Cornell Alumni News Volume 51, Number 9 January, 1949 Price 25 Cents
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Cornell Alumni News Volume 51, Number 9 January, 1949 Price 25 Cents Klotzman'δl Lansaw Shoots for a Basket in Barton Hall greater strength weighs less and less CAN YOU MAKE three pounds of steel do the work of four ... to size —and welds them together if desired. Finished steel and stay on the job longer? The answer is YES, with alloy articles are given a harder, longer-wearing surface through steels—steeh that are combined with small amounts of other "flame-hardening." And carbon, in the form of Electrodes, metals, such as chromium, vanadium, and zirconium, to makes modern electric furnaces possible . with their out- develop or increase desired qualities. For example, it's the put of high quality steels. element, chromium, that gives the stainless nature to steel. The people of Union Carbide produce these and related So great is the improvement in steel, wτhen alloy agents materials for improving steel. They produce hundreds of are used, that a freight car of alloy steel can weigh 25 % less, other materials for the use of science and industry —to the haul heavier loads, yet stay in service much longer than benefit of mankind. similar cars of ordinary steel. Alloy agents not only increase FREE: Let us send you the new illustrated booklet, /< ~"^Ί the strength of steel, they also extend its life through reduc- "'Products and Processes,'"' ivhich shows how tion of destructive factors such as rust, corrosion, and wear. science and industry use LCC's Allrvs, Chem- ίcals, Carbons, Gases and Plastics. Just write— , ;-* x "^ ^ ' The use of better materials to make steel go farther and serve longer is especially vital to all of us ... with steel mills unable to catch up, and ore supplies dwindling. Industrial gases have a big role in steel's better per- UNION CARBIDE formance, too. 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HOFFMAN, FOR- MERLY PRESIDENT STUDEBAKER CORPORATION Sure, these men are crazy. even better, too: by all of us working BORIS SHISHKIN, ECONOMIST, AMERICAN FEDERA- But they're using the same kind together to turn out more for every TION OF LABOR. of thinking a lot of people have been hour we work—through better ma- Published in the Public Interest by: using on the American economic chines and methods, more power, The B.E Goodrich Co. system lately. greater skills, and by sharing the Our American way isn't perfect. benefits through higher wages, lower use of mechanical power, better ma- We still have our ups and downs of prices, shorter hours. chines, better distribution and better prices and jobs. We'll have to change It's a good system. It can be made collective bargaining. better. And even now it beats any- / will boost the good things in our that. But even so, our system works set-up, and help to get rid of the bad. a lot better than the second-rate thing that any other country in the I will try to learn all I can about why substitutes being peddled by some world has to offer. it is that Americans have more of the countries we could mention. So—lets tune it up, not chop it good things of life. down. Please send me your free booklet, "The It works better because of a few Miracle of America," which explains simple things. We are more inventive, clearly and simply, how a still better and we know how to use machine Want to help? Mail this! living can be had for all, if we all work together. power to produce more goods at I want to help. lower cost. We have more skilled I know that higher wages, lower prices, workers than any other country. We shorter hours and larger earnings can believe in collective bargaining and all result from producing more goods Public Policy Committee for every hour all of us work. The Advertising Council, Inc. enjoy its benefits. And we Americans I 11 West 42nd Street Therefore, I will ask myself how I can I New York 18, New York save—and our savings go into new work more effectively every hour I am tools, new plants, new and better on the job, whether I am an employee, machines. an employer, a professional man or a I Name Because of this, we produce more farmer. B Address / will encourage those things which every working hour . and can buy help us produce more and add to every- Occupation . more goods with an hour's work one's prosperity—things like greater LMMB ^^M DMHH •••• ^^M •••• M^M M^M MMJ BANK OF NEW YORK Λ N I) FIFTH AVENUE BANK Established 17S 4 ^ί^m i^ Bank Capital funds over $34,000,000 4$ Wall Street 530 fifth Avenue 63rd Sίreeί owa Madison Avenue 73nl Street and Madison Avenue Volume 51, Number 9 January, 1949 Price, 25 Cents CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Entered as second-class matter, Ithaca, N. Y. Issued twice a month while the University is in ^session; monthly in January, February, July, and Septemberp not published in August. Subscription price $4 a year. and in part because high taxes and high costs combine to discourage potential contributors. Taylor '94 Gives Interfaith Center One can imagine the more vividly, therefore, the mood in which Cornell University must have received on Christmas day the news of Greater Cornell Fund Tops $5,000,000 the magnificent gift of Mr. Myron C. Taylor. A Campus already endowed with great /CHRISTMAS gift to the University Taylor attended the Law School and re- natural beauty and favored by a solid and ^ was the presentation by Myron C. ceived the LLB in 1894. handsome architecture is to be enriched by Taylor '94 through the Greater Cornell First announcement of the gift of Ana- a new hall, its cost of a million and a half dollars donated by the University's distin- Fund of $1,500,000 to provide and furnish bel Taylor Hall was a telegram to Presi- guished alumnus. a building for Cornell United Religious dent Edmund E. Day, in which the donor ... In an age when religious institutions, Work as the World War II Memorial. said: "We would like very much to asso- particularly among young men and women, The new building will be named Anabel ciate this gift with the spirit of Christmas. have lost much of their former dominance, one cannot but admire the audacity and the Taylor Hall, in honor of Mrs. Taylor, and The building and its declared uses will faith which have prompted Mr. Taylor. will be designed as a companion structure satisfy a long-cherished desire on my One hardly knows where congratulations and located near Myron Taylor Hall, for part to establish at Cornell a suitable ought more to be given: to Cornell, that it which Taylor gave a like amount just companion building to Myron Taylor has so loyal a son; or to Mr. Taylor, that he has an Alma Mater which can promise to twenty years ago, to house the Law Hall in honor of my wife and collabora- breathe through the walls of his great Christ- School. tor, Anabel Taylor." mas gift the religious ardor which can make Greater Cornell Fund Grows Commenting on the gift, the President it meaningful through the years. said: "At this season of the year, when Taylor's gift, together with previously- peace on earth, good will to all men is "American Way" Lectures announced anonymous contributions of uppermost in the minds of free peoples $1,500,000 and $1,000,000 and other spe- everywhere, there could be no more fit- /^•AMPUS lectures on "America's Free- cial gifts reported by local committees ting gift than a building dedicated to the v>* dom and Responsibility in the Con- over the country, brought the Greater realization of one world under God. temporary Crisis," supported by a grant Cornell Fund at the year's end to $5,- Anabel Taylor Hall, as the University's of $10,000 from the Carnegie Corp. of 091,000 of the first objective of $12,500,- Interfaith Center, will be the headquar- New York, will begin in February and be 000 to meet the most urgent needs of the ters of Cornell's unique student religious broadcast directly from the lecture plat- University. These needs are to improve program. All faiths, including Protestant, forms on the F-M stations of Rural Radio Faculty salaries, the War Memorial Catholic, and Jewish, will share the build- Network covering up-State New York. building, additional buildings for the Col- ing, with each participating in activities First part of the symposium, designed lege of Engineering, the Laboratory of of united service to the whole Campus to elucidate the American way of life, will Nuclear Studies, research in the social while no group will give up any of its bring seven speakers to the Campus on sciences and humanities, new athletic distinctive message." The building will the general topic, "The Strengthening of facilities, and for a student dormitory contain a memorial chapel dedicated to American Political Institutions." A sec- and additional endowment and working Cornellians who lost their lives in the ond series in March will deal with "Free- capital for the Medical College in New war, an auditorium, a social "Hall of All dom and Responsibility of American York.