TODAY'S WEATHER; /"Jl TTI.A4.if 4 * rt ff' jl ¥-*♦ &♦ FOR A BETTER FAOIARDCORTn.DED \yX\K 13aUy yUUirglaU ESTATE VOL. 51 No. 68 Cabinet To Vote On Daily Collegian Fee All-College cabinet is scheduled to vote tonight on the pro posed 35-cent per semester increase in the Daily Collegian assess ment to enlarge news content of the newspaper. Present and estimated future budgets of the Collegian—an nounced yesterday—showed that total expenditure for a school year under the expansion program would be $32,958 on the basis of present printing costs. Antici pated costs from wage increases and boosts in the price of news print could raise this figure by $lOOO. The proposal to increase the assessment to $l.lO per semester was tabled at the last cabinet meeting, to be brought up to night. If it is passed twice by two-thirds of cabinet, the plan will go to the College board of trustees for final approval. Budgets The budgets announced yester day by Owen Landon, business manager, were these: 1. A revised budget for the current school year on the basis of three four-page issues and two eight-page issues per week. 2. A budget sketching out what the budget for this year would have been if an eight-page paper were being printed daily with $l.lO assessment. Present yearly expenditure of $26,242 would be more than $7OOO below the probable cost of $33,- 958 per year for an expanded paper, absorbing increases due to inflationary price rises, Landon said. Printing costs would in crease from $21,572 to $27,288, he said. Collegian Budgets Present Budget With Increase EXPENDITURES Printing Three 4-page issues a week $336.15 Two 8-page issues a week $341.10 Yearly printing cost (32 wks.) Yearly printing cost (32 wks.) $21,572.00 ' $27,288.00 Photos and engravings Associated Press news Materials and supplies Circulation costs Telephone and telegraph * Editorial features Promotion Annual banquet Keys and shingles ' Compensation for 28 senior board members TOTALS (Possible inflationary cost rises) Assessment National advertising Local advertising Subscriptions Classified TOTALS Late AP News Courtesy WMAJ— Sinclair Lewis Dies In Rome ROME—Sinclair Lewis, Ameri can novelist, died here yesterday at the age of 65 from bronchial pneumonia. Lewis, a native of Sauk Center, Minnesota, wrote 22 books, most of them best-sellers. “Main Street,” published in 1920, was his first big success. In 1930, the book “Babbitt” won the Nobel Prize. This March, his latest book “World So Wide” is to be pub lished. Revised UMT Proposed WASHINGTON—A new plan is underway to combine Universal Military Training with actual service in the armed forces. De fense Secretary Marshall and his Chief Manpower Aide, Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, stated that the pro gram would make all physically fit 18-year-olds liable for 27 months of actual military service. . Landon noted that the $21,572 figure was well above the $19,- 997.50 set aside in the original budget for this^year, which was drawn up last spring, because of an increase in circulation at the start of the current semester. Meanwhile, Dean Gladfelter, editor, stressed yesterday that the proposal would have to re ceive its first approval tonight if it were to go through cabinet in time to be considered by the trustees at their meeting next week-end. Further delay would make it impossible for the trus tees to consider the plan before their June meeting, he said. Total income of Collegian would rise from $26,400 to $35,- 280 if the expansion is approved, Landon’s budgets showed. This would leave a margin of safety of only $1,322 after absorbing anticipated price rises. Enrollment Drop Landon said this margin would be wiped out completely if Col lege enrollment should drop 1,000 next semester, pointing out that 425 students already have left school and that about 600 are expected to be graduated this (Continued on page two) Printing Five 8-page issues a week $852.75 Present Budget 400.00 200.00 400.00 450.00 220:00 ’ 150.00 150.00 180.00 120.00 2400.00 26,242.00 TOTAL INCOME 14,000.00 4000.00 7000.00 500.00 900.00 26,400.00 Councils Convene, Hold Discussions Mineral Industries, Liberal Arts, and Engineering councils met Tuesday night to vote on various topics under discuss.ion in their schools. The Mineral Industries student council took no official vote on the proposed Collegian assess ment at its meeting because of lack of a quorum. The Liberal Arts student coun cil accepted a proposal made by Edward Shanken, president, that the council, in co-operation with Prof. J. F. O’Brien of the speech department, sponsor a series of debates on various controversial subjects. The first topic will be: “Resolved, that graduating sen iors be exempted from final ex aminations.” Students active in campus ac tivities will be asked to partici pate in the debates. The Engineering student coun cil voted against, the proposed Collegian assessment for the sec ond time Tuesday night. STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11. 1951 Eisenhower Players Open Antigone In Schwab Tonight Players’ production of “The An tigone of Sophocles,” first Greek play to be staged on campus in more than 15 years,-will open night in Schwab auditorium at 8 o’clock. Tickets, priced at 60 cents for tonight’s performance and $1 for Friday and Saturday, may be purchased at the Student Union desk. The play was written about 441 B.C. and is considered an excel lent example of Sophocles’ ma ture study of character. Antigone accepts death as the penalty for burying the body of her brother, who has been killed in an attack upon Thebes and hence is refused burial by the , city. Ann Wahl Grant, star in “Pri vate Lives,” the Noel Coward farce which broke all attendance records at Center stage in Octo ber, appears as “Antigone.” Newell Stark plays “Creon,” king of Thebes, who represents the authority of the state in ord ering Antigone’s death. Increase 800.00 400.00 600.00 550.00 220.00 250.00 150.00 180.00 120.00 2400.00 32,958.00 1000.00 33,958.00 Joada Oswalt is “Ismene,” Hel en Jaskol, “Eurydice,” Donald Colbert, “Haimon,” and Robert Klein, “Tiresias.” 22,380.00 3500.00 8000.00 500.00 900.00 Other supporting players are Peter Farrell as the Choragus, Robert Flick as the messenger, and Moylan Mills as the sentry. Ceiga To Play Organist George Ceiga has com posed four movements which will be incorporated at the beginning of the play to set the mood for the production. Members of the chorus are Richard Anderson, Herbert Arn old, John Cohen, Thomas Farrell, Jack Garretson-Butt, Edward Gi rod, Thomas Kearns, Lowell Kel ler, Thomas Lucas, John Pak kanen, Bernard Rolfe, William Sullivan, Walter Vail, and Max Williams. 35,280.00 The play is directed by War ren Smith and the chorus by Rob ert Reifsneider. Max Peters To Speak To Penn Valley Ski Club Max Peters of State College, amateur instructor of the United States Eastern Amateur Ski as sociation, will speak to the Penn Valley Ski Club at its meeting in White hall tonight at 7:30. Peters, former captain of Penn State’s ski team, will speak on the Empire unified technique of skiing. . Ski films taken at the college slopes this year will be shown. Leads Cast Anne Wahl Grant Play By Sophocles Emergency Rec Noll Talk Scheduled For Wednesday At 4 p.m. President Milton S. Eisenhower will address the stu dents and faculty next week on the national emergency, Wil mer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs, announced yesterday. The President will speak at 4 o’clock Wednesday after noon in Recreation hall. Four o’clock classes will be dismissed Law Requires Postponement Of Inductions Local draft boards are required to postpone the induction of col lege students until June, 1951, according to the present law, Dean of Men H. K. Wilson point ed out yesterday. . The dean of men also said consideration is being given to the postponement of induction after June, 1951. This was con firmed by A. O. Morse, chairman of the • College committee on national defense problems. “General Hershey is working on.a plan,” Morse said, “but we don’t know what it will be.” The decision “is expected so o n,” Morse said. The dean of men made his statement on postponements in explaining an eight-point notice to students on draft regulations released by his. office yesterday. “Some' draft boards have not been aware of this regulation. If they order you to depart sooner, you should see the dean of men, who will notify the. board,” the notice said. Although- the notice used the term “deferred,” Morse said that the drafting of students would be “postponed” until June, 1951. The difference between “de ferred” and “postponed,” Morse (Continued on page two) Cabinet To Meet, Hear Chest Report All-College cabinet will hear the final report by the Campus chest committee and will be giv en results of the regional con vention of the National Student association tonight at 8 o’clock in 201 Old Main. Also on the agenda will be the appointment of Spring week co chairmen, the appointment of a drinking colloquy committee, re ports by the inaugural and activ ities card committees, and discus sion of customs. The recommendations for an increase in- the Daily Collegian’s student assessment is again on the agenda. College To Debate Mt. Mercy Coeds The annual College debate with Mount Mercy, postponed earlier this semester, will be held in 121 Sparks at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. Gerald Walmer and Paul Lit wak of the College debate squad will oppose two coeds from Mount Mercy on the topic, “Re solved: That single men should be taxed for the support of un married women.” The debate will be held in cross-examination style, with each team having opportunities to directly question its oppon ents. Professor J. F. O’Brien of the speech department will be chair man. FRICE FIVE CENTS for the convocation, Kenworthy said. President Eisenhower “will dis cuss the national emergency as it affects the College and par ticularly the students,” yester day’s brief anonuncement said. The President will attempt to answer some of the questions that have been directed at College officers from students in past weeks. “The President will cover those areas in which students have ask ed questions about draft calls, and the future of the college, as well as other problems,” Kenworthy said. The decision of the President to hold the convocation was prompted by the hasty action of some students and the doubts of others as the result of the present tense world situation, Kenworthy said. Precedent Set The convocation will not be •without precedent. Dr. Ralph D. Hetzel, then President of the Col lege, called a similar convocation a week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7. 1941. Dr. Hetzel spoke to the students at another special convocation in September, 1941, upon the re opening of the College for the 1941-42 school year. Dairymen Hear Eisenhower On Farmer's Role ■ President Milton S. Eisenhower gave his conception of the farm er’s role in the present emergen cy, in an address before the an nual Pennsylvania Dairymen’s as sociation banquet at Harrisburg last night. He said farmers should take the lead in advocating the reduc tion of non-defense expenditure by urging drastic cuts in appro priations to the Department of Agriculture. “We will never achieve a re duction in non-defense expendi tures if. each group feels that only other interest groups should have special services or benefits cur tailed,” he said. “I believe that farmers, cherishing the qualities of independence and initiative, are willing to lead the way in es tablishing a federal fiscal policy which will benefit the entire country.” The President said that Depart ment of Agriculture payments to farmers were begun to establish price parity, and that although parity levels had obtained gener ally for eight years, the payments still continued. He pointed to these payments as one of many inflationary pressures today tend ing to., unbalance the budget. “After all, inflation will ulti mately be followed by deflation, and no group in the country will suffer so much in a deflationary period as farmers,” he said. “The rural people of this country can benefit the nation and also pro tect their own future by insisting now on fiscal policies that will promote as great economic sta bility as is possible in a time of high defense expenditures.”
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