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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.” -
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' 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
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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
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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 -
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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)'