~cgc Y... PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance. established 1887 Published semi-weekly during the College year, except on holidays, y stadents of The Pennsylvania State College, In the interest. of the •ollege. the students, faculty. alumni. and friends. 141:1 , ...1L1tT1LV !ON 14.111.1“.1. 11•11.4.1 Orr National Advertising Service, Inc. culler• Publishers RePreseuiellee 420 MADISON Avc. NcW YORK. N.Y. cloc .GO • NOSTO. • SAN SSANGISCO Los ANGUS, • PORTLAND • SCATIIe I=l JOHNSON BRENNEMAN 'l7 ALAN L. SMITH '37 •Ellitor Business Manager .E. TOWNSEND SWARM '37 KENNF.TII W. ENGEL '37 :gumming Editor Advertising Manager Pllll.ll . S. lIEISLER '37 PHILIP A. SCHWARTZ '37 News Editor Promotion Manager W. ROBERT GRUB '37 GEORGE W. BIRD '37 Sports Editor Circulation Manager RICHARD LEWIS '37 IRWIN ROTH '37 Feature Editor Foreign Advertising Manager MARION A. RINGER '37 JEAN C. HOOVER '37 Women's Editor Secretary M. WINIFRED WILLIAMS '37 REGINA J. RYAN '37 Women's Mannging Editor Women's News Editor Woodrow W. Cicely IS Fennel. 11. Semesak 18 Jerntne Weinstein 18 Charles M. Wheeler Sr. 18 Jay n. Daniels '3B Carl W. Diehl '3B Robert E. Elliott jr. 78 pthrri I. Junolsgs '3B Robin S. McKelvey '3B John C. Sabena '3B WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Iparlcy It. Helms 'SS CeorgN It. rowers 'n Camlhm Tyson 'SS Idointslog Editor This Issue__ MOTS Editor This Issue Friday, April 16, 1937 2,000 SMART GUYS AS ONE OF THE organizations cooperating with . the Student Peace Action Council, we have al- ways encouraged and supported its activities. We dislike to criticize an organization with such noble motives, but after attending the electing held Monday night we feel that censure is necessary Held for the purpose of showing students why compulsory ROTC should be abolished on this campus, how this can be accomplished, and why it would pro mote peace, Monday's meeting was attended by sixty people, most of them members of the Council itself. It required little thought to show that a meeting of this sort will accomplish little. Information must reach more than sixty people if it is to be effective. What was the reason for this lox attendance? Why didn't Penn State's five thousand other students go to this meeting? What was wrong? The first fault was in the choice of subject. No one can expect the student body to be interested in a sub ject'which affects only about half its memberS. Instead of holding a meeting on compulsory ROTC the Council ihould have selected some topic of general interest such es: "What Am I Getting Out of College?" "Lombardo ys. Goodman," or "Resolved: That the Country is a Better Place to Live than the City." Of course these things don't have much to do with peace action, but the important thing is to arouse student interest. The time seleCted for the meeting was ill chosen. Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor were appearing at the local cinema and students could. scarcely be expected to pace up such cultural opportunity to hear an address on something so unimportant as. keeping this 'country out of war: The Council should have considered this and bistecl its meeting accordingly It is also possible that many students did not know /Lout the speech. Of course there was a long article in this paper about It and signs were displayed down town !ut . on the campus, but this was scarcely enough ad- vance publicity. A sound truck, signs painted on the sandwich-sign men, and a sky writer should have been used. No one can be expected to go to ,iidmuthing that he doesn't know about Finally, .a more prominent speaker should have been engaged. While the Reverend . Rockel presented itig, talk well, , enough, fe7,vistudents had: heW,of , him. Tiii?:ii . #l,',s,Jlnt.6restd&i4E someoutstanding man of Douglas or, a great philosopher like Will Ducat' ind lieen scheduled 'there'svould have:bein a old il larger audience. CommanderßVrd and Mrs. Roosevelt are interested in peace. 'Why didn't the Coun cil get one of them? The motives of the Peace /Wieners here was good enough, but they certainly were unable to handle Mon doiCmeeting in the proper manner. One other thing that was beyond their control per haps had a little to do with the failure. Two thousand ROTC conscripts know that it's smarter to spend 200 houuur finding out how to fight than two hours learning how to abash their course and help to prevent a war ELECTORATE INTEREST? ' While on the subject of mass meetings it seems like a good idea to mention the one Monday night. For years there has been the complaint by students that ampus politicians are a bunch of grafters who arc out .* get what they can and who, once elections are over, never give a damn about the students who elected them. Monday night every party with candidates in this election will tell students just what they and their men propose to do if they are elected. There will probably he a short period for discussion. If you are sufficiently interested in the way student government is going to be run next year, if you would like to see a cooperative book store, a system of free hospitalization, a blanket activity fee, or any of the many changes advocated by the various cliques in their platforms, then attend Monday's meeting and find out Mow and why they propose to tarry' out their promises. If you're not interested at least have the good grace next year not to criticize student government. Officers will be just as interested inreform and improvement as the electorate—no more so. I - CAMPUSEER Swan Song At long last the time has come when we give out job of filling up this space to the board which will be elected Sunday night and we do so with mixed emo tions. However, tradition has it that the Campuseer devote his last column to giving advice to the oncom ing or new Campy in order that the line may not be marred so here it is .. . , Cherles M. Wheeler. Jr. _Woodrow W. Blear MS First of all, always spell SEX with capital let ters even though you are against it . . . Don't wor ry too much about the world going to hell and every Wednesday night lay aside your Marx and get down Benchley or Thurber ... Of course there will be some who will accuse you of adolescent ignorance if you write about such trivial things as the vigorous com petition Al Mclntyre is getting for Barbara Bowes around the Student Union office, when you should be considering the ramifications of the Spanish civil war ... but then at least you will have_some readers. We refer you to George Ritter, the Mr. Arbuth not of high school witticisms, if your supply of stock phrases run out ... And Arnie of the Crm is always good for a few gags, especially the "are-that-way about-each-other" stories .. . If Doc. Dengler is back next year you had better take one of his courses for some light professorial wise-cracks ... and the same goes for S. K. Stevens ... Don't make the mistake of filling up the selected ranks of the Stinker Club too early as we did ... not until a few days ago did we discover that Bob McQuiston, ex-boxing managel-,. should have been president of that organization all the time . . . Several girls who will bear watching next yea• and who should furnish plenty of copy are Mary L. Hickey, Georgia Powers, Jane Gruber, and Eliz abeth Panebaker . . . Prof. Galbraith was neglected this year and he always has some funny . class room gags .. you like class room gags . .. You might keep an eye on this Profs. Gardner-Bell ping-gong feud .. . and Dorm Doings is becoming more daring each issue . . . Yon also might inform Mary Taylor that George Sisson can't cook for I'm sure it would be appreciated . You also might cheek up and learn the name of that R. 0. T. C. sergeant who is wearing his chevrons upside-down . . . Another story we heard was about a guy by the name of Bretton, sigmanu, who wrote home to his father asking for more money because he was going to take up horse-back riding . . . and his father replied in a letter, "Fine, I'll send you a horse" . . . Of course there are times you'll be disap pointed such as seeing that Prof. F. P. Knoll, D. 11., got two . dollars from the Philly Inquirer's Personal Grievances column for writing in, "Can anything be done about the self styled expert who sits behind me at basketball games and delivers ads-ice to each player. from the beginning to the 'end of the game?" , . And always remember that this colyunin got v9lyi . um9:;l and it'd usually filling np the.last ten lines that gets'. - ~1. 1 . troube —Phil - Vagabond Voyages Tramp Trips . across the ocean on a freighter . . . through Europe by bicycle ... by flatboat or automobile ... visit unfamiliar parts of the country alone or with a congen ial group. . + + + No charge, of course, for our service + + + . . HOTEL STATE COLLEGE . TRAVEL BUREAU Room 212 Dial 733 State College BY AGESICLY Charge of the Frat Brigade Ilalf a pint, half a pint Half a pint onward. Onto the floor they went Many a dollar spent Honorable intentions meant I. F. Ball's 50 hundred. Dates to the right of them Co-eds to the left of them Fate in front of them The chaperones wondered. Theirs not to reason why Theirs but to down their rye And so amid the hue and cry Mr. Breene blundered. r.c;il b'l'ATB t;OL1.8‘11./%14 Phi Kappa Tau Leads In Fraternity Rating (Continuer/ from pogo onc) women maintained their superiority over the unaffiliated group, increasing their figure from 1.70 to 1.72, while the non-fraternity women boosted j their mark from 1.46 to 1.58. MEN'S FRATERNITIES 1. Phi Kappa ,Tau 1.71 M=M! 3. Delta Theta Sigma— 4. Acacia 5. Alpha Chi Sigma_ G. Phi Sigma Delta_ 7. Phi Epsilon Pi 1.41 8. Phi Gamma Delta 1.41 9. Sigma Pi 1.39 1.37 ' 1.37 1.34 1.33 10. Alpha Gamma Rho.. 11. Sigma Phi Alpha-- 12. Alpha Chi Rho 13. Phi Lambda Theta_ 1.31 .14. Beaver House_ 16. Tau Kappa Epsilon 1.31 17. Beta Theta Pi 1.30 18. Associated . Commons Club____l.29 19. Delta Tau Delta 1.29 20. Phi Sigma Kappa 1.29 21. Pi Kappa Alpha 1.28 22. Phi Mu Delta 23. Theta Chi 24. Triangle 25. Phi Delta Theta 2G. Sigma Tau Phi 1.2 G 27. Sigma Alpha Epsilon______l.23 28. Phi Kappa Psi 1.21 29. Alpha Phi 'Delta 1.20 30. Kappa Sigma 3L Beta Kappa.:__ 32. Theta Upsilon Omega_ 33. Pi Kappa. Phi_ 1.15 1.12 34. Sigma Nu_ 35. Chi Phi___ 30. Phi Kappa Sigma 1.12 37. Tau Phi Delta __l.ll IS. Sigma Phi Epsilon 1.10 39. Theta Kappa Phi 1.10 40. Alpha Sigma Phi 1.08 41. Sigma Chi 1.08 42. Sigma Phi Sigma 1.07 43. Tau Sigma Phi 1.06 44. Delta Chi 1.02 45. Alpha Tau Omega 1.00 40. Lambda Chi Alpha 1.00 47. Theta Nu Epsilon ".98 48. Delta Upsilon .96 49. Delta - Sigma Phi .94 50. Kappa Delta Rho .94 51. Theta Xi .94 52. Alpha Kappa Pi .88 53. Phi Kappa .80 WOMEN'S FRATERNITIES 1. Astriad 1.88 2. Chi Omega• 1.84 3. Kappa Alpha Theta 1.80 4. Alpha Omicron Pi 1.79 5. Kappa Kappa Gamnia 1.72 , 6. Delta Gamma • 1.70 7. Gamma Phi , Beta 1.70 8. Phi Mu 1.70 9. Alpha Chi. Omega 1.56 10. Theta Phi Alpha 1.39 Miniature. Pamphlet Shown in New Book An attempt at. lithoprinting in miniature' s shown in the 1937 edi tion of "Abstracts of Studies in Edu cation at the Pennsylvania State Col lege," edited by Prof. Charles C. Pe ters, of the department of education and psychology. This 60-page paniphlet contains as much copy as the . average printed book of 274 pages. Although legible without the reading glass, it is a strain on the eyes. The margins were aligned with Professor Peters' patent ed automatic justifier. cgoke G.ralite!tA Leave . . Alfred F. Cooke,..jr., of .the dCpait nieni dairtididtuii;‘htii been irtintea la leave of absence for one year to enter private business. Prof. C. E, }foie, a graduate of Rhode Island State College, has been appointed to fill the vacancy. Summer Positions foi Students' You can use your Earn edbcational training $4O to $75 eayndtheiasisnumexntlie•ar.n,m- Week unusual opportunity a for educational ex tension work' in the home, is extremely interesting: Many students have been excep tionally successful and have found it the solution to their financial problem. Write for full details and proof of results at once. The John C. Winston Company; Home Extension Dept. 1012 Arch St. Philadelphia, Pa. Capiled—s2oo,ooo Surplus and Undivided Profits—s27s,oo9 The First National Bank of State College STATE COLLEGE, PA Member of Federal Deposit Insurance' Corporation Johm T. McCormick, President David F. Kapp,' Cashier Scientific Writers Now in Demand, Says Dr. Ham "The journalism field needs writers who are well-educated in. science," says Dr. William It Ham,. head of the department of physics. He be lieves that young newspaper report ers, if at all interested in science, will benefit by a thorough college course in some phase of the Scientific cur: ricula. Doctor Ham points out that in the present-day method the writer inves tigates an experiment, uses his par ticular skill to extract points of in terest to the. reading public, and sub mits the article to the experimenter for revision. His desire is to see the reporter who will review an experi ment and write a satisfactory ac count from personal knowledge. Experimenting for several years 1 with the rate of diffusion of hydro ' gen through metals as a test for pro , perties of various metals, Doctor Ham has become one of the country's fore most authorities on' this project. 1.46 1.46 El. S. Press Convention Scheduled for May 1 Plans have been completed for the annual State High School Press con vention to be held here on Saturday, May 1, by Sigma Delta Chi, men's professional journalism fraternity. The plans include registration, sev eral meetings, a luncheon in the Old Main Sandwich Shop, entertainment, a tea, and sightseeing trips over the campus. The speakers will be men who have distinguished themselves in the field of journalism. Last year the convention drew 350 high school editors and high school faculty advisors from the larger high schools of Pennsylvania. This year Sigma Delta Chi will be assisted by Theta Sigma Phi, girls' professional journalism fraternity, and Alpha Delta Sigma, men's professional ad vertising fraternity. 1.18 Council Head Attends Panhellenic Gathering . Caroline Tyson' '3B, incoming pres ident of the Panhellenic Council, at tended a regional Panhellenic Con vention in Cincinnati this week-erid. Eighteen campuses were represented with Penn State- and Allegheny as the only Pennsylvania colleges. The main part of the program was presented Saturday consisting of ,ad dresses and round table discussions. The discussions were led by national l or alumnae representatives from var ious women's fraternities attending the conclave. The topics concerned Panhellenic organizations, alumnae and chapter relations, rushing prob lems and campus standards. A formal banquet held at the Neth erland Plaza Hotel concluded Satur day's activities. Two representatives from each of the' 17 women's frater nities at the University of Cincinnati acted as -hostesses. JUICY HAMBURGERS Top.of the Round Cooked in Oil THE HOFBRAU THE FIRST 'PRODUCT' TO HOLD TWO NATIONAL RADIO AWAR The DEN ESTAURANT , Special—Saturday and Sufiday T-BONE STEAKS ROAST CHICKEN . . . For That Little' Store See GRAHAMS for Candy Bars Wholesale Established 1896 Dance FRIDAY, APRIL 16th IVAN FAUX and His Pennsylvania Ramblers Dancing 9 to ]—sl.so Couple COCKTAIL BAR GREEN GABLES HOTEL Ado ree Shoes They're Very Very Smar Brown linen is very im portant foi• your sum mer shoe wardrobe. And equally important with white patent trimming. 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