Barbers Refuse Comment on Pickets' Effect
TWO PICKETS BRAVE the cold to campaign against discrimina
tion in Stale College barbershops. Picket lines were thrown in
front of all Slate College barbershops Friday by the local chap
ter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People as the first step in an effort to end barbershop discrimina
tion through a boycott. The signs bear such legends as "Let Your
Hair Grow, Cultivate Democracy/' "Jim Crow Must Go," and
"The Man of Distinction Wears Long Hair."
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STATE COUEO&
Football Lettermen Elect
Hicks, Norton '49 Co-Captains
Penn State football lettermen last night elected Bob Hicks, end,
Lancaster, and Negley Norton, tackle, from Altoona, co-captains for
the 1949 season.
The two standout linemen were chosen next year’s grid leaders
at the annual football banquet in the Nittany Lion Inn, and will
succeed present Captain Joe Colone. Player voting was so close
ACS Celebrates
25th Birthday
The Central Pennsylvania Sec
tion of the American Chemical
Society will celebrate its twenty
fifth anniversary tonight follow
ing a banquet at the Nittany Lion
Inn.
The group will re-convene in
119 Osmond Lab, at 8 p.m. where
charter member D. F. McFarland
will review the founding of the
Section in 1923.
Alden H. Emery, Executive
Secretary of the American Chem
ical Society, will be among the
guests at the celebration. Mr.
Emery will deliver the principal
talk of the evening, outlining
“The Program of The American
Chemical Society.”
The Central Pennsylvania Sec
tion has membership over 300,
and its area includes the counties
of Blair, Centre, Clearfield, Clint
on, Huntington, Lycoming, Miff
lin, Northumberland, Snyder, and
Union.
Of the twenty eight charter
members, fifteen still reside in
State College. They will be guests
of the Section at the dinner.
H. Varnum Poor Resumes Work
by Sylvia Ockner
“The fact that the student body
of Penn State has financed the en
tire mural has given me particular
satisfaction in this work,” Henry
Varnum Poor, nationally famous
muralist, working on the mural in
Old Main, said yesterday.
At the present time the artist is
at work on the third panel of the
mural which he expects to com
plete in a week. This panel is a
continuation of the first two which
depict the history and growth of
the College and Commonwealth.
Industry and Agriculture
The industrial and agricultural
growth of the state and corres
pondingly that of the College, is
shown in this panel. To contrast
the two, the industrial scenes are
done in dark, somber colors while
the agricultural scenes are high
keyed and colorful.
Next spring Mr. Poor hopes to
complete the mural. The remain
ing panels will represent the vari-
Continued on page eight
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VOL. 48—NO. 57 STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1948
between Hicks and Norton that
the team decided to name the two
stars co-captains.
It marked the second time in
three years that Nittany gridders
have elected an end and a tackle
co-captains. During the ’46 cam-
P ign John Potsklan and Tackle
John Nolan shared the post.
"Fine Choice"
Head Coach Bob Higgins said
afterwards, “The boys have made
Hicks
a fine choice.” In accepting the
honor, both Norton and Hicks ex
pressed appreciation, Hicks stat
ing:
“We consider it a great honor,
and only hope that we can do as
well as the captain who preceded
us."
Kerr Speaks
Andy Kerr, veteran football.
Continued on page five
Henry Varnum Poor painting mural in Old Main. Poor is back on
campus repairing the walls of his famous mural. Stuart Frost, a
College junior, is assisting Poor with the plastering.
First Attempt at Intimidation Reported;
NAACP Satisfied at Results, Claims Slowdown 7
By L. Dean Gladtelter
State College barbers continued to maintain a close-lipped attitude concerning the effects of the
them yesterday as picketing went into its fourth consecutive day.
'he Daily Collegian, the official statement was, in essence, “No
anti-discrimination boycott agains
At four shops surveyed by
comment.”
Meanwhile, the first report of
attempted intimidation came to
the surface yesterday while
pickets from the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
the Colored People reported they
had observed a decrease in bus
iness at the barber shops.
Attempt at Intimidation
The intimidation attempt oc
curred in front of Cassidy’s bar
ber shop on South Allen street
about 4 o’clock yes'erday after
noon, pickets there reported.
President William Meek of the
NAACP said that a man from
the adjacent Hartman Electric
company, 206 S. Allen street,
had pushed one of the pickets
but his attempts to arouse trou
ble were ignored.
Meek also stated that the
"FOR A BETTER PENN STATE"
Obedient Pledge
Brings Home
The Beef
Some folks take orders with
mental reservations; others take
them literally. Art Smulowitz,
a pledge at Pi Lambda Phi fra
ternity, clearly belongs in the
latter class.
Smulowitz, after being relieved
of his wallet and armed with a
fearsome water-gun, was told to
go out and bring back a cow - the
time, 1:30 a.m. Monday.
At 4 a.m., when not a brother
was stirring, not even the pledge
master, Smulowitz returned,
charged into Ray Singer’s room
and said, “Your potential beef
steak is outside, sir,” or words to
that effect.
Like most men awakened be
fore dawn has meandered into
the Nittany valley, pledge-master
Singer made short shrift of the
matter.
“Go on back to bed,” he told
Smulowitz.
This set the stage for the break
fast-time surprise received by the
residents of Pi Lamb house, when
their glance into the back yard
was met by that of a brown-and
white heifer, looking vaguely
bored in a new blue-and-white
truck.
awA
Morton
A farmer retrieved the heifer
and truck at 8:30. That would
end the incident but for the fact
: that no one - except Smulowitz,
perhaps - yet knows how he ac
complished his mission.
“An order is an order,” was
JSmulowitz’s only comment. The
■ heifer just mooed.
same man—whose identity he
said he had been unable to learn
early last evening—also had
heckled the pickets yesterday
morning and had tried to stir
up by-passers against them Mon
day.
One picket said the man, who
Meek described as apparently a
person of authority at the store,
had used “unprintable” langu
age.
Although two barbers indi
cated that there had been no
loss of business because of the
picketing, directed against the
refusal of barbers to cut hair of
Negro students, Meek said he
was satisfied with the coopera
tion of the student body. He al
so stated that cooperation from
Money Angle Concerns
Nittany Dorm Diners
The financial angle—whether they are getting their “money’s
worth” in Nittany dining hall—stands foremost in the minds of the
men who have raised the latest food complaint, Paul Kritsky, speak
ing for the group, said yesterday.
“I feel that if the men had a good explanation of where the
money goes, they would be satisfied,” said Kritsky, who is chairman
of the Nittany Dorms food committee.
Editor Reviews
Kosenkina Case
The Anna Kosenkina case will
be related in Schwab Auditorium
at 8 pan. today by the man who
helped make possible her escape
from the Soviet officials, Mark
Weinbaum.
“Are thft People Behind the
Soviet Regime: The Anna Kos
enkina Story as an Illustration”
will be the subject of Mr. Wein
baum’s speech.
Editor of a Russian language
newspaper in Sew York, the
speaker will use the Kosenkina
incident to illustrate the attitude
of many Russians toward the pre
sent Soviet regime. It was he who
made it possible for the Russian
school teacher to leave New York
City and seek refuge on a farm
from which she was subsequently
removed by Soviet officials.
The program will also include
Student Slavonic Choir and the
Choir of St. John’s Russian
Church at Hawk Run who will
present Russian and Slavonic
folk music.
Proceeds from this benefit lec
ture will go toward the establish
ment of a Greek Orthodox Cath
olic Church in State College.
Tickets may be obtained from
members of the Greek Orthodox
Catholic Club and the Russian
Club. They are also available in
the office of Dr. Seth Russell in
132 Sparks.
Book Receipts
All veterans who are entitled
to refunds for books, supplies or
other equipment for this semes
ter must turn in their receipts
at the Bursar’s office by Satur
day in order to be reimbursed
by the last payment of the se
mester, which will be made on
or about Jan. 15.
Assistant Managers
Candidates for track assistant
managers should report to the
balcony of Rec Hall after 4 p.m.
any day this week
townspeople had been greater
than NAACP anticipated.
Pickets in small groups con
tinued walking in front of the
downtown shops from 9 _.m. to
5 p.m. and reported that business
at the shops seemed slow.
At Bunn’s shop, one of five
barbers, who was relaxing at
the moment, managed to say that
he thought the picketing had
had little effect on business be
fore the head barber barked out,
“Nothing for publication” to an
inquiring Collegian reporter.
Pickets in front of Smith’s
shop, across S. Allen street from
Bunn’s, said that the barbers
there had slowed down the time
Continued on page eight
Kritsky said the men now “may
be getting more food for their
money,” and if so, they would like
r n of the figures.
This statement
as similar to
ritsky’s re
arks before
11-College Cab
>et Thursday
:ght. Revival of
le issue brought
ie appointment
a food commit
e headed by
lliam Lawless,
H-College pres
ent, and Ed-
mund Walacav
age, All-College secretary
treasurer.
The co-chairmen have met with
Mildred A. Baker, supervisor of
food service, and have promised
definite action to solve the prob
im. The exact
lans have not
•en revealed.
Other m em
irs of the com
ittee are Nich
is Supron, Wil
im Dietz, Rob
t Wine, junior
ass president,
id James Mac
.llum.
The Cabinet
d „, which
functioned in Oc
ober took specific complaints con
cerning food and service during
an evening meal. Kritsky’s com
mittee later canvassed the dorms
with a petition of a more general
nature.
News Briefs
French, Spanish Clubs
Penn State French and Spanish
Clubs will hold their Christmas
party in 405 Old Main at 7:15 p.m.
today. There will be dancing, re
freshments and singing. Mem
bers and friends are invited to
attend.
Ski Club
Sherman Fogg, skiing coach,
will be speaker of the evening at
the meeting of Penn’s Valley Ski
Club in 110 E.E. at 7:30 p.m. to
day. Films on skiing will be
-shown.
Business Seems Slow
Weather:
Showers and
Colder
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