Successor
To The Free Lance,
Eslabluhed 1887
%„ VOL. 36—No. 44
INTERCOLLEGIATE: BOXIKIWRESTLING BEGIN TODAY
pght , Grapplers,
EIWA Meet'
l'APSYracasei
StatiHold Edge
16 72 Matnfen - From 9.
:SchOols Vie For Crown
By 808 LANE ..
SYRACUSE, N. Y., March
7--Eight deter Mined Nittany
Lion wrestleri arrived here
tonight in preparation for
- th6ir battle against eight of
'the =East's leading mat ma
chines in - the thirty-sixth an
,
nual- Eastern Intercollegiate
'Wrestling Championships
; Which will be held - ill Arch
'bold Gymnasium tomorrow
- and Saturday.
Seventy-two, college , irapplers,
representing Penn State, Colum
bia, Cornell, - Haryord,. Lehigh,
pennsyleania.' Princeton,
- euse, and Yale ' will weigh in
,tomorrow morning and draw for
, the prehrnmery, houti scheduled
forlhe afternoon %, - ' •
'.,,For the first time in many years;
no grappling aggregation - will en
ter the tournament a decided fa
vorite` In , the past four seasons
, Perin'State and Lehigh have dom-
Misted the championships, but this
year „in addition 'to the , Nittany
'Lions and the Engineers, Cornell,
Pennsylvania Yale; and,Harvard
'are . ,- receiving ,considerable 'back-'
ing from ;rhany-Wrestling experts ,
i4AltiMUgh,„ , xto ciefintte' weights
gpßpanomclayifditermteedtili
~ihe~ivrestlers~we~gh`_l`n ;tomorrow
, morning, - th - e probable pCnn State
lineup.:yl,ll be' as follows Midge ;
Kfrig,at 121, Clair - Hees 'at 128,
Frink:Gleasori 'at '126, Joe Scalzo
at '145," Bob Alexander at 155,
Chuck Rohrer at - 165, Ernie Bortz
'tit 175. and Joe Valla at heavy
weight.
Lions-Have Injuries
' With Dave Waite, Roy Gensler,
and , Warren Elliott on the injured
llst, - the "Spartans of Speidel" will
rate less than even money in their
conquest for the Eastern Diadem.
:Four matenen` will be battling
to ,retain the ,Eastern wrestling
crowns which they won at Yale
'last year, Bob Mathers of Cornell
at,121, Bob Eberle of Princeton at
128, Frank Cliason of Penn State
at;l36, and Harold Macem of Le
high at 145
In the thirty-six 'years that the
Eastern' , lntercollegiate Wrestling
Association has-been holding the
championships-Cornell leads the
fleld,' having won 'the team title
eleven times, Lehigh nine,' Penn
State - eight, Yale live, Princeton
one,. and Yale and Lehigh shared
the'_honor 'in 1927
Mathers of Cornell, who was
injured earlier in the season, will
, , (Ceintinued on page five)
Thespians To Give
All-Male Show
,
"banger! Men'At Work,:
Slated:ForlF Weekend
-For, the tint time in ,15 years
come Interfrateruity Ball Waek
pnd (April 5) the Penn State Thes
pian Club will present an ALL
MALE show
' 'Basically- whiter to the Mask
and Wig productions at Pennsil
name and the Triangle Club shows
at Princeton, the new Spring Thes
ian' production will be called
" ANGER' MEN AT WORK" and
- wl f be sub-titled "Don't Send Your
li t‘
Boy To Vassal.'} ' ' - V
' ; Again those two bombshells of
' hilarity, Mike Brotinan and Morry
-Feldbaum, are collaborating on the
'script tot _what should be an all
:lune Thespian' masterpiece "Stuff
'n', Nonsense" and "Swing Pine
-fiire," a pan of smash hits, were
;,,bbtli , written by Brotman and
~ F eldbitum ‘, , , '''' , ,
i't/tll 7 male shims ,were the only
:type' produced from'lB92 when the
~Thespian Club 'was _organized oa
Ate - Penn State campus until 1025
-when coeds were granted the right
to 'participate In Thespian produc-
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CAMPUS
COVERAGE
. ,
I A GENTLEMAN-PREFERRED .BLONDE'',
175• Pound Wrestler
Krupa-Will- Play IF Ball
_ .•
Iri -- Rec Hall On. , A priL
a `224jpe;•::=',44
-*".•Gt .g tWertn/ffrforiliteethier %;
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Ball,,APkil's,-I . ll„JeromeHowiirth '4O anil:FletOher: , L . Hy . rom
co : chairmali armoancea:yeStaiday. _ r ,
:Hoviarp aiidSyroni were named by Frank'C. Anderion '4O, pros
;Mint of Interfraternity Council - last week, but their names were not
releiised until-yesterday
Krupa, - known as the "hottest
drummer in the Land" rose to
fame while, playing "with Benny
Goodman's orchestra Since he
formed a band or his own several
years ago, he has quickly taken his
place among the leading swing
bands in the nation.
Other members of the Interfra
'amity Ball Committee as appoint
ed by Anderson are John H Can
by Boyd Fore, Hugh F McKnight,
John Caldwell, Donald J Eyer,
Charles F Botto and Moi ton Nie
man, all seniors
The committee hasn't as yet de
cided on the method of distribution
of tickets fin the affau Last yeas
all house presidents submitted a
list of the total number expected to
attend the dance, and tickets were
distributed only for this specified
number
The cost per invitation was then
made, based on the number of fra
ternity men attending the ball
First '44 Strident Admitted
Bruce - Gustav Mason; Darby, is
the first freshman to be admitted to
the class of '44.
Priestley Lectures Next Week Honor
110th Anniversary Of Scientist's Birth
When Dr Oscat E' Hardee delivers 'Clic 14th annual series of
Priestley Lectures from Monday until Friday, he will be commemorat
ing the 270th anniversary of the birth - of Joseph Priestley
The Priestley Lectui es wet e in
augurated in 1926 by the faculty of
the department of chemistry, but
since 19.31 they have been spon
sored by Phi Lambda Upsilon na:
tio"nal honorary society In cooper
ation with the department.
, - ASM Vice-President
ThiS year's iu
,lect er; Dr. Haider,
Is - widely known in. the chemi
cal field and since 1930 has been
assistant director - of Battelle Me
morial Institute, , Columbus, 0.
Since' graduating .11 om, Oklahoma
University in 1910 he has been a
scientific , edudator and research
worker He is now national vice
president of the American Society,
for Metals. '
"Physical' Metallurgy in the Ser-vice of Industry" is the title of the ,
lectures to be given by Dr Harder
in Room 10 Liberal Arts - The lec
tures will_begin at 7 p.m. Monday.
Tuesday and Wednesday, while the
time will be 6 30 p.m: for those on
Thursday and Friday.' -
College
_I-leds
Praise School
GOv't Confab
Practical Questioning
By Student Delegates'
Impresses Dean Warnock
"'With the adoption of a constitu
tion and the passage of nine reso
lutions by tbe. delegates to the first
Pennsylvania Student Government
Convention hold here last week
end, the Collegian has attempted
to gather the opiniehs and impres
sions of some of 'the faculty and
administration members who were
present at the confab.
Dean of Men Arthur It. Warnock
stated, "I was particularly im
pressed by many plactical quas-
I lions asked by the delegates and I
am sure they took away with them
(Continued on page two)
OR.' OSCAR E.`RARDER
STATE COLLEGE, PAIYAIDAY, MARCH 8, 1940
• -
College Symflony Plans
Second Coneert Sunday
The College Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Hum
mel Fishburn, will stage the second of eight concerts in the current
annual complimentary concert -seems in Schwab Auditorium at 3.30
p m Sunday The Blue Band conceit last Sunday, first of the season,
drew a capacity crowd.
As an educational innovationfFishburn will devote the second
number of the program to introductng and demonstrating the different
sections and instruments which comprise a symphony orchestra
- ,Fishbum believes that in 'Bag
waylisteneis will be better able
understand the Cleveland Sym-1
phony Orchestra when it plays;
here In the Artists' Course series oi . l
March 29 Each' instrument will bet
explained as it is played, he said 7,1
The first number on the program_
will be a tribute to war-ridden Fm
land, and to one of its greatestmen;
composer Jan Sibelius, one .of the
world's most-lamed living coin=
posers It will be "Fmlandia," Si-:
beim' musical epic ot his country!:
The program - ~
Elnlancha Jan Sibelius -1 '
II
Instruments of the Orchestra
111
Air on the G Strnig l ,
Johann Sebastian Bach
The String Choir
1V
Jesu, Joy or Man's Desiring -,-
Johann Sebastian'Bach
V, t
Prelude to Act I of Lohengr
,t
in: -
Richard Wagner
VI
Second Hungarian Rhapsody
-Franz Lizst.:
Next Sunday's concert, the third
of the season, - will be by the:SELL",
gmeers' Band of the ROTC unK
der th'e direction of 'Professor,
inillarßidr7
Released = By GSA
$60,000 Equipment
Award Set March 19
Plans for the $606,000 General
State. Authority movable equip
ment program here continued to
progress yesterday as GSA officials
in Harrisburg advertised for bids
on approximately $60,000 worth of
commercial wood furniture, setting
March 19 as the deadline fel bid
ding
Meanwhile, authoritative sources
predicted that contracts would be
awarded soon on , the $400,000
group of laboratory and pharmacy
equipment, upon which bids were
opened February 20. Tabulation of
these bids, a process which requires
several weeks, should be completed
the near future; it was indicated
Installation Soon
As soon as contricts'are award
ed, fabrication and Installatiorr will
begin , with a wen to completing
equipment installations in the 11
new buildings before College opens
Septembei
Included In the commercial wuod
furniture equipment group, listed
as Group 31, are bookcases, chairs,
costumers, desks, and tables Value
of the group Is estimated at about
In percent of, the total inovable
equipment program
Speellications for Group 31 list
a total of 2,600 chairs of 14 differ
ent types, 355 desks of 17 different
kinds, and 425 letter tiles
Roller Skaters To, Use
Armory Again'Beginning
Imorrow i l To , 5,1 To 11
toiler skating in the Armory will
resumed tomintow' with sea
m slated from I to 5 and 7 to 11
150 palm of skates have been
tid from Hecla Park by the Stu
-IPReereation Board, which is in
irge Of the skating
k fee of 20 cents per session w.ll
charged each skater Music v,lll
Provided by the Student Union
isle dispenser Skating will be
Id in the Armory every Saturday
nn now on, provided the Stu
d Recieation Board may obtain
building; Director Ray Conger
fed
IheJ skating, extremely popular
ze it was introduced two years
, will be in charge of the tol
ring students. C Walter York
Howard L.. Olmher '4l, Harry
. Masters '42, and Scovel B
Swan,'4l. „
Hetzel Urges
„
~
;fraternities Seek
Internal - Change
VDOrms No Threat, Says
President, In Predicting
;';Student Body Of 15,000
:- Fraternities "in a transition per-
Ilpd" were assured of wholehearted
tr,Support from the College adminis
' tration and promised that College
dm mitoi les would not constitute
lay threat to the fraternity system
tiy President Ralph D Hetzel m a
-peech before the February meet
,Thg of the Fraternity Counselors
Association
,It was the first time the presi
pent had ever appeared before the
advisers ,
1.. ,
t o '. Dr Hetzel told the advisers that
ipnder present plans for develop
tinent of the College with a poten
-4.t1al enrollment of 15,000 men's
P aorinitories were not planned to
4 i •,
i
ouse more than 10 per cent of, the
tall c'enrollmen't„, Thb, 15,000 en-
lnceriqouttWieasla -
' • '
'years; he Nor th 6 advisers, 'if the
College were to 'follow the practice
of , a great many other institutions
and accept all applicants for ad
mission '
In the session at Alpha Gamma
Rho, President Hettel praised the
work of the fraternity advisers and
urged that they seek to improve
the present fraternity situation by
seeking internal Improvement in
the form of better scholarship and
better behavior
Improvement of the present fra
ternity situation, which has seen
membership decline to a point
where some houses are in serious
financial shape, would mean a
great deal to the College and the
community, Dr Het?el said
Student Union Resumes
Dance Program, March 28
Student Union dames will begin
immediately after Easter vacation,
from 4-s'p in. Thursday, March 28,
and will continue every Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Thursday there
after
The first dance probably will fea
ture the recordings of the band for
If Ball There will be no admission
chaige
Stillwell To Head May Day,
Noma P Stillwell '4l'was named
general chairman of May Day ac
tivities and Margaret H Roberts
:42 sub-chairman by WSGA Sen
' ate, Monday night
Ruth Shtasel Said'
Faces Toughest Ta
%Glamour Girl Gets Part
On j e ajlezip>bbility
'l'm not hue to tryout", Ruth ,
Shtasel insisted for the seventh
time one night three years ago in
the Little Theater in Old Main
And that, believe it or not, was
the beginning of a triumphant stage
career for the present leading lady
of the Penn State Players' twem
teeth anniversary production, "The
World We Live In "
Ruth had reluctantly entered the
Little Theater to furnish moral
support for a girl friend On that
particular night Dlrectoi Frank S.
Neusbaum was casting "Idiots' De
light", and was desperately in need
of a finelgn.noble who could speak
French
Ready to give up, he glanced at
thesmall group sitting around him
Suddenly, he looked again. That
I MIKE-EY' MITE
CAPTAIN MIKE COOPER
Lion 127• Pounder
SymOionyWill
Play Special
Matinee ,Here
Cleveland Group May Set
Precedent:For Future
Artists' Course Numbers
Setting d pc;ssible precedent for
future Artists' Couise programs,
a matinee performance of the
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
will supplement the evening ap
pearance of the group here Friday,
March 29, Dr Carl E Marquaidt.
chairman of the Artists' Course
committee, announced yesterday
The committee had a three-fold
purpose in mind when the arrange
ments for the matinee were made,
Dr Marquaidt stated The first
reason is to experiment with the
feasiblity of providing two per
formances of some or all of the
numbers scheduled on the course,
with the intent of benelitting in
another year from the experiment.
Secondly, the plan will alleviate
some of the disappointment which
has resulted from the early sell
out foi the present series Finally,
it will be in response to the request
of ,the State College Parent-Teacher
Association that the students in
the local school system be given
an oppoi tunity, to heal a symphony
orchestra
With these objectives in mind, a
ticket sale for the matinee will
begin at 8 a m , Wednesday and
end at noon next Saturday Seats
for the matinee performance will
be pined at $125, excepting those
sold to school students which will
be sold through the school system
at 35 cents
No' And Became Leading Lady;
k In 'The World We Live In'
gut sitting in the back of the loom
looked the pat t. '
"Would you mind hying this
pal t," he asked, expecting the girl
to jump out, of her seat at the op
portunity
Neusbaum thought Ills hearing
had gone bad when she meekly an
swered, 'Oh no, I'm not here to
tryout."
The, bewildered director was
flabbergasted. It wasn't ba d
enough that he had lowered him
self to ask this girl to take the
part, she had to refuse
Finally he decided to msult hei
"I know you can't do it," lie said,
"but simply • take the part home
and read ,the play tonight," '
Psychology Goes to Work
The psychOlogy 'worked, and
Ruth Shtasel became an actress
After turning In an excellent per
(Continued on page two)
,r•; • PRICE FIVE CENTS
Army Boxers Defend Championship
As Slate, Syracuse, Cornell Make
Bid For EIBA Title In Rec Hall
38 Bouts Listed For Tonight And Tomorrow
As Three 1939 Titlists Ahd Eight Undefeated
contestants'Are Entered In 11th Annual Meet
By BUD SMYSER
A two-day jamboree of thirty-eight fights for the cham
pionship of the Eastern Intercollegiate Boxing Association
begins in Rec Hall at 8 o'clock tonight with the defending
cliainpioh, Army, pitted against challengers from Syracuse,
Penn State, Cornell, Yale, Western Maryland and Dartmouth
Entered in the 17th annual Intercollegiates, which are
being held on the same campus where they were first staged
16 years ago, are 38 boxers, including full teams from Army,
Penn State, and Syracuse, the three most serious contenders
for the team championship held by Army for the last two
years. ...
Three 1939 champions will Sa
turn to fight this year Cadet Wal
tai Lavendusky, 120 pound titlist
in 1938 and 1939 who will fight
at 127 pounds, Charles Healy of
Syracuse who will defend his 165
pound championship, and Ameri
co Woyciesjes of Syracuse who IS
defending the 175 pound diadem
Eight contestants bring unde
feated records with them At 120
pounds—Milford Fahey of Syra
cuse,, at 127 pounds—William
Weber of Yale and Walter Lav
endusky of Army, at 135 pounds
—Dave Williams of Yale, at 145
pounds—Dellar Van Sand of Yale
and-Loren Schoff of Syracuse; at
155 pounds---,Bernie Sandson of
Penn, State, and at 175 pounds,—
Americo ..Woyeiesjes of Syracuse
The' biggest man in the tourna
ment, Dave Schott of Dartmouth,
weighing 280 pounds, will face
Harry Stella, Army football cap
tam, in tonight's feature bout
Under the tournament rules of
the EIBA no draws will be al
lowed in the tights tonight and
tomorrow and the referee must
return a decision in favor of one
contestant at the end of three
rounds
Capacity crowds of 6,000 are ex
pected to watch all three sessions
(Continued on page five)
Hartwell, Cornell Named
To Head Engineer's Hop;
Campus Owls Will Play
Terence C. Hartwell '4O and Ar
chie R Cornell '4O have been ap
pointed co-chairmen of Engineer's
Hop it was announced yesterday
The dance will be held on Friday,
March 15 from 9 p m to 1
The Campus Owls, well known
local dance band will play for the
dance the co-chairmen said yes
terday Featured at the ball will
be a kissometer, brain-child of the
Engineering School, a device which
is supposed to measure the potency
of the average Penn Stater's kiss
Tickets for the Hop, which are
now on sale at Student Vnion, may
be purchased for $1 10, including
tax. the co-chairmen said Thee
will be no charge foi checking
Coeds have been granted 2
o'clock permissions for the dance
'One, Two, Three, Four,'
Commands The Dictator
On the stage before a level of
yet uncovered chicken wire Her
bert S Doroshow '4O, as the dicta
tor, stalks to and fro, goading his
ant workers with a one, two, three,
four Bernard Schectman '4O, as
the Vagrant, leans against the
proscenium arch, awaiting his cue
Verna .Sevast, graduate student,
causes general laughter as she lim
bers up before going into her long
sleep as the Chrysalis
The drums roll, and the dictator
roars that he desires world power
for world peace Malcolm Wein
stein '4l, an ant engineer, rushes
into proclaim that he has discov
ered a new way to save time by
counting merely one, two, four. So
goes the third act on the ant's re
(Continued on page two)
New Legislation
Will Not Affeci
College. ROTC Unit
Use Of Retired Offic'ers,,,-.
Elimination Of Service
Academies Considered
Special to the Collegian
WASHINGTON, D C , March 7
—Two bills now before Congress
affecting the nation's ROTC units
are.expeetedztojiave-littleelybinei*
late effect ` On the 'ROTC corps at
the Pennsylvania State College if
they are adopted
A section Of the appropriations
bill , which would assign 300 re
hied officers to duty as ROTC in
structors is not. likely to affect the
Pennsylvania State College staff as
two of the three vacancies which
will occur theie this summer have
aheady been filled from the active
corps and the third appointment
is expected before the new bill
goes into effect.
Whether any or all of the three
additional ROTC instructors prom
ised the College will come from
the retired tanks when men finally
become available to till the request
was not Indicated
Service Academies Out
A second bill drafted by _Con
gressman Melvin Maas (Mum
%%mild do away with the set vice
academies at West Point and An
napolis and rely on college military
and naval ROTC units to provide
men who would be recruited fiir in
tense graduate training and - then
established as officers in the reg
ular forces
The Pennsylvania State College
already has a military ROTC - alit,
however, and the only change in
its organization under the Maas
bill would provide its graduates
an opportunity to seek admission
to a two-year graduate course at
West Point which would replace
the present West Point training.
°Meets in the Penn State ROTC
corps who will be relieved next
year are Lt Col Charles S Ritcbel
who will be sent to Dayton, 0 ,
on organized reserve duty, Lt. Cot
Charles N Stevens who has been
(uttered to Hawaii, and Lt. Col
Ralph G Barrowes, whose assign
ment has not yet been made
Replacements for Colonel Riteliel
and Colonel Stevens are Lt Col
William R Schmidt and May Gill
man K Ciockett, both of whom
are at deted to Penn State from
Hawaii Schmidt graduated from
the College in 1913
International Tea Is_.
Scheduled For Sunday
Faculty members and students
interested in meeting foreign-tiorn
students and Americans •who have
lived abroad, will attend an Inter
,
national Tea In the Hugh Beaver
room, 304 Old Main, from 2-Ecm to
2 p m , Sunday
Andrew P. Szekely '43 of Buda
pest, Hungary is chairman of the
committee In charge of arrange
ments Other members of this Com
mittee are. M Beryl Hindi:am:AO,
Sarah P. Searly '42, Anita H. Raine
sal° '43, Olive L Kalar '43, Betty
A Crally '42, and Alberto V Roque
'43.