Page Two
THE COLLEGIAN PLATFORM a . a
a a a 'For A Better Penn State
1. Open the new buildings.
2. Pa, higher faculty salaries.
3. Relieve the housing situation through in.
spection and new dormitories.
4 Centralize agencies for student financial
help.
5. Change the College name.
6. Postpone Penn State's enrollment in
creases to allow time for internal devel
7. Build a strong, active alumni
8 Erect a Student Union Building and a
Field House
9. `lmprove student and faculty relations.
10. Inspire a growing College spirit and pride
and encourage increased participation in
extracurricular achvihes.
CABINET QUESTION MARK
PROBABLY THE BIGGEST problem
facing the all-College Cabinet A hich took
office Tuesday night is that it 1 , , uninfot m-
Its members for the most pal L have not
amed fm, Cabinet membership m long
planned foi it Not more than a handful
of them attended more than one Cabinet
meeting befme they took office Because
of these things, none are fully aware of the
possibilities and limitations of the Cabinet
Under an educational system that com
pletely turns over its student body every
lour yews a certain amount of newness
must be expected. But the fact that all 22
itembei s of the all-College Cabinet ai e new
to the group is to a degi ee an indictment of
the present system of student government.
The present planning does not presup
pose leadership. Only notable exceptions
like Panhellenic Council presidency are de
cided any considerable time before the stu
dent takes office. Other organizations
simply pick out a popular of capable stu
dent for leader ship—and pray that he will
learn what his job is alter he steps into it
a week, a day, or an NMI after his election
The new leader often comes into a Job
which he has not studied very carefully.
For him the attainment ol ,the position and
not the operation of it was the goal When
Le was elected he celethated, seldom does a
student celebrate having accomplished his
Job.
There is one thing this new all-College
Cabinet can do next year, It can make a
continuous gi oup by electing its successors
eat ly enough—in Febi nary, pet haps—to
give them time to understudy the positions
they will assume in May
'this means a change in many elections,
all-College, school councils, and others, but
it is a change that can be achieved. Coeds
have Lipp oached the goal, men iti e farther
tram it
1 he system would cut down on the 'fum
bling and muddling which the new Cabinet
must inevitably do before it finds itself.
WHACK
Plll BETA KAPPA'S Broken Hearts
Auxiliary—the disappointed candidates
who every year don't make Phi Beta Kappa
—has a case against the School of the 'A
t i al Arts as well as with Phi Beta Kappa
Again several Ingh-aver age Um al Ails
cant/Wales have been disappointed because
t .ey tad not I ealwe that a libel al atts
cow se at Penn State Is not' in itself enough
i o satisfy Phi Beta Kappa s requirements
for liberal study.
On many liberal ai is campuses, Phi
Beta Kappa takes the highest students in
the senior class without iegard to the par
tieulm coin ses, not so in the School of the
Liberal Arts here
'l;iat traditionally liberai arts fi atm mty
w.II not count Join nalism and commerce
and Smance mocks as liberal
Pia Beta Kappa here demands study in
each of eight fields Biological science,
social studies, philosophy and psychology,
mathematics, English language and litera
-1 in e. foreign languages, and art.
incongruously enough, the one &pad;
Inca whose graduates tegultuly meet these
libel al subject sequtrements is not in Lib
eral Ark but in Chemistry and Physics—
the pre-medical department.
Phi Beta Kappa has slapped Liberal Arts
111 the face
PENN STATE COLLEGIAN
"Ps- A Furtier Prrat Siete"
to T'e Free Lance, established 1887
Pi.. , Ysied 4...m1-weekly during dis College veal eleept
in holidays by the students of the Pennsylvania State
CoHese ii ahe ...^-$... of the College the students. facul
ty alumni and friends
Friday, May 17, 1940
THE MANAGING BOARD
ADAM A SMYSER 'U Editor
LAWRENCE S DRIEVER 41.13uslnees Manager
VERA I. hEMP 41, Women's Editor
ertensitine Edttor This Issue
News Editor This Issue
Women's Issue Editor
Entered as second-class matter July 5.1934 at Attie post
office at State College, Pa . under the act of March 3, 1979
BY HIMSELF
Scathingly Yours Department
Dear Campy
Boy, you stank
You wi ite a column on sex and what do you do
—leave mri Sybil Conat and Runlet Stubbs and
Jane Parsons (oh those lucky DU's) and Winme
Bischoff and Mingle Strode and Betty Jo—the 5
and 10 gal with the black Jocks who has that Cleo
patra air Not only that, but you muff two class A
red-headed frosh numbers on your very own Col
legian staff—Frances Lesby and Jane Blackburn
—both of whom deserve fi ont page play in any
man's newspaper Or do you still call that thing
you get out twice a week (Gad, well hove to put
,m with it every day next year!—do you still call
that Journalistic 'duce can a newspaper ,
Boy, you stink
You write a column about a better program foi
Penn State iquote Piof Wueller, "this greeeaaatt
'emple of higher learning") and what do you do
You oveilook the most vital issue of the day—the
thing which, of all Rungs, this College has the
most crying need—bagger than elevators in Old
Main or mole harmonious relations with Barbara
9owes—something wluch would make your name
live forever an the annals of grateful i.ollegians
everywhere—why don't you ,propose
A NEW BOOK FOR TBB' LIBRARY
Signed,
Ann T. Q. Volumes
D Fishent Shelve,
iNote by Campuseei Campy mno way assumes
responsibility or supports any of the statements
made by the above coeds Furthermore, Campy
has checked at the Theta Manse and finds these
two girls are not Thetas—which, of course, means
that their statements can hardly be considered
authoritative (now do I get that date with Nancy
Seedsil Campy further requests that any other
coeds who detect a slight aroma in this column
mail their complaints, together with the tops from
three 1940 Buick Sedans, to Campoose Seer,
Platoon 6, Regiment 205, Brigade 3, Blackout Dl
vision, now storming the Alfa Chi 0 suite in
search of important concessions and a protector
ate over Knobby Hellman
God Bless 'em Department
Here's to the girls fourth Boot Ath Hall
We think that they're the best of all
They're lovely kids—so sweet, so deal
Besides, they like the Caropuseer
Cold Hash Department
Blinot Weaver, pi ide of the Thetas, lia% been
seen sharing the front seat of a certain bremy
looking vehicle with Hairy (Hey aviator where'd
you buy those wing) Peirce A certain chap
whose initials are B B and whose last name sug
gests what flowers do in spring got the shaft from
a very lovely secretary in favor of a very big
oruising athlete . Bob llawhinney lost no time
•n taking over the Sis Fitting league after '43
Class Prexy Frank Flynnk stepped out George
Schenkein, future editor of The New York Daily
News scandal sheet, looked very professional
mingling with the reportorial crew in the Brock
ethoff last weekend
Ah Spring Department
Hal High cooing to Grace Hendershot
Leo Russel cooing to Ann Halberstadt
Ralph Routsong cooing to Joyce Brayton
Everybody cooing to Ruth Treasure
Campy cooing
Inauguration Department
cars and ribbons and the blue band and the persh
mg rifles gee they really got a couple of swell
outfits theme some nice-loolcing old chap says
lie wants to be called prexy Big Cliff McWit
:tams starts - to talk and one of the perching rifle
boys passes out , gosh it's hot or there goes
Flo Barnes ILI didn't really see hem but I thought
she ought to get in the column) now that
smooth egg Arny Leith is speaking how I
envy that guy gosh, 'no I don't want to be all
college president but it must be very, very,
um) , nice man ied life, I mean .
_You'll ~Enjoy
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The Corner
Unusual
John A Baer '42
Ross B 'Lehman '42
Jeanne C Stiles '42
CAMPUSEER
all the people in front of the corner
gee, even super-BMOC Burt Willis
PENN STATE COLLEGIAN'
WOMEN'S NEWS
WSGA Issues
Schedule For
1944 Women'
Mixer, Dance, Teas,:
Pop-in Night Slated
For Freshman Coeds
A tentative schedule for '44
women was released Wednesday
night by Elmoi L Weaver '4l,
WSGA president, Anne M Borton
'42, junior senator, and Margaret
K Sherman '43, sophomore sen
ator
At 6 '3O p m Wednesday, Sep
tember 11, freshmen will have hall
meetings, followed by the PSCA
mixer in Old Main at 9 p m The
first Student Union dance is slated
for 4 45 p m Friday, Play Day for
Saturday afternoon, and the Froth
dance for 9 p m Saturday
From 3 to 5 p m Sunday, Sep
tember 15, Cwens will entertain at
a tea, and from 1 to 4i p m Mon
day, WRA will sponsor a Sports
Rally
An ()melon Nu tea is planned
for 4 45 p m Tuesday, September
17, the Ag-Home Ec mixer for Fri
day, and the PSCA cabin party
from 2 to 7 p in Saturday
Upperclass women will observe
pop-in night from 830 to .9:30
p m Sunday, September 22, and
the freshman coeds will pop-in the
following Sunday The lust Fresh
man Forum meeting is set for 7
p m Tuesday, September 24
Pan-hel will hold a tea the Sat
urday after the 'first pop-in night,
and will sponsor Stunt Night Fl.l
- October 4 _
Church receptions ale slated for
Friday, September 27, and other
events include a Home Ec marsh
mallow roast on Wednesday, Oc
tober 9, and WRA hobby show
Wednesday, October 16
Swim Team Takes
Third In Meet
Clark '4l Cops flows -
In Telegraphic Match
The crack of a gun, spectators'
shrill cries, splashes, and the race
is on , Penn State's top women
swimmers participated in the 1940
Intercollegiate Telegraphic Swim
Meet recently and placed third
among the Eastern major league
colleges and tenth in the national
league with 4 1 / 2 and 18 points, re
spectively.,
Babs Clark '4l took individual
honors by copping first place in
the 100-yard crawl at 1 091 and
fourth in the 40-yard breast stroke
at 29 8 in the Eastern major league
and second and fifth in the same
events in the national league
Bobby Kelly '42 ranked fourth
in the 40-yard claw] in the East
ern league, with Louise Breumn
gei '4O and Mickey McFai land '43
placing fifth and eighth
Other Eastern league icsults in
cluded a sixth and seventh place
by .Eleanor Wiesner '42 and Le
nore Fullington '42 in the 40-yard
back ciawl, while Mary o:e'en
berg '42 ranked seventh in the 40-
yard breast sti oke
In the relay events, Eleanor Ar
nold '4l, Lenore, Jane Ryan '42,
and Babs captured sixth place in
the national league in the 100-
yard freestyle and second in the
Eastern league Lenore, Babs, - and
Jane copped fifth and third places
in the 75-yard medley
Approximately 50 colleges par
ticipated in the swim meet which
tvas sponsored by Penn this year
Colleges with attendances of 100
or more comprised the major
Jeague, and smaller colleges the
minor league, with sections dividl
ed into Eastern, Southern, mid-
Western, and Westin n
Co-Edits
Mortar Boald will initiate new
members tomorrow followed by a
luncheon at the State College Hotel
. Thetas and DU's had a get
together at the Theta House Wed
nesday Town alumnae will
entertain serum Kappas at a lun
cheon in the Allencrest tomorrow
Louise Homer Club held its re
cital last Sunday and will picnic
next week .Pi Lambda Theta—
Kappa Plu kappa picnic, planned
fur tomorrow, ha', been postponed
itmSatui day, May 25 Pi Lambda
Thetas will install officers in
Atherton next Thursday
33ein Sigs wwll be hosts to
AEPhis at n buffet supper Sunday
night Joan Sperling '39, AERM,
was here last weekend Chihi
tides and dates will picnic at Pot
ter's Mills tomorrow.
Delta Gams partied seniors at
the 'house Tuesday .light and pre-'
serried each with a' ox of station
ery . Mrs Victor Beede and
Helen Bayard gave a buffet supper
for AQPI seniors at Mrs. Beede's
home Tuesday.
Ribbon And Name Cards I
Will Be Worn By Nexi
Year's Transfer Women
Small blue and white hair
i ibbons and name cards, similar
to those worn by foshman men,
will distinguish next year's
blunter women
Tiansfei plans, made by
'CA House of Representa
tives, include a campus tour fol
lowed by a coffee hour in,Ath
erton Hall featui ing College
songs and cheers at ft 30 p m
the Tuesday berme classes be
gin A compulsoiy meeting on
4VSGA iegulations will be held
the following Saturday
Transfer groups similar to
semen sponsor groups for fresh
man women, are included in
mientation plans Heading the
group is Patricia L Patton '4l,
assisted by Mary H Ashby '4l,
Joyce Goodale '4l, Evelyn L
Johnson '4l, Sybil R Martin '9l,
Ruth ~G Paul '4l, Jeanne N.
Lindeman '42, with Miss Matil
da A Bentley as advisor
Us Gals
PROGRESS—even though try
ing to put love on a leash is as
useless as a nickle with a hole
through it, the all-College Cabinet
—House of Rein esentatives com
mittee on etiquette made the
Mottling statement that conduct
in women's dormitories isn't what
it should be
MORE PROGRESS Centre
county's marriage license bureau
reported record breaking business
Monday
MORE PROGRESS NEEDED—
to put the barbed wire fences
back on Old Main lawn 'They
might have reminded us that we
are still a cow college, but they
did cut dowri displays of profuse
affection—something WSGA has
been trying to do all year
FROM DR BERNREUTF.Ft
"Just plain Itiendliness and a
warm smile make a bigger 'hit'
with people than more subtle
traits like otaginality and sym
pathy "
WE WONDERED for a long
while where the three and a half
men are that every coed is sup
posed to have The light came
two weeks ago Be a_Donna Dae
and you too can have your quota
A NOTABLE BIT of anti-fly
progress was made this Spring
when screens were put on hall
and lavatory windows in Frances
Atherton
,OVER 1000 WOMEN took to
roofs and lawns this month and
forsook Vitamin D pills Nature's
cure for colds didn't reach pill
standards, though, as evidenced
by the number of sore throats ,
BLEEDING HEART BUSHES
—to those non-sorority senior wo
men who looked , forward for
four years to a dinner-dance at
the Nittany Lion Inn, and now
must be content with a (just
plain) dance _ .
1941 Pan-Hel Stunt Nigh
Slated For October, 4
Next year's Panhellenic Stunt
Night is slated for October 4 by
the council as a sorority feature of
the freshman three-week non
dating period, with the annual
song contest scheduled for ,some
time in April.
As an introduction to the soror
ity season, the program of skits,
presented by competing groups,
will be improved ,This year's
stunt night was held in April ,
I CINEMANIA
Thundering drama of the glories
and collapse of an empire against
which is told a tender love story
comes to the Cathaum Theatre,
Thursday and Friday, in "Florian "
The picture traces Austria's col
lapse' following the World War I
through its affects on 'the lovers
and on Florian, a magnificent
Lippman stallion owned by Em
peror Franz Josef Robert Young
plays the groom in the Imperial
stables, and Helen Gilbert the
duchess who, through their love
for Florian, 'find themselves In
love, a romance .forbidden because
of their diffeience in Social station.
The war, 'evolution, and col
lapse of the liapsbucg , dynasty
sweeps away social difference as
the three are ' , minded in America.
The world's foremost collection
of historical works on Spanish in
,fluence in the American southwest
ss owned by iTohn Carter library at
Brown University
!.Etikene a...Lederer .
REAL ESTATE
114 E. Seaver Ave. Val 4066 ,
. Mote 'College
Coeds Draw-
For Rooms
Monday Night
0 Deposit Increase
Set For Next Year . ;
Payment Due June 7
Coeds will draw numbers for
1940-41 campus 'dormitory rooms
in Atherton Hall at 6.30 p m Mon
da) and will select rooms in nu
merical order at 630 p m Tues
day and Wednesday
Room deposits have been in
creased from $5 -to $lO for next
year and must be paid at the Bur
sar's Office on or before June 7
The deposits which were mamas:
ed to discourag, room changes,
will be refunded on notice of
withdrawals before Septemb& 1,
or will be• credited on fee pay
ments
Sophomore and Juniol women
may reserve rooms they now oc
cupy hy signing with dortrutmy
hostesses before noon tomorrow
and need not attend room diaw
ing Monday Each coed must
chose her own loom, and no
number exchanges will be per
mitted:
Rooms in co-operative houses
are available for women wanting
to economise All coeds living in
College dormitories must eat in
the dining commons, but town
houses are provided for those who
have doctors' recommendations
for special diets.
Home Ec Seniors
Exhibit Cookery
Public Demonstrations
Emphasize Lunclieoes
Food demonstrations, given by
seniors in the home economics
.de
partment,' will be concluded in
Room 106 Home s Economics build
ing tomorrow and Tuesday, Miss
Edith Harding, associate professor
of home economics in charge of
the demonstrations, has announced
"Hot Lunches, for Home and
School" will be demonstrated by
Helen E Shame and Ruth L Tay
lor atlo a m tomorrow At 11 a m
Betty J Sti ickler and Ann B Stur
man will exhibit "Kitchen Holiday
Luncheons"
"Desserts with sßudget Appeal"
will be discussed by Lucille J
Kates and Miriam A Skladal at 9
a m Tuesday, and "Remember—
Salad Makes the Meal" by Lucille
A Rothschild and Mary L Fliesh
er at 10. a m
Presentations last Wednesday
were "Luncheons With Hidden
Treasurers" by Mary L Jenkins
and Ruth V Davis, and ;'Recent
Developments in Vegetable Cook
ery" by Helen M Weist and Evelyn
Beck
A demonstration on "School
Lunches, Varied and Vital" was
given yesterday by Virginia J
Gross and Twila E Hagan, while
L Jane Dunlap and Bette K
Bloomfield discussed "Dairy Pi od
ucts, a Treat for the Whale Fam
ily"
Two hundred thousand students
attend college in other than their
home states
ANCIENT HISTORY $ 75
ANCIENT, MIDIEVALZ MODERN Hlsloly, 160
SACTERICIAGY, Prin. E. Pm of . . 135
SIOLOGY Gmor4l .
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' THE
Inc.
Opp. Main date, Dial 248
Westlake TO Study Speech
Under European Expert
Harold Westinlce, instructoi in
speech, will work 'under Dr Emil
RI oschels, former head of i the Un
iversity of Vienna Neurological
Clinic, during 'summer school at
the Univeisity of Michigan it was
announced yesterday J ,
Dr Froschels will head the
Michigan Speech Clinic and Dr
Westlake will be in charge of ad
minishation They will also col
laborate in research work on.the
mechanics of * the larnyx '
According to John H Frizzell,
head of the division of speech, Dr.
Froschels is one of the 'world's
most pi omment speech correc
tionists In addition to his uni
versity work he engaged in pri
vate' practice in Vienna and wrote
many , books, among them "The
Psychology of Spee el" and
"Spcelch Thei apy " .
Ml' Weather
Lab Presents
Daily Report
Up-to-the-minute' reporting of
actual weather conditions m'evezy
section of the state, as well gas ac
curate, statewide weather fore
casting, is a ',service made' avail
able by the meteorological labora
tory of, the Sdhool of Mineral In
dustries cpoperating with the Civil
Aeronautics Authority
At 9.15 a. in daily, detailed,
maps giving actual road and air
conditions and a 12-hour fotecast
are posted on campus and down
town ,CAA , weather broadcasts
from over 50 radio stations spread
over Pennsylvania and ne&ghboi-,
Ong state., are received from 3 30
to 9 a in each' dayand furnish the,
data for the maps
The maps, prepared by meteor
ological students under Dr Hel
mut Landsberg,Uunend the U S
Weather Bureau forecasts which,
since they cover large areas, give;
only the general characteristics, at
the weather instead of the specific
infoimation often desned ' ,
Walks of distinguished contem
poraryom poets ate being recorded
by - the poets themselves for' the
phonographic library at City, Col
lege, New York
Hunter College's new skyscraper
budding m New York will have a
modern broadcasting and , public
,address system
SENATE CHOOSES NEXT Y,fA
Chosen for leadership abilities, 11 sophomore women were ,
named to the 1940-41 Junior Service Boa.d by WSGA •Sermie
Monday night
New members ale Catherine Bidelspachei, Mary V Cooper,
Elinor M Derr, Janet L Byer, R Helen Gordon, E. Louise Hack,' ,
Mary W. Houghton, Dbrothy J Johnson, Roberta J _Kelly, Anita M. -
Knecht, .and E Mae-Perry
E'.-officio members will , be Jean Babcock, Anne M Borton,p
Mildred M Taylor, and Betty M, Martin, all juniors on senate
-'Lots , talent innew "PreshiPlifilothes,: dramatically ,
worn bpliollYwood's loveliest young heroines! TAIL:4)1 1 , 1 1
about 'm Mademoiselle , and Picture Play, they've got
young ideas shat youlhe ceritetaalleyesl, Pretty: '
girl playsuit, sweet on stripes Beautifully bias-cut-in
front wiih';ripply•elsitt sashed in'aishe waist. ;Cluster "-
I . „
,stripe rayon crepe that LUXes hatml,.. '
9;
!Ccpen,ivius, Ihnsßose, - .4.0 to 20;i 6 app '
- Other Freshy, Playclothes
, $2.95 and $3.95 _
Patet§on Hosierir Shop
136 E:ColleireAlie.
F:nday, May 17; 1940
StUdents Lack '
In Geography, 4 '
Murphy Says';-,
Can you locate the State of
New York coirectly on a man?
'Eight students at Syracuse Uni t
versa) , were unable to do sorb
:seemingly simple operation
_in
:spite of the fact that live of th em
'were actually permanent regi
'dents of New Yoik State!
l i p All of us have hEd a slight ac
(quaintance with an elementary,
:course in gtide school but by the
,itime we reach college our knowl
,edge of the earth's surface iis
!vague indeed How many college'
/students can correctly locate coun
tries on a world map 9
Pi of Ravmend B Murphy, in ,
a paper on "Plans and Objectives
I of, College Work in Geography"
I poults out that a course in geog
raphy ..JS. essential to those who '
seek a blood education 'ln his
own words, "How can students.
with so little locational
ground hope to have even a min
imum understanding of the pan
orama of world events that news=
papers, magazines, and radio?, are
constantly In inging to our doors?,
"Modern geography, effectively
spans the gap between the natur
al and the social sciences Geog
raphers have advanced far from
their original concentration' upon
purely physical geography',rict .
are turning then attention more
and more toward the human and
more interesting aspects of their
subject," Professor Murphy says
The College 'offers a varied
program of courses to give_ stu
dents the background they lack;
One of these elective - courses, -
deals with the geography of the
State of Pennsylvania and others
deal in detail with each of the
continents except Australia
A popular survey course con:-
sists of a brief synthesis of the
regional geography of each of the
various countries And since eh
mate is
. probably the most import
ant single element of man's na
tural environment, a further
course deals with a ' regionaT
world survey of chinate
All of these courses are designed
for students of engineeimg, torn
metre and finance, journalism,
education, history, agricultural
economics, home economics, or of
any. other curricula who marwash
to add to then information abbut
the world as a whole or to gain
more specialized
,informataiii
about a more' restricted portion
of the earth's surface `.!
'S JUNIOR SERVICE BOARD'
Staie ; Colleii.