I , ilCili; PC_Ai it Oft Batty Collegian , Successor to THE. FREE LANCE, eat. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-class natter July 5, 1934, at the State College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879. Collegian editorials represent the viewpoint of the writers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper.. lila signed editorials are by the editor. Dave PeUnits rttsaa. Franklin Kelly Editor Business Mgr. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor: Janie Reber; Copy Editors: Chiz Mathias, Lu Martin; Assistants, Elly Rakosi, Mary Angel, Herman Weiskopf. Ad Staff: Dick Smith, Flo Rosenthal, Frances Crawford. Spring Week Most Successful Yet The parades, contests, houseparties, and carn ival may be over, but the 1952 Spring Week will go down in history as the best at Penn State, at least until next year. It would be impossible to %give credit here to all who deserve it for making the week as successful as it was. Let it be enough to say that James Geffert, Spring Week chairman, and his whole committee should get the wholehearted thanks of the Penn State stu dent body. And thanks go, too; to all the groups who took part in the celebration. Naturally, however, there were mistakes. No one could expect an undertaking of the size of Spring Week to go through to completion without some faults. But the future Spring Week committees can profit by these mistakes. Except for the rain which forced the cancel lation of the parade scheduled to precede the crowning of Miss Penn State, that ceremony went off without a hitch. On Tuesday however, the committee hit its first snags. First of all, there was a lot of confusion during the foiming of the costume parade. It has been suggested that this can be eliminated in the future by marking off each group's starting place with whitewash. In order to make the parade even bigger next year, it might be a good idea to allow auto mobile-drawn floats. This year's rules prohibi ted automobiles altogether, chiefly with the idea in mind that more inventiveness might be shown by forbidding automotive floats. By allowing power-pulled floats, however, the en trants could go even further with their ideas. Later in the evening, during the finals for the He-Man contest, several contestants were disqualified because spectators got in the way. We suggest that in the future, the course to be used for the contest be roped off to keep the viewers from interfering with the com petition. Wednesday's Mad-Hatter contest was a spark ling feature of an eventful week. However, be cause of the unusually large interest shown in the finals, the crowds were so great that many people found it difficult to watch the final judging. Perhaps some arrangement for this in the future can be made. Sparked by fine weather for the first time in the four year history of the event, the Spring Carnival was a smashing success in more ways than one. The student holiday was another reason for the outstanding attendance at the affair, and we think that every measure possible should be taken to secure such a holiday every year. But at the carnival possible improvements were also obvious. Despite the larger area, it was almost impossible to move around as the evening progressed. An even larger area in which to hold the event would be desirable. The electric power shortage which forced the closing of at least one carnival attraction and which greatly hampered several others should be taken into consideration in the fu ture. In addition, a larger supply of tickets should be laid in after this to prevent the embarrassment of running out of them as occurred on Thursday. But these mistakes were for the most part minor ones—little growing pains. Geffert has stated that p erh a p s they could have been avoided if the Spring Week committee had been appointed much earlier in the year. Besides being able to Iron out these smaller difficul ties, it would be possible, Geffert said, to gain some national publicity for the event. Although Spring Week and the carnival in particular were a great success the reports of missing tarpaulins from the construction sites on campus detract from the praise due the student body. Workmen at the library construction have reported to the campus patrol that students were seen walking off with a large tarpaulin after they had asked -to borrow it and had been refused. A second tarpaulin was taken from the Rec reation Hall construction and another from the site of the new chemistry building. Things like this do much to detract from the goodwill and respect 'students earn by putting on displays such as the ones which made the whole Spring Week outstanding. Once again things can settle down to being a little more normal. But we'll be looking forward to Spring Week next year, and at the same time feeling sorry for the new Spring Week committee. It will have quite a bit to live up to. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE PENNSYLVANIA Steel Dispute Hinges On Supreme Court The steel wage dispute, which has been stale mated while awaiting the Supreme Court deci sion, will probably effect some momentous de cisions in the history of the United States. The dispute all started when the steel mill owners were unable to get together with Philip Murray's steelworkers. In order to avoid a major crisis, President Truman made use of his so-called inherent powers to seize the mills. The Wage Stabilization Board came into the complicated play when it recommended that the steelworkers get a 17 1 / 2 -cent-an-hour wage boost plus nine cents more in price benefits. Now CIO spokesman Philip Murray, who is willing to accept the WSB's full recolinmenda tion, has come out and emphatically stated that the union will not compromise further with the mill owners. This leaves the whole mess up to the Supreme Court decision. If it rules that President Tru man's seizure of the mills is unconstitutional, the mills will be returned to private industry: this would almost immediately bring a strike of CIO steelworkers. The only reason the steel workers are on their jobs now is because they are technically government employees and as such cannot legally strike. If this happens, President Truman could use the Taft-Hartley law to' delay the strike for an additional 80 days. After the 80-day cooling off period of the Taft-Hartley law, to stop the strike it would be necessary for Congress to give' the Presi dent statutory emergency powers under which private industry has been seized in the mills. However, if the court rules Truman's action illegal, it seems unlikely that Congress would take such action except if extremely urgent. Safety Valve-- Unlawfully Elected AIM President Attacks Collegian Editor's Stand TO THE EDITOR: Your editorial last Satur day about the AIM Board- of Governors was not called for nor •was it justified. Also, some parts I believe were directed at me, personally. AIM makes mistakes as anyone else does but it seems that in your eyes the mistake was in trying to remain an independent group, gov erned as it sees fit and by its own policy, not the policy directed toward it by a campus "honorary. " This is the second time, to my knowledge, that this has happened. Circum stances were different but the result intended was the same. Also, it seems that in the past the policy for Collegian has been to tear down the slightest move that AIM made toward bettering its or ganization and student government. I could cite'a few instances but for brevity's sake I will not. I hope in the future the Collegian will help bolster AIM by providing due publicity on social events and happenings of the AIM board and by doing this will help the inde pendent men and women on campus to become more - closely unified. I'M sorry that this had to come to a head in AIM but instead of being ostracized I think the members of the AIM board should be con- gratulated 'for standing up for themselves and the right to do as they, themselves, see fit for the improvement of independent functions on campus. For the AIM board this matter is closed! The clique is disbanded and AIM is once again it self, but if such a thing shbuld happen again I'm sure AIM will stand up and fight back to remain independent independents. —Frank Reese Gazette . . Tuesday, May 20 ALPHA DELTA SIGMA pled g e meeting, Delta Tau Delta, 9 p.m. CLOVER CLUB.. meeting, 111 Plant Indus tries, 7:30 p.m. COLLEGIAN ADVERTISING junior and in termediate staff meeting, 9 Carnegie, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN EDITORIAL junior and senior board meeting, 2 Carnegie, 7 p.m. • ENGINEERING STUDENT COUNCIL, Infor mal mixer, 7 p.m., Tau Kappa Epsilon HELLENIC SOCIETY meeting, election of officers, TUB, 1 p.m. MARKETING CLUB. election of officers, Sigma Chi, 7 p.m. NEWMAN CLUB movie, "A Bell for Adano," 110 Electrical Engineering, 7:15 p.m. PENN STATE CLUB meeting, 405 Old Main, 7 PRE-VET meeting, .106 Agricultural, 7 p.m. DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB, TUB; 6A5 p.m. COLLEGE HOSPITAL Gelda Antokolitz, Semih Cayli, Robert Doug las. Evelyn Horwin, Homer Kesler, Jack Kirk patrick, Lois Walken, Ronald Zwieganbaum. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Boy for lunch counter work. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. daily. Man for part time engineering work for summer. Drawing facility required. Part time or full time drafting jobs. Work for room and board for summer or for summer and fall. Boys for work on College farms Wednesday and/or Thursday. Opportunity for foreign student to work in western section of country. Housework. Room, board, transportation, and good salary offered. Agricultural instructor to Vork in camp in Penna. Counselor in wild life, outdoor sports, conservation, to work in State College area camp. Couple for local summer employment. COLLEGE PLACEMENT Peck Hotel System representative will interview June grad uates in. Accounting and Hotel Administration May 22. —Chuck Henderson Little Man On "What-ya-say we circulate a rumor that the best way to kee ism' from being taught in schools is to pay teachers capitalist Alternating Currents Many a student who finds his bank account now dehydrated would have gladly changed places with any resident of Hutchinson, Kans., for an hour last Wednesday morning. For the town of Hutchinson was transplanted from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Wednesday back into the good old days when a 'dollar was a dollar. Prices were rolled back to levels of 1902 for that hour. The - roll- back was part of a city-wide cele bration in connection with the premiere of a movie filmed in Hutchinson last summer. For instance, merchants adver tised popular phonograph records at the 1902 price of 39 cents as compared with the current tag of 89 cents. A laundry did shirts for 11 cents. Men's summer suits were down to $15.95 and men's dress shirts, $2.29. Hollywood stars Jean Peters and Hugh Marlowe as well as Produc er George Jessel took part in the carnival atmosphere. The film, "Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nel lie," was shown for the first tithe Wednesday afternoon. The theme of the price roll back, hitching onto the name of the movie, was, "Nellie never had it so good." Merchants in the city of 35,000 5 O'clock Group To End Season Five O'clock Theater will pre sent as its final play of the sea son "Running Wild, "= by Eileen Malley, fifth semester liberal arts student. • The play will be presented script-in-hand at 5 p.m. today in the Little Theater, basement of Old Main. Admission is free. Cast includes Velma Kaiser ; Doris Leventhal, and John 'Anis ton. Marily Stewart will direct and Donald Colbert will be technical director. • -'" 48 Attend Military Radio Conference Forty-eight members and guests attended the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Military Ama teur Radio Service operators held at the College Sunday. The work and communications system of the Corps of Engineers in the Susquehanna river basin was outlined by Willard J. Pren tice, civilian representative of the Army Corps of Engineers. Walter C. Bunch represented the Department of the Army at the conference. He served the conference in- an advisory capa city. Campus By JULIE IBBOTSON population checked through news paper advertisements of 50 years ago, in preparation for' the event. Women shoppers were, able to buy a pair of nylon hose at 39 cents—just what the 1902 miss paid for cotton lisle. A shopper could ' buy ginger snaps for a nickel a pound, or walk out of a store with $1.50 silk neckties for 35 cents. Naturally merchants lost mon ey. "Mostly they went along for the fun of it," said Lou Reussner, chairman of the retail merchants committee.' He adrnitted, too, that a shop per would have had to be of sound, mind and limb to hit all Of the 24 participating stores in the hoUr between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. Two Foreign Agriculturists Visit Campus A German farm management specialist And a research project leader ilrbin - Japan recently visit ed the ,School of Agriculture. Ingo Loebroks, the German vis itor from the University of , Bonn, is spending a year in the United States studying f arm manage ment. While at Penn State, Loe broks devoted most of ;his atten tion to . the agricultural extension service, chiefly in the use of vis ual aids for farm faniilies. Katsuzo Kakara, research proj ect lader at the National Institute of Agriculture" Sciences, Chi b a, Japan, was' interested primarily in forage crops and pasture im provement to develop better live stock and poultry for his country. Other scientists are scheduled to ' visit the College during the summer months, A. L. Beam, di rector of short courses, said. Beam explained that the foreign scientists review specific research programs as part of the exchange of information with the Penn State personnel in the Agricul ture Experiment Station. Penn State has had a large number of visiting scientists because - of the wide ,diversity of research under way, he said. TUESDAY, 'MAY - 20; 1952 By Bibler 'Wejfir wagei."
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