Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 18S7 THE MANAGING HOARD JOHNSON BRENNEMAN '37 Editor E. TOWNSEND SWALM *37 Manncins Editor PHILIP S. HKISLER *37 News Editor W. ItORERT GRUBB *37 Sports Editor RICHARD LEWIS *37 Fonturt! F-lUor MARION A. RINGER ’37 Women’s K*i : lor M. WINIFRED WILLIAMS *37 Women’s MaMnitins Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Woodrow W. Bier!/ *3" Frnnci« 11. Szymcrnk *3B Jerome Weinstein *3B Chnrlcs M. Whe**ler jr. *33 ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Jny 11. Daniels *3B Carl W. Dieh! *3B Robert E. Elliott jr. *3S Kathryn M. JonnL-RS *3S Kobort S. McKolvey *3B John G. Suhella *33 WOMEN’S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Shirley R. Helms *3B Geoiirin H. Towers *3B Caroline Tyson *3B Manning Editor This Issue News Editor This Issue Friday, November 13, 1936 OUR PRIDE AND JOY BLUE BAND IS recognized ns the best I collegiate band in the country/’ says our K. L. F., in today's letter box. Not only ai*e we to guess who K. L. F. is, but we must also guess who calls the Blue Band all those names. Never have we read such a collection of generalizations. First of all we never said anything about the in strumentation of the band. Wc admit that all those clar- inets and saxophones sound very pretty from the stage of Schwab audiorium. But the “broken field running” in formation stood out much more prominently from the top of the Pitt stadium than did the clarinets. That the Pitt band lender congratulated our out- fit is understandable. He is a very courteous gentle man. He congratulated the instrumentation of the band, while we criticized the appearance of the band—we being of those ignoramuses that can't appreciate clar- inets a half mile away If the radio announcer at Cornell "hailed the Blue Band as the most wonderful spectacle he had ever seen,” we feel for him. We were at Cornell, too. On the oth er hand, the radio announcer at Pitt said, "The State band is finally getting off the field.” The letter also goes on to say that the Blue Band was invited to Geneva, Switzerland. May we second the invitation. And then there was a little celebration in North Carolina. Just what to do with the performance of the Blue Band is beyond us. But we have talked to a number of boys from the Blue Band who ‘feel that the exhibition was sloppy, too. K. L. F. wants the "fair truth.” The truth is that the Blue Band is not what it's cracked up to be. The truth is that the boys in the Blue Band don't care what kind of an exhibition they put on. They’re not interested in anything but what they get out of it —which in three trips, meals for those trips, and admis- sion to the games. According to actual members of the band, what is desired is approximately twenty-one credits, $lOO, air plane transportation, and free liquor.-Then they would be willing to practice more.than once a week, willing to march as if they were not emitting their last breaths, willing to admit that life held a future for them. According to members of the band, what they want is sudsidization. If the reader can imagine anything more asinine than subsidizing the Blue Band before we subsidize the football team, he is in a class with K. L. F. We might add that if the boys in the Blue Band think they are being treated unfairly, they can always knock off and go home—away from'Tf all. The foot ball score at Pitt was 34-to-7, the Band score 1,000-to-0. If the band wants to narrow down that score, it can. If it doesn't, it can keep making a spectacle of itself. We‘don’t imagine that many people care. If eighty peo ple want to look silly that is up to those eighty people. But they might take the name of the College away from their organization just out of fairness. They could just call themselves, "The Boys that almost Went to Gene- We could go on and mention that Pittsburgh is spelled with an "H” and that sentences begin with cap itals and end with periods, but we are of the ignoramus class and wouldn't know about those things. The fact still remains that the Blue Band was a disgrace at Pittsburgh. It is probably just as well that the band is traveling to Penn together. Heaven only knows what K. L. F. would do on the open road alone. TALK OF "ETHICS” IN reproducing photographs from the Sun-Telegraph (See "Constant Reader” in the Letterbox) seems just a little silly. We were offered the opportunity to give our readers a group of excel lent football pictures. We did so. Having done this we felt that the gentlemanly— and ethical—thing to do was to express our apprecia tion for the use of them. That it was a Hearst paper whose pictures we were using didn't seem too important. We believe that most Hearst editorials and policies are vicious and that much of the news is colored to fit those policies. That does not mean that the entire paper is bad. There are good newspapers that subscribe to the Hearst Interna tional News Service; there is probably no paper in the east that has been as bitter against Hearst as the Phil adelphia Record, yet it carries a columnist who is syn dicated in every Hearst paper. We should have preferred reprinting pictures from another paper. Since there were none available we felt that the service to our readers was of more moment than the publicity which might result to a Hearst sheet. Dear Ed yesterday l just got a beloio grade m my Lit. course ami a notice to call at the office of the Dean of Men to sec about "« very serious charge which has recently come to our attention.”. Well, / got everything fixed vp all right, but I'm enclosing two little items that arc to be run in THE ALAN L. SMITH *37 Business Manager KENNETH W. ENGEL *37 Advertising Manager PHILIP A. SCHWARTZ *37 Promotion Manager GEORGE W. IIIRD *37 Circulation Manager RAG Friday. Yon understand, don't you, pal? IRWIN ROTH *37 Foreign Advertising Manager JEAN C. HOOVER *37 Dear Campy, Yeah, wc understand. And it's damn thoughtful of yon to pick out guys like the Dookivorm and the Half Colyumist to owe things to. We'll fix you vp this time, but please. Campy, don’t take any Ay. courses next semester. Ed. REGINA ?. RYAN *37 Women’s News Editor There is nothing we enjoy more than coming out of our stupor to do somebody else’s work for him. Along about June we expect to extend an invitation to the Campuscer to become a Guest Grader of Blue Books for one jolly week-end. Blue books are often funnier than newspaper colyums, but not so legible. It was probably Bill Ulerich or Lou Bell who once said, “Many students take blue books, but when a blue book takes a student, that’s news.” —Francis H. Sxymesnk *3B Woodrow W. ltierly *3S Next time you go to Boalsburg, look at the me morial stones and you will find the names of several soldiers who died on November 11, 1918. These few in Boalsburg and dozens in larger towns and hun dreds in this and other countries, are a sweet and pleasing tribute to the fanciful generals and to their subordinates eager to increase their winning mile age by a final few barren fields. We should not think that all soldiers died for selfish economic reasons. At least these few thousands died for a numerical whim sy—So that generals could make easier for future blue-book takers the happy figures 11-11-11. It could report that Prexy Hetzel once rowed on the crew and edited the student newspaper at Wis consin . . . Bob Higgins was end on the championship A. E. F. team overseas . . . Hasek taught Russian when he first came to Penn State ... Dean Sackett is an expert catboat sailor and for two weeks every summer sails a boat he owns on Long Island Sound . . . Alumni Secretary Ed Hibshman owns a farm near Ephrata to which he hold the original parch ment deed given by William Penn . . . Professor Dot terer was once pastor of the Faith Reformed church here . . . Professor Lucretia V. T. Simmons once act ed as dean of women to Penn State coeds . . . Dean Stoddart is author of a textbook in agricultural chem istry and was once on the Ag School faculty . . . Executive Secretary A. 0. Morse once was secretary to U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Jardine in Wash ington. .. . Dean Steidle danced as a girl in the Thes pian chorus when a Penn State undergrad .. . Major George MacMullin and son are the Father-Son golf champions of the Centre Hills country club . . . Pro fessors Marquardt, Woodruff, Rhodes and Tschan are accomplished pianists and organists . . . Colonel Ven able commanded one of the first U. S. Army units to enter San Francisco within a few hours after the famous.earthquake and fire. —The Half Colyumist —C. M. W., Jr. 4- ♦ ♦ Most current blue-book takers are callow youths who think that the World War Armistice was signed on November 11,1918, at 11 a. m. Eastern Standard Time. A few more intelligent students think (wrong ly) that it was signed at 11 a. m. Daylight Saving Time. In fact, it was okeyed the previous midnight (E. S. T.). The poetic generals, however, thought it would bo a pretty fancy to let the shooting go on un til the eleventh hour (Paris time) of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. ♦ ♦ 4“ Who's Who in America would be a vastly more interesting book if Walter Winchell were one of its editors. So would Bill Hoffman’s faculty directory soon to be published. A Suggestion: To you to prepare now for your Christmas vacation. Any num ber of cruises on trans-Atlantic liners to the West Indies and South America leave the day after Christmas and return in time for your first college class. The cost is very reasonable + For further information apply to: HOTEL STATE COLLEGE ! TRAVEL BUREAU STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA j LOUETTA NEUSBAUM—DIAL 733 + There is no extta charge for our service THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN CINEMANIA After more than twenty-two years of operating the only studios that produce screen comedies exclusively, Hal Roach enters the full-length com edy field with an M-G-M feature, "Mister Cinderalla” which conies lo the Cathaum tomorrow night. Starring Jack Haley, Betty Fur ness and Arthur Trencher, uses the ever-populur Cinderalla tale. Haley starts the comedy sequences unreel ing when he takes rhe place of hts fairy godfather, a Boston playboy, in high society. Ilis bewildered experi ences on yachts and in palatial man sions provide many a laugh. * The stay-at-homes over this week end should have little trouble in find ing Saturday night entertainment with "Can This Be Dixie” at the Cathaum and "Daniel Boone” at the Nittany. The Cathaum attraction is a full-length comedy starring Jane Withers and Slim Summerville. The historical picture at the Nittany has George O’Brien and Heather Angel in .leading roles. "Sing Baby Sing” makes a return engagement at the Nittany Friday night. With' names like Ted Healey, Patsy Kelley, "Gregory Ratoff, Adolphe Menjou and Alice Faye in the cast, little more need he said. Monday and Tuesday marks the return of Tarzan to the screen as Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’- Sullivan are reunited in M-G-M’s lat est jungle picture, "Tarzan Escapes.” The present story marks the closest approach of Tarzan to civilization. ■Letter Box To the Editor An interesting ethical point was raised by your last issue. I refer to the generous display of football pic tures borrowed from Ilearst’s Pitts burgh Su.n-Tclcgraph. We Collegian readers have been constantly reminded in the past and many times this year that William Randolph Hearst is the worst enemy of free speech and our democracy alive today. The publications on the campus at the start of this term ask ed and got a boycott on the Sun- Telegraph when that paper attempted a circulation drive here. Your paper played a leading role this year as it has in the past in exposing Hearst’s fascist attacks on student and fac ulty expression. Now we find the Collegian regis tering its indebtedness to Hearst in a box on the front page, and using great space to display * the pictures from the Hearst papers. While it is undoubtedly true" that football pic tures by Hearst; are in themselves harriiless—they were very attractive pictures—some of your readers are wondering what sort of ethical code the Collegian has. —The Bookworm Do you hate Hearst’s editorial page alone? Do you think that displaying such pictures will‘drive readers away frem Hearst? Does your policy al low hearty attacks on Hearst papers and consider it ethical to call on him for free editorial assistance? If it does, you might go a little further, and borrow his effective editorial style ‘Personal Appearance’ Tomorrow Night (Nov. 14) 8 O’clock TICKETS AT STUDENT UNION DESK with the capitalized words, etc., to liven’up your stodgy editorials. This sort of vacillating policy does not help strengthen the Collegian’s campaign against our leadinng fas cist. Will you explain Collegian ethics to your startled renders? To the Editor: In defense of the broken-field run ning so beautifully accomplished by the Blue Band this past week, as de scribed by your-truly illiterate sports writer, I’d like to explain a few facts which un-musically minded people like himself know nothing about. Judging from the applause and re marks of the fans, State’s band did remarkably well. Pitt’s band con ductor was quoted as saying, “I wish my bunch of boys would do as well as these fellows—their sound effects are produced in almost perfect pitch.” May I add that the band from Pitts burgh numbers 150, receives pay, re ceives a reduction of their tuition, and is an R.O.T.C. marching unit. Is your most sportless sports wri ter aware of the following facts: The radio announcer at Cornell hailed the Blue Band as the most wonderful spectacle he had ever seen on any football field. This "broken-field running band” was one of the few to be invited to Geneva, Switzerland. On another occasion it was the only band from the North to receives an in vitation to attend a centennial cele bration being held in North Carolina. The Blue Band is recognized, as the best collegiate band in the country. Space forbids more of their ac complishments, many of which have never appeared in this paper. The 'band is a musical organiza tion, not an R.O.T.C. units—as a sports writer your incitator would make a better “draw back.” He has not been around long enough to re alize the-significance of letter forma tions on any field. The band mem bers realize his unfortunate case. Tliis letter, like many other worthy articles, will probably not be printed —where is your "press; initiative?” The bund is not ’seeking glory, or even fame, they want the “fair truth.” P.S.: The gag of "broken field running” was funny the first time— one’s own originality is quite difficult, but beginners are always fowl, Only one more week to knock over the opposing team with those swanky sport clothes, so you’d better make them right. You can’t go wrong on one of the new corduroy sport dresses that are best in dark green, brown, or red. The shirt-maker top with the mannish open collar, the novelty buttons, (tricky mcxicans in sombreros or wooden numerals 1-9-3-7) and the short belted skirt, flared wide at the bottom have the very essence of sport. The smartest thing in sport foot wear are' the new suede oxfords with tiny binding and stitching of con trasting leather. Black with British tan binding or brown with green bind ing will offer harmonious contrast By popular request the Penn State Players repeat Constant Reader Shop Lifts By GEORGIA H. POWERS to any costume. Aside to fresmen—you can look your smartest at any open house or informal nishing party, even If you have just spent a hard afternoon in Engineering A, if you wear one of the lovely new sweaters with youv tweed skirt. At one of the local dress shops you can buy softest wool swea ters in dazzling white with a bright tie or a dark brown or green ribbed wool with a crew neck and sleeves that extend well over your hand. If you must look like Vassal*, push up the sleeves to your elbow and wear a wide sport bracelet. Now aside to the upperclassmen— (we're still at that rushing party) you can impress a freshman best if ii ■iiiiiiiwniiwmrj ij “Mortimer Just look at Stnyvcsant—the lone wolf of the Union Club, lie hasn't joined the swing to TWENTY GRAND!” fell j 2SP' kh6«v.‘i£ \A7 Ho* "WE CERTIFY that we have inspect ed the Turkish and Domestic Tobaccos blended in TWENTY GRAND cigarettes and find them os fine in smoking qual ity as those used in cigarettes costing as much as 502? more. '(Signe,l) Sell, Put t & RtlsbvlnC. Analytical laboratories ALSO OBTAINABLE IK FLAT FIFTIES KS job is to look for trouble before it happens. He is one of many who inspect telephone ap paratus regularly, even when nothing is wrong. His work is called "preventive maintenance.” This work is of the highest importance. It helps to prevent interruptions to the service; often fore stalls costly repairs, or replacements; helps keep telephone service at highest efficiency. To plan this work requires management with im aginative foresight and the ability to balance the many factors involved in the maintenance problem. With Original Veteran Cast - SCHAWB AUDITORIUM Friday, November 13, 1936 you look perfection. You’re a hostess and you can look the best in a dark velvet skirt'and a 'bright ■ crepe ov chiffon pleated blouse with a high gathered neck and wide, wide sleeves, tight at'the wrists. You may frown upon nail polish, but the new shades are lovely and will flatter your hands to no end. Stay away from bright polishes, but find the exact tint in the new old rose and rust shades, or, if you’re still frown ing, use natural or colorless polish. But, for the beauty of your hands, use nail polish. Most-of the valuable books in the library are-kept in the vaults. leaning Cujir. 1930 TJio Axlon«! : iiltcr Tobacco Co„ luc. (In coliabortuion uith tobacco expert) up some the' old. home to wn—-a,f te r,.s even, -roles-it- most. .pointS;pre-:iowest., .
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