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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Successor to The Free Lawe, established 1887
THE MANAGING BOARD
JOHNSON BRENNEMAN '3? ALAN L. SMITH '37
Editor Business Manager
E. TOWNSEND SWALII '37 KENNETH W. ENGEL '37
Managing Editor Advertising Manager
PHILIP S. UEISLER *37 riIILIP 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
Fenturo 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. Bicrly *33 Fronds 11. Szymczak ’3B
Joromu Weinstein ’33 Charles M. Wheeler jr. *3B
ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS
Jay 11. Daniels *33 Carl W. Diehl '3B Robert E. Elliott Jr. ’3B
Kathryn M. Jcnn£>i;»t '3B Robert S. McKelvoy '3B John G. Sabella '3B
WOMEN’S ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Shirley R. Helms ‘3B Geoijdn H. Powers ’3B Caroline Tyson *3B
Mttnacins Editor This Issue..
News Editor This Issue..
Tuesday, November 3, 1936
“AND FORBID THEM NOT”
«TTNNECESSARY.” "Futile." “Inane.” “An in-
VJ insult to a co-ed's intelligence.”
' That's what wc thought, too, when we saw the late-
W .S. G. A. pronouncement labelled "Co-Ed Command
ments.” But to get the “women’s view” we asked about
ten co-eds, the first ten we saw, and the above adjec
tives are the ones they used.
The House of Representatives published this docu
ment, probably acting on the theory that it would “be a
good idea for the other girls to read it.” Leaving out
any discussion as to the worth of the Commandments
themselves, we agree with the girl who said: “We all
know the things in there. Haven’t our parents told us
often enough? If a girl is going to do them, a thing
like that certainly won’t stop her.”
If we didn’t know better we'd suspect that there are
a bunch of radicals in the House of Representatives.
Remember the old line in the days of prohibition: “The
best way to get people to do something is to tell them
not to.”
“THE CENTRE .DAILY TIMES regrets that it
was necessary to omit yesterday’s comic page ... It was
done in order to provide space on the issue before elec
tion for both the leading parties to express their opin
ions.” Well, a fair exchange is no robbery.
COMMUNISTS ARE TRYING to gain control of
our educational system by seeking to centralize direction
of all public schools in a bureau at Washington, warns
Fred C. Clark, national commander of the Crusaders.
If this can be accomplished it will require only one little
step to gain the desired control: the election of a Com-
munist president.
OUR THANKS TO JIM NORRIS, ex-Thespian and
publications man, for his “Footlights” in this issue. So
far as we know it is the first time that a graduate with
both professional standards and amateur experience
has written a criticism of a Thespian show.
A LETTER CALLS our attention to a recent er
ror which we made. By some mistake the word Negro
in referring to the race—was printed with a small
letter. Thanks to the letter-writer and apologies for the
“THE NEW DEALERS have lost the confidence of
the salaried workers . . . the faith of the farmers...
The New Dealers have alienated the man who has
.They have lost many others.”-
saved his money
The Centre Daily Times.
Yes, the Democrats might just as well give up and
CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS
The classification of Penn State’s football team in
the semi-professional class by John R. Tunis in his re
cent article in the American Mercury, “More Pay for
Football Stars,” will cause no surprise to anyone who
has had much contact with the system at work here.
Most of our players were sent here by alumni interested
in the College’s football fortunes and they are support-
ed in some measure by payments in cash from the vai*-
ious alumni groups.
In all fairness it should be pointed out that the
College itself has nothing to do with this system. Tun
is characterizes State pretty well when he says in speak
ing of this class as a whole:
"Does the college administration know this? Well,
most college authorities are intelligent enough to real
ize that great football teams, like babies, are not brought
by the stork.”
There is news, however, in -the classification of
State’s football opponents. Lehigh is the only team that
is in the amateur class. Muhlenberg is not mentioned.
Cornell, and Penn are anvng the semi-pros. Half the
teams on the schedule, then, are definitely professional.
Villanova, Bucknell, Syracuse, and Pitt are all, accord
ing to Tunis, going out and getting players and putting
them on what amounts to a salary basis.'
This hardly seems to be in line with the often ex
.pressed policy of the College of playing teams with ath
letic policies similar to our own.
Not that we object to playing Pitt or the rest of
the big-league teams. We got a much bigger thrill in
watching the team hold Pitt to a low score last year
than we did in defeating Lebanon Valley. But if we
arc going to continue to play professionals wc should
not shout quite so publicly that we schedule “only op
ponents in our class.” It might give people the wrong
idea of what “our class” actually is.
Co-Ed Commandments: /
After forty days and forty nights spent on the top
of Mount Nittany in prayer, fasting, and mortifica
ion of the flesh, W. S. G. A. descended into the midst
of us sinful mortals, bearing pearls.
(Note: This is no gag. Just before House
party, W. S. G. A. actually had printed on paper, that
' “is just the right size,” as one co-ed put it, the fol
lowing “Commandments,” which we reprint in black
type:)
]. Thou shall never allow a stranger to lake you
to your destination.
How about his destination?
2. Thou shalt say, no thank you, when offered a
drink.
. . . with the bottle grasped firmly in'the right
hand.
3. Thou shall not sit out dances in cars.
Go upstairs, it’s more comfortable.
4. Thou shalt not be seen with young men who are
not careful.to obey conventions in society.
Which takes care of Penn State men very nice
ly, thank you.
5. Thou shalt not use a pet phrase in conversation.
Actions speak louder than words.
6. Thou shalt use discretion in using slang.
Yeah, and pull down the window-blinds while
you’re at it.
7. Thou shalt not pat or nudge a person when
speaking to one. Keep your hands to yourself.
“We will if the boys will.”
8. Thou shall never go to a man’s apartment alone.
You can’t enjoy etchings by yourself.
9. Thou shalt not indulge in careless affections.
You got to be damn careful sometimes.
10. Thou shalt not powder your nose on the street.
Hell, no, get up out of the gutter and go home
like a lady.
(And we can’t help adding:)
11. Thou shall not mix thy possessive*.
..Woodrow W. Bicrly *3B
Jerom- Weil stein *3B
Reading copy on the football story in this issue,
we note that Charles M. (The Boy Reporter) Wheel
er, Jr., in an abrupt about face has credited Tommy
(I’m'a Senior) Silvano with an abrupt about face.
Which brings up a little story, one which we tell
belatedly because every one on the paper thought
everybody else was going to do it—or so they said.
It’s entitled “The Rover Boys and Their Big Blue
Bus,” or “Goddam the Collegian*.’’ Boy Reporter
Wheeler in a moment of journalistic inspiration turns'
out a story on the Lehigh carnage which says some
mighty nasty things about the Rover Boys. Calls
them “slackers’ or “ungentlemnnly cads” or something
mean like that. Evidently the shoes fit nicely be
cause a week later, comes time for THE TEAM to
start climbing far above Cayuga’s waters and Tom,
the earnest Rover Boy, absolutely refuses to get in
the bus, saying, “It’s too crowded in there.”
Out jumps the Boy Reporter and starts trying
to placate Tommy. Never one to be far behind in his
brother’s harmless pranks, Lou (Dick Merriwell)
'Barth Rover also joins the:gathering just in-case the
Cub Reporter takes a pass at brotherTTom (!). Ev
erything is finally settled by Joe Griffith (A Good Guy
If You Ever Saw One), because Gcd knows THE
TEAM needs Silvano. Oh, yes, and Barth. The Boy
Reporter bums a ride to Ithaca with one of his frat
brother cronies.
It turns out that Tommy doesn’t do so good
against THE BIG RED (or whatever it is) of Corn
meal, probably having completely sublimated himself
out getting Wheeler off the bus. So Bounder Wheeler
ends his Cornell story, cracking: “Silvano ran the
ball 1000 times for a total gain of 1% yds.,” or
something like that. (We didn’t read the story eith
er.) Reacting vigorously to such unjust criticism
the Rover Boys immediately get together and begin to
fulimate dark thoughts such as “ . . . take him up'to
the field and turn the team loose on him ...” But
don’t.
Now that the Boys played so swell Saturday and
the Cad Reporter is again the Boy Reporter (see
football story on page 1) and everything is swell
between THE TEAM and THE COLLEGIAN we can,
print this story without creating any hard feelings.
Oh, yes, the Rover Boys’ average age is prob
ably twenty-five years and I was . . .
OLD MANIA
♦ + +
—THE MANIAC
THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
FOOT LIGHTS
Jerry Martin Chuck Tilden
Patty Parsons Doris Jane Thomas
Buck Bender J. Lloyd Larkins
Peggy Hopkins Royce Fran Gates
Joe Don Dixon
Captain Parsons Bob Ricks
Paul Dean
Duke Mantee
Jim Unangst
Dick O’Connor
Jack Platt
Tom
Dick
Harry
Mantee Stooge __ J. Elliot Thomson
Book by John Thompson and J.
Lloyd Larkins
Settings by George Downs, Jack M.
Reamer
Costumes by Van Horn
Orchestra under the direction of
Bill Bottorf
Lighting effects by George Meek
Book directed by J. Lloyd Larkins
Dancing directed by J. Elliott
Thompson
Entire production under the direc
tion of J. Ewing (Sock) Kennedy and
Richard W. Grant
“You should have seen ’em in my
day ... we really gave shows then!”
I wish I could say it boys, but I can’t.
Last night’s Thespian show was tops
for fall shows and what was more
do you want that? Even the program
was pretty. Just for,the record, the
name of this little opus was “Steer
Clear.” (Don't ask me io/ij/.) It was
pi'oduced by- a man by the name of
Kennedy who seems to have the luck
of the Irish.
. But dont 1 get the idea that I think
it should open on Broadway tomorrow
night. I don’t. So let’s play George
Jean Nathan for a pica or two. Un
der the heading “LOUSEY” we have
the following: Non-union scene shift
ers. The Thespian type go out for
short beers during the course of the
show and make you listen to fiddle
players *and tenors singing “When
Shop Lifts
By GEORGIA 11. POWERS
Judging from the houseparty at
tires, the best-dressed girl struck
the keynote of smartness in simpli
city. Proceeding chronologically
from Friday night’s formal—.
Classic is the word for formals.
Cire satin, metallic, and velvet take
the lead in popularity. The dress
must be sled* with a molded-fit
top, either extremely high in frbnt
and low in back, or extremely low
in front and backless, with a wide
skirt, flaring from the waist. Ac
centuate -tile dress with smart ac
cessories, Juliette caps sparkling on
smooth .coiffures, wide mesh brace
lets, and. substantial san-
Shrieking shades ore the thing
for the football games. Raccoon has
the vote for swagger furs, but the
wool coat flared from the shoulder
with a huge fox collar has that
touch of 1937 a jump ahead. The
bowler hat is coming back to answer
the demand for casualness. The
most striking costume we saw at
the game was a bright red wool
coat with a close beaver collar, and
a small black built-up hat that
slanted from its high peak well over
the right eye. ‘
For dinner—velvet or moire but
toned with tiny buttons from the
top of the high neck to the hem of
the swing shirt. Or—smooth crepe
with an indistinct satin stripe in
princess lines with full sleeves nar
rowing at the elbow. Or—a bro
caded tunic dress, with puffed sleev
es and a Peter. Pan collar. All are
unique and that must be your quest ’
.—distinctiveness,'-and a style’that;
1 caters 5 to your individual type. ;
Attitude in America
Encourages Student
(Continued] from page one)
“I learned how nice and kind profes
sors can really be.”
“The girls here are all nice looking
—made up, of course. Beside that, they
have some chic, an American smart
ness with which neither the English
nor the German girls can compete.
Of course,” she commented, “the Am
erican girl spends a lot more time,
trouble and money on her looks.”
“Indeed,” concluded Miss Steinitz,
“I have not found any faults here yet,
except, perhaps, that I should like a
river flowing through State, so that I
could practice my favorite sport of
boating.”
Day Is Done.” <1 like that .better
than “Sylvia” though, don’t you?)
But don’t get me wrong. It was a nice
fiddle and a nice tenor. Just out of
place, that’s all. Then we have the
little item of scared chorus girls.
Keep smiling through the tears darl
ing, it makes the customers think
you're having as much fun as they
are.
And Bottorf might have been re
placed by a few of the boys doing a
little informal jamming instead of the
stock stuff, but who am I too criticize
when the gee practically pulled down
the house? Then I like a little more
humor with my shows. You know,
people hitting each other over the
head with bladders and things like
that. Every show should have at
least one belly laugh, even if you have
to go to Minsky to get it. (G’wan,
you low-brow!)
Now we come to the sweetness and
light part of this thing. Under s.
and 1. \ve have, oh just oodles of
things. Fine voices that showed the
Grant touch. Fine hoofing that showed
the Kennedy er, . . . touch. A hero
and heroine who sang, danced, looked
and acted the part. An ingcnoosie
who is fine in the Merman manner. A
clown who is listed on the program
impressively enough, as J. Lloyd Lar
kins. Don Dixon, to the manner born.
(All right, manor, what the'hell do I
care!) A'villian who looked and act
ed the part. This bird sat down next
to me in'the unfortunate balcony
shooting'scenc and I jumped a foot!
(Continued on Page Four)
We Women
By MARION A. RINGER
The first party during the Open
House rushing period of November
will be held on Thursday from 3
until 5 o’clock.
This new plan of Pan-Hellenic
Council is based upon the excellent
theory of having the freshmen
gilds go to the fraternities and look
them over. The opportunity of the
freshmen to become acquainted
with all the fraternities in the past,
came through the initiative of the
fraternity.
This year every freshman and
transfer has the chance to visit ev
ery fraternity and make herself
known. It is up to each girl to meet
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their house, and learn the qualities
of each group.
There are to he four parties this
month, one to be held each week.
There are ten fraternities scattered
all over the campus. Again, it is up
to each girl to see that she gets to
know each fraternity in the four
periods.
When she lias met them all she
FALL BOOK NOTES
Much shrewd observation, keen commentary, and ingratiating
humor appeared in seme of the west coast journals from 1927, when
Lincoln Steffens returned from Europe, until August 9,193 G,. when he
died; observations and comments on events, people, and social forces
that can be matched, or will be matched, by few contemporaries, half
his age, because few men are as wise and kind as Steffens and few
write with so many red corpuscles. LINCOLN STEFFENS SPEAK
ING is dedicated to "Perplexed students, teachers, statesmen, busi
ness, men, crooks, and artists” and he might well have included all
those victims of the "open, mind.”
"THAT MONKEY who was frozen and revived cured of tubercu
losis holds no hope for the depression and for the human race. The
experimenter confesses that the brain was not affected. A frozen
human would probably come back to life still believing that there are
two sides to every question.”.
This book contains good sketches of Robinson Jeffers, Frcemont
Older, Jack Reed and many others. We recommend it without reser
vation for -practically everybody and especially those persons who be
lieve that human nature can not he changed. (315 pages, $2.50)
“An instrument that is far from rifty • *
Is THE MELANCHOLY LUTE ($2.50) ”—Dorothy Parker
The best lyrics of thirty years by F. P. A., selected by himself.
Constance Rourke brings back John James Audubon alive in the
pages of her.new biography. She writes of the wandering spirit
which took him, naturalist and artist, from Pennsylvania to Kentucky,
Texas, England, Scotland. Paris, Florida and Labrador, eternally
perfecting his art and striving to bring his work before a not always
eager public.. Not only the story of Audubon, but also of Lucy, his
understanding wife, and his two sons Victor and’ John, who helped
him through the dark days before he was fully recognized.
In his career he was always associated with unusual men—
George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone, Thomas Bewick, Sir Walter
Scott, to name a few—who emerge from these pages as real figures
for the reader. A good biography, if you like biography, and a good
nature book if you do not believe, as Heywood Broun, that if you
have seen one tree you have seen them all.
Twelve excellently reproduced color plates from the original
Audubon plates accompany the book in addition to numerous black
and white drawings by Janies MacDonald. AUDUBON by Constance
Rourke, (335 pages, $3.00).
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