The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, March 31, 1951, Image 1
• . • • 40 TODAY'S WEATHER: F ORA SETTER CLOUDY AND COLDER: r 4 wag o a ti rgt anPENN STATE OCCASIONAL SHOWERS VOL. 51— No. 107 Faculty Reaction To Oath Is Marked With Caution An air of caution marked faculty reaction yesterday to the proposed state loyalty oath. Members seemed hesitant to commit themselves on the issue this early. Meanwhile, the expected state-*ide controversy over the senate approved bill began. yesterday with the announced opposition of the AFL-Pennsylvania Federation of Labor to the loyalty oath. The bill, passed Wednesday in the state upper house, by a 42-7 margin, would require all state employees—including professors at state-supported colleges and universities—to swear' that they belong to no "subversive organi zation or foreign subversive or ganization." These organizations are defined as any advocating for cible overthrow of the Pennsyl vania or , United States' govern ments. Seen Unnecessary Faculty reaction here was key noted by an attitude that the oath is unnecessary, but that there is no other particular objection to it Arthur H. Reede, professor of economics and defeated candidate for Congress, said in a prepared statement, that he believed the criteria fo r judging teachers should be worked out by persons with teaching experience. "I would prefer that the loyalty oath bill should not pass in its present form," Reede said. "If it should pass, however, I would take the oath." Dr. R. Wallace . Brewster, pro fessor of political science, doubted, in a written comment, that the oath would accomplish -- much good, and feared that it might do much harm. He said that the pro posed law operates against this country's tradition of freedom of association. "It is about as difficult and dangerous to legislate loyalty as it is to legislate religious belief," Dr. Brewster said. "In the pro cess of trying to save democracy we shoud be careful not to adopt measures which may eat away at its very foundations." • Termed "Foolish" "Foolish" was the way Dean Marion Trabue, of the School of Education, described such a state effort to legislate loyalty. He said, however, that despite the bill's "short-sighted attitude," loyal faculty members could sign it. Dean Trabue said a far more dangerous measure has been in troduced in the legislature. This bill would set up a legislative committee which would tour the schools of the state making loyalty examinations. "This plan is absolutely vi cious," the dean said. "Such a committee could very well start a witch-hunt." • Dean Trabue and a number of other faculty members contacted said that the oath is quite similar to those they have already taken in connection with federal gov ernment work. George L. Haller, Dean of the School of Chemistry and Physics and commander of the Air. National Guard's 153rd Group, said that he h a d been signing such oaths 'practically once a week." "I don't think it has affected my well being or eating," he said. (continued on page eight) Meeting To Launch Jewish Appeal Drive A meeting to launch the an,. nual United Jewish Appeal, sponsored by the Hillel foun dation, will be held at the foundation tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. This year a goal of $4500 has been set. Funds will be used for overseas re lief, rehabilitation, and recon struction. Jacqueline Cohen and Julius Marcus, chairmen" of the cam paign, announced there is need for additional student workers. Anyone interested should come to the meeting tomorrow, they said. Films will be shown and assignments will be made. By RON BONN R. Wallace Brewster Agricultural Economist To Talk At Seminar O. V. Wells, chief of the Bur eau of Agricultural Economics in t h e Department of Agriculture, will speak on "What Are the Problems in Getting the Results of Agricultural Economics an d Rural Sociological Research?" for the rural social science seminar at 3 p.m., Monday in 202 Horticul ture. Th e Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology department sponsOrs the seminar and sessions are open to faculty and graduate students. Soccer Team Reported By Seven hours after leaving Gander, Newfoundland, the plane bearing the soccer team contingent landed near Shannon,' Ireland, Neil See, manager, reported in a letter to the Daily Collegian. Coach Jeffrey immediately stole the show by swinging into one of his Scotch ditties when a young red-headed Irish girl came aboard to greet the team. Following are excerpts from See's letter: "We spent an uneventful minutes in the' waiting room and I k.•• , •••• - then took off across the Atlantic. - Smooth Ride "We made the crossing at 17,000 feet. The plane'rode very smooth ly. All that was to be seen below was a sea of billowy white clouds. The boys spent their time read ing phamphlets on Iran and sleeping. They have been very quiet thus far. Except for the monotonous hum of the engines, we might be sitting in our living rooms. It is every bit as comfort able—even more so as the red carpet is out and they are wait ing on us like kings. "We began to descend about 40 minutes from Shannon, Ireland. The weather is w‘rery hazy over here. Even down to 1,000 feet we could not see the land—only an occasional, light .winking at us through the overcast. It was so dark we could not see our own, wings until we touched the ground "As we walked down the steps from the plane Red Emig led some of the fellows in a chorus of "Irish Eyes Are Smiling." "I am forced to use the old cliche, "It's a small world." Kurt Klaus met a Sigma Pi from Drex el. I met the fellow and found we STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 1951 * * * "Dangerous" Politicians Temporarily Take Break Penn State politicians will go into hibernation this weekend for the first time in more than a, month. Neither the State nor Lion parties will meet this week end. Both parties, however, can be expected to make a few last min ute changes on the party plat forms before submitting them ac cording to Edwin - Barnitz, chair man of the elections committee. Monday is the deadline for the submission of the platforms. The platforms will not be re leased until Wednesday or Thurs day of next week, Barnitz said yesterday. The State par t y had been scheduled to meet tomorrow night. Party leaders had planned to submit a draft of the platform to party members, but the meet ing was canceled by Murray Goldman, clique chairman. The meeting would have conflicted with the IFC-Panhel sing, Gold man said. The present lull in the poli ticking will end on or about April 9 with the start of the ac tual campaigning, w h i c h, of course, will be climaxed by the voting April 18-19. The elections code forbids campaigning before the April 9 date. Each party is limited to $l5O in campaign expenditures by the election code. No single contri bution can be for more than $2O, under the regulations. Itemized budgets are submitted to the elections committee by the clique chairmen. The elections committee is empowered to• pe nalize an offending party by subtracting votes from its totals. Dote Correction Neal Rierner, assistant profes sor of political science, will ad dress the Philosophy club next Thursday at 8 p.m. in 203 Willard hall. Collegian erroneously re ported that he was to have spoken this week. Trip See - 77. M Neil See had some mutual friends in Philadelphia. He' was enroute to Brussels for a vacation. "Bill Yerkes and I talked to several attendants in the waiting room. These people have a (continued on page eight) Fifty Groups Will Compete In Greek Sing Fifty fraternities and sororities will compete in the Inter fraternity council-Panhellenic sing to be held tomorrow, and Tuesday at 7 p.m. in 10 Sparks Elimination rounds will be held the first two nights. Fraternity winners and a sorority winner will be chosen from the finalists Tuesday night. James Wharton, co-chairman of the sing committee, said one rule has been changed. Wharton, said two fraternity winners will be chosen each night of elimina tions. Previously, only one frat ernity winner was chosen. This means four fraternities will be in the finals with the two sorority finalists. Dr. Simmons To Discuss Russian Lit. Dr. Ernest T. Simmons, pro fessor of Russian literature at Columbia university and a senior member of the staff of the Rus sian institute, will be the second speaker in the Liberal Arts lec ture series. His lecture is also sponsored by the German department's Sim mons lecture series. He will speak on "Recent Developments in So viet Literature" Wednesday at 8 p.m. in 121 Sparks. Wrote 8 Books Simmons is known as a critic and biographer of Russian writ ers and. is an authority on mod ern Russian literature. He, has written or edited eight books dealing with literature. The pub lications include "English Lit erature and Culture in Russia," "Pushkin—A Biography," "Leo Tolstoy," and "Dostoevski—The Making of a Novelist." After he was graduated from Harvard university in 1925, Sim mons travelled in the Soviet Un ion on a Sheldon fellowship in 1928 and 1929. He made subse quent trips to Russia for literary research in 1932, 1935, 1937, and 1947. Began At Harvard He began teaching at Harvard. Later, at Cornell university Sim mons became chairman of the Department of Russian Litera ture. In 1946, Simmons went to Co lumbia as head of the Depart ment of Slavic Languages. He is also a staff specialist in the social and ideological trends in Russian literature and the Soviet Union. In addition Simmons is a mem ber of the joint Slavic committee of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research council. CORE Founder Speaks Sunday At Chapel Here James Farmer, a faculty mem ber of the Institutes of Interna tional -Relations of the American Friends Service committee, will be the speaker at College chapel services tomorrow morning • at 11 o'clock in Schwab auditorium. "Democracy's Unfinished Busi ness" will be the theme of his sermon. • He will also lead a seminar to morrow afternoon at 3 p.m. in 304 Old Main. This seminar will be open to the public. Farmer attended Wiley college, Marshall, Tex., and Howard uni versity, Washington, D. C. Work ing in the fields of public and labor relations, he has been ac tive in helping to solve differences in labor-management relations and in racial groups. Farmer has served as race rela tions secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. In 1942 he founded the Committee of Racial Equality, now known as CORE. He served as national chairman of this group for two years. PRICE FIVE CENTS Sing Judges Judges for the sing will be Elmer Wareham, Mrs. E. D. Rey nolds, Edward Gamble, Dr. Fran cis Andrews, Dorothy Cornell, and Barry Brinsmaid. The winners will be presented with cups by their respective councils. Finalists will entertain during intermission of the IFC- Panhel ball next Friday night. Songs required for the frater nities to sing are "Blue and White" as arranged for the Col lege Glee club and one fraternity song. Sororities are required to sing two sorority songs. At least 12 members should be in each song group. Quartets and sololists are barred from - the sing. The singing will be judged on a point basis. A maximum of 20 points will be given for tone qual ity, 20 points for intonation, 20 points for interpretation and phrasing, 15 points for balance of parts, 15 points for diction, and 10 points for general effect. Committee Chairmen Marilyn Levitt is co-chairman of the sing committee. Members of the IFC section of the commit tee are Gerald Gibson and Gor don Harrington. Last year's sing winners were Beta Theta Pi fraternity and Delta Gamma sorority. Twenty-five groups will com pete each night of eliminations. The following groups, listed in order of appearance, will sing to morrow night: Pi Kappa Phi, Al pha Chi Sigma, Kappa Delta, Kappa Delta Rho, Beta Theta Pi, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Ze ta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Mu, Acacia, Alpha Sigma Phi, Theta Phi Alpha, Pi Kappa Alpha, Delta Chi, Alpha Xi Delta. • Also, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Zeta Tau Alpha, Sigma Chi, Chi Omega, Chi Omega, Sig ma Phi Epsilon, Omega Psi Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Kappa Tau, and Theta Xi. Monday Competition The following groups, listed in order . of appearance, will compete Monday night: Tau. Kappa Epsi lon, Tau Phi Delta, Delta Zeta, Triangle, Phi Sigma Delta, Alpha Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa, Delta Upsilon. Gamma Phi Beta, Beta Sigma Rho, Sigma Pi, Delta Del ta Delta, Sigma Phi Alpha, Lamb da Chi Aloha. Also, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Gamma Rho, Theta Kappa Psi, Delta Gamma. Phi Delta Theta, Zeta Beta Tau, Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Tau Omega, CM Phi, Theta Chi, and Alpha Omi cron Pi. Four Students Attend Nat'l. Art Conference Beth Wham, Miriam McGrew, Paul Flick, and Mary Lower, all of the division of home art, are attending.the National Art confer ence in New York, this week-end. The conference, which includes the Eastern, Southern, and West ern Art conferences, will be at tended by leaders in art educa tion from the entire country.