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VOL. 37—No. 119
1,015 Couples
Brave Drizzle
To Attend Ball
In spite of the promise of a
sun-drenched spring weekend
being washed away in a steady
drizzle of cold rain, approximate
ly 1,015 couples braved the dis
heartening weather to dance and
listen to Will Bradley_ and his
orchestra at Interfraternity Ball
in Rec Hall last night.
The estimated attendance was
not expected to surpass last year's
total of 1050 couples.
- The weekend's festivities will
be- continued tonight at various
fraternity dances. The following
hpuses are dancing tonight:
Alpha Chi Sigma, informal
closed; Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta
Theta, and Sigma Chi, informal,
closed, at the Beta house; Delta
Chi, Ranch dance, costume, clos
ed; Pi Kappa Phi, informal, clos
ed; Phi Kappa Psi, informal, in
vitation; Phi Kappa Tau, inform
al, open; Phi Sigma Delta, in
formal, invitation; Phi Sigma
Kappa, informal, open; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, formal, closed, at
the Nittany Lion Inn; and Sigma
Phi Epsilon, informal, closed.
On the sports calendar are a
spring football game with St.
Francis at 2 p.m. and PIAA gym
and volleyball tournaments in
Rec Hall in the afternoon and
evening.
Draftee Lists.
:Rapidly Depleted
WASHINGTON, April 4-
- More than six million of the
16,000,000 selective service re
gistrants have been classified by
local draft boards, authoritative
. reports reaching Washington in
dicated today.
Indications that over one
. third of, the October registrants
have already been classified has
been interpreted here, as evi
dence that many local boards
• are moving rapidly through re
gistration lists. At this rate, it
is reliably forecast, numerous
boards may exhaust their lists
before .January 1.
Approximately 200,000 regis
trants have been inducted from
this number according to draft
officials. The two-fold signifi
cance of this figure, they point
out, is first there is a wide
spread tendency td place in
Class 1-A only unmarried and
unemployed registrants, and
second that most local boards
are far ahead of the Army, and
are at 'present building up . a
sizable backlog of eligible in
ductees well in advance of • im
mediate quota requirements.
Tri-Team Debate Meet
Held. Here Last Night
William H. Harbold '43 and
Robert W. Miller '43 _represented
the Penn State debating squad in
alri-team meet with Lincoln and
Temple Universities in Sparks
Building last night.
The debate followed the panel
discussion form with two teams,
composed of a representative
from each school, competing. The
topic was the Western Hemis
phere Union question.
Will Tour Penitentary
An inspection tour of thelffest
ent Penitentiary at Bellefonte
Will be taken by the PSCA Fresh
man Council at one o'clock this
afternoon, James L. Bachman,
chairman of arrangements, has
announced,
To Cut Or Not To Cut 8 aciocks
6 Annual / Morning • Alter / Query
Weary-eyed students return
ing from Interfraternity Ball this
morning will face the annual
problem—" Shall I go to my 8
o'clock or shall I cut?" In
vestigation into what actually
happens at these Saturday
mornings after the big nights
reveals that" profs themselves
have problems.
Lecturers who ordinarily face
gatherings of three or four hun
dred students may find a mere
handful of wide-awake people
in class. On the other hand,
the entire dancing force may
be there,-bravely clutching note
books against shirt fronts that
once were stiff.
In order to match the unpre
dictable, the profs have adopted
some general plans of-, action.
Certain honorable men of the
faculty feel that they are duty
bound as servants of the state
to carry on, come fire or water.
Grimly they approach the class
room and with great determin
ation plod through the lecture's
scheduled speech. If the stu
dents aren't there or are too
weary to catch anything it is
of little importance. Duty has
been done!
This type of professor often
New Bus Slop
Vexes Imporfs
We could almost hear the ner
vous IF import "Are you
sure that this is State College?"
as she stepped off her bus out by
. 01e
,gplt. course at the new bus.
stop - yesterday: -
"Yell, this is State College,
even if it doesn't look the same
as the last time you were here,"
is the probable answer of the
bus driver, hardened by years
of conveying the same imports,
always feigning surprise and a
rapturous 'expression.
The gas station at which she
got off is exactly three and one
half blocks from Co-op Corner, a
fact xv.hich indolent Liberal Ar
tists, guys without cars, and
Crrm habitues must find de
pressing. •
We can imagine the disap
pointment of perpetual imports
who find it difficult to get along
without the customary whistled
greetings from the Corner
grandstand. Yeh, it must be
hard for them to pull their "Oh,
I'm sOOOO thrilled" act without
a gallery.
And their proud importers—
what a calamity not to be able
to show off the home town gal
to the critical Corner crowd.
Coeds, we presume, would be
even more satisfied if they mov
ed the bus stop to Boalsburg or
Port Matilda!!!
Tramp To Hell? No, We'd Rather Dive
AUSTIN, Tex., April 4
Nearly half the nation's college
men would join the air force in
preference to the army and
navy, if they had to enter the
armed forces, the Student Opin
ion Surveys of America found
this week in its weekly samp
ling of the college campuses of
the nation.
Less than one-sixth of the
male students polled, however,
say they would leave school and
join the armed forces should the
U. S. have to send an army to
aid Britain.
The Surveys found the fol
lowing results, excluding the 6
per cent who held no opinion
in answer to the question, "If
you had to enter the armed
forces, would 'you prefer the
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1941, STATE COLLEGE, PA
finds his soul-mate in an excep
tional student. Recently a fa
culty man proposed to excuse
the single student who reported
to class. With great indigna
tion the student demanded his
rights and forced the professor
to lecture to him the entire per
iod. Then, satisfied with his
'newly acquired knowledge, he
went home to bed.
The second approach of ten
taken by a lecturer is to review.
This treatment is greatly appre
ciated by the student. After
struggling to keep awake for a
few minutes, he hears familiar
words and with conscience plac
ed at rest gives up the fight.
A little more advanced than
the last mentioned system is the
bull-session attempt. Here the
prof has two alternatives. Un
der the guise of informal and
wandering discussion he may
basely sneak pertinent informa
tion into the student's gray
matter. However, he may play
fair and square and stick to
such objects as the draft, sex,
and "what's the matter with
Penn State?"
Few faculty members will go
to the trouble of openly enter
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College Choir To Present
Easfer Musical Service
An Easter musical service AVM
be presented at Chapel in Schwab
Auditorium at 11 a.m. tomorrow,
Richard W. Grant, director of the
College Choir, announced yester
day. • .
The selections to be sung by
the choir of 'lO5 voices- include
"All Hail the Power of Jesus'
Name," "As It Began to Dawn"
(Vincent), "Madgalene" (War
ren), "God Hath Appointed a
Day" (Tours), and two Easter
carols, "By Early Morning Light"
and "Three Men Trudging."
Trustees, Council
Voted Upon By Alumni
Ballots have been mailed to
21,000 alumni for election of
members to Alumni Council and
a list of the new members will
be published on April 16, Edward
K. Hibshman, executive secretary
of the Alumni Association. an
nounced yesterday. The new
council will meet early in June
to elect 11 members to the execu
tive board and two to the athletic
advisory board.
Balloting is also being conduct-:
ed for nominations to the College
Board of Trustees, of which the
alumni select three - members
each year to serve three-year
terms. Nominations will close on
April 30, with the final ballot
being published on May 1.
army, the air service, or the
navy?":
Air Service 48%
Navy. 27
Army 25
The Far West, where 57 per
cent favored the air service, and
the West Central, where 55 per
cent preferred flying, were the
strongest supporters of that
branch of the service. The
Middle Atlantic section was
least enthusiastic over aviation,
with only 39 per cent, still a
larger vote than either the ar
my or navy received there.
Airplanes have come into
such prominence in the present
war, and Britain has so repeat
edly pointed out the great sig-
nificance of that mode of war
fare during recent months. that
rgiatt
Mclntyre '39 Aboard
Plane Grounded
In Florida
Alan G. Mclntyre '39, former
Collegian Board mOnber, was
one of the 16 passengers on the
northbound Eastern Airlines
plane grounded in a swamp' near
Tampa, Fla. late Thursday night.
Mclntyre, an employee of the
airline company in West Palm
Beach, Fla., was on his way here
to attend Interfraternity Ball. A
telegram to his Theta Xi fra
ternity brothers, informed them
that he was uninjured but would
be unable to be here.
Defense Program
Needs Engineers
WASHINGTON, April 4
(IWP)—The defense program
is placing a premium on aero -
nautic, radio, and diesel engin
eers, Civil Service recruiting of
ficals disclosed this week.
"Urgently needed" in federal
service, officials said, are mech
anical engineers with experience
in designing diesel engines and
high-grade machinery, and in
applying machine tools and au
tomatic machinery.
Construction engineers with a
knowledge of structural design
and electrical installation, ex
perienced radio and aeronauti
cal engineers, diesel engine op
erators, and marine and naval
architects also are on the Com
mission's personnel shortage list.
- Officials said many engineers
are available in certain fields,
but that in these a definite scar
city ,is already being felt in
Washington.
Cash Awards Offered
To Advertising Students
Cash merit awards for the best
advertising copy will be offered
to advanced advertising students
in the department of journalism,
according to Prof. Donald W.
Davis, in charge of advertising
courses.
A first award of $25 and three
smaller prizes will be given by
the Interstate Advertising Man
agers Association in an exclusive
competition for Penn State stu
dents.
The competition is open to any
one in the advanced advertising
classes or to any student who has
completed two a dyer tis in g
courses in the department, Pro
fessor Davis revealed. Awards
will be made at the association's
convention to be held here in
May.
United States War Department
officials have stressed flying in
colleges. Addition of CAA
courses in many colleges and
universities during the last two
years certainly has had some
influence on the ranking of fly
ing as a big favorite over army
and navy units.
The division of students in
answer to the question, "If we
should have to send an army to
aid Britain, would you leave
school and join the armed
forces, or would you wait until
you were called?" was as fol
lows, by percentages:
Would leave' school . . 16 %
Would wait 84
(Five per
cided.)
cent were uncle-
Weather—
Partly Cloudy,
Probable Showers.
PRICE THREE CENTS
Jenkins '4l Wins
Highest Award
For Scholarship
Morton E. Jenkins '4l has been
announced as winner of the John
W. White Medal and Prize, a gold
medal and cash award, the high
est honor awarded for outstand
iTig scholarship in the senior
class.
Three John W. White Fellow
ships worth $6OO each were
awarded to Winston G. Donald
son '4l, Nelia M. Hazard '4l, and
Oliver A. Schaeffer '4l with Ray
H. Dutt '4l named as alternate.
Five seniors receiving gold
medals as Evan Pugh Scholars
are Thomas Czubiak, Louis N.
Grafinger, William P. Hindman
Jr., Norman Racusin, and P.
Jeanne Richards.
Silver medals for junior Evan
Pugh Scholars will go to William
E. Harkins, Edward A. Kachik,
John S. Kookogey, and Milton E.
Pensky. Evan Pugh Scholars are
selected by the Senate Commit
tee on Academic Standards for
outstanding academic achieve
ments. The awards are given by
the Honor Society Council.
Two John W. White Scholar
ships in Spanish have been
awarded for linguistic attain
ment, one to Alberto V.'Roque
'43, and the other to Helen E.
Wilde '43.
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NEW YORK—I-. Last night in
Madison Square Garden, Lou
Nova won by a TKO from Max
Baer in the Bth round. Ref. Ar
thur Donovan stopped the fight
MIAMI, Fla.—A National Air
lines plane was'forced down late
yesterday near Miami. The two
man crew of the plane; carrying
eight passengers made a forced
landing on a water logged field
because of motor trouble.
This second airline crash in
Florida in two days has caused
the opening of investigations by
the Civil Aeronautics Board and
the Eastern Airlines Co.
LONDON British govern
ment officials signed a coalition
agreement with Jugoslavia,
Greece, and Turkey. This Bal
kan bloc was hastily formed to
prepare for an anticipated at
tack from Germany in the next
48 hours.
WASHINGTON After a
three-hour cabinet meeting last
night President Roosevelt had
great hopes for the settlement of
the soft coal workers' strike af
fecting 12 states by Monday. A
recent development in the labor
field was the walkout of the
workers in the American Mag
nesium Company's plant in
Cleveland, 0., maker of airplane
parts. Meanwhile Ford authori
ties closed plants employing 125,-
000 workers until the River
Rouge strike is settled.
Decision Expected Soon
On 12 Navy Applications
Official word is expected from
Washington, D. C., this week on
72 engineering seniors' appli
cations for ensign commissions
in the Navy following gradua
tion.
In addition to seniors, 42 jun
made application for pro
visional appointments until
1942. The recruiting activity
here is part of a nation-wide
Navy program.