PAGE TWO Enter Blind Students at Penn State yearly pay $20,000 to join an honorary and dangle a key from their vain chain. That's about three times the amount each senior class has to toy with in its Senior Gift Fund. It's about twice the sizr of the yearly budget of All-College Cabinet, 10 . student governing body. OFFICIAL FIGURES ARE unavailable nor, Although $20,000 is unofficial, it seems conser vative enough since we reached it by multiply ing these conservative estimates: 50 Greek letter and other honorary and professional societies; 25 members in each; at least $l5 for initiation, a key and other fees. Much of .this money goes to headquarters of national honor •aries. Bob Higgins. ex-Penn State football coach. certainly was prone to wonder "Is it worth it" when long hours of toil on the football practice field produced little results in a few of the lean years of his regime. The same thing applies here, sans the physical effort but with hard cash as a substitute. Students who pay their. shekels to attach three honor ary Greek letters to their names should also ask "Is it worth it?" Honorary fraternities doubtless have an im portant function in that they inspire effort. BUt the cost of inspiration should not be as great as it is in many cases. ALTHOUGH OUR CAMPUS suffers from •an extreme malady known as "Key Craze," it is probably no worse than the same affliction at other colleges. But to say that we are no worse than other colleges is beside the point. What Penn State students who are mem bers or members-to-be of honorary fraterities should. do \ is demand a statement of just where •the money goes that they send to na tional headquarters of their organizations.. The custom now is to serve up the dollars asked without a question or a shade of s doubting Thomas. This is one road that many students enter as blind as the Cyclops. • 011 r. Elatig efillegiati Successor to THE FREE LANCE'. est 1817 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings m elusive during the College year by the sto/f of The Dail, Collegian of The Pennsylvania' State College. Entered as second-class matter July 5. 1934. at the State College, Pa.. Post •ffice under the act of March 3, 187:' Editor Business Manage; Tom Morgan 'CO' Marlin A. Weaver Managing Ed., Wilbert Roth: News Ed., Jack Reen Sports Editor. Elliot Krone; Edit. Dir.. Dottie Werlin• ich: Society Ed., Commie Keller; Feature Ed., Sylvia Ochner Asst. News Ed., Jack Senior: Asst.'. Sports Ed..•Ed Watson Asst. Society Ed.. Barbara Brown: Promotion Co-Mg: Charlotte Seidman: Photo Ed.. Ray Benfer:,Senicir Boar. George Vadasz, Albert Ryan, Myrna Tea, Robert Rcrt George Vadasz, Albert Ryan, Myrna Tex: Staff Cartoon ist: Henry M. Progar. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor ... Harry Endre: Aisistant Night Editor Joyce Moyer COpy Editor Shirley Austin Assistants Ronald Bonn, Pat Sweeley, .Pegge Shierson, Dave Pellnitz Advertising Manager Start the New Year Right USE THE COLLEGIAN CLASSIFIED Phone 6711 Ext. 380 We will be happy to help you. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Turn about is fair play, girls, so if the man you marry has been wearing falsies there should be no mass gnashing of teeth and ing. ' Sounds fantastic? •Terhaps; but .according:to .a recent announce ment from New. York, City, one' of the., world's. leading meccas of fashion, men will be wearing falsies in 1950. And as New York goes n men's fashions, so goes the nation. THE NEW DEVICE,- designed for hopew and flat-chested men, onsists of a band of 'padding, two inches wide and one-quarter of an inch thick. Strapped around the chest of the under-developed male at just the place it can do the most good, it will give him the manly qualities that nature failed to provide.. • The development Of this sensatiOnal•new'product is the natural outgrowth of the recent trend taken on, by what has been called the "new- look." It puts curves, undulations. angles and slinky shapes where neither God nor nature intended them to be. It is only natural that man, for so long the victim of feminine decep• tibn, should attempt to fight fire with fire; In effect, the male copulation is saying: "What's good for the women is good for us." ' The more thoughtful among us may view the male falsie as .;angerous threat to our morals, just as are the falsies worn women. Why so?- Well, with women wearing falsies a man contem )lating marriage could never be quite sure that his wife-to-be could ack up her claims unless . With the alarming• possibility now that Menwill also seport tt. pis deception,:the iAietnen too will always' feel`.that there 'is that' artain element of doubt. This crucial threat to :the morals of our :omen—and consequently. to the moral structure, of our nation— ; aptly illustrated by the reaction of. one female :who commented tat in the event that falsies were to beeorne• common with men, she voulcl not marry a man until I were sure." . Dismissing the impencilng collapse of our morals as a minor iroblem whiCh can be handled by the office of the dean of women, he' introduction of falsies for men is an insult to the virile man'. , hood of the nation. Falsies for men .is a backhanded suggestion .hat the ,chests of men and in general fhe•delielopment of the male Species are lacking. What with 2000 newspapers and, thousands of radio station daily proclaiming this the greatest nation, in'the world and an un• countable. number of k,vomen- wearing falsies, -we're_ already the chestiest country n A. Weaver NOW! At Your Warner Theatre Cathaurn Martha Scott Jeffrey Lynn "STRANGE BARGAIN" _ ate Penny Singleton Arthur Lake "BLONDIE HITS THE JACKPOT" flatting Ann Sheridan Gary Grant "I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE" "They, always. show up around finals lime." True or.. False n the world. We don't need falsies for men. —MARVIN KRASNANSKY Teter Clearance Sale Coats Skirts Suits Raincoats Dresses Underwear Blouses Evening Gowns co l och t m . 124 SOUTH ALLEN ST. STATE COLLEGE,PA. A Chat With ARVV... (Ed. Note: Arthur R. Warnock, emeritus dean of men, has seen thousands of Penn Staters progress through higher education on these premises, and he has known many of them personally. On the theory that, ARW— who was dean of men for 30 years—sho'uld have much solid thought to impart to present Nittany students, we have asked him to speak through the medium of the Collegian. Herewith is the first of a series). In 1911, in my first year as assistant to Thomas Arkle Clark. famous dean of men "at the University of Illinois, he left on April 1 for a trip to Europe, and was gone six months. Unmarried, I was living at the University Club, and during, that summer Dr. Edmund Janes James, able president of the University, took some of his meals at the Club. One warm evening he and I were sitting on the' Club porch, looking at the moon and enjoying the cooling evening breezes. HE SAID SUDDENLY, "Young man, you're doing Dean Clark's job about as well as he does it, aren't you?" I mumble some reply, and he asked, "How much are we paying you?" I named two thousand dollars a year, and then he said: "We are paying Dean Clark five thousand. Why do you think we're paying Dean Clark so much more than you?" Again I mumbled a reply—something about age, prestige and experience. "Yes, that's all true," Dr. James then said, "but 'the real rea son is that there is ten percent of the job that Dean Clark can do and you can't do, and we pay him that difference of three thousand dollars, for knowing ,how to do that top ten percent." I was fortunate in getting thus early as a young man that tip about how the top ten per cent pays off. From that time on L began shoot ing for that top ten percent. So' I am passing that tin on. to aspiring students on campus now. The tip still pays off. —ARTHUR R. WARNOCK 21611 Gazette . . . . Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. at Oak Ridge, Tenn., Jan. 12, 13. February and June advanced-degree candidates in Physics, Chem, ChemE, ME, EE, Metallurgy, Mathematics, Ag 3ioChem. General Mectric atomic energy plant at Han rord, Wash., Jan. 12, 13. February and June ;rads, in CheM. 'and Ch'emE. Applicants must )ave 1.5 or better averagd. The Hill-Roth. Co.,' Tan: 12: February grads n Civil. Eng., Arch Eng., lE, ME, Sanitary Eng., or sales•prograni:; National Lead Company, Jan. 9. February Ind June grads at PhD., M.S., and B.S. levels n Chem,. ChemE, and Metallurgy interested in .esearch in field of titanium chemistry. High ?.holastic standing is . essental. COLLEGE . HOSPITAL Admitted Wednesday: Fred Wiker, Ronald Coleman, Patricia Templin, Charles Grebey. AT THE. MOVIES CATFIATJM-4-Strange Bargain. • NITTANY—L-Was - A Male War Bride. STATEBlondie Hits The Jackpot. . . • :hanging Times • Around the. year 1890 the room rent charge for a semester at Penn State was $37 and board ranged from $2 to $3. per week. _ln town .the regular price for a room was $1.50 per week if there were but one in the room, and . sl.oo per person if there were two. THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1950 Thursday, January 5 "PLACEMENT
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