/.2( / Successor COMPLETE z To The Free Lance, arl,'; - „ s ; o:llllrgitlitt CAMPUS Established 1887 '#itat \. ✓ COVERAGE VOL. 36—No. 46 Weaver, Harwick Chosen Presidents Of WSGA, WRA Romig Selected May Queen As Point ,System -Is Okayed By 437 To 86 Vote; Martin Named WSGA Vice-President And , Crossman, Treasurer Elinor L Weaver '4l was elected WSGA president, Mar- Jury A. Harwich '4l, WRA president, and Jane A Romig '4o, ‘ Yft": Queen in the women's final balloting Wednesday. By a 437 to 86 vote, the point system to apportion coeds' activ ities was approved. Betty M Martin was voted WSGA vice-president, defeating Mildred M Taylor Pauline Cross man was named WSGA treasurer over Ruth J Mooie, Eleanor L Fagans won over Vera L Kemp for the Senior Senator position, and Anne'M Borton received the Junior- Senator's job by defeating) It Helen Gordon Gloria M Knep- s!h Annual Stale Deiiale Conclave Will Slant Today ':Delegates To Consider i V,iiiTNational Issues In 3 OpOnDiscussions ROresentatives from 21 colleges Will register in - Old Main this morning to begin the fifth annual Pefths - ylvania State Debaters' Con peition, with three vital national istte's_— * Neutrality, Un-American Attivities, and the New Deal '— tinder consideration The confab will feature three t)Den sessions in Home Economics Auditorium a discussion of ncu trlliiy policy at 8 p m tonight, a Consideration of un-American ac titates at 9 a m tomorrow, and a discussion on New Deal domestic noliciesat 10 30 a'ris ;tomorrow Committees, will consider' these Wes this afternoon in private ses- Mons, with their findings to be Ohrted at the open Meetings Tile „will.: s ,remBJna l / 4 4session policy, on, eneh'of issues is adopted,,by majority fiAti ' '_Banquet Tonigbl • ~. The convention bammet in the :511ndwich Shop at „6 p m toaay Mil feature an fiddiess by Prof A Reede, speaking_on,"Camimign ifirug of 1940." Thomas D Con- Way '4O will act as presiding °M .& of - the convention, with Prof Ibsiph F' 013 i len, debate coach, n'enliliamentarian Colleges 'and tinivemities rept e stilted will include Pennsylvania, Lehigh, Pittsbuigh, Washington and Jefferson, Scranton, Gettys bdrg, Lock Haven, Carnegie Tech, &Tanen; Dickinson, Westminister, Albright, Seton Hill, Susquehanna, Mt. 'Mercy: Grove City, Temple, itifsercoidia, Geneva, and Western ' ',Another annuitant campus de bate event is , scheduled for Mon diti night, when Rutgers University and Queens College will be guests at a parliamentary session here on the question, "Should the New Deal be voted out of power 9" ' 4 , 4 , Jihimy,Stewart;A«epts liatibrarylvtem' bars* In,Penn Stale Players ~..,-,‘.lantas Stewart, MetroLGoldwyn- IVlaier;," star and motion' picture ACadethy Award Winner, accept e'd honorary membership in the Peilit, State Players in, a telegram tti the Players this week. "I'accept honorary membership liT the Penn State Players with a 'feat, deal of pleasure, and with CRY 'acceptance goes, my sincere llPPfeciation and thanks. My ad arbss MGM, Culver`City, CaL _With 'my kindest regards, James SteWarL" ;.Stewart; wlMbe home "is in In diem, Pa., may , comet here This . §piing to help the Players nett.- Invite their twentieth anniversary , Immediately, after the receipt of the telegram, the-players sent the MGM star a shingle and a key. tibefre Chppiip OAHE 10 Meet Here April 2 ,12 fwelve chapters of the Philadel phia section of the American So ciety,' of Civil Engineers will be gtiests of,the-Penn State chapter at ,a convention 'heie 'on Sunday kid Monday, , April 21, and 22. 'J, Kenneth Hess '4O has" been'se idcted chairmani' for, ,the? confab. 'the `society's' faculty, advisor, Prof idhti S Ulster, department of civil will take charge of the lixt_icag =wits ' Election Results WSGA PRESIDENT Weever . 368 Holizinger . 205 WSGA VICE-PRESIDENT Marlin . ' 335 Taylor . . 234 WSGA TREASURER Crossman 332 Moore .. 209 SENIOR SENATOR pagans 74 Kemp 29 JUNIOR SENATOR - Borton : 101 Gordon 69 SOPHOMORE SENATOR Sherman _ 76 Gosser ' . 46 TOWN SENATOR Babcock . . . 11 WeaverB MAY QUEEN Roimg • . ' 318 peheaffer . 252 FRESHMAN ATTENDANT, -,:Z.nepper s ; —3lo' I. , Seeds- ' 249 , WRA PRESIDENT • ' Harwiek 3 ' . - 352 Senior - 219 - WRA VICE-PRESIDENT Maurer 303 Mazur . 255 WRA TREASURER Zeigler' , 385 Godshalk - . 182 ' POINT SYSTEM per was selected Freshman At tendant over Margaret C Seeds Other election results' include Margaret IC Sherman as Sopho more Senator ovet Nancy E Dos ser, Jean Babcock as Town Sen ator topping Jean F Weave!, Ber nice M Maurer as WRA vice president over Helen L Maaur, and Betty L Zeigler defeating Doro thy Godshalk as WRA treasurer Janet N Holtzinger and L Elea. (Cimtmued on page two) - Annual Easter Sunrise Service Will Be Held In 304 Old Main Tuesday The annual'Easter Suni ise Set v ice, sponsored by the PSCA, will be held m Room 304 Old Main at 7 a m. Tuesday Grace Hendershot '4l will play the violin and Elizabeth A Harts wick '4O will assist at the piano Harry-W. Seamans, PSCA secre tary, will conduct the Easter med itations. The service is being planned by Walter N Shambach '42, chair maP,,assisted by Harold S Smith 40, Mary J. Wonder '42, and Anne M. Oermann '4O 6 Shidents, „faculty and towns 'people are invited to attend. Poor I ~. o Use, Student's Niir Mural Charactirs • Several present day Penn State?students whom Henry Varnum Poet will draw when he an wes bete the end of this month will be pictured in' the mural the artist has piepaied fol.' Old Main lobby. • Poor sent the second sketch of bib mural to the College Satul•clay with word that he was ready to begin work here the end of this month and wink through Apill and May. For most of the students in ins mural, he, said,' old class portraits will be used but for,- others he thought it would be Interesting to use some present day students ' ,The mural as now designed ca ries out the originally accepted theme which combines Lincoln, the Z 658 STATE COLLEGE, PA , FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1940 WSGA PRESIDENT I [WRA, PRESIDENT r - , • MARJORY A. HARWICK '4l MPrdi 31 amse,n, For Firit IF ding Fishburn WiiliSepervo Song TrophiCOmpetition Sunday afternoon,, Match ,31, has been set as the Ineifiateinity Sing contest, eliminations date, G. Vatten Elliott '40,-chaiiman, announced yesterday' The com petition, beginning at 5 pm. to Schwab and itortum,'will be open to the public Each of the 12 choral groups en teted will di dW to determine posi tion and opponent, Elliott said Hummel Fishbuin, acting head of the depaitement of musid, will be in charge of the affair, while re presentatives of „Phi 'Mu Alpha, music hollowly, will ~jtidge the met its of the 'tespective groups without knowing what houses they represent Requirements of the contest have been changed to include three songs instead ,cf four by each 16-man unit; Elliott stated, preferably two fraternity songs and one general rendition A piano accompanist may be used, but is not required Three finalists chosen- by ohm mation will vie for Intbrfraternity Council's trophy at intermission of Interftaternlty Ball; 'Apia 5 The cup will be displayed in a prom inent stole-window downtown 'in the neat future.: ‘,„ Hay Ride. For Order Club A hay iide tot, transfers from undeigraduafe smite's will •be sponsored by, the Campus Centel Club tomorrow night. - Moira' Land Grant Act he signed, and the beginnings of Penn State Lincoln and a student about to plant a bee symboliectf learning are the cential The aittst has changed the side groupings of the mural by, adding a. roundly scene; substituting a scene with President 'Pugh teach ing, one of the flrst',Classes for a forge scene in the original, and making other lesser Changes in ar rangement. - 4 '-".+l Scholarship Fund, Lion Shrine Lead In Senior Gift Poll '4O Class Will Make' Final Choice Of Award i At All-College Electio6 A College Lion Shrine and class scholarship fund were left in the running today as possible senior class gifts following a two-week poll at Student Union in which more than a third of the class vot ed Class members will make then final choice of the gift from these two suggestions at the all-College elections to be held the third week in April Ahead in the polling, the Col lege Lion Shrine easily outdis tanced even the second-place scholarship fund to lead the field of 10 suggestions The gift fund, which the class will award, will consist of the les- Idue of its funds on hand at grad uation and is expected to amount to more than $5,000 Five Selected To Serve As Honor Men Af senior Class Day Exercises Five scums were elected to solve as class honor men at Hamm Class Day exercises at an open meeting of the 1940 men Wednes day night. Those selected, were David E Peigrin, spoon man, H Clifton Mc- Williams, Jr, pipe orator, Frank C Anderson, cane man; and Gro ver C Washabaugh, barrel man A William Engel, Jr, previously appointed class donor, will serve as chairman of Class Day • Despite a limited attendaire, class members'present opposed a proposal for another meeting and iejectesba motion;_that a abmnyt, tee be iiiiiointedAO make the final selections Elections wale held following a general agreement that the group present should not be deprived of the oppm Lundy of Mimic, every, man in the class cubid have taken advantage Hillel Foundation Eclipses Social Season• Tomorrow With Purim Celebration A tiachtional Amin Carnival— a la Monte Cailo—will be held at the Hillel Foundation from 8 SO to 12 p m tomorrow, with games, dancing, and refreshments includ ed In the evening's piogiam The affair will be the highlight of the Hillel social season and Is expeLted to 'draw the largest crowd of the semester Phi Sigma Delta, Gamma Sigma Phi, Phi Epsilon Pi, and Beta Sig ma Rho houses, as well as Ema non and Alpha Epsilon Phi, are cooperating by providing booths in which various games will be played to conform with the spud of the baditional Purim eelebia bons An innovation will be launched when a taxi-dance hall, sponsored by Emanon, Alpha Epsilon Phi, and other unaffiliated women, will be provided to insure dancing for all. Two gland pikes will be awarded, one to a man and a woman ROTC Engineers' Band Will Present 3rd Corked In Complimentary Series The ROTC Engineeisqland will present the third of the current complimentary concerts in Schwab auditorium at 330 p m Sunday The military band will be under the direction of Prof. Frank Gullo of the 'department of music The Engineers' Band will play 10 numbers, including "The Vaga bond King," -"March of the Toys," and a trombone solo by Wallet James Officers of the band aie' William P. Nesbit '42, manager, Joseph T Wazney '42, librarian; Francis A McCormack '4O, Cail D Sassaman '4O, and Eugene W, Lederer '42, student directors. Diaws For New Yorke". John M Price '39, ex-Froth ar tist, had a cartoon published in the New Yorker magazine recent- :Unified- Alumni Association Plan Is Proposed To Cabinet ~Laich Named All-College Candidate; Hall, Doherty Pp For '4l, '42 Posts :'Findley, Clark, Kranich Complete Campus List; jllndependents Select Baird; Taylor, And Seems By WILLIAM E. FOWLER Ai me Laich and Ed Hall were named Campus nominees foi all- College president and senior class president, respectively, and Jerry Doha ty was selected as Independent Junior class presidential choice as '4l Campus and '42 Independent groups released their slates Tues -dily night _4. 4. 4. , mate v b ie c e_p H r a e l s l' i s_ — n n n: g i a n e i ;post, Engel Again Heads with Babs Clark and ! Oscar Kranich seeking positions as secretary and treasurer, resp ec- C omm iffee Of 14 lively Nomination of an all- Ci3llege vice-president has been detailed to a later meeting The '42 Independent ticket finds Bob Baird up for vice-president, Midge Taylor fix secretary, and Ben Seems for treasurer The party ', platfoi m is to be released next week , t Hall Dark Horse ;Somewhat in the natuic of a po litical bombshell was the selection Hall, dark-horse politico who outmaneuveied other candidates tot the nomination Choice of Laich and Doherty was widely prbdieted by political observers ;t:Tensely awaited to complete the politicall picture in all three classes arli nominations by '4l and '43 in dependent parties and the '42 Campus unit "' The sophomore Campus and freshman Independent groups are , slAcd to name their, tickets Sun day and Monday, respectively, with '4l Independents holding oft until Islet this month L.A. Faculty Plans Dinner On April 8 'Meet And Eat' Session To Be First Since 1935 To enable members of the rap idly-giowing Libeial Ails faculty to become bettei acquainted, Dean Chailes W Stoddard will sponsor a "meet and eat" session at the Nittany Lion Inn at 630 p m Monday, April II The dinner, to be held in the main dining loom, will be the first for the Liberal Arts School since 1935 Only administrators, mem bers of the teach.ng staff, and of fice woikers will be invited The affair will be informal ' The exclusion of wives, sweet hearts and friends is a departure hom former Liberal Arts dinners, according to Mrs 0 H Sleeker, professor of mathematics, and Prof. Louis H. Bell, department of Journalism, who are arranging the affair The committee also has made plans which may help faculty members meet one another Speeches, , enter tamment, an d fancy frills will be kept at,a mm imum Only one principal speak er will be 'Resent. Seventeen Will Make Adierlising Field Trip Fourteen seniors and three Jun iors will,make Alpha Delta Sigma's second annual advertising field trip to Pittsburgh next Monday, Tues darand Wednesday Sponsored by the national ad vertising honorary and the depart ment of jouirialism, the trip will include visits to several Pittsburgh newspapers, radio stations, depart ment stoles, advertising agencies, a motion picture and, recordirg studio, and other commercial sit departments Seniors who will make the trip are H Kent Heppell, Hayes .1 Dam by, Paul S Haldeman, Sidney E Cowlin, Don M Cresswell, Rob ert L Wilson, Donald G. Dickin son, Edward M. Pennington, Rob ot L Hertz, Walter J Muleskv, Doris 2J O'Leary. Elizabeth M. Criswell, Lois N. Limber and Em erson H Rupert. • Juniors are- Ralph C Routsong, Lawrence S Driever, and David,E Wagensellar. • To Run Elections GOvernment Convention Shows Slight Deficit; , To Probe Student Aid Fon' teen men and women %Cie selected by All-College President H Clifton McWilliams and WSGA President Jane A Romig and were approved at Tuesday's meeting of the Cabinet to helve as members of this yew's Elections Committee A William Engel, Jr, '4O, head of the group last yeas, was again named chairman Other members of the commit tee, including 12, semis and two tuniofs,•are•Margai et-M" Ciinaho sky, Mary Louise Fleisher, Maly E Mille', Janet A Reese, Eloise F Rockwell, Maly ft Wirtz, Michael Balog, G Wai len Elliott, Clarence Evans, David E Peigi in, and Geo' ge E ['title!, all 4011101 s L Eleanor Benfer and Riche' d C Peters are the Junior members, with Sarabell Shirm and McWil liams as ex-officio Peters, under the present set-up, automatically becomes chairman nest year Submits Financial Report David E Pergtin, semoi class president, submitted the financial report of the student government convention, which showed a defi cit of $4Oll The total income amounted to $21040. the major pat t coining how a $6 fee charged to each of the 34 delegates to the convention The small deficit will be made up by Cabinet funds George A Patine: was recog sued by the Cabinet as temporai v representative of the freshman class Palmer replaces Eugene R Yeager, who resigned for the re mainder of the semester President H Clifton McWilliams appointed a committee to investi gate a possible student aid plan headed by Clarence H Evans '4O, Jane A Romig '4O, Thomas C Backenstose '4l, and Juanita M Chambers '4O Bus Tickets On Sale 'rickets go on sale tonight at the State College Hotel foi the speual Easter vacation Greyhound busses which will leave from the central packing area, real of Chemlst* building, at 12:45 o'clock Wednes day afternoon GSA Contract Awarding Meets Unexpected De!ay Unexpected delay m the awarding of movable equipment con hoots, together with the announcement that library equipment con hoots will be held up, caused College officials concern yesterday over the possibility that complete occupation of the new Cc?ilege buildings next semester might be threatened 4 Lib . l aty wood furniture, origin ally listed in the equipment group advertised to bidders last week, has been deleted by the General State Authority so as to compro mise a separate group, according to a recent announcement horn Hartisbuig Since contracts on this group will not be awarded for some time, the moving program of Librarian Willard P Lewis will probably be delayed, according to Harold W. Loman, College pur chasing agent Advertise 3 Groups Meanwhile, the Authority this week had still failed to award con- v;t,, • PRICE FIVE CENTS New Program Would Have Students Pay All Fees Necessary For Life Membership Before Graduafion Alumni Executive Committee And Student Cabinet Representatives Discuss Proposal Designed To Strengthen Struggling Association See Editorial. "A Unified Alumni' on page 2 A unified Penn State Alumni Association, to which stu dents would pay all the fees necessary for life membership AS undergraduates, has been proposed to the All-College Cab.- met by the present Association The new plan—designed to sti engthen a struggling Association which can count few mole than 1,100 paid-up members—was discussed by the Alumni Association execu ' Live committee and Student Cabinet iepreseutatives last Sa ul day and introduced to the All-College Cabinet at its meet ing Tuesday night The Cabinet and Alumni committees will renew their discussions on Mauch 30 Whether the membership fee of $2 each semester the student is in College would be compulsory or oluntaly has not been decided Students, however, would be members of the Association fi om the time they matriculate Student C a bin e t members weighing the plan are Wallace A. Dunlap '4O. Juniata A Chambers '4O, and A. William angel, Jr '4O. Robert H Craig, Alumni Associa tion president, has led the discus sions for the Association Belong Automatically Under the plan, students on graduation would automatically becomemembers of local chapters, which m the future would include both men and women A 10-point program of the ob- Noll% es and functions of the re vised Association with under graduates was presented to the Cabinet i epi esentatwes 1 Assist in student guidance through bringing successful alum ni to meet with students, 2 Assist students to obtain jobs through the Placement Sea vice scheme, af ter graduation, dui ing vacations, and while going to College, 3 As sist in improving social facilities with a view to ultimate Student Union and Alumni Buildings on campus, 4 Assist undergraduates in presenting so-called subveisive influences in their true peispec tive. 5 Promote a cour.e in Col lege tradition, encourage mural homing and national ideals, 6 Aid in promoting facilities desired by the general student body, such as a Field House, etc , 7 Provide an Alumni Loan Fund of endow ments, 8 Continue undergradu ate membership of the Athletic Council, 9 Add an undergraduate activity section to the Alumni News, 10 Assist and promote the training of students foi employ ment inteiviews MME Elects Officers Officers elected Wednesday by the local chapter of the American Institute of Mining Metallurgical Engineers are Lewis C Cavalier '4l, president, Matthew J. Hrebar '4l, vice-president; Leon .1 Ga jecki '4l. treasurer, and John C Conte '4l, secretary tracts for the vast group of labora tory and pharmacy equipment on which bids were opened February 20 GSA officials have announced, however, that bids on Group 23 (floor coverings) will be due March 20, with March 25 the deadline on Group 19 (fire extinguishers) and Mai ch 29 the final day for bids Group 37 (janitorial equipment) "It will be impossible," declared the College purchasing agent, com menting on the situation, "to have all the equipment in the new buildings by September We are hopeful, however, that the items missing will be few and unim portant " Players Preseni 'World We Live In' Today, Tomorrow Feature 20th Year With Diversified, Stupenitods Human-Insect Productiiin Celetnating then twentieth-ail niveisary on campus, the Penn State Playeis will stage "The Woi Id We Live In" with a cast' of 60 actors, actiesses, and dancers in Schwab Auditoiium at 8 p today and toms row According to Director Frank Neusbaum, tins production is the most difficult and diversified play that lie has eves attempted to-pre date lime Although the cast is composed of 60 players, only two human 'k ings appeal in the play The viig taut, ably handled by Bernard Schectman '4O, and professor, plAy ed by Holbert S Doroshow use among the crickets, butter flies, and the ants, the colorful world in which the two humans exist An unusual and exceptionally vivid dance. the butterfly ballet. featuring dance's dressed 111 cos tumes representing all the colors in the rainbow, will undoubtedly cause the audience to gasp in won derment Ruth Shtasel '4O will portray Ii is, demonstrating her versatility in a dancing and acting hole Shtasel depicts the way a female butterfly makes love in a very sug gestive dancing and acting role "The World We Live In" dis plays the present power-crazed dittators as ants in a sensational expose The play is packed with tomedy, tragedy, sex, love, free and other wise, and last of all, even appeals to the morbid-minded with several gruesome scenes It has eve' y th mg, Campus Owls Eeaftied ' At Engineers' Ball In' Recreation Hall Tonight The Campus Owls, who will bung sweet music to the Engi neers' Ball at Rec Hall tonight, have within 12 years become one of the leading collegiate bands in the country Otganized in 1928, the lociill3- piece band is now managed by Hal Breon, under whose spirlted lead ership the boys have whacked out music so popular that they-have averaged three engagements week. Music and wanderlust are - what the boys are noted for. One sum mer they played their way to Eu rope. Later they hired out again as a ship orchestra and toured the world, making the feet of French men and Japanese alike dance to American music When.the boys get together for rehearsals you'd think you were in a real madhouse "The pianist sounds off," Maestro Breon "and everybody takes off his shirt and gets right In the groove"
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