£«• AP News CourteiT WMAJ Green Says AFL Unions Can Aid CIO Steelmen Thinks Resource Pooling Impossible At This Time Individual AFL unions .must decide . themselves whether they want to help CIO steelworkers, their .president. William Green, said yesterday in answer to. a suggestion bjr/mine workers chief John L. Lewis. Lewis suggested that his •miners and nine AFL unions con tribute $2,500,000 to the striking CIO steelworkers. Green believes it is imi>ossible and impractical to pool financial resources while labor is divided as it is now. The government, meanwhile, planned another meeting in its efforts, to settle the steel strike. Robeson Aids Commies Singer Paul Robeson and nove list Howard Fast are among those backing a program to help the 11 top communists convicted of plotting against the United States. One point in the campaign, which was organized in New York yes terday, is a protest to the United Nations Commission 'on Human Rights. Another goal is to raise funds for bail, if bail is allowed the defendants. Delay Action Fails A group of Senators , yesterday failed in a moye to delay further dismantling of German industrial plants. The group sought a re view of the German, industrial situation. Opponents of. the reso lution debated it until it was put behind other pending legistation on the Senate calendar. Action at this session of Congress ap pears unlikely.. Profs Address Metals Society Prof. John A. Sauer, head. of engineering mechanics,; and.-Prof. Joseph Marin will appear before groups. of the American Society of Metals next Wednesday and Thursday at Cleveland. - . Dr. Marin, professor of engi neering mechanics, will tell the welding research committee of the Welding Society the results of an experiment done at the College which tested the mec hanical properties of w i'l ted spheres. • ’ . The object of the tests, made at temperatures as low as -60 de grees, was to determine what effect temperature had on the brittle properties of materials.-'. , Professor Sauer will present a paper dealing with research ori the effect of static stress on the fatigue properties of aluminum. The research was done in the College’s mechanics laboratory, largely through the efforts of Prof., Phillip K. Roos and Don C. Lemon. . "• Mr.. Lemon, co-author of the paper, is now an engineer with General" Electric Co; at Lynn, Mass.' ", Today . . . The Nittany Lion Roars FOR John Erickson and all the brothersand pledges of the Alpha Tau Qmega fraternity. For the second successive year, ATO won the Homecom ing Week fraternity lawn dis play competition, Saturday. Erickson, house "vice presi dent in charge of ,ideas." dreamed, up the unusual and original, is "ATOmic County Fair" idea which won the cov eted Alumni Association tro phy. His cohorts executed the Plan well. » ,V A large growl for alt the ' ATO'*. - - Wtp Sailtj 0 (Mlrgiatt I .HE “FOR A BETTER PENN STATE" VOL. 50 NO. 18 Politicos Outline Plans $46,000 Given For Research The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees approved contracts for research grants totaling more than $46,000 at its weekend meeting. A new agreement between the College and the American Iron and Steel Institute provides $lB,- 000 for a fundamental study of phase diagrams involving iron oxide. The work will be con ducted' under the direction of Dr. Elburt F. Osborn, professor of geochemistry and head •of the department of earth sciences. An agreement with the Ameri can Viscose Company was com pleted which provides a grant of $15,000 for a study of acceler ated aging tests for textile fab rics. The work was started seven years ago and is conducted by the Ellen Richards Institute un der the direction of Dr. Pauline B. Mack, director of the Institute. . Research • work -in penicillin will be continued under grants of $3,000 apiece from the Abbott L ab oratories, Eli Lilly Co., Parke-Davis Co., and the Upjohn Co. ■ The work is conducted in the School of Agriculture and Chem istry: and Physics under the di rection of Dr. Robert W. Stone, head of the department of bac teriology. A sl2oo' grant from the Ed ward Orton Jr. Ceramics Foun dation provides-a fellowship which .has been awarded to Rich ard M. Smith, of Harrisburg. PSCA Competer Harshbarger, A By RAY BENFER Perm State Christian Associa tion can well .boast of a staff of competent,£educated,- and well travelled personnel: as evidenced by the background of its execu tive . secretary;- Luther •Harsh barger, and its associate secre tary, Marjorie Allen. . The charming and versatile Miss Allen came to Penn State 'irirthe. fall 0f.1948j and has been .kejryingv capably in that position 'ever/.sihee; .The . CAer’s refer to “Marge”' as the “gal' from ‘ down Texas, way,” for she was bom in the Lone Star State, in the heart of the ■ thriving metropolis of Dallas. In her youth, she was quite active in her Methodist church group. MaTge entered Southern Meth odist University, Dallas, where she majored in English and re ceived- a BA degree in that course in 1941. The associate secretary took graduate work in Ameri can literature at the University of Texas, Austin, and taught a class of ..freshman ’English, Since then, Marjorie has work ed for American Airlines as re servations agent in Dallas, travel ed with a voluntary peace cara van under sponsorship ' of the ‘American Friends Service Com mittee, and served as college secretary for AFSC in the New England region. In June, 1947, she traveled to Europe as a member of the Quaker International Voluntary Service, spending ten weeks in a Belgium work camp and four weeks in-Germany. Upon her re turn, she was assigned the job of acting director of the University of Texas \ VWCA. , . Harshbarger, an ordamed min ister of the Church of the Breth ren, joined the staff on Septem ber 1. He was bom in Mifflin County, attended Lewistown and McVeytown High Schools. ; Harshbarger attended Millers ville State Teachers College, Bethany seminary, McPherson , (Continued on page fow>) STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1949 The Winner . . . . ATO Repeats, Cops Frat Display Honors All attempts to take the cov eted Alumni trophy for the best Homecoming lawn display away from Alpha Tau Omega failed Saturday as the “ATOmic Coun ty Fair” took top honors. Sigma Chi and Alpha Zeta came closest to defeating last year’s winner, placing second and third respectively, but danc ing girls, “Doc Bedenk’s” snake oil for football ills, costumed cornhuskers, and ersatz corn whiskey all blended into a fair setting, proved to be the undoing of other .efforts and the trophy remains with ATO.. Sigma Chi’s bid for recogni tion included a large barrage bal loon painted to resemble an ine briated whale of the Walt Disney variety which spouted water con tinually, 'and a giant beer mug together with inscriptions appro priate to the theme: “Beat Ne braska-Welcome Alumni.” A manure spreader, drawn by a model “A” and shadowed by a giant, lion-bearing rocket, adorned the. front lawn of Alpha Zeta along with a livestock ex hibit including a cow and chick ens. Judging of the contest, was originally scheduled for last Fri day night, but was postponed un til 10 a.m. Saturday morning as a result of heavy rains. fly Staffed; len Lead Group C. A. Associate Secretary , Marjorie Allen Firm Buys Texts ■ A representative of Head lee's Book Store of Pittsburgh will be at the Book Exchange in the Tub this afternoon from 12 to 4:30 and tomorrow from 8:30 to 3 to purchase used text books, Marilyn Mahla and Dick Evans, BX co-chairmen, an nounced today. Students will be able to sell books no longer in use at the College, as well as regular texts, the chairmen explained. All used books at the BX which have not been sold and have not been picked up by their owners will be sold to the com pany and the cash refunded to the owners. All book refunds must be picked up at the BX at once, the ‘chairmen stated. Receipts must be preseated. Lion, State Parties Continue Nominations The Lion party will get into the jyng early for the forthcom ing freshman and sophcmore class elections, with preliminary nominations scheduled for this Sunday evening. About 500 members of the clique jammed 121 Sparks Sun day evening as leaders for the freshman and sophomore divis ions' of the party were named to guide the battle in the Nov. 15 balloting. . .Clique Chairman Morton Smt zer said early naming of candi dates would give them a chance to get to know the student body well before the election. Walter Vilsmeier, who had been nominated at a meeting the previous Sunday, was elected as chairman of - the sophomore di vision. George Glazer was select ed for vice-chairman and Leon ard Wargo was named secretary treasurer. ' Pete Carraway was named as chairman for the freshman wom en, to be assisted by June Ger net, vice-chairman, and Joyce Bair, secretary-treasurer. Vilsmeier, following his elect ion, told the meeting he would contribute his ‘“best efforts” to the party. Better Representation Snitzer predicted after the two-hour meeting that the Lion party candidates would. offer a better representation of a cross section of the campus in the class elections. .. . Final nominations for class officers will be made a week after Sunday’s meeting Snitzer announced. The campaign offi cially will open about ten days before the election. The Lion party at present con trols elective All-College and junior and senior class posts. Vic tory in the Nov. 15 voting would give the party control of all four classes as well as two more seats on All-College Cabinet. UWF Organizes Local Chapter Plans for organizing a student chapter of United World Feder alists at the College will be com pleted at a meeting of the local chapter in the library of the High School at 8 p.m. tomorrow. • Student attendance and inter est will make possible the estab lishment of an active organiza tion which students requested last year. Dues will be cut in half for the new chapter members. At present, the organization con sists. of. townspeople, faculty and students. Interest first began in such a movement at the College in the spring of 1948, after Norman Cousins, at Community Forum, delivered a lecture on the sub ject. The chapter gained in mem bership until' it is now possible' to divide into two bodies. George Brehman, a student who was active in UWF last year, set up these .five pre-requi sites of a world government at one of the chapter meetings: One that would have power to pro hibit by force, wars between na tions;' control of atomic warfare; limitations on the size of atomic warfare; limitations on the size of armed forces; source of reve nue for the support of the federa tion; and, a sound world econ omic system. Ben Seem, acting chairman of the local chapter, asks that stu dents enter the High School building by the entrance on Fair mont avenue and Frazier street. PRICE FIVE CENTS The State party will continue its policy of representative vot ing within the clique for the sophomore, junior and senior classes, Acting Chairman Joel Fleming announced Sunday eve ning. ' * The announcement followed a vote by the party that evening at its meeting in 10 Sparks, at which representation procedure within the party was modified. Only in the case of freshmen women—who, according to Flem ing, would be unable to pack a meeting—will the' representative system be dropped, the party de cided. New Voting Method It was reported in Saturday’s Collegian that representative voting would be dropped by the entire clique. Under the new modification, freshman women will not be re quired to obtain signed petitions to vote at party meetings, and thus will represent only them selves. The previous method pro vided that everyone who voted must have a petition with signa tures of 20 persons he was to represent. A representative for the sopho more, junior and senior class now will be required to have only ten signatures on his petition, the party decided. Nomination and election of clique officers was postponed un til a meeting to be held this Sun day evening. A chairman, vice chairman, secretary-treasurer and a chairman for each of the four classes are to be named. , ,The following Sunday, prelimi nary' nominations for the Nov. 15 freshman and sophomore class elections are to be held. Dates Chanced Off The party, decided last night to chance off-dates for freshman women with three top leaders of the party for this Friday evening, the first weekend night that freshman women will be allowed to date. Fleming and Tribunal Chairman Robert Keller already have announced they will serve as dates for the three winning freshmen. Organization of the party was outlined at Sunday’s meeting. Members of the party themselves will have the final voice in all matters, but advisory capacity will be exercised by a steering committee composed of the seven elective officers and a varying numbr of appointive officers. The number of appointive offi cers will depend on the magni tude of elections to be held. News Briefs Penn State Club The Penn State Club, inde pendent men’s organization, will meet in 405 Old Main at 7 o’clock tonight. Froth Candidates Candidates for the Froth pro motion staff should be presents at a meeting in the Froth office, 6 Carnegie Hall, at 7 o’clock to night. La Vie Art Staff There will be a LaVie art staff meeting on the second floor of Engineering F at 7 o’clock to night. Those interested in work ing on the staff should attend. AIM-Leonides Staff There will be a meeting of AIM-Leonides independent news paper staff in 410 Old Main afc 7:15 tonight. (Continued ou page four)
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