Successor
To The Free Lance,
Established 1887
VOL. 36—No. 43
Student
Placement
Mineral Industries
(This is the third in a series of ar
holes dealing with the methods
used by the various schools and
departments in the College to place
their graduates and the success
those methods have had 1
By RICHARD C. PETERS
"The key man in placement
service is the depai tment head—
the man who has the closest con
tacts with the students as individ
uals and as a gi oup "
That is the belief of Edwai d Stei
dle, dean of the School of Minei al
Indust' les, a school which is a
leader in placement of graduates
of all its six depaitments
Dean Steidle pointed out that
effoits for placement in Mineral
Industries has been systematiied
and greatly improved in the pas..
six years According to the. plan
used in all depai tments of the
School, a complete 'mold of pet
banal history of the individual stu
dent, plus information concetning
his extia-curricular activities in
College, Is compiled by the various
department heads eat ly in the sen
ior year
On. the basis of this information
and that provided by grade sheets,
departmental recoicls, and pet sonal
knowledge of the student, a sheet
containing personal in foi =Awn,
cumulative grade point averages,
'dative standings in the entire col
lege class, and in the group grad
uating from his pat ticulai depart
ment, is drawn up All this infor
mation is made available to inter
viewers and personal reptesenta-
Lives of companies
A selected poi lion of the com
pilation is published in a small
booklet with a picture of each man,
which is sent to piospective em
ployers, with a letter offering full
est cooperation of—the department
in Winging together employers and!
prospective employees Interview,
then ate the means of placing the
graduates, which ate arranged
thiough these several media
In connection with the tecently-
Moposed central placement bin -
eau, Dean Steidle stated, "I am
heartily in favor of a central place
ment bureau and have always
looked foi ward to the day wile.]
we would have one lime at Penn
State "
"I believe the Leith al placement
but eau should act as a coot dinating
factor fol all schools and depatt
ments on the campus It definitely
should be built around the depart
ment heads, who after all have the
closest contact with the students,"
Dean Steidle concluded
Entries For IF
Sing Due Today
10 Houses Now Entered;
Eliminations Begin Soon
Setting noon today as the ab
solute deadline for submission of
entries in the lust Intel Irate' nity
Sing Contest at the Student Union
desk, G Women Elliott '4O, chair
man of the sing committee, an
nounced yesterday that about 10
entries had been received foi the
competition so fai
Final aiiangements Cm elimina
tions in the affan, which will be
judged by Hummel Fishbuin, head
of the department of music, and
Phi Mu Alpha, music frateinity,
have not yet been complete, Elliott
Indicated
Plan Round Robin
"We hope to iun off all the eli
minations in one big round-robin
event some Sunday afternoon," lie
said "If that proves impossible, we
will pick the finalists by a sem%
of elimination contests starting
next week "
The three best choral groups
will vie for Interfiateinity Coun
cil's cup at intermission of Intel
fraternity Ball April 5 Each group
must number 16 men and must
smg foul numbers, according to
rules of the competition
Naramore Will Leclure
"011 Field Shop Practne," a lec
ture accompanied by motion pic
tures, will be pi esented by Chester
A. Naramore, secretary of the pe
troleum division of the AIME, at
a meeting of the Mineral Indust' ies
Society in Room 121, Mineral In
dustries Building, at 7.30 pin to
morro.. =41.1
p utt
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COMPLETE
CAMPUS
T o tt rg i au
COVERAGE
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Penn State To Head New Intercollegiate Government
Under Constitution Instituted Here Last Weekend
38 Boxers Meet
In EIBA Tourney
Here This Week
low Entry Finds Army,
Syracuse And State
Entering Full Teams
Special to the Collegian
NEW YORK, N Y, Maui' 4
Thn ty-eight collegiate boxers rep
resenting six institutions were
biacketed here yesterday for the
17th annual Eastern Intercollegi
ate Boxing Association tourna
ment which will be held at State
College. Pa, on Friday and Sat
in day
The entry this year is the low
est since 1937 when only 34 box
eis participated
Full teams were entered by
Ai my 's defending champions,
Penn State and Syracuse Cm
nell entered six men, Yale foul,
Westein Maiyland thice, and
Dai tmouth one
Penn State by vim tue of the
backeting staits with are men in
the semi-finals and only George
Hankins, 120, and Flank Stanko,
135, obliged to fight their way
through prel iminai les
Summaries of the draws fol
lows (Letters in parentheses in
dicate school initials Fighters
named first and last in each class
wcie seeded as favorites to meet
in the finals
120 pounds. Fahey (S) b,>e to
meet winner of Rouse (W Md )
and Sullnan (Y), winner of Han=
kms (P S) and Reid (A) to meet
Brown (C)
127 pounds• Coopei (P. S) to
meet winner of Gluckson (C) and
Rowlands (S), Weber (Y) bye and
Lavendusky (A) bye to meet in
semi-finals Lavendusky was 120
pound champion in 1038 and 1939
135 pounds• Stanko (P S 1 vs
Williams (Y), winner to meet Pa
lopolt (S) bye, Rickel (W kid )
bye to meet winner of Clement
(A) and Fine (C)
145 pounds: Selloff (S) IP, Ms
in (A), Van Sand (Y) IA Baird
(P S)
Continued On Page 4
Central Council Of IMA
Admits Another Unit,
Draws Up Plans For Ball
Anothei new unit, the Tulsan,
was admitted to membeiship in the
IMA at a meeting of the Central
Council at the Blue and White
Club Wednesday night The coun
cil also foimulated plans for the
IMA Ball and decided it shall be
an open afar Mai ch 30 in Re
creation Hall
Although all plans foi the dance
have not been announced, Chair
man John R Walford '4O stated
that the allan will be open in
order to show non-haternity men
what the IMA is doing and to en
courage expansion of the organi
zation He added that the Campus
Owls are top choice for the orches
ta a
College Wan
By ROBERT FL LANE
It seems like only yestei day, but
It was Just 18 years ago that a
small, but rapidly expanding little
college hidden somewhere in the
Ndtany Mountains in the center
of Pennsylvania was demanding
that it be lecogniced as Pennsyl
vania State Univeisity
It was Just 18 years ago that the
administration of that college re
leased a statement comet mng
"crowded conditions" The report
ran something like this, "The num
ber of women students who can
be admitted to the College has
teached a maximum until more
facilities me provided "
In 1922 twice as many gills had
to be denied admission as Were re
ceived
The oft-repeated chant, "We
want to be a university," carried
all the way to Washington, D C,
In 1922, and even further, it en
tered into the sanctity of the presi
dential chambers of the White
House The cry was so loud and
v.go.c..s that r-oze °the: ha=t e
Z 658 STATE COLLEGE, PA , TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1940
1 ARTISTS' COURSE VIOLIN VIRTUOSO, FRITZ KRELSLER
Kreisler To Play First
Local Concert Thursday
Fritz Kreisler, violin impiesaiio, will make his State College
debut Wine one of the largest crowds which has ever Jammed
Schwab Auditorium, when he appears here as the third numbei on
the Artists' Course set ics at 8 p m Thursday
Stage tickets ,for the Kreisler
program - were sold out shortly af
ter noon Friday, with a limited
number of standing room tickets
still on sale at the Athletic Associ
ation windows These tickets will
remain on sale until they are ex
hausted Si up until the time of
the master violinist's perfoimance
at the Schwab Auditorium box
office on Thuisday
Kreisler's program Thuisday
night will include three of his
own compositions "Preclude,"
"Capi ice Viennois," and "La
Gi
tea " The (list portion of the pei
formance will be two concerts,
Bath's Conceito in A Minor, No
I, and Vieuxtemps' Conceito in D
Minor, No 4
Following a five minute Intel
mission, Kieisle: will continue
with five shorter numbers, includ
ing 'Rondo Brilliant" by Schubeit
and "Timka" by Winteinitz, plus
his thiee original compositions
Job Booklets Are Ready
For Seniors In C And F
The Commerce and Finance em
' ployment booklets and personal in
fmmation sheets, completed under
the direction of Delta Sigma Pi
fraternity ate now available foi
seniors at the economics depart
ment office in the Libeial Ails
building
The committee in thaw was
Jonas B Kauffman '4O ichan main,
J William Kitchen '4O, George B
Terwilliger '4O, Dean F Millet '4O,
Clarence H Evans '4O, and Andy
D Warcholak '4O
ed Name Ch
Piesident of the United States had
the matte' brought to his atten
tion
"My attention has been called
to vow endeavor to develop Penn
sylvania State College into a state
uinveisitv worthy of that meat
Commonwealth I wish you all
success in youi uncle' taking to per
suade the people of Pennsylvania
to follow the example of evely
state west of them, and to movide
a free institution of teaming ample
to meet the needs of the Common
wealth" Those weie the woids
and the wishes of President Wal
ton G. Balding
Yes, it seems like only yestm
day, but it 'catty was 18 yearns ago
that the students, faculty, and the
alumni of a little "cow college,"
which was then a half century old,
should ieceave just lecognition of
what it had become
The oft-repeated cty, "We want
more money," was heard frequent
ly in 1922 The Pittsburgh Post
Gazette filled its editin lel columns
a:z;:eal Perza:yhan_a's
Harder Will Give
Priestley Lectures
Metallurgy Authority
Slated For March 11-15
"Physical Metallurgy in the
bei owe of Indushy" is the topic
which Di OSCAI E Hauler, assist
ant &team of Battele Memmial
Institute, Columbus, Ohio, has se
lected for the 14th annual Pi iestley
Loathes which he will deliver in
the Labeler A: ts Building Mauch
II to 15
The lactates, which me sponsor
ed by the local chapter of Phi
Lambda Upsilon, national honor
ary chemistry halm nay, in coop
elation with the depai tment of
chemists v, deal with the borderline
between phrsieal chemistry and
sonic other blanch of science
Active Scientist
Di Haidei is a member of nine
science oiganizations, has been an
office' in live of these, and at the
present time is national vice-pi esi
dent of the American Society for
Metals
Two In Infirmary Friday
Last Et !clay, when only two pati
ents were confined to the College
Hospital at noon, was the lightest
day the Hospital has had since
September
aged In 1922
own "bi =child
The following is a pat agiaph
(loin an editonal appeasing in
that paper "When one considers
the magnanimous equipment given
the great state UIIIVCI slims of the
west, the conviction is inevitable
that Pennsylvania is not heating
hei own institution fairly "
Insult was added to minty when
President Button of the Univeisity
of Michigan wrote a letter to Pi es-
Went Thomas of Penn State in
which he stated, "Michigan's last
legislature provided foi $11,000,-
000 for us this biennium, your leg
islatures appiopi iation,
seems almost paltiv "
President Buiton was probably
iefei i mg to the fact that the popu
lation of Michigan, Wisconsin, and
Minnesota combined in 1922, was
not as peat as that of Pennsylva
nia
Yes. although all this happened
18 yeais ago, one wonders why it
seems like only yesterday
Could it be that yeste.day might
be today?
Senior La Vie Portraits
Available For Corrections
Today At Photo Shop
'the first pi our of the semi'
pm twits foi the LaVie has been
returned horn Wilhamspoi t and
is now in the Penn State Photo
Shop, lhomas .1 Finn '4O. editor,
has announced -
fn order to avoid mistakes, he
has requested that each senior
lepoi t to the Photo Shop immed
iately to make sole his picture c,
the col rect one and is properly
captioned
The dummy will be there foi a
limitcd time only, and it is or
-gent that any coireetions be
made at once
Book Exchange
Donates Profits
To (horny Fund
Committee Announces
1,027 Books Handled;
Students Saved $5OO
Realizing the biggest molit eve'
attained In, the Student Book lA
change this ye.o s committee has
announced that the entire pro
ceeds have been turned ovei to the
emeigency fund of MI% Holzer:,
committee
Co-chan men Thomas C BaLk
enslose '4l and Gmald F Doheitv
'42 stated that approximately 1,027
btiuks were handled - by the •e•-
thange dui mg its mid-semester op
ation In conjunction with that
item, they added that $2,560 worth
of business was contracted
No Compensations
&A.m.(ling to the committee s
Imo] ds, appi ommatelv $5OO was
sax ed 'tudents who used the ex
change Commenting on the ec
oid of the exchange, Semoi Class
Pi esident David E Pergrin de
ed "All the committeemen
%%diked w i thou t compensation
which is a swell indication of the
dud Penn State son "
Those members of the lommut
tee in addition to Backenstose and
Dohert , , are William B Bartholo
mew, Pete! Lesko, William G But -
ket, Chat les E Hough, Rithard M
Geissingel, David I Finkle,
Rhl
ham L Cm bm, Theodore G Rot
hshm, Ruth V Dice, Bette L
Campbell, Stephen W Okowaski
and John E Gallagher, tumors
Eel! L Kemmlei, Joseph L Duf
fy, Elden T Shaul, Robert D
Baird. IVaiien H Williams, Earl
L Horst, Mildred M Taylor, Ben
yamm Seem and Chm les 0
Tan, sophomores, Joseph Edel
stein, Eugene R Yeager, Edward
C Veigel and Flank B Flynn,
freshmen
Why Do Corpses Mink?
Answer To Be Given AI
Sigma Delta Chi Dinner
Why do corpses
What kind of copses stink most?
['hese questions and numerous
other questions of the Dead Past
Hill be answered March 14 at the
annual GI Ida on Banquet, when
Sigma Della Chi, national journal
ism honmaiy, will brutally, fiank
ly—and humorously, show Penn
Staters a few "skeletons in the Col
lege closet"
The inside story on the much
publicized "debate fee split" which
was one of the big battles on the
campus dui mg the past yea!, the
hue mcluies of the "epidemic"
which ten onzed College students
students last December, an expose
of the campus hat societies—those
are just a few of the dal ing things
in stole foi those who go to the
banquet
Committees in charge of the al -
I.mgements promise that the us
ual "roasting' of College authon
ties, students and faculty membeis,
will be unusually hot this year,
and many a campus bigwig is in
foi the most torrid night of his
Gift Given For Students
One hundred dollars was donated
by the Women's Recreation Asso
ciation to Mss Ralph D Hetzers
Lommittec tot aiding needy stu
dents 2: -.-_.or .f....'-taxtua! matters
Hetzel Tells Delegates That Student Rule Results
From Active Interest In Environmental Conditions
And Success Depends Upon Ability To Solve Problems
Warnock. Ray And Emory Ilafayette And Muhlenberg Named To Select
Talk To Representatives I Remaining Officers; Association To Establish
At Luncheon Gatherings Cooperative Spirit Among College Governments
"Student govei nment is an out-,
giowth of the ability of students to
sense their vital intei est in, and
the t esponsibility lot the condi
lions which make up then em n on
meet, was the explanation given
by Pt e,ident Ralph I) Het/el lot
'lndent government at the Penn
s% Ivan to Student Got ei dimwit Lon
% ention dmnei in the Ratan% Lion,
Inn Satuida3 , night
Speaking on the subject ' A Col
lege Pt esident Atm:discs Student
Govei nment, ' the President • aid
that an diluent -Ancient govei
went similai to the one hole, con
sideiably lessens the task of the
administration and places despoil
-413dd% mote squarely on the stu
dents' shouldeis
"It's not a give me MN, Line me
that pi oposition Its success de
pends on the abilitN of the students
to think to analyze, and to milt
out invoked pioblems," Het7ol de
elated
Warnock's Four Points
Dean of Men Ai thur It Warnock
outlined the foul generaltheme
' teustics common to all student
goscinments at the opening lunch
eon on Filday afternoon
"Student grim nment is an aid in
keeping aliens running harmoni
ously, it must find some way to do
hail, unpleasant tasks as well as
easy, pleasant jobs By sponsoi mg
activities it will enable students
to do things es a glom) that they
would nut be able to do other wise
Successful student government
must deal is alb the. always -current
problem of bi urging the most pow
ful student leaders into student
govet nment "
'Tear Down the Barrier'
"Student - Facul Es-Admmrstra
tn e Relations' was the title of Col
Ambrose R Emery s talk Saturday
aftmnoon Colonel Emery empha
sized the imam lance of tear ing
down the bai 'lei between students
and faculty, and stated that the,
solution las in the iminovement of,
the attitude, of all pal ties con-
cei ned
Dean of Women Chailutte L
Ras pi edicted even tut thei devel
opment in student govei nmcnt,
and predicted that possibly in the
near Mule student leaders would
be listed in college catalogues, and
that student r epresentatwes would
be permitted to attend the sessions
of the Board of Trustees
40 Have Trench Mouth
Esammation of smems taken by
the College Health Set vice has
bound 40 students suffer ng born
bench mouth
'We're Human!' INS Ace
Says Of Capital Writers
By ROBERT H. LANE
rite bus from Leuistcm n screeched to a stop in front of the State
College Hotel at 130 p rn Fu day There was nothing unusual about
that, except, possibly that the bus anived at the scheduled time
As the passengers stepped from the bus they appeared to be the
customary group of people who were returning to State College after
a short sojourn elsewhere It was nothing out of the ordinary
But,that is why it was odd. Be
cause among those common-look
mg individuals was a Washington
newspapei correspondent A man
who belongs to that sotiety of
Greek Gods of journalism who are
the most widely-publicized and
envied t h roughout the entire
new.spapei profession
He was Leon W Shloss, editor,
Washington Bureau of Interna
tional News Service, invited to
come hole as the guest speaker for
the Pennsylvania Student Govern
ment Cons ention
My Washington newspaperman
of mot ie memory was a din ing in
dividual who talked with the
speed of Floyd Gibbons, and
whose main feature was a to-hell
with-everybody attitude
Instead, this writer was a quiet
unassuming person who failed to
c ally either a pencil or pad in his
hard After close obsei t ation I
See Editorial, "First Convention Then
Sel_ction of the Pennsylv .inia State College to head the
Pennsyl% ama Intercollegiate Student Government ASWCIII.-
bon, newly-formed uncle' the constitution IA hieh was adopted
Sunday morning, climaxed the state-wide Student Govern
ment Coin ention here last week-end
Lafayette College gained the esitenc‘ and Mull
lenbeig College v.a , , selected semettuy-treasuier All offices
were mauled to colleges lathe' than to individuals with
each college iequired to name its nelson to fill the office
for a one-year tm m follow mg the Spi mg election
Schloss Concerned
With Red Inroads
In College Groups
INS Ace Hopes Student
Governments Are Free
Of Subversive Control
"I would like to hod out if sub
% eishe otgameations have made
any inroads into student govein
rnent One of the hist places that
Communism always attacks is the
tanks of youth I have unimpeach
able knowledge that many of the
counny s youth mganizations are
fronts tot Communism"
This star thug statement vi elb de
hteted bi, Leon W Shloss, edam
Washington But eau of Inteination
al News Set vice at the Pennsylva
nia Student Government Conven
tion chnnet held in the Unii.eisit , ,
Club Fu day night
Warns of Communism
Speaking on the subject "A
Newspaper mans Vieu point of Col
lege Student Gmeinment, Shloss
pointed out that the leaden of
student goveinment are charged
with guaiding every Ammican
fight, and at the same time it is
their duty to repulse eve' v at
tempted subversive encioachment
on the countiy's collegiate youth
"Simplicity and truth are the
two elements that a newspaper man
looks foi first in any story, and
those two things aie what I would
consider necessary for an efficient
and capable student goveinment.
Shloss claimed
I discovered that he had two eyes
two ems, two legs, and two aims,
1 in fact he looked like a human be
ing
"If we aitomplished what the
genet al public imagines we do, the
impossible would be an element of
the past No, we re only human
Macbe you won't beho,e it, but
we sleep at night and eat three
squat° meals a day "
Howe% ei, dime were instances
when Schloss courageously ap
plied "movie reporter" technique,
such as getting the late Senator
Borah out of bed at eight in the
moining to answer a phone call
Commenting on the presidential
question, Shloss smiled and said,
"In view of having a 50-50 chance
of being right, better odds than on
other stories I write, I am willing
to go out on the limb and say 115
wlll not run.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
A State Assonation.'
on page 2
The constitution, presented at
the final conference session by A
William Engel, 11 40, acting
chanman of the committee of
nine, was adopted tn, unanimous
vote of the 17 imtitutions pres
ent
Menthe's of the constitution
poop besides Engel, included
Ulm is Stein, Erie Conic- iUniver
sity of Pittsburgh), Fred Gal
biaith, Lehigh University, War
ren Hite, Univeisity of Pennsyl
vania, Andrew Horton, Lafayette
College, Chailes Meole, Millers
\ ille State Teachers College, Nor
man Roden, Drexel University,
Eloise F Rockwell and Thomas
C Baekenstose, both of Penn
Slate
Establishment of a permanent
association of student govern
ments of colleges and unixersities
of Pernishanta was provided for
following the adoption of a reso
lution presented Sunday morning
by George tlowalt, Muhlenberg
Seek Cooperation
Although designed primarily to
benefit student governments, the
association should achiete a spir
it of cooperation among students
thioughout the commonwealth
The pi eamble states "We the
students of the colleges and um
veisities of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, in order to
ach lON e a spud. of cooperation to
site consideration to questions
affecting student interest and in
oidei to establish and strengthen
student governments' so that re
sponsibility and administration of
student problems be given to the
student', do heieby ordain and
establish the constitution of the
Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Stu
dent Government Association "
Chief outcome of the association
will be an annual convention,
while an e‘ecutive committee has
been established to handle imme
diate aflans Included on the ex
ecutive committee are the three
ofliceis and one lepresentative
flom each of the following groups
I—Colleges and universities of a
iegishation of more than 2,000
2—Colleges and unit ersities of a
i egistration of under 2,000
3—State Teachers Colleges
4—Junim Colleges
Continued On Page 4
Whitmore Will Deliver
Fourth liberal Arts Talk
In HE Auditorium Tonight
Di Frank C Whitmore, dean of
the School of Chemistry and Phys
ics, will speak on "The Impact of
Chemistry on the Modern World"
in the Home Economics Auditor
ium at 730 p m today His talk
is the fourth of the Liberal Arts
Leatwe series to be given this
) eat
Dean Whitmore came to Penn
State in 1929 and has been doing
iescai ch work in organic chemis
fly in addition to his administra
tii, e duties Previous to his coming
here, he served as professor of
organic chemistry and head of his
depai iment at the University of
Minnesota and Northwestern Um
% ersity
A former president of the Am
erican Chemical Society, Dr Whit
more is a member of the Ameri
can Academy of Arts and Sciences
and president-elect of the Franklin
Institute Chemical Society