The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, May 21, 1947, Image 8
PAGE EIGHT Jobs for Seniors Plentiful Says Wall Street Journal By D.avid J. Adelman The Wall Street Journal took up its brush Wednesday and painted several interesting pictures of the post-graduate world. They worked a colorful, luxurious canvas for this year’s graduates; a picture not quite so rosy for next year’s and a dull, almost unhighlighted affair for the forty-niners. Comparing this year’s graduates to their less fortunate brothers of the early 30’s, the Journal said the seniors of the last decade and a half, who counted themselves lucky if they wound up attached to the handle of a WPA shovel, would regard the present state of affairs with a “pinch-me-to-see-if- I’m-dreaming” attitude. Although the Journal called this state of unparalleled affluence • a “one-year phenomenon,” Mr. George Leetch, director of the College Placement Service, said that Penn Staters would be in de mand for at least a few years past that time limit. According to Mr. Leetch, em ployers will not, as the Journal says, get over the hump on their backed-up. employment needs this year. It’s true* he said, that they will have more trouble digesting the increased overflow next year, but the need for graduates is too great to be filled in one year. How ever, said the Placement Service Director, employers will be in a position to be more particular in their search for trained labor. In connection with this, he said, Penn State will be in a favored position next year and the year after. Al though the College’s enrollment is higher than ever before, Mr. Leetch said, Penn State will still be less crowded than the large majority of universities through out fee nation. “Employers aren’t stupid,” he explained. “They take things like over-crowded condi tions into consideration.’* Salary offers for beginners, the Journal says, and Mr. Leetch agrees, were never so high. At SENI CHARLIE SPIVAK Tickets On Sab At AA Window, Old Main, Friday, May 23 Penn State among the stacks of bids for student services the aver age offer is $245 a month, ffhe bright young men of 1941 _ were snapping with sighs of relief at jobs scaled as low as $125. “If a student has a Ph.D. in any branch of engineering,” says the Journal, quoting a Harvard place ment official, “he can write his own ticket.” For new Ph.D.’s fresh out of Penn State that ticket will average around $4BOO a year and run as high as $6OOO, if it’s backed up by some experience. But this year’s non-technical graduate is not to be relegated to a place on the bread-line either, the Journal says, and, according to Mr. Leetch, the best opportuni ties are for insurance salesmen with accountants running a strong second. Stanford officials observe, re ports the Journal, that the fewest openings exist in foreign trade, advertising, and journalism. Un happily, they say, it is these fields that appeal most strongly to the young graduate. .. Late AP News (Continued from oage one) Even as Chiang spoke, outside 6000 students battled police. Some SO persons were injured, includ ing an Associated Press corre spondent. He was mistaken for a student. WASHINGTON —C hairman •Harold Knutson of the House Ways and Means Committee pro poses that the social security tax be frozen for two years. The pres ent nates are one per cent each on employees’ Pay and employers’ payroll. The freeze would prevent an automatic increase next year to 2V£ per cent against each. WASHINGTON State Secre tary Marshall has disclosed the YOU HAVE A DATE , ✓ AND HIS ORCHESTHA 3.60 COUPLE TAX INCLUDED THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVAMSA Railroad Comes Thru, Missing Froths Arrive “Froth!” “Where is itr* “It said in Collegian that it was sup posed to toe on sale today.” “I hope they haven’t sold out al ready.” In like words and in like ex clamations the bewildred under graduate population of State Col lege reacted to the failure of Penn State’s humor magazine to appear on schedule. But while laugh-hungry Penn State scanned the Student Union desk and the Comer Room for signs of the AWOL publication, frantic station agents in Harris burg and Sunibury were tracing down the wandering box car con taining th e magazine. Finally as the sun slipped silently behind Mt. Nittany last evening, the railroader’s labor bore fruit. A bus struggled into the boro loaded with the precious cargo from Lewistown. Froth had arrived and it is on sale today. So help us! Hebrew Course For the first time in the college curriculum a course in the de velopment of Jewish civilization will be offered this fall in the Department of Classical Lan guages, with Rabbi Benjamin Kahn as the instructor. The course is scheduled as He brew 10 and will be. given two hours weekly for two credits. existence of a new policy group which,is making a global survey of postwar needs. Marshall says the administration will hold off decisions on further foreign aid until this group reports. GREENVILLE, S. C.—The state has wound up its arguments against 28 defendants accused of lynching a South Carolina negro. Neither prosecutor asked the death penalty, but they demanded the conviction of all 28 persons on trial. R BALL FOR THE DANCING 9-1 • SEMI-FORMAL Four Students Win Ad Prizes Robert M. Wills, sixth semester advertising major, is the winner of a $25 prize for the best presen tation of a planned series of ad vertisements for a retail outlet, Professor Donald W. Davis, of the department of journalism, an nounced yesterday. Four prizes have been awarded to Penn State students by the Interstate Adver tising Managers Association. Other winners selected at the Association’s annual convention in Atlantic City over the weekend are Mrs. Charmienne R. Carl, sec ond prize, $l5; Gordon B. Smith, third prize, $5; and Charles W. McClintock, fourth prize, $5. Er nest G. Harboe and Dorothy A South were awarded honorable mention. David P. Knipe, advertising manager of the Bethlehem Globe- Times, was chairman of the judg ing committee. Other committee members were Donald Gapp, of the Meadville Tribune-Republi can, and Estelle Powers, of the Pottsville Journal. Summer Sessions- (Continued, from page one) pre-registration period, April 28 to Mlay 3, are not required to be present Juru 30, but will report to classes July 1. Post session registration will be completed in 1,2, and 3 Carnegie Hall from 8 a.m. to 112 noon, Au gust 11. The Fourth of July is the only legal holiday to fall during the summer. Classes missed at this time will not toe made up. Classes missed' on June 30, main session registration day. will 'be made up Saturday, July 12. Any regularly scheduled periods falling on July li2 will be made up by appoint ment with the instructor. Summer sessions fees are pay able at the office ,i of, the Bursar from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the re- News Briefs Men's Debate The final round of the Men’s Debate team speaking contest will be held in 121 Sparks to night at 7:30 with. Fred Keeker as chairman, according to Har ris Gilbert, debate team manager. Campus Center Club The final meeting this semester of the Campus Center Club will toe held in 417 Old Main at 7:15 o’clock tonight, according to Tom Byrne, president. Arrangements will be made for Fall activities, and the welcome reception for transfer students to be held registration week. Production Engineering Dean Hammond announces a’ course in• production engineering; scheduled as Eng. 400, instructed by the George Westdnghouse Pro fessor, E. N. Baldwin. The course will toe open to sixth, seventh, and eighth semester enginering students and graduate students ior the fall semester. AIEE Elections Election of next year’s officers for th e student . branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. will take place in the lobby of the E. E. building all day tomorrow. All E. E. students are eligible to vote and are strongly urged to do so. Nominations for offices will remain open until noon today. Further nominations should be turned in to Professor Rice, Fred Andrews, or .Rollin Engle. speotive dates which are sion, June 11: main session., July 10; and. post sessions, August 13. , Commencement exercises will toe held August .9. and September 20 for candidates'' satisfying the necessary credits and require ments. Notices will toe published regarding .the, ordering of caps and gowns. ... tY, MBAY »,