Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The nee Lone, established 1887 Published semi week', I Wring the College year, except on holidays ha students of The Pennmltunin State College, in the tottrell of tin Coll , be, the students, fmulty, alumni and friends Tar MANAGING HOARD TORN A 'I ROANOVITCII 19 Fdilnr rBANCIS A C VOSTERS JR 19 Roainesa Mannacr 11CRIIERT 11 VAAN 15 IF A ROML SllO rt R 99 Sparta Edga H r dvert king Manager ROY II NICHOLS IR '39 RICHARD W hOOMAN 19 Managing Lditar Cirrnist ion 1111994.1. r SALVATORE s CAL I 19 RALPH II 0111401 ACH 39 News Editor Pratnntinn ?defog, ALAN G IIeINTI RE '99 DALLAS R I ONE '35 Assistant Managing Edgar Eareign Adterttaing Mannar.. 3 1101IAS A 110 AI. 99 MARI I SAMNA., '39 Awittant Managing Editor It nag Serf tat; BRucn II TRA BUR 19 I lICILLE GREENBERG 19 Asstatant Stsgts idlitar Women tt Editar HEITA E SHEEN 'IS pa Iminti Women n Editor PPPPPPP NTIII, FOR MAT/OMAI. ADVIENTIIIINLI SY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publabere RePrereotaleve 420 MADISON AVE NEW YORK N Y CKICAcO eosrom WS WORM •SW WARMS° Manioclnw Editor This Ivaco r , ..,,, , rdltor Thi.4 Jr__- sse Ft iday, October '2l, 1938 THE RIGHT MAN LAST YEAR q movement wit , . begun amon.; member: of the senior clay, to appropriate the ( lass food of oft.Moximati.lv five thousand dollais toward launching a novel and cultural pioject—a project which would Lung, mina!, to the will, of Old Main IL Wir contended Lh it murals would human it , the cold and Wank interior of the pimeipnl buililin2 on the campus, That they woad Lend to revue the cla , t; spun now so lacking by depicting epochal events in the College's hisbuy, events which would poi - institution bettei than any word , the importance of the institution in the state's educational system, 'i . aat. they %%mild bi mg Lo the C Mingo sta :and even nationwide publicity, publicity whi .11 - would set ve to establish Tenn.ylvani t•tlate one of the leading art shrin , i to the I min That They would become lasting tri%ute to the ila~s and to the College, retaining Ihen est .etlne appeal and 'hen eultavil the, yea, L 94T WEEK, that delve came to an ant i-climaN. Shunted by the Class of 'tB, proponents of the nnnalg pt curet waited to see a $4,500 giant do. nated lot the projei t by the Class of 'l2, who h for more than "Mee) months had been investigatintii the possibilities of a suitable gift to the College. 'I Ins, however, was only an anti-climax, hetiiinge the pioject will omit fa, :noir than $4 500 and I ecause cooperation fioni other classes and fioni the College itself mall be needed in the future to carry out the program to its desired end Among other things, cooper atom , horn other clagse. mill he needed in ordei to finance the huge project Among other things, cooperation flora the Col lege will be needed in nide) to have the pinject nftirtally approved and accepted—and, more mt portont, in order to obtain the best available mm alist to do the job IL is fa this utter lemon—in order to °IAA the hest available muralist to do the job—that the Collegian hope , . the Board of Trustee, will not delay too long its official approval and acceptance of the gift Fm the best and the most noted Amm;con'onn abst of thim ls iI I become available sonic tone around December That man is Henry Val num Pont IPR POOR is, in the fullest sense of the term, .1 creative al tist; •'.m at tist who thinks courageous. lv and feels deeply, an artist who can expiess his thought and his feeling with ot igina , ity and pow- Such n., the way in which Edward Alden Jewel', 111 t editor of the New i'oi k Tirneq,' describe , Ili Ply), Adds M .Jewell ''l am delighted to learn that Hoary Varnum Poor has consented, if your pin go. ,an be put tluough, to paint mural, in the lobby of the main building at the Pennsylvania state College Time are no hettei arti , ,t, work ing in Arr Mica today " Says Lewis Mumfot d, author of "The Cultuie of the Cities" and a contiihuting edam of the Nev. Republic "liemv Varnum Poor is one of the most distinguished artists in Ammica today, a man in put ilongsicle the very best in any country, and his choice as a min alist foi the Pennsylvania Slaw' College would reflect great credit on the institu tion The tinning ewer from the mediocre and the insipid in public writ kg, and the willingness to use the mote able and original spirits in paint ing is a sign of a growing cultural maturity and self-confidence of which I, us a patriotic American, am proud 4111 he more happy should an Amen (an lie when this new smut manifests itself in one of our publicly-supported state universities" And, adds Unmet Saint-Gaudens, director of the Carnegie Institute Depititment of Pine Arts, now supervising the International Exposition at Pittsburgh "Mi Poor is one of the outstanding mural decorators in this country at present. His work in the Department of Justice Building in Vailungton has received a tremendous amount of appreciative press comment. I admire Mr. Poor's woik and regal d him as being 01111 of the best nit. 1.0 in the mildly I would he happy indeed to tee him ohfain such a commission (paint mural , at Penn State) " THESE ARE the opinions of experts in the field of art, opinions which hear mature thought, opin ions which early tremendous weight. The luring of Remy Varnum Pooi to do the nod, bele, would make Penn State the first college .in the country to have murals painted by out standing Anselicon lutist Here is the College's opportunity to rise alinco,t overnight into the foremost ranks of the nation's cultural world. BY HIMSELF The Customer Writes Again .Campy pi audio Publishes his second fan fate in momhs and month.. of pulling a Perna° • When cehool started list yell, a gi eat Liangle w is eAtalMslie I—Beaty Lowe, Chi 0, Ba old Ply, Phi Dolt, and Ned Wakeman, Kappa Sig This year, that Mei nal Wangle was In nhen damn t Beaty and Ned Then it, wo , Ned ,nd 1 lord Con me Smith, Idtg But, something went w 1 nag thei e, it, a t,,pas •iv c imme gave 111111 t powder) an 1 1101' it's Ned and Beaty Lose again—" IL sound. Loa damn complicated fm me to ligui e out ond wha go.e, cue, tillqllWl But THANKS to, belle , 1,11 Ye Daily Half ColYuni The Icily halfeolyum, wr Men by none (Oe th in that man Wm wick every mice m in often pi I L good gag v. Inch we cunt ~w~Pat~ Last Tun I Iv's Lent' eileadlyel Imes earned his nista! • tan but tubed down in the neat-to-last pal up aph we lon ned that gong' apher Was nick had pi met ed 4ugnun Beach, Viiginla to Virginia 'Beath, of Mci phy rs looking Cm follows 1116 Doan _ Emanuel Roth '4O George lt Sohn..., '4O Mr. Esquire's Mr. Swift A year after Esquil e pin ehtthed it staiy liy A. Swift of the Depui intent of Publn Infoi motion thef published it in thei, late4t issue Hut even bettei than the story is ?di Swift's own little 'biography round 111 the front an, the maniac tot you laNt. week Pi orn the same Elseun ish charaelei we herul his quip about the fiat manses on the inpu•; which goe , thusly "Pi atei nity house, are lilac., the like of which the boys never saw below 'nil bs God will , nevei aee again" Hut what hobbies Swifty has he didn't tell in his In og, iphy, hut ott the 'Nth d to von my ft len in p on. gi ipti ny Cheese In you Sitting o►► the Same Side "Maggie" Colin and Anne Vei y, with Com' , beta pin going 4 , 1 )ay last m.eelc-end ( Bob Wd •nn and Cha, late Cal away, a It 'pit ti anqfc. m wcy ilmin at Duke—n.l'l Bill Ilont and Vi • Sandham onus-in- nvbdec s Tom Mu Loughlin and Don• lac omn taking things easy new cups ol inflect 11.11 , , Eck, dell t big, it tJie Biockelhott With ,11160111 `MI New puiekage . Censored Ned Wakeman (see (Love) is a candid earner fiend laying out rot the froth "n 1 insu,e himself of a gond •hot he asked Dimpv Neon, 1,1,g, (the plot rs thicket than the one above) to get him a grid cheesecake of some fiosh gill So very oblig ingly (hinny goes to Median and up to Hamlet Stubb's room whei e she finds Hai net. in only btu and panties combing het hal: Aiming the cameia Dimpy .naps 'and lushes down to Ned standing in the lobby When he _developed the negative, Walceinan felt his conscience I—theiing returned Inuit and negative to lla,iJet, went away a happier man felling lie was v gentleman Maniac's Miss Maniac, th it little tenser who writes the stun in this space on Tue , days certainly pulled a duty trick When he began to name .t Miss '42 Ile suyi the only les.son he didn't name one was because they wouldn't give him .i bleak, but sue would have told you iliffetently long ign Smart Sayings e X-11 who opei ales m "-2." Naylm 's class Came ,tuoss with Naylor's cm lent pllze He was ex plaining to the class who spoke the dime levels of speech as crude, cultivated colloquial, and foi m at Hard up to desca the the middle class Navin' classic(' them as "Thei.e people am nice people— they know the diffeience hetsseen a Medial and a Manhattan—you could invite them to voui home and you'd know that they knew a knife limn a folk —CAMPY CAMPUSEER I:Mil CZ= ezza =EI Enjoy You' The ,COrner unusual PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Dr. McHenry Denounces Old-Age Pension flans For 'Deluding Oldsters' Opposition Rising - In California - Against $30-Every-Thursday Scheme Cy DR DEAN E McFLENRY Last Cl. 114! Hilo: a the student newspaper at wegte-n university whit h I c"II "alms m•ite:" leafleted al climb for II new ,inte um , on ?lime %%Alt the -love "Fifty do•latc,evezy Friday to• folks under fifty" TAP, evade has inoie.sigmficanee than an ot dinar , ank Of :out , e, it Wll4 intended as a ;arum nu 4 tin ust at a I ere] en lum opozal to amend the Caliform,t ,rnnslduhen 1211‘in \ the payment .1 Tat pe, weed, in ,ct pt to all 50 'onil civet But it so les to ienuud es how fa. Ihe penk.ion mama _has i.aolo, not cmly in one state,,lntt Cl el the whole eounti v In Colo' tlo, Noith Dakota, Ole pan, Ai hansits, Tempi, .Califoi sever al othei states, old age pension lights v e over shadowing cihei palatial ISSUCS in the cut , Cal mini - Align The ienieheirihic ale of this is easiest to see people ake being pi oinp.en fantastic , uns which e 4 fai hcyond the le"mncc, of then • tate Slates :lie being loaded up with impoyohle obligations to the I —The Men that something can le had fm nothing is encoutage<l - 1. piiiasitic gimp of orgamieis i oullang huge sums in dues and elilal Ihlli 1 .- '1 i Item old peo ple %Ain tan ill allot if the et ( pemlitui es -It dive' is the attention many ion& w h o might rithei wailing fm feasible pi ii,;essive I efol us 'llia I andel it estika of the e I tine Fate pennon .lentand% will lie found In' gely in i» essul e fin the I il•ei alintion of Pedei al So . ial Seem ity old age mtimmuu and assistance to them needy aged, and modnst ine. ease; in state budgets fog the latter put pose \lost of the pending pension p'an4 tall foi aiming 'esosting rld age as.istance schemes for ample, in Aikansas to $5O month ilv (fir above the avei age cash in -I).ome of the gainfluly employed). in Noi th Dakota to $4O (though the state is deeply in the ed.) Colm ado, which raised its mini ' mum to $45 fm peisons of GO and ovei, now finds the hoiden un 'bearable Ind must repeal it to ie lstoi c state solvency Oregon Tot cis have heroic them a modified Townsend plan calling fo, $lOO I month to be paid by the State. to oldr"ers of 65 and °via from pro teed, of a two pm tent tun novel 141 ttansattion to% At all odd , : the 'Cahim ma in o posal is the most fai lcaching awl drastic It requires the payment of sro every Thm sday to all ovei 50 oho ate not employed for campus iation This payment is made in state ••ci tpt, miscalled "omi ants" The "we, i ants" ai c to he self , idapng via a "button, button, ,who's got the button" pi mess whoevei happens to hold sei ipt, on a Thu:slaw must buy a two cent V tate iedemption stamp (with seal money) At the end of a yeas, each !..`wai ant" will have $lOl in stamps—sl to s edeem the sci ipt rnd tom cents foi administi atp, e expeme , The campaign foi the so int is based on exti avagant claims of .timulated business activity Ito ough new purchasing. newel The paradox. of privet ty in the , For COVEN DANCE Corsages • $l.OO and up , - • State College Floral Shpppe 127 W Beaver Street Dial 2342 CWEN - DANCE Tonight in Recreation Hall from 9:00-12:00 o'clock • Tickets may be purchased from any Cwen or at Student Union. midst of plenty will he' ended, it 1 , claimed The movement hat gen,' ated tiemendhus enthumalm Around one million voters signed the ierelendmn petition to place the measute on the Novembes bal lot and the ploponeots have been collecting one cent pm slay leen fi ens 250,000 membei lv $l,- 000,000 pm yem Opponents „..of the "Retirement Life Paymexis Act" side slow ti gatwe, hut now, thot oughl! O ightened, ale putting nut a pow e.ful campaign ag imst it Rasa. ally they dove at 'the key point the so ipt v;111 not t e honored rat meepted It cannot, raider th ' , este' al Constitution, be made le gal Wilde, thei efoi e it Win not he accepted by the botches, the hakes, and the candlestick nicker soon it wilkeollope liecau.e of non acceptance Pm the', the script issued in one Peal (assuming 1,100,000 , persons over 50 would amount to five times the lel I eney, and coins in cncu labial in the State now Banhe and huge business houses aie 111- liletteg they will not. accept "warrants," but many littia yes-men still display the signs "State Mt., ement Payments Act Fun sots Accepted lieu!" Worth Face Value lown to The ',sue net I nw, , t.,hethei in not script will he Iron-1 aed generally at face %nine To amuse confidence, pi oponents have, i.sueil official-111,e sample script mnising /acceptance of "guaran teed-by-the-State Nun ants" To ridicule the plan; opponents els') Iniye issued sample sctipt called "Enemunny Ceadicate, ‘1 0 U one Thuisday Buck," and maul ing Santa Claw. mule; a 'anthill , / with a pot of 20 wooden nickels, saying, "If * You will put 104 cop sin my pot will exchange this foi one lea] buck " On the ion. (tinted gold) appeals. "The State of Confusion foi use in bankrupt ing State Ti easut y, State - Employ- Beg Suambled Eggs foi forma " - Whethei uch e•tl eme plans in adopted 01 lejected the inevitable its dot will he that they constitute a ~nai e and a delusion, a false panacea which lasses the e‘pecta bon% of old folks far above the leVel of seasonableness Trustees Promote .4 Staff -Members Pout college start members hive been in minuted V the Doaid of Trustees, President Ralph D Reit el announced . , 'Mau I) Kemp eics transferred [loin• the home economics exten sion In Bedford count., to the col lege as an Instt actor of home man agement extension Jolla C and :Mary lane Catterson hose been elevated for extension repr,e ,entatives in the ',ante • subject, sidle It H Rummler becomes ex representative In Lycot»- Mg county a! BUY!' can Rolls )flee Rings •uit Tarts,, ip Cakes, 'Bakery, Street BUs-Hike'Will Leave Sunday First Seventy Who' Register To Depart At 2 O'clock; 25c Is Total Fee An all-po'leg.l Bus-liike Leveling CI miles will be held Sunday after- I noon lidsel 4 will! leave the coccus rf C - Lege Menne and Plamt itreet by Imo at 2 o'c The hikers will go to Pine (novel Mills by bus don there begoi ilong Tussevidoun tun Itidize to Shingletoun Gap Retina to State Co'lege will be Lott All 4tudents', intending to lini tie- air inti-t sign tip at the Student Union Deek by tomm, ow n e on The lirsti 70 who egi,tei will he a 1..- .cote.' Two bus loads attended lti‘t Sunday's hike to Galbriuth Gan and-little Flat Towel The hike, sponsored by the WRA AN .AIISOLUTELY GUARANTEED * DOUBLE EDGE SHAVING HEAD—that assures smooth au. son mut a close shave Absolutely, fool prod Self sharpentog Self dmn * a SELF • STARTING merely Wein-soy 119 volt Alternating CCUCurrent socket by knit Vib n n oo moon ' -Iterrally &usages the lace MOT* DES R EMD_ DEPENDABLE LNG _ LIFE omt ante of thy 7:14"r 's e Z selbn& 'l at many times on puke Guaranteed • foe one year spume torcbanical • and eleemal defects * STREAMLINED BLACK dAKELITE CASE—durably coo stymied, is 'presents as handsome lits appearance ea soy shaver on he market. Rea*Derick, Inc. Allen-Street NEXT TO BANK CLOCK , .. , • • ~ ~ 1. ~English Composition - 7, -- : o u t sides; i ,- - „, - -,.,: 6 . _ Reading , Books., - 's - . 4 New College Omnibus , .' 2 ." • i • - , ,i, American Sketchbook :, ' --- '.- ' ' • - • , -,,• Better Wotk-Habits•',4 • I College Book of Composition •.: ' _ ';:.' s i ' - - ' ' ' :1938 Essays' -:- . ,- . -'; ' . ~k. Reading for Writings .., , - ~, r- ..,,1„ ~ N ' '''' ,• - • ~ ...1 , _ .1 -. ~;• 1 , '- ' -*.' '' ' Rats, L i c e and Hi story; • c'...,',1 ..• • ' . Devils ,Druas =Doctors(' ,•:- 1 r= 1 - 1 ..: - - ; :-_, , ,.,_- , 11'r r ,. tnglith.- - Litefatiiie - - outs [aer, „ Reading,Books'';'' - "- .i._- ~.4 , ' ' -,,,,d,.‘,:, .4 ,, ,, ,, i .., ~.. _ ,, 4 , - , Sister Carrie', '-, ' , ~--, ~,' --. 'i .• • - - .r' i . • --.„ ;• _I ' -- . . •- , , •-f - ~ '' •• ~ , .„,,I;', , ‘ ' , American Xragedy , „ - -;'-'.. - . '' ; '''• --, •,. .',.:-'4'-• •- • .--_ ' • . 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' - .\ -, 2, ,, ,- , ,,:2' :-,-.,,, -, --cip' p - .;sii-eiia-in"';:oa-ip, - -,7-;:',- - ' . -7,:.: , .=, , i4ki1tf," ..,, Outing hub and the 'ili‘isimy of student eC. i e n undo) the School of ;Physical EduLation and Athletics, is open to - all student., RIGHT OR. MONO • A 2-minute test for telephone 'mem; 1. The Mirrent used to trmountthe' • 2. Wire so use in the Bell 3-y stein von, by telephpne is the most would go around the world moih delicate otrro.nt in ,common use. than 3000 tunes. - ' 'if RIGHT 0 . WRONG ID RIGHT 0 -WRONG i , r; ,_ , ‘, 3.. Old telephone directories are 4. Any Bell telephone can be oda Lolleeted in order to sell them for, nectcd with more than'9o% of tb waste paper. ~ ,-' . _ ivorld's telephones - , _ jeii RIGHT , 0 ' WRONG 13 - ,'" , RIGHT- 10 '' , WRONG-a 7- . - ,--7-• • . ../ '',..1 . 10 ; • 7 . :; ; Lf.i. _ ...._. . _... - ( -- •c__ , "ii, , ww :10111 0- : 1 ; :: 1 \ 5. The average tune for making 6." Low rates for out-of--town calls long thstanre telephone comma- to most points are available af t er bOlll3 JO 3 minutes. , 7 P. M. and all day Sunday. RIGHT ❑ WRONG - RIGHT ❑ WRONG,O .~-0 745, 1* P I : t. 8.. & ce :vitt: 27, FE.tir ; z ,1 4,1 k .1:g, 3111; -- =140 4 Z 0 4 ,. ° :•V'S - njday,'October - 21, 1938 and faculty Tnembeiq A , 25-c'ent fee will be - cha,getl to coyei•ihe cost of troußpoi Litton and i efie`qh rnent4, , . = : . 1 ,i 7 ...- _--_,--1 . , s F - I'l 1 -_. --•:,_„ * . ‘'-. ; MR 14 i 1; 5 5-- A ' r, _ i j .......,_ - - - ifi gV - - z - ,- __ L i im h: ir...„,.. 1 , 4 er'• / # ',/
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