. -., . i, Seniors! ' ~ • ,At 4 , Weathere . & 4.4, Buy , allr Ulaitg ..,. .•: Tott,tgiati Partly Cloudy, cold Lion Coats . 1 4., „d and windy "FOR A BETTER PENN STATE" VOLUME 48-NUMBER 63 Bullitt Reveals American Aid 'Very Late' For Chinese War Late AP News, Courtesy WMAJ ILLEGAL SHIPMENT NEWARK—The United States government seized five crated airplanes at Newark. The planes were said to be bound for Egypt and were described as an illegal armament shipment. The five planes together are valued at about one-quarter of a million dollars. WASHINGTON—Former Am busador William BuHitt , just back from the Orient, told , Con grew; that it is 7very late" to aid the Chinese Government. He de clared that the Nationalist forces wbidd need American direction and control, plus a fighting gen eral in the field to defeat the Communists. PAY BOOST REQUESTED WASHING-TON President Truman sent letters to the Sen ate and House yesterday asking immediate action to boost the pay of cabinet officers and other top government officials. It has been predicted that Truman him self is also in line for a raise. TRUMAN VS. RUSSIA WASHINGTON Columnist Jay Franklin, who helped with the president's campaign speech es, says that President Truman is waging a cabinet fight about our policy toward Russia. Franklin says the president is trying to break down America's "tough" policy toward the Soviets. FINAL STAGES PARIS—WeII-informed sources In Paris say that the proposed North Atlantic defense pact is nearly complete. Final talks on the agreement are scheduled to take place in Washington later this month. The treaty would in clude, beside the United States and Canada, Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. RUSSIA RETURNS SHIPS LONDON—The British Admir alty says that Russia is ready to return 12 British warships bor rowed during the war. Five of the vessels will be returned on January 15. CZECHS AID ISRAEL LONDON—The British foreign office has charged that the gov ernment-owned Czechoslovakian armament industry has built al most ell of Israel's Air Force- The British spokesman said the planes are Messerschmitt fight ers, sent in parts and assembled in Israel. In addition, say the Bri tish, the same source gave Israel eighty tons of other war materiel every week from June through December. Dairy Queen To Visit Show Charlotte Stine, crowned "Dairy Queen" of Pennsylvania in June, 1947, will travel to Harrisburg next week to participate in the crowning of "Miss Agriculture" at the Annual State Farm Show. Miss Stine, now a sophomore enrolled in Home Economics, hails from Hershey. At the end of her senior year in high school she entered the "Dairy Queen" contest sponsored by the Penn sylvania Branch of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture, and was selected by a group of judges as the winner. Miss Stine then traveled to Erie to receive her crown as Dairy Queen of all farm girls. Prof To Discuss Old Architecture Prof. E. Baldwin Smith, chair man of the department of art awl archaeology at Princeton University, will deliver a public lecture at the College in Room 110, Electrical Engineering Build ing at 8 p.m. Wednesday. His 11 t will be "Ancient Versus =ri Concepts of Architec- Author of many articles and books, primarily on phases of arthitectural history, Professor Smith's book, "Early Christian Iconography" is considered a source of va luable material in the study of medieval art. His best known work is "Egyptian Archi teo_twe." Th. lecture is sponsored by the of architecture. STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7, 1949 Dr. Payne Is Chapel Speaker Speaking on the topic, "Time to Grow Up", Dr. Paul C. Payne, general secretary of the Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., will be guest Speaker at Chapel serv ices in Schwab Auditorium at 11 a.m. Sunday. At 7:30 p.m. the same day, Dr. Payne will be the guest of the churches of the community at a Union Service in the Grace Luth eran Church, a service which cul minates the Week of Prayer, the observance of which has been a cooperative project in the State Council of Churches held each evening in the Evangelical Church. Nation-Wide Administrator Dr• Payne is responsible for the administration of a nation-wide work of Christian education among more than 2,500,000 affil iated with 8,600 Presbyterian churches and Sunday Schools. In view of the emphasi on ed ucation, there is said to be no more important office among Presbyterian Church agencies than that held by Dr. Payne. • A graduate of Park College, Parkville, Missouri, and later of McCormick Seminary in Chicago, Dr. Payne in subsequent pastor ates served three years as pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Ithaca, New York. Previous to his work in Ithaca, he served churches in Oklahoma and Nebraska. He is at present a member of the Board of Trustees and chairman of the Internation al Council of Religious Education in addition to his present posi tion. Attended Holland Council Popular as a campus speaker as well as a church leader, Dr. Payne, represented with other delegates the Protestant Move ment of the United States at the World Council of Churches which met for the first time since the war in Amsterdam, Holland, last August. The Chapel Choir under the direction of Willa Taylor will present the anthem, "Laud We The Name Of God Most Holy" by Bach with George Ceiga at the organ. Wearin' of the Lion Coats The group of students that will soon be seen wandering around the campus in light - colored canvas-like jackets are not es capees from the Rockview Peni tentiary, nor are they dream walking co-eds from an over night slumber party. They are just a select few individuals tagged seniors by College of ficials. ,Once this position of "senior" is attained he is entitled to wear this jacket, the Lion coat, The wearing of Lion coats used to be one of Penn State's most hon ored traditions but during the war years it vanished from the Nittany Valley, and has not yet recaptured its former position. Ivy League Custom The idea of wearing Lion coats was borrowed in the early _twen ties from the Ivy League colleges. Seniors in the Ivy institutions each spring garbed themselves with the so-called "beer coats." Spring was the time of the year when the big beer parties started and no one could go to one of those parties unless properly at tired in their coat. The idea quickly spread to the Everyone's Burning Over State's Loss To Pitt With the country's ever in creasing crime wave there ap parently is developing an appre ciation of "hot seats." Two fraternity pledges on their return from a trip to Pittsburgh, reported that the "desk jockey' at the Pitt YMCA nonchalantly advised them that if they smelled smoke in the upper hallo, they weren't to worry because "the fire's out now-" It seems as though the "Y" had a guest obsessed with tendencies toward arson. He was continua ly setting fire to the lounge chair in his room. Maybe it was a die-hard State student left over from the Pitt game. Hillel Exhibits Jewish Culture A concert lecture series and an art exhibit, entitled "Of the Jewish Spirit," designed to in terpret and illuminate the Jew ish spirit in its varied phases= 9( creative self-expression in music, literature, and art Will be spon sored by the Hillel Foundation from Sunday through January 16. The art exhibit, tJ be formally opened to.the public in the Hillel Auditorium features the original Paintings of 33 Jewish artists. This exhibition was first shown at the Jewish Museum in N4pw York City. Thereafter it was prepared for showing in different parts of the country through the Jewish Center Lecture Bureau of New York. Penn State Hillel Will have the first exhibition of these paintings anywhere in America since its original showing at the Jewish Museum. The concert-lecture part of th e program will begin Sunday wih Ruth Rubin, noted folk singer, lecturer, and writer, who will give a recital of Yiddish and Pal estinian music. Friday, Aaron Druckman, pro fessor of philosophy, will lecture on "The Folklore of Our People." and on January 16 Paul I. ll ton, journalist and archaelogist, will conclude the program with an illustrated lecture on "Jewish Antiquities." Roc Hall Tickets Admission to Saturday night's basketball game wiS be granted only by student A.A. books. No tickets will be sold at the door becaus. of the limited seating capacity of Recreation Hall. Nittany campus and at first stu dents wore canvas-like pants with their jackets but this custom was soon dropped and only the jackets remain. In the mid-thir ties girls adopted the fad of wear ing Lion coats. "The wearing of Lion coats is one of our best traditions," com ments George Donovan, student union director. "My brother grad uated in 1926 and I still remem ber his coat with Leo Houck's signature on it." Impress Instructors Coats in "those good ole days" were worn also to impress upon the instructors the fact that the wearer was a senior, with the hope of being relieved of long and tedious home assignments. Most coats are decorated with drawings of pretty girls, campus buildings and signatures of all types. Old Main is an annual fa vorite, with pin-ups running a close second. "I'll never forget the coat a senior wore shortly before the war," says Donovan. "The fellow had a shade in the back and when I drew up the shade he had a nude woman painted under it." Lion Matmen Tangle With Tiger Wrestlers The 1949 version of Coach Charlie Speidel's Nittany Lion wrestling team leaves for Princeton this morning in hopes of grab bing a victory in the opening meet on the Tiger mats tomorrow night. Coach Speidel named a tentative starting lineup to face the Princeton grapplers, but does not believe it is his strongest possible combination. Eligibility conditions have forced two last-minute Scuderi, Evans Cast in Leads Dianne Scuderi and Richard Evans have been cast in the leads for the next Players' Schwab pro duction, "Dark of the Moon," Miss Scuderi will portray "Bar_ bare Allen," a mountain girl, and Evans is cast in the role of "John the witch boy" in the fantasy of a witch who falls in love with a human and wishes to become human himself. Reifsneider Dimas Director Robert Reifsneider al so announced the remainder of the cast who will present the Howard Richardson and William Berney drama. Mouton Kesdekian will portray the Conjur Man; Francine Toll is the Dark. Witch; Olivia Crider the Fair Witch; Carol Jungman the 1 Conjur Woman; David Owen plays Hank Gudiger; Roberta Gillespie is .cast as Miss Metcalf; George Rhoad is Jenkins. Curtis Wessner plays Uncle tihtiellicue; Annie Allan is Mrs. ummey; Richard Lashley, Burt t ) inwitty; Donald Bough, Mr. At- Ms; Joy PQlikoff, Mrs. Bergen; Jean Bickerton, Edna Summey; Henri Groenheim, Mr. Bergen; 1 obert McLean, Mr. Summey; Wiley Mares, Marion Hudgens; Harry Woo ever, Floyd Allen. Tbs.(' Witchts June Williams, Mrs. Allen; Herbert Rossman, Mr. Allen; Dan Wargo, Preacher Haggler; Mary Alice Hodgson, Greeny Gorman; Lou* Frazier, Ella Bergen; Gerald Giltrian, the guitar player; and o.lzabeth Renton, Gladdy 'Lou Miller, and Jeanne Meyer as the three dancing Witches. Omar Ler man is the assistant director. Reheawsals for the 12 musical nunthers in the show will begin later this week. Actual play re hearsal will not commence until next semester. Mr. Reifsnekler said. Director Warren Smith has an nounced that Steve Perialas has replaced Bud Bernstein in the role of "Jim" in the forthcoming production of "All My Sons." Senior class president, Terry Kuhlman, thought that the coats bring out the true College spirit and it also breaks up the student body into classes. The wearer of the Lion coat, easily recognizable as a senior, is made to feel part of a great unit. Dean of Men Arthur Warnock says: "I've seen many alumni come back for alumni reunions. They always take pride in their Lion coats. They seem to become more honored and useful with age." Usually the most distinctive coats are worn by architectural students. Their coats are deco rated with famous statues or buildings. Tom Yemm, chairman of the Lion coat committee, re minds all seniors that today is the last day Lion coats go on sale for $1.95 at the Student Union Desk in Old Main, between 2 and 4 p.m. "I urge all seniors to buy a Lion coat," says Yemm, "it will bring back that class unit of yes tor-years. Money from the sale of coats goes into the interclass finance fund." PRICE FIVE CENTS changes on the Nittanies' roamer• However, the Lions are tray-- eling to the Tiger stronghold with the hopes of defeating the Prince ton grapplers—a feat that was not accomplished la last year's opener with the same squad. The Orange and Black edged the Spei delmen, 14-13, in 1948, by snatch ing an early lead and bolding doggedly to it. John Reese was picked as the 121-p ound representative by ISpeidel, while Jim Walker, of Erie, was chosen to fight in the 138-pound class. Newcomer Al Fasnacht has earned the right to grapple in the 136-pound divi sion. Reliable Jim Maurey will be at his usual 145-pound post, with Grant Dixon returning to his varsity position of 1947 at 155- pounds. Two veterans, Bob Hetrick and Bill "Spider" Corman will face the Tigers at 165- and 175-pounds respectively. Homer Barr, a pro mising contender that Speidel is counting upon, will be the Blue and White's heavyweight. Most of the changes in the line up are in the lower weights, and the veteran Penn State mat ment or is hoping that these changes have plugged some of the weak nesses of last year. While the varsity team is at Princeton, Assistant Coach Char lie Ridenour will remain behind to hold practice sessions today at 4 p.m. and tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. The Lions travel to Ithaca next Saturday to tangle with the Big Red of Cornell in both varsity and junior varsity engagements, and Spei4el indicated that any men desiring to make the Cornell trip must be on hand for these prac tice sessions. Work to Begin On Book Exchange Construction of the book ex change section at the TUB is scheduled to start early next week, George Bearer, chairman of the book exchange committee, announced yesterday. He said that construction was expected to be completed by January 20. Work will be done by a num ber of students headed by Bearer and Edmund Walacavage, co chairman, 'who have requested interested students with carpen tering ability to offer assistance. News Briefs Seminar Topics Religion-In-Life Week Semin ar Committee will post lists of seminar topics on the Sunday Chapel bulletin and in the li brary. Students are asked to sel ect topics in which they are in terested. Great Books Mooting Great Books Group will dis cuss "The Prince" by Machiavelli at the meeting in 6 Library at 6:4b p.m. Monday. Alpha Epsilon Phi Alpha epsilon is honoring their pledges at a dance in the Univer sity Club at 9 p.m• tomorrow. Pat Patterson'3 band will furnish the music. Beta Sigma Omicron Beta Sigma Omicron recently received the Panhellenic Scholar ship cup for the highest sorority average of the Spring Sinsienten, 1958
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