TUESDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1955 French Reds May Win Seats PARIS. Dec. 12 (£>) —French Communists today seem likely to gain a score of seats in the Jan. 2 election for the National Assembly though they may actually poll fewer votes than in the last elec tion. The prospect emerged as non- Communists continued to pile up rival candidacies before the mid night deadline for filing. The situation arises from the French election law, passed five years ago partly to cut down' Commu nist parliamentary representa tion. The law succeeded then, but rivalry among anti-Communists promises to reduce its efficiency this time. It provides that parties may form alliances, and if no alliance gets a clear majority of seats, the seats are divided according to each party’s' voting strength. This system favors the Communists since they get more votes than any other single party. UN Fails to End Membership Snarl UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 12 C/P) —A huge secret caucus of UN delegates failed today to end a snarl on admitting 18 new mem bers. Nearly all of the 52 delegates who voted in the General Assem bly last week for the 18-nation package deal attended the meet ing. No decisions- were taken. Diplomatic sources said the pur pose of the caucus was to attempt to arrange the approval of any country admitted. 13 Weekend Deaths Thirteen persons died in aci dents throughout Pennsylvania over the weekend—four of them in a two-car collision yesterday in Reading. Toys, 800 GIFTS f • Kids HO Gauge trains, Revelle plastic ships Wigglie, Scrabble, "Bobbsey Twins" and airplanes, Tinker Toys, trucks, and "Nancy Drew" mysteries. Monopoly, Winkie Dink, Sorry, Uncle Just the right thing for that woman in your life. Remember, you only have a few days at home to shop—get your presents now. Our selection includes cook books, trays, and silver sets. We can't leave out the men (heavens no!). How about shaving kits or bar supplies? The latter includes cocktail shakers, lemon squeezers, stirers, flasks, Scotch coolers. Parker P.en and Pencil sets, desk sets, Argus, Bell-Howell,—jce skates, golf wallets, Royal typewriters, artist sup- clubs, footballs, basketballs, baseballs, plies, photographic supplies—Kodak, and guns. World at a Gla H-Bomb Seen As Possible Light Source CLEVELAND, Dec. 12 (/P)—One of the ingredients of the hydrogen bomb offers possibilities for emer gency illumination in public build ings and other places, a nuclear science and engineering congress was. told today. An official of the U.S. Radium Corp. said that tritium, an H-bomb material, and a variety of other man-made radioactive substances producible in the atomic program show promise of providing a new and improved method of furnish ing "self-luminous” illumination. That’s the same, kind of lighting that has been long used in radium doal wrist watches, enabling a person to see the dial in the dark. Atomic rays from the radium ac tivate a so-called phosporescent material which “glows” continu ously. Berlin Police Squelch Reef Demonstration BERLIN, Dec. 12 (jT*)—A throng of East German Communists took a beating from the clubs and wat er cannon of West Berlin police tonight in a riot which stemmed from a Red march on a French sector beer hall. A tightly organized company of 250 of the riot police turned back the invaders—estimated to num ber more than 1500 after an hour-long fight. The Communists braved 28-de gree weather and the riot can nons’ icy water, which froze al most - as soon as it hit, for a de monstration against the Stahlhelm Steel Helmet, a World War II vet erans’ organization which they call Fascist and militaristic. • Mom • Men t Everyone you can get it at ETZGERS (The store with tho black granite front) THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Israel Renews Border Attacks JERUSALEM, Dec. 12 (JP) —UN truce observers hastened to the Syrian border today to investi gate the latest crisis in the waver ing peace between Israel and her Arab neighbors. Israeli forces attacked four Syrian fortified posts overlooking the northeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee Sunday night and by Israeli account blew jip the posi tions before retiring to their base after an all-night battle., , Syrian spokesmen described the action as a surprise assault by commando units and two infantry brigades which were backed up by tanks, artillery, and armored boats firing from' -the Sea of Galilee. . The four posts fell, the Syrians admitted, after four hours of fighting, but they said the Israelis were forced to withdraw after three more hours when they at tempted -to seize heights behind the posts. Board Urges Raise For Rail Workers WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (JP) —A fact-finding report' filed at the White House today recommended a quarter billion dollar annual boost in wages and health bene fits for 750.000 non operating em ployes of the nation’s railroads. The report, Ribmittfedh by an emergency board named by Presi dent Eisenhower, said the em ployes should get' a 14% cent hourly pay increase, plus an add ed two cents per hour payment toward their health, and welfare plan. Epidemic Halted LANCASTER, Pa., Dec. 12 (JP) —Lancaster County’s paratyphoid outbreak declared under con trol today with the number of cases reported thus far at 153. bie Supplies very one! 0u Campus tfssShufrnan | ADVENTURES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE: NO. 2 Doff your caps and bells; there will be no fun and games this day.' Today, with earnestness and sobriety, we make the second of our forays into social science. Today we take up the most basic of all the social sciences—sociology itself. Sociology teaches us that man is a social animal. It is not his instincts or his heredity that determine his conduct; it is his environment. This fact is vividly borne out when one considers any- of the several cases of children who were raised by wild ani mals. Take, for example, the dossier on Julio Sigafoos. Julio, abandoned as an infant in a dark wood near Cleveland, was adopted by a pack of wild dogs and reared as one of their own. When Julio was found by a hunter at the age of twelve, the poor child was more canine than human. He ran on all fours, barked and growled, ate raw meat, lapped water with his tongue, and could neither speak nor understand one single word. In short, he was a complete product of his environment. (Julio, incidentally, was more fortunate than most wild chil dren. They never become truly humanized, but Julio was excep tional. Bit by bit, he began to talk and walk and eat and drink as people do. His long dormant mental processes, when awakened at last, turned out to be remarkably acute. In fact, he was so bright that he learned to read and write in a month, got through grammar school in five years and high school in two. And last June, as thousands of spectators, knowing Julio’s tragic back ground, stood and cheered, he was graduated valedictorian from Cal Tech with a degree in astrophysics! (Who can say to what towering heights this incredible boy would have risen had he not been killed the day after commence ment while chasing a car?) But 1 digress. To return to sociology, people tend to gather in groups—a tendency that began, as we all know, with the intro duction of Philip Morris Cigarettes. What an aid to sociability they are! How benignly one looks upon his fellows after a puff of Philip Morris's gentle, pleasant, flavorful tobacco! How eager it makes one to share, to communicate, to extend the hand of friendship! How grateful we all are to Philip Morris for mak ing possible this togetherness! How good not to live in the bleak pre-Philip Morris world, with every man a stranger! The groups that people live in today (thanks to Philip Morris) vary widely in tteir customs. What is perfectly acceptable in one society may be outlandish in another. Take, for instance, the case of Ug Poopoomoogoo. Ug, a Polynesian lad, grew up in an idyllic South Sea isle where the leading social event of the year was the feast of Max, the sun god. A quaint all-day ceremony was held, with tribal dancing, war chants, fat lady races, pie eating contests, and, for the grand finale, the sacrifice of two dozen maidens. According to Ug’s folkways, sacrificing maidens was quite acceptable, but when in his eighteenth year he was sent as an exchange student to the University of Wisconsin, he soon learned that Americans take a dim view of this practice —in Wisconsin, at any rate. The first twelve or thirteen maidens Ug sacrificed, he was let off with a warning. When, however, he persisted, dras tic measures were taken—he was de-pledged by his fraternity. A broken man, Ug quit school and moved to Milwaukee where today he earns a meagre living as a stein. cu» ism This column U brought to you by the makers of Philip MorrU Cigarette «, who ore otherwise rational men. Ash for new Philip Morris iu the smart new red, white end geld package. PAGE THREE
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