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Tuesday, October 27, 1936
WHAT IT MEANS
A PARADOX which we had never quite been able
to fathom was finally cleared up for us at
Thursday night’s Forum on “What My Party
Offers to Youth.” The straw vote which this paper con
ducted earlier in the year had shown student sentiment
to be in favor of Landon. Sunflowers have been more
prominent on local coat lapels than Roosevelt buttons.
Yet whenever we have discussed the election with stu
dents or faculty members we almost always have been
agreed on the man we were supporting. The only ques
tion was whether or not Roosevelt would carry Pennsyl-
The Forum, however, settled the problem for us.
There was no doubt of the sentiment of the audience
Thursday night. The vague generalities about “repre
sentative government” and the complete avoidance of
issues in the speech of the Republican speaker got ab
solutely no response from the audience except laughs.
The high point was reached when a chorus of guffaws
greeted his statement about Hearst being not only a
multimillionaire but a great editor.’ 1
The Socialist speaker was given a good reception,
but it was Sparks, representative of the Communist
party, who set off the fireworks. Talk of class struggle
and exploitation generally does not get far with a Penn
State audience but Sparks was getting more than polite
applause from his hearers before he had finished. The
The Democratic speaker, who finished the not-so-diffi
cult job of washing-up the Republican party, also got
a good hand.
And what does all this prove?
That two types of students ore interested in the
election. There are those to whom it means something
to talk about—just like the World Series, Saturday's
football game, and Benny Goodman. There are others
to whom the election means something more vital than
this. They are attempting to find out what the issues
are, how the parties and candidates stand on them, and
what the real significance of the election is.
The former are pretty well satisfied to wear their
sunflowers, vote in the straw polls, and boo or cheer
at the local newsreels. The latter are the ones who oc
casionally hear a speech or read an editorial by or
about one of the candidates: who discuss the election
in phrases a little more meaningful than “Restore the
American system’ or ‘Roosevelt saved the Country,”
and who are attempting to develop and to demonstrate
on intelligent viewpoint in the election.
It is also the latter who attend such afTairs as the
Forum.
AGREEMENT
With all the argument over football, customs, and
the relative merits of Guy Lombardo as opposed to
Fletcher Henderson it is a relief to find something in
the news about which there can scarcely be any dis
agreement. Today the Penn State Christian Association
starts its annual drive for funds and it would require
the entire staff of this paper to find anyone who would
doubt the desirability of contributing to this organiza
tion.
Upperclassmen and most freshmen are acquainted
with the work of the Association. In publishing the
Handbook, in running an employment agency, in bring
ing chapel speakers here, in holding Freshman Week,
and in many other ways'the Association does the work
that the College administration or some other organiza
tion would otherwise be forced to do. To finance this
work the Association relies largely upon contributions
from students, faculty, and parents.
Too often students have a habit of agreeing that
the P. S. C. A. is a fine thing but that .they are very
sorry but they just can’t afford to give anything. Oc
cacsionally this may be true and if it is the Association
is the last to want any such person to give it money.
Usually it is an. alibi and everyone knows it.
Those who can afford to, should make some sort of
a contribution to the work of the Association. Anyone
who can’t should go around to the P. S. C. A. office
in Old Main. They will probably be able to find some
sort of a job for you.
WE HAD SCARCELY BEEN introduced when
he said, “Say! I want to know by what right the Col
legian took it upon itself to apologize for the students*
booing Earle.” Our answer was that' it wasn’t the Col
legian but five seniors who to some extent represent the
student body, and that if the studens didn’t want to
be apologized for they should have. But it is little things
like that occasionally just make us stop and wonder for
a moment.
OLD MANIA
Gifts of $520,000 Made to Yale
Yale Dismissal Due to Budget
Curtailment
Headlines appearing side by side in Saturday’s
Last week Yale's President James Rowland An
gell, who admires Mussolini very much, fired Profes
sor Jerome Davis from the Divinity School. President
Angell told the newspapers he had to bnlance his
budget.
Jerome Davis is the head of The American Fed
eration of Teachers, an organization devoted to the
economic well-being of teachers. He is the author of
several texts which are used as authoritative source
books in advanced economic and political science
courses. His work has the such men
as Harold Laski, John Dewey and Charles Beard.
“Why should I stick my head up and say what I
think; why should I join a teacher’s union?” asked
the head of a department at Penn State several
months ago. “Look at Jerome Davis—Angell will
get him before long.” That was several months ago,
and today the prophecy comes true —the great James
Rowland Angell (medals by Mussolini) has dismissed
Jerome Davis to balance the budget.
Teachers have been fired before (Ralph Turner at
Pitt by Chancellor Bowman (Cathedrals by Mellon),
Scott Nearing at Penn, Donald Henderson at Colum
bia by Nicholas Murray Butler (Medals by Hitler),
but here for the first time, the great Angell leads
all the rest with a bold stroke against academic free
dom. From his sanctum at Yale, he has shown all
the small fry (Butler, Bowman and the anonymous
rest) how to do it when you choose to violate the
Constitution. Do it like Mussolini would: have the
boldness of Hitler; be not»hampered by the ideas of
democracy, of’free speech, or the moral laws of little
men. Adopt the working philosophy of William Ran
dolph Hearst, the Weasel of Wyntoon: “Ethics are
for smaller men than I: I cannot afford to be eth
ical.” You have the excuse for the newspapers, Pres
ident Angell: you have to balance the budget. (Gifts
of $520,000 Made to Yale.)
Landon Would Land On
Landon’s lead in the Collegian presidential poll was
due almost entirely to the'big majority accorded him
by the class of 19*10. Now that rushing and pledging
are over and the frosh have acquired a bit of fra
ternity background, we wonder if Landon's lead would
not have been considerably less had the following in
formation been made public before the poll was taken:
“What do you think about paddling freshmen?”
he (Landon) was asked. Governor Landon believes
in it, providing other things won’t work, and suggests
notifying a wayward freshman’s folks at the same
time.
“I don’t know what you think about it,” he added
in elaboration on a discussion regarding fraternity
“hell weeks,”, “but I thought the thing they call
‘running the gauntlet’ (sophomores who took r. o. i. c.
last year will remember this thing) was all right now
and then. When I was a freshman, it took some of
the kinks out cf me.”—Excerpts from a special dis
patch to the Collegian from “Stewart Howe, Fresi
ident Howe Alumni Service of this city."
Cornell:
“Far above Cayuga’s waters ...” is putting it
n/ildly. It’s practically impossible for anything short
of a mountain goat to get up on the hill to Cornell . . .
Neatest Trick of the Week: Sam Gallu saved $3.30
by walking into the stadium alongside the Cornell
band. Then sat in the Press Box and got free coffee
and sandwiches . . . The Blue Band bus got lost in the
outskirts of Elmira . . . Charlie Hogarth went to a
party at the Zeta Psi’s house and there was beef•
there, too . . . Ask the Delta Chis about the' Ithacan
Thetas they dated up for Houseparty . . .
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Tonight, the Hearst Cosmopolitan
production “Cain and Mabel” spon
soring the faded sweetheart, Mariori
Davies and Clarke Gable continues at
the Cathaum.
Wahoo. He’s here. The mad scien
tist in his most incredible, diabolical
role comes to the Cathaum tomorrow*
in “The Man Who Lived Again,” with
Boris Karloff and a cast of fiends.
THE NINE OLD MEN, by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen,
authors of THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND, 325 pages,
$2.50.
“When there is muck to be raked, it must'be raked, and the pub
lic must know of it, that it may mete out justice . . . Publicity is
a great purifier, because it sets in motion the forces of public opin
ion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the
nation.”—Charles Evans Hughes
Pearson and Allen trace the history of the Court and show how
that body changed from the judicial to the legislative. They show
how the minds of the ourt members function and prove that the
dodo is not yet extinct. When the Chief Justice reads this reveal
ing book he will probably reverse his above decision.
On October 26th The Heritage Press will publish four books:
GREEN MANSIONS, by W. II; Hudson (372 pages, $3.75).
This fine edition is illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias, who, fa
mous as a caraeaturist, is also an expert at reproducing the color
ful scenes of the tropics. His Balinese paintings, some of which
were shown in color in VANITY FAIR shortly before that maga
zine became one with VOGUE, caused much favorable comment. He
frequently visits the South American forests and has painted, in
brilliant water-color, eight tropical scenes that arc in keeping with
the text. In addition, he has done twenty-six pen drawings. The
binding is of linen boards on which a panorama of the forest is re
produced in full color. Garamond type is used on an all-rag paper.
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER , by Izoak Walton (256 pages,
$3.50). '
The plentiful pen drawings by Robert Ball make this one of the
best books to be yet published by this press. We don’t know much
about Robert Ball, but as a sketcher of fish he has no peer. _ The
paper used is an especially prepared all-rag laid and the type is 14
point Caslon. The binding is a green buckram decorated in gold with
a red and gold emblem stamped on the spine. The text, that of the
Major edition, complete with Charles Cotton's “How to angle for a
trout or grayling in a clear stream” lets the fisherman know that he
is getting the authentic thing.
MOTHER GOOSE, edited by William Rose Benet (IGO pages,
$3.75). <.
With many many-hued pictures by Roger Duvoisih. This is by
long odds the best MOTHER GOOSE yet assembled. It is bound in
washable linen printed in full color. It will make a sw’cll gift.
THE PICKWICK PAPERS, by Charles Dickens (764 pages,
$3.75).
(Contributed)
The many color plates and fifty-seven pen drawings are by Gor
don Ross, who does a better job on Pickwick, Snodgrass and company
than John Austen could. The type used is Baskerville; the paper, thin
and opaque'all-rag stock. It is bound with Bancroft linen.
Cathaum Theatre Building
—THE MANIAC
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Comes to Nittany Thursday.
Nino Martini comes to the Cathaum
Thursday in “The Gay Desperado,”
with Ida Lupino and Leo Carillo.
Jesse Lasky and . Mary Piekford are
the producers, it is a sing fcst of gay
Mexico, when Mexico was gay about
bandits and guitars.
Leo Carillo plays the Mexican ban
dit and Nino Martini, Chivo, who sings
his way out of serious situations. Chi
vo wants to become a radio star.
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