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"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
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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