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VOL. 41—No. ITT*"
2nd Open House
Of Year Features
Red Cross Theme
Variety Show, Movies,
Dances to Hold Sway
As a climax to the Red Cross
drive now in progress, Penn
State’s second Old Main Open
House of the Spring semester is
scheduled to take place Friday
night.
The new All-College committee
has arranged one of the most ac
tive and entertaining evenings of
the entire semester to ■tie f in with
the current Red Cross drive for
war emergencies. Serving on the
new committee as co-chairmen are
Dorothy K. Brunner and Robert
Dickey. Christine Yohe has been
elected secretary while Paul Ala
mar will serve as treasurer.
The Variety Show in Schwab
Auditorium at 7 p.m., featuring
the famous Thespian Three
Stooges and other campus enter
tainers to 'be announced in tomor
row's Collegian, will start the eve
ning of fun. This will be the first
appearance of the new Three
Stooges following'a reorganization
at the beginning of this semester.
Following the stage show,, a fea
ture length Hollywood production
of a few years back, “Transatlan
tic' Merry-Go-Round,” starring
Jack Benny, will be shown on a I
large screen. Along with the main
feature, several short subjects
; shdwing the-work- of the Red Cross
will be shown. Features will be
gin at 8 and 10 p.m.
Other features will include so
cial dancipg in the Armory, square
dancing ip the first floor lounge
of Old Main, and a bridge tourna
ment in second floor lounge. The
Philotes room will be open to en
roll students in the -Red Cross, and
there will be several one-act. plays
in the Little Theater.
: Students are urged by the com
mittee to sign up for the bridge
tournament at Student Union be
fore 4 p'.m. Friday. It is open to
both individuals and teams of two.
t More details will be announced
in tomorrow’s Collegian.
Students Should Decide
Before Asking Deferment
; Students planning to take ad
vantage of the new deferments
available to college men, as an
nounced in yesterday’s Collegian,
should decide definitely if they
want to continue in a deferred
status if their case is approved by
the draft board, Professor Robert
E. Galbraith said last night.
‘ Army enlistments and induc
tions swamp headquarters every
day, : ,Galbraith remarked. Thus, if
a man asks for active duty after
receiving a deferment, he is caus
ing needless hours of work in the
handling of forms.
; This new list of deferments is
open only to men under the. juris
diction of draft boards, and not to
students enlisted in any branch of
the reserves.
Change Of Address?
| All fraternity men wo have
made a change in residence are
requested to report today at Stu
dent Union. There they will be
given forms to' fill o,ut stating
their new addresses and phone
numbers.
This is very important since the
College must be able to contact
all students in case of emergency
and for general information.
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1493, STATE COLLEGE, PA.
'Star Parade'
Needs Scripts
A nation-wide College playwrit
ing contest with the Special Trea
sury Award of Merit as the prize
is being sponsored toy the War
Savings Staff of the Treasury De
partment under the supervision
on this campus of Frank S. Neus
baum, associate professor of dra
matics.
With the purpose in mind of
making the individual student
more conscious of his personal re
sponsibility in the Waf Savings
Program and because of the urgent
need of dramatic skits, this con
test has been decided upon. All
scripts must have for their- subject
■matter War Savings, and should
have the emotional and dramatic
j elements of £ play. Preferring to
'have them as short as possible,
the Treasury Department asks
that they be limited to from 10 to
30 minutes of playing time.
Completed scripts must be in
the hands of Professor Neusbaum
on or before April 1. The winning
scripts in the College will be mail
ed to Washington, D. C., tyy April
10, and results will 'be announced
by May 15. Mrs. Henry Morgen
thau Jr. heads the list of judges.
Additional information may be
obtained by seeing Professor Neus.
baum in Schwab Auditorium.
Sample scripts and material on the
subject may also be had by seeing
Neusbaum in his office. Any Col
lege student is eligible for the con
test.
Judges are: Miss Margo Jones,
University of Texas;_Mrs. Hallie
Flanagan ? -Davis,™ ;-Smith-vCollege;
Mr. Barrett H. Clark, Dramatist’s
Play Service and Mrs. Morgen
thau.
Woman Debaters
Face Full Schedule
With three debates scheduled
for today,' and the job of hostess
ing at 4he eighth, annual-Pennsyl
vania State Debaters Convention
tomorrow and Saturday, the Col
lege women’s debate teams and
their coach, Clayton H. Schug,
face a full engagement 'book for
the nert few days.
In today’s trio of arguments,
Coach Schug will match a fresh
man team-against the more ex
perienced yarsity of Mount Mercy
College, while the home varsity
■women will take over in a contest
with the University of Pittsburgh.
In the first debate, set for 103 ,
Home Economics at 4 o’clock, Ade
laide Gluck and Lorette Schwartz,
affirmative, will speak while Ruth
Clyde will be chairman. Betty Mc-
Ginnis and Vera Owens, negative,
will participate in the second
Mount 'Mercy match at 9 o’clock,-
and Mary L. Casanave will be
chairman. .Varsity members, Betty
G. Coplan and Lois B. McCool, af
firmative, will battle with Pitt,
probably in 118 Home Economics,
at 9 o’clock, Schug said. M. Eliza
beth Zimmerman will take the
chair in the final debate.
Approximately 15 colleges and
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Electrical Engineering
Society Holds Meeting
The Electrical Engineering So
ciety will hold a demonstration of
practical engineering methods at
which Francis T. Hall Jr., instruc
tor of electrical engineering, will
speak, in 110 Electrical Engineer
ing at 7:15 o’clock tonight.
Ultra-high frequency of elec
tricity transmitted through pipe
lines at five billion cycles a second
will be discussed.
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
Eliminations In
Ag Debate Contest
Set For Monday
Preliminary eliminations tor 28
contestants who have registered in
the Agriculture Debate Stage
sponsored by the School of Agri
culture In cooperation with the
Department of Speech will be held
in room 100 Hort, 7 p.m. Monday,
instead of today, as originally
scheduled.
Four winners will be chosen
from the preliminary debate and
will battle it out among them
selves in the final contest set for
April 2.
Contestants entering the elimi
nations Monday will have ten min
utes to speak 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.’’
The four winners chosen to par
ticipate in the Final round will
also be given ten minutes to speak
on either side of the question.
Fifty dollars will go to the first
place winner, while the second,
third and fourth place winners will
receive $25, $l5 and $lO respec
tively.
Participants will be chosen on
their individual performance and
j not as a member of an affirmative
i or negative debate squad. No ref
erence or refutation is to be made
concerning the remarks of preced
ing speakers.
Bases for judging will include
consideration of agricultural .con
tent, ■ speech organization, develop
ment, originality, speech delivery
and platform manner.
Purpose of the Stage is .to pro
mote interest among the students
of the School of Agriculture in
realistic agricultural problems and
to enocurage free and clear dis
cussion of these problems.
Contest committee members in
clude H. P. Zelko, R. Richardson,
H. C. ICnandel, H. S. 'Brunner and
A. A. Borland.
LA Council Will Examine
Abolition Of Finals
Planning to investigate a move
ment to abolish final week before
taking further steps in the matter,
Richard B. McNaul, president of
the Liberal Arts Council, appoint
ed Suzanne M. Clouser as chair
man of a committee to discuss the
question and contact department
heads. v
Other members appointed to the
committee are Alvin Fleischman,
Edward C. Kaiser, and Renee U.
Marks. The group will probably
draw up-questionnaires to be sent
to department heads in order to
get faculty opinion on the ques
tion, McNaul stated.
Charles F. Hall was appointed
chairman of a committee to revise
the council constitution.
Harvest Ball Queen
Balloting for the Harvest Ball
Queen will begin today at polls
in the Corner Room and at Stu
dent Union. Nominees chosen to
vie for the honor by Penn 1 State
coeds are Jane Vernon, Elizabeth
J. Bratton, and Margaret L. Good.
The winner will be presented with
a cup during intermission of the
dance Saturday night.
Mark Issues Warning
Captain Mark of the Campus
Patrol requests all students to take
-their belongings into classrooms
with them instead of leaving them
around the buildings. thefts
have been reported in 'Pond Lab
oratory, Sparks, and New Physics.
Army Reserves To Be Called
Following Close of Semester
Students in the Enlisted Reserve Corps, but not in Advanced
IIOTC. will probably be ordered to active duty 14 days after the
completion of this semester or as soon thereafter as practicable with,
due regard to the avoidance of congestion in reception centers, accord
ing to an announcement by Col. E. D. Ardery, PMS&T.
Advanced ROTC students in the reserves are expected to be call
ed to active duty within the next few weeks and remain on duty at
the College, together with pursuing their regular academic course
and ROTC'work until the end of this semester.
Mil Ball Plans Proceed
Despite Army Orders
Calling ROTC to Service
Although advanced ROTC men
will be called to active duty with
in the next few weeks, plans for
the traditional Mil Ball are being
continued by Cadet Colonel
Charles Welker and his staff of
assistants.
Negotiations are under way to
sign one-of the top campus bands
for the April 30 ball, which will
be the last big weekend of the
semester, and the last dance for
the reservists who are scheduled to
receive orders in the latter part
of May. ' . . .
Welker said last night that a
limited number of invitations will
be extended to Ensigns stationed
at the College, pre-pre flight men
who will arrive in several weeks,
engineering trainees from the
Army, and all enlisted reserves.
Advanced ROTC men will be is
sued regulation uniforms of a Pri
vate when they are called to ac
tive duty, but may wear their
present cadet uniforms to the
dance. These men will be able to
participate in preparations for the
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Fraternity Subscriptions
Phillip P. Mitchell. Collegian
business manager, asks frater
nities with Collegian group sub
scriptions to advise the Col
legian office where they want
the papers delivered. If the
fraternity is living in a group,
the Collegian will be delivered
to the new address. Fraternity
men not living with the group
will be able to get their papers
at Student Union each day. Fra
ternities are asked to give the
Collegian office this information
some time today.
Davey Dorm Hits
Top in War Drive
Contributions started to roll into
Red Cross headquarters last night
as Davey’s downtown dorm back
ed the drive with a 100 per cent
subscription, and several men’s
fraternities announced that solici
tations have been collected from
nearly every member.
Davey’s cooperation in the War
Campaign was led by Doris Huck,
who registered every woman in
the freshman house yesterday af
ternoon. The coeds who helped this
first housing unit on campus to go
over the top include Inez De Pas
cale, Bette Jeanne Frantz, Betty
Julius, Virginia Nelson, Mary Jane
Romig, Mary Ann Sulman, Evelyn
Wasson, Hazel Walters, Betty
Wolfram, Dorothy Yackle, and
Miss Ruth Moore, hostess.
Robert M. Faloon, chairman of
the drive, said that Cwens repre
sentatives will be stationed in Old
Main lobby tomorrow afternoon to
receive contributions from inde
pendent men who have not yet
■ been contacted.
PRICE: THREE -CENTS
Each reservist, excluding Ad
vanced ROTC students, ordered
to active duty under the current
War Department policy will be
dispatched, after processing at a
reception center, to a replacement
training center as part of current
quotas.
-Those students who have had
basic ROTC training here will be
assigned to a replacement train
ing center of the branch in which
they received this training. En
listed reservists will be called to
active duty from their homes, un
less they promptly advise the
PMS&T in writing that they wish
to be called from this institution.
When reporting to reception
centers, students should have a
transcript of college academic and
ROTC records for presentation to
the classification officer.
Advanced ROTC students will
presumably be paid by the gov
ernment, and housed and fed by
I the College under contract with
! the War Department. Such stu
dents should not commit them
selves to occupancy of rooms nor
payment for board beyond such
date as they will be called for ac
tive duty.
Following the close of the se
mester, Advanced students in the
reserves will be sent to their spe
cial service school of replacement
training . center. Instructions re
garding voluntary induction for
those not in the enlisted reserves
will be announced later.
The foregoing procedures,, ac
cording to Colonel Ardery, will
disturb the' convenience and rou
tine to which students have grown
accustomed, but the situation is
but a sample of the repercussions
of war.
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KHARKOV.—Red forces sys
tematically battered six German
attempts to retake the area south
east of this section, Russian in
formatives said on a late evening
broadcast last night.
BERLIN.—Hopes of an early
Finnish-Russo peace were aban
doned yesterday when Hitler re
fused to withdraw the German
Seventh Division from Finnish
soil, where it has been stationed
for several months, Axis radio
commentators deplared.
WASHINGTON. Labor Board
officials were working with all
possible speed last night to avert'
John L. Lewis’ latest threat of call
ing 450,000 men from the soft coal
pits on April 1, WLB Chairman
William H. Davis said in his press
conference yesterday.
White Hall Holds Rally
The Red Cross Rally held at
White Hall last night was, accord
ing to Adele Levin, WRA presi
dent, a great success. Over 100 co
eds were present.
Students who participated in the
knitting event completed half an
afglian in less than thirty min
utes. J