Live with Tonight Today's Weather Father N It tt.' • Tilt Elattg 10 ;:*-- -2, Tottrgtatt Cloudy and warmer - "FOR A BETTER PENN STATE" VOL. 50 - NO. 101 Finalists in Sw 743F - srw>. Annual Debate Meetings Begin Here Tomorrow , Debaters from 25 colleges will begin arriving on, campus' today for the opening of their 15th an nual convention at the College, sponsored 'by the men's.' debate squad. • Before the 'coriventiori offiCially opens tomorrow' morning, — Penn State's women dOaters will spon sor a round of debates for early arrivars beginning' at 7 o'clock tonight. Debating , - the natiopal. topic on nationalizing., industries, teams will pair• off in more than 12 rooms in Sparks. Prof. Clayton Schug 'and- Chris . - tine Altenburger,. women's - debate manager, will preside over this pre-convention session, which is open to the public... - To •Air Program WMAJ will .carry a prcigram at 9:15 tonight ,in. which Prof,J. P. O'Brien, ,men's debate coach,• will interview representatives from each of the colleges... The convention itself is a mock congress. Membeis are divided into three committees which con sider bills to be presented: before an assembly: of the entire group: Representing the College from. men's and women's'debate teams on these 'committees are: Rose mary Delahailty," Patricia -Hatha way, David Lewis and Harry Kon dourajian for domestic economic policy;. Christine Altenburger, Joanne Esterly, Shirley Gallag, her, Carol Siswein, 'Joel Fleming, Jack Boddington,-David •,Christo pher and Roger 'Dietz on two committees considering foreign policy for. the Orient. , Gavel Girl Each committee will nominate one , of its women members for the title of "Gavel Girl." Selec tions• are made on the basis of outstanding work done in com mittee and for personal charm. Girls nominated will deliver a five minute speech at a banquet for all the members tomorrow night. Their subject will be "The year 2000—promise or threat." On the basis of this speech the "Gavel Girl" will be chosen by majority vote and presented with a silver gavel necklace. Following the banquet and on Saturday, morning open sessions will be held in Sparks. These will be for final consideration of committee bills. Dairy Science Club Plans for Jhe Dairy Exposition on Mareh 30 will be made at. a meeting of the Dairy Science Club in 117 Dairy Building at 7 &Clock- tonight. • s Vorsheirn IZEE Finalists Chosen In - Queen Contest Connoisseurs oil. beauty will have their chance to see how their opinions stack up with the rest of the College as the balloting for the campus Sweater Queen begins today. The two finalists, in the contest are Phyllis Vorsheim, and Made line Gardner. . Miss Vorsheim was sponsored by Alpha Tau Omega while Miss Gardner was entered by Zeta Beta Tau. Miss Vorsheim, a 5 1 9" brunette, is a sophomore in music educa tion. • Miss Gardner, a brunette stand= ing.:s'3" is a junior in the school of Education and _is a native of Harrisburg. She, is a member of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority. Fill-in ballots, to be used in naming the winner from the two finalists pictured above, must bb mailed: to the. Collegian, Box 261, before midnight 'Sunday. The girl receiving the greatest number of ballots will be. declared the win ner by the- five-man panel that decided upon the two finalists. The winner of the contest will be announced in Tuesday's issue of the Daily Collegian. She will receive gifts from the Lion Studio, Dank's, Crabtree's, Meriv ale, Woodring's, the Smart Shop, Candy Cane, State College Beauty Shop, Balfour's, Rea & Derick's, Alice and Don's Beauty Shop, Blair's; Schlow's, Mitchell,, the Charles Shop, and Kalin's. Players Of 'Life Players ran through the final dress rehearsal last night in prep aration for the opening of "Life with Father" tonight at 8 o'clock in Schwab auditorium. The Howard Lindsay-Russel Crouse comedy about the turbu lent Day family will run three nights under the direction of Kelly Yeaton. Good tickets' for all three performances still are available at the Student Union desk in Old Main; price for to day s tickets is 60 cents; for to morrow and Saturday's shows, the cost will be $l. Appearing as "Father," domi neering .head of the family, will be Ralph Johnson, cast in' his first Playefs role. Formerly hail ing from Beverly. Mass., Johnson now resides at State College .and is a senior in hot7l administra tion.. ' Jean Bickertrin vilLtaidge -her STATE LOLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1950 E:3 Prepare, for With Father xr ; . rssr Madeline Gardner s . Late AP News Courtesy WMAJ U.S. Promises Help To Non-Red Asia SAN- FRANCISCO The non- Communist countries of Asia have received an official promise of American help .in the struggle against Soviet Communist' imper ialism, according to Secretary of State Dean Acheson in a major policy speech at San Francisco yesterday., Acheson qualified the promise, however, by saying that Far East ern loans and grants must oe ap propriate to the particular situa tion. Increase Penalties WASHINGTON-The House of Representatives voted yesterday, 368 to 2, to increase the penalties for violating American security laws. Under' 'the new measure, punishment fox' disclosing secret information will be doubled. The bill also *extends the statute of limitations to 10 years. last appearance in a Players shgw as "Vinnie," his scatterbrained wife. As is usual with dramatics, this production will have unusual as pects. A major one is the fact that the roles of the oldest and younest boys in the bay family are being portrayed by students from State College High school, while the other two boys are being acted by College students. "Clarence," eldest of the boys, will be played by high-schoOl student Sheldon' Odland: Louis Bell will play the youngest boy, "Harlan." , The two other sons, "John" and "Whitney," are portrayed by Marvin Riesenbach and Donald Barton, respectively. Ariother unusual, aspect will be the absence of wigs from the heads of the six mexnbers of the Day, family - In the play, all are redheads. -but when wigs were IFC Discusses Plan To Ban Discrimination Interfraternity Council discussed a resolution providing sane tictns against fraternities whose constitutions contain discriminatory provisions last night. It will be discussed further by the houses this wc'•k, and action may be taken• at the next meeting of IFC. John Senior, vice-president of IFC, presented the executive com mittee resolution, which would provide an Oct. 1, 1952 deadline for Allen Will Ask Cabinet To Act On Restrictions All-College Cabinet will be asked to take action on discrimin ation within campus organiza' tions when it meets 'tonight. The recommendation will be present ed by* Ted Allen, All-College president, who would not disclose the nature of the proposal when contacted yesterday. Campus-wide attention has been focused on the problem 'since early this month when the Senate Committee on Student Welfare passed a motion to refuse a char ter to any new campus organiza tion having restrictive member ship clauses. Prior to this action but at the same meeting, the committee ap proved a petition by members of the Penn State Commerce Club for affiliation with Alpha .Kappa Psi, a' national commerce frater nity which restricts membership to "white gentiles." Committee Reports Cabinet,._ meeting in 304 Old Main at 8 o'clock, .also will hear committee reports on school coun cil coordination, Spring . Week plans, •and control of class ring purchases. Proposals for changes in the All-College Constitution will be submitted. Findings of the school council coordinating ,committee, which is investigating plans for revamping council election schedules, will be presented• by Chairman Elliot Krane. -John Senior, Spring Week com mittee chairman, will submit a progress report. In the, planning stage •is a May week of activities which will include the College's second annual Spring Carnival and a houseparty weekend. • Keller Proposal Robert ' Keller is expected to move for dissolution of the new dorm committee which he headed in an investigation of the College housing policy. Committees for the student • gov ernment room dedication cere mony and lor all-college inaugur ation' day will be = appointed by Allen. Opening Tonight tried on earlier, they made the actors "look' like farmers," ac cording to Yeaton. So the problem of circumvent ing the necessity for red hair was left up to each -actor. All have had to dye or tint their) haid in some way to achieve the desired effect. A principal difficulty in staging the play lay in finding good per iod properties; the comedy is laid in the 19th century and properties for the period were scarce. Find ing a dining room set was one of the major problems. Others in the cast are: "Cora," Ruth Johnson; "Mary. Skinner," Barbara Clopp; "ReV. , Dr. Lloyd," Nicholas Morkides; "Dr. Hum phries," Richard Evans; "Pr. Sommers," Fred Lexchner; "Mar garet," Joan Lee; "Annie," Lois Pulver;. "Della," Seena Herzog; "Nora,' Helen Jaskol, awl, "Mag gie," - Barbara Tex. By STAN DEGLER the removal of such clauses. Fra ternities failing to comply would lose the "rights and privileges" of the organization. Senior termed the resolution "just an experiment" saying that IFC is "not trying to ram down" the proposal on the local chapters and that reform should come from within the fraternities them selves." He also said that the time limit is to insure prompt action and that if it is adopted, houses will retain the "right and pi vi lege to pledge anyone they want." No mention was made in the resolution of Alpha Kappa Psi, professional commerce fraternity, chartered several weeks ago by the Senate Committee on Student Welfare. Its constitution contains a clause restricting membership to "Christians and members of the Caucasian race." However, it seems clear that the discussion of the last few weeks had precipitated IFC's• con sideration of discrimination. The Senate Committee adopted a policy of refusing to charter any organization which has a dis criminatory constitution, after. ap proving Alpha Kappa Psi. Meni bers of the commerce fraternity have announced their intention of working for the removal of the restrictive 'clause, which is in the national constitution. • The National Association• for the Advancement of Colored People, Penn State Christian Association, and the faculty 'of the department of economics and commerce, have expressed dis approval of the charter grant. IFC also opposed -such clauses in a straw vote earlier this year. NAACP Advocates Action on AKPsi Text of a letter urging the Senate Committee on , Student Welfare to rescind the charter, of Alpha Kappa Psi ,because it re stricts membership, was released yesterday by the College's NAACP chapter. The letter said the Senate's ac tion' in approving the charter was "hostile to the democratic ideals of equal opportunity." NAACP President Julian Cook reported yesterday that his organization was planning a "vigorous cam paign" on this issue. News Briefs Language Lecture "A Layman's Plato," a discus sion of the classics from a lay man's point of view, will be pre sented in 121 Sparks at 8 o'clock tonight , by Ralph Merriam, Chi cago attorney, lecturer, and edu cator. The lecture is sponsored by the classical languages department of the College. Tennis Candidates There will be a meeting for all candidates for the asst. manager ship of tennis at Rec Hall at 7 o'clock tonight. FTA-SEA Meeting There will be a social and busi ness meeting of the Future Teach ers' of America (Secondary Edu cation Association) in 405 Old Main tonight. at 7 o'clock. NSA Meeting NSA will hold a meeting in 130 Sparks tonight at 7 o'clock. Spec ial committee reports will be giv en. Anyone interested may attend. PRICE FIVE CENTS