US! frlenntrisfmas Mlf 't- «> v -*» - ' fc t . —■•'■'■■■- 11 ■ 1 ■-■■■- - . >"V J '" I > x •*" . ~ , v 4,* * !(/l st ~C'- 3 ' > ' . f Serni^JA/**^ i< 1y life I; prtrn Jitafr Jp (Mlwjum | ~ " V :YOL. -36—No. 28 v , DIES . : vs. DEMOCRACY EDITOR’S NOTE—The Collegian, in its open letter to Mr. Dies ; ~ l > last week, has been accused by so,me critics as being vague and i, general in itsidenunclatlon ,We submit the following as facts, facts -Vwhlch advocates'of Mr Dies must disprove if they still are con , _ l vinced that this group is qualified and has a right to investigate col* , leges and universities throughout the country for un American ac* tiylties. We submit them, too,{as evidence to support the conten* vV^tionjthat the Dies Committee has not justified its further existence, '/L than it has 'done 'more harm than good to the cause of democracy. Ji ' ' -ofi: ;Most of the witnesses "who have appeared before the .Committee have accused themselves of having lied and in the-past. The truth of their statements f could be established only by extensive investigation jjV.'Such investigations have not been made ly, 2.;lndividuals and organizations are, through mere men ■lyr . tion and appearance at Committee hearings, libeled on ■ 'the iront page of every newspaper in the United States. i.'J’he victims must themselves discredit the falsehoods. ■y?d. 'Further.smearing of innocent names: publication by the 'Cdmmittce:of the mailing list of the American League vyjj-. for Peace and Democracy, a liberal and anti-Fascist or ||fc'gariization-charged ;with being a “Communist front.” ffk “(lutstanding men and women-throughout the country, unjustlv accused by the’implication that all on the mail-' i.rig'list arc Communists. ’ .^f.'.'Statement" recently made by the President'of the Com irgy-monwealtlfand.Southern Corporation, a conservative' / usiness"man,j .Wendell WiHkie :-.‘,‘The Dies;, Committee y^&imvbeenJdestroyingh'eputationsbyvpdblicityKby'inferr'' - ence, by; innuendo.” ' - ! £6. The' Dies.Comlmittee is dominated with political motives. -'f - ‘ It has enteied close state arid national elections in Mich ,«' iga'n, Minnesota and Caiifoi ilia In November, 1938, the - mittee,. on the eye of Michigan ‘ elections, called and sZS' heard a number of witnesses on alleged Communistic activities ■in the State and alleged Communistic con , ' ectlollb °f Governor Muiphyr now Attorney-General k -£■of the United States '.Said Piesident Roosevelt- “On the thieshold of a , ' (Continued On Page Two) $1 Council Plans Better Student, Faculty Ties By WILLIAM E. FOWLER y,, ® ul * Council lias two primary objectives, to get freshmen and Mpliomores better acquainted with upperclassmen through social cv ,<3lt3, and to promote closer relationships between faculty and students ” .Jy vThus Charles E; Thompson ’4O, president of the Mineral Industries School Council, sums up the group’s purposes Eion Skin Drive fs‘bver/The Top’ f|ifii',sss Surplus Skin purelmsed for tlie College', this Fall, lias fc beoit fully paid for by alumni, fraternity and Individual donations,-, and a sur plus of $55 47' r bas_ been, deposited torltb-Studenl Union ln a mainten ance fund’ ' - '/>Thp' akin .itaelfls now baclf in York City undergoing altera tions after*, amappearance here at the Pltt-Penn Statefootball game /toward the skin totaled J 259 89 with $162 25 of this amount reraised on~ Alumni - Day FrSterhity / andindividual dona tlons/made.up’tlie $97 64 balance deucted from this amount-ywereV, Sklu/ $2OO, tele g*ama/?s2.7o^and r express charges, xrfyt&r* - 1 1;> — c : v-’v ' To Hold Dance p'AWcommuuity dance sponsored/' by "the State ' College ftfed ’bO'held at the Nit- 9,p .m to 1 Tuesday,' December 26. / Rex Rock weirs/Band:will furnish the music for^/this’informal; dance’’; Tickets are f sl£per! couple.v ; Heads, University -,L /19 has Sill iiflii'|Universlty//Dumaquete, Phil- Ip|ftAeylBlandB>l‘He\waB( formerly dtfector'pf ytlie/ Rural/Institute/ of bfa’wlo'(University,'Esluan/ China " Editorial Formulation of plans for a Mmi ural Industries All-College, dance and open house have featured the activities of the Council to date The dance is aimed not only to encouarge social relationships but to provide much-needed funds for the organization. . , The Mineral Industnes open house is’to be held as soon as in stallation of equipment will per mit use of the new MI building. The Council has joined with other groups in pushing the move ment for an interviewing course, and has secured the cooperation of Dean Edward M. Stcidle in plan ning the course' , Second of the school councils to be organized under the new set-up, tho 25 members of the Mineral In dustries group weie chosen last May. To the eight seniors,' seven juniors, and seven sophomores now on the Council will be added thiee freshmen m the near future. Members of the organization are chosen from each curriculum according to a "system of propor ational representation, with two representatives from the larger curricula and one from the smaller in each class The Council adopted a constitution October 21. Besides Thompson, who is presi dent and All-College Cabinet rep lesentative, the officers of the Council include Louis Cavalier ’4l, chairman; Charles' 0 Tarr *42, vice-president; and Thomas S. Luerssen ’4O, secretary-treasurer. . . s ’Ex-officio' members listed are Dean Steidle- and departmental heads. Regular meetings are held once a month, with special sessions called at intervals. Z 658 STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1939 First Semester Exams Scheduled Classes foi the fust semestei will end at 5 pm, January 24 ami examinations will end at 10 a m Febiuary 1 Scheduling officer Ray V' Watkins announced yesterday. Grades for graduating seniors are due at the Registrars office at 8 a m January 29. ! For thpse seniors who have examinations scheduled after Saturday, January 27, special examinations will be arranged by instructors con cerned unless provisions can be made for them m 'conflict examinations Seniors graduating at mid-year who ha\e examinations scheduled afteL January 27 should repoit this fact on conflict cards Any student having two exami nations scheduled' the ; same time is required to report the fact In person at the office of'the Regis- Irar, not laler‘than,s p m ’January S Anj .person^having* three ex aminations on'the same daj may leport a conflict Notices of ad-j jtislmenl \\llJ bo available to those ] students Mho reported conflicts and will bo mulled to heads of de lartments on Monday, January IS Conflict cards must be presented to the Instructor in charge at the time of the conflict examination since these cards are specials per mits to take such examination No student will be admitted to a con flict examination without a< card from the College Scheduling Offi cer The time for those courses listed "B> 'AppointmentvNshould' ,not s be arranged until Monday,'January*ls, when notices of conflict adjust ments are available The dates of these special examination? will he announced by instructors con cerned - - bedroom Llstfl means r that’_definltc w '~assignmentB will be announced latei by the de- I partment The examination will he of two hour duration beginning at 8, 10 20 and 2 o’clock ' The schedule ABCli 1 Jan 25—$ 105 WH*\ ' ‘ ABCIi 208 Jan 29—2 200 Eng D ' ABCh 413 Jau 27—2 20C Ag (Continued On Page Two) 7200 Studentsn Register Here This Semester Liberal Arts School Leads College In Enrollment Seventy-two hundred students, the laigest number in the history of the College, are enrolled on the campus and its undergraduate centers for the cunent’year, Will iam S. Hoffman, College Registrar, revealed yesterday > Women on the campus arc out numbered three to one by the men, 5457 to 1743 The Liberal Arts School heads the list of school enrollments with a total of 1490 men and 'women compared to the Schools of Agri culture ' with 1316, Engineering 1033, *” Education 838, Chemistry -anA'Physics- 644,~ v Mineral r Tndus-~ tries 306, and Physical Educaton 178 'Only one coed is enrolled in Mm eial Industries, while the largest number, 663, are entered in the School of Education The greatest number of men are registered m Agriculture. 1275, and tlio lowest number m Physical Education, 98 Every county in the state is rep ie«ented, the laigest delegations coming from Centre, Allegheny and Philadelphia counties, with Foicst county having the smallest number. Players Cast Chinese Drama Klugei, Segal, Coleman To Star In ‘Circle Of Chalk' Oohlng deep Into the,realm of myateiy and hitiiguo of Uth cen tury China for tlreif first produc tion of 1910, the Penn State Play eis released yesterday the cast for Tlie Chcle of Chalk,'* to be pre sented on Junuary 19 and 20 ia Schwab Auditorium The pioductlon, dheeled by James Doll, instructor In dramati cs, deals with the story of a Chin ese girl Mho, although somewbut degi uded, came from a f&mltf which bad gieat piestige She en counters many difficulties in mar jied life, and puts up a continuous fight to oveicome them Ch’ang Hat-Tang, the Chhieso girl, is played by Thelma R Klu ger *4l. David Segal is cast as* Ma Chun Sliiug, Hal Tang’s hus band Catherine E Coleman '42, plays the part of .Hal Tang’s moth er, Mrs. Chang Mrs.* Chang’s soil is Ch’ang-Liu, played by Eugene C Sclieftel Floience Marquardt '4O is cast as Madame Mn, Ma first wife < ’ Herbert' Doioskow' ’4O piajs the role of Cb’ao, clerk of the court, and Madame Ma’s lover . ,The mighty governor of the court of Ch’ing Ch’iu Is, Su Shun, played by Malcolm Weinstein '4l Leon Rabiuowitz *43 and Bernard F. Siegel '4l are cast as police of ficers, T'and Sbao and Ksleh Ua George, E Berry '4O aud Leo nard J Wissow *42 are cast as I neighbors of Ma Chun Siting Ruth J. Plessett '42 and Dorothy H. Scbulman '42, will play tlie roles of Mrs Liu Su Shin and* Mrs, Chang, midwives Charles S Burllngham 1 42, car ries out the part of a wine seller. The governor and supreme judge of the C9urt of Kai Fang Fu, Pao Ch'ing, will be played by Norman A Shaudman '43. . Friends’ Committee Asks Student Aid To help clothe destitute Poles, a movement has been started on campus to col’ect old clothes fiotu students for the Friends’ Service Committee which is doing relief woik in Poland The iocul group iu charge of col lections includes Carle M Davis *4l, Ruth H. Penniugton ’43, R D Anthony, Di John H.‘Ferguson,,, professor of political science, and the WSGA House of Representatives Tlie committee, besides working in Poland aud other European war /ones, muiutuins centers for Penn sylvania coal miners. Southern share croppers, and Chinese refu gees NYA To Pay After Holidays NTA checks for the pay period ending December 10, will not be available until after the Christmas holidays, according to Stanley B Mhddox, director of NTA. A CHRISTMAS EDITORIAL The Christmas Spirit is upon us, in us, all around us. It will not be denied It shouts bla tantly from commercial advertisements; it sings softly from mdio speakers; it luughs joyously ‘Under evergreen trees and fashes in colored lights - in every town throughout the nation/ ’ N , It walks reverently into the churches, hastens happily dark little streets with Baskets for the needy, crowds • into huge department stores and spends money lavishly. “A Merry Christmas,” it shouts. And echoes and re-echocs shout “A Merry Christmas” in un- swei as they gradually fade into silence, yet still ring in one’s ears. The Christmas'Spirit is everywhere. It crawls through crevices stuffed with rags.to keep out the cold in slums and .tenement areas; it .edges its way through keyholes and padlocks in the exclu sive residential sections. . Hard- heart, soft heart,, indifferent heart—they all succumb to the wiles of a busy-body Christ-' mas Spirit, and as was even Scrooge ,m Dickens’ immortal “Christmas • Carol,” are made the better for it. ■ \ Lovable, laughable Christmas Spirit. Gay, hap py, carefree Christmas Spirit." Spirit thafmakes 2 Chemists Synthesize Secretions T Rohrmann 3 Hormones |From Sarsaparilla -tTuo College reseurdi cliemlete Wjgro today marked for interna tlpnal iccognition for-theli discov ery of u new Vnuthod of synthetic* alij producing»three of the most Important secretions of the human body Russell E Mai Iter and Dr Euald Rohrmann, or the oi ganic chornlstry laboratories oi the School of Chemistry and Phjsles, airnounced yesterdaj a method of synthesizing three hormones (tes tcteteione, progesterone, and dos o£pcorticostci one) and pregnane diol, which occurs in pregnancy urines as a reduction product of progesterone r |Cuiloubly enouglu the source ma terial for tlia synthetic hormones preparation is derived ftom the l&wly sarsaparilla root found In Mexico, which has been known to man for at least '4OO years, but long, since outlawed by modern medicine as being of no practical vdlue even In tlie tieatment of minor ailments ” 5 -importance-' of - the new v discovery! according to Pro fessor Marker, is the lower cost and the consequently greater use of the'hormones that will result through the utilization of'the now method fieietoforo clashed as (are the price of pro dudug the hormones will now be lowered so much that they can be classed as ordinary organic com pounds availublc in quantity at low prices, he added' Piofessor Marker lias already earned himself an international re putation cm tlie basis of his re search into the mule and femalo sex hormones Special Buses, Trains Will Run Tomorrow iWhen leading for’Christmas va cation students 'can’’ 'take.advant age of speciul'trarisportatton offer ed by the Greyhound Lines and by the 1 Pennsylvania ‘Railroad 1 Speciul bus transportation will be provided, with direct go ing, to the principal cities of the state The buses will leave from tlie parking lot in the reur of ilie Chemistry Building at 12 45 p m tomorrow Trains will Jeuve State College via the Bcllefonte Central at 12 1(1 p m tomorrow for Allonna, Cres son. Johnstown, Latrobe, Greens burg, Pittsbuigb, and points west. At BeUeforde connections will be available for eastbound tiaveleis By HERBERT NIPSON smiles where there were no smiles before, Spirit that makes this cold, indifferent world u bettei place to live in—it is too bad that your life i>> so shot L It is terrible 1 tliat after a few short weeks you shall find doors closed agumst you and cold heuits remaining cold even though you tiy your best to warm them It is'too bad that the poor will be nftgiected, that smiles will drop from faces, that envy, greed, and jealousy will take your place m heurts wheie you have leigned for such a short while. Couldn’t you, some way, even by bribery or trickery, make airangements to stay after the ev- ergreen and colored lights have come down? Couldn’t you lease the hearts you are now living in for the rest of the year? Couldn’t you make it an airtight lease so that no one could break it and happiness and fellowship would be perman- ent instead of so fleeting? Do your best, Christmas spirit, by fair means or foul, to make this a better world. And you, you who are reading this, won’t you also do your best and give the Christmas Spirit a home after the tinsel and gay lights have been packed m their boxes? , Hopes Grow Dim For Opening New Buildings Next Term As GSA Lags With Equipment NEXT ISSUE of the Collegian will be pub lished January 9/1940 Watch for details of the Col legian’s faculty poll in the first issue of the New Year 4 Greed’ Earns 2nd Showing Film Will Be Shown By Pi Gamma Alpha “Gieed*’ is goiug to get anothei chance When It first showed in State College 15 years ago, theatre goers weie so stiicken by its terrible lealism that it wasn’t allowed to stay foi its scheduled second night. The box-ofilce of the Twenties couldn’t stomach ( Director Eric von Stroheim’s “masterpiece of, leallsui*' in which die-took Frank “McjTeaguo,” to_£he scieeu to show the dehumanizing influence of money When “Gieed” gels its second chance hete, the wot Id will have moved from the Thrifty Thirties iuto tlie Unknown Forties, witli tlio showing scheduled admission fiec iu Schwab Auditoiium at 8 30 p m on January 10 as the second of tin ee free movies sponsored by Pi Gumma Alpha, honoiuiy fine arts fiaternities A silent pictuic, “Greed” never theless lived up to Us director’s desiie “to tell a great story in mo tion pictutcs in such a way that Uie spectator will come to be lieve titat what lie is looking ut is real ” In tlie oilgiual film gold tinting wus used throughout for gold, gold teeth, biass hods, gilt frames, aud cunaij to heighten its terrible leality This tinting, however, is absent from the piesent print which is lent by the Museum of Modem Art film library Helzels Donate $57 Piesidcul aud Mrs Ralph D Hetzcl have matched the WSGA $57 gift to the studeut welfare commltttee emergency fund for gifts und loans to needy students Alumnus Heads Railroad Chuiteb E Deuuy 'OO has become piesident of the Not them Pacific Raihoad Denny founerly wus president of the Erie Railroad for 10 yeais ■Kflgito PRICE FIVE CENTS Installation Of Seats Is Slow; Work Remains To Be Started Under Three Recent Contracts 4500 Seats Provided Under One Contract Are Yet To Be Placed; Buildings Now Have Heating Facilities To Allow Cold Weather Work Hope of utilizing the new buildings, next beme.stei was dimmer today as local GSA headquarteis repoited only slow progress during the past seveial weeks Only about 1,000 of the 5,900 seats piovided foi undei Contract 12 have been installed, officials said, since voik on the conti act began a month ago Workmen are now put'mg seats in Liberal Arts and Electrical Engineeimg buildings while chair holes aie still being drilled in Chemistry and Physics Work has not been commenced on any of the three new contracts, according to reports These are Contract 15, for EE switchboards, Contract 21, for fixed shop equip ment; and Contract 22, for fixed » electrical equipment' ) ‘-Fire-fighting* -oquipmentr '“under Contiact 19 is being installed in Agricultural Science Building, while the installation of scientific and laboratory furniture under Contract 20 should be under way by next week, GSA authorities said Since heating facilities have been installed m the buildings, cold weather will not hold up any of the contracts, officials stated Three Profs On ‘Brain Trust’ Three Faculty Men Serve As Advisers To State p Three members or the College facultj aie membeis of a nine man "hi ain rtust” advising u Joint state government commission en gaged in an interim study or leg islative ptoposals Tlie facultj members are Dr Ja cob Tangei, head of the depart ment of political science, Dr Fred F. Llninger, professor of agilctil tural economics, and Dr Paul H Wuellei, associate professor of economics Tlie professois have agreed to seive without paj in an advisory uipucitj on state finances, taxes, lelief, unemployment compensa tion and otiiei mutters requiring research Other members of the advisory buurd are Di Claieuco A Ktilp. piofessor of insurance, uud Dr Stephen B Sweeney. Ids associate of the Universitj of Pennsylvania, W Brooke Graves, political science piofessor, Temple University, D M Diamond, head of the econom ics Sociology department, Lehigh Univeisitj, Dt CharleSjS Tip petts, dean of the school of busi ness administration, aud Oi W R Newsletter, deun of the school of applied scieuces, University of Pittsburgh Arts Division Offers Paintings To IFC Twelve facsimiles of American paintings donated to the College by the Carnegie Corpoiation of New* York City will be made avail able to fraternity groups next month Under a plan which will be pro posed to Interfroternlty Council next i month the pictures—which are now showing in the College Gallery, 303 'Main Engineering— will be lent to interested fraternity groups for a semester at a time in order that they can be kept circu lating Artists’ Ticket Sale Problem Is Still Unsolved All Suggestions; Marcjuardf Cites Factprs Involved All suggestions foi the sale of Artists’ Course tickets next veai will be considered by the Ai lists’ Couise Committee, Dr C«nl E Marquardt, chairman of the Com mittee, said yesterday Hovvevei, no specific method is likelv to b< decided upon until plans foi neM veal’s series are complete, he add ed Di Marquardt emphasized that the Committee hus offcied ami is offering no prize for suggestions and is unable to say whethoi it would do so A recent contest was held by Dr Nelson W Taylor., head of the department of ceramics, but was in no way sanctioned by the Artists’ Course Committee “A plan to broadcast mimbeis from the Auditorium to other buildings is precluded by a clause m the standard artists’ contracts which prohibits the broadcasting of any concert oi the use of anv transmitting device without the consent of the contracting artists" Dt Marquardt pointed out “The suggestion that a loiter v be used to ease the conditions of the sale has been consideied bv the Committee previously,” Di Marquardt said “At that time it was the opinion that the plan would work a hardship on those subscribers who prefei to stand in line and thus be assured of better seats than might fall their way bv chance The possibility of disap- (Continued On Page Four) Committee Named To Plan Revision Of Traffic Rules A rev ision of campus traffic reg ulation and control made sary by the completion of the now building program has been as signed to. a committee of 16 faculty membeis and three students b> President Ralph D HstzeJ The three student members of the committee will be named by All-College Cabinet Faculty ap pointments were made by Dr Hel /el with Dean A. R Warnock and ’ Samuel K Hostetter, as committee co-chairmen. Faculty members of the gioup are Prof. D. C. Duncan, Prof. F L Bentley, Prof. J. E Koulfuss, Prof. W. S Dye Jr, Prof E C Davis, Prof. P. C. Weaver, Prot. Laura W. .Drummond, Neil M Fleming, Prof N. W. Taylor, Piof ' G R. Green, Col A. R Emery. Prof A. E. Neyhart, G. W. Ebeifc! and Evelyn M. Hensel.
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