PAGE FOUR allr Elatiff Collegian Successor to THE FREE LANCE. est.-1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in clusive 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 set necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned edi torials are by :he editor. Dean Gladfelter Editor 4fie**l • Managing Ed.. John Dalbor; City Ed.. Herbert Stein; Sports Ed., Ray Koehler; Edit. Dir., John Ashbrook; Wire Ed.. Art Denning: Society Ed., beanie Krebs; Feature Ed., Janet Rosen; Asst. City Ed., Jack Boddington; Asst. Sports Ed., Joe Bretz; Asst. Society Ed., Bettina dePalma; Li brarians, Dorothy Laine, Joyce Moyer; Senior Board, Bill Detweiler. Asst. Bus Mgr.. Thomas M. Harolcik; Advertising Dir., Harold L. Wollin; Local Adv. Mgr., Norma' Gleghorn; Pro• motion Mgr., Laura Mermelstein; Circulation Co-Mgrs.. Edward W. Noyes. Gerald F. Yeager; Personnel Mgr., Edwin Singel; Classified Adv. Mgr., Shirley Faller; Office Mgr., Sue Halperin; Secretary, Winifred Wyant. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night editor: Lowell Keller; copy editors: Carolyn Barrett, Len Kolasinski; assistants: Jack Cunningham, Ted Soens, Anna Mae Webb. Advertising manager: Howard Boleky; assist ants: Nancy Marcinek, George Yscavage, Dick Smith. Undermining Effect Of TOyalty Oath' The letter to the editor, appearing on this page today, concerning our editorial, "Time To Fight," reflects the opinion of what probably is a large segment of the population regarding "loyalty" and affirmations of "ldyalty." We regret that such is the case, for we doubt that the same opinion would obtain in a more settled world. It reveals, we fear, a loss of perspective regarding American freedom and what it means, and it indicates a troubled anxiety produced by inability to cope with a great problem that seems to be beyond the ken of the American people. The logic is tortured and abstruse and, like the oath it supports, tends to undermine the very freedoms the oath ostensibly protects. THE LETTER'S ANALOGY to motor and mining laws is one of the least appropriate that could have been selected. When matters of a man's conscience become public property— when a man can be held economically and legally accountable for the dictates of his con science—then freedom in its truest sense ceases to exist. It is 'one thing to set up rules for the protection of everyone's rights, but it is some thing quite different to establish a law which makes it illegal and punishable for a person to hold an opinion different from that of the ma jority. The "loyalty oath" is an infringement upon the right to free opinion and free con science. The writer of the letter speaks of truth as something absolute( a viewpoint which mani fests the great longing of people today for something absolute, a viewpoint which mani truth is not of such a nature. Those who be lieve they possess the only truth and. the right opinion, although they may be comfort able in their belief, cheat their own narrow minds of a far broader knowledge and under standing. To speak of the people of Pennsylvania as "employers" of the Collegian staff is far-fetched, if only because no one "employs" the staff or the editors. By the same logic, it could be argued that, since the state voted Republican in the last election, the Collegian should be a Republi can newspaper. In the context of our society the reasoning does not hold water. To use an analogy, should union members be fired because they do not hold the same opinion as their em ployer regarding unions, wages, and working conditions? WE AGREE WITH the writer that "the per sonal consequences of the stand we take is our net reward," but the use of legal traps to settle a. matter of personal opinion and conscience constitutes an infringement of liberty. To the inferences he makes we must object strongly that they are in the nature of smears. The letter writer states that freedom to be wrong in a political situation will never van ish from the American way of life, except in cases of clear and present danger, and asks why we should become alarmed. The answer is that freedom has vanlsned temporarily before, and it was only because some people did be come alarmed and fought that the freedom was restored. Always, in the past, the nation has been able to recover itself, and, after a few years, the current hysteria may pass over. However, the freedom we have in more settled times will not return if we abandon efforts to restore it. UNLIKE THE PROPONENTS of the oath we are not afraid of freedom or of the CoMmunists. We believe that a completely free—and alert and educated—people will not be seduced by totalitarian doctrines. We continue to hold to the principle of Voltaire, who said that, although he'disagreed violently with the opinions of his enemies, he would maintain to the death their right to entertain those opinions. • Tribunal and judicial shall have power to establish their own procedure except that any hearing must be open if the defendant so desires. —Section 7, Article 111, All-College constitution. Way To Catch Rats TO THE EDITOR: Every large institution of higher learning has several Owen Lattimores, Penn State not excepted, sulking in their midst. The way to catch rats is chase them out in the open. Your display of effrontery towards those that are paying your salary would, in private enterprise or elsewhere, be grounds enough to terminate your contract. You, however, being in the much pampered catagory of the intelli gentsia, enjoy asylum from such action. Freedom to be wrong in a political situation, short of a clear and present danger to the nation, will never vanish from the American way of life. However, the personal consequence of the stand we take is our net reward, be it social ostracism or national acclaim. To require a state-supported college professor to sign a statement that his loyalty and con ception of life, liberty, and happiness is the same as those of his employer, is no different in aspect than the motor code stipulation that all cars traveling on public highways have ample brakes and proper lighting, or the mining law. that all pits be properly ventilated. The backers of the "oath" are the people of Pennsylvania, your employer. They want in surance that the political beliefs, that have in spired them with the will and courage to rear a family and send them to college, will not be inundated in the roily sea of perdition by in tellectual utopianism. A portion of them are College alumni and know that the majority of college professors look askance at the student who dares to ques tion a point in his well-prepared lecture. They know that once in a "blue moon" will the venerable profs admit they are wrong or ill informed. The discussions of this or that prof for his tinted political views, have possibly been carried farther than the dorms, thus precipitating the "oath measure." At most a loyalty oath is nothing more than a manifestation on your part that you are not loyally divided with foreign power that the (sic) overthrow of our government. Why become so alarmed? After all, the people who pay your salary have, every right to make sure their money isn't being used to eventually enslave them. You certainly are not entitled to teach the "truth, as you see it." You are, however, obli gated to teach the "truth" as the majority of capably informed peoples see it, or change em ployers. Owen E. Landon Business Mgr. Gazette . COLLEGE PLACEMENT Further information concerning interviews and job place. amnia can he obtained in 112 Old Main. Ralston Purina company will interview June graduates in M.E.. 1.E., C&F, Ag., or A&L with a background in Ag. Thursday, April 5. Westinghouse Air Brake will interview June graduates in M.E. Monday, April 9. Hazeltine Electric will interview June graduates in E.E. Monday, April 9. Aetna Life Insurance company will interview June grad uates interested in group insurance Tuesday, April 3. Allegheny Ludlum Steel corp. will interview June grad uates in M.E., E.E., Metal., C.E., and Chem. Friday. April 6. North American Aviation will interview June graduates in ME., Aero. Eng., E.E., Chem. Eng., and Phys. Monday, April 9. Arabian American Oil company will interview June grad uates in M.E., E.E., C.E., Chem. Eng., P.N.G.. Geol., and Bus. Ad. Thursday, April 5. Hamilton Standard division will interview June graduates at B.S. level in M.E., E.E., Aero. Eng. Thursday, April 5. United Aircraft corp. will interview June graduates in M.E. Friday, April 6. YMCA representative will be on campus to interview graduating seniors and juniors interested in professional "Y" work. Those interested are invited to dinner at the Allencrest at 6 p.m.,, April 3. Individual interviews will be conducted after dinner. Line Material company will interview June graduates in E E. alid M.E. Tuesday, April 10. Carter Oil company will interview June graduates in Geol. Tuesday, April 10. American Car & Foundry company will interview June graduates in C.E., E.E., 1.E., and M.E. Tuesday, April 10. American 'Viscose will interview June graduates in Chem. Eng., Chem.. M.E., and I.E. Tuesday. APril•lo. Newport News 'Shipbuilding & Dry Dock company would like to have preliminary application blanks from June graduates in C.E., E.E., and M.E. Blanks may bd obtained in 112 Old Main before April 13. Foster Wheeler corp. will interview June graduates in M.E., Chem. Eng., C.E., and E.E. Wednesday, April 11. Koppers company will interview June graduates in Chem. Eng., M.E., E.E., and Bus. - Ad. Wednesday, April 11. Harrison Construction company, Inc., will interview June graduates in C.E. Wednesday, April 11. Philco corp. will interview June graduates in Phys., nod M.E. Thursday, April 12. Duren Plastics will interview June graduates in Chem. Thursday, April 12. International Latex will interview June graduates in C&F, Chem., Chem. Eng., E.E., LBe., and M.E. Thursday, April 12. Sylvania Electric will interview June graduates in EE.. LE., M.E., Cer.. Bus. Ad., H.A., Chem., and Chem. Eng. Thursday, April 12. Mathieson Chemical corp. will interview June graduates in Chem. Eng. Monday, April 16. Aircraft-Marine Products, Inc., will interview June grad uates in E.E., M.E., and Acct. Monday, April 16.• General Electric will interview men and women June graduates in C&F and Acct. Monday, April 16. West Virginia Pulp & Paper company will interview June graduates in Chem. Eng., C.E., E.E., and M.E. Wednesday, April 11. __Dell Aircraft corp. will interview men and women June graduates at the M.S. and Ph.D. level in Chem. Eng. and Phys. and at all levels in Aero. Eng., E.E., and M.E. Mon day, April 16. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT For information concerning the following ;obi applicants should stop is 112 Old Main. Husky man with own transportation for paper-baling job m campus ; Tuesday afternoons, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday mornings; 85c per hour. Substitute waiters wanted for IFC weekend ; cash plus meals. Man who will be in State College during summer session to work for room sad board; must have own transportation. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA` Safety Valve ... • Letter cut. —George J. Salak Man On Campus I ,/,/: r ,; ~ ;./1; , , : / ~,; / 4 11 ' I. f 1 ' $1 1 1 , NOI 1N ...444,, • • ‘°"111)1\liklel%)51,k•CA;. v.f • . iihk l • V (44,4 • I• A it''t 4 I $. 1 :(•:.t • 1 1.!reit ,'•(;V‘'•'10(••••••ti.%?. "You girls must be getting careless about pulling the shades— Worthal is setting up his bleachers again." Cockeyed Louie And Lawyer Brodson Senator Kefauver's skits on television were probably the greatest boon to the industry since perfection of the coaxial cable. CLIMBING DOWN OUT OF these isolated mountains for an Easter breather last week, we arrived at a civilized television out post only in time to witness the last few open sessions. Along with millions of beer drinkers all over the nation, we were fas cinated by the senators probing crime in interstate commerce. As another local columnist, whose girl friend doesn't know how to back-up a car, would put it, "It's the greatest thing since sex " IMM3 A gentle beer distributor from Des Moines was the first witness we saw. His name was Lou Far rell, alias—Lou Frato, alias—Lu igi Frato, alias—Cockeyed Louie. Cockeyed Louie wanted the ' committee of senators to un derstand that he was only a s m all businessman earning a respectable living for his wife and family. His boyhood chums, it turned out, were a curious assortment of thieves, murder ers, and hoodlums. But they were good fellows, he con tended, if only they would stop annoying him ' when they got into trouble. At one point the committee's counsel pressed Farrell on t h e point that one of his friends must have done something wrong or he wouldn't have been in jail. What had he done, the counsel demanded? "Well, I think he robbed a bank," Farrell shrugged. SIDNEY A. BRODSON, a liter ate, and learned gentleman from Milwaukee, was a second witness Gazette . . . M=C=l ANDROCIES, Beta Theta Pi, 7:30. p.m. BELLES-LETTRES club, T. J. Gates speaker, NE Atherton; 7 p.m. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE organi zation, Home Economics living quarters, 8:05 p.m. . ' . COLLEGIAN business candi dates, 2 Carnegie hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN business junior and sophomore boards, 9 Carnegie hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN editorial easidi dates, 1 Carnegie hall, 7:30 p.m. ENGINEERING STUDENT COUNCIL, 107 Main Engineering, 7 pan. ' LIBERAL ARTS STUDENT 1v~V'!9~l~ ~~~~~~ You Name It By HERBERT STEIN that day. He completely disarmed the senators by his loquacious ex planation of a multi-million dol lar gambling business. Licensed to practice law in two mid-western states, Brod son said he had attended both t h e UniVersities of Wisconsin and Illinois. Soon after gradu ation, however, he said, he made more money as a good gambler than as a bad lawyei. So he gave up law except as valuable background material on how to keep inside of it. College evidently helped him a lot. He kept referring to frat ernity brothers as gambling con tacts. He didn't mention the frat ernity. FLU FLUNG ME ABED last week. I spent the last days of the vacation and some that - weren't part of the vacation fighting off attacks of medicines (capsuled, jarred, bottled and tinned) most of which I can't even spell. It gave me a chance to catch up on one thing sleep. I couldn't read, walk, or watch television. Just as well since the Kefauver committee had by then gone into secret ses-‘ sions and even Milton Berle would have been anti-climatic. COUNCIL, 108 Willard hall, 8 Pm. MARKETING club, 124 Sparks, 7 p.m. NITTANY BOWMEN, 209 Engi neering C, 7 p.m. PENN STATE club., movies, 405. Old Main, 7 p.m. PSYCHOLOGY CLUB, Dr, Mark speaker, 204 Burrowes, 7:30, p.m. WRA" BOWLING, White hall alleys, 7 p.m. WRA FENCING, White hall. 7 p.m. AT THE MOVIES CATHAUM: Flying Missile STATE: Macbeth NITTANY: Fantastic Nights, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1951 By Bibler ` ~~J 7 MIN • 7:7i74704, EMI /~~ *** * • *
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