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PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
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Above all, the Collegian will be tole) oat Fa;
in tolerance these 19 1%1011 and these ve ought
Friday, November,lB, 1938
SOPH FLOP?
ANOTHER YEAR,•anothei Suph Hop, another
deficit I ,
It's the old .troy and it's lastly becoming a Penn
State tradition
Coupled with the fact that good bands are sel
dom available at a date so near Christmas, student
finances ai e usually all but sapped by a hectic Fall
reason replete with Housepaity, Penn and Pitt
Mcekends
, Hence, a big dance pi ior to the Christmas holi
days will not pay 101 itself unless a nationally.
prominent "name band" is piocured The impossi
bility of this is self-evident, else this year's as well
C 9 last year's Soph Hop Committee would have
signed i bigger band than Red Norvo oi Bunny
Bengali
To alleviate this medicament and to save Soph
flop - limn its amine! financial nose dive, several
comae, ate open. ,
The whole "big weekend" social card could be
juggled mound so that Soph Hop would fall about
the second weekend in January Coming after the
holidays instead of before, a bigger band could
doubtlessly be obtained, student pocketbooks would
he replenished and still the date would not serious
ly impan the profit-making chances of the dances
that follow in the Sluing.
To switch Soph Hop Weekend with Interfra
teinity Ball may lead to another possible solution
of evading an inevitable loss Because the tariff
on IF Ball never exceeds two dollars (which is
usually paid by the fraternity anyhow), Interfra
teinity Ball might succeed where Soph Hop fails
and will continue to fail.
If neither of these proves satisfactory, it might
be necessary to scratch one of the big dance week
ends since thole is no percentage in sponsoring
dances that laibitually flop and continually lose
money
One factremains—unless definite steps are
taken to remedy the pre , ,ent set-up, Soph Hop will
die a horrible death —R LW
TO THE WOMEN
ARE YOU doing your pelt?
Every yea' as the big weekends roll around we
hod petty thieving going on in the big dorms This
yeah the %%omen's fraternity houses have been'add
ed to the list
You pi obably iaise your eyebrows when you
read or heat about some unfortunate woman losing
money, jewelt y or smaller articles But wait until
the thief takes several dollars from your purse
When that happens you will be in the same posi
tion as the girl down the hall who lost thirteen
dollars last week, at the frateriuty house that was
looted of small sums of money and pins
Not until then will you get worried and complain
to the chaperon, but it isn't her fault It's your
very own fot talking about that allowance from
home or leaving money in the room without lock
•ing the dooi.
Give Captain Dennis of the Campus Patrol and
'the College some cooperation in this matte! of
taking temptation nut of the leach of every passing
hand Like a box of candy, some people will keep
'on reaching just as long as there is one piece left.
One good method to stop this epidemic is to
keg) quiet about that extra five dollars in your
hui eau drawer, even to your best ft tends
Indicative of the lack of 'utmost on the women's
part to this problem is the fact that very few of
you have gotten keys from the Purchasing Agent's
office ,
Get these before Thanksgiving vacation and lock
your Looms Only by this method can you be sure
of having everything intact when you return.
Your key deposit was paid with your fees, so
walk in and collect the key with your room number
oh it. -r.R.G.
Ah Rats
Getting a little fed up with all the publicity the
thetas were getting with then Rats (pat don us for
the smart clack Finlay, dent thetas) the kappa
sigs conic out with the tattiest of them all
Tuesday night, Billy McKnight, ks, ,vole tip
with a terrible pain in Ins nose Rushing to the
br he unshed the bloody mohoscis and aftei waid
finally fell back into a tortured sle'p
Early Wednesday, the windouclosei came in Ins,
room in time to see a big iat scamper nut to the
roof McKnight now weals its teeth minks Boy
scoutish kappasigs have freshmen take one how
watch touts, Ind one black c it to pi Meer the te
maining smooth membei
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Page The Racing Commission
Altei Billy Smith'.• emrational wail away vie
tray in New Yolk, Monday, local late trail, tout'
ate afraid that in the fatale ott tend, w demand
that Smith take a saliva test when he wins by 2UJ
lengths It won't be long befaie they will change
Bill's nickname to Wai Ailmnal Although few
cf the impels canted it, the best story of the inc•
is that at one place Smith went oil his COUVIL.
by 15 yaids, tanned mound tan back and then
took the lead
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Cathpus Sight:
liaiold Goldberg and Ruth Stein,
Pitching won, anyplace, anytime
Morris Schwab 40
Burton C Willis, Jr '9O
Janet E Story '4O
Add Progress Note
After almost cucumventing the old no-th inking
tole because of lack Of enfot cement (iemembei the
18th Admendment), Dean Ray's office finally comes
to life to announce that any co-ed caught in a local
bee' di , •pensing place will be suspended
Bernard A ? , I( amen 40
.... George II Achim.. 70
Dianas and the Dogs
Janie Gruber, Lucy Pascoe, and Dottie Sam d
went' hiking the other afternoon in Centie's spa
cious woods, all going well until they entered
field in which there was a dog Evidently the dog
had watched "Lady" the day she snapped off Di um
Major Anderson's pants foi he jumped at Lucy and
lipped her slat t Running through the fence, Janie
lipped her skit Only Dottie came out unscathed
(as the fiction waters and chcheeis would say)
She hurdled the fence
Add Popularity
I just lecelved a letter Ikon' Philadelphia
Whoopee', my fame spreads Shut up, Mamie
Re-Hitch
Hitch-hiking to Yolk, a mole 120 miles, took phi
sigmakappa's }tale Bolbagel and Jim Hutchens 1.1
hours They took a lift with a tililei truck whose
diver at midnight decided to get a touple of hour:
sleep in the middle of nowhere Deciding to walk
on, the boys were picked up around 4 AM by the
same driver who took them into Haitisbmg
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A Little Bit of Nothing
One of the Collegian soph edit men wants to say
that his class in Pschyology is sole because the
pi of is not cutting classes as he used to Bi uce
Harland just lost his pin to Peg Heimann .. so
what! we notice the perennial Higgins !unto'
has clopped up again as It probably will in 1958
. if we owned an oichid farm this year's clop
would go to Bill Jethey and his soccer team—we
hope you get to California, Bill the five nom
inees fin Harvest Queen are to be dated by the
committee of five, we wonder on what gi ounds the
"Queen" will be chosen Maniac really
visit those places he mentioned, he 'cited on ft tend,
who were allowed in them Ginny Bargei fast
asleep on het bed in ath hall with a pictuie of the
akpi house pi exy in her hands . . Bess Tieagei
was lied because she wasn't mentioned in Maniac's
colyum IN one of the membeis of the YM 11-11-
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'England, France Sold
Czecholovakia Down
River,' Says McHenry
IGermany Not Ready For War; Dark Future
Forecast For European Countries
By DR DEAN E McHENRY
' Americans of all tanks and stations were intensely concerned with
the day-to-day episodes in the crisis which led to the paitition of
Czechoslovakia Before out feats and indignation and idle and disil
-1 hisionment have died away, we may do well to examine in i eti aspect
some of the questions'imsed by the daily days of September and Oct..
t ben —
The fast and incrd evealin4
question is Could Cei in my have
matched Ilie condoned strength of
Martin, Fllnce, RUSSIII, the Little
Entente (Ciechoslovah. a, Human
la, and Yugoslavm) and tin other
?tailor, large and small, which
ought lion been attiacted to tl e
order The answer, 1 think, s
that the could have fought rot a
'ohmic, but that she would have
Icollatred much mote quickly than
'ln the hr •t would Wrll VII tually
vei y Independent investigatoi
finds Gen - natty lees leaily fot wai
than in 1914
Fintheuaote, she would be with
out allies of any practical value
;Japsn is thoroughly occupied in
what I believe a ft witless and im
possible wat in China Italy would
have little to gam and ever ything
I to lose by joining Gei many in an
;mane snuggle against mightier
nations, neither could vulnerable
di Ftench and Ei 'trill attacks by
kw and land and au Even if
limited in war, the gi eat rowels
of the Fascist Inteinational„aue
I pool in most of the resources which
make for fighting power
Given these conditions, would
'Genii:my have fought? No one can
anruei this question e4cept the
fanatic and mystic who i une the
Mind Reach My guess is that Nei
Wei had no intention of fighting
,after it was cleat that 13 - i :tam,
Ft ance anal ltusoi i would be amone
his opponents
Fill Ulm moi e, the thi eat alone
.of vvm was a sufficiently potent
weapon to ethane ti emendate;
gains for Gei many—the pat tition
of C7echoslovalcia, the collapse of
the French system of alliance's in
eastern and central Europe, and
the breakdown of effective 1091st
:ince to Nan expansion to the east
When all this could be gained by
,negotiation, why. plunge Europe
into a sti uggle in which Gm mane
!could not possibly prevail? „
The Fuehiet knew a Uncut- of
wet would throw the Bi itish 'and
French into a floozy, he knew also
that he could enlist Britistgaid
and, ultimately, FreM.lt
cence in calving up the Republic
'of the Czechs and Slovaks and Ru
themans In slnt, Hitler was Null_
mg, and no tame' was willing to
risk calling it
The British Tory Goveinrifent
was willing to aid Hitlei for a
number of seasons Btitain land
Fiance recognize that then alb
' ante is mutually essential. 'But
,British Conservative leaders have
wowed over Ft ance's other Eu
opean obligations which ought
ultimately thaw Butain into a con
duct to defend the Soviet Union,
Czechoslovakia, - Rumania, Yugo
, slam of Poland Chamberlain saw
in the Czech mists an opportu'nity
to i al Britain and Fiance of these
obligations Many yßritish aristo
crats of the "Cliveden" stamp have
longed for the day when their
rteuntay would be relieved of all
t,ponsibillty, however iemote, fat
defending the nations of matt al
HOME SITES
The Future of State College
MEANS MORE HOMES AND
APARTMENTS ?
MANOR HILLS, situate between
the Fiaternity Section 'and - the
Centre Hills Country Club in the
Borough', has taken on Its .Fall
Beauty Come ,and see It. Your
home amidst its beauty may appeal
to you
Your oppol tunity for selection
while prices ale low Is NOW
EUGENE H. LEDERER
Developer of the Fraternity,Section
114 E Beaver Ave, State College
Dial 4066
and caste' a Em ope thi eatened by
the Nll7l .
legime, moreover, many
have been enthusiastic over Httici
and his system ,
Fiance abandoned Czechoslovak
ia mainly because Si item was de
lei to pn talon Czechoslovakia and
eak the Ft ench sy,tem of alli
ances to the east
Fiance, already a second=rate
power since German rearmament
and expansion, was in a weakened
position However, Fiance need s
not have capitulated to Butish
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pressure Had she kept her pledge
to defend Czechoslovakia, she
would have had Russian aid at
once, and the British could not
have iemained neutral once hostil
ities began' I am convinced that a
steadfast and courageous Plena
Goveinment might have CM bed
Bi dish perfidy and saved Czecho
slovakia without having to iesm t
to war
Without doubt, Czechoslovakia
was sold down the liver by Mit
ain and France When I was in
Prague in May, 1936, a high gov
ernmental official told me "So
long as we have the support of
France and Blitain we shall ie
sist Gelman encroachment and c
m= an outpost of democracy; but
if the Western Powers desert us,
of course we must come to tel ms"'
Unquestionably Czechoslovakia
could have made good term, with
the Germans in 1936, 1937, oi
early 1938 But Fiance repeatedly
reassured the little republic that
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emir treaty of mutual assistance ithe frontiM:, the German mipotitv
would be honored fully if Gei many 'would have been giatlfied with a.
qt.! ult. Berme the Sudeten , irisis, Ilat get measui e of autonomy within
which was artificially stimulated the Czech republic
by Nazi propaganda from amps.: . , (Continued On Page Four) _
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