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VOL: 40—No. <0
Hatmsn Sponsor
Pill Game Raffle
The senand Victory Raffle, spon
sored ( by All-College Cabinet, wili
be conducted •by members of the
hat societies, during intermission
of the Pitt-Lion basketball game
Saturday.
Raffle tickets, which will be giv
en ; with purchases of 25 and 50
cent War-Stamps, will be distrib
uted by members of hat societies
from 8 until 11 p.m. Friday, and
from 2 to 4:30 p.m.- Saturday at
the', Comer Room.
War Stamps, will also be sold at
tlm .balcony and .-.main floor en
trances to Rec Hall before game
time‘Saturday evening.
■ ■ Prizes, according to Chairman
William ivi. Briner ’44, will include
the game basketball and two $5
credit slips contributed by Paul
Mitten - and . the Charles Fellow
Shop'. Albert Swan ’44, hat soci
ety council president, will draw
for. the winning numbers.
■ The first Victory Raffle, con
ducted during the Penn State-Col
gate game, resulted in the sale of
$232.50 worth of War Stamps and
a War Bond. The $3OO used to pur
chase stamps for the raffle is lent
by WRA. •'
LA Sludertf Council
Approves New Preamble
To School Constitution
' u ’'AC''he“w' 'pfeSmhle "to v th e'cOns ti
tution .ojf the Liberal Arts Student
Council was approved by members
of the governing body at last;
night’s meeting. Charles F. Hall,
secretary-treasurer, drew up the
preamble. ' ~'' 1
;■ The council voted to endorse the
■ reopening of ■ Drydock provided,. a
good, financial organisation is pre
sented-to Cabinet.
; . Revision of the constitution is
also .under; discussion arid will he
voted upon by the council follow
ing, completion of , a draft being
drawn up by .committee members
Michael .A.' Blatz, Hall, Walter C. ;
Price; and Audrita" 7 Summers. .
• : 'Upon a suggestion of the Stu
dent-Faculty : Relations Commit
ted',' /presented by Richard Adams,
;a''plan to support the weekly dis
tribution of placards listing Col
lege activities throughout the se
•mester was approved by council
members'. ' 1 •
IMMucations Needed...?
r . Ciscussion • of male students
continuing-school, as. well as pos
f ' sible status of women is included
h in tjie. third' of : the Gollegian seri
f. es of. questions • and : answers as
■ compiled by the. Office of War In
forination:
. Does the country really need
' more, educated, men now? Or
should we all plan to go either
into' the Army or into production
jobs?
; The problem is how many men
can be kept in schools and colleges
• to provide the trained, educated
-f personnel needed for both the
armed services and the war in
dustries, while we also meet'the
iniipediate requirements, .of the
i • armed'iorces and of industries. So
. far they, are free to do, it is wiser.
for men to continue their educa
- tlonbut to'direqt their studies to
.ward greater war usefulness. ,
■ To what extenfcan'an 18 or 19-
year-old now plan his own future?
r;:;: Neither 18 or 19-year-olds nor
gi.men of any other age can plan'
at their- futures now independent of
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17. 1943. STATE COLLEGE, PA
Six BtyOC's Will Fight for Title
Of Most Eligible Bachelor at 'Skip'
The race is on to decide who will-H
be King Dogpatch, Catch of the
Campus, at the annual Cwens-
Mortar Board Spinster Skip Fri
day; March 12.
Local Sadie Hawkinses and L’il
Abners are urged by Hekzeb'iah
Hawkins, official proclaimer of
Dogpatch news, to get out and vote
Mr then- ' ehoice' Tbf King ' Dog
patch
BMOC’s worthy of vieing for the
honor of being crowned the Catch
of the Campus are Bill Briner, in
terclass finance council chairman;
Rube Faloon, senior class presi
dent; Jackie ' Grey, All-College
president; Hank: Keller,-IFC presi
dent; Ben Leaman, All-College
vice-president; George Pittenger,
AA president, and Cliff St. Clair,
junior, class. president.
Hawkins warned that no mud
slinging would be tolerated in this
all-important, election. “The ; cam
paign must be kept clean,” he asr
serted. Voting begins today, at
Student .'Union and the Corner
Room, arid will continue until
Tuesday. .
. Announcement of .the ,three lead
ing candidates and final elimina
tions will be made next Wednes
day. Balloting will follow to elect
King Dogpatch. -
■ he, service required by the War.
Very,few people are planning
* heir futures definitely at the pres
ent time. Winning the war requires
that a certain proportion of 18
and 19-year-old men continue
their studies.
You have a plan for training
and using college men for war.
But this is a loial war. What plans
have you for training and using
college women?
Women are able to do most things
which men customarily do, in or
der to relieve men to do the things
which only men can do in the war.
Women should train for' a wide
range of activities. The War Man
power Commission is developing
proposals for utilizing colleges
and universities for training both
men ranck women in a wide variety
of activities useful in the war ef
:ort. Announcement of these plans'
will.be .made in the near future,
but-in the meantime colleges are
oing forward as they should, de
veloping all sorts of useful cur
ricula for women;
Successor To The Free Lav.ce, Established 1337
'.NNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
First Fly Tying Class
Starts in Frear Lab;
Forty Kits Available
Opening of the fishing season
will catch some Penn State stu
dents unawares. First of eigld ses
sions on the df fly- wflf
be conducted from 7 to 9 p.m. to
day in 213 Frear Laboratory, spon
sored by the School of Physical
Education' and Athletics and the
School of Agriculture.
• Forty kits, containing equipment
for 50 flies, are available for three
dollars. Enrollment in the classes,
which emphasize instruction on
dry, wet, nymphs, bucktails and
streamers, will be limited to 40
persons.
’ Instructors are Prof. George W.
Harvey, former track coach",. ajt
Mont Alto,-- and Prof. Gordon
Trembly, one. of the: foremost ex
perts on .fly casting in the state.
Tryouts for Thespian
Cast To Be Held Tonight
' Thespians will hold tryouts for
m.ajor singing 'and dialogue roles
in- Schwab auditorium at 7 p, m.
tonight, Cadmus Goss, .production
managed, announced. “As soon as
parts have been permanently cast
ed, production will be well on its
way,” Goss added.
Already,, the dancing’ chorus is
learning its routines. The script is
almost complete,, two acts and 13
scenes: Several songs of different
types, written by Jane Abramson
arid Charles H. Taylor, are in the
process of orchestral arrangement.
■This show will be the 46th an
nual production of the Thespian
organization. It is being directed
by J. Ewing “Sock” Kennedy.
Name Frizzell Advisor
In Discussion Contest
John H. Frizzell, head of the de
partment of public speaking, has
been appointed as a member of
the advisory committee for .the na
tional discussion contest on Inter-
American affairs.
Professor Frizzell has also been
named to the committee on state
arid regional speech associations
of the National Association of
Teachers of Speech. Both appoint
ments were by virtue of his posi
tion as president of the Eastern
Public Speaking Conference.
Cold Air from Canada
Cause of Cold Snap
“The recent cold snap can be
attributed to the cold air stream
ing down from the snow fields of
Canada,” according to Dr. Hans H.
Neuberger, head of the department
of geophysics in the School of Min
eral Industries. Neuberger reveal
ed that the thermometer registered
seven degrees below zero Monday
and four degrees above zero yes
terday.
Dr. Neuberger is conducting a
survey with competition between
professors and students to deter
mine how accurate a forecast can
be from local observation. Predic
tions are made daily and checked
with the official weather report.
Committee Alters
Swarthout Date
Change in the date of Gladys
Swarthout’s concert from Monday,
March 22, to, Tuesday, March 23,
was made toy the Artists’ Course
committee yesterday.
Request for the change, accord
ing to Dr. Car] E. Marquardt, com
mittee chairman, came from Miss
Swarthout and her management.
“It was found,” Dr. Marquardt
said, “that it was almost impossi
ble for Miss Swarthout to com
plete her Sunday night broadcast
and get to State College in .time
for a Monday concert. The com
mittee voted to comply with her
request.”
Excellent-tickets 4ire..stiU avail;
able for each of the next two Art
ists’ Course numbers, according to
the .chairman. . '
Carmen Amaya. and her troupe
of. gypsy dancers and musicians
will give a. performance Monday,
February 22. Individual tickets for
this number 'will be sold for $2
plus tax. Single ’ tickets for the
Swarthout concert will toe priced
at $3 plus tax.
Late News Flashes...
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH Sir
Andrew B. Cunningham, new commander-in-chief of the Aliled Medi
terranean naval forces, announced today that American-and British
shipping losses had been less than two per cent in bringing-780 ships
totaling 6,500,000 tons to North Africa since November 8.
BERLIN—The German high command announced last night that;
Russian forces had entered the outer suburbs of Kharkov 1 . In a Ra
dio communique they also stated that in lighting in the suburbs. 2<t
Soviet tanks were destroyed.
PHILADELPHIA—The . cold wave’s death toll reached five in.
Pennsylvania and 26 throughout the East as the thermometer in State
College fell to an official low of seven degrees below zero.
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA—The American portion of Gen
eral Douglas MacArlhur's air force employed full range of its com
bat branches yesterday in dealing further smashing blows at the Jap
anese, most severe of which was a second successive night assault on
Rabaul.
ALLIED HEARQUARTERS IN NORTH,, AFRICA—The Nazis
have entered American-held Gafsa in Tunsia Allied headquarters an
nounced yesterday.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s headquarters said small enemy
forces rolled in Gafsa Monday evening—thereby threatening to cut the
300-mile-long Allied front near the middle —and said heavy fighting
between armored forces raged in the area west of Paid. Gafsa lies 75
miles west of the Gulf of Gabes.
At the same time, General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s British
Eighth Army was officially reported to have captured Ben Gardane,
20. miles inside Tunisia, and sped on in pursuit of Marshal Erwin.
Rommel’s legions.
MOSCOW—The advancing Russian Army has cracked Adolf Hil
ler's southern battle front along a 400-mile line from the regions of)
Orel Province to Bolshie Saly. 36 miles northeast of Taganrog, and is
closing the struggle about Kharkov and pushing three active spear
heads into the Donets basin, the Russian comminque announced lasO
night. 1
PRICE: THREE CENTS
Classes Continue
During Air Raid,
Ebert Explains
Professors Urged
To Explain Procedure
Students must attend all classes
this morning despite inconvenience
resulting from the air raid drill
scheduled from 10:30 to 11:15, it
was pointed out • by George W.
Ebert, superintendent of grounds
and buildings and chairman of the
County Defense Council.
Pedestrian traffic will be per
mitted from 10:50 to 11:00 when
classes usually change, but no one
will be allowed on walks from
11:00 to 11:15 when the alb clear
signal will sound. This means that
students and professors may pos
sibly be late for classes and that
the “ten-minutes-late” ruling will
not be in effect.
. The drill has been planned for
instruction purposes and during
the period of the practice instruc
tors are urged to take time to ex
plain drill procedure and a new
blue signal to be used for the first
time, Mr. Ebert explained.
The yellow. signal, which is the
usual preliminary warning, will;
sound at 10:30, followed by the
blue signal which is the' first audi
ble warning. The .blue signal is of
two minutes duration.
The red signal is a fluctuating’
blast ' of two minutes’ duration
which indicates that enemy planes
are overhead!
Another blue signal will be
sounded following the red warn
ing. This is not an all-clear but
means -that immediate danger is
over. The blast will be a long blast
of two minutes duration.
The white signal or all-clear will
not be audible. It will .be. an
nounced by blasts on police whis
tles, according to Mr. Ebert.