Page Two PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Pub Wiled semi-weekly during the College year, except on hrieday s, by student. of The Pennsylvania State College, n the interest of the C.liege, the students, faculty, akin ni, snd friends "% hanging Moe This N.SI e News Editor Thin ',see Entered as second class matter July 5 1924, at the postoffice at State College, Pa, under the act of March 3, 1571 Friday, April 28, 1930 DEBATE MONOPOLY PROM APPROXIMATELY 6,000 students ev ery year Penn State's debating teams—men and women—receive about $3,000, all because the Col ; lege insists on maintaining the 25-cent debating fee per student per seniestel Two yeals ago the students voted against this policy in no uncettain manner But the Colleze refused to lecognile this expiession of student opinion and has continued to levy the fee semes ter alto semester, veal after yea! That debating is a um thwhile activity which helps to build up the piestige of the College 1., not the ,question Nor is the 25-cent fee in it self burdensome But why, 'the Collegian should_ every student be foiced to pay 25 cent; every semester, 517 cents every year, to keep up a debating team when other activities, just as worthwhile and pei haps even :note appealing to the student body than debating, sic not given a single penny, I , Why, for instance, is not a portion of that 25 cents given to the support of the Glee Club and the other musical activities—activities as wmth while as debating, activ.tie, just us "piestige building" as debating, activities which in many cases are more appealing than debating, activitie, which have brought to the College pirAl intei collegiate honors° Under the new constitution, the Intel class Fi nance Boaid, in conjunction with the All-College Cabinet, will have the power to split this fee if it so desires Its action will, of course, be sub ject to the approval of the College administie tion, arid those who stead to lose will fight it tvith every trick of the trade—as they have dart to date However, if the student leaders who will emerge from the elections next week will have the courage to fight for their convictions, if they will have the ability to present facts and figures, the Collegian feels there is little doubt that the peo ple who shell out the dough will have the tight to say where that dough shall go It's about time somebody smashed this unfair control of the debating teams over student money JOINING THE ISSUE THE COLLEGIAN has failed to grasp a coin plete pictui e of the entire situation, has distcated facts and otherwise unfairly entiored the School of7.,Liberal Ails Evei'y membei of the faculty, for instance, has a voice in the determination of School policy, although often this is not exercised Piomotions are made_ on the ba4is ordemonsfrat ed ability, iesearch rs iccognired, the School is not a cesspool for flunking students, the admin. istiation welcomes faculty and student opinion, and thee is no discimunation in granting of pi oniotions Such today is the opinion of the administration f l f the School of Liberal Ai ts Such, however, is not the opinion of many faculty men, and there by-hangs a sad tale of disagreement which must be ironed out before the School can hope to con tinuirits impiovement That faculty men who have the chance to e•- f preSS_opinion on matters 'pertinent to them do not do so is the tragedy of the whole affair Why they foil to do so is questionable, Init one reason might be that without a definite system of pm motion some of them fear then positions may be jeopardized The administration calls this fool ish,- yet -foolish things have a way of persisting for :ye - its and years It-seems that the best starting-point for the adminiitiation would he the establishment of a definite system of promotion, a system which would be based upon demonstrated ability In teaching, research, and also intelligence, a system whieh would provide foi increases in saltily in cn,itinction with mci eaves in lank, and a sys tem which would not hesitate to weed out faculty members who have demonstrated their inability and incompetency The administration sincerely believes it is do ing its best The Collegian Just as sincerely be lieviejt can do better In fact, both parties agree there is definite room for improvement There is no reason, then, why all interested parties—administration, 'faculty and students— should not join hands and stiles for this im provement BURY THE AXE, BOYS EVERYTHING IS PAIR, they say, in love and politica. So maybe these is some basis for the presentliattle now raging between the Independ ent and Campus groups as to which one should take credit foi the establishment of the new stu dent government However, just to clarify the' issue for the witeis, the Collegian would like to point out thal ,I—The movement to ieorgamze student govern ment was started neither by an Independent or a Campus man, but by a non-partisan. '(Sec We Collegian for December 6 )• 2—The movement, once started, was supported whole-heartedly by both Independent and Campus representatives as can he seen by tl.e unanimous vote by which Student Board and Student Council twice passed the neiv con stitution On the - basis of these facts, then, the Collegian feels that students who hope to - advance the wel laieof the student body should realize that cre dit for setting up the new government cannot be Claimed by any one ,particular party to the ex cluSiiin of the other, and that contmuatioh of this battle between the parties will lead only to inter necine warfare, sabotage and the premature death Of the new constitution. CAMPUSEER George El Sehless '3O Herbert Ninon .44 Advice, Given But Not Asked For Everytnne Campy dies, he leaves behind a colyum filled with either a last blast, as Swaim did, of a ~ entimental Jabbeldash This Campy is going to tiy to combine the two fat perfect sym phony—os something Before I Leave In foul years of this place I've found that a few faculty and administiation members can he human—without limeting then prestige A went bunch anyway you' look at them. Russ Clark, because he's the kind of a guy you would want to go fishing with Bill Schmelzle, because he Knows what lie is talltmg about Piofllet, because when he speaks you know it's authoritative and, because 11,_ isn't afraid to voice an opinion Hal Dickson, because lie knows what Penn State needs (murals) and is putting up a tight foi it Bill Jeffrey and Leo Haack, the ultimate sportsmen Finally, for being good conversationalists the fol lowing, Hum Fishbinn, Flughie Williams, Mock McCaity, and Bob Galbiaith—any subject, any time, any place A Last Stab The scene of our short play is laid in the Coi legion news loom Time- about 3 .110 Monday morning Characters, Maniac, his seem etai y and Ti oanol/itch , Maniac Snoaaaawwww, tweeeeeeeeeee (mean , snore) Semetaty Pm God's sake, boss, tell me the test of that damn Winme Watson tale so I can go home, Ti °saw/itch What's the results on the Colle gian's 659th poll on Rote, does anybody falon it yet 9 Maniac (waking up with a star t) "Is this a dagger I see before my eves.—” Snaaaaawwwwn,_ tweeeeeeeee Sem etaiy How in the devil did Rocky get that 'Best Messed Man award' Even though' his Ma chine couldn't get hun class inesident they paid him back with a new suit—should we use that" Maniat "The quality of meicy is not stiained —snaaasaw"l Troanovitch (Loolong up from his copy) You should have heard Dean Stoddart give ore Veil the other day I'm 'going to write anotldcr editorial on the Liberal Arts school and tell the people what, Doc Wueller thinks of it Maniac So Winnie went up to the kappa home and—i Sec' etnry How do you spell likg?, in caps? Tioanovach Leave Winnie out of that "chaff , " Sem etal y Talking about the kappas, T hem Winnie Bischoff and Bob Altman aie now Seen together Wake up boss, Maniac Just because she couldn't see the poli s~bilit es nie' r Tioanconteh Leave Winnie out! Mamas Don't get excited' Tioanovitch Who's gettin' exelted 9 Maniac As I was saying,--oh yes put in that Stinky Sam Flanagan stinks—why, Jo Condi in Junioi Prom queen, say something about the Collegian's good choice in something Troanovitch I heat the boys up on the "ma nure pile" get two salai ms—ain't fan to My poll science buds who fill up the space Salaries must be lamed , ' Seci elm y Listen kids, it's four o'clock and I must get my sleep. Maniac (Dictating finally) "We went up to Gelman-American Club and there I saw a whole group of young people from State Al MacTav ish, Joseph Blotz, Alex Kychai sky, and a whole mob of thetas Tea was ' sei ved with everybody doing his own pouring When was over these fine Penn State's left Rumor bath it that Ski Dick and Kay Bully wei e seen m Bodth 7 of nrm yesterday—" Tioanovittli (typing) "Rote is not', liked nt Penn State /It 19 not liked because Dean Stod dna. gave me hell the other day Pm thei more, leave 'Mimi* out! Leave 'Mame out, and I am not getting excited but Rotc, like sex, I guess, liKe Deans, and stuff is here to stay " P S If this gets by John, "All this and Hea ven Toe wall be boa e, too ' You'll Enjoy 1 1 111 : 11-14 lie Cotter , unusual EZIEEMEM Plan For War Or Neutrality, Says Ferguson By DR. JOHN H FERGUSON Legislative hearings now in progress — In Washington have 'brought forth four or five widely different - "neutrality" proposals Before deciding upon any particu lar plan there Is a more fundamen tal Issue 'which one must answer We must decide first of all upon what' we *int: ft We want to keep out of the next war there IS no doubt about: our ability to do so Unyielding_ determination is ,the essential , thing raven that determlnation.l Our experience during the Wmld War suggests that we ought to (1) turbid Amet Man ships and citizens front !levelling in wat. zones, (2) relinquish out right, title to, trade and commerce with nations at war, (3) imam absn-, lutel3/ impntttal In out official atti tude and conduct towed the bel ligerents ' On the OEII4 hand, If we waAt England, Prance, Russia and their satellites to win, then out policy: must obviously he different Theii can rnobahly win without out.stip-, port, hilt this being out &she; we ought to stand ready to assisti thorn to the extent neceseanv to* achieve victoty If eronotnk, as= sistaince Is insufficient, then We ought to,, ahul plobably would send another expeditionaly rot ce to Europa or the Put East to - en-, I counter the Japanese, FOR Takes Stand 1 ' President Roosevelt has made his position clear Re, like Plesi-; dent Wilson, has conc`ltided that. se ought not to temain impartial In a European, wet Unlike, Wil son, iIONVPIIdI, the President has , announced in advance ot the c6n filet that he wants the United. State , ; to aSsfid England Flfince, and Russia The Ptesident be-, Neves tlitit by malting his attitude, known the axis passers can lie bluffed Into behaving themselves Tf the bluff falls, as It has to date . In the Par East and in Europe, the Pt esident wanTrdlset ellanat y au thority and an army and navy big enough to use "measures stronger, than war" to assist the Anglo- French bloc The Piesident and, rids ailvfsers are not thinking about what we can do - to keep out of war If it does come. • They are plani zing how we can supply England„; and her 'allies With 'rtiaterials trfltis, Is the some policy which PreabilZ 'ell out entrance into the last war So, T hello - fit, the impoitant Mies- 1 , tion for as to decide is not.. which of seven al "neutrality'' bills' Is' best That question is quite easily answered when we am ee whethei we Intend to 'main neneral unless - attacked, as the SAN% Norwe-, glans, Swedes, Dutch, and Bel: glans hake done, or whethe? we Intend to itligland and het' allies - Lists Thomas Amendment Those who have made up theh minds and agree with the Pre74l - ought to suppott the Thomas . , • . ~ , i 'f E (T 1 Tfliff IT HISI . III. . 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By BERNIE NEWMAN Do you think men shMilil 'be allowed to use the facilities of White Hall over week ends? Henrietta Gutter - '39 HOme Eco nomies "No ECCPpt: fot a 9NVIM ming pool Ret. Hall has practical ly the same facilities for, men as White Hall does I'M women" ' Jim Conte '39, Phys I'd "Yes Especially lot' dances There Is ilso need fir additional facilities inr men's intinmural sports, and While ]fail would be the ans - Wei " Gus Bigott '41, , Dairy Husban dry "Vey The women have a swimming pool in White. "Hall which, if moiler arrangements could he made, men could have equal advantages - of" Gene Kraorie '4l, Liberal Ark 'Let the women alone ti's HIM] building" Murray Druck '4l. Journalism "When Rec Hall Is being used thr tithe puipo4P4. am angtononin amendment By that plan tlie Pt esitient and Celia' P 44 would pick the aggressor and place an embalgo upon him, lints givink aid to the victim To call this a "nen ! trallty" measure, how - ever, is sheer Itypomisy Its adoption Would be 'worse than 'pluming to pte-war neutrality Then, at least, we made I - pretense of Imam tiallty -tot two years ot mole, and We did I amain neutral in the iambi stilt might; 'hell as the Rui.sceJapan ese. the BOP!, the Franco Prussian, and the Crimean wars Those who insist that we remain neutral ought to ,rapport the Nye Chult-Boone proposal This 'plan Would limit the President's cu Trot two foreign relations in time of war it would also forbid entirely . the sale of;pilmary military 'sup plies to all belligerents and put other commerce on a cash-and carry hasl9 Compt , omise Plan - „ Senptor Pittman's proposal is a 'possible compromise Under this, all wining nations would he pet Mitred to buy anything they_went as Icing as they pa3rcash and - come, and get ,It This it , ould did 'Mg landand Prance who control the 'seaoand when ,IlieiVettish.iimi-Mit , ) there c'a' chance . that' nimuld 'extend credit , to sitstain our -econ omy On the other bind, 'this is far better than the Thomas pro pose), it is not our fault that Eng land and,A :ince control the seas and have' the = most cash, we wouldn't be obligated to protect the-merchandise pm chased in the United States, ott; economic sys tem would be less_ affected than by the attention of other schemes, we could tax munition , profits to whatever extent desired, and we might have the fortitude to resist the temptation- to extend credit when cash has been exliansted All-College Lodge Will Use Profits Of Circus, kink The Student Recreation commit tee will wind up loner skating With a 'final session in the Arrdory tomorrow, 'Ray Conger, commit tee Amman, announced yester day "We consider this second season of teller skating a success," Con gei said "An average of 300 stu dents took-advantage of the sport every Saturday it was held" Conger, also trevealed that, all the dm the ,spoi t would ba tinned DM to the Recre ation Planning Boaid licaded by Di Elirdad C Dims, Of tffr School, of Physical Educations and Ath letics The Boat d will use the money as a pmt of the ga no mg fund rot the most' action of an All-College Mountain Lodge, according to Di Davis ire also tevenled that the money made nn the, Onus would also beconfea pat t of the fund should he nude an that Intiamttral anott4 eotild he carried out In White flail 'Other thail that, Witite tfall ghottia be ter women only" ,Geottre Schenkeie , '4l: 'Liberal Arts "No The building WIN de• signed IM women, and nimbi he used lry diem only Hox,evel, jam bine,' swimming partis or other recreational a ell vil could be - or manned there" , Ed Harris '4l, Ai k and Letting "Yes As long us It would norin convenience the women In any way, thete's no teases why over crowded conditions Pm men stu dents could not he relieved by 119'9 of White Nall" ' • , Pdayets-IPitittdl,o' Present Maxwell Anderson's WINTERSET 4 Toni.oght and Sat.: , Night-7--&3ari Schwab Auditoritim - • ' • _ , Seats Reserved at Stwient: Union- 50 _ \ - • . Friday, 28, 1939
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