ealth Board Will Not . Inspect Houses, Ritenour Says No Study Of Rooming Will Be Made Unless , Laridlords Request It Health Officer Says Clean -Up Will Come With Student Demand; Admits Lax State Regulation ' , Sec Also Editorial "Open Letter Ton Doctor" on Page 2 By EMANUEL: ROTH Taking a stand directly opposed to that of Burgess Leitzell,'Dr Joseph Ritenour, President of the Board of Health of State College and Director of the College Health Se i rvice in.an interview with the Collegian yesterday insisted that it-was not the duty of the -Borough Board of Health to pass a health ordinance'and , that the Board would not - make inspection of rooming houses unless requested to + + do so by landlords. Group Adopts "We ale merel.4 an agency of the State Department of Health," _ Ritenour explained "The Depart _ Points For merit has its own rules and regu lations covering such things as , . • ;Hou sing Study Welfare Committee"To Send ItS Recommendation To , Hetzel This Week Meeting at 4 p m Fliday in the second special session on the housing situation, the College Sen ate Committee on Student_ Wel fele adopted foul points which will,be embodied in a iecommen dation to President Hetzel this week 'The group met in the Dean of Mbn's Office with representatives of, the Christian Association and the Collegian - , The foul points which will be cited' to President Hetzel are Collegian survey has found that loom for 319 stu dents will be 'available for the 1939-40 school teen Mole than 150 students (hop ped out of College befoic the Collegian survey was taken' -Real estate men have pointed ,out that approximately 80 homes were built in State Col lege ,last yeai It is expected' that mai& than this number Will be built dui ing , 1939 4 Even thoughtl the -_freshman Chicss ';is"lie`t?incteased, there' =will, be an inevitable increase 5 . ,."0f 296 students next year - Quantity" Sessions End '_2_ The recommendation will con clude sessions on "quantity" -hous ing ~"Quality" housing - will be taken up at the beginning of next 'semester, it was indicated, with 'iiction expected on the female- - tion,of rules and standouts for all rooming houses: Martin Rockwell '4O, represent ing the Christian Association, ek plamed that-rooms for 200 per sons were 'repoi ted " available to the Association 'since the last 'rooming list was drawn up `Dean of, Men A It Watnuck pointed out that ti surplus of rooms in State College would not be the remedy and that only through inspections off rooining houses and the establishment of an - approved list, could the situa tion be alleviated _ ';Harold Everett. recom mended that the,Collegmn survey be used as a basis for the admit tance of 319 additional students next yeas. Dr Flanklpi C Ban tier, explainerthat private invest ment would be: °montage if the Adnumsttatcon would make a statement c to the Weil, that it would not build additional dormi tories Dean Warnock, however, point ed_,out: that the Administratain Watrbol, sn u position to make such anitatement ' qategistrar William S Hultman the use of-College explained the increase in _classroom facilities at a result of the:pi esent building program, - and showed that even if the fieshman is' - not, incieased next. 'senie.ster, these ivould be -an, in incseas,e of;29b in enroll 'ent; , - ;7.1011mm attending the session ,‘Vele,.Prof. Ruth Grahani; , Dr. Warren Mack,, chisirman; - Dr aliseph P.`Ritenour; Prof Burton , K: `Johnstone, and Emanuel Roth, '.!9o , 'reinesenting the Collegian. ' „„,HONOR ROLL', ~.pay. In and day out;-there Rare pe'ople 'here aneelse• where who Ware , working to 71. , ,.premote thei welfare of the `,,, , ;`College, the,'faculty, the stu dents. Some , of them are in , 1^, 4 4 - the' limelight; 'some go un• notteed,,,” Yet, 'all , deserve 4 some _Measure ,of credit: :' ,, f, , Who ' arei these people? See the Collegian's' honor roll In `the ,'NEXT(, , ISSUE' Out Thuisda '4l lit' Y g looming house standaids The Borough need pass no health or dinance, this devolves upon the State," he pointed out Asked whether or not it was true that the State was lax in en forcing its health regulations, Ritenour admitted that such was the case "Until the supply of looming houses exceeds the demand," he stated; "I feel that there can be no remedy " Shunning any ditect iefeiences to Burgess Leitzell's call upon the Board of Health' for action with regal d to the pdssing of a health ordinance and the inspection of looming houses by the Board, Ric enoui pointed out that "as soon as students begin demanding, these conditions will be remedied " "After all," Ritenom. explained, "the average college student is old enough, Intelligent enough, to know what he's taking He's old enough to see the sanitary condi tions, Sic hazards, sanitation fac ilities He needn't take a room which does not meet the standards of cleanliness and sanitation." "You can crowd six students in to one room," the Director of the College Health Seiviee said, "but if there ate no actual menaces to health, "the Boatel of Health can do nothing." Q. Dr Ritenour,,,would , condi 'tions in State College warrant ac tion by the BOasil of Health? A 'Not that I'know of, that is, with regard to patticular men aces to public health- Q- How would you know wheth er thew would be any pat imolai menaces oi hazards to public health y A By persons repotting, them. "We, could set up standaids, Ritenour explained, "only after a pioprietor asks us to come in and make an inspection On the basis of these inspections, the Board of Health would publis h a list of ap proved houses for the guidance of students. The Board, however, would not make an inspection un- I less asked by the proprietor to do so, oi unless it was iePortecl that a Inward to health existed." Asked what had been done about the 1936 town-wide-survey taken by the Board of Health through College NYA students, Ritenout said that nothing was done about it because "as a matte' of fact, we found that there weten't mane conditions to be corrected " "You' won't gee to first base," the President of the State College Boaid of Health and the Diiettor of the ,Colrege,llealth Service in sisted, "until the supply of room ing houses in State.Gollege en eeede the deaund " 189,313 Books In Library -. The libt:ary,oL the Colleic - conl tam 189,313 volumes, Libiatian Willard P. Lewik has announced During the. month of Decembei the library acquired '413 volumes Debate,nnoVations 'Forensic Oevelopment , With pailianienia`ry 'aession.s' and symposiums becoming a prom. went part of debatidg here,-forenstc activities are definitely on the - upswing - , , No longer does the auclielice sit back and merely listen to an al lirinative speakei attempt to;mi belly outinuneuvei a per son upholding We negative, but the, public is encouraged to participate in these two new fours Intl oduced by ProfeSsor -- Joseph F. O'Brien, varsity debate ' l lO l -.1 - ' -..- 4 , ' ' 4 ', * And sycli i putt of eiely debate and not actare showing act. as spectators•only. - • i e.sults ',Norman. Thomas, Social- :- The symposium foium has been mt. leader, spoke before e a capiMity delved hone ‘ the ancient Greek crowd .in Schwab Auditorium'for Vymposium, but is more formal, s a lecture-forum and the Bucknell- and of fs fourel ar d a i c if te e i i i e z n e t d p b o y into the of il v etv ; State , parliamenEary _session: on O l n Y ,a `pioblein and its , solution in ',Tunip-Priniing"'attracted a'fair. eight-minute speeches. sized audience in Home, Econ- The parliiimentaiy session , is filmes Auditorium. ../ . , always clunactemzed by the use Three years ago Professor o'2 of . fundamental pailiamentary Brien , becaMe convinced that-the proceduies - and by an actual vote audience` should be inv,integral .as to the preferTd solution. ~, 1, sem i_usiee.kly - z r, #taltr VOLUME 35-NO. 34 Z 658 JAMES SCUTTLES NEW COLLEGE GRANT Senate Fails To Convene; , Recess Out Hopes For Mid-Year ,Vacation in s l94o Are Buoyed There MIL be no mid-year vaca tion this year This nag made evident here to day when it became increasingly clear that the College Senate would not be called before its ,scheduled meeting.on February 2 —Thursday or final examination ..,, , ,eek—to discuss the requests of hot' , the Men's and Women's Stu dent Government Associations to teopen the case and permit the students to present their vices on the question Calendar Is Obstacle Biggest obstacle - to the mid-year vacation for thlb year, however, is the fact that if ono were granted, the reek would hale to be lopped off the first semester, which In cludes 09 days, highest in the lab 10 years, if not in College hibtory The second semester, on the other hand, extends only 89 days, and it would be irtmossible to slash off a welt here unless one would be added In Jane, shoving commence ment back to Juno 19. This un doubtedly would be refused by the students IN= Isie'vertholess„chances for a mid year vacation for next year have beeu - boo - sted conaiderably, and in dfcatlon4 are that the Senate will take this action when ft meets next month. . - A, number of members of the Senate, intervleaed by the Colle gian, all expressed the ballet that. the mid year proposal would be ap proved by the Senate Freshman Women TO Discuss Rushing Rules Onl'hursday Among otheis, these activitiez included sponsoiship of electtic al exhibit, scholarship awards made by the local chaptei to un derclassmen, inspection trips, pub lication of a personnel booklet for employers, sponsorship of public speaking classes for engineers , . and the holding of joint 'meetings with other honorasies Twenty one colleges and universities en tered chapters of Eta Kappa Nu fogy the competition. Theron 0 Hoyt '3B, was presi dent of the local chapter lust year Clair C Lusher 49, is the pres ent president: The silver plaque will hang at the entrance of the i new Electrical Engineering Build mg Miles Horst To Speak Here! • Formal rushing pi °cedar° m ill be discussed at a meeting of all e;inuan and flatterer v. omen in terested in am au Mos in the Home Heonomit.s Auditorium at 7 p -Thursday Juanita Ph Chumtiers '4O, acting Pun Hellenic president, will ex plain. the Pan Hellenic party, sor olity open houses and parties, si lent periods, formal dinners and bidding, the answering of twain- Lions and bids, and Pleging This sill he the onlylipportu nity frotlitmen and' transfers will have to lenin . about rushing rules, custoins, - und etiquette Miles' lloist,, cemetery of the yermsylvania Co'uncil -of Farm Organization, will speak on "Op portunities for Young Men in Agriculture" at a public lecture m Boom 100 Horticulture Building at 4 10 pin . Wednesday, Febru ary 8 - . , Conference-: Hours Asked By Stoddart Stored by a iccent Collegian editorial which pointed out the need foi better student-faculty 'data:ins, Dean Charles W. Stoddart, School of Liberal Arts, Instructed departmetit heiids to have each teacher set aside one hour during this week - Wwhich time interested students could come to ask questions about the icourse The editorial, "Divided / Against Ourselves," which appealed in last Friday's issue of the Collegian expiessed the students' need foi t i the friendship, advice and acquaintance of faculty members to broaden and make practicable their lenining," and suggested a need on the pal t of professors "to undeistild students in order to adapt and improve methods of instruction" telieving he had a possible so- Sport Bus To Be Run lution which would help budge thelitap of indiffeience between Again This Weekend; faculty and students in his school, 100 Took Last Ski Trt e• D Stoddart sent ,the folloWing pl lett& to the heads of each division in the School of Liberal Arts "The Collegian this moining in an eddmial headed "Divided Against Out selves" asked for bet tor student-faculty contacts The .student leadeis, aware of this problem, have suggested that dur ing the week of Jan 23, 1939 each teaches set aside an hour when in terested students can come to ask qudstions about the muse "I think this proposal is worth laying Will you ash each mem ber of your staff to cooperate if at all possible, and announce the plan, the hour, and, the place to his students' , This is especially important for freshman and soph omores Combos with many sec tions may be 'handled separately or combined "If the plan does not succeed it-c:4l 4 be-abandoned Can we not give it a fun teal flist" Should weather and scion •con ditions remain favorable, special busses It 11l again be run to the College ski trail this weekend, Ray Conget\ chairman of the Student Recreation Committee, announced yesterday 'most 100 students took ad vantage of last week's busses Saturday's three busses curried over sixty sklers 4 while the two on Sunday attracted only thirty Eta Kappa Nu Given Award Epsilon, Lifical Chapter, Voted As Most Outstanding Among Colleges Epsilon, Penn State chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, national hones airy electrical engineering society, has been awarded a silver plique and judged "the most outstand ing college chaptci of Eta Kap pa Nu." The award was made by the New York Alumni chapter of the society on the basis of activities sponsored by the local chapter last year Who's Smarter Now?-Students, Says Prof! _Ate Lotions htudeuts easlet to teach than adults' , It you ask Prof Harold Zelko of the division of sneetit.' he'll any >es Professor Zelko is in charge or a 'newly - established extension Mass in speech at Philipsburg which includes a lawyer, two, den lists, live school teachers, and a (Ample of merchants , "They don't want to , study too bard , and are mainly interested in gaining confidence in. themselves," Professor Zelko points out. "It's tougher to keep - them interested In the work" - The speebh prole ikor explained thata "you can't bp too'pedantic, or academic with thew." - ' ' BuC is this a derogatory reflec tion on tile intelligence Or his adult students? Nooluswers Zelko, for they % already have their niclie lu life established, are mainly inter ested in how to handle themselves In speaking situations, and con sider speech work' secondary to their life work. But-are they harder to teach? Yea! , - , STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1939 Grant Reveals Concert Dates Glee dub Will Make Annual Tour March 27, 2S, 29, 30 Near Philadelphia A Varied program of activities foi student musical organizations during the second semester mini announced yesterday by Prof' Rich ard W. Grant, head of the depart ment of music The annual midis inter compli mentary coucet t series, composed this yeiii of four conceits, will be held iiiii lug March with a concert being given every Sunday after noon ut .1 .10 p in in Schwab audl- Lou 111111 Organizations wbjch will appear in the series are the College Sym phony Orchestra, the Blue Band, the Louise Homer Club, and the Phi Mu Alpha, music, fraternity Tile Blue Baud concert will be of special Interest beutuse it will be the lust public concert conducted by Bandmaster Wilfred 0 Thomp son, who will retire in Juno Oct March 27, 28, 29, and 30 the Glee Club will make its annual spring concert tour with appear ances tentatively scheduled in Lancaster, Downingtown, and East Orange Approximately 35 members will make the trip including the Hy- UK Varsity Quartet, Samuel G Galin '39, tenni soloiA, and Ed uard Wood 'IL violin soloist Mrs. Ilene 0 Grant will act as accom panist ou the tour la addition, beau Giant staled that a conceit is planned in Sclmalt Auditellunt by the Glee Club sometime after its spring tour Cavalier Victim Is Relative of Mason J. Guidon Noakes, one of three passengers lost, at sea in the crash of the British flying bout Caval mi, is a first cousin of Prof David D Mason, of the Fiend' Depart ment Mis D. J. Mason, Piof. Mason's mother and a sister of the late Mrs. A. 0. Hall, Mr Noake's mother, is now visiting at the Mason home in State 'College Mts D- J. Mason' distoveted the tragedy while reading the paper yestet day morning but was ,not advibed thoroughly on the matter until lute yesterday. 'NO MONEY' GOV. ARTHUR H JAMES Society Plans College Dance To Raise Fund Scholarships To Be Provided With Affair's Proceeds; Friars Need Aid An ,111-College dance_ to taisi funds - fO) scholatships to desei v ing students entailed here will be held by Filets, sophomote campus honorary society, provided the coopetution of another scicietv can be obtained This was ievealed yestetclay by Burne Ctaemer, sett etaty of Filais, who explained that the otganization took this action fol lowing an edam nil in the Collegi an Just month •The editonal called upon cam pus honoi illy societies to pan the Collegian in conti ibuting „7:30 apiece to a scholarship fund het e. Craemei indicated that Films UUS handicapped because its treasury was empty but that the oigainhation was willing to coop elate to the evtent of conducting a dance to Juise money Judging Team To Compete The rower-judging Loam, con sisting of foul students in the department of horticulture, couch ed by Dr Eail I Wilde, ptofes sot of ornamental horticultuic, will Anticipate in the intetcollegt ate flower-judging contest at Houston, Texas, Monday, Febru my Id Twelve additional teams hum land grant colleges will com pete Blood Donat Real Pen A Dibute to the Penn State s dents and profs , About two meelts ago, Nadu and Biological chemist, A%us ieniov Bellefonte, suffeiing limn a dangei to develop into - pneumonia. Accotch of the deportment, delPapa had alw Del Papa's condition gi ew worse Rio hemoglobin wait was only 34% of flotillal and his led cell count au , , ,last half of what it should have Been. Pneumonia set in and the boy began to sink The &idols called foi a tvans fuston; College blood-type test records, pieviously taken, showed that these was no blood of the right type.' -Pi'ofessors and stu dents of the department volun teered freely. The eighteenth vol unteer was Professor Dutcher, whose blood, in the fiist test, was claimed 'to be the light type. A second. and final test proved diff erently and the scald went on The following day eleven mote students journeyed to Bellefonte, cutting classes l and standing in rgiatt 'Governor Expresses Opposition To GSA's 7 Second Big Vrogram We Won't Spend Money We Don't Have, He Says, As School Heads Plead ' ' For "Intelligent Economy" , Spotted to the Collet/tan HARRISBURG, Jan. 23—While the Pennsylvania Col lege Presidents Association wa's heal ing a plea for "intelli gent economy" in appropriations to. state-supported educa tional institutions, Governoi Arthur H James moved to scut tle 'completely the General State Authority's proposed $149,- 000,000 building pi ogram which failed to materahze last Falr With James action went all hopes of the Pennsylvania State College of i eceiving another $5,000,000 program to match the one now under way thei e - Finances Lacking The progium, including $2,500,- 000 fot "income-beating" build ing at State College was to have been launched before Decembei Jl, but the Autlunity found ta Du bin in supplying the needed 55 pet cent of the cost The fedeial Woiks Administation was to furnish the additional 95 percent through an outfight giant Although indicating he would not scrap the Authority itself, which note rs - windrife up ifsofi'. ulna! $65,000,000 building m.o. glum, Goveinot James showed de finitely that he would oppose the revival of anothei such undettak nig Move a Surprise "So fin as I see now theme still be nothing done on that," the Govei not said "We me not going to spend any money we do not have" The sudden move of the Covet not hew came as a mum ise ins,s much as he had morrused in his inaugmal uddiess just a few days befoie that he would not "pie- SCI lbe" any action until a thoi odgh inventoly of the state's fin ances had been made The inven toiv was begun only Tuesday "Intelligent Economy" Coincident with the Covet noi*; action was the statement. of Di William Mathes Lewis, head of Lafayette College and outgoing pi esident of the Pennsylvania College Pi esideMs Association, who expressed the hope that James uould use "intelligent eco nomy" in appiopi lotions foi state suppot ted educational institutions. "We have evety season to hope," he said, "that under the incoming administration, intelligent eco nomy is to plain' and the educa tion system Is not to be a political tool " on Reveals State Spirit Tuft. and to the Ag Bin Ghent etu delPapa '4l, a future Apieultanal rod to the Centre County Hospital, taus sinus infection that threatened ng to Ptof R Admit Dutehet, head qtrs seemed very ftad and toloiless line at the hospnul for hoots, awaiting then tutu Finally, as the doetois were about to give up hope, the blood test of 0 N e vil., a giuduate goad, wa, suc cessful, the ttansfuston was given However, only one tianfusion could be given by flieivik, for al though the hist hod pi oven sue cessful, the blood types wet° again found to be diffeient The scotch continued until delPapa's imamate, Paul M. Althouse, a graduate student, was found to have the collect type blood The results were draniatic— delPapa began to show color, Ile got stronger, coughed Jess. His hemoglobin went up to 615% and his cell count.increased to normal. Nadu delPapa will soon be te leased from the hospital. ~ PRICE FIVE CENTS Pilot Training Will Not Have . Ist Test Here Government Program To Get Trial Next Semester In l 3 Other Schools Also Sec "St, clent Opinion. Sew yells" on Page 4 - Special To The Collegunt WASHINGTON, Jan LJ Penn State is not on the list of 1J schools which have been select ed foi an initial test of Presi dent Roosevelt's 20,000-awn pilot tiaming program, the Civil Aero nautics Authority announced to day Doling the second semester, 330 students between the ages of 18 and 25 will receive ground school and flight training under pm,- 000 of NYA funds made available when Piestdent Roosevelt an, nounced the pilot tiaining pro pain last Decembei 27 If results obtained at the test, schools between February and June demonstrate the soundness of the inogittin, the full 20,000 pi lot I" ogi am will swing into ac tion dating the 193 , 1-1940 mat denne yeas simultaneously in see mai hunched schools throughout, the nation $10,000,000 Asked Pi emdent Roosevelt, in his spe cial message on leatinament — to Congress, has eked for un appro. iniation of $10,000,000 to be used by the Author ity 111 cailying — out the ti aining pa ogt am Schools which }Wive been select ed to paiticipate in the test phase of the flight battling program are Purdue Univetqty, "UniveiNity of Alabama, Univeisity of Minneso ta, Univetsity of Washington, Massachusetts Institute of Tech, nologY, Touts Agticultural and Mechanical College, Georgia School of Technology, New York Univetsitv. University of Michi gan, Univeisity of North Caleb no, University of Kansas, San Jose State College, and Pomona Junioi College Resume (r ood Shows Food pi eparation demonstra. Lion.; by semoi Home Eoconomics stud.mts Juive been resumed and will continue until the end of the semester Tielsets of admission e available without charge in Room 101, Home Economic. Building 333 DAYS have passed since Governor George H. Earle suggested the College's na me be changed to University. 139 DAYS before the June Commence ment. LET'S CHANGE THE NAME NOW
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