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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1946
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Signal Corps
Will Reactivate
Fraternity Here
Old Members Asked
To Call Maj. Porter
Pi Tau Pi Sigma, national honor-
ary Signal Corps fraternity which
has been inactive since 1943, is being
reactivated this fall, Major Howard
Porter, professor of military science
and tactics, said yesterday.
Before the war this fraternity had
a chapter on almost every campus in
the country that had an ROTC Signal
Corps unit, Major Porter said. "It
provided an organization whereby po-
tential Signal Corps officers could
meet and discuss mutual problems
with Signal Corps officers and se-
lected members of the faculty," he
added.
The national headquarters of this
fraternity is rotated each year to a
university or college with an ROTC
Signal Corps unit, and that year's of-
ficers of the local chapter are also
the national officers, Major Porter
said. The national headquarters was
at the University in 1943 when the
organization was inactivated because
of the curtailment of the ROTC pro-
gram.
To facilitate reopening of the fra-
ternity, all alumni and honorary
members of Pi Tau Pi Sigma have
been asked by Major Porter to con-
tact him at Army Headquarters, 512
S. State St.
Purdue Students Protest
Raise in Haircut Prices
LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 9-(R)-
Several thousand Purdue University
students, sworn to the pledge "for a
buck a throw, let it grow," were with-
holding the buck today while length-
ening locks crept down their necks
and around their ears.
Embattled barbers, who recently
raised the price of haircuts from 75
cents to $1, charged that the students
had employed strong-arm tactics to
enforce a boycott of their shops, but
university officials refuted the
charge.
Members of the Barbers Union said
in a letter to Carl H. Mullen, presi-
dent of the Indiana State Federation
of Labor, that students had thrown
non-student customers out of shops
and prevented others from entering.
Clubs Must Apply
For Calendar Dates
Student organizations planning
social events or other all-campus ac-
tivities should arrange with Ruth
McMorris, '47, for a date on the Uni-
versity social calendar, the Student
Legislature social chairman said yes-
terday.
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Grad Library Tour .. .
A tour of the General Library ex-
clusively for graduate students will
be conducted at 4 p.m. today and to-
morrow.
The tour, which is being sponsored
by the Graduate Student Council, is
being handled by library personnel.
The students will be given informa-
tion and literature concerning the
special collection and bibliographies
in the library.
Chinese Program .. .
Chinese students will commemo-
rate the Thirty-sixth Anniversary
of the Founding of the Chinese Re-
public with a program at 4 p.m. to-
day in Rm. 316-20 of the Union.
Prof. Meng-Chia Chen of the
Oriental Institute of the University
of Chicago will be the speaker. Tea
will be served at the International
Center following the program.
Modern Poetry Club ...
Students interested in modern
poetry and literature will meet at
7:15 p.m. today in the League to re-
organize the Modern Poetry Club.
The Club was started last year in
an attempt to furnish interested stu-
dents with an informal discussion
group on modern poets and the
problems presented in their writing.
This year the Club will try to ex-
pand its scope and its membership.
Plans for the coming year will be
discussed and officers will be chosen
at the meeting.
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Jazz Club Formed .. .
The first meeting of the Jazz Club,
new organization for students in-
terested in jazz music, will be held at
8 p.m. Oct. 13 in Rm. 302, Union.
Jazz of the improvised variety and
jazz of historical significance will be
emphasized as opposed to swing by
name bands. Music by such artists
as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington,
Jelly Roll Morton and Bix Bieder-
becke will form the common inter-
est.
Activities of the club will include
trading of records, collecting of jazz
literature, promotions of jam sessions
and possibly sponsoring of jazz con-
certs.
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IRA Council .
The executive- council of the Inter-
Racial Association will meet to pre-
pare a broad statement of policy at
7:30 p.m. today in the Union.
The council will hear reports from
the chairmen of committees investi-
gating alleged discriminatory prac-
tices against Jewish and Negro wom-
en in dormitories and Women's
League Houses,'concerted action with
the Wayne University Inter-Racial
Association on issues of mutual con-
cern and joint sponsorship of a pro-
posed anti-lynching bill rally with
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Chess Club...
The first meeting of the Student.
Chess Club will be held at 7:30
p.m. today in Room 302 of the Un-
ion for the purposes of organiza-
tion and the beginning of play.
The club is open to all who are
interested. Players are requested to
bring boards and chessmen.
Education School . .
A meeting of the student repre-
sentatives of the undergraduate
classes in the education school will
be held at 4 p.m. today in the cafe-
teria of the Elementary School.
The students will discuss questions
relating to the plans for the Under-
graduate Education Club, the most
advantageous use of the student
lounge, the kinds of organizations,
publications, or social affairs desired
by undergraduate students, and the
kind of services which are not yet
provided for by the School of Edu-
cation desired by the students.
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Case Club Tour .. .
All freshmen in the Case Club of
the Law School will be conducted
on a one-hour tour of the legal re-
search library, to be given through-
out the rest of the week.
These tours are designed to sup-
plement the lecture given by L. E.
Champlin on the use of legal books.
Zeta Phi Eta ...
Zeta Phi Eta, honorary speech so-
ciety, will meet at 4:30 today on the
fourth floor of Angell Hall for elec-
tion of officers. All members are re-
quested to attend.
AYH Bike Hiker . .
The American Youth Hostel will
have its first bike hike and fish
fry of this season Sunday.
The group will leave from Lane
Hall at 2 p.m. and bike to Delhi.
For reservations interested students
call Ellen Stringer at 2-2218 by
noon Saturday.
Philosophy Professor ...
Prof. Carl Henry, of the depart-
ment of philosophy at Northern Bap-
tist Seminary in Chicago, will speak
on "Remaking the Modern Mind" at
4:30 p.m., Sunday in Lane Hall under
the sponsorship of the Michigan
Christian Fellowship.
Former French
Mayor To Talk
Dr. Connes To Discuss
Dijon Under Germans'
"A French City Under the Nazis"
will be the subject of a University
lecture to be given by Dr. Georges
Connes, French educator and author-
ity on Shakespeare, next Monday at
4:15 p.m. in the Rackham Amphi-
theater.
Dr. Connes, whose lecture is spon-
sored by the Department of Romance
Languages, was mayor of Dijon,
France during the early days of the
Nazi regime. When the war came he
was a member of the Town Council
and he retained his position until
the Germans arrived. As he was the
only remaining member of the coun-
cil, he then took over the administra-
tion of the city government, but be-
cause he could not endorse Vichy pol-
icy, he later resigned.
He was taken prisoner by the Nazis
in January 1944, but was released on
Easter Sunday.
Dr. Connes is at the present time
Dean of the Faculty of Letters and
professor of English Literature at
the University of Dijon.
Several years ago Dr. Connes ad-
dressed "Le Cercle Francais" while
he was a visiting professor at the
University of Buffalo.
ATOMIC ENIGMA:
Disruptions Unpredictable
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coking coal, for carbon as well as
fuel."
"An alternative use of atomic
energy would be on locomotives, if
this would result in reduced trans-
portation costs," Prof. Hoover con-
tended. "Cheap freight costs re-
sult in decentralization of indus-
try."
There seems to be "little possibil-
ity" of such use of atomic energy at
this time, he said, but future de-
velopments may change the picture.
He added that the steam engine, too,
was once used only as a stationary
device.
Prof. Hawley, too, stressed the fact
that cheaper costs of transportation
and communication permit people to
live further apart without loss of
contact.
"Insofar as atomic energy is a
source of consumer power and can
be put into use for these things,
and insofar as it reduces cost, the
result will be further decentrali-
zation," he declared. However,
there is a danger of costs of cer-
tain services becoming "prohibi-
tive" if people become too widely
scattered.
Prof. Hawley pointed out that the
social scientist will not have much to
say until the physicists and engi-
neers make clear the applications
and costs of atomic rower for civil-
ian use.
"Our principle field of study in
connection with atomic energy at
present concerns the attitudes, in-
ternational relations and economic
impact resulting from its use as a
war weapon," he explained.
The tendency of population today,
Prof. Hawley added, is to concen-
trate in broad metropolitan areas,
but within these areas there is a ten-
dency to scatter. "Any improvement
due to atomic energy would probably
spread the decentralization area just
a little more widely around the city
center."
Prof. Perkins emphasized the
fact that resettlement of people
in these new areas would auto-
matically involve problems which
"can only be taken care of by pub-
lic authority."
As relocation of industry can be
a planned matter, he poined out, so
the communities that grow out of
such relocation can be planned for
"optimum living." In many com-
munities today the area of govern-
mental functions dots not conform
to the social and economic areas be-
cause industrialization and urbaniza-
tion followed establishment of gov-
ernment. "This fact could be elim-
inated in new communities."
Women Voters
Plan To Hold
Two-Day Meet
The League of Women Voters will
hold a two-day state conference to-
morrow and Friday in the East Con-
ference Room of the Rackham
Building.
A discussion of the standards of
recognition for state and local
leagues, which were adopted by the
1946 national convention, will be
featured tomorrow. National board
member, Mrs. Allen C. G. Mitchell,
Bloomington, Ind., will lead the dis-
cussion.
The state board meeting, to take
place on the second day of the con-
ference, will include adoption of
state by-laws and the hiring of a
legislative secretary.
League officials have urged local
members to attend the meetings in
order to become better acquainted
with state members and to gain an
overall picture of the league's activ-
ities throughout the nation.
'Ensians Still Waiting
Subscribers to the 1946 'Ensian
who have not claimed their copy
may still do so at the 'Ensian of-
fice in the Student Publications
Building between 1 and 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday.
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