOMS? ONE OF THE mest persistent problems of student government in the past several years has been that of customs and their enforcement. It first presented itself back in the days when the College put on long pants and became known for more than Penn State Jessie, and one of the best paid football teams in the East. Students who came here then were men; or if they weren't they didn't stay long. Class scraps, freshman haircuts, and •similar demonstrations of he-manism were all a part of the program. The student body was fairly small and everyone knew the members of his class. Customs could be rigidly enforced and were. But with the growth of the College, with the in crease of the student body, with the change from a men's to a co-qducational institution, the attitude toward customs changed. They became more difficult to en force and the tyfle of student who began to come here in larger and larger proportions didn’t seem to care particularly whether they were observed or not. First to go were the junior and sophomore cus toms. With these eliminated freshman customs and their enforcement became more and more lax. As happens when almost any sort of a change takens place, the results of this have been both good and had. Perhaps tRe most desirable one has been the resultant break-down of the “Joe College" tradition in which hazing, practical'jokes, and ‘iriterclass fight ing constituted the major activity program for most students. It seems likely that it is wiser, kinder, and more sensible to treat a freshman #s a human being than as a sort of upperclassman’s lackey. But along with this change there has also been a break-down of class solidarity and of student discipline. When a freshman discovers that he can wear cus- toms or not as he pleases and probably escape without penalty, he tends to assume that he can also break oth er rule's with'impunity. And if, as a freshman, he knows customs are not being enforced, he is not very likely, as an upperclassmann, to do very much about seeing that they are carried out the next year. There are those who would place most of the blame for the late lamented Earle episode on members of the freshman class. They would likewise charge first year men with most of the booing that takes place at athletic contests. That seems to be placing a little too much blame on the freshmen, but it, may be true that today’s upperclassmen would behave more like gentle fnen if they had been more severely disciplined during their first year. It is no secret that this year little has been done to enforce customs. Tribunal has met but once and that was merely to grant excuses from regulations. Less than 950 dinks have been sold although there are over 1,200 freshman men here. So far none of 'them have been punished for customs violations. Whether or not customs are necessavy, whether or not the purpose which they are supposed to serve might be accomplished more readily by other means are both questions to which,' at present, there seems to be no conclusive answer. But so long as there are customs and so long as there is no substitute provided for them, then it would appear logical that they be enforced. If they are net going to be, or if they cannot be, then it is time to get rid of them and find something to take their place. AGAIN COME STORIES of local instances of race prejudice. This time it concerns one of two negro students here who discovered that it was impossible for him to get his hair cut by any local barber. Of course there is a state statute prohibiting such discrim- ination, but locally—and in most sections of Pennsyl vania for that matter —it just isn’t enforced. The bar bers themselves can scarcely be blamed. They must look out for their business and they remember that a few years ago a survey here showed that the majority of students here would not patronize a barber shop that served negroes. Write your own comment. TO A RECENT INQUIRER about Steve Hamas; Last winter Steve was running a restaurant in New ark. He quit that and at present we do not know his exact location. The stories about a “sanitarium," how ever, mean as much as most such stories. Nothing. CAMPUSEER Wit Orchids: Bases are full, two men out, here we are at bat, and Prof. Dickson, Art 74 prognosticator, is pitch ing, so you have a faint idea of how we are feeling. It all happened in Art 74 class Wednesday when Dickson began bally-hooing the exhibition of repro ductions of famous paintings that is visiting this campus. In bewailing the fact that students around here arc not culture minded he berated the Colleg gian for not giving the exhibition enough publicity. One thing led to another and he finally got around to the column and then offered the bombshell, “You know what the Collegian needs is a columnist with a little wit.’’ Everything would have been all right but the Maniac was one of those in the class. He confessed later that he had considerable trouble.concentrating on the next two slides after the scallions were tossed. Once again this pillar came to the fore when Miss Haidt gave her annual talk to the Mac hall girls* on the facts of life. After a long list of “Dont’s" she finally summed up her talk with “And girls, don't, don’t, don't ever do anything that will get your name in the column." Clique Quacks: Jumping John Hamilton and Genial Jim Far ley are a bunch of sissies and the national presiden tial campaign looks like a tea party at the Beta house when compared with the political fireworks that are beginning to pop as a few of the smoother boys begin their quest for keys and titles to put, on their LttVic activities card. Dick Clements was the latest balloon to pop and Hezzie Halprin and Fes Tibbott get the credit for the deflating thrust. Clements, you will remember was the one who announced that since he was soph Lo cust Lane clique chairman he was going to be Soph Hop chairman, run for some other office, and gen erally let this campus know who he is. A few nights later a clique meeting was called but Clements failed to appear. At the meeting Clements and a few of his cohorts were tossed out of the office. A few nights later, still unaware that he was no longer the front for the power behind the throne, he attempted to call a clique meeting. Form 3177: Since a birthday comes but once a year, Helen Nokes decided that she would send a birthday greet ing to Gene Decker in New York. Time was fleeting and after she had wasted a pad of Western Union telegram blanks trying to concoct a witty as .well as appropriate greeting, she decided to use one of the fdrm greetings which the telegraph’ company so ef ficiently supplies. After a careful selection she select ed form No. 3177. Up in New York Gene was sleeping blissfully after a night’s celebration of his birthday. By the time 3 a. m. had rolled around, so did the telegram and Gene was hiked out of bed to sign for the tele gram that would bring such happiness into his life. He tore open the envelope, unfolded the paper, and stared at the message. It was as follows, “Gene Deck er, New York City. Form No. 3177.” Campuseeriously Speaking: Latest addition to the Stinker Club: Carl “Stink er" Pohe; Chuck “Stinker” Campbell . . . Vic Buell, after much consideration was chosen as the one to represent what the well dressed Chapel-goer would wear at the Cwen Fashion Show but he confesses that he has never been in chapel in his three long years, up here . . . Someone is bound to make some-. thing of the fact that the new girls’ dormitory is to be built on the Jordan Fertility plots . . . We still like George Donovan’s high school nickname “Little Poison" . . Short Christmas Vacation Cruises On Trans-Atlantic Liners Return to College Belter Prepared for the New Semester + Europa, Leave N. Y. Dec. 26 to Bermuda and Nassau ! $82.50 up Arrive N. Y. Jan. 1 Bcrengaria, Leave N. Y. Dec. 29 to Nassau„s77.oo up Arrive N. Y. Jan. 4 Manhattan, Leave N. Y. Dec. 24 to Nassau, Kingston, Havana $140.00 up Arrive N. Y. Jan. 4 Champlain, Leave Dec. 22 to Nassnu, Porl-au-Princc, Kingston, Havana . $152.00 up Arrive N. Y. Jan. 3 Make your reservations from your local agent but purchase your ticket in your hometown if you wish. + HOTEL STATE COLLEGE TRAVEL BUREAU State College Louetta Neusbaum Dial 733 ALSO APPLY AT STUDENT UNION THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN ‘Farmer’ Publication Offers Radio Prizes With but a few days remaining in the contest sponsored *by the Penn State Farmer , student publication of the School of Agriculture in which three radios will be given as prizes in connection with their subscription, campaign, student interest has reach ed a new high, according to Morris S. Huntzinger, '37, the business manager. The radios, an all-wave Detrola and two Grunows’are on display daily from eight until five in the Farmer office, Room 30S Old Main. Huntzin gcr urged that persons interested in entering the contest open to all students and townspeople do so with out delay by inquiring at Student Union for details. We Women By MARION A. RINGER The Penn State Club is sponsoring a dancing class for freshmen and up perclassmen on Monday nights from 8 o’clock until 9 and on Wednesday nights from 8:30 to 9:30 at Rec Hall. All freshman women are expressly invited to come to the classes. They have been granted permission to at tend every Monday night for the five 1 weeks. This is an excellent chance for girls inexperienced in dancing to be pre pared for the bigger dances. There is a lot of solace in the thought that while you probubly will have your feet trampled on now, you’ll be aiding no end in having better dance part ners for your next three years. For although there arc 4597 boys up here you’ll find only about ten in each thousand who really can dance. This is also one time when you can meet new men without having the customs rommitce tramping on your heels and reporting you to the fresh man council. Since the freshman girls are living in such small groups this year it is difficult for them to get acquainted. Miss Phelps has contributed an ex cellent plan of having the dorms visit other bouses to dance from 6:15 to 7:30 on Monday evenings. Next Mon day evening will start off these visits which will continue until every dorm has met the girls of every other freshman house CINEMANIA The feature attraction this week is the personal appearance of Frances Sage at tomorrow night’s perform- ( anee of the-world premier of “With-; out Order," Pfter B. Kyne romance of the commercial airlines. -' -’ ; - I Off the iot, Frances Sage is Mrs.’ Julius J. Epstein and is visiting State College with her husband Julie and his twin, Phil. The Epstein boys are ’3l and ’32 alumni, Hollywood screen writers for the past two years, and Authors of the Theater Guild play, “And Stars Remain," -which has play ed in Pittsburgh, Washington and New, York on the Guild circuit. I Joan Bennett and Cary Grant 'ap pear in today’s current entertainment at; the Cathaum labeled “Wedding Fresent." The picture is based on a staevepost tale by Paul Gallico. A hardboiled city-editorl a hard boiled visiting archduke, a hardboiled New York gangster and a hardboiled stooge, a hardboiled novel writer and a hardboiled staff of hardboiled news paper people come together in a boiled plot. • • At the Nittany tonight, a return showing of “Rhythm on the Range"! brings .us ‘Bing,Crosby, Marthq .Ray'e, ; Bob'Burns and'his bazooka and Fran ces Farmer. This show was Martha Raye’s first personal appearance; her second was in “The Big Broadcast of 1937" and hei‘ third is in the making. This is the show, incidentally, in which Bing plays cowboy and yodels to a prize bull. Tomorrow at the Nittany stalks “Murder with Pictures," in which “sinister shadows of a terrible crime" hang over Lew Ayres-and Gail Pat rick. The crime was probably making, the picture. The slayer is betrayed by a' photograph. Warner Bros, have shelled out a number of ducats for “Cam and Ma bel,” which plays at the Cathaum Monday and Tuesday, and recent re views indicate that the picture is worth the expense. Clark Gable, aban dons the Hollywood Hussars for an afternoon or two, and becomes a pug by the name of Larry Cain who is slated to take the championship. He loses the fight because liable O’Dare (Marion Davies), who is a.chorus girl, goes into her routine in the room over his and refuses to cease. The picture ends when Clark Gable gets into a fight with his victorious rival and plants a Hollywood right to his chin. M. I. Faculty Picnics The faculty picnic ‘of the School of Mineral, Industries will be held Sat urday afternoon at Greenwood Fur nace, weather permitting. CAMPUS BULLETIN Second assistant manager candi dates for the swimming team report to the A. A. office. Hillel Fellowship speaker, Rabbi E. FischofF, will talk on “There Is No God But Germany.” TOMORROW Freshman Forum members will de part from the corner of Allen and Fairmount at 3 o'clock. In case of rain, meet in the C. A. office. SUNDAY A mixed hike for members and friends of the Penn State Club to the C. A. cabin will leave 321, Old Main, at 2 o’clock. The Wesley League discussion will be “The Bibie and Devotional Books as an Aid in Christian Living.” MONDAY Junior-Sophomore hockey game at A o’clock. TUESDAY Freshman Forum will sponsor ' a panel discussion on “Friends and Room-mates” in the Hugh Beaver room at 7 o'clock. TOBACCO NEWSPAPERS MAGAZINES CANDY Follow the Salient Sifter - + Nittany News WEDNESDAY Senior-Junior hockey game at 4 o’clock. Sophomore sepiinar will hold a cos tume Hallowe’en party in Grange playroom from-7:30 to 9 o’clock. MISCELLANEOUS Seniors who neglected to fill out La Vic activity blanks may insure a listing in the 1937 La Vie by mailing a list of their activities-to 315, Old Main, or Student Union, by October 31. Any activities since September should also be sent in at once. . | Persons having reservations for the Penn State Club section seats for the Syracuse football game may get their tickets at Student Union, Mon- A job ia not finished, until it is done right L. E. KLINE 153 S. Allen Shoe Rebuilding, Shining iBB O. syicu/ ' mKSKKKf otutui