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Lerner,. Returning
IFrOin War, Brings
: : . : i ' 4i . rOpeali •RopOrt
"Report on Germany,": a first
hand account of conditions in. the
European• theater of war,, will be
presented in . Schwab •Auditoriurn
Thursday by Max Lerner,
, fourth of. the Community - . Forinn
lecturers. .. _ . •
-- Lerney, author,• editor, journal.-
ist, and radio commentator,
returned'frorni trip to Europe:
as'- -War correspondent for 'PM;
t' New 1 7 9r1s newspaper for-which he'
Is , siltief editorial 'writer, „
ar, was . ,educated
..trevt? lliaratnre and: law at: 3 4,ale; and
* the '112.41S-
ert 'Brookings Gractifate'Saiidl of
-EconomiCs and GOVerrunerit, • in'
' 4 Waohington, D. •C: He' has 'taught'
at' Sarali•;LaWrefiCe. College, 'Her
. yard,- and %Williains ;College, • and .
' has been • editor of "The:Nation"
and "The New Republic.".He is at
present contributing editor •to "The
• „NeW Republic," and a Member of
the editorial board of "The Amer-'
ican Scholar."
• -"Lerner's - latest book, "Public
Jmrnal," has just been released.
His- first book, "It Xs Later Than
- You Think," published in .1938,
- - created the term "democratic 'col
lectivism." His, other books are
s "Ideas Are Weapons," ,"Ideas 'for
' the Ice Age," and "The Mind 'and
Faith of Justice Holmes!' •
• , Series tickets for the last two
Community. Forum lectures may
be bought for 80 • cents at', the
• s Christian . Association office, Stu
, derit Union, or the office of the
supervising principal in State Col
- lege High School. Single admis
sion will be 50 cents.
• The last of the Community
Forum—speakers for this Season
will be Stuart Chase; economist
end. author, who was formerly
scheduled to speak here •in Febru
, -ary.,-He will appear May 29.
f . :ol . :ii.M•Hear.* .
~.;,... .. .,.„, ...
;--se..--ein:,.Tr:o-.bue
"In planning curriculums the
of 'the instructor is. to* open
•the eyes of the student•sci that he
selects 'subjects 'which would not
;otherivise -appeal to."' em-'
fe,Phasized Marion R. Trabue, dean
'of the SchooL of Education, who
•-was sneaker at the Thal College
Forum. discussion Wednesday.
• Enlarging' upon the tonic "To
What Extent Should Curriculum
- li'lanning Be Influenced by Stud
., :ern Deeres," , Dean Trabue stet
ect that tthe loqical viewpoint is
that , older Deople are more :cap
-
able of planning how - we should
educate in order to improve
zenship.
"I'm not.sure that the younger
people can do any better, but if
we fix in our minds clearly what
we want to produce, then we can
_.organize - ' experiences •to develop
faVorable outcomes," he contirtu
": ed.
Lack of understandlng in them
selves is .the. problem in Jetting
• ..-• the student. select' curriculums,
..j. , cope:uded the dean.
.:•:.-,....,Chairman for the discussion was
E: W. Callenbaoh, head - of
department of .poultry hus
laandry. • • •
Eighth Semester Meeting
•:(A, • meeting at the eighth se
mester eless.will be held in 121
;Sparks .at .3:30 Thursday, 'an
-nounced ,Kari. 'Erdman, presi;
All:graduating - seniors 'are
~urea to' attend.
Tatirgiatt
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1945-STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Coeds Extend
Clothes Drive
The date for the final collection
of clothing in the 'campus clothing
drive will be extended until Wed
nesday, according to Mary Faloon
and Dorothy Colyer, co-:chairmen
of the drive. • •
Warner Brothers will sponsor a
movie at the State Theater 11 a.
m. • tomorrow for • which 'the price•
of admission will -(be a bundle' `of
,clothing.• - The entertainment •will
feature the 'movie
. I !Kid Dynamite"
with the East Side Kids and• three
lechnicolor cartoons.. -Alpha Eire
, Company • trucks will collect
.the
-bundles of clothing at-the theater:
thilOteg sponsored the pony and
cart driyen •around= campus
day'-as, 7 special . advertishig fea
ture. to stimulate clothing ••collec
,tion. Members - ot - Penn State Club
drove•the cart. . • , • •
This- waek's„,clothinucolle4ion
showed 'an.increase . over ,the
amount collected last, week, the
chairmen stated. . : - • -
• ,
"Every coed should take time to
go through her clothing,, selecting
those she• can contribute to the
drive, and launder them," stated
Charlotte E. Ray, dean of women.
"It is very little that the coeds
are requested to do and since so
many men have left the College a
great responsibility for Übe suc
cess of the drive rests on the co
rids," she continued.
LlVliss Ray suggested that sizes be
pinned to the clothing to aid the
Red Cross workers in distributing
It. She added also that metal and
pins are very scarce in war-torn
.
countries.
Players' Produce Hit
Show:—'Hasty Heart'
Claire Chen, Portman Paget
and Richard Frontman have been
ohosen ''as the leads • in: Players'
forthcoming production - of "The
Hasty Heart," a comedy-drama in
.three
. acts' by -Cantain . John Pat
via.; currently a Broad Way sue-
This will be the second consec
utive Players' staging to be szti_
reeted by Lawrence B. Tucker. ."
Briefly the play concerns the.
story of a Scotsman (Portman Pa
get)- who has •six , weekA -to live.
He is moved into a hoSpital hut
with an American (Richard Trout
man), Digger, an. Australian (A/S
Matt Szyller), Kiwi, a. New Zeal
ander (Richard Sibley), Tommy, a
Cockney (Jerry Sitkin), and Blos
som, a Basuto (Charles Shulte).
Margaret, the nurse (Claire Co
hen.) plays the angel of mercy who
offers her love to Lachie (Port
man Paget) and succeeds in restor
ing h..ls faith in humankind.
"The Hasty Heart" will be pro
duced in Schwab Auditorium May
15 and 26.
Foundation Appoints
Hammond to Committee
Harry P. Hammond, dean of the
School of- Engineering, has' been
named to the Committee on Rules
for the project of the James Lin
coln Arc Welding Foundation
known as "The $20,000 Award
Program .for .Textbooks Covering
Machine and. Structural Design
•for Modern• Processes:! ••. •
: Purpose -nf the program is to
ericourag • the .preparation • and
publication of on ma
chine • and :structural , design. The
program, will reduce the usual de
jay between process .devglopments
in. industry. and their treatment in
.textbook :farm,. according to the
Lincoln Foundation.,
Published Weekly By The Daily Collegian Staff
fights' abinet
MARY :MARGARET% DUNLAP.
WSGA Fights
CObinet Plan
For Judicial
- Mary Margaret Dunlap, presi
dent of WSGA, challenged All-
College Cabinet's right to bring
the Judicial Committee under its
jurisdiction as stated by the Con
stitution Resiision Committee re
port -to. Cabinet Wednesday eve
ning.
Miss :Dunlen asked whether
All-College Cabinet could con
stitutionally demand that the Wo
men's Student Government Asso
ciation surrender its right to ap
point -members of Judicial, the
women's counterpart to Student
Tribunal.:•
The - dicicussion that followed
tried to point out that All-Coll
ege Cabinet is the supreme gov
erning body on the campus and
that all other governmental orga
nizations Must 'obey the decis
ions made by the semester presi
dents, who. represent the men
and . women students of the Coll
ege.
A nroposal made by Stanley
Bernheim, sixth semester presi
dent, was accepted that the Con
stitution Revision committee con
sult President Hetzel and try to
clarify the question of "how much
power 'does 'Cabinet •possess." •
Provisions for the election of an
(Continued on page seven)
Cathaum Theater Offers
Admission-Free Movie
Sponsored by Warner Brothers,
an admissicn-free .showing of a
20-minute film will be held in the
Cathaum Theatre at 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday.
Entitled "It Happened in Spring
field," the film depicts the opera
tion of the educational program
for democracy which was insti
tuted in the schools of Springfield,
Mass., five years ago. Since then
the plan has been actupted by a
number of communities through
out the nation.
The Cathaum showing will be
the first in the Pennsylvania
area. The film will also be pre
sented in conjunction with the
regular programs .at the Cathaum
on Friday and Saturday and at the
State Theatre on May 7,8, and 9.
. In letters to'superintendents of
schools in American cities, Dr.
Willard E. Givens, executive sec
retary of •the National Education
Association, - recommended the
film's "dramatic ouslities in pre
senting the excellent work which
the public schools are doing in
developing democratic ideals."
Harter, Holtzinger Win
First Semester Posts
In the contest this week for the first semester presidency, George
Harter, Nittany, won by a comfortable majority over his Key and Ra
dical opponents.
The new Radical Party made a successM entrance into Campus
politics with the election of James Holtzinger as first semester treas . -
urer..Holtzinger's victory was by virtue of a tie-breaking one-vote
penalty -imposed on Key . candi
date Barbara Stark for an elec
tions code infringement by her
Swing Trio, Soloists
Head Program in Treble
Singers' First Concert
.Perin State Treble Singers - will
present. "Opus I," their first an=
nual concert.• in.SChWab Auditor
ium at 8:30 'p.m. Friday. This is
the second in a series of •three
programs ,sponsored by the. music
department.
• . Under the. leadership of Direc
tor Guy Woods, assistant profess
or of music, the 1.14 toedS in.this
all women's chorus will present
a program of secular semi-classi
cal ,music arranged in 4-part
harmony. Ruth Horrocks will ac
company the group.
A swing trio, Carolyn Detz,
Jeanne Eisenberg, and Sa r a
Freedly, will sing four popular
numfbers arranged by ProfessOr
Woods. These are "Lazy Bones"
by Hoagy Carmichael, "Body and
Soul" by Johnny Green, "I'm
, Confessin" by Dougherty and
Reynolds, and "Exactly Like You"
by
,Mdflugh.
"The Song of Victory,"• the
chorus' opening song, is a patrio
tic number written by Laura Ket
terer during the present war. The
group's arrangement of this song
features a soprano solo - which
will be sung by Katherine Hof
meister. Ann Reese is the soprano
soloist in Andre Cheriier's French
love poem, "Apart."
Also on the program are four
specially arranged three -part
choruses. .A sextet composed of
Joan Baker and Ann Resse, so
pranos; Jean.Diehl . and Antoinette
D'Orazio, second sopranos, and
Betty Graeber and Dolores Port-,
noy,•will sing -these. '
ISIMMEM
'Keep Off The - Grass,'
Tribunal Requests
• "Give the' grass a break," Tri
bunal .chairman .Guy Newton said
in asking for the co-ooeration of
all men students to make a suc
cessful 411 -College Cabinet's
"Keep Off the Grass Week."
• To show that it is squarely be
hind this measure, Tribunal has
decreed that freshman violators
Robert Betts, Jack Reiler and
Ralph• Schwartz help in the plac
ing of signs at strategic spots on
the campus.
In addition a freshman mass
meeting at which attendance is
compu!sory- has been scheduled to
take place on tne steps of Old
Main at 1 o'clock this afternoon.
IMA, IWA lo Conducl
first Joint. Meeting
Independent Men's Association
and Independent Women's Asso
ciation will conduct a joint meet
ing in the IMA clulbroom, Old
Main,,from 7 to 9:30 p. m. (Mon
day. Such a meeting will (be the
first in the history of the two or
ganizations, announced Salvatore
Rocci, 'president of IMA.
The purpose of the gathering is
to get the independent men and
women on campus acquainted
with each other. There will be
dancing and refreshments. All
independent men and women are
urged to come, said Rocci.
Give Clothing
to the
Needy Overseas
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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party.
• Penalties imposed by the elec
tions .committee• were two votes
(ohe against each candidate) for
the Key Party, and six votes
(three, against each 'candidate) •for
the Nittany •Party.
The Key penalty was caused •by
failure of the party president to
sign one of the lists 'required by
the committee for • participation
in elections.
Nittany's penalty was due to
failure of the' party secretary to
sign four lists an•d by the late suk*
mission of another list.
Names' of candidates and Votes
polled follow:
President
George Harter, Nittany
Wally Davis, Radical .
Ott Wendel, Key
Treasurer
James Holtzintger, Radical ....53
Barbara Stark, Key 52
Shirley Herald, Nittany 43
Two changes in the freshman
elections code have been announ
ced by - Hele n Hatton, chairman of
the elections committee. An addi
tion to Article IV of the , code
states that no substitution of nam
es of candidates can be made af
ter the petition of nomination has
been turned in to Student Union.
It has also been ruled by the
committee that, in the event of a
tie for first place, another elec
tion will ;be held for the parties
concerned at a date to be set by
the elections committee.
Five Debaters Receive
Intercollegiate Keys
College Debate keys were a
warded for intercollegiate debat
ing to A/S Fred M. Kecker,•Ralph
C. John, A/S James P. Jones,
Sanford E. Rafsky, and Alex Reis
dorf at a dinner held in the Cor
ner Room recently.
Previous holders of keys are
. Martin D. Cohn and Ottis L. Cas
tleberry.
Future plans for the squad in
clude two short trips and a home
debathe with Brooklyn College.
The squad is pi eparing for the in
tercollegiate championship debate
to be held at West Point in May.
Engineer Offers Award
To Technical Students
An award, of $5O will (be given
by the Penn State Engineers this
semester. Any junior who is reg
istered in the school of Engineer
ing or Mineral Industries or in
the curriculum of chemical en
gineering, and
. who is in the up
per ten per cent of his class, may
apply for the award.
Applications may be obtained,at
Student Union or the Engineer of
fice, 2 Armory.. All applications
must be returned on or before
May 14.
Rous to Talk on Cancer
Dr. Peyton . Rous, of the Rocke
feller Institute .of Medical.. Re
search, will deliver a Sigma Xi
lecture in 121 Sparks. Building at
the College at 8 p.m. Saturday. His
topic will be "Concerning the Can
cer Problem."
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