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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
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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
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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
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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
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