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Volume 34—No. 13
Dr. T. Z. Koff
To Speak At
PledgeDinnei
Committee Schedules
Annual Event For
Sunday Night
President Of P.S.C.A.
Announces Activities
Dr. T. Z. KOO, graduate of St.
John's University, Shanghai;
will be the guest speaker at the
annual nledge dinner sponsored
jointly by the Penn State Chris
tian Association and. the Inter-
fraternity; Council at the Nit
tany Lion Inn at 5:30 o'clock
Sunday night, it was announced
yesterday
Reservations must be made
before 5 o'clock Thursday at the
Christian Association office. Robert
L. Goerder '39 is' chairman of the
committee in charge.
Opens Long-Range Program
'A
- world-wide traveler and for nine
years an official in the administi;-1
tive department of the Chinese Rail-I
way Service,. Dr. Roo,. who has ap-
peared here cn numerous occasions,
will speak on "College Students in
This World of Conflict."'
The pledge dinner :will open a long
range activities program designed to
contact all students on the campus,
Weston D. Gamfiler '3B, president of. ; Headed by the School of Liberal
'the Christian Association, said. . 'Arts, which drew 07 students, every
Plans already arc under
way f ar l school on the campus was represent
.the' annual Christmas carol sing, fire-led 'with transfers. The School of Ag
side sessions, and religious. sends, as i riculture enrolled 60; Education, 53;
Chemistry and Physics, 48;
well as other events in which all stu-
Engineer
dents are welcomed to participate, I mg, 42; 'Mineral IndUstries, 15; and
Gardner added: I Physical Education and Athletics, 3.
I - Sophomore ratings were granted to'
. _ I 164 transfers. Eighty-five seniors and
. .
Activities for foreign: students, pre-170 'juniors complete the list.',,
sentation — iindetnreS 7 'nfid .ifiiiiinisc, bri_l: 7 ,--,,- '''''-• -- ,-**-' v '-- , --;---',--7-4•-“t
Oilier Activities Planned
international relations, and the inter
national tea. .are being planned by I
Women's Debate
special committees.
The social and industrial inquiry;
Squad Selected
trips, calling for visits to Pittsburgh,;
Philadelphia, and New York City,
also arc being planned.
;'Dower of NLRB In Settling All
LaUor Disputes,' Picked
Hic! Bonny Bottle'
For Year's Topic
Is Barred
.By
Coaches
force arbitration in' all labor dis-
The bonny bottle which inspires nu- i
merous gridiron fans to -impromptu
i pates," the women's debating season
opened Wednesday night with tryouts
exhibitions of enthusiasm is menaced .
on :
by the oblivion to which many for both varsity and freshman teams
other tradition of the old order of Joe in the Home Economics auditorium.
. Candidates chosen by Prof. Clayton
College has been consigned. •
Schugg, women's debate coach, were
Fans who are dependent upon such i
'Lucille Hayes '3B, manager; Martha
stimulation to. display their ardor for
Marl's* "39,
Marcia Morfing '39
:dear ld Siwash will be sorely distress- i
, Harriet Rickets '39, Lillian Marion'
ed to -learn that the big-time colleges 1'39, and Julia Zubroff '39.
have deterinMed to squelch such arti-;
ficiality, of spirit among their coher- I - 11 Freshmen-Named
cnts. Such is thif prdclaniation of thel Newcomers t 4 the squad are Janet
American Football Coaches Associa-lßliss '39, Margaret Burnett '39, Mol
tion. i - lie Pugh '39, Natalie Atkins .'4O,
Having failed to dispel the breath Claire Y. Danker '4O, Miriam Dorf
'
of subsidation which has for so longi 40, Betty 'Hutton '4O,- and Barbara
hung heavy upon the air of their ath- Joseph '4O: I
letie ,policies, -coaches and college /
presidCnts alike seem to be determin-1
ed that they will at least rid the air!
that. hangs over proud stadia of;
the breath of alcoholism, regardless!
of the limits to which 'their determi-;
nation may curry them..
Dean Whitmore Given
2nd Honorary Degree
Dr. Fiank C. Whitmore, dean of;tlie
School of Chemistry and Physics, re
ceived an honorary degree at the Uni
versity of Delaware's $500,000 cheat,
istry school dedication, where he add
ressed u conference on "Organic
Chemistry as 'Affecting Various As
pects of Our Civiliation."'
The honorary. degree was the sec
ond to -be conferred upon Dean Whit
more, president-elect of the American
Chemical. society.• Last 'springlie was
honored by ,Franklin and Marshall
college.
Apiarist To Speak
Prof. Edwin J: Anderson, exten
sion apiarist of the College, will
speak. on "_Equipment for Bottling
Honey" at a combined meeting of na
tional honey producers' organizations)
at Washington, D. C., Oct. 25, 26 and
27.
N. Y. A. Applications
• To Be Checked
With returns of the second N. Y.
A. form coming in by scores, the
committee has announced that it
will snake a careful check-up on
the federal blank to cut the num
ber of N. Y. A. applicants more
closely to the government allot
ment. All applications that have
not been filled out according to in
structions will lie discarded.
The list posted last week was
3nlY tentative. The date when the
committee will post the final list
of N.'Y. A. employees will be an
nounced in the next issue of the
Collegian.
Transfers Total
Shows Increase
319 Undergraduates Represent
138 Colleges In Country,
Marquardt Slates
A total of 619 transfer students,
!representing 138 colleges throughout
the country, enrolled here this fall,
IDr. Carl E. Marquardt, College ex
, aminer, revealed yesterday. •
I Despite the fact the College re-
fused three times the number it ad
mitted, the enrollment shows a 90 Per
cent increase over last year's fi gures.'
"Cream of Crop" Admitted
With the acceptance of the "cream*
of the crop"—those who stood high
scholastically in the respective col
leges—Dr. Marquardt stated the reg
istration alone showed proof of the
growing prestige of Penn State in the
educational world.
Arguing on the subject, "Resolved,
that. the. National Labor .Relations
:.7.lourd should be empowered to en
Named to the freshman squad were
Charlotte Dattner, Harriet King,
Rosemarie Rednagle, Dorothy Gold
schmid, Pauline Toussaint, Jeanne
Hoflich, Lucille Merrel, Lillian Fluke,
Betty Whittaker, Bertha Douthett,
Molly Blelock, Anna Jane Garmcn,
Arita'llelicron, and Ruth Feldman.
!United Press Official
I Speaks Before Forum
The organizatio'n of the United
Press, one of the world's leading
news-gathering agencies, was dis-
I cussed by Henry Henson, director of
the Cleveland bureau 'of the U. P., at
the journalism forum in the Little
Theater, Old Main, yesterday• morn
.l
ug.
Next-Monday, Floyd Chalfont, ed
itor of the Waynesboro Record-Her
! aid, 'will speak on "The Ethical
Standard 'of Modern Journalism."
Chalfont also is president of .the
Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers'
Association.'
Trabue Fetes.School
Dean Marion It. Trabue of the
School of Education and Mrs. Tiabue
held a tea for the faculty of the School
at the Nittany Lion Inn Sunday. Ap
proximately 60 persons attended.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESRAY, OCTOBER 19, 1937
Berlin And Gershwin' Theme
Of Thespian- Glee Club Show
StoryWovenAround Their Lives; Tin Pap Alley,'
Songs and Sock Kennedy's Special'
Dance Steps Featured
i The new Thespian-Glee Club show, a romance of the lives'Of Irving Ber
lin and George Gershwin, to be presented as a special feautreAr Houseparty
week-end, is progressing rapidly as playwrights, music professors, directors,
i and chorines start work on the production. • ' , i .
• While Johnny Thompson, Bill Ulerich, and Johnny Chambers are draw
ing in the loose ends of the story for the show, Dean Grant;lummel Fish ;
burn, and Bill Provost are going over -------
the reams of Berlin and Gershwin for' the publishing hou i ses for which
they worked.
song bits that date from 1911. Then came the break' that made
At rehearsals, students continue' things different. - Witlo3erlin it was
work on - Sock Kennedy's specially-lin 1911 with 'Alexander's Ragtime
I created dance steps. Band," Gershwin l , iitliii "Swaim" in
' Drama Strengthens Theme 1 1919 '
The story of the show will be wo
ven around the drama-packed lives
lof Berlin and Gershwin, great names
that were made and 'not born.
Both of these masters came from
the clatter and stench of Lower New
York's - East Side. Both- wore out
many pairs of shoes shuffling along
the hard pavements peddling songs
Exp. Station Will
Hold Anniversary
Ten Speakers To Outline Past,
Future Agricultural Work
Carried On Here
Commemorating the 50th anniver
sary; of the founding of the agricul
tural station at the College, a pro-
gram aimed to span the entire half
century will be presented on Friday,
October 29
A meeting between advisory com
mittees of farmers and members of
the various departments of the School
of Agriculture also will be held.
• Speakers Listed .
.Reminiscences of ,early. days at-the
'oliPeriiiient — stilticiii will' lie — pOrtrayid
by a .half-dozen speakers, including
Edwin S. Bayard and Chester J. Ty
son,' College trustees; Dr. Harry J.
Patterson, director of the Maryland
agricultural experiment station; Mil-
iton S. McDowell; director of airicul- Fish also pointed out that students
!tura! extension; Jons A. Fries, as- who will be graduated in February or
sistant professor of animal nutrititm; those to be graduated at the close of
and Thomas I. Maims, director of ag- the next summer session or in Febru
ricultural correspondence courses. amy, 1939, may have their pictures in-'
Speaking on future deVelopments in eluded in the senior section. These de
agriculture will be President Ralph ' airing to do so, Fish added, should,
11. }letzel, J. lransel French, secre- report to the Student Union office im-1
tary of.the Pennsylvania Department' mediatein fill 'out an activities card.
of Agriculture; J. Audley Beak, New and arrange for an appointment at'
Castle, master of the state grange;. the Photo Shop. 1
and Dr. Stevenson N. Fletcher, direr-1 Those who had their pictures in ,
tor of reheareh, School of Agriculture. last year's book must lay the $lO for
I a 1938 copy, while those who have
Ibeen here for less than eight seines.:
tens at the close of this term, will
have to pay .1.25 for each semester
below eight to obtain their copy, Fish
explained. • •
All senior; must report in street
clothes for their pictures.' Last year,
seniors' appeared in formal dress.
Lessons In First Aid
Organized For Staff
A first aid chess for * faculty
hers of the. college will be sponsored
again this year by the College Safety
committee, John 0. Keller, assistant
to the president in charge of exten
sions, announced yesterday.
A standard Red Cross first aid cer
tificate will be awarded to all who
complete the work successfully. The
course, for which there is no fee, will
be 30 hours in length. .
Department heads who want mem
bers of their staffs to take the course
should call Robek, Sigworth at
the department of grounds and build
ings, Keller said. '
and Issue D
Deficit In Earnings Of
Retirement Funds
Would Be Offset
By JOHN A. TROANOVITCH
(In an effort' to Clarify Gov.
Gew;pc 11. Earle's stand against the
proposed 42,000,000 bond issue,
Wined to finance the state building
prVgrant, the Collegian, after a
thorough, survey of the situation,
presents this detailed explanation.)
Not only the building program
here definitely assured regardless of
the election o,utcome of the $42,000,-
000 bond issue, but the defeat of the
amendment would actually accelerate
the entire General State Authority's
program.
Funthermore, , a net saving of 0.2,-
000,000 to the taxpayers of the state
is anticipated should the issue be re-
Ilad to Uphold 'Aa'outations
But life wasn't easY::. They had a
reputation r to maintain;', and maintain
it they did. Tedious hours of coin
posing and recomposing made each
number as good as the last.
With Paul Whiteman:ln 1924, Ger
shwin gave to posterity , "Rhapsody in
Blue." IP 1930 dime' the show, "Girl
Crazy," in which Ethyl
and
saw ,
"I've Got Rhythm," awl quickly all
America was singing - it. "Of Thee I
Sing," "Roberta" with its "Smoke
Gets in Your Eyes," and "Shall We
Dance" followed later.:
'Say It With:Music'
Berlin's life ;ends like his song
"Say It With Music," the . first num
ber that sold over a Million phono
graph records. In rapid-fire order
came "He's a Devil in His Own Horne
Town," "Oh, Hods I Hate to Get Up
in the Harning," "Remember," "Al
ways," "Blue Skies," and "How Deep
Is the Ocean?"
The Glee Club and Thespians have
a wealth of material from which . to
draw for this year's hetiseparty show.
It will truly be a romance of Tin Pan
Alley in music. .
La Vie Sets; Limit
For 1938 Class
Picture; s :,_
All seniors must have their pic
tures taken for - the 1938 La Vie be
fore October 30, William D., Fish 'CS,
editor, announced yesterday.
State• Motor Police
Recover Stolen Auto
Stolen from in front of the. Acacia
house during alumni.. homecoming
week-end, the automobile owned by
J. W. PortenbaugA 'l2 'was recover
ed early last week, State Motor Police
at Lock Haven announced.
The car, a 1907 Ford V-8, was
found abandoned near Loganton, Clin
ton county, late last Monday.
feat Would Speed Program
jected at the polb; nest month.
Federal Grant Assured
Contrary to the veiled charge hurl
ed at the Earle administration by the j Despite Shift In
Philadelphia Inquirer . a fortnight ,
ago, when it stated . that "recent bond' • Financial Plan
issues have been sold (publicly) at a
much lower' interest, this question is
in no way' involved in the uniquel the employee? retirement funds,
situation. i which, under the law, must earn four
Under the original plan, stemmed' per cent on their investments:-
by the merry-go-round- tactics of the Moreover, the law stipulates that in
State Supreme Court, which finally' the event the required interest is not
reversed itself and gave , it the stamp I earned on these investments, the
of constitutionality, the work of thel state's general fund shall supply the
State Authority was to have been difference.
: nanced .by apprOximately $45,000,000 Proponents of the Authority plus
worth of Authority bonds to be sold pointed out that at present approxi.
to the federal government at four per mutely $15,000,000 of these funds are
tent interest, plus an additional out- invested-in government and municipal
right federal grant of $10,000,000 to bonds, yielding an average of 2.8 per
$20,000,000. ' cent interest and leaving a 1.2 per
Further study of the plan led Demo- cent deficiency for the .state to make
erotic leaders to the belief that an up: -
immense saving could be reaped by t However, sale of the bonds to the
selling the bonds, not to the federal'
government, but to the teachers' and (Continued on patto two)
Another Hit? ' I
JOHN E. THOMPSON '37 '
Who has a prominent part. in the
writing of the Fall Thespian• Glee
Marionet Group
To Appear Here
Lesseli Puppet Troupe To Play
Return Engagements; Two
Shows Saturday
The Lesseli Mariunets, one of the
!country's leading puppet groups, will
appear here for two performances on
Saturday afternoon and night,, it was
announced by Arthur C. Cloetingh,
professor' of dramatics.
The Lesseli group, under the direc
tion of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Heath,
appeared here during the past sum-
MCP. The Heaths also conducted a
class 'here for 'six weeks during the.
Played in U. S., Canada
They have played throughout the
east ; , midille,yrest,,..and,Conatla„,,and.
have appeared in the movies. They
M arc originally from California, where
Heath was a makeup artist in Holly
wood.
The- afternoon performance' will
'consist of a special children's group.
At 8 o'clock in the evening they will
,most
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," their
'most popular production. The admis-',
sion price will be 15 cents in the of-;
ternoon, 25 cents in the evening.
The last msrionet group to appear
.hOre was the Yale Puppeteers during:
the 1935-36 artists' course. In Janu-,
ary, 1935, the Tony Sarg Marionet
troupe W7lB here.
New Directory Issue
Ready In Two Weeks
The 19:1748 edition of the student
!directory will be ready for student
distribution. within two ‘yeelts, it was
learned yesterday.
The only modification in form will
be the separation of the faculty di-1
rectory from the student directory
Previously, both were combined in I
one pamphlet.
The directory, a photostatic publi
cation, will list the class, curriculum,
home address, local address, and tele
phone number of nearly 5,000 campus
students and 300 other students atl
I
The undergraduate center..
Lehigh Forces Nittany
Lions To Limit Before
Bowing By 14-7 Score
Thrilling Catch By Barantovich Decides Tussle
As Engineers' Strong Line ThWarts
State's Running Attack
Apologies to Lehigh!
An underrated Engineer eleven presented a strong line and
a couple of crashing backs Saturday afternoon on New Beaver
field to hold a Penn State team that showed signs of a mid-season
letdown to a 14-7 score.
Hut in spite of the apparent letdown, Harry Harrison and
;Sigma Delta Chi
Holds Initiation
Seven Juniors, Editor Inducted
Into Journalism Society;
Thompson, Davis Talk •
Alex %chum•, city editor of the
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, and seven
juniors were initiated into Sigma
Delta Chi. professional journalism
honorary fraternity,- at the Nittimny
Lion Inn Sunday night.
Juniors initiated were Herbert B.
Callan, Joseph P. Erkes, Dallas R.
Long, Dean C. Miller, Roy B . Nichols,
Salvatore S. Sala, and John A. Tro
anoviteh.
Thompson, Davis Speak
I Sen. Edward J. Thompson, Centre,
!county, and Howard L. Davis, man- I It looped like another incompleted
!aging editor of the Williamsport Grit, ' pass, but Rollins' aim -was accurate
were the principal speakers at the] and the ball landed in the Baron's
( formal dinner following the initiation.] arms as he lay on his back, safe in
! Members of the fraternity present] touchdown territory. This and Ben
at the affair were Prof. Franklin C. Pollock's subsequent conversion pr o s.,
I llanner, head of the department or! ed to be the margin of the Lion vie
!journalism; Edwin H. Rohrbeek, of !WIT.
]the department of agricultural extend Harrison made 190 out of the 283
sion; Philip S. Heisler '37, and Wocd-] yards the Liens gained from rushing
I sow... Henry , Cartin- returniug_ and along with .
lianiDl' Fish. John W. Igoe, John G.! Rollins carried the burden of the Nit-
Sabella, Merlin W. Troy, and Charles] tang attack. But Dick Skemp showed
M. Wheeler, Jr., all seniors. ipile-driving tactics that indicate State
w Petroleum
bpponents will have Skemp, as well
Ne
s, , l un ges .
Metro, to watch on line
Process Soudht
M. 7. School Aiming To Develop
Novel Method By Flooding
Oil-Bearing Rocks
A new method of forcing petroleum
fl.Ol/1 oil-bearing rocks by water flood
ing is being developed by the School
of Mineral Industries.
Water flooding was evolved in the
,state as a process fol• the secondary
recovery of petroleum. With two
wells sunk near each ether, - water is
charged into oil-hearing rock in one
well, forcing the oil to conic to the
surface of the other well.
Oil Men Sponsor Project.
Anxious to standardize the prceess.
a group or ail men organized a i . e.
search croup and are now sponsoring
the work here.
Six full-time specialists and two
part-time workers are at present cm.
played on the. research project. Re
sults of •the experiments arc being
used throughout the world.
Dr. Kurt 11. Andresen, Dr. Thom
as S. Cooke, and H. 11. Charmhury
have been added to the stuff this
year.
6 College Librarians
Will Attend Meeting
Librarian Willard P, Lewis, Father
', iva , Dwyre, Dorothy Adams, Gladys
Crammer, A. Elizabeth Beal, and
Reverley Ruffin will represent the
college at'the annual meeting of the
Pennsylvania Library Association at
York Thursday and Friday.
The proposed plan of standards and
specifications for public libraries of
the state, to be presented to the as
sociation for'action, was drawn up by
a committee headed by Lewis.
New Course Offered
A short course in ice cream
making will be held by the College
Nov. 4 and 5. Designed primarily for
opedaters tif, counter freezers, the
course will contain lectures on ice
cream mixes, flavoring, merchandis
ing, freezing and serving, sanitation,
and related subjects. Instruction will
be given by the faculty of dairy man
ufacturing.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
U3' 11Elt11 CAIIAN
Alex Baiantovich showed their usual
sparkling play to account for the two
Lion scores, while Myron Sterngold
climaxed a Lehigh
•
107
.ust-period touch
1 touchdown jaunt.
The Baron pull.
2cl a play that,
A„,:d along. with Windy
Wear's miracle of
the week before,
will go down in
the untr, , t , - -
- the annuls of
•
• NiL-
Rarantovich tany Lion football
history. It was an
other spectacular Merriwell stunt.
Steve Rollins, who 'uncorked sonic
accurate bullet passes during the
course of the game, faded back from
the Lehigh 'lO-yard line to heave the
ball to Alex. As Rollins let the oval
go, Barantovich turned around and
fell backwards over the goal line.
Rollins Passes to Baron
Teats Nit as Peppy
But the team, although still show
ing signs of an unequalled team spir
it, was not as peppy as in the three
previous contests. Most Lion fans
expected to see a State walkaway and
were consequently disappointed in the
low, score.
Possibly the necessary spark, in
the person of Windy Wear, may have
been missed by the team. The Rabbit.
was net able to play because of a stiff
neck. And although he hal {he train
wilh his usual dynamic blocking and
tackling, Co-rapt. Sammy Donato's
foot still bothered him a little.
Lehigh at Full Streimlh
The Engineers uncovered an oicep
tionally strong line led by Sterne.°ld
Co-capt. Jaclc Henpeck, ends, and El
(Cmailwed oa mop, fmo.)
Pictures Of Early
Architecture
On Display
Fifty-live photographs of early
American architecture will be on dis
play in the exhibition room of Alain
Engineering building beginning at
8:30 o'clock this morning. The gal
lery will be open every day except
Sunday from 8:30 a. 01. to 8:30 it. m.
The photographs have born selected
by 1,. 11. Holland, chief of the division
of fine arts of the Library of Con
gress.
Eustern States Represented
The illustrations are part of. the
collection in the Congressional library
and are circulated by the American
Federation of Arts. There are rep
resentative examples of 17th, 18th,
and 19th century American buildings.
Most, of the states in the east. are
represented, there being a group of
144 photographs of buildings in Penn
sylvania.
Dutcher To Give Talk
Dr. R. Adams Dutcher, head of the
department of ngricaltural and bio
logical chemistry, will addreks the
Philadelphia section of the American
Chemical society Thursday bn the
problems of research workers in the
agricultural experiment station of the
college.