SUCCESSOR To Tile Free Lance, c&tal lislied 1887. Volume 34—No. 43 ASU Pamphlet Makes Appeal For Members Zern’s 4-page Booklet Tells Group’s View On Peace Issue McHenry Will Speak At Meeting Sunday In an effort to interest youth in national and world problems and happenings, the local chap ter of the American Student Un ion issued a four-page mimeo graphed pamphlet today appeal ing for membership. Tile document, prepared by Gordon IC. Zern ’4O, president of the A. S. U. explains the or- j ganization and the phases of I discussion in which it is inter-1 ested. 1 Tin* organization will hold a meet ing in ‘llO Old Main Sunday at 2 o'- clock when Prof, Dean K. McHenry, department of political science, will address the primp on lobbying. The subject is significant, the pamphlet asserts, in view of the American Youth Congress pilgrimage to Wash ington scheduled for March 10, 11, and 12. The A. S. U. is supporting this lobby which is asking for the passage! of the American Youth Act among other measures. Intcrcsl in Peace The booklet explains the A. S. U. attitude for peace, and claims that both the organization anti its new stu dent members will benefit in discus sions of significant issues. At present a petition by the A. S. U. for recognition by the College is before the Senate Committee on Stu dent Welfare. On the back of thY 'pumplilet are stubs that the organization is asking students to (ill in and place in ballot boxes at the Corner Room and the Student Union desk. Students are asked to signify whether they are interested in the Youth pilgrimugu and whether they are interested in A. S. U. member ship. The pnmphlcL asserts that the A. S. U. stands for “political, academic, and vocational freedom.” It claims that the A. S. U. is non-political. The or ganization is asking for support to ex ecute its part in promulgating the peace demonstration scheduled for April 27. High Visualizes Peace Groups In All College A peace society in every college in the country within the next year is envisaged by Dr. Stanley High, for mer editor and advisor of President Roosevelt, in an article published this week* in the Saturday Evening Post. Claiming that peace organizations are now a postive political power, Dr. High cites several victories and near victories and predicts that, ap proximately 701) societies already existing on different, campuses Ihrcugiiout the country will receive a tremendous impetus this year. The ever-growing power of the peace organizations, Dr. High says, is the factor most likely to prevent United States embroilment in war. Pacific Islanders Write Regularly To Knutsen Three ycart ago. Marlin U. Ktiiil sen. professor of bacteriology, was convalescing from a serious ailment. To while away Hie hours. Jir begun Id correspond with persons in far-off , r - . . .. ... We were more Mum pleased with Today, Prof. Knutson rmmives mniM,. . . „ Ir , , , .1 , , , . ; the response of the audience. Ifcr regiilarly from the isles of Tasmania. ~, * inn m Mend l, stage manager of the Tonga. Pitcairn, homo or the Homily;. ~ 0 ~ . ~ P „ mutineers. UnurlMus, Norfolk. North-! I-.u.-o|,eai. Rullel. said fu ow.nit on, Borneo, and Sunll.m. Itlmdeslu. lUw pradui-lion, a; Schwab nudiLam.nl Due of his regular letters comes via " ‘-■dncsdu.v "'E l '*- the ruinous Tin Can mall service in! k'h'R’ce equipment. eos oporalion, lo and from Hie Island 0 r i i-wincs, and the work performed Imek- Niiifoou in the Tonga group. Fred stage leaves no doubt as to why any Martin Christian of Pitcairn Island J«t«dicncc should show a favorable re direct descendant of the mtiHuuer’s;spouse to such a performance, leader, is a regular cuircspondeul. | Never before has a production in Prof. Knutson's letters continually j Schwab auditorium employed so much ask ipiestiotis concerning elmudeUnii*; equipment as was used by the Jooss ask ipiestiotis concerning the mode of Ballet. Two unusually large and one life hi the different Islands, also in-'s>mall truck were required to transport qulring about their crops ami priuci- the equipment from.the railroad sla pal products. The people on tbu isl- tion at Tyrone. amis, he finds, arc eager to tel! others Twenty-five students, campus cops, about themselves uud their couutry. and College employees were required ] pum idatr (Hall ‘The Joy Of Living* j lOLA D. MURRAY ’39 ♦ + ♦ lola Murray ’39 Gets Movie Role Former Campus Queen at KKO, Is Slated for Success In Radio Interview ; "Today, ‘Hollywood in Person' ; brings you UKO-Radiu's latest discov ; cry. Her name will soon be in lights | as she has everything—looks, person jnlily, talent—everything it takes to ;he a star. Ladies and gentlemen, it ! is m.v good fortune lo interview for you. Miss lola Murray.” i In those words, lola Murray Ml), voted "the most beautiful girl on canY pur.” in the J 9)5.5 Froth contest, was introduced lo the radio audience on Monday, February 27. The latest "find” of Director Tay Garnett, Miss Murray gels her first role in "The Joy of Living,” and rec ognition in nationally known cinema columns including Harrison Carroll's "Behind the Scenes in Hollywood.” Miss Murray began her dramatic ( career in grammar school. 'While a j student at Penn State, she was active jin Thespians and Players. Since her arrival in Hollywood hist June, Miss Murray has done work in short subjects. The Los Angeles Ex aminer of February 21, gave tile fol lowing chronology: "Although lola Murray has been ‘discovered’ several times by sundry artistic folk, Director Tay Garrett was her latest discoverer when she visited the set of RKO-Radio’s ‘The Joy of Living’ lasL week. "The late Leslie Thrasher claimed her hands to be the most interesting he had ever seen. Ralph De Witt's photography placed Ida’s pictures on the inside as well as the outside of leading periodicals. At Penn Slate till! undergraduates named lola Cam pus Queen.” S. Biological Bureau Opens Research Unit J Willi the recent establishment of a new will-life research unit at the College by Ihe U. S. Biological Sur vey, investigations for improving methods of managing wild-life and biological studies will be undertaken jointly by the Slate Game .Commis sion. the Biological Survey, and the College. j Pennsylvania is the eleventh slate | (o enter into a eooperalive agreement I with Ihe Survey Tor investigating means of fitting wild-life resources into laud-use programs. Investigations will cover environ ; menial studies, life Imbits, and the | relationships oT the more important , xvild-life species. Dr. Ix»gan .1. Bennett., leader of the lowa research unit at Ames since its eslaldislimeiit in September, 1935, wi'J he transferred in March lo lake charge of the work here. *Pleased With Response Of Audience, 9 Ballet Head Says S.U. Amateur Night Opens For Students Seventeen Already Sign To Act; Cash Prizes Go To Winners Two Pianos, Jam Band To Furnish Show Music Who arc the four most tal ented students here? The col lege audience at the all-college amateur hour tonight at 7:30 o’clock will decide this by the ballots that they turn in after the show. The winners will be: given in Tuesday's Collegian, j The show is sponsored by the! I’enn Slate Club, and any sltC-J dent may sign for it before five I o’clock aL the Student Union! desk. Seventeen have signed to take J part. Cash prizes will be paid to the; winners when the announcement is 1 made in the Collegian. i William B. Provost MO ami Myron i Brotnmn M 0 will be aL the pianos us-! sisted by a jam band in the pit. John ! C. Biglinm ’39 will be master of cere-j monies. The acts will be sent over a j public address system. | The contestants participating in the| amateur hour are: Margaret E. Lytle! MO, tap routine; T. Wendell Phillips 1 Ml, vocal; Jonas B. Kauffman MO, ac- 1 cordian solo; Donald IL Swaab Mt,| Charles H. Witter ’3B, xylophone solo; Harry C. Myers Ml and Joseph C. Myers MO, vocal duet; Leona Krcin sen ’3B, piano solo; George A. Baker ’3B, saxophone solo; Robert L. Hertz MO, lap routine. Louise A. Paraska Ml, vocal; Ste phan S. Wcslriek ’3B, juggling; Paul M. Fruit, aoeordian solo; Oscar Kra nieh Ml, vocal; and Charles Flanagan MO, vocal imitations; Ralph Barlow ’3B, impersonations; and Eleanor Os lernock Ml, vocal. Musical Societies To Give Concert Phi Mu Alpha, Louise Ilonier Club To Feature Sunday Afternoon Program Coni hming the annual series of mid winter concerts sponsored by the de partment of music, Phi Mu Alpha, men’s honorary musical fraternity, and the Louise Homer Club, women’s honorary musical fraternity, will pre sent a joint concert in Schwab, audi torium Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’- clock. The program will consist of an or gan selection by Phyllis Herzog; a selection of songs by a quartet made up of Bess Edelblute ’3B, Anne Hail ’3B. Betty Ami Harlswick MO, and Josephine A. Keeney MO. Barbara M. Troxcll will be the accompanist. Violin Duct Allegro, from Concerto for two vio lins, by Bach will be played by Bruce Housekneehl '3B and Edward Wood MO, accompanied by Betty Mae Brown ML The Plii Mu Alpha orchestra and Ihe Louise Homer Club chorus, accom panied by Henrietta Landis, will ren der a number of selections. The concert will be under the direc tion of Profs. Willa Wiliinnimec Tay lor and Hummel Fishbunj. lo unload, set up, and re-pack the hum dreds of costumes, lights, stage set- tings, and even a switchboard and piano. * During Ihe production six students aided the three technicians to operate curtains and lights. Commenting on this assistance, Mendl said: "One of the most important parts in the pro-; ilueliun of a ballet is the lighting. The student assistance in this work as well as the operution of curtains was with-1 oul a Haw. Not a cue was missed.” I Thu Jooss European Ballet, which is composed of 32 artists, came here from Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., and left yesterday for New Ha ven. Conn. Tomorrow they will re turn to New York City, completing an 18,000-milc tour. STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 4,193 S Gridiron Banquet To Feature Don Rose As Guest Speaker Noted Humorist- Expected To Add To Satire At Journalists ‘Give-And-Take’ Dinner Don Rose, noted humorist, literary critic, and editorial writer and col umnist of the Philadelphia Evening Ledger, will be the guest speaker of the annual Gridiron banquet at the Nittany Lion Inn Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock. , Although Don Ho.sc has .-elected no definite topic, he is expected to give a humorous criticism of student life, in keeping with the satiric theme of I. F. Committee To Choose Band Expect To Sign Contract Today; New Plan Adopted For Ticket Disposal I Hclicviny that the Interfraternity j Ball should be for fraternity men [only, the committee-in charge of the : 1008 affair has adopted a plan for the disposal of tickets so that the frater nities will pay for only the number of men going. Charles It. Campbell and William E. Lindenmuth, both sen iors, are the co-chairmen. i Tlie expenses of the hall will be de j termined to the nearest figure pos sible, aiul then, after,a survey of the j fraternities, the eo-t per jierson will [be decided. In this, .way the smaller : houses will not be forced to pay for [the “ringers.” “After all this ball is a fraternity ball," declared .John* S. Moeller ”18, president of the Interfraternity Coun-1 cil, “and it should be for fraternity j men only. In the past, the dunce have been overcrowded ami this year' some of the groups have threatened not to support it.” Pick JJund -Today The usual procedure for the pay l meat of Interfraternity Ball is for each fraternity to pay ?50 to the [Council, regardless of the number of : its .members, who an- attending the [dance. [ “Wo exjrtJct to sign a ‘name’ band ! sometime tills morning,” Moeller con cluded. Council president and com mittee co-chairmen refused to name whom they had been contacting. Skating Session Opens Tomorrow Armory Floor to be Used For Initial College Roller Rink; 2i)-cent Admission I An old form of recreation will be 1 made available to Penn State stu j dents, faculty, and townspeople for the [first time in College history. Spon sored by four physical education fae julty members in cooperation with olh jer College agencies and Ilcela Park, in roller skating rink will be opened in i the Armory tomorrow afternoon, i The opening session will be from 'two to five o’clock in the afternoon, [and the Armory will be open again I from 7to 11 o’clock tomorrow night, j The entrance fee, for participants and spectators, will be 13a cents per ses sion. Klcrtives to Get Credit. [ The committee in charge is Virgi- I nia A chuckle, Kay M. Conger, Earl L. Edwards, and Charles M. .Speidol, all of the School of Physical Educa tion and Athletics. It was announced that students on the elective basis in : physical education may bring their cards to he signed. Two hundred pairs of fibre wheeled skaLcs ami sound equipment have been provided by the management of Ilcela Park. Tlmra will also be a floor di rector and skale hoys to provide for the expected crowd. The floor in the Armory, which lias been washed, is larger than the one used at Ilcela. \ It was made known that if interest .is sufficient and conduct is, satisfac tory, an effort will be made by the committee to provide skating once u week. ' Who’s Dancing TONIGHT Uifsian American Group ACC Mouse (Closed) Phi Sigma Delta Campus Owls (fnvitaLiun) Della Gumma Bill Bottorf (Invitation) SATUKDAV Alpha Omicroii Pi Booth Watmough (Invitation) the affair Friend of Jay House His friendship with Jay Mouse, col umnist of the Ledger, gained him an editorial position on that newspaper. Later he started and continued his own column, “Stuff and Nonsense,” in the Ledger. Mis best-known books are “Stuff and Nonsense—A Manual of Unim portances for the Middle-Brow,” and “Hardy Perennial,” a bunk of his col-i unin extracts. Sigma Delta Chi calls attention to a typographical error in the invita tions. The banquet will be held on Tuesday, March 8. Invitations give flu* date as Tuesday, March o. Be en um: of a slight delay in sending mit| bids Lu the Gridiron banquet, ticket.- j nil! remain on sale at the Student Union desk until 5 o’clock Monday afternoon. Educators Elect Trabue President National Society of Education Picks Head At Convention In Atlantic City Dean Marion U. Trabue of the School of Education, was elected pres ident of the National Society of Col lege Teachers of Education at a re cent conference of the National Edu cation Association held at Atlantic City this week. The society, of which Trabue is president takes in a]] col lege teachers of education in the country. Trabue was elected at a meeting held Tuesday and presided at meet ings for the duration of the eonven lion. The Society is one of several others to be cho.-cn for a national study of teacher training started by the American Council of Education. Trabue Gives 'Falks While in Atlantic Cly, Dr. Trabue gave several talks before various edu cational groups. Tuesday, morning he spoke on ‘Ad justing Secondary Education lo the Needs of Mural Vonfli." He expressed the belief that rural education can best be developed by the same meth ods as urban education. He said that every secondary school, no matter where located or how large, should adjust to the individual requirements and backgrounds of the students. A threat to “withhold tin.- privilege Name Poll Results of holding dances unless some guuran-, n j r* lee of creditable conduct could be 1 A OUT iTi a I*o/72 given,” was issued in letters to fra- q. » tornity president- here by. Dean of iJiUCIGTIIS Men Arthur It. Warnoek this week. Citing the “obvious” drinking that T> ~ . took place over Senior Ha!) week-end,' Kc ‘f ulU yf tl, Physics, announced plans for a the senior councilman-elcct will or- —~14:. i t 1 , K ani»c the council in ha school.- I P ' T° , mult, l ,le astro- Thus spoke .Senior class president. comical observatory to be locat .lohn D. Kcnnon in unswer to an in- C(1 on the northeast side of the quiry about these elections. golf course “Until these now groups get deli- .... . ... nitcly organized,” Kcnnon continued, • S{ -‘ J ICS ol small observa nt would bo better if tiwy wore Mft f orics, each large enough to ac- : jUI " r •' ip , ri "S !alc; in people, will contain of his own department for Iheeoun- 1 * 1 ,c,,( ' ct,n t r or relractmg tele cil. Shortly after nominations, the ‘ to l >c ' 1JI ‘ the utly. astronomy has become one members of the.-e councils was to be tbe mosL popular of sciences. The kcpt_ out of the regular spring elec- f° r • sUc^l buildings became urgent lions so that politics would have no oM eampus when over 2,000 peo hund in their selection. : l^ c visited the Buckhout observatory "We decided not to put the camli- the regular col dates to the sub-councils on the spring' , L '7 01 . 1 ; between and 7b stu election ballot as some of these dc, | U< v,iilt ,l CVCI '- V uvcnil, S when it is groups have not been organized very °^, n ‘ long. Till the idea is given a chance ■ -•oneerning the observatory. Or. to work without the hindrance of earn- ; eagloy f'aid: "I he thing we are try pus political trades, then no judgment 1,v,: do * s Sl ‘ ,-vu the; students can be scientifically formed/* Kcnnon themselves ruthv than the research concluded. worker, for the study of astronomy The several school councils will be- «» j| tclcscopc-umking offers the finest come regular campus activities, Ken- .7 °lM'ortuniLy for leisure time i non explained. The plan now is that *7* in the near future members of these can Prank (~ Whitmore, depart groups will receive keys and be given Chemistry .and Physics, as a place in the La Vie. |scrU in regard to the multiple obser- Kc.mon also stated that there was I? 1 ” 1 ’ 5 ” " In an >'istitution like Penn a possibility of testing student opin- ’ r a . °\ a Portion of whose cf ion on the question of changing the fo !*... b ‘ ! to vocational College’s name in the balloting in the ‘ lctlv,t,< ;‘ s - ,l ,s m.usua ly important spring elections. > deve!o P « f e Y which arc less practical but nevertheless are l\ Ox . r\ r> 1 perhaps fully as valuable. I believe IJCan otHrtS fVClOrm*“ ■ li,aL 1,, ‘- encouragement of amateur tXT - . _ astronomy is one or the best of these JNo Liquor at Dances ," ,|iid ' institution can