SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1951 Leaders .. Reqoo§ft . Lower Voting Age- The opinion of David Olmstead, Town council president, that "those old enough to fight and die are old enough to govern" was ,echoed by the majority of student leaders when asked how they felt about lowering the voting age to 18. Olmstead also enthusiastically supported the absentee voting petition now being circulated by the National Student association on campus and in town. The other student leaders, even the dissenters on the voting age issue, went along with Olmstead on this matter. Leinbach Agrees Harold .Leinbach, Interfrater nity council president, said• sim ply and emphatically that an 18- year old voting age was a good idea. "Young people in politics —the salvation of American de mocracy," he said. "A lot depends on the individ ual." Raymond Miller, president of the Engineering student coun cil, said. However, Miller went along with Olmstead in saying "since 18-year olds are fighting, they should have the right to vote." ' Lowering the voting age to 18 and passing an absentee voting law would enable most college students to cast ballots. State Constitutions Voting age requirements are set down• in state constitutions, with the federal constitution stat ing that electors for federal offi ces should meet the same qualifi cations in the various states as those for electors for state offi ces. Thus, the state General As sembly would have to take action before the age could be lowered. Neil See, Tribunal chairman, was against an 18-year voting age. He said he did not feel a person 18 would be mature enough to keep himself conversant with the issues and problems involved in an election. "I do not believe, therefore, an 18-year-old's vote would carry the kind of' intelligent consideration these times need," See said. : E)cperiene Needed "You need that three years of experience" between the years of 18 and 21, according to Victor Fiscus, Pollock dbrm council president. Clark Young, presi dent of th e Education student council, said he was in conflict about the .question. He said he felt "an 18-year old was emotion ally unstable"- and not able to evaluate facts well enough to cast a Vote. Gay. Brunner, Judicial chair man, was undecided on the issue but posed two questions on the matter: "What about peacetime measures in comparison with war time. measures?" and "Has edu cation advanced that far to move the voting age down three years?" Healthy Measure Calling the plan to lower the voting age a healthV measure, Harry , Kondourajian, All-College vice-president, said he thought "the younger element of the country were probably more ideal istic and less affected by . the hardship and the cynicism of the age." Emerson Jones, All-College sec retary-treasurer, said that if 1.8- year olds are mature enough to play a part in the defense of the country, then, obviously, they are mature enough to play a part in choosing the individuals to guide the country which they are de fending. Richard Bard, chairman of the board of governors of the Association of Independent Men, agreed with Jones and added, "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." • Absentee •Votino Nancy George, president of Pan, hellenic council, said that lower ing the voting age was basically a good idea "if absentee voting goes • along with it." Barbara Sprenkle, president of the Wo men's Student Government asso ciation, was in falior of an 18- year voting age. She said, "The stagnant period between 18 and 21 really deadens interest in vot ing. A person has been out in the world longer at 21, said John Lau bach, Nittany dorm council presi dent. He was not in favor of lower ing the voting age, but he did say "there isn't much of a dividing line between 18 and 21." William.- Klisanin, assistant re gional chairman of the Intercol legiate Conference on Govern- By MOYLAN. MILLS Plans Ready For First ►tom Engine WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (W)— The United States is now ready to try for actual construction of the world's' first known atom-power ad aircraft engine. This was disclosed today, with Air Force permission, by a Gen eral Electric cbmpany spokesman who told newsmen: "Contractual negotiations,are under way between General lec tric and the Air. Force for qevel opment of a nuclear power plant for aircraft. "Subject to the successful com pletion of negotiations, it is ex pected that this activity will be carried On by the aircraft gas tur bine (jet engine) division of the company at its • Lockland, Ohio, plant." The announcement• came just 24 hours after the Air Force and the Atomic Energy commission reported that after four years of intensive research, the fiist phase in the program to develop an atomic airplane has now been completed. The initial phase centered chief ly on mathematical computations and theoretical possibilities—the groundwork for blue prints to build the first experimental model. Scientists have. estimated that a giant B-36 bomber, driven by an atomic power plant, could fly some. 2,000,000 miles or 80 times around the globe on a single pound of Uranium-235. U-235 isc the fissionable (ex plosive) heart of the atom bomb. LA Student Council To Sponsor Debate The Liberal Arts student coun cil will sponsor a debate March 6 on the proposition, "Resolved: that eighth semester seniors should be exempt from final ex aminations," Edward Shanken, LA council president, announced last night. John Erickson, senior class pres ident, and Marlin Brenner, All- College cabinet parlimentarian, will debate the affirmative while HaiTy Xondourajian, All-College vice-president, and David Lewis, member on the debate team, will take the negative. Ben Euwema, dean of the . School of Liberal Arts, will be chairman. A meeting of the council will be held Monday at 7 p.m. in 109 Will ard hall. , Fellowship To Hold Supper Meeting The regular Sunday evening supper meeting of the Roger Wil liam's Fellowship will be held at 5 p.m. this Sunday at the Baptist church. Immediately following the sup per, the Baptist young .people Will adjourn to the Reformed church, where they . will participate in a meeting with that church's young people's group. The meeting is in observance of the World Day of Prayer. Penn State ranks 20th in en rollment of full-tiine students. California university has the most students with 43.426. Minnesota and Illinois follow . in the second and third places, respectively. ment, described efforts of the ICG to pass a measure calling for lowering the voting age to 18 at a Harrisburg meeting of his organi zation last year. Klisanin said the measure was defeated then, but he thought it had a goo chance to pass at the ICG's Har risburg meeting in April, because of the changed world situation.. I'HE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Senate To Speed 18-Year-Old Draft WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—(1P)-- Senate administration leaders to day decided to speed action on legislation for the drafting of 18- year-olds before settling the troops-for-Europe issue. Majority leader McFarland (D- Ariz.) told newsmen after a dem ocratic caucus that Senate debate on the Manpower bill will start early next week, probably on Tuesday. The bill, providing for a uni versal military service and train ing program, would grant re stricted authority for drafting 18- year-olds. It would also extend the period of service from 21 'to 26 months. Previously, the Senate had planned to take up the controver sial question of sending more U. S. troops to Europe before de bating the draft. UN Seeks End Of Korean War LAKE SUCCESS, Feb. 23—(PP) The UN Good Offices commit tee is using every available diplo matic channel to. se e whether Communist China will change its mind and negotiate on peace in Korea. This was disclosed today by a spokesman for the commit tee chairman, Nasrollah Entezam, who is awaiting Peiping's reply to the first tentative feeler. Swedish channels in Stockholm and Peiping were used for the first efforts by th e committee which was established by the General Assembly on Feb. 1, it was reported. Sweden ,is one of the few non-communist countries which recognized Red China and Sweden's delegate, Sven Graf strom, is a member of the com mittee, along with Luis Padilla Nervo, Mexico. Red China denounced the com mittee at the time it was created and indicated it would not deal with, it. The main purpose of the Good Offices committee's first ap proach to Peiping is to try to see whether the Red Chinese really meant it. Entezam's spokesman made his disclosure after diplomatic quar ters had said the Good Offices committee sent its feeler earlier this week through Swedish chan nels. The three committee members have undertaken their talks and plans in secrecy and, have stud iously avoided talking about them. The last time th e three • were known to have met formally was on Monday. • There was a report that India, which has an embassy in Peiping and which tried unsuccessfully to work out a cease-fire in January, was used as a channel also but an Indian spokesman said "we are out of the picture." U. N. Forces Move To Red Stronghold TOKYO, Saturday, Feb. 24 VP) American infantry, battling mud and stiffening Red resistance, punched forward up to four miles in central Korea Friday, threatening to seize at any moment the Communist stronghold of Hoengsong. Friday night the tank - led doughboys held the cothmanding heights around the town. They looked' down on its smouldering ruins from Red - dug foxholes. Hoengsong is 10 miles north of Wonju on the central front. From all along the active 60- mile central sector came reports of increasing Communist stub borness as an estimated 100,000 soldiers of si x United Nations probed in quest of the main ene my force Four Divisions The attacking force included four veteran American divisions —about 60,000 men—plus attached U. S. Tenth Corps artillery and infantry of the Korean Republic, Britain, Canada, Australia an d New Zealand attached to the U.S. Ninth corps. Censorship preven ted further identifications. • Despite toughening Red resis tance, allied officers speculated tha tthey might not yet have met the main body of the enemy, esti mated previously to total 40,000 in the line south of the 38th par allel on this central front. Truman Angers Senators By Collecting RFC File WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (W)—President Truman stirred the wrath of. investigating Senators today when it was dis closed he had collected a file of letters written by congress mei: to the RFC, but he later expldined he found no evidence of 'illegal influence' on the huge lending agency. Mr. Truman said he saw spondence public since, he said, it did not show any illegality either on the part of the executive branch or legislators. If the senators thought other wise, he stated, "The material will be sent to the subcommittee of the Senate Banking and Currency committee at its request." Thus ended a wild day of alarums and excursions on Capi tol hill. It all started with a ' morning session of the subcommittee, which has charged that influence emanating from the White House had been exerted on lending pol icies of the Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation. Senators on the subcommittee discovered that the President had ordered the mass • of correspond ence delivered to the Whit e House. They immediatel'• inter preted this as a counter-attack against their investigation and got hopping mad. Almost in a chorus they de clared they refused to be intimi dated. College Prof Indicted As Red WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 23 (M—Dr. Richard N. Lewis, 34- year-old University of Delaware Professor, was released in $2500 bail today on charges he con cealed his membership in the Communist party. A federal warrant was issued in Albany, N. Y., for Lewis' ar rest and delivered to the U. S. Marshal here. The professor, for mer employe of the General Elec tric company in Schenectady, N. Y., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Albany. The grand jury said Lewis "made a false, fictitious and fraudulent" statement on a per sonnel s e cur it y questionnaire form of the Atomic Energy Com mission while working for Gen eral Electric. The 34-year-old chemistry pro fessor, father of three children, came to Wilmington from his home at Newark, Del., to surren der. He furnished his bail, then left for home to await develop ments. He was given a leave of absence yesterday from Delaware pending the outcome of the charges. Twenty - five miles east of Hoengsong, an American column raced four miles north of Pyong chang, straddling a vital road. West of Hoengsong, Canadians of the Princess Pat regiment had an all-day firefight with two ene my battalions as the Canadian battalion spearheaded the action in the British Commonwealth area. Still farther west, along the Hukchon River valley northeast of Chipyong, Americans patrolled deep in Red teritory without con tacting the Chinese. Other such allied patrols met small-arms and automatic weapons fire, however. The whole United Nations front was within 35 miles south of the 38th parallel, onetime boun dary, of North and South Korea. Reports from the Seoul area said the Reds were building up their forces in the former South Korean capital. PAGE THREE no reason to make the corre- Truman May Run 1n1953 —For Senate WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (.IP)— The White house kept silent to day on reports that President Truman may run for his old Sen ate seat when his term expires Jan. 20, 1953. But Attorney General McGrath appeared skeptical. Emerging from a cabinet meet ing at the White house, McGrath was told of the reports circulat ing on Capitol hill. "Would you buy that?" a re porter asked. McGrath smiled. "No," he said and walked away. White House Press Secretary Joseph Short said he had no corn merit. However, old friends of Mr. Truman in Congress said he is ser iously considering a return to the Senate where he scent 10 'happy years. One Congress member, who declined to -be quoted by name, put it this way: "If Harry Truman does' what he really wants to do, he will run against Senator Kern (R-Mo.) in the 1952 election. He really loves the Senate." Several White House callers have privately quoted the Presi dent as hinting he will not seek another term in the executive mansion. They say he sometimes talks nostalgically about return inEt, to the Senate. Mr. Truman will have served nearly eight years in the White House when his present term ex pires. He stepped up from the vic presidency on April 12, 1945, after the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. College Research Assistant Dies PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23 (MP)—. Dr. Maloise S. Dixon, 51, Penn sylvania State College Research Assistant injured in an automo bile accident last Tuesday. died today in Urological hospital. Dr. Dixon's car swerved into a ditch bet Ween Carlisle and Gettysburg while enroute to Washington. She continued the journey despite head injuries. After delivering papers to Dr. Pauline Beery Mack, also of Penn State who was testifying before the Federal Trade commission, Dr. Dixon returned to the Col lege and resumed her duties. The next day she became ill and went into a coma. She was brought here the same day. Philippine's Home Ec. Delegate To Visit Eloisa Yulo, chairman of home economics at the Philippine Wom en's university, Iloilo, Philippine islands, will visit the School of Home Economics at the College Monday and Tuesday. A coffee hour will be held in her honor in the Living center of the Home Economics building from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Monday. Extended Forecast Extended forecast for the period Satur day, Feb. 24 through Wednesday Feb. 2S: Eastern Pennsylvania, eastern New York, and mid-Atlantic states: Tempera ture will average around five degrees above normal. warmer Over the weekend and colder about Tuesday; some rain likely about Monday. possibly snow in the north portion; total amounts one-quarter of an inch and less than a quarter of an inch in the South. Western Pennsylvania. Ohio, Western New York, and West Virginia: tempera ture will average about five degrees above normal in the North and about eight de grees above normal in the South : warmer over the weekend and colder Monday or Tuesday; rain likely Sunday or Monday, amounts one-quarter to one-half inch.
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