Successor to
the Free Lance,
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VOL. 37—No. 29
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Late News
Bulletins
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Berlin Adolph Hitler and
Premier Laval of France conferred
yesterday in southern France. A
final peace offer was ironically
offered to France in the form of
concession of Alcase Lorrain to
Germany and Nice to Italy. It
was rumored that France would
take an active part in the war
against England. French officials
denied this but stated "Post-war
collaboration" with the axis pow
ers would be advisable.
Madrid—General Franco's army
will be organized - again, it was
thought last night, to aid the axis
powers in invasion plans.
Bucharest The most severe
earthquake ever to strike Ru
mania and the Balkans added des
truction to these powers last night.
Washington Ladies oin the
selective service!! Washington re
ported last night that women will
be employed by the government to
serve as hostesses to direct social
affairs of draft training,
Detroit "Heckler" Owens. of
Detroit will ' not press charges
against Mayor Fiorelk) La Guardia
of New York after La Guardia at
tacked him on the steps of the De
troit counrthouse Monday after
noon. Owens charged a Guardia
with working for Democratic
chairman, Edward Flynn.
London London received its
46th ;consecutive night bombing
last night with destruction center
ed in the residential districts.
Washnigion It was rumored
last night that John L. Lewis
would openly support presidential
candidate, Wendell Willkie, in a
$65,000 radio speech to a poisible
25 or 30 million people Friday 25.
Cabinet Will Pay
For Sign Damage
The $42 bill for street sign dam
ages caused during the pajama
parade on September 30 will be
paid by All-College Cabinet pro
vided "an
,itemized account is re
ceived from Borough Council,"
Cabinet decided at its meeting last
night.
Blame was not definitely Laid on
any student group. The main rea
son for the decision to pay the bill
was that H. Clifton McWilliams
'4O, last year's All-College presid-
ent, had promised, when the signs
were erected, that any damage to
thm would be paid for by the stu
dent body. Last night's Motion in
cluded a stipulation that IVlcWill
iam's promise will no longer hold.
Each future case is to be treated
A Soph Hop budget of $2,262
was accepted by Cabinet. Expendi
tures estimated at $2,194.91 in
clude $l,OOO for Bob Chester's
band.
It was decided to postpone the
Class Sings until after the next
Thespian show because "too many
activities are now going on in the
auditorium." George L. Parrish '4l
was appointed to meet with Rich
ard W. Grant, head of the depart
ment of music, to arrange the
sings.
Theodore Rice '4l reported that
the Student Union recreation room
was being reclaimed by the de
partment of grounds and buildings
for use as an office. No mention
of the change had been made, he
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1940, STATE COLLEGE, PA
Robeson To Open
Artists' Course
Paul Robeson, great negro folk
singer, will be the first star to make
his appearance on the 1940-41 Ar
-lists' Course series, announced Dr.
Carl E. Marquardt, course chair
man, yesterday. The famed bass
baritone, whose stage, radio, and
screen renditions have won him
world-wide acclaim will open the
course performances on Monday
evening, December 9.
• Robeson returned from four
years in Europe and on October
6 at his first concert of the present
season packed every available
space of Carnegie Hall with stand
ees.
The same month that he will
appear here, the singer who has
been called the greatest interpreter
of negro spirituals today will make
four appearances with the Phila
delphia Symphony Orchestra.
While with this organization, Mr.
Robeson • will sing the new Amer
ican folk-oratorio "Ballad for Am
ericans," which he introduced re
cently on the CBS "Pursuit of Hap
piness" broadcast.
• Paul Robeson received his first
public recognition as a football
hero at Rutgers University where
he gained his letter in four sports.
In his junior year he was picked
as an All-American End by sports
writers and was also elected to
Phi Beta Kappa,
His first important stage exper
ience was in Eugene O'Neill's
"Emper* Jones." Since then his
rise as an actor and singer has been
sensational. However, it is as a
singer that Paul Robeson is best
loved--'-a singer of the simplejoivly
music .of his. own race, and of the
folk songs of..otherlands.---.
Robeson has no favorite music,
but• shares the public's apprecia
tion for "Ole Man River," the
Jerome Kern song with which he
will always be associated.
"The words get me," he con
fesses. "ghere is an underlying
challenge—a comic philosophy to
the whole thing. Here we are a
toiling mass of humanity-- ; some of
us laboring away in fields, some
in factories, others singers, writ
ers,, artists. We fret and worry
and live and die. But Ole Man
River, he just keeps on rollin'
along and Time and Eternity roll
with him."
Dr. Robert G. Bernreuler Addresses
Freshman Class On Personality
Person's Attitude On
Life Vital for Success
"There is no mystery or magic
conected with an individual's per
sonality. It depends to a large ex
tent upon how he affects, people
with whom he associates," de
clared Dr. Robert G. Bernreuter,
associate professor of Education
and Psychology, in his address in
the Freshman lecture series spon
sored by the PSCA last evening in
Schwab Auditorium.
To an interested and orderly
group, Bernreuter pointed out that
a person's attitude toward life af
fected his personality greatly. He
stated that in order for a .person
to succeed in life's work, he must
cultivate the art of favorable so
cial contact with persons in a po
sition to offer aid to the individual
who is seeking worldly success.
"The college student should at
tempt to lose his sense of shyness
and self-consciousness if he learns
nothing else," declared the speak-i
er. "Rethember• tolkeep on going
no matter how difficult things
may seem to be," he added.
Bernretiter stated in closing that
one who is constanly complaining
will never have friends to assist
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
Welfare Committee Attack Brings
Pledge, OF Dating Code Enforcement
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Protest Against IFC Dating Code Enforcement
Lodged By Senate Committee On Student Welfare
In protest against the lax attitude of fraternities toward observ
ing the regulations concerning the entertainment of women guests in
fraternity houses and the loose enforcement of these rules by the
officers of the Interfraternity Council, the. Senate Committee on Stu
dent Welfare made the following statement yesterday.
' "Supervision over social fraternities is vested in the Senate
Committee on Student Welfare. Some years ago, upon petition by
the Interfraternity Council, authority was delegated by the Com
mittee to the Interfraternity Council to formulate and enforce codes
governing the entertainment of women guests in fraternity houses.
The sole purpose of this action was to increase opportunities for legi
timate social activities in a community'of relatively limited social
facilities by placing the authority to make and supervise the neces
sary arrangements in the fraternity student government agency.
"The Committee now desires to inform the Interfraternity Coun:
cil that in its opinion the privileges granted under this authority
have been abused in several of the houses, and that' the Council has
not been properly active in exercising its responsibility to guarantee
adherence to the provisions of its codes. If conditions continue to be
unsatisfactory after the experience of the current year, the Commit
tee will consider revoking the authority thus delegated to the Coun
cil and formulating and enforcing regulations of its own.
"The Committee would regret having to take such action, and'
would prefer that the fraternities should prove themselves capable
of student self-government"
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Warn* Says Cet fines
Not Levied This Weekend
Although no fines will be
levied for absences before and
, the -Temple,,football half
holiday on Saturday, A. R. War
nock, dean of men, announced
that no absences will be excused
except for emergency ' cases,
and class cuts will be strictly
checked.
The annual football holiday,
Dean Warnock contended, was
result of an understanding be
tween student and faculty gov
ernment that this half-day
would be granted on condition
there would be no cutting of
classes before and after the
half-holiday.
Dr. Robert G. Bernreuter
him in the development of his
work. -
German Given For Ph.D.
Graduate
,students desiring
course in elementary German, in
preparation for the Ph.D. reading
test should immediately consult
Mr. Weigel, 225 Liberal Arts
Building.
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Young Democrats
Rally Tonight
National Roosevelt Youth Day
will be celebrated here today
when Democratic youths meet In
Room 318 Old Main at 9:15 p. m,
to hear President Franklin D.
Roosevelt broadcast the most im
portant address . of his 1940 cam
paign.
As one of the many nation-wide
rallies today sponsored by the
Roosevelt College Clubs of Amer
ica, the meeting is designed to or
ganize both voting and non-voting
Roosevelt supporters here, chair
men Robert D. Baird '42 and
Frank 0. Kingdon '4l, announced.
Absentee voting, importance of
registration, and local organiza
tion will be discussed at the rally
as well as plans for future social
functions. Committees will also
be appointed to carry out the
plans of the group.
'44 Altitude Improved;
White Socks Off Monday
"The general attitude of the
freshman class has shown -great im
provement, as evidenced by the
better conduct at the Tuesday
night mass meetings," W. Lewis
Corbin '4l, chairman of Tribunal,
stated last night, "and Tribunal
recognizes this cooperation 'by per
mitting all freshmen to remove
their 'white socks next 'Monday at
8 a.m."
Tribunal's meeting was unusual
ly short last night and only four
freshmen were penalized for cus
tom violations. William. Brown
who went without any customs
will start a tire rolling marathon
this noon and continue all week,
His signs announce, "I GOT `TUX
His signs announce, "I Got 'Tired'
Of Wearing Customs," and "I Was
Flattened By Tribunal."
William Clemmens wore his
dink in Old Main. He will twirl
his dink and skip while on campus.
His plea is `Please Take Me To
Spinster Skip." The other two of
fenders are Paulland Holden and
John Bard.
Weather—
Fair, Slightly
Warmer
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Student Welfare Group
Warns House Violaters
In face of a rebuke from the
Senate Committee on Student Wel
fare in its meeting yesterday to
the Interfraternity Council for its
inefficient policing of fraternity
house dating, H. Edward Wagner,
IFC president, proposed a solution
to the Committee by asking for
the adoption of an alumni jud
iciary committee.
"Because it was the responsibil
ity of the IFC to enforce its regu
lations and it failed to set a clear
cut procedure for handling viola
tors," Wagner remarked, "I pro
pose a three-man alumni judiciary
committee to judge the violation
cases."
Prior to Wagner's proposal, the
Student Welfare Committee had
warned the IFC that the power of
dating enforcenment is relinquish
ed to the IFC only by the College's
desire to promote student self
government.
However, it threatened, these
powrs would be withdrawn if the
dating code is not strictly enforced.
The authority delegated NC by
the Committee to enforce not only
the letter but the spirit of the dat
ing code, empowers IFC to hear
reported violations •and to apply
penalties on fraternities up to and
including suspension of all social
privileges for one full semester.
The entertainment of unchap
eroned women in fraternity houses
during the summer was a major
cause for the Committee to ques-
Con the IFC in its dating enforce
ment.
Wagner promised that the IFC
would organize a system in which
any individuals written report of
an offending fraternity would be
submitted to the Council. The re
port would be referred to the
alumni judiciary board who would
discipline the fraternity.
The Senate Committee ratified
the dating code which was passed
by IFC recently, and clarified the
classification of the new issue,
"Fraternity News" as a student
enterprise, not an official College
publication.
Haines Plunks
For Absentee Vole
Kenneth G. Haines '2B, Centre
County representative in the Gen
eral Assembly, went on record as
favoring absentee voting for Penn
sylvania in a statement to The
Daily Collegian yesterday.
Haines, who now resides in Re
bersburg, told Collegian he felt a
definite need for absentee voting
and pointed out that all but a few
states have already established the
privilege.
If re-elected to the Legislature,
he said, he will consult the Legis
lative Reference Bureau on means
of establishing absentee voting and
will be actively in favor of it.
Haines statement came on the
same day that a postcard drive
urging absentee voting for the
state was begun at Student Union.
Students who will write to their
representatives in both the senate
and the house are being provided
with free postcards at Student
Union. Names and addresses of
the candidates are also available.
Haines graduated from Penn
State in 1928, majoring in eco
nomics and sociology. He played
varsity baseball three years and
was a member of Skull and Bones,
Blue Key, and Alpha Sigma Phi.
He is completing his first term
in the legislature.