Se *Htassi^ k,y 304 °^ E KAI!I 1 prmt #tate |P (KoUpgtan [ = VOL.-36—No. 14 1 PENN-STATE'S Football Plight t* 1 1 Launching The 'Objective Analysis Editorial By A. WILLIAM ENGEL, JR., Editor . FAIR PLAY, as in any sport, is a fundamental requisite in any two-fisted editorial attack which may appear, in this of other newspapers against an individual or group of in dividuals. , - That the, present football situation was unjustly at tacked, by;th'e in.its last issue mas bombastic a manner as could be utilized seems, to be the opinion of many. - \ Thatsuch an outburst definitely was backed by student opinion seems, to'be'the belief of equally as many, r , Whether the.tactics used wereelhical; whether the time was psychologically set; whether'the, immediate outcome would. be good or bad—all are matters of fervent - • ' ' 1 , , .a- 4 ’ „ .'f IF TH E doNTENT of Between The Lions was taken as a* personal affront it was thoroughly misinterpreted. The article Vas,directed ai a machine—a machine which did not merely fail to'produce in. a single attempt, but which has sputtered periodically over , a span of nine years. ' V? Xny machineiwhich.is running snioothly is certainly no! in need of repair. -Yet, if a sudden breakdown'occurs in this machine, •• alj hands endeavor to readjust. ;;Such has been the undeniable case of Perin-Slate’s lSWii football .machine—twice'victorious and running smoothly, btli^in-ils'third attempt, pitifully shattered in.an unbeliev able breakdown; 1 v"' 1 * . * *■ * * ■ NEVERTHELESS, it is in the interest of fairness and a,-realization, that'facts carry more weight than words that the Collegian launches an unprejudiced “objective analysis’ l of PcnnlStatc’s football'plight. . J , .The* Collegian assumes that considerably more is the fnattcrwith football here than the “inbred’-’ coaching system. (1) .the “intangibles,” (2) 'the material,; (3) the; facilities (equipment.-,etc;), and </) the cojiching.-:-, ;; . ' " -■; v v - ;; ; Il'~:tS .WlTH,'the “intangibles”.'that the Collegian : is first-'confronted. Such may be prompted, by; psychological factors, by, morale,, or-by numerous other vague occurrences. V ■ How., can one explain Penh State’s “up and down” sea son last" year—a season which -was interspersed by disheart ening losses ,10, inferior teams arid, spectacular upsets over mrijorjopporients? That is an “intangible.” , True, it may be just a 'spark which ignites these 11 players. And this same spark may, appear again this season Syracuse tomorrow or against anv of the .Lion’s ieihamirig' major'.opponents. ■by'-‘The “intangible” is a-dark horse on any football battle field. ,This College eleven is not alone in its tussle with the impalpable.' Apparently, the material, or, the facilities, or the coaching have more "to do with.the Penn Slate'football plight. 42 Named To Cast Of Glee-Thespian & Swing Pinafore’ ' Admission Slashed To New Low ' For Fall House party Production tt * Swinging into tbeir'finai week of rehearsals before they open at Schwab "Auditoiium Friday night of Houaeparty Weekend, the direc tor) of the GJee-Tließpiatiß swing version of H M S Pinafore today Is-, alidd two Jmpoi taut' announcements- The entire singing and dancing cast of 42 lias been selected, and, a,new low’admfsslon price of fifty (60) cents will be in effect , 4 . £l“.®'™!!“°.“°,“ 10 °,” e ' halt Under many, '42, Bertha DoutheU '4l, tdgnlar v admission price, was made Ei Be Gabrlelson ’42, Elizabeth Han to'Ught of the fact that houaeparty scom . 43> Mary 'Louise Jenkins 40, !S a, fine when the.aver- 'Alvira Konopka'4l,' Dorothy Kratz aga.persoiis main interest-la say- . 43i Elizabeth'Rlnard 141, and Har- IBg money, and •, It was .believed riet Wllllamß’4o , that-reducing the price iwould iAI “ tOS . Eleanor Fagans,'4l. Jane greatly, help persons who .want to Gibboney.'42/Betty Hartswick ’4o,' kbethe showv . ■‘ ■ June Keigh’’42, Dorothy Reeves -.lhe entire cast, selected from - 4 i,.Elizabeth Reid ’42„ and Lola both'Thespians and Glee Club,'■ls g£ s j( a >4l* /. , 1 r - * • - ;• _ y Tenors* ’42, Fenwick P/ v-- principals, ,/ , Brown'42, Garth Dletrick’42,'Rob- M S Pinafore principals, are* ert ,Hotter‘M2, John Meloy ’4O, bThe x 'Rt sHcn. Sir Joseph .Porter, Clinton' Quigley. ’42., Roderick fe.\C. B (First Lord ,of;the Admir- Thompson MO, 1 and Don-White M 2 Yanofsky MO,, Capt, -•"'Basses Hayes-Darby MO, Rich* T Gdrcoran .(Commanding ;H, M. S> ard 'Daugherty. MO, Harold Doran rPlhafore), Robert Ralph *42, Arthur" Jenkins ’4O, Harry iftackstraw (Able Locks M 3, Edwin- Moore ’4O; Ed 'tfallu.MODick-Deadeye (Able Sea* wa rd Osterliout MO, Roduey Serat- Llewellyn Ml; * Bill. i n& mi. and Richard Warfield'Mo .Bobstay' (Boatswain),„Gordon" Fay •MIV/Botf “Becket - (Boatswain’s ’Mate),'Robert derating; !41; Jose* -phineMthe /Captain's '^Daughter), ’Miriam'Rhein M 3, Hebe/(Sir Jos* ‘eph'a first ‘cousin),' Grace Hender* 'shat c MI; Little Buttercup"(a Ports- Wbman), iMartha c Stringer ■ *c" . ' Sopranos * LJ' Betty' Brown % Ml, !,fciith Burrage Ml, Margaret' Car* Dr. Convention! - Dr.' C 1 >R. Austin,* professor of metallurgy, is attending a conven tion of the- American Society' for ’ Metals at Chicago this week He is' attempting to.advance arrange mentc for an' inter-chapter meet ing of the society to be held here m May 1940. « ’ . - A REAL ALL-AMERICAN -1 Seek Orange UpsetJ As Balm For Waunds 29 Lion Football, Players Leave Hoping To Repeat Surprise Win Of Last Year f * By DICK PETERS * Between the hours, of 2:30 and ,4:30 p.m. tomorrow an explosion will echo down the mountains from Archbold Sta dium—the repefcussion to be set off when Penn State’s-Nit tariy Lions and-the Syracuse Orangemen tangle in what wilf. prove to be a blasting gridiron,battle_^\ 1 -^_. s Lt.-_ i x£4 ,S bloOd -stifi 'boiling': ft om a crushing defeat at-the hands of-Cornell’s Big Red last Sat ui'day, departed early, this morning for Orangeland, seeking to repeat their upset triuiWph ‘ovei the Syracusans last Rea son." . ' + : On the.other hand, the men of Otange have not forgotten the dis aster which befell themwhen they visited in the Lion’s den and are geared to “shoot'the works” in an attempt to bag the Nittany hide Though having a record showing only one win, over little Clarkson, and , defeats against Cornell .and Duke, with a Georgetown deadlock thrown in, Ossie Solem’s lads will be favorites m tomorrow’s meet ing , Orange Lead Series Of the 17 past encounteis be tween the two schools, the New Yorkeis have taken home ten wins to the n Lions four, with three games, ending in ties.;/ , . Though, hindered during the past week by numerous small in juries, the Blueiand White leather luggeis will -be at nearly full strength for the Syracuse battle Diminutive dynamiter Pepper Pet lella, has lecovcred to see action against the Orange, as has Bill Smattz', sophomore maiks : man Other injuries'suffered in the Cornell clash were not too serious Thiee possible, changes, may be seen in the starting lineup for the Nittany forces Ted Nemeth may start at guard for Mike' Garbinski, while Carl’ Stravinski will resume his old spot*, at replacing (Continued On Page Three) Soph Hop Committee Pre-Vues Dance Featuring Recordings Of Kemp’s Band ■ Tribunal Allows "Fresh Tot— — ' —+ Co-Chairmen McKniglit ’42 Attend Dances.ln Armory; And Levy ’42 Publicize Hop Friday Afternoons 4to 5 ! To All’Returning Alumni Soph Hop goers will have plenty of chance to get an (advance line 011 Hal Kemp and his orchestra with, pre-vue dances scheduled ev ery Friday from now until the dance on November 24'' The dances* featuring Kemp recordings, will'be held in the Ar mory from*4_to‘6 o’clock-every Friday afternoon The first was held last week/ ' ''' , Special permission has been ob tained from *Student“ Tribunal to allow freshmen' to attend all of the dances. 1 The ruling^,according to G War ren, Elliott ’4O. chairman of Tri bunal, not affect ".dress cus ,toms'* and -does "hot, allow' freshmen to escort women either to or from STATE COLLEGE/ PA.J|FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1939 IMA Presents Hat Society For Approval • Granting official approval for the 'foimal organization of a new cam pus hat society, the IMA. central council, at a meeting Wednesday night." decided to petition Student Tribunal and the Student Welfaie Board for i their okay If these bodies favor the proposal, the so clety will tap men and begin to function immediately The committee in charge of the proposed society is now drawing up a constitution which states that any man, fraternity or non-frater nity. may become a member of the society «• Qualifications Listed Some of the qualifications of the men arc “These men selected to become members of this society hhall be selected tor their contri bution toward the betterment of Penn State and not as recognition for their Individual attainments These men shall not be expected to lender any-special services aft er their selection To be eligible, 'the men must.be junlois or sen iors. ' - * , ‘KEMP f ‘ Two Groups Plan Housing Action Soon Senate Committee May Inspect; Board ■ Drafts Constitution (Developments in' both adminis tration and student consideration ot’the student rooming situation moved forward apace this week as Uje- Senate Committee on Student Welfare authorized its own sub committee to study a plan of in spection and the Student Housing Board, drafted a constitution to guarantee itself as a permanent organization jThe Student Welfare sub-com mittee which' will be named, prob- Meeting OF Housing Bkard Slated Monday .Student organizations repre sented on the Student Housing Board have been called to send representatives to a meeting In 312 Old Main at 4 p. ,m. Monday draft a constitution for the Board The member groups are: Student Union Men's Association iPenn State Christian Associa tion . ' * ,Penn State Club .s'Penn State Collegian 4 'Student Co-operative Associa (tlon , i Women's Student Government ' Association 1 Other .Interested organizations, it’"'was > announced by (Emanuel , Roth '4O, temporary Board chair ‘ man, may- send representatives : tojslt in on the session. • ably next week, is commissioned to 'work out a plan for rooming house to'the^Senate s and"the College-Ad ministration "and put into action as soon as possible In its study the sub-committee will take cognizance of a Student Housing Board plan for voluntary looming house inspection which the Committee on Student Welfare last May “approved m principle ” A great number of details under the student plan remain to be woiked out, members of the com mittee say, as the College at pres ent has no machinery to provide the finances necessary for inspec tion 1 • Students Will Co-operate The Student Housing Board through its temporary chairman, Emanel Roth ’4O, yesterday ex pressed the desire to co-operate in every ,way possible with the Student Welfare sub-committei* “in order that all the necessary machinery may be put into action before the present school year ends.” "Roth also called a meeting of the Housing Board in Room 312, Old Main, at 4 p.m next Monday to consider the constitution drafted last week-as the Board forwarded its plan to seek official College recognition from the Student Wel fare group Following the Monday meeting the constitution and a petition for recognition will be turned over to the Senate commit tee,- Another section of the constitu tion provides that the Board shall hold hearings in any instance where a question as to student 1 housing may arise the dance Their only association may be in the Armory while the dance is going on " Meanwhile, with dances undeiway, the Soph Hop co-chair men, William J. McKnight ’42 and Henry I. Levy '42, are pushing plans to publicize the function in Philadelphia and'Pittsburgh in an effort.to attract alumni who will be-returning for the Pitt game the following afternoon. , ✓ /Members'of the Soph Hop com mittee are Ruth tßentz, 1 David A Harvey, James H Morton, John M.~ Phillips,- Jack F. O’Brien, George; K. Schubert, Benjamin Seems, and William Zielonka, all sophomores. * Nittany Lion Booters Will Babble Syracuse Soccermen Tomorrow -t- Dean Predicts ‘Destruction’ If US. Wars Whitmore Attacks Idea That. We Will Join Allies "lf"we‘go in ‘(to"war) again either to save the Allies from Ger many or for any other fine-sound ing reason which may be concocted and fed to us, : we shall be doing our bit to destioy western civil ization as we know it,” it was said yesterday m a lettei to the editoi of Collegian from Dr Frank C Whitmore, dean of the School of Chemistry and Physics' Occasion foi the letter was a Collegian interview published last Fnday m which Arthur H Reede, assistant piofessor of economics, said, “It is safe to assume that we will fight for the Allies rathei than see them beaten by Ger many ” Statement Dangerous “This soil of statement is alto gether too common and much too Jangerous It represents the most vicious type of piopaganda, the kind of piopaganda which put us in the last wai It assumes that, we are governed entirely by emo tions,” Dean Whitmore wiote Challenging the effectiveness of oui entiy into the last war, Whit more wiote, “The question is whether the Allies won the war at all It certainly looks as though they lost it. probably thanks to our help If we had attended to our own business and stayed strictly at home, the Allies would now be much better off ” - Real Tragedy “The real tragedy of our par ticipation in the World War,” lie wiotj*, “is not only that we sacri ficed hundreds of thousands of oui young men to graves in Europe, to giaves m this country, and to living graves, but also that we made the sacrifice for no good to anyone with the possible exception of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. “The sacrifice of these young men did not save, democracy, did not end uai, and did not even help England and France except in a ; momentary and most illusory way Lutz Will Train 30 Student Fliers Sherm Lutz, flight instructor at the State College Air Depot, is cooperating with the government and the College authorities in training 30 Penn State men under the year-old Civil Aeionautics Au thority Program. The CAA plans to train 20,000 civilian fiiets in the nation’s col leges'as* a, means of promoting commerce and the progress of American aviation. 1 A complete outline of the present program is portrayed in “20,000 Men A Year,” a movie hit now playing at the State Theater Jeffreymen Seek 50th Consecutive Victory 1932 Orange Team Caused Last State Defeat; Both Squads In Top Condition By ED MeLORIE An Orange, that on November 5, 1932 caused a Lion its last case of indigestion again looms as a serious threat to the health of Penn State’s soccei team as the Nittany hooters prepaie for their crucial tussle with Syracuse on New Beaver Field at 2:30 pm. tomori ow Foi the Lions it will be the quest of their 50th game without defeat while for Syiacusans it will be another opportunity foi them to upset an enviable Debate Fee Decision Due Next Tuesday Cabinet Metling Delayed By Forensic Proposal; Debate Squads Selected Held over until next week by the postponement of the Cabinet meeting, the hotly-contested de bate fee question will be settled oi lefeired to committee by the Cab ■ net next Tuesday night Forensic Council’s proposal of b student-faculty committee curly this week was responsible for the delay in action, Cabinet members saidrlt f •was'th6ugptrwise''to'‘con sider the new plan at some length ' Meanwhile, the 26 men who will comprise the varsity debate squad and 14 who will make up the freshman group were named early this week by Joseph F. O’Bnen, coach, and H F Zelko, assistant coach Debate Members Members of the vaisity organi zation are Semots Thomas D Conway, Eddie G Couch, Bernard A Fieed, Thomas P Geet, Julian F Gould, Jonas B Kauffman, Harvey Levin, Fred T Limnger, John P Reidt, Leonard S Sch neider, and Roger F. Scott Juniors David R Benjamin, Heinz Block, Lewis P Gieen, Os car Kranich, David M Orkin, Ro beit I Weiss, and John R Wis hait Sophomores—Robert D Baird. Paul R Decker, Gerald F Doherty, William E Harkins, Norman E Oakes, William C Ritzel, Donald N Staitzel, and Donald S Will iams The freshman squad includes Manuel Aronson, Morns Beck, E Richaid Booser, Bud Casselbeuy, Samuel G Freedman, William H liarbold, Julian Lewis, John B McCue, Norman Ostroff, Beinaid Rose, Donald L. Russell, Andrew P Szekely, Bernaid Weinbetg, and Harold Yoskin ’43 All-College Party Plans Dance For November 17 By BILL FOWLER Having secuied permission from Student Tiibunal *to hold a campaign dance, the newly-christened ’43 All-College Party was making tentative plans this week to hold the affair November 17. ■} ‘ Only possible hitch lies In the fact that definite permission to use the Armory has not yet been ob tained, according to Robert C Ba con. temporary party cbaliman He predicted that complete ar langements foi the all freshman affair would be made by the end of the week. The victrola dance, a new polit ical move, is being offered “to get the freshmen together so they cau see what our clique has,” accoid* tng to Bacon Election Rules Listed With nominations looming clos. tr, ’43 politicians were advised yesteiday as to the following freshman election rules by A William Engel, Jr. ’4O, chairman of elections committee* Each party will present a 5-man ticket this year, vice-president be ing the addition. It was formerly the custom to allow the defeated PRICE FIVE CENTS Always a fighting outfit, the Oiange promises to be no weak ling and will bring a memory of that 2-1 upset with them to the Nittany Valley as an incentive for victory. The “ray of sunshine" for Blue and White memories of the New Yorkeis is that Johnny McEuan, Orange All-American who accounted for that 1932 up set, can’t be m the lineup Lions Have Double Duty - < 1 But the Lions have come a long way since that fatal game Th«}y have swept through six straight veais of tough schedules without once falling victim to the law* t of averages They have downed Get tysburg, Lehigh, Bucknell, 'and Cai negie Tech like clock workjthis reason. All of which means Penn State’s soccerwise lads have a dou -ble-duty- to' perform as'the'eyes'fof, the soccer world are upon them to morrow ■ w Coach Bill Jeffrey Has -been dillling liis charges with extra vigoi this week despite inclement weathei and expects to put one of his strongest teams in recent veais on the field against the'Sy racusans Although the starting lineup likely will not differ, frdm ihat of the past few games, sev eral piomising lads aie expected to see considerable action Boast Record Boasting a high scoring team, Oiange coach Art Horrocks poihts with pnde to the fact that in. the past foui years his teams have amassed an average of 4 2 goals pei game Lion followers blow;rio horns to such a record, but duo acclaim the fact that m addition to holding the scoung record of <l3 goals in one game, Penn' State’s defense has never permitted a team to tally more than three times m any tilt during the vic loiy streak ASCE Inspects Highway; The Ameucan Society of-Civil Engineers recently viewed tunnel construction, giading aud paving 'operations on the new Pennsyl vania “super highway,” which wjll extend from Harrisburg to Pitte burgh |. presidential candidate to serve as vice-president > * A vote for president will be an automatic vote for vice-president. Every candidate must file a pet ition with 50 signatures at a time to be specified by the elections committee. To be a candidate for any office a man or woman must have "no below grades at the eight weeks’ period. Ag Elections Held Robert B McSparran was elect ed president of the two-year Ag students at a recent mass meeting, with Asa G. Mowery vice-presid lent, Robert L Strock secretary, and Robert B Hopkins, treasurer. Norman H. Barnes, Jr.- was chosen editor of. the group’s year book, while William A. Thomas, Jr. and Dean *M. Gettemy were > named associate editors.
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