'TAME TWO Pr Battu Collegian Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in ielusige during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian of The 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. Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers, Dot necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned edi lariats are by :he editor. Dean Gladfelter '(l7k l7 °"' Editor Barbers For All With so many male students new to the cam pus this semester, it might be fitting to review here a bit of recent State College history. LAST YEAR the first non-discriminatory bar ber shop was opened in town. It is still the only State College shop which cuts the hair of Ne g3.'oes as well as whites. . The opening of the shop, located on Beaver avenue, marked the end of a two-year struggle 3o break down discrimination in the shops. The Council on Racial Equality led the fight and was instrumental in bringing the new shop here, so the place is called the CORE barber shop. CORE opened a drive for funds to set up the 'shop in 1947. It sold tickets good for haircuts at the new shop when it should open, raising more than $lBOO with this "advance sale." The council began advertising for a proprietor to open the non-discriminatory shop„ In the meantime, however, stronger action was attempted. About November, 1948, a student boycott against all the existing shops was or ganized. The strike was ineffective, since the barbers could hold out longer than the students, but feeling ran high. THEN, ON SEPT. 30 last year, CORE an nounced the opening of the new shop. The place did well from its opening, in part because all male students on campus knew the significance of it. Now, however, there are some 3000 new male students on campus. It is so that they will know what the CORE shop stands for, how it was obtained, and what it still is—the only non discriminatory shop in State College—that this neview is published Election Deceit Every year at this time, the young, non-voting public eagerly watches the local elections, hav ing in mind that in a year or two, he or she will be able to vote and be a part of this activity. But, as the person comes to understand jiist what is really going on and reads the conflicting ;statements, the lies, the attempts at deceit, and die childish arguments that candidates use as campaign material, he becomes less and less 'anxious to take part. FINALLY, when he reaches the voting age, he doesn't care whether he votes or not. Usually he will not register until he is told that it is the thing to do in his community, and of course there is only "one party" to register with. This person soon becomes part of the apa thetic public that does not even vote. In view of the political situations in some areas, it is hard to blame them. The way to get people interested in an elec tion is to conduct campaigns that invoke interest and enthusiasm. Many of today's political con tests repel the voter so that he usually is voting to prevent a person's election rather than put a candidate in office. • THIS NEGATIVE approach to voting causes much of the apathy that exists and the final and inescapable blame comes back to the candi date himself. Flowers... To Win Her Heart To Fit Your Biimiget Ready for Junior Prom? Not if you haven't ordered that corsage for her. Let State College Floral Shop Arrange The Flow ers Of Your Choice— Roses, Orchids, Camellias, Gardenias, Sweethearts— To Win Her Heart . . . to Fit Your Budget. State Co Floral S Owen E. Landon Business Mgr. Ron Bonn STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor: Moylan Mills; Copy Editor: Rosemary Delahanty; Assistant Night Editor: Jo Hutchon; Assistants: Joan Kuntz, Andrew McNeillie, Jaek Garretson-Butt, Bob Landis Advertising Manager, Jady Krakower; Assis- Bud Fenton tant, Malty Clymer. IN W. Bawer. Avcauke THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Safety Valve . . . Partisan Coverage? TO THE EDITOR: It was ... with the greatest incredulity and disbelief that I read the front page of Saturday's issue. How could the editors of a non-partisan paper possibly overlook the layout of the front page which gave a two col umn, four inch article to the notice of the Lion party meeting Sunday evening and a one col umn, one inch insert about the State party meeting? I think that a clarification of the situation and an immediate withdrawal of - the offending party (or parties) from a position, where further mis takes? could once more harm student politics, is certainly in order. o Leiter Cut Ed. note Due to errors and negligence on the part of several members of the staff, the State party story was not given sufficent play in Saturday's paper. We regret the inference, which though entirely incorrect, could have been drawn from the relative sizes of the stories. Provocative Reading TO THE EDITOR: May I recommend an arti cle in the November issue of Reader's Digest entitled "Women Aren't Men," by Agnes E. Meyer. Our coeds (God bless 'em) and men students alike will find it exceptionally provacative read ing. Gasette Tuesday, November 7 PLAYERS, La Vie picture, Penn State Photo Shop, 6:45 p.m. LIBERAL ARTS student council meeting, 107 Willard hall, 8 p.m. COLLEGIAN business candidates,.l Carnegie hall, 7 p.m. PENN STATE CLUB, 405 Old Main, 7 p.m MI student council, 2.1.3 Willard hall, 7 p.m. PSYCHOLOGY club, 204 Burroughs build ing, • 7:30 p.m. FROTH promotion staff and candidates, 3 Carnegie hall, 7 p.m. PENN STATE Dames, 304 Old Main, 8 p.m. A.C.E., Atherton lounge, 7 p.m. WRA Bowling, White hall, 7p.m. WRA Fencing, White hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGE PLACEMENT Further information concerning interyheers and job mine& rnents can be obtained in 11.2 Old Main. West Penn Power company will interview January grad uates in M.E. and E.E. Wednesday, Nov. 15. General Electric company will interview January grad uates in 1.E.. M.E. and E.E. Wednesday, Nov. 15. Armstrong Cork company will interview January grad uates in C&F, Psyc., Labor Mgt., 1.E., M.E., E.E., at the B.S. level; also chem. eng., at the M.S. or B.S. level and chem. eng., and phys. at the PhD level Wednesday, Nov. 8. Air Material Command will interview January graduates in C.E. E.E., ME., Aero. Eng., Metal., Chem., and physics on Wednesday, Nov. 8. - Caibide and Carbon Chemicals division will interview January graduates in E.E. on Friday, Nov. 10. No priority. General Motors corporation will interview January grad uates at the B.S. and M.S. level in Chem. Eng., E.E., M.E., and I.E. on Thursday, Nov. H. For information concerning the following jobs, applicants should stop in 112 Oil! Main. Barber; details available 112 Old Main. Man who has experience with mechanics of washers. R. K. Amole Frank D. Huianger Little Man On Campus ..-,'• - ~.... ...:,,, t an "A" on that blueb A "C"? A "D"? "Did I ge a "B"? Attack By Implication The attack on W. E. B. Dußois, Negro historian and sociologist, through the derisive circular published by backers of James E. Vap Zandt, put us unwillingly, though indirectly, into the Reede-Vaia Zandt campaign. WE HAD THEUNFLATTERING honor to be the only current Collegian staffer to be auoted in the circular blasting the College economics professor. Prof. Reede's only connection with Dr. Dußois, was that he introduced the historian, who spoke here last March. Our story on the Dußois spech was reprinted in the circular just as it was written, we admit, but it had been doctored somewhat • with paragraphs of bold type not used in the original. The story itself was less than five inches long and unfortunately not long enough to give the genuine flavor of what Dr. Dußois had to say Bold facing of several paragraphs only accentuated the pos sibility of misinterpretation. ONE PARAGRAPH selected for black type quoted Dr. Dußois as saying that America is not a successful democracy and is disliked abroad for its pretensions. By itself this might mean many things to many people. But what Dr. Dußois went on to explain was, that he didn't understand how any nation could call itself a successful demo cracy when one large segment of it considered another large segment inferior. _ Three-quarters of the page, devoted to Dr. Dußois, was taken . up with somebody else's idea of the historian's remarks. None of it came from anything we wrote, and as a' matter of fact we don't remember his saying most of the statements attributed to him. The bald statements printed, aside from our story, were either re-phrased or taken from context to give a lopsided picture of Dr. Dußois as a rabble-rousing speaker. After seven months of inter vening activities, we are not prepared to say that he did not say these things, but we do say that if he had made such startling state ments as are presented' here, we certainly would have remembered them. ALL OF THIS IS IRRELEVANT to Economics Professor .Reede, who has been attacked by implication, when all he did was introduce Dr. Dußois as a "great American." If the Van Zandt clique thinks that is so horrible, we might refer them to Dr. Ira DeA. Reid, so ciclogy professor at Haverford college, who spoke on the Community forum in Schwab auditorium one week before Dr. Dußois. Dr. Reid cited Dr. Dußois as one of the three leading Negroes in American history, along with Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver. Vonali lonasestri AT) Ms wombs melelowltrais warty, th Neat Cromp. lat. se &swots ItmealtifielMondlallobill TUESDAY, lII:MEMBER 7, 1950 By Ilihler d I get huh." --; Herbert Stein ". gli ...ow 5 ,e -or
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