PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance. established 1887 Published semi.weekly during the College year, extent an holidays. by students of The Pennsylvania State College, in the interest of the College. the students. faculty, alumni. nod friends. National Advertising Service, Inc. Culleer Publishers RePrNehieiler 420 MADISON A vc. NEW YORK. N.Y. CHICAGO • DOSTOD .• LAN PRANCISCO LOS PNOELLS • PORTLAND • SLATTLL EMT= E. TOWNSEND SWAltiti Moons:int: Editor PHILIP S. imisr.Eit '37 News Editor W. ROBERT GRUBB .37 . . Siort Editor RICHARD LEWIS '37 Fonture Editor =fl Women'it Editor M. WINIFRED WILLIAMS '37 Women's Mount:in. Editor Woodrow W. Bierly Francis H. Strinerok '3B Jerome Weinstein *3}3 Charles 31. Wheeler jr. ASSOCIATE i3USINESS MANAGERS Jay 11. Daniels '3B Carl W. Diehl '5B Robert E. Elliott Jr. '3B Kathryn 51. Jennirtte 'BB Ito!Wet S. McKelvey . 38 John C. Saban '3B Shirley R. Reims '3B Georgia 11. Cowers WS Caroline Tyson 98 Managing Editor Thil Issue News Editor This Issue Friday, April 9, 1937 EVILS AND REMEDIES S 0 MANY THINGS are wrong with' student gov ernment that it is something more, even, than a dangerous generalization to conic right out and say. "The trouble with student gthernment around here is —."' But if the many flaws could be reduced to one it would be this: No one (including student offi cers and leaders) knows what student government can do. The present proposal, for example, to abolish For- ensic Council's subsidization and substitute a blanket fee in its place to aid all such activities has been stew ing for months and months in bull-sessions, official and otherwise, without anyone's thinking of doing anything about it. Finally someone thought of letting the stu dents vote on the proposal. A petition was presented to Student Board and as a result a committee is now in vestigating and definite action will probably be taken on the plan before the end of the semester. There is no doubt that a lot Of students are dis satisfied with a lot of things here: Yet scarcely any of them realize that student government exists to remedy those evils about which they complain In recent years the various organizations that make up government here have tended to atrophy from lack of use. It is significant that there has been no stu dent-administration conflict about how much power the former possesses. Eights of this so r t are not always desirable but at least they are a sign of a healthy, act ive, student body. This year a start has beett made to remedy condi- tions. Tribunal will be reorganized; Student Council will probably be changed a great deal; the Election Code has been modified so as to build up student interest in elections. These changes are necessary but they will be valuable only if class officials make a genuine ef fort to lind something to do once they are elected. Plat forms will be some help in this and if students insist that their representatives study and act upon the many evils that exist. There is a dual responsibility here and unless • both sides recognize that, fact student govern- ment will shortly sink again into its old lethargy LINE BUSY Tbe women wish to extend their appreciation for " ,the recent attention given the housing condi tions, shown by the plans for the new women's dormitoi:y and the improvemept, of the :Mail 'service now. in lircgreSs . ' • • ' ?, ! ; ' c:More iMP ' brtant "'for immediate consideration, how ever, is the:phone service problem. At present there nre'rj l / 2 ,line (27 phones) for the service' of '307 women on 'campus: The situation is obvious. It is practically impossible to get communication with a dormitory or women's fraternity at night or during the late after noon. Each fraternity house shares a line with another house, with the exception of two. In the dormitory each line must serve approximately 50 women. The women are inconvienced both by being pre vented from receiving all incoming calls and from mak ing outgoing calls when they desire. Such a situation should be remedied at once—even before the mailing system is improved. The installation of single lines to a fraternity or dormitory would incur a cost of about $l2 per line. Such an expense seems trivial in comparison to the value of the service it would convey. The College may find itself unable to afford the cost of installing More lines or of putting fewer phones on each line to the women's buildings. If such be the case, each woman in the building could be assessed, the total assessment to cover the full cost of installation. The individual assess ment would be so little that the cost wouldn't be felt. The women feel that such a request is justified as a necessity. So we take up again, and with a purpose, the old cry 'May we have more phones?" CONGRATULATIONS TO AN UNKNOWN PRANKSTER IT WAS PRETTY funny to take that typewriter out of the Froth office Wednesday morning. They ' had a deadline that night and you would have just died laughing if you had seen those hordes of funny men down on their knees in our office, begging us to lend them our machines so they could get out their is sue. We always enjoy a practical joke and to play one on the Froth is just too killing for words. But their deadline is over now and there really isn't much use in keeping the typewriter. The Froth of- CAMPUSEER ZEE= ALAN L. SMITH '37 Business Manager KENNETH W. ENGEL '37 Advertising bbinager PHILIP A. SCHWARTZ '37 Promotion Manager GEORGE W. BIRD '37 Circulation Manager IRWIN ROTH '37 Foreign Advertising Manager JEAN C. HOOVER '37 Secretary REGINA J. RYAN '37 Women's News Editor Charles M. Wheeler. Sr. '3A __Francis H. Szymernk '39 Survey Shows: Maybe it was the influence of spring and then again it might have been the glamor of the topic— mumps—whieh set the COLLEGIAN headline writers on an alliterating rampage. Anyway, it all began when a rumor floated up to the offices that there were fifteen cases of mumps in Mae Hall and that in all probability the place would be quarantined—and I. F. ball just coming up at that. Dance Dates Dare Dangerous Dilemma As Mumps Mar Many Martyrs. Flowerer, one of the more imaginative individuals indefatiguably itemizing the interesting item indi cated: Mumps May Make IM2IIIEIII=IIII All this had gone along swell until someone who must have been absent from the amazing allure of alliteration announced audibly that perhaps it would be best to inquire about the , rumor; whereupon he called up Doc Ritenour and after mumbling into the phone for several minutes returned to his desk and began writing furiously. With that same weak_feel ing that one experiences when waiting for the inev itable pun we awaited his headline. He handed us the following: No Amu, Epidemic Anticipated here Survey Shows Purely Trivia: The movie "Maytime" brought out several inter esting comments . Hilda Hanson explained as she left the show "It was a good show but no woman can love a man for seven years" . .. Mary Ann Rhodes inquired in the middle of the show, "Which one is John Barrymore?" . Bob Carey '36, phi psi, loudly asserts that he doesn't , think the COLLEGIAN, and especially the col umnists should give a damn what he does .. we don't . . . Prof. Galbraith calls up George Donovan, Student Union information encyclopedia, to find out the cleaning of Lakonides . . }table Herst quips, "Life begins at chapel" (1 t comp P. S. C. A.- . . . Charley Hammond and Joe Hoffman, two Delta Sig ma Phis, tossed a borrowed 'coin to see which one would take lola Murray to I. F. Ball . .. Miss Murray denies knowing either of them . . . But she did ap proach Tor Torretti rather diplomatically. . . . In our mail w•e found the cryptic note "Informa- tion will be given you concerning the story "Pecked on the Cheek or Johnny Moeller Goes Home" if you receive certain items from a certain informer . . . Nominations for Cutest Couple: on Campus: Ann' Wilhelm and Don Newcomb ... The Maniac's item concerning Betty Roughley and the flowers brought results when on -Wednesday night an immense box was delivered to the Chi 0. house. In it were wreaths of grass and dried up flowers . . . While what the sports writers call the, stickmen were batting each other over the head, kicking shins, and otherwise trying to disfigure each other in a sporting manner in the lacrosse game the other day the Harvard rooters gently jibed their teammates to victory with the vocal instructions Now is the time for all good sen- Nominations for most "Molest 'em' iors to start worrying egotistically poinpous and entirely unnecessary voice from the back of the room: Bob McQuiston.... Collegiate drunks are rather sad jobs as a whole. They're usually either too loud, too funny or too sick. However, we did admire the fellow in the back booth of one of the local brew dispensaries who was surrounded by numerous pitcher's which told their . empty story and who was mumbling over. a cro'pi word puzzle he was trying to work. He 'had evdry space filled except' 5' clown' Which * was "a five 1et4.4., ivOi'd for sozzle." IT WILL SOON BE TOO LATE TO GET YOUR RESERVA TIONS ON SHIPS SAILING TO EUROPE THIS SUMMER. LET US HELP YOU NOW! RATES AS LOW AS $154 round trip, third class + + -+ Ask Us About "Motoring Through Europe" + + + HOTEL STATE COLLEGE • TRAVEL BUREAU Louetta Neushaum Room 212 Trix; YrilV 1V bTarrei .commiikdi Penn State Club Sponsors Dance Regular Nite Club' To Feature Thespian Dancers in Old Main Tomorrow The Penn State Club's "Nite Club" will feature a dance routine by Thes pians Peggy, Pat, and Lou from a pre-view of the production "Pardon My Clove" in the Old Main Sandwich Shop tomorrow night from 8:30 to 12 • o'clock. Frank IL Heron '37, chairman of the affair, announced that dancing, bingo, cards, checkers, and refresh ments will be available to all attend ' ing. Ile announced that there will be no cutting during dances. The Philotes, independent women's organi zation. will act as the official hos tesses. Secretary Hey] Resigns At a special executive meeting of the club Tuesday night, Russ G. Gohn '3B, president of the Club, accepted the resignation tendered by Richard E. Hey' '3B, secretary. Reyl stated that since the reorgani zation of the Club it had been con cerned solely with social activities and in order to clearly establish its real purpose and to prevent any mis understandings as to political motives he felt that as a candidate for the junior class presidency lie should re sign his executive position. Letter Box To the Edith] The camptis is seething with talk of democracy. Worthy talk. But talk alone in most cases produces nothing but more talk and finally no talk at all. Action ,is „needed to„ carry out idealism. One satisfaction, however, is that at least we have some talk of doing something. That's a great step forward at Penn State. Campus democracy is a great achievement. But at Penn State - it still seems to be a long way off. Great accomplishments, like miracles, occur rarely. Granted that a reconstruction and liberalization of campus politics will aid materially in leading the way to campus democracy. But, that is not enough. Too many times=bven on a national . S . cale-Lbeopre'ligreldted for mbri on ly because they•hmke been blinded by prejudice. Republicans have voted Republican only because they are Re publicans. The same is true of Demo crats. A synonymous condition exists here at State. Independents have often voted for candidates of "fraternity" cliques, but fraternity men have sel dom, if ever, voted for candidates of the independent clique. Even now with platforms in exist ence, students blinded by fraternal prejudices will vote against independ ent candidates. What this campus needs is a loos ' ening up of'the fraternity system. We need a system more liberalized, more democratized. A system which would throw down class harriers and color lines and give us true campus democ racy from top to *tom. I hope this will not be construed as an advertiserhent for the American Association of Commons, Clubs, which believe:i in ,and; practices: those prin ciples. _ I only wisli..tOqtaike ithiS pOitunity,. :is . a -mein,* exceutiveconnpitiee of "thaf.;or gaiiiilition; to assure you that any movement for campus democracy here has the whole-hearted support of the A. C. C. As far as the forthcoming elections are concerned, the members of the Commons Club will support those can didates who preach—and practice— the most democratic principles, wheth er they be fraternity men or inde pendents. Tf we are to .. have campus democ racy, then let us have full democracy. Remember, we =licit have half-de mocracy, because half -democracy is no democracy at all. Sincerely yours, John A. Troanovitch, National Editor, The American Commoner To the Editor So that the campus may be as good looking as we all want it to be, I sug gest that we alt keen to the walks while the grass is getting its new start. If she thousand of us should walk on the grass, there would soon be no grass. No one of us, therefore, should claim a special privilege. A. R. WARNOCK, Dean of lien The 7 DEN SPECIAL FULL COURSE CHICKEN DINNER T•BONE STEAKS . ISafety Expert Director of the traffic accident pro gram that enabled Evanston, to win first safety prize three sepa rate years, Lieut. Kreml will lecture here at the state-wide traffic safe ty school, April 2G to May 7. Di rector of the Traffic Safety Insti tute at Northwestern University; he is regarded as the country's No. I traffic officer Music Students To Contest Here Central Pa. High Schools Send , Delegates To Compete Here Tomorrow Approximately 1,200 high school students from central Pennsylvania will compete in the district contests of the Pennsylvania Forensic and Music League tomorrow. The counties which so far have sig nified their intention of sending rep resentatives for tomorrow's competi tion are ;Blair, Huntingdon, Cambria, Clearfield, and Snyder. _There is a good representation of high schools from each of these comities. Schedule Announced • The following schedule gives the approximate time and place of the various competitions: At 9, in Schwab auditorium, the pi ano soloists will perform. They will be followed by soloists on the violin, clarinet, saxophone, and small instru mental groups. Starting at the same time in the ' Little Theatre will be the solo con tests on- trumpet, trombone, French horn and tuba; while in the Home Economics auditorium, alsO at . 9, there will be competitions for vocal soloists and small vocal ensembles. In the afternoon, starting at 1, in the Auditorium, the bands will per form, followed at 2 by the larger glee clubs. The local contest is sponsored by the Music Department and is under the directiOil of Prof. Richard W. Grant and Prof. Hummel Fishburn. Dr. Tweedy Will Talk At Chapel on Sunday "The Right Way to Be Irritable" will be the topic of Dr. Henry H. Tweedy's chapel address next Sun day. Doctor Tweedy, professor of practical theology at the Yale Uni versity Divinity School, New Haven, Conn., -has been a , regular chapel speaker-oach year since;:l924. Ho is one of the anthers of "Moral , ' and Re ligious Training in the School and Home," "Religion and the War," as well as several other eminent religious books. Doctor Tweedy studied at Yale, at the Union Theological Seminary, the University of Berlin, and Lebanon Valley College. Since he was ordain ed. into the ministry he has been pas tor of the Plymouth Church, Utica, N. Y., and of South Church, Bridge port, Conn. I. F. Bridge Tourney Stars Friday, April 16 The entrance deadline for the In terfraternity Bridge tournament has been set for Friday, April 16, it was announced today by Philip A. Schwartz '37, manager. Fraternities may enter as many teams as they wish, with the entrance fee placed at two decks.of 'cards per team. Regis tration is being conducted at Student Union. Last year's rules will again prevail, with all matches scheduled for the Nittany. Lion Inn.. A trophy will be presented to the championship team by the Nittany Lion Inn. iiiiaf.-wasit*Agli Singers To Begin Tour on Monday Hy-Los, Varsity Quartet, Glee Club Will Give Concert Here on Sunday The Penn State Glee Club, Hy-Los, and :Varsity Male Quartet will leave next Monday on their annual spring concert ,tour. _Before leaving, these groups will take part in a joint concert to be pre- seated Sunday by the department of music. The orchestra, led by Prof. Hummel Pishburn, will open the pro gram at 3:30 p. m. and will play for the first part of the event. The sing ers, under the direction of Prof. Rich ard W. Grant, will entertain for the last part. Plans Made . for Tour Their first appearance on the tour. will take place on Monday evening, April 12, when they, will sing, a joint !concert in Pottsville with the high school choir and Choral ensemble. A sellout is already assured. The next evening, Tuesday, April . 13, the songsters will sing at the Boys' high school of Lancaster under ,the auspices'of the Penn State Alurn- Club of Lancaster. The chairman If the •littee . ilingements is ,ne committee on arc :harks Potts '36: On their way home on Wednesday afternoon the glee club will be the guests of the William Penn high school in Harrisburg and will present a short program at the regular week ly school assembly. We. Women By MARION A. RINGER The recent W. S. G. A. faculty teas were a surprising success. With the aim of bettering student-faculty rela tionships the teas did make some headway even in the very. small groups the girls could undertake at first. But is the faculty going to leave the whole project up to W. S. G. A.? There are so . many studehts now that they would feel they would be accused of "hand-shaking" if they tried to know their professors better. There must. be some students in classes the professors would 'consider worth knowing. It is up to the foe• ulty now to approach the students. Professors might entertain a few of their students at different times at their homes or perhaps announce an "open house" which'. any of them Could attend. Mortar Board and Cwens are now !making up their final lists fo . r the girls they are going to tap on May Day. Of course they say that politics are kept entirely out; but little things do leak out. ' , Both honoraries should ,realize that the basis for each choice 'is scrupulously enumerated by the campus. It might be a good idea to have the activities and qualifications of each girl listed for the Public so that there are no rumors disparging MOrtar Board and Cwens. TIP to Cwens: We resent the fresh men who make Cwens using the COL LEGIAN as an activity and then drop it their sophomore year. The little work the freshmen, do on the COLL GIAN does not warrant such an honot% To Mr. Ebert or Miss Richardson - , or whoever has charge of putting up' the screens on the campus dorms and houses We would appreciate it oinry . ninth. if the ;screens .: - were put up. as soon as possible,-in fact, -tomorrow; The bugs are already here and' a nub mince. . 50c . 75c Friday, April, 9, 1937 L. 'D. Sophomores Must Report to Room 12 SLA All sophomores in the Schools of. Liberal Arts and Education must report to room 12 SLA not later than tomorrow noon to file their • applications to the Upper Division and to receive assignments for the English. usage test Prof. Charles C. Wagner. assistant to the dean of the School of Liberal Arts said. The examination, which will be held Thursday, April 29, at 3 o'crocic, is compulsory for ad mission to the Upper Division of both schools. Sophomores who have classes at the time of the examination will be given excuses. Dr. Wu To Speak Here Next Week To Bring Chinese Lecturer, Newspaperman to Campus • • For Two Meetings Under the auspicies of the Penn State Christian association, Dr. Y. T. Wu; Chinese journalist and teacher, will come to this campus on Monday and Tuesday for a series of confer ences and public meetings. Doctor Wu.will speak in the Home EConomics auditorium at 4:10 o'- clock an Monday afternoon on "Trend in Education in China," and in the same Toom at 7:30 o'clock on Tuesday on "Social Forces .at 'Work in the Far East." Both lectures will be op en'to. students, faculty, and towns-. people. Worked in Customs Service After ten years of work in the Chi nese Customs service, Doctor Wu re signed to enter Christian association work in 'Peiping. Later he came to this country where he studied at Co lumbia and at ,Union Theological Seminary. • At the present time he is editor in-chief of the Christian Association Press-and has greatly aided education and stimulated writers . in China. Through his acquanintance with lead ers in all types of political groups in the Far East, he has done much to build relationships 'and interpreta tions between them and Christianity. Lewis Writes. Article For March Magazine Willard P. Lewis, College librarian, is , the author of an article on fra ternity libraries appearing in the hfa.rch issue of The Fraternity Month, bi-monthly fraternity publication. • Under the title of "Let the Fra ternity Library Supplement the Col lege Library," Mr. Lewis explains an experiMent carried, on for ten weeks ,in Grange dormitory. Seventy books were placed there by the College Li brary to find' out just how much the students would use them. The re- Sults showed that for the ten-week period the total circulation was 253, an average of almost three volumes Mr. Lewis goes on to explain the development of fraternity libraries through the promotional program of the College Library. ,Fraternities are !able to, purchase books through the Library, thus obtaining the benefit of 'library - dgeounts. He attributes the real success of the venture to the an -thities of the individual fraternity I librarians. ECOMMEND db TUX t to be sure, but , as smart formal per for any dress Tux * can be worn ;Inrimerbund vest, .oft - pleated dress ith collar attached, TOW pointed black re've a selection of ;how you. m $2,75° FROMM'S 114 East Canoga Avenue
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