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Life Suits Reds;
Lonsdale Says
The Russian people are content with their government at pres
ent, are steadily raising their standard of living, and want peace so
that they may continue to raise it, Kathleen Lonsdale, English
Friend who visited Russia, said Sunday night to a State College
audience.
Speaking to approximately 125 persons who packed the small
Toured Russia
Kathleen Lonsdale
Grad Student
Will Present
'Rosmersholmi
Richard Andersen, a graduate
student in dramatics, will pre
sent Henrik Ibsen's "R osm e r
shalm" tod a y, tomorrow, and
Thursday as his master's thesis
production.
Free tickets for , the play are
available in the dramatics office,
Schwab Auditorium. Cur tain
time is 7:30 p.m. in the Little
Theater, basement of Old Main.
"Rosmersholm,"• an example of
Ibsen's character studies, is the
story of a former minister who
gave up the church as he assumed
radical views. It portrays the con
flict between conservatism and
radicalism.
Included in the cast are Betty
Lou Morgan as Rebecca; Myron
Cole, Rosmer; Jay Broad, Rector
Kroll; Charles Schulte, Brendel;
Pete Farrell, Mortensgard, and
Yvonne Voigt, Madame Helseth.
Marcia Yoffe is stage manager.
Crew heads are Prim Diefender
fer, makeup; Lynn Meyer, cos
tumes; Farrell, sound; Donald
Colbert, lights, and Bill Nudorf,
construction.
Simes Ratifies
WD Date Cade
Dr. Frank Simes, director of
resident counselors, has approved
the West Dorm Council dating
code, Richard Mills, council presi
dent, announced last night.
The dating code must have final
approval by the Senate commit
tee on student welfare before it
can go into effect. The code, if
approved, will permit unchap
eroned dating in the small lounges
and game rooms of Hamilton,
Irvin, and McKee' Halls.
Charles Brewer, West. Dor m
social chairman, said a sports film
would be shown in the main
lounge in Hamilton Hall at 6:30
tomorrow night. He said he hoped
the films could be scheduled every
week.
- Mills appointed Herbert Hol
lister chairman of the West Dorm
Spring Week committee. The com
mittee will make arrangements to
sponsor a booth at the Spring Car
nival, Mills said.
The council voted to postpone
next Monday's meeting until the
first Monday after the Easter va
cation.
Handbook Ad Staff
- An important meeting of the
advertising staff of the Student
Handbook will be held at 7:30
tonight in 9 Carnegie Hall. Staff
ers must hand in all contracts at
this time, Phyllis Kalson, adver
tising manager, has announced.
By LAVONNE ALTHOUSE
Friends Meeting House on S. Ath
erton street, the tiny grey,-Haired
physicist described a trip which
she and si x other English Friends
made to Moscow last summer.
MisiLonsdale said that the Rus
sians were content with their gov
ernment for two reasons. In the
first place, she said, some of them
can remember what life was like
under the Czars, and the 'present
government's program, which is
rehousing them and raising their
standard of living generally, is
much better than the former one.
Housing Projects
In the second place, most of the
population is now so young that
it cannot remember any other
form of government and is not
allowed to travel abroad to com
pare its government with any
other, Miss Lonsdale said. To il
lustrate her point, she added that
in 1939 one-half of the population
was under 22 years of age.
Miss Lonsdale described the ex
tensive rehousing program in pro
gress in Moscow, Kiev and Lenin
grad. Blocks of skyscrapers and
districts of new apartments are
being built, she said. Yet she esti
mated that in Moscow it would
take 25 to 30 years to rehouse
properly and remove the vast
areas of slums which Moscow has
now.
Prison labor is paid at the same
rate as ordinary labor with pris
oners and laborers often working
side by side in the same factories,
Miss_ Lonsdale said. Forced labor
is uSed in political prison camps
and to punish laborers who come
to work drunk or habitually late,
she said.
The Russian standard of living
is lower than that of Great Brit
ain, Miss Lonsdale said, but it is
climbing. Food is more expensive
in Russia than in her country,
she continued, but the people
value food more than clothing.
They seem adequately fed, she
said, an d adequately, but not
fashionably clothed.
Miss Lonsdale was surprised,
she said, at the freedom the seven
Friends had had. Miss Lonsdale
also remarked at the heavy at
tendance at church services. In a
Baptist church she attended which
was built to hold 1500 people, up
to 1800 people regularly crowded
into each of its five weekly serv
ices, she said. Other Bapt i s t
churches and Russian Orthodox
churches had equally high attend
ances, she added, and said that
three hundred were confirmed
laSt year by one Baptist church.
People Fear War
The Communists are no longer
persecuting organized religion,
Miss Lonsdale said, but ate for
bidding them to instruct young
people in religious teachings. In
this way, they hop e
which they regard as a bourgeois
prejudibe, will die out naturally,
she said.
The Russian people fear war
and want peace desperately, Miss
Lonsdale 'continued. At the same
time, she said, they are taught
to believe that the West may at
tack them at any' time.
' News, Views '
Named;
Mayberry Head
Peggy Mayberry has been
named new editor of News and
Views, home economics magazine,
Mrs, Mary E. Reuf, faculty ad
visor of the publication, announc
ed yesterday.
Other new staff members in
clude Kennetta Peters, managing
editor; Grace Anderson, buSiness
manager; Nancy Gemmill and
Patience Ungethuem, associate
editors; Loiraine Mondrick, fea
ture editor.
Irene Taylor, national advertis
ing manager; Margaret Goodwin
and Shirley Habecker, local ad
vertising managers; Vera Danko,
circulation manager; Mary Petit
gout, promotion director; Nancy
Kern, art editor; Ona Kay Lee,
secretary; and Janet Fietsam,
treasurer.
TOM 'DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE ebiZEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
oodsmen, Spare That Tree
—Photo by McWillie
HOWARD WRIGHT (loft) and Kenneth Kiel, - both of Beta
Theta Pi fraternity, do their bit for the Greek Week community
cleanup program by clearing' trees and underbrush from Fair
mount Park along South Atherton' street Saturday. Greek Week
will continue throughout
,this week.
Community Project
Begins Greek 'Week
The Greek Week program started Saturday with over 1100 fra
ternity and sorority members participating in community project day.
As part of a week long program of activities designed to
strengthen Greek-community relations, the project day consisted
of the cleaning and clearing of playgrounds, seeding grass, and the
spreading of cinders on parking lots,
"Townspeople had high praises
World Accord
Theme of 1952
Ag Conference
"Understanding Our W . o r 1 d
Neighbors" was the theme of this
year's tri-state agricultural con
ference held over the weekend at
Pocono Manor Inn.
The Tri-State Conference for
Young Men and Women is an an
nual event and participants are
representatives of groups that are
sponsored by the agriculture ex
tension service of New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Twelve students from the Col
lege were among the 307 students
attending. Fr o m Pennsylvania
there were 163 representatives.
General chairman of the confer
ence was Chauncey P. Lang, pro
fessor of agriculture extension at
the College, and assistant state
extension club leader.
The Penn State delegation was
in charge of the Sunday morning
worship service.
The main address was a talk,
"Understanding Peoples from
Other Lands," by Dr. Charles Y.
Hu, a native of China and now
professor of geography at the Uni
versity of• Maryland.
Lewis S. Nichols, head of the
nternational farm youth exchange
program for the U.S. Department
of Agriculture, conducted a panel
discussion on the exchange pro
gram in past years. Young people
who had been in the exchange
and have spent a summer work
ing on farms in Europe partici
pated. Among them was William
Lefes, a graduate student at the
College who was a delegate to
Switzerland in 1949.
No '5 O'clock' Today
There will be no Five O'clock
Theater performance today. "A
Love Affair," by John Pakkanen,
will be presented next Tuesday.
Softball Meeting Called
There will be a meeting of
all captains of teams entered
in the Nittany-Pollock Softball
League at 10 p.m. tomorrow in
the Dorm 20 council room.
The schedule" for the first
three nights of league play is
now posted on the bulletin in
Dorm •20.
16r, the student accomplishments,"
Jerome Gibson, co-chairman of
the. week said.
Burgess E. K. Hibshman said
the fraternities and sorority mem
bers did "a splendid job and I've
alreidy heard numerous residents
praise the work the students
handled during the day."
John Dittmar, recreation direc
tor, said the results at all the
recreation centers of the borough
were "wonderful."'
The co-chairmen of the project,
Gibson and Particia .Acosta, said
that the work done on Saturday
wa s "very successful" and "it
proved that the sorority and fra
ternity members are really in-
terested in the town."
Although- the .weather slowed
down the work, much was accom
plished by the three groups of
fraternity and sorority members.
he work was supervised by
Harry Dickle, Arthur Smith, Wil
liam Richards, David Bischoff,
Donald Kurt; Jonathan Craw
ford, John Roberts, and Walter
Redel.
Gibson was enthused about the
turnout. He said that in the first
two hours, from 10 a.m. to noon
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This Spring... We've Sprung
The Biggest Easter Savings
204 W. College Ave. Across From Engineering 814
Two Profs
Promoted
By Trustees
Two professors have been• re
cently appointed to. higher posi
tions in their schools by the exec
utive committee of the tio.strd of
Trustees.
Dr. Elburt F. Osborn, professor
of geochemistry and head of the
Department of Earth Sciences at
the College, has been named a'ss'o
ciate dean of the School of Min
eral Industries, effective imme-,
diately. Dr. John M. Anderson,
professor of philosophy, has been
appointed head of the Depart
ment of Philosophy for a three
year term.
•
In announcing Dr. Osborn 's ap
pointment, President Milton S.
Eisenhower explained that Dr.
Osborn would continue to serve
,as professor of geochemistry and
head of the Depart m ent of Earth
Sciences. President Eisenhower
said that, ,in accordance- with a
policy established in 1949, Dr.,
Anderson's term as head of the
Department of Philasophy would
run three years. Dr. Anderson
succeeds Dr. John A. Mourant.
Dr. Osborn was appointed to his
present position . at the College in
1946. He received his doctor of
philosophy degree at the thliver
sity of. California and was named
to th e Philosophy department
staff in that year.
Campus Chest
To Get $292.47
From Contest
Income in this year's Ugly Man
Contest -totaled $292.47, William
Slepin, contest chairman, said yes
terday. The name of Penn, State's
- Ugly Man, however, will not be
revealed until the IFC-Parihel
Ball Friday in Recreation Hall.
The Campus Chest, which will
get the proceeds from this year's
contest, will not receive the total,
amount, Slepin said, because ex
penses have not yet, been met.
He said there are still three bills
to be paid. The amount the Chest
will receive will be announced
Friday, Slepin said.
Of the total income, $274.97
came from student contributions
and $17.50 from entry fees. Each
contestant paid a 50 cent entry
fee.
The' Ugly Man Contest, spon
sored annually by Alpha Phi Om
ega, national service fraternity,
was held from Wednesday to Fri
day, last week.
Students voted for their favorite
uglies at a booth located on the
Mall at Pollock road. Stidents
cast votes by placing money in
designated containers. The , con
testant with the most Money
._votes will be crowned Ugly Man.
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