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VOL."37—No. 144
SPECIAL COMMITTEE, head
ed by Chaplain John H. Frizzell,
above, has recommended that a
vote be taken in chapel to decide
whether offerings shall continue
to go to Lingnan University or be
divided with a local charity.
Vote Planned
On Chapel Fund
President Ralph D. Hetzel ap
proved yesterday a recommenda
tion by a special advisory com
mittee that he sanction a vote by
chapel-goers in order to settle
the controversy over All-College
Cabinet's authority to divert
- chattel collections from Lingnan
University.
At its meeting last night, Cabi
net did not act on the plan.
Dr. Ralph L. Watts, chairman of
the Penn State in China commit
tee, said that members of the
special committee from his'group
were given full power to act and
that approval by the full Penn
State in China committee would
not be necessary.
- Under the plan, a series of flye
votes will be taken in chapel be
tween October - .1.2 and December
7. The result will determine
whether offerings will continue
to go, to Lingnan or be divided
with a local charity.
The recommendation .. was
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Tau Bela Pi Will
Initiate Tonight
Tau Beta Pi, national honorary
engineering society, will hold its
annual spring initiation and
banquet tonight. Initiation will
be held in Room 304 Old Main
at 5:30 p. in. and the banquet will
be held at the University Club at
p. m.
Frank C. Whitmore, dean of
the School of Chemistry and Phy
sics will be the guest speaker at
the banquet.
Students from the class of '4l
who will be initiated are Wil
liam F. Abbey, Gerald B. Bready,
Michael C. Chervenak 11, Wil
liam J. Dorworth, Jr., Robert B.
Filbert, Jr., Oliver A. Schaeffer,
and Gerald F. Snyder.
Juniors who will be inducted
are Axel W. Anderson, Charles
G. Arnold, Henry L. Boker, Al
bert W. Batten, August P. Colai
aco, Harold C. Foust, Robert E.
Geier, Richard V. Grimes, John
W.. Healy, Howard B. Irwin, Ber
nard J. Krings, Louis M. Laus
hey, Ernest F.. Marshall, Joseph
A. McCormick,' Jr., Charles J.
Smith, Earl B. Stavely, Jr., Hen
ry H. Stoner, Robert T.- Struck,
Howard J. Talley, Jr.
Edward Steidle, dean of the
School of Mineral Industries, of
the class of 1911, will also be in
itiated into the society. -
NewAll-College Election Seen
Rep. Moul Completes
Investigation Of College
HARRISBURG, May 2d.—Rep.
Clayton Moul (D., York) said to
day that his investigation of the
Soil Conservation Board and the
agriculture extension of the
Pennsylvania State College was
finished and that he would pre
sent a final report on it to the
House tomorrow.
No Penn State bills were re
ported out of committee in the
House although 44 other appro
priation measures including
bills for Pitt, Temple and Penn—
were passed unanimously and
sent to the Senate. It was re
ported that the Penn State bills
would come out of committee
either Thursday or Monday.
Seniors To Pick
'Hot Dog' Man
A crown of garlic-seasoned
baloney will adorn the head of
the Senior Hot Dog Man, annual
mirthfest king, when he takes
his throne in response to a senior
vote to select the 'goat' of the day
on the Jordan Fertility Plots op
posite Grange Dorm at 5:30 p. in.
Sunday.
Candidates for the honor of
`chief goat' are seniors Edward
13: Harris, William E. LaPorte,
and Roy P. Rogers. George L.
Parrish will' be master of cere
monies. - ,
Chief entertainers for the. 'ocL
casions will be the Blue Band
and Leon J. Rabinowitz and His
Gang. A special 'jam' session
will be featured by a group from
the Blue Band.
Along with the hot dog roast,
$3 each will be awarded to a
male and a female having the
best decorated Lion's coats.
In case rain halts the festivi
ties the roast, now a College tra
dition in its second year, will be
held on the same site at 5:30 p.m.
on Monday.
Co-chairmen George L. Par
rish and W. Lewis Corbin an
nounced last night that all sen
iors will be admitted free. All
faculty and administration mem
bers are invited guests.
Lion's Coats Deadline
Friday will be the last day for
buying lion's coats at the Athletic
Store,• Walter R. Hosterman Jr.
'4l, chairman of the committee
announced yesterday. They are
priced at $l.
In The First World War—
College Campus Was Like Army Camp
By GORDON COY
Surveys show it, national lead
ers predict it—everything points
to the fact that the United States
seems to be drawing closer to
the theatre or World War No. 2.
"Just how much will the crisis
affect college life?" students
query. Already, the draft shows
possibilities of cutting inroads
into 'campus organization.-.
Students may get the best idea
of what to expect in case of - war,
if they delve back through
and
concerning Penn State and
the first World War. In a series
of three articles, The Daily Col
legian will give the background
for the statement made recently
by Prof. John H. Frizzell, Col
lege chaplain, who said, "The
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 21, 1941, STATE COLLEGE, PA
Lodge Funds
Still Insufficient
Progress on the proposed
Mountain Lodge was interrupted
again last night when all bids for
constructio not the cabin were
reported to the Recreational Co
ordinating Committee as being
$2,000 or more above the avail
able $6,700.
Although the total amount
available is $7,300, only $6,700
can be used for actual construc
tion. -The rest is being held to
buy the land, for the water sup
ply and possibly to build a road.
The proposed site for the lodge
is near the ski trail.
The original fund, $5,300, was
donated by the class of 1939, and
as that proved 'insufficient, All-
College Cabinet answered a re
quest for additional funds with
$2,000 from the Interclass Sports
Fund.
Even with this additional
money, plans were made, out
twice and each time the bids
turned in were too high. Last
night's bids were in answer to a
further revision of specifications
in which the originally planned
dormitories were left out,
The committee now .has two
alternatives to work on: either
raise more money or again cut
the plans. There is a possibility
that nothing more will be done
until next fall. •
- ROTC-Graduation Parade
On Golf Course Today
The annual ROTC graduation
parade will be held on the golf
course from 3 to 5 p. m. today,
Col. Edward D. Ardery, head of
the military _science department,
announced yesterday. ROTC stu
dents will be excused from 3 and
4 o'clock classes.
Individual awards will go to
the following:
Freshmen Infantry: first, Rob
ert W. Fuss; second, Clifford M.
Painter; third, Samuel G. Fisher.
Freshmen Engineers: first,
Michael Chruney; second,
Charles E. Forbes; third, Fred J.
Birnbaum.
Sophomore Infantry: first, Ed
ward J. Maslow; second, Wilbur
Van Lenten; third, Stanley E.
Forbes.
Sophomore Engineers: first,
William S.• Ivans; second, Rich
ard C. Allen; third, James F.
Fisher.
campus was practically an arm
ed camp in 1917 and 1918."
Immediately following Amer
ica's entry into the World War,
the Board of Trustees placed the
entire facilities of the College at
the disposal of the government.
Being a Land Grant College,
Penn State already had military
training on the campus and was
not faced by a problem as dif
ficult as most colleges, which
had to provide army training for
the first time.
On the campus, students were
trained under the S. A. T. C.—
Students' Army Training Corps.
Barracks were built to house
civilians who came to the Col
lege for regular camp training
TWO HONORS came to J.
Burn Helme, head of the fine
arts department, yesterday with
the announcement of his appoint
ment as chairman of a jury •to
select sculpture for the :York
post office, and the publication
in Parnassus, art magazine, of
his article "The Paintings of
Hobson Pittsman."
`Goodbye Again'
Cast Announced
The cast for the Houseparty
show of the Penn State Players,
"Goodbye Again," to be present
ed Tune 6 and 7, was announced
yesterday by Lawrence E. Tuck
er, director of the play.
Playing his last role before
graduation, 'Malcolm WeinStein
'4l gets the leading male part,
Kenneth Bixby, a novelist who
is on a lecture tour. Bixby meets
a married woman with whom he
has had relations in college, and
complications arise.
Elinor F. Herrman '42, takes
the female lead, the part of Anne
Rogers, Bixby's secretary.
Also in her last show lor Play
ers, Thelma R. Kluger '4l, will
portray Elizabeth Clochessy, the
girl friend of Arthur Westlake,
a young lawyer just out of Har
vard Law School. Westlake will
be played by Robert H. Herrman
'44.
Julia Wilson, the young, mar
ried woman with whom Bixby
is mixed up, will be played by
Barbara A. Davis '43.
Other parts are the bellboy,
Milton olinger '44; maid, Aimee
L. Sobbott '42; chauffeur, Wil
liam C. Ritzel '43; Harvey Wil
son, Julia's husband, by J. Scott
Keck '43; and Clayton, Richard
A. Mock '44. •
as well as additional preparation
received from special college
courses
What is now Holmes Field was
Penn State's own "no-man's
land" in 1917. Trenches were
dug, dummies were set up to pro
vide bayonet pfactice, and in
several - months the campus vir
tually became an armed camp.
Strangely enough, costs did not
vary much for students, although
a slight increase was introduced
at the dining commons. Members
of the faculty and administra
tion were hardest hit by rising
prices, as their wages remained
the same while living costs in
town rose from 25 to 50 per cent.
Weather—
Clear and
Continued Warm
PRICE THREE CENTS
Amendment
Passed To Allow
Vote Next Fall
Cabinet unanimously accepted
a constitutional amendment last
night that will provide for new
All-College elections next fall if
both President Robert D. Baird
'42, and Vice-president Gerald
F. Doherty '42, are drafted.
The amendment reads, "In the
event of the disqualification or
resignation of both the All-Col
lege president and vice-presi
dent, an election for All-College
president shall be held within
four weeks of the regular Col
lege session after the disqualifi
cation or resignatior, of the old
officers go into effect."
Under the old provision, the
senior class president would
have become head of student
government as chairman of Cab
inet until the end of the term.
Cabinet also endorsed the fol
lowing appointments to Student
Tribunal made by President
Baird: Thomas R. Heidecker '43,
George M. Rumsey '43, J. Lee
Clovis '42, George R. Ross '42,
Richard N. Stevenson '42, and
Robert A. Wasser '42.
Richard E. Haskell '42, chair
man of the Student Radio Com
mittee, appeared before Cabinet
to receive its endorsement of the
proposed 5,000 watt, non-com
mercial College radio station.
Cabinet, however appointed a
new committee that will meet
with the radio committee to con
fer with President Ralph D. Het
zel concerning the feasibility of
fulfills the request, Cabinet - will
then change its meeting room to
the plan. The Cabinet commit
tee includes Jerome H. Blakes
lee '43, H. Leonard Krouse '42,
James W. Ritter '42, and Betty
L. Zeigler '42.
A motion was accepted asking
the College to install office equip
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LONDON British and - Greek
troops in Crete are running a race
against time in an effort to wipe
out the 15,000 German troops
that ha've landed in Crete by air
and ship before reinforcements
can arrive. A German movement
towards the British column is
being attempted and supported
by many dive bombers.
CAIRO British forces are
driving on Bagdad in a deter
mined effort to end the revolt in
Iraq. British officials in Cairo
report that all Italian resistance
in Ethiopia has been quelled with
the surrender of the Duke of
Aosta's army at Amba Alagi. This
releases many imperial forces for
fighting elsewnere.
WASHINGTON Southern
soft coal miners headed by John
L. Lewis say that they will ac
cept no concessions in their fight
to gain the same wage scale as
northern operators.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
National League
Philadelphia 6, St. Louis 4 (11
innings)
Chicago 9, Brooklyn 1
Pittsburgh 7, New York 5
Cincinnati 9, Boston 6
American League
Philadelphia 6, Cleveland 5
New York 10, St. Louis 9
Boston 4, Detroit 2
Chicago 5. Washington 2