PAGE TWO Going Once, Going Twice... —Photo by Schroeder SELLING ANYTHING from a grape hoe to a potato peeler, auc tioneer Harold Leightley made a highly successful bid to get high - bids at an auction sale of used College equipment Saturday. The sale lasted all day—so did Leighlley's voice. Active Auctioneer Empties Warehouses By MIKE FEINSILBER If you were in market for 2000 little wooden boxes Saturday, you’ve lost your opportunity. You could have had them for a steal at the auction sale of used College equipment at the College Warehouses. When the. auctioneer and the festive crowd came upon the col lection of boxes —once vital to the process of education, now useless —no one was quite sure what they could be used for, but everyone was reluctant to let a bargain like this pass. Auctioneer and 'audience pondered. Auctioneer called for bids for the lot. No bids. Still More Troubles Finally, the crafty auctioneer hit upon a solution. He suggested: “kindling wood!” He offered them for 25 cents a dozen. Five hun dred of them were sold imme diately. Somebody offered $5 for the remaining 1500. “Sold!” cried the auctioneer, obviously relieved. These weren’t the* end of the auctioneer’s troubles. Later he ran into some well-used dormitory furniture which nobody wanted for apparent reasons. After sev eral futile attempts to drum up a bid, the auctioneer gave up. “Any body who steals that stuff,” de clared the vendor, moving on to the next item, “won’t be prose cuted.” The broker got his, revenge on the occasionally apathetic crowd when he came to a metal sink no body wanted. Fishing for an offer, he cried, “Who’ll give $5 for it, where’s my five dollar man . . . who’ll give two-fifty for the metal in it. Use it as junk. Nobody? All right, we’ll come back to it.” He did, and the sink sold for $5. More Scrap Meial, Kindling If the auctioneer had troubles, the customers had a great time. They wandered around the ware houses, giving imprompto con certs on the six upright pianos, tapping on the typewriters, pic nicing on hot dogs, hamburgers, coffee, pie, milk, and soda pop sold—at old fashioned prices—by members of the College’s Block and Bridle Club. Used plumbing, electrical sup plies, and lumber will be up for s J ale at the next auction to be held in a few months. Or, to put in the auctioneer’s language, scrap metal and kindling will be going. Arts Committee - The committee on combined arts festivities, will meet at 7 tonight in 107 Main Engineering. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN", STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Book Collection Is on Display Books by the late Rufus W. Jones, professor of phil osophy at Haverford College, are being displayed at the Pattee Li brary. This exhibit has been ar ranged in connection with a lec ture on the work of Rufus Jones which will be presented by Dr. Cornelius Kruse, Wesleyan Uni versity, 8 p.m. Sunday at the Hil lel Foundation Auditorium. The collection includes books representing Jones’ activities as a scholar, thinker and humani tarian, and other books and pic tures of his life. Several of the volumes, pictures, and a manu script were contributed to the display by Haverford College. Faculty to Address Ceramics Association Three members of the' faculty will address the annual joint meeting of the Pennsylvania Cer amics Association and the Phila delphia section of the American Ceramic Society in Philadelphia today. The men are Dr.. Edward C. Henry, professor and chief of the division of ceramics; Norman R. Thielke, research associate in cer amics; and Dr. Wilhelm R. Bues sem, research professor of mineral technology. TAKE A BREAKS Yes, take a break and hop over to Vic's for a snack With Spring weather corning on. studying becomes harder and harder to‘concentrate on. So, when you feel the urge to take your nightly stroll, walk down it's conveniently located to campus and to Vic's Yes, Vic hafc just the right food to satisfy your desires Vic's Shamrocks and Greets Honor Irelands Pet Snake Charmer By HELEN LUYBEN Sure and ’tis March 17th a great day for the Irish. ’Tis the day the Donegal, Hollihan, Murphy, and O’Shanesy clans get put the sham rocks and wear the green to hon or Ireland’s patron saint, Patrick. Now Patrick was quite the boy. Not only did he ponvert the heathen of all Ireland to Christ ianity back in the fifth century, but he expelled the snakes from the country in the bargain. What’s more, the methods used by the venerable saint were ingenious and nothing short of sheer magic. St. Patrick, who died March 17, 493 A.D., lived to the ripe—or perhaps sere—old age of 121, an almost miraculous accomplish ment in itself. The son of a Ro man gentleman, Caliphurnius, St. Patrick was sold into slavery at the age of 16, and after six years of servitude in Ireland, escaped to Britain. There he spent 18 years in a Christian monastery, return ing to Ireland later to convert the Druids to Christianity. Ireland, is splattered with towns, churches, rocks and' streams founded by or named for her pa tron saint. This origin of the name of the town of Struill is supposed to be authentic: It seems St. Patrick, in bap tizing a newly converted Irish chieftain, leaned heavily upon his crosier during the ceremony, nev er once noticing the spike of the staff was accidentally leaning on the chief’s toe. Riding Team Wins Reserve Championship The College riding team won the reserve championship at Cor nell University’s invitational rid ing meet Saturday at Ithaca, N.Y. New York Military Academy took the championship with 46 points. Penn State was second with 40. Others in the meet were Cornell, 35; the Junior Essex Troop of Cavalry) 11; St. Lawr ence University, 8; end Lakemont Academy, 3. Penn State's Edna Grabiak, on her open jumper Mi-Surprise, won reserve champion individual high scorer honors and also re serve champion in horsemanship. First place rosettes were award ed to Nancy Wild on Queen B in Ladies Pleasure Hack; Gail Smith and Miss Wild on White Star and Queen B in Pairs of Hunters Tan dem; and Miss .Grabiak on Mi- Surprise in Open Jumping and Horsemanship over jumps. William Brodnax reached the finals in horsemanship. H Cornell won ' the modified Olympic team event, with the Lions finishing second. On this team were Gail Smith, on White Star, Miss Wild on Queen B, and Patricia Gilbert on Brown Beau. Also. on the team, coached by Capt. Gregory Gagarin, was Ed ward Campbell. 145 S. ALLEN ST. Believing it to be a part of the ceremony, the chieftian bore the pain in silence while the blood flowed freely from his toe. Struill, the. scene of the baptismal, liter ally means “stream of blood.” St. Patrick used the shamrock to illustrate to the Irish the trin ity of God. The three leaves -of the trefoil represent, he said, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The stem represents the Godhead, or unity of the three in one. The Irish had already come to believe that the shaiprock had the mys tical power to ward off snakes, and the pagans were ready to ac cept the idea of a god that could expell snakes from their land. St. Patrick was earnest in his efforts to drive the snakes from Ireland. By beating on a drum, he lured> all of the snakes but one to the sea, where they were promptly drowned. It • is said St. Patrick beat upon his drum so vehement ly that he knocked a hole in it and an angel of the Lord had to come down from heaven to mend it. One snake, in spite of all of St. Patrick’s drumbeating, still re- '5 O'clock' Group To Give I Mamie Five O’clock Theater will pre sent “Mamie,” a one-act play by Hugh Brennan, eighth semester journalism major, at 5 p.m. today in the Little Theater, basement of Old Main. Actors Jack Kutz, John. Krug, Tom Beilin, and Sylvia Brown will perform script-in-hand. Yvonne Voigt has directed the character study. Jolly Oswalt will serve as technician. Setting is.by Miss Voigt. “Mamie” is. the story of an old woman in a mining town who re fuses to believe the reputation of her wayward daughter. Clover Club to Meet . Dr. Howard W. Higbee, associate professor of soil technology, will speak on the soils of Pennsyl vania at the meeting of the Clover Club at 7:30 tonight in 111 Plant Industries. Pleased twite over! | You’re pleased TWO ways with | any repair fob we do on your car. | First, you’re pleased with the job, itself ... right in eveiy detail. j Second, you're pleased >yith the 41 bill . . . always right, never more ' than elsewhere, generally less! STORCH MOTOR (0. Authorized DeSoto - Plymouth Dealer ' 224 E. College Ave., State College TUESDAY, MARCH, 27, 195? mained in Ireland. Then old Pat tried another method of bewitch ment. He approached the snake carrying a fine big box he’d just constructed and tried to line the shake info it. The snake, a clever reptile, was convinced he’d never have enough room in St. Patrick’s box, but the saint was determined. “Try it and see if it isn’t large enough,” said Patrick, whereupon the snake slithered into the box, Patrick shut the lid, snapped the lock and threw the whole she bang into the sea. So goes one version. Still an other has St. Patrick approach the reluctant reptile saying, “Conie, snake. I promise I won’t hurt you. I’ll just chain you to this nice green tree ’till Monday and then you will be free, to slither whither you wish.” Whereupon the trust ing snake was chained to the tree and forgotten by the saint. It is said the snake can still be heard to wail early each Monday morn ing, “It’s a long Monday, Patrick.” For many years following his death, the Irish worshipped the saint’s jawbone as both a test, of guilt in legal disputes and as. a good luck charm to be used when a child was to be bom in a home. Persons accused of committing crimes were compelled to swear their innocence by the- jawbone which was held within a silver vase. The defendant was subject to some supernatural punishment from the jawbone if he should lie. As a good luck omen the, jawbone gave blessing and protection to the woman during childbirth. Sinclair Gets Post on ICG Benjamin Sinclair, fourth se mester arts and letters major, was elected regional director, of the Intercollegiate Con fere n c e on Government, at the central re gional ICG convention Saturday at Dickinson College, Carlisle. . The convention, conducted like a model state legislature, served as dress rehearsal for the state ICG convention to be held April 30 in Harrisburg. Sinclair was also named to head the civil rights committee at the state conven tion. Nineteen members of the local ICG chapter attended the conven tion. . NEWS LETTERS LETTERPRESS - OFFSET ★ COMMERCIAL PRINTING Pugrh A Beaver State College
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