The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, May 18, 1949, Image 1
FDR's Son Awaits Results Of New York City Election Late AP News Courtesy WMAJ The political future of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. was being de termined late yesterday as ballots were counted in New York City. The late President’s son hopes to become Congressman Roosevelt from New York's 20th District. Voters turned out in numbers far exceeding expectations yesterday as the polls in West Side Manhat tan closed at 7 p.m. No indication was given as to who was leading. Opposing Roosevelt in the race are Tammany Hall’s candidate, Municipal Judge Benjamin Shal leck, and two other men. Roose velt is seeking his first political office. The cacancy occured when Congressman Sol Bloom died re cently. Gerhart Bisler . Upited States lawyers are con fident that Britain will return Gerhart Eisler to this country to face two criminal actions follow ing action by a federal judge in Washington in which he ordered forfeiture of $20,000 in bonds posted for Eisler before he left the country as a stowaway a board the Polish Liner Batory. Eisler is confined to jail in Lon don pending a decision. He was regarded as the .pumber-one Communist in the United States. Floodwaters Rage Major flood conditions are ex pected along the Trinity River in Texas Panhandle, and especially the city of Dallas, during the next eight or ten days. The flood has left Fort Worth without drinking water, and is moving toward Dallas, sweeping wreck age before it. The flood level will reach 40 to 42 feet according to predic tions, which would create the worst flood conditions in three years at that city. The flood waters are a result of a series of rainstorms that have lashed the Panhandle and left 1,000 people homeless. Smith Approves The Senate yesterday approv ed a big money bill which pro vides $2,400,000,000 for the next year of operation of the federal security and labor agencies. The' bill now goes to the House. Presi dent Truman asked for a bill pro viding $167 million less than the figures aproved by the Senate. Partnership Is Parley Theme The 25th annual ' Industrial Conference, sponsored by the School of Engineering at the Col lege, will move into the second of its three-day span in the Nit tany Lion Inn at 9:30 a. m. today. Meetings to be held in the Parrot Room of the Inn at 9:30 a. m. and 2 p. m., and a dinner conference at 7 p. m., will high light today’s activities. Dean C. J. Freund, president of the American Society for En gineering Education, initiated the proceedings by delivering the keynote speech last night. "Partnership" The theme of the silver an niversary conference is “Partner ship With Industry.” Its purpose is to get industrialists and engin eering educators together for the discussion of mutual problems. John R. Bangs of the Budd Company will preside at the morning meetings at the inn. Subject under discussion will be “Functional Differentiation In Engineering Education.” Viewing the subject from in dustry will be George Norden holt, editor of “Product Engin eering.” J. F. Downie Smith, Dean of the School of Engineer ing at lowa State College, will approach the topic from the col lege viewpoint. Afternoon Session In the session beginning at 2 p. m. today, R. J. Greenly, of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Cor poration, will introduce as the subject matter, “Selection and Recruitment of Engineering (Continued on vage four) Invitations Graduating seniors can pick up their invitation announce ments at Student Union be tween 1 and 4:30 p.m., begin ning Thursday. Receipts must be presented at the SU window when picking up announce ments. DP Plan OK'd By Trustees The first step in putting into effect an NSA-sponsored plan for the admission of Displaced Persons students was taken on Saturday when the executive committee of the Board of Trus tees agreed to waive all College fees for such students for the coming year. Wilmer E. Kenworthy, execu tive secretary to the president, presented the plan to the com mittee at its regular meeting on Saturday and notified Joel Bach man, NSA campus chairman of the plan, of their acceptance yesterday. In conjunction with this plan, the Inter-fraternity Council will take action on a proposal to pro vide room and board for these students in various fraternities at its meeting tonight. The pro posal was made by Peter Geisey, president of the IFC council, at the request of Bachman. The DP students, a select group possessing high scholarship abili ties and a fervent desire to study, will imigrate here with the in tention of future citizenship. The campus chapter of the National Student Association will have full responsibility for the orienta tion of the students. It is expect ed that many other organizations on campus will show interest and cooperate in various phases of the plan. LA Committee To Hear Gripes The Liberal Arts Student Council appointed the Teachers Course Rating committee to re ceive all complaints from stud ents against professors in the LA school. The purpose of this program is to foster a better relationship between students and professors. When a complaint against a professor is received, the com mittee checks its validity with the other students in his class and contacts the dean of the school. All complaints and informa tion are kept confidential. Leonard Abrams, chairman of the committee, asked that all the students participate and voice their complaints. Abrams said the success of this program depends entirely on the cooperation of the students. Debaters To Hold Term-End Contest Six members of the Men’s De bate team will compete in the Term-End Speaking contest in 316 Sparks at 7 p.m today. Those taking part in the debate will be David M. Barron, Harold E. Brown, John Fedako, Richard K. Hill, James H. McDougall and Richard C. Shultz. Preliminaries for the event were held last Wednesday eve ning, when the contestants were chosen from among debaters competing to give their views on the year’s debate topic at the College. Topic for the debate will be “What program should be under taken in the interest of improving elementary and secondary edu cation in the United“ States?” Borough Police Arrest Student Alvin Heller, a senior at the College, was recently arrested by Borough police and charged with violating a Borough ordinance against distributing printed mat ter on the Borough streets. His hearing is scheduled for the Borough building at 4:30 p. m. Friday. Heller claims the ordinance is Hatty @ (Mtegtan VOL. 49—NO. 68 Hohenheim Germans To Eat College Vegetables Hungry people in Germany will be eating Penn State veg etables this summer. The Horticulture Club is send ing quantities of vegetable seeds, all varieties developed here at the College, to Hohenheim, an agriculture college in Germany, for experimental use as well as for food. Hohenheim has only about three acres of land avail able for all their experimental work with vegetables. Therefore, surplus seeds will be given to people with family gardens. The club’s decision was a re sult of a talk by Bernard Gruber, a recent graduate from Hohen heim, who is in the United States studying 'Operation methods of agriculture extension, sincfe the Allied leaders in Germany have decided to start a similar pro gram there. He is visiting county agents and going with specialists out to the farms. Herr Gruber has left for Rut gers. He will go from there to Washington and expects to re turn to Germany by the second week in May. Spencer Wins Grant-in-Aid Ernest W. Spencer, of Miller ton, Tioga County, has been named the first Penn State stu dent to win a grant-in-aid en titling him to two years of study at the University of Hawaii. The new scholarhip, provided by the Experiment Station of the Ha waiian Sugar Planter Associa tion, was announced by Dr. H. K. Wilson, director of resident instruction for the School of Ag riculture. Mr. Spencer, is completing his sophomore year in agricultural education. Under terms of the grant-in-aid, he not only will continue his education in Hawaii, but wi*l receive certain subsis tence funds, as well as travel ex penses to reach Honolulu. The novel scholarship is part of the Hawaiian industry’s Trop ical Club Production program, which also provides summer work for those students receiv ing their junior and senior years’ study in Hawaii. Take Penn State With You ... George Bearer, ex-editor of the Penn State Engineer, is joining the Penn State Alumni Association because "this out fit has so much to offer for such a small amount of money that we can hardly afford to pass up the opportunity to join. "It benefits us in services such as a subscription to three alumni publications, football ticket priority and admission assistance for our friends. But mostly it gives us the oppor tunity to remain actively affili ated and to serve Penn State." Film Library “The Safest Way,” a film made in the College studio, was bor rowed from 107 Engineering late Wednesday afternoon after it was shown to a class. Anyone knowing anything about it contact extension 176 or Captain Marks, Campus Patrol. Ag Activities Fee All Agriculture students are asked to note in the Agriculture Building the tentative Ag Activ ities Fee increase of 50 cents per semester. This increase will give all Ag riculture students a subscription to the Farmer as, well “FOR A BETTER PENN STATE- STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 18, NAACP Asks Bolstering Of State's Civil Rights Strengthening of Pennsylvania’s civil rights laws to end dh crimination against Negroes in barber shops was called for by a State college and youth division of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People in a meeting over the weekend. The State Conference of NAACP Collge Chapters and Youth Councils, meeting at Temple University in Philadelphia, charged Concert Closes Art Festival The Chapel Choir, assisted by Miss Barbara Troxell, soprano, and Paul King, baritone, will of ficially close the 1949 Combined Arts Festival when thev present Brahm's German Requiem in Schwab Auditorium at 8 p.m. to day. The choir’s director is Mrs. Willa W. Taylor, associate pro fessor of music education. Prof. George Ceiga, chapel organist, will accompany the choir. Miss Troxell and Mr. King ap peared Monday night in a recital featuring musical compositions based on the poems of Goethe. The 200th anniversary of the writer’s birth is being celebrated throughout the world this year. The soprano soloist previously has appeared with the choir as guest artist, with Chester Wat son, bass, Martha Albert, alto, and Boyd Bell, tenor, at thie group’s presentation of Mendel ssohn’s oratorio, “Elijtah,” last May. Although admission to the con cert is free, those wishing to at tend must obtain tickets at Stu dent Union. A free-will offering will be taken to help defray ex penses of production. A section reserved for parents of choir members and special guests will be opened to the pub lic at 7:45 p.m. Doors will be opened at 7:30 p.m. Town and Nine Opens in June Town and Nine, a summer stock company, will open its second season at Centre Stage in June. James Ambandos, director of the group, is considering “Voice of the Turtle,” “On Borrowed Time,” “Vortex,” “Joan of Lor raine,” and “Design for Living” for production during the six week season. Casts will include many of the same actors who made up the group last year. They are drawn from townspeople and such col lege groups as Thespians and Players. Subscriptions for season tickets at reduced prices will be on sale later this week. Among their arena productions last summer. Town and Nine pro duced “The Night of January 16” and “The Philadelphia Story.” News Briefs The International Relations Club will hold its final meeting in the lounge of Women’s Build ing at 7:30 p.m. today. The new executive committee will meet at 7 p.m. The following officers were el ected at last week’s meeting: George Keenan, president; Pete Hammer, vice-president; Carmen Stanziola, recording secretary; Charles Edwards, corresponding secretary; and Bob Bergman, treasurer. Collegian Business Staff There will be a short meeting of the entire business staff of the Collegian in 8 Carnegie Hall at 6:45 p.m. tomorrow. This in pludes all sections of the business the State College campus area with being the leading offender in barber shop discrimination. Meek Elected The conference named William Meek and Mary Lou Henry, both of the College, as president and secretary-treasurer. The program of the conference also included opposition to the American Red Cross practice of noting on medical histories the race of blood donors. Special ob jections were also raised to a re cent bloodmobile visit by the Red Cross to the Temple campus. Temple students will vote today on whether they should allow fu ture donations to be made on campus if the practice is not changed. The conference also opposed the practice of teachers colleges, particularly in the Philadelphia area, of assigning Negro student teachers to schools were Negro pupils predominate. Possibility of establishing a fair educational practices body alongside the proposed Fair Em ployment Practices Commission will be investigated by the con ference, which also is working for an end to segregation in Pennsylvania schools and segre gation in the Pennsylvania Na tional Guard. A strongly - worded resolution denounced firing of professors and suspension from school of stu dents because of their political beliefs. The conference decided to establish committees on aca demic freedom in all chapters to fight such firings and other vio lations of civil liberties of stu dents and faculty members. Next meeting of the confer ence will be held in Pittsburgh next April. Delegates were present from Temple, Bucknell and Lincoln Universities; the College; the George Washington Carver Youth Council of South Philadelphia, The West Philadelphia Junior and Senior Youth councils, and the Downington Youth council. 4 Students Get White Awards Four students at the College have been named for John W. White Awards, James Milholland, acting president of the College, said today. The John W. White Medal, awarded to a senior for outstand ing scholarship, has been award ed to Walter Murray, of Rey noldsville. A veteran enrolled in the commerce and finance cur riculum, Murray is married and lives in Windcrest. James Robinson, of Altoona, a student in the pre-medical cur riculum, was awarded the John W. White Fellowship. The fellow ship amounts to $6OO and is given annually to a member of the graduating class of high stand ing, who possesses those quali ties of ability and personality that will enable him to profit best by graduate study. John W. White Scholarships in Spanish, each amounting to ss#, were awarded to Marcel Car vallo, of Caracas, Venezuela, and John Dalbor, of Philadelphia. Carvallo is a senior in the chem ical engineering curriculum, while Dalbor is a sophomore majoring in journalism. BX Refunds Students axe reminded that efunds on purchases made at •ook Exchange this semester re being given in the TUB rom 2 to 5 p. m. today through riday.