• s e,ei MIC4 I WEATHER BEAT D at i ll Totiggiatt Partly Cloudy and PM Continued Cold VOL. 46 NO. 32 Pacific Veterans Remember Artists' Course Opera Singer Veterans attending the Artists' Course presentation of "Madame Butterfly" tonight may recognize Lucy Kelston, who plays the title role, as the dark-haired girl who became famous for her singing of "Ava Maria" during a USO tour of the Pacific Theater. Miss Kelston and Jon Crain, who will sing the B. F. Pinker ton role, are' the only changes from last night's cast. Tickets for tonight's perform ance will be available at Student Union from 1:30 to 5 o'clock this afternoon and from 6:30 to 8 o'clock tonight, said Dr. C. E. Marquardt, chairman of the com mittee. Born in New York City, Miss Kelston gained her first operatic experience with the San Carlo Opera Company. and sang opera leads at the Paper Mill Play house, Millburn, New Jersey. (Continued on page three) Group Plan Giant Pittsburgh Rally Plans for a giant "Beat Pitt" pep rally to be held in Pitts burgh Friday evening are being drawn up by a special student committee headed by Richard Sarge. "Beat Pitt" tags are available at. Sttv:ent Union. Frank Ti dona, chairman of the tag com• mines, urges all students to show t o their spirit by wearing the cards. The pep rally will be the first even& of a weekend in Pittsburgh crowded with social events and keynoted, of course, by the Pitt football game Saturday after:- noon. Tickets for the game are on sale at Student Union, said Har old R. Gilbert, and' all orders will be filled at the tickets are received by the Athletic Asso ciation. Tickets for the dance at the Wil liam Penn Hotel on Saturday n ight are still available at Student Union,. according to Ray Kelly, chairman of entertainment for the weekend. Music for the dance, to be held in the main ballroom of the hotel from 9 to 12 p.m., will be supplied by Joey Sims and his orchestra. Rcom reservations 'for the weekend are still available. In formation and reservations may be secured at Student ITuon or by calling Jack Cameron at 3938. Lute AP News Courtesy Radio Station WMAJ WASHINGTON -- Pres ident Truman's address to Congress at the opening of the special session last night covered both emerg ency foreign aid and inflation at home. Major points in this program included a request that Congress give the President authority to restore limited controls over wages and prices and limited ra tioning. Mr. Truman added that these and other steps in his pro gram need not be taken if vol untary methods of combating in flation work. The president added that he does not envision blanket Price ceilings over major items which account for basic living costs. Nor. he caid. does he envision such widespread ceilings over scarce items basically needed for industrial production. Rather, he added. the controls would be se lective. He mentioned srrain and steel as vital items. Inflation Threatens The president asked for 597- million dollars to tide France. It aly and Austria through the Win ter. He .aid that inflation at home is a threat to the foreign aid pro gram. Sophomore Class Voles Thursday Election of sophomore officers will be held in the Armory from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday. Can didates vying for the class of fices are: President—Ted Allen (State (state). Ken Shaffer (Nittany- Independent). Vine-president Bert Hays (Nittany - Independent). Nan cy Cray (State). Secretary-treasurer Chuck Beatty Jr. (State). Kan' Ste phenson (Nittany - Independ ent).. Positive identification. prefer ably a matriculation card. must be presented at the polls. Third and fourth semester students are entitled to vote. The three elected officers will serve on All-College Cabinet for the remainder of the fall semes ter. and the entire spring semes ter. The sophomore president elect will vote on all Cabinet is sues. In case of his absence. the vice-President will exercise this voting power. The secretary-treasurer will have a seat on Inter-Class Fi nance Board. All inter-class funds. consisting of class dues and dance profits, are controlled by this board. The All-College secretary treasurer serves as chairman. ,Eleetiongerinr -oL both.kojii narties is' trettretmit'bV-thE'Mee tions Code. A set of rules comoiled by All-College Elections Commit tee. VA'Mo r n Staley. committee chairman. reminds the cliques that any violations of the code are nunistiable by the removal of no less than 9 or more than 4o votes. CORE Wants Barbershop A barbershop for both negro and white students here at the College has been proposed by the Council on Racial Equality ;It a letter to Samuel K. Hostetter. as sistant to the president in charge of business and finance. Since the new Student Union building will be a number of years in arriving, the Council pro poses that such a barbershop be included in the frame building now being constructed and local,- LY known as the "Tub." The Council has also written to Thomas McKeen Chidsey. Attor ney General of Pennsylvania, as to whether local I. , arbers. in their refusal of service to the colored students. are violating the state law. Rose Chats While Writing Evening Bulletin Column "Stuff and Nonsense" by the Philadelphia Bulletin columnist Don Rose can make sober, serious "There are too many column ists sounding off today, painting a gloomy pictures of the future," We Must Study History Mr. Rose told a reporter yester- Our plans do not work out but day in the Daily Collegian office we dare not wring our hands over while banging out his column for present developments, Mr. Rose Wednesday, commented, pausing to calculate "Recently I made a study of col- for his Wednesday column how umnists' predictions of 213 years many eggs are broken daily in ago," Mr. Rose said, running his shipment. We can only study his_ black pencil through the cow tory and prepare ourselves for paper in his typewriter. future developments, the news " They made the world ahead; man advised. look like a bright place and didn't "We must seek our own solu see the depression less than two (Continued on page three) TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1947 Contest Honors Niffany Gridders Penn State's football fans will name the outstanding Lion back and leading lineman in a contest to be conducted next week. Sponsored Jointly by the Daily Collegian and the Centre Daily Times, the contest will be han dled for the sole purpose of add ing honors to a team which ranks among the outstanding in Nittany Lion history. Ballots will appear in both newspapers throughout the week. County fans will be expected to vote through the Times, and Col legian will draw the choice of the 8,400 campus students. Trophies will be presented to the winners at the annual foot ball banquet. Every member of the Lion squad will be eligible to receive votes. Bob Higgins, Nittany Lion coach, has endorsed the contest, declaring it will "give added recognition to the two members of our squad who win and to the others who are sure to win a lot of votes." Daily stories will report the progress of the drive after Mon day. Education School Elects Council Names of fifteen members of the Education Student Council elected Wednesday have been announced by Dr. Marion Tra bue, dean of the Education School. Elected from the psychology dgagrlmpnt were James- , Letz; -rry Shamback, and Joan Bis sey. Home economics: Margaret Paxton, Joanne M. Snyder, Sally Ann Rowe. Geraldine Hinden back, and Jean Hunger. Secondary and elementary ed ucation: Jack Bohm, Robert Sto ver, Lois Resler, Helen Dicker -on. and Jean Posey. Music educaion: Earabra Gil let. Industrial education: Eugene Maelhorn. Anyone wishing to see the bal lots may do so after getting the consent of the council. Ballots are at the office of the dean. Candidate pictures which have not been returned may also be obtained at the office. All members of the council are to have their pictures taken at the Photo Shop at 7:15 o'clock tonight. A meeting will follow in 17 Sparks. Collegian Meeting There will be a compulsory meeting of the entire Colleg ian business staff in 1 and 2 Carnegie Hall at 6:45 o'clock tonight. Candidates will meet in room 1 and sophomore and junior boards in room 2. The senior business board will meet in the business office at 5 o'- .clock. years away. Our prophets with the pens called aviation a flop and saw peace in our time. I found no mention of two individuals named Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adolph Hitler. Milholland Promotes 113 Faculty Members James Milholland, acting president of the College, announced yesterday the appointment of two department heads and 111 othor faculty promotions. Dr. Raymond Swift, professor and acting head of animal nu trition, was named head of that department, and Dr. John H. Fer guson, professor of political science, was named head of the department of political science. Gilford G. Quarles, professor of engineering research, was ap pointed assistant director of the ordnance Research Laboratory and professor of engineering research. Local Gift Joins Friendship Train State College's contribution to the Frienci'ship Train in Altoona Saturday was composed of $1,267.17 worth of flour and 200 pounds of driei beans. Contributions of students from the College are included in the donations by the State College Commerce Club, sponsor' of the local drive. The Friendship Train, which started east from the Pacific Coast last week, picked up so many car loads of food along the way that it had to be split into three sec tions. The second section stopped at Pittsburgh, Johnstown, and Al toona, where the Centre County car joined the saravan. The paths of the Freedbm Train and the Friendship Train met for the first time in Harrisburg yes terday since the special trains started their transcontinental journeys early in the month. The Freedom Train carries more than 100 historic documents, many of them priceless. Its cars are stainless steel and the docu ments are gßrOd. by ,_thick glass Men Debate Mount Mercy The adage that "two can live as cheaply as one" was upheld by Royce Nix and Eugene Fulmer in their affirmative stand in the debate with Mount Mercy Col lege Friday evening. Mr. Nix and Mr. Fulmer, of the Men's Debate Squad, defended the proposition that undergrad uate marriages should be encour aged against the negative team of Joan Schmidt and Margaret McGill. The affirmative stand was based on three points. Under graduate marriages are biologi cally sound, socially useful, and academically wise. In pointing out the biological soundness, Mr. Nix said that promiscuity would be greatly reduced. He added that half the men and one - fourth of the women in their junior and senior years have had pre-marital rela tions. That it is socially useful was emphasized by the fact that coed marriages have the lowest di vorce rates in the country, ac cording to Dr. Clifford Adams, the College marriage expert. Nix proved early marriages are academically wise with the re cent Dean's List figures. Nine and four-tenths per cent of the College enrollment made Dean's List. Sixteen and two-tenths per cent of Windcrest had the neces vary average. Married students lre the best students and those •ith children are even better. Undergraduate marriages were 'roved financially safe when Mr. Nix quoted Dr. Adams as saving that two can live one-third (Continued on nage three) Senior Photos Seniors graduating by June ho have not yet had pictures aken for La Vie must do so by ()morrow noon, Marjorie Mous 'ey, photo editor, announced. No appointment is necessary to have the photograph taken at the Photo Shop. Seniors who have not returned their proofs to the Photo Shop are asked to do so by Thursday. PRICE FIVE CEN'"3 Professors The followsing amciate profes sors were promoted to the follow ing positions: William G. Mather, professor of rural sociology; Rob ert W. Stone, professor of bacter iology; Newell A. Norton, profes sor of wood utilization; Milton T. Lewis, professor oil plant breed ing; Joseph Keith Thornton, asso ciate professor of farm crops and acting superintendent of the Col lege farms; Rosalind M. Jewett, professor of home economics ex tension; George F. Johnson, pro fessor of agricultural extension; Lora M. Pinder, professor of home economics extension; David H. Rank, professor of physics; Harold K. Schilling, professor of physics; Leland S. Rhodes, professor of civil engi neering; Pierce G. Coperous, professor of engineering re search; R. Burton Power, pro fessor of engineering research; Charles H. Tindal, professor of engineering research, Winona L. Morgan, professor of home economics; Jabir Shibli, professor of mathematics; Wil liam H. Gray, professor of Latin- American history; Paul D. Kry (*Continued on page six) News Briefs Addresses Club '5O Tom Lannen, All-College pres ident, will introduce sophomore candidates at the meeting of Club '5O, PSCA sophomore group, ifi 304 Old Main at 7::30 o'clock tonight. After the introduction of the candidates. Ski Club slides will be shown and the club's activities ex plained. Critique Circulation Critique circulation staff will meet in 9 Carnegie Hall at 7 o'clock tonight, said John Hun ter, circulation manager. Collegian Meeting There will be an important meeting for all members of the Collegian editorial candidates, sophomore, and junior boards in 8 Carnegie Hall at 6:45 o'clock tonieht, said Allan Oskar. editor. Agriculture Forum -`Better Rural Life" is the sub ject of the address of Dr. Richard D. Comfort to be given in 100 Hort at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Dr. Comfort's audience will be the Agriculture St ud e n t-Faculty Forum. Dr. Comfort is Dean of the Warren H. Wilson Institute of Rural Church Work, Swannanoa, N. C. He will be available for in dividual conferences today in the Hugh Beaver Room of the PSCA. Skull and Bones All members of Skull and Bones are requested to attend a meeting in 106 Temporary building at 7 o'clock tonight, said Larry Foster. president. Baking Lecture All students and townspeople are invited to a talk on the "Bak ing Business Today" in 121 Sparks at 7:30 o'clock tonight. The speaker will be William E. Manbeck, manager of the Man beck Baking Co. in Harrisburg. The talk is presented by Delta "la Pi, commerce and finance honorary. (Continued on page seven)
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