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Established 1887
VOL. 37—No. 124
College May Adopt Daylight Saving Time Effective Saturday Night
ALPHA
Conformity, With
Borough Time
Seen For Campus
The College is expected to
concur with the borough coun
cil today in its resolution to go
along with the rest of the coun
try in adopting daylight saving
time at midnight Saturday.
Previously the borough and
College had daylight saving
time only during the summer
when it would not interfere
with the regular session sche
dule.
Passed -unanimously by the
borough Council, the resolution
now needs only the approval of
the College to .take full effect.
It was indicated this. would be
forthcoming today.
. The 'Council on Administra
tion of the College has already.
informally voted in favor of
daylight time, in answer to a
request for opinion from the
town council.
The town • will go on daylight
time midnight Saturday and re
vert to standard time . Sunday,
September 28, conforming to
.the - eastern standard.
On :Monda3 . night iowu
council also 'voted to place - a
two:inch layer of amesite on .
College avenue from the end of
Benner turnpike to the east to
a point slightly past Gill street
to 'the west, a distance 45 feet
over -a mile.
Two "humps" , will be remov
ed from the avenue, one at Pugh
street and the other at Ather
ton Hall.
Library Photostat Unit
Begins General Service
Photostat equipment, - origin
ally included in the General
State Authority building con
tracts, has been placed in service
in the basement of the Library,
Fred E. Kelly, part-time instruc
tor in visual education, announc
ed yesterday.
Photographic copies of any
drawn, written, •or printed ma
terial is produced by the machine.
Negative or positive prints up to
18 by 24 inches can be produced
at cost by the service, a strictly
non-profit enterprise. •
Sample copies and . sizes of
prints as well as special prices
for orders will be given by Mr.
Kelly at his office in Room 10
Burrows Building.
Students Ready To Push Drive
For New Alumni Membership
Preparations for • the first
Alumni Association drive which
will begin Sunday went ahead
today with an organizational
meeting scheduled for the Alumni
Office at 7 n.m. tonight.
Organized along the lines of
the PSCA's annual finance can
vass under the leadership of
William B. Bartholomew '4l,
.who conducted. the PSCA cam
paign, and Elinor L. Weaver '4l,
the drive will carry through next
week.
Explaining the new system last
night, Bartholomew pointed out
'that' students would be solicited
;this year as a move to expand
the Association and increase its
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ZETA, THETAS PLACE FIRST IN SCHOLARSHIP
Hammond Urges Airport, McDowell Flays Probe,
Appropriations Up During Busy Harrisburg Day
Special to the Collegian
HARRISBURG, April 22—The
Pennsylvania State College fig
ured in five important legislative
developments here today:
1.. Dean Harry P. Hammond,
of the School of- Engineering, ap
pearing in• behalf of the bills
asking $300,000 for a Penn State
training airport, said they would
provide the "only comprehensive
program in aeronautics in Penn
sylvania."
2. Testifying, before the
House's soil erosion investigating
committee, Milton S. McDowell,
director of the College agricul
tural extension, said the state's
erosion program should be edu
Cabinet Proposes
Tribunal Change
A change in the personnel of
Student Tribunal by an amend
ment to the student government
constitution was proposed by
William B. Bartholomew, senior
class president, at, All-College
Cabinet ..meeting._, last: night:,
If accepted,' the.. amendment
will provide for two . junior Tri
bunal members instead of one,
and will also cut the senior mem
bership from six to five. One of
the two juniors will be elected
president for the following year,
in contrast to the present method.
- of the one junior automatically
becoming president.
A student-faculty committee
was appointed by Pres. Arnold
C. Laich to consider designs and
accept bids for the new Blue
Band uniforms if the Board of
Trustees sanctions the, fee in
crease to cover costs of the uni
forms. The committee includes
Hummel Fishburn, chairman,
Neil M. Fleming, Bartholomew,
Theodore Rice '4l, and President
Laich.
Cabinet decided by a 9-8 vote
to raise the dance checking fee
from 10 cents to 25 cents.
IFC Meets Tonight
Interfraternity Council will
meet at the Sigma Pi fraternity
house at 7 o'clock tonight. All
newly elected fraternity presi
dents are urged to attend the
meeting at which the announce
ment of the IFC elections, to be
held on May Ist and discus-
Sions of the rushing code will
be brought up.
capacity to serve the College.
AD-College Cabinet • unanim
busly approved the plan last No
vember after it had been devel
oped by a joint Committee of the
Cabinet and the Alumni Associ
ation. The Alumni Council gave
its consent and amended its by
laws accordingly at its February
meeting.
Memberships will be offered
for $B, taking effect for five years
after the students graduate.
Sophomores and juniors will be
asked to pledge the money and
pay it with their fees and-seniors
will be asked to pay outright.
Freshmen will not be solicited.
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cational. He answered charges
of non-cooperation, saying it was
"the institutional policy of the
College to avoid administrative
and regulatory work, these latter
being functions of the state and
federal government." McDowell
called the probe more a prosecu
tion than an investigation.
3: A bill appropriating $75,000
to the School of Mineral Indus
tries was reported out of Senate
committee without comment.
4. Then Senate passed Sen. Jo
seph Ziesenheim's (R., Erie) bill
appropriating $200,000. to the
College for research in flax and
sent it to the House.
5. A bill for a $5,509,545 bien-
Whether Robert D. Baird '42
and Gerald F. Doherty '42, next
year's All-College president and
vice-president, will escape the
draft. was the pertinent ques
tion, still not answered at the
All-College meeting last night.
-.:Because; Baird and Doherty
need 'form 42 for deferment and
College officials cannot recom
mend deferment since their
positions are not "indispensable"
the - Cabinet decided to appeal
to their local draft boards in
view of the complications aris
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Six Enter Speech
Contest Finals
Six finalists, five men and
one woman, were chosen from
55 aftiirants last. night in the
prelii t inary round of the All-
College Extemporaneous Speech
Contest 'held in the Sparks
Building.
The speakers were grouped
into six sections to present five
minute speeches before the
judges who selected a winner
and a runner-up in each group.
The winners . were David R.
Benjamin '4l, Dean J. Clyde
'43, Hazel E. Grassman '43,
Herman Olto '43, William C.
Ritzel '43, and Donald R. Tay
lor '42.
Those who placed second
were Dorothy K. Brunner '44,
Thomas J. Burke '42, William
H. Cissel '43, Mary L. Green
berg '42, Robert W. Miller '43,
and Bernard M. Weinberg '43.
The finalists will compete for
the two cash prizes of $5O and
$25 in Room 121 Sparks Build
ing at 7:30 p. m. Thursday
night.
Participants in the speech
contest were:
Christine R. Grant '43, Shir
ley L. Leidich '4l, William E.
Murphy '43, Julian R. Tristani
'4l, Sarah R. Lipser '42, Eugene
W. Lederer '42, Leis J. Hunter
'42, John M. Lishan '42, Herb
ert D.. Berger '43, Mary E. Mc-
Curdy '44, and Olive B. Van
Houten '44.
Hilma R. Eisen '42, F. Ed
ward Snyder '44, Harriette
Block '44, Elizabeth R. Broder
ick '44, Gerald F. Doherty '42,
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Deferment Of Baird
Sought By Cabinet
nial maintenance appropriation
to the College was reported fav
orably by the House committee.
This is identical with the Col
lege's revised request and a mil
lion more than Governor James
recommended.
Dean Hammond told the legis
lators that the College proposes
"the•federal government be ask
ed to bear the costs of the airport
in return for military defense
training. Instruction could be
gin in the summer or next fall
at the latest and a one-year pro
gram could be provided for
about 50 seniors to be graduated
in June, 1942." He said there
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Racusin, Weaver
Win Class Honors
Norman Racusin, basketball
star, was named valedictorian
and Elinor L. Weaver, WSGA
president, was named saluta
torian of the Class of 1941 yes
terday.
A varsity pzay er two years,
Racifsin Withdrew 'this year to
concentrate on his studies. He
is president of Beta Sigma Rho
and a Phi Beta Kappa.
Miss Weaver, besides heading
WSGA, belongs to Phi Beta
Kappa, Mortar Board and Kap
pa Alpha Theta.
The unanimous selection, bas
ed on scholarship and extra
curricular activity, was made
by a four-man committee of
William B. Bartholomew, class
president; Adam A. Smyser,
class donor; Prof. William S.
Dye, Jr., and Prof. John H.
Frizzell.
At the same time the honors
were announced, Bartholomew
appointed two committees:
Class Day—Adam A. Smyser
(chairman), Thomas C. Backen
stose, Robert N. Baker, Arnold
C. Laich and L. Eleanor Benfer.
Senior Hot Dog Roast—W.
Lewis Corbin and George L.
Parrish (co-chairmen), David I.
Finkle, Marshall D. Miller, Peter
G. Fetzko, Robert N. Baker.
Sigma Tau Elects
Sigma Tau, engineering non-
orary, has elected the following Editorial board members for
officers for next year: John D. the new year are Howard Har-
Morgan, Jr., '42, president; mon '43, managing editor;-Daniel
William G. Barger '42, vice A. Swope, Jr. '42, campus farm
president; William P. Hindman editor; Roy C. Buck '42, feature
'4l, corresponding secretary, editor; and Helen L. Snyder '42
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Late News Flashes
NEW YORK—Representatives
of the CIO, United Mine Workers,
and mine operators will meet
here today in an attempt to settle
the 23-day mine strike.
ATHENS—A Greek news dis
patch last night stated that the
Allied withdrawal to the north
of Athens was accomplished
without serious loss. However,
the RAF inflicted heavy damage
to the Nazis.
MANILA—The largest Ameri
can force ever to embark for the
Orient landed here last night.
This movement resulted from the
recent Russo-Japanese pact.
WASHINGTON— Representa-
Weather—
Fair and
Warmer
PRICE THREE CENTS
All-College Mark
Drops Below
Last Semester's
Complete Scholarship
Standings, See Page 6
Alpha Zeta, with an average
of 2.13 for the first semester of
this year, retained first place in
the fraternity scholarship stand
ings for the second consecutive
semester, according to the av
erages released yesterday by A.
R. Warnock, dean of mer.
Among the sororities, Kappa
Alpha Theta took first place.
The Blue and White was the
highest independent group.
Fraternity averages were
raised from fractions to almost
two-tenths of a point over those
of the second semester of last
year. The All-College average
dropped from 1.43 to 1.36.
The composite non-fraternity
average dropped from 1.45 to
1.33, and was lower than the
composite fraternity average of
1.42.
Two fraternities and one in
dependent group dropped below
a 1.00 average, whereas there
were, none below this mark for
the second semester 1939-40.
Changes in All-College rat
ings from the second semester
of last year to the first semes
ter of this year are shown in
the following table.
1940-41 1939-40
All Frat. Women . .. 1.80 1.62
All-College Women. 1.63 1.62
Non Frat. Women . . 1.57 1.56
All Fraternity 1 42 1.39
All-College 1 36 1.43 \
Non Fraternity 133 1.45
All Frat. Men 1 32 1.30
All-College Men. . .1.23 1.37
Non Frat. Men 1 26 1.42
Bressler, Seidel Head
Penn State Farmer
James P. Bressler '42 has suc
ceeded to the editorship of the
Penn State Farmer and Lester
W. Seidel '43 was appointed
business manager, it - was an
nounced yesterday.
and Marjorie D. Cousley, co-edi
tors of the homemaker depart
ment.
tives of labor and management of
Great Lakes shipping concerns
will meet here today to discuss
their mutual problems in an ef
fort to avoid an anticipated
strike.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
National League
Cincinnati 1, Chicago 0
Philadelphia 6, Boston 4
Brooklyn 7, New York 4
Pittsburgh 7, St. Louis 7 (12th
inning). •
American League
Chicago 6, Detroit 3
St. Louis 6, Cleveland 3
Washington 12, Boston 5
Athletics 6, New York 5
Semesters
Ist 2nd