SATURDAY APRIL 3,-1954 Publisheu tuvsoa, through Saturday mornings. during the University rear. the Daily Collegian is a student. operated newspaper. !guttered ss second-class matter id, a. 034 at Ote State t..oliese. ea east Office under t DAVE JONES, Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Don Shoemaker; Copy editors, Phil Austin, Diehl McKalip; As sistant, Tom Smith. Ad staff, Mona Signorino, Fez Senrab. The New Inkling: A Writer's Laboratory Inkling, Penn State's annual attempt at a Penn State is no beehive of literary achieve literary magazine, goes on sale Monday for ment. This does not mean, however, there is no place for literary achievement at the Univer sity. To the contrary, it means the University— Each year since its recent birth, Inkling' has and all students--should profit from this type begun in financial difficulty. And each year )f publication. since its birth Inkling has 'overcome the finan- Too many technical students feel . Inkling cial barrier, only to meet lack of student in- holds nothing for them, yet too few 'of them terest. Unless some interest is forthcoming soon, ever, venture a look at its pages. And too many Inkling may join the ranks. of previous Penn liberal artists are unwilling to support the pub- State literary magazines that have fallen by lication which is more difficult to understand the wayside. . than Froth or the Daily Collegian. With over 1700 students in the, College of the Inkling is the laboratory for a .segment of the, Liberal Arts, and 7000 in colleges with lesser student body, just as Osmond is the laboratory interest toward Inkling, it should not be too for the physicist. The experiments we find in hard for the magazine to sell its 'BOO copies. Osmond are paid for as an integral part of the Yet, Inkling has not been popular. education. The experiments we find in Inkling Skeptics say there is no place for a literary must be sold to the student body. It is about magazine at Penn. State. These same skeptics time the student body -provides the 25-cent lab are those who feel the University must be a "fee for this experiment. The quality of Inkling technical and agricultural institution. Granted, deserves it. • On Cheesecake Legs are back this year. And it's all because of the Women's Student Government Associ ation. No longer will women students have to wear slickers over their Bermuda shorts. No longer will the fair sex complain about the inequali ties of the double standard. Bermuda shorts have been made legal But there's a catch. Shorts, are legal only for side entrances. Bermuda-clad femmes will be forced to sneakily sneak past the front doors into the unwatched, unmanned side portals. The reasoning: shorts in dormitory lobbies would be as disruptive as men in a women's phys ed class. Absurd! A little bit of cheesecake never caused indigestion. This is a modern world. Let's face it, hoop skirts are gone and legs are here to stay. Why hide our pride? After all, this is co-education. —Baylee Friedman and Mike Feinsiiber Past Air Chief Dies of Cancer WASHINGTON, April 2 (JP)—Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the handsome, youthful looking flying general who led the Air Force through some of its most trying postwar days, died of cancer today after a lingering illness. He was 55 and had spent .30 years in uniform. The last five were as- Air Force chief of staff. President Dwight D. Eisen hower said the nation will hold Vandenberg "in grateful remem brance" as a devoted and able military leader. The President's tribute added: "Gallant commander, a_ decade ago, of our tactical air force in northwest Europe; unswerving advocate of the precepts and cause of the United States Air Force; a forceful fighter for a strong national defense—General Vandenberg was a courageous and tireless leader. He has left a last ing imprint on the service he loved so well and on the nation he served with all his strength and skill." " Retired Last June Vandenberg, who fought quietly and earnestly for his conviction that this country's survival de pends on a strong and far-striking Air Force, was stricken with his final illlness a few months after he retired with full honors last June. Since last October he had lain in Walter Reed hospital, too ill during the final months to re ceive many visitors. While the Air Force declined to state the nature of his illness until the end, pri vate physicians who attended him during an exploratory operation in 1952 said he was suffering from cancer of the prostate gland, which spread through the pelvic area. Wife at Bedside At the bedside when death came at 1:05 p.m. were his wife and their son and daughter. Secretary of Defense Wilson, whose Air Force budget cuts dur ing the first year of the Eisen hower administration b r ought him into open conflict with Van denberg, said, "The loss of such a man is a real loss to the coun- i3atig eatirgiati Successor us lITE FREE i..ANCL. est. 03117 Reds Attacks Weaken. French Indochina Fort HANOI, Indochina, April 2 (IP) —Thousands of Vietminh troops smashed to within a mile of the heart of Dien Bien Phu from two sides today. The French, weary and outnumbered, counterattack ed desperately. The fate of the fortress hung on the outcome. French tanks and artillery mowed down wave after wave of the wildly screaming Communist led rebels, but still they came on. A French army spokesman called it "the most violent" struggle ev er fought in Indochina. The French were outnumbered six or eight to one. The Vietminh had an estimated 40,000 men ring ng Dien. Bien. Phu, whose down fall would give the rebels their biggest victory in the seven-year old Indochina War. But the Vietminh were paying a high toll for their successes. Un official estimates placed . the rebel losses today at 1000 killed. For All Special Occasions . . . BANQUETS PARTIES Call r . THE • • TEA st•aom rHE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA VINCE DRAYNE, Business Mgr. Gazette . .. Mond FROTH CIRCULATION MEETINC-'r. 7 p.m., 217 Willard HILLEL FORUM, Max Lerner Talk, 8 p.m., Hillel Foundation INFIRMARY Joseph Bowersox, . Ernest Carter, Sheldon Chaiken, Charles Croft, Thomas Hollenbach, Milton Netcher, James Pigford, Robert Prickett, Vivian Stark, Elmer Toewe, Robert Waltemeyer, Dio Yost. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT The following camps will interview at the Stu dent Employment Service, 112 Old Main: Camp Skycrest on April 12; Camp Conrad Weiser on April 7. Sign up for interviews in advande. What sculpture is to a block of marble, edu cation is to the soul.—Joseph Addison WASHINGTON, April 2 (LP) Unemployment over the nation failed to show an expected decline in March but administration offi cials said today the fact that it in creased so little was encouraging. The Census Bureau estimated the number of jobless in March at 3,725,000, or 54,000 more than the 3,671.000 in February. This was the smallest increase among unemployed in six months and the Commerce department said it appeared the job situation had "leveled off." The total of jobless, however, is the highest in four years. While it appeared that the job less trend had all but stopped in March, it remains to be seen whe ther an increase in employment will follow. There are now more than 2% million more people un employed than was the case last October when only 1,162,000 were counted jobless, the post war low. Editorials .represent the viewpoint of the writers, not necessarily the policy of the paper. Unsigned edi torials are bir the editor he act of Odareb 3. 1879 54,000 Increase Seen in March Unemployment The First National Bank of State College Member of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Federal Reserve System Little Man on Campus ~, t it SO SHE FINALLY • GAVE '(A A CATE, HUH?- WHAT KIND K;F: ......_ .051UME ARE YOU INEARING V z. 7 v. e3l "vi.„.o , *;- * ..„.. z.i.. . ;...... _ ~,,.4. Workers' Poll Before Strike Gets Approval WASHINGTON, April 2• The House Labor committee ap proved in principle today Presi dent Dwight D. Eisenhower's plan for pre-strike polls to determine whether workers actually want to walk out. Chairman Samuel McConnell (R-Pa) said the requirement for such polls will now be put in legal language and reported t 6 the House as a proposed amendment to the Taft-Hartley labor law. He said the committee approved 23-5 a proposal by Rep. Carroll D. Kearns (R-Pa) for strikes to be lawful only if workers approve the action before it is taken. It also endorsed 18-9 another proposal by Kearns which would require a majority of the eligible union members to determine the, union's course in a pre-strike vote . . Eisenhower recommended 14 changes in the Taft-Hartley law in a message he sent to Congress last January. - Still to be decided, however, is the question of how much auth ority should be left to the states in labor disputes, and whether to make final a tentatively approved provision giving federal courts, rather than the National Labor Relations Board, initial authority to handle charges of unfair labor practices. ILA Ends Dock Strike NEW YORK, April 2 (JP)—The old International Longshoremen's Assn. (ind) caved in under ex treme pressure today and called a halt to the longest waterfront strike in New York's history. 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