W] ■ irun (EnUrgtdt [MI ,s ;VOL -3&r-No. ',25 Campaigns Launched By *43 Parties Both [Candidates %it : Non-Partisan 11 Keynote At Rally By WILLIAM E. iFOWLER Having launched their cam paigns 'at an. , enthusiastic rnass meeting Tifesday night, both freshman'/ parties i were intensively canvassing mem . tiers of the class of '43 this . week. 1 . -'.AVthe same time the fresh rtiaiiYeleetions committee wa3 malting final preparations for, : the,’ balloting winch will cli 3iiax~ r thei iweek’s '""campaign next' Tuesday; Voting will be liom.B a.m to\;L2 ; tind from 1£:45 to 5:15 p.' m.,>ith A A books and matriculation cards rgiluired l ■ ' ,In;}:an* leeches v Tuesday spe'ecnub Jlight/both presidential candidates) Ittessed non-partisanship as tlic lc6yhote’of> their respective-party Jtfograms.'- , . „ Stress Non Partisanship '‘the All-College Party was -or ganized to bring fraternity and fibri-fraternity men .closer togeth er,’"’►declared W. Byron Riley, All- College nominee "By our actions we have ‘shown 1 that we are trying I'd accomplish'just that." ‘ Independent Party is- a roll-partisan party,” asserted Eu geiih'R' Teagei, head of the Inde pendent, slate "Our fundamental pWpose for /the ‘next ‘four' year*, is tor create a betier’Penn State.” - ° w . *, v ' Only evident fact in <the proble-, ipalicaU battle :slated Tuesday < 13 that,'[whichever ;:party triumphs, l class^illTnoEnie'^a< i iootDalirplaj , eivi Since'neither of'the candidates is dlgrid'hero/this -long-established tradition will inevitably be broken ' ' <* > Woman to 1 Run - ». \_Wolrien will- seek freshman class offices for'the first l time in College history, r with Elsie L Rooth and Wilhelmenia (Timmy) Kipp vie ih£_iorthc secretarial 1 post and it&tiquelmc-(Jackie) ,ShaffeV a can didate foi the four-year 30b ‘of class historian 'Compaiison of party platforms finds both parties backing the Lion shrme, ‘better fraternity and non paternity relationships, and more Penn State'spirit. Other planks find, the Independents supporting the ' student' book' exchange, the ftnve for a Student Union building, Und an iinpiovcd method of sc - (Continued On Page Two) j' , 1 t - . i> - $ Paul Bunyan Will Bring Forestry - Ball Decdrations r ‘Word ‘that the immortal' Paul Bunyan,' honorary sponsor of the Forestry Ball tomorrow night, will bring decorations for the Ball was received late yesterday by the com mittee in charge of the dance. ( AThe' v committee announced that Bunyan had notified them he would make a special trip' to 1 State Col lege from the : land'of Blue Snow sometime tonight, _ bearing with film trimmings fit only'for a dance with his feats as a-theme. ’Forestry Ball will be held in the Armory tomorrow night'from D to 12 1 •with’ Rex Rockwell’s-' band swinging ( out.- The 'danqe will be sijnu-formal, with admission set "at 7B cen ta per'couple,' [[ , . Pinafore Will Sail Por MtQona Port Contrary to the growing belief that the Glee-Thespians’ smash 'Hit,' "Swing. Pinafore” has "put the bones to bed,” Sock Kennedy an nounced yesterday'that they would put the show on the road, if only ds far as Altoona. , ‘ ’ 'VAn J engagement’^., at Altoona, jJrobably .in._the Mishler theatre, eta'll, be played on January 16' The fjiroduction is under; the auspices \6i the Penn State ( undergraduate •Renter in, Altoona,; and all.' pro ceeds of the slioWfWiU'go * Although the.Altoona one-night ‘sknd/is ’the 0 only*' definite u date, ether dates' may be scheduled. Two , . _,. pp , In Fifst Numher On Artists’ Course; Taylor’s Contest Offer Draws Comment Russians' Conduct Presents Probleri\ To Their Manager Nursemaid, chaperone, and all around manage! of 3G singing Rus sian giants—that's the job held down by Paul H Stoes, who takes care of all the transportation and lodging problems foi the Don Cos sack'Choir which will appear as the first numbei on the 1939 40 A.! lists’ Course in Schwab Audi torium Tuesday night < >And take > it from Stoes, it’s no easy, 1 task caring for'the wants of the' colorful choristers, who have travelled 850,000 -miles‘in giving ovei 1 3750’"concerts,since.their or ganization 'by pint-*sizedt Serge ‘Ja roff in. 1921. y r V EewAoL‘^eyCopBack^*^eak I .apy' -essffii! the sacw 1 dies of 'their, fiery' Cossack ‘steeds! and having spent „ their,, early l life galloping'across 1 the plains of the Ukraine, the'Russian giants, are unaccustomed to life in''the city. -i' d ./ f C6bk'ln f ‘Rboms,, I Td keep’a check'oll the'singers, they are divided ‘ Into* groups of fom men 'each and, because they travel so fast to All engagements! must carry all their possessions in one suitcase each A fifth bag contains kitchen utensils, because tho Cossacks can’t stand Amer ican cuisine and prefer their na tive concoctions Therefore they con live only in hotels which per mit cooking in the rooms Another ager Stoes include finding lost room keys which the men of the Steppes continually lose, especial ly they succumb to their an ,c|ltral weakness of imbibing too ’much yodka , The giant singers altfo, have *a bad habit of stuffing dried herrings and other such odi-' feious foodstuffs in their traveling bags , American laws are confus iug to the Cossacks and many times they must be pried loose from the long arm of the law for minor infringements i which they cannot understand as being the in correct thing to do > ‘ Advertising Society Admits Six Students Alpha Delta Sigma, national professional honorary advertising fraternity, held formal initiation for six men iir'the SigmaNu house last Sunday. ' , ' Those initiated were David E. Wagenseller '4l, Walter J. Mole sky MO, Lawrence S. Dnever Ml, William E ’ Stohldner Jr. MO, Ralph C Routsong Ml,'and Jack : H. Thomas Ml > others, in Harrisburg and Lewis town, are on,the uncertain list, however, Kennedy pointed out. s ; Hopes that “Swing Pinafore," which is .the only Thespian show ever to be present ed four different] times, would tour the big-time/circult m the same manner ’as Mask and Wig and Triangle shows, were spiked The capital just ain’t" j g - Z 658 , STATE COLLEGE, PA w * \ Cy Peterman Chosen To Address'Journalism' Smoker , Here. Monday — "Cy Peterman, star sportswri ter for the Philadelphia f Inquir es will speak here at 7*30 p m next Monday at the annual ma Delta Chi journalism smoker to be held' In the' Phi Sigma Kappa house' More than 100 freshmen and upperclassmen'in the journalism department will attend. Peterman 1 has been with the Inquirer ' several - 'years as a ’ sportswriter- and featured col umnist* Previously.he had been a 'columnist with, Philadel phia Evening, Bulletin. . ,'He-will also appear before the Journalism 1 class which'meets ' IFC Will Help Needy ‘Kids' Food Baskets-Again Arranged'For Poor Again “playing,Santa” to Cen tre County poor children, Interfra ternity Council will provide food and entertainment for their holi day season Baskets containing five dollars worth of potatoes, sugar, fioui, and canned goods will be contributed by each fraternity, and will be col lected by the committee in charge Houses have also been asked to include requisition for six pounds of meat for the children’s Christ mas dinner, which will be purchas ed by Mrs R. S. Kirby of the local- Welfare group \ On Monday evening', December 18, several of the “pool kids” will be cnteitaincd by each fraternity. Rotary and Kiwanis groups, coop erating m>the project, will arrange transportation to and from the houses The IFC committee in charge in cludes G. Warren Elliott MO, chan inan, William H. Simms MO, How ard G AnderSon MO, A William Engel Jr. MO, and Frank C. And erson, Jr. MO, IFC president Women Debaters Face Oxford Team Here On Thursday International* Debate Ist Women Have Held 1 Here “Could the „ Democracies Have Averted War” will be deliberated by a team,of varsity.women debat ers and Oxford-Cambndge- repre sentatives 5 - in Schwab Auditorium at 8 30 p m. Thursday Mary Elizabeth' Hatton MO and Gertrude Hecht ’B9 will represent Penn State against Peter Street and Edward R.‘ G. Heath of Ox ford. ' - Although international debates have been held here since 1927, this is the first to include women debaters M ’ ' ‘ The Oxfoid team is the 18th in a series of outstanding _mterna tional debate teams'brought here by Forensic Council including Na tion Union of German Students, Canadian University, National British Student' Union, Austral ian, Zealand and Hearns ‘ l ' ' Dantzscher And : Warnock Deride Selling Suggestions A contest begun by a letter, to Lite editor of the Collegian early this Week. b> Professoi Nelson W' Taylor,, depaitment of ceramics, offering' a seat to the Artists’ Couise series for'the best solu tion to selling tickets for the Couise, seemed, almost uithout an answer as two College authorities blasted several 1 theories' for the solution ’ " In his Dailj Half Colyum, Dean of Men Arthur R Warnock pro posed a plan which he 'called the "ellipse 1 function method” Accord ing to Dean Warnock, the plan' is used ~ by,, many psychologists, for '.’every applicant Uo -be measured' by Hie department of music as to capacity to appreciate the kind of music to he offered in the given series “ As a second step to his plan. Dean Warnock said that "every applicant would also he measured by the psycho-educational depart ment as to aptitudes in transform ing'cultural stimuli into'social use fulness” By allowing "one'score to ho the major axis and the other the minor axis, we multiply the major axis, by one-half of the mi nor axis and then the product by 3 416" This- computation, Dean Warnock explains, will "give us the ellipse rating of eacli appli cant and the fellow who has the biggest ( ellipse,gets first crack'at the tickets ’’ Mail Unsuitable Walter F Dantzscher, director of publicity at the College, pointed out the unsuitability of a mail or der plan, which has been the sug gestion of many subscribers "The difficulty with a sale 'conducted by mull resolves itself Into the ques tion Who shall select whom to get what tickets and how willthat person or persons successfully dis prove, if not escape, the charges of favoring his sisters and his cou sins and his aunts? “Moreover,” continued, Dantz scher.' v ‘how, will he handle the ap plications if they total 1,800 or 2,- 000, as they might have this year, when the total number of seats Is less than 1,400'”' Christmas Carol Sing And Worship Service Set For December 18 Announcing the definite date for the Annual Carol » sing as Decembci 18, the com mittee lias stated that plans for the pearljrcom ple'ted pending replies-from the various campus and tpwn organ izations who are expected to co operate. , The worship service, gener ally held after the Smg, is plan ned for 8 p.m. with’’the* singing in front *of Old Main to follow at 9 r p.m. ~ Richard. W Grant, head/of the department of music, has announced that the choir and possibly the varsity quartet will render several selections. Interview Lecture Today “The Employment Interview” will be the subject of an engmeer inglecture in Room 110 Home Eco nomics Building at 3:10 pm to day. The lecture will be in charge of staff* members of the depart ment of industrial engineering. " )AY,' DECEMBER 8, 1939 Will Vie Amateur tit Today :h Contestant To Prize; Winner. To ■form'ln Dry Dock cimtostunts, will com* n llie third’ annual Penn Club Amateur Hour'before Is expected to be a* packed in "Schwab Auditorium at ?k tonight , * *, i contestant entered will re i prize >and ,the. winner of rntest, in' addition 'to the )rize will be given, a con o appear in the next revue :aged by the Dry Dock Club, •rganized campus hot spot . Yanofcky Ml, Thespian star, (/ iil be master, of ceremonies-and ,*lll Introduce the contestants and aVurd the prizes. who will try for place and the contract for the "itoxt Diy Dock' Club roue arc £fjili<3 Three Stooges, Jack Vos bingn '4O. magician, George Sum (hpr Mil, pianist, Kltt> Jones M 2 4>|unist, Leon Itabinowitz ’4*], Im personate] , Mabie Brocali MJ, im pprsonator, Dean Clyde ’43, sing or, Joseph Scaizo Ml wrestler singer, und Put Altwatei MU, tap lancet Boyd Bell h member of tlie Var pity Quuitet, will sing at intermls ’Sion, during which time a sflvei Sffeilng will -be taken to finance prizes S*The wlnnei of the contest will be determined by the amount of applause each entiy receives from the audience AIME Dinner Slated Monday v |S College President,- State 5" Speak'To-Local Chapter John Ira-Thomas, State Secre tary of Mines, and Francis A Thomson, President of the Mon tana School of Mines, Butte, Mon tana, two of the most outstanding men m the mining profession, will speak at the annual dinner meet ing of the local chapter of the AIME, American Institute of Min ing and Metallurgical Engineeis, at'the Nittany Lion Inn, Monday night The dinner meetingV slated to get under way at 6 30 pm, is the largest meeting of the year, as the entire faculty and student body may attend. An instructive and entertaining progiam has been ar ranged by various committees Tickets* for the affair, priced at $l.lO, may be purchased at Boom 113 MI building Secietary Thomas will speak on the subject, “Some Mineral Indus try Pioblems in Pennsylvania.” Di Thomson, who is chan man of the Mineral Industry Educational Di- Msion of the AIME, will talk on “Minerals in War” with some re marks on “Opportunities for Tech nical Graduates in the Mineral Industries ” Hillel Foundation Will Hold Chanukah Dance Tomorrow The Hillel Foundation will spon sor a Chanukah Dance from 9 p m. to 12 tomorrow night in honor off the annual* celebration of the "Feast of Lights ” Admittance will be .by membership cards and to couples only. Non-members maj attend by paying a 50 cent fee Dr Josef Dunner, novelist and foreign''affairs analyst,' 'will ad dress the Zionist Club ofthe Foun dation on “Palestine in Progress” at-the Hillel building on West Beaver avenue at 3 pm Sunday' Tribunal Finds Only Two Freshmen Guilty Only two freshmen, the smallest nurabei Tribunal has penalized at any-one meeting, this year, were found guilty of customs violations George U. Keating was caught without customs He will weai four rulers around his neck and will carry a bundle of shoes, and will wear a sign, “NOT ONE FOOT WjITHOUT CUSTOMS" Charles Fox will bounce a rub ber ball while he is bn campus, and will carry a sign, “TRIBUNAL BOUNCED ME ” x ‘ CALLS GIFT VOTE DAVID E PERGRIN '4O + ♦ + Whole Class Will Vote On Senior Gift Sur/r/estions Due At S. U. Desk By Jan. 15 The semoi class gift this yeai will be determined by a class vote to be held in connection with the dll-Collegc elections next May, David E Pergrin ’4O, class piesi dent, said yesterday in announcing a committee to supervise selection of the gift The change, Pei grin said, will be'made to lemove the contention which has arisen in recent year? when the gift was chosen by ris ing vote at poorly attended class ; meetings Undei the new system, the seniors will vote for the gift ull-College, president and vice president * • Six on Committee Pergrin will serve as chan man of the gift committee Other mem bers are G Warren Elliott, Jr '4O, A William Engel, »Jr ’4O, W. Jerome Howaith, '4O, H Clifton McWilliams, Jr ’4O, and George E Rittei '4O Suggestions foi the gift, Pei grm announced, may be turned nf by anv class members at Student Union desk before January 15 All suggestions will be studied by the i committee, he said, und those suit | able will be put up to a vote in May Gift suggestions already pro posed aic a scholarship fund, con tribution toward a Student Union building, additional murals for Old Main, new units for the multiple obseivatory, und a contribution towui d the jiew Lion Shrine Hetzel Appointed Job Committee Chairman Di Ralph D. Hetzel, president of the College, has been appointed chan man of the committee on re ligious cooperation in Pennsyl-' vania’s Job Mobilization movement by Waltei D Fuller, head of the “Give a Job” campaign. Piesident Hetzel’s unit will co ol dmate effoits of various religi ous groups m the battle to reduce unemployment. > Poor’s Mural Desig College officials were enthused this week over a preliminary de sign submitted by Henry Varnum Pool fot the mural -which he will paint next Spring ovei the stairs m the lolSby of Old Mam. Poor’s design has Abraham Lin coln, the signer of the Morrill Land Grunt College Act, as the central figure standing with a young student who holds a tree about to be planted Since its arrival here on Tues day, the preliminary sketch has been viewed enthusiastically by a great many officials of the College and by students, although it is worked out only in rough design and is without final color ; Prof Hai old E. Dickson, of the division of fine aits, predicted that, as now conceived, the mural may become one of the great fres coes of modern times Poor accompanied his design with a written explanation of the tieatment he has planned for the muial. Congress Exempts Fraternity Workers From Security Levy Tax On Non-Existing Wages Declared Unfair To Students Earning Meals; Dormitory Employees Also Excluded (Special to the Colleymn) WASHINGTON, Dec 7—Special employment taxes le quired of college fraternities by the Social Security Act will no longer be required effective Januaiy 1, 1940, members of the Social Secunty Board stated today The special taxes have been a sole spot to frateinity managers since tlie initiation of the Act in 1935. The eantel lation.was brought about by a special 'Act of Congress As practically all fraternity student employees receive meals vii payment for their work, and do not get any remuneration whatso ever, the managers contended they were paying a tax on wages which did not exist. Waiters Exempted The exemptions, which apply to all student employees in dornutoi ics as well as fraternities, were a part of the Social Security Act; amendments of 1939 Student wait ers will be exempted from all So cial Secunty Act jurisdiction, ac cording to the measure Any service with remuneration of less than $45 and seivicc "pci formed by a student who is on -oiled and is regularly attending .lasses at a school, college, or un iversity," is exempt from assess ments The treasury department ha» promised to issue' regulations on (he status of fraternity treasui ers and fraternity presidents be fore the amendment takes effect College To Make Lire Easier tor Left-Handers The southpaws get a break! In an effort to satisfy the needs of left-handed ,students here, a number of left-handed tablet arm chairs have been ordered by the College for use in the new build ings Suitability of the new seats foi use will be tested by southpaw stu dents as soon as they are installed in Central Liberal Arts If found suitable, more of the scats will be ordered. About 5 peicent of the 5,000- odd seats ordered under the equip ment contracts arc expected to hold left-handed arms, according to Scheduling Officer Ray V Wat kins This figuie corresponds a’- niost exactly to the propoition of students who write with the left hand. Each classroom will be equipped according to size, with only a few of the new seats in the smallei rooms and several rows in the larger lecture sections PSCA Frosh Bear Messnei Sherwood (Woody) Messnei, legional secretary of the Student Christian Movement, spoke on "Re ligion As An Integrating Force in Personality” at the weekly meet ing of the Freshman Commission m the PSCA looms Wednesday night Poor's letter in lull appears be low* First, I want the design to bung a sense of gieat spacial extension and ordered movement across the wall 'Second, the mam drama of the design will be ,in the light itself, witli the farm ing and industrial regions of the state each lying in the light which most characterizes it Using the general costume of about 1860 and having as its main theme the building of Old Main, I want to express the re lation of the College to the'agri cuttural and industrial life of the state —but to do this by putting them in their simplest terms so they become in a sense symbols I prefer that the human and permanent qualities expressed in the figures themselves become of much more importance than the illustration of any particular event, or the accuracy to any exact period. --I want Lincoln to be a symbol PRICE FIVE CENTS Esquire Artist Asked To Pick La Vie Queens Petty Will Be One-Man Judge Of Senior Beauties: Riley Given,Adv.sory Pox ANNOUNCEMENT Senior pictures not taken by 4 p m'next Monday will not ap pear in the 1940 LaVie, it was announced yesterday by Thomas J Finn, Jr, ’4O, editor of LaVie George B Petty, renowned Es qune artist, has consented to se lect the final “La Vie Beauties," according to word received yestei day by Thomas A Finn ’4O, editoi of the yearbook Endeavoring to alleviate campus criticism of the selections, Finn requested Petty to assume the rolu of one man judge of Penn State’s queens. rLiPuituiov "ofs"^ipproyiftiitgly , ~'Bo’ coeds, probably to be selected in a student poll, will be sent to thu famed aitist fiom which six or eight will be chosen A bust por trait and ( an informal full-length snap of each gill will be used. Othei efforts to improve the 1940 LaVie over previous years include the addition of*H Ridge Riley, sports editor of the depart ment of publtc information, as ad visory member of the staff *Meni bets of the All-College Cabinet have offered their services to aid the impiovement Plans foi the yearbook also in clude an mfoimal presentation with an attempt to break-up the monotony in cettain sections. Care less eirors will be eliminated-by thoiough checking IFC Head Elected To National Post Flunk C‘ Audeison, Jr MO, IFC piesidenl. was elected vice-chair man of the National Undergradu ate lnteifruteinity Council at the National luterfraternily Confer ence in New York s Hotel BUtinore last week end Scholatshlp, chapter officers training schools, defeired rushing, ami counteracting “distorted ver sions of fiaternity lifo as por* tiajed in pictuie magazines and movies” were among the subjects discussed by the 400 delegates to the 31st annual conference n Lauded of hope'and more than just a pait of the design because of hts historic signing of the Moirill Act I want his face and figure to express also doubt and tragedy, and the full fruit of ■what he hoped would be express ed in the iigure of the young stu dent holding a tree to he planted In the center background is Old Mam under construction, and extending to both right and left on that same plane will be much activity of men on scaf folds, horses dragging stone boats, etc. In the foreground left will be a gioup of farmer students working in their experimental plots and arguing over their work The immediate foreground is wai m ridged earth with 'win ter rye m rows Bhck of this group will be stu dents judging cattle and work ing in corn fields, on the extreme left a Pennsylvania barn yard (Continued on Page Four)'
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