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Volume 33—No. 30
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a . Speakers Will Dis cuss, War Tonight
Dr. Chambers
To Retire as
School Dean
20 Candidates Apply
For Athletic 'Post,
Dean's Position
Hailow IntervieWed _
At NCAA Convention
Under the provisions of the Retire
ment Act which went into effect re
cently Dean Will G. Chambers, for
fourteen' years head of the school of
education, will be automatically re
tired at the end of the 1937 Summer
Session President • Ralph ,D.
announced today.
At the same time the President
said that no decision has been ar
rived at concerning either the suc
cessor to Dean Chambers or the new
head of the School of Physical Edu
cation and Athletics.
. .
About twenty candidates . for each
of these positions have been inter
viewed in the past two months and
the field has now been narrowed down
to about half a trozen. President Het
zel was unable to say when a defin
ite decision would , be reached but it
seems likely that he will try to have
at least one - recommendation ready
when'the Board of
. Trustees holds its
annual meeting Saturday, January 15
in Harrisburg.
The President was in New York
for two days last week while the an
tercollegiate 'Athietie:AtiSociation was
in session and he interviewed a nein
her of nice there. Among them was
"Dick" HarloW,. for Mer football
coach here - and at present head coach
at Harvard.' •
As 'a result the rumor spread that
. Harlow might come here as"head of
the School of Physical Education and
Athletics. President Hetzel declined
to comment on this story except to
say that 'Harlow was qualified for
the job and therefore had been inter
viewed. Unless he is dissatisfied there
it seems railer ,doubtful at Harvard
if he will come here as an adminis
trator.
When Hugo 4ezdek was relie'ved of
his duties last fall the Trustees re
commended that his successor be cho
sen on ability as 'an executive and
administrator rather than on coaching
ability. , While this' recommendation
will be followed there will be an at
tempt 'made - to get,a man who is ex
perienced in both 'fields.
Will Grant Chambers; dean of the
School of Education since 1923 and
director of the Summer Session since
1921, has been in the front rank of
professional' educators for a quarter
'of a century.
Dean Chambers established the
School of Education at the University
of PittsburOh in 1910 and served as
its dean for ten years. Ile. was in
strumental in the formation of the
School of Education here, and he
served as its dean Since its founding.
He served as president of the Child
Study Department of the National
Education Association in 1909 and of
the Society of College Teachers of
Education in'l9l6. He was director of
the Bureau of Education in Pitts
burgh, director of the Army and
Navy Training Camp Activities in
Hawaii during the war, and presi
dent of the Pennsylvania State Edu
cation. in 1920.
Dean Chambers was a member of
many educational honorary fraterni
ties' and socieities. He taught in sev
'end institutions throughout the
country and has had several articles
in various magazines.
Rhoda Near Recovery
• After Skin Graftings
With 783 different skin graftings
successfully made upon his, chest, leg,
and arm, William P. Rhoda '37 has
made definite progress in his battle
for recovery in the Bellefonte hos
pital during vacation, it was. learned
today.
Friends reported that "Whitey" is
expected to quit his bed in a week
after a possible additional grafting
on his chest. It will be some time be
fore he can leave the hospital, how
ever.
Social Security
Law Asks Taxes
Of Fraternities
Edwards Explains New
Act To Officials
Of Houses
Speaker Suggests* Low
Uniform Monthly Wage
At an open forum meeting of the
Association of Fraternity Counselors
held in room 110; Home. Economics
building, at 7:30 Tuesday night, Rob
ert Y. Edwards led the discussion and
explained that local social fraterni
ties are required to pay the new fed
eral and state social security taxes.
Pending decision as to the constitu
tionality of the act, Mr. Edwards
suggested that the fraternities pay
the tax under protest. If this proce
dure is observed, the fraternities will
have a better chance to recover the
money they have already paid in if
the Supreme Court hands down an
opinion adverse to the •act.
All employees of social fraternities,
cooks, mahls, dishwashers, waiters,
furnace tenders, house treasurers; ca
terers and managers who receive'
board or room for services will have '
one per cent deducted from their
monthly_ wage. Those houses employ
ing more than eight people will be
forced to pay to the federal govern-I
ment one-tenth of one per cent on the
wages of all employees in addition to
nine-tenth of one per cent which the
state collects. Those with less than
eight
. employees will be exempt from
the federal, but net the State exicse
•
_Edwards '
. fter'.'explaining the -pro-
Visions of the act; pointed Mit - that
the taxes would make fraternity
book-keeping more complicated. An
objection was raised when it was
learned the fraternity accounts 'would
be subject to. inspection by state and
federal investigators.
A low cash value of the remu
neration received by employees. was
favored. Edwards suggested $l5 per
month since the tax rate works on a
steadily grauated 'scale and the bur
den in future. years will slowly in
crease. Another meeting will be held
in the near-future to make clear any
additional complications. •
Freshmen To Debate
At Scranton-Keystone
A freshman debate toad composed
of Jonas B. Kauffman, Jack R. Cobb,
and James V. DeLuke, will meet de
baters of the Scranton-Keystone Jun
ior College in a forensic tournament
'at,LaPlume this afternoon.
Three constructive speeches and
'one rebuttal will -be given on the
resolution: Congress shall be empow
ered to fix minimum wages and maxi
mum hours in industry. Penn State's
freshman team, coached by, Professor
Joseph F. O'Brien,,of the division of
public speaking, will defend the nega
tive side of the resolution.
Examination Schedule
Final examinations for the• first semester will he held from Monday,
January 25, to Saturday, January 30, inclusive. The designation SEE LIST
indicates that the rooms for examinations will be announced or posted by the
instructors or departments concerned.
Any student having two examinations scheduled at the same time or
three examinations on the same day is required to report the fact in person
at the office of the Registrar on the special form provided there. Seniors
graduating at mid-year commencement who have examinations scheduled
after Tuesday, January 26, should report that fact on the conflict card in,
order that they maybe scheduled for an earlier regular conflict examination.
if possible. Since grades for graduating seniors are due at the office of the
Registrar by neon on Wednesday, January 27, it will be necessary for in,
structors to give special examinations for such - students in certain courses
after the conflict examinations arc arranged. To receive adjustments, al
conflicts must be reported not later than 5:00 p. m., Friday, January 15.
Notices of adjustment will be available nt the office of the Registrar for
those students who filed conflict cards and will be mailed to heads of depart: ,
ments on January 18. Appointment examinations should not be scheduled
until after notices of conflict examinations are available. The dates of the
appointment examinations will be announced by the instructors concerned.
Examinations will-be of two hours' duration, beginning. at 8:00, 10:20, and
2:00 o'clock.
ABCh 1 W 8 100, 200 Hort
ABCh 35 W 2 117 Dairy
ABCh 413 Th 2 103 Ag
ABCh 425 M 1:0 2.00 Ag
ABCh 437 W 10 Arm
AgEc 2 M 8 200 HOrt
AgEc 8 W 8 103 Ag
AgEc. 11 'l' 2 100 Hort
AgEc' 12 T 10 104 Hart
STATE COLLEGE, PA., THPAS r, , JANUARY 7, 1937
Spanish Delegate Stresses!, : leed
For U. S. Students' Coop - p" Won
"American students can, by taking
an active interest in the Spanish cri
sis, by aiding liberally their Spanish
student friends and the civilian popu
lation, do much to alleviate the suf
fering in Spain. They can, through
cooperation with' the peace-loving na
tions of the world, bring to a sudden
halt the destruction and carnage now
visiting the Spanish nation."
So said Louis Emat, member of the
Spanish delegation touring the Unit
ed States, at the recent American
Student Union convention in Chicago.
Senor Enna, interviewed by a COL
iaxamsT reporter in Chicago, extended
the fraternal greetings of the Spanish
students, now barricaded on the Span
ish battle fronts, to the student body
Bottorf Will Play
Tomorrow Night
`Snowball' Dance Begins Year's
Social Season; Features
,Varsity' Quartet
The All-College New Year's "Snow
ball" Dance will usher in the 1937
social season of the College tomorrow
night in Roc Hall from 9 to 12 o'clock.
Bill Bottorf and his orchestra will
furnish the music, while the'Varsity
Quartet, composed of Dick .O'Connor
'37, Chuck Tilden '37, Jack Platt '37,
Jimmy Unangst '3B, and pianist Don
Dixen '37, will present new arrange
ments of several popular numbers
during the intermission.
ChaperoneS.Named JJ
Chaperones for the affair inch*
Dr. :and.'Mrs.- - .Clarence. 0. Williams,
'Profrani - Mis.:Hdrninel Fiithurn,7Dir:
and Mrs. Elwood C. Davis, Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur H. Reede, apd Mr—and
Mrs. George L. Donovan. .
Tickets may he purchased at the
Student .Union or• from members of
the Penn State Club. Free one o'-
clock; have been granted to all fresh.:
man girls. The committee in charge
the dance includes Robert W. Werts
'3B, chairman; Joseph F. Cohan '39,
Arthur M. Longacre '3B, and Jack' E.
Platt '37.
Famous Bible Teacher
To Sneak 4Meering
, Mrs. Jessie B. Eubank, founder and
teacher of the largest college student
Bible class in the United States, will
be the guest speaker at a woman's
conference on "Designs for Living"
this week-end. Her first appearance
will be in the auditorium on Friday
night at 7 o'clock when she will ad
dress all women students on "Designs
for Radiant Living."
Mrs. Eubank will speak to women
only on "Speaking of Men" in the
auditorium Saturday at 2 o'clock. She
will lead a discussion on "What Price
Popularity?" for men and women on
Saturday night at 8:30 o'clock. At
Sunday chapel, Sirs. Eubank will dis
cuss "Designs ,for Living." .
AgEd 11 T 8 206 PH'
AgEng 4 W 2 SPH
AgEng 6 W 10 5 PH
AgEng i M. 2 5 PH
AgEng 14 I` 2 206 PH
AgEng 206 T 2 SPH
Agro 6 Th 10 100 Ag
(Coittiretted gut nygo
of America
"They are fightinAl iattle that
brings wreckage , and,,ation to
both sides. They ali Ovation
in need
of the moral 'and 'materliupport of
American studenta,"A& tared.
Asked for hi.i'opi,nioimeerning
the eventual outcome,'!Of4 conflict,
Senor Emat' stated:,?,:l Spanish
people can know only'.,of • outcome,
the immediate cesSatiOir ostilities.
At the present 'Moment, .c is lit
tle hope for thiS, . unless opinion
of the democratic peoples he world
over is brought to bear he war
ring factions. '
"The students of Spahave al
ways opposed war,' The+C taken
arms in the .present, eonflOnly be
cause they devoutly Mihe keep the
government of 'Spain; thands of
a democratic electorttfe . .".-{ e '
The Spanish delegate rged the
non-intervention comM4tWith di
rect interventionjw. the Firs of a
sovereign state. He...ettited title
"intensification - an&prorait of the
civil war and its - accOiriiihg de
struction and suffering;; ie vacil
lating policy of .-thei•Elt and
French . governments." li
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Cast Rehpr l s
`HMS Pibbre'
Glee-Thespians See: pl Carte
Production in. Nelyrrk,
Singers Chus
.•
4
Fresh from Ndw Y
...crying a performabe
Pinafore" by thw . orig,
j i
of Gilbert and ..Sniljya
.D , Qyli , „_Carte,D9r2i4r ,
don, 'en-director . J.' . ,
and members of the ea
Thespian version of
turned to rehearsals ti
et. ob
.M.S.
•ducers
•s, the
.
e
, Kennedy
, r the Glee
'operetta,
eek.
in Schwab
following
n ball.
•. on • the
onald Dix
-1 '39, and
*. Empha
was being
f the leads
W. Grant,
music.
The operetta will, be
auditorium on 'Salim
a boxing meet in Reel
Accompanying:
New York trip were ,
on '37, C. Edward
members of the stage
is at rehearsals this
placed on the vocal - w:
directed by Prof.
head of the departme ii
Costumes . and seen
duction are expected .
phia early next week
)1 the pro
. Philadel-
Meanwhile Grant •
nounced the persona
and women's ensemb
Bruce Frankenber'
G. Calla ':39, Clifton
is C. Taynton
Truhn '39 are the fi .
ennedy an
the men',
0, Samuel
I g 'ae., Lew
‹enneth W.
Chosen to sing s
Harry W. Finney
Grove '4O, John
tenor were
Eugene A.
r '4O, and
Richard W. Tyrrel '
The baritones w
Cook '3B, Hayes J.
A. Hungerford '37,
'37, and Kenneth E.
The bassos are R
Gilbert E. Pride '3l
ers '37, and .Riehar:
The sopranos wil :
rage' '39, Barbara .
Anne K. Hall '3B,
'4O, Beatrice M.
Marquardt '4O, 21(
'3B, Sara J. Oden,l
W. Pease '4O, Jessi.;
and Martha V. Sh-
Joseph K
'4O, Chat la
1 S. Jobbinq
•once '39.
DuArze '39,
'rt H. Hoch:-
'arfield '4O.
; uth E. Bur
• Frizzell '4O,
L. Jenkins
40, Florence
P. Nieman
40, Barbara
.chminky '3B,
n '4O.
Alto singer, aril
bort '3B, Margur
'I dna G. Al-
Barnett '39,
h M. Morris
,'Dorothy F.
..trubhar '37,
'fart' E. Tay-
Williams '37.
Betty L. McKain
'3B, Myrtle E. Rat
Stafford '37,
•
Priscilla A. Stuart
for aml Arcroc,
January gradu
order invitations a
shobld do so by
Student Union 0
Wednesday noon,
A. Osterlund sen,
announced today.
dollars will be re.
gowns,. part of wh
ho desire to
•.s and gowns
. g, up at the
t later than
ry 13, Frank
, Iss president
poOt of Mic
ifor caps and .
;. be refunded.
Who's
All-College N
atecra
Bill
Sub
, Sig
(Cost
Jimm
r's Dance
all)
Sackett Retires
To End 6 Years
Of NCAA Work
Helps Outline Status
Of Junior College
Transfers
Higgins Makes Report
On Ethics to Coaches
Dean Robert 'L. Sackett, of the
School of Engineering, - retired last
week in New York as the Penn State
representative to the National Col
legiate Athletic Association after six
years' service.
Dean Sackett was vice-president of
the First District of the Association
for five 'years, and was chairman of
the N.C.A.A. eligibility committee for
four years. One of his last duties as
a member of the council was to pre
side at a round-tab:e discussion of his
committee which reported on the sta
tus of transfer students from junior
colleges.
Ifiggins Makes Report
Attending the same convention as
Dean Sackett, Bob Higgins, coach of
the Penn State football team, addres
sed the coaches' committee on ethics.
Higgins reported on a series of rec
ommendations calculated to help the
game. He also outlined thirteen points
which the coaches considered uneth
ical.
Penn State, for the first time since
the conventions became an
annual affair, had an unusually large
representation. In addition to Dean it
Sackett and Higgins, those in atten
dance were President Ralph D. Hetz
el; Ralph D. Hetiel, Jr. and- the fol-1
- 1 - 61Thie - tilembirs' nfikr:`s6l-iborlit
Physical Education' and Athletics:-
Dr. Elwood C. Davis, Leo Houck,
Charlie Speidel, Earle Edwards, Mar
ty McAndrews, Joe Bedenk, Ray Con
ger,-Chick Werner, and Al Michaels.
Four representatives from Penn
State attended the convention of the
College Hygiene A..sociation in Wash
ington, D. C. They were Dr. Joseph!
P. Ritenour, Dr. Charles D. Dietrich,
Dr. Elwood C. Davis, and Prof. Ar-i
thur F. Davis, of the School of Phys
ical Education and Athletics.
Injured Bleakley Girls
Expected To Recover
'Most serious of a series of automo
bile accidents involving students
imme•bound for vacation was that in
which Helen and Jean Bleakley and
Emma EL McKelvey, all sophomores,
were injured and confined to Dußois
hospital . on Saturday, December 19.
All are residents of Franklin.
Critically hurt were the Bienkley
girls, Helen suffering a fractured
,skull and Jean, a fractured nose and
I cut forehead. Miss McKelvey and
her father, William T. McKelvey, the
driver of the car, were shaken and
bruised. Miss McKelvey returned to
school Monday. •
A car convey of the Anchor line
and a truck out of control on a nar
west -.
row; icy highway one mile of
Dußois caused the crash in which the
McKelvey car was demolished.
Helen and Jean are still confined to
the , Dußois Hospital, Helen Snapping,
from n series of deliriums on Friday.l
Plastic surgery will be necessary to
restore Jean's facial features to their
normal position. Both are expected
to recover.
2nd 'Living Art'
Cotswold Collect
A group of twelve outstanding pic
tures by living American artists, the
second in a series of four exhibitions,
selected by Living American Art,
Inc., of New York City, is now being
shown in the exhibition gallery, room
303, Main Engineering building, un
der the direction of Pi Gamma Al
pha, honorary fine arts fraternity.
Beginning yesterday, the exhibit
will continue daily from 8 o'clock in
the morning until 0 at night through
out the remainder of the month. In
augurated just two months ago, more
than a half million people have wit
nessed the opening exhibitions in 225
cities in forty-six states. Under the
Present plan, forty-eight pictures will
Refugee, Minister, NYU
Faculty Member To Talk;
Meeting Will Start at 8
Lectures in Auditorium Will Initiate Community
Drive To Aid Needy Spanish Civilians
Opening the drive to aid the war-shattered civilian population
of Spain, students, faculty, and townspeople will assemble in
Schwab auditorium tonight at 8 o'clock to hear speakers from
New York, Boston, and Madrid report on the plight of the' panish
people, now in the seventh month of war.
The mass meeting tonight is open to both College and town
admission free.
• Speakers on the program are: The Rev. Julian Hamlin, of
Boston; Dr. Pedro Villa Fernandes, of the Spanish dePartment,
New York University; and Senora Garcia, Spanish refugee, and
Ferguson Opens
Lecture, Series
Speaker Will Discuss Congress
In H. E. Auditorium Today
• At 4:10 O'clock
Diseu,sing t'The New Congress and
Its Problems," John 11. Ferguson, of
the department of history and polit
ical science, will open the 10117 series
cf Social Science Lectures sponsored
by the School of the Liberal Arts.
Ile will speak in the Home Economics
auditorium at 4:10 o'clock this after
noon, and will be introduced by Dr.
Willard of the - ilepaiiment of
edonomics and sociology,' chairman of
the lecture series.
In his address, Ferguson will ex
! plain the present composition and or
ganization of both houses of Congress.
Ile will discuss the extent to which
Roosevelt may expect to receive sup
port from the new Congress. Follow
ing this, the speaker plans to point
out certain of the major issues that
will probably come berme I.` - r legisla
tive body. Sonic cf these are the re
organization of governmental agen
cies, foreign policies, the question of
constitutional amendment, and the re
vision of come of the emergency
measures.
Other Speakers Listed
Other speakers who will deliver
lectures in the 1937 series are Arthur
Reede, cf the department of eco
nomics and reciology; Ralph D. Hetz
cl, _Jr., '23. Prof. Sylvester IC. Ste
vens, and Dr. James E. Gillespie,
both of the department of history
and political science; .1. H. Rowland,
R. 11. Waters, William K. Schmelzle,
Prof. Sheldon C. Tanner, and Prof.
Edward R.. Van Sant, all of the de
partment of econcmics and sociology.
There are ten lectures listed on the
Schedule and each speaker will be in
troduced by a different member of the
faculty.
Prof. Davis Initiated
Alpha Delta Sigma, national pro
fessional advertising fraternity, ini
tiated Prof. Donald W. Davis, of the
department of journalism, Tom
Nokes, Sr., Johnstown, secretary of
the Outdoor Advertising Association
of Pennsylvania, and Paul C. Yeker,
Lancaster, treasurer of the same or
ganiution, recently.
Exhibit Opens;
ion Also Shown
I be 'chosen each year for reproduction
I by the collotype process.
Royalties from the sale of the
prints will be paid directly to the ar
tists, irregardless of the present own
ership of the original. Meanwhile,
in addition to this showing, the de
partment of architecture has announ
ced the exhibition of photographs of
the stone Cotswold architecture of
Gloucestenhire an d Oxfordshire,
England.
Through the courtesy of W. Pope
Barney, visiting critic here, the .ex
hibit will continue until January 15.
All original photographs and enlarge
ments are the work of Prof. Francis
Comstock, of the Princeton University
design faculty.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Spanish Widow to Talk
The neveiend Hamlin, formerly
chaplain of the tenth infantry dur-
ing the war and for five years rector
of the Church of the Advent in Bos
ton, will speak on "Spain: Democracy
at the Crossroads."
Dr. Fernandez spent last year in
Spain and is in close touch with de
velopments in the war zone through
many personal contacts. lle will
speak on the situation of the war
scarred civilian population.
Senora, Garcia, who has recently
come to the United States as a re
fugee, was a nurse until a short time
ago. She has given her husband to
the struggle . and has sons now en
gaged in the fighting. Senora Garcia
will describe the scenes "at the front.
The %Speaket
afternoon, will be 'entertained at a
dinner in the Old Main Sandwich
Shop at 6:30 o'clock before the mass
meeting tonight.
Sponsored leenlly by the State Col
lege Spanish Relief Committee, the
meeting will initiate a community
wide drive to raise funds for food,
clothing, and medical supplies. These
will be sent to agencies organized in
the United States for the collection
and distribution cf these articles for
civilian relief. The loial committee
is composed of student, faculty, and
town organizations.
Although this is the first meeting
of its kind in any college in this state,
cities throughout the state and nation
have held municipal drives. Monday
night, a mass meeting was held in
Madison Square Carden, New York
City, at which Dr. Fernando de los
Ries, former president of the Univer
sity of Madrid and Spanish Ambas
sador to the United States, was the
principal speaker.
Dr. de los Rios expressed his.grati
! tude to those "who ace sending shoes
and clothing to the destitute cf my
country, thus giving an inspiring ex
ample of generosity and proving that
fraternity is not an empty flourish of
human speech but the promising seed
of an ever-growing peace."
Other speakers on the program were
Prof. John Dewey, of Columbia Uni
versity, who served at chairman;
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; Dr. Reinhold
Neibuhr, of the Union Theological
Seminary; and Ralph Bates, English
novelist.
Hetzel Releases Plans
For Research Revival
The division of industrial research
in the School of Chemistry and Phys
ics, inactive since 7929, will again be
revived, Dr. Ralph D. Tided!, presi
dent of the College, has announced,
with the authorization of the board
of trustees. Dr. Merrell R. Fetish.,
of the department of chemistry, has
been chosen to bead the division.
The division will conduct research
in various fields under co-operative
agreements between the College and
industrial groups in the state, such
work having increased considerably
during the past few years.
"It is not. planned to make any
sudden expansion of existing eo-opet-,
ative projects," Dr. Prank C. Whit
more, dean of the School of Chemis
try and Physics, reported to the trus
tees in recommending the revival of
the division. "Such an expansion
would. be impossible in view of the
limited physical facilities and the in
crease in student enrollment in chem
istry and chemical engineering.