3lmn#fate ly (Cnllpitrmt. f Volume 34—No. 41 EARLE OPENS 5-MILUON-DOLLAR PROGRAM IN RECREATION HAli AS THOUSANDS LISTEN Campus Clique Nominates All 1941 Officers Laich, -Fowler,- Higgins Firtz, Named For , Top Positions - By HHUBERT B. CAIIAN Arnol-.l C: Laich .'4l has been nominaled for the presidency of the Sophomore class by the 1941 /Cunrpus clique. This Freshman .clique got the jump on the rest of the College by also nominat ing the res.t of their slate for major class offices. William E. Fowler, Larry C. -Higgins, Jr., and John W. Fritz, Jr. were nominated by Campus • for. the offices .of vice president, treas ■ uver, and secretary, respectively, of Class of Ml. • ' At the same time it was learned that Frosh Locust Lane could - no: muster enough houses to form 'a .'clique, so that the TKE’s and Alpha Sigs will hack Campus . for Sopho : more class offices. Unless the Inde pendents show up stronger than ex t: pectcd at this time, Arnic Laich 'should be, pre,sfdentof Ihq, Soph class ' class"'o^v ; 3sr.'' With the ' .Independents . silently planning for the College's most im rportimt campaign,- three 'members from each' of tlie other two cliques, .Campus and Locust Lam:, held a meeting lliat may prove -to lie the turning point in llic campaign- for Senior class cilices. ■Stan Brown, Duey Moure, and Don Wright, of Campus eon furred with • Fes Tibholt, :Sid Bergman, and Scot . ty Rankin, of Locust Lane Thursday night. Result:' Nothing.* Tht*refore the fight for IUIJP class offices will -be the only**tliree-cornered a (fair this year— whul wilh : consolidations of two of V the three parties taking place in the other two classes. v .The meeting*'of the committees from the two groups turned out to be u frank discussion by each'on the im possibility .of any sort of merger. Neither would concede the other the presidential Humiliation,' the plum, of - the political fruit, .so negotiations were dropped. , With Stun IBrown and Joe' Peel the probable Cuiiipus and ‘lndependent nominees for l Senior class' president, ■we're wondering who Locust Lane is ' i going to surprise us, and themselves, with. Map Of Campus—Proposed Buildings Added He Met The Governor JOHN D. KENNON ’3B President, Senior Class, who pro-, sullied, the following student lead* ers to Governor Earle at the Nittany Lion Inn this morning: Doris Blake more '39, Charles R. Campbell, Jr. *3B, Russel G. (John '3B, Fred J. Horne,' Jr. '3B, W/Jerome Howarl MO, Peggy'E. Jones MO. Frieda M. Knepper '3B, Joseph G. Korsak ’38,, William E. Lindenmuth '3B. David B. Ludwig, Jr. ’3B. Amy :F. McClelland' '3B, John S. Moeller *3B, Woot Tsuen • Ng, graduate; student, Joseph-A. ..Feel ,'39, Joseph P.'Pro!{sa. L,3B,vEm vßhoades >3B}T?aSrKpi!?: 'Robbins- ’3B, Anne-.D/ Rudolph r ’3BV Ross /P.... Shaffer ;;’3B. Caroline J... Ty_sott ’3B. and Charles iM/Wheeler, • _ : "Jr. .'*3B. BMOC’s Get Bids For Gridiron Banquet TnviLations to the exclusive, fncully studenl. Grid'ron Bnmiuo't. of Sigma Delta'Chi will be sent out the early part of next week, announced Mer lin W. Troy '3B, president, yesterday. Those who receive bids to the an nual affair which will be held at the Nittany Lion Inn on March 8. will be able to procure. their tickets at the Student Union desk beginning Tues day. Bids must be presented when tickets are purchased. Campus "big shots” will not be the oiily onesi in for a panning at the roaster. Thu faculty and certain town luminaries' will find themselves browned nicely over Sigma . Delta aii’s satiric fire. And, oh yes, some -administrative officials have been found who have eligible eccentricities. STATE COLLEGE, PA:, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1938 D.S. Neglects Gas Warfare, Dean Claims Whitmore Delivers Talk On JHfydrocarbons At Cleveland Large sums of money are spent in every major nation for chemical' warfare services, wliib the United • States continues to neglect this, feature of national defense.'Dr. Frank C. Whitmore, ichemistry and physics dean and president of the American Chemical Society, said Tuesday .night in Cleveland, Ohio. ’* Speaking on “The Relations of Hydrocarbons to National De fense,’"* Dean Whitmore told the Cleveland section of the Amerf ican Chemical Society that this coun try is doing an "ostrich acL.” "We are sticking our heads in the sund by holding 'down expenses on chemical warfare defense and. thereby imng in'.ng that we can prevent the use of chemicals, in war,” he said. Continuing, he said that if the, World war taught any lesson at all, .it-jyas., thecjdtaU.im'iwrtanac i!o£,JwweU deyeloped chetaicaf industry in war. 'But; bccuuso well-meaning humani itariaiis claim Lliat the use of gases in warfare ip not "nice,” without appar ently considering whether the use of the buyonet is "nice” or whether war itself is "nice," the United Stales Leiniij to neglect the importance of chemistry as a defensive means in modern war, he asserted. Hydrocarbons, Whitmore said, will play an important part in practically (Continued On Page Four) Federal Aid Fosters Murals In Pennsylvania Buildings . Although Pennsylvania has rela- ' lively few murals on the walls of Us public, buildings, there are some in various sections of the state, many . a result of federal aid, which are probably familiar to Penn State stu dents.. Kenyon Cox’s "Mural of the Judi-' cial Virtues” in the ‘ Wilkes-Barre courthouse is one of the best known. Violet Oakley.’s mural in Harris burg's eapitol building elicited from art critic Thomas Craven, “It should iMIW P»rst*r evuewti, 11538 tunumt « ee ca*tr*uaie U*Ct» STATf 1... Aurmomirr. lESS3 Mar# ca+rttine* . •’"nr eanttt At Ceremonies GOV. GEOJIGEJLiEAItLE College IpJitertains 34 State } Nationdt]Figures At Luncheon Thirty-four* Slate urid National notables were guests of .the College at a luncheon at the Nittany Lion Jim early this afternoon. Many other guests of the College uLtentletL;the ground-breaking eeremonies in lieerealion hall. The luncheon guests* were: Governor and Mrs.. George 11. Earle, Harris burg; U. S. Senator Joseph !•’. Guffey, Washington, D. C.; Captain Douglas Andrews, assoc'ate-regional director/ P. W;--Ay, Mrs.' Augustine' S;^Jancway,- cxecu-' tive director,; General State Author ity, Harrisburg; David L. .Lawrence, secretary of the Commonwealth, Har risburg; Slate, Senator und,Mrs. 15, J. Thompson, Pfii Ifpsburg. Hr. and Mrs. J*'. Clair Russ, Sluto treasurer, Tlurrisburg; Mr. and Mrs. J. llunsell -French, StnLc secretary of agriculture, Harrisburg; Brigadier General and 'Mrs. F,. 81, Kerr, State adjutant general,' Clearfield; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Colegrovc, State secre tary of property and supplies, Hnr- have been knitted. Pittsburgh students are acquainted with Bimrdman Eubineoti’s mural •portrayal of commerce in Kaufman’s Department store, and tlie mural in the Carnegie Institute by John W. A lexan der. In Phi lade) pli ia, K ticera just completed a mural in Cimbel’s Department store. - ■ The Federal Art Project lias.done much recently for tnuruls-.throughout the state. WPA paintings by Rich ard Harding decorate the Philadel phia Custom house. burin Thompson did a mural for the Altoona Pest Of fice under the theme, “Early Methods of Transportation.” ' Peter Blume, who won fame by whinhig the Carnegie International prize with his “South of Scranton” in IJKJSJ, did a Pennsylvania winter land scape on the walls of the Canons burg Posl Office. He is now in the public eye for his “Eternal City.” Other murals done under the' Fed eral Art Project can be seen in the post offices of Brownsville, Honesdale, Jeannette, Catasaqua, and Norris town, and in the Pittsburgh Court house. r rAn Editorial : Toward The Future THE PAST OF THIS COLLEGE has been jammed with significant and traditional events. Since the College’s incep tion in 1855 as a farmer's high school, it iias expanded to em body eight schools that gave Penn State students opportuni ties in most branches of academic endeavor. The past lias been spasmodic. Years would elapse where not much development would occur. Then' suddenly several new buildings would be added. Sometimes this progress was, haphazard, and sometimes it -was fortunate that tilings turned out as they did. When President Hetzel came to the College in 1927, he organized and crystallized the need for a greater Penn State. (Continued On Pnge Two) - risburg; U. S. Congressman and Mrs. j and Mrs.‘Michael-J. Ilarliieudy, State 'tecreUuy of mine.', Harrisburg. ! 'Stale Representative and Mrs. John \V. Decker. Spring Mills; Mr. urn) Mrs. Seth Gordon,'game commission er, Harrisburg;.-Mr. and Mrs. Will K.. Aluguire) public relations, Genera! State Authority, Harrisburg; Mr. and Mrs. James B. Kelly, assistant execu tive director) General State Author •ity, Hairisburg; Mr. James P. lies siter, counsel, General State Author ity,' Harrisburg; Mr. Allen Uextei and his wife, Dr. Edith Macßrlde- Dexter, State secretary of health. Hai'risburg. Architects, Engineers Attend Mr. Owen B. Hunt, insurance com missioiier, Harrisburg; Mr. Joseph A. Cunningham, General State Author ity, Harrisburg;. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Caldwell, architect, General State Authority, Altoona;'Mr. and Mrs. X. R. Hunter, architect, General .Slate Authority, Hollidaysburg; MV. and Mrs. Charles Z. Klauder, Jr., archi tect. Philadelphia; Major and Mrs. William 11. Graved, engineer consul*, lanl, General Stale Authority. Alt. Airy, Philadelphia. The following members of Uie Board of Trustees were among those at the luncheon—Mr. and Mrs. W. L AfTelder, Pittsburgh; Colonel J. H. M. Andrews ; Philadelphia; Air. E. S. Bayard, Pittsburgh; Mr. P. J. Den man, Bradford; Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Heim, Williamsport; Dr. Hannah MeK. Lyons, Lincoln University: Mr. and Airs. James A. Milholland, Pitts burgh; Mr. and. Mrs. Boyd A. Alus ser, Scranton; Air. George W. Slo cum, Millon; Mr. und. Airs. G. J, Ty son, Gardners." Governor, Sen. Guffey, Hetzel Speak On Ten Station Radio Hook-Up Ten Honor Students Participated In Ceremonies As $5,000,000 Work Program Starts New Era In College History Today marhs another step in the College's gradual realization of its plans for the development of a greater Penn State. With the turning of earth, from each of tile ten building sites, this afternoon in Recreation hall', tllic largest single building program in the history of the College lias been launched. Governor George 11. Earle, U. S. Senator Joseph F. Guffey, and President Ralph D. Hetzel were the principal speakers over fa ten-stulion, state-wide rad o hook | up, Thousands of State notables, I alumni, and friends of the College ! attended the inauguration of the General State Authority’s $5,000,000 building schedule here. Upon his arrival, at , about 11:30 A. M., the Governor first met stu dent leaders, and then attended a luncheon at the Nittany Lion Inn. | After the luncheon, the guests were 1 escorted to Die platform in Recrea ! tion hall just before the program ' went on the air. The actual cemnoircs began when he program went on the air at 1:45 oVoelc, this afternoon. After the speeches,' ten students representing buildings tc be constructed, 'hiai'chc'd'Tlijwn t!fe '-center-aisle to,.the platform. Each student poured -a *uekct of ear.li frum each, build’ng site, into a I urge box in front of the iJaLforiii. ‘We Are Grateful* DR. RALPH D. HETZEL ♦ ♦ Public Fiunds Well Invested—Hetzel By DR. RALPH D. HETZEL President of the College "Our ground breaking ceremonies today mark the beginning of work which will add to the physical facil ities of this College, buildings in val ue and capacity equal to approxi mately one half of its present plant. We initiate this program in the firm conviction that- at no time and in no place have public monies been in vested with greater promise of yield ing generous dividends in the form of a public ministry. “In these days of transition from the era of the old American Frontier' (Continued On Page Four) Orange Court Tilt , Pitt Ring Joust Feature Sports Card A sparkling athletic card of four events Anil round out the most eventful week-end in Penn State history when the varsity boxing, fencing, basket ball* and freshman boxing teams swing into action in Ilec hall. Governor George H. Earle will be 'at the ringside when the Nittauy Lion boxers, after two straight set backs, attempt to bombard their way to victory over Pitt’s gloved Panthers at 3 o’clock. The Xrosli initmen will take on the Pitt cubs immediately after the varsity bouts. Syracuse Renews Rivalry When Bill Orange and the Nittauy Lion mix it up, fur is sure to fly, and tonight will be no exception when the two evenly-matched fives race up and down the boards at 8:30 o’clock. The Penn State quintet will be out to avenge major defeats in football and boxing suffered at the hands of Syr acuse this year. .Breaking even in their two meets to date, the State fencers will try to attain a favorable balance when they meet Rutgers swordsmen at 5:30 this afternoon.. Last year' State came round-Breaking Ceremony Issue Z 658 PRICE FIVE CENTS Dean of Men Arthur It. Warnock then handed the special shovel to Governor Earle, who turned the first spadeful on behalf of the State of Pennsylvania. Ground was also broken, in order, by the following: Colonel Augustine S. Janeway, head of the General Slate Authority; Cap .lain G. Doug’as Andrews, regional director P. W. A.; und President Hetzul, on behalf of the Board of Trustees of the College. While the earth was being turned, the Glee Club sang “Blue and White.” The program went off the air at 2:30 o’clock and was followed by a tour of the campus for the Gov ernor and guests. Completing the afternoon’s program will be varsity ami freshman boxing matches with the University of Pittsburgh, and a fencing meet with Rutgers Univer sity. The ten. students, and the build ings they represented, were (in or der of march): William L. Shaffer ’3B, Electrical Engineering; Her mione Hunt *3B, Liberal Arts; Italia DcAngelis ’33. Library; Donald V. Gnuu *33, Chemistry; Neil B. Witmer (Conlinucd On Page Four) through in the later matches to win a close battle at ‘New Brunswick, 9-8. The varsity grapplers face a ma jor test of the season against Lehigh,, perennial wrestling power, in Beth lehem tonight. Some comparison may be had in that both State and Lehigh lost to the strong Michigan grapplers by large scores. The undefeated freshman basket ball team met Bucknell last night and plays the Wyoming Seminary five in Kingston tonight. Coach Gal braith’s swimmers are meeting Pitts burgh this uftornoon at Pittsburgh. Boxing Lineup Pitt Wt. Penn State Ralph Durand ... 1X5.... Mike Cooper Bill Wargo 125 AI Tapman Ralph'Caruso (c) 135 Roy Hanna Horb Turner 0r.145. Sam Donato (c) Jed Curzi or Paul Bachman Paul Ashman ... 155.. Sam Donato or j Hunk Schweitzer Ray Bornbe lliu.Heber Lesslg or • Hank Schweitzer Ueorge Luplnaecl 175.Hebor Lesslg or Nate Handler No entrant ..Heavy.Nate Handler or Sever Torettl
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