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Tuesday, April 6, 1937
WRITE THIRTY
FRED FULLER SHEDD was a newspaper man
g who believed that the "Ethics of Journalism"
"." should be practiced as well as preached, and who
went ahead to prove it. That "Nearly everybody in
Philadelphia reads the Bedietin" is evidence of his suc
cess.
For seven years Mr. Shedd Came here weekly to lee ,
tare to journalism students. His was a constant effort
to raise the standards of the profession to which he be-
In his death the newspaper world lost one of its out
standing men and college journalism Lost one of its
strongest and most helpful friends.
ON FIRST SEEING SCULPTURE
THE DIDACTIC VISITOR went to the Interna
tional Sculpture Show in Old Main. Rapt and si
lent, he passed from piece to piece.' Suddenly a
panting, stumbling group of Freshman Band members
came in, staring in wonderment at the exhibit and each
other. Their normal reactions horrified the Didactic
Visitor.' An open-mouthed youth paused befor'e the
beautiful Kolbe Junge Frau. "icon!" he burst out,
"Howdja like to have that for your room!"
A janitor, passing by with his little rubbish cart,
stopped and was silent. A nostalgia came over him and
he whispered to a blatander, after looking at the black
granite De Kreeft portrait, "Y'kriow, I saw a petrified
colored fella onct—it was 'down in Louisiana and this
guy had murdered his wife and kids with an axe. He
run away to a salt mine and•got petrified like stone."
The Didactic Visitor, unable to stomach these secular
reactions, left the field to those for whom the ex
hibit was arranged—the students and the townspeople
and the faculty members whose knowledge of sculpture
has been formed by the Soldiers and Sailors Monument
in their home town or by a "petrified colored fella."
It did not alarm the Messrs. Hyslop, Helme, and Dick
son, of the division of fine arts, whose untiring labors
brought Penn State this notable exhibit. Where the cas
ual visitor might opine that the Kid by John Flannagan
"looks just like a hunk of stone," they would say,
"Flannagan's excessive stoniness and lack of articula
tion reduce the plastic possibilities of the piece." Just
their learned way of, agreeing with the unlearned.
But natural reactions have been perve;ted by com
mercial slickness; not' each unencumbered taste is im
peccable.. One needs preparation for the solid beauty of
Maillol and more than sexual appreciation is due the no
ble sensitivity of Kolbe. Such exhibits advance :the level
of popularr.t:'aste. The alert assistanee gß , en the Fine
ArtA-Meri by;; Adrian 0. Mirse,'executive secretary to
the ','President,:.lis encouraging evidence of administra
tion•inteirestin"such projects.
Is:Petitorial could be concluded without some con
structive carping: (1) Art lovers who are grateful for
this cultural event should call Mr. Morse and 'say so.; (It
will help to get an adequate appropriation for more
shows in the future.) (2) The department of grounds
and buildings should provide adequate lighting and pro
vkle pedestals instead of tables for future exhibits. (3)
A. few people might call Messrs. Hyslop, Helme, and
Dickson to say, "Thanks!"
FALTERING FEUDALISM
FEUDALISM has been dead for six hundred years.
Yet the political set-up of this campus has a
closer resemblance to this ancient system than to
any late• and more democratic form. Platforms are
likely to give lip service to democracy, but committee
membership is still decided by the number of votes a
man can control.
Clique representatives must display a "deed" stating
that ten or more people will vote as the clique leaders
decide. Their followers are political servants in the
bondage of house rule and undemocratic actions.
The entrance of the Independent Party into the polit
ical scene has changed the student government theme.
The Independents have advocated the platform versus
personality campaign; they have favored real demo
cratic applications even to a proposed establishment of
a student civil service; and they are working for com
plete participation of the student electorate in their own
government.
The cliques have already started division of "spoils."
They are attempting to split this growing opposition by
utilizing "off color" politicians who profess strength
among the non-fraternity voters. They are washing
their dirty political linen in public and attempting to
soil the reputation of the new group.
It is only justice to leave the present political set-up
to a decision of the voters. But a strange fact re
mains—the students who.are affected, who suffer from
mismanagement and lack of representation, remain in
different and accept their fate from an organized min
ority.
(7'his newest of the Maniac's famous clubs is
derisively dedicated to those Independents who are
so independent that they are no longer Independents.
By nuanimous decision of (he Maniacal Board of CON -
( rot the following stooges have been elected Charter
Members and .acr take great pleasure in printing for
the benefit of the _electorate the reasons, as stated
by themselves, for their sudden shift from. the Inde
pendent Party to the fraternity cliques.)
Dan A DeMarino '3B: "It's my last time at hat
and I've gotta hit a homerun."
Joseph L. Stevenson '3B: "What's in it for me;
—you know 'Danny' and I can swing a lot of votes!"
Ralph K. Bell '3B: "There's more in it for me
with the Clique (Campus); Frem• Hall's with me y'
know.
Adolph H. Marcus '3B: "1 think they'll run me
for student council this time."
Victor 1.. Grieve 38: "1 got a better offer."
llerbert A. Barron '3S: "Too much fraternity
pressule.'
No Runs, No Hits—All Errors
The "nine," as it is affectionately termed by
sports writers, has went and returned taking Geo.
Wash. and the Defenders-of-the-Faith-on-the-Seas in
their stride. If you want to know about the ball
games there is probably a story somewhere in the
paper, unless it got pushed out by the ads, probably.
However, like the Supreme Court, the Nittany Nine
has a private life; there's is not all bats and sore
arms and that's where this pillar functions. Bend
en ear gentle reader and see will spill the INSIDE
DOPE about WHAT GOES ON ON BASEBALL
TRIPS!
Jerome Weir gtein '3B
N. ir. '3B
No sooner do our heroes get beyond the limits of
this fair boro than VICE becomes RAMPANT among
them. Think of it reader they spent 53.00 on slot ma
chines at Amity Hall! And that ain't all—after the
Navy game the LID was really / OFF, what I mean.
Ask Venom about that babe he chased all over An
napolis with the town's entire police force after hint
And there's probably no connection whatsoever be
tween the fact that an Annapolis waitress asked
Smith if he was 21 before serving him and a hasty
substitution which occurred next morning, Aliehoff for
Smith—for church. As five of the boys put it when
the night sentry at. the Academy grounds stopped
them in the early dawn: "We're from Penn State
hie!"
Delta Gamma Convention Problems f
Heloise Martin, the lattle gal who put Drake U.
on the map, is causing the Delta Gamma frat girls
no end of trouble. As some of you know, the DGs had
their annual convention here this past week-end. Ev
erything was going along fine for awhile. Although
the question of Heloise and her recent series of pic
tures in the last "College Humor" was
,uppermost in
everybody's mind theY,ignored it cbmpletely and stuck
to amenities. Then the United Press' queries
,Geo.
Scott, Centre Daily scoopster; about whether dear old
Deltagam had divested Heloise of her pretty little
frat pin. So Geo. trots up to the DG manse puts it
straight up to Marg. Wyand, Natl. prexy. Says
Marg: "We are investigating."
We took another look at College Humor's ser
ies of photos and can't for the life of us figure out
what is left to investigate!
Mere Data
Betty Baughley, of ehiomega, wishes it known
to her large following of males about campus that
she does not like gardenias, that, as a matter of fact,
they make her sicker than hell, and will you please
stick to violets or orchids or something . . .DX's
"Long Job" Wright was all in a dither the other day
about driving . to Lewistown to meet his gal and set
out at such speed that the long area of the Law
caught up with him ere he Was half-way there. ...It
seems that the Law hasn't heard about Spring and
Young lien's Fancies for it detained "Long Job" so •
long that when he finally reached the RR station his
gal had departed for State in the vehicle of anotheriji
And Ted Winkler gets letters from the home towiP,
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'nmedchen signed-Ve — suis'ei vows" . . .
OLD MANIA , ll
BENEDICT ARNOLD CLUB
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L. D. Sophomores Must
ReporCto Room 12 SLA
All sophomores in the Lower
Division are requested to report to
Room 12, South Liberal Arts build
ing, before this Saturday to re
ceiro their assignments for the
English usage test, and to make
application to the Upper Division,
according to an announcement by
Charles C. Wagner, assistant to
the dean of the School of the Lib
eral Arts.
1200 To Attend
Music Contests
Group To Include Participants
Of 20 State High Schools;
Starts Saturday
Over 1200 students from twenty
central Pennsylvania high schools
will gather here Saturday for the dis
trict eliminations of the Pennsylvania
Forensic and 'Music League's tenth
annual competition.
The various musical and forensic:
contests will get under way, Saturday
morning at 9 o'clock in, Schwab audi
torium, the Little Theatre in Old
Main, and Home Economics audito
rium. Competition is under the di
rection of Prof. •Richard W. Grant,
head of the department of music, and
Prof. Hummel Fishburn, .of the de
partment of music.
"The purpose of the contest," said
Professor Grant, "is to stimulate and
develop solo and choral singing' and
solo and band playing of the highest
order among Pennsylvania high school
students."
Winners of the central district
competitions will enter the state fi
nals of the league in Altoona on April
23 and 24. Over 5,000 students are
expected to attend the finals. Pro
fessors Grant and Pishbura will act
as judges at Altoona, and Members
of the department of music, as well
as music major students, will be the
judges for the district events here'
Saturday.
—The Maniac
Patrick, Stravinski
. Shine, in Scrimmage
An extensive scrimmage was the
bill of fare Saturday for the Lion
football team in the throes of its
most strenuous spring practice in
1 years,
The squad was divided into "Blues"
and "Whites." In the Blue baeldield
were John Patrick, Othmar Wuens
chel, Sammy Donato, and Joe Metro.
Patrick provided ,the thrills for the
afternoon with his shifty, hard run
ning, and was the only back to break
loose at all throughout the long . ses
' sion. It was spot scrimmage with each
team taking - the ball for five or six
downs at a time.
In the opposing backfield were Bill
!Denise, Steve Rollins, Lloyd Ickes,
land John Skemp. Skemp provided
some sterling defensive play as did
Walt Briggs and Paul Enders.
The Blue line found Barantovich
and Waug,aman at the ends, Hanley
(returned from track) and Stravinski
at the tackles, Economos and Toretti
at guards, and Paul" Enders at cen
ter. Stravinski was probably the out
standing lineman of this group for the
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next, Peel and Sills - holding down the
guard posts, and Briggs playing cen
ter.
Succumbs To Illness
Charles L. Dippery, an employe of
the Centre Doily Times, died of pneu
monia Saturday morning in the Phil
ipsburg State Hospital at Philipsburg,
after an illness of ten days. He was
twenty-eight years old.
One of his duties was to assist the
junior staff of .the COLLEGIAN in "set
ting up" the paper. He is survived
by, his parents, Mr. and Mrs.. Rush
K. Dippery, his wife, a brother, and
one son.
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