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
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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.