Fhie TqZ; PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Laree. established 1887 NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, Chicago—Boston—San Francisco—Los Angeles—Portland—Seattle Applied for entry in sceond clans matter at the State College Post Office. NO BOARD ALAN L. SMITH '37 Business Manager KENNETH W. ENGEL '37 Advertising Mainager PHILIP A. SCIINVARTZ '37 Promotion Manager GEORGE W. BIRD '37 Circulation Manager lIINVIN ROTH '37 Foreign Advertising Manager JEAN C. HOOVER '37 Secretory W REGINA S. RYAN '37 omen's News Editor THE MLNAG JOHNSON BRENNEMAN 'l7 . I,lltor E. TOWNSEND SWALM Montotintr Editor PHILIP S. HEISLER '37 NOVI Editor W. ROBERT GRUBB '37 Sports Editor RICHARD ',my's '37 - Feature Editor MARION A. RINGER '37 Women's Editor 14. WINIFRED WILLIAMS '37 Women's Managing Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Woodrow W. Bier's IS Francis 11. Saymcsak IS Jerome Weinstein IS Charles :D. Wheeler jr. IS ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGERS Jay 11. Daniels '3B Cnrl W. Diehl '3B Robert E. Elliott jr. '3B Kathryn M. Jennings '2B Robert S. McKelvey '3B John C. Sok.lla '3B WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Shirley R. Rams '3B Centel., 11. Powers '3B Caroline Tyson '3B Managing Editor This Issue Nen•s Editor 'This Issue Friday, Febrdary 26, 1937 SHIFTING RESPONSIBILITY ANOTIIER CRY against the College Infirmary has been raised. Monday night, a student fractured his ankle while skiing. Friends carried him to the Infirmary, where a nurse applied ice packs. Neither Dr. Ritenour nor Dr. Dietterich was pres ent. Neither could be found. After calling President lletzel for permission, the friends of the injured stu dent called in a town physician. Before the local doctor was able to appear, Dr. Ritenour arrived at the Infirmary—two hours and fif tree minutes after the student was tarried to the in firmary. X-rays were taken, the bone set. Luckily for the injured student—and it might have been any student—the injury was not serious. But it could have been. Again comes the question: who is to blame? Tues day's COLLEGIA;q editorially stated that two doctors could rot properly handle over five thousand students; the administration was at fault rather than the phy- But this most recent incident places the fault with' both. The doctors are to blame'because it is their duty to be within immediate call of the Infirmary, where'any thing may happen. The administration is at fault for not carrying a sufficient staff to provide the Infirmary with a resident physician. If Penn State students are to be protected from the terrible consequences of injury and illness, the admin istration must act at once to better Infirmary condi tions —J. W. CAFETERIA COMPROMISE MAC HALL BREAKFAST, the problem child, was brought up before the W. S. G. A. after much discussion on the part of the Food Com mittee, Mrs. Johnson and Mr. Hostetter. The combined efforts produced the plan of a cafeteria style breakfast which may be served this semester. The plan is to continue the 7:15 breakfast and to have cafeteria style from S o'clock to 8:30: It will be a simple meal consisting of fruit, cold cereal, rolls and beverage. It will be easy, to prepare and will require fewer waiters, solving the problem of the conflict in their schedules which prevented the serving of second breakfast this year. Women can go to the Dining Commons and leave when they wish, giving them time to get up at 8:10 and still have breakfast. No more getting up in the grey dawn when they have a 0 o'clock class. Cafeteria style breakfast is a step towards op tional breakfast which may be realized in the future. A questionnaire sent to the women on the campus re vealed that 200 preferred the option, seventy cafeter ia style, while three favored breakfast as it's served now. One of the arguments made against optional break fait was that it would be hard to identify the people who had registered for the meal. An identification card would hardly be necessary us the waiters have a gift of remembering faces and can pick out guest in a roomjull ' , of 'regular dihmis.. A solution 'to this Would be( . ti:!ineal. ticket which the owners could lend to their friends when`! they were not going to. breakfast. This would inconvenience no one as the 'same 'nUmber of meals would be prepared and paid for. • Cafeteria style, however, is a stepping stone to the option which will take many hours of conference before being obtained. —S. R. H. PENN STATE'S BABY STRIKE There: is a strike in State College called by the Committee for Industrial Organization. Eight structur al steel workers, employees of Tippett and Wood, Phil lipsburg, N. J., have gone out on strike from the job on the new water tower behind the west stands of New Beaver Field. They have been employed in this dan gerous occupation for fifty-five cents an hour under the Union wage scale, nine and one-half hours a day and in bitter weather. These are the grievances that are being arbitrated stow in Phillipsburg and in Easton where other steelworkers employed by this firm arc on strike. Our letter writer of last issue said that the events of the outside world were reaching into the campus and here is an exciting example. The College awarded the contrator to a local contractor and the Philipsburg firm was sublet the steel construction. The campus learns that a public institution is indirectly 'connected with un fair labor practices under contracts which did not in clude specifications that a decent wage scale and work- , ing conditions be complied with. The United States government has union labor specifications in its navy contracts and such specifica tions should be made in College building contracts, es pecially at a time when the College is anticipating an ambitious building program. No one likes strikes, least of all labor which loses its livelihood. If labor cannot find friends in a liberal educational institution, modern democratic ideals are lost indeed. The striking steelmen are suspicious of college boys because they have seen many strikes broken by ignorant undergraduates who have listened to the siren call of big and easy dough scabbing. In this instance the COLLEGIAN hopes it is the voice of the majority of Penn State students in saying that we support their fight for decent working conditions and wages 'ecirn mensu rate with their dangerous work. —J. T. D. Kappa Kapers Addenda: Once again the Kappa house, stronghold of pul chritude, was forced into the role of host to a mid night intruder. A local man, not a student, described by some of the Kappa girls as "tall, dark and hand some," and by others as simply a "big bruiser," picked his way to the house, up the fire escape to the third story, where he found the door conveniently open. The intruder then calmly walked down the stairs, past the doors of the sleeping beauties, past the rooms packed with plentious pulchritude, into the basement where he was found by a burly campus cop after Helen Nokes had telephoned for assistance. Burgess Leitzell released him after he pleaded drunkenness fmnrio H. Szymernk . 3S _Jerome Weirrteln Book-keeping When young Jay Gates, son of Prof. T. J. Gates, English Comp. tycoon, started in school here this fall he cliscovered that since he had to take English Composition 1 he had to have a textbook for the course and the textbook was "Essentials of English Composition" by Espenshade and Gates. Professor Gates, who' was coauthor of the text, immediately went to Frank Neusbaum, dramatics prof, who prob ably had the book lying around as a stage prop, and asked him if he would lend the book to his son so that he would net have to buy one.' P. S. The book hasn't been returned yet. • "The trouble with Penn State is that it has no GLAMOUR." That was the opinion voiced by a representative of the magazine, "WE the People." who is spending a few days here collecting material for an article to appear in that publication. When we last saw him he was in the hands of the Maniac and the Mug and Jester. - The glamour is gone from Penn State All actions are much too sedate To drink is all wrong No kicking the gong • We elate all right But not all night Early to bed and early to rise Makes dull jacks of most the guys Instead of a bin• and bootleg moon, We lounge around in the Corner Room. We gotta have glamour if we want to win And we can't have glamour if, we can't have sin Thiough sonic quirk of. fate the personal diary of a co-ed, whose name we shall not mention, found its way_ into the COLLEGIAN office. We shall print a a few authentic excerpts from' it in the near future. . . . . Les Benjamin pulled the old tooth-paste for shaving cream gag on Hummel Fishburn on their re cent debating trip ... Only new angle in it was that Les did it accidentally and Fishburn still doesn't know that he shaved with tooth paste . . . The Maniac re ports that the man who was unprepared to give a lecture on "Advanced Information on Sex" was Sam Wyand ... Phil Dibert clips all the newspaper stor ies about the Gunderman third-degree murder trial down in Somerset because he and Chinderman were pals in high school ... Juxtaposition: The Fine Arts building and the Flour Milling laboratory being one and the same structure . . . Rumor has it that the men in this here U. arc considering a demonstration at the May Day festivitiese because they were not allowed to help in the election of tho May Queen ... When Joe Rubin asked his class, "Did anyone weep : : yet?" in reference to their reading "Journey's End,'; Jack Frazier was the only one to raise .his hand, Jack thinking Rubin had asked, "Did anyone eat yet?" Go to the BOXING INTERCOLLEGIATES in TWO SPECIAL CHARTERED BUSES Reduced Round Trip—sB.9s One bus leaves Friday morning after 10 o'clock classes. One bus leaves early Saturday morning. All seats reserved in advance at HOTEL. STATE COLLEGE TRAVEL BUREAU OR STUDENT UNION CAMPUSEER lIZZI T - n7r.; :Eraili STATE COLLEGIAN Allow YO'clocks For S. U. Dance Bill Bottorf To Play Tomorrow Night; Invite Wrestlers,. Boxers as Guests' Free one o'clocks have been grant ed freshman women for the• Student Union informal dance which will be held in the Armory tomorrow night from 9 until 12 o'clock, it was an nounced today by Genevra C. Ziegler 'l7, president • of W.S.G.A. and co chairman of the dance. Student Union will entertain wrest ling and boxing teams from Lehigh and Wisconsin in addition to the Penn State grappling and ring teams, George L. Donovan '35, Student Un ion manager, said. This follows the custom established two weeks ago when the Syracuse boxers were guests of Student Union. Bill Bottoef . and his orchestra will provide the music for• tomorrow night's affair. Admission will be thir ty-seven and a half cents per person and seventy-five cents per couple. It was originally planned to start the dance after' the Wisconsin boxing meet, which will last' until approxi 7 mutely 3:45 o'clock. HoWever, Dono i van plans to start the affair at •nine. Debaters Select Marriage `Theme Freshmen Must Obtain Passes To' Hear Discussion of Question Tuesday Should a college man marry before the age of twenty-five? At what age do you suggeit marriage? These are two of the eleven questions on which fre!thinen will be asked. to vote at a debate in Schwab auditorium Tues day night. The topic for the debate is "Re solved: That a college graduate earn ing $],500 a year should marry be fore the age of twenty-five." This subject, according to Prof. Joseph F. O'Brien, of the division of speech, and chairman of the debate, was cho sen in keeping with the policy of in- suit of further study on the matter. troducing topics' of general interest The school is Being sponsored by and significance. ' the Institute of Local Government of Tuesday night's debate will be sponsored by the Freshman Commis !the College, the International Associa, ' sion and Forum of the Christian As- tion of Chiefs of Police, National , sociation and - the Fdrefisic Council. Safety Council, the Pennsylvania It . will be the. first tithe. that the or-. Chiefs of Police Association, and lo ganizations have coMbined in spon- cal American AutomotTile AsAssociatio n soring a debate, , which is the. first to be given expressly for freshmen. Free I clubs. ! Lawrence B. Tipton, of the North tickets for admission may be secured western University Safety Institute, from members of the sponioring or- will direct the school. Dr. Alderfer ganizations and at the Student Union will be in general charge of the ac desk. . tivities. Armstrong Receives High Rating From - Music Critics By EDWARD NICHOLS Louis Armstrong will someday be researched by academics as the fath er of instrumental folk music in America. Well, one of the 'fathers. I have been saying this around lately until I am practically certain it is true. Anyhow, the Frerich and Eng lish write learnedly about him and. his music, both in books and treat ises. Who is to say we May not get around to a real.appreciation of him ourselves? of course the'SaniePeOpla !*ho; always let greht.articleKdie;withi XadOny thionahotit ' the house will be down at the movie when Armstrong comes to town for Senior Ball on March 5- Louis is not the musician he was in the twenties. That is to say, a doz en or so jazz men may be as good to day as Louis is now. Years of exploi tation by unions and agents—common fo the Negro in the entertainment field—along with the careless living of an authentictronbador, have •not contributed. to his growth. Just the !same, his imagination and his humor and his power are still enough to make him unique in his idiom. He be 18 Receive Thespians' Bid; Begin Rehearsals The Penn State Thespians have ex tended bids to the following eighteen participants in at leaSt three of the major shows presented by that group: George A. Downs '37, Rudie L. Hell mund '37, Donald P. McCain '37, Jack E. Platt '37, Joseph K. Cook '3B, J. William Fenner '3B, George E. Motz '3B, Henry , R; Pope '3B, and Carl Z. Stevens '3B. Others are Samuel G. Galls '39, Willis G. Gates '39, Robert L. Goer der '39, Glenn H. Hill '39, John J. Lipeczky '39, Walter A. Snow '39, Gordon S. Thomas '39, William R. Zern '39, and William K. therich '3l. Formal pledging will be held in the near future. The spring Thespian production, which will be presented for the first time Saturday ,'night of Inter-Fra ternity' Ball . week-end, is now in early rehearsal. : K. Ulerich '3l and John E. Thompscin '37 are co-au them of the Ml6* which him not yet been named. . Business Candidates For 'Collegian' Called Freshman ennAidates for the COLLEGIAN business staff will meet in Room 418, Old Main, at 2 o'clock Tuesday, March 2. Prof. Donald W. Davis, of the department of journalism, will speak on "Adver tising as a Career." Professor Da vis will' also discuss the opportuni ties offered busineAs candidates by the COLLEGIAN. In answer to the large number of queries as to whether freshmen may still come out, the business board . Ills urged all that are inter ested to report. College To Open Traffic 'Courses 60 Police Officers To Attend 2-week Training School, April 26 to May 7 Dr. Harold F. Alderfer, of the de partment of history and political sci ence, and executive secretary of the Institute of Local Government, an nounced today that complete pro grams for the first annual Pennsyl vania Traff i c Officers' Training School were mailed to all interested persons throughout the state. The officers will meet at the College from April 26 to May 7. Registration for the school will be limited to GO men from all parts of the state. In case too many applica tions are received the committee will select registrants. on the basis of gee-. graphical location and according to population. All applications must be received by Dr. Alderfer by Monday, March 15. Reasons for Course Listed The course is .offered becauie of the present national menace‘of street and highway traffic accidents and in recognition of the . proved fact that accidents can be reduced through an intelligent attack on, their causes by the police. The course will include those subjects which will prepare the officefs for a solution to these prob lems and stimulate them in the pur- longs as surely as Bert Williams to the folk art of a generation. No information is forthcoming on what men will play with Armstrong at Senior Ball. It will make little dif ference anyway, as the personality of Louis will be the works. For those who care to dance just as if some thing important wasn't going on up at the stand, the music will make ade quate rhythm. Colored musicians would have to try pretty hard not to. But all the boys and girlS who are , never caught nine rows back on the sidewalk when the great events pass along in parade will be smart enough to hang right under that trumpet. His tone is now raucous and lusty, full of the abandon of the Mississippi levees along which he once played. Next it is nostalgic and musically blue in sadness. His vocals are chiefly hu mor. some sentimentality (only in this later period), and always interesting in .shading and pitch. Armstrong's in difference to the written music is, of course, known. The only warning that need be made concerns his recent tendency to stunt around too much, largely the fault of theatre playing and of managers who want him to be, bizarre. If the local patrons don't give into the tricks, the artist that Armstrong Is ought to rise up and begin "going out" on rhythms and melodies of the kind that has the French critic, Panossie, say ing of Louis: "For an abundance of ideas and a grandeur of inspiration, Louis Arm strong hovers above other hot mu sicians." Special - Seat Entrance People holding reserved seat tickets to the faculty section at Recreation hall will .be admitted tomorrow through the door to the left wing, it was announced yes terday. The . same procedure will also be followed Saturday, March 6. However, it -Was added, the en trance will not be open to any oth er spectators. . The left wing door faces the frOnt of Recreation Hall. , Following the precedent .set at the Navy-State boxing meet last Saturday, it is requested that those who attend the meets tomorrow night in formal clothes take seats around the ring on the floor of the gymnasium. Sigma Delta Chi • Invites Governor Gridiron Banquet Invitation List Exclusive; Faculty, CampuS Leaders Included Admission,to the Signia Delta Chi gridiron banquet will be by invitation only, it was announced today by Phil ip S. Heisler, president of the orga nization. The plan is in keeping with a custom tradition'al'with the offar. Approximately .2U invitations will be sent to state officials, newspaper publishers, College administrative of ficials, faculty members, and campus leaders. Earle Invited Reading the list of invited' guests are Hon. George H. Earle 111, gover nor of the Commonwealth; Warren Van Dyke, secretary of highways; Warren' R. Roberts, auditor general; Charles D. Mackey, director of public information in the highway depart ment; Richard Beamish, secretary of labor; Edward .1. Thompson; senator from Centre and Clearfield counties; and Dr.' Ralph D. Retool, President of the-College. Patterned after the gridiron ban quets given annually in Washington, D. C., by the Capital City newspaper correspondents, the program will com bine a dinner with satirical skits, lampooning of students, faculty, and administrative officials. Suitable awards will be given to various cam pus leaders, among the awards the traditional brown derby, which is awarded to the senior each year who went through college with the least work. . Foster Will Give Talk on Mexico To Address Faculty at Special Meeting in Little Theater Monday at 4:30 Dr. 0. Delmer Poster, lecturer and world traveler, will discuss "The Mexico of Yesterday, Today, and To morrow" in an open meeting in Schwab auditorium at 8 o'clock Mon day night. He will come to this cam pus under the . auspices of the Chris tian Association. , In his talk s he will give a'review of Mexico, its geological and biological features, its peoples, history, cos toms,, and:plans for the future: :Dog tor 'Foster has had .varied experien ces in Mexico where he worked for some time as an educator 'and lec turer. A special meeting at which Doctoi Foster will discuss "The Church and State in Mexico," will be held in the Little Theatre at 4:10 o'clock Mon day afternoon. The meeting is open to members of the faculty. Graduated from Manchester Doctor Foster, is a graduate of Manchester College. He received his S.D. and M.A. degrees at Oberlin and his doctorate from Yale. Following his graduation he returned to Yale where he taught Greek and 'history. Later he served in the World War as an organizer and director of the Com rades in the Service Movement. For this work General John J. Pershing awarded him the prize of 130,000 francs. For the past twenty years-Doctor Foster has been dealing with the highest officials in the great national groups throughout , the, country, the Catholic Hierarchy,' the Rabbinical associations, the Protestant National councils, and the National Stafe Edu cational associations, P. S. Club, Starts `Sat. Night Club' Games, Dancing, Cards Make Up Program To'Start Mar. 13 In Sandwich Shop At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Penn State Club, Jest night, the officers of that club decided to sponsor a "Saturday Night Club," starting March 13. The Night Club will have its setting in the Old Main Sandwich Shop from 7 to 12 o'clock each Saturday night., A cover charge of ten cents will be assessed all men students, while the co-eds will be granted free admissions. Activities of the club will include card playing, games of •all sorts, dancing, and refreshments will be on sale at the counter. Howard B. Frank enfield '37, social chairman of the club, will be in charge of the enter tainment. A sleigh ride committee• . was ap pointed which' will arrange for trans portation and choose a date for a sleigh ride to be sponsored by the club in the near future. The committee in charge includes Nathan Ettleskin '39, chairman, Leroy . E. Richardson, '4O, and Benjamin D. Weiner '99. The club held its regular meeting at the Nittany Lion Inn last night. Var sity wrestling coach Charles Speidel was the guest of honor and spoke on the possibilities of the team in the Eastern Intercollegiates. Arthur R. Warnock, dean of men, spoke on oth er activities of the club. February 26, 1937 We Women By MARION , A. RINGER Only 117 freshmen in a class of approximately 300 pledged fratern ity. A .naive freshman would say that only one-third of the class was' found desirable by the ten fraterni-i ties. • • • That is hardly the case. Fraterni ties first made up their lists by judg ing by appearances only and, elimi nated from then on. They freely ad mit that• there are probably many girls equally or more ,desirable than the present pledges. The fact that the freshman class was larger this Year and lived downtoWn made it possible for the fraternities to get to know many of them even fairly well. Some fraternitieS are over•-crowded now. It is impossible for them to take any more girls. Thus .- arises the predicament of the unpledged girls. Should they be denied the ad vantage; of fraternity life if they de sire them? There are two courses•open to rem edy the situation which is yearly groWing more acute. All fraternities eon be abolished or new ones can be formed. It is out of the question to abolish fraternities in the present 'houging' system, so the latter is the only solution. • . . The present non-fraternity girls will have to form new groups of their own. Each, fraternity in the past has been built upon this principle. If the girls desire- to work towards a na tional charter there are many desir:. ing chapters on this campus.'Particu lar•s concerning this matter may be obtained from the advisory IMAM of Panhellenic council. The Record Crop 1 Montreal, Quebec: Between wintry blasts floats TOM DORSEY'S trom bone on Victor 25335, Where Is My Heart. The reverse, Long Ago and Far Away is rather punk, but the duo makes swell dancing and we can skip the fIaWS. Tommy has two more nice arrangements in Mr. Ghost Goes to Town and Lookin' Around. Corners, ,Victor 25509. Speaking of arrange ments for. dancing, CHICK WEBB on Frost on the Moon. dock an ample job, but as for me I prefer the job DICK McDONOUGH did with the same tune on Melotone 70111. He has an all-star band, among whom is trumpeter Bunny Berigan, now com manding at IVlcadowbrook..The other side of the Webb - is Love, You're Just a Laugh, Deem 1114, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, mot up to:.par but we still. like her. Up here English AMBROSE and his boys are in demand op discs. Dec ca 992, The 'Night Ride, is a fast mov ing number nice to listen to during dinner. It's the kind of thing Am brose likes to do and does right well: Reverve is a Kempian Cafe Cantinen tel. Of course these lads go for our own BENNY GOODMAN. And who can blame them. on Victor 25500, You Can Tell She's from Dixie, with Nev er Should Have Told You. Vocon traltO (how's that!) Peggy McCiae substitutes for Mrs. Albert Marx (Helen Ward. to her new boy friend) right well. HAL HALLETT wears doWn more than one needle and the disc in' prominence is pecca 1116. One in a Million and Who's Afraid of Lam Right nice drUmming. Except for TEDDY WILSON'S own piano, the sides Pennies from Healien and That's Life Guess are below Wilson's usual standard, which however is tops in the field of small ' unit recording. No one seems to be going for it: I forgot to mention Chick Webb and Ella Pitzgeliald's Sprin,4 Fever Blues With Ella her real "Heah ah 'come" self. This ,side carries the 'other What a Shuffle where the web of musicians is - so•t of sloppy (Decca 1087) -BREW Many Buildings Seen From $6,696,500 Sum (Continued front pogo one) agricultural engineering. When the sheep and cow stables were Constructed some time ago, a space was left for a horse stable that has never been built. It was consid ered possible that such a stable might be built if the money comes through. • Housing Problems . . Partial solving . of the women's hous ing problem was accomplished recent- . ly with, the negotiation of loans to build a iiew women's dormitory, plans fee, which are nearing completion, and occupancy of which •is expected to be by the fall of 1918. But, offi cials' admitted, there would ^ still be a problem when the women's en rollment increased again. It is be lieved that some of the money might be used to remedy these conditions. Inadequate dormitories for men students is alsO regarded :as a vital problem which may be taken care of. AdthinistratiVe officers pointed out that the 66,696,100 that is hoped for from WPA funds could not accomp lish all of the buildings that the Col lege needs, but that a careful selec tion would haVe to be made. From external appearances, and unofficial assent, it is believed that the entire building program would be centered around the above-mentioned . buildings.
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