PAGE TWO A Change of Heart The question of racial discrimination in college town' barber shops is not one which is peculiar to State College. At the present time, legal action has been introduced at Michigan State College to compel East Lansing barbers to i cut the hair of Negro students. The students and faculty! charged violation of the Diggs Act, a state statute designed to protect the civil rights of Negroes. Unfortunately, the great Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania has a watered-down statute which prevents racial discrimination in public and quasi-public institutions, but makes no mention of barber shops. The local faculty and student groups, which have protested State College barbers’ action, searched for a possible legal way to prevent such action but were advised by the district attorney that it was not against the laws of Pennsylvania to discriminate in barber shops. Perhaps it is significant that several months ago the Pennsylvania House Labor Committee met without prior notice, other than a call from the speaker to meet the Gov ernor, and by a secret vote of 17 to 8 killed Fair Employ ment Practice Legislation. Of course, other schools have found and taken action against discrimination when there was no recourse to law. For example, after a recent investigation by the Student Senate at Ohio State, the barber shop at the newly-erected Union building is now required to give equal service to all matrons. At Williams College, after all other methods had railed, a boycott of the barber shops was called and prove successful. A Collegian reporter recently interviewed the local barbers and discovered that some of them claimed Negroes’ hair was too difficult to cut, and also was hard on the equip ment. We asked the barbers at the Wisconsin Union jf this was the case and they declared that it was untrue. Another local barber stated, “I am only afraid that a Colored person will be insulted by a White customer in my shop. I feel we must save the Negro this embarrassment.” The Daily Collegian feels that this situation will not arise in State College. The Daily Collegian also feels that a boycott must not be resorted to until every other means of action has been attempted. We suggest that students and faculty who get their haircuts in town tell their barbers that they would not object to having Negroes sitting in the next chair. Some individuals think that a change of heart and not legislation of judicial intervention is the solution for preju dice. They overlook, however, the inter-relationship of the two. As Negro Congressman A. Clayton Powell pointed out recently, Americans are for the most part a law-abiding people, and a change in the laws will be one factor tending to make people change their actions. CALENDAR Thursday, February 19 LAKONIDES. WRA room, WH. 6:30 D.m. NEWMAN Club Discussion Group, rectory. 7 p.m. FORESTRY Society, 105 For estry. 7:30 p.m. DAIRY Science Club. 117 Dairy Bldg.. 7 p.m. CHRISTIAN Science Organiza tion. 200 CH. 7:30 p.m. PI Tau Sigma. 105 ME. 7 p.m. IRC Ath Lounge. 7:30 p.m. IFC. 405 Old Main. 7:15 p.m. SDA 409 Old Main. 8:30 p.m. At the Movies CATHAUM —Private Lives ol Henry VIII. STATE—It Winter Comes. NITTANY —Diamond Horseshoe. College Hospital Admitted Wednesday: Rut h e Taub. Joan Lutz. Executive Positions in Retailing CIfiADFTTF^ AWAIT TRAINED MEN AND WOMEN \ 1 V M IV L ' ! L J Attractive, re.sponaible poriitionn in store** or in tcuvhinfcC await the tfraduatet* Ofl PER CTN* of foremost School of UeUlinK. Careeers in buying. advertising, personnel. d I «U 5 Cartons management, fashion arid other specialized fields beokou to coiletre-truinod men Min Order and women varied talents. The unique one-year program offered by New York University for men and women college Kraduatea, leading to a master's We Pay All Mailing Charges degree, i-irtubintt* practical instruction, planned market contact*. and in- .. . t>rtDITT an nn&Mnc valuable “New York experience" (planned. Mipervibcd work experience--- ALL rOrULAH xJrtAX'IJJS with pay» m w.-ii-known New York stores. Write for full details. Orders Mailed Day Received Request bulletin C.. 17 SEND MONEY ORDER NEW sS K o f U R N eS ITY i Clearview Tobacco Co. 17 Clearview Ave. 100 Washington Square. New York 3. N. Y. Wilmington. 278. Delaware THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Successor to the free Lance est 187~ Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings during the College year by the staff of the Daily Collegian of tho Pennsylvania State College Entered as, second class matter July 5. 1934, at the State College. Pa.. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879 $2.50 a semester: $4.25 the school year Allan W Ostar Donald W Ellis Man. Kd., Hen 1. French, Jr.; News Ed.. Roberta Hutehison ; £ porta Ed., Ted Rubin; Asa’t. Si>orts Ed., Dave Adolman; Feature Ed., Eleanor Fehnel; Woman's Ed., Marjorie Muusley. Ad. Dir.. Spencer Seheekter; Local Ad. Mjrr.. Barbara Keefer; AsVt. Bus. Mirr., Jack Strickland; Co-Circ. Mgrs.. William H. Frazier, David Lambert; Sec., Mary Ix>u Callahan; Class. Ad Myr., Lucille Martin ; Prom. M.irr.. Mi chael Horan. STAK* THIS ISSUE Selma Ziusofaky Jack Lupus Munmring Editor.. AaMHtant News Editor Assistant Copy Editor Assistant Advertising Manager _ THE DAILY COLLEGIA*!, STATE COLLEGE. PBNNSii.vmun A student we know was telling a group ol other students, yester ,iy. that he didn’t see why there had to be cheerleaders at a basket all game. “It’s too fast for that kind of thing,” the student said. “If you turn o your neighbor to point out that Biery is hot tonight, suddenly iknon is stealing the ball, and you’ve missed it Yet the nice thing ibout being a spectator is the op portunity to play expert, and ’usually the only chance you get tor sideline umpiring at a basket ball game comes during a time out. But jusrt as you’re about to tell your neighbor that Batnick was hacked, and just as he is on the point of commenting that the ref eree has apparently swallowed his whistle, two or three determined looking cheerleaders dash out on the floor. A short desultory cheer ensues, at the end of which the team doesn’t look particularly re juvenated. and play is resumed. Your neighbor’s and your valuable observations have been lost, and in place of them you both have a large frustration that might con ceivably develop into a dangerous complex. “At a football game,” the stu dent said. “I admit that the situa tion is different. Scoring plays take longer to materialize, and it is feasible that cheerleaders could whip a team into a state of ex citement that would make them a better fighting machine. “In bas ketball,” he said, “I can’t see it." Horrified expressions swept the features of all the student’s hear ers, and after a short space of time one of them, visibly moved, said, “But there have always been cheerleaders at basketball games.” A chorus of approval followed this statement. "It's a—tradition,” someone else said, and received the same response. The first student listened to these remarks and nodded his head. “I suppose you’re right," he said. “I once heard about a guy who tried something new at a col lege. They told him he was crazy to try it; that things had always been done a certain way and that because of this, anything e be was wrong. But he was stubborn. He used a campus auditorium to pi o mote the campaign ol a candidate for public office. No sooner had he done so, than all around the town was heard this sitrange sound It went “thud! thud! thud-thud!” “What was it?” one of the stu dent’s white-faced listeners ask- Editor • Bus Mgr. Arni Clerton _ Tom Morgan l*auly Motoi Vance Klepper Reprinted from the April, 1917 issue of esquire Copyright 1947 by Esquire, Inc. V Jacques is the wittiest artist in New York ” By Dave Adelman A Complex Develops A Tradition ; d, bis mouth open and his eyes staring. “It was the college, my friend, and believe it or not brick by brick it was falling in around his ears.” Co-op Quotes Ge°rge J. Holyoake, the great English co-operator: "It touches no man’s fortune; it seeks no plunder; it causes no disturb ance in society; it gives no trouble to statesmen; it enters into no secret associations. “It contemplates no violence; subverts no order; it envies no dignity; it asks no favor; it keeps no terms with the idle, and wil! breaks no faith with the indus trious. “t means self-help, sel f discipline, and such share of the ompetenoe as laibor, skill or thought, can win, and this it in tends to have.” Eleanor Roosevelt: “In the fields of health, of production and of consumption there seems to me to be possibilities of helping to raise the standards of living of great groups of our people if we work together. I look for the growth of co-operatives all over the country to attain this end.” (1941) Just What The Doctor Ordered That's what Rea & Derick Gives You - An Accurate* iy Filled Prescription - » Measured To The Finest Grain |K Come In and Let Our *x B Drug Department B Ser v e You * REA and DERICK THURSDAY, FEHnuAni in, IU4B Editors Mai I cal I 'Down-to-the-Ears' Club TO THE ' EDITOR: Whht CORE’s advertisements and stu dents’ discussions all agree that the practice o. discrimination against Negroes by State College barbers is unfair, might I propose something which will really wake these boys from their deep sleep? If CORE’S latest plea goes un heeded b.v the barbers, why not start a mass protest simply by re fusing to patronize these uncoop erative and undemocratic “Amer icans"? If they must learn through experience, let’s make this one that they won’t forget in a hurry. I feel that CORE should inform the student body as to how this latest proposal was accepted, so that this movement may get under way at the earliest possible date. Here’s for a down-to-the-ears elub. — David Hassler. Barber Shop Boycott TO THE EDITOR: CORE must be given a vote of thanks for finally bringing into the open tne disgusting Jim Crow policy now existing dn the State College bar ber shops where the Negroes in this town ar e being treated as sec ond class citizens. But let’s be careful that we -icn’t allow this self-criticism to oe enough. Too often we point our fingers at ourselves and consider this act sufficient. Let’s do some thing about it! The barber in yesterday’s ad maintained he could not cut the Negroes’ hair unless the other bar bers would. 11 logic will not suc ceed. let’s convince them in the only wav left. Let’s boycott the shoos! There are a number of students ■luali fied to cut hair. Let’s not perpetu ate this shame of patron .ting shops which discriminate against fellow Americans. —Saul Levinson. AT PENN STATE VIRGINIA BABBITT Smokes CHESTERFIELDS Virginia Says: “I like Chesterfields be cause °f their rich subtle flavor.” A nation-wide survey shows that Chesterfields are tops with College Students from coast.to coast.
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