rage '150.,.. PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Laney, established 1587 Published send-weekly durinz the College year. exrePt no holidays, by students of The Pennsylvonin State College. in the interest of the Coll the students, filetritY. alumni. and friends. THE MANAGING BOARD CHARLES M. WHEELER. JR. '3B JOHN 0. SABELLA '3B Editor Business Manager JEROME WEINSTEIN '3B JAY li. DANIELS '35 Managing Editor Advertising Manager FRANCIS 11. SZYMCZAK 'SS ROBERT S. McKELVEI"3B Noses Editor Circulation Manager WOODROW W. BIERLY '35 CARL W. DIEHL . 3) Feature Editor Promotion Manager SHIRLEY It. HELMS 'SS ROBERT E. ELLIOTT JR. '3B Women's Editor Foreign Advertising Manager GEORGIA 11. POWERS '3B KATHRYN M. JENNINGS '3B Associate Women's Editor . Senior Secretary CAROLINE TYSON '3B As.ociate Women's Editor Thom.. A. Boni '39 Herbert It. Caloin '39 More M. Toth. '39 William 11. Jon..him Jr, '39 mon G. Mclntyre '39 Roy 11. Nichol. Jr. '99 SnMaori, 8. gala '39 John A. Tronnovitch 'B9 WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS hue;lle 11. Creenher,, 19 Florence E. Law 19 ittitn E. Sheen '39 Ralph H. Cum!lurh '39 Richnrol W. Koconnan . 39 Dallas R. Long '39 Jerome Slutlrer '39 Franck A. C. Fosters Jr. '99 Mary J. Sample '99 Friday, April 30, 1937 NEVI' YEAR'S LEADERS THREE STUDENT LEADERS of vital importance to the way things are going to run around here neat year were elected Wednesday on platforms that primarily are the same. Entrusted to Jack Ken non, Jce Peel, and Jerry Howarth is the answer to whether or not student government is going to mean anything at Penn State the coming year. Two of the elected presidents are from the Campus clique; but the significant point is that for the first time since 1912 an Independent boy has made it. This points the read that the two fraternity cliques are going to have to pursue. It is known already that, in the 1939 class, moves have been initiated to combine Campus and Locust Lane into a fraternity clique. The boys evident ly see which side their bread is going to be buttered on in the future. The Collegian, in congratulating the selected officers, wishes to warn them as well that they are going to be held to the platform pledges they have made. If stu dent government and reform is to mean anything it must be carried forward vigorously. There can be nothing as undermining as a liar. The Collegian hopes that none was elected. It will not hesi tate to point out where promises have been broken, if they are ignored. It will support unfalteringly the elec torate that supported these men on the basis of their promises. There is much to be done for student government, much that has been repeated many times. How seri ously this reform will he undertaken will be the stand ard by which the voters will measure the quality and integrity of the men elected. To give student officers something to do will be a big problem; to make them assert the rights they are given by the Constitution is another. Congratulaticns on your election, men. You have a man-sized job before you. 'AS WE THOUGHT ABOUT R.O.T.C. THE OVERW . HELMING 1,712 VOTE for optional R.O.T.C. here against 516 for compulsory military training clearly reflects what the students think about the subject. Nothing can be said that is more convincing. The vote is to be submitted to the Board of Trustees, to gether with the reminder that compulsory R.O.T.C. can be abolished here without losing any appropriation money. Surely if the students mean anything to the trustees, action will be taken on the vote returns. More action, it is hyped, than has been forthcoming from the health service vote last year. As long as military training is "offered" the trustees are safe. Then, everyone will be happy. And every question will be answered except: why have war-breed ing education at all? Optional RO.T.C. will be a big step toward the ulti mate goal of peace, peace for people that have indicated they desire it. .flut, , although the i2yetorate was very emphatic about wkat,it Wanted in the military . question,. it was not so definite it the blanket fee vote to support not only de hating judging-and other teams. The students indicated they did not wish to pay 'for the debaters' en pensc,s by a 2-1 vote. Nor did they favor a blanket fee by closer balloting, 8284131 'Just what such a vote can accomplish constructively remains to be seen. -The electorate does not want to pay for the debaters; that fee should be abolished. Nor does it want to support the other teams under a blanket fee. That, then, should not be adopted. It amounts to an indicated desire to abolish all stu dent support of these organizations. That's what the student vote asked for. What interpretations will be made will be interesting. LONG-HAIRED REPLY IN TODAY'S LETTER BOX is a reply to an edi torial in the last issue lauding the Players "Bury the Dead." It was said an emotional appeal subtlely done will go farther than "long-haired" stuff will. In that editorial the Collegian had no thought of at tacking anti-peace work, nor of condemning the work already done. It had no thought of forcing any person to "put on a shoe that did not fit." It had no intention of discarding common sense and reality from the campaign against war. The Collegian does feel, however, that the general stu dent body looks upon the activities of the Peace Action Council as 'long-haired stuff." It does feel that if much is to be accomplished, the boys and girls must appeal to the students in a different manner. The Daily Pennsylvanian feels that all peace moves are sponsored by Communists. The Collegian does not. Many students do. It is the Peace Action Council's job to find a medium whereby peace can be fostered under different conditions. The student vote against compulsory R.O.T.C. indi cated that they are after the same thing you are. And thousands did not vote. But to say that.peace strikes drawing but a few hun dred people is the right and winning way to foster peace is an erroneous statement. The facts are against it. The Collegian suggested the countering of emotional appeals with other emotional appeals. If emotional ap peals will help, for Cod's sake use them. Etaoin and Shrldu . 4 . 4 . . 4 The Prexy's Biscuits Are Hot As Well As His Potatoes I have the feeling sometimes that our system of modern education is not all that it could be toward making happy marriages. To be sure, there is the home economics curriculum that teaches the little gal how to cook and sew and watch the calories. But then again, the whole system is sprinkled with hor rible examples of what not to be to grab your man. At least the girls mixed up in the teaching end of it ei ther have muffed their opportunities or hung out the "standing room only" sign. I have been pretty worried about our co-eds mixed up with this education stuff. I have had an idea that they mint to be regular gals and not walking 'chem ical formulas. These practice houses had me wor ried. too. Eight gals get together and rear a baby undo• "ideal" conditions. I have always contended that they ought to get together. decide who was guilty, and let her take the worry. Make it more like I ife. At any rate that was what I worried about up to the other day. I learned at that time that our preay (it's been ten years now) has a very lovely woman as a wife and that she is well-educated. I learned further that the proxy has tucked away in some inauspicious corner the original biscuits that his wife burned shortly after their marriage. They are carefully wrapped and preserved little bullets. And' the proxy hauls them out. and exhibits them to his more favored callers. We feel that this is most affectionate, loving, and approved action in an educated home, and that if a woman like the proxy's wife can burn her biscuits and still be a regular gal, well—our practice house worries are at an end. The Unconscious Palmist: It has been reported to me that when bigger and better jobs of handshaking will be done. red-headed little Jeannie Walker will do them. It has further been called to my attention that it is a toss-up wheth er this is conscious or unconscious. It has been whis pered in my ear that she may border a little on the unconscious side. itly conferees tell me that the host of profs upon which she has worked is indeed large. So it. befuddles me to learn that the latest object of her wiles is George Donovan fee whom she leaves notes in the Student Union office despite what he can do to stop it all. Just what can be gained in these fields I can not imagine, unless wp go back to the unconscious side.. And now it further grieves me to learn that she is going after Breton Gardner, a journalism prof, who is a very good gent and most likeable. I can construe this no more than I can learn from her palm-gripping of the past.. We hate to see a great guy's good quali ties used against him. For Honor's Sake and God's Rumor comes of the formation of a 13.M.0.. society among the administrative officers of the college. Much as I am against the formation of too many societies along these lines, I feel that it is only fitting and proper to recognize those that are being formed. My confidant, a politician, tells me that Ike Gilbert - (across the ball from Neil Fleming) hurried in the back door of Old Main during elections the other day. A poor, unsuspecting freshman manning a poll book had the misfortune of not knowing the estimable Mr. Gilbert and said, "Hey, buddy, yoU'll have to go nround and come through the front door, They're voting again." Whereupon the subject of our tale whirled on his heel and announced impressively, his face dimly lit with rage,'"l'll have you know I'm an officer of this college." Consultation.with - the' official college catalogue will confirm his candid statement. Mother's Day CA\DY A WHITM AN' SND OUR OWN CO CORNER CH O CO LATES d Wrapped an Mailed . LATES ) The CORNER unusual FRE PENN STATE EU ELM.; 1A N. Letter Box To the Editor The Collegian's warm praise in re view and editorial of "Bury the Dead" is indication of a heartening anti-war policy on the part of the new board. This is one of the more important traditions of local journalism and the Collegian has been a vital factor in the student anti-war movement. As a Member of the Student Peace Action Council, I would like to clar ify the position of those of us who have been active in the anti-war strike for three years. Your reviewer aid that "Bury the Dead" was "more convincing than anti-war strikes, I propaganda and ineffective speeches against the horrors of international struggle." The editorial recommends that anti-war activities should be con ducted by appeal to the emotions and a little less by the "long-haired stuff." The shoe does not fit but we will put lit on. In the first place, we have been I working under the assumption that most students are opposed to war. !Peace propaganda is common enough that even Hearst is against war. Here precisely is where our activity starts. We offer a practical program to mini mize the danger of war rather than repeating over and over the well known horrors of modern war. We do not think, however, that mere' emotional appeal is strong' enough to build a practical program against war. The sickening patriotic hullaballoo and the fanfare of tram ! pets that are the emotional appeal 1. which made the young men enlist, did not hold up against the realistic mud. lice and entrails of the last war. This I point, I think is proven by the.very content of "Bury the Dead." The six I corpses whose shattered and betrayed manhood causes them to arise from their shameful graves were victims of emotionalism directed by wilful profiteers at home and' behind the lines; the murdered men recognized this and rose to face a real enemy. They knew what war was and now they proposed to fight it. I um ready to agree with the re viewer that our speeches at the anti war strike, including my own, slid not lay them in the aisles as Irwin Shaw's. play has. What we were trying to do i was present a plan of action; a stu dent united front against compulsory R.O.T.C. There is no rosin for emo tions here. The vote taken at the class elections is merely the first strategy! of a campaign that will have to be waged without emotion.; It will-have none. of the excitement of a recruit. ing parade, one of Dr. Tschan's pos ters or "Bury the Dead," but it will be more effective for that very reason. I do not see the need for attacking such a campaign as "long-haired stuff," if that was meant in the edi torial. It seems to me more eminent ly practical and less visionary to go about it in this.way than to take the advice of the editorial to continue op pealing to the emotions. —James Dugan Who's Dancing TOMORROW NIGHT Sigma Pi Newell Townsend (Invitat ink) 50th Anniversary Provides Theme For LaVie INlZking the. 50tCtolumf publi= cation, the 1037 La Vie, which will be ready for _distribution during the lat ter part of May, has been construct about the theme of a golden anal versary. The, book, edited by Walter L. Peterson '37, is composed in a 1037 way with touches of the old family album, thus striking a contrast be tween the late 10th century and the modern. Campus views are presented in pic tures with arched tops, following the style of the family album. while mem bers of the senior class, dressed in tuxedo and with smiling countenan ces banished, add a motlern atmo sphere. In the -"Beauties" section, full-length portraits of senior women photographed with a modern back ground, also are set forth with the arched tops and, like the campus views, carry the name in script be 'ow the-photography. A parchment 'ilte paper will be stood for these two sections as well as for the main 'div iders. The section entitled "Personalities" Tiresents campus leaders set forth in family portraits. Two pictures to mach page, the photographs, oval in lhape, are mounted with a square )order touched with gold. Election Results (Continued from page one) Hanley (L) 23, George D. Chalmers (C) 12. Engineering: Edwin A. Des non Jr. (C) 32, A. Benson Creveling fr. (L) 31; Earl 11. Strunk (1) 31. Liberal Arts: Raymond S. Cookery (C) 61, Charles L. Hughes (L) 42, Franklin W. Ruth Jr. (1),37. Min na! Industries: Richard 31. Smith (C) 21, Wilbert W. Scheel (I) 15, Ralph F. Jumet (L) 15. CLASS OF 1911) Secretary: H. Page Schneer (C) 321, Robert M. Woodmancy (I) 255, Samuel A. McFarland' Jr. (L) 172. Treasurer: Don M. Cresswell Jr. •(C) 128, Martin V. Rockwell (I) 250, Jerome N. Goodman (L) 168. Student Council, Agriculture: James R. Sans sm.' Jr. (I) 128, Telford S. Berkey (C) 108, James W. Shigley (L) 68. Chemistry and Physics: Morton Nie man (C) 55, Robert S. Voris (L) 31, Carl H. Keller (I) 29. Education: Robert B. Shoemaker (I) 25, John H. Wartluff (C) 19, Willard A. Doeh . - nert (L) 10. Engineering: Arthur 11. Skibbe (C) 71,- Howard D. Rose (L) 32. Liberal Arts: Robert H. Thompson (C) 77, W. Daniel Deib ler (1) 29, Paul E. Gies (L) 24. Min-1 eral Industries: Frank C. 'Anderson Jr. (C) 35, Alvin E. Fletcher (L) 22.1 Week-end Special! CHOP SUEY -- at SPIDER'S We Women The handful of coeds at the Mortar Board Conference wondered if their lfriends were on a sib-down strike. An opportunity to learn . more about vo lcational fields for women scented to arouse little response.'Perhaps many !of us forget that we might be looking !for a job some day and that it would •be useful to know the ' best Way to prepare for it. ! "What should be the Penn State ;woman's attitude toward drinking?" 'lf you have definite ideas on tlhe 'sub ject and have never been in an in tercollegiate debate why not enter the Intramural discussion' contest? •There's a Delta Alpha Delta cup for the winner. Eight minute speeches will •be given .by teams of two in the preliminaries Tuesday at Room 1 N.L.A. If you are tongue shy just join the ranks of sideliners. r / • 'Course not -- This doQsrit Palm Bead? is Seem to hurt a 5 cool as no clothes - your ll a bit-, Hank AS FREE AND COOL AS YOUR BIRTHDAY SUIT 4; into a Palm Bea suit or Palm Beach slacks for spOrtswear 'this summer and You'll feel a nude- like .freedom you haven't felt since the day you were born. PALM BEACH' clothes are idea! for sport, because their patent e d fabric holds its shape " and doesn't go sloppy oh you in a few hours. • • Even studying becomes a sport if you'll go to it in one of the new cool Palm Beach darker-toned mixtures. They're . tailored by Goodall, mak ers of the famous cloth, and they're a Grade-A investment for everyday town-and-campus wear. Don't wait 'til college is over. Get yours now, while selections are fresh. $1 A- 75 SLACKS $5 and 56.50 • GOODAI.L. COMPANY" • CINCINNATI ;sl , lbsr, 'Aga! tet 11,8ri Radio Staff Members Make Inspection To Gilbert . Crossly, and three s members of the College radio stet WBYA, recently completed, an ins tion trip Of radio centers at IN ington, D. C. ' The trip included visits to the Ar third corps area message center a the Naval station at Arlington, V along with several other stops Army radio centers. After All THE HOFBRAII seems to be•a very popular place 04-../
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