PAGE TWO Eisenhower Keeps In 2d Presidential Taft Remains Runner-up, Kefauver 3d By JULIE IBBOTSON Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is still the favorite presidential can didate among Penn Staters, with more and more students jumping on the “1-Like-Ike” bandwagon as the presidential race gains mo mentum. Ike’s increasing popularity was indicated early this week in the second presidential poll conducted by the Daily Collegian in the past month-and-a-half. Approximately 435 students were personally interviewed in the poll this week. The interview method replaced the written bal lots used in the first poll early last month. Vole to Influence Delegates “The results of the campus poll will weigh heavily with Penn State’s delegates to the Inter collegiate Conference on Govern ment’s ‘mock presidential nomin ating convention’ at Harrisburg today through Saturday,” William Klisanin, president of the ICG on campus, said. “Although our 25 delegates will not be bound by Ike’s victory in the poll, they will nevertheless take the results into serious con sideration as an influence on their voting in the mock nominating,” Klisanin said. Ike received 43.5 per cent of the total vote in the poll this week, an increase of nearly 5 per cent over his proportion of 38.6 in the first poll. Kefauver Third Taft held his spot as runner-up, receiving 79 votes this week. President Truman’s rating of third place in the earlier poll was taken over by Senator Estes Ke fauver, who moved up from fourth place with 56 votes. Other Republican Party candi dates included: Warren, 17; Mac- Arthur, 6; and Stassen, 4. IS Per Cent Undecided The remaining Democratic can didates were Senator Richard Russell, 8; Gov. Adlai Stevenson, 4; Senator Robert Kerr, 2; Aver ell Harriman, 1. Nearly 15 per cent of those polled were “undecided” as to their choice of candidate. The total of Republican Party supporters on campus climbed to 60 per cent, from the first poll’s showing of 42 per cent. Klisanin Heads Delegation The Democrats dropped from 23 per cent in the earlier poll to only 20 per cent in the more recent voting. The Independents also received 20 per cent of the votes in this week’s poll, but their drop was more than half of the first poll’s showing of - 42 per cent. The mock voting for a presi dential nominee will be only a part of the three-day ICG con vention in Harrisburg. The Penn (Continued on page eight) Student to Show Movies on India Minocher Karkhanavala, an In dian student, will show seven movies on India and Indian cul ture at 7:30 tonight in 121 Sparks. The program will be sponsored by the international affairs com mittee of the Penn State Christ ian Association. . The titles are “Value of the Kashmir,” “Rustic Delights,” “Ac cent on Asia,” “Cave Temples of India,” “Indian Art Through the Ages,” “Handicraft of India,” and “Melody of India.” The program is open to the public. Seniors May Order Caps and Gowns Graduating seniors may or der caps and gowns next week at the Athletic Store, corner of E. College avenue and S. Allen street. Engineering students may or der on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday; education, home economics, and physical edu cation students on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE. COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Inspecting New Transmitter DAVID R. MACKEY, professor of speech, looks over the gift FM radio transmitter after it arrived on campus Tuesday after noon. The transmitter is being stored in the water tower near New Beaver Field. , FM Radio Arrives on Campus The 10,000 watt FM radio transmitter recently donated to the College by the Gable Broadcasting Co. of Altoona arrived on campus Tuesday afternoon. The transmitter and two of the four antenna bays are being stored in the water tower near Beaver Field. The transmitter, which weii is seven feet high, five feet wi International Dinner Ticket Sales to End Today is the last day to pur chase tickets for the international dinner, to be held at 6 p.m. to morrow in the social room of the First Presbyterian The dinner will 1 be sponsored by the international .affairs com mittee of the Penn State Christ ian Association. Tickets, priced at 90 cents, may be purchased at Student’ Union or at PSCA head quarters, 304 Old Main. » Speaker for the dinner will be Dr. R. C. Desai, executive secre tary of the United Nations,tech nical assistance administration for Southeast Asia. Dr. Desai was-educated at Bom bay University and at Cambridge University, England, where he received a doctor’s degree in eco nomics. After working in the research division of the National Institute of Economic Research in London, Dr. Desai went to India to take charge of the newly set up na tional income division pf the In dian government. < Since 1950 Dr. Desai has been in the service of the United Na tions. For two years, he worked in Bangkok with the UN economic commission for Asia and the Far East. Since March of this year, he has been working at UN head quarters with the fiscal division of the department of economic affairs. Chem Eng Society to Elect Tonight The local chapter of American Institute of Chemical Engineers will meet at 7:30 tonight in 105 Walker Laboratory to elect offi cers for the coming year. Nominations will be made from the floor by the members present and elections will be held at the same time. Today and tomorrow afternoon, members of the group will visit the Titan Metal Co. in Bellefonte. They will observe operation pro cedure of the in4iistry with spec ial emphasis on chemical pro cesses. Lead Poll Unit ighs approximately 3000 pounds, ide, and two feet deep. .Wilmer E. Kenworthy, chair man of the newly-appointed Col , lege committee to study the ra dio station situation, said yester day that the group has written to the Federal Communications Commission for application blanks. t He said that the committee is also investigating the cost -oi ob taining an outside consulting ra dio engineer for advise on the i practicality of the proposed plan . for the campus radio station. In addition, Kenworthy said, : the committee is planning to con duct tests soon on the operation : of slave transmitters to convert (Continued on page eight) 35th Littlelnternational Will Be Held Saturday More than 100 student-fitted and shown animals will be entered in this year’s Little International Livestock Show Saturday in the Livestock Judging Pavilion. Beef cattle, sheep, and horses from the College’s purebred herds and flocks are used for the exposition. Each student fits and shows his own animal. The event is sponsored by the Block and Bridle Club each year, and this year marks the 35th an nual show. It is dedicated to Prof. Franklin L. Bentley, head of -the Animal Husbandry depart ment for the past 25 years. Champion Class Judging Besides.the animal judging, a coed pig defby, a sheepdog dem ons'tration and a parade are in cluded in the program Judging will run from 8 a.m. to 12,30 p.m. and from 1 to 5 p.rri., Dorlin Hay, manager of the show announced. The judging of sheep will he followed by the beef cat tle and horse events, judging of the championship classes will complete the contest. During the show, coeds repre senting each of the women’s dor mitories will participate in a pig derby. The contestants in the der by. will each race a small pig equipped with a dog harness and leash. Parade Tomorrow Caroll Shaffner, 1 College shep herd, will give a demonstration of working sheep dogs. He will use his own. trained dogs in the show. The parade will be held tomor row night. It will start at 6:30 'Biography' Author Scores Current Hit When, amidst rustling programs and dimming houselights, “Bio graphy” gets underway at Center Stage tomorrow night, Players will be presenting the work of a playwright who is currently scoring a Broadway success. S. N. Behrman, writer of high comedy, drawing-room comedy, comedy of manners —call it what you will—recently dramatized- a Somerset short story and came, up with the play “Jane.” In an article entitled “Query: What Makes Comedy High?” which appeared., in the March 30 New York Times, Behrman said that Maugham, “a brilliant play wright . . . did not want to dram atize it himself because he has long since quit.the theater, which is perhaps an even profounder demonstration ,of his canniness.” But Behrman apparently is much more devoted to the thea ter than one might think from this remark, for he devotes prac tically his entire, article to the defense of his own special love, high comedy. It seems that one of Behrman’s relatives got a little flip one day and asked him, “When are you going to get out of that drawing room?” And as Behrman, like so many people, couldn’t think of the proper retort until too late, his only recourse was a written de fense of his art. His retort: “Any kind of play can take place in a drawing room: farces, melodramas, spooky plays (although they generally fun to libraries.) Some i. drawing room plays might more properly be called bathroom comedies.” “The category ‘drawing-room comedy’ is arbitrary and actually' meaningless,” he says; “. . . it has come to be employed as synony mous with high comedy when, es sentially, it'has nothing to do with it.” What makes the essense of high comedy. Behrman says, is not the furniture of the room where the action takes place but the articulateness of the charac ters, the planes on which they talk, and the intellectual climate in which they-live. Gift Behrman also discounts the idea that the characters of high comedy must be rich, well-dressed and socially elevated. He has dtifie several, he says, in .which the heroes were poor, badly dressed, and “from the wrong side of the tracks.” As one of the “endless' sources of high comedy is : .1 . intensity of purpose in contrast with the triviality of the occasion,” accord ing to Behrman, he states that the Characters’ pi oi h t of view must never be trifling. p.m. from the barns and will travel down Shortlidge road, west on College .avenue, north on Bur rowes road, past Rec Hall, and back to the barns. . Two grand champion horses will be ; led by Joseph DiPetro, assis tant maqagef of the show; and Elmer Taft, assistant in animal husbandry. t Judges of the fitting and show ing.'will include J. Harold Clark, of Rochester, Mich., horses; David McDowell of Mercer, sheep; and Arthur Maness of New Paris, beef cattle. EARN MONEY By SELLING! Student Magazine Agency and Time Magazine need rep-/.:;' resentatives to sell during the fall term. . . !?!.! ( If you can sell and are aggressive:. "! Contact Student Magazine ;! I Agency forJntemewNOW! THURSDAY, APRIL 24, lfts2 By BETTIE LOUX Council Elections Set Monday Student council elections will be held Monday, Tuesday/and Wednesday by five of the eight schools of the College while a sixth, the School of Engineering, will hold elections Monday, and Tuesday only. 'Nominations for representatives to the Home Economics, Liberal Arts, Engineering, Chemistry and Physics, Mineral Industries, and Kigtmhm ,mh mh mh hmh mhmb Education' student councils will continue today and tomorrow. School of Education nomina tions will be open from 8 to 5 p.m. both days. A 1.3 All-College average is required for all can didates. Nominations will be ac cepted for sophomore, junior, arid .senior posts in Dean Marian Tra bue’s office, 102 Burrowes. Chem-Phys Nominations Nominations for posts on the Liberal Arts Student Council will take placp in the office of Dean Ben Euwema, 132 Sparks. Candi dates", who may nominate them selves, must have a 1.5 All-Col-- lege average. Eight sophomores, 11 juniors, and seven seniors'will be elected. Four juniors, four sophomores, and two juniors \yill be elected to the Chemistry and Physics Stu dent Council. Nominees must have a 1.0 average. Forms and instructions for nomination will be posted on bulletin boards in Pond and Osmond laboratories. Engineering Council - Home Economics Student Coun-. cil elections will be held in the main lobby of. the Home Eco nomics building. . Women may nominate themselves or others, Marilyn Franklin, elections chair man, said. Nominations are open for sopho more, junior, and senior repre sentatives to the Engineering Student 'Council. All persons interested in nominating them selves or others should submit names to their department hbads by 5 p.m. tomorrow, John Miller, head of the elections committee, said. A complete list of entries‘Will be posted on engineering bulletin boards by Monday. One sopho more, junior, and senior will be elected from each of the school’s six departments. The new repre sentatives will meet Tuesday night with the old council to elect officers. Phys-Ed Elections in Mdy Two freshmen, t/wo sophokiores, and juniors will be elected to the Mineral Industries Student Council. Students may nominate themselves by signing lists posted on bulletin boards in the Mineral Industries building. .Voting will take place from 9:30 aim. to 4:30 p.m. in the main lobby, of the Mineral Industries -building. ~. Nominations and elections, for the School of Physical Education will take place in May. Officers for the Agriculture Student Council’ will be elected at a meeting of the council May 13.
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