The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, January 09, 1947, Image 2

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    PAGE TWO
CAers Meet
(Ed. Note:—The following article is a report
by Emory Brown. member of the Penn State
delegation to the Student Christian Assiciation
convention at the University of Illinois.)
By Emory Brown
The National Assembly of the Student Chris
liar] Association movement was held at U. of. Eli
noiLs December 27 to January 3. Ten delegates
3irona Penn State attended along with 1000 dele
gat:s from most of the colleges hid universities in
The United States with a' few from Canadtan :
Schools.
This was the first national assemblY in four
yclars. The representatives .frim the colleges met
to determine program objectives and policies for
the next three or four years.
Policies adopted by the assembly determine
the action of the National Student councils of the
YMCA. and YWCA and give direction to Chris
tian Associations throughout the country. Al=
though all Cleistitin Aslsociations are: autono
:MAWS and therefore free to diverge from national
policies, each one will give careful 'Consideration
to recommendations made by' the National
As
sembly. The National Intercollegiate Christian
CoUncil is the legislative body which functions
between meeting of the National Assembly, and
they are guided by policies drawn up at this con
vention.
Dr. Albert C. Cutler, .associate professor lot
theology at Yale University Divinity School, pre
vented the platform addresses on Christian af
firmation, The presiding officers , of the assembly
were Mary AIM Mattoon, who is doing religious
Work here, at Penn State, and William Miller
from the University of Nebraska.
Special speakers included Charles Bolte foun
der of the American Veterans Committee, and
Dorothy McConnell, who spoke on the. Interim , -
final Scene. Charles Bolte's.topic was "The Vet
eran Looks at the Peace." He emphasized the
- need fior one world and stated. that our politic
ians should work Tor that in the near future, but
he expressed' regret that our present administra
tion was not headed in that direction.
(To be continued tomorrow)
Collegian Gazette
All calendar items must be in at the Daily
Collegian office by 4:30 p.m on the day
preceding publication.
Thursday, Jan. 9
WSIGA Meeting, WSGIA mom_ White Hall,
' '6:30 p.m.
WRA Bridge Club, 'both groups, White Hall,
7 p.m.
WM Bowling Club, White Hall alleys, 7
WRA Fencing Club, fencing room, White
. Rail, 7:01)
Penn's Valley SkJ Club (meeting_ 11 1 0 1)E,
7:30 p.m.
At The Movies
CADHAUM: "So Dark the Night", Mihel
liiie 0
STATg—"Mr. 'Ace", Sylvia Sidney.
NITTANY—"Secret of the Whistler" Rich
ard Dix.
College Placement Service
JAN. 8 and 9 The American Viscose
Corp. will interview senior men and women
from chem eng, chem, TE, and ME curriou
las. Arrangements for interviews should' be
Made at 204 Old Main at once.
JAN. 16—Representatives of the Pennsyl
vania Power & Light Co. will interview
graduating civil eng, EE, and ME men.
College Health Service
Admitted to the Infirmary TuesaaY:
Marian Dills, James IVlilholland, Warren
Conrad.
Admitted Wednesday: 'Frank Delp, Don
ald Alpena, Doris Mawhinney.
Discharged: Wednesday: 'Bernard Miller,
Norma Teitelbaum.
The Class , of '47 Presents
hee l •skin Ser-nao .k
7
Sunday, January 12, 2:3 k p.m.
Schwab Auditorium
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PEIN.MSYLVANIA.
Third in Series
Chicago Report
Ireterclay it was•said that the Chicago Studvt
Conference took a cautious view of international
affiliation, It tabled a motion to participate in a
festival sponsored by the World Federation of
Democratic Youth (WFDY) and it refused lo
even recommend thlat NSO should immediately
join ISIT. the International Union of Students,
New this is 'a good men. It shows that the con
ference was definitely not diminated by a bunch
of longhairs as some of its. critics might have us
think. tlt shows that the students were better in
formed than the usual convention delegates. Why?
Well, that WEEPY festival looked goOd on the
surface. There were to be cultural and 'sports
activities, campfires, hikes, and a tour of Lidice
all fairly innocent until one realized that the
violently anti-Fascist AMY woul{l use this asi
another piece of: propaganda claiining that .
US
,sfudents were condoing their every act, .
- 1 IA similar problem arises, with the lUS, which
is the true representative of foreign national stu
dent societies; and as such the student counter-,
part of UNESCO: 'lt is a democratic organization,'
but it is overrun by Communistic individual
members (la out of 1 1 7 on the Executive Council
at the last count).
Dr. Richard P. McKean, UNESCO member and!
keynote speaker at the conference, said, "Com
mon ends pursued by 'common means ,but for difk
ferent reasons is not a compromise of ideals."
Dr. McKean was comparing *the U.S. and for
eign countries in UNESCO. It is questionable
whether an analogy can be made between this and
a student organization. Why? Because students in
America aren't as vocal politically as those• of
foreign countries. We don't have student riots,
student strikes, and mass student murders as
student groups have oversew. And it is doubtful
whether we want such a group.
• Yet iC the N•S'O now being formed is to affiliate
internationally it must be•willing to hold its own
with nationalistic communist groups. The people
at Chicago deserve credit for not 'being as hope
lessly idealistic as other student groups which
have plunged headlong into the international
scene only to be given bad labels by the Ameri
can press and discredited before they could do
any good.
Then what did the conference decide on inter
national action? 'Harvard University 'was accepted
as a clearing house for all international stud nit
work and,plans were made for increaSed.student
relief in collaboration with World Student
'for pressing the Bloom Bill, whidh in Con
gress now would sponsor foreign Students . here
as the passed Fullbright Bill• will sponsor Ameri
can students overseas; for assistance in selection
of international scholarship winners for increased
student exchanges; for collecting and distributing
information in 'America concerning foreign col
leges; for establishing Eason between cultural,
economic, and political faoulties in American col
leges and foreign colleges.
All these things are to be done in collaborating
with existing org.anizations but the INSO will
provide the needed national impetus and•
integration.
Edit Shorts—
• That little publicity sheet, "Capitol News,"
sent out from Harrisburg, this week reports that
a record crop of seed potatoes was grown in Penn
sylvania in 1946; a record kill of foxes is expected
this season; a record decline in rabies cases was
shown this year and the State is prepared to place
a $137,000,000 highway construction program un
derway
. in 1947. Still no news about any sizeable
appropriations to make Penn State the best State
school in the country. What isn't your state repre
sentative or senator doing in Harrisburg to inn=
prove the situation?
Editorials and , features in The Collegian
reflect the opinions of the writer. They make
no claim to represent student or . University
opinion. All unsigned• editorials are by: the
editor.
Free
By Fred Kecker
AVC Requests
Payroll Revision
The American Veterans Com
mittee (AVC) urged the Veterans
Administration today to adopt a
deceatiraElzed system of paylng l
subsistence allowances to veterans
attending colleges, similar to the
payroll system used in the Army,
so that the payments , earn be
promptly made.
Asserting that the present sys
teM•has delayed payment of the
allowance in many. cases the
AVC declared': "Veteran's attend
ing. colleges have a difficult. time .
making! ends meet and it is our
belief ' - Mat p4lompt . . payment of
their allowances is the govern-
ment'a duty."
The A . VC recommended that a
qualified disbursing officer be ap
pointed to Make payments of al
lon,varices directly to student vet
erans that payroll lists be pre
pared Monthly from records oil the
local VA. office; that the disburs
ingoffieer receive a single cheek
from, the Treasury covering the
entire payroll; and that the dis
bursing officer make cash pay
ments as indicated on the pay
roll.
Chat Paterson, AVC's national
legislative. - representative, in a
letter to General .Bradley, said
that reports from some AVC col
lege , cliapters indicate that the
present method of payment, --by
checks lssuel through the. Trea
sury Department, is working a
hardship on student veterans.
"At the UniVersitY of Michigan,
for 'example, veterans with no
source of income except their
subsistence allowances were kept
waiting more than 68 days before
receiving 'any checks," he asserted.
Citing a report from the AVC
chapters at the University of
Michigan, Paterson said that in
November less than one-third of
• the veterans on the campus had
received checks for the current
semester and that 10 per cent of
the student veterans had not re- .
ceiVed checks 2or the ' summer
semester. ` l As a consequence," he
Said,, "over 111200 veterans have
applied for emergency loans at
the university."
• Paterson said that the AVC was
working liar an increase in sub
sistence allowances to 11100 for
single men and , $l 2 / 5 for married ,
men, with an additional allow
ante of $25 for each -child, as one
of the key objectives of its legis-'
lative program.
'Philatelic Exhibition
Being Held In Library
A stamp collection commemor
ating the :centeary of the issue of
the first • United States postiage
stamp in 1847 is now being held
in the Main College Library.
The display, sponsored by the
Mt. iNittany Philatelic Society,
opened this week and will con
tinue till the end of the.month:
The exhibition presents a re
view of postal history during the .
past century, both in the United
States and 'abroad' and traces the
development of the postage stainO
froth the classical issues of ~the
mid-fourteenth century to the
modern stain s' of world wars II
and; TI.
The display is being presented
in two parts, the "classic" four
teenth eentury •pcirtiOn now being
811 .display. Modern stamps, com
prising the second part of the ex
hibit, will be displayed beginning
Janatary 18.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Successor to the Free Lance, est. 1877
Published Tuesday through Friday
mornings during the College year by
the staff of the Daily Collegian of the
Pennsylvania State College. Entered as
second class matter July 5, 1934, at the
State College, Pa., Post Office under
the act of March 3, 1879. $2.50 a semes
ter $4.00 the school year.
Michael A. Blatt Editor
Rosemary Ghuntous ______ ___ Bus. Mgr.
Mgr. Ed., Lynette Lundquist; News Ed..
Lawrence Foster; Feature Ed., Frank
Davis: Women's Ed., Katherine McCor
mick; Asst. Women's Ed., Suzanne Mc-
Cauley.
Co-Sport Eds. Arthur Miller, Ste
phen Sinichak; Photo Ed, Lucy Seifing;
Wire Ed., Seymour Rosenberg; Sr. Board,
Marilyn Jacobson, Lewis 'Jaffe.
Ad. Mgr., Phyllis Deal; Asst. Bus. Mgr.,
Sally Ho!strum; Asst. Ad. Mgr.; Dorothy
Leibovitz Circ. Mgr. Paul Bender.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Managing Editor Sarge
Assistitit Helen Lewis
News Editor ______ Peters
Assistant _______ Stater
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1947
Here Lies
1 GO Horsepower
A low s l ung , cream .colorcd
{194`3 Buick 'convertible with/ a
black top, owned and operated
by Val Christen sen . was , involv
ed in a five-car accident recently,
just outside of
_Bethel.
It is the same automobile
which has drawn envious ohs and
ahs from Penn State students
during the past few months.
With 4.3 per cent of Bethel's, pop
ulation looking on, the auto was
towed into a local. service station
and with closed eyes and gritted
teeth Mr. Christensen Wait a
sledge 'hammer and pounded the
radiator back into place, thus en
abling him to _proceed to, .State
College. The grill work and 'the
lender on the left side 7 :cd the car
were badly damaged.
'Upon entering.' Lewistown, rirx,
Christensen ,sloived dawn at an
intersection: All .of a sudden
fairtiliar chant of ohs and ohs
from a young group of bystand
ers. For a brief minute he was
puzzled, then rolling down .the,
window, he shouted to the by
standers, "You're looking at the,
good side . . . ibut oh, the let
side."
Nine emialtli hemlock trees were
trampitatiteds . 116 the Lion Shrine
to form a setting . ilor
CLASSIFIEDS
All classified advertisements
must be "in by 4:30 p.m. day
preceeding issue. Prices are: 40c
for one insertion. $l.OO. three
insertions, 17 words or less . . Call
Collegian, 711.
SALE Four cubic foot Servel
ga s refrigerator, us ed two
months. SISO. Call 4993.
LOST-Overnight case, light tan,
initials RIHS on buckle.. Missing
'6 p.m. Sunday at Corner Room.
Call Shadley 4989.
FOR SALE—Vew, immediate de
livery—chests of drawers, leath
er furniture, rugs, desks, furn
ishings. Call Marvin' B. 2212 after
7:00.
THREE DAY dry cleaning ser
vice. Pressing while you wait.
Quick Press Shop, rear of 118 S.
Pugh street.
ROOM for one man. Room with
running water. Call 4850.
LOST—One Alligator coat, brown
leather gloves, third floor
Sparks, Monday. I have yours.
Call Barry, 4989.
WANTED—Occupant for Pollock
Circle room immediately. Call
J. H.' Holmes, 3986.
STOLEN—On December 20th
about 3 p.m. froin 2nd floor
Hort• silver-gray fur collar and
fur-lined Marlboro fin g ertip sport
coat. Generous reward for infer
'nation leading to recovery of
coat. Call _Campbell 3181.
WILL person: who. borrowed' (?)
- ;Gprraan books end organic
notes hi Old• Main return irtimed
lately? Call Cook .051.
BIRTHDAY CtiVKlES—Order them
!from Frida Stern 122 Ircritv
Ave:; phone 413,143; Stiate College.
POR -PARTIES ,
order yam party - refreshments
frontFrida"Stern, 132, Irvin AVe.:
phone 4181J8 ,State College.• •
IMPORTANT Mrs. Marion S.
ltdDowell, Assoc. Prof. of Home
Economics, was hurt in an- acci
dent at Pugh and College
.Dec.
'l6th about 4:30 p.m. Witnesses to
the accident and those: the
grotup waiting to - cross the street,
.please.see oi. Z. Krall, Math Dept.,
226 Sparks or phone 1891. Your
help is needed. •
WANTED --Standard typewriter
or good :giant portable. Call.
Dolan 31991.
, FOR, SALE-48 ft. "Northland"
trailer, sleeps 4, Possession at
midsemestes. Call at .702 Wind
crest, anytime.,
FOR S4LIE---13 pair lady's ice
skates, 5 1 / 2 , eil4., 7. Pair 7-loot
ridge-top maple skis and harn,
ess. J. F. Hartman, '53 , 1 Wind
crest.
LOST—Covert topcoat Friday be
fore holidays. Labeled Hughes
& hatcher, Pittsburgh. WM 'ex•-
change. Call Bob Tuttle 4957,
WANTED —Posengers Pit* -
burgh.. Lesive .1 1 aniwt
liOth. Share eneTlees• Len Vreeo
- MO.
Damaged
04000 Miles