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VOL. 36—No 36
Bids On Movable Equipment For New
Buildings Will Be Opened By GSA
On February 10, Loman Announces
Latest Group Includes Several Thousand Items
Which Total Over Half Of $611,000 Appropriation;
Bids On Two Minor Group's Open On February 19
Bids on the first large group of contracts for movable
equipment for the new College buildings—Group 40, laboi-,
atory and pharrnlacy equipment—wilLbe opened by the Gen
eral State Authority on February 20, Harold W Loman, Col
lege Phichasing Agent, declared yesterday.
Group 40 embraces several thousand items, the total
expense of which will amount to well over half of the $606,-
000 Authority appropriation for movable equipment here.
The list of items for the initial group which affects every
new building on the campus with the exception of the Li
brary, required 250 pages of paper
General divisions of the mov
able equipment in this huge group
include balances, electric ma
chinery, electric apparatus, fur
naces and ovens, optical equip
ment, water and steam baths, and
miscellaneous articles
'Bids on two minor equipment
groups, beds and cots and mat
tresses and pillows, will be
opened by the General State Au
thorny on February 19, Loman
said. Bids on other groups have
not been advertised for as yet
Explaining how the contracts
will be awarded, Loman pointed
out that Group 40 has been brok
en,down into 95 "lots," each deal
ing with a specific type of equip
ment. This arrangement, recent
ly accepted by GSA officials upon
Loman's recommendation, will en
able each 'bidder to bid on any
number of lots he wishes Thus
the 'contracts undei this group
may be awarded to_one bidder, 95
bidders, or some intermediate
number
,Sids Due ,Feb 20
"Although the bids are due
February , -'20," the purchasing
,ageut, declared, is impossible
,to„pyedicAtist how,soßiazyle... - ecitt,
tiacts'iv'tlflie`TWardeit. ,Bidstritst
be. carefully , analyzed, since' they
involve a great deal - of detail"
After the 'contracts are award
ed;'' fabrication of many of the
items , will be necessary before
they can be installed, Loman in
dicated This may take from one
to ' three months, and makes it
'inevitable that some of the con
tracts will not be completed un
til. Summer.
Gioup 40 and the two minor
groups on which bids have al
ready been requested by the Au
thority are only three of a total
of 46 groups included in the GSA
movable equipment program, Lo
man concluded
Teddy Wilson's Orchestra
To Play In War Setting
At Military Ball Tonight
,:. Teddy Wilson's orchestra fea
turing Jean Eldridge, "The Phe
nomenon of the Piano " Th it s
the billing for Military Ball
Recreation Hall at 9 p m tonight
According , to' Chairman Arthur
M Skibbe '4O, the dancers will
find,themselves "behind the lines
somewhere between, here, and
there" In other words, the dance
foot will be a scene of meriament
in contrast to the field of battle
surroundings The floor is to be
surrounded by at med guards and
unlit:sly Held pieces
Something new, has been cleat
ed by this year's committee, as it
is the flrst time that Military Ball
has ,featured a name band and also
the first year the cadet affair has
been scheduled for the spacious
pecfeation Hall lather than the
Armory
~ ..,Teddy Wilson's band has been
receiving .con,istently fine com
ment since its recent organization
and; .. combined with his intricate
piano arrangements; is said to be
one of the up and coming swing
Outfits.
One-Credit Swim Course
Scheduled This Semester
new - two-hour one credit
Swimming course, Physical Educa
tion 181, will be given during the
second semester for the training
of instructors in swimming, diving,
life saving, and water safety
Mrs Virginia A:Jeffrey, instruc
tor-In physical education, will con
'duet the women's class which
meets in White Hall at 4 p m,
Monday, by appointment, and Al
bert 'P. Michaels, instructor' rn
:physical education,' will supervise
, the men's group in Glennland Pool
`which meets at the same time
Engineering Open
House Sel April
13; Dance April 12
Balog, Goodman Chosen
As Chairmen; -18 Are
Named On Committees
Michael Balog '4O and Jerome N
Goodman '4O were appointed at a
meeting of the Engineering School
Council yesterday to serve as co
chairman of the annual Engineer
ing Open House which will climax
a week-end of "engineer" activi
ties on April 13
Eighteen students were also
named to six sub-committees
April 12 was set as the date for
the Engineer's Dance, which will
be held ' m - Bee Hall The dance
Committee will:Am- chosen in the
c'Corniiiitiees4Listed
. Those appointed to sub-commit
tees were Electrical Engineering
—Charles D McCarthy '4O (chair
man); Robert B Blannmg '4l, and
Ralph B Stiawbridge '42, Mech
anical Engineering—Robert Gun
del '4O (chairman), Walter R Hos
terman '4l, and John T MacGuire
'42, Industrial Engineering
George R Keehn '4O (chairman),
Richard It Geissingei '4l, and
George Yamas '42
Civil Engineering Ralph E
Graber '4O (chairman), Albert G
Butler Jr '4l, and Louis Laushey
'42, Architecture and Architectural
Engineering—.l Lee Thome '4O
(chairman), David L Garratt '4l,
and Charles Goldberg '42, Adver
tising—Aichie R Cot nell '4O, Ben
jamin Crilly '4O, and 'Robert M
Moyer '4O .
Speech Clinic At Erie
Herbert Koepp-Bakei and ,Hai -
old Westlake, professors of speech,
conducted a speech , clinic in the
Erie public schools on Wednesday
and Thursday They were assisted
by Miss Dorothy-Lou Furey and
Eugene T McDonald
Bon Bon To Present Tops
ln , Singing At Senior Ball
To most swing fans, the name George TunneU wouldn't mean
any more than a can opener would to a pengum, but if we mentioned
the name Bon Bon nobody who is really up on swing "stuff" would
mistake it for anyone but the featured singer with Jan Savitt's Top
Hatters. •
BON BON
Z 658 STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1940
3-Day Details
Released For
State Parley
Program For Convention
• Includes Campus Figures
And Daily Group forums
With the arrival of favorable
returns from many of the 82 col
leges and universities, and with
complete returns expected by the
deadline tomorrow, David E Per
m in '4o:convention chairman, re
leased a tentative program today
for the Pennsylvania =Went gov
einment conference scheduEd
here on March 1,2, and 3
Although all plans are subject
to change, the convention commit
tee has outlined a temporary
schedule for the convention's
three-day stay on the campus
On Friday morning, all repec
sentatives from the various
schools will register, followed by
a luncheon in the Sandwich Shop
with probably Arthur R War
nock, Dean of Men, as the speak
er.
- Open Forum Friday
An open forum on student gov
ci nment, in the afternoon, and a
dinner in Atherton Hall, featur
ing a prominent speaker, and the
W S G. A dance in the evening,
will conclude Friday's activities
Including a new feature in thc.
present
,set-up, the committee has
decided to have round table dis
ciNsions in addition to the for
ums One of these discussions will
start off Saturday's program,
which will consist of another
luncheon in the Sandwich Shop,
with another campus dean as
guest, a boxing match in the af
ternoon, and an evening banquet
at the Nittany Lion Inn with Pres
ident Hetzel as host
Sunday morning, resolutions ,
for the convention will be drawn I
up, officers, for next year elected,
and - the 194,1 convention site
chosen .
, The convention committee will
hold-emeeting .Irloriday to deter—
mine how to iiiindlethe question=
names which they are receiving
from delegates and to iron out
other minor details concerning the
student parley
College Chapter 01 Civil
Engineers Praised Highly
Dy' National President
The local student chapter of the
American Society of Civil Engin
eers has been commended by Don
ald H Sawyer of Washington, D.
C , society president s , for having
excelled in conducting its affairs
in an effective and meritorious
manner during the academic year
1938-39
In a letter addressed to Prof
John S Leister, of the civil en
gmeering department, faculty ad
viser of the student chapter, Saw
yer adds that "Inasmuch as a
chapter's success can result only
from ability, punctuality, and dil
igence on the part of Its officers
and members, the year's record
speaks well for the character of
the organization and of the mem
bership "
However, George Tonnell and
Bon Bon are really the same per
son and you'll heat the tops in
modern song-styling tf you're
present at Senior Ball two weeks
from tonight when he puts the
lyrics to Jan Savttt's famous
shuffle rhythm
Savitt, who wound up a spec
tacular stay at the Hotel Lincoln
in New York early this week; met
his colored songster while they
were both at Station WCAU That
was before Savitt's sky-rocket
rise to the top of the swing lad
der. Bon Bon has been with the
Top Hatters for the past three
years.
Tickets for Senior Ball are
priced at $3.85, co-chairmen Da
vid J. Morgan-and James R Saus
ser announced several weeks ago.
A theme for Senior Ball was
chosen from bids yesterday after
the Collegian went to press. Res
ervations for booths will go on
sale at Student Union some time
next week, it was announced by
the co-chairmen.
Poor Exhibits 2 Studies
For Old Main Mural i
Al New York City Show 1-
Two studies for the murals
now being prepared for 01#
Main are included in a one-man'
show of work in several medic
which Henry Varnum Poor is
having at the Rehn Gallery in
New York City this month. t
The studies Poor is displaying
are of a forge scene originally
planned for the mural and a con
ference fable scene which he has
decided on to replace the forge ,
scene. This latter, according 'to
Francis E. Hyslop, instructor in
fine arts, is the finest work in ,
the show.
Besides oils, Poor is displays
ing a group of Pennsylvania 4.
sketches., a group of drawings: ,
and full size cartoons for the. ,
murals he painted in the Depart;
ment of Interior Building he'
Washington
Fletcher To Talk
On. Art Exhibit Noe
Next Wednesday-1
Current Showing Of ,40?
Prints By Modern Artist:s,
Is Finest This Year
The current exhibition of "40
Large Prints by Modern Artists,'
which is considered the best to
show in the College Art Ga
303 Main Engineering, during the
present academic year, will be sup=
plemented with a gallery talk, by
Hartley Fletcher, of the depart
ment of tine arts, at 7 30 p m
Wednesday
Miss Fletcher's talk, "Processes
of Modern Prints," will be the sec
ond _in the winter group of Fines
Arts Lectures
Organized by the Museum' of'
Modern Art, New York, as a trav
eling exhibition to be shown a
over the.UnitedStates,,the..extilia,
icon will remain here until Febru
ary 17 It includes 21 prints which
the museum used in its tenth an
niversary exhibition of "Art in
Our Time "
The great majority of the prints
are by the foremost artists of the
last 50 years and all were deliber
ately chosen for their large size
and bold character
Among the artists represented
are the Frenchmen Arp, Braque,
Cezanne, Derain, Gauguin, Legei,
Matisse, Redon, Renoir, Rouault,
Toulouse-Lautrec, Vlaminck, and
Vuillard, the Spaniard Picasso, the
Germans Kollwitz, Nolde, and Max
Ernst (who now lives in Paris and
has become a leader of the Sul
realists), the Swiss Klee, the Rus
sian -Kandinsky, the Americans
Bellows, Chariot, Dehn, Wanda
Gag, Grosz, Feininger, "Pop" Hart,
Kuniyoshi, Pascm, Raphael Soyer,
and Mary Cassatt (who spent most
of her life abroad), and the Mexi
cans aiozco and Slqueirob
Insects Depict Dictators,
Humans LiVe Like Insects;
Are Dictators Humans?
Seventeen years before Czecho
slovakia ungratefully a ccep led
Herr Hitler's invitation to become
pail of the "Nazi Nation," two
Czechs, Kai 1 and Joseph Capek,
Jolted the drama world by writing
a play about insects
The comedy was written in
1922, and, coincidentally, 1922 can
also be recalled as the year in
which two European gentlemen
decided to Increase the broadcloth
,ndustry by having then followers
wear "black shirts" and "red
shirts "
But insects, as yet, have not
been classified as dictators, and
dictatois, as yet, have not been
classified Not realizing this, the
Czech brotheis persisted in writ
ing, "The Woild We Live In," a
play which attempts to show to the
audience that the only difference
between insects and dictatois is
that insects don't have dandruff,
halitosis, pink tooth brush, and
B 0 -,
The Capek brothels decided that
man could see the type of life that
he lives by studying the life of an
insect As early as 1922, it seems,
the Czechs had the premonition
that it was possible to live the life
of an insect, and, since March 15,
1939, they have, been taking a
practicum course on their 1922
theory
The Penn State Players will
celebrate their 20th anniversary
with this captivating production
carved out of the strife and suffer
ing of "dictator dictated" Russia
and Italy in Schwab Auditorium
on March 15 and 16.
Averages Used
As Basis For
Class Cutting
Professors Cooperating
In Movement For Fairer
Elimination Of Students
Local professors are cooperating
in the movement to use scholastic
average as a basis for eliminating
students from over-crowded class
es, College authorities stated yes
terday
At the same time, officals indi
cated that reports of arbitrary dis
missal were being investigated and
that professors not cooperating
would be required to observe the
rule In several cases of unfair
"kicking-out," it was reported, ad
justments have been made and stu
dents have been reinstated in the
courses in question
The problem of eliminating stu
dents from classes was discussed
in an editorial, "Semester Pink
Slip," published in the last issue
of the Collegian This editorial
po,nted out that "a few minutes
extra time on the part of every
instructor confronted with the pro
blem" would mean a much fairer
method of cutting down classes
This semester masks the first
time in a long period that the old
College rule requiring scholastic
criteria for reducing classes has
been enforced It was formerly the
practice to allow each instructm
to ndiust his classes in any way. he
saw tit
Honorary To Hold
Dinner At Lion Inn
Advertising. Fraternity
To Initiate At Banquet
,Piof George Burton Botch
kiss,_New York University's not
.latittiortty,onsadvertising,—will
be: guest' speaker at the annual
initiation banquet of Alpha Delta
Sigma, national honorary adver
tising fraternity, to be held at the
Nittany Lion Inn at 630 p m
Sunday, February 18
The formal banquet will be pre
ceded by the initiation as honor
ary members of David Knipe,
Bethlehem Globe-Times, Col
Charles C Curtis, Allentown
Call-Chronicle, and C M Snyder,
Reading Eagle The undergradu
ate initiates will receive their pins
during the banquet.
Prof Hotchkiss will speak on
"Current Trends in Advertising"
at a meeting open to all students
interested in advertising in Room
121 Liberal Arts Building at 11
a m Monday, February 19, un
der the auspices of Alpha Delta
Sigma and the journalism depart
ment
Or. Forbush Is Speaker
for Sunday Chapel
Di Bliss Forbush, executive
secretary of the Baltimore Yearly
Meeting of the Religious Society of
Friends, will speak on "Only Hu
man," in chapel Sunday morning
Dr Forbush is also Vice Chairman
of the Friends General Conference
and author of "Towards Under
standing Jesus' and "The Gospel
of Mark "
As Geneva Travel Fellow, Dr
Forbush spent three months in
Europe last Spring working with
refugee groups in Germany, visit
ing International Centers in Swit
zerland, France, and Holland, and
lecturing m England Interested in
education, Di Forbush is Chau
man of the Board of the Baltimore
Friends School and Trustee of
Morgan College
Collegian Business Staff
Will Hold Meeting Today
The Collegian business staff
will hold a meeting of all junior s
board members and sophomore
candidates in 313 Old Main at
S p. m. today. Any candidates
not in attendance will be auto
matically dropped from the
sophomore board, C. Russel Eck
'4O. business manager, has an
nounced.
- Alumnus Elected Senator
James Grove Fulton '24, who has
been elected to the State Senate
from the 45th' Senatorial District,
was selected among The 3,000 out
standing young Americans by
"Young Men of America " He at
tended Harvard'Law School after
graduating here. „
Job Placement
Is Expected To
Work By Next
New Booth Arrangement
For Payment Of Fees
Is Announced By Bursar
The Bursar's office yesterday
announced an innovation in
payment of fees for this year.
The order of fee payments on
February 15 and 16 will be ac
cording to alphabetical windows
excepting that separate windows
for deferred payments will be
set up in the center
The new order of windows
from left to right are.
A to Bit
Bla to Cry
Cub to Fre
Fri to Her
Hes to Key
All deferred
Kov to Mat
Mau to Ptn
Pip to Sga
Sha to Tra
Tra to Zur
Two Auto Victims
In Serious Shape
Since Friday Crash
Cramer, Harkins Worse
Than First Reported;
Other Student Improves
- BULLETIN
An operation to relieve pressure
on the brain of Berne F Cramer,
College junior who has been in a
critical condition since he was in
jured in an auto accident at Mar
tha Furnace last Friday, was suc
cessful and he is improving rapid
ly at University Hospital in Phil
adelphia, it was leaned in State
College today Meanwhile, John
W Harkins, victim of the same
accident, is making a slow but
steady improvement in the Centre
County Hospital at Bellefonte
Heine F Ciamer '4l and John
W Harkins '4l, who had previ
ously been reported as recovering
from an automobile accident which
occurred last Friday, ,were in a
critical condition this week
Cramer, the mole seriously in
jured of the two, was taken to the
University Hospital in Philadel
phia in an ambulance aftei X-Rays
disclosed he was suffering Isom a
fractured skull
Hatklns, who was suffei mg from
a fractured left collarbone, broken
nose, 'lacerations about the face,
and head and body [muses, had
lapsed into a semi-coma at the
Bellefonte Hospital
Houghton W Clark, Jr '4O, the
other injured student, was report
ed getting along well Jack A
Sloan '42, the fourth occupant of
the car, escaped injury
Club Plans Program
The Louise Homer Club will
give a musical program in Mrs
Gail B Pope's apartment in Ath
erton Hall at 7 p m Tuesday,
Febi nary 20 with Harriet A Wil
hams '4O in charge
Hitler Contributes Kriedl
To Penn - State Faculty
In these days of chaos and confusion in Europe, it isn't often that
Heir Adolph Hitler does a favor for anyone. But, believe it, it's true,
the "Beast of Berlin",has done something for Penn State
When the Nazi invaders swept
through Czechoslovakia in 1938,
the industrial and research inter
ests of Dr Norbert Kiiedl were
among the numerous things which
the Germans destroyed.
Dr Kriedl, who was at the tune
in America supervising tprepaia
bons of the Czech glass' exhibit
for the New York World's Fair,
found that it wasn't "any use to go
back" to his homeland. The glass
specialist found, his life work in
Czechoslovakia ruined and 'sought
similar interests in this country
After a short time as consultant
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Gradually Expanding Program
May Finally Include Undergraduate
As Well As Graduate Assistance
Director, When Chosen, Will Be Allowed To Work
Out Details Of Development; liberal Arts
Probably first School To Come Under Plan -
See Edltorial, "The Placement Bureau," on page 2
The Student Placement Buieau authorized last month
by the Board of Trustees will begin a gradually expanding
program by next September with its work starting as soon
as a full-time dii ector is appointed, it was indicated yester
day. - ___
Indications nere that the Bureau—which the Trustees
gave President Ralph D. Hetzel blanket authority to create=
would develop gradually under the guidance of the director
with its first work in those schools of the College which do
not now have adequate placement services
Eventually the function of the
Bureau would be expanded to in
clude all schools, to make contact
with all branches of employment,
to offer service to alumni as well
as to graduating senims, and to
coordinate the undergraduate em
ployment and assistance work
which is now handled by a great
variety of campus organizations
That the service will not be av
aillble for the present senior class
was indicated by the announce
ment that it is likely to take sev
eral months to find a man equip
ped to serve as director
The - first scbool likely to be serv
ed by the new bureau Is Liberal
Arts which at present is the only
one that has no placement serv
ice whatever
Plans for the Placement Bureau
have been worked out during the
past 10 years by several different
groups, among these the Alumni
Association, the Alumni Commt
tee of 100, and a special commit
tee appointed last Fall by Presi
dent Hetzel, who had been consid
ering the matter for several years
No definite program, however,
was placed before the Trustees at
their meeting in Harusburg on
January 25 and 26, and President
Hetzel, an ex-officio member of the
Board, was given blanket author
ity to create the Bureau
Although all schools but Liberal
Arts now offer some sort of place
ment service the best organized is
that established by the School of
Education which has standard
forms and a detailed procedure for
its work
Orris '39 Escapes Death
As Training Plane Wrecks
William L Orris '39, former stu
dent architect here, miraculously
escaped death last week when his
plane crashed and was completely
wrecked as he was practicing solo
acrobatics at the Flying Cadet
Training Base in St Louis, Mo
Suffering from a fractured right
leg, broken left hand, and minor
cuts about the face, Orris will re
turn to his training base after a
few months recuperation He needs
only five hours to complete his
cadet training and be transferred
for advanced flying to Randolph
Field, Tex
for a glass company in Dunkirk,
N Y, Dr. Kriedl came to Penn
State as an assistant professor of
glass technology in the School of
Mineral Thdustries, where he is de
voting his time to the application
of phosphates to glass and other
ceramic materials
Speaking of the Nazi absorption
of his fatherland, Pr Krtedl said
he knew "that the German Anch
luss would wreck the glass indus
try, Czechoslovakia's biggest en
terprise, because it would put our
exports at a disadvantage in the
world market."
Bureau
Start
Fall
Trial Period May -
Bring Expansion
Of Hospitalization
Experiment Next Fall
Will _Determine_ Extent
Of Free Health Service
An experimental operation be
ginning in September of the hos
pitalization plan approved last
month by the Board of Trustees
will determine the extent of the
free service to be given by the Col
lege Health Service in exchange
for an increase in the annual stu
dent health fee from $5 to $lO
Alf eady students have been
promised seven days of free hos
pitalization and the elimination of
dispensary charges under the new
system but Dr Joseph P Riten
out. directoi of the Health Sei vice,
indicated yesterday that the
amount of free service might be
expanded if the trial period be
ginning next September shows the
budget would allow it.
The additional return to the stu
dents would come in the form — of
an increase in the number of days
of free hospitalization, provision
for paying bills for surgic - al cases
which must be sent to Bellefonte,
or the elimination of charges still
remaining for such services as spe
cial X-Rays, special drugs, or ex
traordinary hospital attention
which might be demanded by set
mus sickness
See Large Increases
Estimates on which the trial
budget was worked out call for a
75 percent increase in patients at
the College Hospital under the new
plan and a 25 per cent increase in
Dispensary calls
The new hospitalization plan
will be mstalled in the Summer
School begnning in 1941 with a
75 cent fee charge made during
the two three week sessions-and
a $1 50 charge for the mini "ies
sion of six weeks
In connection with the new pro
giam, Dr Ritenour announced yes
terday, the Health Service will
publish a book of regulatons gov
erning its treatment and -service
It wll also seek to extend its pres
ent program to require each stu
dent to have two complete physic
al examinations, the one now re
quired on entering the College and
an additional examination of all
gi aduatmg students
First Aid Class Will Open
To 20 Students This Term
A new First Ald class, conducted
by Lorin Elder, will start next
Friday, February 16 J-, Orins
Keller, assistant to the president,
has announced that the class will
be open to 20 students Eighteen
men completed the course -at the
end of the first semester.— - ----
- - .
Department heads who desire
to have their staff members - take
the course have been requested
to notify Elder