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VOL. 36-r No. 12.
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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<book v and apparatus
Exhibits in the‘old Physics,‘ Build
tfng.:'ln this;, same building, from
”f:B6;,p x l p. n m;. toddy,
6San?Whitmoro will 'give the' ad- 1
dress lof *’ welcome,
ihfHalks Iby^several 1 outstanding
physicists from othercolleges. Xj
/j-I)r ,l ‘ Cf ,Charles';F.'s Squire, ofi the‘
: dfepartment'off physics, of _ the„ Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, will speak
dt ,8 "o'clock in the. Home Economics
Auditorium. >/- 1 {
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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
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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.