. . • ____-_, COMPLETE CAMPUS , 44 , e , 4 , 4 p, ;::? . \ : • ESTABLISHED COVERAGE ~ 4 . v_ ii -A\ run .tatr Wn Griargitatt 4' 1904 Vol. 30 No. 40 77 MORE STUDENTS WILL RECEIVE FERA HELP DURING APRIL Number Increased to 437 After Revision in Clause of Federal Provision PRESIDENT HETZEL ,WILL ASK FOR $6,555 BUDGET Failure of Students To Return After Promise of Work Causes Increase Four hundred thirty-seven students will be giVen financial aid under the plan of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration during the month of April. This will. increase the num ber of• students now working under the plan by seventy-seven. Word to this effect was received by administration officials early this week. In applying for next month's loan for student PERA jobs, Presi dent Ralph D. Hetzel 'will ask for $6,555 in his monthly 'budget with which to carry on the project. Distribution Plan Changed This increase in FERA jobs occur red through a change in the clause affecting the distribution of the money to students. Originally, the .money was to be divided into two lots, sev enty-five per cent 'of which was to finance students in Cotiege on• Octo ber 15, 1933, while the other twenty fivs per cent was to enable student..- . to return who were not in the insti tution on January 1. Unable to find enough students who considered it possible to return here with the additional aid of $l5 a month received through the FERA, College officials were forced to return part of the money to the gmiernment. This situation is believed to have occur-1 red in many institutions, with the re sult that the Federal government de cided to remove theproVisions for the distribution of the money. Will Select More Students . Students who were „enabled, to" re turn because'of 'the' project will be kept on. the • pay-rolls: However, the College will apply the remainder of their former appropriation to stu dents now in College who also need assistance. , • Students selected for additional jobs wil. bo notified 'through the office of Superintendent George W. Ebert, local 'administrator of CWA< and FERA. They will be assigned tb their duties ; in the various depart ments in order to be ready for work,at the beginning of the next month. UNION CHANGES OFFICE HOURS' In . order , thae. some office -may be available in Old Min at all time, the Student Union office will be open from 8 o'clock : in the morning Until 7 o'clock at night. The main reason for the change,. according to Hugh It. Riley jr. '31,• who is in charge of the office, is im order that, the many visitors to the -College. during the spring months may easily receive in formation. SEAMANS WILL RETURN Harry W.. Seamans, general 6 see rotary of the P. S. C. A., who has been on leave of absence studying at Columbia University, and the Union Theological Seminary, will return to State .College for , the week-end. • Iturbi Scores Present Methods Of Music Education in America "The trouble with American schools of music is thut they're'too standard lzed—like bathrooms," said Jose Iturbi, handsome and athletic young .Spanish Pianist; in an interview af ter his concert in Schwab auditorium Tuesday night. "There is too much piano taught in the same manner as playing one's best piece for Grandma," the artist said. "When a student whdwill never be a true musician comes to me for instruction; I tell him frankly, 'You have talent for the. typewriter.'" Senor Iturbi arrived. in State Col lege late Tuesday afternoon from Schenectady, N.-Y., Where he gave a concert Monday night. After greet ing a number of :friends backstage at. the conclusion - of his program, he left -with 'his piano tuner and. friend of nine. years' standing, Mr; Xavier Sholcck, for New York City 'where he' will begin rehearsals. With the New York Symphony Orchestra under Toscannini for concerts at Carnegie hall on March 28 and 20. ~ "Camera' is easily adjudged. the best prize-fighter; but judging or chestras is not so easy," the Span iard, who is a former, boxer hmiself, said. lie chose the Philadelphia Philharmonic for first place and rated Ereisler as the best violinist and Tos cannini as the foremost conductor. "To Toscanaini 7 -his art. is every- ITo Take Lead ENID .1. STAGE 15 PLAYERS TO GIVE DRAMA SATURDAY Stage '35 Will Take Feminine Lead in `Redemption' at Schwab Auditorium Enid A'. Stage . '3s Will take the lead ing feminirb role• in the Penn State Players' production of Tolstoi's "Re demption," 'to be given in Schwab au ditorium at 3:30 o'clock Saturday might. Thin play will bring together the largest cast ever assmbled for a players' performance and will be their first attempt at RUSEiall drama. Incidental music 'by the Players' Little Symphony Orchestra under the direction of" John E. Ryan '34 ; will provide the transitions between the scenes. During the, second , scene, the orchestra, which will he :located in the foyer:of th . e.auditeiriuni,'will s acconi= pany a gypsy chorui directed by Mrs. '' l Jo Hays. To Play Gypsy Songs Among the numbers to. be played are, "Kgmeralostrow i " by Rubenstein, "flunimizsque," by Dvorak, and 'Ad a.agiolarnentoso," by • Tschaikowsky. The program of gypsy folksongs and inelodies; which the chorus will sing, have been, translated for them . by Dr. Carl W. Hasek and Dr, Joseph S. Ron c2k, of the department of economics and sociology , . Thorn is also a Rus sian number taken from the "Fantasy I on Russian Folksongs," by Gaines. The singing takes place in a Rue , elan tavern and reveals the type of life of which the gypsy is a part. IL is half lyrical and half sensuous and is perhaps the Most - primitive of all forms of music, somewhat similar in appeal to the Negro spiritual. A spec ial arrangemedt of a gypsy dance mel ody has been made by the orchestra for the second scene. • There are ten scenes in the play de signed by H. Chl:skr McLaughlin '35. June B. Roberts '34 will be in charge of the sixty-five. costumes necessary foe the production. Juanita Sorzano '35 will act as company manager and C. K. Lucas Brightman '36 will super -1 • vise the ma _ -up ot the characters. thing," the . pianist said, his black eyes . .flashing.. "Payment of huge salaries to opera prima donnas and other - singers is stupid and is responsible for the high prices for tickets that opera-goers must pay," he pointed out. "To stage 'Rigoletto' at the Metropolitan, it is necessary to pay each of the Principals two thousand dollars; about eight thousand dollars in all, beside the minor expenses for other singers, costuthes, lighting, . etc. The ten dency is too much toward the Italian style." "I am. crazy about .American audi ences," Senor Iturbi said, gestulat ing with the short, capable fingers of his. right hand,'"they have much more feeling than European audiences and will tell 'you what they like and dis like, unrestrained by tradition. The orchestras . of Europe do not compare with those of the United Stites be cause, they live in the past." The artist has sixteen pianos ,stor ed in 'different parts of ,the country for his concerts and has. given over three hundred concerts since first coming to the United States five years ago.. -His favorite composers are the three old masters Bach, 'Beethoven, and Mozart, and he believes that the jazz of Gershwin and -Grote has "sufficient inspiration but not enough construction behind it."i STATE COLLEGE, PA., =IIRSDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1934 BOARD CONSIDERS RULE TO PREVENT VOTING BY PROXY Elections Committee May Pass Plan To Require Voters' Signatures at Polls CANDIDATES MUST SUBMIT PETITIONS: • BEFORE APR. 6 Maximum of $3O Allowed Each Clique For Expenditure On Electioneering' In an effort to .prevent any pos sibility of voting by proxy in the class elections April 24 to. 26, the elections committee is considering an• amendment to the elections code which would require every voter to sign his name when he presents his mateculation card.. In explaining the proposed change, the committee declared that cases slipped through last year in spite of the precautions which were taken. The present ruling gives any mem ber of the elections committee the authority to demand the voter's signac ture if he deems further identifies.- §on necessary. Polls To Open April 24 Under the provisions of the 1934 code which was approved recently, the polls in the first floor lounge of Old Main will open at 12:45 o'clock Tues day afternoon, April 24, and voting will end at 12:15 o'clock the follow ing Thursday noon. Campaigning for the elections will not begin until 5 o'clock , Monday afternoon, April 9, I and no advertising will be permitted before that time. All candidates for the offices of class president, secretary, and treas urer are required to petitions with Charles A. Myers '34, elections com mittee chairman, on or before noon, Friday, - April These petitions must state the all-College average of the candidate and must bear the sig natures of•fifty voters in his class: Student Council candidates- and the' vice-presidential 'candidates must-also file petitions at the same time. The candidate's all-College average and his own signature are the only re quirements for those petitions. $3O • Campaign Funds Each clique will be allowed to spend thirty dollars including all voluntary donations, for advertising and other campaign expenses. Candidates may issue personal cards, 'but no party posters Will be allowed. Class post ers with both cliques represented are permitted. Each clique must .submit to the Elections chairman before 10 o'clock Sunday night,. April 22, an itemized financial report of all ex penditures. Electioneering in Old Blain while voting is in progress will not be per mitted. Mass meetings and smokers, other than legitimate clique meetings, are also prohibited by the code. Cli que alignments must be turned in to the elections chairman on or before ten o'clock Wednesday night, April 11, and no changes will be allowed after that time. Voters will be required to present second semester matriculation cards, and the names will be checked off on a list secured from the Dean's office. Students Who have. lost their cards will be allowed to vote if they pre sent a note front their Dean certi fying that they are regularly enrolled, undergraduate students. Clique affiliations of the candidates will be placed on the ballots. Viola tions of the elections code will be dealt with by Student Board. ALL FRATERNITIES ASKED TO AID SALVATION ARMY 18 Houses Contribute Funds Either Individually or Collectively As a new means of raising funds for the annual• Salvation Army drive which' is being conducted here this week and next by Capt. Mary E. Mas on, of the organization, students in fraternities arc being asked to con tribute. The drive among fraternity men has been sanctioned by President Ralph D. Hetza, Dean of Men Arthur R. Warnock, and H. Curl Brandt '34, president of Interrraternity Council. Of the eighteen houses which have been solicited so far, all have made donations, whether through a collec tion among the members, or by a spe cial small house appropriation for the purpose, Miss Mason reports. The Salvation Army worker plans to con tinue her drive, which is the first one in recent years to be conducted among students here. Miss Mason, who has been with the Army for nine years, spent seven of them stationed at Madras, India, where she did social as well as secre tarial work, and in addition aided in the making up of an English news paper. She returned• to the United States last 'February. Will `Play Here UAL HEMP • Final arrangements for the ap pearance of Hal:-Kemp and his in ternationally famous orchestra as the rhythm-makers fin. Junior Prom play 4 were concluded last week. Kemp will'come here from the Black Hawk Restaurant in Chicago; where he has; . been' playing a long engagement. PRIESTLEY SPEAKER TO DISCUSS WATER Will Continue. Lecture Series in Chemistry Amiritheatre Tonight, ToMorrow Continuing the". Priestley lecture series, sponsored by Phi Lambda Up silon, honorary che.miStry fraternity, Dr: Ross A. Gortner, of the University of Minnesota,, will. discuss "Water in the Colloidal State: and the Role of 'Bound Rater' in Living Processes" in his lectures in. the Chemistry amphi tbealie tonight and'jtc!inorrovf night. XeMbers of th_e_conmatee in, charge itie , aribnitrieritrttriectiffe . declared that the' attendance this year has been 'greattir than in any previous year. ;Members of the. medical staff at the Geisinger -hospital in Danville were guests at ltha lecture on Tuesday night. . . To Hold-Initiation Banquet In the first lecture Dr. Gortner dis cussed the "Colloidal State of Mat ter," and the "Electrical Forces at tlto Interface," was the topic of the talks Tuesday night and last night. He showed in his discussions that the water films held upon the surfaces constitute a different physical state that those irepresmted in the familiar vapor-liquid-ice series. 'Tonight the biochemistry professor will explain the proof of the fact that such a state of water does exist, and various, physido-ehemical methods, by which it can be measured will be coa -1 sidered. Tomorrow night's lecture will be devotlzd to the biological as poets of the 'bound' versus 'free' water hypothesis and a consideration •of the role which this form of water plays in living processes. Following thl.l ,'lecture tomorrow night, Phi Lambda Upsilon will hold the annual initiation banquet, accord ing to the plans announced by Sam uel 1 , 7'. Wrenn, graduate student, presi dent of the fraternity. Dr. Gortner, who is . a past-president of thr frater nity, will deliver an address dealing with national affairs of the day. THETA CHI HOLDS CONCLAVE Fifteen representatives from four Theta Chi chapters in the state at tended a three•day conference at the local chapter Friday, Saturday and Sunday. A zoning system by which the state is divided into districts for rushing was discussed. Chapters at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Dickinson College, the University of Pittsburgh and Lafayette College were represented. AVERAGES AVAILABLE MONDAY Scholastic ranks of students in the various classes for the preceeding semester will be available in The Registrar's office Monday.' Who's Dancing I Tomorrow Night Publications Dance . at Alpha Tau Omega (Closed) Billy Earle and His Royal Soots Blue Key at Beta Sigma Rho , (Closed) • Bill Bottom' Saturday Night Phi Kappa Sigma (Invitation) Duke Morris . Downtown Women at Sigma Phi Epsilon (Subscription) , VW potter/. 130-VOICE CHORAL SOCIETY TO GIVE CANTATA SUNDAY `Seven Last Words of Christ' Chosen for Program in Mid-winter Series 3 GUESTS WILL ASSIST COLLEGE, TOWN GROUP Mrs. Grant, Beard '36 Selected As Accompanists—Concert To Replace Chapel Making its second appearance this year, the newly-organized State Col lege Choral Society of one hundred and thirty voices will present the Lenteri cantata "The Seven Last Words of Christ," written by the dis tinguished French composer, Theo dore Dubois, in the Schwab auditor ium. at 3:30 o'clock, Sunday after noon. The chorus, which is composed of College students, faculty members, and townsfolk, will be assisted by Mrs. Maurice Mielenz, soprano, Jack Yeager '29, of 'Bellefonte, tenor, and Harlan N. Worthley, baritone. Mrs. Irene 0. Grant, of the apartment of music, will play the piano accom paniment; and Henry 'K. Beard "J 6, the organ. Cantata Replaces Chapel The Lenten cantata, composed by Dubois, teacher and director of the Paris Conservatory, was first pro duced in 1867 on' Good Friday at Sainte Clothilde's church, under his personal direction. .Dubois was made a member -of the French Academie in 1893, replacing his Famous predeces sor, Gounod, and an officer of the Legion of Honor in 1883. During his:lifetime, he wrote several operas, oratorios, and cantatas. • Keeping in mind the Lenten season preceding Easter, the society. wilt pre sent ,the service in the place of the usual morning Chapel. service. Direc tor Richard. W. Grant, head of the Aepartni** oLmasic, will lend ,the or .11iigeis . while - the program will be assisted by Prof. John H. Friz zell, acting. chaplain,' who will read several passages. ' To Close Doors at 3:30 In order to assure continuity dur ing the program, no one will be ad mitted to the auditorium after 3:30 o'clock, when the doors will be closed, the committee in charge of the af ternoon concerts has ruled. In 'ad dition, it has stated that no children will be admitted unless accompanied by adults. • The concluding concert of the ser ies will be presented by Kappa Gem ma Psi, honorary music fraternity, on April 15. The program will fea ture a number of varied symphonic selections. The organization is also snaking plans to include a number of vocal presentations on the program. 16 ORGANIZATIONS AID NEW ARMORY Forward Petitions to Ways, ,Ileans Committee Favoring Erection Of Proposed Building • Sixteen organizations have forward ed petitions to the Ways and Means Committee of Congress recommend ing favorable action on the proposed new armory to be erected on the Col lege campus, according to Prof. Wil liam R. Young, of the department of enigneeting extension. Among the petitioners that have forwarded recommendations are the Manufacturer's Association of Eric, the Pennsylvania State Camp of the P. 0. S. of A., the State College Ki wanis club, and the Manufacturer's Association of Lancaster. , The State College borough council, the Waynesboro Chamber of Commer ce, the State College Borough plan ning • commission, the Waynesboro Manufacturers' Association, the Osce ola Mills American Legion Post, the Centre county chapter of the Reserve. Officers Association. have sent addi tional petitions to Washington. The balance of the petitions were sent to the Ways and Means Com mittee by the State . College Post American Legion, the Philipsburg Post American Legion, the Centre County Engineers' Society, the Lemont Camp of the P. 0. S. of A., the Dau phin County chapter . of the Reserve. Officers Association, and the Belle fonte P. 0. S. of A. .NIXON TO ATTEND MEETING Dr. Ernest L: Nixon, of the botany department, left for Philadelphia yes terday to attend a meeting of the Philadelphia Society for Promotion of Agriculture, the oldest agricul tural society in the United States, which was founded one hundred years ago. COLLEGE APPEALS TO I.E. C. IN RECRUITING INCOMING FRESHMEN Appoints Committee H. CARL BRANDT '3l PRESS STAFFS TO DANCE TOMORROW Individual Publications Will Give Skits at Annual I'i Delta Epsilon Function Members of the staffs of. campus publications will be the guests of Pi Delta Epsilon, honorary publications fraternity, at the annual publications dance to be held at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at 8:30 o'clock to morrow night. Billy Earle and His Royal Scots will furnish the music. An invitation list, including all the campus leaders, has been drawn up and invitations will be given to them. Sophomore,, junior, and senior mem bers of the publications staffs will Teethe-invitations , - through—EMT - 704i= tors 'and business managers. Groups To Present Skits Members of the individual publica tions staffs have been requested to prepare a skit or tableau as their contribution to the entertainment of the evening. Keys and shingles will also be presented - to recent initiates of the fraternity. This is the first year that the soph omore members of the various publi cations staffs have been invited,. as the dance was formerly restricted to upperclass members. The committee in charge of the arrangements for the affair is: S. Jack Caraher '34, chair man, Ben Baron '34, and Donald B. Smith '34. TO HOLD WORSHIP SERVICE A special dramatic Easter worship service for all students interested will be held in the Hugh Beaver Room in Old Main at 11 o'clock Sunday mor ning. Dorothy I. Mergenthaler '34 and Gayle V. Strickler '34 are chair men of the committee in charge. LICHTY REPORTED RECOVERING Claire M. Lichty 'ls, who under went an operation for appendicitis at the Bellefonte hospital Monday, is re ported recovering. 5,000 Spectators Find M. I. Open House World's Fair in Miniature What seemed to be miles of corri dors and acres of displays that riv alled, in the eyes of tired observers, the magnitude of the 1034 Chicago World's Fair, was spread before the view of approximately 5,090 students, faculty members, and townspeople at the first Mineral Industries Open House, held at the school building here last night. Because of the immediate and tre mendous success of the affair, Dean Steidle announced last night that both he and members of his staff plan to make the Open House an annual ex hibition, at which those interested can see just what goes on in a technical school of its size. With the exception of two features, every appliance, experiment, and pro cess shown during the Olsen House was a regular part of the School's working equipment. Two of the three glass blowers who drew crowds to the basement of the building were from a Pennsylvania glass working concern, while the welding display was furnished by a manufacturer of gass es. From the time the doors opened at S .o'clock'until they slid closed at 11, halls, rooms, laboratories, 'and num- Come were crowded with the curious, anxious to learn in as short a time as possible, all that could be gathered about the plans. research. and tench- : ing function, of the Mineral Indus- PRICE FIVE CENTS Dean Warnock, Steidle Describe Plans to Fraternities ALDRICH '3l WILL HEAD CONCLAVE APRIL 20, 21 Bi-Annual Meeting Will Discuss Plans for Publicizing of College at Home In an effort to recruit incoming freshmen on a wider basis, College administrative officials have ap proached the Interfraternity Coun cil for cooperation, believing that fra ternity members with homes in all sections of the State offer the best means of publicizing Penn State and forming contacts with potential mem bers of the Class of 1938. Dean of Men Arthur R. Warnock, Dean Edward Steidle, .of the School of Mineral Industries, and Prof. Clarence S. Anderson, of the depart ment of rural education, outlined the recruit plan and a discussion follow ed at the last meeting of the Coun cil. No definite action by the Coun cil as a whole, or individual frater nity delegates, was taken, but the question will receive consideration at the bi-annual Conference. on April 20 and 21. 3 Delegates From Each House Jack R. Aldrich was appointed as chairman of the Conference by President H. Carl Brandt '34 yester day. The committee includes William A. Hansen, Franklin B. Musser, John N. Rathmell, Ralph B. Vance, and Willis J. Wenger, all seniors. Opening with a banquet in the Nit tany Lion Inn Friday night, the Con- - ference will be composed of three delegates from each chapter at the College, with !representatives fit= women's fraternities as guests. The ,chitf-. discussions , will be ; held LSn We, day, ' .Following luncheons at fraternity houses, group discussions, with 'spe cial-topics pertaining to the duties 'of caterers, treasurers, presidents, acti vities, etc., will take place. Every house will he requested to have at least one national executive attend the Conference. To Consider Junior College Attempts will be made at the Con ference to solve problems of frater nity men, and individual fraterni ties within the house. Besides the College policy of recruiting incom ing freshmen, the Conference will also deal with the junior college move ment and its influence on the future of the fraternity system at the Col lege. Several men prominent in national fraternity executive work will attend the Conference, but as yet no defi nite arrangements have been com pleted. .MORSE TO TALK AT FORUM Adrian 0. Morse, executive seem . lacy to the President, will address a joint session of the 'freshman forum and the freshman commission in the rooms of the Penn State Christian As sociation tonight at 7:00 o'clock ALr. Morse has chosen for his topic "How the College is Run." tries School. Students in the School handled nearly .ati demonstrations of equipment, as well as making signs, and other arrangements for the af fair. "I'd like to stress the fact that we couldn't possibly have put on the Open House without the liberal help and cooperation of the student body in the School. As the Open House ap proached, they became enthusiastic. Their work was instrumental," Dean Steidle pointed out. Over one hundred separate demon ' strations and exhibitions were shown at the Open House. Among those which attracted the most attention were the off-band glass working, a scale model of an anthracite mine, a working model of an oil pumping well, and the School gallery of twenty-two paintings dealing with various bran ches of Mineral Industries. Seven seniors, representing each of the departments, though the student society in that department served as chairmen for the organization of par ticular displays and experiments. Pro bably the most striking sight seen on the campus in recent years, the pic ture presented by the building, with all the lights on, and with floodlights illuminating a volcano-like spiral of steam which was hissing up from the. roof of the cupola, the building's .ap pearance attracted crowds from all sections of the town and campus.
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