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writers, and do not necessarily reflect the policy of the
newspaper. Unsigned editorials are by the editor.
Dean Gladfelter
Editor 'aeiiD°l
Managing Ed., John Dalbor; News Ed., Stan Degler;
Snorts Ed., Ray Koehler; Edit. Dir., Herbert Stein; Society
Ed., Deanie Krebs; Feature Ed., Janet Rosen; Asst. Man
aging Ed., Art Henning; Asst. News Ed., John Ashbrook:
Asst. Society Ed., Bettina deralma; Photo Ed., Wilson
Bacto; Senior Board: Jack Boddington, Bill Detweiler.
Amt. Bus. Mgr., Thomas M. Heroleik; Advertising
Dir.. Harold L. Wollin; Local Adv. Mgr., Hugo R. Mendes;
Promotion Mgr., Laura Mermelstein; Circulation Co-Mgrs.,
Edward W. Noyes, Gerald F. Yeager; Personnel Mgr., Ed
win Singel; Classified Adv. Mgr., Shirley Faller; Office
( Mgr., Loretta Stempinaki; Secretary, Winifred Wyant;
Senior Board: Norma Gleghorn, Delores Horne, Mary
Extiffanun„ Sue Halperin.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor: Ernie Moore; Assistant Night
Editor: Sue Neuhauser; Copy Editor: Dotty
Laine; Assistants: LaVonne Althouse, Dot Ben
nett, Shirley Vandever.
Ad Staff: Sue Feit, Stefanie Herlitz.
A Sane Approach
All-College cabinet is to be commended and
yet mildly rebuked for its attitude on the pro
posal to make faculty members sign non-Com
munist affidavits.
CABINET TOOK a sane approach in taking
no action whatsoever Thursday on a student's
proposal that cabinet recommend the affidavit
move to the board of trustees. As several cabi
net members and the dean of men pointed out,
there certainly is no need for such a step at this
time. It would do nothing save stir up trouble
and place the College on the hot spot.
The unfortunate aspect was that a number
of speakers assumed that such a move might
be necessary at some future date, adding that
they thought the administration could be
trusted to take the step if necessary.
We fail to see the use or validity of such an
oath at any time.
CERTAINLY the non-Communist oath is an
infringement on the individual's freedom, par
ticularly in the way in which it could be put to
use by people with limited viewpoints. Freedom,
whether sponsors of such a move know it or not,
entails the freedom to be wrong in a political
situation without fear of reprisal.
The real danger lies in loose use of such words
as "Communist" and "Communist-front organ
ization," and in the hysterical approach which
holds deviations from one person's conception
of the "American way" as heretical and ' sub
versive. The student proposing the step charged
that Communists could not teach the truth, but
rather would teach lies. Under such an oath,
the teacher would be afraid to teach the truth
as he saw it for fear of being a suspect. He
would be hedged about with fear and his course
of study would become patterned into a sterile
mould of conformity devoid of searching
inquiry.
Thus, to protect freedom and truth, freedom
and truth would be sacrificed.
Freedom is always precarious—it 'cannot be
made safe by restricting freedom. Any attempt
to limit freedom of faculty members in the
name of safeguarding freedom would destroy
the reason for which freedom exists.
IT IS EXTREMELY ironic that the proposal
should have been placed before cabinet immedi
ately after cabinet endorsed the "Crusade for
Freedom." Cabinet's action in ignoring the pro
posal is perfectly consistent with its support
for the sentiment expressed in the "Crusade
for Freedom." If cabinet really wants to pre
serve freedom diligently, it will oppose strongly
any future moves to destroy freedom.
Reds And Stuff
Monogram Studios in Hollywood last week
canceled production of a movie dealing with
Longfellow's Hiawatha. Studio officials said the
picture might be regarded as Communist peace
propaganda because Hiawatha tried to bring
peace to warring Indian tribes of his day.
THIS SORT of thinking is as confusing as that
of the public official who recently advocated
starting a war to preserve peace.
Thinking Monogram might have something,
we picked up a copy of Hiawatha and tried
diligently to detect subversive elements. What
we found was a mass of horribly unpronouncable
names and some mildly interesting tales of how
various things got their names.
If there is anything red in the stories, it is
only because they concern Indians, a thought
which is no more ridiculous than the reason
ing done by the studio.
IF THIS is the sort of thing that can be ex
pected from the Russian propaganda machine,
we certainly have little to fear from our own
Marines who are supposed to be equals.
• A total of 8785 students registered for the
1950 summer sessions. The figure included 2800
for the first six weeks science session and inter
session; 4033 for main session; 621 for the second
six weeks science session and 1331 for the post-
Owen E. Landon
Business Mgr.
—Herbert Stein
ME DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Job For Hatmen
In this first week of revived freshman cus
toms there has been a definite lack of partici
pation of upperclassmen. Almost all of the
hazing has been perpetrated by hatmen.
IN THE LIGHT of this, we think that hazing
of frosh should be designated the right of hat
men only.
Under this setup, most upperclassmen would
be released from an obligation they apparently
don't wish to fulfill anyway. Too, the relatively
few hatmen on campus could be organized into
an enforcement squad which could more easily
and efficiently see to the proper observance of.
customs.
THE WORE of Tribunal would be simplified
under this reorganization plan. Any violation
of the customs code by an upperclassman would
be readily recognizeable as such since the en
forcement of that code would be entirely with
out his sphere of operations.
Student leaders last Spring said that
customs are an important part of college life.
Since the vast majority of students demon
strate no great interest in the program let
the leaders show
,us how it can be done.
Otherwise the customs code does not deserve
any more of a place in our campus life than
does a prohibition law among a people who
want to drink.
Blood Types
When a College coed became ill last spring
and needed a quick blood transfusion, it was
necessary to drive about a dozen students to the
county hospital in Bellefonte to find out if one
or two of them had blood that could be used.
HAD THE
,COLLEGE listed the blood type
of each student when he was given his physical
examination, it would have been simple to
check files and find out immediately which of
the volunteers could give his blood.
Need for blood transfusions here probably
is not too great, yet it certainly would do no
harm to keep a file of the blood type of each
student and to notify him after the physical
just what type blood he has. The file could be
put to use in such cases and would save a lot
of time and effort.
Viewed in the context of the atomic age, such
a program would seem even more useful. No one
knows whether an atomic bomb would be
dropped on State College in the event of a super
war, but if it were there certainly would be a
great need for blood transfusions. In such an
event, a blood type file should prove itself ex
tremely useful.
Safety Valve ...
Letters to the editor should be addressed—
The Daily Collegian, Box 261, Boro. The
writer's name will be withheld upon request,
but no letter will be printed unless signed.
Affairs Of The Nation
TO THE EDITOR: I'm sure your editorials
on the political situation of the nation are ap
preciated by the parents of the readers of your
paper, but the college newspaper is supposed to
be the voice of the college students who are in
terested primarily with the matters at hand.
I'm certain there is enough of. serious concern
right here on campus to fill up more than one
editorial column. Could it be that Mr. Glad
felter is suffering from frustrated editorializing
in an attempt to catch the attention of Randolph
Hearst? Or is it that the editor likes to read
his own words only when they're printed in an
elongated column?
Gazette . . .
Meetings of campus organizations will be announced in
this column throughout the_s emest e r. Announcements
should include place, time and purpose of the meeting.
Deadline for notices, which_should be - mailed or delivered
to the Daily Collegian office, is 4 p.m. on the day preced
ing publications.
Sunday, September 24
FROTH sophomore board, 6:45 p.m. 405 Old
Main.
FROTH business candidates and circulation
staff, 7 p.m. 405 Old Main.
Monday
PENN STATE ENGINEER staff 7 p.m. 416
Old Main.
PHILOTES, 7 p.m. W.S.G.A. room, White
Hall.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA meeting, 3 Sparks,
7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN Junior Editorial Board, 8 CH, 7
p. rn.
COLLEGIAN Senior Editorial Board, 8 CH,
8 p. m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
ADMITTED: Victor Plaskow, John Stocen
ski, William Fricke, Geoffrey Purcell, Wesley
Romberger, Gordon Eagye, Oral Hardes, Betty
Shapinas, Margaret Muir.
DISCHARGES: John Taylor, Kenetta Peters,
Irene Wurst, Helen Jaskol, Donald Leathers,
Oral Hardes.
AT THE MOVIES
Saturday
CATHAUM: Summer Stock
STATE: Three Secrets
NITTANY: Trigger Junior
STARLITE DRIVE-IN: The Big Wheel
Monday
CATHAUM: Summer Stock
STATE: Three Secrets
' NITTANY: Here Comes The Coeds
—John Ashbrook
—Pegge Shierson
Little. Man On Campus
"Consider yourself lucky—Marian says your blind d
has a wonderful personality wonderful personal'
Waiters, Porters
In Tip-Top . Form
By RON BONN
Tipping has become an American pastime second only to im
morality in popular appeal. Coming back recently from a vacation
at a well-known seashore resort, we climbed out off the rods of the
only return transportation we could afford .and began to tabulate
what had happened to the ancestral fortunes. The fly in the ointment,
the snake in the weeds, the yawning hole in the purse, we concluded,
was tipping.
WHEN THE TRAIN got in at the resort, a large man in a red
hat wrapped himself firmly about our two light portmanteaux, re
moved them from the coach, and placed them on the sidewalk beside
the cab stand. Elapsed time, 15 seconds; mileage; 31 feet, 6 inches.
Tip: 25 cents.
In other words, the large man with the tight grip was operating
at a rate just under $42 per running mile. Even the Philadelphia
Transportation. Company hasn't dared ask tariffs like that yet.
A taxicab carried us to our hotel, a good three blocks distant.
The -driver gesticulated rapidly, and lo! The sign of the outstretched
palm once more greeted us. ,
ONE OF THE HOTEL'S vaunted features was a roof-garden.
Spending money always exhausts one, so we decided now to take
advantage of it. We looked a bit suspiciously at the , gentleman
operating the roof 'elevator, but he allowed us to pass in peace and
untipped on to the roof. Here we observed a large number of chair
shaped skeletons sprawled about. They lacked but one thing to make
them elegant seats: There was nothing to sit on. To one side, a jack
eted attendant with a .50 calibre Lewis gun and various small arms
mounted guard on a pile of mattresses clearly intended to become
the sitting surfaces of the chairs.
An assistant took over the pillbox while the attendant chee
fully carried a• mattress over the vast, trackless 37 inch distance
to the nearest chair, dropped it half in and half out of the frame,
and unobtrusively barred our passage with an immense • palm,
stained from the passage of much silver across it.
But to make truly clear the effect of 'vacation tipping on our
psych, we have to note that when, arriving on the campus, we met
an evilly grinning bursar with an immense handful of due-bills, we
fell upon him as if he had been a beautiful woman.
You don't tip the bursar.
'Time' Calls Campus
Fruitful For Mating
By JANET ROSEN
"0 mistres mine, where are you roaming?
0, stay and hear, your true love's coming
That can sing both high and low."
ATTENTION, 625 NEW WOMEN STUDENTS!!!! Sitting and
knitting while waiting for the man to pop that question is passe.
Chances are that such an unenterprising attitude will net you socks
in your workbasket but no men to fill them. "The strawberries in the
field, clams in the sand, fish in the sea will remain unless you pick
them," revealed a recent article in Time magazine.
It is the modern girl that pursues the man until he catches up
with her, who comes home with the bacon, i.e. a wedding band.
ANY PLACE (as long as there are men), the article continues,
is good for the asault—churches, vacation spots, trolley cars ..., but
a PARTICULARLY FRUITFUL HOMING GROUND FOR ELIGI
BLE MEN, WHO ARE BOTH INTERESTING AND MATURE, IS
THE COLLEGE CAMPUS.
Here in the Nittany Vale, between the widely-known Seven
Mountains and the Bald Eagle Mountain, nestle 7557 men students.
Of course, the odds (almost 4 to 1) are with the femmes fatales, and
any day can be Sadie Hawkins Day.
But, before this modern age gold rush—for fraternity pins, rings,
etc.—commences, the helpful Time article offers a few battle sug
gestions: (1) Suit your personality to the man. If he is stingy, make
a virtue of his reticence to spend money; if he is a lavish spender,
compliment him on how kind he is to people. (2) Don't let intellec
tuals intimidate you. Some well-selected reading in the books he
considers authorities (he probably read them last night to impress
you) will permit discussion on a suitable level.
So, there it is, co-eds, take it or leave it, but remember; a ring
on the hand is worth two fraternity pins on the sweater,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1950
Bibler