Slip 1 VOL. 59. No. 71 STATE Cabin For Larry Sharp All - University Cabinet will hear a proposal for a “Larry Sharp Week” to be held March 2 through 8 and climaxing with the appear ance of the Kingston Trio in Recreation Building. Steven Garban, chairman of the Larry Sharp Committee, will present the tentative plans at a meeting to be held at 6:30 tonight in 203 Hetzel Union. Although the plans are still being formulated, day of that week will consist of an activity to raise money for Sharp who was injured in a fall from a trampoline last fall and has been undergoing treat ment and therapy since that time. Students, faculty, personnel and townspeople will be asked to participate in the events of Mrs. Roosevelt Tells Students 'Russians Don't Want War' —Collegian Photo by Bob Thompson MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT is welcomed by All-University President Jay Feldstein and Sherry Parkin, a member of the University Lecture Series Committee, at the Lewistown station prior to her lecture at Schwab Auditorium last night. 'Reds Have More Awe Of Learning'—Roosevelt Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said yesterday that Russian stu dents have two assets which American students no longer have —a real awe of learning and a capacity for learning languages. Speaking before representatives of the local newspapers and radio stations at a press con ference in the Nittany Lion Inn, Mrs. Roosevelt said she felt Rus sian students had a real and keen desire to know just for the sake of knowing. She said that American stu dents once had this desire for and awe of learning but that they had had public education for so long fhey took the privi lege for granted and think it is all right to just "get by." Russian students, she said, have atlt) (ttulbgtati FOR A BITTER PENN STATE COLLEGE. PA., THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 8. 1959 FIVE CENTS t to Hear Plan Week the week, according to Car mella LaSpada, general chair man for the week. Miss LaSpada contacted the agent for the Kingston Trio in New York City over the Christ mas vacation and found that it would be possible for the vocal group to appear at the Univer sity between 3 and 5 p.m. March 8, The Trio will appear at Princeton University on March 7 and will come direct ly from there, if the plans go through. The tentative schedule of events for the week will in clude Student Night, on which collections will be made throughout the residence halls, sororities and fraternities, and Penny-a-Minute-Date-Night, on which all women students will be given special 11 o’clock’s and will be asked to pay a penny for every minute after 10 p.m. that they remain out. Merchants, townspeople and not had the opportunity for pub lic education too long. To them it is still a privilege. She termed the Russian stu dents’ capacity for learning lan guages “simply extrodinary.” She said they were more intelligently taught as far as the basics which apply to all languages are con cerned. “We have given up the study of Latin and Greek thinking we (Continued on page two) faculty members will be asked to donate to the fund on Tag Day. They will be given tags showing that they have con tributed. A program may be created over radio station WMAJ dur ing which fraternities will be asked to buy record albums and have them played over the radio for Sharp, A Coffee Profit Day will be staged in which coffee will be sold in the local restaurants, the profits also going to the fund. Recreation Day on which fraternities may compete with a carnival show is also being planned. In other Cabinet business, Russell Connelly will present a report on the Student Insur ance Plan and Francis Ventre, one on the new Mall Bulletin Board. Ellen Donovan will re port on the extension of Li brary hours during the final examination period. By 80881 LEVINE Eleanor Roosevelt said last night the Russians do not want war but they are de termined to make this a Com munist world by winning the uncontrolled areas of the world. Speaking before a capacity crowd in Schwab Auditorium, Mrs. Roosevelt said “As long as there is a chance of retaliation Khruschev frankly tells you that war is unthinkable but that we are going to have a Communist world.” In order to do this by winning the uncontrolled areas of the world, she said, the communists employ three methods. They treat foreigners with the best care and tell them only the good results of the Communist methods, not a word about the compulsions. They make a comparison of their economic standards today with those of 40 years ago. They offer sympathy and understand ing to these countries and they offer economic aid. "Your are going to win the un committed areas of the world only if you do more than they do,” she said. Mrs. Roosevelt told her audi ence to watch China very care fully in the future. She said it was very important for the peo ple of the United States to know the challenge before them and to make their representatives meet that challenge. “Wo can't afford fo let down the barrier of military defense," she said. She said economic and cultural air must also be offer ed. "Unless we do." she said, "you are liable to wake up one morning and find ithat ihey have bifien off so much of the world that you cannot function as free people." She said the people are made to feel they must surpass the United States in everything or (Continued on page two) .'The Lectern on Page T "The Lectern," written this week by Dr, J, Mitchell Morse, assistant professor of English, will be found on page 7. Goal of $12,000 Set By Advisory Board The Senior Class gift for 1950 will be financed by p, pledge system with payment due before 1964, the Senior Class Advisory Board decided yesterday. The 577 seniors graduating this semester will be sent a form letter requesting a pledge of $5 to be paid before the fifth anniversary reunion. The board has set a goal of $12,000.1 Enclosed with each letter will! be a pledge card to be returned! to the HUB desk or the Athletic! Store. ; The Advisory Board had also been considering the use of a fund raising or donation drive to be conducted while undergraduates were still on campus. The public opinion poll con ducted by the board earlier this semester revealed that 33’A per cent of seniors preferred a pledge system, 30 per cent wanted a collection on campus, 26 2 3 per cent didn’t want a class gift and 10 per cent had other suggestions. Charles Welsh told the board yesterday that the Executive Board of the Alumni Fund also approved the use of such a sys tem. The same approach will be used in the spring and a committee will be formed to make definite plans for raising the money m the future. Welsh recommended to the hoard that a middleman be se lected in the future to send out a progress report on how the cam paign i? progressing. He aho suggested that a com mittee be formed lo talk with Robert E. Beam, director of the Alumni Fund, about the meth ods of collection. It was discovered during or ientation week that no senior class gift fund as such has ex isted since I Q 4B. Unknown to the students and many administra tive officials, the Board of Trus tees had been paying for the gift choices of the senior classes. At. that time President Eric A. Walker announced that in order to continue the gift tradition oth er means of financing would have to be found. A week later All-University Cabinet commissioned President Jay Feldstein and Senior Class President Charles Welsh to ne gotiate with the administration for reallocation of funds. After a conference of President Walker, Feldstein and Welsh, Feldstein told -Cabinet that the University would give funds to be used for the class gift At the same time Feldstein recommended two possible meth ods for raising funds for future gifts. They were: • Using funds from President Walker’s personal fund. • Setting up a 25-year plan whereby each class would pledge a certain amount at graduation! and in the next 25 years work to meet that goal. The decision made yesterday by the board was the first since Feldstein’s recommendation. State Financial Crisis Called Worst in History HARRISBURG (TP) — Rep., after March the state treasurer Albert W. Johnson yesterday! t 0 Biop honoring claimed the state faces “the) “It means you the legislators, most acute financial prick ini vvill not be paid; i udges v, ’ l!1 not most acute nnanciai crisis in b e p a j<j; persons on relief will not its history.” be paid and state employees won’t T , , . _ be paid,” Johnson declared. Johnson, replying to Gov. Lead- i n the Senate, the Republican er s final message at Tuesday’s majority moved to strip Democrat opening of the 1959 Legislature, j c Lt. Gov.-elect John Morgan indicated that the theme of bipar- Davis of his power to assign new tisan cooperation in the politically bills to committee. _ divided legislature is wearing Sen. James S. Berger, GOP tbin. floor leader, confirmed that his Johnson said the Department of Revenue has indicated the state will be about 35 million dollars overdrawn at the bank by March "That means that sometime ■ By ZANDY SLOSSON Relief Ends; Snow, Cold Expected Students who felt the slight let up from the freezing weather yes terday will have to bundle up tighter than ever today. in addition to the sub-freezing cold, snow flurries are expected today which may accumulate hv tonight. The expected snow will lay on the ground as long as the temperature is below freezing The predicted snow will be due to a low pressure area which spread across the South, ern Plains yesterday and is ex pected lo move into Tennessee and Virginia today. The snow will spread northeast and cover all of Pennsylvania today, A heavy snow is unlikely, but up to three inches is possible. The cold wave, which began Monday, produced wind veloci ties of 50 miles an hour in Centre County. Twenty lives were lost Tuesday from West Virginia to New Eng land because of fires. Cloudy weather will accom pany the snow tomorrow. The snow will come to a halt to morrow night but the cold will continue. Tomorrow's low will be 13 degrees but the tempera ture may rise to a high of 25 degrees in the afternoon. Friday and Saturday will be lpartly cloudy with sub-freezing Temperatures. The high for Friday ’will be 23 deatee.s. Traffic Laws to Remain Effective During Exams The Student Traffic Court has reminded students that all traf fic regulations will be in effect during examinations All traffic violations accumu lated this semester will carry over until the end of the spring [semester, so that students do not begin with a “new leaf” m Feb ruary. caucus is considering a proposal fo give ihal power lo the GOP controlled Rules Committee. Sen. Charles R. Weiner, Demo cratic floor leader, described th» (Continued on page four) —Joel' Myers
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