*-»Y . - -H5-1 flmtt #tatr (Mlrgtait I :•= VOL. 36—No. 26 Class Of '43 Votes Today In Old Main To Decide Officers Yeager, Riley Are Candidates For Presidential Post, Polls Are Open 8 To 12; 12:45 To 5:15 Sec “Politoyiaphics" on paye With a close battle and record turnout predicted at the - polls,, the class of ’43 will throng Old Mam to choose freshman 'class-officers today. ' Voting will be m the/hist floor lounge from 8 am. to 12 and 12:45 to 5*15 p.m, with AA books and matriculation cards required Results of the election will be announced tonight as soon as the ballots have been counted by4he fresh man elections committee. The candidates, as they will ap pear on the ballot President and vice-president (listed jointly) Eugene R Ycagci and George A Palmer, Independent, W Byion Riley 1 and Dennis J. Carney, Al 1 - Collcgc Secretary— Wilhelmenla Kipp, Independent, Elsie L Roolh, All-College Treasurer Paul H. Richards, Independent; Charles B Ruttenberg, All-College Historian —John M McLaughlin, Independ ent, Jacqueline ShafTei, All-Col lege 16 Students NominatjediFor Scholarships John W. While And Louise Carnegie Awards Will Go Outstanding Applicants ' Six seniors, five juniois, aud five sophoraoies weie ' nominated foi 'the John W White and Louise 7 Carnegle scholai ships by the Sen ate Committee on Academic Stan dards at the College Senate meet ing Thuisday Prank J Fry MO, .Robert G ,Mc '’Coy Ml,"and Mary A_, Galletti' Mlij ueijeithe nominees foi Ithe John 1 W'* Helen,L f Camp NO, Kenneth Klirigeu-' smith MO, 1 Elmer D 'Longfellow /40,« Betty C Wlignei MO, Stanley A. Wiykes> MO, Fiank J Blether Hi, Ray' H Butt'Ml, Albert L My- Leo ■Sommer-'Ml', Robert' Karl A H *‘Norris; M 2, 'Stuart .G., jßljode .M 2, and Murray, L~ Schwartz M 2 tlie nonii- 1 nees for the iioulse’ Carnegie ; >-t give 5200’t0 the senior, 5150 to tho junior, and' *sloo to 1 the hophomojo wljo them, and* are awarded bu s i sis of ’tlie standing, of * students who apply "Louise Carnegie schol arships, $lOO *apipce, are awarded to outstanding members of the 'three upper clashes _ _ > Members of the studenF* body who assisted tho Senate commit tee weie David E Peigrin M 0, 1 Eli iior L Weavei Ml, and Goiald Doliei ty M 2 'Club Outlines Plans Per Peace Campaign „ j,r>» w ° The Social Jfroblemtf Club,* un 'der new, leadership,/outlined plans for the launching sf.«an organized ■peace campaign on the campus at its meeting,Tuesday > icy tentatively arranged, the Club will endeavor 'to make the student 'body V‘an alert,' conscious group, ready to stop any move which ‘might involve America in Europe’s war.” - ' 1 ’ College Sheep Wins Grand; Championship - ‘ '"Penn’s Pattern,” a purebred Southdown College lanrb, was de~ ‘'claied grand champion, the greatest of sheep awurds on this continent, aVthe International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago last Monday. 1 'The Penn State entries both giand championships, individual and pen of thieesheep, and more prizes than any other competitor This was the third .time,' and also the 'that College lambs have received the highest award, having won be in 1926,.1988 v Aiter, the champion was de-' clared,'-“Penn’s pattern,” was auc tioned 'off to the highest bidder, the 'State'College Hotel, at‘the price Vf $125 per-pound. The prize win 'rimg *lamb v was *ll months old and Sighed 106 pounds, " - 1 / “The best lamb in ‘ the United States, will be featured on that i‘es'taurant’s i menus,” stated- Will jSm LJHeniung, professor in ani mal husbandry ' Approximately., 20 colleges and a BO private breedeisi' entered the but'the Ag jHilLen 'tries •■'won oyer lambs from such -outstanding 'scliools as Oklahoma Michigan v State, Ken tucky,'-'Purdue, Wisconsin, - lowa ’ State, Illinois, and Ohio State.' , '/- /The following description of the 1,500 Ballots Printed Fifteen hundied ballots have been prln&d to receive the selec tions of the College's largest fresh man class Last yeai, in a two hour evening election, only 638 votes'Were ‘cast i v 'A‘ [feature of the-’week’s campaign ‘took place, in White 'Hall esterday *' as 1 ' repiesentatives' of each party gave three-minute cam paign -speeches, before'''approxi mately 800 classmates in Political Science class‘ r struggle vull 'mark the,, in. freshman elections ),ij-or eithcrkthQ. All-College or '^ndepeijdenti^party 1 [The All-College Parityumakes"its debul with this election, while the independent Paity lias never tn pitlphed v r , Committee Listed Thu election willfbe •supervised l by u committee including Thomas C. Backcnstose ’4l, chairman, Ro bert N Bakei ’4l, William E Fowler '4l, Boyd € Gartley ’4l, Theodore Rice ’4l, L Eleanor Ben fei ’4l, Bette L ,Campbell ’4l, and Jean C Craighead ’4l Accusations concerning viola tions of the ’43 elections code dui ing-campaigning will be made be foic the committee by paity chau mcn immediately after r the polls close. Parties found guilty of vio lation'will be docked either five oi ten votes for each offense, depend ing on the severity of the mfiac iion. Hiding Club Meets> Tonight An impoitant meeting of the new Riding Club will be held at 8 o’clock .this evening in the Stock Judging Pavilion All-interested poisons aic invited to attend judging is quoted from the Chi cago Daily Drovers Journal, larg est farm daily m the Middle West “Sixty-six lambs, the largest ever exhibited in a single class in the entire history of the Exposi tion had 1 entered competition for the grand championship.” “After considerable elimination, six lambs were lined up * for the : final judging WhenflH. Noel Gib son of Ontario, Canda, the judge, pointed his finger at the Penn State entry, a thunderous applause came fiom the ringside.” Eric Dennis,' College shepherd, probably ■ received ’the greatest thrill, it wus'the- second time that one of Ins sheep had taken the grand'award. “Penn’s Pattern,” the College’s “champion of champions,” will be on exhibition at the College sheep barns today and tomonow," Hen ning announced.' * ' - OXFORD DEBATER! E. R. G. HEaTH + + + Coed Debaters Oppose Oxford \ Hatton 1 MO’And HcchlMt Will Face'English Team ( .jEihvardJL^G, Heath, 'betff j HstUoii'' Hi! Hihd ‘ Gertrudo Heclltl on ‘“Could ‘’tlW’ Deifioeiaelbs Have 'Averted' War” *in “Schwab' Audi* toilum at S 80 in, Thursday Tlild 'debate’, iii-’addiUou 'to in iiiijguratingl!lthe 'women’s varsity debate seasod,“will be the (list in ternational’ dfebate' iiTwhieh coeds' liave'paiticlpated The squud is boiug coached b> Geoige W Dougherty oCtlie speech depaitmeiit, with Haiold Zclko o£ the speech depaitmetit advisor}’ John H Frizzell, professor of public speaking, wili’be chairman German Christmas Carol Sing Set For Tomorrow Night The Annual Guiman Chustmas Sing will be held in Schwab Audi tonum at 8 15 pm tomonow, it has been announced by George Wurfl of the department of Ger man. 1 As in foimer years,, the entire assembly will join m the singing of the populai Geimau songs, “Stillu Nacht,”,“o Tannenbaum” and “O Dufroechlichc.” This will be supplemented by other musical selections and a religious cere mony Mrs Albeita M Krader of Bellefontc, one of the foiemost zithei 'playeis in the country, will tender several selections as will Mrs Ucne O. Grant at the organ Piofessoi Hailan N. Woithley will sing some of the best known Ger man Christmas carols. The v ieading of the scupture on the nativity of Chnst from Luth er’s Bible will form another part of the program All students, fac ulty and townspeople are invited.". MI Society To Hold Christmas Program The annual Christmas meeting and paity of,the Ainerican*Society of Metals will be held in Room 405 Old Main, Thursday at 7 p m , ac coiding to Robert Eakln ’4O, presi dent of the society. Dr A. A. Bate?, mauager of the chemical and metallurgy division of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing 1 Company, witf speak on “Treuds in Modem Met alurgy.” . The second half of the program will include a question and answer contest patterned on the “Infor mation Please” radio program ,with the faculty jjprving as Informers. All students enrolled In metallurgy are invited. STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12,1939 Trustees To Hold Meeting At Capitol 5 New Members To Meet With James, GSA, On Equipment .Special to the Collcyuin HARRISBURG, Decembei 11— Five new trustees of the Pennsjl* vanla State College appointed lust Frida} b} Gov Atthur'H. ames will attend a special board meet ing here on Saturduy at which the College will assume responsibility foi, the new equipment to be in stalled in buildings erected on the campus by the Geneiui Stale Authority - Final bids on the equipment for the 11 new buildings ut the Col lege will be received and acted on some time after the special trustee meeting. In addition to the five new trustees, Frederick A Heim. Wil liamsport banker, was re-appoint cd b} the Governor He is a mem*| bers of the executhe committee of Hie board - The new appointees aie 1 Property..and Supplies Secre tary Roger W 'Rowland, of New Castle, to succeed S Forr} Laucks, of Fork Rowland giuduated ftom the College in 1917 2 Edgar C Welchet, assistant general manager of the Hudson Coal Co in Scranton, to succeed J Hale Steinman, of Lancaster 3 Mis Clara C Phillips, of Washington, succeeding P J Den man of Bradford Mis Phillips, an active member of the state giange, has pieviously served eight jears as a trustee of the College and was laigely-* instrumental in securing' the ■ erection of the Giange Dormitory there -4 Harry M Moses, president of the H C Frick Coke-Co in Pitts burgh to fill a vacancy ' 5 Howard l J Lamade, publisher of the Williamsport to fill a '•vacancy He"' <^S, "an'' of 'the 'College,"Vaduallng theVe in lsl4 f i IMP! .in l£-i* ’f- 1 11 1,1 Alt of the appointments nfiulo'by tile GoveVnor are’'subject 16 l ap i pi oval, of the ’state senate' 1 1,1 $132! Contributed, To Christmas Fund.! , WSGA’s Christmas drive fell short of'an all-time high with-ap proximately sl‘l2 handed hi Friday noon and othei contributions to come Contributions of $143 in 1937 were the greatest Funds are to be divided among Mifflin County Children’s Aid So ciety. American Women’s Hospit als, and Mrs. Ralph D Hetzel’s emei gtency fund for needy stu dents You Have Done More Harm Than Good AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. DIES; EDITOR’S NOTE —It is rarely that the Collegian turns its attention from the manifold problems confronting us here at the Pennsylvania State College and turns Its editorial pen to the arena of national affairs. We feel, however, that the djetates of our pre rogatives as involved in the freedom of the press and the neces sities of the present situation, which involves every student in the country, justify our action < A copy of the following letter has been forwarded to Congress man Martin Dies, Chairman of the House Committee to Investi gate Un-American Activities The Hon Martin Dies., Chairman ' House Committee To Investigate-Un-American Activities Washington, DC..' Dear Mr. Dies: i - We should "profoundly levere your work in trying to uncover groups and individuals whose activities are not m accord with, the welfare and best interests of the citizens of the United States. We should find it m our hearts to commend you onHhe vigor and on the initiative which you have brought to your committee’s investigation of un-American activities. We should ... • But we do not. WE KNOW, MR. DIES, that, we take the risk of your branding us a propagator of alien doctrines, the risk of your sending for us and demanding that we reveal the whereabouts of our book on Karl Marx. But here and now we must disclaim any such associations. If you'll forgive the personal, Mr. Dies, the country in which I was born, Czechoslovakia; now no longer exists be cause of the very imperialistic, ruthless and insidious doc trines you and I abhor. ... (Continued On Pape Two). Flu Epidemic Discounted py Doctors; Holiday Out i Cossacks Appear Tonight; thrill Wins Ticket Award Instructor Wins Prize For Most Timely Solution '■ | Advocates PA System ' ( To Itelay Proyrams Juliu G Brill, associate profes sor of English composition, wak awarded the Artists’ Course ticket 'prize offered last week by Dr Nel son W , Taylor, head of the depart , ment of ceiamics, 101 the best solution to simplify the sale of Artists’ Course tickets according ,toj a letter received yesterday by the Collegian fiom Dr, Taylor Miss Brill’s plan, according to Dr Tuyloi’s letter, would tuke care of the overflowing demand for tickets, as well as solve the nielli oil* now in use of standing in line man) hours to purchase tickets foi the Course timel) solution for this)ear’s problem”, says Dr Ta)loi, “is of fered b> Miss Billl, namel), that the campus public address system be used to relay the" progiams from Schwab Auditorium to one of the other meeting places on the campus for the benefit of those wlio‘vverc not able to purchase tickets” ’ rMlss Biill also suggested that "regular patrons of the Course he given a chunco to renew their seals foi the follovvlng'year in ad »vance of the general sale f Tay lor ;Of fe rs Plan t „ , Dr ' ■jTajlor.jhim&elf, offered, the, .’possibility of dividing tlio uudlto tiutni Into /ones ,wlt,b, appli? cant desgnnthig his frst, 'second, andi thud choices, “The order of assigning the seats to the appli cants could he ,detoi mined by lot, said Di Tailor!’giving due atten tion to the applicant's preferences If this did not dispose of the avail able seats', there could public sale with six ticket windows in stead of two, he pointed out “The fundamental problem, how ever, is oui need of a larger audl toiiura,” state Dr Taylor, “I would like to see a study made of the acoustics of Recreation Hall and an estimate prepared of the costs for necessary improvements The acoustical improvements would (Continued On Page Four) Campus Action Against Dies Commiliee Forms After Rebuff Of ASU With action against the Amei ican Student Union teaching u climax' in the Dies Committee investigation, student opposition against the Committee’s tactics to formulate on this campus A statement of policy has been cnculatcd among faculty mem beis and students and will be mailed to the Dies Committee Students Pick Anti-Aircraft 2-1 Pieference Indicated By Poll. Of 110*1 C Classes Students in basic and advanced ROTO classes have shown a 21 picfeieiico foi the addition of an anti aii craft coasL artillery unit over a proposed motorized field aitilleiy unit, David E Pei grin *4O, chaiiinan of an All College Cab inet committee to study proposals foi the new ROTC unit, announced j esterday The poll wuh made bv instrut* tois In all ROTC classes ut the re tjyi’Sl or. the, pabinel, committee, 'Pejgrin to ,determine what type of ( unit students , would, pre fer if the present engineer and In fantiy unity aie supplemented next yc«n . j Of the students polled, 1211, or OC pci cent, favored the anti-alr eruft coast aHillery unit and 637, oi 31 pei, cent, the motorized field artillery unit The majority was built up in the basis courses as ad vanced coips students voted 76 bl in favor of the motoii/ed field ai tillciy unit Before teporting lesutls of the vote to All College Cabinet, Per* grin wants to make a further stud) of'the proposed increase and ac tion will probably not be taken he foie Jauuary. Tlio probable course of action will be foi Cabinet to ask the ad mhiistiatlon lequesl flic addi tional unit from the War Depart ment If the College agrees to pro v ide foi the proper cure of all ne cessarv new equipment and if addi tional antiaircraft units aie avail able the lequest will probably he gj anted according to Col Am biose R Emery, lieud of the de partment of military science and tactics The new unit was requested b> the students bccauso the present engineer and infantry units are al ready quite large and fui liter ln ci eases hi their size would make them bulky New Observatory Will. Admit Public After Christmas With its 12-foot seamless alum inum dome now complete at thj factories in. Greensburg, the sec ond miit of the College multiple obsei vatory—the only one of its type in the world—will be ready for public use shortly after the Christmas 1 holidays Shipment of the dome to the College wilI K be made this week und installation will get underway immediately, as the observatory building itself has been complete for some time and is waiting for the piotecting hemisphere to be lifted into position on ball bear ing rollers. The hist unit is already open to students, faculty and townspeo ple at 7 p. m every clear Monday, Tuesday, Thuisday, and Friday. The sky will be presenting an unusual opportunity for observa tion of the planets between now und March 1. Dr Henry L Yeag ley stated At the end of Febru ary the six brightest major plan ets will he in a good position to be observed, Dr. Yeagley said. .rfigW PRICE FIVE CENTS Standing Room Tickets For 112 To Be On Sale Program Will Consist Of Fifteen Numbers Standing room tickets for 112 persons and 75 admissions to the second floor foyer will go on sale ionlght at Schwab Auditorium when tho Don Cossack Choii, v orld famous Russian chorlstoi s, .«re>-ent tlieh progiam at S p m ns the first numbei in the l'lil*) 40 AHists* Course Di Carl E Maiquuidt chairman the Ai lists’ Coin so Committee, announced yesteidd) that the de* purlmnt of grounds and buildings had approved a pioposat to allow standing loom for the series up to 112 persons In ordei to alleviate ticket demands Also, tlio foyer on ‘he second flooi will be made available to 75 people, who, though tumble to see the performers, may hear the numbers from that point Tickets for the Cossacks’ program piiced at $125 will be on sale at the box office at the auditorium 1 and the sale will stop immediately* when' tluc designated number J of tickets are ’ purchased The 1 progiam 1 to be piesented by the Don Cossacks tonight will in elude 15 numbeis. the first portion of the performance to be devoted to Russian ehurclKtnuslc.-the sec ond part to military songs of the fighting Cossack legions and the finul group, made up of typical Rus sian folksongs and dances :u d if. > i Three Stooges Wjri Amateur Contest Nearly filling Schwab Audito rium to capacity Satuiday uight. more than 1,000 spectators roured tipproval as the Three Stooges Thespian stars, won the amateur contest sponsored by the Penn State Club Twelve amateurs, including sing ers, pianists, impeisonators, come dians, a violinist, and a magician competed for the first prize of $lO and a contract to appear in the .next Piy Dock Club floor show. White Tests Fence Posts Wallace E Whits, piofessor in the forestiy depai tincnt, lecently staited an approximate 100-year experiment concerning, the use of different creosote bases on fence posts The reason for the length of this experiment is that the Uui • ability and hardiness of fence posts warrant a long period of ob servation Two Criticisms Sent Designer Of Murals Two criticisms, made along wil mini Poor's preliminary sketch of to the artist yesterday The first was that lus design sh stressed the agricultural and mecha cultural teachings, and the second tl to look more like a bain than an * While the theme of the mural is ■ the building of Old Mam—with the central figures, Abraham Lin coln and a young student about to plant a tree, symbolic of the Mor rill Land Grant College act—Poor in Ins portrayal has shown the re lation of the College to the agricul tural and industrial life of the stute in four groups on either side of the central group The four groups are concerned only with agricultural and indus trial activities and thus have aroused feeling that undue omis sion is made of the'scientific and classical studies which are also mentioned Morrill Act and which were “taught m the early College. Shows Early College The mural, however, is not in tended to show all of the curricula now offered by the College, Poor Women Hit Hardest By Intestinal Flu Disease Not Serious _ But Most General Here In Three Years Sic "Wc Women ” on paffc 2 BULLETIN Dr Joseph P Ritenour, direc tor of the College Health Serv Ice, late yesterday announced considerable slackening In the number of Dispensary calls for intestinal flu treatment At the Infirmary only 14 of the 30 beds are occupied, he said ’The doc tor said he had no knowledge of a new report that a state health officer was being sent from Har rlsburg to consider closing school. College officials and mem bers of the Health Service weie busy yesteiday and Sun day minimizing lepoils about the extent ol the epidemic ol intestinal flu winch swept the campus ovei the week-end and denying persistent rum oi s that because of the epi demic Christmas vacation would'be moved*up to tomoi- IQW. Although the epidemic is pi obably the most widespread to hit the campus in three yeais, the illness is not con-, s'jdcied serious and in most casejs has lasted only one or -vwonlays •• * 1 *' ,M i FiguicsVn the number of jil ne’ss'varv yidcly because a great numbei of eases are not sciious enough to bung to the attention of health olTiuals, and because rumois aimed at gaining an early vacation have exaggerated manj icpoi ts Women Most Affected Women living in the College Moimitoucs wcie most affected with estimates of the total number langing fiom 30 to 300 Best av ailable lepoits indicated that 120 women had been treated up to yes terday morning _ _ At Atheiton Mall, 9b sick trays were, said to have been sent up to looms Sunday night At Mae Hull (Continued On Page Four) Smyser To Edit Handbook Adam A Smyser MJ has been named editor of the 1940 Student Handbook and Beth M Swope Ml lias been named associate editor, it has been announced by the PSCA Sydney E Cowlm M 0 was chosen as business manager of the Hand book cuihei this year th the piaise, accorded Henry Var the mural for Old Mam were sent towing the beginnings of the College imc arts at the expense of the early hat the ongmal Old Mam was made academic structure. pointed out in a letter to J. Burn Helmc, professor of architecture. “The whole mural has been kept in a very human, rather classic mode, rather than with definite il lustrations of historic or present incidents My suggestion is, that with this as a mural decoration, if it should be extended around the balcony to make a complete whole, the smaller broken spaces would be devoted to the more specific and present day activities of the Col lege—to the right those activities m the mechanic arts and to the left those of agriculture and home industiy,” Poor said. Piofcssor Helme has expressed the opinion that Poor may have meant Lincoln to symbolize the cultural achievements of the Col lege Francis E Hyslop, Jr, m , (Continued on Page Four)
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