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VOL. 39—No. 3
Faculty Members
Named On Cadet
Examining Board
With additional stress having
been placed on the movement to-
despite selective service demands,
despite selective service dmands,
three factulty members have been
placed on official Army examina
tion floard to- facilitate enlistment
conditions here.
■ Capt. Jack H. Weske, assistant
professor of military science and
tactics, Dr. Charles D. Diettrich,
assistant College physician, and
Robert E. Galbraith, associate pro
fessor of English composition were
named to serve along with Lieut.
H. S. Engart, of the Aviation Ca
det Board Headquarters, Harris
burg, as a local examining board
for applicants for enlistment in the
Air Force Enlisted Reserve.
Professor Galbraith, who has
been serving as faculty advisor for
the program so far, will serve as
coordinator and has announced
that a new drive for enlistees is
under way. Examination for the
new enlistees will take place June
4,5, and 6, when Lieutenant En
gart will return to the campus to
head th board in its first official
activity.
A letter from Lieutenant Engart
to Professor Galbraith yesterday
stated that the 54,000 quota mark
for the first enlistment will soon
be filled and urged that students
who wish to be considered in this
plan for deferrment from active
service ' under 'the-. draft act *as
quickly as possible. . .
Lieutenant Engart stressed the
fact that papers must be complete
with applications in triplicate,
three letters of recommendation,
and a birth certificate before ap
plicants can be considered at all.
(Continued on Page Two)
Late News
BASEBALL SCORES
National League
Brooklyn 4, Boston 1
Cincinnati D, Chicago 1
St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh. 3
New York at Philadelphia
(night)
American League
New York 8, Philadelphia 3
St. Louis 5, Detroit 2
Chicago 9, Cleveland 7
Boston at Washington'(night)
WASHINGTON— Authoritative
sources here report that a move
ment is afoot in Congressional cir
cles which would result in legis
lative action freezing American
war workers in their present posi
tions for the duration.
WASHINGTON President
Roosevelt has asked Congress to
appropriate $600,000,000 to pro
vide housing facilities for defense
workers within close proximity of
their plants.
WASHINGTON—The Navy De
partment announced yesterday the
sinking of still another- medium
sized U. S; merchant ship in the
Gulf of Mexico.
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report your complaint. A news
boy will be on hand to deliver
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Pattee's 1941 Poem
"War And Youth”
Gains Prose Annual
The Daily Collegian received a
left-handed compliment yesterday
.in The Bookworm’s column in the
Centre Daily Times. Bookworm
remarks: "Frankly we never ex
pected to see anything from the
Penn State Collegian reprinted in
a book of model selections. Yet
here it is.”
The piece that brings this fame
to The Daily Collegian is Dr. Fred
Le'wis Pattee’s poem, “War and
Youth,” which was printed in
April 1941 following a reading iby
A. O. Morse, assistant to the pres
ident in charge of resident instruc
tion, at a meeting of the local
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
The poem is now included in
“Freshman Prose Annual, Number
3,” edited by Gay, Boatright and
Wykoff for Houghton Mifflin
Company. This collection is used
in some of the English Composi
tion 1 classes.
Ag Find Helps
'Keep 'Em Flyin'
A major bottleneck in Am
erica’s, efforts to build a supreme
air force has been eliminated by
Penu State’s School of Agricul
ture.
President Roosevelt’s proposal
of “50,000 planes” means that a
vast number of new air fields be
built, and the necessary grassing
of the new fields' had becorne'-a~
major problems of speed-minded
Army officials.
Experts in aeronautics state
that dust on bare airfields may
reduce the life of an airplane
motor as much as 90 par cent, yet
providing proper sod was tradi
tionally the result of a. whole
season’s work.
Penn State’s School of Agri
culture found the answer.
This Spring research workers
at Penn State’s agricultural ex
periment station perfected a
method by which they could es
tablish fine turf on large areas
within a month.
H. Burton Musser, professor of
experimental agronomy, report
ed to Army headquarters “some
where in the South" this week to
supervise the grassing of airplane
landing fields and other large
military areas.
Army officials have marked
another problem “solved” as ag
riculture at Penn State comes
forth to help “keep ’em flying.”
National Officers Install
Pi Lambda Phi Chapter
Pi Lambda Phi installed a local
chapter of the 41st national social
fraternity to be chartered on the
campus at Penn State in its na
tional organization last Saturday.
Installation services were held
Saturday afternoon, followed by a
banquet in the Hotel State College
that evening.
Officers of the national chapter
were present, along with various
student representatives of campus
organizations. Dean A. R. War
nock and Professor Sheldon C.
Tanner spoke at the ceremonies.
This is the sixth chapter of Pi
Lambda Phi to be organized.in the
state.
HilieS Seeks Members
Hillel Foundation at Penn State
will inaugurate its annual mem
bership drive with a dance and
social Saturday evening at 9:15
p. m.
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 28, STATE COLLEGE, PA.
M'Kechnie Names
Price 'Hop' Head;
Consider 10 Bands
Walter C. Price ’45 will serve
ffe general chairman ol' ithe Soph
Hop committees, according to an
announcement made by James A.
McKechnie, sophomore class pres
ident, at a meeting of the Campus
’45 clique last evening. Price
heads a group of 35 sophomores
who will plan the July 10 dance,
the only scheduled “name batnd”
affair of the Summer semester.
M. Clifford St. Clair heads the
Band committee. He stated last,
evening that ten orchestras are at
present being considered by the
group. They include Jimmy Dor
sey, Charlie Spivak, Harry Jaimes,
Benny Goodman, Claude Thorn
hill, Glenn Miller,. Bobby Byrne,
Charlie Barnet, Giene Kriipa, and
Johnny Long. A definite an
nouncement concerning the band
will be made next Wednesday
evening.
Price named ten committees ito
help in planning the dance. Under
St. Clair on the Band committee
are Mary Ellen Tome, Stanley J.
Wolfe, and Margaret Stem. Rich
ard B. Berk heads the decorations
group with W. Robert Schmidt,
Irwin S. Cohen, and Wayne G.
LaPoe as aids.
In charge of hat checking will
be James W. Payne, chairman,
John T. Watkins, Gerald Karver,
and Alvin E. Grabusky, while
Joan E. Piollet and John Sylves
ter, co-chairmen, and E. Ann Fish
er, Dudley D. Gallup, and H. Ar
thur Martin will plan the refresh
ments.
George C. Tilghman is chair
man of the program committee.
Other members of (this group are
Lawrence A. Sheffer, Mary E.
Thompson, Paul G. Jacobs, and
Kathryn K. Metzger. Russell M.
Smiley, chairman, Howard Stei
dle, James W. Hoag Jr., and Doris
F. Campbell are in charge of pub
licity.
On the invitations and ticket
committee are John F. Byrom,
chairman, Betty J. Lyman, and
Eugene C. Snedecker. Under Har
old H. Benjamin, chairman, on
the doormen committee are David
S. Alston and George McCormick.
Peter Scott will act as ticket
seller and Frank L. Hay is in
charge of booths.
IFG Rushing Dates
Pledging of freshmen will begin
on June 9 rather than June 13, ac
cording to Arthur G. Denman ’43,
Interfraternity Council rushing
chairman. Formal rushing season
for the Summer Semester will end
June 13.
First Returns From Subscription
Campaign Proves Student Support
Returns from the first day of mester subscriptions for $14.25
The Daily Collegian’s subscription instead of the regular price of
campaign presents striking evi- $16.25, thus saving $2. Club plan
dence that Penn State’s student B offers 10 two-semester sub
body is willing .and ready to sup- scriptions for $2B instead of the
port a daily newspaper. , regular price of $32.50, thus sav
“lt’s still far too early to toe cer- ing $4.50.
tain of the campaign’s success,” Increased saving, combined with
Leonard E. Bach ’43, Collegian the opportunity of distributing the
business manager, stated . last cost of having The Daily Collegian
night. “The number of subscrip.- available, has caused many living
tioris turned in at The Daily Col- groups to use the plans to support
legian office today, however, is the Collegian’s fight to maintain
certainly gratifying.” daily publication.
A large part of first day sales, Paralleling the increase in sub
according to Bach, were made in scription sales, a progressively
response to the special club plans larger number of College and cam
offered to fraternities, sororities, pus leaders have offered their ap
and boarding house groups for the proval of the concentrated sub
first time this year. scription campaign.
Club plan A offers five two-se- (Continued on Page Two)
SUMMER FORMAL James A.
McKechnie. sophomore class pres
ident, named Walter (J. Price ’45
to head a group of 35 students
who make up the 10 committees
planning Soph Hop, July 10. This
dafnce is the only scheduled “name
band” dance of the Summer se
mester.
Diners Ask For
Ration Stamps
Downtown diners and restaur
ants, with sugar allowances cut to
50 per cent of last year’s allott
ments, feel that the pinch may be
felt once surplus supplies of that
commodity are used.
Although attempts have been
made to reduce waste and exces
sive use, several of the eating es
tablishments have expressed a de
sire to have regular guests con
tribute, voluntarily, sugar ration
stamps.
Since many students have their
cards, and ei't regularly at the
restaurants, their cards aren’t
used. Stamps not used within
the time limit become invalid and
therefore' useless to anyone.
Proprietors of the diners feel
that students, once aware of the
added service derived, ’would
willingly bring in their stamps.
Otherwise, many of the pastries
will continue to be made in re
duced lots which are sold out to
the inconvenience of late diners,
they added.
The bigg'est items are pastries
and simple syrups used in foun
tain service. Recipes calling for
very little sugar or the substitu
tion of maple syrup have, been
printed by the government to help
relieve the situation. The. ulti
mate result of such a plan may
result in the appearance of new
dishes on the menus of State Col
lege restaurants.
PRICE: THREE CENTS
Defense Council
Appoints Eight
New Members
'Eight new student members of
the State College Defense Coun
cil were appointed by Dr. James
F. Shigley to the Council on the
recommendation of 'President
Ralph D. Hetzel at the meeting
Tuesday night.
The students named were David
J. McAleer, Gordon L. Coy, Rich
ard S. Kurtz, Ann Drivas, !M. Wil
liam Lundelius, Margaret K. Sher
man, all seniors; Harold L. Zim
merman ’44, and James E. Mc-
Kechnie ’45. These members will
replace students who graduated
this Spring.
Dr. Shigley reported that the
blackout staged last week was a
success, and especially commend
ed the cooperative attitude of the
students. No disorders were re
ported and no arrests were made.
However, five objectors were ar
rested in Philipsburg and 39 in
Harrisburg when they refused to
turn out their lights.
The Deans of Men and Women
were asked to' assemble a group of
students and faculty to study con
ditions in both men’s and women’s
dormitories on campus in case of
a blackout lasting several hours.
The secretary of the Council
was ordered to communicate to the
College authorities that the fire
whistle now used as a warning and
all-clear signal is not adequate for
the purpose. Complaints have
been received that the whistle was
not heard on all parts of the cam
pus, and in some of the more re
mote sections of the town.
A phenomenon observed direct
ly after the blackout last Wednes
day night was the reflection of
Old Main’s tower on the low-hang
ing clouds. There were six of
them, one for each set of flood
lights that illuminate the struc
ture. ■
Musser, Trustee
Dies In Scranton
Boyd A. Musser ’94, an alumni
member of the Board of Trustees
since 1927, died yesterday in
Scranton from a heart attack. He
was 73 years of age.
Funeral services will be con
ducted from the Howard Snowden
Funeral Home in Scranton tomor
row at 2p. m. President Ralph D.
Hetzel will attend.
Mr. Musser, a past commander
of the Pennsylvania Knights
Templar-, was born in Houserville
and was educated in the public
schools of Centre County, being
graduated from the Bellefonte
High School after which he at
tended the College.
For several years he was assist
ant principal of Bellefonte High
School. In 1914 he organized the
Anthracite Bridge Company at
Scranton with which he was serv
ing as president.
In May 1941 he was drafted as
a ?l-a-year man to take charge of
Region No. 13 of the third Federal
Reserve Bank District of The Of
fice of Production Management,
Division of Contract Distribution
and was most recently serving as
chairman of the advisory commit
tee for the War Production Board
in the same area.
Mr. Musser has held several im
portant offices in the Penn State
Alumni Association, having served
on its Board of Directors and on
the Permanent Alumni Fund Com
mittee.
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