Successor'• to
the Free Lance,
Established 1887
Prowling Robber
Leaves No Clues
Intellar Escape
_Police yesterday found no clues
as to the whereabouts of the...hus
ky male 'who invaded the forbid
den domain of the Van Tries dor
mitory for transfer coeds on
Wednesday evening and was rout
ed in the act of searching one of
the girls' rooms.
The attempted robbery occurred
immediately after the Syracuse
basketball game when all the dor
mitory residents were returning
to their roms. Little Jane Der
ick,' a graduate student,' opened
the door to her room when she
spotted a large young man, dress
ed in a gray suit, rifling her
bureau dresser after he had ap
parently searched the other draw
ers thoroughly. What Jane thought
would pass for a loud shout for
help and evidently failed to rouse
anyone's attention except the in
truder's who darted past Miss
Derick and ran to . the cellar
after he latched the kitchen door
after him. '
Believing they had the robber
locked in the cellar, the coeds;
now in full force, called .the
strong-arm men of Chief Juba but
by the time the law enforcers ar
rived on the scene of the •atternpt
ed crime, the culprit had taken a
run-out powder. Strangely enough
nothing was. found missing al
though valuable jewelry and wrist
watches were lying on the desks.
Evidently, the robber was looking
for cash or love, letters written in
haste and now regretted.
Mr. Van Tries was.the only one
whO suffered from the evening's
escapade. He kept watch in the
cellar all, night
Cabin Site Okayed
By Committee
A tentative site for the moun
tain lodge for use of recreation
groups has been approved by a
committee composed of Russell E.
Clark, chairman, Ray M. Conger,
Max Dercum, and three members
of the grounds and buildings de=
partment, it was announced last
night:
- Official approval of the site will
be placed in the hands of the
Board of Trustees when it meets
this month. Plans for the cabin
and the purchase of 40 acres of
surrounding land will be submit
ted.
Funds totaling approximately
$7300 are available for the erec
tion of the cabin and the purchase
of the recommended site. All-
College Cabinet contributed $2OOO
to the amount from the now de
funct interclass athletic fund.
Arrangements were made by
College authorities for the trans
fer of camp equipment from the
abandoned Beaver Meadows na
ture camp to the mountain lodge
when it is completed.
Twenty-Three Students
Present Readings Tonight
Twenty-three ? students, mem
bers of the oral interpretations
class of, the speech department,
are scheduled to present readings
frpm literature in Room 121, Lib
eral'Arts, at 7:30 p. m. tonight.
Representing a variety of fa
mous authors, such as Galsworthy,
- Keller, Benchley, Untermeyer,
White, and Lardner, the readings
will be given in- connection with
the course in speech.
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South America Will Fight German
Domination, Says LA Lecturer
Although they may want to
profit from commercial _rivalry
between Germany and the demo
cracies, Latin Americans will do
"all in their power" . to prevent po
litical domination by the Ger
mans, astudent-faculty audience
was assured last night.
"Nationalism and patriotism are
as strong among our neighbors to
the south as they are in the United
States," said the speaker, Dr. Wil
liam H. Gray, instructor in Latin
American history. He was the
third speaker in the Liberal Arts
Lecture series.
"For every German in Latin
America,"_he.said, "there are per
haps ten in our country. Individ
ualism' was one of the outstanding
characteristics of the Andalusians
who settled the New World for
Waring's 'Hills . -OF Old Penn State'
Banned From Radio By ASCAP
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Federal Court Refuses
Evidence On Penn Stale
Special to the Collegian
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 16.—The
Federal Court here - has refused
to admit evidence on the Gen
eral State Authority building
program' at the Pennsylvania
State College in. a bid-rigging
suit being pressed against the
Associated Electrical Contrac
tors.
Charles J. Margiotti, former
state attorney-general, is press
ing the suit on behalf of a pri
vate, individual, — Morris L: Mar
cus, to recover damages done
by the state by collusive bidding
with, he charges, the electrical
contractors.
The suit now includes 80
PWA-aided projects. An at
tempt made by Mr. Margiotti to
include Penn State has been re
fused because it was not men
tioned in his original complaint.
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Doctor To Discuss
Maternal Health
In the third of five medical
talks sponsored by 16 campus and
town organiiations in conjunction
with the State Department of
Health, Dr. Howard Power of
Pittsburgh, prominent obstetrician,
'will discuss maternal health in
Room 121, Liberal Arts, at 8 p. m.
Monday:
Sponsoring this meeting are
WSGA, Mortar Board, WSGA
Junior Service Board, and State
College Women's Club.
During National Social Hygiene
Week in February, venereal dis
ease will be discussed by Dr. Al
fred F. Doyle of the State Depart
ment of Health and "With These
Weapons," a movie, will be shown.
Winding up the year's program
will be "Opportunities for Worn
en in Medicine in Allied Fields"
given by Dr. Margaret H. Sutley,
Philadelphia women's surgeon, in
March. Lectures on pneumonia
and tuberculosis were given earli
er in the College year.
Cooperating College groups are
the College Health Service, the
School of Physical Education; All-
College • Cabinet, pre-medical
group, lota Sigma Pi, WSGA,
WSGA Junior Service Board, and
Mortar Board; town- groups are
County Medical Society, AAUW,
PTA, Penn State Alumnae, Amer
ican Legion, Auxiliary, Kiwanis,
and State College Women's Club.
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Spain and it continues in the blood
of their descendents. Most ob
servers agree that Latin Ameri
can leaders are not going to sur
render the sovereignty of their
countries and willingly become a
pawn of the Axis powers."
In addition, he said, many of the
20 Latin America republics have
taken sterner measures against
subversive activities of the Axis
than has the United States itself.
Among these measures are laws
requiring that Portugese be used
in all Brazilian schools and Span
ish in the schools of the Spanish
speaking countries.
The threat of German propa
ganda in these countries is not as
new as most people think, said Dr.
•
Gray, since it has been present
there in one form or another for
125 years.
Probably Only State
Song To Be Barred
As the ASCAP-Radio music war
moves through its third week, it
has become apparent that the only
Penn State song among the hun
dreds of college tunes barred from
the air is Fred Waring's "Hills of
Old Penn State" written last fall.
ASCAP made no reply when
asked to check its catalogues for
Penn State tunes, but Waring re
ported yesterday that his songs for
Penn State and 59 other colleges
are all banned.
"Victory" and "The Nittany
Lions," both written by Jimmy
Leyden 'l4. are in the hands of
private copyright owners and not
barred by the feud his son, Jimmy
Leyden '4l, has reported.
No word has been received on
other Penn State songs but mem
bers of the music faculty have, ex
pressed the opinion that, none of
these are in ASCAP's catalogues.
The "good old tunes" which the
music war has returned to the air
have not produced the violent re
action ASCAP probably hoped for
but there is reaction. Jitterbug
ging to the tune of "When You
and T Were Young Maggie" is not
exactly Joe College's idea of a
good time.
How To Get 'Threes' In Finals--
16 Tips For Worried Students
With the prospect of exams only - 6—Wear comfortable clothing.
three days away, it might be a 7—Study in a comfortable chair
good idea to pick up a few pointers or at a desk which is convenien
on how to study for those all-im- for writing.
portant finals.
There are probably some stu
dents who know all the material
in their courses "cold." This ar
ticle is intended for the other seven
thousand of you, who will be going
through the same old routine—
chewing pencils, muttering in your
sleep (if any), skipping through
books that were assigned reading
in October, and dashing down to
the diner for a fresh batch of
sleep-denying coffee.
It's really amazingly easy to hit
all of your finals for "threes." Just
try the following few, simple study
rules-16 in all.
I—Don't sit indoors and study
for hours on end. Get a little fresh
air and exercise between your
study periods.
2—Don't sacrifice sleep for
cramming. You'll really learn a
lot more if you give your brain its
normal amount of rest.
3—Pick a quiet place to study.
4—Make sure that the lighting
is satisfactory.
s—Keep the room at a comfort
able temperature -between6s and
68 degrees, to be exact.
Powers Asks Amendment
For Absentee Voting Bill
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Semester Registration
Slated February 3 r 4
College registration for the
second semester will be held ac
cording to alphabetical division
in Recreation Hall Monday and
Tuesday, February 3 and 4,
William S. Hoffman, College
registrar, announced yesterday.
Any student will be allowed to
register before his alphabetical
order, but a $1 fine will be at
tached if anyone registers later
than his allotted time.
Late registrants, who will be
assessed $5, may enroll at Rec
Hall until 10 a.m. Wednesday,
February 4, after which students
must apply at the registrar's of
fice in Old Main.
The registration order:
Tuesday 1-5 p.m
A-Bor
Bos—Co Monday 10-12 a.m
Cr—E Tuesday 8-12 a.m
Monday 1-5 p.m
Tuesday 1-5 p.m
Monday 10-12 a.m
L—Mar Tuesday 8-12 a.m
Mas—O Monday 1-5 p.m
Tuesday 1-5 p.m
S—Sp Monday 10-12 a.m
St—V Tuesday 8-12 a.m
Monday 1-5 p.m
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Local Artists Honored
Hartley Fletcher and Lucy Led
erer, artists of State College, re
ceived word recently of the ac
ceptance of their paintings for dis
play in the annual New Year
Show in view at The Butler Art
Institute in Youngstown, Ohio.
The pictures will be on display
until January 26.
Calls Shakespeare 'Fraud'
Arthur W. Sanborn, of Bos
ton, claims to have evidence that
William Shakespeare did not write
some of the plays bearing his
name. He has offered this evi
dence to the members of the Sen
ate and House committees on Ed
ucation for $50,000, claiming that
an adequate valuation would be
one million dollars.
B—Concentrate.
9—Try not to worry how many
more pages or lines there are.
Think of the lesson in terms of
the meaning.
10—Read over your notes to get
the general picture before studying
intensively.
11—Spend most of your time on
what you know are your weak ll
points. `
12—Don't try to study for too
long a period. A few minutes of
relaxation will help a lot.
13—Don't learn material and
then neglect it. Go over what you
have learned an hour or so later.
14—Memorize only such things
as dates, formulas, technical defin
itions, and outlines. Your outlines
should instantly recall the
.mean
ing of a whole section of informa
tion.
15—In memorizing, read aloud
and rapidly.
16—Make good use of mnemonic
devices in memorizing. For exam
ple, remember CAT as containing
the first letters of three words to
to be remembered—Chlorophyll,
Anthocyanin, and Taxonomy.
PRICE THREE CENTS
Several Legislators
Have Pledged Support
See Editorial on Page 2
Special to The Collegian
HARRISBURG, Jan. 16—A re
quest for an amendment on absen
tee voting has been presented to
the Legislative Reference Bureau
by Rep. John L. Powers (D., Alle
gheny). The amendment will be
presented to this session of the
Legislature which now has recess
ed until February 27.
If Powers' amendment is passed
by this Legislature, it will have to
be re-passed in 1943 and then sub
mitted to the electorate in Novem
ber, 1943, for final approval. A
similar amendment presented by
Senator Frank W. Ruth (D., Berks)
passed the Legislature in 1937 but
was defeated in 1939 when it tried
for second passage.
The amendment has already
been pledged the support of a
number of legislators who answer
ed postcards sent out in a campaign
conduCted by Pennsylvania State
College students just before the
last November election. Among
these is Rep. Kenneth G. Haines
(R., Centre), a former Penn State
student, who urged absentee vot
ing several times during his cam
paign.
A simple legislative bill is not
considered ample to get absentee
voting because a Supreme Court
decision in 1923 ruled against it,
except for soldiers who are provid
ed for in the state constitution.
"The Supreme Court's ruling on
the 1923 absentee voting act is
considered by lawyers as insur
mountable unless there is a con
stitutional amendment adopted by
the people," Charles G. Miller,
veteran political writer for the
Evening News here, pointed out.
The statute passed by the 1923
Legislature and signed by Gover
nor Pinchot was assailed in the
courts and a decision was handed
down after a heated controversy
in Lancaster.
At that time it was ruled by a
county court that the Legislature
can confer the right to vote only
upon those designated by the fun
damental law of the common
wealth. This was upheld by the
state's highest court.
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Washington Discussion of the
Lease-Loan bill continued in Con
gress yesterday as Senator Hamil
ton Fish of the Foreign Relations
Committee questioned Secretary of
War Stimson. Stimson answered,
among other things, that "The war
situation is more critical than in
1917. There is great danger
of invasion from the air if England
falls into the Nazi's hands," and
"I arri in favor of aiding Britain
except to the point of actual en
tering into warfare."
Congressman Bloom, chairman
of the Foreign Relations Commit
tee, questioned the power used by
Senator Fish when he invite sev
eral noted men to be present in
Congress to give their opinions on.
the "aid to Britain" subject.
London—London announced last
night the complete results of the
battle in the Mediterranean last
week between a British fleet and
Nazi war planes. They admitted
that the ship "South Hampton"
sank soon after the battle. A raging
fire had broken out and the crew
I was forced to abandon ship after
attempts to extinguish the blaze
had failed.