Semi4/l/eekly / j , JACK PUTNEY •m\ sJmn State A (Holtegtatt ■ I = VOL. 36-r No. 12. f‘ - ' 1 . ’ ' Debaters: Our Showdown Editorial tl j PAST HISTORY, reveals that the present wangling over the idebate fee is nothing new. On various other oc casions,‘one r organization or requested its share of the “untouchable” sum. ' f It’s time for a showdown! ■ 1 f „While the Cojlegian grants that debating is a woi thwhile activity which helps, to build up the prestige of the College and that debating should not be handicapped by, slashing its Appropriation extensively, this is not the question. l'“ -’ And the debate-faction realizes this too. ' Why should every be forced to pay 25 tents idVery semester, 50 cents every year, to ’keep up a, debating ,warn,when-other aclivties —we single out, the Glee Club in this dispute—just as worthwhile "and perhaps considerably more; appealing to, the student body than debating,, are not given a single penny? ' I - From approximately 6,000 students every year, Penn State’s debating teams, men and women, receive about 53,- jIOO. The'Glee Club “sings for'its supper.” ' r - ’ Why, the Collegian asks, is not a portion, of that 25 cents 'given' to the support of the Glee Club and other musical ac tivities which are as worthwhile as, debating, just as “pres tige building” as debating, m many cases, more appealing "than debating, and have often brought.to the College prized intercollegiate honors?, ’ • 4 , ’ ' *' 6 S j _ 'IHE IDEAL' SOLUTION, of course., would be to secure a "small increase in" the general fees. Everybody would then beisatisfied—maybe . 1 - ‘ ' " just how the Board of Trustees would look upon any in crease in fees is > questionable. Present indications seem to point to the.-Trustees disfavoring, such a move' , - ? , ; In ‘ addition,;how*'would .other money-seeking, organiza tions react? .Human nature calls'for prompt ..action' ; on then part to seek,an increase' for their jarticular purposes. There ht (ies a;probleih. .7i, ~ - "V , ~ , ~ , I If-sucHfa problem- is lo be ayoided. lhe logical answei : ®d'aiVide"thFdebate~f6'Cr:V X*.i‘, iGOllegian .’discovered that a'majority'pf undergraduates were al-fiie ,opinion tHat-the’debate fee should be.'split iii-the event that a feejincrease'.for the Glee .ClubVwas. impossible. 1 t (Continued On Page-Two)' 1 . ,'' , _ , ‘ Student Crdss-Section : fT ' opinion here is practically., unanimous, in favor ,ot a Glee Club fee-to help finance life, activities of that organization, a cross sec* Cion, survey yesterday revealed ' ,„ - i sldeas vary shaiply, however, on the question oLwhether the Glee 6lub appiopriatkrn should.come out of the' 50*cent debate fee or'whether fees'should be Increased to ptovide for the Glee Club funds M^ics’Teachers fßr Conference ** i. ' ‘Every. recognized - college apd university‘'in' Pennsylvania is ex pected 'to he 'represented at'? the Annual conference of Pennsylvania College physics teacher? to be 1 held here, today and* tomorrow.'* special "interest' toi.the fac jilty'are the/- 1 { ? , * Gases Are Rouble-Last r - Y ear’s * -rAlthough - there’-was one '•week schoob during September i tjiis year," the' College hospital had patients .in'bed, ’a total of 92 j-tfgys while'.last yeaj* there were gorily 32 ‘patients bed ‘42 days September. .. \ : patient calls at the hos- during 1 - September - this year! HWtfe { 680' a year dgs.;?The dispensary last ‘month <adi,7Bl calls-while in Septem- JgerV 2,437 ' - ' Collegian, Staff Meets ‘» ?vr/A!l Sophomore Business can- .COLLEGIAN C.? Russell < Eck, yitfuslncssr Manager, ‘Rdfd?Malnrat >1:30 p.\m„'Satur- V Of those interviewed, 44 per cent favored' splitting' th'eS debate fee and 48 per,'cent,- favored a fee in crease. 5 , s “ , l t - ' I A majority of students', however, were of, the opinion'that 'the~de bate k fee should“besplit in case a flight fee increase for' the Glee Club,was impossible '* -j -A surprising , number of’under graduates contacted aware that they'paid a-50-cent de bate fee, every.- year''--A jority pleaded Ignorance; asked/ ‘whether ’ they .thought the debate team Cdeserved its/50-ceht fee, while .20 ; jper cent said; “no ” Typical reasons given for ting the debate fee were “music is 1 a lot more' 1 interesting/’ “the Glee Club l &preadS’the > prestlg£ ot'Penn' State' jußt as .well ’'as’ debating,”, “notenough.students are interest ed in debate,“."the Glee Club has won, a loTof prjsestand 'deserves something” ' J* v . Such opinions .as ./“the debate team > spends" too - much' money,” and-“the debaters, aren’t In the pubjlc % eye-, enough’’ came from those who believed'that the debate team .'does not,deserve its present 50-cent fee.- ' - < Revelry, Piety, A Parisian Trip; All Offered At Ball 1 Tonight's the night .. a night for revelry andalso piety ,v , There-is^reason gay be cause Beaux, .Ball offers a < [frivllous trip tbroughthe “Streets, of Parls“-’and. there is reason to be pious because a queen is going* to'he'crowned' “ - -* I All this'and the. Campus Owls; too, ,'will be 'on the program for your, enjoyment ln Rec Hall at 9 , p'•in/tonight.-.V i _i w* Announcement of the'student se lected queen willtakeplace at in termission.' In the meanwhile,' bal- , lotfng is’still going, on in Old Main I and at the Corner. ■ ■*' 7- - , * J Z 65 8/ oTATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1939 | PLEDGE SPEAKER, , , Bucknell Dean To Speak At ’ Pledge Dinner: Dr. Sutherland Will Alsu Talk At Chapel Service; Morality' To Be Subject Di Robert L Sutherland. Dean of Men at Bucknell University, will speak at the annual Pledge Ban quet to be held ut the Nlttauy Lion inn. Sunday at 5 45 p *ni. “The Most Distinguished Alum nus Award” of Knox College was presented to .Dr Sutherland, this year, in reeognitiou'of his woik as director of' the Negro Youth Study * He is also a member of the American Sociological Society, the American Association for-Ad vancement of Science, and several other' oigauJzations.iHJonorarj to .which .Dr Sigma Delta Chi. ,i') r Dr Sutherland jwill also speak at chapel service,*.Sunday morn ing on “Inventions iri.Morality ”, \Tbe committee’in charge of'thls year’s dinner includes Quentin W Couch '4O, and Harold “'Pry '4O, co chairmen; Ralph C 'Routsong, Jr', ’4l, Paul Doty *4o,'and Charles Hiiferty ’4O Jack Putney- heads the Christian Association's part in the dinner and Frank" C Anderson Jr, the work doneiby the Inter fraternity Council t - ~A record attendance is expected this year at the pledge banquet, and t a -new • arrangement will be used to aid the pledges in meeting each - Tribunal Acts On. 4 Major Issues; Punishes 7 Frosh Freshman,beware’, Student Tri bunal took definite action on all freshmen who violate the four ma jor issues acted upou in thelr'meet ing -Tuesday evening as they ex cused 17 offenders and punished seven other custom breakers Special, warning was issued to freshmen planning to attend the Beaux Arts'Ball All customs must" be observed until one-half hour be fore the dance begins Three fraternities, Phi Kappa Sigma, Delta Chi and Tau Kappa Epsilon, were, granted permission to hold pledge dances a Finally, a final decree was issued that the Tribunal will consider it a- major offense if --any freshmen leaves, a football game before It is over, .and Tribunal will penalize any freshmen caught walking on the grass after' the' game’ is over' hyfm^4t Memories 'of, a' summer, in the war-torn Baltic haunt Frank .J. Lynn, Jr ’4l as he walks around State College these days v' During the summecLynn learn ed to know members,of the crew of, the German training ship Schle swlgg - Holstein?, ■which fired the first shots' of the’ Second World War, spent one,and''a half hectic hours on board a .boat zig-zagging through a German 'mine field in which ,the y <, Greek steamer Kosti was sunk, at/d \ shipped home on a boat designed'for 12 - passengers jwith 135'refugees in-the hold. ' ,But the proudest; of, .all Lynn’s | adventures,was the taking' of pic-, tures of German * nilne-laycrs, on his way through the field. The [ pictures, 80 in all,'are uncensored. Decision On Debate Fee Split Tabled Glee Club, Debate Factions In Clash; Outcome Unknown . Opposing factions repre senting glee club and debat ing, interests .fought to a standstill over a split of the present 50 cent debate fee as action was tabled pendng furl ther investigation at a hotly contested session of the All- College Cabinet Tuesday m ! ht ; With the musical organization requesting one half of the fee and the debaters struggling to protect thpir allotment, little indication of the final outcome could be deter mined. Conway, Gallu Clash Thomas D. Conway *4O, on be half of the debate team, and Sam Gallu *4O, president of the Glee Club and newly-elected chairman of the Board of Dramattcs and Forensics, exchanged verbal blasts for the Cabinet’s benefit . Senior Class President David E ’ Pergrin, chairman ‘of the commit tee'to mvestibate the debate fee, opened theLcontroversial discus sion by submtiting the financial ieport l of the debate team. Num erous queries were made by Cab inet members * V, Outstanding in Gallu’s plea foi (Continued On Page Two) NYA Open To Only., £=? «*• r ;j» •vffJe *5: Must Appear '' . - Before "Notary Public; -No Fee Will Be Charged All NYA students now on the pay-rolls of the College must ap pear before a notary public Mon day, Tuesday oi'Wednesday.fco be sworn In to a citizenship affidavit, Stanley B Maddox, director of NYA work here, announced yes terday. The notary public will be m the first floor lounge of Old Mum from 9 am. to noon and from 1:30 to 5*30 p m each of the designated days Matriculation Cards Needed Matriculation cards will be nec essary for identification. Maddox warned , that any students who do not appear foi the affirmation will immediately be dropped from the NYA rollb Last year 12 were dropped .for this reason. The citizenship affidavits must .be filled out and filed at Harris burg before any pay checks can be released This ruling falls un der the Public Resolution No 1 of the 76th Congress of the United States which states "No alien shall be given employ ment or continued in employment on any project prosecuted ,uudei the appropriations' contained m the Emergency Relief Act of 1938 or,this joint resolution. Provided, That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be available to pay any person thirty days aftei the approval of this joint resolu tion who does not make affidavit as to United. States citizenship, such affidavit to be considered pnma facie evidence of such cit | lzenship ” . I Maddox stated that there would I be no fee charged the students foi 1 the notary public. „ ackWith Photos Of They show his boat being guided through the mine' field and show the mine-layers at work. i;He spent'the 'summer as a sea man on the American Scantic Lme motorship,, Mormachawk, sailing from Chester, on July 15 and! re turningl to New’York three weeks ago.''When.war broke out ; his boat was in Kovisto, Finland It was on the way from there to Copenhagen that he took his pictures - v.The;Mormachawk was (the last American' boat out of Gdynia in the Polish Corridor about >3O miles from Danzig. It was during three days there 1 tbat|he'became friends with members of the crew of the Schleiswig-Holstem, German bat tleship which a few 'days'4ater opened the war~with 'the l shelling Underdog Nittany Gridders Point For Upset Win Over Cornell At Ithaca Tomorrow i + 275-LB. BEAR TRAP Guidance Tests Now Open To Freshmen Vocational guidance tests will be ghen fiee this month foi the first time in the history of the College to ail freshmen in the Lower Dhlsion, the School of Physical Education and Athletics, and the School of Edu- The tests are being giveu, it was announced, in answer to a demand on the part of the students for in foi rnation about themselves on which they can base their choice of a course in College and a voca tion when graduated A confidentiaiNreport of the re sult will be given, each freshman and, on request, a personal con ference will be arranged in which the significance of the results will be< discussed The tests will lequire each stu dent to be pieseut in White Hall on two evenings, once’next week and once during the following ueek Testing will start promptly at 7 p in. aud will require slightly more than two hours each evening -The schedule for testing follows: Physical Educatlou—Octobei 24 and October 31 Lower Division—October 26 and November 1 Home Ec and Industrial Education —Octobei 26 and November 2 Medlar Confined To Hospital Charles "Chuck'’ Medlar ’42, fteshman football, basketball star last year, has withdrawn ,from school to have a floating cartilage in his knee operated on. of * the Westerplatte munitions base in the Danzig harbor. "Even then they thought they owned Pol and,’ Lynn said yesterday On Labor Day, with ready staited, Lynn’s boat was on its way from Finland to Copen hagen when it was hailed by u German destroyer as it neared the mine fteld, and gvien the interna tional signal .to “follow us.” At the edge of the field they lay at anchor three hours-while a gold-braided naval office was brought out from Germany as a pilot. ’’ . Then they were piloted through the'field as Danish and Greek merchant vessels tagged behind' Later Lynn heard that the"last of tiie three boats, the Greek Kosti,' lsad'Heen sunk when it hit a loose CA Drive Has $4,000 Goal Kick-Cff Dinner Will Start Student Campaign; Goal For Faculty Set At $lOOO With its'student goal set at $4,- 000 the annual PSCA finance drive will get underway with a Kick-Off dinner'in the Nittany Lion Inn at 545 p m next Monday Actual soliciting will begin Tuesday and will be carried on until Friday night. A faculty campaign to be earned on concurrently has a $l,- 000-goal f . The finance drive has the dual purpose of raising funds to cairy on the PSCA service and activities program during 1939-’4O, and of acquainting all students witji the PSCA which its dnectois claim, is the oldest, largest and the most cosmopolitan of all student oi gamzations Brief speeches at the Kick-Off dinner will be made by Dr Maish W. White, president of the PSCA bouid of directors; Miss A Paul (Contlnued On Page Twoi aval War Five mines went off within 800 yards of the Mormachawk, on one occasion two at once So terufic was this explosion that the engin ! oer m the hold entered m his log | the cryptic, "Struck a submerged object ” 1 When the, ship finally leached Denmark it took on 135 American refugees from the thousands stranded there Although the ref ugees had to live in the hold they were so anxious to get back that one woman lefused an offei of $3,500 for her place, Lynn related. The refugees were in the No. 4 hold. In the No 3 hold adjoining were horses and cows while in the No. 5 hold on the other side was Rusisan caviar. Thirty Lions Leave This Morning For Important Battle; Frketich May Replace Stravinski In Lineup Meeting Will Be Twelfth Between Foes; Both Squads Undefeated; Big Red Boasts Wins Over Syracuse,. Princeton 'lcJay a Big Red Bear is lying in its den at Ithaca, N. Y awaiting what it believes will be a little pastime when it goes out to romp with Goldilocks r l omoi row that same Big Red Bear will get the surprise ot its lite when the Goldilocks turns out to be a determined Nittanj Lion with teeth and claws baied. The Big Red Bear’s surrnse is slated to occui at 2 p m tomonow on Schoelj kopf Field Edily this morning 30 Blue and White gndders boarded busses to make their final fling at defeating the Big Red of Cornell Tomor iow’s battle will be the twelfth between the two schools, six of which have been won by the Ith acans and four by the Lions One meeting ended in a scoreless tie Cornell Favored Although both squads will entet the fiacas undefeated, the Nittany forces will be on the'shoit end of the betting odds ‘Cornell has won twice over a highly-rated Syiacuse eleven and last * Saturday boat Princeton The State team, victor ious in the Lehigh and Bucknell games, will be seeking revenge foi %sr^ki P 5 x 21-6 ' , , Though undecided on his exact starting lineup. Coach . Bob' Hig gins indicated that the opening eleven would be much the same as that which faced the Engineers last week Howevei, two loomed very likely at piactice ses sions late in the week lien FrkeC lch, 275 pound sophomore tackle, may leplace Carl Stravinski, who has been idle 'much of the week with a bad leg ‘Another change may find Steve Rollins in the tail back spot for Chuck Peters The players making the trip ‘to Cornell include Captain Alter, Vargo, Parsons, Radcliffe, and Washabaugh, ends, Fiketich, Ki az, Platt, Stravinski, and Pollock, tackles, Garbinski, Mon, Nemeth, Sears, and Woodwaid, guards; Gajecki, Kolenda, and Wear, cen ters, Day, Debler, Eigeniouch, (Continued oh Page Four) Swing Pinafore Tuned To Times By ’3l Thespian Gilbeit and Sullivan in the gioove* Two musical nunds got togethei, pondered over the stiff waltz mel odies of an 1878 opera, said, "whv not 7 ” Like Benny Goodman jvent to work on ‘Loch Lomond,” like Max ine Sullivan went to work on “Daik Eyes,” they went to work on Gilbert and Sullivan The le sult, a sparkling new swing ver sion of "H M.S Pinafore ” Alumnus Arranged Music When the curtain rises Friday night of Housoparty Weekend on the Glee-Thespians Fall produc tion, they can give a credit line to one of their alumni For it was FJrank F. “Duke” Moms ’3l of Philadelphia, former - Thespian, who conceived and earned out the idea of rearranging Pinafore to swing Don Dobbie, co-arranger of the Swing Pinafore, is a member of a Wilkes-Barre band. Although the story of life aboard the Flagship of the Eng lish Navyg and the love of a Cap tain’s daughter for a common seaman will remain the same, properties, lyrics, and costumes will be strictly streamlined In stead of an ancient Man-of-War, a sleek battle cruiser will be the main set The Glee-Thespian production of the Mid-Victorian opera will be the first attempt to present the perennial Gilbert and Sullivan hit m swingtime against a modernis tic background. PRICE FIVE CENTS Doctor Boosts - New Dorm As Housing Aid Savs Excels of Rooms Is Only Real Way To Cure Room n£ Condition Here “Not until we have more coomb thun we have, students, is there likely to be any real l improvement' in‘ J State College 'housing condi tions/’ it was predicted - yesterday by. Dr Joseph P. Rißteno’ur, direc 'tor*of _ the^College“HealtK* 1 Service/ n commenting on a faculty sug gestion that the erection of new dormitories is the only solution to the present housing problem ; , The faculty suggestion' wa» made in a letter to the editor of the Collegian last week- urging that-students have .their-parents write to state legislators asking new dormitories for the College.'*'} Need for More Rooms Seen Di Ritenour pointed out that ns long as rooms remain so scarce that students must take almost anything available no real ' solu tion‘of the'"housing problem can be expected , , Should the College erect new; doimitories, he said, students would then have a choice of rooms and householders would be. forced to improve conditions and-rates in older to meet competition.-/ * “I have often thought/’ Dr. Rit enour said, “that a private cor poration which could erect its own dormitory downtown would do well financially” '' Various Improvements Cited Improvements, Dr Ritenour a'd led, should not be along the line uici eased luxury but they should be made with respect^to sanitation, cubic feet of space, lighting both natural and arrti fiual, and made of entrance from the point of view of safety. These, he thinks, would result if a-i Col lege dormitory were to be ejected to alleviate the present crowded conditions Senior Girl Wins Judging Contest Cynthia D Tompkins r 40,-;tool: first place in horse judging at the Amercian Royal Livestock, show at Kansas City, Mo, with a‘per* feet score of 250. Miss Tompkins is the first Penn State student evei to make a perfect score at that show'. * - > Joseph W Beckenstrater' ’4O placed fourth m sheep judging with 222 points and Curtis A. Miller ’4O was 15th with 214 points Teh team placed fourth in sheep j'udging. The Penn State team took 17th place in the contest. Blue Band Names Leader; James A. Leyden Jr., ’42/ sou of Janies A Leyden ’l5, comjjoser of Penn State’s famous “Victory March” and'"The has been named drum major of ,the Blue Band for the ’B9-’4O season. Leyden, who obtained previous Ex perience as drum major of the R O.T.C Band made his debut in l the Bucknell game.