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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. ...
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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
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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
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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)