ft r- ‘ Suceeswi*:'' Y ’’SHI '♦ Y /||t YY ♦ WEATHER— iyeSs (Shr gatut fH (SoUgqtatt jzu ?,:V0t.'37—N6;.86 College Extens Cabinet Voles Temple Holiday in Busy Session Next year’s football half-holi ** day wiil fall on the date of the : Temple game, October .18, and ", the All-College inauguration will |7;beheld'on May 6, it was decided by All-College Cabinet last night. v/-.r Cabinet'also approved a report !>r on the Student Traffic Board. The fi- Board will start operations next £V Wednesday. A system of fines was .okayed' whereby first offenders I'ivill' be fined 50 cents; second gi, offenders, one dollar; third off tp enders, two dollars; and fourth gjv offenders will have their licenses il’ 'revoked. Dissension developed over the p report of the committee-investi gating the use to which- chapel collections-are put and 'a.final re •'..•port was tabled until a epmplete ■"-financial statement cani''se ob - tamed. , A majority report was present ly' ed by Richard M. Geissinger ’4l, i. chairman, in which the commit tee asked that collections con | tinue.to go to Penn State in : Chinas However, H. Edward Wagner; ’4l, a member of the committee, disagreed and asked that more information be sought. Richard C. Peters ’4l was ap pointed -to investigate progress made . towards obtaining an elec tric scoreboard for Rec Hall. Cab &;;;inet voted $l,OOO for this purpose C more than a month ago. A committee of Paul O. Frey ■ ■ Mt* g 'A. Harwick ’4l anH W. Rae Herr- iWWlivlr #4l*l ~ ; ; mann’4l was named to consider . I ’selecting coeds for some cheer- F nn3f*||lf | KAlifll ;? leading positions. VQlJClvllj VlvvvU ” Whether an additional trip for * i<] the. Blue Band should be pro vided next year will be consider ed by a committee of Theodore • Rice ’4l, William B. Bartholomew , - ’4l and Paul M. Doty, Jr. ’4l. . Thirty dollars was granted to the Mineral Industries Council ;; to finance a school newspaper and $l5 was given to the Engineering Council to sponsor intra-depart - mental meetings Dorsey Plays 4th Time Here Feb. 28 When Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra swing out in Rec Hall . at 9 p.m., Friday, February 28 it will be the second Senior Ball and fourth major Penn State dance the Sentimental Gentleman of Swing has played in the last five academic years. Dorsey started his Penn State 1 career, as far as records show, at ' Soph Hop 1936-37. In spite of Dorsey, Soph Hop did its usual “■ Soph Flop that year. The following' year, 1937-38, l' Dorsey and company played their ; first Penn State Senior Ball, amidst a George Washington.- -i., cherry tree setting. That Senior >1 Ball broke ah attendance record ■". set .in 1935 by drawing 1280 , couples. A year later, Dorsey racked up another triumph by putting over k Junior. Prom.. ;; .Co-Chairmen Thomas C. Back f: enstose and-William J. Shevock V are - predicting that the Sehti ? * mtoidl .Gentlemaii will prove bis - -.Perm i State .appeal next - week. is $3.85; place,' Rec S’: ! Bali;C<3aneing, . 9 pjn. to 2 ami.; £vdate,; Friday, February 28. The '- line forms to-the right! WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 19, 1941, STATE COLLEGE, PA, State Conservation Work Counter To That Of U.S., Bill’s Sponsor Charges Crime Defection Expert To Speak Here Tonight Dr. Alexander O. Gettler, New York University, internationally known expert in scientific crime detection, will give an illustrated lecture on “Micro-chemical Meth ods in Room 119 New Physics Building at 7:30 p. m. tonight. - Dr. Gettler has won world wide recognition for his work in the application of chemical and toxicological methods in crime detection. This subject is utilized in the identification of blood stains, hairs, poisons, or any oth er chemical factors which may have-caused the crime. Alcohol and drug addicition are also dealt with in Dr. Gettler’s work. While Dr. Gettler’s address will be made in the language and from the viewpoint of a scientist, much will be included which will be of popular interest. His ap pearance here is being sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania branch of the American Chemical Society." Students, faculty, and townspeople are invited to at tend. That W. H. Auden has won hundreds of new admirers on this campus was evidenced last night by,the crowd which taxed the capacity of the Sparks Build ing Auditorium to hear him speak on “English Poetry of the Thirties.” Instead of hearing a discourse on the history of poetry, the audience was treated to spicy tidbits of sound advice, excerpts from Auden’s life, and readings from ""several of'his works. “In my youth, that is from the ages of four to 16,” Auden relat ed, “I had been completely and terribly fascinated by mining machines and engineering. There was no question that my career lay in those fields. “One day, however, I was talk ing with a friend who inquired if I had ever written poetry. When I said no, I suddenly real ized that writing poetry was what I had to do, that the earlier interest had actually been a sym bol.” ■ . In a more philosophical vein, the poet then commented upon the growth of the individual. Children and animals are not aware of their fate; they are their fate, Auden stated. “Fate,” • philosophized Auden, “is essentially outside the char acter’s acting. The hero of a story does not create his fate, but by "making a decision he deter mines the outcome. “Nature will not provide, the individual must make his own decisions.” Last Day For Books From 1 to 3 pan. today are the last hours for students to get books and money-left for them by the Student Book Exchange at Student Union. OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE 'Dangerous Precedent' Passes, 118-80; Bills Up For Research In Ml Special to the Collegian HARRISBURG, Feb. 18—A bill to investigate the Pennsylvania Soil Conservation Board and the agricultural extension service of the State College passed the House of Representa tives today, 118-80. It provides that the findings of a three-man committee be made available before any appropriation to either is approved.*- Failure of these groups to co operate with the federal conser vation program was charged by the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Clayton E. Moul of York. Rep. Ellwood Turner, ex-speaker of the House, fought the bill as a “dangerous precedent.” Some fear was expressed that the investigation may hold up the entire Penn State appropri ation. (Dr. Stevenson W. Fletcher, dean of the School of Agricul ture and a member of the Soil Conservation board, expressed the opinion last night that the investigation was asked because the state’s policy is parallel to that of the federal government. : ‘-He'-exfriaineai-tha±-.the_.U._S. is. seeking to set up its program in the state by direct regulation while the state was organizing its own soil conservation pro gram on voluntary lines.) HARRISBURG, Feb. 18—A bill appropriating . $125,000 to the Pennsylvania State College for support of .“research and investi gation of basic problems affecting mineral industry” was introduced in the Senate today by Sen. Henry I. Wilson, of Bradford. Yesterday the House received a bill to provide $75,000 for con tinuation of coal research at Penn State. Drop Adds Due Today Drop adds must be handed in at the registrar’s office before 5 p.m. today, Registrar William S. Hoffman has announced. After the deadline, instructors must turn in WA or WB forms for a course that is dropped. Dollar - Per - Student Drive Opens With Plea For Liberty Emphasizing that by preserv ing the liberty of others we do best to maintain our own, Robert C. Mackie of the World Student Service Fund officially opened the All-College Cabinet dollar per-student war relief" drive in Schwab Auditorium last night. Mr. Mackie stressed the feel ing of solidarity among students of various nations struggling to continue studying while war rages. He added that we must help provide something for them to keep the liberty of their minds alive. By donating text books and funds to enable them to matricu late, in. their universities, he con .tinued, the eWorld Student Serv ice Fund is aiding these students: Collegian Will Sample Opinion On Elections A Penn .State “Gallup Poll,” taken by The Daily Collegian, will sample opinion on the All- College elections and publish its results twice between now and March 11, the first day of elec tions. The first poll will be taken im mediately after petitions are filed on February 25 and the last as close to elections as possible with the results published Tues day morning, March 11. In making its test—on which it does not guarantee results— Collegian will follow the same procedure which several years ago enabled a psychology class to come within two per cent of the actual result. Every 20th person listed in the College Directory will be inter viewed by telephone and asked their vote for All-College presid ent and their class presidents. Speakers Listed For Convention William S. Livengood, Jr., secretary of internal affairs, and Lyman Beecher Stowe will speak at the Pennsylvania Student Government Association conven tion here Friday, Saturday and Sunday, it was announced last night. The announcement raised the total list of speakers to three. The - principal ..one, William '"Mather Lewis,"state director"dir Selective Service, - will talk on “The Part of the Student in the Selective Service Program.” The talk by Dr. Lewis will be at the- convention dinner Satur day night. Mr. Livengood will speak on “Good Government” at dinner Friday. Mr. Stowe's talk will be at luncheon Saturday. Thomas C. Backenstose ’4l, president of the association, re ported that two additional col leges—Carnegie Tech and the University of Pennsylvania— - have accepted invitations to the convention. This raises the total number of delegations to 24, eight more than last year. Sixty-seven delegates will be in attendance. This does not in clude Penn State students who will not be considered as regular delegates. The convention will open with registration Friday morning and will end with, a general business meeting Sunday morning. Drive quotas for women’s dor mitories and fraternities have been set, with $lOO as a goal from each of the four units qn Ather ton Hall, $lOO each from Grange Dormitory, McAllister Hall, and .Women’s Building, and $lO from each fraternity. A $25 quota for each men’s fraternity has been set by H. Ed ward Wagner ’4l, IFC president, and W. Rae Herrmann ’4l, IMA president, has arranged for IMA unit leaders to head solicitors contacting residents in the unit vicinity. Proceeds from the drive will go to the British War Relief So ciety and the World Student Service Fund. PRICE THREE CENTS Matlern, Krone* Head r 42 Campus All-College Slate Charles. F. Mattern and Peter J. Krones were selected as ’42 Campus running males for All- College president and vice-pres ident, respectively, last night as all three Campus cliques took the first political jump and nom inated their party siales. In a surprise move, H. Leon ard Krouse withdrew his can didacy as All-College president, leaving the field clear for Mat tern, and received the senior class presidential nomination with John J. Long garnering the senior vice-president post. The remainder of the offices will be determined tomorrow night, Thomas J. Henson, party chairman, has announced. Sophomore Campus politicians announced Jerome H. Blakeslee as their presidential nominee and M. Williams Lundelius will run for vice-president. Louise M. Fuoss and Robert L. Mawhinny outdistanced other candidates for secretary and treasurer, respec tively. The final Campus ticket was headlined by Jack R. Grey, who will lead his freshman clique. He will be supported by Clair E. Eisenhart, campaigning for vice president, Margaret L. Campsey for secretary, and Thomas j. Goodwin for treasurer. On the other side of the poli tical „._fence_,_Jtlis., lndax>anduxi±^ will be relatively inactive until tomorrow when the ’43 party presents a list of possible nom inees to be selected for nomina tions Monday night. The ’44 group will select their slate to morrow night. The All-Independent mixer, which had been postponed be cause of sorority rushing last week, will be held in the Acacia fraternity at 9:30 p. m. Saturday, Bus Stop Moves To Atherton Si. Burgess Wilbur F. Leitzell an nounced yesterday that he would enforce the ordinance prohibiting bus stops on College Avenue as soon as it goes into effect at-mid night tonight. Leitzell pointed out that as the borough’s chief executive, he had no other alternative but to en force the decree. An extension could be granted only by an amendment passed by council. This procedure could not be ef fective for nearly a month. A simultaneous announcement by the Pennsylvania Greyhound Bus Lines, Inc., and Johnston’s Motor Bus Line, Inc., stated that after midnight tonight buses of these companies would use the site of the new terminal at North Atherton Street and Railroad Avenue. A similar arrangement is expected to be made with the Boalsburg Auto Bus Lines, Inc., before Thursday. Arrangements are being made with the College to provide a new sidewalk, adequately lighted and patrolled, from the campus to the new terminal. It is possible that an agreement may be con cluded permitting buses to use Center Drive and Shortlidge Road -to. stop at the women’s dormitories during peak seasons. ion
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