PAGE FOUR fisburn Discusses 'Boys In Blue' Every minute that Penn State's famous Blue Band spends on dis play is preceded by an hour's work, .according to Prof. Hummel Fishburn, bandmaster of the fast stepping "boys in blue" since 1939. "The Band's soldier-like preci sion—as you call it—is practical ly inherited," Fishburn began with a smile. "You see, way back in 1914 the band was organized by W. 0. Thompson, a former bandmaster in the United States Army. In fact," he added, "we were known as the Cadets until 1939, when the name was changed in recognition of our distinctive blue uniforms." All band formations are plan ned on cross-section paper at least a week before they are presented, according to Fishburn. On the Tuesday before each game, the band members walk through the formation as it has been completed on raper and explained at a pre ceding chalk session. During each remaining night before the game, the 90 Blue-Banders prac tice the formations with instru ments. "After each game," the band's master-mind added, "the band members are shown moving pic tures of their drill, just to make sure that any marching errors don't creep in more than once." While Fishburn is' responsible for most of the band's innovations, he is quick to adopt suggestions from students. "The 'James Lick,' that jived-up •song and yell we've been using this year, is a classic example," he reflected. "It was dreamed up by Walt James on the train g6ing to the Pitt game last fall. "It's not. band policy to have anyone but a drum 'major in front of the Blue Baud," the Blue- Bandmaster stated, "but when someone like Eddie Anderson, last year's twirler, cDmes along, he needs only to show his merit." A girl twirler with enough ability might even break the Band's bach elor-club tradition, Fishburn ad mitted. "I guess I'd better get some serious practice started," Fishburn remarked as he arose slowly, "or you'll be hearing something really different this weekend. It sounds like the boys in the next room have started the 'James Lick No. 2: 7) - HOUSEPARTY WEEK-END Meet Your Friends At McLANAHAN'S • .Fountain and Table Service * Plenty of Room • Good Food * Immaculately Clean Johnston's Hot Fudge • Sundae-20c Sweet Cream Caramel Fudge Sundae-20c McLANAHAN'S DRUG STORE 124 S. Allen Phone 3411 Triple Feature Scheduled For Observatory Tonight Students will have an opportun ity to observe a celestial phenome on tonight and tomorrow night which occurs only once in - every four or five years, according to Dr. Henry L. Yeagley, associate profes sor of physics. Three planets .I\4ars, Saturn, and Jupiter—are in such an unus ual position in the sky at present that they can all be observed at once, Yeagley stated. Students may view them from the College Observatory which will be open tonight and tomorrow night from 9 to 10 o'clock. In previous years students had to wait until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, Yeagley commented, to 'observe this triple-feature show ing of the heavenly bodies. Alderfer Boosts Borough Units Preserving and strengthening 10- cal governments in the present emergency is one of the best ways to maintain democracy, according to Dr. Harold F. Alderfer, ,profes -sor of political.science and execu tive secretary of the Institute of Local Government. Calling the 2,500 local govern ment units in Pennsylvania the "anchors of democracy," Dr. Alder fer declared yesterday that these are the. "last level of government in which the ordinary man can be a part." Pointing out that many former functions of municipal and county units, such as direct and work re lief programs, have been taken over by state and national govern ments, he advocated improving conditions in local units as a means of keeping the -powers still left in this "integral part of democracy." The only way to keep the smaller units in good condition, he said, is to institute improved methods of administration, budgets, account ing, reports to the public, control of debts, and assessment and collec tion of taxes. He also suggested the need for improving personnel by giving jobs through merit alone and by making careers in local units desirable. Commending the Public Service Institute at. Harrisburg for its or ganization of schools to train peo ple for local jobs, he added that the borough manager idea should !be given consideration 'by municipal ities 'throughout the state. KDKA To Broadcast Soph Hop Program (Continued trom Page One) broadcast the major football games. We know the students will make every effort to give us their best so that we can present the atmo sphere •of the Blue and White of Penn State to your alumni and friends throughout our listening audience in our broadcast sched- uled for Friday, November 7, be ginning at 10:30 p. m. Serving as a prelude to your classic game with Syracuse, and the opening:of your famous House party weekend, we are hoping this year to combine the talents of Penn State with one of the nation's top bands, selected by your Soph Hop Committee, Jan Savitt and his or chestra. We are going to do our best to make the listening audience enjoy everything we do and say from State College. Kindest regards. Bill Sutherland McCue On Forensic Council To fill .the vacancy left when Herbert L. Berger '42 did not re turn to school this fall, All-College' president Rdbert D. Baird '42 has appointed John B. 'McCue to the Forensic council. This announce ment was made at last night's meeting of the group. Dorothy K. Brunner '43 was elected secretary of the group. READ THE COLLEGIAN CLASSIFIEDS THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Thespian Show Ready To Go "What's. Coming Off?" musical revue to be presented by Thes pians in Schwab Auditorium Fri day and Saturday evenings at 7 o'clock, is in near-performance shape with only a general re hearsal tonight and a dress re hearsal tomorrow night scheduled before it is presented to the Soph Hop-Houseparty audience. Starring Leon Rabinowitz, Marco Stringer, Mim Rhein, Ted Clauss, and football stars "Pepper" Petrella and "Mike" Kerns, the production will be made up of ori ginal skits, chorus dancing num bers, glee club vocalizing, indivi dual specialties, a • girls' trio, a mixed quartet, and a girls' sex tette. The skits are "$2l Dollars a Month and All Beans," a parody on army life; "A Cup of Coffee, A Sandwich, and Yoo-Hoo," in the setting of a college town diner in the post-midnight hours; and "Dr. Jerkyl, Why Don't You Hide?" a take-off -on the class room situation: Specialties include Rabinowitz in "Too Much Cloth"; Stringer "giving out" with her version of "Jim"; Mim Rhein singing "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"; Stringer and Kerns in an original "I'm A Lov er"; "A Night At the Opera" with Jan Hartz, Don Taylor, Stringer, and Rabinowitz; the trio of Ruth Shanes, Helen Schmeltz, and Jan Hartz singing "Blue Skies"; and a sextette number. Three dancing choruses, using a total of 18 girls and 12 boys, are featured in a new arrangement of Jimmy Leyden's "Hot Dog Man" number, hit of last spring's Thes pians' show which has been popu larized by Fred Waring; a foot ball routine using the 20 voice glee club as accompaniment; and a tap dance number starring Bud Mal ott. Yougel Ahead For Burgess . (Continued from Page One) with 508. Other council candidates and their votes were John H. Ferguson, sticker candidate, 449; Homer ish ler - (D), 285 Fred Banks (D), 231; and Morris I. Fromm (D) 123. Edith H. Anderson (D) had 695 votes to lead the balloting for school director. Others were Ed ward H. Jones CEO, 632, Gordon Cr. Kissinger 1R), 488; Elizabeth C. Robinson (R), 425; . W. B. Keerer (D); 49; and C. Gail Norris (Di.. 388. Lederer was far ahead of his opponent in his other candidacy— . for justice of the peace. Lederer had 726 votes in the two precincts, and Charles Henderson (D) had 390. I. C. Holmes (R), the only candi date for constable, polled 1,005 votes in the north and east dis- T. R. Kemmerer (Hi led the balloting for auditor as he polled 785 votes. His only opponent, William Garner (D), got 364 'in the two precincts reporting. For . tax collector, P. B. Meek (D), with 617 votes, had a narrow lead over his Republican oppo nent, Fred Bender, who received 599 ballots. Charles S. Rockey iR) was elected judge of election in the north precinct. He got 211 votes to 167 for Jessie Arnold (D), his only opponent on the ballot. In the east precinct, Charles M. Thompson, who ran on both tickets and was the only candi date, polled 688 votes for the posi tion. W. S. Wieland (ID was voted in spector of election in the north precinct where he got 240 votes to 163 for C. S. Myers (D). Claire B. Porter (R) gained the position in the east precinct, polling 433 votes to the 282 cast for Walter Hov (D'. Industry-Education Conference Here, Nov. 13 A conference for the considera tion of problems of mutual inter est to industry and education. will be held. here on . November 13, Dean H. P. Hammond of . the School of Engineering announced yesterday. Sponsored by the College and a committee on education of the Na tional Association of Manufactur ers, the conference will provide informal discussion in three fields: national defense training, adjust ment of the individual to college or to industry, and post-war' ad justments of education and of in dustry. A Bet's A Bet— They Muck To It Penn State sportsmanship pass ed a serious crisis last night when two students, Jack W. Beighley '43 and Samuel F. Lamb '44, crawled on their hands and knees from their house to Co-op corner, two blocks away, to pay off a bet to Kehl Markley 111 '44. Anyone who saw the losers with the large crowd following them hurrying up Allen street at 6:30 p. m. realized that it had turned into a race which Lamb, rated as an also-ran at the start, won by two lengths. His backers were paid well by two-to-one odds placed on him early in the race. The bet, made a week ago, -re sulted from an argument over an unknown blue book grade and end ed with its payment, to Markley's satisfaction, by the running of ~the race last night. Griffith '3l Gets. Air Corps Promotion •J. H. Griffith '37 has been ad vanced in rank to .the temporary grade of captain with the Army Air Corps, Lawson Field,- Fort Benning, Ga. He was commissioned in the Reserve Corps upon his gradua tion from Penn State and-spent a yeati as a Reserve Officer on ac tive duty, and under the terms or the Thomason Act received his commission in the Infantry, Regu lar Army in 1938. From 19'38 to 1940 he served as an officer in the Regular Army and in 1940 was graduated from the Army Air Corps Flying Schools. WEDNESDAYS NOVEIVIEtErtv 5t Bells tompileir,,..,- Unique Spellery.-.::.. A unique series of spellers.li6i . just been published by Dr.: Emmett. A. Betts, director .of • the..readirig;_.` clinic and Mabel Louise,. Areyoi clinic supervisor of speech correc tion at Indiana State - Teachleis.• , College, Terre Haute,, Indiana. Covering grades bwo to eight, the. series contains 3;7111 wOrdsselet ed to .fall within .. .:the - • Spealcin, reading, and writing . VoCabitlaily..4 the child and to meet his immecii=" ate and future needs. After careful study.,of existing spellers, Dr. Betts: words of universal value anO,y4lo , •; l lc calls "crucial '• words-t;that ! ., words that may not be used,often„,. but may he essential in a ; parti . cu, lar situation, such as applying for a job. 'Unique features of: the..serids in clude placing words in :grades:lb form a "book-to-bciok". maintew.! ance of spelling abilities,••using!!' "dictionaries" in the - .back , of •the.. book as an integral part of fhb spelling program, emphasis on clividual needs as, well as:" needs,,. the use of readable . stottes'!: containing the words to:.be learn ed, and the use of - illuStratidns••• which contribute to the'rneaninv:,- Four Colors. Stump' Mathematics Expert Four colors will . .stiffice:l676 - 610:' any map in such . a .wa . S; ;that 'tli'e same color will never fall oppOiq itself in the neiglicberinkj"State"'W.: "county;," Professor Prederick" Owens, head of the departpoentA" mathematics, has 'told Ireihnoan • • ri9•• survey class. Yet despite - the laCt that no"ridii• has ever been founcr :: ,fer which more than four colors,,are required, the validity of the gewal statet ment has not been prOved mathe matically. The 'thee:rein was cited as an illustration Ar.)thg.t,phaseMt.: mathematics known as topology, which field there has been rapidly increasing interest. "The furthest mAematicians have yet been able too I , k, dealing with the problem pf•tolAring an outline map is to rprOv,e thakthere is, a. map which cannot be — colored with four crayons, it -must have more than 31 'states'," Dr. Owens declared. Head The Collegian Classifieds
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