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- VOL. 37—No. 80
Polilical Cliques
Plau Campaigns
for March Votes
: : :By ROSS B. LEHMAN
Penn State’s political pot be
gan brewing last night when
three -class cliques met to .select
campaign, platform, nominating,
and' publicity chairmen for the
All-College elections to be held
March 11, 12, and 13.
.’.The opening bid for party re
organization was/the announce
ment of an All-Independent
party mixer which will be held
at the Sigma Pi fraternity Satur
day, according to Gerald F.
Doherty, ’42 Independent chair
man. -
Thomas J. Henson,-’42 Campus
chairman, revealed that William
O. Meyers and James ,R. Morrow
had been, named campaign co
chairmen. George K.
heads the platform committee
and Robert W. Fickenscher, the
nominating group.
The ’42 Independent clique has"
appointed -Robert A. Wasser to
conduct its political 'soap-box
campaign with other chairman
listed as William F. Collins, pub
licity; Robert V. Kelley, nomina
tions; and Benjamin L. Seem,
platform.
Both ’43 Campus and Inde
pendent parties organized elec
tion plans last night. The Campus
group will start the political ball
rolling when they open nomina
tions in the Home Economics
Building at 7:30 p.m. Thursday..
John B. Cramp*will head the In
dependent campaign and plat
form committee. " ■
At a meeting of the All-College
•Elections Committee on Sunday,
all party chairmen were warned
that campaign expenses would be
checked carefully and were in
structed on the election code in
detail. /
Party chairmen who will-lead
their groups, in the March poli
tical battle are. Campus, Thomas
J; Henson ’42, Patrick J. Boner
’43, and J. Kempster Noble ’44;-
Independent, Gerald F. Doherty
’42, William P. McFadden ’43, and
John J. Chambers ’44.
Stale Debaters To Meet
Lock Haven, Seton Hall
The Penn State debating squad
will be represented by William
E. Harkins ’42 and Robert D.
Baird ’42 in a symposium forum
to be held in the Home Economics
auditorium, at 8 p.m. tonight. The
debaters will meet teams from
Dock Haven State Teachers Col
lege and Seton Hall College for
Women on the subject, “What
Can One Get Out of College?”
" Four other members of the
debate squad will see action on
the same day when an intersquad
extension debate will be held be
fore dhe Philipsnurg Rotary Club.
Samuel G. Fredman ’43 and John
B.vMcCue '43 will oppose Norman
E. Oaks ’42 and Lewis P. Green
’4l on the topic, Resolved: “That
the Nations of the Western Hem
isphere Should Join a Permanent
Union.”
(plljiie Seismograph
Records Heavy 'Quake
A heavy earthquake occurred
jn or near Panama about 4 a.m.
Sunday,' Dr. Helmut Landsberg,
.assistant- professor of geophysics,'
i announced yesterday.,
\ Recorded on the College seis
jtnograph as being about 2,400
miles from State College,. the
tremor was estimated by Dr.
Landsberg as being centered in
Central American regions. N
TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1941, STATE COLLEGE, PA.
Youth Congress Hits
Aid To Britain, Dratt
The lend-lease British aid bill
and the Selective Service Act
were cpndemned as “un-Ameri
can” by the American Youth
Congress Friday night at the
opening of a three-day “Town
Meeting fof Youth” in Washing
ton. . . -
Speakers who . assailed the
British assistance measure as a
certain path to involvement of
American manpower in the war
were cheered by more than 2,000
young men and women assem
bled from all parts of the coun
try.
Poet Here Night
Of Mass Meeting
A conflict between the open-'
ing of the All-College Cabinet
war relief drive and the lecture
by W. H. Auden, British poet,
was corrected yesterday when
the war relief mass meeting was
set for Schwab Auditorium at 7
p. m. Tuesday, February 18.
Auden will speak in Room 121,
Liberal Arts at 8 p. m. the same
night.
The mass meeting with Robert
Mackie of the World Student.
Service Fund as speaker is
planned to open the campus war
relief drive from February 18 to
21. An hour after the mass meet
ing, a student-faculty meeting is
scheduled with the distinguished
English-born poet and dramatist
who will be here the week of
February 17.
The executive committee of
the All-College Cabinet war re
lief drive is still waiting for fin
al' word from Wendell L; Will
kie on his invitation to speak
here February 23 to climax the
war relief drive. ‘ ’
Willkie, Republican candidate
in last year’s presidential cam
paign, returned from England
recently and will leave New
York today to appear before the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee.
Plans for the drive are nearing
-completion, Co-Chairmen' Elinor
L. Weaver ’4l and A. John Cur
rier Jr. ’42 have announced. Ex
ecutive committee members have
been assigned to see all students
are contacted. One dollar has
been set as a goal from each stu
dent.
Gordon Plays To Record
Breaking Crowd Of 700
Mil Ball Couples Friday
Gray Gordon played to 700
couples, the largest crowd ever
attending Mil Ball, in Rec Hall’s
military atmosphere Friday night.
Gordon and his band stopped
playing his distinctive “tic toe”
rhythm only long, enough to
strike up a .“snappy” military
air, setting the cadence for the
senior cadets and their “dates”
to march under the juniors’ cere
monial sabre arch.
During intermission, Col. Ed
ward D. Ardery, ROTC head and
Mil Ball’s guest of honor, ex
pressed his pleasure with the
dance, and pointed out that the
large number of cadets present 1 ,
at the Ball only emphasized the.
growing heed for a new and
larger armory. He stated that*
next year’s cadet enrollment will
be even higher than this, year’s
record group.
Party For Transfers
PSCA Seminar will play host
to 50 transfer students at a val
entine party Thursday night in
the Hugh Beaver Room at 8
o’clock.
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
Phi Kappa Sigma
Awarded Prize
Phi Kappa Sigma’s display of a
skier with an American flag for
background was declared win
ner. of the first annual Winter
Sports Carnival ice sculpture
contest Saturday at the square
dance, which climaxed the day’s
affairs.
Tau Kappa Epsilon, runner up
to Phi Kappa Sigma exhibited a
penguin perched on huge blocks
of ice. This exhibit was attrac
tively lighted at night with the
penguin taking on a rose color.
Third place went to Phi Delta
Theta’s archer shooting an arrow
into a red colored heart. Hon
orable mention was given Theta
Xi, Sigma Nu, Delta Upsilon, Pi
Kappa Alpha, Beta Theta Pi,
Sigma Chi, and Kappa Sigma.
Judges Ray M. Conger, recre
ation director, George Donovan
of Student Union, and -Wilson
Maclntire, stated that both nov
elty and art were considered in
their choice. The sculpture was
judged both in day and night.
Although bad weather pre
vented the figure skating and ice
hockey from being held, there
was some activity on the ski
trail. Edward Fairchild ’43 won
the downhill race with Henry
Thurston ’44 placing second.
Melvin Geiser ’4l won the cross
country with Curtis Towers sec
ond. The slalom had to be post
poned because of icy conditions.
It is possible that the postponed
events may be held later.
Faculty, students, and towns
people served notice that the for
merly publicized strained rela
tions is now a myth as all thor
oughly enjoyed themselves at the
square dance. Despite the fact
that few knew more than the
rudiments of square dancing, the
participants unanimously agreed
that it was a success.
Nora Wins Fame
With Record Feat
By DAVID SAMUELS .'43
'Nora, a 5-year-old College cow,
contentedly chewed her cud to
day—for she was well pleased
with her recent bid to fame.
During the year of 1940 Nora
made quite a record for herself
through her milk producing abil
ity. In a 365-day lactation she
yielded enough milk (if placed
in quart glass milk bottles side
by side) to ■ make a row more
than 3,300 feet long. That is ap
proximately the length of Col
lege Avenue.
As soon as this feat was of
ficially announced to the College
by the Holstein-Friesian Associ
ation of America, who had been
keeping tabs on’Nora, a reporter
was immediately dispatched to
the cow barns. He wanted to get
an exclusive interview with this
super-bovine.
Nora was nowhere in sight.
There were plenty of Daisies,
Elsies, and Susies, but not one
single Nora could be found.
A quick glance at the office
records showed that Nora had
decided to leave Penn State for
better pastures. She was sold to
a trustwqjthy farmer who faith
fully promised to provide her
with first-rate room and board
until her dying days. -
Choir Tryouts Today
Tryouts to fill vacancies in the
tenor, and bass sections of the
College Choir will be held in'the
foyer of the Auditorium at 4 p.m.
today under the supervision of
Prof. Richard W. Grant, : *head of
the department of maskT. Quali
fications are a voice of, average
ability and ability- to read music.
Lodge Plan Too Costly;
Funds Fall $2,000 Short
Will Play Tonight
.. Jascha Heifetz, famous violin
master, who will play before an
expected capacity crowd in
Schwab Auditorium at 8 p. m.
tonight.
Heifetz Presents
Concert Tonight
Jascha Heifetz and his magic
violin will appear in Schwab
Auditorium at 8 p. m. tonight
presenting a program of concert
music and a contemporary take
off on modern swing.
In addition to a number of
Hungarian dances, Dinicu’s Hora
Staccato, and several classical
pieces, Heifetz will play a con
temporary composition, “Jitter
optera.” His concert interpreta
tion of modern swing will be
built about the following move
ments: “Gut-Bucket Gus,” Jane
and Harold Close Their Eyes,”
“Jim-Jives,” and “Till Dawn
Sunday.”
Two plans combining the use
of a preferential drawing system
with the personal opportunity to
pick seats will be included in the
referendum to be taken during
intermission of tonight’s per
formance.
Prof. Arthur L. Tobias has
presented a plan calling for the
division of the house into two
parts, right and left. Four per
sons would handle the sale, two
stationed behind the ticket win
dows and the other two acting as
order-takers in the lobby. 'One
order-taker will begin at the
head of one line and the second
at the tail of the other.-
A plan which requires pros
pective purchasers to turn in
their names has been suggested
by Prof. F, Raymond Smith. Un
der this system names would be
drawn and numbers distributed.
The purchasers . would then
choose their sets in person when
their number group is called to
the ticket window.
Hetzel To Speak
President Ralph D. Hetzel will
speak at a joint meeting of the
American Association of Univer
sity Women and the American
Association of University Pro
fessors in 110 .Home Economics
at 7:45 p.m. Thursday. His sub
ject will be “Faculty Responsi
bility for Student Welfare.”
’44 Collegian Meeting
All freshmen Editorial and
Business Collegian candidates are
requested to report to Room 405
-Old Main at 7:30 tonight with all
sold subscriptions. Roll will be
taken.
PRICE THREE CENTS
Mountain Cabin Faces
Second Design Change
By JOHN A. BAER
Estimates showing that the re
vised “mountain lodge” plans
would cost approximately $2,000
more than the money available
will cause a second revision of
the project, Ray M. Conger, in
structor in physical education,
said last night.
The estimated cost of the lodge,
including 40 acres of land and
water facilities, is about $9,300
while the money on hand totals
$7,300. The original gift of the
class of 1939 was $5,300 and All-
College Cabinet added $2,000
from the Interclass Sports Fund
last December 17.
The cost was estimated by the
department of grounds and build
ings under the direction of a
subcommittee appointed by the
Recreation Committee to assem
ble information on the lodge.
Russell E. Clark, bursar, heads
the subcommittee.
Third Plan Unsatisfactory
A breakdown on the $9,300
shows that $6,300 would be spent
for construction, $l,OOO for the
land and $2,000 to pipe drinking
water from a spring a half mile
away.
A third set of plans has ac
tually been drawn up for the
lodge but they have proved un
satisfactory, Mr. Conger said. He
added that it is probable a com
promise between this set and the
preceding plans will finally be
used.
The newest plans, do not
change the size of the lodge but
eliminate many accessories such
as a central heating unit and
indoor toilets. No indoor water
supply, except two freeze-proof
hydrants, is 1 provided.
Size Of Plot Reduced
The main change is in the size
of the ground and the location
of the building. Eight instead of
40 acres will be purchased. The
location will be changed so that
the lodge will be only half as
far from the source of water.
Mr. Conger said that the small
er plot of land will be of “little
consequence” because the Rec
reation Committee has been as
sured that students will be al
lowed to use surrounding ground.
Dormitories, which had not
been included in the plans for
the first unit of the lodge, have
been added in the latest design.
They will accommodate 16 men.
and' 16 women. Provision has
also been made to add two addi
tional dormitories of equal size
in the future.
Final plans, intended to fall
within the allotted funds, will be
presented at a meeting of the
subcommittee Monday night.
Fees Will Be Payable
On Thursday, Friday
Second semester fees will be
payable in the Armory from 9
a.m. to 5 pm. on Thursday and
Friday, Russell E. Clark, College
bursar, announced yesterday.
Athletic Association books will
be issued upon presentation of
receipted bills. There will be a
special window for students who
have had their fees deferred.
Cabinet Meets Thursday
This week’s meeting of All-
College Cabinet will be held in
Room 305 Old Main at 4 p.m-
Thursday instead of at 9 p.m. to
day, Arnold C. Laich ’4l, All-
College president, announced
yesterday.