. . 4 " ' 13 Days '2, , 4. ' ^0 Left T r oz :t u g :,-,.,,,.,„, .5 T e rrit rgtan ° 4 , Weather: , Cloudy and Cold "FOR A BETTER PENN STATE" VOLUME 49-NUMBER 30 State Party to Investigate Politics In Council Elections Rather than take a hasty, ill-informed stand, the State party will investigate further the proposal to introduce party politics into student council elections, Howard McCoy, clique chairman, said yesterday. • In a statement released to the Daily Collegian, McCoy gave party's official stand on the proposal rejected last Sunday by Lion party. "The State party feels that the proposed idea of party politics in student councils should be in vestigated more thoroughly to see if the project is feasible," the State clique head reported. "The State party also recom mends that an investigation should be conducted by party members and representatives of the eight student councils be fore any further action is taken concerning the issue," he added As yet no official party com mittee has been appointed to study the proposal. Whether such a committee will be established in the near future . is a matter of conjecture, McCoy intimated. A meeting to make preliminary nominations for the all-college and class selections scheduled for April 6 and 7 will be held in 405 Old Main at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in addition to the nominations, Clique Chairman McCoy will make campaign committee ap pointments.. No platform or state ment of policy is expected to be issued at this week's confab. Lion party representatives will meet a half-hour later, at 8 p.m. in 10 Sparks (changed from 121 Sparks) to similarly make pre liminary all-college and class of ficer nominations. _ . A statement of policy for the coming campaign, prepared by a committee headed by George Bearer, will also be discussed by Lion members. Washington Pastor Speaks 'at Chapel "Fire In My Bones" will be the sermo n topic of Dr. J. Warren Hastings at the Chapel service at Schwab auditorium at 11 a.m. on Sunday. Dr. Hastings has been minister of the National City Christian Church, Washington, D. C. since 1942. He is the author of a number of articles for leading religious periodicals and is a frequent speaker in many of the large churches of the East and for Chapel services on many eastern campuses. The Chapel Choir under the direction of Mrs. Willa Taylor will sing the anthem, "0 Sacred Head Now Wounded" written and arranged by Hassler-Bach. 'Dark of the Moon' Enthralls First Night Schwab Audience The opening curtain of Players' "Dark of the Moon" sets an unearthly mood that grips the audience and never lets go. The foggy crags, the undulating witches, the foreboding of something inde scribably evil begin a tale of mountain superstition that haunts the memory. Playgoers tonight and tomorrow should not expect an "arty" production. But even if they did, - the finesse and artfulness with which the almost barbaric theme is expanded by Director Robert Reifsneider would prove almost overwhelming, as it did with this writer. Superstition prevails through out the story of John, a Smoky Mountain witch boy with human aspirations—the beliefs of the childish, lovable valley folk plunging him to defeat. Opening Sets Mood The play opens on a foggy, half-lit mountain setting that can be described only as electrifying. It is in the witch boy's opening lines that the plot is set. He has fallen in love with a human and begs a conjur woman to make him a mortal. The hag agrees, with the provision that his hu snanitY mulct be renounced if Britons Debate Revolt's Effects The College will entertain two students from Cambridge Uni versity, England, for the 15th In ternational Student Debate which will be held at the College at 7 p.m. Monday. The debate topic will be "Re solved: that the world would have been much happier had not the American Revolutionists left the British Empire." The teams will assume a semi-serious approach to the topic. Arthur R. Warnock, dean of men, will act as chairman. Richard Hill, Penn State, and Duncan Macrae, Cambridge, will take the affirmative side. The negative viewpoint will be voiced by Percy Cradock, Cambridge, and John Fedako, Penn State. A sway-of-opinion vote of the audience will be taken before and after the debate. An open forum will also be held. The debate will be open to the public and there will be no admission charge. A reception for the visiting de baters will be held in the Hotel State College from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Exams Offered For Social Jobs Civil Service examinations for Visitor positions in the Pennsyl vania Department of Public As sistance wil be held April 23. Col lege seniors will be able to take the Senior Visitor examination, since four years of college are ac cepted as required employment credit. Entrance salaries range from $2124 to $2496 per annum. Re sults of the tests should be avail able sometime before graduation. Applications can be secured at the Placement Office and must be postmarked by March 31. The Visitor is the basic social service position in the Depart ment. Visitors work in their home counties, investigating needy families and authorizing assist ance grants. Tenure, salary, and promotion are based upon job performance under the provisions of the Civil Service Law. By Jack Reen Barbara Allen, his mortal love, is unfaithful within a year. The pact is made and the fate ful mold is cast. The fast-moving drama gains even more momen tum from the efforts of the val ley folk to pry him loose from human existence and send him back to the crags where he belongs. Attains Excellence The extreme degree of excel lence the production attains can be attributed to many causes— superb scenery; mature, finely detailed portrayals; a vitalizing naturalness on the part of every player. But most of all, direction takes the honors. Mr. Reifsneider has guided the production with an infallible hand, gliding over the few rough (Continued on page eight) STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1949 King's English Dies Don't kid yourself—English profs are anything but stuffy when it comes to using the King's English. As a matter of fact they're a liberal bunch of Joe: who will even endorse "Who did you meet?" and "It is me" as ac cepted American usage. That is, if the 155 professors re cently quizzed by Norman Lewis for Harpers' magazine represent an indicative cross-section of aca demic opinion. When Lewis sent out a questionnaire concerning 19 costroversial but commonly used grammatical expressions to nine groups of educated people, he found the professors the group least inclined to bat an eyelash at split infinitives and prepositions at the end of sentences. Editors Dissent The dictionary men came in a close second but editors of wo men's magazines aren't so scare. With them the grammar books are still the law. At any rate the bewildered stu dent no longer has to worry about the difference between shall and will. Ninety percent of the 468 persons questioned thought the rule of using "shall" with "I" was outdated and some 'said it never had been an essential of good English. Despite the liberality of the professors, however, there are two things one had better not say if he aspires to pass Composition I —"Hers is different than mine," and "I encountered less difficul ties than I expected." The school masters are still "agin" it. Alumnus Convicted of Aiding Student in Draft Evasion By D. L. J. Malickson Larry Gara, who received an M.A. degree in history from the College in August, was found ingly counseled a Bluffton College ingly counseled a Bluffton college student to refuse to register under the 1948 Selective Service Act. Gara, 26-year old Quaker, was sentenced by Federal Judge Frank L. Kloeb in Toledo, Ohio, to serve up to five-years in prison and pay a $lO,OOO-fine. A jury of six men and six women returned the guilty verdict after deliberat ing five hours. • The defendant was dean of men and professor of history at Bluff ton College, a small Mennonite institution located approximately 100 miles northwest of Columbus, Ohio. He was charged with coun seling Bluffton senior, Charles Rickert, to refuse to register. Rickert is now serving an 18- month term in Michigan Federal prison. While attending Penn State, Gara was a frequent contributor to the Daily Collegian letters to BX Expands Paper Service The Book Exchange has ex panded its newspaper service to include four additional dailies, George Bearer, member of the Board of Control, said yesterday. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Times, New York Her ald-Tribune, and the Philadel phia Inquirer will now be on sale in addition to the newspapers al ready carried. Beginning Tuesday the BX will also institute a policy of adver tising special sales for the week. The Daily Collegian will carry a notice of each week's special for the remainder of the semester. An estimated 20 per cent re fund wit be available to purchas ,i,rs at the Exchange, Bearer add• ed. At Hcnds of Profs Cabinet Finds Mixup In Constitution Change All-College Cabinet hit a "stone wall" last night while discuss ing routine changes in its constitution. Abram Bosler, chairman of the revision committee, proposed a minor revision to the section concerning Tribunal, judiciary body, and Judicial, corresponding women's group. Questioning the change, Janet Lyons, Women's Student Government Association presi dent, stated that Judicial is con trolled by W.S.G.A. and not Cabinet. Seniors Meet To Choose Gift Approval of suggestions for dis position of the $B,OOO senior class gift fund will feature a senior class meeting in Schwab audi torium at 6:45 p.m. Sunday. All eighth semester seniors who will graduate in June are invited to attend Sunday night's affair. They will be eligible to vote on acceptance of the proposals put forth. A committee headed.by Richard Weaver has screened the sugges tions and will submit four of them to the class for their approval at Sunday night's get-together. The quartet of recommenda tions the seniors will.be asked to accept are a student press fund, a fund to buy cap s and gowns for use by graduating seniors, blanket memberships in the Alumni As sociation, and alloting of the money to provide working capi tal for the student co-op. Additional suggestions from the floor may be added to the list by a majority vote of those present at the meeting. Balloting for dis position of the fund, among the recommendations accepted, will be conducted April 4,5, and 6. Seniors who graduated in Jan uary and students in the School of Home Economics who are prac tice teaching may vote by post card. the editor column. On May 20, 1948 he wrote: "It is our responsibility as world citizens to do everything in our power to prevent World War 111 and to make 'peace in our time' a reality instead of a mere dream. (I am convinced that this demands responsible individual action which may at times make it necessary for people to disobey laws passed by national govern ments, and enter into civil dis obedience.) "War," continued Gara in his letter to the editor, "is a crime against humanity and I believe it is criminal for individuals to participate in such actions. If the United States government passes a draft law I shall refuse to regis ter for or obey any provisions of such a law... "I know," continues Gara, "that many other s will be with me in seeking to obey a higher law while violating the federal law... This may mean prison, persecu tion or even death but no other course will convince men and governments..." 13 Days to Carnival More varied arid unusual plans have been submitted by campus organizations for the rapidly ex panding Spring Week Carnival un March 31. With each days en tries, greater promise is given for the success of the Carnival, the first attempt of its kind for many a moon in Nittany Valley. In addition to the chick booth already entered, Acacia will add to the menagerie with a real live duck enclosed in a wire pen. Cus_ turners will throw a light bamboo luop in an attempt to "ring a duck's neck." If they succeed in looping the duck they will re ceive—the duck. A photo shop operated by Pi Kappa Phi will take regular and comic souvenir pictures to send to the gang back home. They will have a variety of scenes for the PRICE FIVE CENTS Letter She brought forth a letter written in 1945 by the late Presi dent of the College Ralph B. Hetzel. In the letter, President Hetzel stated that Cabinet had no control over Judicial. "If we have no control over either W.S.G.A. or Judicial, why should the W.S.G.A. have a seat on Cabinet?" asked one of the Cabinet members. Chairman William Lawless ad mitted that the group had hit a stone wall and instructed Bosler to revise that clause in the con stitution to give either Cabinet or W.S.G.A. jurisdiction over Ju dicial. Eight other amendmentS were discussed and passed last, night. Other action taken at la night's meeting was the appoint ment of Abram Bosler to tip Student Agency Board of Cory trol, Cabinet's approval of 016 (Continued on page eight) 'Parlor Story' Concludes Run "Parlor Story," Players' current, offering at Centre Stage, will con clude its five-week run with to morrow night's performance. "This Side of Bedlam," by War4i ren Smith, instructor in drama-, tics, and the first play written primarily for central staging, will' open next Friday night. Realistic Comedy Directed by Robert Kendall, al so of the dramati,c department, "Parlor Story" is a realistic com edy revolving around the selec tion of a college president. The conflict presents itself in the candidate's wondering whether the appointment is worth the domestic entanglements and po litical intrigues involved. Walter Eckley and Eleanor Miles portray the candidate and his wife, and Jean Davidson and Ruth Johnson as their daughters. The role of the governor is taken by Leonard Stein, his wife be ing played by Lorraine Zimmer man. Other Roles Frederick Leuschner takes the part of a youthful college news paper eritor. A farcial pair of state polkieman are played by Anthony Bowman and Charles Cohen. Dan Bryant portrays a conniving newspaper publisher. No seats remain for to night's performance but tickets are available at Student Union for tomorow. The price of $1.25 each includes tax and refreqh ments. customers to pick as the back ground. There will be a "skeller scene for two," "campus big wheel," "college Joe and Jane," or a plain backdrop with "Spring Week, 1949" for the more conser vative. As an added service plc ture s will be mailed. Ever had the urge to throw a pie? Well here's your chance. Del ta Chi will sponsor a pie throw ing booth where anyone can have the chance to satisfy his throw ing urge by pelting a pie at some unfortunate Delta Chi. Fraternities and sororities are not the only groups eligible to enter the Carnival. Any inde pendent organization, or any club o n campus may enter a booth. An extention of time for en tries has been given until Wed nesday, March 23.
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