Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Free Lance, established 1887 Published semi-weekly during the College year, except on holidays, by students of The Pennsylvania State College. In the interest of the College, the atudents, faculty. alumni. and friends. NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE. INC. Chleatto--Rogton—San Franekro—Lo, Angeles—Portland—Senile A pill for entry as terond chin matt, nt the State Colleen Post Offer. 1937 Member 1938 Pssociated ColleEsiate Press Docributor of Collegiate Digest THE MANAGING BOARD CHARLES M. WHEELER. JR. '3B JAY 11. DANIELS '3B Editor Business Manager JF.IIOIIIE WEINSTEIN '3B CARL W. DIEHL '3B Managing Editor Advertising Manager FRANCIS 11. SZYMCZAK '3B . ROBERT S. MCKELVEY '3B Mews Editor Circulation Manager WOODROIY W. BIERLY '3B JOHN G. SABELLA '3B Feature Editor Promotion Manager SHIRLEY R. lIELiuS '39 ROBERT E. ELLIOTT JR. '3B Women's Editor Foreign Advertising Manager .GEORGIA It. POWERS :38 KATHRYN M. JENNINGS '3B Associate Women's Editor Senior Secretary CAROLINE TYSON '3B Associate Women's Editor ASSOCIATE. EDITORS Thomas A. Roal 19 Herbert R. Cuban 19 Alan C. Mclntyre 19 Roy It. Nlcholn Jr. 19 Salvatore S. Sala 19 John A. Tronnovltch '39 WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS Lucille B. Greenberg '99 Florence E. Lang *39 Reito E. Sheen '39 Ralph 11. Mindlnchlehard W. Roman . 39 Callan FL Long M 9 Jerome Shaffer 919 Francis A. C. Voters Jr. 19 Mn,.' J. Sample M 9 Tuesday, December 14, 1937 HEADS I WIN, TAILS YOU LOSE BEHIND THE GRIZZLY face of Burgess Wilbur T,eitzell there rests not only a pot of student gold. but a heart filled with warmth and good feeling toward students, he would tell us. And warm it should be. HIS association with stu dents has been most beneficial. But what we have pal, ticular reference to is the gond will statement he is sued last week when students were'arrested for .playing hall on a borough street. Said the kind burgess. "We don't arrest students on that charge unles i s they have been warned." On the front page of today's paper is a description of how that kindness works. Prim• to Thanksgiving, vacation students were ar rested for the same offense without warning. They were ignorant of the law and were told by the kind Burgess to kick in a dollar apiece to the coffers and go home without a trial. Or else, he said, the cost would go all the way up to $2l. Observers of Burgess Leitzell's dispersement of stu dent justice will agree that the students did the wise thing in kicking in the dollar and going'home. Arrest in State College has proven tantamount to convicticn. That was part of Burgess Leitzell's good will. Why! Now we see. The students hadn't been warned. They knew nothing of the 1897 statute that caused their arrest. Remember that statement, "we warn them." Was it that nut of the goodness of his 'heart he was loath to see students throw their money toward the borough coffers? Hardly does his record permit one to believe that fantastic talc. Could it be that his "we warn them" policy had been violated? Could it he that he had made 711) effort to in form students of the 1897 statute that had plagued them? Gould it be that his conscience would prick him a little too much to charge $2l for ball throwing? Could it have been that he was embarrassed to bring such a case into trial? Could it be that he realized he was doing an injustice and that he crawled out. of it, picking up a few dollars as he went? Could it he that there was no case against the stu dents, and that he was afraid of breaking his long rec ord of convictions Is it possible that he did not wish to admit that the borough was wrong? We think all these situations possible and plausible in this case. Yes, between that grizzly face and a pot of gold lies a warm .heart. But unlike Old Sol it radiates its.little sunbeams in but one direction It would be interesting to know why Burgess Leitzell and his police force are so efficient in arresting boys playing football and so opposite in performance when cars are stolen, houses are robbed, and miniature gang war shatters several hundred fraternity l. , use windows. WAKE UP WOMEN! With a new women's activities building to be finished for next fall, it is time that - you received some recog nition in the line of intercollegiate sports. While there was no place for you to practice, to have a place of your own, there was excuse for you to sit back and he unobserved. Now is the time for you to exert yourselves and lie come known! The building that will have a swimming pool, a gym two-thirds the size of the one in Rec hall, a bowling alley, squash room, rhythm room and wane rooms, is to be devoted entirely to your sports.. With the Col lege .!oing so much for you, why not do something for yourselves? Certainly your physical education department is equal to that of other colleges. Your interclass com petition can not compare with that of intercollegiate. But AO far you have been content to have a mediocre one! Each of you women in the school of physical edu cation is going to look for a job when you have finished. With a background of a well known school to fall back on you will have a definitely better chance. You women in other schools will have something to.work for. if the College cannot dr will not finance this move, why not do something about it yourselves? Whir not have an increase in fees? You will have something to repay you for E. S. OLD MANIA Extinguished: Bill Provost staggered .up the stnirs ,to his apart- melt in the Montgomery building Saturday night. Smoke filled the hall and_ Bill decided to act quickly. Known more as a musician than a fireman, Bill clumsily grabbed a fire extinguisher and ran Into Smith's barber shop, where a neat blaze was under A few minutes later, those (lashing Alpha firemen arrived on the scene. .They. put the thing out and then looked around for wreckage, etc. Lying on the floor in the shop was none other than our hero. Bill was smiling, stretched out, lovingly holding the fire extinguisher in his arms. The nueztion now puzzling the fire department is: Did the flames and smoke exl:nguish Bill or did some nthm• explosive cause the accident? Silk Prude Game: Events followin4. the Maniac's selection of a car- SEEEMISEI ner room All-America football team were as follows =Ol The cr pidders solicited Leo Ilouck as trainer fm their team. Ile accepted The diner waitresses think they can enter formi- dabie opposition to the Mateer-water-boyed eleven The diner waitresses were alleged to have offered Houck a job as their trainee 'knelt k holding out.for the best offer Nationalism A young man appeared in the courts recently and asked to have his name changed. The judge asked him his name "It's Franklin D,Stinko," he said. . "Well," said the judge, "I can see why you would want such a name to he changed. What had you in "Mai Stinkn," was the answer Dirty Work al the Cross Roads: t Last week when snow was in all its glory, the bzp's received a telephone call. 'This is the phiepps. We're coming over to attack your house. Prepare A few minutes later, the phiepps got a 'phone 'call "This is the bzp's. Get. ready.. We're coming over to attack your house." More than an hour passed, and nothing happened; In full V if.r.V of a born cop, who was parked in front of the phi epp house, a hop representative, waving a white flag. met a phiepp and the boys decided it ,was al! a PA: , and the thing should be called off. Love is the Sweetest Thing The TKE boys took the DG's for a sleigh ride the other night ... it wasn't too successful because the bosses refused to go along . .. Silvia 'Pritzler and Meet Greenfield are sipping from the same straw... and everyone wonders how Gordon Zern- and Sylvia Etters•can he so happy together ... Tut Wirt is back in circulation again only because Jack Sartz is buried in the woods trap ping . . . love's angle on Friday night's dance changed the name of the annual affair to soph flop . Dee Watscn has been getting 'phone calls telling him to go out and look at the moon . . . he don't know why ... Dee Graham and Johnny Moeller are still staring into each other's eyes ... .411 . CHRISTMAS SHOPPING MADE EASY IF IT'S A GIFT FOR DAD, BROTHER OR; ROOMY, COME IN BROWSE AROUND WE'RE SURE YOU'LL FIND SOMETHING MEN LIKE . . . . STARK BROS. & HARPER IfATTERS-lIA BERDASTIERS-TAILORS • I=lEl =MO OMR= THE PENN STATE COLLEGIAN UNDER THE COLLEGIATE SPOTLIGHT Candle Light Brigade Protests University Of California Library Lighting Facilities; Judge•lfcDevitt Calls College Drivers Good But Terrifying To Others Proteqting-inaddqunte lighting fm library, students organized a 'candle b the building, sat doivn, and btgan to re Bellefonte Clerk Handles Refund A ffadavits Must 'Be Presented To Probation Officer To Get Payments Fratm:nities which lost money in a series of thefts by a , student here last year may recover sums due them by presenting signed - statements to Roy Wilkinson, probation-parole officer : of Centre county, with offices in the Bellefonte courthouse. Although at present funds paid in to the custody of the'count court are exhausted because some • fraternities already have levied. against the ac count, refunding of the 'money will proceed as rapidly as the money be comes available. Signed Statements Required • Fraternities desiring to recover the amounts stolen must make out state ments giving the amount ,taken, from each person, his home address, his signaure, and the signature of the chapter president certifying the, va lidity of the claims'. The total aniount claimed must equal in all eases the. total specified on record at the mart as having been stolen from that house. FELINE Fair Play, was sidetracked when overnight rushing was railroaded from the sorority, schedule in a stormy Panhellenic session last Tuesday. A deadlock between the ten houses pro vided an excellent opportunity for the Advisory Board to wheedle, persuade and finally threaten to abolish over night rushing themselves, if the five houses which voted for it refused to' change their 'opinions. Overnight rush: ing was . diseontJnued . after Christmas: The procedure 'of abandoning the issue until a final decision was reached was contrary to our form of govern mental law. If an act was declared unconstitutional before the Supreme Court, assuming that one member was absent and there was a tie vote of 4-4, the act would continue to be consti tutional until there was a majority vote for or against it. As there was not a majority vote against overnight rushing that form of entertaining freshmen should have been continued. The houses will ' present their re sults of a re-4ote Thursday. If there is another deadlock we hope that the issue' ill be dropped and that the sor orities resume overnight rushing. ./• 1,-, , • •- - Ey' izeou7-€94. •• te.apy , . . , ~ . . • • 9 , 0,k0we #.://.. ~ . G RE yH 0 u N D awl D. YOUR traveling over the holidays ROUND TRIP FARES by Greyhound. As, Santa Claus says, "Greyhound goes everywhere in America New York . $8.20 —and the right crowd goes along." And Chicago 17.75 why wouldn't theyl It would cost three Cleveland 8.85 times as much to drive your own car. Take Pittsburgh 5.25 a Merry Christmas trip , by . Greyhound , Super-Coach—at a happy 8aV11:10 , Harrisburg 3.25 . . Scranton . 5.85 STATE COLLEGE HOTEL Philadelphia ____ 5.95 Corner 'College Ave.. and Allen St. . Philipsburg, N. J. 6.40 Dial 733 s Washington .6.85 GRE*9UND O By ROY NICHOLS cilities of the University of California ,rigade-250 strong, and marched into ad by candle light. 'As an anti-climax, one student entered with a big red lantern and commenced to browse through the stacks. "College men are good drivers, but they terrify eVeryone on the road," says :fudge Harry S. McDevitt, Phila delphia.. "The student driver has per fect control of his ear," he asserted, "but the way he driveS scares a lot. of other motorists into accidents." Harvard freshmen have petitioned university authorities to , replace the young chambermaids who .make up their rooms -with older women. • The young maids are too "giddy," talk too much, and sing too frequently while at work, say the freshmen. This dis turbs students at their studies, they contend. (Forgive them, they're just freshmen.) Fi Batar Cappar is a mock honor ary fraternity for men at the Uni versity of West Virginia: Charley McCarthy is gcling collegi ate again. Latest rumors on the Northwestern -University campus have it that Edgar Bergen is bring ing his woo:lenhead stooge to the campus to receive the degree of "Doc tor of Innuendo and Snappy Come back." A shipment .of new biology text hooks at Mississippi State Teachers' College produced some fireworks re cently. A chapter on evolution annoyed .John M. Frazier, biology instructor, to the extent that he,ripped the offen sive pages from GO books. His action, a decade after Tennes see's famous "monkey trial," renewed the evolution discussion.. Mississippi fundamentalists in 1926 had enacted a law forbidding teaching or use of hooks which related the theory that man "ascended or .descended from 'a fewer order of animals." Dean Trabue To Speak During . Holiday Season Dean Marion R. Trabue, School of Education, •will speak 'two meet :ngs in Harrisburg during the Clirist- I=! On December 27, Dean Trabue will address the College Teachers of Edu cation on "Our Own Niedicinc." On December 29, he will speak at a .re search round table of the Pennsyl vania Education Research associa tion. His subject will concern a sug gested study of, successful teachers. Correction The foiar students who were caught gambling last week were not resi dents of Watts hall, as stated in the last issue of the Collegian. MEI Dorm Operations Progress Rapidly Building One Month Ahead OF Schedule; Central Steel Constfuetion Finished Work on Frances Atherton hall,the new dormitory for women students, is progressing rapidly at the building site on the southeast .corner of the campus with operations now a full month ahead of schedule. All the steel construction in the central part of the building iF com pleted with the roof trusses for the wings the only remaining steel work to be done. Approximately 500 tons of steel have been used to date. Working at 'top speed whenever weather permits, the 175 workmen have labored late -into the night to complete tasks on 'more than one oc casion: Cold Weather Hinders OperatiOns Cold weather makes concrete pour ing difficult because mild temperature conditions must be present until the mixture has set, Concrete and mor tar is ruined by freezing .when still moist. Despite this fact the weather hasn't been unfavorable enough to hinder the progress of the project to any great extent. Much of the plumbing and elec trical work . also has_ been completed. The first floors of the wings are fin , . ished. As much is being done now as possible in order to keep ahead of the winter weather conditions which are almost sore to slow up operations. The excavation work on the new women's athletic, plant ,just north-of the new dorm is about i)5 per cent completed. Foundations are being laid and steel construction is expected to begin about the middle of January. Duke University SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DURHAM. N. C. Pour terms of eleven weeks are given each year. These may be taken 'con secutively (graduation in three and one-quarter years) or three ..terms may be taken each year (graduation in four years). The entrance require ments are intelligence, character and at least two years of college work, in cluding the subjects. specified for Grade A median' schools. Catalogues and application forms may he obtain ed from the Dean., Take Mother a FRUIT CAKE ' All Sizes The Electric Bakery Allen St. Phone 3121 r4-T04 , 41. -•-• L - 3., r--frslrPips4r-dy-4r, CHRISTMAS ROOKS A CHECK LIST 0 THE -FAITHFUL .WIFE—UNDSET . ; . ❑ NEW FRONTIERS OF THE MIND=RHINE El THE AMERICAN. LANGUAGE—MENCKEN OU. S. CAMERA 1937—BOXED . .s,- . O THE ARTS—VAN LOON . - . . . 0 'LIFE AND DEATH OF A. SPANISH . TOWN—PAUL ... : . a NORTHWEST PASSAGE—ROBERTS . . . O FLOWERING OF NEW ENGLAND—BROOKS ❑ WOOLLCOTT'S SECOND READER . ❑ LIFE WITS MOTHER AND FATHER 2 VOLS. DAY ❑ 1937 NEW YORKER ALBUM • O COUNTRY MATTERS—LEIGHTON ~ • . . 0 ISLAND OF BALI—COVARRUSIAS . ❑ THE IMPORTANCE OF LIVING--LIN.YUTANG ❑ WHITE MULE--WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS O MATHEMATICS FOR THE MILLION—HOG BEN ❑ LAST PLIGHT—EARHART. . ❑ AND SO VICTORIA—WILKINS . -❑ SO GREAT A MAN—PILGRIM . ROMANCE OF ROSY RIDGEKANTOR ❑ MORE JOY IN HEAVEN—CALLAGHAN. . O HEINRICH HEINE, THE LIFE, THE POEMS—UNTERME YER . • . . ❑ YOU HAVE SEEN THEIR FACES-- cALpwELL, WHITE . . . O EDUCATION OF HYMAN ICAPLAN—ROSS' . . . 'hz Gift, Paper. Wrapped for Mailinglat No Extra Charge. . HEELER'S Cathaum Theatre Bldg Tuesday, December 14, 1937 •Journalism Smoker Al 7:30 Tonight Inviting all mem students inter ested in journalism, Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism hon orary, will hold its annual Christ mas smoker at the Phi Delta Theta house tonight.at 7:30 o'clock. . Highlighting the program will he talks by Chester Smith, sports editor of the Pittsburgh Press; Major Albert H. Stackpole, pub lisher of the Harrisburg Tele graph; and Marion S. Schoch, pub lisher of the Selinsgrove Times. Xmas Carol Sing Set For Thursday Evening Led by the College choir, the tradi tional Christmas carol sing will be held in front of Old Main Thursday night at 8:30 o'clock. Both students and townspeople have been invited to attend. Dean Marlon It. Trabue will give a short reading on "Tlie . Spirit "of Christmas." The rest of the program, as arranged by the Christian Associa tion, will include a brass quartet-and several hymns sung by the choir. A worship service in the Hugh Beaver room, Old Main, will follow the sing. Luzerne Wonleu Feted A tea in honor id Lucerne county tyomen attending College here will be given , at 2:30 o'clock, December 28, at Chase hall, 184 South River street, Wilkes-Barre, by the Penn State alumnae of Lucerne county:Mrs, Sara Sanford, soprano soloist, and Morgan Reese, concert, pianist, will entertain. Hurry ! . , • _ There is still time to order your BALFOUR ' FRATERNITY JEWELRY FOR CHRISTMAS + Full 'Display at Office in Sailers' Stdre; 109 Allen Si. 1 $2.50 $2.50 $5.00 $2.90 $3.95 $2.50 $2.75 $4, $5 $3.00 $6:00 - - $5.00 $2.00 Open Evenings Until 10 PAT