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Vote Today, Vote Widely
Today and tomorrow. Penn State’s student body will have
the opportunity to vote for the officers who will head their
government for the coming year. '
At stake in these elections are the offices of All-College
President, vice president, and secretary treasurer, senior
class president, vice president, and secretary, treasurer, junior
class president, vice president,. and secretary treasurer, and
Athletic Association president and secretary treasurer. But
there is more than mere offices at stake.
The occupants of these office?!: Will be in control of a
student government which will spend almost $12,000 of
student money next year. How they handle their Jobs will
determine if Penn State is to get $12,000 worth of student
government or 12 cents worth.
What students will get for their $12,000 will depend on
the people who will be administering student government
during the 1952-53 school year. We do not intend to say who
the best candidates are; we feel the students are capable of
making their own decision on this question.
We do, however, urge students to take advantage of the
opportunity to voice their opinions. And we urge them to
vote wisely.
Last 4l per cent of the students decided who would
be the All-College president. The previous year 42 per cent
of the students, made this decision. In the 1951 elections just
259 votes separated the winner and the loser in the race* for
59 Colleges to Send
EIAWS Delegates
More than 200 delegates from -59 colleges. will begin to register
today for the Eastern Intercollegiate Association of Women Students
convention.
Registration will take place from 2 p.m. to 9 tonight at Beta
Theta Pi. A picnic will be held at 5 p.m. at Whipple’s Dam, followed
by an informal party at 9 p.m. at Beta Theta Pi where the movie
“This Is Penn State” will be
shown. At 10 an orientation meet
ing for discussion leaders will be
held at Phi Gamma .Delta,
Virginia Miller and JoAn Lee
are co-chairmen of the confer
ence. Officers of the_ local Wom
en’s Student Government Associ
ation, Mary Jane Woodrow, presi
dent; Virginia Miller, secretary;
and Carolyn Pelczar, treasurer,
will be regional officers for the
convention.
The College’s delegations to the
.convention are Joan Hutchon,
president- elect,* and Barbara
Werts, vice president-elect.
Woodrow Will Preside
Visiting delegates will be
housed in women’s dormitories
and fraternity houses. The. dele
gates will receive the hours of
eighth semester senior women.
They are 11 o’clocks for tonight
and for tomorrow night and 1
o’cl6cks for Friday and Saturday
nights.
On Thursday morning from 8:50
to 10 Mary Jane Woodrow, presi-.
Red Cross Blood Pledges Rise to 87
An optimistic note was soiind
ed on the present blood drive by
Ted Allen, campus Red Cross
representative,- yesterday,, when
he said that-62 more pledges had
any student may volunteer to
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TODAY'S
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STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1952
EDITORIAL
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dent of EIAWS, will preside at
the opening meeting of the Con
vention in 405 Old Main. Virginia
Miller, convention chairman; Dr.
Pearl O. Weston, Dean of Women;
Mrs. Betty Patty Lowman, Ex
ecutive Secretary of lAWS, Ohio
State University; and Miss Char
mion Bolles, regional representa
tive of EIAWS will welcome the
delegates at this meeting.
Eisenhower to Address Group
From 10:15 to 12:15 Thursday,
three workshop group meetings
will be held in Simmons Hall
lounge, McElwain Hall lounge,
and Atherton Hall southeast
lounge. Discussion chairmen will
be delegates from Allegheny Col
lege, Cornell University, and Ohio
Wesleyan University.
JoAn Lee, co-chairman of the
convention, will preside at a
luncheon at 1:15 Thursday after
noon at the Allencrest Tea Room
at which President Milton S.
Eisenhower will address the dele
gates.
been turned in, raising the .total
to 87.
Although -the -number is 113
short' of Cthe .goal of 200, he said
that the Tesults are “more en
couraging,” Allen revealed also
that offers ’ were received from
students to publicize the drive.
He said, “We believe we will meet
the quota "more easily; however,
we have- yet to sign them up.”
- Pledges for the donations April
30'.must be turned in' by 5 p.m.
Friday, so appointment cards may
be sent to the volunteers in time
for the Bloodmobile’s visit, he
said. -The-.cards may be obtained
at the Student Placement Office,
112 Old Main.
- Although-minors -must get writ
ten-Treleases' from their parents,
give blood, Allen said. Sufficient,
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Eisenhower
Gets Big
Early Lead
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was
leading Harold E. Stassen by - a
substantial margin in ready' re
turns in yesterday’s (Tuesday)
preferential division of Pennsyl
vania’s GOP presidential primaryl
Senator Robert A. Taft had
’asked his supporters not to en
gage in a write-in effort. He was
lagging in early returns. Eisen
hower and Stassen were the only
ones on the ballot.
There were no names on the
Democratic ballot, and Sen. Estes
Kefauver was slightly ahead in
the write-in tally.
.The early Pennsylvania picture
looked like this:
Republican, • 457 precincts of
8421; (ballot) Eisenhower 61,128;.
Stassen 6902; (write-in) Taft 3420;
PHILADELPHIA, April 22—(fl>)
—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower won
a landslide victory in the Republi
can Presidential popularity con
test in Philadelphia today. He got
86. per cent of the city’s Republi
can vote. He led Stassen by 147,-
000, and Stassen was 8000 over
Taft.
Unofficial state totals for 2173
precincts, of 8421 gave Eisen
hower 199,970, Stassen 27,536, and
Taft (write.in) 19,938.
MacArthur 125, Warren 124. Tru
man 3; Kefauver 3. (Includes 5
of .1083 precincts in Pittsburgh
and 181 of 1417 precincts in Phila
delphia).
Democrat, 397 precincts of 8421;
(all write-in) Truman 141; Ke
fauver 834; Stevenson 26;'Russell
14; Kerr 36; Barkley 12; Taft 33;
Eisenhower 47; Harriman 17. (In
cludes 0 of 1083 precincts in Pitts
burgh and 181 of 1417 precincts
in Philadelphia).
New York and Pennsylvania
both.elected delegates to the Re
publican an d Democratic na
tional conventions, but the dele
gates themselves are. unpledged
and theoretically uninstructed as
to how they vote at the Chicago
nominating conventions in July.
New York elected 90 delegates
in each party and Pennsylvania
elected 60 in each. '
Actually, most of the delegates
will be subject to -the beck and
call of party bigwigs when the
bargaining for delegate votes be
gins.
, PHILADELPHIA, April 22— (IP)
—U.S. Sen. Edward Martin built
up a commanding early lead to
night in his fight for renomin
ation. With only a handful of the
state’s 8421 precincts reported,
Martin held a lead of 40,000 in
the race for the Republican nom
ination for Senator. .
time has passed, he said, for stu
dents Who donated blood the last
time the Blo.odmobile visited the
campus to volunteer again with
out any ill effects.
The Blobdmobile will Toe at the
TUB from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. next
Wednesday, after spending the
previous day in the borough,
where a drive for 200 volunteers
is also under way. -
The drive *was opened last
Thursday night by Dr. F. M.
Hawk, chief of education ahd pro
motion of the Red Cross, blood
program, who spoke to ,-health
education students.
The previous drive last fall was
termed' ’ highly" successfulj--■•■•with
nearly 1000 pledges turned, in "to
the drive.
By The “Associated Press
BULLETIN
Election Candidates
The candidates running for All-
College, senior class, and junior
class offices are:
~ All-College President
Joseph Arnold (Lion)
John Laubach (State)
All-College Vice President
JoAn Lee (Lion)
James Plyler (State)
All-College Secretary Treasurer
Richard* Rostmeyer (Lion)
William Griffith (State)
Senior Class President
Franklin Kelly (Lion)
Theodore Kimmel (State)
Senior Class Vice President
Joseph Haines (Lion)
William O’Malley (State) ,
Senior Class Secretary Treasurer
Peggy Mayberry (Lion)
Margaret Hepler (State)
Junior Class President
Theodore Edmunds (Lion)
Richard Lemyre (State)
Junior Class Vice President
Robert Carruthers (Lion)
Gail Shaver (State)
Junior Class Secretary Treasurer
Peggy Crooks (Lion)
Ann Quigley (State)
Union
To Resume
Discussions
Members of the College Service
Employees Union will meet at
8 tonight in 121 Sparks to resume
discussions they began a month
ago and decide whether to insti
tute strike action against the Col
lege.
State and international repre
sentatives of the union will be
present at the meeting.
Thomas Hartswick, secretary of
the union, indicated yesterday
that meetings between the union
grievance committee and College
officials have been taking place
“almost daily,” but he refused to
comment upon what action could
be expected from tonight’s meet
ing.
Members of the union will con
tinue grievance meetings today
with College officials headed by
Ray T. Fortunato, supervisor of
the employment division of the
personnel services department.
The union voted March 19 to
postpone strike action until to
night- to give the College Board
of Trustees an opportunity to dis
cuss the grievances at its spring
meeting. The trustees met March
28 and apparently discussed the
union demands, but no announce
ment was made by the College.
Hartswick said yesterday that
a letter from Samuel K. Hostetter,
College comptroller, has been re
ceived by the union, but he de
clined to comment omits contents.
Whiteley Is
New President
Of Ed Council
Marian Whiteley. junior in edu
cation, was unanimously elected
president of the education student
council last night. Miss Whitely
succeeds Ralph Egolf, -retiring
president.
Harry Shank was elected to be
the new vice president and Terese
Moslak to be secretary treasurer.
Nominations for the council
members will be made all this
week with elections being held
next week.
The council favored a plan pre
sented by the faculty of the De
partment of Education which
calls for the formation of a stu
dent-faculty advisory committee.
The committee would be intended
■td 1 bring abodt a closer union be
tween the faculty and students.
To Ballot
FIVE CENTS
(Pictures of all candidates
All-College, Athletic Associa
tion, and senior and junior class
officials will be decided today
and tomorrow when students go
the polls to vote in the 1952
All-College elections.
This year 9367 students will be
eligible to vote in the All-Col
lege elections, while 2334' Staters
may cast ballots in the senior
class race and 2299 in the junior
class contest. In the AA elections,
6837 male students are eligible to
vote.
Six seats on All-College Cab
inet, those of the three All-Col
lege officers, the AA president,
and the junior and senior class
presidents, are also at stake in
the election.
Both parties will continue their
campaigns tonight with clean-up
operations in the Nittany-Pollock
area, Simmons and McElwain
halls, and the West Dorm area.
The Lion Party All-College can
didates will also speak at 11:15
tonight over WMAJ. The cam
paigns opened last Thursday.
In election eve statements,
Carrol Chapman, elections com
mittee chairman; Thomas Farrell,
State Party clique chairman; and
Ray Evert, Lion Party chairman,
urged students to vote in the elec
tions. Chapman pointed out that
Election polls are in the
lounge on the second floor of
Old Main. They will be open
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and
tomorrow. Matriculation cards
must be presented before a stu
dent mdy vote.
Those eligible to vote for:
All-College officers—all stu
dents.
Senior class officers sixth
and seventh semester students.
Junior class officers—fourth
and fifth semester students.
Athletic Association officers
—all male students.
all eighth semester seniors may
vote for the All-College officers
and that male eighth semester
seniors are eligible to vote in the
AA race.
Farrell said that the students
have had an adequate'chance to
meet the candidates and decide
the issues. It is now up to them,
he said, to fulfill their part of the
responsibility for good student
government by voting in the elec
tions. He also expressed approval
of What he termed “the clean
election campaign.” (Last year’s
campaign was marked by charges
and counter-charges over the
party platforms.)
Evert expressed the hope that
this year’s election would produce
a record turnout. He said that
students must realize the impor
tance of these elections to them
and that they have the duty as
well as the privilege of voting.
Last year, a little more than 41
per cent of those students eligible
to vote cast their ballots. The
vote fell short by 70 votes of
breaking the 1950 all-time record
of 3671. '
The State Party swept the elec
tions last year, putting aH nine
of its candidates into office—and
winning back the prestige it had
lost to the Lion Party in the 1948
and 1949 elections. The Lion group
put all nine of its candidates into
office in both of those elections.
Last- spring’s election was
marked by the narrow margin
of six votes by which David Olm
sted defeated Lion Party candi
date John Stoudt for the office
of senior class president. Olm
sted’s plurality was the smallest
since 1945 when only 72 persons
voted and the senior class presi
dency was won hy
By DAVE PELLNITZ
are on page three)
Urge Voters
41 Per Cent Vote