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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Successor to The Free La ere, 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 students, faculty, alumni, and friends.
THE MANAOINO BOARD
CHARLES M. WHEELER. JR. '3B
JEROME WEINSTEIN '3B
Managing Editor
FRANCIS H. SZYMCZAK *BB
News Editor
WOODROW W. BIERLY *BB
Feature Editor
SHIRLEY R. HEL'nta *3B
.Women’s Editor
GEORGIA H. POWERS ’3B
Associate Women’s Editor
CAROLINE TYSON '3B
Associate Women’s Editor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Thomas A. Bonl ’39 Herbert R. Cahan ’39
_ ...... Alan G. Mclntyre ’39
Roy B. Nichols Jr..*39 Salvatore S. Sain ’39 Job*. A. Troanovllch *39
WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Lucille B. Greenberg *39 Florence E. Long ’39 Reita E. Sheen ’39
ASSOCIATE nITSINESS MANAOERS
Ralph H. Gundlach *39 Richard W. Kooman ’39 Dallas R. Long ’39
Jerome Shaffer ’39 _ Francis A. C. Vosters Jr. '39 Mnry J. Sample ’3l)
Managing Edilnr Thls Issue.
News Editor This Issue
Tuesday, February 8, 1938
> TIME TO WAKE UP
NOW THAT INTERFKATERNITY ball is but two
months away and in general it Is lime for Intorfratcr
nity Council to consider next year’s rushing code, the
Council may wake up and do something to justify those
keys.
This year. Council may wake up to a strange ami
singular turn of events that will make the hoys even
wash their eyes in cold water and rub extra hard to
take away the sleepiness. This will he too had, because
no I. F. council over had to do that before. The prolt
lem that may he so embarrassing is the fact that prob
ably there will l* no rooms available in town for a
two weeks’ period at the beginning of the next fall
term.
With workmen occupying all available rooms at high
cr-than-student rates, landladies will not be in the mrod
to rent rooms for two-week. transients. Fraternities
as a rule cannot afford to wait a whole semester or year
J*or freshmen to move into their houses. More than
merely a fraternal problem it is one that embraces local
economic and social situations. Lack of rooms next fall
will p»sh home the point, again that, a fraternity is"
mostly a place to eat and sleep.
Yet, it will be more than a passing bit of activity
tliai the Council will find itself worrying about It’s
a shame, to make the organization work after all these
years, but it will have to produce tin* time if fraterni
ries are io meet their bills next year.
TONIGHT’S CRUCIAL
TONIGHT’S CRUCIAL TEST between the Lion
basketball team ami Temple may decide the champion
ship of the Eastern Conference. Spectators in Phila
delphia Friday night were agreed that the Lions have
an excellent chance of turning the tables on the Cher
ry and White.
Rut win or lose, one salient fact is already *e-lab
lished. Penn State lias the best heskethall team in a
number of year. Never has the College been more bas
ketball conscious. In two seasons the coaching of John
Lawlher and the fighting spirit of his players have
raised the College from the depths to the height* of
basketball.
Small wonder is it then that the College, the town,
and thousands of friends throughout the slate are pull
ing for a Penn State victory over Temple tonight.
HOW TO WIN AN ARMY
IT IS IRONIC to note that one of the contributing
factors to the ousting of Field Marshal! Werner von
Hlombcrg in Germany and Hitler’s rise to the hem! of
the army was the Fuehrer's undisclosed objections 1«*
von Blomberg’s wife, a carpenter’s daughter.
Undoubtedly Hiller is resting more easily now that
he is sole boss of everything that is German. He
feared, perhaps, what the .Japanese army did to its em
peror in the way of Panay bombings, French agitation,
and British insults.
Hitler may save himself from embarrassment abroad
now until he is ready for war, but we wager the wolves
that now will-hound his door, demanding immediate
action to restore Germany's colonies and lost glories
will in the end prove more dangerous and sapping to
the power of the ambitious fascist.
STATE POLITICS
EVER .SINCE JOHN L. LEWIS indicated tliat he
lik’es Lieut. Gov. Kennedy pretty well, the flavor of
state politics has been getting spicier. .Gifford Pin
chot’s hat in the ring has helped make things interest
ing.
Dean Warnock intimated in the Centro Daily Times
yesterday lhat he thinks Pinchot has agreed to repre
sent the Republican as senatorial nominee. Me thinks
that James will be nominated for Governor. In the
Democratic ranks he thinks that the Cuffey-EarJe trade
has been preserved and that Kennedy bus been prom
ised the opportunity of succeeding Guffey should the
latter win.
NOTE TO GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS
HOW ABOUT FIXING the gullies that rain lias
worn around the two main front campus walks? -
JAY H. DANIELS *BB
Buslneu Manager
CARL W. DIEHL 'BB
Advertising Manager
ROBERT S. MeKELVEY ’BB
Circulation Manager
JOHN G. SABELLA ’3B
Promotion Manager
ROBERT E. ELLIOTT JR. *3B
Foreign Advertising Manager
KATHRYN M. JENNINGS 'SB
Senior Secretary
Bruee M. Trahne ‘39
..Thomas A. Boal *3O
Salvatore S. Sola ’.lfl
“Now you, Mary, and you and you don’t need to
think you’re getting 3’s out of this course because we
•sit in the Corner Room together.” ,•
Meanwhile, Miss Kirk, in explainirjr to Ed I
stooges the meaning of the word “orientation”
stressed the fact that it had no relation to the Orient.
Kay Holden iistcpied attentively; then scribbled in
her note book, “Orientation—getting one’s bearings in
the east."
Pins That Pass in the Niylil
Ray Hayes to Kit Forsythe
Tom Brown to Marcella Anderson.
Jim Kirkotf to Marie Perry ' j
Bill Murphy to Jeanne Wiley I
Joe Cook to Bess Edelhlute ' [
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Penn Slate Is a Place Where: -
Phyllis Johnson, frosh beauty, may be in'ciroiiia-' '
tr n soon . . . Dotty Downes scheduled two courses
for the same time . . . “Gypsy Rose” Ocheltree fea
tures the gentle art of undressing in front of the win
dow aL the s. are. manse from 11-12 on Saturday
night . . . Solly Miehoff’s answer to the Maniac’s
charges that he is a woman-hate appear in an article
in the current issue of “The Bell” . . .Quotations from j
the northern section of the Commonwealth—“Ninety
eight per cent of the women in the .world are beau
tiful and the other two per cent go to' Penh Slate.”
Bob Sleekel sang a Pennsylvania Dutch solo in a
Philadelphia beer garden last week but started on
the wrong key ' .. We’re tired of seeing Dean Tucker
strolling about tju* campus alone . . . Willie \Va«hcoe , j
buys doll babies for his girl friend, Mickey, of Harris- J
‘burg. She has a hobby of collecting them . . . May- ' 1
Mle Penley announces that she tco is hack in circu
!at on . . . An empty letter was found on our. desk.
It had come via. campus mail , and the'last name on
tho envelope was “Clioc-choo" Chouinard, publicity of
fice assistant . . . Which reminds us that-the-Old
Main secretaries Campy referred to in the last issue •'
were Sally Trogallis and Mary Ami Hutchinson, of i
the P I office''. . . Girls at Cody Manor have been out
to get their quota of men students, sto 1 .... And l
we’re still wondering just what’s behind the myaler
ictus curtains that have been placed on the glass doors - i
of tin- President’s suite. • —The Maniac j
OLD MANIA
Letter Box:
Last week there arrived on the 'Maniac’s desk a
card, which, although not addressed to Us, we read.
It was addressed, “Penn State College, Bellefonte,
Pa.”
We quote the message on the card:
Binghamton, N. Y.
Gentlemen:
Would you please semi me a Penn'
Slate sticker for my 'suitcase?
Thnnk you Very much,
Sincerely,
(Miss) Dorothy B
Letter Box, Add 1:
Speaking of letters, we received this in the campus
mail:
“If not the first, this is a unanimous nomination
for head man in the Stinker Club—Campy.”
The Maniac doses the‘nomination, thereby making
Campy president of the SI inker Cluli.
Faculty Foibles
Prof. Ham, physics prof., is not related to Instruct
or Bacon or' Prof. Hogg. 11. T. Tiffany, cashier in
the bursar’s office has never collaborate!! with H. R.
Thayer, eng. prof. The Franklin Banner, is not a
newspaper nor is the Ixm Bell a magazine. Both are
journalism profs., while Prof. Law teaches political
science and V. V. Herring is an instructor in animal
nutrition.
First f)a('ze)
"Spitter Dye"iin introducing Economics 22, raid:
“A lot of people think this is a tough course, but
it’s just a lot of detail; and you must not let de-tail
get ahead of you.”
Another prof, before even introducing the course,
pointed to three co-eds in the front row and said:
THIS CUSTOM SHOI
FORMAL SUITS
.CUSTOM TAILORED TO
YOII It INDIVIDUAL
MEASUREMENTS.
34.50 to 75.00
READY’ TO YVEAR
29.50'
A CCKS SORIES IN
KEKPINO WITH CUR-
TRENDS AT MODEST
II EN T !■’ A S 111 O N
STARK BROS. & HARPER
HATTERS—HABERDASHERS—TAILORS
StAte COLLEGIA?!
Newer Handshake
Methods Needed,
Faculty Says
Penn State faculty members would
appreciate .newer and subtler “hand
shaking”. techniques on the,.part, of
the students.
Exposing' '“bnekslapping,” -or the
art of getting higher grades, faculty
members revealed to the Collegian
that, the student of today, neverthe
less, is a more refined chisel** than
he used to be.
Ranking highest in current “apple-
techniques is one termed;
•‘affected interest.” The student who
excels in ihis method sits in the-front
row taking prolific lecture notes, gaz
ing reverently jit the instructor, and
•brings clippings into class for the
teacher.
Blondes, Blue Eyes, Smiles
.. “Making eyes” at the instructor is
strictly a feminine means. It'is lim
ited, oho faculty man declaves, to
| Llmse hlondes : ,wh(» have some. power
I behind their, smiles ami blue-eyed ap
! peals. '
;Very common .near final exam week
arc the visits'of tin* “sob sisters)”
Their wailing about family troubles,
poor health, and the need for honor
points,’’most of • the professors are
agreed, is ah.outmoded form of chis
eling. V-.-
Staying after class, the /acuity
men declared, '.IS still practiced by the
hopelessly “dumb.’’ “They’re just
wasting theirtime,” :i member.of the
sociology department remarked.
Men Must Make New
PSCA Job Application
Men students.interested in secur
ing part-time employment for the sec
ond semester- should apply at the
Penn State •Christian Association of
fice as soon‘as-'-possible. All npplica- 1
.tioris from -last semester will he de-
• . .>
Since the number of available jobs
is very limited, it is requested that
[only those who really need the wnrk
apply; Lust , semester'22(s students
applied for work. Of this number,
27 worked *- in . fraternities during i
rurhing^seasonJand *l7 others were’
ijiven odd jobs during the semester.!
I Dr. Clausen To Finish >
! Series bi Talks Today
j “Pennies Heaven” was the
theme, ofsthe^aJk ; given by Dr.< Ber
•" hard’ G;r. thi*; First.‘Baptist
church, Pittsburgh, last .night*, in
Schwab ntklUofuum.- Thi~ was the
first-of a xeViej^pf-lectures sponsored
by the Penii SlWte Christijtn Associa
tion. : -'T i v
iDr. .Clausen (will, speak again 'this
afternoon at.4'o’clock on “Did I.Ro
! member ” and /oiiight,* folic-whig the
Temple-Pcnn State basketball game,
on Vfiei Mir HLst'Dii Sclmrii.’'
ROOMS
For 2nd Semester
s&H'ospisritvo^b'fei®
sttj. COKFO RTS 0 jlwJfcflSS
.■j/4 4tI»(IoHs ; BUKNIHO^AT£EW^
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The liluebook’s
Antidote
RISING TIDE
Women Act As Hosts
At Annual Dorm Ball
While Mac Hall does not / pretend
:o give advice to the lovelorn, it is
trying to do its part. According to
custom, the women invite their best
dales to the annual Mac Hall dance;
this year, however, the men may nlso
do the inviting) In this way Mac
Hall hopes to act ns Cupid.
The dance will he held Friday, Pel).
18, from 9 to 12 o’clock in,the Mac
Hall dihing room’. Booth VVatmough
will furnish the'rhythm that should
accompany Cupid's, host work. The
Student Union office" will act as nego
tiator in the sale of tickets.’
The dance committee is headed by
| Beulah P. Gerheim -‘39. The other
members of the committee nro. R.
Elizabeth Bogar. ’4O, Ruth V. Koch
’•‘*9, E. Ruth Salmon '39, and Mar
guerite R. Schenffer ’4O. >
Book Exchange Closes;
Returns To Be Made
The Student Book Exchange will
close at B'o’clock tomorrow evening/
it was announced by Samuel J Rosen
'(ID, chairman,, who stated .that a the
exchange was a huge success and
that he was gratified by the student
cooperation. A few hundred hooks
are still on sale.,* '
All students with ownership slips
should come in before closing time
and withdraw their..books, or receive
cash for hooks sold. Unsold books
.will he returned and money paid only
upon presentation of the yellow slips.
Commission Elects
I Newly-elected officers of. the Fresh
[man commission Wednesday group
jnre Louis A. Sipos, president; Prank
E. Pink, program chairman; Kenneth
|N. Sloan, secretory-treasurer; Rich
jurd D. Bitner, project chairmnn; : «nd
; Charles R. Clemson, social chairman.-
CAMPUS/BULLETIN
Soplioimire Seminar, 304 Old Main,
S o’clock.
Red Wing Bird Society, 35 Educa
tion Building, 7:30 o’clock. Motion
picture; will be shown.
. Thespian try-mits, <lO5 Old Main.
7:30. o’clock.
IMllel Foundation. 418 Old Main,
7:30 o’clock.
TOMORROW'
Philotes are urged to attend a meet
ing Wednesday at 7'o’clock:in .Old
'Main. A full reorganization if plun
i ned. • . .. -)
! Philotes," 302 Old Main, T o’clock. •
1,000 Tobacco Farmers
Bank on ffis Judgment
John L. P:
houseman
experts w>
TN THE wart
Georgia, Ni
46,000,00pp0i
travel many mi
warehouse foi
tobacco experi
Mr. Pinnix’s v ;
"At every
Pinnix, VLuckj
ripest,' mello\
That’s why I’v<
since I first b<
20 years ago.”
Mr. Pinnix’s
•by sworn reef
among indepei
—auctioneers,
housemen—Lm
twice asrriany e:
ers as have all i
cigarettes coni!
HAVE YOU HEARI
TOBACCO AUCTIOI
When' you do, remember that Luckies use the
finest tobacco. And alto, that the "Toasting"
process removes certain harsh irritants found In
all tobacco. So Luckies ore kind to your throat.
Owens, 410 Old Maip, -6:3o.o'clock.
Christian Science, 410 Old .Main,
7:30 o'clock. • • :
Camera Club, 418 Old Main, 7:30
o'clock. .
Student Council, 405 Old Main, 7:15
o’clock. •
American-Russian- Student Council,
405 Old Main, 7:15 o’clock.
Thespian try-outs, auditorium, 8:15
o’clock. .
. French Club, 102 Old Main. 7 o'clock.
Freshman Commission, Hugh Beav
er Boom,-7 o’clock. Dr. Bernard. Clansm
en will speak., ,:. N ‘ /. ;
THURSDAY • :!
There will i>e a compulsory meeting
r-f Pi Lambda Theta Thursday at 4
>’t*lock in room 302, Old ‘Main. •
House of Representatives, .105 Old
Main, 4 'o’clock.
Blue band, 405, Old Main, 7 o’clock.
American Association "of Univer
sity Women, 2nd floor' lounge,' Old
•Main, 8:15 .o’clock. ’
Thu Beta Pi, 418 Old'Maiii, 7 o'-
clock. ,
Russian Club. 410* Old Main, 7 o’-
clock. ,
MISCELLANEOUS . V
Entrants* for the Student Union jjool
and ping pong tournaments must sign
up at the Student .'Union' office.this
week. ‘
Freshmen, sophomores, and -juniors
wishing to try-tout -for the, editorial
.FOR THE SMOOTH SIL
Barbizon’s Satin
$2.91
PATERSON HOI
136 E. Colic;
CASH AWARDS BEGINNING TODAY J
One cash prize will be offered for. the ofdest valentine "and
another for the’funniest valentine entered in'‘the contest
-betrinninff today at the : . .
OLD MAIN ART SHOP
A Complete Line of ..Original and Clever/Valentines
1 Contest,Clcaeson Feb. 14—Judges Will Award Prizes
" Just Think of It!' - • -
■i Marvelous Lunches sit the •
MARMAYE COFFEE SHOP > '
for only 25c. aiid tile
Z- Across from the Caninus oh Cnlleite iuid-Pukli Sts: / .
■ '• SPECIAL STUDEN-I’ RATES ; -^. . / ... .
BEST-IT’S LUCKIES 2 TO 1
Tuesday, February 3,19 SS
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