Carl Sandburg To Speak in Schwab Tonight Group Named To Imiestigate Closed Alleys Bowling Suspended Pending Tdx Removal Borough t-ouncil voted to ap point a committee to look into the closing of State College's only bowling alley in its first meeting of the year Monday night. The action came. after a state ment read to council by P. H. Gentzel, owner of the alleys. •The committee will consult with Mr. Gentzel. No date for the first meeting has been set. The motion to review the situ ation was made by Councilman' H. 0. Smith. It was passed with out a dissenting vote. Council man Kaye • Vinson was named chairman of the committee. Other members are Leon Skin ner and smith. Reads Statement In his statement to counci Gentzel said: "When Council practical 1 y doubled the tax on the bowling alleys and raised the tax on pin ball machines almost four fold, I secured , the services of two law yers, and I quote part of their advice—`the only legal restric tion upon the Borough's right to regulate business, is that such a license fee must not be exorbi tant or have a confiscatory ef fect.' I now declare my right to consider the Ordinance not ex orbitant but confiscatory." Mr. Gentzel referred to Bor ough Ordinance No. 293, which raised the license fee on his alleys from $B5 to $l6O. "One hundred and thirty years ago," Mr. Gentzel continued, "Chief Justice John Marshall, of the United States Supreme Court, in the case of McCulloch vs. Maryland, stated `The poser to tax is the power to destroy.' Cost 548,000 "Now, gentlemen, in the final analysis, the action of the Bor ough Council has destroyed the use of my bowling alleys, cost ing about $48,000." Questioned by _Council Presi dent E. L. Keller, Gentzel said, "If the tax is removed I'll open the alleys, if it is not, I can't." In addition to the increased cost of a license, the real estate assessment on the building which houses the alleys was raised by $l5OO. Second Players Production Set "Liliom," a legend in ' seven scenes and a prologue by Ferenc Molnar will be presented by the Penn State Players as their sec ond Schwab produCtion this year on January 19, 20 and 21, The play was first produced in New :York by the Theatre Guild and starred Eva LeGalliene, Joseph Schildkraut, Henry Travers and Dudley Digges. Later Rogers and Hammerstein' added a musical score and the show was a box office hit under the title "Car ousel." - • Heading a cast of 30 is Charles Wiliams, as Liliom, a carousel barker with a fatal charm for women. This man, handsome and rugged, to whom deference has been shown all his life, can't be have in quite the manner society dictates. He has the capacity to love, but is unable to show any sort of affection. Killed In Robbery Liliom marries a servant girl. Julie, (Sonja Tilles) and at the same time loses his job. In order to get enough money for their coming baby, he plans a robbery, but is killed before he can ac complish it. The next scene shows Liliom before a heavenly tribunal, where he is sentenced to a sort of pur gatory for 16 years. After that he (Continued on page three) Future Teachers The Future Teachers of Am erica, secondary education asso ciation, will hold a meeting in 228 Sparks at 7 p.m. tomorrow. yer 4r S Y • ' t' 6l wattrstatt la.ts VOL. 50 - NO. 63 ',Leo Houck Night' Slated for Saturday Will Honor Stricken Boxing Mentor Trustee Board To Assemble The Board of Trustees of the College will meet in Harrisburg Jan. 20 and 21 for its annual meet :ng and election of officers. Wil mer E. Ken worthy. executive assistant to the president. said yesterday. He said he did not know whet her the subject of a permanent president for the College would come up at'the meeting, but added that he could not conceive of a board meeting in these days that would, not * consider the topic. The executive committee and special committees of the board will meet Friday. and the special and standing committees will meet Saturday before reporting to the board itself. Phones Change To Dial System A new dial syslem will go into effect at the College, probably on Saturday, January 28. Bell Tele phone Company workers are busy day and night to make the nec essary changes. Only inter-office calls on the campus will be affected by the change-over, explained R. Y, Sig worth, supervisor of utilities. He said that College personnel will now be able to place calls to each other and, also to non-toll num bers in the State College area. without going through the Col lege operator. Replaces Switchboards An estimated $85,000 will be spent by the Bell Telephone Com pany to effect the change-over. The new system. or administra tion dial telephone system as it is being called, will handle all calls previously served by switch boards in Old Main, Central Ex tension, and the Ordnance Re search Laboratory. A new faculty-staff directory will be issued before the change over date. • Exam Schedule. Final examination sched ule for this semester ap pears on pages 6 and 7 of to day's Daily Collegian. Lillian Gilbreth To Give Talks Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth, nation ally knoWn woman engineer, will speak on "You and Your Job" be fore seniors of the School of Engi neering in Schwab Auditorium Friday. Dr. Gilbreth who is president of Gilbreth, Inc. of Monclair, N. J., consulting engineers in manage ment, will spealCalso on various aspects of her profession before two other campus groups. She will be guest speaker at a luncheon of Sigma Delta Epsilon, national fraternity for graduate women in science. This affair will be held at the State College Hotel Thursday at noon, To Address Women - Thursday evening. Dr. Gil - Today's weather: biett, will .address the Women's Night dinner meeting of the Cen- Snow Flurries and tfal Pennsylvania chapter, Society for the Advancement 'of Manage- • Much Colder meat; at the Nittany Lion Ina. I • "FOR A BETTER PENN STATE" STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, 1950 "Leo Houck Night" has been proclaimed for ;Saturday in Rec reation Hall. The student proclamation—is sued by the executive committee of All-College Cabinet—provides for a "day" in which students at the College will play tribute to Houck, dean of college boxing Leo Houck ally ill at his home in Lancaster. In 1949 Houck completed his 27th season as Penn State boxing skipper. Occasion for "Leo Houck Night" will be an attractive wrestling-boxing doublehea d e r Saturday, when Coach Charles Speidel's matmen tangle with Cornell, and the Lion boxers, tutored by Acting Coach Edward Sulkowski, open their 1950 sea son against Minnesota. Morgan Named The proclamation was issued last night by the All-College executive committee, which in cludes Ted Allen, all-College president; Harry McMahon, all- College vice-president, and Ja mes MacCallum, all-College sec retary-treasurer. Allen immediately appointed Thomas Morgan, president, of Hat Society Council, to head a "Houck Night" committee. Other committeemen' appointed by Al len were George Yadasz, Daily Collegian boxing writer; Morton Snitzer, Skull and Bones presi dent; Negley Norton, Parmi Nous president, and William Shade, head boxing manager. In proclaiming Saturday night's (Continued on page three) For the meeting in Schwab Auditorium, the balcony will" be open for visitors who wish to at tend, Dr. Harry P. Hammond, dean of the School of Engineer ing, explained. From the time of their marriage through the birth and rearing of their 12 children. Dr. Gilbreth worked along with her husband, now deceased, in their mutual profession. • To Address SDE A native of Oakland, Calif., she . ..eceived her bachelor of literature and master of literature degrees from the University of California; doctor of philosophy and doctor Past Forestry Head Honored John A. Ferguson, professor emeritus of forestry and former head of the department of for estry at the College, has been elected a Fellow of the Society of American Foresters. This is the highest honor the organiza tion can bestow. Only 59 men have _been so honored during the society's 50 years. The group has 7000 mem bers in Canada and the United States,- • _ In its December issue, the Journal of Forestry cites Prof. Ferguson as "forester, • educator, builder of men who has earned and - enjoys an enviable reputa tion among foresters as an edu cator, 'administrator, and builder of character." Holds Several Degrees Prof. Ferguson received his bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees from Hamilton Col lege. After teaching at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and Rut gers Preparatory -School, he en tered Yale Forestry School where he was graduated in 1908. Appointed, head of the College department of forestry In 1912, he served in that capacity until his retirement with emeritus rank in 1937. • • Women Debate in Philadelphia Two members of the Women's Debate Squad, Joy Stewart and Esther Beck, will travel to Phila delphia this weekend for exhibi tion meets with St. Joseph's Col lege, Temple University, and the University of Pennsylvania: They will discuss the national intercollegiate debate topic, Re solved: "The United States should nationalize all basic, non-agri cultural industries." Clayton Schug, coach, and Christine Altenburger, president, have announced that three mem bers of the squad were ranked "excellent debaters" by their op ponents at the tournament held at the University of Pittsburgh before the Christmas holidays. Those who received the ratings are Rosemary Delahanty, Shir ley Gallagher, and Barb ar a Schiffman. of science degrees from Brown; master of engineering from Uni versity of Michigan; doctor of en gineering from Rutgers College; doctor of science from Russell Sage College; and doctor 'of law degrees from University of Cali fornia and from Smith College. All graduate and faculty women have been invited to attend the SDE luncheon. Tickets, at $1.25, must be obtained by Monday night by contacting one of the following: Dr. Teresa Cohen, 213 Sparks; Mrs. Geraldine Howard. 302 Pat terson; Lucille Jackson, 101 Pond Lab; Helen Kinsloe, 201 Patter son; Mrs. Marian Knight, 203 Tex tile Chemistry: Dr. Evelyn Mar boe, 201 Mineral Industries; Dr. Dorothy Quiggle, Petroleum Re fining Lab; Veronica Shevock, 214 Home Economics, and Dr. Mary 1O Pond Lab. Capacity Crowd Assured For Forum Program Noted Poet To Sing American Folk Songs Carl Sandburg, America's great folk poet, will entertain a capacity audience at Schwab Auditorium tonight at 8 o'clock with a pro gram of "American Folk Songs and Tall Tales." - Tickets for the program have been sold out since 1 o'clock yes terday morning. Schwab Audi torium seats 1404. Almost 13 years ago, Sandburg appeared at the College and presented "An Even ing with Carl Sandburg," before almost 2000 people. Fire regula tions now in effect prevent a crowd of this size from hearing the program tonight. Sandburg's appearance , is being Carl Sandburg sponsored , by : the State College Community Forum, which has al ready presented Dr. Harold C, Urey, scientist, and Hanson .W. Baldwin, outstanding military analyst. - Three More Speakers There will be three more speakers in the Community For um series: in February. Styles Bridges, U. S. Senator from New Hampshire; in March, ‘ Ira De A. Reid, author and sociologist, and in April, a,. speaker to be .an nounced at ,a later date. Carl Sandburg, acknowledged to be America's most truly native poet and the greatest living au thority on Lincoln, has acquired a „reputation as an outstanding entertainer. In Popular/Demand. Mr. Sandburg has been in ppp ular demand as a lecturer by aud iences all over the country. Au thorities and literary critics have acclaimed his great and compre (Continued on page three). Today . . . The Nittany Lion Roars FOR NAACP, which is spon soring the College's first ob servance of Negro History Week, February 20-26. Too often the vital role of the Negro in the economic, po litical, and cultural life •of the United States is over; looked, particularly by the ra cial blockheads who think nothing produced by a non- Caucasian can be of any im portance. Today's worthy exhale to a hard-working organi zati o n with a meritorius purpose and a hope its endeavors will be crowned with success.
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