Page T -v -,o PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The Fire Gencr, established 1.887 Publishedseno-oeel ly daring the College sear, except on holtdale beindents of The Penusylsania State College, in the interest of the Colleae the students, faculty, alumni, and fnends AIDVVITIS.GI Sre National Advertising Service, Inc. College Pubbsbere Reprerenlalleo 420 MADISON AVE NEW YORK• N Y CIII.AGo Sams Los Altana • SAN forA/gosco nir MANABIND BOARD A D. II 1I AM KNOLL JR 40, Uttar C ftussmi ECR '4O BUSIIIP. :dotage. EMANUEL. ROTH '4O curvrov C WILLIS JR NO Managing Editor Athert ging Martian ROBFRI I. WILSON Of/ NIOR'FON NIMAN 40 Sports ra tor Pinglotion Manager BERNARD A NEWMAN 40 DORIS OUTMAN NO News Editor Senior Secretary CFORGE B SCHLESS 'lO lANET STORN MO Feature Editor Assistant. Seniat Secretary PAUL HALDEMAN IR NO W BRADLTY OWENS 40 Assiatant ?annoying rditur A..A.,...d. No, 1 Editor HERBERT 111PSON '4O HELEN L CAMP MO Assistant Sports Editor Women s Editor PIP I LIS R CORDON 40 Asststmnt Wookrn s rd for Munnrzng Fd.tnr 'Mg Issue News Editor 'risk 1938 Member 1939 Rssociated CelleE9cde Press Dlstobutor of Collegiate Di6est Entered no4econtlYlnqs molter July 5 IYU al. HIP Root only a State Coloye Px, under the act of Nlerelt J, 1379 Friday, May 5, 1939 CHEERFUL GIVERS MIDST ROUSING CHEERS emitted by mo ponents of the Reciention Lodge, the fate of the $5,000 allotted fat the Serum Class gift was de cided And sIY votes would have swung the sum the °the! way. Let it be undei stood, the Collegian has no cliciee, no favoute in the two-way struggle for the class donation The Lodge has its advantages Murals tan match these But when such a sum of money Is at stake, Is It right that a simple majority, of 10 votes should determine that fate of funds accumulated over a period of four years', No effort has been made to conceal the obvious fact that both physical education students and art students were-excusecl from classes to attend the meeting and support one or the other as pre viously instiuctcd It so happened that the ha te' group was slightly outnumbeied and a Lodge victory was recorded by a count of 128 to UR ue enough is the statement of Picif?ssoi eon, faculty advocate of umiak, that the decision ii.ched in the Senior Class meeting "iepiesents anotloi typical mdlege boy', choice" Yct, in the <aloe category can he placed the passing of pe titions by the defeated bloc , - Already the initial petition damn mg 'rot a re-vote has bees blocked by an eight to two count in Student Boat d Now the die-hinds have for mulated another petition, th.s time to the Board nC Trustees, nequestnng,them to ef use the Item e: ation'liodge gift fioni the Class Of 19119 And-all of this comes out of what was slated to he ,a calm, cool,. and collected Semi classsgather ing-but what has resulted in the usual heat^d con. oversy It's a g.iy pin ty Cm the winnei IL's 100 much to swallow foi the losei With such as the case, the Collegian 'tenthly concurs with Student Boaid's regulation, effect nFxl. year, pi oviding extensive publicity 101 any proposals and final decision on the voting machine at the all-college elections This will facilitate a more accurate, more legl• t,mate court as some $5,000 odd weighs on the scale of indecision Cvery senior will be provid ed with an equal opportunity,to pull a lever to his liking Breaking tradition some may charge. But isn't it amore logical solution that the present confus ion sun ound.ng a mass meeting of any shape or FOR THE A. A "IT SHALL BE the duty of the piesident to preside at all meetings, to expound the constitu. ton and by-laws, to enfoice a - due observance the' eof, to decide upon all questions of order, to call meetings, to appoint office's and committees not otherwise provided foi, and to fill temporary vacancies" Such are the stipulated duties of the President of the Athletic Association, of the Pennsylvania State College as set Cm th in the constitution fm the same. Just what does all this signify? Absolutely nothing The A A President Is merely a figure. head in what could be a prominent organization —in what is now, for students, a "name" posi tion. He has a'vote in the election of managers, which admittedly Is an Important factor under the present managerial set-up Monday, men students once again will appear at the polls to vote in the annual A. A elections. Three well-known Lion athlete% will vie foi the pi esideney and three additional athletes are coin peting for the sem etary's post As to the pat ticulat winnei of eithei office—it matters little to the Collegian floweret, what, does matter is just what this man can accomplish after he is in office Here are a few suggestions I—Pep up the present student InttAMUl at Boat(' Board. 2—Devase a fun er critem foi celretion of student managers I—Glade school "Independent" pm ado] s in the dying Penn State spirit. Short and sweet, but now lacking. CLEVER-BUT Although admittedly clever, k here's things we could, have done without last week. I—Apparent ballot stacking by proponent' of both the Lodge and the murals in the Senior Class gift meeting 2—The goldfish swallowing act by a freshman. 84rade cchool "Independent" paraders in the R O.T.C. parade. BY HIMSELF So This Is College: Well, we've begun out battle with Old Man White Space, and we certainly picked a beautiful week lot out debut The old Campy has finally gotten lost in that fog. that surrounded hint all yew, and here we are same typewriter, same copy paper, same atmnsphei e except that this whole Lanipus has taken a sudden Jump from the Nittany Valley to an iii G M location Politicians . big ones, little ones, male ones, female ones goldfish . big ones, little ones, (let', keep SEX out of this) more politicians men getting cm tespondence via matinnonial agencies anchstill more politicians No tenet in sight for a few weeps, what with tapping time ly ftee of politicians . big ones, title ones, fe ones, unsuccessful ones May Day (not cane ly flee of politicians big ones little ones, fe male ones) . and to think when ielief finally does come, it will be in the farm of final exams _Ricard C Vetere '4l Edward J Hrimnr '4l What a life! Fish Story: Pm several months now we've been leading about F&M wrestlers, teachm's college quilent l , and other di egg of college like going on a goldfish diet. And all the while we smugly smiled to our self. "Penn State is diffetent We, 4re above it all," said we to outwit' And aumelf aosweted back to us, aWnit ainiNsee Monday night Len Apfelbaiun, CDT scoop, bloke into oui post-meal solitude and let. us in on plans for a. gold-fishing expedition deep in the wilds of. the south pugh sheet boarding house sector "It's no tougher than eating sardme.s, especial ly' if as a youth you trained on grAssboppets, As I did," said freshman Cultia Spalding to the two tepottets, photograpbet, 'and half Mum m so curious onlookers who filled his loom. And with little ado, Spalding, whose slight flame belies the fact that it cat lies Life powet,ful stomail =vele, of a potential all-American fish-swallower, pro• ceeded to gulp six Millets quiche' than we could say, "Well, Penn State, someone has finally swallowed some fish Satisfied? Now let's forget about it" The Great Man Votes: It's all over now but the shouting and the echoes of the shouting that provided the back ground sound effects in a campaign that will go down in history as an example of political war fare at its bloodiest Not only the student body, but practically the whole gentry of tge borough played some part hi the flay School kids can lied signs board mg houses earned signs frateinity flagpoles carried unwelcome signs and Buck Taylor's crack Junto!, drum and buglers almost had a few sign-bearers as a color guard when they reheat sed Wednesday night . 'until the opposition threat ened to boycott 'Buck's waxery / and with the Junior Prom record Aea , ,on in sight, that's ,ser lOUS . , The Great Woman Votes: Some of our co-ed brain-childien experienced all sorts of trouble with those "too, - too complicat ed" voting =climes, and some of our even brain let elections committeemen took advantage of the situation George Donovan, 911 babyface, who hung mound the machine, for hours, seizing ev ery chance to go behind the black cut thin and offer his assistance, says A's ,tryst like post of fice And the kappa-conscious John Tinanovitch, has-been-of-the-week, almost talked Mu ice Stubbs into a second tiip,into the booth Matrimony C. O. D:: At least Iwo of the lonely hearts in Pond Lab me receiving legulm doses of balm via Jun Par ley and his boys in gray A junior chem engin eel, Harty Long, has subset lbed to The Exchange, a KC love-by-mail mail, which advotises, "Scores of the ladies in this catalogue claim means of various amounts and in %rations forms Some gen tleman will many them, and why cannot you 9" Yes, Harry, why cannot you 9 - And a graduate student known as Chuck "the Smooth" Denko has been hearing front lonely souls throughout the country since he joined a club According to his Freer Hall "friends," his latest long distance heart tlnob is a blushing Kentucky mountain flower —CAMPY Tonight! Alter r • Dorsey IT'S i the Comer u nu sual "` CAMPUSEER PENN, STATE COLLEGIAN Independents Top a Classes (Continued From, Page One) Class of 1941 President—Thomas C Backen stose (1), 619, Healy A Catson (C), 439 Vice-president—Joseph R. Sealzo (1), 619, Luis A Bigott. (C),, 439 Seeletary—Jean C. Cl:l2omnd (1), 589, Mary J. Dal ton, (C); 428 Ttensuiel—Theo do' amp (I) , 588, Edward Hai— us (C), 401' School Councils—Chemistly and Physics Frank A Gleason (I), 174; Thomas II Amswoi th (C), 98. Education Annabel Boyd (I), 67; Molina Stillwell (C), 65 En-, gineeling Niraßel. R Flosterxnan (1), 112, James It Browll (C), 5:3 Liberal Aits Aida R Hell man (C), 124, Flank H Platt (1), 105 Minei al' Industt ies • Lewitt C. Cavalier (1), 41, Ed win d W. Nestor, 31 - .2 Class of 1942 President—John 1 Long , (C). 964. Enact M Kenn)ler 441 Vire mestdent—Cbarles - Mal len; (C), 111, Charles E. Medlar (I), 451 Se( teMay—Ruth 1V Brir-, bey (I), 492, Helen A Swanson (b), 431. Treasurer-3 Lee Clovis (I), 181 1111111anz V' Finn (C).; 434 'School Counells— Chemistr y and Physics Jack 13 Morgan (C). 103; David A. Yhung (1), 140 Diu= lion Frances ill Talley (1), 84, Jacob hi ,Shinbelg (Q). 56 Etigt nearing ROO B Sttawbx ldge) (1), 77; Charley L Van Inwagea IC); 59 Liberal Arts Alice ht _Murray (C). 131, Eleanor hi Chandler. (1), 88 Ilaneral Industries Charles , .o' Tarr (1),, 23, Jack 1) Ramaley (C,): 21. Total number of valets-77Q8 Glee Club Give Ccuweit May Day Program Headed. By Saxophonist Leeson On: Saturday May 13 Staging then first college conceit Of the yem, the Penn State Glee Club, in addition to then pro giam, will present Cecil Leeson, America's outstanding saxophon ist, in the feature attiaction 'of Mother's Day in the auditorium at 8 p m Saturday, May 11 Leeson, who lose horn a humble beginning in a ROTC band to become a commanding personality nl contemporary music, will-ap pear next Thursday night with the NOw York Philharmonic SYlh; phony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall; New Yolk City. Regal ded as, a genius, Leeson has received the acclaiM of the foremost critics of classical 'music Di Walter Damrosch, noted con ductor, said, "Cecil Leeson has demonstrated to me by his beauti ful playing of the saxophone that this instrument can be used suc cessfully to interpret the', great composers of classical music" Sammy Galin, '4O; tenor, and Edward Wood '4l, violinist, will slso assist the Glee Club in its Mpthei's Day concert Tickets; all of which me reserved; will be on sale at the Student Union desk dui ing the week of May Bth at 10• cents each Stoddart Will Speak - At Centers On Tour Dean Chat les I,V Stoddart of the School of Liberal Arts, will make his customary trio to four undei graduate centers during the next two weeks He will visit the cen• tors at Pottsville and Hazleton on May 10, 11, and 12, and those ,it DuBOW and Uniontown on May 17, 18, and 10 Independent Dance I Planned Tomorrow Inaugurating its new social pro< gram. the Independent Men's <lactation will hold a dunes in the Armory from MO p m until 12 midnight tomorrow MORNINGSTAR BREAD , Morningstar Bread Is fine. for everrpurpose. It makes sandwiches that are pleasing in taste and at the same time nourinshing. , And,if you want' crisp toast that fairly melts In your mouth this is the , loaf for you. Morning Star, Tru 7 Whaq.: Purity% Bread and Trophy Winner Cacke. . ;- - , ' , ' • , 111 41 ....."'••‘: .. 1; , i . ; ,11 - "...„7., 4,-, '' . . • ...... \-, , -,, ~,,,„,,,, -,, ...„-,- - , - -7 ,: ;.:1, 1 , Letter Bo',x I To 'The Edgier For th‘ futme of Penn, Stke, I hope that the vote of the Semi Class in its meeting Tuesday night can he condoned They weie fated with important things with expuessed eiders to hutry through the discus'aion The meeting , waR confusedly conducted Theie wm no impoi tuna& to make the issues known Theie was 'no minim ity foi adequate discussion. And, most impoi tan, the decision is not rem esentative opinion of the semen The opinion of many of the Sen ior Class is well expressed' by Piofessor Dickson of the Division of Pine Aits He says " With due giatitude to the ma tuner minds of the giaduatmg class fen having consideied the mural pickled, it can only be said .hat the vote itself n epresents an odic' typical college choice The um of $5,000 has been sunk in-a pleasuie shack i» the woods. Nothing better can possibly. be built for the promised $B,OOO max imum It could have assmed , a monument which would do mine Jean any class, gift eve' given to couch the institution and obtain for it the finest kind of public iecognition " • t 1 think that the vote fin the lodge, a vote swayed by a pie pondei once of Physiciil Education majors, was a great mistake The 911111 IS too small to' biuld more than a shack in contest. to the palatial vision poi tiayed- by the representatives of the Phy,,sical, Education School Surely alumni c-visiting the campus' will _not go chasing off into the mountains. Students at State will' no doubt hod it 'useful But an added tec teational facility Is surely not a pi egging need at. Penn' State If Penn State weie „located two blocks from Times Squate_and we needed an oppottunity fol flesh air, sunshine, and wholesonie re location, my vote would go foe the lodge But Penn State' is like going to school in a beautiful na tural part What need to add to :an surfeit of recreational facil ties' Muials would give 'Penn State a pi estige few colleges enjoy 'An alumnus of - Hnrvnul; Ca Hell, Yale, Princeton, oi 'Dartmouth has behind him the Prestige of S. college known for 'its years of cultured and cultivated achieve ment A mention of Penn State elicits the question "How's, Penn State Jessiel " Penn State in - recent years has made.stude§ toward tieing l'ecog- ailed as, one of the great Astitii-j Lions of the East We have a new libi al y which is a significant piece of modem aichitectute Penn Stale will he all that it might only when it caa 'point to mole such individusl achieve- TO Mother `on Mother's Day . . .' . V..7%v 1 ' 34 51 • A leather. pocketbook in any of the hitest costume; s ..:....;'. '<%...;. ~ . Males C 7 :;e: - . - ;: ,1 - with gloves to match. ,40.-; 0 .... • ~.Ain attractive necklace., 1 ,1 "Mother" liankiec. ' , MOORE'S DRESS _ SHOP - - JACK HARPER Penn State Men Et7eryti*re Prefer PA. - 'US Wh , Beach ,is they, favorite summer'suit: - Get yours tnclay. foi the "hot weather ahead._ k ... ,.,.u ... .trz /3.c.a52,h,q, ~ I;f'- 1250. • " ...,_,,.., ~., ,„ „._ i ,,, 0 9 atek , istaili4 8R05.,& HARPER ; . .-:,OPEN,EVEHR4HH; Independents Will Support Housing . Drive \Valford - *IM' Is Appointed To Student Housing Board , _ By Acting Head ‘Tliole-hem led support . of the campaign to improve State Col lege housing conditions was pledg ed_ yesterday by, the newly-organ iced Independent, Men's A4SOClR tiott through its acting president, William W Galbreath '39 In placing the IMA behind the campaign, Galbi eath appointed John It WaHold '9O to the Stu dent, Housing Board which in clues, in addition, repiesentatives of the Collegian, PSCA, Amin wan Student" Union, Penn State Club, said the Student Co-operatives The present objective in the liniermg campaign, instituted after Collegian' sin vey last fall show ed many instances - of over-crowd mg-end unsanitary conditions, is the establishment of an am dived list of ruining houses to lie cir culated allying students a• The addition of the IMA to the Student Housing Board is expect ea to .stiengthen" it consideinbly as this gioup more than any of the others lepleSents those stu dents who ai e -^most affected by the present housVg problem Hoffman Made Head Of ,Registrar Group William S Hoffman, registrar, was - elected president of the Amer ican Association‘Of Collegiate Regt Ist' al s at - its annual "convention held in New YoilckCity last week. The organization was formed in 1;110 and now, lias a membership of over 700 flom approximately 800 colleges in the United States , A II Espenshade, professor emeritus of English composition, is one of , the founders and the only member-to be leader of the glom) fm two Yeats, having served as chaliman during 1910 and 1911. spent , Muials, painted by a, great artist, made an integral and Int pet ishable part of our most beau tiful building, would bethe great est single accomplishment to make - known and to expand the possi bilities of all that Penn State anight. be Nest yeat's class shall have an oppot Lundy for ,o teptesentattve wife Members of that class who I put the future tenown and glory 1 of Penn State ahead of 'the ma mentiny pleasure , of "Joe Col lege" days will loin muse the issue of annals ' n A WEAVER. 'lle Cap' And Ggivp ,9rdere Will Be Tnken At SU Desk Beginning Won Orders for cans and gowns will he taken on and after Mon day, May 8, at the Student Un ion desk, cochairmen William W Galbreath 'arand`Victor- Genti'man '3B have announced. IWe Wom-en-2- Tune nitif elle% on—end- - so does _ And staffs must come and staffs must go, in spite of whatraayone wants or thinks But - ,,We'd like to interiopt Time's match-for:a while tutu the campus spotlight on one, Lucille Gleenbergi,:.rettn mg women's editor, atul:a SON of the things she has done in the past year with het typeundei, copy papei and - ,personality „ Regulaily she has the men's staff fm the coveted`space for,women's news, constantly she ha's Moved the no of, - campus so; Liches und'pelsonaldies to, express lice, opinions,on cultent questions, always:Ale has , clenily and lops ally, made :het decisiOns nail stuck to them _ • • She has aided, Senate arid „, -W _ S G A. - „with bersugOstions and opinions, 'slie,lfas wuttcn p frank; iscarclungt, and helpful , i , ntelpre-, ration of wcimen't -news, sheluts triune& her successors to carry out this Vibib.,,and, above-all, she has given women a bigger .and better place in college news.. Eared , with the tusk of recog nizing and interpreting women's p?oblems fm the , next, year,' , we can only say, that we shall do our bast to carry on the standards - and ideals of out, predecessor and of, the Collegian, itself We shall toy to be frank with out being"biased,' to 'be logical without oationalizing, to consider every angle of-a problem without prcoudice,, and to call attention to any and all weeknesse:s in wo men's adminntrative and student organizations as we see. them At this time, women are corn mg into their own in the field of .school polities and government, they, are voting and campaigning' and holding offices And so now, even mote than beforu, they need !cognition " And when Tinin—and /egian—again maiihes on, `may, we, too, leave our mink, however small,, among, the annals, of we men's pregtessitt Yen. State Did you Ipanw,datiadicibreadeasting, stations' from coast to, coast tire:lMhed,liy, more than 53,000 miles: specfnCtelephone,eireuits?! Ven4efoietilleAearliesi;da'ys,oehrtiadelleting, ,, Bell ,ysteiti,englneeri ,doveloPed. means Of trans mitung sounds'; of all - kinds ivire, These, have been improyefl eMptaritly/ulfansmit the:extremely',,-, 'sottryd:frhqueAcies'iti music aitd ;entertaininem2s; JUst n c iieers,i,Cielephone'Vesearch'standliack . ;' of tnday's`spegial:broadcasting Vesearch'nf,totbly,iilielhiitg to solve the. cations piablerns Of teinoirow,:knother o- G 1; Friday, May , s, 1939 1. 0 WHAT no YOU KNOWr + WHAT DO.. YOU. SAY?; Do you ' think_ the` political, campaign Just ended has peen fair? - - Warren Elliott '4O, Comineree, and Finance , "YcS ''. Bur at dines. Loth parties were citified away by their , enthunlasm" , ~, ..!, Clifton M . OWtillems '4O, Arts and', r.nttexs "yeq',24Therei., was` cei' lately mole eampalping the* I;vel ever, 4CPII" , Dave, Mgineer. lug "Absolutely-, It , has:beed , ,a 4 very fair and Intensive - campaign,* the most intensive eves. put on 'by an Independent. pai ty " Fletch Byrom '4O, Melanin gY• "Yes ,lexcept for name ,roudyism Ivhdrii could 'not enulated 'the present election titles " , ' Hank, Carson - ,'41, Liberal Arts 'Yes -L 'think the,camptien'lias) beett•tali on both sides "„ • Tom Bnnkenstose 141; Agptiwe- Lien "Yes Any dirty werk.,:ort mud' ranging „'was. not, djliberniN on the part of , elther patty "1;1_, Bill • Bartholomew , 41,.Fme5try "Yes. According to reports of pre7i visits /campaigns, . this seems toR have,hada tlie whitest yet carried., on here" ' 'PT Ed Harris '4l, Arts and - Lettersa "Yes I truly believe that both,. ,the Campus and Indepentrentl cliques have done their best make this past campaign a (air . , and square one s , Bill Shrims '4O; Commerco,ancl , and Finance "No , As hit. as muds' 'slinging gees, the campaign him bees unfair, 1. do think though, that , the increased personal, 4 con tact .hu4 done - some - good "—B , r , 4,1 , 0 etIAL 1 0.10 +. sao l ollo , o t otsClt Confessions of a NAZI Z . Yosql see why In
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