Weedher Cold wave with .snow squills. Very told to morrow. VOL. 44—No. 54 Late AP News Courtesy Radii' Station WMAJ ATLANTA, GEORGIA Her man Talmadge was hanged in ef figy today. More than 1200 shout ing college students showed their dissatisfaction with Talmadge's assumption of the office of Gov ernor by hanging a dummy rep resenting Talmadge from a statue of Tom Watson. 'Watson was a fa mous Georgia agricultural leader. A low hours before this demon stration. Talmage had 'Offered to resign if his opponent, Lieuten ant 'Governor M. E. Thompson, would do likewise. And Talmage susigested thE,ltt the crintroversy he settled in what he called a Democratic white primary elec tion. Talmadge suggested that negroes not be permitted to vote, in the special election. WASHINGTON There is much speculation as to what steps the Attorney General will take in an alleged shortage in the accounts• of the former Ser geant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives. _House Speaker Joe Martin slays a shortage of more than $125,000 has been un covered by a final audit by the Comptroller General of Kenneth Romney's accounts. Romney is former Sergeant-at-Arms of the House. Martin added that the audit has been turned over to the Attorney General for further handling. WASHINGTON The fed eral Wage-Hour Admiiniatrator, L. Metcalf Walling, wants Congress to change the law to permit un ions and employers to comproi - nise portal. •a claims. Walling told a (Conttiiued on page four) RpTc Units ReVive 80 1 l Military Ball, an annual' pre war event, will return to campus Saturday, - March - 29, after a three year lapse. The closed formal is a joint operation of army and navy ROTC- units. Cadet Lt; Col. Philip R. Jones and henry R. Brenner, NTROTC, have been named co-chairnien of the general committee. Each corn- Mittee-is-heade'd by a representa 7 tiVe-Weabh. unit. •• - . Other committee appointments are Wesley S. Burkert and Henry E. LaVoice, entertainment; Sam uel E. Neely and. Joseph 0. East lack, invitations; Thomas C. Bots ford end Russell J. Nickerson, decorations; Irwin Sagenkahn and 'James L. Everett, finance; and John R. Connally and Vincent L. Bachman, arrangements. Each cadet officer and navy trainee - will receive ;two invita tions for guests. Students Find Hungarian Lost in Nittany Mountains trnagine finding yourself lost and hungry in State College and unable to speak a word of Eng lish., after just having arrived in the United States less than 24 hour's before. tAndy Vas found himself in just this situation early Saturday morning. Although an American citizen, Andy had lived ItB of his 23 years. in Hungary and now had returned to his native coun try to join his father. The trouble started when Andy found himself in the strange town of Lemont instead of Lemont Furnace, located near Pittsburgh. After-, thumbing a ride to State College, Andy wandered into a local restaurant and met his next prdblem of how to order. Two men in the booth opposite him were enjoying delicious -bacon -and eggs. By' - Using sign language Andy had them order the same for him. After breakfast Andy's new com panions, Homer Markle and Rob ert Miller, set out to help. him. Since both men had- just arrived from -Ohio - for a visit the night they decided first on the .lie, .Eittilll -..e.'...Tilitt WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, NV-STATE COTJ,FGE, PA Local High School To Actas Host For Song Festival Th e All-State Choral Festival, featuring 210 select voices, will begin February 6 and continue through February 8. A special concert will be presented in Schwab Auditorium February 8, at 8 p. m.. Eighteen community organiza tions are financing this project. The festival will be sponsored by the State College public schools in connection • with the Pennsyl vania Music Association. The State College High School will act as host. Students selected to participate in the chorus represent 150 high schools 'from all over thi state. These representatives'were chosen from 1100 contestants who com peted in seven district eliminat ing contests, sponsored by a com mittee from the Pennsylvania Music Association. Helen Hosmer, president of the Eastern Division of Music Edu cators Conference and head of the music department of Crane State Teachers College in Pottsdam, New York, will be guest conduc tor at the festival. Preparation for the Saturday night concert will begin Febru ary 6. All singers will register and begin rehearsing immediately. Three or four soloists will be se lected from tryouts scheduled for Friday morning. A few of the proposed numbers for the concert program are "March of the Musketeers," ;by Friml, "Erie Canal," American folk tune, arranged by Fred War ing, "G lor i a for the Twelfth Mass" by Mozart and "Battle Hymn of .the Republic.': A banquet: has„.been planned for all the, singers Eriday night. Following the dinner, a basket ball game will be played at the State College High School. An in formal dance will be held the same night in White Hall, spon- (Continued on page two) College. Trustees Meet For Annual Session The College Board' of Trustees will hold its annual meeting at the-Penn•Harris Hotel in Harris burg on Saturday afternoon, with the executive , committee' meeting Friday evening. Officers and executive com mittee. for -11947 will •be elected at the general meeting following a luncheon on Saturday. - _ Standing committees on Archi tecture, Grounds and Buildings, Education, Business and Finance,, and Student and Staff Welfare will meet reldo .-- afternoon and Saturd'ay morning. police station and when that failed—Abe , College. • Gene Fulmer at the Student Union directed them to 'Prof. K. J. DeJuhasz in Engineering D. There, as Prot DeJuhasz inter preted, Andy- told the story of how he had worked •in the iron mines during the . war and 'had been interned by the • Russians when they entered, the small Hun_ garian town Which he lived with his•mother. 'Alter escaping from the Rus sians, he lived in constant . : terror of being discovered until the Czechs returned to control. In stead Of returning to his former peaceful life Andy was ordered to leave the country immediately and his mother was only permit ted to stay hecabse. she was ill and unable to be moved. The Americans in Munich pro vided for transportation to the United States so Andy left imme diately with just the clothes he had on. A Catholic Aid. Society Met Andy as .he came off the (Continued on page two) Photo Deadline Set For Seniors Eighth semester seniors who have not taken a La Vie pictUre are urged to make appointments at the Penn State Photo , Shop im mediately, by Stephen Sinichak, photo editor. The photos must be In before gradutation. Appointments will b e given to sixth and seventh semester stu dents Who have not already re ceived them either this week or next semester. • SiMth semester students who ex pect to graduate in June rn,ust con tacit• the La Vie office and also fill out a La Vi e card at registration February 7 and 8. Organizations which have not made appointments for group pic tures• will be able to do so next semester. Times and dates will b e announced. Chicago Conference Committee Plans National Student Convention Work began today for the stu dents of the University of Chi cago and others over the nation who are drawing up plan c for a gigantic convention of college and university students to !be held during the Summer of 1947. Jim Smith, new President of the temporary committee for the Summer convention and also President of the Students' Asso ciation of the 'University of Texas, predicted that at least 1500 dele gates representing et 'least' XlOO campuses will attend the meeting, which will probably be held dur ing the month of September. Wayne University. of Detroit and the University - of Wisconsin have already offered their facil ities, ." and other universities of the middle west region will be contacted in order to select the best possible location for the large gathering, •Smith announced. The .475 delegates representing 300 universities and colleges at-. tendlitg the Chicago Student - Con ference decided that the Univer sity of Chicago will be the site of the offices Of the temporary com mittee, and that the convention will • be. called 1 4 or the ..comlng Summer. Main business of the Conven tion twill be to draw up and adopt a constitution for a National ,Stiudenlts' , Aissociaticer, which the 'convention will plan the activities •ol the 'Association for the 01747 year.- At the Chicago Conference, delegates' held panel discussions on the need for a national• asso ciation to promote• common aims which all students 'of the United States share, such as the exten sion of systems of international student exchange and travel, the ;extension of wider systerris of publication-of advances of know ledge in the pure, natural, indus trial and social sciences, the es- (Continued on page two) Ag Student Council Plans Opinion Survey To Improve Courses The Agricultural Student Coun cil is conducting a survey of stu dent opinion concerning courses in the School of Agriculture, Richard Gray, president of the Council, announced today. :Forms for the investigation will be available through department heads, the Dean's °Vice, and str; "dent advigors. The survey is intended to ob tain constructive criticism for the improvement of the courses of fered. Gray pointed out that it is to students' benefit to use discretion in criticising courses. By 'careful analysis of prdblems, comments directed in the proper vein can be of great service to the adminis tration. 46, • In This Issue tvian Book Exchange .. Center Club Chicago Conference Book Exchange Opens Monday Roving Pix-Shooters To Snap Queen For Dance In order to establish a queen of the campus for the Spring semes ter, the photo staff of the Penn State Engineer 'requests the co operation Of all cads. For the next month photographers will roam the campus taking pictures of the girls that strike their fancy. The best selections will then be sent to one of New York's leading model agencies for judging. The whiner will be named Queen of the Slide Rule Ball. Tomorrow's Collection will be the 'foist issue publised this se mester. All items for Thnrs claiy's issu e mint b e in by 4:30 this afternoon. The first issue of n ext semester will be .print ed February 7. Players' Painters Display Posters The t'lmaginary Invalid" posters you'll soon see in town show -that Karl Von D'Elden's adVertising crew isn't just loafing. Karl, Doris 'Hootman,' Terry Klosterman, Helen Popso, and ,Gloria Snyder have lbeen kepit !busy kite& (changing .dates on these hand painted posters. Silk screen posters are being put out by Barbara Keefer and 'Wayne Shaffer while Rosemary Schried er working on the radio angle and Betty Lou Horn on Mimeo . graphed handbills. The window displays are being created with a touch of the genius of Patricia. Melly and Eva Mae Winter. During the week of pro duction the billboard on Schwab Auditorium will show Phyllis Ginsburg's and Margaret Striding er's handiwork with a brush. The •crew..chief explained "We want to portray that the show is a comedy through delicate, flam boyant Rococo design. Even though the play was written 300 years ago it ha s great signifi cance to audiences today. Tie Trot Calls Forth flashy Campus Cravats Tickets for the Tie Trot, IWA's dance to be held in White Hall front 9 to 12 Saturday evening, will go on sale at $l.BO per couple Friday and Saturday at the Stu dent Union desk in Old Main. Although prizes will be given for the fellows' smartest ties, this dance is not being conducted as a girl-ask-boy affair. It will be an informal dance with Pat Pat terson and his orchestra providing the music. Spring Song ,Maybe you think it is winter time, but Charles R. Bushnell, student in commerce and finance, says he sighted a bewildered look ing robin huddled in a tree in front of Old Main, yesterday morning. SPA Election William Folwell was elected president of Sigma Phi Alpha at a recent meeting. Other officers are James Work, vice president; Charles Ulmstead, secretary; Ed win Frey, treasurer. PRICE FIVE CENTS The Student; Book Exchange will open - for the spring semester on January 28, Jane Weigle, chainman of the exchange, said today. Sponsored by the All-College Cabinet, the exchange acts as a market for students selling and. purchasing old books. Texts will be accepted on January 28 and sold beginning February 7. Only books wihch are useable_ during the next semester will be accepted, Miss Weigle said. They should be brought to the exchange where they will be put on sale and the prices set by the sellers. These prices are generally 60 per cent of the original price, she re ported. The five-cent fee charged the seller for each book sold is used tc cover the cost of operating the book mart. Sellers will be reim bursed at the exchange after the books have been sold. The Ideation of the exchange will be posted on bulletin boards on the campus and published in the Collegian. In addition to 'Miss Weigle, the book exchange committee is corn posed of Gloria Lou Ness, secre tary; Ann Ldritz, publicity chair man; Ruth Hemler; Joanne Hobbs; Bud Stetler and Johnny Pfahl. News Briefs Greeters Club Greeter's Cluib of the hotel ad ministration department recently elected George Earnshaw presi dent. 'Other new officers are Bar ney Keekin, treasurer; Thomas Mason, corresponding secretary; and Willi= Dean, recording sec retary. Sports Course A course in sports writing will be offered next semester for the first time since 1940. Jerome Weinstein, editor of the Centre Daily Times and a graduate of the department of journalism at the College, will be the instructor. Hebrew Course Hebrew will be taught at the College next semester for the first time. Hebrew 1 will be given by Rabbi Benjamin M. Kahn of the Hillel Foundation, cnd is a course in elementary Hebrew with gram mar, translation, conversation, and reading of simple Biblical texts. March of Dimes The March •of Dimes campaign for the campus has been postponed until February 8 through the 20th, because of final week and vaca tion, according to Mrs. E. M. Grove, general chairman for State College. Interruption Forms `All veterans who are interrupt ing school at the end of the cur rent semester, or graduating at that time, are asked to file inter ruption forms in the Veterans' Affairs Office, first floor lounge of Old Main, this week. • IWA Picture Independent Woman's Associa tion will have a picture taken for La Vie at the Photo Shop at 6:45 o'clock tomorrow. Library Reading Miss Pauline Locklin, associate professor of English literature, will read poems about poets in the last in the current series of readings in 402 Central Library at 4:20 o'clock toaay. Millet Hour The Hillel Hour will present a Jewish Information Please over WMAJ at 7:30 tonight. theta Chi Election Lambda Chapter of Theta CM recently elected John H. Eck president. Other new Officers are Samuel C. Holland, vice president; Renato L. Barisone, treasurer; William P. Loomis, orre sponding secretary; John Jr.,W. Hum , met* house manager; and John N. Adsit, caterer. Page I Page 4 Page 1
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