Tv; PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance. established 1887 Published geml,veekly during the College year, except on holidays, by students or The Pennsylvania Stoic College, in the interest of th. College. the students, faculty, alumni. and friends. . . NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE. INC. Chienßo—Boston—San Francßeo—Los Aneeles—Portlond—Seattle Applied for entry no second elm, mutter of the State Collette POst Office E=EI JOHNSON BRENNEMAN 'V ALAN L. SMITH '37 Editor Rosiness Manager E. TOWNSEND SWAI.M '9l KENNETH[ W. ENGEL '37 Managing. Editor Advertising Minager PHILIP S. HEISLER '37 PHILIP A. SCHWARTZ '97 News Editor Promotion Manager W. ROBERT GRIMES '37 GEORGE W. BIRD '37 Sports Editor Circulation Manager RICHARD LEWIS '37 IRWIN ROTH . 37 Feature Editor Foreign AdvertlAin. Manager MARION A. RINGER '37 JEAN C. HOOVER '37 Women's Editor Secretary M. WINIFRED WILLIAMS '37 REGINA J. RYAN '37 Women's Managing Editor Women's News Editor Woodrow W. Meely Ihs ' , rheas 11. Szsdnemk Jerome Weinstein . 33 Charles M. Wheeler jr. '35 Jay H. Daniels '3B Carl W. Diehl '3B Robert E. Elliott Jr. 18 Kathryn M. Jenniesce '33 Robert S. McKelvey '39 John C. Sabena '3B WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE. EDITORS Stiltley R. Items '3B Crory H. rowers `TS Comtism Tyson `3B Idadastitur Editor Thls Issue._ News Editor This lisue Woodrow W. Bierly '29 Francis If. Szynscriak .31 Tuesday, March 16, 1937 FOR WOMEN ONLY WOMEN STUDENTS should take a lesson from the men in hacking their organization. The fact that there are fewer of them should Make them support their government more strongly. They'are lacking in initiative and are entirely tco disinterested in what es sentially concerns their welfare. The number of vacant banquets at the Installation Banquet Thursday night was proof enough that a great many women can't be bothered with student govern ment. Too lazy to find out who had been elected May Queen, they claimed it was too great an effort to dress in formal clothes. Yet how many of them would stay home from a dance for the same reason? Lack of initiative is found in many student organiza tions but particularly in Panhellenic Council. There is sheep-follow-sheep attitude among the delegates who admit themselves that they are sycophants to the Offi cers and advisory board. The boards have their opinions, but what about the sororities that the Council represents? Surely they have some individuaHdeas. Or are they just another example of stagnant viewpoints, complete disipterest? The Mortar Board meeting for Junior women was sparsely attended although this was an opportunity for individual nominations to the society--just another cx- ample of non-support Co-operation can be obtained by threats, as the W. S. G. A. mass meeting proved, but it seems infantile to loft.° attendance with a strict campus bogey. It makes a mass meeting an unpleasant affair instead of an op portunity for women to make their own rules. Wonien can scarcely expect to see changes in regula tions unless they make their government truly repre sentative by giving it their Ahole-hearted support. HERE COMES THE BANDWAGON SLOWLY, AND with much moaning and groaning, student government here is crawling out of the slough of lethargy in which it has been sunk for the past several years. EVen the clique chieftains are seeing the direction in which the government is going and are climbing onto the reform bandwagon. But of course talk alone will accomplish nothing. The changes, the reforms mast all be put into syStem atic order and adopted„ : The Elections : Committee shoulili }, lO Able tO'make;,-the necessary changes in the Eli.'C'tfons . .4 but some interested group should draw up,da ;tress ra f t lit student governMent:find•linlintit it foeia l proVal. Left to their own devices the politicians are unlikely to take time or make the effort to clip their own wings. Sentiment is swinging in the right direction, but sentiment alone never brings reform. "WE WUZ ROBBED" IS A HIGH SCHOOL hangover that is as childish as it is useless. TeleCams and pronouncements from self-appointed boxing experis have just about persuaded an easily convinced student body that the only things lacking at Syracuse were masks and guns for the officials. Acttially the Inter ollegiates were lost last Monday in Neiv York when five Syracuse boxers drew byes. The meet itself was poorly and inefficiently run, but on the deeisioriS theni selves there should be no complaint. ThiTe broth Were very close; had any one of them gone to State we would have wet the meet. They didn't and so vie lost. But this department will continue to agree with anyone who claims that we have the better tenni. WITH THE NYE NEUTRALITY BILL, the Pit man resolution, and various others under discussion in Congress and practically every person advocating his awn or some one else's pet system of keeping this coun try out of war, Home Economics auditorium should be packed next Monday night when two faculty members and . a speaker from Dickinson College Participate in a panel discUssion on "Neutrality." Dr. Gottschall, of Dickinson, has made neutrality, his particidar field of specialized study over a Period of many years and has spoken many times in the East and his reinarks should be of particular interest. Becauke of the ; many factors which enter into any discussion of thiOroad 'field, a meeting such as this can be of great help in clarifying issues. The Student Peace Action Council is continuing to render great serv ice in sponsoring this discussion at thii time. OLD MANIA About the May Queen. Election "Dorm Doings:" Volume 2. No. 10, latest release of this breezy sheet "published by \VSGA as a means of,,news change among all women," includes along with its usual bunch of reprints from the COLLECIAN, an in teresting bit of "news" -to the effect that "to put it frankly, there seems to be too many fancy love scenes in the lobbies of the dormitories." Although the item doesn't state just who has decided that there are "too many" or even what constitutes a sufficient and permissible number, we can't help guessing that NV§GA has probably got it all figured out and pos sibly charted. In line with our consistent policy of lending aid to the girls in their struggle for "democratic govern ment," we'd like to suggest that WSGA take a poll 'and ask each girl just how many "fancy love scenes" they think ought to go on in the lobbies at any given moment. Then they could get an average number, set aside a corresponding number of couches and the problem would be solved. The "Dorm Doings" item, if we are to take them at their word, • was prompted by two considerations on the part of WSGA. First: that it's not really the fact that the "fancy love scenes" are going on, (no, no, more power to Dan Cupid), it's just that "the girls walking in alone are sometimes embarrassed. Secondly, WSGA is concerned that this poor "lone girl" feels pretty bad "because no one is in sympathy with her." Now obviously, this delicate situation could he solved in several ways. For instance WSGA Could rule that all lights inns, be out in the lobbies as soon as the sun sets. Thus when a "lone girl" walks in she will he unable - to see the "fancy love scenes" and, ergo, no embarrassment. We can see some technical difficulties with this ,ultra-simplified answer, how ever, and feel personally that a better way would be to set aside some sufficiently large room (such as Rcc ball, for instance) and call it the Fancy Love Scene Room. Another solution which has occurred to us and which is offered in deepest humility would be to set up some central board of control which could see to it that the& are no "lone girls." That is WSGA might work out some system (in cooperation with Men's government, perhaps?) whereby every girl was insured a date every night in the week. In this way the embarrassment - could be eliminated at its source. Now that we think of it though, the problem has really already been solved. The very act of printing the item in "Dorm Doings" has solved the whole problem. No longer need any "lone girl" feel "embar rassed" in lobbies "because no one is in sympathy With her." No l.Never again! She can draw consola tion from the knowledge thnt WSGA sympathizes with her to the fullest extent. Tournament Tattle -S. R. H It looks bad for Ord Fink neat year. Kociubinsky wants to drop to 65 in order to take tare of him and if he doesn't, Sopchak will go up, they say ... Leo Houck is reported as having remarked that "Tiger" McGivern could have beaten Eddie O'Brien, IC4A champ, the way he was running from Some . . . Speaking of Souse, we hear that five different girls called the Corner Satnrday night and the only bout they wanted to knoll• about was Souse's . . . The drunk who kept beating the announcer to the draw with a loud and lucid "Quiet!" during the progress of the rounds . . . Doc Neiman and Carl Poe botli picked tin speeding tickets on the way to Syin'cusV And.lastbutnotjeast,..the shambles et the I%l'' ' Syraeas'e late Sat-idy nite .. . —The Maniac it i rj i' N ~a'Ai' i euLLLliii i' Alderfer To Talk On Government Political Scientist To Give Last Lecture of Social Science Series Thursday Prof. Hamad F. Alderfer, of the department of history and political science, will deliver the last of the So. dal Science lectures in Home Econo meets auditorium at 4:10 o'clock on Thursday. Professor Alderfer will speak on recent political developments in the legislature of the state. He will deal with state and local governments and their relationships with the fed eral government. Prof. Sheldon C. Tanner, of the de partment of economics, and legal technician for the Pennsylvania State Workmen's Compensation Boar d, spoke on "Workmen's Compensation" Thursday, March 11. He traced the adoption of compensation laws in this country, presenting 'the major fea tures .of the Workmen's Compensa tion Act of this state and the deci sions of the courts interpreting it. In his lectUre, Professor Tanner came to several conclusions: 1. No provision is made Tot' occu pational disease. . 2. The allowance for medical aid should be extended beyond thirty days. 3. The rate of compensation, which May never exceed $l5 per week and which is frequently less, is inade quate to provide for the support of a disabled person and his dependents. 4. The comnensable period should be extended in cases of permanent to tal disability (now only 500 weeks). 5. The amount paid for tempor arY total disability should not be sub tracted from the amount payable for a specific loss such as a leg or arm. 6. An injured employe should be allowed to select the attending physi cian from a panel approved by the Medical societies to insure impartial medical opinion. • 7. The liinitations of -time within which petitions for relief Must be filed and which frequently constitute a bar to the payment of compensation should be modified or altogether re moved. 8. An adequate personnel should be provided td facilitate the disposi tion of the cases without undue delay. 9. Those who pass on contested cases should'be learned in law. • Professor Tanner concluded with the thought that many of these changes would'tobably be-made dur ing the, present session of the legis lature. COLLEGIAN LETTER BOX Dear Mr. Editor - . . Is it true that the internationally famous Penn State Apple Judging Tenn is giving an exhibition 'perfor mance at the Players' "Footlight Frolics" using fifty of Minsky's glori fied hip heavers as subjects? Snowshoe Subscriber Dear Mr. Snowshoe SUbscriber: According to the original plans for that Super Social Event of the Sea son, The Footlight Frolics, Mr. Throckmorton 2. Minsky . . . better known to students es the Father of the Little Movethent Theater ... was to donate fifty nifties for the evening to entertain the; stag line. I believe ' the Apple Judging Team all promised to conic stag that night. But because of the expense involVed in shipping fifty head of livestock froth Neiv York and because thd' "batty toity" social committee of Players ruled out the stag.line, another beautiful' idea : was hit, upon. They:are selectihg from the audience ;that night„ some' menibgGr'of the student body to tick as a rem*: sentatlve of the. Apple judging :Tenth who - will be sent to New York at the expenSe of Players to investigate the situation. There he will meet Mr. Min sky in person and back-stage he will hold a "Little International" of his own. The "judging,",if the represent ative so desires, will continue thin Friday, Saturday, and. Sunday ... his only debt to Minsky is to lift his feet when the janitor conies by with the broom. If, Mr. Snowsoe Subscriber, you feel that you have the qualifications for a representativeship of this type, be sure to assemble at "Footlight Frol ics" and- show your hand when the position is announced open. Penn State needs men like you. (Advt.) The Editor `l3ell' Presents Controversy Concerning Teachers' Unions Analyzing forces at work in mod ern education which necessitates an organization of teachers from. the kindergarten to the university, Dr. Jerome . Davis, of Yale University, president of the American Federation of Teachers, presents the case for teacher unionism in the forthcoming issue of the Dell, campus literary and opinion magazine, which goes on sale Thursday. Expressed in his article, "Educa tion and the New Frontler;" are.sen timents which observer's believe led to the cancellation of Dr. Davis' con tract at Yale. Regarded as a pioneer in the field of modern education, Dr. Davis is the author of two books in our College library. Two seniors present Critical re views of Penn State student govern ment in this issue. A co-ed analyzes the W.S.G.A. and co-ed morality, with insight worthy of a sociology major. How men's student government be gan on this campus with the famous 1905 Penn State revolution and how Camphs Bulletin Two motion pictures, '"l'he Etcher's Art" and "The Last of the Wood En gravers," will be shown in room 307, Main Engineering, at 7:30 o'clock, under the auspices of Pi Gamma Al pha, honorary fine arts fraternity. Inter-fraternity Council meeting in room 418, Old Main. All members are requested to be present. Tickets for the "Footlight Frolic' , are now on sale at the Student Union Office. Invited guests may purchase their tickets for- the "Gridiron Banquet" at the Student Union. Prof. Oliver P. Medsbar will speak before the Red Wing Society in room 7, Home Economic's building at 7:00 TOMORROW Penn State Club business meeting in club !nom at 8 o'clock. BE SURE . . . CONGRATULATIONS your Footwear has been re paired when she gives you an t - Ve'l. glad that you elaintilloiwhabe won, invitation to the W. S. G. A. Dance on F riday . well-desekbed victories in the Mtereollegiates' • L. E. KLINE' . The. p TATE . • Allen St. - HOTO HO P Shoe Shining, Repairing 212 East College Ave. StatiCollege SEE NEW YORK Two All-Expense Trips, Including TRANSPORTATION (Round Trip) ROOMS AT LEADING HOTEL ' TICKETS TO HIT SHOWS ON BROADWAY • DINING AT POPULAR RESTAURANTS DANCING TO LEADING BANDS NIGHT AT FRENCH CASINO ' . „ : INSPECTION TOUR OF - N.B.C: ' STUDIOS 'VISIT TO RADIO CITY ' " • ALL TAXI, SUBWAY FARES, TIPS, etc. Absolutely All Expenses Paid • • or • • _ . Winso.oo Cash $ by Attending .. "FOOTLIGHT:FROLIC" SPONSORED BY PENN STATE PLAYERS Sat., March 20 Rec Hall Adm. $1 Do - not wait to, get your date; If you do 'twill be too late.-. , it subseliuently declined is revealed in a critique on men's student govern ment. , Two winne•s.of the Bell short-story prize contest. are published this issue. First prize of seven dollars worth of books went to Theodore Bowe '37 for his story, "Ace." Second prize of five dollars in books was awarded to John Connell '39 for his story, "Bird in the Bathtub," which was published in the December issue of the Bell. George Palmer's '37 "Easy Money" won third award.' Both FlcnVe's "ACe" and Palmer's "Easy Money" will ap pear in the forthcoming issue. For the first time this year, 'tile Bell is running a page of verse', ban anthology of canvas poets, which in cludes work by David Jackson '3B, David Hess '3B, Robert Wistrand '3B, and Jeanne Walker '39. Two undergraduates record the tonic student march on Washington in which 5,000 representatives of the nation's youth held a demonstration for the passage of the Anierican Youth Act. In their article, "Youth Invades Washington," the two Penn State delegates tell how they met rep resentatives from every part of the country and several former Penn State students. They describe how the parade of 5,000 young men and women was broken up by Washing ton police. A new•writer published in this is- The Latest 'Styles in TOP COATS. SPRING SUITS, SPORT COATS GERNERD'S South Allen Street 'rues(lay, March 16, 19S( sue is Ronald Forbes '3B whose ',Pei feet Paper" is a short-short stor! about a Spanish professor who put: all his faith in the student who turn in a perfect paper. Anew lit'ocess . of 'weitiing° soles to 'uppers" makes - the, free-Flex a soft, pliant, easy shoe 111frol'ir Ow Millions EVERY FITTING PROVEN BY X,RAY BOTTORF BROS Entrances on Allen and Beaver
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