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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
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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
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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.
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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. ...
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