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VOL. 36—No. 3
Pm GRIDIRON BATTLE Tl BE HELD AS SCHEDULED
Rushii
Program At
Middle Of
First Period
Only Two .Flaws
Seen In Practice
pf New Code
• See editorial, "Heading Uphill,"
on page a
, With date cards pui chased
by more than 515 freshmen,
fiatenuty rushing todav mov
ed*past the middle of the six
day formal peiiod with only
‘two, flaws outstanding in the
code as practiced so far.
The sections ob
jections weie’the houi at which
lushing began and the allowance
of fraternity lushing on Sunday
morning when ill fieshman weio
expect°d to attend chapel
Fraternities seeking to sign date
(.aids of fieshmen on theii lists
found it difficult to locate the men
when tne lushing period opened
at 1 pm lust Friday l It has been
suggested that in next year’s code
the opening houi be set back to 7
a m as last year ‘
Because of lushing a great num
ber of freshmen were diawn away
from the freshman chapel service
on Sunday* morning, and the re
quest has been entered that next
year ,this hour be made a silent 1
period „ ,
_S U. Sells Date .
/ 'Date caids"hre still
Student Union desk'and will're
main available as long de
mand exists The cards cost 50
cents'
\yhen the cards,, weie first put
’.on sale by Intcrfratci mty Council
from Sam to noon last' Friday,
i appioximately 350‘ v weie sold at
‘the de*-k in , the first floor lounge
uf Old Main The rest, have been’
r sold since that time at Student
' Unionr “ »
s Several rushing violations have
been checked into but all eases up
iso far have been dismissed. The
difficulties brought up were creat
ed by six fieshmen who, in filling
out their cards for the rushing
directory, gave fraternity address
es A check was made, however,
and no violations were found
’ One clarification of the code was
made Ly Frank C. Anderson MO,-
interfr.iternity Council piesident,
who ruled'that a/fraternity which
Had no signed dates with a fresh
man during the ’fiist period could
sign at any time'for a second per
iod date Under thecode, fratern
ities’having signed, dates-with a
fieshman may not make an in
tensive lushing date until after
their second signed date.-
Freshman who jlid not fill out
cards foi the rushing directory at
'then first counselor’s meeting last
Thursday night may still fill out 1
’cards at Student Uniou desk and
these will be filed there for'fra
ternity leferenco
Local Student Radio
Operators Should
Apply. To CciUege
Auy student, including, freshmen,
who bolds a radio“ operator’s
license and desires to affiliate
with the College Radio Station
l Staff as~ assistant operators of
- and the Aimy Conti ol Sta;
tion WLMAJshouId send a letter
of application at 1 once to Gilbert
L Crossley: assistant professor of
electrical engineering at the de
partment of electrical engineering
1 Letteis, of' application should
contain, experience, data, station
, 'call letters of the' applicant’s own
amateur station, * v the < grade of
license held by the applicant, and
any,other pertinent facts concern
- ing the applicant./..These .letters
should be in\ Crossley’s bands be
fore September 25 c
It is not necessary students
1 to' be enrollod in {the School of
Engineering to be v accepted on
the station staff Anv college stu
'dent'is eligible . *-'< - '
g Cards To 515 Ffljshmen
Lion Mascot Movement
Pushed By Hat Societies
A Nittany Lion will ioar at State’s gnd games
this season
Today a campaign to raise funds to secure a
lion’s skin will get under way sponsored by the
honoiary hat societies
Contributions towaid the wurdiobc for a mascot
lion will be deposited in boxes located at numerous
spots throughout the campus and town
Such a campaign has been spaiked by the soueb
4€s’ efforts' to icvive an old custom, create moie
Fleming Discloses
$3,521.51 Deficit
ByAthJeticGroup
Financial Report
' Shows Drop Of $8,900
A deficit of 5;i,52151 wile I eitl
i?ed bj the Penn State Athletic
Association during the yeai end
ing June 30. according to the an
nual financial ropoit released yes
tciday by Neil M Fleming, giadu
ate nmtiugei of athletics
The deficit was u diop of ap
pioximately 58.900 ovei lust yeai’s
surplus of $5,393 19
Primary factor of the decided
diop was a $9,090 80-increase in
expendituies which was brought
about by an.outluy of $124,740 51
.forj> conduction"’ o£‘, intercollegiate 1
“sports us compared -to approxi
mately $116,800 last year
Income Remains Same
With the aggiegate income of
$145.757 20 remaining almost,lden
tical with the 1938 yeai, the tise
in expendituies accounted foi the
difference Both the general asso
ciation, expense of *520,038 20 and
the maintenance expense f New
Beaver Field or 54,500 remained
about the same 1
income teceived from studeut
fees totaled 582.501 53, ticket
sales and guarantees, 560,045 75;
faculty season tickets, $2,597, and
miscellaneous income, 512 93
- Student fees showed an inciease
ovei previous years, but receipts
for ticket sales and guarantees fell
off approximately the same amount
to offset this surplus
All Sports, Show Loss
Defidts_weie leportedin all 17
intercollegiate sports with losses
totaling $64,094 77 Hockey and
skiing have been added to the list
since last year 1
Sport deficits show football los
ing 55,565 19, track, *510.242 80,
baseball. $8.283 50, basketball. SS,-
102 98, boxing, 54,42182, wjest
ling,. $5,318 37; lacrosse, 54,373 64,
soccer. $4,571 05, uosS country,
53,233 78, golf, $2,267 95. tennis,
$1,476 59, gymnastics $1,985 71,
fencing, 51,352, swimming,. $2,445 •
85. rifle. 5268 87, hockey, 5100 59,
and skiing. 594 09
Hitler Plagiarizes Froth;
Only Nazis Like Humor
The Penn State Froth, so called humor rag on this campus, has
been plagiailzed’ ' , ,
It is Impossible to understand how anyone (excluding the residents
of Danville) would stoop so low as to copy a sentence from that Bin-full
publication, jokes in which do not
It seems that Life magazine, Au
gust 7, republished a story from
-Volkischer Bfiobacter, , Heir Hit
ier’s official newspaper, on—of all
things—“ How to Kiss ” Now Life’s
readers, who aie extiemely sensi
tive to such things, remembered
seeing the story somewhere before,
possibly iD'College Humor
College Humor, magazine had
evidently needed a space-flllei and
had looked around for the nearest
thing, and on the floor underneath
the editor’s feet was a foot mat,
which we shall call the Penn State
Froth, only because we can think
of nothing more suitable for the
present ■ t
- And; so , the "story 1 continues.
Life's readers became incensed at
the idea' that Der Fuehrer was
copying the 'exclusive art of Amer
Z 658 STATE COLLEGE, PA.,' TUESDAY, SEPTEMEEP- 19, 1939
College spirit among the student body and con- ;
trbiute toward a worll.y uddition to the cheering/
section \
If sufficient funds aie secured, the skin will *
appear—wrapped around Gym Coach Gene
stone—at the opening football game, October 7 ,-C
A complete repoit of the proceeds will be pub* ~
lished in the Collegian following the campaign,
In the event that moie than sufficient money is
raised, the suiplus wil* be granted to the Athletic
Association
’43 Skiddo! Take In
Free Thespian Shorn
In Auditorium Tonight
Hello Joe ,m Whatta ya
know 9 ? »The Thespians are
thiowing a FREE show* ! fm
Sing and Dance . They take
a chance Hoy Hoy, .
and tonight's the night M !! ' i
Yessir, Fiosh, genial “Sock"
Kennedy, Dance Director and
producer of smash Thespian
hits, is giving an evening’s
FREE entcitamment tonight at
8 in the Auditoiium, and it’s es
pecially for YOU!
‘‘Sock,” incidentally, ’ was the
effervescent gentleman who led
the Big Apple Saturday night
in Rcc Hall and he thinks you
all would look swell m the Fall
Thespian ptoduction, “Hot Pin
afore ” The purpose of the shpw
is to give you freshmen an idea
Jof the different* types,of talent
-outlets ’lheThespions offer
NYA Projects
To Commence
Maddox Announces
s2l 165 Boost In
1939-40 Allottment
N*YA woik here will begin to
moirow, Stanley B. Maddox, dliec
toi of NYA work here, announced
yesteiday Maddox pointed out
that ail applications which were
recehed up until last Saturday
noon huve been renewed by the
committee A list of the students
whose applications have been ac
cepted will be posted in the offices
of the respective deans tomorrow.
A boost of $21,465 over last
year’s allottment has been an
nounced The amount available
this yeai Is $90,855, while during
the papt term it totalled 569,390
The amount appropriated last
year made work available to 700
students here and the various cen
ters tluoughout the state ut the
average salary of / $l2 25 per month
This yeai, Maddox said, there will
be no increase in the number of
people employed through NYA
woik, but tlie Increase*ln allott
ment will allow foi higher wuges
this year—sl4 per month
take history, but are history.
lean kissing Letters poured into
Life's editor claiming the story or
iginally' appeared in College Hu
mor But, horrors of horrors, when
Life looked in College Humor they
tound the masterpiece on the tech
nique of kissing was borrowed
: from the Penn State Fioth
So.‘ you'loyal Penn Staters, let
us take off our hats to the Froth
which has made Herr Hitler’s own
mouthpiece _ t *
Now we know the secret of-it
all! it tukes a funny little man
Svith a fly speck' under his nose
and a sense of humor which Herr
"anchluss” Hitler alone possesses
to* appreciate ’ our fellow-publica
tion across Journalism alley here
In Old-Main.
'Watch out for that Froth “mug.”
Dinks, black tieo. mutches,
namecaids. ana handbooks will
be all paitjOf the freshman's
“geai" us they stroll over the side*
. , walks on this campus at 110 P m
Ci. J «, Dtl ■ toinoiiow. and the customs will be
«yiUVi6ni r llOt \' t ' TOUGH and stiictly enforced
T All fieshman men. including
Trainina f V those enteiing school with advanc
-1 ia,n,,, D btundltig, who wish to be ex*
a ■ \\ em Pted from fieshman customs
/xDDIICdntS L.dllCO , muBt P>esent a written petition at
I*l*' uii«* tJw student Union Uebk , 1( ol(I
Of* |i' | 1 \Y/*lf, Main not latei than six p m to-
ZSJ Upperclassmen Wlll r : n | ghl Htal | ng their ieusorn foi
Be Enrolled Here toxxii.ic exemption
i Tribunal Meets Tonight
Application, Toi admission to tlie > ji e „’ s student Tribunal will
ueionuntlcdi training couise wlHi.li ) me( , t Jt 7 ;i0 toniglit in room 305
ulii.be btuiteu lieie this semester ’ o ld Ma | n t 0 on the esemp
should be tiled immediately on.a [j ona jyi fieslimen eligible for
foim furnisbetl by Reglstiar WII-, {exemption must appeal in person
Ham S Hoffman, it nab announced ; at t |, e student Tribunal meeting
yestoidaj ‘ ton i gl ,t
Tlie course is offeied with no } Any fieshman who docs not
college ciedit In coopeiaticni with avail himself of this oppoitunity
tlie Fedeial Civil Aeronuuti'cs Hvlll be expected to observe cus*
authority progtam to train 20,000 j.oms, and will be liable to tjie mux*
student pilots annually Each ap" amum _ penalty should he disobey
plication must be accompanied.by Ihe tegulations
ass deposit which will be leturned r This yeai's ' Student Tribunal
if tlie applicant is not fnembers are chairman, G Warren
, - Under, .the program", jjStliottevMO* Paul' E‘ Gies '4O, W.
agiees^to'offer ground schoorand l 'Charles" Kinnard '4O. Michael M
flight instruction to 20 students Slvvy '4O. Paul G Menzle ’4t) Rob
Giound school'instruction will be eit L Wilson '4O, and William L
given at the College by membeis Coibin ’4l
of the regular faculty in the late Frosh Customs
ufteinoon hours, four periods per The following are a list of the
week, for the first semester Flight fieshman customs which every
instruction will be offered both freshman will be expected to ob
semesters at a nearby air depot to seive
be designated by the federal gov
ernment A minimum of 35 hours
flying will be lequired
The cost of instruction will be
met by the federal government,
but the applicant will be required
to >pay a special fee of $4O This
fee will cover the cost of a $3 000
accident insurance policy the Col
lege must cutry in the name of
the student andthe cost of a phy
sical examination
The pilot training course will be
under the genera] guidance of a
committee comprising Dean Harr>
P Hammond as chairman. Dr 'AI
fred W Gaugei, Samuel K Hostel*
ter and Dean Frank C
It will be conducted under the im
mediate supei vision of Pi of Har
old A Everett as flight instructor
Requirements foi entering the
course aie that the student shall
be from one of the three upper
classes and must have a scolastic
average of 15 or more that the
student pass a rigid physical ex
amination. and that he be a United
States citizen between the ages of
18 .and 23
The following physical require
meats must be met a height. 64
to 78 inches, b weight, not less
than 115 pounds and proportionate
to height, c vision, 20 20 in both
eyes, uncorrected, hearing. 20 20
each ear, and e health, normal in
all items
Since the ground work deals
with such subjects as aircraft en
gines and instruments, theory of
flight and meteorology, prepata
tion in scientific and technical
studies will be necessary
Previous solo flying experience
renders an applicant ineligible .Re*
gardless of- their age, ( students
must have the written permission
of parent or guardian'to neioll
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’43 Customs
Will Start
Tomorrow
Frosh Must Apply
For Exemption At
Tribunal Meeting
1 Freshmen shall at all
times cany a copy of the
Freshman Handbook The in
formation requested on the
Identification Page must be
filled out
2 Fieshmen must at all
limes wear tlieii dhiks and
plain black four in-hand ties
except on trips, holidays, when
escorting women to bouse par
(Continued On Page Three)
New Magazine
Out Next Week
Portfolio Will Appear
Fot First Time Here
Portfolio, -Penn State’s newest
publication, will make its appear
ance on the campus early next
week. Jean Ciaighead ’4l, chair
man of the magazines editoiial
boaid. announced yesterday
The result of a move started last
May. Portfolio will attempt to fill
the need of student and v facultj
membeis foi a publication devoted
chiefly to literary works. Miss
Craighead said
The, magazine featuies short
stories, ai tides and poetry by both
students and professors Included
in the contents of tbc first issue
will be atii article by Prof W L
Weiner of the English Literature
Department, and short stories by
John Connell *29, John Price 39.
and Herbert Nlpson '4O
Scaled in, price so low that It
will flt into the most stringent
budget.‘Portfolio 5 will sell at ten
’cents individual 1 copy and will
•have a subscription rate of forty
five cents for the five issues to be
published this year
Doris Gutman '49, business man
ager, announced that there will be
a'meeting of both the editoiial and
business staffs in Room 418. Old
Main, at 8 p m tonight
Shaw At Hecla
Artie Shaw’s nationally famous
swing band will‘appear at Hecla
Park tomorrow night beginning at
9 o'clock Appearing with him'will
be vocalist Helen Forrest and
Ton) Pastor, who shares the sing
ing-assignments . _
ADVISES FROSH |
A. O, MORSE
Morse Offers
Three Points
To Freshmen
He Advises Wise
Choices, Scholarship,
Attention To Details
’llnec points of advice to fresh
men weie outlined by Adrian O
Moise assistant to the piesident
iu charge of resident instiaction,
at a freshman mass meeting held
last Thursday morning In Schwab
auditor nun
Mi Morse spoke in the absence
of .President rHetzei, who wras' on.
vacation at Rehoboth' Beach, Del
The meeting was also addressed
by Dean of Men Arthur R. War
nock
Points mude by Mi Morse In his
talk were*
1 Sue ess in College depends
to a targe extent on wise choices,
hr choice of subjects, in classes,
and in outside activities
2 The primary offering of the
Pennsylvania State College are its
subjects and Its studies
3 There is an inescapable con
nection between attention to de
tails, such as the preparation of
small dailv assignments, and at
tainment of the laiget goal of suc
cess in College
Warnock Traces History
Dean Warnock hi ills talk on
Thursday morning traced the de
velopnrent of the College, finding
as a key to its history “a purpose
to be socially useful to tire state
and to the nation through a pio
ficienc) lo serve in community
life *’
He told membeis of the incom
ing class that “hi a sense in enter
ing Penn State >ou have subscrib
ed youi life ami \our abilities to
serve tiiis purpose’*
Leaders Address Meeting
- Student leaders addressed tire
freshman mass meeting held in. the
auditor iuni on Tliuisday night
Each explained briefly tire activity
with wbicti lie was connected and
its position iu the school In
charge of the piogranr was H.
Clifton McWilliams *49 all College
student government president
Simple? But There’s Still
Much To Learn In Reading
Roadm’, ’ritin’, and 'nthmetic may seem to be the most elemen
tary subjects, but there still is much to be learned about reading l
This statement is made by Dr. Emmett A Betts, m charge of the
reading clinic at the Cdlcgc Dr Betts’ experiments with school
children have shown that in some school situations one-third of a
given class could do better than the level fixed for their grade and
that anothei thud could not do as well
“If n fouith grade pupil has
first grade reading ability, what
good does it'do him to lepeat the
fourth grade?” Dr. Betts queues
As a general average, he states,
25 percent of first grade pupils
arc deficient in reading.
' Fault Not Teacher’s
Yet the fault is not necessary
the teacher’s In fact investiga
tions carried on in the College
clinic have revealed these startl
ing facts
I —That in seventeen scries of
spellers, not one word occurred
Athletic Advisory
Board Retains
November 25 Date
Rumor Of Shifting Game
To Pittsburgh Killed; May
Change Thanksgiving Plans
-S’cc cditoiial, u David Hurum Talks Turkey'' on page 2
The Pitt-Perm State football gair>e slaved for New Beaver
Field, Saturday, Novembei 25, will oe played here as orig
inally scheduled, the Athletic Advisoiy Boaid tevealed fol
*owing its meeting Satuiday
Bounced back and foilh between State College and Pitts
buigh following Piesident Roosevelt’s pioclamation to'move
Thanksgiving Day ahead to Novembei 2S. the grid classic
of 'he home schedule has been retained as planned
Rumois had bf»en cuculated that
the game would be icturned to Pitt
Stadium thuv dcpnving State of
its featuied contest
May Chance Holiday
Retention of the game in StaU
College opens a path foi the Ad
nnnisti ption to declare a one-day
Thanksgiving Day holiday on
Roosevelt’s ‘Turkey Day,” and use
the lemainmg two days lost m thi*
action for a mid semester vacation
m Februaiy
As Soph Hop is set for Novem
bei 24 such a course of action
would permit the biggest football
weekend in the College’s histoiy
Board Declines Comment
While membeis of the Advisory
Board declined to comment on the
juggling of vacations, indications
pointed to a favorable solution.
“The importance, of. playing-the
Pitt game at home is Wkcen, the
situation will take care of itself,”
was oi e Boaid member’'- view
point
Band Choices
Set Tomorrow
New System Of
Individual Tryouts
Is Inaugurated
With a new system bclug inaug
mated hi the choice of Blue Band
membeis. individual tryouts foi
aspirants to the Blue Band, tiie
two R O T C bands, and the
College Symphony Oithestra will
begin tomonow at 4 p m under
the direction of Hummel Fishbutn,
directoi of instrumental music,
and Frank Gallo,' assistant band
master. it was announced yester
day
Membership in the Blue Band
will be open to any male student
of the College with piefereoce to
juniors and seniors only insofar as
the; are equal to oi supeiiot to tiie
ability of undei classmen on the
same instruments The two R 0
T C bands, which will be desig
| nated the Engineers and the In
fan try. will be composed of sopho
moies and Creshmeu of outstand
ing ability These oiganizations
will bo somewhat snmllei than in
pievious jems
The College Symphony Oiclies
Continued on Page 6
in all of them at any one grade
level
2—That in thirteen series of read
ers only three words were
found in all pre-primers, that
only 31 were found common to
all primers, and only 116 out
of 500 were common to all first
readers
“This inconsistency in text
books," Dr. Betts declares, “makes
it possible for some first-grade
leaders to be more difficult than
some third-giade readers, thus
causing the higher percentage of
failures."
SUCCESSOR
To The Free Lance,
Established 1887
PRICE FIVE CENTS
BULLETIN
The lifeless body of James May
ers, entolied at the College as a
freshman, was found hanging In
the doorway leading to the attic of
his rooming house at 157
wick Avenue at noon yesterday.
He is reported to have been seen
last Sunday evening and left no
notes giving a motive for the sui
cide . ,
Mayers’ home is at 705 W Car
penter Lane. Mt Airy, Philadel
phia According to Police Chief
John R Juba, he used the braided
belt from his bathrobe to commit
the act A coroner’s investigation
was held yesterday afternoon
Upperclass
Registration
Closes Today
Number Is Above
Lasl, Year’s Record;
Fees Set for 28. 29
The Jaigest number of upper
classmen in the Colleges S4*yeai
history begun legisteiing yestei
day in Recieution Hail Registiu
tion will continue fiom S JO a n>
to f> p m today
The exact mimbei that euteied
the Sophomore, Junior and Senioi
classes could not be learaed'os the
Collegian went to pi ess
A line of live dollars will be as
sessed for those students who did
not registei befote 5 p ni todav.
Willfum S H.oftman, icglstiau
said Aftei today, registration
houts will he announced by the re
spective offices ” _V
Fees Paid Sept. 28. 29 “’
Payment of fees (for upperclass
men only)*'will take place Thurs
day and Fifdav, September 2S and
A llve-dollai fine will also be
assessed for late payment of these
fees
Hoffman announced that stu
dents who have had their applica
tion foi deleiled payment appiov
ed must post theit initial install
ment at the legularly scheduled
lime
Classes will assemble foi the
Hist time at 110 p m tomonow
Schedule Changes
A B Ch 427 By appt
Ag Eng 6 M Th 9 3 Dairy
Ch 27 A&B M 9
Ch 27 B F 9-11 Th 2-6
D H 2t> Th 8 211 Dairy S 8
117 Dairy
Ed 10 T F 9 W 2 Th 7-9.30 p m.
E E‘ 8 T F S 200 Eng E ’
E E 12 T F 8 202 Eng D- /r~
Fr 1 A W 9 S 10 M 3 4 NLA’
Get 3 P W 11 M F 2 211 M Eng
I E Lao 114 G & H T 2 12*1 Eng B
Mclis 7 A M Th 8 F 1 201 Eng A
M E Lab 10’J ET2-SME Lab
Phys Ed 11 B W 2-4 3 W H. „
Russian 1 T Th 3-4*30 19 HE
Soc 10 T F 8 W 1 35 Ed
Library Period For
Transfers Saturday,
Library practice ‘and problem
periods will be held at 1 p„m. and
3pm -next Saturday for transfers
from the undergraduate centeis,
tiansfeia with advanced standing
and graduate students from other
institutions.