PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
Successor to The fires Lance. established 1887
Published semi rieehir ',paint the College rear, except
an holid.os ht student• a' The Pennsrlsania State Collme
In thn Interest of the Collier the students, faculty, alornn',
and trends
TR? MAII ACING BOARD
A WILLIAM FiiiGEL. JR '4O, Editor
C RUSSP LI. ECK '4O. Boldness Manager
HELEN L CAMP '4O Women s Editor
MANUEL ROTH '4O BURTON C WILLIS, IR '4O
Managing Editor Advertising Manager
ROBERT I, WILSON .10 MORTON NIEMAN '4O
Snarls Fit for Circulation Manager
BERNARD A NIiVIMAN '4O DORIS GUTMAN '4O
News Editor Senior Secretary
GEORGE Ii SCHI rsq '4O JANET STORY '4O
Feature Editor Assistant. Seam Secretary
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Assistant Managing Editor Aasktient News Ftiitor
HERBERT NIPSON 'lO MILLIS R CORDON '4O
Assistant Sands Editor Assistant Wigton s Pet for
Associate Editors
ila,nril Bloom '4l Robert H Lane . 41
VVVIInto E Fowler '4l teleran! I K 'McLane . 41
Kix, V Hail '4l Robard C Peters '4l
Women's Associate Editors
1:415 , the 11 1t10.1'41 AntlL 1. Hat., '4l
Vern L , Romp '4l
Associate Business Managers
Lass rence S 0r1i.% er 11
Itos ert G Itobarnon 41
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Slnnntrina INltor Thiel loue
Nev. Zlitor Thk ilgue
Women 4 lan. tilitor - - -
Palrred am <mand-elam matter Julv•s 19J4 at the poet.
office at State Callen, Pa under the tazt.'of March 8 1879
Tuesday, April 9, 3940
THIS THING CALLED
COMPENSATION
MANY EYEBROWS were, lifted high
er than usual recently when the All-
Coilege Cabinet announced , to the stu
dents and the administration that a com
mittee had been appointed to study and to
revise the present system of compensation
There is probably no other subject which
receives more unfavorable ci iticism and
about which a majority of the students
know less, than the present compensation
system.
The invisible veil of secrecy which for
msny years has been almost entirely ie
psnsible foi the complete lack of knowl
edge coreerning compensation by the ma
misty, can be attributed to two factions
1.-1)ile men who have received the
compensation, who in 95 out of 100 cases
undoubtedly deserved' it, yet feared to
make the truth public, through fear of
ignorant student derision.
2—The students themelves, for' not
showing sufficient interest in their own
student affairs to discover the truth, in
stead of believing the multitude of ru
mors floating around concerning graft
and corruption, which each year ineN
itably sweeps the campus.
The new movement to study and revise
the present system is in connection with
the change of student government institut
ed here last yew
Under the present compensation appot-
Lionment the Semoi Class President
re
ceives approximately $5OO a yea', while the
All-College President, who shoulders even
gi eater responsibilities is , compensated
slightly-less than $lOO.
When the study and revision was first
announced, rumbrs immediately began to
circulate, that graft and cprruption had at
long last been definitely confirmed, and that
a scandal was about to "break " Such ideas
could not have been farther,fi om the truth
What was not known was the fact that
the Senior Class President, feeling the
present system was unfair, under the
new system of government, instigated
the movement for a change in the ap
portionment of compensation between
the two officers, under which the Senior
President would receive a cut.
The four class ptesidents, the dance
chairmen, the heads of the cap and gown,
lion's coats, junior blaze's, clinks, and
graduation invitations committees have
been tinder vigorous condemnation from
many of the students for quite some time.
However, the compensation from these
positions is not generally awarded for the
work which they do in connection with
these offices, but these committee heads
are appointed for the hundred-and-one odd
Jobs which they perform dating the course
of a year, for which they receive not one
cent of compensation.
It cannot be denied that these are some
cases where men receive more compensa
tion than they are entitled to, but this evil
will always exist under any system of re
muneration.
That compensation is necessary 19 gen
erally agreed upon by an overwhelming
majority of students and administration
members. It is the secrecy and the ignor
ance which surrounds it, that is under a
blistering fire of criticism.
Robert South, an English author, once
wrote, "Ignorance has been said to, be
,
'the mother of devotion; it is rather the'
mother of superstition."—R. H. L.
The Weekly Mailbag
BILL FOWLER—As a Collegian junim board
man you did the i fight thing by inviting the sen
ior board's Paul Haldeman to the deltachi ranch
{laity but you lathe' mimed his vote when
you forgot to tell him it was a costume affair, thus
leaving him on the outside looking in
PHI KAPPA TACT—Tf we were you, we would
iesent that notation on the pingiam at the dx
dance Modem out-house accomedations—phi
kappa tau house next don "
PHYLLIS GORDON —This k the telegram Ed
die Nichols got in the class sou cut Fliday "Sot
ty I couldn t get to class Sailed on S S Mark
land at noon Ses getting ioughei by the min
ute Will be theie Mond-iy with assignment" It
was signed Phyllis' Go' don, Class Skipper " It
s'a• sent by Rise goes Groige Selfless, Len Coo
pci, and Ernie Berkaw, who almost passed out
when Eddie fell for it
WARNER BROS.—Expect capacity crowds at
the next Cal.) Giant picture you show, after the
wiling of Helen Chiappy nod Knobby Hetfeian
who met him at an Jlfachi conclave at the Uni
versity of Viiginia Saturday
John II Thomas '4l
' Huth Golclstt In '4l
-Adam A Smyser '4'
__Edward J IdeLmie '4l
_ ___ll..en 1 Camp '4O
SIGMA Pl—Why don't you tench you' flesh
men better , Ed Meyers, your frosh drummer-boy,
rutted a beauty when you had Ki upa's band at
voui house for a visit He asked one of the mu
t ician's "Does your band need a good (hummer"'
BILL LAPORTE—Next time do your friends;
and fiaternitv brothers' shopping in Belletonte
We hear you were very, very embarrassed
Friday when 3 , orn mother an into you in Tyrone,
your arms laden with brown-papered packages
BEA WlNN—That guy whose pin you wear,
Heinle Sandson, is having 'a little houble at
Cheensbing High, whei e he's pi actice-teachmg
Walking into his home loom the other morning,
.11 decked out in colleg'ate finely, he was greet
cd by a sign leading "SMOOTH," which one of
his students was holding up in the back of the
loom _
U. S. MARITIME COMMISSION—Watch close
ly ships sailing between New York and Panama
around June 10, for there'll be lots of excitement
on the one cairying attach! Norma Stillwell, het
fellow Panamanian nom Penn who kappa-rigged
het duting Easter vacation, and the ship's par
cr,, who thinks he's leading the Still Well league
L. C. BALFOUR AND COMPANY—Evidently
the fa aternity boys here at State don't think much
or those jewelled ti inkets you unload on them
annually They've been giving them away by the
dozens now that Spring has aimed
A thetaxi named Bob Kindle observed foi a
whole yeas how well his room-mate, Willie Hog
e', gets along with gammen Rocky Rockwell. Last
week he did his pmt towatcl furthering thetaxi
gammon relations by pinning Harriet Dayton
Buzzy Sheai ei llsigmadeltaed Shereley Lewis,
hamlet. from Wisconsin two kappas made the
glade—Betty Musser is weal ing Cliff Shedd's
eicltachi pin and Pat Behney got Charlie Mattern's
;Welt Jewelry the same day he was initiated
gammasig Dave Oikin bestowed his badge on
,ephi pledge Millie Speiser Prof Hawk's
'-on, Bob, now graduate-stooging at Michigan,
fin-ed theta Jean Babcock They'll see each
other only_thiee times a yea! I'm the next three
years
ALUMNI OFFICE—Bob Hughes, ildelt and An
chorage flash who was graduated last yeah, will
many a Scranton gul-friend soon He has .1
honey of a job at an Elwood in Tennessee
Russ Gohn, '39 BMOC, and the Missus (Bun
Acker, '39 kappa BWOC) reunioned in the Colleg
,an Ofnce w, ith Johnny Tioanoyitch, who made
ene of his weekly visits horn Pittsbtirgh
DISPENSARY—We think you're rats After
dinner Friday theta Jeanne Stiles took the pills
you gave hei for a cold A few hours later she
left ill, took a nap When she woke up, all ready
log IF Ball, it was 8 a m Saturday
ENGLISH COMP 12 CLASS. Prof Galbraith
is going to get even with you for walking out
en him Fiiday when he went after the stories
you convinced him he had forgotten
KATHERINE ANNE
PORTER
• "Kiss Porter has contrived to
achieve an emotional effect that few,
if any of her contemporai ies would
have been able to match Hei reputa
tion was not gained by chance or
sleight of hand, and 'Pale noise, Pale
Rides' conlhms it "—Ralph Thomp
son, New York Times.
• "Katherine Ann Porter moves in
to the illustrious company headed by
Hawthorn, Flaubei t, and Henry
James. It is the company of story
tellers whose fiction possesses distinct
esthetic quality, whose feelings have
attained harmonic expression in their
work.",--Paul Rosenfeld, 'Saturday
Review of Literature.
, "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," $2.00
OLD MANIA
Kee,ler's
PEN.NSTAT.E COLLEGIAN
CAMPUS BULLETIN
Notices of meetings to be pub
lished in this column may be
left al Student Union Office in
Old Main up to 1 pm. on the
day preceeding publication _
Spring sports schedules are now
available at Student Union ,
Special GI ange meeting in Room
405, Old Main, at 8 p m
Di Fianklin Banner will speak
on "The Fiee Press, a Champion
of Democracy," in the Home EC
auditor nun at 7 30 p rn ,
All students interested in sailing
report to Dr Elwood C Davis, 214
Rec Hall A crew ha's been invit
ed to pm ticipate in a three-cor
net eci sailing race 0 ' -
Meeting
- of fiesliman women ed
itorial candidates for the Collegian
in Room 318, Old Main, at 5 p m,
Penn State Club softball meet
ing in Room 321, Old Main, at 7
P m _
TOMORROW
Sigma Xi, national honorary SCl
entitle fraternity, will hold its ini
tiation banquet in the Nittany Lion
Inn at 6 15 p m
Scouts and scouteis arc invited
to attend a meeting of Alpha Phi
Omega, national sei vice frate-r
-nity, in the Sandwich Shop at 7'36
p m Bruno Ewen will speak 'on
scouting in Czechoslovakia
Phi Eta Sigma will hold. a' sp
end meeting at Theta Xi at ,7 30
p in Registrar William S Hoff
man will lead the discussion
Student Union Dance in the Ar
moiy, 4 to 5 p m
THURSDAY
Penn State Zoology Society
meeting in -Room 2, Zoology Build
ing, at 7 p m Dr P P English
will speak on "Wild Life Census
'Actin:clue% ",
MEN OF MARK
PENN STATE'S
RESEARCH
THE SCOPE
To most of ow people, research
is not, cannot be, a very exciting
thing
No layman is likely to get the
same thrill watching a scientist la
boi iously extract a new formulator
mix and painstakingly test some
new compound that he will get if
he watches his favorite halfback
clash 63 yards to a touchdown
Yet far closer to Penn State's
heart than any athletic triumph,
far nearer to its purpose than a
glorious football' ictory over Penn
of Pitt, is its ieseai ch ,
Penn State spends, $53,000 ;to
please or disappoint the, 100,000
fans who watch its football efforts
each year, but it spends $673,000
each year in the interest of those
same fans and the 5,800,000 more
Pennsylvania citizens who con
tribute to its support
It may not excite the layman to
know that Penn State has learned
how to determine the geographical
source of lubricating •ods, that it
has pushed the development of hy
cli ocai bons, that it has developed a
standard ,dirtyl shirt, that it has
manufactured artificial manure for
mushrooms, that it has discovered
a (ohm diagnosis to tell what kind
of fertilizer a plant needs, that it
has forwarded the nutrition and
breeding of animals, that it has
studied personality development,
that it is making a scientific study
of local government, that it has
discovered strange things about
the sex hormone But wait ,
There is something exciting, the
sex hormone
Time Magazine has written it up'
three times Prof Russell E Mark
er got more letters from excited
and assistance-seeking fans than
a high-paid movie star He deals
in sex and he hates the publicity.
But able Penn State men deal
as well in fertilver, tobacco,
speech, personality, health, insula
tion, petroleum, food, minerals,
building foundations, stress, blood
pressure, culvert flow, and a hun
dred other things
On the College staff of 1493,
there are 300 men and women en
gaged in research, 155 of these,
men devoting their principal time
to the work Giaduate assistants
working for degrees carry on a
large part of the study
Last year, research here cost
$673,497 60, with more than half
of this amount spent in the School
of Agriculture Private industry,
the federal government, and the
state government carried the bulk
of the expense with the results
published in scientific journals
where they would be of benefit to
the general population ,
The Collegian cannot hope , --to
fully acquaint its readers with'all
the research that is going on,.‘at
Penn State This demands a tech
nical knowledge, a wide prepara
tion, and a , specific backgrotlnd
that none but the scientist is ex
pected to have ,
, ,But, with this beginning,
s the
Collegian offers a series of random
glimpses at the research Penn
State men have done in the serv
ice of• Pennsylvania and America
Watch for !The Dirty Shirrxef
.
Heat Annual Recephor
Mary R. Wirtz '4O and Gertrude
Hellmers '4l have been appoint
ed co-chairmen' of the junior-san.;
for women's. reception held annul
ally for women faculty members.'
PITT YMCA OFFICER I
William L Hammaker. '3O.
pictured above, was recently
named secretary of the Univer
sity of Pittsburgh Y. M. C. A.
Hammaker was associate secre
tary of the PSCA from 1930 to
1935 and served as executive
secretary of the Johns Hopkins
University Y.M.C.A. since 1936.
Tennis Star, Competition
hr‘Six Activities Head
Sports Day Program
Mary K. Br °mine, instructor at
Lake Erie College and former
national tennis singles champion,
will conduct a tennis clinic and
delegates from 21 Pennsylvania
colleges will compete in six actry
[ties on WRA's first Sports Day
on Saturday, April 27, Jane B
Hoskins '4l, general chairman,
has announced -
Miss Browne will highlight the
piogiam with instruction in ten
nis stiolting and techniques, and
about 200 coeds will meet in
round robin tennis, badminton,
archery, golf, swimming, and
bowling matches.
- Committee heads are Betty M.
Strayer '4O, tennis, Janet L Flem
ing '42, golf, Muriel E Engelke
'4l, badminton, Louise B Clark
'4l, swimming; Anita M Knecht
'42,i bowling, Gertrude L. Hell
mers '4l, hostess, Satoh H Faber
'92, registration, Ruth F Barker
'4O, banquet, Louella M Bell '4O,
program, and Josephine M Wer
ner '42, correspondence
An informal banquet at the Nit
lany Lion Inn which all women
may attend for $1 will follow the
tout naments
'Coed Regulations' Set
As Discussion Theme
"Should regulations for Penn
State women be revised' , " is the
topic for the eighth annual wo
men', intramural discussion April
22 to '3O, co-chairman Lois E
Notovit, '42 and 11 Helen Gordon
'42 have announced
Delta Alpha Delta, women's
speech honorary, will present a
cup to the winning team Rules
state that there will be two women
on each team, that teams may rep
resent any sorority, dormitory, or
combination of two coeds, that
each speaker will give a six to
eight-minute talk on any phase
of the question, that teammates
do not have to speak on the same
phase, and that there will be no
rebuttal
Names of women on each team
must be turned in I to Room 8 at
Atherton Hall by 645 p m Wed
nesday April 1 Preliminary
rounds will begin Monday, April
22
Home Economics Meeting
features Guest Speakers
',The rsecond annual meeting of
the home economics alumnae teach
ers and the teacher education di
vision of the department will be
held Saturday, Jean D Amberson,
chairman, has announced
James P Mitchell, of the Pro
gressive Education Association,
New York, and Miss Florenceaen-
Inns, acting regional agent, Wash
ington Office of Education, will he
the principal-speakers
Fordham University
SCHOOL, OF LAW
New York
Case System i
,
Three-Year Day Course
Four-Year Evening Course
- Co-Educational -
Member of Assn 'of
- • •
,American Law Schoo'ls
- College, Degree or Two Years of
College Work with Good, Grades
Required for Entrance
Tritnscript of Record Must Be
, Furnished „ , ' 7
_Morning, Earli'Afterrumn and
Evening Classes
For further information address
Registrar' of Fordham Law •
School
233• Broadway, New York
Dean \GenevieVe Pool Will Address
Mortar Board Parley Here Bars*
' Personnel Head To Talk On Vocational Guidance;
Dr. - Bernreuter Will Lead Convocation Here
"Choosing a Vocation with a Pm pose" will be the subject of the
meMal address by Miss Genevieve E Poole, clean of womeni and
read of the - personnel department at Lock, Haven State - Teachers
College, at Mortar Board's All-Women's Conference here Thursday
After giaduation from lowa Wesleyan, Miss Poole continued her
studies at the University of lowa where she 'wits a member of Pi
Lambda Theta She was dean of women at the Teachers College at
New Britain, Conn, until she came to Lock Haven live years ago
Cwens and Freshman Council 4 .
are sponsoring a tea at 4 p m. • ,
Thursday to honor the Lock Ha- beau Ray Makes'
yen dean who will speak at 7 30 '
:
P m , ' ..
The conference at 11 a. m will '
Coed Job Survey
be led by Dr Robert G Vern
reutei associate professor of
psychology. There will be discus
sions by Miss Maiie Haidt, pia- 64,Pd. Of '39‘Greduates
lessor of physical education, and
Dr Charles C. Wagner, assistant Employed; 10 Pd.,Marry
dean of liberal arts, at 1 p m ;
by Mrs Elizabeth W - Dye, assn- Over 10 per cent of last yea'r's
crate profAsor of home economics women graduates are married, 641
and Dr. James H. Moyer, assist
pei cent employed, 10 per cent out'
ant professor of education, at 2
p m on their own vocations, and of woi k, 11 5 per cent taking grad
by Miss Julia G Brill, associate uate work, and 4 psi cent attend
professor of English composition, mg business schools, according to
at 3 p Jr' on avocations a wpm t compiled by Dean of
Class 'excuses to women attend- Women Chailotte E Ray and her
• coed
m the conference will be issued assistants
by a member of the dean's office Of the 216 coed graduates in
and a Mortai Board member eta- 1939 the largest number, 60, are
boned at Atherton Hall teaching Others, in older of fre
quency, are engaged in* graduate
study and business school, 33; die
tetics, food demonstration, exten
sion, 25; marriage, 23, accounting,
ileucal, seci etarial work, 21,
newspaper and advet Using, 9; lab
,oratmy technician, 5„ store, ,4,
social work; 4, dm Ist., 1, miscell
aneous, 8
The department of 'home eco
nomics has a high Jecord of em
ployment with only 5 of its 84
graduates listed as unemployed and
of the 8 physical education grad
uates 6 are teaching 1 doing,secre
lanai work, and 1 unemployed
Proportion of the coed class now
unemployed fell to 9 per cent
Former unemployment statistics
showed 6 percent of 1937 women
graduates and 18 5 per cent of the
1926 coeds unemployed '
Co-Edits
Chi Os celebrated their 45th an
niversary with• a dinner at the
house last night and presented
Jane Stanton the sophomore cup
foi being the mbst outstanding
member of her class
Following installation of officers
Sunday afternoon, AOPis held a
banquet at the Cornet
AEPhis will be entertained by
Mrs Schlow tonight to honor Dor=
othy Abramson, a soror 'tom then
Univeisity of Michigan chapter
ZTA actives and pledges will be
entertained by Mrs Jack Haswell,
alumnae rushing adviser, at het
home tonight
Pill Mu pledges were honored at
a chapter supper at the home bf
Mfs Charles A Morgan, patro
ness, Sunday night
Sigma Deltas pledged Vera M
Neal ;41
Alpha Chi 0 pledges were en-,
tei tamed at a,supper by Mrs Wil
ham S Ho ff man and Mrs George
F Mitch at the latter's home Sun
day
ZTA pledges will party the ac
tives at the home of Mrs James
Howe Thursday night . -
Knobby Hefferan and Helen
Chiappy represented' the Alpha
Chi Os at then Tri-Province con
tention at William and Mary this
week-end
Pi Lambda Theta initiated un-
I dm graduate and graduate students
in the Hugh Beaver room Satur
day afternoon Undergraduates in
itiated me Margaret M Cimaho
sky '9O, L Grace Nolt '9O, Lois C
Rankin '9O, Ruth E Wagner '4O,
Doris A Arnold '9l, Ruth L Bach
man '4l, Annabel Boyd '4l, Belly
M Brown '4l, Edith A Burrage
'4l, M Janet Gillespie '4l, Helm
M Hazard '4l, Grace M Hender
shot '4l, Frances E Hohn '4l, Ja
net N Holtanger '4l, M Jane
Kistler '4l, Thelma R Kluger '9l,
Bai ham G Kurtz '4l, o Lola Sas
ka '4l, Dorothy L Schnerr '4l,
Floience M Smith-'4l
Graduate students . are Eli7a
beth C Bell, Matilda E Bell, Ma
tilda A Bentley, Bonnalee M
Brown, Clara E Cocker'lle,, D
June Freed, Lots J Harrier; Mar
garet L Hopkins, Ethel M McCor-
Mick, Barbara A Turner, and Dor
othy E Williams ,
, IFS- HERE AGAIN -
- r‘ - , The
Freshman s
• with the • '
mpus OWLS
. _
~ 4 44
49th ' 31 2c per
„ , „
Informal-- - 9'1+1.11 . Rec Hall
You Mound! Changes
Name, Gets Constitution
.Changing its name to the Penn
State Student. Federation' to avoid
connection 'with the; American
Youth Congress, the local Amer
ican Youth Council last week ad
opted a Immal constitution and is
rapidly going ahead With organiza
tion,
•
Put it off till later. Get your formal.
suit cleaned for the null big dance,',
NOW
Hiland Shop
-220 2S. Allen St. = 14one 317 i
Tuesday, April 9, 1940,
U Gals
One thing we can say for the .
weather, it offers a good Eiripor
tunity to use some of the bad
poetry we' wrote for Jour 22. Here,
you are ,
Slate College Lament , ,
Rain, rain ,go ,away
Come again some other day ' '
My feet get wet.
For all' Women who' don't al-,
ieady know or aren't already
looking forward to it, we call at
tention- to the SU dances which
will he held in the Armory from
4 to 5 p m tomorrow and, after
this week, every Tuesday:- Wed
nesday, and Thursday -It's , a
Dent chance to find a new man,
hold the, one you've got, or just
have some fun -
In the Spring an Us Gals ,col
umn turns to verse and we .luau
thought' of another lousy, limerick.
There was a young lady from ,
- State -
Who kept tiara getting over
_ weight
By thinking of calories,
Fat_Ladies' salaries
And the tumble of getting, 7 a
date'
The Mortar' , Board
en's Conference Thursday paiintl
JSCS - to bring out a practical angle
to vocations and jobs that hisn't
been touched on campus befOre:
Even those who have - aired - ay',
Selected' their apartments-for-tWo
will find plenty to interest them
And now, we aren't taking a
,ciack at our coeds or anything;
we're Just getting this poetry bug
over with once and for all That
a promise, so you can stick with
us _ , r
- -,„
',..
Maiy Coed has lost her Fred
And can't seem to get him agiri 4
But let hei alone and she'll-:
come home— • ,
..:;,
Wearing anoth?es - fraternitr,
pin - ,
DO YOU KNOW' '
That' t' Leo Houck;'`'
-"-
Penn State Boxing.:
- Coach had to , inake
decision,. betieeenl o ,
professional ' bate 7: :,
' ball 'or boxing. early
in his career? ' ' r e
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FROMM'S
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