Photo by LEN-BOY
Morton Snitzer, retiring All-College clique chairman of the Lion
party, pointing out the facts of politics to campus politicos Sunday
night in. 121 Sparks. Both State and Lion parties held meetings
preliminary to election of clique officers next week.
Seats Still Available For
Lecture Tomorrow Night
Tickets are still available
for the Community Forum
lecture to be presented by
Dr. Ira DeA. Reid tomorrow
evening at 8 o'clock in Schwab
Auditorium. They may be
purchased at Student Union
for $l. The sale will continue
until the time of the lecture.
Dr. Reid; who has written sev
eral books concerning the race
question, will speak on "The
American Race System: Democ
racy's Dilemma."
Bridges
Sen. Styles Bridges, of New
Hampshire, was originally sche
duled to speak at this date, but
was forced to cancel his lecture
because of a sudden attack of vi
rus pneumonia.- The Community
Forum Committee is seeking his
return for either the March or
April lecture date.
Dr.. Reid is the fourth in a
series of outstanding men already
brought :to the College by the
Community Forum. He was pre
viously slated for the Mar. 30
date, "but was moved ahead to re
place Senator Bridges.
Professor of sociology at Hay
&ford College since 1947, -Dr.
Reid is a..member of the execu
tive committee of the American
Sociological Society. He is also
a member of the Federal Advisory
Committee on Employment Se
curity of the Department of
Labor.
Negro Week
Starts Monday
With the approval of the All-
College Cabinet Thursday night,
Negro History Week will begin
Monday, Feb. 27, and continue
through Sunday, Mar. 5. The
week's dates were changed from
Feb. 20-26 since Dr. William E.
B. Dußois, key speaker, will be
unable to appear until Mar. 3.
The week is sponsored by
NAACP and directed by a coor
dinating committee representing
nine campus organizations includ
ing NAACP, All-College Cabinet,
PSCA, Daily Collegian, YPA,
Pan-Hel, AIM, IFC, and Nittany-
Pollack Council. Chairman of the
committee is Julian Cook.
'The American Negro'
Dr. Dußois, sociologist and his
torian from New York, will speak
on "The American Negro, 1865-
1950." The address will be in 121
Sparks at 8 p.m. Friday, Mar. 3.
A panel discussion , entitled
"The Professor An aly z es the
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Tqday's Weather:
Cloudy, milder,
with rain or snow
Bulletin
At an open vieeting last night,
All-College Cabinet accepted
the College ring design that it
approved at a previous ineeting.-
The design is now the property
of the College and will become
the standard class ring design.
Student News
Agency Offer
Subscriptions
Students rrray still obtain sub
scriptions for. Sunday papers
through the Student News Agen
cy. First deliveries were made
Sunday and will continue each
Sunday for the rest of the se
mester.
The following Sunday papers
are available through the agen
cy: New York Times, New York
Herald Tribune, New York News,
New York Mirror Scrantonian,
Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadel
phia Bulletin, Pittsburgh Press,
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, and
the Harrisburg Patriot News.
Students may place subsciip
tions by seeing the agent in their
vicinity. These agents .are: Her
bert Basselman, Dorm 36,, rodin
24 Howard Millei“-EiOrrn , 29,
room 21; Sue Sell, 446 Simmons;
Mary Ann Malicki, 445 Simmons;
Nicky Taylor, 30 Atherton:. Jo
Waterhouse, 29 Atherton; Irene
Jeffress, 416 McAllister: and
Winifred Wyant and Joyce-Moy
er; 220 McElwain.
Late AP News Courtesy WMAJ
o.s,Sreoks
With Bulgaria _
WASHINGTON—The State De
partment officially broke diplo
matic relatiOns • yesterday with
Communist Bulgaria. The Bul
garians had persisted in attacks
on the American minister, Donald
Heath, and his legation. This
break, however, won't stop the
latest purge trial in Bulgaria.
Five more citizens, chaiged with
spying for the United States, are
still to be tried.
Contract or Seizure
WASHINGTON—A spokesman
for the striking coal miners yes
terday said they will go back to
work only if they get a contract
or if the government seizes the
mines. As the walkout continues,
layoffs in industries using coal
have reached more than 55,000
men. One steel company reports
that if the strike doesn't end by
tomorrow, 23,000 more men will
be out of work.
Eittitg Tottragiatt
'VOL. 50 - NO. 85 STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1950
Milton Eisenhower To Visit
The College Next Monday
An Open Letter
Tonight at 9 o'clock over shortwave radio, a 350-word message
from the students at the College will be sent to Milton S. Eisen
hower, president-elect of Penn State. The message will be sent
by W3YA, College amateur radio station, to yvoana, its student
counterpart at Kansas State College.
The message represents a consolidation of many submitted by
student
. groups this week. On a Cabinet committee to assemble
the messages were Shirley Gauger, WSGA president; Harry Mc-
Mahon, Ali-College vice-president; Peter Giesey, IFC president.
and Thomas Morgan, Daily Collegian editor. The message follows:
State College, Pa.
February 21, 1950
Dear Dr. Eisenhower,
Ten ihousand students sending a communication, by
amateur shortwave radio, 900 miles to a college president is
no doubt unusual. • But these are not .ordinary times, we are
students at an unusual college, and we feel confident you will
make an extraordinary president for Penn State.
Evidently we are not alone in this• feeling. Witness the
glowing statements made about you to the press by Kansans
and non-Kansans, educators and non-educators, Penn Staters
and pon-Penn Staters. All of them have been packed with
enthusiasm and well-wishes that overflow and become in
fdctuous and multiply. Nary a one borders on the side of the
uncomplimentary. ,
- It is evident to us, too, that our College Board of Trustees
think you will be an extraordinary Nittany president. Other
wise they
, would have chosen someone else. We doubt if the
Trusteei, 'whn thiy thOught about their decision to appoint
you, could scarcely 'predict or anticipate the magnitude of
the favorable reaction that has overwhelmed the students,,
the faculty, the College-whole and the town. It has swamped
and shaken the Nittany Valley.
Tied up inextricably with this happy reaction is the fact
that the majority of the student body have been attending
Penn State in a period when it's been without a permanent
president. Most of our number who went to school during
the tenure of the late Dr. Ralph Dorn Hetzel—or better still,
who knew him—have graduated.
Consider our senior class, for example; most of the mid
century class came to State as sophomores in 1947. Then,
unfortunately for the College and• the student, President
Hetzel died at the outset of the '47-'4B year.
Since you'll not be assuming the job of Penn State bops
until July, the class of '5O, ivho'll be counted among our 40,000
alumni by that time, will just miss you. But the rest of us
will be here, and among our number are thousands who are
connoisseurs, of good milkshakes.
We understand you like them too> We hope you'll take
time off to have one—figuratively of course—with all 10,000
of us.
WSSF Names
$5OOO Goal
The annual, drive of the World
Student Service Fund• will be
launched Monday, Feb. 27, an
nounced Jane Kelley, co-publicity
chairman. This year's goal for the.
six-day campaign has been set at
$5,000.
The 'aim and purpose of the
WSSF is to aid universities a
broad. It serves in Europe and
Asia without discrimination as to
race, politics or religion. Aid
given falls into five major cate
gories: food, clothing, medical
aid, books and housing. The Fund
also encourages and supports
student self-help projects in
countries where it operates.
"The • goal •of $5,000 could be
realized,' stated Miss Kelley. "if
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'TOR A BETTER PENN STATE"
Sincerely,
The Students and Their
Organizations, at The •
Pennsylvania State College
News Briefs
/RC
Dr. Robert T. Oliver, head of
the department of speech, will
speak at a meeting of the Inter
national Relations Club in the
recreation room of McElwain Hall
at 7:30' tonight. The public is in
vited to attend and refreshments
Will be served.
Life With Father
The advertising crew of "Life
With Father" will meet in the
loft of Schwab Auditorium at 8
o'clock tonight.
Fee Collection
Fees for the present semester
will be collected in the bursar's
office in Willard Hall on Mar.
a and 3 1 fro a.m. to 4 p.m.
Students Plan
Welcome
.For
New President
Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, pres
ident-elect of the College, will
make his first official Erisit here
Monday.
He will meet the student body
for the first time in a welcome
mass meeting scheduled for 4:30
p.m. on the steps of Old Main.
Dr. Eisenhower, currently pres
ident of Kansas State College,
will became president of Penn
State July 1.
He agreed to spend the day
here while in the East to speak
before the Pennsylvania Manu
facturers' Association Tuesday in
Philadelphia, the president's of
fice announced yesterday. Plans
for the student mass meeting are
being formulated , by Ted Allen,
president of All-College Cabinet.
Classes and laboratory work
Monday will be suspended from
4:10 to 5 p.m. to allow students
and faculty members to attend
the meeting, the president's of
fice reported. In addition, per
mission will be granted for
closing of offices and other Col
lege operations "whiCh can be
closed without suspension_ of vi
tal services."
James Milholland, president of
the board of trustees and acting
president of the College, also
will be on campus Monday and
probably will introduce Dr. Eisen
hower at the meeting. Both are
scheduled to stay at the presi
dent's house on campus.
Dr. Eisenhower is expected to
arrive here late Sunday night.
He and Milholland will leave
here Monday evening for the
PMA dinner the following eve
ning, which also will be attend
ed by persons prominent in
Pennsylvania public and educa
tion circles. Dr. Eisenhower will
deliver the main address at the
dinner, described by the PMA as
its welcome to the new College
president.
Permission
Inclusion of the mass meeting
on Dr. Eisenhower's schedule was
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The Nittany Lion Roars
FOR Milton Eisenhower,
president-elect of the College.
The new head man will make
his first official appearance on
campus Monday. Students will
have an opportunity to see Eis
enhower at a mass meeting
scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Monday
afternoon in front of Old Main.
The noted educator has a
long and distinguished career
behind him, and much is ex
pected when he takes over the
reins of the administration July
1.
The Lion takes this oppor
tunity to be the first to wel
come "Milt" by roaring out a
long-stifled cry of "welcome'.
to our long overdue president.