SUCCESSOR - To The Free Lance, cstal llshcd 1887. Volume 34—No. 52 Peel, Brown Stage Wordy Political Tiff Patrick Silent As Two /Major, Candidates ‘Sling Mud’ , : By CHARLES M. WHEELER, JR. v Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus moved in . for Judgment Day ' this week as the former twg la bored overtime to think up nasty things about each other and Crassus stood meekly by, After these three meet in the battle of the voting machines this week a senior class presi dent wilf be decided among oth er things. /■ Midst a barrage of grapefruit, tomatoes, pineapples, an<l paper weights, Joe Peel, Stan Br6wn, .and John Patrick have reached a point -in' the road where the incinerator is: overworked! and it is a question of last minute maneuvering that- will; decide who will slither through the slime into the presidency of next year’s senior class. • The candidates, -surrounded by cotillions of embryo committee chair men, were taxing illicit- bruins to-; ..night to think of dirtier things they; "could throw at each other. ' ! Stan Brown, Campus hopeful, re-1 seated Joe Peel’s accusations in the last Collegian, and came right out and said so. Joe still resents what he claims-was a -Campus putsch, in Student Board. Patrick silently re sents' everybody. . .Following is Campus’ reply .to Peers charges: '■ ‘‘lt is not'in keeping with the poli cies or traditions of - the v Campus clique to resort to.mud-slingihg. This stutcnroiit.-is a point, for. point .answer, to' "by Joe -Peer which appeared .in Lhe last edition of Hhe Collegian. “We felt that 'the Student Board action was completely justified. Upon questioning the Dean of Men. we found he, too, way in -full accord with the Student Board action. \ “It'* has been the- policy .of administrations, when elected, to se lect their committees from these men w.hb were directly responsible for their election. Joe Peel was not fol lowing this policy. l There is more than one member of our clique who has been offered membership in a junior 'committee if he would support Peel in the coming election. "Junior Prom is scheduled for the middle of May. Obviously, a name baud must‘be signed at least a month before Lhe date of a dance. It is not •hard to figurc-nuL-jusL how long the current Junior Prom Commitlee will have to complete arrangements for what should be the biggest dance of the year. "Yet, when .the highest student legislative body ~ ruled that hence forth student committees ho selected within two weeks after thu second semester begins ■[ but leaned back wards* to-pe nil it Peel to name his committee any time llmt he chose, vPeel’s, only answer was to call the whole thing a dirly, cnmpus-instigal-; ud plot. Then, rathor than attempt, to show any. reason for delaying thy! minting of the committee, he proceed- j cd.to'.sling-mud in a vicious and un precedented manner. *| "Front 'Peel’s answer wc must con clude that he is using the Junior (Continued On Page Four) Dean Names New Boat ‘Nittany Lion IV “I hereby mime thee Nittany Liun Thus Dean Arthur Warnock-'chris tened the spoedbout of Frank .Muzzy, a long-time admirer of Penn State, before a small group of onlookers- in .buck of Old Main Saturday morning. Thu 136 horsepower streamlined boat, brought north from Miami by Muzzy for the christening, has a‘ maximum speed of GO miles per hour, and was built in Atlantic City a few mouths ,ago. ' Muzzy, who frequently visits with friends here at the Theta Chi house, is an employee-of the Gulf Oil com pany and spends his. summers racing in all' parts of the country. Frank owns another racing boat—Nittany Lion 1, but he didn’t bother having it formally christened. On leave of absence now, he will race in Baltimore May 16. Semi^U/^ekly } ® (Coll Junior Women Hold Meeting Tonight Junior women will meet in the ■Home Economics auditorium to*, night at 6:30 at the request of Mortkir Board, senior women’s scholarship and activities honor* ary. ■ The pui-po.se of the meeting is to get the juniors to suggest the most' outstanding women in their class as possible candidates N for Mortar- Board.- Everyone is asked to bring pencil-and paper. Two Fraternities Merge In Secret Phi Lambda Theta Moves /To A. T. 0. House; Theta Chi, . T. U. 0. Coalesce By TftABUE (Swathed in secrecy, a merger of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, with Phi Lambda -Theta, began late Sun day night with the'moving- of sev eral members of Phi Lambda Theta into the Alpha Tau Omega house. Although no oflicial information ■could be gained from, either bouse, it I i wus learned from members that Phi Lambda Theta would. lose its iden tity, evacuate its house and be ab sorbed by Alpha Tau Omega. Plans have not yet been completed as to fi nal arrangements ' and ' length of pledgcship. that Phi Lambdu Theta’s will have to undergo, it was learned. Members Remain Mum As this story went to press, mem* hers had assumed an attitude of clam-like quietude, refusing to reveal any facts regarding the merger, al though it lm<i previously been learn led that a portion of Phi Lambda I Theta had moved into the A. T. 0. house Sunday night and more were lo'move in Monday night. The pres* 'ident of Phi Lambda Theta,' Willard Is.. Siller ’3B, was said to be at ji meeting, at A. T. ,0. when telephone*! Sunday'highl, niid T; - ' O/preaidefil" Franklin It. Kroll *»I0 was said to Uo out. • ' , ( - •' | Interfraternity Council president j John'S. Moeller ’3R expressed prise when questioned about' • the coalition, claiming lie had received noj notification. \ It was claimed tjmt finances') were not the cause of tlui move. • f\-' ,j ;/ - / r. T. U. 0.. Theta C,hi Merge !■ On March.l9 Ups-,ilon Omctgu fraternity left thi*. national chapter, thou merging with , another 'fraternity nationally, and joined forces with Theta Chi under the name of the latter. v j • Upon discovering the merger in : tended by. the national chapter,, the ( T. U. O.'s applied for a fonnal rc | lease from fraternity affiliations, re ! reived it, and all 18 active members Iwere pledged immediately by Theta ‘ Chi. " s Thompson To Address Teachers Tomorrow ' Slnt.o .Senator Edward .1. -Tiiump son, one of the leading senate lead ers, will speak on "The College, in the State Legislature” at a meeting !of the State-College Teachers asso ciation in the second 'floor lounge of I Old Main at 7:30 o’clock tomorrow j night. • 1 Senator Thompson has been a cou [sistent booster of colleges in the I State legislature. Students and townspeople arc invited to attend. Lost, Strayed Or Stolen? — Let Student Union Help You | - Did ypu lose something over the j week-end—your favorite bottle- of [“Seven Crown”, your fraternity pin, :clink, silver slippers, lipstick, or.your special copy of “The Rover Roys in the African Jungle?” If you'want it back, don’t give up all hope—try Student Union. "Lost articles valued at $.1,235.60 have been returned to their ’owners since September, and there, are lots more," says George L.' Donovan, manager x of the Student Union office. .These articles are only valued at one-half or less of their original pur chase price, Donovan explained. Lost books top* the list of mis placed items, with 146 being returned to their owners. .Fifty notebooks arc now in proper’hands, 42 pairs of gloves, 29 pocketbooks, and 22 scarfs. Although fountain pens'arc .difficult to identify, 19 have been, returned and a like number of slide rules. The rainy days earlier in the month ac counted for 15 hats and for 11 um* STATE COLLEGE, PA;oTUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1938 )FrenchGerman Processors j 1 Forward Conflicting Views Cloppet Advocates ‘United Statesspf Europe’ To Stop Hitler; Wurfl Condemns Allies As the world watches Rcichsfuchrer Hitler complete the anchluss of Germany and Austria,, two professors, natives of Germany, re spectively, gave conflicting views on. the situation 1 in--Europe when inter- ; viewed by the Collegian this week. * They are ’Profs. George J. Wurfl of the German! department and Jean B. Cloppet of the French department. \ "Hitler, will keep on doing in Eu rope what ho is doing now;” Cloppet said. "The only way' to stop him is through the idealistic method which JBriand favored—eliminate bounda ries and create a United States of Europe.” Cloppet declared that Austria does not want Hitler j that a certain vote of 32 per cent would be registered against him if a plebiscite were ta ken, and that Hitler and Schusch nigg were both .aware of a defeat for dor Fuehrer in the event of a gcn cral-voluiitary plebiscite. . "France would not' take positive action.until she'is sure of England," Cloppet. pointed out. "France is strong and necessarily prepared, hemmed in as she is by a group ,of dictatorial nations;” he said, empha sizing that there is little danger of [war. • "The further Hitler goes, the weaker he becomes,” Cloppet- said. "The struggle now is not following racial or political lines—it is becom ing more and more a struggle be tween two classes.” Wurfl, going, back to post-war Eu r rope, traced Hitler’s rise. "Hitler was made by the Allies," he declared. "Only a dictatorship could pull Germany from the repeat ed insults showered upon her by her enemies. What Hitler has . done in five .‘years, it would take a democracy oyer one hundred years to do,”*Wurfl said.- "After you strip a fellow, don't talTo his livelihood away. You can't establish ?. a , ..democracy '• on*, empty. ’stomachsfrwlt-iwas\ Allies to establish a.republican bank rupt > Germany, but ’ favored vengeful means. The Versailles trea ty. proposed political self-determina tion for 'nations. Yet. this was re fused Germany and Austria," Wurfl Botanical Garden Is Planned Here Agriculture Secretary French Gives Support;.To Ask ' HctzePs Approval A movement for the development of an arboretum or botanical garden here’to compare favorably with , the world’s best' was recently pledged support by J. Hansell French, stale secretary of agriculture. The plan proposes that local areas be beautified for decorative purposes and for the use of students pi land scape’ architecture. ' , Spokesmen for the societies enlist ed in the movement will confer with President R/alph D. Hetzcl late this month to solicit his approval of the plan, which was originated by Dr. J. Horace McFarland of Harrisburg, president emeritus of the American Rose Society. '•> -< Secretary French; addressing, the Pennsylvania Horticultural society last week, ‘ said, "The arboretum (Continued On Page Two) brcllas going back 1© their original possessors. • The absent-minded Pcim State student has lost^—of all things—a; checkbook, even a belt, one golf club, and one tennis racquet. A drum was misplaced, found, and claimed ,by the owner, as well as a vanity case, dis secting case,.tic clasp, and a.pipe, by others. ' 1 "It is absolutely necessary for a person to have ■ his name or some definite identification on a lost ar ticle,” the -Student Union manager declared.' 1 "Otherwise, it cannot be returned, as ten .or,more individuals may lose the same type of article on the same day,” Donovan said. .The majority of lost material is well-scattered throughout the cam pus, •he explained, hut many items come in from Jtcc hall, the 'Audi torium, and the Liberal Arts build •mgs. If a name is on -the article, postcards are used to inform the in dividual that their lost article has been turned in at Sludent Union. pointed out. - . />£»£. “Over -75 ipergecnt of Austria would vote for flfflcr today if a vol-l untary taken. ‘ Au-j stria for the years hassbad 1 a dictator. They’sec now that Hitler will help' them; ;' : !As for freedom of press ' and spccchij '-only the urban population knows;.-bo\v to appreciate them. ' “Hitler ivill eventually try to get all of the GermanVycoplcs under one government,"'Wurfly stated. M.I. Op® House To 6:30 Progress In-Various Fields Will Be Exhibileifjfor i Hours; s . Faculty '.To]. Explain Progress in. geology, mining, petro leum and engineering, fuel technology,Vmetallurgy, and cer amics N will' <be •''exhibited when the School of holds its third open .•house in, the Mineral Industries buildingl/rom G:B0 to 10:110 o'clock tonight. ■ Undergraduaterand. research labo ratories will be-.thrown open to in spection. by faculty,:, students, and townspeople. '-'Carried,, out for the first time in 1934;.;aiid again in 1935, the open -housc'ipwjgram is planned to be held in. alternate years.. . Visitors- Td .See ; 'lDemonßtrations . dustries faculty ahdA students', ex plaining the work,' visitors will see demonstrations • exhibiting the phos phorescence and fluorescence of min erals, the vacuum distillation of pe troleum, the production ami applica tion of glass wool,’-.'the assaying of gold'and silver ores,uhicrostrueture and photomicrography of i steels, and the physical teslingof-metals. - Also on view are minerals coUcct ed'by-the Byrd Antarctic expedition: the Mount Joy meteorite, the only meteorite found in Pennsylvania; fossilized amphibian footprints a mil lion years old, tusks and teeth of the only ’ mastodon fouhd .in the state; specimens of dinosaur footprints; a perfect diamond crystal from Brazil; a complete collection, of mine safety tamps dating back .more than 200 years; and approximately 60 speci mens of metcorUes from all over the world. State To Decide On Contract Bids Final Agreements; Will l>c Let At Noon Today;’ Work Will Start Immediately Barring additional ■ last - minute postponements, contracts for the re maining part of the' General State Authority’s five-million-dollar build ing program here will be let at noon today. Delayed four times -before, the fi nal section of the program will in clude actual construction of-the 'cen tral liberal arts, forestry, education, library, mineral industries, agricul tural engineering, electrical engineer ing, agricultural and biological sci ence, chemistry and . physics, and poultry buildings. With all threats of a general strike by tlje building trades union dis spelled,.the work here is expected to be launched immediately to-make up for lost time. The program is sched uled to be completed by June 30, 1939.- • : ; i Agreement Averts Walkout The agreement averting a walkout of approximately 15,000 union work men was reached by Gov. George H. Earle and the American Federation of iLabor building trades local at Harrisburg Saturday. Under terms of the agreement lo cal non-relief labor- will be employed after local relief labor, has 'been ex hausted. Then "outside”/relief labor will be hired and finally "outside” non-relief labor. The union previously ; objected to the P. W. A. ruling that 58.2 per cent of the .workers must be taken from relief rolls.' LIBRARY rgiatt. Voting For Class Officers Begins Tomorrow Afternoon In Old Main; Continues Until Thursday, 12:30 Here Are Your Class Candidates Campus President: Stanley Brown Vice President: Jack Rex Secretary: William Stopper .Treasurer: James Nunge THIRD PARTY—President: John Patrick CLASS OF 3940 I Campus Independent President: Walter A. Jones President: Richard Ellcnbcrger Vice President: Lloyd Smith ' Vice President: John Hartranft Secretary: Richard Britton Secretary: Sidney Alter Treasurer: Bernard Newman Treasurer: Harry CJhenn CLASS OF 1941 Campus . Independent .President:, Arnold Laieh President: Waiter K»iaz Vice President: William Fowler Vice President: Charles Clemson Secretary: John Fritz . .Secretary: Prank Stanko Treasurer: Larry Higgins Treasurer:. Edward Sapp Class Politicians Sling Mud . Despite Pretended Idealism By lIKKBHR ' "Mud-slinging? Why, we would: And so you have the idealistic »r the IMS campaign. Yet. talk to Uiei the Collegian, or listen in on a.eliqi Of course. . From ail sides conics the common is one of the hottest contested in Penn this is true, one naturally expects' plenty of mud-slinging. -So, politi cians, come down out of the clouds and admit your earthly failings. With the Brown (Campus ’39) and Peel (Independent ’39) factions shoveling, it hack. ami . forth, Johnny mark, scorns to figure little in the ft naU results.- Rut, taking "big time" practical politics as an example, a “dark horse” with" apparently little or no hacking will -garner more votes than expected and'hamper the chan ces of one of the other candidates. We, personally, feel that Johnny will he lucky-to gel 50 votes, but be cause of his secretive, “tight-lipped" tactics, it is impossible to estimate his strength. So, we wouldn’t pried af anything—especially in this topsy-turvy, screwy campaign. To add more to the confusion in the fight for the coveted Senior class offices, we received an unexpected telephone cull from Charles L. Pot ter (that’s who he said he was there was no way of checking), who presented us with the “scoop” that the Halls would back Joe Peel 109 per cent. Naturally Peel Is expected to carry the Men’s dorms, but even in face of this supposed- 100 per cent backing, we doubt that Joe will gel a unani mous vote from these quarters..- It doesn't seem possible. It is interesting to note that the only question that will appear on the ballot refers to wheher or nol v stu dents favor the continuance of the Kennon plan. The only cliques to PSCA Group To Hold Discussion Thursday All all-Cliristian association meet ing on the subject of summer oppor tunities will be held iit the Hugh Beaver room, Old Alain,. Thursday night at 7 o’clock. Among those to speak arc Philip Jacobs, a member of the Friends Service Committee; Jessie Schminky "18, and- Robert Lewis ’37. Discussion will center on the topic “For What Ain I Going to Plan My Summer?" Rochester Co-eds Set Goal For Aspiring Perfect Man '.bocs the'Penu State co-ed's eon-las a, freshly scrubbed puppy. His eeption of. tlie ideal .college,.man co-] dancing need not be artistic, -hut it incidc with the views held by girls need not remind you of a Mack truck on other college campuses? Here arc taking Pike’s Peak in second, the views of the University of Roch- ; jj* | I(J j ias nioncVj ) JC , s generous, ester co-eds. Do you agree with hut noL ostentatious about it. If he them, girls? ; ' hasn’t, he knows lots of ways to have He must be tail enough to hang run besides "just sitting." He holds up his own hat. There is no barber’s - his liquor better than Grandfather lotion in his hair, and he can shave I did. without needing a blood transfusion. lf his IJ>in(] ls oxccptiomil, he He has a swell sense of humor but docJ . n *t wear it in front of him like saves the smutty ones for his little H sore thumb. ' He knows what is go friends at the house. ing on in the world and has his opiti- As an ideal date ho iVus crazy as ion of such going-ons. He"“does one college boys are supposed to be;.as thing better than anybody else, be it intelligent as his parents think him walking a tight rope, sailing a boat, to be; and as natural and engaging or playing-Gershwin by ear. CLASS OF Independent President: Joseph Peel Vice President: Willard Hoot Secretary: Robert Hopk'ns Treasurer: Ilarvey Heilman T B. CAUAN n’t -stoop to that!" rfntto of all Penn Stale’s politicians in m “off the record,” read, statements in lie meeting, ami wow! Mud-slinging? it'tlml, this year’s Senior class election i State political history. Granting that support the continuance of this plan pn their platform wove 1939 nnd'l94o Campus. And so, before wc puti the present political campaign to bed, let it be known that , this column would , like -to’go v»rt- on-lhedhalrnhd •predicfc'tirb* next Senior class president, but com mon sense forbids. It does appear though, in the other two classes, that Campus has iL in the hag—although we think that the 1940 and 1941 In dependents anil present more opposi tion than expected. State Art Head To Speak Here Mary Curran To Discuss Mural As Federal Art Project In New Huiklings Mias Mary Curran, state director of the Federal Art Project, will speak on “Art in Pennsylvania,’’ in the Home Economies auditorium, on Thursday at* 3::00 o’clock. This lecture is sponsored jointly by the division of fine arts, the State College Women’s club, and the Amer ican Association of University Wo- She- will also talk about the‘‘possi bility of murals, provided through the Federal Art Project, particular ly for the new buildings. U was through Miss Curran’s division of the art project that the College ob tained 22 original wprks of art for placement in various public and semi ptibiic rooms hlkmil the campus. Qualified artists, whose sales are insufficient for a reasonable liveli hood are hired by Mias Curran, and they arc responsible for these works. Materials arc furnished the artists who only receive a moderate weekly salary for their work. These paint ings are permanently loaned to pub lic supported institutions in the state, a charge being made merely for materials. CLASS ELECTIONS Begin Tomorrow. In Old Main Z 658 PRICE FIVE CENTS Matriculation Cards, A A Books Needed Gohn Announces Voting in the annual class elections will begin at 12:30 o’clock tomorrow afternoon in the first floor lounge, Old Main, and will continue until 12:30 o’- clock Thursday afternoon. Polls will be open until 5 o’clock Tues day and Wednesday evenings, and will open at 8:45 o’clock Wednesday and Thursday morn ings. On Wednesday they will be closed between 12:15 and 12:45 o’clock. According to the Election Code: “Voters mpst present their A. A. hunks and permanent mal nculat ion cards, which will be chocked by student workers with the Dean’s list procured before elections. A. A. books will be marked- by the checkers and the voters’ names cross ed off the list. “Those who have lost their books may be eligible to vote upon presen tation of a note from their Dean's office certifying that they are regu larly enrolled undergraduate stu dents. Those mimes will be also -be checked with the Dean’s list. Identification Required “There shall be no voting by proxy of any descript'on. On presentation by a voter of A. A. book and matri culation card a member of the Elec .tions.iCoiumiliet* may-.aslwfor,-further-*- identification if he deems it neces sary. For any “Violation of the two above provisions, or for any attempt to vote in a dishonest fashion, the penalty shall be the loss of five votes. “All classes will vote on the same two automatic voting machines," Russell G. Gohn '3B, chairman of the Elections Committee, announced. “However, there will be two lines divided according to alphabetical ar rangement. as follows: “Table No. I—A to L “Table No. 2 —M to The voting machines, -which have been supplied free of charge for the pa.*t'several years by Frank A. Stone uf the Aiilomatic Voting Machine Company, Jamestown, New York,' make it possible for tabulations to be announced as soon as the last per son votes. Gohn also issued the following warnings: • “There will be absolutely no elec tioneering in Old Main—drastic pen alties will be meted out if Lhis is vio lated. Expenditure Lists Due "Final official lists of expenditures must he submitted to the chairman of the Flections Committee at the Student Union office by 7 o’clock Tuesday evening.” The committee that will be in (Continued On Page Pour) * Phi Gamma Delta _ To Get Mantel From Grads A- beautiful hand-carved mantel, under construction for the past two years, will he presented to the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, oldest in the College, nl. the chapter's fiftieth anniversary to be held April 2” and Three members oT the class of ’95, members, of the local Phi Gamma Delta chapter, are responsible for the gift- They arc: Ralph F. Martin, Hawley; Charles Hcppenstall, Pitts burgh; and Charles H. Burkett, San Francisco, California, Mr. Martin was in charge of the construction of the attractive piece. It .measures 12 feet in length and is four feet high. English style of ar chitecture was used m the designs. “May tlie Three Unwritten Words Ever Be Our Guide" is the -inscrip tion at the bottom of the mantel. The extreme left bears, "To murk the passing of fifty years since the founding of Gumma Phi chapter of Phi Gamma Della.” On the right can be seen the words, “Brothers Burkett, Hcppenstall, Martin’, of the Class of 1895, do give this mantel." The fraternity insignia, very beauti fully carved, is directly in the center.
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