PAGF FOUR
Editorial Opinion
Roil Call Vote for :USG
-At" the fte:4 meeting of the new•student government
Cangre..is,.tho 0110 ing business on the agenda was voted
upon:
*Three Presidential. appointments. •
*Holding a National Student Association conference
on campus licw. 16 and 17.
*Supporting . a bill urging that the han recently placed
on Froth be reversed. ,
There was ore:flaw in the procedure used to decide
on there matters, however. No
,record was made of, the
Atif.C.3 of the individual Congressmen: . YVe believe that
such a record is necessary.
i It livaluable at election time; even though this seems
far in the future at the present time; to show what a
Conl - ral;rain has supported, opposed or not voted cn. In
this way the Congressman's constituents are better able to
juds . e his Worth as their representative, and so, we think,
make a wiser choice of the available slate.
The roll F all vote is recommended in Robert's Rules of
Order, the operating rules of the Congress. • .
• To establish a record of votes, we urge that the USG
Congre7smeh discuss taking roll dall votes at their work
shop this Suhday and then adopt the procedure at their
next regular , meeting.
Where Have You Been?
We vievted. with ironical smiles the action taken" by
the USG Congress last night when ihey tabled the motion z,
to urge a re4ersal of the decision to ban Froth. - The Con-
gre - s lea - ed 'its -decision on the fact that tli t e Student
Etzreau, its pseudo-Gallop bureau, had not sur-
ve3 c ! th 2 carnFus for student opinion on the magazine.
!,tre tre only a few points we would like to raise
in this c3nreean: What was the student bureau doinglast
.]
wee!: berore the first hearing on. Froth? Have the Con,o,ess
mei olilivious to all the, comment on Froth in the
pal. two Wecl;s? Do the Congressmen read The Daily
- 0511e7jan's lettOrs to the editor? Or, if they're worried
-abQut . I eeping up on the lateSt developments, have they
read our news cr.lurnns lately?
A Student-Gperate'd 'Newspaper
58. Y ears of Editorial Freedom
Otlts Elairg Tolirnian
Successor to The Free Lance, est. If?
Pattftehal Tataday throrth Saturday storming daring the University year. Tht
Dail, Ca Matsu V • atdett-.gerated aewasetatt. Entered as seeand-rtane matter
Jahr 11, twgt at the State College. Pe. Post Olnee wader the art •f March S. SSTS.
Men Sobeertyliea Prier: tam a year
Manilla Address Sax 2;1. State Catlett. Pa
Member of The Associated Press
ANN PALMER
Editor
Citf Ildkors, Joan Mohan and Dark/ Bolbach _News and World Affairs Editor.
Yaw SON: Editorial Editor. Carol Kankleurak: Sport. Editor. John Korth:
Militant Sport, Editor, Ern Denlihittr; Photography Co—editors. Teak Brun*:
sat neat Coleman; Personnel Director. Saralee Orton: •New• and Features Editor;
IDormao tleasse.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
HERBERT-WITHER
°FM*" Business Manager-
THE DAILY' Cs:XL-EGAN, UNIVERSITY ?ARK.— PENNSYLVANIA
g The foil/swing article is taken . It seems, however, that Pro
-1".; from a booklet called "Penn . fes.sor Frizzell was consulted
~. Sta t e Student Publications, by Fisher for a suitable name
r; 1859-1950." The article, pub- and that Mrs. Frizzell actually
' 4 ,.. fished in 1950, is reprinted here suggested that a clown in
...' unchanged. It tatis written, by Shakespeare's Measure .f o r
;-,' Arthur W. Warnock, dean of • Measure was named Froth and
• men. at the time of the article's • 'was described as "a foolish
publication: ' gentleman," and that Froth
'' In March 1949 the Penn
!night be a good' name for the
,
'new, publication. To this day
i.) 'State Froth pUblished a for- ,
the mines of Froth staff mem
tieth anniversary number, and e • listed
..,onthe editorial
... the first paragraph in an ar- betsae a s - ' " - the Foolish Gentle
ticle entitled "Forty ' Years; of %L.. , thus reflecting , the
- "I Foolishness" read in part' as
" 2- follows: "Beer steins that
~. Shakespearean touch; but also
the much ; : prized - symbol of
popped up mysteriously on
bulletin boards and',sidewalks • Membership, on a' Froth staff
'..
IS' a miniature gold beer mug,
-', in April, 1909, heralded the
thus reflecting a beery element
.
."..- arrival of a new baby in cam- in the naming. ' •
7 , 4 pus journalism. 'The infant
i The earlier Froth was char
, publication , was the Penn
,-' Stale Froth which according - • alic-.; term' ed by many drawings.
to Editor A. W. Fisher was a
jokes, and short verses jumbled
."4•.
""' college comic designed to bring together in a hodge-podge
some sunshine in •
make-up. About three-fourths
often gloorhy academic life." Of the magazine was art work.
- . Then re as now, Froth editors
But in
.replying to a cues
'
.... - we in trouble with the far
' tionnaire about Froth history ulty now and then because of
~, that same first editor, Arthur the kinds of jokes published—
W. Fisher. 'lO, wrote on March either because of their jibes at
t. t . 5. 1950: "Froth began in a con- , f acu lt y peraoru giri es or be
t: . ferened, between Charles McC. cause of their indelicacy. John
sßreitinger and A. W. Fisher Sp ang l er writes that he got in
about March, 1910. I had fin
.l,e.to trouble by putting the fol
ished a strenuous year editing l ow i ng commen t i n t o the
?. • and, publishing the 1910 La Vie mouth of a named faculty
0. ' and then mysenior year as Member: 'lfs not what you
•-,4 editor-in-chief 'of ; the Colle- see through a peek-a-boo waist.
r, gian, and thought; there was It's what you try to see." H i e
• no more to do -but be gradu- • aagely observes that modern
' ated ... My experience seemed styles have dated' that joke.
to fit` me for editing the first ' „Until its revival after World
1.: • issue, and then it would be ups War II , Froth was a perfect
v to 1911." ; ". example of unregulated free
•1
... Professor John . Henry Fail! ' enterprise. Its staff members
°i, sell; sell; Whom the young founders divided the profits, when any,
•„,.•' of the 'magazine consulted among themselves, passed on
. 1- , freely, . makes this statement: ' debts to their successors, sub
j.= lks I recall, in the spring of mated to no audit by the Col
,', 1909, Arthur W. Fisher got the lege, chose their, own faculty
''' idea of a humorous magazine, censor, and;, chose their own
possibly as an antidote for the 'successors. 4 ._Sew years prior
~
f; recently defunct Lemon. This I to ' the magazine's - suspension
may have been in the spring during World War 11, Presi
;of 1910, his senior] 'may." _ ;dent Hetzel, out of patience
Was it 1909 or 1910? Did the with both editorial and busi
-1; 1949 staff celebrate Froth's 'ness practices of the' unregu
-4 fortieth birthday , a ,year too . .lated publication, did the un
t''' soon? Factually, I a copy of :usual act of making the, editor
Froth's first issue iin 'the Penn ;and businels manager respon
'•. State collection in the College F sible directly to him. During
,'•, Library bear no date, but dates the wartime suspension of pub
mentioned within the copy . lication, Dr. Hetzel requested
substantiate the assertion that :that Froth be not 'allowed to
a '
'V Froth first appeared in June , resume publication unless its
li
1910.
. i staff accepted I organization
;-.:. Similar confusion seems ,to , under College regulation. Hugh
exist - as to the: origin of its : Ridall, who organized the
name. John M. Spangler, 'll, ! magazine's postwar revival,
Froth's 1911 editor, - says: "In quickly agreed 10 that stipule
., 1910 I remember in Room 306, bon, and subsequently Froth.
Main Building, which legally I was . incorporated in sill' ar
became the publishing office rangement similar to Colle
of the' magazine, a few of us : gian, Incorporated. "Let's make
.. gathered together, to found this :an honest woman of the old
- 1 1 . , publication and name it." Be- , girl," he said.
0., sides Fisher and Breitimer he - For its first 120 years the
0 . names Bill Hoffman, Vie Eg- Froth comic book layout—re
i bert, and Irish Corbett. Then fleeting the Judge , and Puck
4 ' l
T.. he continues: ."This went on influence, no "dnubt—was un
far into the -night . : . two changed. In 1929, Editor •E. R.
i': cases of St. Mary's beer.. ; . Noderer made material chang
inspiration began to mount on es in'the style of the magazine,
1 .; inspiration .. ; out of the blue introducing long articles, lash
smoke someone, holding a high , ion columns, campus chatter,
'- glss said,'Let's call it Froth!' " t arid other features reflecting
Campus_ YAF Chairman Attacks SENSE Picket
On U.S. Cuban duarantine as Lack of Patriotism
TO THE EDITOR: The demonstra 7 - conservatives elsewhere wire re
tion activity TuesdaY on College irested so often by members of.
Avenue by SENSE,
.Students for . the student . 'body connection
f with the decision to resume nu-
Peace. was typical of the "against" !clear testing (the last time SENSE
attitude and lack of -Patriotism of ;dine). we of Young Americans for
the organization. In -this case the Treedom feel it to be in order to
protest was against' the United st a te our position on the blockade
States' blockade of : Cuba .neces- lin comparison to that of 'SENSE.
sitated by the buildup of Soviet - 1 4 =Pb:tied an "against" picket
raissile bases. This blockade is so • YAF agrees with the editorial
opinion of the Collegian,in giving
protection that it should have the f
vitally needed '-i*cer . hemispheric
its full and unqualified support
support of ALL Athericacs, but
to the action taken by the -Presi
this means little to SENSE. ! dent. Like the Collegian, YAP
Indications have been that most (and conservatives elsewhere) also
Americans DO see the need for feels "that had such forceful
the- Pgesident's bold action in re-
.action'been taken when Castro
gard Ito Cuba, which is a course -;
that has been advocated by con
servatives (represented on this
campus by Young Americans for
Freedom) for year*. Indeed. re
sults, are already evident from the
tough action of the president. Re
spect from other cOuntries long
overdue to us has 'ginally begun
to reappear. as our allies and even
the Organization }of Anierican
Stays have rrtnninteusly support- i
ed our move. • • '`
Since the views iof YAF (and
.
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, FR!DAY.,.9CTQBER 26. 1962
the popular New Yorker influ
ence. In' 1931. College Humor
named Froth the. "best, man
aged college humor magazine
for 1930-1931." - Durin g his re
gime as editor the crusading
Jimmy Dugan. a lad of bril
liant talents, introduced poli
tical and social consciousness
into Froth editorials and ar
ticles. .
W. S. Hoffman, later • Regis
trar of the College and now
Burgess of State College, was
Froth's first ,art 'editor Rob
ert Foster, now a commercial
artist •of note in New York;
was art editor in 1917: John
M. Price, art editor" in 1938-
1939, has since attained wide
popularity in cartoon-making
for leading magazines.
The widest circulation given
to anything published in Froth
followed the publication of a
light poem on tobacco by G. L.
Hernminger, 'l6. It is now in
cluded in Bartlett's Familiar
Ouotations. The verse goes as
follows:
Tobacco is a dirty Need. •
I Like it,
It--satisfies no normal need.
I like it.
It makes you thin, it makes
you lean,
It takes the hair right off
your bean.
It's the worst darn stuff I've
ever seen.
I like it.
As a rule, key staff members
of Froth through the years,
especially editors and business
managers, were enrolled in
curricula having little to do •
with journalism, and followed
professional careers other than
journaliim after leaving col
lege. The late Richard B.
"Chang" Smith, '27;' wrote the
hauntingly beautiful "Winter
Wonderland" and other popu- ,
lar songs.
Faculty advisers, doubling
as censors, have been John
Henry Frizzell, Lou Bell, and
the late M. M. Harris. In its
later years the Froth staff has
been liberally sprinkled with
coeds, and .during World War
II Roxanne Brooks became the
first woman managing editor.
Writing 'the history of Froth T.
is like writing the biography
of a man .who has attained
worth and position, but whose
past has included diversified
foibles• and pranks— headachy
at the time; but amusing - and
forgiveable in retrospect. Com
piling copy for its deadlines ,
was never an orderly, syste
matic process—and therein per.;
haps lay its charm; making -
money was never a chief ob
jective in . its :staff, except
perhaps now and then for a
prosaic business manager; get-
ting laughs was often done at
the cost of delicacy and good
taste; but it all made good fun
for staff members, writers, and
cartoonists,_ many of whom
were quite exceptional person
alities; and all of whom
"Wouldn't have missed 'it for
.worlds."
first seized the property interests
of citizens of this country in 1959,
the problem would never have
reached -such an advanced .stage
and that such drastic action 'now
would not have been necessary."
,We regret that SENSE lacks the
knowledge and foresight - on ' the
results of - appeasement and its
correlation to_ war. The action of
the President is the best , way to
PREVENT war, we feel, and is a
much better choice than -the
SENSE alternative of appease-,
menu which would most certainly
lead in due time TO - war.
Thormetyer, 's4 '
Chairman. YAE .
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