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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
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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
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.'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»
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—Joel' Myers