KEMP SIGNED 'FOR SOPH HOP! See Story, P 1 VOL 36—No; 11 Lion Gridders Swamp Engineer Eleven,49-7 Before Alumni Crowd Nittany Team ScoresJSeven Times ' InEasy Win/ Ickes Leads Scoring With Three Touchdowns By DICK PETERS Lehigh’s Engineers evidently forgot their slide-rules Saturday afternoon. At any rate'Glen Harmeson’s lads could not solve the Nittany Lion’s crushing offense and so were thoroughly trounced as the Blue and White machine romped to a 48-7 triumph before a Homecoming Day crowd of 10,000 ’sulking through the‘air thrice*, . + + + - and along the ground four times more, the Lions scored almost 1 tite diop of. a hat Lloyd It senior fullback, was'the*big bi in the State'cannon, scoiing thi touchdowns and'an extra pr Craig WiiJte with two tallies, sophomores Peppei PetreJla Carl Kins vith one each took of the remaining scores An interesting and veiy opti tic sidelight was the fact that elher-pantalooned Lions convei every extra point attempted Pollock, leserve tackle, who sophomore two yoais ago bo< 11 conversions out of 12, kept record intact this year by klcl the first two" Bill .Smaltz 1 two , more through-the uprif while Johnny Patrick, Larry Ei roueh and lekes each, ct through with one. 1 1 Lehigh Scores u'- •‘'The hapless Engineers.-bout on. foui sides by Nittany Li took advantage „of a fumble scoreUheir’lone 4ally .early in .second iquarter-aja j ether”rout W'Defl’nitelylooldng’forwardTd' •coming clash nex_U Saturday t an undefeated Cornell team; Cc Bob Higglns’used'his entire sqt For this reason. Lion fans cat a’ fleet glimpse of Carl ‘ Kins, who t came up from Mont Alto Kinsl who scored one touchdown' on a pass from Eigen rouch,, showed up well as a pass receiver‘s His one'*catch late in the .fourth period was real gem State's first'score came follow ing Loomis’ punt which Chuck Pe ters i hud iun out on the 42 yaid stripe, 1 White and Peteis picked tip nine yards on two line plays ‘ On the next' play, Ickes" hit the centei of, the line, headed'for the sidelines' and scared on a 49 yard jaunt ' Pollock converted , ■' 1 '.White Stars ' ''Starting their,next drive on'the 'state 26, the Lions moved quickly to the Lehigh 26 with Ickes. White and Steve Rollins the leathei From that; point. White, on a reverse mound left end tal lied' the 'Second six-pointer* Pol lock again kicked the point, . » /Not«until the second period did the Lions'make another thrust, and then it’was quick and pain (Continued On Page Four) Kappa Alpha Theta, Pi Kappa Phi Win Decoratibn Prizes , ;; PI and-Kappa Alpha Theta/ were judged winners of the fraternity and sor ority decorations for‘Alumni Home; coming and’ presented'with "cups, it has been "announced by,K. J. Heidrich !of the department of ar- r! C'' ,f « * v' "Wo 1 Hitched Our Wagon l to the Stars’ 1 / was the/ 5 theme of the Theta's'winning.display,/which In cluded- a* wpgon, 'll\stars repre senting State’s r ’ line-up/ and Lehigh as, the falling'star. ‘PI Kappa Phi dlsplayed-.a slightly nude bear, be- Ifig'.paddled ’ ferocious Lion. COn-\the, .front, of'the; fraternity ;w4ireJiuge,white letters, “Welcome Alumni ’V, ,' , . ' L * ,JFlrst honorable mention awards rwent' to -Delta' Upsilooi and Chi .Omega* -Sigma „Phi Bpßllon _and recelved second honorable ►mention. -*•, . ‘ X '' A Ift«,The '‘committee composed,^ l of ‘John'Suydam/40 and '.Arthurs A ’Swanson ’4O/in^addition to Held "rich, 1 stated" that, they fudged" the houses'on the baslß of'clever ideas, "general* appeal, effective' lighting, 'obviousness’and expression of fra ternities and Idea, of, welcome, tfoey explained that although many r houses had t flne ’ displays, > they "Jacked originality or were of the idea of effigy. They also ’(Cdmraeuded-, Tau .Kappa, Epsilon -tod Beaver House. ‘ 1 V** . 3U* - flfetm Btetr (HuUrgtau dL PSCA To Start Drive Monday Lininger, Shafferman Head Annual Finance Campaign; Flan Dinner for Leaders The-annual finance drive of the Peon State Christian Association will open with, a kick-off dinner for leaders and solicitors in the Nit tany Lion Inti at 5 45 p m next Monday Actual soliciting will be conducted.from October 24 to 27 inclusive In'charge of the'drive are Fred T Lininger ’4O, who will,, head the men’s division, anti Martha V Shafferman ’4O, who iB in charge of the women’s campaign .Section leaders for the drive are C Warren Elliott r ’4o, Joseph R Carter'’4o, William B.Barthoio rae\y ’42, Thomas C Backenstose ’4l, Mary Elizabeth Hatton ’4O, and Elinor L Weaver ’4l Dinner Today A, dinner for the seAion leaders and the division leaders assisting them will be held at 6 46 p' m to day in the Sandwich Shop , - ThVcampaign-will be carried to all students, faculty, alumni, -and parents in order to raise' enough money ’to finance thp PSCA pro giam during the 'present school year-/' Wanted: Co-ed Goodmans; Frosh Girls Start Band By EDYTHE RICKEL When Stanley met Livingstone they made history When Gilbert met Sullivan they made opera When Munroe met they made *- Munroe, when she isn't swing: Johnson, when,she isn't rivaling 1 Mildred Johnson; and they are both was more than a five letter word i a-male monopoly. . - : _ - - ‘Planning 'to organize swing* loving freshmen co-eds into a band and go'professional, the two (they are roommates, by„ the way) are busy looking for more be-ribboned girls with & passion for music and a proficiency on the sax, trombone, trumpet, *or clarinet ** * \ *, - Four Signed „ lda Trot ter, Jane Vanßiper, and Ada Lord Z 658 STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1939 ‘Landladies Unfair/ Say Students Roth Asks Contracts Be Changed But Not Abandoned 'While the Student Housing Boaid marked time last week dur ing the drafting of a constitution to accompany its petition for Col lege’recognition, .four cases were presented to it in which contracts between students and householders were" held to be unfair, favoring the landlady The contracts are of the regular form adopted last dpi ing by the State College Householders Asso elation and sanctioned by the Dean of M'en Commenting on the icported contract 1 difficulties. Emanuel Roth.’4o, temporal y chuirman of tlie Housing Board, said, "If ai.y clauses In the agiecment aie de puted, it must be remembered that the conti acts are flexible The terms, even though printed, can be changed to coincide with the indi vidual needs and wishes of both student and householder” "We ask that the contracts be given a fair, chance’’,-Roth said “We mudt'accept the diflerences which arise But we cannot affoid to sweep aside a, measme which, thus far, "appears to be the sole solution for the shameful housing conditions which have existed in State College ” In i one instance it was charged that the .contracts do not specify the quality of boaid to be provided nor the frequency of meals, and do uot provide for change by mu tual'.consent f •fin case aiandlady was charged |wlth v allowing some stu dents,' long ,f aS -he wouldn’t tell the other boys ’’ 1 A complaint was entered 1 that .under the contracts adopted gen erally by the Householders Associ ation no rent returns are made when .the student is aw-ay While it is customarV to give a i eduction of one week’s rent over Christinas, this is not done in , the standard contract, it was chaiged - One student complained that he lias contracted to pay $7 a week for board yet is allowed only one glass of milk a day unless he misses a glass at breakfast In that case be may have two glusses at suppei Blind Freshman Chooses Career In Journalism Blind for seven'years, Robert A Ross. ’44 has made the unusual choice of journalism as his life’s profession* and has entered in the Lower Division witiMlmt intention A common sight on the campus as lie is led by bis “Seeing Eye" dog, Rita, Ross is the second blind youth to, study here in two years Last yeai, Vernon L Hull, also blind, was graduated in. arts and letters “Rita still gets mixed up on sev eral of the buildings/’ Ross says “When I tell her, to go to Schwab Auditorium she usually takes me to Old Main.” Dui ing classes the dog sits at his feet Because Rita does hei best work when left alone, Dean A R War nock has requested students meet ing Ross on„the campus not to cull Rita or to bump her ring a baton, is Betsy’ Muyroe, and Edythe Wright and' Bea Wain, is h Atherton frosh-who decided swing m the dictionary and certainly not have been signed ,to play the "jam box/’ “plumbing,”.- “agony. pipe/* and.“licorice.stick.” (Piano, cor net, sax, and clarinet, in case you just aren’t up on-your jive).. t Boom 63 is'headquar ters, so if you 'see any frosh co-eds with that gleam in’their eyesand music in their souls, consider it your duty to swing, your country, and-“ Penn State Swinging Co-eds” to’direct sbem thpre.’ l> GSA Denies $725,000 Contracts Approved On College Equipment Alumni Council Launches Placement Bureau Drive Uy-setting up a placement bureau, i|& Saturday, decided to send ques vffrpose of establishing an occupa- An an initial step toward actual the Alumni Council, at its meetinj tionnaircs to all alumni for the p tlonal file • J j No comment was made about i this group has announced for its * Trustees Return Committee Of 100 Plan To Hetzel After hearing the proposal for* a centralized student placement' bureau made last week by the* Alumni Committee of 100, mem-; bets of the Board of Tiustees exe*‘ cutive committee turned, it back to President Radph D Hetzel for fui tiier study during their meet-, ing here last Friday night t ' ♦ The proposal was announced from Pittsburgh last Thursday? night and was reported to have the backing of 200 firms in .that a>ea Dt Hetzel and Samuel K Hos tetler, assistant to the president hii chaige of business and finance,* have been studihig a similar plan for the last two years, it was said,’ and the trustees asked themlto.. consider the proposal of the.Com-J mittee of’loo in the light of their,; own findings ' t Points Listed , Af \ », & ‘report oT tße'Alum'nTComtrUttee of,* 100 to the President and the Trus v ; tees werfe 1 A placement bureau should be ' set up' foi all of the under graduate schools except Edu cation and Physical Educa tion ‘ 2 Separate divisions should be established for men and wom en with individual heads to be named by the Trustees 3 The bureau should be financ . od temporarily from'the stu dent damage fund “which now is one of the major incentives to student riot ” 4 The placement bureau should be started experimentally dur ing the second semester of 1939-40 5 Appioximately 200 firms in the Pittsburgli-area have al ieady said they would be will ing to co-opeiate with such a biueuii POLITICS— '43 Campus' Group Will Choose Name, Temporary Officers By WILLIAM E FOWLEft “Campus or not Campus?’’ will be the burning question before the *43 “Campus" group when they meet in 207 Home Economics at 7 30 p m Thursday , At this time the freshmen are expected to make a decision on naming their clique, as well as to elect temporary officers A new representation system was udopted by the 43 organiza tions last week requiring a peti tion repiesenting 10 votes from each active members of the clique Two representatives wIU be al lowed from each fraternity. , The new set-up was express!} designed to prove attractive to the non-fraternity man. While the other freshman clique is selecting temporary officers, the ’43 Independents will.choose per manent officers in 405 Old Main at 7:30 p m Thursday Action on upperclass political fronts remained quiet last week Discussion of a possible name change occupied the "Sophomore Campus meeting, while the Junior Independents elected Sam Schwartz secretary to \ fill, a va cancy Seven Booths In Press Box Seven .booths are now provided hi the recently enlarged, press box on the Newr Beaver Field gridiron. The separate booths provide quar ters for football scouts, the work ing press, football coaches,'guests of the Athletic Association?'* con trol booth for the field amplifica tion and scoreboard, radio broad casters, and official College guests. ie Committee of 100 and the plan roposed similar move 4, A. committee headed by George I <j\l Aiisman ’l9, of the Armstrong Cork Cotnpany has been selected J,o repiesent the alumni on the pro >osed placement bureau and will jubmit a report hi the near future fhe membeis of the committee in dditlon to Aiisman are James W Townsen 'l6 'of tbe West Vir sinia Pulp and Paper Company, I A Kararn ’2U. director of the IT S 'Employment Service in Hairis fiurg; John R ’22. Holii tlaysburg* architect, C H Kauff man '23. director of the personnel And placement office, UnUersity v&f Virginia, WjUllam D Harkins !.9 attorney and treasuier of*the enn State Club of Philadelphia, une Romig *4O and Chailes 'honipson ’4O 'Several other alumnae probably rill be added to Ibis-committee, It nas been unnounced T’J Following tbe general program of getting closer to'tlie undergrad uate body and being helpful to it. presented the final draft rsf_the report on "Preparing the to Become Useful SAlumni ” The chief features of setup are more social and .cul jiural 'development,.,training f .for in- TOfwleWs^fdr^6bS, -v 'ahd s a*closer v cOT : ' stunt coopelatlon between the man. nn the campus and the graduate Some of the features of the repot t are already being carried out The council selected October 12 as the .date foi Alumni Homecom ing next fall The feature athletic event of the weekend will be the football game with West Viiginia University. 33 WPA Paintings On Show Here -A showing of 33 'paintings, mostly oils! from WPA Federal Art Piopect will continue in the College Art Gallery third floor Main Engineering, until Saturday The exhibition is considered oue of the finest scheduled here this year Fifteen of the by artists who were honored by re presentation in "New Horizons in Americau Ait’’, the display of out standing work held at the Musum of Modern Art In New York City last yeai Tbe display offers paintings from all. sections of the country —New York, Massachusetts. Illinois. Loui siana, California, Colorado and the District of Columbia Th'ese paintings, as well as otli er N works produced on the art pio jdet, are available for'allocation to public tax supported Institutions Pledges To Hear Gallu-Harkins Duo ’ The annual Pledge Banquet, to be'held Sunday at the Nittany Lion Inn, will feature as entertainment the . wqII know n combination of John. Harkins ’4l and Sammy Gal lu ’4O Walter Syphert ’4O, head cheerleader, will lead the pledge class In cheers and Penn State songs v Guests at the banquet will in clude President Ralph D Hetzel Dean of Meu Arthur L Warnock, Professor John' H. Frizzell, Frank C ’4O, IFC president, Clifton McWilliams ’4O. all-college president and a representative from each fraternity participating in the occasion Seniors Sought By,Army Air Corps Army air corps officers will visit the College to > the near future to interview seniois who are Inter ested'in taking the examination to become flying cadets in the United St&teß Army. ,Names and address of interested seniors should be left at Student Union desk or with Sgt. J H. Weske at the Armory before Oc tober 25. Voting For Beaux Arts Queen Gets Under Way Balloting is now going on foi the girl who will reign as queen at the Beaux Arts Ball In Rec Hall this Friday Votes may be cast at the Corner and in Old Main Ten of the loveliest co eds have been picked as candidates They are Peggy Seeds ’43, Gloria Knepper ’43, Doris Ladarer '43, Saia L Bollinger ’42, Ethel Tay loi ’42, Eleanor Den ’42, Gerty Hellmeis ’4l, Jo Condrhi ’4l, Ann Lobach '4l, and Winnie Bisclioff ’4O “The Streets of Paris’’ will be the theme of the ball with the Campus Owls providing the mu sic, Arthui A Swanson *4O, chair man of the ball committee, an nmmeed yesterday Those attended the affair may diess as the} please—masque tade or otheiwise Hat Societies Tap 25 Men Parmi Nous, Skull And Bones, Druids Will Initiate New Members This Week Put mi Nous uud Skull utid Bones, uppeiclass hat societies and Diuids, sophomoie hat society, have tapped 25 men foi initiation this week ; Tomorrow night Parmi Nous will initiate- ,fi\ new members jvhile Skull' ’an 'will "accepCnihe Initiation-will be held by Druids on Fiiday night for 11 sophomores Friars, hat society, has voted to do no more tapping until Spring, while Blue Key held informal ini Liutlou foi 24 juuiois last Wednes day and will conduct its formal ceieniony in the near futuie Initiates Listed The men to be initiated by Par mi Nous aie Ernie F Boitz ’4O, John L Pi ice ’4O Leonaid P Hen deison ’4O, Arthui B Seible '4O, and Robert W Reese ’4O Skull and Bones will admit Lin do Brigman, Ji , ’4O, Robert I Cas selbuiy ’4O, Claience H Evans ’4O, Jack I Clark ’4O, Geoige D Le}- dic. Jr, *4O, Mai tin Valeri ’4O, Wil Ham E Stohldiier ’4O Robeit L Wilson ’4O, and J Ross W'est ’4O Men tapped by Diuids are Wil Ham M Ziegenfus ’42. Hariy A Mastei ’42, George S Kunison ’42, Max J Palena ’42, Jack H Frucli* ter ’42, Robeit P Biooks '42 Clin ton Quigley ’42 Robert Morrow 'A'i R Milton Erwin ’42. Don C Shapey ’42, and Walter C Paisons ’42 Physics Teachers Hold Meeting Here The FnU meeting of the Petuisyl vania Conference of College Phy sics Teachers will get utidei way hero Frida}, with a special session for visiting students at 1 30 p ni in Room 300 Physics Building This meeting is open to visitors Additional meetings of the two day conference are the inspection of Books and Apparatus exhibits at 3 15 p in, Friday, and the Book and Apparatus Exhibit in the Phy sics Building at 11 a -m, Satur day Thespians Select Cast For Hot Pinafore Show Hot Pinafore the flag under which the Fall Glee Club Thespiar stieamline vcision of Gilbert and Sullivan’s peiennial opei ■atic saga of the sea will sail when it weighs anchoi at Schwab Audi torium on Housepaity Weekend. Syncopated to swing, the mucli piesented comic opera will be com pletely swmgovated from (proper ties to costumes. As Dean Richard W Grant says, “it will be just as Gilbert and Sullivan would write it today We asked them ’’ The cast, Including a mixed chorus of 18 girls and 18 boys, .will include 44 students Among the ..eight principals will be three Thespian veterans, two Freshmen, and three new Sophomores. Bud Yanofsky ’4O steps from the fry ing pay of the Players recent “Squaring the> Circle’ into the role of Sir Joseph Porter in Hot Pina fore." Singin* Sammy Galiu '4O will PRICE FIVE CENTS Authority Director Claims Penn State Will Receive..: Approximately $600,000 Diehl, GSA Head, Says Allotment “Is Subject To Change;” Contracts Will Probably Be Okayed In November See cditonal , u Almost —A r ot Quite," on pag? 2 $ t By ROBERT'H LANE The mysterious bubble surrounding the approval of the General State Authority of the Pennsylvania State College’s requisition toi $725,000 burst wide open today as D. H. Diehl, assistant head of the GSA, in a special interview in Harris'-- buig, teimed as false any leports that the Authority has ap pioveJ any contracts for movable equipment for Penn State-. “No bid has been asked as yet on any movable equipment and. the College's requisition is subject to change,” Diehl stated “The prob able allottment for the College -will be $500,000 to $600,000 depending upon what the GSA determines necessary ” Diehl claimed that he had not icleased any statement that Penu State .would receive the sum of 3725,000 He believed that the mis understanding occuned when the $600,000 allotted foi fixed equip ment had been confused with the movable equipment sum, which v'as in conjunction with the PWA Fixed equipment has been re ceived here for the past two months and the Temaindei r of the order-iS’being as possible* The fixed'furnishings are part of the original PWA contract Diehl was very opitimistic' that Penn State would begin receiving the movable equipment within ap proximately one month aftei the bids have been received -and the contracts let Diehl explained that the companies which will be con tracted already have some of the movable equipment in stock Accoiding to Diehl, the GSA i» pieparing the bids at the present time, after approval had been re ceived m Washington, D C last week The College will now f re ceive approximately $600,000 of the total $7,000,000 appiopnatea for movable equipment in the Au thority's $65,000,000 institutional program inaugurated during the regime of .ex-Governor Geoige H Earle, and now being continued by Governor Arthur H James “We are pushing right ahead and are t making every effort to have the buildings fully equipped for the second semester,” Diehl said • Diehl again emphasized that “no awards” have been made, as he explained that the newspapeis which had printed the approval story would first receive advertis ing material for bids before the approval of the contracts could be examined Mr Diehl was quoting •a Federal law which aequnes all government and state projects to advertise for building bids The Assistant Directoi of the GSA, following Federal approval In Washington, appeared very op timistic that the College would ie ceive the long-delayed appropria tion within a month or so and that it would total approximately $600,- 000 not $725,000 smg the role of Captain Corcoran, and Martha Stringer '4l, veteran Thespian trouper, will be Little Buttercup Walt Llewellyn will be the villainous Dick Deadeye, Gor don Fay '4l is slated to play Bill Bobstay, and Grace Hendeishot '4l will be little Hebe. 1 Twin discoveries of the casting committee are Miriam Rhein '43 and Robert Kozer *43 Both grad uated from John Harris High School m Hainsburg last year, and both sang their “Hot 1 Pina fore” roles in a conventional pre sentation of the show at their high school last spring Miss Rhem will have the part of Josephine and Kozer is to be Ralph Rackstraw. Kemp Signs To Play Here For Soph Hop Orchestra To Receive $1,300 Dress Is Changed From Informal To Semi-Formal Ha! Kemp and his oictie&tia were signed late yesteuluj aftei noon to play here Tor Soph Hop on Friday, November 24. over the Thanksgiving and - Pitt football week-end Announcement of the signing jjvas- motto ?by ÜbjaxSopli. Hop co chairmen,- Henry I Levy ’42 and William J McKnlght ’42 Kemp win receive $1,300 Original plans for the dance, which will be held in Rec Hall, hate been changed to call for semi formal dress instead of infoima) ‘Dinner jacket foi men is pie* fei red,” the co chairmen announc ed "but either dark sack suit or full dress may be woin Girls will wear evening dress’ Admission to the dance will be s3*Bs per couple, including tax The financial success of the dance Ims been pledged by the class piesldent and by the commit tee cochaitnieu All three have agreed to forego theii compensa tions If the dance does not show a pi ofit If the dance tis a financial sue cess, it will be the first time in re cent yenis that Soph Hop lias fin ished In tiie black Last year it hit an alt-time low with a deficit of S9Ol DC .Howevei. It is considered prob able that this yeai’s dance will do consideiably bettei financially, be cause it is being conducted,over a bolidav week end and both stu dents and alunmi are attend To take advantage of the holi day factor, the co chairmen ,are making plans to advertise —the dance extensively in Philadelphia and in Pittsburgh —, Moral Re-Armament Drive On Campus Gains BMOC Help The campaign for Moral Rearm ament lecently begun on this cam pus gained headway last vyeek as a number of student leaders flock ed to its support David E Pergrin, senior class president, declared, “Moral .Re- Armament can make a youth free from fear, hatred and prejudice— a xouth that will make war impos sible foi Ameiica The campaign for M R A -now underway onjltls campus commands the cooperation of even student and particularly eveiy student leader ’’ ' ij,*," The campaign is mobilizing those responsible students in journalism, politics, student government IJ dnd otliei areas of college life who will lead the campus wide movement The first in a series of meetings, open to all who want to take part in the campaign, will be held soon Phys Ed Monthly Appears •‘Discobolus’’, a bf monthly.'pub lication of the School of Physical Education and Athletics, will’''be gin Its ninth year of publication this week Editor this year “is Watson W. Dersham *4O The mag azine is distributed to physical ed ucation students and faculty
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