>0 " 9 *»- OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE * Ag Debate Stage Contestants May Sign Until March 3 Prizes To Be Awarded To Four Finalists Contestants wishing to partici pate in the Agriculture Debate Stage sponsored by the School of Agriculture in cooperation with the Department of Speech, must register for the contest with Pro fessor A. A. Borland', 104 Dairy Building, no later than Mavch 3. Preliminary eliminations will be held in room 100 Hort. 7 p.m., March 18. The final contest is scheduled to take place in 100 Hort, 4:10 pm., April 2. Each contestant entering the preliminary eliminations will speak ten -minutes on either side of the proposition, “Resolved, that the best way to solve .the wartime food problem is for the Federal Government to draft and subsidize labor for farms at the average pre vailing industrial wage.” From the preliminary debating, four winners will be chosen to participate in the final round. These four will then be allowed to speak ten minutes on either side of the question. One hundred dollars will be distributed among the four finalists, with $5O going to the first place winner, $25 for second; $l5-for third and 'slo ’.for \ the fourth place winner. • Contestants will be chosen on' their individual performance and not as a member of an affirmative or negative debate team. No refer ence or refutation is to be made concerning;the remarks of preced ing. speakers. Bases for judging wili include consideration of agri cultural content, speech organiza tion, development, ' originality, speech delivery and platform man ner; Contest committee members are H. P. Zelko, Ralph Richardson, H. C. Knandel, H. S. Brunner and A. A. Borland. Further details of the contest may be obtained from committee members. . €A Group Leaves for Weriiersviile Leaving Friday, a committee from PSCA will travel to Wem ersville, to represent the College at the Mid-Winter Conference of the eastern region sponsored by the; Student.. Christian Movement. Clifford M. Painter, president of the eastern region will preside throughout the conference, con tinuing from : Friday evening un til Sunday afternoon. ' Winifred Wygal, national sec retary of YMCA, as mam speaker will discuss “Basis of Christian Faith” in three phases: Meaning of Christian -Faith, Relevance of Christian Faith and Responsibility of Christian Faith. Other members of the commit tee are: Harriet G. Van Riper, Claire L. Weaver, Elizabeth J. Funkhouser, Robert C. Dickey, Ralph W. Harris, Joan E. Cox, Phillip R. Hampe, Mary E. Fair man, Henry V. Harman, Florence A. Porter, B. Ruth Pielomeier, D... Ned Linegar, Mrs. D. Ned Linegar, and Agnes Highsmith. All colleges in Pennsylvania, Washington, D. C., Maryland, and New Jersey, are sending repre sentatives. Define 'Automobile Before You Restrict 'Em, Students Demand What is an automobile? Warnings have been issued re stricting the use of automobiles for pleasure driving. That seems clear enough, but what would ra tion masters, Ickes and Hicks do if they were confronted by the problem which the students of the University of Oklahoma pre sented to the authorities? Please define “automobile,” they said, when the announce ment was made that students no longer would be permitted to have automobiles on campus. “Anything that’s worth less than 25, in other words a jalopy, should not be classed as an auto mobile,” one student economist suggested. The trouble began, just as sim ply as that, and students began to plea for their “pride and joy” as being non-rationed commodi ties. “An automobile is anything that uses gasoline and backfires,” the university officials decided after serious consideration. The rationing board triumph ed again and Oklahoma students are bicycling to class. Soph Hop Programs, War Stamps Go on Sale; All Fraternity Booths Taken • Soph Hop tickets will go on sale at Student. Union- at 8 a. -mv .to? niorrow, according to •an an nouncement by Wallace J. Kap pel, Hop chairman. The price per program is $3.85. Following the patriotic trend the programs for the dance this semester, will .feature space for Defense' will be purchased instead of the usual corsage. For the price of $l, each Hop goer . may purchase four War Stamps to insert in his program. In‘return for the purchase of the stamps, each girl will receive a blue-and-white ribbon, Kappel said. • All 43 fraternity and indepen dent booths are now sold out, the chairman eddad. An unforseen rush caused the early renting of the total number to fraternity and independent houses.. Barring transportation difficul ties, Les Brown and the band will be on hand to. lend the music for the dance. Featured with the band will be Roberta Lee, Hal Derwin, comedy-novelty singer, “Butch” Stone, and the “Town Criers.” Marilyn Globisch and atten dants Charlotte Taylor and Row een McCray are ready for their part in the festivities as Soph Hop Queen and entourage. Programs for the faculty pa trons and chaperons are in the mail and should be received short ly, Kappel stated. Tickets for Sophomore class officers and oth (Continued On Page Fovr) Animal Drawings Set For Livestock Show Drawings for animals to be used in the 26th annual “Little Inter national” Livestock Show sched uled for April 17 will be held in room 206 Agriculture building, 7 o’clock tonight. Classes of swine, sheep, horses and beef cattle will be available for fitting and showing, according to Robert Pennington, publicity chairman for the show, to be spon sored by th? Block and Bridle Club. Successor To The Free Lance, Established 133 T Students Register Students who did not regis ter for their War Ration Book No. 2 in the Armory, Tuesday, may do so in the Baum build ing, 124 East College avenue, today and tomorrow, Ray V. Watkins, chairman of the ration board, stated yesterday. Office hours are 8:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. both days, and 7 to 9 p. m. tonight. Dancing Classes To Begin March 12 For the eighth consecutive se mester, Penn State Club, indepen dent men’s association, will spon sor an All-College dancing class, Ray A. Zaroda, president, an nounced. Classes, held in the Armory, will begin March 12 and continue every Friday from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. un til April 10. John Yahars, in charge of ar rangements, promises new record ings played over the public ad dress system Other members of the committee are William E. Evans,- tickets; James A. Casey, instructions; and Edmund R. Ko val, publicity. Instructor for the group is Joseph Ferro, who has been in charge for the past several ■ ; Climaxing the season, the last meeting wiil feature dancing and refreshments. In view of cutting down • on many canipus social functions be cause-pf,the-war, urged alt coeds to cooperate and attend the meetings. - Season tickets will go on sale today at .Student Union.'for a, fee of $2.50. Alumni Plan Meetings; Will Show Football Films To State Men in Service Penn State alumni of Indiana. County will hold a dinner at In diana Hotel, Indiana, March 4, Edward K. Hibshman, executive secretary of Penn State Alumni association,, stated yesterday. Russell E. Clark, bursar, and Martin S. McAndrews', instructor in physical education and fresh man football coach, will show films of the Penn-State football game. The meeting will feature Penn State men who are going into the service. Students from Indiana County are invited to join the alumni for the occasion. Mr. Hibshman, and Robert A. Higgins, football coach, will re present the College at a dinner meeting sponsored by the Wash ington alumni March 5. This meeting is for Penn State men in the service who are stationed in Washington. Harley L. Swift is toast-master and D. M. Cresswell, of the Of fice of American Vocational As sociation, is chairman for the ev ening. Mr. Cressweil is in charge of registrations and can be reach ed at the Denrike building, Wash ington. Football pictures will be shown during the 'program. Players Announce Continued Tryouts Students may sign up today at Student Union for Players’'tryouts, which will be held at 7 o’clock to night in the Little Theatre. Specialties, singing, or dancing numbers that might be worked into the period of the ’9o’s are wanted. Students who wish to be interviewed for . such numbers should report at the Dramatics Office for appointments. COLLEGE Postponed Owl Cage Fray Re-Scheduled For Tonight At the request of Temple athletic officials, the Penn State-Temple basketball game will be played in Rec Hall at 8 o’clock tonight. A second-diagnosis of the case of scarlet fever, which was sup« posed to have caused postponement of the game until March 3* changed the disease which one of the Temple second-stringers had to German measles. The request that the game be played tonight was made early yesterday afternoon, shortly after medical authorities had verified the diagnosis. With the playing of tonight’s game a decision on the question of NCAA District 2 invitation tournament bids will be decided, by the end of this week, according to University of Pittsburgh Coach !‘Doc” Carlson, a member of the NCAA board. Entering the game the favorites, the Lions will try to make this their 21st straight "win on the Rec Hall floor and their 13th win this season. They stand out over the Owls by their record of 12 wins to 4 losses while the Temple team has won 8 and lost 9 games so far. Coach John Lawther expects trouble from the Owls in this game because it is a team much improved over the outfit the Lions beat in Philadelphia 6 weeks ago. Since then the Owls have defeat ed Georgetown, one of the 4 teams that had been able to set the Blue and White back this season. Lawther’s starting five will be his regulars who have started practically every game this sea son. He will have Co-Captains Baltimore and Egli at forward, pornstein at center, and Von Nei da and Gent at guard; They will be-pitted against an Owl team with Nelson Bobb and Jack McLaughlin at the forward posts, Captain Gorham Getcheil at center, and Jerry Rullo and Marvin Blumenthal at guard. Big gun for the Owls so far this season has been frosh forward Bobb, scoring . .72 points in e l 7 games. Getcheil and McLaughlin are next hight in :the Temple threat division with 131. and -128 points respectively. Lumber. Demands Force Timber Cut Of College Forests A million board feet of timber may be cut from the growing stock of the experimental forests of the College, according to plans reveal ed today by V. A. Beede, head of forestry. Unusual demands for lumber caused by the war obligate all forest owners carefully to cruise their growing stocks to de termine the extent of usable sup plies. Such a cut from the three ex perimental forests would represent about five times the usual annual timber harvest. These timbered tracts are conducted on a continu ous' yield basis which: alio ws'.for an occasional concentrated 'cut when necessary. A considerable part of' this cut would be mine props, pulpwood, railroad ties, and fuel wood. Mine props find a ready outlet in the soft coal region while the pulp and paper industry and the railroads now are absorbing all pulpwood and ties available. The experimental forest areas comprise about 6800 acres, all lo cated within 15 miles of the Col lege. A conservative estimate of the hardwood timber growing on them, limited to all trees above 7 inches in diameter, would be near ly 11 million board feet. In addi tion, there are approximately 6 million board feet of softwoods. These are typical central Penn sylvania' woodlands. They serve to give students experience in for est management besides yielding a considerable income, particularly during periods such as the present. Freshman Men Debate Scranton, Lewistown The freshman men’s, debate team has met Lewistown High School and University of Scran ton thus far this semester, an nounced Harold P. Zelko, instruc tor of public speech and coach of the team. Topic for the season is “Re solved: That a Federal World Union Be Established After the War.” The squad includes Zelmar Barson, John Arbib, S. E. Neeley, Morton Gollub, Robert Boedecker, Raymond Brittin, Paul Baer, Sid ney Levy, Arthur High, Harry Reynolds, Edward Zemperelli, and Morton Cohn No decisions were rendered on the debates, in which audience forums took part. Collegian Vacation, Too After publication Sat u|r day morning. The Daily Collegian will suspend publication for two weeks, Philip P. Mitchell, business man ager, announced last night. The Spring vacation and an attempt to conserve newsprint were given as reasons for the tut. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiHHiiiHHimiimHV LATE NEWS FLASHES! iiiiHmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihiiiiHiimmimiiiiiKHHtHHHWiitt NEW DELHI. Maha t m a Ghandi’s condition has improved considerably, according to reports here. Although, he is still. fasting, doctors report that his crisis has already passed. MacARTHUR’S HEADQUAR TERS.—American planes attacked forcefully in live new drives on Japanese bases. Enemy raids have been very weak. Japanese are now raiding from new-airdromes' they built secretly. British planes -also were active as they shelled Burma, but casualties were slight; LONDON.—-Officials report that Churchill has been:.suffering from pneumonia, not a “headache,” as was previously reported; British people heaved a sigh of relief when the prime minister’s condi tion was announced as “better.” MOSCOW.—Russian tank unite continued to give the Germans trouble on the Eastern front, ac cording to the midnight communi que. In the South, the lighting is heavy as the Germans light furi ously to keep out of the Russian trap which is swiftly closing in on them. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. Rommel’3 troops advanced towards Tuggert in central Tunisia, but have been hurled back by the Allies. Nazi tank forces are very small and tho Americans and British are taking advantage of this fact. .. tr
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