TODAY'S WEATHER: CLOUDY AND COOL VOL. 51 —No. 122 Publications Change Proposed A change in the All-College constitution to add business man agers to the board of publications was p ro.pos e.d by Samuel Vaughan at the cabinet meeting Thursday night. Vaughan, substituting for Dean, Gladfelter, chairman of the. pubr lications board, said he requested the constitutional change in or der to permit better coordina tion of such things as publica tion dates. The request was approved and will have to be passed in two more consecutive cabinet sessions in order to have the constitution amended. $3OO Appropriation An appropriation of $3OO for a freshman class dance was also given its first approval, following a report by Charles Wood. The request must be approved, again at ,the next cabinet meeting. Wood said the dance is v to be held in Recreation hall on May 26. Only members of the fresh man class will attend. No admis sion will be charged, he said. Committee reports heard at Thursday’s meeting were from Richard Bard, lawn display, and Jay McMahan, ice skating. Bard requested that the work of the committee, which is designing a Christmas display for the lawn in front of Old Main, be postponed until next falL Flooding Not Possible McMahan reported that flood ing College property for ice skating had not been possible this year because the weather had not been sufficiently cold for a long enough time. Next win ter, McMahan said, the track sur rounding Beaver field or the tennis courts near Irvin hall may be used for flooding.- Cabinet accepted reports of Bard and McMahan unanimously. All-College President Robert Davis appointed Joan Harvie to serve as assistant arrangements director to the Spring week com mittee and added the following to the general Spring week com (continued on page eight) Politicos Seek Reasons For State Party Sweep Nobody on campus seems to know how to explain the State party’s surprising sweep in yesterday’s All-College, senior class, and junior class elections, but everybody seems to be willing to make a guess except James Worth, the man: who led the Staters to their first springtime victory in three years. Guesses on the cause of the Si the party platform plank favorin ments, to the influence of a pamphlet on election eve that • could be looked at as a personal attack on Worth. In between is the hunch of a good many politi * cians that, part of the State suc cess stems from a general and apparently “natural” reaction against the party in power. i y "Pleasantly Surprised" , In Altoona, with a Red Cross talent show when the results were v announced Thursday night, Worth said yesterday that he. . was “pleasantly surprised” at the State sweep. Most campus politicos, in ' eluding those within the State ranks, had expected a split. “I hope that the people who ■voted,” Worth said yesterday, “will continue to support the stu dent government, and express ( their opinions, favorable or other wise. We will try to make stu dent . government a little more democratic. Cabinet should make *an effort to meet the student body and work with the students.” 4 He thanked the people who worked with him in the campaign. Worth said that little could be STREAKS of black paint and maple stain smeared over the Nittany Lion shrine sometime after midnight Thursday night are inspected by two students taking time off from a phys ed workout. Physical plant officials, said they were not certain the streaks, which have turned to a reddish-brown color, could be removed. Shrine Vandalized; Stain On To Stay The Lion shrine has been painted again, and this time the paint won’t come off, Capt. Philip Mark, of the campus patrol, said yesterday. -- The limestone statue was attacked shortly after midnight Thurs day by an unknown band, armed with black paint and maple stain, who proceeded to douse the shrine. i The black paint was washed off easily yesterday, but the maple stain stayed on. Charles Reeder, of the physical plant, who has washed the Lion clean five pre vious times, has given up this time. He termed the stain “the best stuff yet.” Work to remove the stain has turned painted parts of the Lion to a red-brown shade Numerous Paintings The shrine was first coated in the fall of 1942, shortly after its By MARV KRASNANSKY tate upset range from emphasis on ig referendums for student assess- done this semester to carry out the State party platform. He pointed out that the new cabinet would meet but three times after the May 2 inauguration. ' Worth said that he would have to “get the facts first hand on the Student Union assessment” before any definite action would be taken to follow up the referendum plank in the party platform. "Interested In Referendum" Referring to the importance of the referendum plank to the State victory, Worth said he felt that the “students were definitely interested in the referendum. “Whether that was responsible for the vote,” he added, “I do not know.” Murray Goldman, State clique chairman and top strategist for Worth in the campaign, was some what more sure'of the importance of the referendum issue to the State victory. He listed that issue as the biggest factor in the State triumph. Second biggest cause, in (continued on page eight) STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 21. 1951 Shrine Painted Again By DAVE JONES —Collegian Photo by Hanl erection. Since then, it has been the subject of numerous paintings, particularly by Penn State’s foot ball opponents. It was erected by the class of ’4O. As a result of these attacks, the shrine was coated with a wax substance to prevent the paint from seeping into the stone’s pores. But this time, 'the maple stain has even penetrated the wax. Temple university has painted the shrine on several occasions. Mark said he first suspected the victorious State party of the painting, but ruled that out when patrolmen found “Ohio” painted on the statue’s base in black letters. Pledges On Guard During last semester’s football season, pledges from Pi Lambda Phi fraternity guarded the shrine from invading college painters. Only last Tuesday, initiates into the Penn State club had given the Lion a good washing, with patrol approval. Mark said that if the stain could not be removed in the nor mal procedure, samples of the stone would have to be treated until something could be found that would remove the coloring. If that is not possible, the lime stone will have to be sand-blasted. “If we keep working on the Lion like we have in the past,” Mark added, “it won’t be long be fore the thing is a kitty instead of a Lion.” Friends Representative To Speak At Meeting Mark Shawl, of the American Friends Service committee, will speak tomorrow night at an in formal meeting of faculty mem bers and students from China who are currently at the College. The meeting will be held at' the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Baldwin, and will follow an in formal supper at 5:30 p.m. Shawl returned last fall from China, where he served for three years with the Friends’ Relief service. He will speak on the Chi nese situation and on his exper iences while there. Primus Dancers Canceled; Legion Protest Recalled An appearance here tonight by Pearl Primus-dancer who .was denied use of a state-owned building to present a recital earlier this week after protests from the American Legion—has been canceled. State officials said the Legion protested the dancers connection with certain unnamed New York organizations as brought out in hearings before a Senate sub-committee, the Associated Press The Women’s Recreation association dance club, sponsor of the recital scheduled for tonight in Schwab auditorium, received a telegram yesterday stating simply a request to cancel the recital. No reason was given, and it was not known here whether the Le gion incident had anything to do [with it. Sponsors said yesterday that refunds could be obtained by surrendering tickets at the Stu dent Union desk in Old Main. The telegram read: . “Due to unforeseen conditions, Pearl Primus would appreciate your consent to withdrawal from her contract to appear at the Pennsylvania State college Satur day, April 21. Please wire your decision. Charles E. Green, mana ger, Pearl Primus.” A spokesman for the dance group said yesterday that she did not know what the group’s future plans would be as regards Miss Primus. She said that due to the suddenness of the cancellation, the group has not been able to meet to discuss the matter. The state Department o f Property and Supplies withdrew permission Wednesday for Miss Primus and her troupe to appear in the forum in the state educa tion building in Harrisburg. Miss Primus does interpretations of African native dances. Frank E. Hoffman, deputy sec retary of the ; Department of Property and 1 Supplies, said Legion officials protested the dancer’s connections with cer tain New York organizations as brought out in testimony before the Senate judiciary sub-commit tee on naturalization and immi gration. Brumbaugh To Speak On Cloisters G. Edwin Brumbaugh, a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, will speak on “The Restoration of the Ephrata Cloi sters,” at 4:15 p.m. Monday m 121 Sparks. This lecture, third in the Sim mons series, is open to the public. The Cloisters are a group of religious structures in the Ger man type of architecture near Lancaster. They mark the seat of the earliest communal experi ment in the United States. Brumbaugh, who worked on the restoration of the Cloisters, has directed work on the Daniel Boone homestead near Reading, the Germantown academy, and the Gloria Dei or Old Swedes’ church in Philadelphia. He de signed the men’s dormitories' at Juniata college in early Ameri can style. Brumbaugh is a member of the Pennsylvania German society, the Pennsylvania Historical associa tion, and the Montgomery County Historical society. He wrote “The Colonial Architecture of the Pennsylvania German.” The settlement at Ephrata was founded during the 18th century by Johann Conrad Beissel, a German immigrant. He also founded the ascetic sect, the-Sev enth-Day Baptists, who observed the sabbath on Saturday arid practiced celibacy and adult bap tism. Brumbaugh is the. son of the late president of Juniata college and former governor of Penn sylvania. He is a native of Hunt ingdon. Sigma Delta Chi Sponsors Smoker Sigma Delta Chi, men’s profes sional journalism fraternity, is sponsoring a smoker for all'men in journalism, tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the Alpha Epsilon Pi. frat ernity house, 429 E. Hamilton av enue. After seeing movies of the Penn State vs. Pittsburgh foot ball game, the group will hear a talk by Charles Pierson, manag ing editor of the Pittsburgh Press. Carnival Entries Due Monday Noon The deadline for booth en tries for the Spring carnival is noon, Monday. Application blanks describing the type of booth along with a deposit of $2O should be turned in at the Student Union desk ip Old Main. The -deposit will be held by the Spring week committee to be returned provided the spon soring group removes its booth and cleans up after the carni val. Booth applications which were returned by the commit tee for revision this week are dud until Tuesday at 5 p.m. The committee accepts booth themes in the order received, and duplications must be re vised. PRICE FIVE CENTS Miss Primus did not present her recital in Harrisburg. In addi tion to appearing in Harrisburg and at the College, she was sched uled to appear at Princeton, Le high, and Carnegie Tech. Prentis Says U.S. Must Stay Capitalistic H. W. Prentis, Jr., former trus tee at the College, told the sen ior engineers yesterday that the United States must maintain its private competitive business sys tem to'preserve its economic, pol itical, and personal freedom. If freedom is to be preserved, Prentis declared, then the busi ness men must do it by comply ing with ethical precepts, im proving technology, encouraging initiative and raising present standards. Practical results have justified our policy toward private and competitive business, he said. “Our private competitive business system has brought more things to our country than any other system in the world.” However, this system is misun derstood by the average Ameri can, Prentis stated. The average American believes that compan ies work together and fix prices, but this is fallacious, he said. Another common untruth, Prentis said, is that manufactur ers restrict production to keep prices high. This is false because American producers promptly in vest capital in research to keep progress advancing.
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