TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1948 WSGA Rules Written Consent Necessary for Late Return Since the blanket (traveling) permission form does not state whether coeds have permission from home to take one o'clocks for traveling on returning to campus, the Women's Student Govern ment Association ruled that all coeds must have written consent from home to be allowed two late traveling permissions. If a blanket permission form was signed by a coed's parents stating that she may leave campus without written consent from home, a postcard is sent to her parents when she leaves campus, stating her destination. Hostesses' and checkers' rules prepared by WSGA which are posted in each dormitory state under permissions, rule two, "Women students desiring to re turn late from out-of-town must have the written consent of their' parents sent directly to their host esses before they leave the Col lege. Two late returns are per nutted without penalty each sem ester, but the written consent is always a "must.' " Fellowship Open To Mortar Board A $5OO Katherine Wills Cole man Fellowship is open to all members of Mortar Board grad uating in 1949. The fellowship, awarded to nine girls over the past seven years will go to an applicant to be selected by a committee of deans, and a committee of Na tional Mortar Board officers. Candidates must be unmarried and able to qualify for the Mas ter's or Doctor's degree in an ac cepted graduate school. Winner of the 1948 award was Lois Chambers, Ohio Wesleyan University, who will do graduate work in sociology and psychol ogy at Oberlin College where she will also hold an assistantship in the department of sociology. In the Land of Continued from page two ',nine-tenths of every stick and brick in it paid for by the de spised and hated Negro. What price "separate but equal" now? Teachers' Pay Rates Oh, in passing—let us not for + get that the Negro teachers in that bare box back in the country get from $55 to $9O a month— there are four of them. Only the principal gets the $9O. Minimum salary for white teachers in Madi son county is $l5O a month. There are 15 of them in the white folks' school. And why is the Negro school away back there on that dirt road? Well, when the white folks finally decided to open their hearts and the Negroes' purses they called a meeting of the tax paying colored folk to discuss the prospective new school. One young Negro property owner got up and broached the matter of location. A colored church organ ization offered a couple of acres on the highway for the new school. And free. Somewhat shamefacedly the white school superintendent told the group: "I guess I might as well tell you that the location is all settled. Mr. Pearl Hawkins wants it down by his cotton gin. So that's that." And that was that. "Mr. Pearl Hawkins" is "The Man" in Dis trict No. 4, one of the big planta tion owners—and white of course. He wanted the school near his acres and his cotton gin because that makes it easier for him to keep his hands. Negroes through out the South are literally des perate for education fir their children. Given a school in the neighborhood they'll put up with almost any working conditions, no matter how bad. So in Madi son county many of the little Negro kids walk six miles to school every morning—and six miles home at night. Discrimination Is Universal Discrimination against the Ne gro school child in Mississippi is universal and vicious. Many counties do not even pretend to provide school buildings for Ne gro children. In rich Bolivar county in the fabulous Delta PRINTING Multilithing AddressograPh Service COMMERCIAL PRINTING Glen&land Bldg. Phone 6663 Intramural Rivals Renew Competition After Holiday Women's basketball and bowl ing intramural competition will not be held this week because of th e Thanksgiving holidays. Matches would be incomplete and would confuse the weekly sched ule. Bowling rivalry will begin at 6:30 p.m. Monday, when Kap pa Alpha Theta meets Alpha Xi Delta. At 7:45 p.m. Gamma Phi Beta will oppose Co-op, while Delta Zeta meets Kappa Delta at 8:30 p.m. Theta Phi Alpha and Simmons are scheduled to meet at 9:15 p.m. At 7 p.m. Tuesday, November 30, Kappa Alpha Theta, the only undefeated team of Basketball League I, opposes Alpha Xi Delta to start the third week of intra mural basketball. Gamma Phi Beta and Co-op are scheduled to meet at the same time. Delta Zeta and Kappa Delta are pitted against each other at 8 p.m., while Simmons meets Philotes, playing its first game of the season after taking the place of Theta Phi Alpha. im Crow --- country there are 121 Negro schools. Only 31. operate in school buildings. The others stumble along in churches, lodge halls and even garages. Bulk of the state's school bud get comes from a 2 per cent sales tax. A million Negroes—half the population pay their share of that sales tax. But believe it or not, the white masters of Missis sippi pay more just to haul their white children to their schools than they spend on the entire • state-wide Negro school system. The figures run--3/ million dol lars to haul white children—only i 3/ million to educate the little ; Negroes. 1 Nearly half the state's 447,000 Negro children of school age have never even been enrolled in school. The Southern states have compulsory school laws, just as in the North. But no state enforces the law as regards Negro chil dren. Trudge Along Dusty Highways In Tennessee, Georgia, Ala bama, Mississippi, I saw groups of bright-faced, neat, little Negro children trudging the dusty or dangerous highways morning and evening to and from their tumble down schools. From time to time the swirling clouds of dust thrown (Continued on page eight) Phi Beta "Glamour' SEAM-FREE NYLONS WITH PATENTED Hai Smart girla are wearing them—for they're a smart fashion! The Seal of the Denali% Twins identifies their exclusive, patented heel* for superb fit... their Guasetoe •• OM" 4'4 Cur comfort... their flawless. seam-free look. You'll find them under i t ') leading brand names at your favorite college shop or store. ea. a. Pee Ms. SWIM THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA WSGA House Plans Phone Survey for 11 o'clock Service An appeal from a living unit through the WSGA House of Re presentatives to extend telephone service in the dormitories to 11 p.m. is in the process of investiga tion, said Shirley Gauger, presi dent of the House. Miss Gauger stated that the unit presidents were asked to make a survey of their units to determine the majority decision. Girls who are signing petitions or "voting" for the issue are not making a final vote, but are mere ly stating their opinions. No final vote can be taken un til a committee investigates the situation with the administration. Professors Attend Textile Conference Ruth E. Graham and Mrs. Marion P. Fraser, both of the de partment of home economics at the College, will attend a con ference of college teachers of tex tiles and clothing in New York, beginning Wednesday and con cluding on Saturday. Professor Graham is chairman of the Steering Committee for the various meetings. War Bride Tells of Living Under Deadly Bombing Raids (This is the last in a series of three articles describing life under Nazi dictatorship as experienced by Mrs. Wallace Culver, wife of a graduate sociology student.) "We couldn't understand why the bombers didn't strike my city in Saxony because it was.= industrial center . .. some people joking said the Allies had missed us because Churchill's aunt had lived there once." ------- "Finally on February 6, 1946, Cnother alarm sounded", Mrs. ulver said, "and this time it wasn't a drill. Many civilians were needlessly killed because they didn't take the warning ser iously."' "I was stranded down town away, from my mother and baby . you can never know what fear kinves your heart when you do not know if your family is still living or has been hit. You want only to be with them if they are to die." Every day until March 5, the 1 "Big Bumble-bees" returned two or three times, said the war bride, and the people scrambled to the shelters. Nervous breakdowns and hysterics were common. Often I prayed that a bomb would hit so my troubles would be over, but there were others who still said 'Our glorious fueh rer will lead us on to victory'." On March 5, the worst raid came, the dark eyed brunette' continued. She was in a shelter in the south of town feeling corn paratively safe because the radio many leitzinger "Big Bumble-bees" Stormy Weather? we' ,4 .• • • .• Cagers End Second Week Women's intramural basketball ended its second week with only six of the 24 teams remaining un defeated. Theta Phi Alpha has dropped out of League I and will be replaced by Philotes. Kappa Alpha Theta remains the only undefeated team in League I by virtue of its win over Co-op, 35-29. Kappa Delta I eked out a one-point winning 14-13 margin to down Alpha Xi Delta, while Simmons battled Gamma Phi Beta in a close con- 1 test, winning 27-23. Delta Zeta won by default over Theta Phi Alpha. Three teams of League II gained one more victory Wednes day night to stay unbeaten. Al pha Omicron Pi easily defeated Alpha 'Chi Omega, 28-15, while Atherton I played a hard game to defeat Sigma Delta Tau, 20-18, for its first victory. Delta Delta Delta won its second game by a decisive 23-9 score over Alpha Epsilon Phi. Zeta Tau Alpha placed a second mark in the win column through default of Leon ides. Town and Atherton II remain undefeated in League 111 by win ning over Phi Mu, 43-22, and Al pha Gamma Delta, 38-30, respec tively. Chi Omega eased by Kap pa Kappa Gamma, 42-30, while Atherton 111 defeated Delta Gam ma, 33-14. By Jo Fox reports said the planes were headed northward. Suddenly the radio reported a reversal of route, the planes were coming south. Burning City "I thought the raid would nev er be over . . . we could smell phosphorous ., the city was burning. Suddenly we decided to leave the shelter, and got out just before its roof collapsed. "The sky was blood red from the fire . . every house on my street was burning. With my two year old son in my arms. I started With my mother to my relatives home outside the city. That night the yuung immi grant, mother and child walked t about twelve miles in the cold. Strings of weeping people were everywhere, and it seemed that all the world was on fire, she said. One House Left "My baby kept saying, 'Take me upstairs I want to go to bed'. I was afraid he would freeze. About midnight we found the only house that still had a roof. "Everyone from the little vil- It's fun to be walking in ;he rain or sun with one of our adorable new "Victorian Look" um brellas to shelter you. It gives you that feeling of luxury at a very low cost. Be a spot of smartness on those drab rainy days with stunning new um brella from . . . co-edit 3 Omicron Nu Omicron Nu, Home Econom ics honorary, recently initiated Margaret Alexander, Violet Brughelli, Madeline Bush, Jean Foulkrud, Mary Kuzman, Nancy Meyer, Angeline Mingoia, and Beatrice Rigling. Masquerettes Masquerettes, Thespian wo men's organization initiated 13 girls last week. Those initiated were Deane Brown, Joan Cart wright, Barbara Cooper, Mary Jean Eisenhuth, Ruth Federman, Bernice Goldberg, Barbara Keef er, Patricia Lloyd, Rosalyn Mc- Collum, Carolyn Mowery. Nan cy Parent, Mary Pennell, Janice Stevenson. Meeting Canceled There will be no meeting of the WSGA House of Represen tattves tonight, according to Shirley Gauger, president. Lunt Gives Talks , On Fashion Careers Miss Ferne Lunt, director of admissions for the Tobe-Coburn School for Fashion Careers in New York, presented two talks on fashion careers Wednesday at the College. The talks were sponsored by the textiles and clothing division of the department of home econ omics. lage was crowded inside. I had to put my boy to sleep with a 75 year-old man who was dying." Mrs. Culver told how she final ly reached the home of her rela tives and waited the approach of the Americans. The people feared the Negro troops more than anything else, she explained. Nazi propaganda had painted them as savages. Fearing for her life, the pretty German disguised herself as an old woman so that the young American troops would not notice her. "I was ashamed of myself lat er . .. the American's both white and black were kind to us all they especially liked the children. I can honestly say that they were the nicest people I have ever met ... and they did not take one egg from my relatives' farm. PAGE SEVEN
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