Semi-Weekly SUCCESSOR 'Ar = r t i tt f a i r i,- ,, ,;i„A i i, 0 _ - - '-4 . . - - To The Free Lance, Established 1887 '''' r. ?::' -I •• r -- f, ./855' VOLUME 35-NUMBER 5 Z 658 47 FRATERNITIES PLEDGE PWA May Delay College Grant Apiwehensive Of State AuthOrity, Ickes Might Balk On $4,000,000 Plan Public Works Administrator Is ' Reported Ready To Take 'Drastic' Steps . Against GSA Program By JOHN A TROANOVITCH Editor, Co!lonian A definite threat to a speedy approval by the Public Works Administiation of the proposed new four-million dollar giant for consti (lawn of additional buildings at the College loomed today aq week-end developments in Harris burg and Washington indicated a sudden trend toy, ard strain ed relations between the PWA and Pennsylvania's Gene' al Stdte Authol ity As the College waited anxiously for word of acknowl edgement of approval of its full program by the State Auth anty, reports from the nation's capitol revealed that Public Works Administrator Hat old L Ickes was detei mined to do "something drastic" with regard to the Authority's pi ogi am The Autholity, cleated by th. Legislature m 1535 fm the avowed purpose of avoiding the constitu tional triteldietion ,on the common csealth's hollowing capacity in oi eel to obtain PWA funds, has been involved in a $65,000,000 statewide .niptovement program since du- State &picnic Court reversed it self and dechned the Authority constitutional on Febi uaiy 4 last year Leitzell OK's New Traffic Regulations Borough Ordirialce LimitsC Parkine— ,New traffic 1 cgulations- have peeil put tun effect In the bot ought of State College by an oullno ace , passed by council and apin °yea ';Lrrlday by Bat gess Wil bun F 'Leltzell No pinking at any time will be peinlitted aithin 130 feet of the in teisectlon-of Allen Street and Col leie Avenue on the um th Side of ( . ollege Avenue The 50 foot set . back also applies on the south side of College Av enee east cut Allen Street „West of Allen Street, on the south side of College Avenue, 8 30 fool setback has bean provided tot , West of this is II 55 foot bus cone and a space for one taxicab ,'Parking will be plohlhlted en 'Glide' Alles the fit st thot ough- Jars south of College Avenue, he !,:tween MeAlli.stel and Dun ON, es - One-udy tialilt. now In ;effect will be 'enlaced by two way ti attic Cars Inside Lines A Parked cars mast he inside the e outel edge of painted lines desig 'nating parking spac,es IYouble pinking la pinhibited at , 'all times on all streets - of the ough I,.,Onoway [ladle now in effect on Frazier Sheet will be I.:minced by , two way Gallic Paiking will be ,„Perniitted'only on the west side of the street, ;mallet to the club , :lLocust Lane, between Poste' ;arid , Hamilton Avenues, will "be one nay •trallia ninth to south ,Ptirking on the east side of Locust ;Lane bete een Beaver and Ham!' ton Avenues will be pet milted - - !'The 'new ordinance empowers /.(krgess Leitzell to' temporatily sei aside restricted pinking zones No Parking 2 to &A M J' Parking motels «iii be in oper ation from S a m until S p :Sundays and holidays excepted : , ,There will be no parking on any , through street between the hours ~ 0f, 2 and 6 a m I..,Xccorcling to the nee ordinance. opetatol of,any motor ivehicle leinvo . lyed In an accident resulting an apparent damage M 350 or must fotwatd a lepolt to WI.- ; tigli pollee within 2 , 1 !louts If the operator in incapacitated, any zoitlier participant in the accident Zmnstlmake the report, t 4 . Violations of 'any or the now p'egulations will result la a fine of ~ ..notlitore than ten dollars and cost torprosecution or five days hr jail ;41,1ermet regulations Inconsistent ;with. the new ordinance are re- Pealed. Gets 20 Millions Since then, with thud, aid from Pi esident RoosOvelt, the Authority has obtained apploviniately 20 ml- Lon dollars float the fedei al gov ci natant Now, with the polit , eal campaign mowing white-hot and charges of egulat graft nid col up tion flooding the state, Ickes, le poita, said, in ready to bring down is non fist and tighten PWA's gold-lined coffees—at least, do far s the Authotity is coneei ned Precipitating this condition, it na, said, was the result of un ui vestigation by PWA agents into charges of ii.egulaiities at the Western State Psycluuttle Hospi tal, neat Pittsburgh, now being malt under the Authoi ity setup. Made $40,000 Profit There, agents tepoited, McClos key & Company, Philadelphia coo tiactoi S, had been awarded the Job Ihtough a low bid of $1,404,000 One of the items in the pi ogtatn, however, listed a tate of $8 pet cubic yatil fot excavating 10Lii, which, they said, was subleased later to another contractor at t tate of $4 pet cubic vid This con ' ttactot, rn tun subleaed it to an ' dthet at $2 pet cubic yard Records show that of the 32,000 rabic yards excavated, 1 0,0 P were jatd fot at the $8 tate, thus, ac cording to the agent., netting the McCloskey Company a cleat profit of about $40,000 Friends of McCloskey weie quick to,defend this, churning it. was the total puce of the job, not the In dividual items, which counted, and that it was smolt business pi actice (Continued On Page Four) First Of 9 Observatory Domes Near Completion A seamless, aluminum dome, the first of its kind to be used in thy' construction of an observatory, is nearing completion at the New Kensington plant of the Aluminum Company of America. This hemisphere, 12'feet in diameter and 5-32 of an inch in thick- MSS, is the first of nine domes tol be consti ucted for the astionimic al observatoties which arc expect ed to be under constt uction heti n a few months Planned by Di. H L. YeagleY, assistant inofessot of physics, and a gift of the last giaduating class, the program will,include the ton sttuttimi of nine sepa , ate obset , atones, aitanged in a semi-an tic, giving the appearance of a .mall Sylvan town New Process Used The domes will eovet buck bas es, 14 feet equate and 11% feet in height Ten-inch, motot•th wen PENN STATE COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PA , TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1938 Late Fee Deferment ' Applications Refused In Office Of Bursa, A number of stadents have been coining to the But sot's of lice for defeiment of fees As speckled on applications, no de le: men is u mild be mauled allot August 20 If an angements have been made Milt a student to have his bill sent home fm payment of defei led fees, the student may secure his athletic book by ap plying in person to Hai old ft Mille] I, assistuny to giaduate manage' of athletic's, at the Al um] V on Thin allay or Fi iday Noted Socialist Leader Slated" To Speak Here Norman Thomas Is Feature Of Forensic Council's Heavy Program No; !Ilan Thomas, inlet nationally Lnown 'eau; et and LWILC emden tail candidate on the Socialist tic Let, is slated to , speak here late nest month as he Latin e event in Fat ensn. Council's program fo , the year The Council also is planning an inlet national depute late in No •'ember on the question "Resolved, that the Bt nish Empne ie an ob stacle to world peace" U ppm class member s of last year's' team demi mg to try out for tunpation in this debate ate to 'cool t to Pa of Joseph I , ,o'l3l ;en in Room 1, NLA, ne s t Tuesday at 4 p m An annual event on the College's debating' schedule is paiticipation in the tournament at Westministei College In the last four yews, all the Penn State tennis entered have placed hist 'Symposium Tot ums, introduced list yeah, again a ill be held next wintei Featining campus leadets, the forums consist of aigument on .ome popular question, after which the discussion is thrown open to the audience Topies Considered Among the topics being considet ,cd foi sytnpositfin 'Grunts ale "Flow much academic freedom should a college pei mit," and "Should meicy killings- be legal ized'", In addition to these features of the Council's program these will oe the tegulai =cues of debates, discussions and outside speakers, with an interstate debate's' con '•cation late in the peal In the , act tom veais, Penn State's oia tor, have won twenty-five debates and lost seven, competing with the best college teams in the countiy 3,526 Bibles Issued A total of 1526 student hand books have been Issued to fresh men, upperclassmen, and towns people, it was announced yestet day by Salvatore S Sala 'l9, ed- Itm telescopes, made by sVidents at the College, will be contained in each cf the obsei vatolies The fit , d mitroL foi the tele scopes, paiabolized and aluminized is pi actically finished This is a new process used to beat delicate !urinal, replacing the old, silver method The site for this "soon Syrian town" is on the high knoll, 200 ' , aids east of Grange Dormitory This Ideation, because of the Id% Pori on on all points of the com pass, is the most desirable place .iii campus Democracies Must Yield In Czech-German Crisis Or Fight—Dr. Ferguson Political -Science Pro&ssor Declares War Will Destroy Democracy; 'Let's Keep Calm,' Is Warning "The demoeineies of Etc one must yield to Ifitlei's 'nivel' to tit East' to go to teat, now m later " Thus spoke 1)1 John H Feuruson of the Depaitment of Histtnt and Political Semite when inlet viewed by the Collegian 3 este! day on the pi esent Czechoslovak-Gelman cmrs, Emilaining that he hoped the demotiaLics would shied Sin, Ur Ferguson said, "My guess is than they will yield iathei than go to wai By yielding, they me playing. for time, doling which something night happen to Hitler and his , N stem' "Mtn cove: ," 4 the pi ofessoi "the demon dues I calve that, whether won oi lost, another 'tat would destroy what 14 telt of amhzation--even the &mom acy for which they seem to be fight mg •, Hitler Not Bluffing ' Hale] is not !dulling, Di I'm guson pointed out He emphasized that if win would comc, &moo acy would not be able to thi :an in the economic and social system which the maladjustment and disillusion ment of v.iii would be sure to bi mg "By anopting a passive attitud, now, we can hang on to demociacy for a while longer at least W.• nould mei - ely be taking the'lesse, Tribunal Rules On '42 Dating Freshmen Barred From S. U Dances; Speaking With Women Prohibited Specifically intei meting- tile dat ing custom for freshmen men, the Student Tribunal i uled yesterday that dust year men may not entei the Amory during Student Union dances Not, the Tribunal decided. may they talk to women within a three mile radius of the College, except to give custonmay gieetings Reiterating its stand to enforce customs rigidly, the Student Trib mutt will hold Its initial Dial for customs violatcas tonight in Room 303 Old Alain at 7 30 o'clock The Tifbuoal emphasized that It is a.violatlon of customs I'm ft shit men to neat same cards on theit Camera Enthusiasts Will Meet Thursday Appointment of committees and a discussion of detailed photo graphic comae, open to both stu dents and fatoultl, will feature an mganinttion meeting of the Penn Spe Camera Club at 7 30 p in Thursday in 110 Home Economics building - An outline of the proposed woik of the Club tot the current school ye N will be presented by Ralph Cohen '39, president Limited to members of the Club, a course in practical photography will open o Rhin several weeks under the di rection of Gettig° E Woods, of the Depni tment of Chemistiy The course will meet mice a week and wilt include 'edam, on develop lug. printing, Wm ging. compost tion. lighting, and darkroom pio cedure A club darkroom, located _ln Room 7, Home Economics build ing, MITI be open for public. Inspec tion OW the meeting SUBSCRIBERS In order to facilitate proper delivery of the Collegian, all subscribers who have Chang• ed their place of residence should file their new address at student Union Desk, Old Main, Immediately 470 AS RUSHING CLOSES ..f two cv11%," Di Feigu , on insist Elgland, the nation which, with Fiance, holds the key to the fate of the young Republic, Cleated out of the chaos of the Wmld War, will to all pioliability :odd to Hit incol ding to the political sci ence pi ofes,oi England win Yield "Oh !tam yielded w the past It yielded when Hitler r clegated the Vet. smiles Treaty to the scrap !neap,n %hen the Nazis mai ched in to the Rhineland, when Italy jai alilaUl Ethiopia, and mole accent *, when Hitler antic , ed Austen I Precedent forces me to say that England, a self-seeking country, will yield now" If , England does not yield, Di FCciruson wattled, war Is almost teat= He hastily added, howev er, that since the conservatives, an t 4-Contmued On Page Two) Upper Division Accepts 239 Liberal Arts Group Admits 135 With Deficiencies, Stoddard Reports ENacilv 239 students weie ad mitted to the tippet Division in the School of Liberal Acts this according to a iaport ieleas cd yesterday rim Dent Chatles Stoddnit's office Of this number 104 wet e admit ted without deficiencies while 135 wme accepted with deficiencies Only 12 out of 443 sophomoi es in the Lov,ei Division did not apply, tot the Upper Division Eleven stu acids were dioppecl uncle' the 50 , 4 i ule, 2 uncle' the 6-8 r tile, 5 on poor scholarship and 7, because they dill not live up to pi obation Last yea] 267 were admitted to, the Lippe' Division out of a Lowe, Division class which numbeied 489 Football Forecaster Views Lion Chances What ai e Penn State's gi id chances this N ear, Francis Wallace, nationally known football expel t, Pies to en sue] the question in this week's Sattudas Evening Post The Lions' possibilities ale ills cussed along nith those of other leading colleges in Wallace's ar ticle "Pigskin Pi eview of 1938" Football schedules of all leading schools in the country me being disbibuted on this campus by the Post Tile schedule booklets %me dellveied to fraternities yestei day Copies may be obtained at the Stu dent Union desk Singers To Try Out For Men's Glee Club Tat outs nod selection of tenors Co: the Glee Club of 70 voices will be held tonight at 7 o'clock in the foyer of Schaub auditcalum, Prof Richard W Gaeta, ditectoi of mu sic, announced yesterday Tomer con night at 7 o'clock in the sante place selections and by outs for halftone , ' and basses` will take place Prof Giant also stated that mole members of the College Choir will be selected from the voices that ale heard tonight sod tomor lea night I Studenls Nag Obtain Scholarship Blanks In , Room 109, Old Main Students uhose academic I at ings fall within the hist 10 pen cent of then class may low apply for the lb available lionise Cat iegie and John W White stile!. ai ships which ate assaided an nually, Di Jacob Tangei, head of the Division of Political Sci ence and than 111,111 of the Com mittee no Academic Standaids, announced yestu day line eve!, inasmuch as the number of applicants always es ceedY the available scholarship,, Di Target wattled Mist the NC lection usually nai ions down to those hulking artnelg the find 20th of the class Application blanks may be ob tained at the office of the than mom Room 400 Old M.llll, 41111 must he 'clamed by Satuulne, Ottobei I &holm ships ill(.! ;mai dud l the Committee on Academic Standdi ds, augmented by a com mittee of thi ee mule, gi adu.ite% appointed by Student Boat(' Fee Payments Due Thursday, Friday, 9 To 5 Ten Alphabetized Windows To Speed Collections On Armory Floor Using the same pi okedua e adopt td List veal, upperclassmen will pay then fees hem 9 a ni to 5 p in fhtnsday and 1 7 nday in the Ar mory There-a ill be no break fry noon how !natal deposits on defelied fees :Ise %%ill be collected Ten alphabetited windows will low the Ai nany flooi ab follow. No 1 Abbey to Mon No 2 Bioo to Did No J Die to Gibb No 4 thus to Doll No 5 Holm to lat No 0 Laic to Mie No 7 Mill to Pos No 8 Pot to Shoe No 9 Shaw to Tin No 10_ Tie to Zui Five additional windows will be used to facilitate distiibutton of A A booklets upon ptesentation if itemized ieteipted bills, wham will be given the student upon pad• meta of his fees Checks foi not mole than $lO in e•cess of the total amount of fee. will be accepted, the Buisai's of (*cc. announced The usual fine of 45 foi Laub ness again will be enfol cod New Course Offered A noncredit coulee in Russian Language• is being offered this semester nutlet the Rev Constan tine Autoroff There is no sehed sled time as yet tot this class, but a meeting of all those Interested will lie held in Room 405, Old Main, at 7 o clock tonight Lingnan Graduate Gives Views On 'Sino-Jap War In Ammica only two weeks, Laiyung Li, most recent exchange stu dent fit - MI !Anglian Univeisity, Canton, China, gave latest develop , ments of the Smo-Japanese Van in an Inteißiew yestei day "Today the Chinese people are n.oi united, both economicalll and ' pohGinlly, than they ever have been," Lai-yung . - tated "Om outlook Might and optimistic, and we feel conlident that we w dl um the win Lai-young Li is doing graduate. moik m hoi health' e as pelt of the econsta action , plan; which China iv fosteung until the time when the war will be oyez and the ic tuilding of China begun He was Loin and jested in Amoy, Fukien, n South China, did gi minute walk et Lmgnan for two years and aught theme as an nista uctoi lot tout years before coming to this tonal y A Chinese Regulation in effect 'awe July stipulates that all Chin t se exchange giadunie students must study sonic phase of engin col mg, medical on in:lit:lly science "This regulation is toward the aim of present China—to prepare fot the future," Lai-yung said ' "Foteseeing the plans of Chinn to rebuild itself after the war,' Yai-young pointed out, "the 'Japs' sae attempting to bomb all edu- Phi Kappa Tau Wins Pledging Honors As Two Tie For Second 328 Freshmen, 85 Sophomores, 45 Juniors 12 Seniors Join Fraternities As Rushing Season Ends So r complete It a of pledgee 00 page', mat edify, oil "Don 1 lewd, the Cottr,on page t.! Sweeping honors forthe -,econd consecutive year, Ph , Kappa Tau Mate] mty landed a class of 17 to lead 47 social and pi ofessional hate] tube , . when 470 i u,hees-12 Seniors, 45 1 u moi s, 85 I:ophomm e, and 327 Fi eshmen went ft atermty as formal pledging last night ended ten days of intensive 1 tubing Dew lot second place with 16 men each were Theta Kappa Phi and '1 heta Chi Sigma Nu and Alpha Gamma. Rho weie dea Hocked loi thud place Each pinned 15 .nen Last yea: 526 lushees, which 0 + + lulled 12 senor s, 47 plum s, 82 ophomot es and ,1811 f:( , 11111C11 'edged be 49 houses This ww. F .C. Head !none than the ntaolol pledced tin, I yeas Ter- Cod Beta Signia Rho and Sigma Tat, Fhi tied foi the lead among tin tout fewish Oates nitres Each gut 11 pledge, i‘hile 12 foi Phi Eqpt) Delta and 11 foi Phi EiNth - et Pi bi ought the Jess i-h total to 49 men Tau Stgs Forsake Rushing fan Sigma Phi, lot"; Sias fi :emits last yea] but a boa. Huse this yea!, did not i ush Only one i uslung violation was 'elm led this 3 cal at witting to Raymond S Cosi ei3 ni Iv Council pi estdent Thet-i No lipshon ate. ray ‘l,4e found gut 13 of signing date cards ille gally A 21-horn postponement of !dodging was Lhc pen ay inflicteu by the Judiciaty Conn, e Under revised code, ;tamc i ushing opened September 10 with a one-dav lam mal contact pei toil A second infoi and psi too was oh•ei veil on Septembet 12 bands% iched betsseen the two pen t Is was one day of open house Sale of appioximately 517 date (aids, neatly 100 le, than the nt.mbei sold last yea], iieceded live-daV pm loci of fni vial engage ment• hind. began September 13 A second open house session cli i,a ced t ushing maneuvers bun oa Composition Classes Will Use New Texts Two books by Di Hai old F GI °Set, of the English Composition Department me being published si multaneousk be the Cm don Corn puny of Nes lock and pill he used us text books this semester One is a treatment of "Atgit 1110111 . * and the other a collection of "Types of Peisnasion" compiled by Di Grates In collabot ation pith Di John S Boss man cational mstltutions and science buddlngs Lingnan Not Damaged "Lingnan Univeisitv has not been damaged, probably because the pzopett3 is owned by the United States," Ile continued "P hit , . been bombed only once Two bombs exploded in the giound ulth tittle damage and one failed to explode I have a fragment of one of the explode(' bombs and am planning to contribute it to the Penn State in China Room," he added Lm-yung explained that the mil- Amy ann of China is to COIISOIVe its men and munition until the Japanese forces can be led inlanu wheie then highly mechanized equipment will be useless against the gum iilla winfare of the Chin ese =EMI CAMPUS COVERAGE PRICE FIVE CENTS ms Successful Coskery Cites Need For Revisions Beta "v lid ushing" V. as banished, money saved and code enrol cement attempted, Raymond S Cosh of Intertraternit} Colwell pi esident, considered the MS 'militia season Which ended List night a step forward Despite II umeious liens and loop holes in this 3 eat's revised code. Coskei y believed that in the futin e li a ternity I ushing at Penn Sta to could follow closely along the code st 3 led by the 1938 rush ing; t. ommlttee !Hernial Periods Fail "The intim mai periods limbo Mired Mb, Sera mole a flop," Cos Leis Ntated, "These periods were Intended to establish nothing more than a simple Lontait between fra teini“ and Insilco "As it Ull% the I ushee's time din hig these pea cods was complete ly monopolized b) one of two homes A I evislon In next 3ear'e code ii ill ho neeessuty to eliminate this untali monopolization," Cos fret, pointed out Co,lcmy suggested that open house hc. continued in the future slue it alloued the fraternity to Klee up Inshee pilot to the For mat Contact petted, thus eliminat ing misted dates Lead piping Still Exists • Load piping—an evil %e have Med to Ulna! t, is still practiced dut log the open rushing period," Coskei % said "Besides this, dater; u e too easily Woken 'While only one s fishing viola tion no i eel)! ted, IL uas proven ,at tot the first time in Penn Stale I übhing history enforcement of the toile MRS attempted The hulk:int t Committee sorted Its pm poge M ell,' Cositei y stated Art Exhibit In College Gallery 21 Punts In Various Media Featured in Season's Opening Show lnaegiating this tear's series of al t e‘bibitioni, 21 pi arts in variou, media non ale being shown In the College Ai t Gallery, Room 303. I lain Engineeling The e‘lubit, which Hill remain me foi Luo weeks, is n loan from the Federal Art Project of Penn sylvanin It contains repiesentatne prints by Julius Bloch, Michael Gallagher, Salvatore Pinta and Chalks Gard ner, all of whom have other works on peimanent display in buildings throughout the campus These prints are now being shown for the brat time and aftei hnen appealonce hoe will b; :hewn throughout the State
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