Successor to the Free Lance, Established 1887 .VOL. 37—No. 134 Baird, Doherty Installed In All-College Posts Despite Draft Threat COLLEGE WILL START LODGING HOUSE INSPECTION, RATING SOON Managers, Grafi Hit; Helm! Lauds British Morale International events made a heavy mark on the All-College inauguration ceremonies yester _ day . as two students, who will probably never complete their terms of office because of the Se lective Service Act, were induct ed as All-College president and vice-president. Despite. the fact he will prob ably hold office only a month, Robert D. Baird '42, new presid ent, in a vigorous speech called 'for• the new All-College Cabinet "to limit increases in student fees, and investigate athletic managerships to find if they are being used as political footballs." Baird, in addition to asking for expansion of the co-operative movement, urged all students "to keep an eagle-eye open for graft." Following the inaugural last' night, Baird put additional stress on of the topics in his inaug ural speech when he said that he would ask Cabinet to. take im mediate and forceful action on the managership problem. President Ralph D. Hetzel, in a brief talk before the inaugural, held up the spirit of the British people as the strength of that na (Continued on Page Four) Cabinet Accepts Tribunal Change The amendment limiting senior Tribunal membership to five stu dents• was unanimously passed at Cabinet meeting last night, des pite the recent appointment of six seniors to the same body by Robert Df Baird '42, newly in augurated All-College president. Introduced by 'William B. Bartholomew '4l, the approved amendment provides for the fol lowing changes in the personnel of Student Tribunal: 1. Senior membership will be cut from six to five. 2. Two juniors will be appoint ed. instead of the single appoint ment of previous years. 3.. Senior members will elect one of the two juniors as chair man for . the following year. The other junior will become a senior member. In previous years the single junior member automatic ally became Tribunal chairman in his senior year. Baird's additional senior ap pointment may or may not stand, depending up the action that will be taken by next year's Cabinet when it meets to approve the All- College president's appointments. Cabinet also endorsed Barth olomew's plan to provide closer relations between Mont Alto For estry School and the. College. Under the plan, a committee of three chbsen 'by Cabinet will serve as. a medium to administer a constitution and set up 'student government at Mont Alto, pend ing approval of the plan by For estry , School heads. Following approval by the In terclaSs Finance Board, $72 will be allotted . by Cabinet to the stu dent etam file committee. The money Will be used to hire work, ers to conduct the files from 1 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. each day from May 17 • June 2. 4 /s;:ly2F-4e4s ier 4; ~ g Eittitg /,,,::.,,,y,!Lst,ol/ wattriglan Bill In House To Give College $321,000 /fig Work HARRISBURG, May 6.—Rep. Clayton Moul (D., York) intro ducecL a bill into the House today which would appropriate $321,- 000 to the Agriculture School of the Penn Sylvania State College for "research and. experiment." Representative Moul gave va gue, . indefinite answers when questioned about the purpose of the bill, saying that it would be "just for general agriculture work." He was also the sponsor of a Educators Hold Confab Today The annual spring meeting of the Central Pennsylvania Educa tor's •Conference will be held in Burrower and the tome Eco nomics Buildings at 4 o'clock to day. The-School of Education will act as *host. This conference, Composed of secondary professors of educa tion in this section of the state, will discuss problems of interest to those preparing secondary school teachers and those active in the field of secondary school teaching. A tea, given in the Burrowes Building, will open the program at • 4 p.m:-and - -will be - followed by a tour of Burrowes and the Home Economics buildings and demonstration houses. Members of Kappa Phi Kappa and PI Lambda Theta, undergraduate honorary education fraternities, will act as guides for the tour. A combination discussion meeting and dinner will be held in the Maple Room of the Home Economics building at 6 p. m. Dr. Levi Gilbert, president of the Pennsylvania State Educa tional Association and superin tendent of Altoona Schools, Dr. F. H. Koos, professor of educa tional administrations, and Hon. D. Raymond Sollenburger, Blair county representative, will be the principal speakers at the dinner meeting. Cap And Gown Deadline All seniors are asked to order their caps and gowns at Student Union from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. any day this week, co-chairman of the committee .Peter G. Fetzko '4l announced . yesterday. Satur day noon is the deadline. Alumnus One Month Late For IF Ball By JAMES D. OLKEIN Alan G. Mclntyre '39, former Collegian Feature Editor, arrived in State College this weekend— exactly one month late for his Interfraternity Ball date. Mclntyre, who is an employee of the Eastern Airlines, was fly ing from _Palm Beach, Fla., to Philadelphia on April 2 to come to Penn State for the IF weekend when his plane was forced down near Vero Beach, Fla. "By the way," the ex-Penn Stater said last night, "I was the 13th passenger to board the plane at Palm Beach." After it was out an hour, the plane ran into a storm and was forced down. "We were going about 125 miles an hour when we hit. Wat er started coming into the plane. OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1941, STATE COLLEGE, PA resolution to investigate the Col lege agricultural extension and the Soil Conservation Board on charges they have not 'cooperat ed with the federal government in soil erosion work. All ap propriations to the College are being held up until completion of the investigation. The House committee which is conducting the investigation has not yet finished its hearings. At its most recent session, held a week ago, Milton S. McDowell, Mother's Day Chapel Dr. Albert W. Beaven, presi dent of the Colgate-Rochester Di vinity School; Rochester, will be the speaker at the Mother's Day Chapel services and scholarship day program in Rec Hall Sunday. His subject will be "The Home, Religion and the Days Ahead." As in former years, the serv ices will be held in Rec Hall to accommodate an expected large Mother's Day attendance, and begin at 10:30 a. m. instead of 11:00 as is customary. A graduate of Shurtleff Col lege, Alton, 111., and of the Ro chester .Theological Seminary, Dr.- Beaven•was-for-twenty years pastor of the Lake Avenue Church of Rochester, N. Y., one of the outstanding churches in the country, and is widely known as a speaker and author. Alumni Drive Soliciting Disappoints Chairman With only two solicitors re porting with but 26 new sub scriptions in yesterday's Alumni student membership campaign ing, the total of new members gained in the drive so far reach ed 291, nine short of the 300 mark. "Disappointing," was the way William B. Bartholomew '4l, chairman of the drive, described the low returns last night. "If students understood the full purpose of the Alumni Asso ciation and were aware of the savings this plan offers, I'm sure we'd have a 100 per cent return. It's up to the solicjtors to get that idea across in these last days," he said. and some of us thought we had landed in the ocean, but there was no hysteria. "There were about three of us who weren't hurt. I didn't know I had cracked my vertebrae until a week later. We had crashed a little after 9 a. m., but we weren't fgund until 6:20 in the evening." Mclntyre stayed on until 2 a.m. to help with the injured. "None of this hero stuff, mind you," he added. "It's just that I felt it was my duty to the company, since I was the only employee who was not hurt." After finally leaving the scene of the wreck 21 hours after crashing, Mclntyre made a val iant attempt to make connections lege by Saturday, so as not to In Rec Hall director of the College agricul tural extension, testified that there is no legal connection be tween the College and the Soil Conservation Board. No new steps were taken to ad vance the College maintenance appropriation bill of $5,509,046 which is still in committee in the Senate, though there was a re port that the bill might be brought out on the floor some time during the next few days. F Counselors Bed Officers Election of officers and the appointment of a committee to work with the Interfraternity Caterers Association on fratern ity cooperative buying held the spotlight in a meeting of the In terfraternity Counselors Associ ation Monday night, Prof. J. L. McCord succeeded Prof. William C. Bramble as president and -Prof. Marsh W. White- took over the vice-presi dent position formerly held by the new president. Maurice K. Goddard replaced Jesse S. Doo little as secretary and Charles Schlow was appointed as the re presentative to the executive committee of the IFC. Prof. Ernest W. Callenbach, chairman, Robert H. Carey, and Robert Y. Edwards were named to a committee for thorough in vestigation of cooperative buy ing and will meet with the In terfraternity Caterers Associa tion next fall to discuss the pos sible establishment of the system at Penn State. A Tengthy discussion of the merits and pitfalls of coopera tive buying was carried on at the meeting and advisors who have had experience with the system brought up several objections and problems that would have to be considered • before a frater nity cooperative could be estab lished. The effect of Selective Service on enrolment and fraternity fi nances for the coming year, as presented to Interfraternity Council in a speech by Dean A. R. Warnock last Thursday night, was brought up at the meeting to aid the counselors, who will relay the information to their fraternities. disappoint his date entirely. "They wouldn't let me go. They wanted to hold me for ob servation." As a result of that "observa tion" the former Feature Editor now wears a cast from his hip to his shoulder over a cracked ver tebrae, and will wear it' until July 1. "Ironically, it turned out to be a lucky break. It kept me out of the draft. I was supposed to go May 8," he said. "All rumors that I sabotaged the ship to stay out of the draft are fallacious." Mclntyre considers himself a "lucky guy," since he is recuper ating on - a paid vacation, and will not return to work until some time in July. Weather,— Partly Cloudy, Continued Warm. PRICE THREE CENTS Health Service Plans To Issue Approved List Inspection and rating of lodg ing houses to begin at once has been approved by the Board of Trustees, President Ralph D. Hetzel announced last night. This action culminates a two-year crusade for better housing pro moted by eight student organiza tions and prompted by the results of a Collegian housing survey. The inspection and rating will be voluntary and will follow the request of individual house owners. Health Service employes will act as inspectors and will draw up an approved list of lodg ing houses from their own data and information supplied by re liabel sources. Individual surveys will include not more than two visits a year and will be confined to certain set conditions. Standards will be determined by Joseph P. Riten our, director of the Health Serv ice in collaboration with the Ad visory Committee. Mimeographed or printed cop ies of the approved list will be supplied to students and pros pective students in interviews or by mail. This service will be handled by the Christian Associ ation. It is expected that the Daily Collegian will also carry the listing in its initial pre-Col lege edition next year. Individual difficulties arising between students and landlords of approved houses will be handled by either the Dean of Men or the Student Housing Board. Room contracts will not be guaranteed by the College, but efforts will be made to assist both parties, to the contract in the acceptance of contract con ditions. The Administrative Committee is composed of A. R. Warnock, dean of men; Joseph P. Ritenour, director of the Health Service: and Harry W. SeamanS, secretary of the PSCA. Student members on the Ad visory Committee are Robert D. Baird, president of Student Cab inet; Ray F. Leffler, chairman of Student Tribunal; John M. Byer ly, chairman of the Student Hous ing Board; Elden T. Shaut, pres ident of the IMA; and Ross B. Lehman, editor of the Daily Col legian. Faculty representation on the Advisory Committee consists of S. K. Hostetter, assistant to the president in charge of business and finance; A. R. Warnock, dean of men; Joseph P. Ritenour, di rector of the Health Service, Harry W. Seamans, secretary of the PSCA; and Warren B. Mack, chairman of the Senate Commit tee on Student Welfare. 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Late News 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL National League Brooklyn 4, Pittsburgh 3 Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati 2 Boston 5, St. Louis 4 New York 5, Chicago 3 American League Detroit 7, New York 4 Washington 5, Cleveland 4 Boston-St. Louis, rain. Philadelphia-Chicago, rain.
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