. . . . . . .... . . . , • . TODAY'S WEATHER , ~ . , ...I_ .: , th 4 zit ,11i...:.;„ ~. -''' : -``,:., n ' t.t IS ,-- • CLOUDY AND .. , ' ~ ....:.,-..,..!4, Ak' tiv..ft FOR .A. BETTER • SLIGHTLY COOLER •--- ' - • . .s*l A " - 11 3 1 "' 4 ' S' PENN STATE . _ , . . , -., • . , . VOL. 51— No, 37 Cabinet Requests Preserving Woods By ROSEMARY DELAHANTY Cabinet voted last night to send a recommendation to the Board of Trustees requesting that Hort woods be kept as a memorial preserve to be used for education and recreation al purposes by the College and townspeople. All-College President Robert Davis instructed Robert Czapiew ski, head of the Hort woods com mittee, to investigate appropriate names for the preserve. The re sults of this investigation will be presented to Cabinet. Clark Young stated that the Alumni Council refused to take any action at a meeting last Sat urday regarding Hort woods un til further information concern ing future plans for the area could be obtained Czapiewski reported that, ac cording to administrative offi cials, the woods is . in no present danger.. James Worth brought before Cabinet a suggestion for the es tablishment of a men's activity card system which would include scholastic, extra-curricular, em ployment, and general personnel records of all men students. Several members of Cabinet were in favor of the project, but it was decided that the adminis tration of it as proposed. by Worth was too• complicated in its pres ent form. As a result of this decision Davis appointed Worth chairm,an of a committee to examine the project further and report to Cab inet when an easier system had been found. Acting upon a suggestion of Elections committee chairman Edwin Barnitz, Cabinet decided to wait until the next meeting before taking action on the corn mittee's recommendation that of fering dance tickets and other prizes as voting inducements be banned. However, .Cabinet accepted the other proposal of the Elections committee which states that the installation of junior and senior class officers will take place ap proximately one week earlier in the spring so that these, , officers will have more time to become acquainted with their duties be fore the end of the school year. Late AP News Courtesy WMAJ George Shaw Playwright, Dies LONDON—Friends of the late George Bernard Shaw have sug gested that his ashes be buried in Westminster -abbey, the final resting place of Britain's great men. Shaw, whose works enriched three generations, died one:min ute before 5 a.m. Thursday. He had been in a coma for 25 hours. A tumble in his garden Sept. 10 started the chain of events which led to his death: He broke a thigh bone in the fall and spent three weeks in the hospital. He was brought home Oct. 4 . but suffered a relapse Sunday. Shaw's body will 'be cremated after a private service at a cre matorium in northwest London Monday. P. R. Police Grab Leaders WASHINGTON—Puerto Rican police hare. arrested. top. leaders of the Anti-American Nationalist party following the attempted attack on President Truman's life Wednesday. Communist leaders have also been arrested and scores of other revolutionaries have been round ed up. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover said his agency is increasing its activi ties in Puerto Rico and is giving its fullest cooperation to the . sec ret service in guarding the Presi dent. STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1950 Fraternities View Refusal To Grant Mixed Drinking The College's refusal to grant chaperoned drinking was received with mixed reactions by frater nity men, but the general feeling was, "we sort of expected it." Although most of the frater nity men who commented on the administration's action on Inter fraternity council's proposal ex pected such a reaction by the Col lege, almost all of them said they were disappointed. "I think we should have chap eroned drinking as was provided in the proposal but we expected it to be turned down. But I think drinking will continue—under cover of course," one fraternity man said. Expected It Another one said, "We sort of expected it. We're sorry, natur ally. I guess it's for the good of the school. There would have been a heck of a yak from parents had the College approved it." He add ed wistfully, "Looks like the days of the big parties are gone." Still another' man sided with the. College's decision, saying when asked what he thought of the proposal being turned down, "Fine." Backward Approach One man thought that the rea son the proposal was turned down was "the backward approach tak en by IFC." "I think the proposal could have gone through had IFC taken a stronger approach to the prob lem. I think that if IFC had got ten the backing of the fraternity alumni and had taken a definite program to the administration ra ther than a plea, better results could have been realized," he said. Engineers To Hear Deputy Secretary The Deputy -Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Commerce, R. H. Smith, will speak in Schwab auditorium this afternoon at 4:10. ' "Pennsylvania Industries" will be the subject of his talk, which is a scheduled lecture for senior engineering students. 'Shadow And Substance May Prove To Be Season's Best By RON BONN "Shadow and Substance," which opened last night in Schwab audi torium, bids fair to be the best Players' production of the sea son. Certainly it is hard to conceive the dramatic 'group' getting hold of another script combining such brilliantly subtle humor and pa thos, and then handling it as well as director Kelly Yeaton and his cast did "Shadow and Substance." The delicate shadings and char acterizations which make this play are surprisingly well done. Sparkles With Wit The College needs more plays like "Shadow and Substance," -with its freshness and originality in striking contrast to the run-of the-mill production. The show sparkles with a sly, delightful Irish wit, yet approaches depths of tragedy reminiscent in power Circular Attacking Reede Cites Old Collegian Articles Disavowal The Daily Collegian disavomrs completely any part in preparing the tabloid-sized circular used by the Van Zandt group as political ammunition against Arthur H. Reede of the economics and commerce staff. The circular, which makes extensive use of insinuation and the reprehensible guilt by association technique, was prepared from files of Collegian kept in the library. No permission was sought or given for the "Ex-Servicemen's League of Blair County" to reproduce the Collegian nameplate. Collegian, as a part of :the non-political College, does not wish to take part in partisan politics. But we cannot allow to go unnoticed such a flagrant attempt to use this newspaper unscrupulously as campaign material. Obvious intent of the circular is to give the im pression that Collegian not only aided the Van Zandt group in pre paring the material, .but also, with reproduction of its nameplate, gave its sanction and endorsement to the circular. Collegian does not make a practice of doing hatchet work for political parties, and it objects violently to any attempt by any party to make use of it for such purposes. . We also view this as an attempt to transfer to Reede's opponent the prestige of the College, inasmuch as Collegian is a part of Penn State. As in the past; the College remains neutral in political battles and does not wish to lend its dignity in any way to either party. One aspect of the editorial to which we object strongly is the at tempt to smear Reede as a "Communist" and a "subversive"—a tac tic employed all too often by present-day politicians. Other aspects of the circular to which we object are the use of the guilt by association technique and the practice of reading meanings into articles appearing in Collegian ten to 15 years ago. We haye no truck with such tactics, and we strongly indict such use of Collegian material. 24 Per Cent Of Frosh, Sophs Vote In Elections Twenty-four per cent of the freshmen and sophomores voted in the student council elections in the seven schools yesterday and Wednesday. The vote was six per cent less than the council elections vote last spring. Approximately 700 students cast ballots. Largest percentage vote in the elections was recorded by the School of Chemistry and Physics. Fifty-two per cent- of the sopho mores and 19 per cent of the freshmen in the school voted for their representatives. Last year the School of Home Economics had the highest percentage vote, 62 per cent. Votes Discounted "Some of the votes had to be discounted because the students voted for too many candidates on the ballots," said Edwin Barnitz, chairman of the all-College elec tions committee. If a student votes for too many candidates, the ballot is considered illegal and must be discarded. Where a tie vote exists, the representatives will be chosen according to the constitution of the individual schools. New fresh man and sophbmore council and nature with the "Song of Bernadette." Top acting honors must go to Charles Schulte with his magnifi cent portrayal of the old Canon. Dominating the scene with his im posing figure and completely con vincing voice, mannerisms, and personality, Schulte brought the complex character to life on the Schwab stage. An excellent job of makeup helped, but it was Schulte and only Schulte who made so real the humorous, wise, sometimes biased, always impres sive old Irish prelate. Canon She vitt, incidentally, is one of the most difficult male roles likely to appear this season, for he is on stage during almost th e entire four-act play. Brogue Not Good Speaking of the acting, it would be well to mention a problem less evident in this production than in —Dean Gladfelter for the Senior. Editorial Board By DOROTHY LAINE members for the seven schools are: Chemistry and Physics Freshmen Charles Ferguson and Genevieve Kelly. Sopho mores Richard Brown, James Plyler, Lincoln Warren, and John Wilson. Freshmen Edward Crossley and Harry Shank. Sophomores Terry Moslak and Marion White ly. Freshmen Robert Collins, Edward Gronka, Robert Hess, and Quentin Rea. There was a tie vote between Richard Gibbs and Charles Schumacher. Sophomores Donald Brainerd, Robert Carr, James Class, Raymond Lance, (Continued on page eight) some others, but inherent in all dialect plays. The brogues just don't stay in place. They veer wildly through various sub-dia lects and at times disappear en tirely. The leading characters do fairly well with the Erin tongue, but the trouble is still not en tirely overcome. It might be well in such a case simply to abandon the brogue and do the play straight. After all, it is not com mon practice to do a play in French simply because it has a French locale. Of the other characters, small dreamy-eyed Barbara Klopp, as the spiritual Brigid who sees—or thinks she sees—visions, is gen erally good, although her voice becomes almost maudlin at emo tional peaks. Charles Williams as School •~aster O'Flinqsl: , y, sar?..astic and (Continued on page two) Education Engineering PRICE FIVE CENTS Vadandl Clique Calls Econ Prof Pacifist, Radical Backers of James E. Van Zandt, Republican nominee for Congress from the 22nd district, have re leased a circular attacking hi s Democratic opponent, Arthur H. Reede, and using articles from the Daily Collegian as far back as 1935. • The circular reproduces the Collegian nameplate liberally and also reproduces the nameplate of the "Penn State Collegian," as the newspaper was called before it began daily publication. It im plies that Reede, a member of the economics and commerce staff, wa s "subversive," "pacifist," "radical" and "Communist." The circular uses newsstories concerning Reede's connections in 1935-36 with the American Stu dent Union, with peace rallies at the College, and with the Ameri can Veterans committee in post. war days. Comments Added In marginal notes, Van Zandt's backers add comments which pur portedly prove Reede's leftist con nections because these organiza tions later were named by the attorney general on the "subver sive" list, or were cited by the Un-American Activities commit tee. Reede, in a statement released yesterday, said the circular con tained "libelous references to me, to other persons and to the Col lege." He added, "I have never seen an attack of this character on any person I know. It even tells several untruths tending to belittle my military service." Micro-film files of Collegian were obtained from the Pattee li brary in August by Hugh Man chester for Van Zandt, Ralph W. McComb, librarian, , said yester day. McComb said he had in his files a letter on Congressional sta tionery from Van Zandt, dated Aug. 23, 1950, which thanked him for use of the films and requested an extension of their loan. Any resident of the state could use the files, McComb said. Radio Attack Manchester also broadcast a campaign radio program Tuesday night, attacking Reede with Colle gian articles as his starting point. In his broadcast Manchester said he had read every issue of Collegian since Reede was an un dergraduate here. He called Reede a "political chameleon," and a "fellow-traveler of subversives.". The circular was scheduled to be distributed in State College today, Collegian learned. On page 6, the circular implies that Beetle is opposed to rearma (Continued on page three) $4OOO Contributed To Campus Chest Campus chest chairman Herb ert Axford reported that $4,00 had been turned into chest head quarters yesterday. The bulk of the money came from independent men living downtown. The fraternities, get ting a late start, have not yet re ported. The men downtown were solicited by members of the Al pha Phi Omega fraternity in a house to house canvass. The average contribution thus far has been $1.67. Pledges have outnumbered cash donations by a 3 to 1 ratio.
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