Traffic Court Needed— See Page 4 VOL. 53, No. 91 Debaters Win Hoiiors In Tourney Susan Holtzinger won first place honors in the state extem poraneous speaking finals at the Pennsylvania State Tournaments held Thursday through Saturday at Lehigh University. Miss Holtzinger won the state title with her affirmative speech on the topic, “Is our present policy toward Red China ah effective one?” Benjamin Sinclair took second place in the men’s extemporan eous speaking trials and Mary Jane Kelley took*second place in the oration contests. Four teams from the College competed in the tournaments to win ten out of 20 debates. • The men’s team scored six out of ten debates while the women won four'out of ten. On the men’s negative team, Richard Kirschner and Thomas K. White defeated teams from Juni ata Mount Mercy, Carnegie Insti tute of Technology, and Kings College. They were defeated by a squad from the University of Pittsburgh, winner of the tourna ment. Benjamin Sinclair and Alex ander Stamateris debated affirm atively to defeat Lehigh and Pehn State women. They lost to Temple, Dickinson, and Allegheny. Sally Lowry and Miss Kelley comprised a negative women’s team to win over Allegheny and Mount Mercy. They lost to Dick inson, Temple, and Penn l State men. The affirmative team, Nancy Silvermarr and Miss Holtzinger, defeated Swarthmore men and a mixed team from Slippery Rock. They , lost 1 to men’s teams from Penn, Scranton, and Allegheny. All debates centered around the national topic, Resolved: That the Congress of the United States should enact a fair employment practices law. About 30 colleges from all over the state-, participated in the an nual tournament. 'Five O'clock' To Act 'Rondo' “Rondo,” an original one-act play by William Coleman, will be presented script-in-hand by the Five O’clock Theater at 5 p.m. today in the Little Theater, base ment of Old Main. Included in the cast of the 40 minute play are A 1 Kalson, Bev erly Corl, Jack Kut z, Clifton Crosbie, Lyle Pelton, Dick Jervis, Myron Cole, and Dick Haynes. Ed Grove, will act as stage man ager for the costume drama. Dick Anderson will direct. Yvonne Voigt has designed the setting, and Jolly Oswalt, Ruth Lyne, and George Jason will serve as tech nicians. Written in blank verse, “Rondo” is a melodramatic study of an idealistic' girl who falls in love with • the legend of “The High wayman.” A scholar tries to ful fill her. dreams by creating a mas querade in which a young boy brings the Highwayman to life. Quartet Registration Entrants in the all-College bar ber-shop quartet contest, March 18, sponsored by the sophomore class, dnay register today, through Saturday at the Student -Union desk in Old Main. Tryouts will be held March 9-15 in the TUB. Final competition will be March 18 in Schwab Audi torium. • TODAY'S WEATHER FAIR MILDER Sailg (EuU Senate Calendar Group To Propose New Policy Carter Cites Growth in South By CHIZ MATHIAS Hodding Carter, Southern newspaper editor, last night out lined five principal areas of de velopment and expansion that the South has undergone in the last 20 years. Speaking before a small Com munity Forum audience in Schwab Auditorium, the greying editor traced the progress of the South since 1932 and the refor mations introduced. since the time Of the New Deal. “For many years the South has been the target of unin formed criticism from outsiders,” Carter said. “The South is rep resented as a hotbed of race ;xiots: and ' lynchings. She has never come forth to defend her self.” Actually more interracial violence is present in New York than was ever present in the South, Carter said. Demagoguery on the part of the North and South hindered progress. Only in the last 20 years has 'the South undergone revolution to foster social change. Since 1932 changes in political, ' economical; cultural, social, and spiritual growth have made- the South unrecognizable, Carter said. “In 1932 Mississippi had a per capita income of only one fourth that of Pennsylvania,” Carter said. -Today it has grown to double that .amount.” Industry has moved into the South to. pro vide money for schools, hospitals, and public service funds. Political emancipation has brought the right to vote to the Negro. Negroes no longer shy away from the polls on election day fearful of being detained by body violence. Party politics have undergone a complete change, Carter said. The reign of the “yellow dog” Democrat who voted as his father and grandfather voted is ended. In Nittany Council Elects Harding New President Robert Harding, second-se mester chemical engineering stu dent, was elected president of Nittany Council at its meeting last night. Harding replaces Thomas Den nis as president of the council. Other officers who were elect ed at the meeting were Richard Cook, president of Dorm 37, vice president; Jay Byerley, president of Dorm 34, recording secretary. Vernon. Yingling and Byerley were appointed representatives at-large to represent the Nittany area on the Association of Inde pendent Men. : _ The council also defeated a mo tion to amend the AIM constitu tion restricting an AIM presiden tialTcandidate.fo a. sixth semester student or above. Vernon Yingling and Sergio Toigo were appointed co-chair men of the Public Welfare Com mittee, which. will investigate problems, such as parking prob lems, brought to the council by dormitory: presidents. Ralph Leuchter was appointed scholarship chairman, and is in charge of the bluebook files. Leuchter said hours will be an nounced when the files may be open for students to examine. Advisory Committee The - Dean of . Men’s advisory committee: will meet at .7:30 to night in 109 Old Main, Harold W. Perkins, assistant dean * of" men, has reported. STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1953 Ona Kay Lee,, sixth semester home economics journalism ma jor, is Froth Girl of the Month. Other Froth features include “A Young Man of Very Distinc tive Abilities,” a satire on scholar ship (in a particular department) by Richard Neuweiler, editor; “Photo Feature,” a parody on the life of any literary giant; and “A Page with Stevens,” cartoons by Arthur Stevens, variously car toonist, . poet, playwright, and artist.- ■ . - Infirmary Visiting Hours Still Under Suspension Infirmary visiting hours, which were suspended indefinitely early this month because of the large number of upper respiratory dis eases confined there, have not yet been reinstated. A possibility of lifting the suspension was indi cated last', week by Director bf the College Health Service Dr. Herbert R. Glenn. No information was available yesterday on when the ’suspen sion might be lifted because Dr. Glenn was out of town. i FOR A BETTER PENN STATE s Hodding Carter Community Forum speaker the last election 41 per cent of Mississippi .voted Republican. The highest previous percentage recorded since the Civil War was about 4 per cent. Republicans iio longer had to meet behind locked, doors or suffer social and busi ness boycott. Public rallies were held before the last election. . . Mississippi was once the most illiterate state in the Union. There was no money to buy books and few educated people to read them, Carter said. Illit eracy has been reduced among Negroes from 60 to 10 per cent, he said. More people are writing books in Mississippi today than were reading them ten years ago, Carter said. Social tension has been re moved by -the shifting of popu lations, he said. More people Froth Recognizes I Years' Worst' In Today's Issue One long-ago-interred Joseph Pulitzer will revolve slowly in the traditional grave today as Froth’s Award Issue goes on sale at the Corner . Room and on the Mall. Froth’s recognitions of the worst items of the year, and the rather, unusual categories in which they are placed, might be termed “An ti-Pulitzer. Prize Awards.” wjtau have moved into the cities. Ag riculture has fallen to the min ority. A tragic migration of ne gro laborers to the North has taken farmhands away from the plantations, but many educated people have been attracted to the South in later years. “The combined • efforts of the clergy, educators, and news paper editors to direct a spirit ual force of cooperation have changed the aspects of the South,” Carter said. Carter compared the growth of the South to his hometown of Greenville, home of his news paper Mississippi Delta Demo crat Times. The- town was sal vaged out of the swamps by cottonplanters who needed new lands. It was burned by the Un ion Army during the Civil War but the planters rebuilt it and neither floods nor yellow fever could drive them away. In the past two decades Green ville has opened the polls to the Negro, spent two-thirds of a five million dollar budget on schools and built recreational facilities for them. Negroes were admitted to the police forces and court juries. « “In 1951 there was only one lynching in the South .and none last year. The war did much to break down the. barrier between the races,” Carter said. “This was the beginning of a hopeful story of people moving for equality. This, can be looked at on a-world basis.” Carter cited the caste system of India and the similarity between the back ward oriental country and the South. “The South has begun to tell her story and move forward, Carter said. If she can tell that story it will; be a big step to ward winning the battle of the differences of the races of man kind.” WD Facilities Not for Greeks Council Says Fraternities do not have access to West Dorm area washing facil ities, the West Dorm Council said last night.' The group passed a motion to be sent to the Interfraternity Council asking members to re frain from using the facilities. The vote was 12-1. Members of at least four fra ternities downtown and several houses on campus have been using the facilities, the council was told. The council also passed a motion that a copy of the re quest be sent to assistant Dean of Men Harold W. Perkins, ad visor to the IFC. Jack Huber and his orchestra will play for a. dance Saturday night in the West Dorm lounge. Dances have been scheduled for every week from now until May 23, George Forsyth, chairman of the social committee, announced. The social committee ,has been revised because, of 'poor support, Forsyth said. Charles Bates, Rich ard Rigling, and Daniel Van Duyne will be in charge of Satur day’s dance, he said. Forsyth ask ed floor presidents to ask capable and interested men to serve on the social committee. Joseph Sommers was named chairman ■ of the key committee by Vice President Andrew Jaros who presided. Jaros announced that plans for a banquet are un derway. The council voted to hold the banquet the first week in May. GOP Platform False Promises?— See Page 4 Group Suggests 1 Day Vacation At Thanksgiving A calendar policy that will cut Thanksgiving vacation to one day and eliminate vaca tion between semesters is in cluded in the report of the Senate committee on calen dar that will go before the March 5 meeting of the College Senate. If adopted, the committee re port will set up a policy from which calendars can be formu lated. The report suggests that instead of having the calendar committee make the calendar, this proposed policy be adopted and the President of the College designate a specific individual to prepare the calendar for. each year. This calendar would be sub ject to the approval of the Council of Administration. The action of the committee in setting up policy instead of mak ing calendars is in line with the recent reorganization of the Col lege Senate. It was felt that the Senate had been devoting too much time to administrative de-. tails and too little to policy mak ing, C. O. 'Williams, secretary of the Senate, explained. Under the proposed setup, the calendar com mittee will make policy and an administrative officer will formu late the actual schedules. 14 Days for Christmas The policy recommendation will begin fall semester Orientation Week on the evening of the first Sunday after Labor Day. Regis tration will be. held Wednesday through Saturday of the same week, and classes will start the next Monday. Thanksgiving recess shall be limited to the specific day. Christmas recess shall begin at noon on the Wednesday, Thurs day, or Saturday immediately preceding Christmas Day and shall end exactly two weeks later unless the vacation starts on Sat urday. The Christmas vacation shall be scheduled to provide at least three weekdays of vacation prior to Christmas Day and to reduce the necessity for travel on New Year’s Day to a minimum. Football Holiday Abolished Fall semester classes, according to the recommended policy, will end at noon on the second or third Saturday in January; ex aminations will start at the same time and continue until the third or fourth Tuesday. The Saturday football holiday will be dropped. Ernest W. Cal lenbach, committee chairman, ex plained that the half-holiday no longer serves its original purpose (Continued on page eight) Psych Club to Hear Military Research Talk Dr. Kinsley R. Smith, professor of psychology, will speak at a Psychology Club meeting at 7 to night in 202 Willard. The address, “Coming in on a Wing and a Standard Deviation,” will cover research done for the armed forces during the last war. The meeting will be open to the public. Campus Radio Permit The application for a con struction permit to build the campus radio station is still being prepared, Wilmer E. Ken worthy. director of student af fairs, said yesterday. The ap plication will be sent to the Federal Communications Com mission in Washington as soon as it has been checked. FIVE CENTS
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