1946-11-06

              TFHE R.
Illinois Wesleyan University
TT/1T C-O
BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1946
GOP Wins
Congress
Control
First Time In
16 Years
BULLETIN
The Republican party polled
wide leads in many states Tues-day,
thereby winning control
in congress from the Democrats
for the first time in 16 years.
IWU -Students
Vote Teaching
Favored Field
Job Survey
Conducted In
Assembly
The teaching profession polled
the largest number of votes for
prospective jobs in a survey con-ducted
in assembly last week.
Of the approximately 1,100
students polled on "What occu-pation
do you plan to enter after
graduation," 193 answered teach-ing.
Of these, 94 specified music
instruction, 44 listed coaching
and physical education and three
plan to do personnel work in
education.
Business Comes Next
The next most popular field
with IWU men and women is
business and allied fields. It
placed second with 159 students.
Third from the top is medicine,
which is the preferred profession
of 96 stud'ents.
O ther choices are: Engineer-ing,
40; entertainment (drama-tics,
music and ,baseball), 38; so-cial
work, 30; chemistry, 29; re-ligion,
27; law. 26; journalism,
23, and commercial art, 18.
21 Choose Marriage
Twenty-one women r e g a r d
CYF Sponsors
Dance, Games
Friday Night
N\V"1V
asses Veteran Bonus Ac
An evening of recreation is on
tap at the gym Friday night, News In A Nutshell
sponsored by the Campus Youth By Kenneth Hanson
Fellowship. Scheduled for 7:30,
it will include everything the
gym will hold-mixed swimming INTERNATIONAL
(a rare privilege), badminton,
ping pong, volley ball, and folk Last Wednesday, Minister V.
dancing led by Bob Villwock, an I. Molotov walked to the podium
experienced leader, of the General Assembly meet-
At 9:30 the floor will be cleared ing place at Flushing Meadow
for action and Vandy will turn and reiterated the words of an-on
the phonograph for danc- other Russian Foreign Commis-ing.
Soda pop will be available sar Maxim Litvinov spoken 19
aall ll eevevniengn ing aannd d wwilli ll ccosot st nnotho- th- years earlier in Geneva, concern-ing.
'Oh, yes, there is a nominal
entrance fee of .15 cents. ing a proposition for world dis-eTracesfefr1
cret armament with an added inspec-
This is the first recreation tion system set p to do the
night of the year sponsored by checking. Mr. Molotov also again
CYF, a group organized in 1944 attacked Mr. Baruch's atomic
to promote fellowship and mu-energy proosal because it "is
teal good tuwwaillli llg oaamomodn go ng aalll l tthhe e sstut- u- eanferfgyl icted prboyp oals acl erbteacaiusne degrite e "ios f
dents on the campus. selfishness" and insisted that
prohibition of atomic weapons
BULLETIN was a "primary objective." In
Class elections will be held concluding his appeal Mr. Molo-
Nov. 13 during meetings after tov said "the adoption of (these
assembly. Nominations/will be two decisions) will, indeed, re-made
from the floor and can- spond to the pacifist strivings
didates will be elected on sep- of our peoples and will contrib-arate
ballots. ute to the development of inter-marriage
as a career and eleven
others hope to become airline
hostesses. Two men wish to be-come
morticians and two women
cosmeticians.
The remainder of' the students
indicated single miscellaneous
occupations or stated that they
were undecided.
YWCA To Meet At
Kappa Delta House
Wednesday
The monthly meeting of the
campus Y CA will be held next
week, on Wednesday, Nov. 13. It
will commence at 7 p.m. at the
Kappa Delta house.
'Besides initiation of new mem-bers,
Negro singers have been
secured for the event, and the
hour's program promises to be
very interesting. All women on
campus are invited to attend.
Register Complaints
With VA Officer Monday
Veterans who wish to reg-ister
complaints regarding the
non-receipt of subsistence al-lowances
due them through
the month of October can see
Mr. Bair, training officer for
the VA, Nov. 11 in the recep-tion
room at Presser.
national co-operation."
'Later on Wednesday, Warren
R. Austin, U. S. delegate to the
U. N. Assembly, accepted Russia's
proposal of world disarmament
but made it clear that the U. S.
"advocates effective safeguards
by way of inspection and other
means to protect complying
states against the hazards of vio-lation
and evasion," and condi-tioned
the acceptance on that
basis. Austin did not give any de-tailed
answer to Molotov's ques-tion
on the;atomic bomb except
to make clear that the position
of the U. S. as set forth by Mr.
Baruch still stands.
Roger Fee To
Present Music
Assembly Nov. 13
Roger Fee, associate professor
of voice, will present the assem-bly
program next Wednesday,
Nov. 13.
He will open his program with
"Catalogue Aria" from "Don Gio-vanni"
by Mozart. This will be
followed by t h e s e numbers:
'Thursday" by Malloy; "Lute
Player" by Allitsen; "When
Childher Plays" by Davies, a
song in English dialect; and
'American Lulla'bye" by Fisher.
"Egg-a-Bread" by MacGimsey,
;ung in Negro dialect, and "I'll
Sail Upon the Dog Star" by Pur-cell
will close the program.
VU . 53
Veterans Can
Apply For
Payment Soon
LATE BULLETIN
Based on return trends, it is
expected the bonus will carry
by 400,000 to 500,000 majority
of all votes cast in election.
The Illinois Veterans' Bonus
Act received a majority of the
votes cast for members of the
'General Assembly at the Nov. 5
election and will become effec-tive
immediately. The act pro-vides
for a cash, lump sum pay-ment
to Illinois veterans of
World War II or to their survi-vors.
All veterans who entered
the service between Sept. 16,
1940 and Sept. 3, 1945, and who
were residents of Illinois at the
time of entry into the service,
and who served a minimum of
60 days, are eligible to reap the
benefits of this act.
A service Recognition Board is
to be established immediately to
make arrangements for payment
of veterans. Application forms
will soon be made available to
all eligible veterans: These forms
must be 'filed not later than
July 1, 1949.
The amount of money to be
paid to each veteran will be de-termined
as follows:
$10 for each month of ac-tive
duty service in the United
States; $15 for each month of
foreign service including ser-vice
in Alaska. Minimum pay-ment
will be $50. A sum. of
$900 will be paid to the sur-vivors
of those men who died
in the line of duty between the.
dates mentioned above.
Payment will not ,be made to
those who were not honorably
discharged, separated, retired,
or furloughed. Civilian workers
and members of the U.S mer-chant
marine are not eligible to
collect a bonus under this act.
The bonus will be financed by
taxes on cigarets, horse racing,
and property.
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