Debaters
Swallow
Pitt
VOL XXIII, No. 26
MANAGER EXTENDS
"OLD MAIN BELL"
SALES CAMPAIGN
Pi Delta EpSilou Members To
Solicit Subscriptions of
Faculty This Week
SMALL SUPPORT MEETS
EFFORTS OF CANVASSERS
Preliminary Report on Contest
Shows "Froth" at Head of
' Campus Journals
Prelniunory reports of the Old
Main Belt subscription campaign
which aro being made from twee to
time to John Ferguson '2B, business
manager of the literary publication,
indicate that the F, WA staff is lead
ing the four campus journals in this
work.
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The campaign, originally scheduled
to close during the early pint of this
week, will be continued until the
'Christmas holidays in an effort to
bring the subscription list to - the ne
cessary quota.
Will Carcass Faculty
lllfembers.of Pi Delta Epsilon, hon
orary journandt.,c fraternity, the
group which sponsors the publication
of tho Old Main Dell, will solicit sub
scriptions from faculty members dur
ing this week.
Reports of the subscription' sales
made so far are very discouraging `to
thn campaign mance and the stair .
of Penn State's literary magazine
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"There is a place and need for such
a magazine as the Old Mein Bell on
the campus," declares Ferguson, "but
the student body must give it mole
support al It is to be kept on the list
of College publications One would
almost say that the support given is
a reflection upon the literary tastes
of Penn State students"
!The first of the too yearly issues
.214.bnanagi_izine will linear soon_af-
Lei theiirifiiirllolidayo7 , 'lt - will
contain the best of the Ilteiary writ
ing.; of the student body 'and faculty
of Penn State.
PURDUE DEAN ADDRESSES
FOUR ENGINEER GROUPS
Discusses Qualities Necessary For
Graduate To Secure and
Hold Position
Stopping off at State College on his
stay back to Purdue from the Amen
= Society of Mechanical Engineer
ing conference held in Ness York, Dean
A A Peter, head of the Purdue En
gineering school, was the guest of the
college last Friday afternoon and ev
ening.
While Dean Potter sins hese lie car
ried out a busy schedule, speaking at
four different gatherings. At thiee
fdteen o'clock Friday afternoon he ad
dressed the members of the faculty
of the mechanical engineering depart
ment and at four o'clock he spoke to
student, of all the engineering schools.
His topic at this tune was the charac
er qualities versus the technical qual
ities of a man wishing to hold dossn
a job after graduating. At seven
o'clock Dean Potter addressed a meet
ing of the student branch A. S. M. E
and at eight-thirty o'clock he spoke
at the Sigma Tau formal initiation
banquet.
Immigrating from Russia early An
the.ntneteen-hundreds, Mr Potter en
tered the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology where he graduated
_in
1309 having completed the courses in
electrical and mechanical engineering.
After sterling in seyeral capacities ne
becaniC. in 1911, Dean of the Kansas
,university, which position he held for
eight years
Pittsburgh Xmas Dance
Committee Includes
Three Undeigraduates
Three Penn State undergraduate
students are included on the commit
tee sponsoring a dance to be given in
Pittsburgh at Webster Hall on Wed-
nesday, December twenty-eighth, un- I
der the auspices of the Campus Club
of that city. 'Whitey Kaufman and
his moll-known musicians hate been
secured for the affair.
The dance, coming as it does at the
herghth of the Christmas season, will
afford Penn State students an °ppm
tunity to congregate for an evening
of revelry. 'Subscription has been set
i at three dollars per (Ample.
, The committee in charge of the
scheduled holiday function is: Cordon
M. Harris '27, chairman, David G.
Hood '26, Robert B. Donaldson '27,
John R Thomas '2B, Robert J. Potter
, '3O, and Miss Helen I. Cook '23.
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To Suspend Publication
For Christmas Recess
In accordance with past pre
cedent, the COLLEGIAN will
not be published Friday, Decem
ber sixteenth, on account of the
Christmas recess beginning on
that day. Publication will be
suspended with this issue until
Friday, January sixth, 1921.
CONOVER REDUCES
1931 COURT SQUAD
Forty-three Players To Contend
For First Team Positions
After Christmas
ABUNDANCE 01? MATERIAL
POINTS TO GOOD SEASON
Forty-three men remain on the
I freshman basketball squad V. hICII
Coach Larry Conover has chosen from
the group of one hundred and seventy
three who answered the first call fat
candidates. The squad hill be a ten
tative one until after the Christmas
vacation. •
Following the holidays Coach Con
over will again decrease the number
of players, this time to about twenty
men. Temporary fast and second
trains will be picked and the dribblers
will begin intensne scrimmages, using
at first only simple plays and then
gradually norking up to more com
plicated ones.
Good Material
Coach Conover has found much
promising material among the year
ling, which when fully developed mill
point toward a successful season Ed.
card Brownlee, lanky end on the plebe
football team, and Andrew McComb'
use expected to put uria good fight for
the center position while at the for
ward positions there wIl be keen com
petition among 'Paul E Barber of
Sewickley high school, - Jack Mazess of
Scranton Central, Jack Meyers, - of
MCKeespere , and' Pita "Krainnice — of
State College.
At guard so far Sol Saltzman of
Marcus Hook, Richard Smith of State
College and John Evans, a former
Swarthmore Prep star, have shown
up well in the el es of the mentor
Coach Conover states that there ale
other men equally as good as those
just mentioned who under the clouded
circumstances had not the opportunity
to display their ability but who will
hove a chance to ',indicate themselves
during the next practices
Modest Mentor Is
Retiring Claimant
For "No-Publicity"
"Nan, now baton, I don't go in fob
this publicity racket," declared Larry
Conover, laisity football line couch,
freshman basketball coach, radio an
nouncer, Lift Guard chef and what
not, when asked I'm an inlenien
"You go to see Red Gillfith, he'll
give sou a story. Go see Leo Houck,
he'll have something with a punch in
it for you. No, I don't want to give
opinions on anything. There ace
plenty of people in this College Just
dying to break mto print. What? Yes
I played my lust football game hone
in 1919 No, I wasn't chosen All-
American Now, I don't want to sal
anything
"Who sent sou up here? Well you
tell him to play his jokes on SOllle
both. else. I never did go in lot thus
publicity stuff. What kind of a stray
did sou want? A feature? Well I
don't want to be featured. I don't
want to he quoted as saying any
thing. Naw, you go sue somebody
else"
Disciples of Nature '
- Five-Foot Pet R
Members of the nature study de- I
partment are in sorrow. The long-lost
iibbon snake, pet of the whole group,
was found last week after an absence
of six months But it now lies dead—
the victim of some mud and thought
less Penn State student
Last May consternation reigned in
this department for several days after
some one had lett the door of the
'outdo's cage open and it escaped
horn the nature study room on the
fourth floes of Old .Mom. The old
land muck was searched from top
to bottom 'but the dive-foot monster
could not be located and was given
up - for loot
'Ono day last week a student noticed
It queer looking snake at the bottom
of the retaining wall, west of Old
Chapel. It was coiled up and seemed
STATE-COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1927
WHITEY KAUFMAN
• TO SUPPLY MUSIC
AT MILITARY BALL
Intermingling of National and
College Colors to Form
Decorating Scheme
SCHROEDER ISSUES CALL,
FOR BIDS ON CONCESSION
Leather-covered Programs - with
Military Insignia Chosen
Fur Dance Favors
With the selection of Whitey Kauf
man's Victor recording orchestra as
the musical attraction, plans fon the
sixth annual illditars Bull to be held
in the Amory Friday night, Jams
ar} thirteenth, ale nearing comple
tion The decorating scheme which
has been designed by the Elco com
pany of Williamsport, will present an
interAngling' of college and national
co:ors.%
- Plan,llecorations
A :seise's hie large triangular
bannieG`of.blue and white stripes and
white fringe will:be-suspended from
the'auling' Reit!irt.strafiet. of red,
%Alto sell blue sQi, * bd'•arranged on
botli sides:of - these iirineipal banners.
Tho side walls°wdl•l i e ,d eeked:wrth a
row of" Americans flags, interspersed
with blue and white drapes.
Pavors in the form of leather
bounii,programs hearing the military
insignia' will be furnished by the E. A
Wr,ght'sonipany of Philadelphia.
"Subscription price is named at tour
dollars and members of all classes
are„qifvited to attend It is requested
Adelbcrt S Schroeder '2B, that
!bids for the checking concession be
presented before the opening of the
Christmas vacation
NITTANY DEBATERS
--'DEFEArPITTIRIO
Brewster, Hood With Decishe
Rebuttal Change Course
Of Audience Opinion
V. & J. WINS FROM PENN
STATE NEGATIVE TEAM
By coming back pith a strong le
butte], the Penn State affirmative de
bating team defeated the Pitt trio
in the Amid...mum Saturday night af
t.. the Panther representatives had
hold the lead throughout the prelim
inary stages of the aigiiment "Amer
ican pris ate ins estments in' foreign
countries should not be protested by
the United States gos element," nab
the subject for debate.
The Penn State team was com
posed of Kenneth Hood Harry
Beige '3O, and Wallace Brewster '29.
David Buerger, Liston Sussman and
Roger Hamilton debated the nega
tne side of the question foi Pitt
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KDKA Will Broadcast
Ag Extension Advice
Beginning tomorrow, the college ag
ricultural extension specialists will
broadcast ht-monthly talks horn radio
station KDKA at Pittsburgh
Hairy If. Kauffman, extension poul
trymen, wmll give the first talk, his
subject being "Nututumal Ailments
of Poultry" Future addresses will
be broadcast on landscape architec
ture, swine production, club womb,
miuying and the lituopean corn borer.
Ludy Mourn As
bbon Snake Is Killed
entnelrat home in these suiround-
Logs. A crowd of curious students
soon collected. A caretaker of Old
Main, noticing the cause of the ex
citement, rbhought he could do a good
turn for the nature study department
and immediatey notified the propel
officials.
Before the reptile could be miscued
liewei.er, a few well directed stones
had broken its back. A veterinarian
was called at once to dices the wounds,
but the ne\t day the wandering pet
died.
This iibhon snake in igmally inhab
ited the jungle fastnesses of Florida
but was brought to Penn State see
ml years ago for the notate study
group. It was stuped with blown
thioughout its entite length of more
than dive feet Despite its appear
ance It was entnely harmless.
Alumni Honor Doctor
Hetzel With Banquet
In Penn Athletic Club
Prot-Went Ili tsel v,as for
mully introduceil„to,Penn State alum
ni of Philadelphia at a dinner given
Cr. ha, hones en the Penn Athletic club
of the Quaker City Friday
In addition to graduates of the Col
lege tieing in Philadelphia, the com
mittee in charge hiVited the nine al
umni members of the Board of Trus
tees.
The spe.Jal gueits included Judge
II Walton Mitchell: of Pittsburgh, A
B Dihel, vice-president of the Car
negie Steel company, Pittsburgh; J.
G. White, president:of the J G White
Corporation, New York; B Musser, of
Scranton, head of the Pennsylvania
Knights Templar; W. 11, MeAndre,,,
Nice-president of the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit company, and J. F.
Shields, of Philadelphia
PROFESSORS NOTE
SCIENCE ADVANCES
Engineering l'atuity , •Members
,Attend denlerefiee'in
:.-- New York City
REPORTS ON RESEARCH
WORK MARK MEETING
,Moving pictures ,taken at the speed
of 2,000, 6,000, 12,000 and 20,000 per
second zero a part of the program
of tho annual meeting of the Ames
lean Society of Mechanical Engineers
held in New toik lust week ;Ouch
several Penn Stat e. faculty members
attended. "-,
These pictures yriiich are the ',in
duction of the phgdeist and engineer
in a shift of amtline phenomena
make visible thitiM: of air past the
of a mowing aircraft.
l'enn State Professors Attend
Dean Ralph L. Sackett who is pres
ident of the Societplot the Promo
tion-or Enerregiffe".klldtiCallonr at
tended, a meeting of the group at
New York university, Thirty thou
sand dollars have been appropnated
lot a new linestig-st on, by the soci
ety of an engineering education in
which a degree is net the ultimate
aim
Professor Aithui J.• Wood of the
mechanical engineering depaitment,
who is vice-president of the Ameri
can ISocietN of Refligerating Engin
ems, attended its convention while
in New• York, piesenting a paper on
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ENGINEERING EXTENSION
HEAD _TO TOUR EUROPE
Industrial Group Leaies on July
Fourteenth for,Fiance,
Belgium, England_'-
Following the footsteps of his pre- 1
decessois as head of the engineering
extension dIV.IOII here, Prof. John 0
Belles will join the group of engin
: ecru and industrial leaders that is mak
ing a tour of the leading 'countries in
Europe, intludnig England, Germans,
Belgium and Fiance in its ittnerars
Thu patty will lease New York on
July fourteenth and the duration of
the nip will be sit weeks, ,
The too fennel heads of the En
ginem ing Extension hem, now located
at other institutions, are members of
the group making the tour. Prof John
0 Mayer, first . to start industrial ex
'canton uork here is at present doer
tor of industrial extension for the
Massachusetts State Department of
Education Prof. N C Miller, now
director of extension work at Rutgers,
mill be the direct°r of the tour.
Among the group making the tour
will be industrial executives, public
utility managers, engineers and un
dergraduates, members of the teach
ing stairs or s colleges and universities
and professional engineers.
Prof. Chedsey Receives
Mining Institute Post
,Prof. What'll R. Chedsey of the
School of Min. Was elected to the
Bonul of Director, of the Coal Min
ing Institute of America at its three
day conference held on Pittsburgh
last meek.
,Prol. Phtltap B Bucky, assistant
Tit ofessor of Mining, =compacted
Professor Chedsey to the meeting, the
purpose of which was to diffuse and
c‘change scientific views of coal mm
mg among the mtning leaders of
FROTH BOARD ELECTIONS
Robert R. McKean 'BO
James J Hornbeck '3O
Tatirgiatt.
COMBINATION BAND
TO PROVIDE MUSIC.
FOR SOPH FORMAL
Red Nichols and Fne Pennies With
Charleston Chasers Will
-Play at Hop
DON VORHEES TO DIRECT
RECORDING ORCHESTRAS
Syncopation Artists Merge for
Important Dances Under
Veteran Musician
Don Vortices and his orchestra, Col
umbia and Brunsmek recording art
ists, will provide the necessary jazz
and syncopation for the Soph Hop, the
annual underclass social function, in
a bedecked Armory, Friday, February
tenth
Red Nichols and his Five PClll' ICH
are the feature of this aggregation
which is composed of thirteen men.
In addition to Nichol's group there are
the six Charleston Chasers and Don
Vorhees who leads the mane collec
tion personally.
Only One Orthestra
There is but one maestro, houever
Although the combination often split,
into the too group s , the "Charleston
Chasers" and "Red Nichols and his
Fne Pennies," tot small engagements,
they are playing hete as a composite
orchestra under the leadership of Don
Vol hoes
Red Nichols accords chiefly for
Brunsumk but the totaled group is
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1. F. C. TO SPONSOR
CONFERENCE HERE
Fraternity Group Will Discuss
Catering Problem During
" . Three-Day Pailei' ,
NATIONAL OFFICERS MAY
ATTEND LOCAL ASSEMBLY
Pieliminary plans for a Penn State
Interfraternity Confeience to be held
here catty m February stoic initiated
naith the appointment of a committee
by the Interfraternity Council at its
last meeting.
Discussion Or frateinity problems
that perplex - the officers and caterers
%%as announced as the purpose for the
first local conference of its land Ef
fort. at a be ng made by the con:na
te, under the direction of Chairman
John M. Russell '2B, to secure na
tional fiutmnity officers to adiliess
the .ill-College meeting of fiatetnity
officials.
11. Banquet
In addition to group meetings and
aut-of-torn speaker, a banquet, smok
er-and enteitamment feature uill be
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PLAYERS WILL PRESENT
MYSTERY MELODRAMA
To Produce "The Cat and the
Canary" After Opening
Of second Term
Plans are being perfected for the
Penn State Players' performance of
"The Cat and The Cleanly," a mystery
melodrama in Once acts, as their third
producton of the year
The play is well knoun in the pro
fessional world having run for almost
isle years continuously in 11 New York
theater. Many prominent writers hale
'moss of the ,play and in all cases
base described it m being the equal
to "The But" in mystery and thrills.
Tryouts for the play will be held
inundiately after the Christmas va
cation. Cleat care will be used in
selecting the east of this play because
of the great mental strain Ishii+ is
undeigone during the acting of it,
states dnector Mason.
F. C. KRELL 'l3, ATTENDS
FORESTRY CONFERENCE
Frederick C Steil 'l3, represented
The Pennsylvania tailload at the Rail
road Parrot Pcotection condolence at
Harrasbuig on Decenibel sixth and
ceventh
'Methods for the prevention of fires
started by railroads score discussed
and a study of forest bre-lighting
equipment Made Railroads, tt vats
doternuned, received a large percent
age of their profits front forests and
o knowledge of preservation nound
be an important factor.
Drop Plea for Change
In Christmas Vacation
Because of the lack of sufficient stu
dent sentiment in itt• fasor, the peti
tion asking for a taso , may change in
the Christmas recess teas abandoned
before its teas presented to the Col
lege Senate
A hasty oral sursey among leading
students last meek shomed that the
proposed plan met nail the [mor of
only about fifty per cent of those who
were approached and for tins reason
it woo decided to drop the project
The Christmas recess suit begin and
end as originally planned. Classes
n. ill end on Friday, December six
teenth, at tic e o'clock and College will
not C. OM coo until Tuesdas, Janinoy
third, 1528, at eight o'clock.
PRESIDENT HETZEL
ENDS ALUMNI TOUR
Finds Evidence Of A Wholesome
Co-operation And Spirit
Among Graduates
DISCUSSES FUNCTION OF
LAND GRANT INSTITUTION
Completing his initial tour of vis
its is the 'alp, Penn Lute alumni
clubs of the cast and middle meat,
Pres dent Ralph I) lleteel Nesterda
declared that he had found csidenctsc
of uhcicsome cooperation on awry
eido and that graduate, shared his
lichen that the College faces a per
iod or increased seen ice to the State
ana nation
The large,t, gatherings of alumni
user ar.sembled in Chicago, New York
and Philadelphia turned out to
wel
come the Penn State's president on
his first visits to alumni groups since
h, took oser the presidential duties
at the College last January
Dorm Lion of Pennsylvania's land
grant college duties as a state insti
tution t it• share,m efforts it nest
the great national demand for higher
education, and an appeal to alumni
to impress students Oath the advan
tages of Is gh scholarship, intellectual
Integrity and high moral character,
acre the high points of President Het
rel's talk
To offset siNty-five }eats of neg
lect by the State in 'nommen for ade
quate famlit.es to meet the demand,
Loa education by the youth of the
State President Iletsel declared that
opportunity lay in the passage of
the plopo.ed $8,000,000 bond 15b11 , `
for college buildings, upon v.hich a
public vote is to be cast next No‘cm
ber
Pico dent Iletcel also declared that
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"Strengthen Weak
Parts of Life" Is
Dr., Griffin's Text
l hat may man should build up
the broken down portion of his own
per_onal Info was the theme of the
sermon of Dr Frederick It. Grain,
pagtoi of the Filet Unitiman Chuich
of Philadelphia, in Ins chapel addreas
, Sunday morning
Picturing Jerusalem in the time of '
Nehemiah, Di Griffin drew an analogy
between conditions m that cite and
c.indaums throughout the woild
day. It was a tone of pond and in
-60(.11110, he elated
^'We ale now living in an age of
insecurity. All nato-al hamlets hale
been broken down by the discovery
of steam and electrical applications,"
the numstei declared, and now theie
rs no longer an isolated nation in the
world
"The advice of Nehemiah Ls appli
cable to each one of le, today," Dr
(ltdlin pointed out. "If each citizen
can feat n to agree with his neighbor
and especially those of othel nation
alities, a definite etch will be taken
toward world peace and the outlawry
of war."
MATHEMATICS STUDENTS
PLAN NEW ORGANIZATION
Fen the purpose of bringing those
students who are especially interested
in the subject of mathematics into
closer contact oath each other, plan.
have been made - for the oiganmation
of a mathematics club.
The movement has been stinted
be Chailim T. Ocrgel '2B, and the
'first meeting wit be held at seven
o'clock tonight In Room 15, Lib
eral Ants. An incitation 1s extended
to students of all schools echo arc
interested.
DRUID ELECTION
...lalcolln Nakratl la
Oh Where
Will
Maryland?
PRICE FIVE CENTS
LION BASKETBALL
FIVE TO OPPOSE
MARYLAND TEAM
IN OPENING GAME
Squad of Eighteen Will Return on
December Twent)-eighth
For Intense Drill,
Conditioning
VISITORS DEFEATED ONCE
Coach Hermann Places Roepke,
llamas, Reilly, VonNieda and
Lungren on Tentative
Starting Quintet
To 'impale for the opening game
With the strong We tern Maryland
tut ntet bete on Wednesday, January
tom lb, the varcity (quad of eighteen
Ni,tanv couitmen will return from
vacation on &umbel to oats-eighth
fo. etrenuous drill and conditioning
In the probable line-up for the tilt
11th the Green Tel ion., Coach Her
mann phi", Johnny Roopke and Stme
llamas as rot ,ard , ,, Lou Really at
center, and Captain Whitey Von Nietla
and Cs Lungren as guard., The
coon: mentor considers the combina
' ties he li., been uoiking together
too light lot the opposition of Coach
Slums' lin,, moot of %%hem played on
the football clew n.
To Offer Strong Oppogilion
We-tern Maryland will be a diffi
cult tram to open the season with. ae
eroding to Coach Heimann. In their
initial game on Saturday .the West
mut tot passers were defeated by the
Islayy in the closing minutes of play
by a scone of 10 to 22 Broil, lot woad,
-tailed for the Green team by sink
ing tin baskets and sis fouls fin 11
of the total 19 points. The Western
Maryland quintet played the entire
game without a substitution and wall
probb.bly line tip againat Penn Suite
wrath Built and Ellis, forwards, Much-
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PENN STATE STUDENTS
FORM AVIATORS' CLUB
Organization Proposes to Teach
Morthers Varied Phases
Of Novel Science
Of all the many !scent innocations
about the campus the most recent and
novel , the organming of an aviation
club A meeting it as held Monday
Ls song. December fifth, to formu
late plans for this claims or A large
numbei of student. pi esented them
selves as interested in the Maria
and plans vs rue discussed rot organi
zation and actitity
Fur those that cash to be instructed
.11 the piloting of planes a capable In
stiuctan in the peison of Mr. Noll,
Intuit at 1 . 1011 , a11t Gap, ha, been pro
dded The technique of airplanes in
general .1101 of ground smite will
,he coveted an I it nits pi oposed to
hate !octanes git en by those versed
in this line 11ith a large number of
lapplicant, foe this Intl fiction m pilot
mg, the tales can be kept 01 a in ni
mum
'I he nest ineettng of the club Null
be held Jaen. n 11111th cc hen the elec
tion of oll.eis istll be held
Berryhill '2B Names
Dance Committeemen
John M Russell was appointed
charlatan of the Senior Ball commit
tee announced by President Charles
C. Berrylull when the sown class met
lost week
Committeemen for the annual class
formal dance, which nlll be held the
second of thud Finlay in March, are
John C. &Rick!, John E. Boodon, Ed
nin A Booth, Charles N Gettinger, H.
Roy Hassell, Ciul 1. Lang, E. Carl
Matheson, Eleatic. B Pomeroy, Aug
ustus C Read and John R. Thome,
Nominees for the John W. White
and the Louse Cutneme scholarships
note also named by the class at the
meeting.
PROF. STOVER SPEAKS
AT PRE-LEGAI. MEETING
, Addie.bing a meeting of N Lambda.
Sigma, hollowly pie-legal hater:ll4,
held Thui Silas night, Plot, It Wat
son Stone of the economics and so
ciology tiepin talent used as his topic
"The Let anueg View of the Need of
Legal Return,"
Piole,,er Mosel cited n,any
en
tunnel 01 etplottntton of wane,.
.mil ethnic in mut t piocedineS