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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"