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.