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Colleges Told
Deferment
Is Their Job
WASHINGTON, March 27
(IWP) —The American Council
on Education told college and
university presidents through
out the country today that it is
their definite responsibility to
request occupational deferment
for students who are “potential
ly necessary men in preparation
for an occupation essential to
the national health, safety, or
interest,” even though students
do not themselves ask for de
ferment from selective service.
Last week’s “policy letter”
from national draft headquar
ters, the Council said, carries
“definite implications” for col
lege and university officials.
“For the college to request
the occupational deferment of
every student, even in fields
such as medicine-and chemistry ,*
would violate the fundamental
legal provision of prohibiting
group deferments. If the col
leges and universities are to be
of genuine assistance to local
boards, they must be willing to
refuse to make such requests for
students who are not potentially
necessary men,” the Council
warned.
The educational association
urged colleges to acquaint stu
dents with the letter sent last
week to all local draft boards
calling for the occupational de
ferment of students “in training
or prepai-ation” for occupations
important to national health and
safety. College administrators
should “take the initiative,” the
Council declared, in asking de
ferment for potentially neces
sary students, who. fail to re
quest occupational deferment.
“The fact that no fields essen
tial ‘to the national health, safe
ty, or interest are named pro
vides a broader interpretation
than if a few fields had been
listed,” the letter to presidents
continued. “There are un
doubtedly some students in ev
ery field who possess such qual
ities that they are potentially
•necessary men.’ This very fact
‘makes even more essential a
careful appraisal of each indi
vidual student subject to selec
tive service.”
2-Hour Classes Banned
In Basic ROTC Next Year;
Twichell, Fries To Leave
Basic ROTC students will not
have to attend two-hour classes
next year as has been necessary
according to plans of the Military
department released yesterday.
Tp make shorter and smaller
classes possible, ROTC classes
will be scheduled Monday
through Friday making an extra
day, since classes have never
■been held on Friday before. How
ever the advanced sections will
continue to employ the two-hour
periods.
Orders have . come through
from Third Corps Headquarters
transfering Maj. Heath Twichell
to Ft. Snelling, Minn, effective
in June. Capt. Frank E. Fries has
been ordered to Westover Field,
Mass., also in June.
The following Reserve Officers
will remain here next year: Lieut
Jack H. Weske, Capt. Laverne K.
Shiffer, Lieut. Charles E. Pros
ser, Lieut. Stephen B. Gilliard,
Lieut. P. W. Riddleberger, Capt.
Arno P. Mowitz, and Capt. Walter
A. Baer.
To Attend 4-H Camp
Miss Martha E. Leighton, as
sistant professor of agricultural
extension, and Prof. Allen L.
Baker, department.- of agricul
tural extension, will accompany
the 1941 Pennsylvania 4-H Club
delegates to, Jhe-15th anmial: na-
Club 1 , camqi in .Wash-.'
Directs Songsters
liiflli
Director Richard W. Grant,
professor of music, will conduct
the Penn State Glee Club Mon
day night in a repeat perform
ance of the concert held March
16.
SeniorsJobName
Class Honor Men
A meeting of senior men in
Home Economics Auditorium at
7 p. m. Monday to choose the
five class honor men has been
called by Adam A. Smyser ’4l,
class donor.
Smyser was- , appointed by
William B. Bartholomew ’4l,
class president, earlier in the
week.
The honor men to be chosen
by a vote of the seniors present
are Spoon Man, Barrel Man,
Pipe Orator, and Cane Man. The
Class Donor completes the five.
The men chosen will receive
their tokens and speak at the
Class Day exercises during Com
mencement Week.
Nofed Cellist To Play
At Hillel Monday Night
David Zacharin, Palestinian
cellist, will- be presented in by
a concert by the Hillel Founda
tion at 8 p.m. Monday.
Mr. Zacharin is the director of
the Tel Aviv Academy of Music
in Tel Aviv, Palestine, and form
er director of the Paris Conserv
atory of Music.
The noted cellist has given
concerts in Rome, Paris, London,
and North Africa. His program
will consist of Jewish music,
much of which is his own com
position.
Mr. Zacharin’s piano accom
panist is J. D. Jacobson, former
chief conductor in the National
Opera in Reca, Lithuania.
Theta Sigma Phi, women’s pro
fessional journalism honorary,
will initiate 12 pledges in 412
Old Main at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN -
Glee Club Gives
Concert Monday
Brown, Burrage, Teare
Performs As Soloists
When the Penn State Glee Club
presents its repeat concert in
Schwab Auditorium at 8:15 p.m.
Monday, the program will be the
same as that of the March 16
performance except for two
changes, Director Richard W.
Grant has announced.
Edith Burrage ’4l will sing two
soprano solos. Her selections will
be “Girls of Cadiz” by Delibes,
and “The Answer” by Terry.
De Falla’s “Ritual Fire Dance”
will be played by the piano duo
of Paul Teare ’43 and Betty M.
Brown ’4l, in place of Andrew
Szekely’s piano solo.
Students, faculty members, and
townspeople are invited to the
complimentary concert. Tickets
will not be required for admis
sion.
The glee club will sing two
groups of numbers, including
Bach’s “Alleluia,” two spirituals,
two sea chanteys, “This Is My
Country” by Jacobs, and Ganne’s
“Carnival.”
Two groups of selected num
bers will be given by the Varsity
Male Quartette and the Hy-Los
will present three songs in their
unique harmony.
College songs of Dartmouth,
New York University, Amherst,
and Penn State will conclude the
concert.
Rev. Roy McCorkle
To Appear On Campus
For Religious Confabs
Rev. Roy McCorkle, secretary
of the Inter-Seminary Movement,
will appear on campus for one
week, starting Monday, to meet
with various religious groups for
conferences arranged by the
PSCA. '
Rev. . McCorkle is a graduate
of Wooster and Yale Universities
and has taught at (Ewing Chris
tian College in India during 1933-
34.' He has traveled extensively
in Europe and India.
The subjects of his conferences,
both group and ■ personal inter
views, will ’be: “The Relation of
Religion and Democracy, Inter
national Relaitons, Economic
Order, Is There A Purpose In
Life, Effective Ways of Working
for Peace, In What Way Can the
Church Serve Best, and Religion
and Labor.”
Students and faculty may ap
ply at the PSCA offices, Room
304 Old Main, for interviews.
Two former Penn State box
ing champions are now boxing
coaches at other colleges. Allie
Wolff now coaches at Cornell,
and Mike Ronman coaches at the
University of North Carolina.
Repeat
Night
The Draft
Local Boards
Often Disagree
By JOHN A. BAER
- One cause of . uneasiness
among students who expect to
receive new draft classifications
in June is the wide variance in
decisions of local draft boards.
This variance can be shown
very readily by the following
example. Two roommates, jun
iors in the same eastern medi
cal college, were classified by
different draft boards. Although
they were practically of equal
ability, one was given 11-A sta
tus (occupational deferment)
and permitted to continue his
education.
The other was classified as
I-D (blanket student defer
ment) which forces him to re
port for service at the end of
the current scholastic year.
Although the inconsistency of
classifications is a grave prob
lem, it is a natural consequence
of the way in which local draft
boards work. They have full
authority. They are not bound
by strict rules from Washing
ton but merely by general sug
gestions which often do not ap
ply to individual cases.
An attempt is being made to
correct this but there are ap
proximately 6,500 local boards
and any change in the draft ma
chinery takes time. However,
definite policies are being set up
as fast as possible.
The American Council on
Education through the Subcom
mittee on Military Affairs is
helping in this work by taking
a national survey of decisions
affecting college students. In
complete results show that it
may be wise for Selective Serv
ice officials to take one of two
courses:
1. The first alternative would
be for officials to issue definite
regulations governing defer
ment of men in essential occu
pations or students ; who are
preparing for' those occupations.
This would be the more simple
method for it would require no
changes in the -Selective Serv
ice Act, only a different inter
pretation of the existing law.
2. The second course would
be for Congress to enact new
legislation requiring -deferment
of - “essentially employed” per-"
sons. This, Congress is reluc
tant to do because _ _it would
probably start’ a hundred un
necessary deferment bills roll
ing up Capitol Hill.
In either : case, -there should
be a satisfactory solution of the
problem of student deferments.
SATURDAY; MARCH' 29, >19«::f-*T
7 IF Teamstnfer
Sing Tomorrow
Competing for the In t erf rater'--"
nity sing trophy Sunday. after;r_
noon after the symphony concert-".'
in Schwab Auditorium will he
seven fraternity groups of; 16 yo
oalists each, and there have" also-■
been four fraternities entered-to)-'
sing “The Hills of Old Perm
State” in a separate contest-being,
sponsored by Fred Waring.- - ' . .
The IF sing entries of .which ■
three will be chosen Sunday to
sing in the finals at IF Ball in
termission April 4, are Alpha..
Kappa Pi, Alpha Gamma Rho,
Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta,—
Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Sigma
Kappa and Tau Kappa Epsilon. %
Fred Waring, is offering a sep
arate trophy to the fraternity
judged best in singing “The Hills
of Old Penn State.’-
group jwill sing this song also at
Those fraternities en-
IF BaU.
tered are: Beta. Theta Pj, Phi
Delta Theta, Phi rSigma Kappa,
and Tau Kappa Epsilon.
Teaching Group Plans
Chapter On Campus
Plans for the organization of a
campus chapter of the Future
Teachers of America will be dis
cussed by Dr. James H. Moyer of
the School of Education in Room
121 Sparks Building at 7 p. m. .
Tuesday. ;;
Students especially invited in- ■
elude those preparing to teach-’
in the Schols of. Education, Agri
culture, and Physical'Education,
and Athletics.
Included on program will
be an address by Dean Marioixß, ...
Trabue of the Schoolr.of .'.Educa
tion, “The Place of the PTA at ;
Penn State.” Functions of the ji
organization will be explained by ;■
Dr. Moyer and by Dr. Lloyd M. !
Jones of the School of Physical
Education and Athletics'.'
Thespian Show Tickets
Placed On Sale Tuesday
Tickets for “The* Joint’s
Jumpin’ ”, Thespians’ Spring
show to be given! on April 4
and 5 in Schwab -Auditorium,
will be placed on ‘ gale“ at "the
Student - Union office in. Old
Main starting Tuesday.-., ~
All seats are generai.-admis
sion. "Tickets for the .Friday
performance are 50 cents, those
for the Saturday show 75 cents:
Fraternities on mother organic
zations wishing torpurchase 30
or more tickets may reserve a
block of seats anywhere in the
auditorium. n :
College men will probably be
able to closely predict hpy.Jbey
will be classified jand: to
for their future under the Selec
tive Service Act,