Page Four Here's An Honest Man! Visitor Thanks Student For Returning Valuables The honesty of an unknown stu dent bus drawn the gjatitmle of an out-of-town visitoi who recent ly tlefl a pait of gloves and a purse containing monev and valuables on the sundial in trout of Old Main In a lettei uddiessed to Presi dent Hetfel the visitor, i\lis Eliz abeth Dawes Smith of Haiiisbmg congratulated the student bodv on its honest) , Tuentv minutes uitei t»lie had put hei things down she discover etl the loss and lepoited it to Stu dent Union wheie the gloves and prnse weie letuined immediate!) ••'As 1 iu\e no wuv of tiianking the findei,” Mis Smith wiote President HeUel ‘I take this means of intoiming you hoping the poison will leceive the com mendation he 01 she deseives ” Shows at - - - • 6 30, 8 30 Complete Show as Late as 9*05 Tiictduu ond Wedncaduy THE DEAD END KIDS ANN SHERIDAN in ‘THE ANGELS WASH THEIR FACES” “MARX BROTHERS AT THE CIRCUS” with Fl&rence Rice Kenny Baker Shows at - 1 -30, 3 00, 6-30, 8.30 J LAST TIMES TODAY j PIPOM'DARNHipi WEDNESDAY ONLY THURSDAY FRIDAY | DRAMA BEHIND THE THRILLS OF THE CIRCUS* PAT O’BRIEN OLYMPE BRADNA ROBERT YOUNG ~ ~ in ‘NIGHT OF NIGHTS” A 50-Second Chat— THE DEANS ... Dr. Frank C. Kern By HELEN V ATKINSON “Have ambitions and thoughts for the futuie, but make the most of the piesent and be prepared to take advantage of eveiy oppoitun ity,” is the advice of Di. Flunk D Kein, dean of the Giaduate School Dean Kern has been in charge* of the school since its foimation m 1922 and has seen it giow-.to the point whete last year it conferred 298 advanced degiees > He sees in the futuie an ever, glowing demand foi giaduate stbdy because of the increasing need foi research and specializa- V'W O J DEAN F. D KERN tion “I feel,” the Dean added, “that only moie competent, able and well-prepaied students should be encouraged to do giaduate woik.” In keeping with this, one of the lequnements foi admission to the school is a 1.5 avciage as an undergraduate The Dean’s chief inteiests out side of office horns aie plant and animal biology, and the protection of plants from disease He also has traveled extensively in the United States, South Ameiica, Europe, and the West Indies His hobbies aie painting, sketching, and building models of anplanes and boats He holds foui academic degiees a B S fiom the Umveisity of lowa in 1904, an M S from Pui due University in 1907, a Ph D from Columbia University in 1911, and DSc from the University of Puerto Rico in 1926 Shice inauguration of an un limited cut system, Williams Col lege rcpoits a steady impioveniens m the grade avciages of seniors CLASSIFIED Typewriter—All makes expeit ly repaired Portuble and office machines for sale oi lent Dial 2342 Hairy F Mauu, 127 W. Bea ver avenue 10 Sept TENNIS RACKETS icstrung—' Aimorn’s tennis stimgs; 2-24 lioui service Lowest prices in town. All woik positively guaian teed. The Restringer, 206 W Col lege. Dial 33C0 FOR QUICK, EXPERT TYPING at a leusouable rale, call 2918 110 4tp DLG NOTICE—We have many calls for talent in the entertainment line and would like to have all ma gicians, smgeis, jugglcis, hypno uzers, dancers and other entei taineis place their name and ad diess at the Student Talent Bur eau at the Student Union Office immediately 120-3tchGD MISPLACED oi taken by mistake daik gieen topcoat with “Llamadown” seal, not icvOtsible Missing Tuesday evening, Novem bei 28 Please .notify Bill Lahod ney, Phi Kappu 135-ltpdGD LOST-^-Phi' Kappa Tau fraterni ty pin Return to Student Un ion Reward 136-ltpdGD RIDE WANTED—to Chicago or vicinity Chustmas vacation, will shuic driving and expenses Ted Weiss', 3322 138-2tpd-BB FOR SALE—Penn State mastei of science academic hood Box 140 State Teachers College, Lock Haven, Pcnna. 137 Kim FOR RENT—Furnished apait- ment; private bath Pa'ity leav ing town. Will sublet at reduced rent. Available immediately. Phone 4183 at 428 W. College av enue 139-ltdGD FOR RENT— -Two rooms—lo 9 Watts Hall and 304 Jordan Hall. Reasonable rates Inquire Delta Chi 2661. 135- f ltpdßß Eugene H. Lederer REAL ESTATE . - 114-E. Beaver Ave. Dial 4066 s, &***•* College, Seismograph Re-Installed In New MI Center Wing Attei a lapse of more than a year dmiug buildiug altciations, llio College seismogiapii, which has picked up eailhquake vibrations from us lai as 11.000 miles, has been reinstalled on a scientifically placed conuete plei in the new ccntutl wing of the Mineral Industiies Build- “We got the instiument set up ugdiu just in time to record the lecent earthquakes in the mid west, and it registeied very sen satively,” said Di Helmut Lands berg, assistant piofessor of geo physics who announced that a.new component is now being added to the seismogiapii which will make it possible to judge more accur ately the dilection fiom which quake vibiatlons are received Di Landsberg, who built the Letter Box Dear Editor That issue of November 28 was certainly swell We had put the works on Pitt, Soph Flop had been thoioughly sunk by the new addi tion of a woiking committee—and that bonfiie 1 All together it was a 1940 model supei de luxe week-end, and you Collegian boys had done nobly* It looked as though almost every mothei’s son hcieabouts (and even some of the alumni) had done the light thing at the right moment But the nightcrawler in the spaghetti was that story on the coeds in the We Women column Eveiything else was beautiful— why spoil the sceneiy with a story like that’ How would a fellow* nine send a copy of that issue home 9 If some of those 24-hour loveia want to make fools of themselves, why should you spoil the issue and give them the publicity they crave’ Please tell that We Women it’s none of hci headache What does this WSGA think about it—or aie they only “wooden horses’” Is We Women the only one that cares’ Aicn’t theie any chupeions around these “hot spots?” Who lets them get away with this stuff’ Or is it the new outlook on life’ Anyway, please cut out this ic foim business Why should you gee headaches for youself’ Youis for a nice clean Collegian, except foi the columns Interested To the Editoi, Penn State Collegian, Is theie anything Cute übout a 1 Queue * Tliib is not on the Q-T I offei a prize of one Artists* Com be ticket, Row B, Rear Bal cony, pm chase price $5, to the mull, woman, oi child who submits the best suggestion as to how to sell and distribute Artits* Course tickets on an equitable basis to the campus and geneial public without the necessity of forming a queue of people at the ticket of fice Suggestions must be type wiitten and should be mailed to Di C EMaiquadt, chairman, Ar lists’ Couise Commitee, 108 Old Main, not later than noon on Fri day, Decembei 8 On Suturday morning my puit nei, Dr H I\L Da visit and lolts appioximately six hours of sleep as wc stood in line I estimate that übout 3,000 mail hours of time sleep and rest weie lost by the ticket sailers who began to foi m in line outside Old Main be foie 3 ak m. This estimated piuctice of foi til ing a queque does not credit to the intelligence of Penn State I, foi one nmy tboioughi ashamed of Youis fot some bilglit sugestions. Nelson W Tuyior, DepuiUncnt of Ccrumics To The Editoi, Penn State Collegian, Wtien I was on the cauipus (shed a tear, dear Alumnus, lurching foi the lamp post in Froth's eternal gag cartoon') I sweated out (umong othei things) a column called the Campuscer it often lead like Walter Winclieil fused with Dorothy Thompson, and was supposed to be funny For tumitely oi otherwise, this isn’t I have been told by students now* in college—that a new seriousness charactoiizes college education, that the i equipments, not only for entering college, • but for staying there, have been raised, that col- History of Printing No. 1 , In Early _ ' China As early as 260 B C seals were cut iu wood, ivory and jade to make wax impressions In 176 AD. Chinese classics were carved In stone For the latest iu printiug . consult NITTTANY PRINTING & publishing;^: ■E. w 1-jV V‘ ' fit; PENN STATE COLLEGIAN piesent instiument five yeais ago, said the effect of nearby explosions is suiprisingly pionounced Wihen workmen weie blasting foundation holes for the new* Mineral Indus tries wing, the instiument record ed all the shocks The Penn State instrument is one of the few recognized seismo graphs in the state and. after the lecent readjustment, is-able to per foim with gi eater pioficiency, since it is enthely free from inter fering vibration of the building lege students eveiywhere advance towaids a higher and truer cul ture Fiankly,’l believe this—and I don’t make my “coffee and” as a chapel speaker But, shadowing that advance is the possibility of Amei lea’s* going to wai, a deliberate glutting of cul tuie and peace which kills the many who most prize it. The profit hunters —knowing that thousands of Americans are able to think, wiite, talk, and act in the interests of peace, have as before lesorted to an indirect metjiod to stir up hatred and sup ply a ‘ reason ’’ r Today tlieir strangest weapon is the witch-hunting, flag-waving Dies Committee which incieasingiy re veals'that itsitiue end is not to flay a mere 76,000 Communists, but to break down the intellectual, moial, ethical, and physical resist ances of all thinking people, par ticulaily the defenses of the young gunworthy collegians who might not build a bonfire and r l clicci loudly in the stieets at v the pros pect of donating blood to a sick British-French impeiialism and the mess it has made foi itself ft will be but a brief while be fore Dies and his cronies leave oft fiddling with “amazing” testi monies fioni alleged Communist Party leadeis, and statesmen whom they will brand as pro-Rus sian (it was pro-Geiman the last time undei the tee) and possibly pra-Hitler, too,’ on the basis of the present Ger man-Sov let “alliance ” \ „ Newspnpcis rcpiescnting the big financial Interests .will editorial ize about the necessity getting at the soince of these “pernicious tiends - HOLLYWOOD HUSBANDS-HAVE SO-O-O MANY PROBLEMS! Reuben Rosen, Hollywood's Boy Wonder, was a wow at changing scripts into happy endings. But could he kill his wife's infatuation for her new leading man ?.(Quick, get the script-girl’) A short story, Suggestion for a Happjj Ending, by Edith Fitzgerald. THE EVENING P IST ■Smiths Lead Millers In 1939-40 Directory; Shortest Name Is Li Tile Smiths again outnumber the Millers according to the 1939-40 Student Diiectoiy The 4liiectoi> lists 71 Smiths (75 with ’ the addition of Smjth) and only 5!) Millers, keeping the former •in the lead foi the second year The first name in the hook is Abbev and the last is Zurfluh. The shortest last name is that of Lai Yung Li, giaduate assist ant hi horticulture Among the persons bearing names of cities aie one London, two Baltimoies, and one Berlin , Three other , schools are in cluded in the ‘directoiy under the names of Cornell and ver, and representing, the animal family me 'one t ßear and 11 Foxes Now for the sad part Theie is oue Biide listed but no gioom To top this off theie is but one Butcher, lots of Bakers, but not m single Candtestickmaker. The final blow is that only oue Geu tilman can be found in the entlie school ~ t \ ■; Animal Husbandry Profs in Chicago Ten members of the aninml hus bandly depaitment attended the meetings of the American Society of Animal Production in Chicago last Fuday and Saturday and this week aie attending the Interna t’onal Livestock Exposition there The, College has enteied 40 sheep and 30 swine in the Exposition Attending the meeting aie Prof Franklin L Bentley, Piof. P T Ziegler, Piof Maik A McCaity, Piof W B Connell, Prof. L C. Madison, Di Thomas B Keith, Di William T S Thorpe, and Peter C MacKen^ie. Yale University is collecting a special libiary of written materi als dealing with the wars now in pi ogress in the world MRA Meeting Held Sunday Bonine. Students Speak; Group Hears Broadcast Chesloigh A. Bonine, piofcs'sor of geology, and four. students spoke at a campus Moial Re-Arma ment meeting in the Fiiends Meet ing House on Sunda> They told how MRA is solving theli person al pioblems and changing the situ ations with which they come in contact The students were James R Sausset ’4O, Cail H. Keller ’4O, Ruth B Hitchcock ’lO, and Helen E Arcliei,* graduate At the end of the legulai meet ing the group listened to the inter national Moral Re-Armament bioadcast, including speeches by piominent MRA workeis Fiank Buchmau, formei PSCA societaly and now national leader of the MRA movement, in his speech, announced that the week- "100 Million Listening’” was in piepaiation foi 1940. which is to be designated as MRA^Year Helme Will Talk On ‘5O Books’ Exhibit An illustiated lecture in con nection with the College Library exhibition of the “50 Books of the Year” will be presented by J Burn Helme, piofessor of aichi tcctuie, in 107 Main Engineering at 7:30 pm tomoirow 1 The 50 'books were chosen from almost 800 volumes by the Anici ican Institute of Graphic Aits be cause of artistic appearance, in triguing subject matter, and gen eral design. A large percentage of the best books aie noiv within range of the aveLage pockctbook, Piof Helme has pointed out, showing that, of the 50 chosen books, 28 retail for ?3 oi less ~ ' ' " 'i' - " ' r WILD COYOTES BREAKFASTED WITH US! Snowed eight months of the year, seven thousand feet up in the High Sierras/ the author of tins unusual nature urtiole and her husband actually'. ' taught wild coyotes “table manners”! Head The Coyotes Come, ' , MARRY FOR LOVE—REPENJ AT LEISURE. Abpy nineteen marrying a woman of lt won’t last, people saying. But the wife, des’perutely in love', had the courugo to find out. Bead Please Let Me Come Home, by Helen ; \ ' .If < •<. * - , ~ i - for their propaganda. J v" r AND ... Short stories by Matinee Walsh and DavidXurason, poems, editorials, Post Scripts and cartoons. All in tins week's issue of The Saturday Evening Post. - > ( - , t r ■ ■ ‘’H Tuesday, December 5,1939 Fraternity Aid Urged; In Street Repairing Urging: fioternities to cooper ate in street lmprovmcnts, Charles. C Wagner, chairman' of the' bor--. ough "council finance comnutfeej yesterday pointed *out city owners should take advantage of WPA aid to better local road r conditions Under the present ner pointed out, WPA furnished labor and part of the material,^or about half the cost of the projfipt. Other half of the expense of ‘pav ing and curbing is born-bytthe ownei of the abutting property/* i Work on the borough sidewalk drive has been progressing rapid-' ly, it was repoited Over 400 prop el ty owners, including numerous fraternities, have been notified that their sidewalks must be're-, paired, and many of the projects aie now complete oi under-'con'-, struction ,*7 .'i ", ■gSt- Order .Your... vs| • CHRISTMAS I ’jewelry"! 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