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VGL. 37—No. 82
Senior Group
To Pick 2 Gifts
For Class Vole
Another- step toward the final
selection of a 1941 class gift to
the College will be taken. Sun
day night when the Senior Class
Gift Committee selects two. sug
gestions. which will appear on the
ballot of the All-College election
on March 11, 12 and 13, W. Lewis
Corbin, chairman of the commit
tee, announced yesterday.
The two suggestions of the
committee will be taken from the
following seven which have been
submitted:
1. -A scholarship and loan fund
2. Murals
- 3. A library endowment fund
4. Blue Band uniforms
, 5. Two voting machines
,; 6. Radjo statiQn -
7. Photographic map of Penn
sylvania
Members of the special com
mitteg appointed by William B.
Bartholomew, senior class pres
ident, .in order to work out the
details of the gift are W. Lewis
Corbin ’4l (chairman),-L. Eleanor
Berifer ’4l, era-L. Kemp ’4l,
Grace E. Rentschler ’4l, Leon J.
Gajecki ’4l; H. Edward Wagner
’41,. and: Richard G. Peters ’4l.
Two Reporters Chase
Wiilkie 26 Hours;
Ho Talk Here
By GORDON, COY '43 and
ROBERT COOPER '43
We were Washington corres
pondents for two'days! '" ' '
A chase that lasted 26 hours,
with a letter to a Post reporter
our only lead, finally ended
Tuesday night when we cornered
America’s Public* Citizen .No. 1,
Wendell WiUkie, in the lobby of
a Washington, D. C. hotel.
We were determined to re
ceive a definite answer to All-
College Cabinet’s request that
Willkie speak here. After trail
ing him from the Senate investi
gation on Capitol hill -to the
White House, then back to his
hotel, we finally got the answer:
No. He said he would be forced
to cancel all speaking engage
ments for several months.
But back to the beginning of
the story. . We arrived in Wash
ington Monday night armed with
-a- letter to a Post reporter. Let
ters pull strings, but this one
failed. It was the reporter’s
night off. He was in Philadelphia.
With slight hopes of seeing
Willkie personally, we decided to
at least attend his Senate inves
tigation Tuesday afternoon.
Squeezed ror four hours hear
the front of a jammed waiting
- line of 800, watching people
faint, we finally- got into the
committee room. Inside, the top
political men of the nation were
waiting to question Willkie on
the lend-lease bill. Photogra
phers hung from a ledge 75 feet
above the crowd getting pictures
of an event unprecedented in
Washington’s history.
Knowing it would be irripos-
S sible to see Willkie personally .at
the investigation, we searched
for new leads. We got our “first
break”, at his hotel when we
overheard his ex-lawyer say
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IFC Meets Tonight
. Final action will be taken by
Interfratemify Council on its new
proposed . constitution, and the
ytews on compensation of IFC
officers when it meets, at the Phi
Kappa Sigma house at 7 p.m. to
day, it was.announced by H. Ed
ward-Wagner, IFC president!
THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1941, STATE COLLEGE, PA.
One-Way Locust Lane
Traffic Not Enforced
One-way. traffic on Locust Lane
will not be enforced until suffi
cient signs are available, Chief
of Police John R. Juba said yes
terday.
Locust Lane was ordained as
a one-way street, running north
to south, between Foster and
Hamilton Avenues over two
years ago. When signs were -or
dered, they were made for only
one side of the street. Without
signs on both sides of - the street,
Juba said, enforcement would be
impractical. .. ,
LA Reservations
Due 4 pm. Today
Reservations for the Liberal
Arts’- dinner, featuring Cy Hunr
gerford, famed cartoonist of the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, must be
made by 4 p. m. today, the com-,
mittee. announced yesterday.
, Tickets, $1 each, may be re.-
served through Mrs. O. H. Steck
er, 213 Sparks Building, Louis
H. Bell, Room 310 Old Main, or
at Student Union.
The dinner, second annual get
together of the Liberal Arts fac
ulty, will be held- at the Nittany
Lion Inn s at 7p. m. Monday.
Members of the LA faculty,
wives and husbands, and office
workers, have been invited.
Hungerford will be the - only
•speaker to address the dinner.
His informal talk will be punctu
ated with the cartoons cari
catures that have made him one
of the nation’s most widely re
printed editorial cartoonists.
'A' ■RushVille/'Tnd.', farm - boy;'
Hungerford migrated to Parkers
burg, W. Va., where he be'gan his
career of cartooning on the Sen
tinel when he was still in high
school. From there he moved to
the Wheeling, W. Va. Register,
then to Pittsburgh on the Sun
and finally on the Post-Gazette.
Hungerford has covered ten
national conventions, three in
augurations, one coronation, a
baseball .training camp, world
series, heavyweight boxing train
ing camps, murder trials and
many other notable events. He
has taken picture-drawing trips
to Europe, Algeria, the'West In
dies. and Mexico.
Engineers Seek Change
(n Inspection Trip
Petitions to change the date of
their annual inspection trip away
from Interfraternity Ball week
end are now being circulated by
seniors in the School of-Engineer
ing.
The week-long trip is currently
scheduled to begin April 2. The
seniors ’are asking that it be
changed to start April 16, the day
classes start after Easter vaca
tion. Interfraternity Ball is Fri
day, April 4.
The petition requests that the
change be approved by the ex
ecutive committee of the School'
of Engineering at its meeting
next Monday.
New Team Signed For Washington Ball
The newest campus comedy a half-hour entertainment during version of “The First Nighter”
team—Ueon Rabinowitz, Don the Intermission of the Washing- and imitations with costume of
Taylor and Doris Disney, billing ton Ball. Bing Crosby a nd Dorothy La-
Highlighting their opening ap- mour will round out their pro
signed yesterday to make dsfirst w ill be a special George at the whi?t B n
appearance at Collegian’s Wash- TIT . ... gram at tne wasnmgton mil.
ingtonbirthday Ball in Rec Hall Washington skit for dance with A 1 Vinico£f fa pianist for the
on Friday, February 21. everything from The Ballad for, new team,-, which .already has
Made up of entertainers who Americans to the extermination made extensive plans for itself,
have already established them- the cherry tree. planning among other things a
selves with Players and Thes- Impersonations, a “We Three” new specialty number with each
pians, the new team will put on number, Don Taylor’s one-man new act.
-OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE.
Hoffman Revises
Grade Averages
For Frafernifies
* In a letter to fraternity presi
-1 dents, Dean A. R. Warnock re
-1 vealed a new system for figuring
1 fraternity . averages, revised by
■ Registrar William S. Hoffman
r and also urged fraternities to co
t‘ operate with the Interfraternity
. Council ruling on “Hell Week.”
: Under the new system, frater
nity averages will include only
the names of those on the chap
ter roster, and not pledges still to
be initiated at the February and
March initiation period.
“The purpose is to put Penn
’ State’s fraternity averages on an
equal footing with the averages
of other university fraternities,”
Dean Warnock said.
In past years, the fraternity
averages have been lower, oh
paper, than those elsewhere. This
was because the averages of
pledges 'were generally lower
than the averages of the regular
fraternity “actives.”
According to IFC legislation.
Hell Week—activities, including
paddling and other initiation
hazings are to be eliminated. The
continuation of this practice
would halt all social privileges
and confiscate a $5O bond, which
• is posted by every fraternity at
the beginning of the school year.
Fraternity presidents must no
tify the registrar’s office before
March 15 about the names which
should be omitted from the chap
ter roster. These would include
those initiated after the mid
year initiations because of with
_ drawal from college or failure to
make initiations requirements.
IMA Ball Committee
Named By Garfley
Boyd C. Gartley ’4l, IMA Ball
chairman, named six men to his
committee at a meeting of the
Independent Men’s Association
last night.
The committeemen are Melvin
R. Jones ’4l, Ben Snipas ’42, Jo
seph Bednarski ’4l, Milton Pren
sky ’42, James Christy ’4l, and
Edward Staricka ’42.
The IMA Central Council ad
mitted two new units, the Miller
Club, 231 S. Allen Street, and
Irvin Hall, boosting its unit mem
bership total to 13, and voted to
secure recognition pins for IMA
members.
Army Forbids Enlisting
After Man Is Drafted
The military department 'has
announced that no person may
enlist in the Army after he has
received an order from the local
draft board to report for induc
tion by means of. the regular
selective service draft.
Every applicant who wishes to
enlist voluntarily will be asked
before he is enlisted whether or
not-he has received such an order
to report for induction.
Blue Key E
Other Soci
Against Paddling
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William F. Finn ’42, president
of Blue Key, announced yester
day that the junior honor society
has eliminated paddling from its
initiation ceremony. Blue Key
thus became, the first campus hat
society to eliminate what has
long been regarded as an un
desirable practice.
No 'Zip' English
For This Refugee
A Czechoslovakian refugee,
Ruth Littman ’43, who was un
able to speak a word of English
when she came to this country in
1939 has just passed her English
placement test at the College
with an almost perfect score that
was exceeded by only 1 per cent
of those tested.
As a result, she is exempt from
taking the customary elementary
course in English composition
and may take a more advanced
course, said Professor Theodore
J. Gates, head of the English
composition department.
Miss Littman, who entered the
College at midyear as a sopho
more, was born in Erague,
Czechoslovakia, and took her
preparatory work there at the
French State Real Gymnasium, a
semi-classical . secondary school
where she studied four languages
—but not English. Her father is
a graduate of the University of
Vienna.
She transferred to Penn State
from Brooklyn College, where
she was a special student.
To Aid Fund Drive
Robert Billheimer, Yale ’4O,
traveling representative, of the
World Student Service Fund, will
meet with the All-College Cab
inet today to help set up the W.
S. S. F. Campaign which starts
next Tuesday.
WEATHER-
Fair and
PRICE THREE CENTS
nds Paddling;
ieties To Act
Three Presidents
Favor Elimination
See Editorial. Page Two
Statements from presidents of
three of four honor societies—
Skull and Bones, Parmi Nous
and Druids—indicated last night
that they may follow Blue Key’s
lead and abolish paddling as part
of their initiation ceremonies.
The only president who report
ed that his society was in favor
of paddling was W. Franklin
Barr ’43, president of Friars.
However, he said that Friars
would consider eliminating the
practice.
Blue Key, junior society, elim
inated paddling by unanimous
vote, Tuesday night, when it de
cided to institute a new type of
initiation ceremony. Each of the
other four organizations still uses
paddling as part of its initiation.
Statements by presidents of
the four other societies follow:
Thomas C. Backenstose ’4l,
Skull and Bones: “I think the
elmination of paddling by Blue
Key was a good step. Although
we don’t do it to any great ex
tent, we’ll bring it up at the .next
meeting.”
Jack W. Brand ’4l, Parmi
Nous: “Paddling has already
been minimized in the Parmi
Nous initiation. However, we
would be willing to cooperate
with other societies in bringing
about a complete reform.”
Moderate Paddling All Right
Charles H. Ridenour ’43,
Druids: “Moderate paddling is
all right but it shouldn’t be car
ried to extremes. We have dis
cussed it in the past and we’ll
bring it up again before the next
initiation.”
W. Franklin Barr ’43, Friars:
“As far as I know most members
of Friars are still in favor of
paddling. However, abolishment
of paddling has been
and will be considered again. ;
- According to William F. Finn
’42, president, the new Blue Key
initiation will be modeled after
that used by Scabbard and
Blade, honorary military society.
He said that instead of being
held in one night the one cere
mony will cover two or three
days and will be held on the
campus.
Reasons given by Finn for the
abolishment of paddling were
that it is unnecessary and
“serves no good purpose” and
that College authorities have in
directly expressed disapproval.
Musical Quiz Program
At Drydock Saturday
In a take-off on Kay Kyser’s
College of Musical Knowledge,
Prof. .“Hum” Fishburn will con
duct a musical quiz program at
Drydock Saturday night, the
night club committee announced*
yesterday.
Also featured in the floor show
will be Magician Don Schwab,
Dr. Benson Fairchilde reciting
“The Life and Love of the Bee,”
a portrayal of Henry* Aldrich by
Jim Ambandos, and songs by
Doris Disney. Leon Rabinowitz
will again act as master of cere
monies.
Table -reservations are now
available at Student Union.
Cabinet Meets Today
The Student Traffic Board will
come up for final consideration at
the All-College Cabinet meeting
this afternoon. The meeting will
be held in Room-305 Old Main at
4 o’clock.