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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?—
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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.
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