r:rr I SatUj 0 (EoUpgian jtt* “TOR A BETTER PEHN STATE" - VOLUME 48—NUMBER 27 Collegian Survey Puts Republicans in Lead One hundred six students of 200 asked would like to see Thomas E. Dewey elected President, according to a Collegian survey com pleted this week. Harry Truman was backed by 59; Henry Wallace, 12; Norman Thomas, 1; Dwight Eisenhower, 1; while the remaining 21 had no opinion. Answers differed sharply, however, on another question which sought opinion on who they thought would be elected if the contest were that day. Dewey got 177 nods, Truman, 20, and 3 didn’t know. Swinging from the presidential election to congressional, 87 hoped that the Democrats would gain a majority of seats in each house of Congress while 105 more wished for a Republican victory. One person wants a Socialist regime and seven didn’t have any spe cific opinion. In judging who would win, only 22 believed that the Democrats would gain control of the. House, and 45 thought the same for the Senate. That the Republicans will do so is considered a sure thing by 157 for the House and 125, Senate. Twenty-one had no opinion on the lower body and thirty, the upper one. Eighty-five of the students questioned are registered voters while the other 115 aren’t. The group included 100 Republicans, 81 Democrats, 6 Progressives, 2 Socialists, and 11 non-partisans. The survey was conducted by editorial candidates of the Daily Collegian under the direction of promotion staff. The results have been sent to the National Insti tute of College Opinion Surveys where they will be tabulated with other colleges’ results and return ed. The national figures will be published in the Daily Collegian. The promotion staff includes Selma Zasofsky, co-manager; Marlin Weaver, and Ann Zekou skas. Delta Sigma Pi Taps 27 Men 27 students were pledged by Delta Sigma Pi, national profes sional commerce fraternity, at formal tapping ceremonies last night, announced Edwin Manbeck, headmaster. New Delta Sigma Pi pledges are Charles Anderson, Charles Baish, Jr., Robert Bemus, T. D. Collins, William Eggert, Allen Fasnacht. Robert Goodman, George Heiss, Robert Jones, George Kinderman, Ralph Laporta, Calvin Marshall, Donald Meyer, Walter Murray, John Murr, William Muscarella, Blair McKillip, Jr., Thomas Sha deck, Marlin Shaffer, Lester Strickler. George Vadasz, Donald Vanne man, Jr., G. William Wassum, John Wiedenman, Ted Wieden man and James Yochum. Late AP News Courtesy Station WMAJ Stalin Attacks U. S. Policy; Italy Requests ERP Aid MOSCOW Prime Minister Stalin has accused Great Britain and the United States of backing out of two agreements to settle the Berlin dispute. “This was done," said Stalin, “because the westen powers are pusuing a pol icy of starting another war. The western powers quickly denied Stalin’s statement, saying this his comments were factually untrue. Italian Loan WASHINGTON —Italy will sign an agreement in Washington soon for a $lOO million loan under the European-Recovery Program, the Italian Foreign Minister announ ced today. Denmark, Sweden, and Ireland were the first nations to sign up for repayable loans under the Marshall Plan since the Econom ic Cooperation Administration or dered a stop to the gifts unless an agreement was signed. Presidential Campaign NEW YORK President Tru man will wind up his campaign tour by speaking in New York City during the next two days. Govenor Dewey made frequent train stops thoughout New Eng STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1948 Dairy Experts Try For Prizes Four College students and their coach participated Monday in a unique science classic at the Dairy Industries Exposition in Atlantic City. These four stu dents competed against student experts from 26 other agricul tural schools, with the winning stakes two $B5O graduate fellow ships in dairy research. Representing the College are William J. Deisley, president of the Dairy Science Club, Ralph A. Fritts, Nicholas Mattise and Rich ard W. Snyder. They are coached by F. J. Doan of the department of dairy manufacturing. Ordinary observers were com pletely bewildered by the tasting and smelling procedure used in this Collegiate Students Interna tional Contest in Judging Dairy Products, sponsored by the American Dairy Science Associa tion and the Dairy Industries Supply Association. In this competition a cold in the nose was as bad as a broken ankle in the football squad. When the contest opened ten samples each' of market milk, cheese, butter and ice cream were laid out on long tables in a big room of Convention Hall. At the sound of a bell teams moved into the judging, being given 40 min utes to record their estimates of the quality of the varying sam ples of a particular product. land and arrived in Boston for a campaign speech last night. Germans Stage Riot STUTTGART, Germany— Two J merican military policemen were injured yesterday in a riot over nigh prices. A crowd of 40,000 staged the demonstration, break ing store windows displaying lux ury items. It was the first time since the war that Germans had fought American soldiers. Shipment Banned BERLIN— The United States, Great Britain, and France have stopped the flow of western marks out of Berlin. American of ficials said millions of marks al ready have been sent out and have had an inflationary effect. Dashing Businessman BUFFALO —“The greatest pro blem affecting businessmen today is tension," Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, a New York City clergy man today told a Buffalo, New York Rotary club. He said that the American businessman dashes here and there until he stops dashing and is caried to the ceme tery. “The Patron Saint of Amer ican is St. Vitus, Dr. Peale as leerted. Mall Bulletin Board Promotes Wiser Voting Do you know how your con gressman voted on the European Recovery Program, the Taft- Hartley Act, the Mundt-Nixon Bill and other major current issues? If you don’t, there is a poster on the illuminated bulletin board along the mall which will show you at a glance. Prepared by Corbin Kidder of Students for Democratic Action (SDA), the poster aims to pro mote inelligent voting by stu dents. The poster features a colored map of the congressional districts of Pennsylvania, the names of congressmen now in office, a cross-table index showing how each congressman voted on nine major issues, and areas where a “close’’ vote is expected in No vember. Non-partisan figures were used in making the chart, according to Larry Rothstein, chairman of SDA. Parade Opens Mardi Gras: Eleven Vie for King's Crown A model-A squadron, ladened house, weight guessing stall, kiss with girls and musicians, will j ng booth, tea room, “test your sound off the Mortar Board Mardi potency” booth are listed on the Gras at 7:30 p.m. today. entertainment menu. For the dar- Beginnmg at Beaver and Allen . , , , „ streets, the procession will wind mg are games of chance including to Rec Hall to open the celebra- a turtle race, a roulette table, dart tion at 8. A freak snow, haunted throwing, penny pitching, hoop throwing (with feminine under pinnings as targets), a mouse game, and others. At half time of the festivities will be the crowning of a Mardi Gras King. Candidates for “Big Gun” are shown in the Athletic Store window. They and their sponsors are George Bearer—Chi Omega, Ray Brooks—Alpha Omicron Pi, Robert Bunnell —Alpha Gamma Delta, Fred Felbaum—Delta Zeta, Ted Fykes—Phi Mu, Jim Johnson —Zeta Tau Alpha, Steve Krysko —Leonides; John Novotny—Zeta Phi Alpha, Bill Sharon —Alpha Chi Omega, Rube Wabbell—Kap pa Delta, Dick Wertz—Gamma Phi Beta. In the crookedest election since the demise of Tammany Hall, the candidates and their supports are buying votes for one cent each. The crown will become property of the man backed by the strong est monied bloc, stated Patricia Kinkead, Mardi Gras chairman. Entertainment booths will frame •a space set aside for dancing. Mu sic will be recorded. Strips of tickets will be sold at booths in side Rec Hall. Dress is informal, and all proceeds cleared will be used to maintain the Dean Char lotte E. Ray scholarship. Patricia Kinkead Lines from the Lion Hamilton. N. Y. Dear Gang. Sure was disappointed when I saw the AP poll this week. But we’ll climb right up in there again- after we make Thanksgiving stuffing out of Penn’s Quarkers. Well, we re ceived one first place vote any how, guess who said that. He spells his name 1. .i. .o. .n.., but don’t tell anybody it’s a secret. The Hig sent me a question naire the other day asking me if it was OK with me to fly to Washington State in Novem ber but since I’m not 21 I’ll have to write to the lair to find out if I can fly, that’s the way the Hig wants it. It’ll be the first time the boys will take to air other than on the gridiron. Be sure you tell Hum Fish burn that we play Colgate this week in case he’s planning to bring the Blue Band. A couple of weeks ago the visiting team’s band marched out onto the field and spelled out Pepsodent. Red Raider followers here are still a little bitter about that. Remember what some of the sports writers said about bur boys after last week’s tie. Ac cording to most of them we were lucky to tie Michigan State. Well, I saw the movies of the game last night ans on that first TD the Spartans scored their left end was off side by two steps. Take my word for it they were the ones that were lucky. For the glory, The Lion Cabinet Announces November 6 Holiday All-College Cabinet voted unanimously last night to have a she dent halt holiday November 6, the day of the Penn game, and William Lawless, All-College president, promised to continue his efforts to obtain a second student half-holiday for the Pitt weekend. The 80-minute Cabinet session also heard the report o< the food investigating committee, appointed six students to the Co-op board of control, and accepted a student union committee recommended tor the 1848-49 college year. Richard Schlegel, chairman of the rood committee, told Cabinet that the most important of more than 1000 complaints taken from 306 men eating in Nittany dining hall have been remedied. “Formation of the committee seemed to work wonders,” Schlegel said. The food committee recommended appointment of two students as a “permanent liaison committee” to keep in touch with condi ions in dining commons. Diva Petrucci and George Sapida were appointed for women’s and men’s dining halls, respectively. Men complained, chifly of the breakfast menu, coffee every meal, and not enough fruit and milk served. Women disliked the family style of serving, cocoa for breakfast, and smoking restrictions, the report said. The committee found Nittany dining hall adequate and did not advise the reopening of Pollock Circle hall. Students appointed to the Co op board of control include: Theodore Allen, George Bearer, Lee Burns, Joanne Hobbs, Ed mund Walacavage, and Eugene Wheeler. Cabinet formally accepted the report of the Inter-class finance committee, involving the pre viously announced budget of $12,- 355. Festivities Highlite Independent Mixer Dancing, games, amusements and refreshments will highlight the Harvest Mixer, first social affair for independent men and women, Sunday at 2 p.m. in the PUB. “Great effort has been expend ed by all committee members with the hope that the program will be a huge success in bring ing together independent men and women with an eye toward the future,” said Don Paul, chairman of the Nittany Dorm social com mittee. “If there is a large turn out for the mixer, we plan other social affairs for the latter part of the semester.” In addition to Paul, the other members of the general commit tee are Claire Lefko, president of AIW, and William Johns, chair man of the Pollock Circle social committee. Four sub-committees have been set up with the following chair men: publicity, William Shott, entertainment, William Baker; decorations, Jack Diamond; re freshments, Paul SaboL PRICE FIVE CENTS Sylvia Schwartz presented the proposed constitution of Leonides, independent women’s organiza tion. The report was unanimously accepted. The student book exchange sold 500 books in its operations at the TUB this year, reported Joanne Hobbs, chairman. She estimated that students saved $7OO by using the service, and reported a profit of $69.75, which goes to inter class finance. Compensation for the committee also comes from inter-class finance. Lee Burns, reporting for the College chapter of National Stu dent Association, listed aid to re lief drives, especially World Stu dent Service Fund, as a major objective. NS A is planning a pro gram of hospitality for foreign students, including entertainment, and aid with tuition. Reporting for the student union committee, James MacCallum said that architects are drawing the first draft of a proposed building. Organization of the new com mittee is the most important im mediate step, he said. Students Petition Election Holiday The American Veterans Com mittee’s petitions, bearing 1,588 student signatures and demand ing that Election day be set aside as a College holiday, are to be presented to the College admini stration this morning. AVC is protesting the ruling of the College Senate, which in its October meeting decided against a voting holiday but provided for excuse blanks for student voters to be signed by the judges of elec tions in their districts. Chairman Corbin Kidder, m a letter accompanying the petitions, states that the excuse system fails to meet the needs of voting stu dents and “impugns the honesty and integrity” of the College voting population. He also charges the ruling is “overt obstruc tion” of the student voter’s exer cise of his franchise right. The petitions, not circulated among most of the fraternities or m housing areas where non-voters live, probably will be presented to Wilmer E. Kenworthy, execu tive secretary to the president of the College. Mr. Kenworthy said last night that Acting President James Milholland was in Pitts burgh and would not return to State College until after the elec tion.
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