Semi-Weekly - ....Z1CK- 77 _PUTNEY 410;::: - 004' OLD RAVI SUCCESSOR " , tilt ", ... tau ' . Ottttr - - 7 .-- '::7 --. .::•'\. c , Trittrig .. - COMPLETE CAMPUS To The Free Lance, ' , • z( f :,ec Establlahed 1887 t '- :.' . 1; . :.....).:1 ‘,2 COVERAGE 1 • ,A1 --f' - ,,•_`,.- - ,::' , . 7, y ',,tk '.• , ../2' .. , :fir . , VOLUME 35-NO. 32 ' Z 658 89% Of Students Want SMATE - KQUESTEO'r TO lo PEN VACATION, QUESTION 89% Uphold -Fee Plan. To Pay Upkeep Dancing Ranks - First In Activity List; Bowling Next Sc' editorial, "Something to - Think About," Page 2 Eighty-nine percent of Penn State studen— .:re de sifims of a Student Union — building here, it was reveal , 'ed yesterday from a recent cross-section survey taken of 800 students. The survey was broken down ' into _fraternity with non-fraternity me n , with fraternity men voting 84 per cent in favor of such a build ing and non-fraternity men :hitting above 92 percent, _ Questionan es wei e, disti ibuted in a number of classrooms and filled out in almost, equal piopor tions- by freshmen, sophomores, Juniois and semoi s Three specifie,rquestiOns were asked, while a fourth contained a ' list of - reel eational activitieswhich the ,59tudent , Was- asked to initrber liccording„to choice • peteent stnalkfeeZ-ner r 'isemestdr` :1,-lor twee2%4V all would' "facilities -which would' be hou,od type Of building Questioned:as to whethei 'grad •-! unto students, should havea lounge 'this 84_ centweie in - favor of it. 'Dancing Linked- fil sent the list of , i ctivities which the iliefei red, followed closely by bowling, cunent peliodical 'cad -mg Looms, poOl und,bllliards, and ping-gong _ _ • , _ - Other acl:Nities suchi.as bridge, hobby recreational rooms, chess and thecket% followed in that oi del -; 'Hasa Shows s Pessirnisrn On '-: . U. S. 'Spending Tills ,businetni- of ,gettlpg iltb by spemling money and going Into - . - debt 111 cockeyed _ ' This- was ~ the; eta (moot made I to a Collegian reporter by Dr. Carl W '.Flasek, bead of the economies depaa talent pod wellricnown au• lbw ity on finances Dr. Haack _was asked to comment, on - the Intent governmental spending - . `nrograin ..whibli was released by President Roosevelt January 5. Tho present administration in Washington, is seeking Congressional approval of a plan to 'ralie the present public debt- limit.froin 545,000,000,000 to $80,000,000,000 The purpose of this plan hr to tlx the national debt at the same..figute as,the same figure as the potential national income, 'which wofild s be 580,000,000,000 "I am very pesslMlstic,".said Dr. Ilasek,':about the administration's effort to obtain an 580,000,000,000 .national income Our national in Como In the past two years has been allpioxlmately,Mooo.ooo,ooo and $60,1100,0019000 resPeetivily-; -A potential $80,000,000,000, Is not tmpossltda,but highly Improbable" Dr , Hasek continued his com meut by. - disimashig- the "heavy" industries. 6 "The heavy Industtled are not prospering," Dr Misch. declared, "because theyoare not 'investing ' sufficient 'finds. As long ,as they (the heavy industries) - are not in • vesting, we are' not goittg to have prosperity!" - s - • ' ' Antjerson To ,qO, To Hawaii , Dr. ,Clarence S:-Anderson, pro fessor of; agricultural,' education,' will teach ,at, - ,the ,University - of Hawaii 'during thp,first semester of 1938-1939. His place here will 'he taken by Professor F.'F...'Arnh strong" of the , University ,of Hawaii. „ • Peel Names Senior Ball ' Committee Boalc Welsh -Picked As Co-Chairmen Thom.ts A Boal and Chiles S Welsh have been named to-chan - men of the Semoi Ball commit tee by Joseph A Peel, senior class president ' . ' Other committee membeis are Florence V. Watkins, ex.oflicio, Harold R Arnold, Leonard R Apfelba - um, Archie F Blown, Donald -N - Richards, Fred B Spyker, Henry W Seise' and . John 'C Waay Seniot Ball will be held Febiu my 24 At a meeting of the corn- Mittee Sunday, plans were made `to oegin negotiations immediate- Hy- with,. New York agencies foi contracting the best dance or chestia available for that date Pump-Priming , is -Subjict Of Debate Forum Penn State To Take,Negative SideAgainatltucknell At B.P. M.,Tomorrow '4rli v , itokylial.4nSsiry4ossiop4int earning 5, - "PiiMptPtiming 2 LShOuld IttLe Cffmtinued?',2 will; bring' to gather the - College varsity debate team with Bucknell University's esentatives in 'Home Econom ms 'Auditorium at 8 p. m town Edward G , Couch ,'4l and Ray mond T. Fishbuine '3D will rep! resent Penn State and aiguc age nst the continuation of the goveinment ,policy of spending Their Bucknell opponentl will as sume the affirmative side in eight minute speeches, and the question will then be open to discussion, anionic the audience A samba ,debate forum was held with St Fiancis College in Bellefonte High Sch o 01 last Thu , Way with A: that D Guts '39 and Hai vey% Levin '39 debut ing in fawn of pump-pruning An audience vote ',following the discussion tavoied the State pan by s small margin Tomorrow night's_meeting will be concluded along parliamentary lines with a chairman presiding The oninion of the audience on the question will be revealed in a vote following the forum ' Tests Reveal -Will Make Best Giades Statistics milicate'tliat the Class of 1942 will make better grade. in college thanlny since 1937 iind possibly earlier, but college staff members can't ex lain the Improvement', Tests given to 1050 ,Ireshmen last Fieshinao Week by the depart ment of education and psychology showed the present class has an average of 1080, which is 73 points higher than thatinade by the 1941 class and 3 2 points more than'the previous high of 105.7 scored by the Clas , s' of 1940 Loam Division and Mineral Industries students were not examined. Scores previous 1:o that fin'. the 1938, 97 11, and 1937, 99.8 Eall ler\ scores were not released but Dr J. E ,DeCtimp, when , he an bollixed the results to the Colleg ian this week, expressed the °pin-, on that the 1992 score, was pro bably the ~ Inghest for an 'even, 'greater time Only, minor modernizing' chaug rs have been made' in thd test trom 'year-to year, Dr • DeCamp bald, and this, could not account for. the improvement. The test, he told, Vs designed to _piedict the grades a atudefit will make in col lege , , " - examines preparation and, knowledge as well as intelligence. - Registrar William-Hoffman ex pressed the opinion' that the pies ent' ireshmun class is no better :lint last year's, which scored con- siderably lower., Students iron the Nittetny. Soccer Teaiii Eastern Intercoll4 Jeffreynen Hold, Crown Alone For -First Time Sinee.'29; Tied In '36, '37 Spooled to the Coltcguin . NEW YORK, Jan 16.—For the fiat time BIIILC '1929. Penn State's six-year undefeated Soccer squad was awarded undisputed possession of the Eastern Intercollegiate crown by representatives of as Eastern colleges and universities who met at the Ytile Club here Saturday The Nittanymen, 'who swept through eight games this season without being tied, "have. played 45 games without defeat „;,since , 1932, and have been tied but four elms since then. Spiingfield and Haverfoid, though :defeated this past season; wer.: outstanding contende& for. the crown and offered the 'Penn State soecermen dangerous tom petition. Meeting Of; Student Food-Vendors Called ' For Friday At 7 P. M .A meeting of all student "sandwich salesmen" idll, be hold,ln Room 418, Old Main, at 7 p m Friday The new Borough ordinance, requiring salesmen to have an nual $1 licenses will be explain ed Prof Burry - W Stover, eco nomics_ extension, will deliver a short talk on salesmtinship Frank NV Ruth '39, student rep resentative to Borough Council, will preside 256. Cgodidates For Graddation 4Sdek,,llootors'.4,ilegibis Seniors' Total` 143, ' Of a total 0f,256 candidates for degrees at mid-year commence ment. to'he held'FebruliFy 3, eight seek doctorates, Registrar William S Hoffman announced yesterday Candidates for bachelor's de grees number 143, with the 're dates for Bachelor of Science de grees for graduate work, Of the 143 undergraduates, 70 yeah the Bachelor of Arts degree, 56 in Liberal Arts, and 14 in Edu cation The other 73 are candi dates for Bachelor of Sclnete de gree!, The lists arc not final, the Reg istrar explained, and at.tual gradu ation In many cases depends on the outcome or final nxaminallous eurnmeneeinent details will prob ably he`announed by next,y,oeic. $2OO In" Scholarships , Miirtar Board has awarded $5O scholarships to Gladys Z Dapp stadt '39, Ida J Peebles '39, Mar ian E Goodley '4O, and Martha B. Jayne /40 from its Spinster Skip 'profits 1941' elms stood as well in high school as did the 1942 class, he pointed, out. ' t ' • The change maybe due, Miff inaini4aid, to, the increasing al tratyon of the "scientific schoblb to themore outstanding students and their resultant trend away from cultural subjects. This would' brirg them within the scope of the tests and would thus raise the average, - he suggested • Agreeing - with Hoffirianiii sur vey of high echool rankings t chem . - istry and physic students earned the mghest score, 119.9.'Last4ear brat place' had been held , by the ,enimeering freshmen , now'second 'with 109.8 ' Other'' `school averages were• AgricultUre, 107.0; education, 106.4; forestry, 102'.9; and physi cal eihication, 89.6. Three'hundred, (Ccontlnuea pri NI! rour).: STATE COLLEGE, PA:;:tTUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1939 , S. Uj Building, Serve Have Shared Honors Often ' A championship Penn State team }gas, m 1926, awatded 'a tie with Princeton and Haverfard foi the Conference cup; in 1929 the Jeff' eymen gained , undisputed claim to the trophy; in 1933 they iAere given a tie with Penn, in 1935 an undefeated, untied, and unscoted upon , Nittany,'squad failed to gain the title whiln'Yale, undefeated but scored upon„ rose to claim the crown The - decision of-the Conference was -based, on theAiicttthat,Yale iiaefpliii . ed 4 mc ....gi ani LqZ lt F 4 J-VPl 4 g 2 a = % ,F,Our-way Tie,ln.'36 -"1 `fout-way [ tie fM I the cup brought Princeton, Syracuse: We-t Chester,-and Penn State in to a division for top honors: Last season Smingfield, Princeton, and 'State shared the cup in arttiple deadlock - A'sked to comment here on the decision of the Association to award Penn State undisputed possession of the cup, Bill Jeffrey, famed Scotch mentor of the Nit tanymen, explained 'lt's nice to have it" Lasties Say:' `lf Papa Pays'-, The Only Way 'Make Papa_pay," was the an swer to queries as to how empty pocketed co ode may obtain At:- fists' Course tickets, according to a recat survey completed by Mrs Neva; Morris, housemother of Grange, to find why- more co eds weren't attending the course "Artists' Course tickets unbal• once the budget," moaned most y.ould-be culture-seekers. "besides, they're sold right after, Penn week end end Just before Pitt week-end "If the Artists' Course Publicity Committee sent notices of the course borne to parents maybe a check would be forthcoming" - Oiuer co-eds suggested more prominent artists in next year's se• ries, while thin was contrasted Lo the desire of many [or a more in expensive tickets and young, less wellwell known, perforators Dietterich Honored - - - _ For the second time, Dr C'h'arles D Dietterich, enigma Lanese physician, bits been elected presi dent of the Centre County Medi cal Society, Students Ap AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 16— Last, week, President Roosevelt in his message to '-Congress asked for armed forcev strong enough to aid in the defense of_the entire West ern llennsphere American college , youth, the coating generation that may have td fight in another world war, approves of•the policy by a good majority. Students of all classes and in all sections ‘ of the United States in a carefully selected cross-sec tion have been interviewed by rep resentatives of the Student Opin ion Surveys of America. This non- warded . : 0 Diadem Holds Confabs Freshman Group Plans Dance Next Month; Jpnes And ' _ Britton Rewarded By A. WILLIAM ENGEL, JR eV:opulently unveils , to launch intensive campaigns for class of ices as soon us the second semes ter begins, members of the Cam pus cliques in the Junior, bubo more, anti ft Libitum Lipsses met in Mier separate sessions during the past week No lute attion has been taken among, the Independent groups, although the freshman organiza tion headed by-A;(3mM F Doherty, Las aenminetlintact since its class elections Sophomore and junior groups will meet this week Plan Freshman Dance 'Highlighting the varioub gather. legs was the freshman group's an nouncement concerning the forms: lation of plans for a Freshman Frolic—advocated hi its party platform A committee of seven, headed by Thomas J Henson will ,attempt, to arrange the dance for ':the middle of February Only freshmen will be admitted and a band wil be chosen following a poll 'among the classanembers, John W. Crawford, clique chairman, ex plalned , Walter A Jones and Richard Milton, junior class president and secretary respectively, were recog nized for their cork in supervis ing the flesh:nun class elections as Dean A Phillips, 1442 clubs pros' dent, presented gifts ou belialf of the winning 'may ft om the class funds., continuing an annual cus tom Jones - received a — add Elgin pocket catch and lit ken was giv en a close ling rove Defens Student Opinion SurvAgs of America molit agency of the college press many groups, including the Youth was mganized recently for the Committee Against War scientific ineimutement, of public , Events in a hysterical Europe. °imam ( of the nation's student the American solidarity expressed bodies.. i at the lima Conference, and the The cuilent study points out that _62 peuent of the students :tie lot sta engthemng "the Mated States army - and navy for the pro• Lection of all nations in the West ern flemisphei e " '-. A good number of college stu dents, hoa ever-38 ' percent 'of them—fear that this is not the way out Opposition to the Presi dent's program has come from College May Legally Act On Housing J Obstacles Preventing Room Inspection '1 he College Ad in hash al ion VOlllll have legal authoilty to adopt a tegulation telling atudenta where to live and where not to live in State College Thit can pointed out yesteiday by Dean of Men Arthur ft War neck In an intervieu ulth the Col legion on the housing situation ut State College Dean Warnock listed three ob stacles which could be encount ered If the College undertook In spectionof rooming houses and the getting up of an approved list of rooming houses for students They are I—The College now has no legal authority to Inspect a rooming house without the permission of the householder The College, hex ever, could sponsor such an Inspection through the State College Board of Health, legal ly empowered to do so 2—The College at piesent has no regulation under which It could say where a student, could or could not live The College would have legal authority to adopt such a regulation 3—There would be need , of compe tent Instructors who could make investigations Into the rooming !attrition at regular In tervals. J)ean.....Warnock ._expresued..Jb• 'belief that "rents in the lower braLkets" "paid rise because of the householders' expense , in meet ing the requirements set ne by In gpectors "No immediate possibility fot lowering rents" v.as foreseen by the Dean + 4- + Action On Housing Urged By Teachers Calling on the borough author' ties and the College administra tine to safeguard the health and safety of students the Executive Committee of the I6cal chapter of the American Federation of Teach en, In a prepared statement to the Collegian yesterday. endorsed united action to alleviate the ilOlll, lug problem In State College "We feel," the committee cx plained, "that the Borough and es pecially the College should make every committable effort to see that rooming quarters offered to stu dents me adequate from the stand point of sanitation, file hazards, heat, light and air" The group cited that an "urgent necessity" for satisfactory health and sunitaty conditions existed es pecially in view of the fact that no additional dormitories are le Immediate prospect." "The Collegian housing survey,' the statement continued "doubt lessly reveals the inadequacy of such housing facilities While the College has a special interest in this problem, the Jutisdictional re sponsibillty for safeg,uarding the health and surety of students lie leg within Its limits lICCOMUIIIY devolves on the Borough authori ties "We very much hope that the response to thin Issue ill foster a precedent of College and Borough cooperation which our growing community so urgently needs" Of Western graving threats to democracies, nevertheless, have brought the President to action College youth approves, the Surveys reveal. These results parallel other na tional polls that from time to time, nave shown the citizenry as a whole favors stronger armed forces. Students everywhere, men and women, feel about the same The Here Reveals Board, Council Seek Right To Give View's On Mid-Year Recess If Student Democracy Is To Exist Here; College Must Give Us A Voice, Says Letter To Senate A request that the question of the micl-year vacation be re-opened to permit the student-body to present its view on the matte! was pi esented to members of the College Senate and the Calendai Committee yesterday The request was ordei ed drawn up and mailed to every member of the Senate and Calendak Committee Finlay night by unanimous vote of Student Board and Student Council, the two highest legislative bodies of Men's Student Gov ernment Association Colonel Emery - Promises New Era In R.O.T.C. Formulates 5-Point Program To Improve All Training, Benefit Students A. non and better form of mill kttly_training, beginning next sem -esterivaii promised by Colonel Ain• brow, it Emery, nen ly appointed head of the department of milittiry science and tactics, In a statement to the Collegian Five points which Col Emery and his bluff are attempting to put. Into effect aro I—Reduction of Ole price of the textbook used to the baste ROTC course Col Emery hopes that a book can be furnished nen, with paper covers, for aq little as $l5O 2—Noe in effect, a new ruling that high shoes no longer will be inquired for the basic ROTC course From now on, students enrolled in the basic course will be permitted to weal any !chid of brown shoes 3—Athletes will be permitted to enroll in the advanced course during their Junior and senior ears. 4—An attempt will be made to double enrollment In the ad vanced courses in military training It Is the hope of Col Emery to have at least 200 ad vented con se cadets studying every year, beginning eiext fall 5—A move will be made to In crease the teaching staff in the department dr military science and tactics and at the 15111110 time reduce the sine of classes By obtaining too or three more officers detailed to the depart meet, Col Emery hopes to have classes in the basic course ay eritgo 40 men each Dr. Myers Elected -- To'National Society Dr William M Myers. assibtaut profemoar In the School of Mineral Industries, was elected a feline iu the Mineralogical Society of Amer Ica at Its, meeting in New York recently. Hemisphere Aiongest group for rearmament In the Southci a, which voted 76 7 percent in she affnmative. In the Far West the vote was 66 2 per cent: West Central, 59 ti percent, East Centtid, 463, Middle At lantic, 60 9, and New Englund, 59 6 Related to the rearmament pia- Ulm and one that will have diiect effect upon college men is the new program to ham civilian avia top, in American colleges and um ver9ities. The Styent Opidion Surveys is now conducting a soust-to-coast poll on this ques tion PRICE FIVE CENTS Addiessed to the Seuctary of the Senitte and chain man of the Caluidai Committee, the lettei folhAvs "At the ieque,t of the College Senate and the Calendar Commit tee, Student Boaid appointed a special committee consisting of Raymond S Coskezy, Peter Seder and %Valtei A Jones to piesent to taose bodies student lecommen (lotions peitaming to the College Cakudzu, „,......,.....,..,___ ..... 41 , "The lecommendations of this committee, fully authoi lied to speak fin' the student body as'a whom were us follows I—A mid-yew vacation 2—Extensto44 of the close of the annual 'Thanksgiving vacation horn Monday 8 a in to noon Illonday 3—Beginning of the annual foot ball holiday at Friday noon in- Yead of Satui day morning "As we understand I t, all of these proposals wine rejected "Because we feel that the case of the student body has not been fully piosented and because stu den opinion demands us to take this action "Thea efoi e, we, the Student Boa. d and the Student Council, as cepieseutetmves of the men's student body mallet wed by the Conotitution of the Men's Student Com nment Association, do hem by cespeetfully request that the College Senate and the Calenddr Committee meopen this question and that, in all fun ness, student tein esentative, be per nutted to present the views of the student both, before the Senate and the Committee "IL is the UndinintnlS belief of Student BOdld and Student Coun cil Unit if student democracy is to crust lime, the students should haw the tight to voice their views before the Senate on all questions dike , tly affecting the student body" Only Smooth Man Rates As Class 'A' Date Are iou a "Cla , ,s A" date'' Be foieyou_ answer., dash over to thp pet nickel %sum in the libiary and ash fogy "The Rating and Dating Comple‘," by Willard Waller, :so ciology piofessoi who studied the dating situation here. The "Class A" man must be long to one of the better fraterni ties, be pi eminent in activities, have a copious supply of spending money, be well Messed, "smooth" mannei and appearance, dance well, have a "good line," and have recess to a em, according to the standaids placed on him by the "Class A" woman ,In oidei to be in "Class 'A," gals must place emphasis on good clothes, a "smooth line," ability to dance, and popultuity as a date. This last IS most important_ since she has a descending cycle of pop ularity, like a taxi-dancer.
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