Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Snecessnr I. The Lance, established 18R7 P 1161110.1 Feni«werldy during the College year, onteept on holldays, by .tndentc of The Porno,.lynnth Stale Collette, in the intoroct of the CoHoye, the statkot.. Neatly, slamni, nod friend, CIIARLF.S N. WHEELER, .111,..38 JAY 11. DANIELS '2II Editor lingine4A Ma:loner .lEROME WEINSTEIN lii CARL W. DIEHL '2B Miaowing Editor Advertising idnnager FRANCIS li. S'/.YMCZAK '2B ROBERT S. AIrKELVEY 'RR New, Editor Cireitintinn Mitring.. WOODROW W. RIERLY '2O .101 IN C. SARELLA '3B Feature Editor Promotion Man.«, SHIRLEY FL HELMS 'MI itOUERT E. ELLIOTT JR. '2O Wornen'o Editor Foreign Adnertining Manager , :RoRnIA 11. POWERS '2B KATHRYN M. JENISINCS 'SR A , oirinto Woman . % Editor Son tor S...•retary CAROLINE TYSON '2B A , morinte Womon'n Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Thotnnt A. lloal %la Herbert H. Cohan '39 Alan C. Mclntyre ':l9 Roy B. Niehnle Jr. 'all Salvatore S. Hzln . 39 John A. Tronnovitrh .39 WONIEICS ASSOCIATE EDITORS Locale H. Crrenl.nrg is Florence E. Long 19 Rena E. Sheen 15 Ralph 11. (lending+ 'llll Richard W. zOOlllll.ll . 119 Dallas R. Lone .119 Jerome Shaffer 'lll, Franeip A. C. Vaglers jr. .99 Mnry .1. Sample '99 Altinagint, Edifor klir News Editor 'Ellis Friday, Oetuber 20, 1937 THE COMING ELECTION The eleetion a a burgess of Stale College Tuesday kill be a matter of interest to both students and fat.- ulty. They should be anxious that the man who wins will do all he can to promote harmonious and fair re lationships hetween the ]heal authority and the student It should not mutter to the students 'chat politiril party the winner is backed by. The students are inter ested only in the man that will play lair with them. Students provide most of the capital that keeps the town of State Caliege running, that keeps the faculty men in their positions. Certainly the pit:A/Wen: of a livelihood for the town should receive consideration. Statements bare Lieu ninte by bath lA•itzell and .).lolinkern as to, their policies. }loth men must be ex cellent politicians, because they have said little if any thing. The present burgess' reticence in committing himself to any statement as to his future policy may he signif icant. Certainly he has been 1000 in the public eye dur ing the nine months preceding this election that he was for the first, three years of office. This, too, may be siAlutlemit Little is known or Mohnkern. Whether he would be a good burgess is hard for the student, who can but guess, to tell. Faculty members are the only Ccliege constituents who can vote. They are in' a better position to judge the non. The faculty generally is intelligent. They should serve the students by voting, considering care- fully all angles before casting ballots. NEW THOR IN ENROLLMENT The 6,3.15 total enrollment far the present sem ester is the highest in the history of the College. It is proper that as many persons as possible be given the opportunity of education at -a state institution. The old housing problem, however, is not helped by a large enrollment. Already with proposed build- ings still far from on the wily toward construction the number of students has been increased. This is significant: It means that the College is expanding rapidly into one of the largest education al inst:tutinns in the East. It means that a definite program of increased enrollment has been launched It means that when the new buildings are finished, and the housing facilities are slowly brought up to take care of the new students, that the enrollment will increase in proportion. It forebodes a housing problem here that will continue for ninny years, pc,. sibly never reaching a solution. The tax-payers and their children will he happy as the result of higher enrolhnents, as will those who are interested in seeing l'enn State increase in size MUSICAL ENCORE Now that everybody has affirmed and denied the in terest of the Music Federation of America in organiz tog campus musicians for various reasons with and without merit, the whole issue threatens to come out in the wash, leaving things pretty much in the same shape they were before It appears that an understanding will be reached con- cerning the situation about the time this will rench the readers. Just so the student who wants to and has hired campus hands comes out of the melee with the some amount of shirt on his back as he went into it with, apparently everyone will be satisfied. That will be nice, because most people don't know what it is all about and would hate to have to worry about it any more. X HOLIDAY The students who have organized a petition, request ing a Thanksgiving lieliday have some grounds upon which to stand. Last year they signified that if Thanks giving vacation were to he taken away, they would like to have two football holidays or class time clipped off .goinewhere to make it up The result was curtailment et Thanksgiving vacation with no other provisions being made to provide the va- cation time due. It is highly improbable that a Thanksgiving vacation will be provided at this late date. It is not impossible. At least students should get a football holiday for Pitt as well as Penn in part compensation. Questions Deserving Answers What initiate to the Animal Husbandry Club was eaught wandering around the halls or Grange Dorm the other night as part of his pledge duties? Co-eds there probably will not he flattered to be treated as animals. IVlu•re was Otte. Kline when Marge Barnett was be ing entertained by two ex-boy friends at the Alpha Sigma Phi house Sunday afternoon and evening? It would be nice to know the prof who was talking about Youngstown steel the ether day. lie explained in class how that city lowered its tax rates, etc., to en courage steel to leave Pittsburgh and go to Youngs- I=lll Natalie Atkins raised her hand and asked, ,"But wouldn't that be illegal?" Replied the prof, "Now. now. now, Miss Riding Howl." Comprenez-vous? John A. Trounovivi eh . 39 Roy B. Niehol, 2r. 19 Cep to the MihOte Kirby was busy explaining and defending, mu sic unions at Blue Band practice the other night. It was quite a timely stthject in light of the recent fuss. Bnb was avidly explaining what a great thing the union is, what a great bunch of boys they have, what they do, etcetera? When asked what it really did for the boys, he answered, "Why, it threw a party for Dale Trouble Again Bobby Steckel, miniature baseball player, really has his troubles. Be became embroiled in four (count 'em) houseparty dates. This is enough to worry any man, let alone Steckel. We are happy to announce that his load has been lightened, however. One of his ,late, is quitting school to get married. Collegiana: ! . Frank Kozioski, ACC boy, swears up and down that 1 Gridders Face Orange he found that green ribbon that freshman women wear and which he now has hanging on the wall in his I Boy Chouinai.d, of public information, who has snit of dropped from the news lately, comes hack again. It seems the blotter he has on his desk at the present time is one commonly known as the "Collegian blotter." Cecile ),letz who crashed Life recently with photos of herself, her sister, and her papa, showing the meta morphosis of the college co-ed from the undesired to the desired .has her troublesas the result. She has fan mail cow in great quantities, the most ardent epistles being from a lad down in the Naval Academy who has fallen hard. Tsk, tsk, and :titer all those nasty things we've heard about the Navy. Students in Prof. \lineNees .Econ 14 class are won dering• if it was necessary for him to explain the facts of life to the class. It seems that he can tell the sex of a baby in a passing baby carriage by mere ly leaning over and lifting the covers. Or so . he says. It bewilders us, too. College boys had more finesse, we thought. Doc Davis has been very nice about being included in the Phi Kappa Sign Big Apple last week, for it seems that Doc was not in it at all. Merely an inter• ested bystander, was he. Ituotin' Bud Clark, Phi Cam flash, has his l'a ternity brothers worried. Bud, we learn, pulled out of town Monday without telling anyone where he was going and hasn't been heard from since. Ray Flays, Phi Sigma Kappa, and Hay Forsythe are taking advantage of the opportunities that Mae I offers theSe days. Bill Green and Jane Kistler' are much mere than merely interested rnmainaimmismials o You.ll -Enjoy . I The Corner unusual CAMPUSEER THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Average' tudent Goes To Bed on Band Issue Irani page ono) point, wondering what iL k all about.. They have unions here, hut they want a union here. IL doesn't make sense, thinks lie. • At this point a Mr. Gregg Plummer from the Tyrone local writes in and oilers objections to the interpretation of his union. He and Mr. Butt seem to agree in all they say. Then Mr. Booth Watmough, much interested in the matter, as he leads another campus band, writes and claims that a newly organized band is trying to demand prices that it does not yet deserve. Ile mentions no names, but that leaves the answer up to Mr. Vespa who himself conducts a band and Mr. Butt of the Campus Owls. But the identity becomes quite clear when Mr. Vespa comes forth and says that he doesn't believe in the union here and that he is against it. The average student begins to think that maybe the boys in the different bands here don't get along too well together in some cases. - All the bands seem to agree that the musicians aren't getting too much money now, but that they shouldn't !get anymore. The average student agrees on the latter point, is slightly skeptical about the former. Certainly it is enough, thinks he. The average student concludes aft :, e• all this that all lie is worried about is this: that the prices are not in creased, that organizations are not blacklisted, and that he dances as • much as he did before. For the aver age student, as he has implied before, !is very much interested in dancing. ' With I his the average student de cides to gc to bed and leave it at that. :The average student pretty generally is right. 'Cortilmed from page one) Ellwood and Dean Hanley, tackles; Joe Peel and 'for Toretti, guards; Bernie Briggs, center; Harry Harri son, quarterback; Co-capt. Sammy Donato and 'fony Giannantonio, half backs; and Joe Metro, fullback. This outfit-will be outweighed by the team that Ossie Salem will prob ably send on the field. The Orange line averages 200 pounds, while the fleet-footed Marty Glickman is the only starting hack under 180 pounds. ,IF YOU LIKE. QUALITY • • MEATS and GROCERIES al Reasonable Prices BUY AT NITTANY MEADOWS FARMS STORE GUERNSEY MILK AND CREAM Corner pen and Beaver—Dial 2611 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: In this A. P. or L. movement, I see oily an attempt on the part of a cer tain newly organized hand to either demand prices which it does not yet deserve, or to eliminate competition oy forcing not other campus bands which are not in fav'or of the move men. Many of my men are union, and the rest had intended to join in the very near future in order to facili tate the booking of out-of-town work, but we will not be leered 'into such action merely to line the pockets of one or more individuals on this cam pus. Personally, I am very much against the unionizing of this school. Heretofore the dance band situa tion at Penn State has been charac terized by a healthy competition be tween all units, the new organizations fighting for recognition and a fair price—the older, more experienced, and better rehearsed muds enjoying the prestige' for which they had for merly struggled. What better,' or more natural system than this could evolve from union activities here? I' am sorry that the writer of the Collegian's last editorial on this situ ation thinks the present bands are de manding exorbitant pt-ices for their services. If he had divided each mu sician's income by the, number of hours spent in individual piactice, full hand rehearsal, and actual work ing time on engagements,- - he would have been amazed at the low hourly rate of the "horn tooter." My first trumpeter, an E. E. who is quite han dy with the slip stick, has figured out such a rate and found it to,be in the neighborhood of forty cents an hour. Is this such an unfair wage? Pos sibly it is—to the musician. —.BOOTIf WATMOUGII Oct, 26, 1937 Te, the Edite; • The current issue or the Penn Slate Collegian seems designed to create an impression or the activities of the American Federation of Musicians which is inaccurate, and which this Mice wants to correct. The - A. F. of L. is not, as your ban ner headline ',minims, launching any organization drive in State College. The American Federation of Musi cians, Local Mio, of Tyrone, is trying to secure new members, but so fair as we know neither Mr. Olin Butt nor any other representative of the orga nization has been appointed organizer for Stale College. Mr. Butt is a hard wo•king member of this local and an investigator of the credentials of traveling bands. Ile is also available to help emPloyers of orchestras who want to secure the highest type of musicians for jobs in State College. He has no other appointment. You• correspondent's pudiction that "the campus will be embroiled in la ey in The bowl 10-Bole" treatment—real honey in the bowl pipe a - well-broken-in" taste medi iD the brmrwood thoroughly loge. so its wonderful flavor is preserved & .nrly. Special attachment gives (I) auto- 4' -e draft (2) double-action condensor. LLO-BOLE ALSO - CAROURETOIr " SIEMBITER ", - IMPERIAL" VE11.040115; 51.25 B. 31.5 D ARROW The most popular shirt on every campus. Drop in and look over our large assortment or styles and patterns. $2.00 and $2.50 1(1:: so*„. R, 4te :;7_ i i , -; ,„ . And will you send it up, please? „/ 6 - o k :, Yes, Madam,' • * ~ ~, iklil l We deliver anywhere! NT, ‘,, ..i....__ , ...........-. e fr - lizp, • '''---- .. - ff -1 State College Fruit Market .., 206 S. Alien SI. Plinno 2351 hoc agitation movements" is rather amazing in view - of the fact that about. 20 per cent of the members of our Iccal either now attend the college or live in the town, that all but a few - of the campus 11:111161 are already affiliat ed with the A. P. of 51., and• that fully 75 per cent of the State College musicians are 110 W in the ranks. Even the most persistent efforts to persu ade the other 25 per cent to join the union would hardly disturb the cara t/US seriously. As for "blacklisting" 'and "brand ing" of violators through newspaper advertisements, we can best point to our record: In the twenty-odd years during which this local has existed, it has yet to levy a line on n promoter, nor has it placed any person"o• per= sons on UNFAIR LIST of 'the A. P. of M. But perhaps you think the most per tinent charge is that "unquestionably the motive in organization here is to jack banal prices." Nothing conid be further front the truth. For years the bands in business at the enlarge have been getting the set , scale of priers. In fact, in .90 per cent of the engagements: played, the bands, have been getting snore •than• the• scale set by the' union. The union neither will nor can jack these'pricesf. not to raise Mims, then; why: the!ianinn ill? We naturally exist to ,advance the interests of 'Our members: , Well; we do' try to eliminate . Cut-throat practices, which occasionally. appeal•, and to substitute a spirit of coopera tion. We have been successful in se curing jobs for our members; only four memhers•of the local, and those Friday, October 29, 1937 now retired from the game, are not HOW profitably engaged musically. Whenever a job is open for bids, the ,dficers of the local inform all member leaders of the Mace, the time, and the committee in charge, so that they may apply. The initiation See for .mem hers, incidentally, is 115, and the an 'nual dues are $2. Finally, it is only fair to point out what the existence of a union means to those 'who employ the bands. We try in every way to help the frater nities, as those who have come to us when sonic non-union band has can celled will testify. We ask that con tracts for engagements be filled with this office. Thus both contracting par ties have redress. The violation of a contract by an orchestra means a stiff fine and suspension. In short, a un ion contract is satisfaction insurance. Can you think of a "name" band or a really good campus bond that . is non-anion? Except far the.oecasional cut-throat orchestra, you pay no more for the union hands. You arc more certain of satisfaction. You have 'a contract that will he fulfilled. To accuse us of racketeering. price-jacking, o• threat ening to embroil the college in labor agitation appears, to put it mildly, beside the point. Sincerely yours, • li. (MEM PLUMMER, • Secretary, Local IMO, . . Tyrone, • Penna. • • I SHOE REPAIRING 808 MINGLE. N! XT NUB HALL
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