Weske Leaves For Service; Recalls Pacifist Movement Campus organizer of Scabbard and Blade and Pershing Rifles, Capt. Jack Weske will leave for Washington on Auguit 1 after 13 years of service with the ROTC department at State. Captain Weske joined the army as a private at Fort Sheridan, 111., began his work at State College as a sergeant and gradually rose to the rank of captain., He has been active in the Am erican Legion and Auxiliary Jun ior Drum and Bugle Corps, the Elks, and has taken part in num erous activities about the College. The captain will be detailed to the office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4, Army •War College, Washington, •D. C. When interviewed yesterday, 'Captain Weske stated, "After you have been on the campus as long as I have, your memory is so flooded with pleasant recollections that it is hard to pick out one in particular. "It has been most pleasant to watch the feeling of animosity of the students for the ROTC depart Frafeinify Booths To Be -Replaced By Balcony Seats AI Friday Dance Trustees To Receive 'Jap' Petitions Friday Petition committee members urging Penn State's acceptance of American citizens of Japanese parentage will carry their case to the College's -Board of Trustees Friday, July 31, according to Jack M. Lishan; graduate instructor in economics and one of the leaders - of the volunteer grodp7 • - -- Thecommittee plans a final pe tition drive this week to insure that all students have an oppor tunity to sign. "The issue is still whether or not the Penn . State student body is willing to live up to its demo cratic tradition," Jahn R. Adsit '45, .ariother of the committee's koaders, stated last night. He urged all students who have not yet done so to sign one of the petitions by Fri day. Students, Teachers May Yet Enroll In Red 'Cross first Aid Courses Regular college students and teachers inierested in. becoming First Aid Instructors may still en roll in a course scheduled to con tinue until August 4. • The beginners' class, meeting 7 p. m. to 10 p. m. in 121 Sparks, started last night but will be drop ped if the enrollment is not suffi cient to justify its continuance. The class is scheduled to meet there regularly except Thursday when it will be held in Room 316 Sparks. Following the beginners course, an advalaced course will be given starting August 5 and continuing through August 7. Persons taking the, course will be eligible to take the instructors course August 17 through August n under the direction . of .the Red Cross district repregentative, Roy Zoeller. Those unable to take the in structors course at the College will be able to continue their train ing in their home town. Chambers Is Queen Marjorie R. Chambers '43 was crowned queen of Harvest Ball at the Ag School's annual dance in Rec Hall Saturday night. Approxi mately 150 couples were present, according to Harold V. Walton '43, dance chairman. ment gradually fade away. Last April when I was in the hospital recuperating from an operation, the students of my company took up ,a collection to buy me cigar ettes. "That would never have hap pened when I first came up here in 1929. Peace feeling ran •high at that time, peace societies were organized, peace strikes were in stigated with pleas for the ROTC men to throw, down their rifles, and the Armory was actually pick eted. "Fraternities forbade their members to enter the dining room in their ROTC uniforms and ad vanced ROTC students were treat ed with contempt. "All that is changed and a feel ing of good will now exists be tween the ROTC department and most of the students." .At the close of the interview, Captain Weske stated, • `kl have never regretted leaving any • place as much as I do State College, and after I retire, I intend to return here and settle down among my friends." Fraternity booths will be absent in Rec Hall when Benny Goodman and his orchestra swing into town Friday night, but the entire gym nasium balcony will be opened to sit-this-one-outers, the V-Week end executive committee announ ced yesiellday. Fraternity booths will be elim inated, according to the executive group, to achieve maximum danc ing space in Rec Hall. To com pensate for .the loss of -the tradi tional meeting centers, the corn atittee2 has arranged to open the balcony for the first — time 'in 'Red Hall history. Leon V. Rabinowitz '43, general chairman, reminded once more that the Friday night dance, in keeping with the rest of the week end, will be entirely informal. To keep expenses at rock-bottom, corsages have also been ruled .out, according -to the holiday's general chairman. • A series of other executive com mittee announcements, giving de tails of Saturday afternoon Field Day, were issued yesterday as the V-Weekend group entered its final week of planning. • Over a thousand uniformed stu dents, the entire Infantry and En gineer ROTC regiments, will march in the Field Day opener. The military parade will, form in the heart of town and march to New Beaver Field, where special drills by the State College Drum and Bugle Corps and Pershing Rifles will follow. After the parade and drills, freshmen and• sophomore tug-of- War squads are scheduled to battle it out in a series of contests that will decide the fate of all frosh customs, according to the execu tive committee. Presentation of V-Weekend pro ceeds to the Army Relief Fund re presentative and a war bond to the fraternity with the winning lawn display is next on the Saturday afternoon schedule. As a three-way Field Day finale, Penn State baseball, tennis, and golf teams will meet Cornell's varsity squads. The three con tests were scheduled specifically for the Army Relief benefit. Tribunal Meets The weekly meeting of Tribunal will be held in the Alumni office at 7 p. m. tomorrow evening, Charles H. Ridenour '43 announc ed last evening. New violators, as well as offenders required to wear penalties during the previous week, are requested to appear for a hearing. dllrEiaiill Totiggiatt VOL. 39—No. 44 Colgate To Debate War Weddings Last of the Summer intercolle giate debates, "Should we approve of war marriages (marriages con tracted just before the man or wo man joins the Army?) "will be held with Colgate University in the Home Economics Auditorium at 8 p. m. Thursday. One of the few colleges in the country to continue forensic acti vities as usual during the Summer semester, Penn State's debaters will end the season Thursday with a full-dress convocation. Scheduled in the form of a sym posium, according to Joseph F. O'Brien, • varsity debate coach, Thursday's event will have ten . speakersi• with Miss Sarah IM. Bailey, manager of women's de bate, in the' chair. Speaking for the affirmatiVe ,side of the proposition will 'be Carol P. BlackwoOd • '44, Miss Dorothy K. Brunner '44 and one representative from Colgate. On the negative lineup are Louise M. ,Fuoss Harry F. Vosburgh '43, and a Colgate speaker. Named to the panel which will quiz the speakers after the' formal presentations, are Ruth L. Kies ling '43, Robert E. JVlcNaab '45, Marion E. Fogel '43, and Harold Epstein '44, John B. McCue, men's debate manager, announced last night. • • • REM Talent Night Tryouts ,Scheduled Tonight Auditions for Talent Night, to be presented in Schwab Auditor ium next Tuesday, will be held in 101 White Hall at 7:30 p. .m. to night,- according to Leon Rabino witz '43, chairman of the event. Sponsored by Summer session, the talent performance will mark the last social activity before com mencement exercises August 6. Best performers at the show will be awarded prizes, Miss Ma rie Haidt, in charge of women's recreation, stated. Players' 'Little Foxes' Opens In Schwab At 9 The curtain will rise an Schwab Auditorium tonight at 9 o'clock for the Penn State Players' first night presentation of Lillian Hell man's "greatest play," "The Lit tle Foxes." The drama will be the last Players show of the Summer semester. Directed by Lawrence E. Tuck er, instructor in dramatics, the play is ,the first so-called "heavy" .drama to be given since the play of the Bronte sisters, "Moor Born," was given last Summer. , With stage settings designed and built by Mrs. Dorothy B. Scott and Stanley Danowski, department of .dramatics, the somber mood of the 'play is kept at the same level as the decadent characters make it. Strictly a period play, the en tire set and costumes picture the Southern mansion of the Giddens' of the year 1900. ; Although laid in the Giddens' living room, the opus is the story of the Hubbard clan 7 --Regina's name before her marriage to Hor ace Giddens. As Burns Mantle put it in the "New York Daily News," " . . . the story of a pathe- Successor To The Free Lance, Estabtiihed JUT TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 28, STATE COLLEGE, PA. OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE PRICE THREE CENTS GRADUATION TRIMMINGS Senior Class President David •A. McAleer announced last night that caps and gowns, announcements, invitations and programs will be Available at Student Union begin ning Friday morning. Five dollar deposits are required for the caps and gowns, 125 cents for announcements and invita tions,. and 50 cents for programs. Seniors are urged to order early so that adequate supplies of each 'may be assured. Engineers To Meet To Discuss Various Army Reserve Plans All male undergraduate stu dents in the School of Engineer ing, except those in the advanced ROTC course, will meet in Schwab Auditorium Friday at_ 4:10 p. m. where information concerning the Army, Navy and Marine Corps En listed Reserve will be distributed. Called by Dean Harry P. Ham mond, the meeting is for the 'pur pose of providing applications for enlistments in the different Re serve plans. Dean Hammond em phasized that it is essential that all of the designated students attend. -Present at the meeting will be the Executive Committee of the School and Col. Edward D. Ardery, head of-the ROTC department, and Commander N. R. Sparks and Prof. R. E. •Galbraith, directors of cam pus activities of the Navy and Air Corps Reserves, respectively. tically unlovely family of one-time Southern aristocrats who let their : malignant greed carry them away." The best description of the "Lit tle Foxes" can be gathered from the "Herald Tribune's" • drama critic, Richard Watts Jr. He said —"With Ibenesque directness, 'The Little Foxes' contemplates the re lentless emergence of a new indus trialism from the ashes of a sen timental past; the coming to pow er of a social order that lifted it self from the ranks of the one-time poor whites and used the emo tional code of the old South only as a mask for its ,ascent:" Taking the name 'of the play from the Old Testainent, Lillian Hellman called it "The Little Foxes" because that symbolizes the greed and rapacity of the "small, mean people" who "spoil the tender grapes" for themselves and everyone else. The lead role of Regina Giddens, the "queen" of the clan, made famous by Tallulah Bankhead and Bette Davis, will be played by (Continued on Page Two) Far Eastern War Correspondent To Speak Tonight Hallet Abend, Far Eastern cor respondent for the New York Times from 1926 to 1941, will speak on "Problems in Oriental Wars" in Schwab Auditorium at 7:30 p.' m. today. Abend's talk is one of the high lights of the 20th annual superin tendents and principals' confer ence which opens here today. "Ed ucation for War and Peace" is the theme of the three-day session. Other events today include a lecture, "The. Fundamentals of De sign," by Felix Payant, editor of the magazine, "Design," in 110 Home Economics at 7:30 p. m. Two additional edudation con ferences are "War Education in the Public Schools" in Schwab Au ditorium at 2 p. m., and a con ference on the function and re sponsibilities of the schools in re lation to the price administration program. According to Dr. Frank H. Koos, professor of educational adminis tration, School of Education, the three-day confab will be on sci ence and mathematics in aeronau tics and war, education related to war, health education, teacher sup ply and demand; inter-American relations, and financing public education in Pennsylvania. Dr. Francis B. (Haas, superin tendent of the State Department of Public Instruction, will speak on, "What's Ahead for permsylvans ia Education?" at the group's an nual dinner Thursday. Other prominent speakers will include E. A. Quackenbush, direc tor of the Bureau of School Ad ministration, Pennsylvania De partment of Public Instruction; Dean M. R. Trabue, School of Ed ucation; Prof. C. B. Mendenhall, Ohio State University; Charles D. Reed, Williamsport Technical In stitute; Henry Klonower, director of Teacher Education and Certifi cation, Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction; Joseph S. Butterweck, director of the Divi sion of Secondary Education, Tem ple University; Dr. Willis E. Pratt, president of Mansfield State Teachers College; J. Wynn Fred ericks, chief of Health and Physi cal Education, Pennsylvania De partment of Public Instruction; and Dr. Laura F. Drummond, di rector of home economics at the College. Late News Flashes . . . Rostov Falls NEW YORK Reports heard here last night from both Moscow and Berlin said that the vital city of Rostov had fallen, and that the Germans were continuing their of fensive. Moscow said thbt an army of 300,000 guerilla fighters were trying to hold back the Nazi tide. WASHINGTON The House Merchant Marine Committee today shelved a resolution calling on it to stay its cancellation of the con tract of the Higgens Shipyards in New Orleans. This .is the firm that proposed that its facilities be used to build a fleet of gigantic flying boats for air transport. LONDON—British sources re ported last night that American and English bombers took part in an air raid on Tobruk, inflicting heavy damage on the Axis-held city.
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