Paia PENN STATE COLLEGIAN 1 Successor to The Free Lance. established 1887 1936 Member 1937 Pssociated Collegiate Press Distributors of Collegiate Digest JOHNSON BRENNEMAN 'l7 Editor ALAN L. SMITH '37 Business Manager E. TOWNSEND StVit'Ll '37 KENNETH W. ENCRL '37 Managing Editor Aitertiting Minaster PHILIP S. HEISLER '37 ' PHILIP A. SCHWARTZ '37 Neva Editor Promotion Mnnoger W. ROBERT GRUBB '37 GEORGE. W. BIRD '37 Sports Editor Circulation Manager RICHARD LEWIS '37 IRWIN ROTH '37 Venture Editor Foreign Advertising Manager MARION A. RINGER '37 JEAN C. HOOVER '37 tYnmen's Editor Secretary M. WINIFRED WILLIAMS '37 REGINA J . RYAN '37 Women's Managing Editor Women's News Editor Woodrow W. Diorly '3B Franck H. Szymenk '3B Jerome Weinstein '33 Charles M. Wiwi.' :tr. '33 I=l Joy H. Daniels '3B Carl W. Diehl '3B Robert E. Elliott jr. '3B Kathryn M. Jo:lig:tut '3B Robert S. MeKeNey '3B John G. SaboHa '3B WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Shirk."' R. Helms 'SS Georg!" IF. rowers Caroline TYnon.lB Managing Editor This Issue._ Noon Editor This Issue Friday, February 12, 1937 MAN FROM MARS OTS OF excitement about Senior Ball." Mr. Broun's •Man from Mars draped a foot over my desk and pulled some copy out of the basket. "Were all the committee members agreed on Louie Armstrong?" "I don't know. Nobody ever asked them." He unfolded a large grin. "And now I suppose there comes a scathing editorial denouncing the chairman for high-handed, dictatorial methods." "Oh, no. The committee is never consulted." The grin disappeared. "Does it do anything?" "Usually not. This year the 'senior class president called a couple of meetings and the committee selected a list of about ten bands it preferred for the dance. "Was anything done with the list." "Oh, yes. But six of them cost too much, three weren't on tour, and the other one wasn't available on the right dates." "But why wasn't the committee consulted before Armstrong was signed?" "There wasn't thee. It was necessary to make an he mediate decision." The Man from Mars crawled off my typewriter and pulled up a chair. "Then there isn't anything useful that a dance committee can do, even if somebody does try to find some duties for them?" "That's right." He looked puzzled and scratched his head. "Oh, I get it now. Being on a dance committee is just a sort of honorary job. It doesn't really mean anything." "Nothing except $l2 worth of free dance tickets." "Wait a minute. If you're on a dance committee you get free tickets, but you don't do any work." "Oh no. All the members do a lot of work." "But you just said—" "They do a lot of work, but none of it is connected with dances." "What do they do?" "Every spring they go around to houses and among students and convince them that they should vote for Joe He's a Good Guy." "But what good does that do the student body?" "None." ;`Then why are they put on the committee?" "Because if Joe He's a Good Guy wins he appoints I don't see why over $5OO of student's money should he' spent every year to reward politicians." "pidiet,'spii evei• hear of the 'Spoils System!?" 'tNOt where I come from." you're just one of them ignorant furriners who don't appreciate the fundamentals of the American System." I 'think I made him a little sore because he just got up and walked out of the office shaking his head. BOOKS-A LA COLLEGE W S. G. A.IIAS lIIT upon a successful plan in its cooperative book store opened in Mac ball for the women students at the beginning of this semester. The plan was carried off on a very small scale, the store handling only about 100 books. It em bodied, however, the fundamental principle which could be used more advantageously by the whole student body, because the greater the clientele, the greater would be the number of books available. The logical development now is to open a central agency in Old ➢fain or some other convenient location for the exchange of used textbooks. Such an agency could, as did the Mac hall book store, give the student a fair deal by breaking the monopoly held by the down town beck stores, which get as commission at least six percent of the cost of each book handled. The advantages of this plan are evident. A central College agency would eliminate the confusion of post ing lists and running advertisements and furnish a convenient means of exchange. The student could ob tain a higher price for his book and could buy books for less, saving himself the money he now pays as com mission to the downtown book stores. To keep such a project free front political graft, the store would. have to be under the supervision of Stud ent Union or some other college organization. For a week at the beginning and end of each semester N. Y. A. workers could be used in the agency, thus keep- Lightheaded Highlights: Being eonsidernbly perturbed about our own sense of homer lately w•e were able to take on new hope •titer glancing. at Librarian William' P. Lewis' brain- child "The Headlight," a library publication in which new books added to the library are reviewed In nn article on one of the new books which labors under the heeding title "1001 Questions Answered About Yom• Aquarium," Mr. Lewis calmly announc- es the revolutionary news to this unsuspecting world that "water spiders and small snails may he the next populay pets of this nation." Another new book which has been added and re- viewed glimmers under the.simple unassuming title:, "Cats." There may have been some hidden power in that nionosyllablie title, but it was the last sentence of the review which set __Crancis Szymczak '3B _ __Woa!row W. Bierly '3B us to thinking about the irony of it all. It ended "There are many more homeless cats than dogs." Along Journalism Alley It took a glance into the Editor and Publishers' Yearbook to convince us that the Centre Daily Times, another local newspaper, has what is euphemistical ly called a Society Editor but there it is in black and white with the proud listing: "Society Editor, Vern etta Williams . .'." Harry Henderson, es-ed of this rag, es-C. D. T. newshawk is now an ex-Altoona Tribune reportei% When we last saw him he was in Lew Tendler's Bar in Philly, safe in the throes of the proverbial journ alistic glow . • . Bill McDowell, who did this column last year and spent nights brewing epithets for Weird Willie Willie Hearst is now a Hearsting on the Pittsburgh Sin-Telegraph Pick-ups Lute Luttringer spent Tuesday afternoon in Grange dorm getting material for the Sigma Delta Chi Grid iron 'Banquet skits .. . When George Hacker drift ed into his Prat house Friday night around midnight and found several fellows with their dates still in the house he was struck with the faint recollection that he was in some way connected with Interfra ternity Council and that that organization had made some rules or other for the protection of the morals of-.the student boil} , which stated that . all co-eds had to be out of the fraternity houses by 11 o'clock . Not until the dates chased Hacker upstairs to read the 5. F. C. constitution. did he learn that girls are allowed in until 1 o'clock Fridays .. t Sybil Hart and Charlie Schwartz announced their marriage recently . . . Ray Fishburn who will modestly admit that he knows 35 girls in Hoc hall and sends flowers to 6 of them couldn't find a one of them in the Corner Room Wednesday ... A mysterious telephone message won ders why the T. N. E.'s have suddenly taken on a southern accent and asks us to investigate the rumor that the S. A. E.'s promise to lend cars to co-eds if they will come around to the house ... Things We Wish We Would Have Thought Of: The Penn Stu- tr dents' stand up strike claiming that the chairs are too uncomfortable. As the Daily .I"nnaylvanialt puts it, "To sit in College Hall lecture rosin seats, one must be peculiarly shaped by Mother Nature or else bring a cushion ... That new crm waitress that has everybody talking is Elms Ruth Schnars . . An- flounced .betWeen,semeiters , was the engagement Sally' Anne Siegel and Dick Eisenman.. . . Ski Every Day . . Snow Sports at Quebec 4- ' - Skiing Skating Tobogganing Sleighing Curling Snowshoeing Hockey SPECIAL ATTRACTION International Dog Derby • • • _ Ask us for rates and schedules. Let us help you organize a party. There is no charge for our services. Hotel State College Travel Bureau Louetta Neusbaum Phone 733 CAMPUSEER "Cats" that caught our eye IMMO =NI COLLEGIAiq NAACP To Hold Anti-Lynch Drive Sunday Meeting Ends Campaign For Passage of Wagner, Costigan Statitte Adopting "Pass the Wagner Anti- Lynching Bill" as their slogan, the State College chapter of the Nation al Association for the:Advancement of Colored Peoples will hold a mass meeting in room 405 Old Main at 9:00 o'clock on Sunday. The meeting will be part of the Anti-Lynching cam paign. now in progress throughout the country. In conjunction with the mass meet-. ing, the N.A.A.C.P. has arranged for the distribution of "Stop Lynching" buttons, available through the Stu dent Union office. The buttons are being distributed for the purpose of raising funds for the legal defense council of the national organization. Powell IVill Speak Allan W. Powell '37, will be the principal speaker at the meeting and will talk on the necessity of rapid pasage of the revised Wagner-Costi g,an Bill, now on the floor of the House. He will be followed by a speaker from the Christian Asocia . tine. The program will be concluded with 'a short address by an officer of the group. The new bill, as introduced before the Congress, provides for the punish ment of peace officers and state pro secutors who fail 'to give adequate protection to prisioners. It differs from the original Wagner-Costigan Bill in that it applies only to lynch ing acts, and not to killings resulting ; from labor disputes or gang warfare. We Women By MARION A. RINGER May queens come and go amid a storm of discussion as to whether they are beautiful enough, or wheth er they did anything to deserve such a high honor. This year W.S.G.A. has chosen the nominees upon activi-. ties and suitability for a desirable May Queen. Each nominee has been carefully considered in, both respects. When nominations conic up at the mass meeting these considerations must be offered. With the qualifications for May Queen put upon this basis the position will be one of true honor. W.S.G.A. hopes that the precedent started this year will be made a cus tom. "Since it is impossible to decorate either the Armory or Recreation hall because of expense, women will be required to wear semi-formal gowns in order to soften the atmosphere," at the Student Union dance Saturday night. The fact that,the Penn State co eds and a few extra yards of cloth ing will soften the atmosphere of Rec. Hall is indieative of their great stride forward in the esteem of the men here. Many of the girls liked the infor mality of the Student Union dances and the chance to gain male equality in wearing suitable, sensible and com fortable 'clothes. However, there are a few girls, perhaps, who welcome the chance of wearing the long gowns which so accent their femininity. All of the co-eds do hope they can rush back from the rushing parties in • time to change limn street or Strictly formal dress to:the, semi-foe al•M attire which enable them tO ,be admitted to theldance.c -CAMPY Murder Terrifies The Campus! Faculty Member Commits Mur der within Shadows of University Club! toted ScimAist, while attending Faculty Party, slays wife after vio lent quarrel! His relentless ambition prompts him to kill a fellow physics professor before being captured by Christopher Cross, a prominent al umnus of Santa • Clain University, who happened to be visiting the camp us at the time. An unsuspected love affair between the professor's daughter and a young er Tnembv of the faculty is a nest , angle injected into the case. Students and townspeople will have an opportunity to learn the lur id details of this shocking affair at the. Nittany Theatre on Saturday. (adv.) , ,LAN - TURN IN Under New-Management Featuring Home Cooked Lunches of. HOT SANDWICHES SOUPS ...;,BEVERAGES Senior Board Names Nominees For W.A.A. Olwen W. Evans '3B, Martha I. Giddings '3B, and M. Eleanor Saun ders '3B' have been appointed nomi nees for the presidency of the Wom en's Athletic Association by senior members of the board. Primary offi cer elections will be held in McAlli ster hall on Wednesday. February 24, and final elections on March 3. Candidates for the vice-presidency are Amy S. Mandy '39, Marjorie Goyim. '39, and Dorothy A. McAu liffe '39. Rachel M. Bechdel '39, Lou isa Hinkley '39, and Bertha L. Wright '39 have been selected as can didates for secretary. Margaret L. Collins '4O, Beatrice M. Lowe '4O and Eleanor E. Skinner 'lO are nominees for sophomore rep resentative to the W.A.A. board. Nemeth '4O Undergoes Appendicitis Operation Theodore J.. Nemeth '4O was oper ated on Wednesday morning at the Centre County . hospital, ,Bellefonte, following an acute attack of appendi citis. • Nemeth, who was honorary 'captain of the freshman football team, was taken ill Monday, but failed to report to the Infirmary. On Tuesday the pain in his abdo men became more intense, and Wed nesday morning Dr. Joseph P. Rite flour, . College physician, diagnosed the case as acute appendicitis. He immediately arranged to have Ne meth transferred to the hospital for an operation. Ball Poster Contest Members of the Senior Ball com mittee announced the annual poster_ contest, the winner to receive a com plimentary ticket to the dance. Pos ters must be placed in room. 225, En gineering P, before 4 o'clock, Febru ary 19th. Instructors in the division of Fine Arts , will judge the posters. , ~, ... ... •,..,, N,I) e + 16,..„ .. ..: ) . -- "---"-,-;;', ~.V. . .....dci: :.,„ i ,„„ : „..., \ ...._.____._......;:___ \\nr_. ......._;;_.....0 r..... Typewr i t ers Remington Portables $49" $62" s67"•noiseless Underwood $49 50 $6O Rebuilt Portables Royal - - Corona - Rebuilt Upright L. C. Smith's - $2B, $49.50 _.......... ..... . . 43......„,.-„, . ~,..,- - --,The t e t ic t ore r___ A._ ~. T -`' `'..*1 .,. ., 1, !!,-;7 ' • ' L:"...'•WA'W,1L'4,... / ‘ '!" . ..,-. On Co-op Corner • Dial 2158 Osterlund To Address Local A.S.U. Chapter Frank A. Osterlund '37, president of the senior class and of Student Council, will address the members of the local chapter of the American Student Union at its regular weekly meeting in room 415, Old Main, Sun day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. He will outline his proposals for the re organization of politics at Penn State on 0 basis of platform issues rather than personalities. Following a brief description of the proposed plan, Osterlund will Conduct a discussion on the merits and de merits of the idea. The meeting will be open to anyone interested. . Underwood - $32 $22 $2O Remington - $lB :Fricra - y, February .12, 1937 Dr. Clinchy To Speak On National Problems Dr. Everet Ross Clinehy, Executive Secretary of the National Seminar of Jews and Christians, will' speak on "Many Groups in One Nation," in the regular Sunday morning chapel ser vice in ,Schwab Auditorium. ' Doctor Clinchy was minister in the College Church at Weslyan Univer sity following his graduate study at Union Theological Seminary, Yale and - Columbia. After five years of service he was called to the sCere tariate of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ of America, on the Commission of National Justice and Goodwill. Corona $49 5 ° $ 65
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