Page Wve PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free La»ee, established 1887 Published semi•eveeltly during the College Year, except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvania State Calle., In the Merest of the College, the students, faculty, alumni. and friends. fIOPPROIXTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISMO o• National Advertising Service, Inc. Collrfe Palishirs ReDreunlaare 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N.Y. Citic•co DOsioN DANFIIANCIscO 1.04 ANcSLED 1 2 01111./.No . SchT.l.r THE hIANA JOHNSON MENNE:SAN •37 E. TOWNSEND SWALM '37 Mani:mine Editor PHILIP S. HEISLER '37 News Editor W. ROBERT GRUBB '37 Seeds Editor RICHARD LEWIS 'XI Feature Editor MARION A. RINGER '37 'Women's Editor 31. WINIFIVED WILLIAMS '37 Women's Managing Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Ilinodrow W. Discly . 35 Fmnsis H. Somenak %IS Jerome, Weinstein 19 Charles M. Wheeler R. .38 Jay 11. Daniels '3B Carl N. Diehl '3B Robert E. Elliott In '29 Kathryn N. Jennings '3B Robert S. ZileKelsey '3B John C. Sabena IS NVOSIE:VS ASSOCIATE EDITORS Shirley R. Reim '35 Ceorgin 0. Powers '3B Caroline Tyson '3B 1936 Member ' 1937 Associated Collegiate Press Distributors of Colle6iale Digest Managing Editor This Issue_ News Editor This Issue Tuesday, January 12, 1937 CATECHISM FUNDS FOR THE RELIEF of suffering in Spain are now being collected. Although the drive has scarcely got. under way the response has been very gra tifying. The only fraternity thus far contacted has giv en ten dollars. 'Administrative officials from the Pres ident down have volunteered money. Student organiza tions have pledged their aid. Every person who believes in giving aid to suffer ing humanity will do some part in making this drive a success. For that reason emphasis is upon individual cont ibutions During the week an attempt will be made to have every student volunteer any amount that he wishes. It is natural that some qbjections, some questions will Because the COLLEGIAN is backing this drive we are printing the names of individuals or groups who contri bute a dollar or more. For the same reason we are printing here the answers to the questions which may occur to some. Question: Isn't this likely' to entangle our nation n the War? Answer: No. Our neutrality laws are not being violated since no war materials are being sent. The supplies will he carried by Spanish ships manned by Spanish sailors. Question: Doesn't charity begin at home? Answer: Yes, but it certainly shouldn't end there. One of the major catastrophes of the century is now going on in Madrid and it is the clear duty of . everyone to do what he can to alleviate that suffering. Question: Who will get the money? Answer: Locally it will he collected by the State College Spanish Welfare Committee, of which Prof. Alfred G. l'undt is treasurer. From there it will be sent to the Medical Bureau of the American Friends of Spanish Democracy. This organization has been investi gated and approved by the Spanish ambassador. On it are such prominent men as John Dewey, Rabbi Stephen J. Wise, Reinhold Neibuhr, and others. Question: How will the money be used? Answer: For the purchase of medical supplies, food, and clothing for the relief of the civilian popula- tion in Spain. None of it will be spent on war supplies Question: How do I know it will get there? Answer: The reputation of the groups behind the movement should be sufficient guarantee that the aupplies will he sent Question: How do I know that the civilians and not the army will get it? Answer: After they arrive in Spain the supplies will be turned over to and administered by the Red Question: Who is backing this movement? Answer: The men already mentioned are backing it nationally. On the campus President Ifetzel, Dean, Warnock, Dean Ray, Professor .Pundt, Professor Van Sant, all the publications, the heads of a dozen student organizations, and many others have announced their Question: How can contributions be made? Answer: Checks or cash may be given to solicitors or sent to the Committee or Professor Pundt in care of the Student Union Office. Clothes will be called for if you will telephone to the same office and leave your name, and address. NOTE ON STUDENT INTEREST The late "sex" issue of the Froth was, according to a source close to the editor, the poorest edition of the year. Its sales were double that of any previous issue. DO YOU REMEMBER the long hours you put in last September standing in the Deferred Fees line and how you ended the day further from the window than you were when you started? The new plan for deferred payments should largely eliminate this trouble if stu dents can remember to take advantage of it. Since the requests for deferrment will now be approved prior to actual registration all students will now lie able to go NO BOARD ALAN L. SMITH '37 Business Manager KENNETH W. ENGEL M 7 Advertising Manager PHILIP A. SCHWARTZ '37 Promotion Manager GEORGE W. BIRD '37 Circulation Manager IRWIN ROTH '37 Poseign Advertising Blannger JEAN C. HOOVER '37 Secretary REGINA 3. RYAN '37 Women's News Editor --Charlea DI. Wheel... Sr. '3S --Woodrow W. Diorly '3B 10 "A fair face is generally accompanied by blue eyes, light hair, eyebrows and lashes. There is a delicacy and harmonious blending of correspondences which are in perfect keeping; but if you sully the eye brows with blackness, you destroy all similitude of feature and expression, and almost present a de- OLD MAMA MARTINE'S HAND-BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, GUIDE TO TRUE POLITENESS (Two years ago Prof. Galbraith lent us the above titled book which was printed in 18G6. The other day we picked it up and thought that it might be of in terest to our readers to see what "Co-Ed Command ments" of that period were like. The following are taken verbatim from Martine's "COMPLETE MAN UAL FOR THOSE WHO DESIRE TO UNDER STAND THE RULES OF GOOD BREEDING, THE CUSTOMS OF GOOD SOCIETY, AND TO AVOID INCORRECT AND VULGAR HABITS."—Ed) Co-Ed Commandments a la 1866 1 "When walking alone on the street, should anyone venture to address you, take no heed, seem not to hear, but hasten your steps. Be careful to reach home in good time. Let nothing ever induce you to be out after dusk, or when the lamps are lighted. Nothing but unavoidable necessity can sanction such acts of impropriety." 2 "In ordinary conversation, the modulation and pro per management of the voice is a point to which I would particularly call the attention of young la dies; for a fine and melodious voice, 'sweet as music on the waters,' makes the heart-strings vibrate to the core." 3 "Punning is scrupulously to ' be avoided as a specie of aleahoue wit." 4 "By all means, aysid the use of slang terms and phrases in polite company. No greater insult can be offered to polite society than to repeat the slang dictums of bar-rooms and other low places. If you are willing to have it known that you are familiar with such company yourself, you have no right to treat a party of ladies and gentlemen as though they were, too." 5 "Never ask a question under any circumstances. In the first place it is too proud; in the second place, it may be very inconvenient or very awk ward to give a reply. A lady inquired of what branch of medical practice a certain gentleman was professor. He held the chair of midwifery!" 6 "Do not talk of politics to a journalist, of fevers to a physician, Of stocks to a broker—nor, unless you wish to enrage him to the utmost, of education to a collegian." 7 "Avoid the disgusting habit of spitting." 8 "When tripping over the pavement a lady should gracefully raise her dress a little above her ankle. With her sight hand she Should hold together the folds of her gown and draw them toward the right side. To raise the dress on both sides, and with both hands, is vulgar. This ungraceful practice can be tolerated only for a moment when the mud is very deep." 9 "Never scratch your head, pick your teeth, clean your nails, or worse than all, pick your nose in com pany; all these things are disgusting. formity." And for the 1866 Fraternity Man: "if a lady waltzes with you, beware not to press her waist; you must only lightly touch it with the palm of your hand, lest you leave a disagreeable impres sion not only on her ceinture, but on her mind." 2 "Young men should be well dressed. Not foppishly,: -but neatly and 'well. An untidy person at five-and- `' r twenty, degenerates, very frequently, into a sloven and a boor at fifty." ONE DAY ONLY DAy WEDNESDAY JANUARY 13 STORE OPENS 8:00 A. N. STARK BROS. & HARPER NO EXCHANGES NO CHARGES la — Es PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Library Contest To Close April 1 Undergraduates May Compete For Two Awards of $25 Worth of Books The College library announces' its third annual "Students Own Library" contest which closes on April 1. Two awards of $25 worth of books each will go to the winners. Undergradu ate students of the College are elig ible, except those who have won prizes previously. A committee consisting of three faculty members and the College li brarian will select the winning col lections. Contestants must signify their wish to compete by notifying College Librarian Willard P. Lewis not later than April 1. Rules Govern Contest Conditions governing the type of collection include: books for cultural reading on one subject or many, or books relating , to hobbies; collections will be judged from the standpoints of interest, content, and quality. The students should have a good knowledge of the books from reading them and the major part of the col lection should have been purchased by the students. Volumes of a distinct ly textbook character shall not be con sidered, while twenty-five volumes shall constitutea 'minimum collection. The prizes for the contest are be ing donated by the Athletic store and Keeler's Bookstore. .It is expected that the winners ,will be chosen dur ing the month of May. James T. Du gan '37 and Frederick G. Holahan '37 won last year's contest. Sackett Reviews Sports Problems Student Selection Discussed By Dean of Engineering School In Recent Article Discussing the problems of eligibil ity and the importance of amateur ism as a necessary prerequisite to satisfactory intercollegiate sports, an article by Dean Robert L. Sackett. of the School of Engineering, will ap pear soon in The Journal of Athletics. This will mark the fourth article of Dean Sackett's to he published within the past half-year. Last June, the address which he delivered on "Character Building" before the So eiety for the Promotion of Engineer ing Education, appeared in The Jour nal of Engineering Education. Writes for "Occupations" In the December issue of the same magazine, Dean Sackett, in an essay entitled "College 'Hurdles," predicted that the increasing number of appli cants for admission to engineering colleges will continue during the next few years. An article on the selection of engi neering students appears in the la test issue of Occupations, the voca tional guidance magazine of New York. Tt discusses the causes of the elimination of students by scholastic failure and voluntary withdrawal or transfer. Doggett Made Member Of Council of A.A.U.P. Prof. Leonard A. Doggett of the department of electrical engineering, was elected to; the ;National Connell of the American AssociatiOn of Uni versity Professors for a three year term at the annual meeting at Rich mond. He succeeds Prof. Robert E. Dengler. of the department of ro mance languages, and Prof. Francis .1. Tschan, of the department of his tory. Prof. Doggett. came into the local chapter of the A. A. U. P. in 1921. He served several terms as treasurer and in 1931 was elected president. N I T -T A Br y Evenings at. 6:30 and 8:30 Last Complete Show. 9:05 Matinee Every Saturday . 1:30 TODAY and WED The Arch-enemy of Crime Faces the King of Terror! THURSDAY Jean Arthur—George Brent in "MORE THAN A. SECRETARY'? We Women By MARION A. RINGER Some of the coeds may be aware by now, that a Mrs. Jessie Eubank lec tured here over the week-end. About 50 women' heard Mrs. Eubank on Friday and 75 came to hear her on "Speaking of Men" Saturday after noon; due, no doubt, to the topic. The other Saturday meeting and the cha pel address drew a few more. It seems pretty discouraging that the work of the C. A. committee which arranged the conference didn't draw more interest from students. Why aren't more students interested in lectures? Well, most of don't think "it's being done." Some of us would really like to go but we just can't find the time and then, again, they all don't pertain to sex. The majority of Mrs. Eubank's au dience considered her to be pretty fair. Some took the trouble to anal yze her talks in accordance with their own thinking and didn't like her. Mrs. ' Eubank was undoubtedly a nervous speaker, full of some stock phrases and devices which win over the av erage female audience. Many times I she did not keep to her topic and was guilty of incoherence. Nevertheless,' Mrs. Eubank had some very good ideas and some inter esting examples which applied direct•', ly to Penn State coeds. She disproved I the theory, so accepted up here, that there is just .one right man for every girl. There are, in the world, accord ing to psychologists, hundreds of men who would be ideally suited to the at tributes of a certain girl. So, remem ber, "Men are like street cars, if you miss the first one there is always another." Merely. attending lectures you like because everyone else does won't do much to cultivate individual think ing. If you go to a lecture and don't like the speaker and can give definite and logical reasons why, you're on your way to the goal of a college edu cation. In other words, you are think ing for yourself. Of course, it is a little more trouble to think out your own opinions than to accept that of the majority. Last week Panhellenic Council ac cepted the decision of the Advisory .Board in rejecting the preference list system for freshmen. Witgi the excep tion of one, all the fraternities con sidered it an excellent idea and voted for its immediate passage. Some. of the fraternities still think it a good idea and regret its failure very much. The Council does not have to take the Advisory Board's advice as final but can take it just as advice. The Board's most logical objection was the small amount of time in which to work up the plan. However, it was recommended that the Council consider the plan for next year. If the fraternities want to see this plan, which they honestly consider ex cellent, go through for next year, they must remember that the Advisory Board is going to have the same ob jections. They are: the plan is un fair to some fraternities and some freshmen; will it do any good; it might cause rumors and dissension among the fraternities. The fraternities have already con sidered these possible disadvantages and still maintain that the advantag es will far outweigh them and that those objections might not even exist. It is up to these fraternities. to see that their Panhellenic representatives retain their own convictions and thinking power when the plan is con sidered for next year, they want it in practice. Degartmentaj Notes Agricultural Education Henry S. Brunner, agricultural ed ucation instructor,..will lead the 112- piece Future Fanners Band consist ing of students of vocational agricul ture in 50 schools of 28 counties when it plays at the Pennsylvania Farm Show at Harrisburg, Jan. 18-22. Botany Dr. Lee 0. Overholts, of the de partment of botany, was elected vice president of the American Mycologi cal Society. Balloting was done by mail and the result announced Christ mas at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Atlantic City, N. J. Economics Prof. Sheldon C. Tanner, of the de partment of economics and sociology, was elected president of the Ameri can Association of Teachers of Busi- , ness Law. English Composition Prof. Joseph F. OBrien, of the de partment of English Compcniition, (Continued on page four) Get Ready For Pan-Hell Ball Work. Promptly Done L. E. KLINE S. Allen St. Shoe Shining and Repairing Noted Lecturer Discusses Life Mrs. Eubank Says Biggest Task Of Life Lies in Releasing Power. in Others "Why do we seek this thing called popularity?" asked Mrs. Jessie Bur rell Eubank, noted psychologist and lecturer, of her audience last Satur day night in Schwab auditorium. She launched into her topic "What Price Personality" with the assertion that the desire for popularity is natural to everyone. It may be acquired, she believes, by anyone who believes he can do it. "however, the mere belief in one self won't do the trick," said' Mrs. Eubank. "Just as in anything else, digging must accompany desire." Mrs. Eubank expressed the opinion that life is a continuous search for such small goals as popularity, mon ey, clothing, or home and children, but, more generally, the ability to live fully. "In, striving for these goals we learn to live," she declared, "but the true satisfaction for all -de sire lies in satisfying those of oth ers." Mrs. 'Eubank s said that our main job in life is to'release the powers in others. "This is the only way to re lease your own personality," she con cluded, "and the released personality is the popular personality." Senior Engineers Hear Legislator Sen. Thompson Explains Work Of Legislature; Discusses Current Problems Senator Edward J: Thompson, of Centre county, explained the intri cate procedure of the workings of the State Legislature to a group of sen ior engineers Friday afternoon in the Home Economics auditorium. In the lecture, which was entitled "How the Legislature Works," Sen ator Thompson stated that "not only in the engineering profession but in any profession, there are no such per sons .as super-men." He used this statement to explain why it is impos sible for any one man to have a thor ough. knoWledge of • everything- that takes place during a session of . the Legislatbre. "The first duty performed by a new congress, he said, is the swearing in of newly elected members, and the assigning of them to positions on committees. Then comes the intro ; duction of thousands of bills to be considered by the legislatori last year 5380 bills were introduced." Discusses Lobbies He discussed the workings of lob bies from the point of view that the public is under a misapprehension in believing that a lobby works along only evil and underhanded channels. He emphasized that "there are many good lobbiesir "According to the state constitu tion," he stated, "a bill must be read three times." The first•two readings are usually mere formality and take up little time. It is on the third read ing that all the discussion is held and the vote taken. After a short discussion of the re lief question, Senator Thompson said that "there was more progress in so cial legislation in the last ten years than in the last hundred." . .iti. the essentials ,- . course in a concise, easily. reviewed manner. Hours of study are saved by' ? these digests, with their numerous maps, diagrams,' and tables that condense chapters into charts. You • will grasp and remember the important facts, because all non-essentials have been removed. The cost? Only 75c each.. '. 'TITLES IN THE COLLEGE OUTLINE SERIES Ant e Med. B Mod. Mt of &enemies Hist. a! Europe. 1500.11148 Hitt. of Wald Sieu 1914 Waal of Education Hid. of Europa. 18154936 •Netorafgesperus of US. General Psydraogy Middle AG...N0.150W Prin. oldhoiogy Cdhoge Chemistry igst. of U.S. To 1130 'Patina% Science Stplielkallefelhodi ' Hi d. of U.S.Rece lus C Cagey* Tholes Shaherpeares Ploys Eduutional Psychology General Biology History of England Engl.!, 1.11.• To Dryden 611111.1 Penney Anurkap Government KEELER'S CATIJAUM THEATRE BLDG f ruesday, January 12, 1937 Intra-Mural Debating To Be Opened April 5 . The' Men's Intra-mural discussion contest will begin on April 5, it was decided at a Meeting of Forensic Council in the North Liberal Arts building, held last Thursday night. The topic to be debate? has not been decided as yet. The women's intra-mural debates will start about the same time. Their series, sponsored by Delta Alpha Del ta, is under the supervision of Lucille D.. Hayes. 'l7, president of the fra ternity, and Clayton IL Schug, wom en's debate coach. _ The Council also decided at the meeting to try to secure an English lecturer to speak here some time be tween February 15 and April 1. Prizes Offered For Best Designs Beaux Arts Society To Give Five Dollars and Ticket To Contest Winner A prize of five dollars and a com plimentary ticket to its annual ball is offered by the Beaux Arts Society for the best scenery design for the dance which is- tentatively scheduled for April 16. The dance will be held in the Armory. The competition is open to all stu dents. Blanks may be obtained at the Architectural Library, on the third floor of the Main Engineering building,'and must be returned before February 8. Elaborate Decorations John B. Ferguson '37, chairman of the dance committee, announced that the decorations would be more elabo rate than ever before. He said that the committee will, as in the past, se cure late permission for the dance. The tickets will go on sale at $1.25 per couple. The committee has not yet engaged the band which will fur nish the music for the occasion, but Ferguson says that more money is available this year in order to make the ball the best affair of the series. COMPLETE _ FOOD SERVICE Specialties: HOT DOGS AND CHILI CON CARNE Henny's Western Lunch S. Allen St. PRINTING for FRATERNITIES • AND CLUBS LETTERHEADS ENVELOPES STATEMENTS Nittany Printing & Publishing Company , 110. West College Avenue '
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