Drive Carefully; Weather : Make It A Ei tt it H T o ttr gt a tt Cloudy, Good Vacation With Showers 'TOR A BETTER PENN STATE" VOLUME 49-NUMBER 48 50 Delegates to Confer On Newspaper Problems Discussions of mutual problems encountered in publishing daily university student newspapers, and attempted methods of solution will feature a two-day University Newspaper Convention, with the Daily Collegian acting as host, from tomorrow noon to Satur day noon. At least 50 representatives of the editorial and business staffs of 12 other student newspapers, mostly dailies, will convene for the second conference of its kind. Informal Discussions Originated last year by the Michigan Daily, the convention stresses the "bull session" ap proach to problems which con front all campus newspapers, and avoids the advice of "profession als" who may be out of touch with campus situations. Last year's Collegian delega tion to the Ann Arbor confer ence, Allan Ostar, editor; Roberta Hutchison, news editor; Donald Ellis, business manager; and Spencer Scheckter, advertising manager, obtaine r ' several ideas which were later put into effect. Delegates will be welcomed by Louis Bell, Collegian editorial ad viser, and Robert Van Slam brouck, business adviser, at the opening session in 8 Carnegie Hall at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow. Infer-Office Problems Problems shared by (and be tween) editorial and business staffs will be aired during tomor row's afternoon and evening meetings. The two groups will separate to consider their special difficulties Friday morning and afternoon. A banquet and a dance at the Continued on page three Public To See Chem Secrets Throwing open its doors to par ents, townspeople, and all stu dents, the School of Chemistry and Physics will bare some of its innermost secrets of science. Open House will extend from 2 to 5:30 p.m. on May 7, Mother's Day weekend. Freer, Osmond, Pond, and Walker laboratories will exhibit displays in physics, chemistry, and biology to groups, for whose convenience guided tours have been arranged. Famous research experiments, such as those in high frequency sound waves, or ganic chemistry, and wind tunnel work may be viewed, along with the electron microscope, minia ture planetarium, and an outdoor exhibit of cryogenics, refriger ants. With the cooperation of Alpha Epsilon Delta, pre-medical hon orary; Sigma Pi Sigma, physics honorary; and the Chemical En gineering Society, the Open House will present to non-techni cal students and people of the area, as well as interested parents here for Mother's Day, a glimpse of the important and extensive work being done in one of the scientific centers of the nation. Mindszenty, Other Clergy Trials May Undergo UN Investigation LAKE SUCCESS—A decision was made yesterday by the United Nations Assembly to begin a thorough investigation of the clergy trials behind the Iron Curtain. The plan to look into the trials of Cardinal Mindszenty and 15 Protestant clergymen will go into the calendar for full debate. Pull debate has also been recommended on the Dutch-Indo- nesian question, though no ac tion can be taken by the As sembly until the problem has left the hands of the Security Council. Concrete action on the matter has been deferred by the Council for several months. Unification Law , WASHINGTON—Army Secre tary Kenneth Royall yesterday termed the present Armed Serv ices Unification Law as weak and *Ns IMMO *NI se kw at alit. STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 13, 1949 House Takes Up Appropriations The State House of Represen tatives took up consideration yes terday of appropriation bills to allocate $11,498,000 to the Col lege. One measure, which boosts the grant for general operations at the College in the next two years from $10,050,000 to $11,000,000, has already been approved by the House Appropriations Com mittee. This figure still falls almost two and a half million dollars below the amount requested by the College Board of Trustees. Land Grant Payment Another bill set aside $498,000 to be matched by the federal government as a land grant col lege payment to the College. In a recent statement, Acting President James Milholland said that "During the present biennium the College received $9,050,000 for general mainten ance and to finance a specific group of research projects. "We estimate," he said, "that the maintenance of a compar able program during the 1949- 1951 biennium will require $13,- 425,000 which is the sum we re quested. The governor's recom mendation for those purposes was $10,386,000 which is $1,336,- 1 00 more than the 1947-1949 ap propriations but $3,039,000 below our estimated needs." Mural Characters Break Loose For A Taste of College Life Did you ever see the figures in a mural off the wall? Well you better take a good look now at the Land Grant Fresco by Hen ry Varnum Poor on the stair wall in the lobby of Old Main be cause Fate has strange things in store for this Poor mural. With the aid of Thespians, in their presentation of "Poor Mr. Var num", the characters are going to come to life to spend three nights at the College. Of course these people will be rather conspicuous in their clothes of 1862. That was the year Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, under which the College has op erated for nearly a century. And from the signing of that act, Poor has taken the theme of his mural: Atlantic Pact WASHINGTON T h e Senate yesterday received the Atlantic Pact which it, along with the House, must ratify to make it ef fective. Approval of the pact was urged strongly by President Tru man and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The president, in his plea, declared that approval would be a long step on the road le pews. Ellis Arnall Ellis Arnall To Describe 'South Today' Former Gov. Ellis Arnall, final Comunity Forum speaker for the current season here, brought a four-year period. of progress and liberalism to Georgia in the midst of the dark ages of the Talmadge gamily. Arnall, who will speak on The South Today in Schwab Audi torium at 8 p. m., April 21 under auspices of the forum, was gover nor of Georgia from 1943 until 1947, and put a deep crack into the Talmadge political machine. It was Arnall who defeated red-gallused Eugene Talmadge in the Democratic primary for gov ernor in '42 and then went on to win the general election. But his political machine was unable to stop Talmadge's re-election in 1946, which was followed by a period of gubernatorial confusion attending Talmadge's death prior to inauguration day. After a dis pute which reached the state Continued on page eight the contributions of the College to the Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania. Therefore the central fig ures are Abraham Lincoln, who signed the Morrill Act, and a youth holding a tree to be plant ed, which signifies the beginning of a new educational system. Specific provisions of the Mor rill Act for education in agri culture and in the mechanic arts are represented by the activities of the groups of figures surround ing Old Main under construction. Students are tilling th e experi mental plots of spring rye; a Pennsylvania farm family is sending their son off to school; another group is working in a forge; engineers are examining plans at a bridge; a young min eralogist is studying a piece of coal. Not even the liberal artist is overlooked. Students are seat ed at a table in seminar with Dr. Evan Pugh, the first president of the College. These characters have been waiting to be released since 1940 when Henry Varnum Poor placed them there as a result of a gift of the class of 1932. Contrary to the plans of the Thespians, Poor wanted his figures to stay on that wall. He did the mural in fresco. which means that it is painted di rectly on wet plaster freshly ap plied each painting day. So, since poor Mr. Poor was paid $5,625.44 for his work up to this time, Francis X. Fatsie, Hank Glass, and Tom Lyon, who wrote the play, promised to return the characters to the wall as soon as 'they awe Smashed with them. Giesey To Head I FC; Senior, Ernst Victors Peter Giesey, Delta Sigma Phi, was elected president of next year's Interfraternity Council on the second ballot, at a meeting of the IFC in Old Main last night. The majority of votes for the office of vice-president went to Jack Senior, Pi Kappa Phi, on the third ballot, and Jack Ernst, Kappa Sigma, was elected secretary-treasurer on the first ballot. Giesey, a pre-law student is also president of Delta Sigma Phi, and a member of the Inter fraternity Relations committee, the varsity debate team, and be longs to the Delta Sigma Rho national debating honory. Senior Noted Chemist To Give Talk Dr. Philip J. Elving, one of the outstanding analytical chemists of the country, will speak on "Polarographic Behavior of Or ganic Compounds" in 119 Osmond Laboratory at 4:30 p.m. today. Dr. Elving, who is now at Pur due University, was a staff mem ber of the Dußois Undergraduate Center of the College from 1937- 39. Hi s special interest is in in strumentation in chemistry. In recent years he has been re_ sponsible for arranging summer meetings and analytical sympos iums where chemists can study the use of tools and instruments in analysis. One of these sympos iums was held last summer at Northwestern University. He recently retired as president of the Analytical and Micro Divi sion of the American Chemical Society. During his tenure in of fice he greatly increased the membership and brought the constitution up to date. He also assisted in the awarding of the Fischer Award, given to an out standing man in the field of anal ytical chemistry. For the past three years Dr. Elving has been very active in speaking throughout the country. He was principal speaker at the Pittsburgh meeting of Analytical Chemists and at the Louisiana State University Symposium of Analytical Chemistry. Penn State Reunion The Penn State Reunion will be held on Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday at Ocean City, N. J., in the vicinity of Somers Point. Dairy Science Club There will be no meeting of the Dairy Science Club on April 21. The next meeting will be held 00 April 28. Esquisse and Scarab Esquisse tared Scarab, architec ture societies will hold the annual Beaux-Art Ball April 23 front 9 to 12 p.m. The theme is Egyp tian and Arabian. Costumes altouid follow this theme. Jack Senior, a sixth semester physics major, is on the Chem- Phys Council and All-College Cabinet's Election Banner and Spring Week committees. He is also a member of the varsity swimming and track teams, and of the staffs of Froth, LaVie, and Daily Collegian. Jack Ernst, sixth semester ad vertising major, is secretary and Alumni Chairman of Kappa Sig ma, and chairman of IFC Re lations Committee. All-College President William Lawless and All-College Secre tary-Treasurer Ed Walacavage assisted in counting the votes. Other action taken by the group included a decision on May 5 as the date for the AFC-IFC ban quet, which will be held at the Nittany Lion Inn at 6:15 p. m. Presentation The newly elected officers will be presented to the council at this banquet, although they will take over their offices at the next IFC meeting on April 27. Library Shows 'Great Writers' The College Library is ex hibiting illustrations and other material this month connected with Great Writers of the West ern World. a new comparative literature course. The course, first offered last Fall, is taught co-operatively by 17 different teachers from five different departments i n t h School of Liberal Arts. The ex hibits tell well-known stories from Homer and Virgil down to the novels of Thomas Mann and Proust in our own country. Reproductions of famous works of art are used wherever possible, raging from Greek sculpture and later paintings to such modern artists as Sort, Dali, Grosz, and Chirico. One section of the show in cludes modern versions of classic tales, such as Joyce's "Ulysses, Mann's "Dr. Faustus," and Robin son Jeffers' version of "Medea", Cheap reprints are shown, as well as juvenile versions, comic books, Sunday newspaper supplements, and movie and musical treat ments. The aim of the exhibition is to show the use of visual aids in connection with the study of great literary works. News Briefs Mineral Economics An organizational meeting of the Mineral Economics society re cently convened to elect officers for the rest of the semester and make plans for activitie s begin_ ning in the fall. The officers are Robert A. Winslow, president: llayry F. Bigler, vice president: and Charles W. Schlot ter, secretio y-treasurer. Student Employment Students desiring part-time em ployment during the spring recess should leave their .names at the student employment office in the TUB, said Allan Reece, assistant in charge of part-time student employment. The office will re main open during the vaeigioft PRICE FIVE CENTS
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