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Show JOB OUTLOOK: Better for Grads With starting salaries holding firm at last year's record high levels, signs of a last-minute pickup pick-up in jobs for the mammoth 1949 class of college graduates were showing up, according to an annual an-nual employment survey by the family economics bureau of Northwestern North-western National Life Insurance Company. Although two-thirds of the 133 colleges and universities covered to date find their total employment calls all the way from slightly to "disappointingly" below 1948, schools reporting in the final week of the survey have shown a much better ratio, the summary says. Approximately half of the late responses re-sponses report their record of job offers to date as equal to or slightly slight-ly above 1948 experience. DARTMOUTH college's school of business administration observes, ob-serves, for example, "We were disturbed dis-turbed by the February-March slump, but the later pick-up has 'wiped out our losses.' " St. Louis university also reports that demand faded in February and March, but "as of the past six weeks it has begun to develop beautifully." University Uni-versity of Nebraska's college of business administration notes a stronger employment demand in the last ten days. But Duquesne university uni-versity at Pittsburgh reports, "Calls in general are less than in 1948 except those for sales personnel person-nel which have increased." Boston university says job offers are 7 per cent fewer than last year; Ohio State finds about the same number of employers represented on the campus this spring, but each firm taking fewer men. Yale university has recorded more employment em-ployment calls than as of a year ago. FIVE out of every six schools listed in the survey report starting salaries to be as high or higher than last year. Prevailing range of offers is from $200 to $275 per month for business administration and liberal arts seniors, and from $225 to $325 for engineering grads, with exceptional men getting still higher offers. Illinois Institute of Technology reports: "The class of 375 engineers graduating January 29, 1949, averaged $280 per month for a basic 40-hour week; this is the highest average salary of any class in our history." TOURISTS: More Cultured The American tourist these days was coming in for a new type of treatment from his overseas hosts. For instance, in Capetown, South Africa, according to merchants, the new tourist is not the "vulgar type which used to invade Europe in hordes, wearing horn-rimmed glasses glass-es and loud clothes." "THIS new American is well bred, quiet, wealthy, but has the familiar souvenir mania," said one curio dealer. "One bought everything every-thing I showed him. 'Is it genuine Zulu?' he kept asking." Then, the dealer added, "he took all my shields, assegais and bead-work. bead-work. I had to call a ricksha to get the stuff down to the ship. And when he saw the ricksha, he wanted to buy that." . AMERICANS no doubt will palpitate palpi-tate with pride at this new evaluation evalua-tion of their cultural level by those abroad who profit most from tourist tour-ist business but most will console themselves with the fact that so long as he has any money, the American tourist will manage to get along quite well wherever he may be in Europe or elsewhere. Victims fMmmBmmmmii Mrs. Ralph J. Fugatt holds Mark Richard, 7 weeks, at their Springfield home. Her husband has never seen his son because he is in Rutland, Vermont jail under an early 1800 law which demands payment of court judgment or paupers oath. CRIME: Penalty Apropos A Midland, Mich., judge sagely fitted the punishment to the crime in a case in municipal court. Two youths, 21 and 18, were brought in on a charge of crashing a wedding party and running away with the wedding cake. They said they did it on a dare. j After pondering a moment, the judge ordered the culprits to buy a wedding present and give it to the newlyweds. |