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State Debaters Will Meet
In 2nd -Annual Convention
Here on Friday, Saturday
17 Colleges
_Will Send
Delegates; Frizell
To Give Talk
Groups Will' Discuss
Social, Political Topics
Foreniic Council sponsor the
second annual Penniyivania State De- -
.batersYconvention on this campus on
Friday.' and .Saturdaydaecording to'
- Fred L. Young '3B, president of',For-
Unsie Couiwil and of-the•convention.'•
.'Sepiesentatives fiom-Albright, Al
legheny; Hucknell, Dielcinson; Gettys
:l3urg, Juniata, Lehigh, - University' of
Pennsylvania; .Pinnsylvania::College
for Women, University of Pittsburgh,
St. -Francis,. St. Joseph's, Seton Hill,•
- Susquehanna, ,Temple, .Wdstminster,
and Western Maryland will join the
Penn State debaters.,` , .-- .
COrtmittecs to..lllcet
Delegates Willfirst.ineet in commit
tee and then , in' assembly, disduss, de
bate-and draw up action policies on
signifieant social, political, , and eco
nomic problems. The convention opens
at 10:30 o'clock Friday - morning-with
-an'address by Prof.,John- H. Frizzell,.
of the clivisioeof speech. Following
this; committee meetings Will - be held
in Old - Main.. .After a luncheon at 1
o'clock, delegates . will again hold corn . -
mittee meetings. , ' • .
Adrian , 0. Morse, executive 'secre
tary. to:the president, will - address
the delegates at a dinner to be held
in .the Sandwich - Shop- at .6 o'clock.
Professor Frizzell will be toastmaster.
.
The first. open session will.bc a par
.liamentarY-•Session in the Home Eco
nomics auditorium at fi . o'clock -Fri
day • night when .. the question of
whether or not college. students should
refifs& to participate in war will be
• .
~Sliturciay--Inorn!ng4tie,
ciiieussiok ..ceil . fer ;about the' gues'-
tion.of minimum 'wake: and maximum
lou - r" regulation, . While. at . 11 :o'clock
the ilebaters will consider marriage
for college graduates before the age
of 25. These sessions, open to the
- public, will, also be held in the Home
Economics auditorium.
Edwin K. Tailor '3 . 9- is chairman of
the committee-in charge of the mar
riage question while chairmen forthe
other. sessions are from Bucknell Uni
verSity and Allegheny College: J.
win Matz-'3B is secretary of the con
vention and Prof. Joseph F. O'Brien,.
of the diVision °L.:speech, will act as
parliamentarian. • ,•
Players To Give
All-Expense Trip
Door Prize at 'Footlight Frolic'
March 20; 'lncludes Fare: .
Gay. Time in N. Y.
'An all-expense trip to-;New
York
for two people . wilk be given by. the
Penn State Players at their "Foot
light Frolic," 'which Will be held in
Recreation hall Saturday, March 20,
front 9 until 12 o'clock.
Included on the trip will be the
train fare both ways, room and botird
,at onei of the leading•hotels, tickets
to two bf the headline shows on
Broadway, an everting at the. French
- Casino, a tour of 'the National.Broad
eaating company, -and a (fay in audio
If the' winners, who will be chosen
at the dance intermission from 'checks
given at the deor,, do not desire the
New l'Oric trip, they, will be given :f5O
in cash.
. ,
The
,Harrisoniani, a 16-piece oral:
estra, will furnish.the music for the
.dance, which is• to be held annually.
-Last summer,. the Harrisonians,play
•ed at the. West
,End Casino. at. the
Thousand. Islands, where they shared
the engagement :•witli Fletcher :Hen-
Spring IM Managers .
Announced by Board
. ,
The. naines of the managers for
spring intramural sports were an
flounced, Sunday night by the Intra
mural Board. •,- . . . ,
Those choecn are Harold:L. Gordon
'39,.musfiball; Ernest T. Kinkead '3B,
track; Joseph W. Weigel '3B, golf;
John if. Hetrick 'BB, soccer; and
Richard C: Walton .'3B, tennis.
Tennis as an .intramural. activity is
being revived, by the Beard after three
or four years.: Each house may have
one doubles' team, and ,there urlll be
singles eliminations,, '
Heads Conventi9n
FRED L. YOUNG '3B
Dr.AeipT.o Give
-2iid • LA. ettute
"Spanish America" Subject For
Speech Tonight; To Weigh
Spain's Influence
Dr. Frank D. Kern, dean of the
Graduate School, will give the second
lecture of-Liberal Arts, series in Home
Economics auditorium tonight ,at 7
' o'clecic His - .subject - will be "Spanish
America."' Dean Kern
,sbeaks from
experience gained on trips to the West
Indies and • South America. ,
An attempt to evaluate , the'y.brk of
Spain: in it~?.- American .,. cdloni.es and
the'lnfluerica'ef v itiCultu're's'on Zbonel
coloniea. Will' be made.' The . lecture
will deal only 'with the eighteen coun-1
tries of South. America which were at
one time Spanish colonies. Brazil. and
Haiti- will not be considered because
they - era not,'Spanish..
To Consider Explorers •
A short sumniary of physical
characteristics and natural ;resources
iof the Spanish colonies will be made.
Their influence on the politics• and so
ciety will also be discussed.
The 'epoch-making conquest of the
') Spanish , exploiers will be given eon
sideiable attention
a s the 'whole of
Smith America was • discovered and
explored in - the first seventy-five
years of the 16th Century. This rep
resents an - accomplishment yet un
equalled in the world'S history. Spain's
motives and desires in their exploita
tion will be evaluated by. the speaker.
This historical review will cover only
the time from Columbus' first voyage
to the Wars of Independence.
Dean Kern . speaks from the obser.
, vations made on six sours to the La
-1 tin American countries. •He believes
that the countries have been uninten
tionally misrepresented by even, well
meaning people. -' ,
Scholarships Offered
For Graduate Work
' Three scholarships of $5OO each arc
being offered by' the Kappa Kappa
Gamma fraternity to any woman-stu
dent who has or will have a degree by
July 1, 1037, from any college or uni
versity in which a Kappa chapter is
located.
Selection will be based upon schol
arship, leadeiship, . and a definitely
.planned purpose in graduate study.
Applications may be filed at the of
fice of the Dean of Women,
Tanner To Talk on Compensation;
Schmelzle Discusses Revenue Bill
Dr. Sheldon C. Tann'er, of the de-
partment of economics. and sociology,l
will speak on- the' social significance
of the Workmen's'. Compensation Act
of 'Pennsylvania at the Social Science)
Lecture to be given in the Rome Ec
onomics auditorium Thursday at
4;00 o'clock.
Dr.„Tamier, who .served as legal
technician 'for the Pennsylvania
Workmen's Compensation .Board for
sonic years, will , define the act and ex
plain some of the provisions and prin
ciples of -the law. He will also point
out the defects and offer suggestions
to their' remedy.
William •K. Schmelzle, of the de
partment of economics 'and sociology,
STATE COLLEGE, PA., TU
Breene Selected
Inter-Fraternity
Dance Chairman
Committee Considers • 3
Qrchestras for Ball
April 16
Chairmen Will Choose
Decorations This Week
San Mel A. Breen° '37 was 'chosen
chairman e,f the Interfraternity Bail
committee, it was announced today by
George. IVI. Hacker '37, president of
Interfraternity Council.
Hacker also announced that.a band
for the dance to be held in 'Recreation
110 on Friday night, April 16, will
be selected this week. Orchestras that
are being considered include . doe
Hayries, Clyde McCoy, and Hudson-
DeLange. -It haS not been definitely
decided whether one or two orchestras
would be engaged for the dance.
Committee Named
Other seniors who have been chosen
for the Interfraternity Ball commit-
tee are Wallace H.' Alexander, Paul
E: Benner, John W.. Blackburn, Wil
liam C. ':Brookmeyer, Erwin G. Deng
-IMg,.,Ralph S. DeTurk, John C. Ev
erett, William M. Getchey, George W.
Haines Edwin Harris, Oliver J. RO
'
ger, William Rathgeb, ,Howard J.
Voorhees, and Alexander D. Walter.
Final decision has not been made
as to :the decorative theme for the
dance. The motif to be used will be
announced following the selection of
the band or bands, Breene said.
Two years aga Mal Hallet and
Fletcher Henderson furnished the mu
sic for Inthrfraternity Ball 'and last
year • Buddy Roger, and his orchestra
were the musicians.
Thurman Gives
Chatiel Address
Dean of Religion at Howard U
Says: "Sacrifice Needed
In Attaining God
"The best that one .can do is less
than -God' requires," declared Dr. How
ard T: Thurman, Dean of Religion, at
Howard University, at the regular
Sunday morning chapel service in
Schwab • auditorium.
Doctor Thurman said that the full
ness of life can be measured by the
degree to which we. are willing to
forego our desires. These must be
surrendered completely, he asserted,
to attain the realm of Gird.
"The road to this goal is hard,"
said Doctor ,Thurman. "Jesus said,
'Follow me, but remember, straight is
the gate'."
Gives Impressions of India
His impressions of India, with
which Doctor' Thurman entertained
his audience in the Little Theater at
3:30 Sunday, were principally prob
lematical.,
He presented the problem of the
Indian Christian who must give , up
all symbols of original Hindu religion
and live in a half-world. "They must
be more enlightened," declared Doc
tor Thurman, 'so that they intik be
more selfiassured."
The Indian employment question,
Doctor Thurman believes to be even
greater than ours, since work with
the hands is 'considered undesirable*
by the cultured.
' 'Defines Quest
"The Quest for Validation" was the
topic of Doctor Thurman's talk in
Schwab - auditorium at 7:30 o'clock
Sunday night. The quest for valida
tion, Dr. Thurman defined as n search
(Continucd on Togo Iwo)
spoke on ''Recent Developments in
I Tax Problems" last Thursday. He
said that the. 1936 Revenue Act was
passed , for two principle reasons—
to secure additional revenue and, sec
ond, to correct abuses resulting from
Maldistribution of wealth. •
'Mr. ' Sclmeizie added that two
ghOups of taxes were affected by this
act: 'the personal taxes and the 'cor
porate taxes. These tax groups arc
determined by, a progressive tux rate,
or "soak the rich" system.
He said, in conclusion, that the so
lution of acquiring an equal distribu
tion of wealth and of knowing what'
sources to tax" for revenue *.depends
primarily on an understanding of the
fundamental issues involved.
AY, MARCH 9, 1937
5,952 Now Registered
For Second Semester
A total second .semester enroll
ment of 5,952 has•been announced
by Registrar William S. Hoffman.
• A new record . for'. second sem
ester registration. We's established
when 5,463. enrolled at the regular
registration a month ago.. Second
semester enrollment ; last year was
5,224.
Forty-four of the , students ad
mitted. to the College for the first
:time this semester tivere given ad
vanced standing, Dr: : Carl E. Mar
quardt, College Examiner, stated.
He also announced admission of
sixty-one new students. 'to the
Graduate Selxo'
'39 Indepettdents
Adopt Platform
Freshmen To .JoiniSophomores
In Accepting Junior Class
Election.•lnes
For the first time in the history of
the College; three elass' political par
ties have united in a .common move
ment to subordinate's personalities
With definite platform issues in the
current re-organization' of campus
politics.
The freshman and . :s&phomore in
'dependent groups of the College sent
representatives to thejuidor class In
dependent Tarty meeting in room 318,
Old Main, Sunday afternoon.
-Itched J. Baxter,: acting chairman
of Cie Class of 1938 Independent
Party, announced that' the sophomores
had definitely .adopted the 11-point
platform and constitution of the par
ty. The freshmen are meeting this
week to announce formally their
agreement 'with the'upperelass rep
resentatives. . ;
Watkittli
At Sunday's Meeting,' Prof, Ray V.
Watkins, of the department of Eng
lish-composition, addressed the group
on his observations of . past independ
ent movements on the campus Tier°
and at Syracuse. Professor Watkins
said, "Student politics should: mean
more than the following of a trail
which leads to the dollar mark or
some earthly reward--;class officers
can make a better Penn State by con
scientious action."
Chairman Baxter stressed the pol
icy of the• Independents in, refusing
to barter. He said, "Several frater
nities are deciding to lose their clique
identity and join the independent
movement. We are 'not engaged in
an antagonistic movement, lint we are
united for a better student govern
ment at Penn State."
Panning at Gridiron
Affair Planned
For Faculty
Campus big shots will not be the
only ones in for a pinning at the
Gridiron Banquet March' 18. The fac
ulty will Mlle in for a good share of
the riding that is to be handed out in
the skits, during the dinner.
Sthrting in with the first course
and continuing throughout the ban
quet, Fitther Time will review the
March of Time, introducing the
'dif
ferent skits and tracing the year's
panorama of activity and news on
the campus.
From the basement of Old Main to
the top of North Liberal Arts will
Father Time introduce his charac
ters and reveal their Pet accomplish
ments.- From Engineering F to the
Ag building will be material for the
evening's fun. For while certain of
the faculty may hide their motives
and idiosyncrasies from many, they
cannot conceal them from Old Fa
ther Time, the ancient seer. He sees
all, knows all, and conceals nothing.
Invitations to faculty and students
were sent out last week in the form
of news stories, Those who received
bids to the annual affair will be able
to procure their tickets at the Stu
dent Union office with the presenta
tion of their bid, as long as they pre
sent themselves before ond a y,
March 15:
Right. now the committee for the
banquet is having a difficult time de
ciding who will receive the traditional
awards. There are so many eligible
for the brawn derby that final selec
tion will be hard. . The brown derby
is given to the graduating senior who
got through school with . the least
amount of effort. Other awards will
be such things as a big . red bomb to
the campus' leading;radical- and a lily
to the student most: nearly filling the
bill.
Class President
To Present Plan
• Thursday Night
Osterlund To Explain
Change in Student
• Government
Open Forum To Follow
Presentation of Idea
Frank A. Osterlund, senior class
president, has called a meeting of
those interested in his proposal of
student government in the Home Ee
onomieS 'auditorium Thursday night
at 7:30 o'clock.
Tim meeting is called, Osterlund
said, in an effort to interest more stu- 4
dents in their own government: Let
ters of explanation have been sent to
many student leaders in the past few
weeks inviting them to attend the
meeting.
Osterlund will throw the meeting
open .for discussion of his plan to
make student government more demo
cratic. The proposal was adopted as
1
a resolution at the National Student
Federation of Awierica national con
vention in New York in December.
Explanation of Points
An explanation , of the, various
I points of the proposed reforms will be
made, Osterlund said. The plan at
tempts to remedy graft, dirty politico,
padded "comp" lists, and inactivity of
student officers. Students will be
urged to take a more active part in
their government, and definite cam
paigns with major planks for polit
ical elections and parties will be dis
cussed.
Hoot, Weddell. to Attend Meeting
Osterlund will announce at the
'meeting that Willard D. Hoot '39 and
David S. Weddell '3B will attend the
state convention of the Association of
Pennsylvania Colleges at Lehigh Uni-
Versity,.Bethlehem,,..Eriday,,,Satutday,
and Sunday. Hoot is the 'present
treasurer of the association: Among
the proposals to be pushed 'is a legis
lative bill to permit students .to vote
by mail instead of going home at the
time of national and state elections. I
Osterlund also announced that Rich-I
and W. Ewalt, president of the fresh
man. class; will be invited to sit in at
meetings of Student Board in the
future..
Charles A. Hungerrord has been
named chairman of the committee for
the senicr'elass gift. It is suggested
that all ideas for a gift be given to
him.
Dr. Peters' Invention
Applied by Ed. School
Using the automatic margin justi
, far device invented by Dr. Charles C.
Peters, of the department of educa
tion and • psychology, the School of
Education published the first litho
typed book bound in cloth and with
the right-hand margins alined me
chanically. The book, "Statistical
Procedure and Their Mathematical
Bases," was co-authored by Dr•. Pe
ters and Walter• R. Van Voorhis, ad
ministrative head at the Pottsville
undergraduate center.
The expense of publishing the litho
typed book is less than half the cost
of printing it in regular type. The
book is now used in the teachers' col
leges at the Universities of Columbia
and California and in the Schools of
Commerce at the University of New
York and Minnesota.. Reviewed fav
orably by American and foreign jour
nals, it is also in use in about 15
countries including China, Rolland,
Latvia, and Esthonia.
Freshmen, Sophomores May Now
Apply for Lingnan Scholarships
Applications for exchange students
to attend Lingnan University, Canton,
China, next year are being received
at the office of the Christian Associa
tion. Appllation blanks and detailed
information are available there.
Only freshmen and sophomores
with an average of approximately "2"
are eligible. Other requirements to
apply for the senolarships are supe
rior diameter, participation in• extra
curricular activities, interest in inter
racial and international affairs, certi
ficate of good health, and assurance
of financial support. •
"Penn State in China" is a student
enterprise, started ih 1911. Since that
Vienna Choir Boys Appear
Tonight for 4th Number
Of Artists Course Series
Presented Award
DEAN FRANK C. WHITMORE
Research Medal
Given Whitmore
Formal Piiesentation of Nichols
Award to Chemistry Dean
Made in New York
Formal presentation of the William
11. Nichols geld medal award for out-
Istanding chemical research was made
to Dean Frank C. Whitmore, of the
School of Chemistry and Physics, at
a dinner attended by more than 400
scientists in New York City Friday
night. The dinner was •given jointly
by the New York section and the So-,
ciety of Chemical Industry.
Whitmore, president-elect of the
American Chemical Society for 1938,
_
,
receivede the Nichols medal - for his
studies , in - the "metallo:organic con
-1 pounds; especially those of. mercury,
and in the field of aliphatic chemis
try, particularly in molecular re-ar-'
rankonent and in the polymerization
of olefins." _
Honor listablishea in 1902 I
Dr. Walter S. Landis, chairman of
the medal jury, made the presentation
to Dr: Whitmore of the award estab
lished In 1902 to "stimulate original
research in chemistry." Prof. Marston
T. Bogert, of Columbia 'University,
past president of the American Chem
ical Society, discussed Dean Whit
more's scientific achievements, while
Dr. Gerald L. Wendt, former dean
here and now director of the Amer- •
ican Institute of the City of New
York, outlined Dr. Whitmore's per
sonal career.
In accepting, Dean Whitmore, who
has been here since 1929, reported
that with the aid of a dozen assist
ants he had succeeded in five years in
removing most of the "magic and un
certainty" attached to the reactions
involved in polymerization and in re
ducing these complex changes to an
orderly basis. lie went on to explain
how be had accomplished this.
Dean Whitmore's text book for or
ganic chemistry will he published in
the near future. This is the first
work of its kind in English. Previ
ously, chemists have been dependent
upon translations of European texts
for such reference books.
Plans Bridge Tourney
The Ellen 11. Richards Club will
sponsor a bridge and game tourna
ment in Grange Playroom, Saturday,
March El, from 2 to 5 o'clock. Door
and table prizes will be presented to
the lucky participants. An admission
.fee of 25 cents will cover refresh
ments and table charge..
time four alumni, George W. "Daddy"
Groff 'O7, Walter L. Funkhouser '2O,
Lester 91. Zcok '29, and To Shue-ts'oi
'3O, have done work at Linpum.
Prof. Edward R. Van Sant, of the
department of economies and'sociol
ogy, was an instructor there and
Dean Ralph L. Watts, of the School
of Agriculture, is one of the Amer
ican trustees.
Last year Lester M. Benjamin '37,
Emma 3. Foster '37, Marvin 0. Lew.
is '37, Mildred E. Vargo '37, and
liam Westberg '37 attended the Chi.
nese university. This year Richard
E. Lace '3B and Clayton H. Zahn '3B
are going to Lingnan, while Woot
Tsuen Ng of Lingnan is taking grad
uate work in home economics here.
COMPLETE
CAMPUS
COVERAGE
PRICE FIVE CENTS
3 To 12 Year Old Troupe
Presents Program
In 3 Parts
Austrian Group Makes
Fifth American Tour
The Vienna Choir Bcys will pre
sent the fourth number of the 1036-
77 Artists Course in Schwab audi
torium tonight at 8 o'clock.
. Appearing on their fifth American
tom•, the Austrian group, composed
of boys from 8 to 12 years old, will
render a varied program of song and
operetta. The Vienna Choir organi
zation is over 500 years old.
Program in 3 Parts
- The program is divided into three
parts. Assumpta cot Maria, by
George Aichinger; 0 regem well, by
T. L. da Vittoria; 0 bone Deus, by
Jacobus Gallus; and Stabat Mater,
by Joseph Haydn, compose the first
part.
An operetta M one act, "On the
Beautiful Blue Danube," takes up the
second group on the program. The
music, which was written by Johann
Strauss, Was especially arranged fob•
the Vienna Choir Boys:
Story of Love
The story of the cperetta concerns
the age-old love tale of the mother
disapproving • her daughter's choice,
i having in mind a richer man. In the
end, everything turns cut well.
As the third and final part of the
program, the Choir Boys will jn•esent
the - evening song and closing 'scene
from "Hansel and Gretel," by Engel
bert Humperdinek; The Night, by
Franz Shubert; Waltz in A flat ma
jor, by Johannes Brahms; and The
Spring, by Max Heger.
SU Plans -Buses
For Boxing Trip
Buses Will Leave State College
Friday, Saturday Mornings
For Syracuse Bouts
Special through buses to the boxing
intercollegiates at Syracuse Friday
and Saturday are being run by the
Hotel State College Travel Bureau in
conjunction with Student Union. The
fare'will be $8.91 for a round-trip, as
compared with the regular price of
$10.45. '
Two buses are being planned at
present. One will leave State College
Friday at 10:30 o'clock and will ar
rive at Syracuse in time for the pre
liminary bouts that evening. The:sce
and will leave at 7:30 o'clock Satur
day and will arrive in time for th:t
semi-linals and finals. If there is a
further deMand, more .buses will be
added.
Itescrvations Needed
Reservations for seats trust he
made immediately with George L.
Donovan '3u, Student Union manager,
who will conduct the trip. There are
thirty-three seats available in each
Greyhound bus. A deposit of $2.00
will be required, but this may be re
turned if so desired.
Hotel reservations for a party of
ten or more may be made at a re
duced rate at either the Hotel Syra
cuse or !tote! Ononandago, Donovan
announced. Tickets for the hexing
meet may also be reserved, with the
price for the three performances es
timated at $2.5M.
Students or faculty members w•ish
tug to make reservations may do SD
either at Student Union or at the Ho
tel State College. .
Hind. Presents
In Theatre Program
The liillcl Foundation presented
"Ile," :a one-act play by Eugene
O'Neil, Sunday 'evening, in the Little
Theatre. It was the first of al series
of dramatic presentations by the
Foundation,
The May WllB directed by Dr. Fred
Brown, Of the department of educa
tion :nl phychology, and the cast in
cluded Selma Greenhurg, 'Samuel Ro
sen, Julius Marrintore, Isadore Green
burg, Morton Wool, and Herman Cos
tow. l'ropt•rties and lighting were
supervised by Beatrice Conford.
The Theatre Social wee opened with
musical selections by Joseph Miss,
violinist, and Bernard Rossman at the
piano. Kriss WRS accompanied by pi
anist, Leona Kreinson.