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VOL. 54, No. 97 STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 11, 1954 ' FIVE CENTS
Election
Machine
Use Ended
Election machines will not be
used in the All-University elec
tions April 7 and 8, Edwin Kohn,
chairman of the elections commit
tee, said yesterday.
Last spring five election ma
chines were used in the spring
elections. The machines and the
personnel to operate them were
obtained fr o m the Automatic
Voting Machine Corp., of James
town, N.Y. It was the first time
that elections machines were
used in University elections.
Machines are. "definitely out"
for the spring elections because
of a decentralized voting system
that will be used, Kohn said.
4 Polls to Be Set Up
Under the decentralized voting
system, polling places will. be set
up in the. second floor lounge of
Old Main, the West Dorm lounge,
Temporary Union Building, and
Nittany Dorm 20.
It will be the first attempt at
decentralized voting at the Uni
versity. Kohn said the attempt
Will serve mainly as an experi
ment this spring.
Kohn said he attempted to get
machines for one polling loca
tion, the second floor lounge of
Old Main for the spring elections.
The machines could be obtained
from Bellefonte, he said, but the
financial problem would be too
much to overcome.
Transportation Costs High
Kohn said both machines and
operating personnel could be ob
tained for nothing from the Au
tomatic Voting Machine Corp.,
like last, year, but the transporta
tion costs for machines enough
for four polling places would, be
too expensive. He added that it
was too late to attempt to con
tact the machine corporation for
machines for one, polling place.
Elections will be foi All-Uni
versity, senior class, junior class,
and" Athletic Association officers.
Only male students may vote in
the Athletic Association elections.
Council Asks
For Ag-Jotim
Curriculum
A letter recommending estab
lishment of an agricultural jour
nalism curriculum was submit
ted Wednesday to Lyman E. Jack
son, dean of the College of Agri-
Culture, Edgar Fehnel, former ed
itor of the Penn State Farmer,
told the Agriculture Stud. e n t
Council Tuesday night.
Jackson is confident funds will
be appropriated by the .legisla
ture for the curriculum, Fehnel
said. The curriculum will be op
ened in September 1955 if money
is appropriated, he added.
The - creation of a journalism
curriculum would help alleviate
problems concerning agricultural
publications, Fehnel said.
The council adopted a motion
to continue the Harvest Ball for
at least one more year. Plans to
change the date and the name of
the dance to create more student
interest were discussed' and will
be presented to the Student Union
Board for approval.
The, council also voted to seat
a member :of the Graduate Stu
dent Council on All-University
Cabinet.
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State's Queen Entry
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ALYCE CHENEY, entry from Penn State in the Pittsburgh Press
campus queen contest, will enter competition next month with
representatives from other colleges and universities in the . tri
state area. This picture, along with pictures of the other entries,
will appear in the April 11 Pittsburgh Press in the ROTO section.
Students may vote by ballots, which will be printed in the Press.
American
To Open
First nighters will see an American tragedy when Players pre
sent their production of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" at
8 tonight in Schwab Auditorium.
Tickets cost $.60 for tonight and $1 for tomorrow and Saturday.
They are on sale at the Student Union desk in Old Main.
This Pulitzer : srize-w inning
play is the story of Willy Loman,
an aging traveling salesman and
the crucial events of 24 hours in
his life. By deceiving himself in
to thinking that the only thing
which-matters in life is not what
one does but how he does it,
Willy ruins his career and him
self.
11 to Attend
Music Festival
Eleven students will leave the
University today to participate in
the Collegiate Orchestra Festival
this' weekend at Marywood Col
lege, Scranton.
Musicians from most of the col
leges in Pennsylvania will be
present at the festival, which will
feature a concert Saturday night
under the direction of Alfredo
Antonini, well known symphony
and radio conductor.
Participants from the Univer
sity are Frances O'Connell, oboe;
Joan Else and Jeanne Maxwell,
violins; Stanley Green and James
Burden, violins; Leonore Babione
and James Hartz, violas; Luella
Cook, cello; Fred Arkiseski, trum
pet; Richard Brady, trombone;
and Charles Biechler, bassoon.
Cabinet Canceled
-niversity Cabinet will
not meet this week..
Ike Says Flanders' Speech Helpful
WASHINGTON, March 10 (IP)—
President Eisenhower said today
that by pointing up the 'great
danger" of "personal aggrandize
ment" and a split in the GOP,
Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R-Vt)
has perormed a service in a
speech assailing Sen. Joseph R.
McCarthy (R-Wis).
Furthermore, Eisenhower told
a news conference, CBS and NBC
have met their responsibility for
impartiality in giving the Repub
lican party, instead of McCarthy,
air time to answer attacks by
Adlai E. Stevenson, the 1952 Dem
ocratic presidential nominee. The
Republicans have picked Vice
President Nixon for the reply.
It was "nonsense," the Presi
dent said, when Stevenson assert
ed in a speech at Miami Beach,
Fla., Satutday night that the GOP
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Tragedy
Tonight
By EDMUND REISS
Playwright Miller uses a series
of flashbacks to tell the story of
this tragic downfall, and the audi
ence is transported back into the
lives of Willy, his wife, and his
two sons. Through these people
Miller shows Willy as a husband
and father, and the audience sees
what kind of a person this sales
man once was.
In other flashbacks, Willy's
friends are revealed, and the trag
edy of this once-fine salesman
begins to be understood.
Believes Himself Respected
Willy Loman, played by Morton
Slakoff, was once a man who be
lieved himself to be respected
and admired, however, dreams
and evasions prevented him frorh
seeing himself as he really was.
Then one day at the age of '63
years, he- was forced to face re
ality, but couldn't do' it, so he
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is "half McCarthy and half Eis•
enhower."
McCarthy said tonight he still
will insist on free time . from
CBS and NBC to reply to Steven
son. He told reporters he has a
right to such time, but if Eisen
hower "has a different position,
he has a right to have it."
The senator announced he will
be on the Mutual network tomor
row night with "partial" answers
to both Stevenson and Flanders.
That will get him on the air almad
of Nixon, who has been allotted
a Saturday night spot, the same
one Stevenson had.
Flanders took the Senate floor
yesterday—one of the first Re
publican senators to come right
out and assail McCarthy by name
—to say that "by intention or
through ignorance" the Wisconsin
- nator was "doing his best to
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Pekzar States
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For '54 Class Gift
Approximately $9OOO will be available for the 1954 senior class
gift, Carolyn Pelczar, gift committee chairman, has announced.
Suggestions for the class gift will be accepted from 8 a.m. Mon
day to 5 p.m. April 2 at the Student Union desk in Old Main, Miss
Pelczar said. Final voting for the gift has been tentatively set for
April 28-30. she added.
Any senior may make gift sug
gestions and participate in final
vot in g. Suggestions submitted
should be written and addressed
to the gift committee, Miss Pelc
zar said. •
Suggestions to Be Screened
The gift committee will screen
suggestions to eliminate those
which are physically or finan
cially impossible, she said. Ap
proved suggestions will be an
nounced approximately one week
after the suggekions deadline. l
Mimeographed ballots will then
be prepared.
Information concerning the sug
gestions which will appear on the
ballot will be published in the
Daily Collegian prior to final vot
ing, Miss Pelczar said.
Final election of the gift will
probably be announced before
Spring Wee k, May 10-14, Miss
Pelczar said During the past few
years gift committees have with
held information regarding final
selections until Class Day or grad
uation ceremonies.
Gift suggestions may include
ideas of equipment or additions
to buildings not yet on campus,
Miss Pelczar said. She cited as
examples gifts for the new student
union building or the meditation
chapel.
Former Class Gifts
. The 1953 gift of $9OOO was pre
sented to be used for an organ,
chimes, or stained glass windows
for the proposed chapel. The class
of 1952 contributed funds to be
divided between the campus ra
dio station, not in existence at
that time, and a student press.
Miss Pelczar urged that stu
dent vote for the 1954 gift accord
ing to individual preference and
refrain from organizing into
groups pledging support to one
fiarticular suggestion.
Funds available for the senior
class gift consist of money left
from the damage fund accumu
lated over a four-year period. The
amount has increased throughout
the years because of increased
enrollment, Miss Pelczar said.
Marshall Donley and Edith Burt
are the other members of the gift
committee.
Foreign Study
Grants Listed
Opportunities for foreign study
in 15 countries are listed in Fel
lowships Abroad for American
Students, 1954-55, a pamphlet
published by the Institute of In
ternational Education, 1 E. 67th
r street, New York City.
General eligibility requirements
for the fellowships and scholar
ships, designed mainly for grad
uate students, are U.S. citizenship;
proof of good academic record
and capacity for independent
study; ability to read, write, and
speak the language of the country
of study; good character, person
ality, adaptability; and good
health.
shatter" the GOP
McCarthy saw Flanders in the
Senate this afternoon and joking
ly put both hands around his
neck. Flanders jumped in his seat,
then both senators laughed.
Eisenhower's salute to Flanders
and his round-about attribution of
personal aggrandizement to Mc-
Carthy, plus his approval of the
way CBS and NBC propose to
leave McCarthy out of the rebut
tal to Stevenson, added up to per
haps the heaviest slap the Presi-
I dent has taken at the controvers
ial senator. from Wisconsin.
The extent of the swing became
even more apparent when the
White House released large sec
tions of the stenographic tran
script of the news conference for
direct quotation including al
most every sentence having a
bearing on McCarthy.
Orientation
Plan Aired
By Council
A proposed plan of incorporat
ing campus hat societies in a new
system of Orientation Week coun
seling was presented to Hat So
ciety Council last night by Thom
as Kidd, member of the Orienta
tion Counselors committee.
The plan involved setting up
one joint orientation ' program
headed and run by all the men's
and women's hat societies. At pre
sent, there are three different or
ientation committees, the men's
counselor organization, the All-
University orientation committee,
and a committee chosen by the
Dean of Women's office.
Organized Plan
The new plan would be set- up
through Hat Society Council,
which would cease the multiply
ing of effort that is involved in
the present orientation program,
Kidd said. The result would be
an organized, joint plan of orienta
tion which would be carried out
by the hat societies.
The aim of the proposed sys
tem would be toward social coun
seling, rather than patterned
around a curricular oasis, as is
provided by student councils and
dormitory counselors, he stated.
Societies' Obligation
If the proposed plan were ac- _
cepted, each hat society would be
obligated to participate in the Or
ientation Week program. Mem
bers would receive nothing finan
cially for their work in the sys
tem. All-University Cabinet last
fall accepted a recommendation
putting an end to the $9.35 for
merly paid to Orientation Week
counselors.
Richard Gibbs, president of Hat
Society Council, .asked the mem
bers to present tile proposed plan
to their respective hat societies
for approval and recommendation.
New Entries Received
n Soph Queen Contest
Two new entries in the sopho
more class queen contest have
been received, officials at the
Student Union desk in Old Main
said yesterday afternoon.
So far, a total of eight coeds
has :aeen entered in the contest.
Deadline for the contest is 5 p.m.
Wednesday. A panel of judges will
select five finalists who will ap
pear at the sophomore class semi
formal spring prom March 20.
6 Students Get
Traffic Tickets
Six more students were giv
en tickets for driving on Pol
lock road during class hours
yesterday, Capt. Philip A.
Mark, head of the Campus Pa
trol, said yesterday.
This brings to 22 the number
of tickets passed out in the
two-day drive to stop driving
on the road between 7:30 a.m.
and 5:30 p.m. Monday through
Friday and from 7:30 a.m. to
noon on Saturdays.
Mark and other patrolmen
stopped traffic on the road
again yesterday. Mark said he
will continue fo check traffic
as long as students drive on
Pollock road during class
hours.
Students are fined $1 for
first offense and $4 for second
offense. Third offenders ap
pear before Traffic Court and
are dealt with by the Dean of
Men's office.