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Loyalty Oath Bill
Excites Legislators
(This is the second in a series of articles on loyalty oath and
civil rights legislation now pending before the state legislature.)
By MARV.KRASNANSKY
So much passion and heat have been poured forth as a result of
the passage of the so-called loyalty oath bill in the state Senate that
it is difficult to see through all the smoke.
In brief, the bill, as passed by the Senate would reqwpe “every
person in the employ of the commonwealth or any political sqbdivi
sion thereof or any employes of
state-aided colleges and schools
other than elected state or local
officials to take an oath of
loyalty . .
As of Oct. 1, should the bill
pass the House and be signed by
Gov. John S. Fine, all persons
named in the title would be re
quired to take the following oath
The Oath
**l do solemnly
swear (or affirm) that I will sup
port and defend the Constitution
of the United States and the Con
stitution of the state of Pennsyl
vania against all enemies, foreign
and domestic, that I will bear true
faith and allegiance to the same,
that I take this obligation freely
without any mental reservation
or purpose of evasion 'and that I
will well and faithfully discharge
the duties upon which I am about
to enter.
“And I do further swear (or
affirm) that I do not advocate nor
am I knowingly a m'ember or
an affiliate of any organization,
group, or combination of persons
that advocates the overthrow of
the government of the United
States or of the state by force or
violence and that during such
time as I am a member or an em
ployee of .... I will not advocate
nor knowingly become a member
or an affiliate of any organization,
group, or combination of persons
that advocates the overthrow of
'the government of the United
States or of this state by force
or violence.”
Persons found to have taken
the oath falsely will be subject to
the perjury laws of the state.
That the law will be able to
catch “subversives” on perjury
charges is one of the strong points
of the legislation, according to
Sen. Albert R. Pechan, the bill’s
sponsor in the Senate.
No Oath For Legislate**!
It is of course interesting to
note that elected state or local
officials, are not required to take
the oath. The bill’s backers argue
that elected officials are required
to take an oath, under the state
constitution, so why make them
take another one.
The oath required of legislators
reads in part, “I do solemnly
swear (or affirm) that I will sup
port, obey and defend the consti
tution of the United States and
the Constitution of the Common
wealth ...”
Nowhere is the legislator re
quired to disavow a political be
lief, and nowhere is there any
provision for setting up an arbi
trary list of subversive organiza
tions.
Although the bill defines a
“subversive organization” and a
foreign subversive organization, it
does not state any criteria by
which the state attorney general
is to decide what organization is
subversive.
The bill does set up a “court”—
if it could be called that—to give
those discharged under the pro
visions of the law a hearing. The
hearing is to be conducted by the
department of justice, which is
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Block And Bridle Club
Judge Stock Tomorrow
The Block and Bridle club will
sponsor its annual livestock judg
ing contest tomorrow at 1 p.m.,
Edna Grabiak, secretary of the
club, said yesterday.
Philip Houston, Carl Everett,
William Kramlich, and James
Mindler are members of the or
ganizing committee for this year’s
competition.
Amateur and professional divi
sions will be organized. Profes
sionals are students who have
taken animal husbandry three or
four. Prizes for class winners are
being donated by borough mer
chants.
The Block and Bridle club will
sponsor the College’s Little Inter
national Livestock exposition this
year on April 28.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Red Cross
Group Goes
To Altoona
The Red Cross Student Service
organization will sponsor a var
iety show to be presented at the
Altoona Veteran’s Administra
tion hospital Monday night.
The organization has secured
an all-student talent show, with
many of the performers having
taken part in the All-College
Talent show recently sponsored
by the Penn State club.
Taking part in the hospital
show will be the Four Flats and
a Sharp, a vocal group composed
of Earl Baker, William Detweiler,
David Margolf, Richard Wrent
more, and Polly Potter; a girl’s
quartet from the Kappa Alpha
Theta sorority made, up of Caro
lyn DeHart, Betty Jane Strom,
Ann Sweger, and Elizabeth Swift;
vocalists Janice Berg and Edward
Rolf; a combo from Ray Evert’s
Artists In Melody; and Jack Hu
ber and his orchestra. John Cox
will act as master of ceremonies
for the entire show.
Co-chairman of the project are
Sally Shoemaker, who is also
president of the Red Cross cam
pus group, and Ronald Cline.
The Home Economics club will
send two members, Barbara Nor
ton and Helen Steliotes, with the
group to distribute cookies baked
by the club members.
Earlier in the year the Red
Cross organization helped in the
packing of Christmas cartons to
be sent to Korea, and they are
now aiding the infirmary in the
blood typing program.
Delta Upsilon Host
At Annual Eastern
Collegiate Meeting
The annual convention of Delta
Upsilon’s second province will get
underway this week-end as the
local chapter plays host to DU
representatives from mine eastern
colleges and universities and local
alumni.
Arthur R. Wamock, emeritus
dean of men and president of the
National Interfratemity council,
will open the program at a din
ner tonight when he speaks on
“Fraternities. in the' National
Crisis.” President Milton S. Eisen
hower will be guest of honor.
Tomorrow afternoon will be
devoted to round-table discus
sions and informal talks. The con
vention will end with a dinner at
the Eutaw house and a dance at
the chapter house for delegates
and friends.
Two representatives will attend
from each of the following schools:
Bucknell, Johns Hopkins, Lafay
ette, Lehigh, Rutgers, Swarth
more, University of Pennsylvania,
University of Virginia, and Wash
ington and Lee. 7
Children Needed
For Players' Show
Two dark-haired girls, one
5 and the other 10 years old,
are needed for roles in the
forthcoming Player*' produc
iion of "Lady in the Dark."
The girls will portray the
protagonist of the play, Lisa,
at the ages of 5 and 10.
Those who know of anyone
qualified for the roles may call
Robert Reifsneider at the dra
matics office in Schwab audi
torium. Appointments will be
made for interviews tomorrow
afternoon.
Speech Major
Reads Poetry
At Festival
Donald Colbert, sophomore ma
joring in speech and drama, will
represent Penn State at the East
ern Poetry Reading festival to
be held today at Queens college.
Colbert was selected by mem
bers of the Speech department
from the 35 students who partici-
Donald Colbert
pated in the preliminary tryouts.
At today’s festival he will read
William Rose Benet’s “Men on
Strike.”. He represented the Col
lege at last year’s poetry festival
held at Wesleyan university,
Middleton, N.Y.
Penn State is the only college
in Pennsylvania among the 28
eastern colleges who will send
representatives. Guest speaker at
last night’s banquet was Dr. Mag
daline Kramer, head of the
Speech department at Columbia
university. William W. Hamilton,
assistant professor of speech at
the College, accompanied Colbert
to New York.
Pan Americans To
Hold Ball Tonight
Pan American week continues
with a ball tonight in the main
lounge of the West dormitories
from 8-11 o’clock.
Mixed, South and North Ameri
can music will be featured. The
decorations will also feature a
North and South American
theme. The decoration commit
tee consists of Stanley Wengert,
chairman, Bill Clymer, Elizabeth
Johnson, Nancy Powers, and
Norman Duffy.
The Pan American week com
mittee in co-operation with the
West Dorm council is sponsoring
the Pan American week ball.
Saturday, Pan American day,
will consist of a Pan American
day fiesta-folk dance directed by
Mrs. W. B. Shepperd and spon
sored by the’ Inter-American
club. The fiesta will be held in
304 Old Main.
Phila. Celebrates
'Penn State Day'
Today is Penn State day in
Philadelphia.
Bernard Samuel, the city s
inayor, designated today to honor
the College and the Penn State
Glee club. The group will give a
concert at the Academy of Music
tonight. Fred Waring will be
guest conductor for several of the
numbers.
A copy of the mayor’s procla
mation was presented to Jack R.
Aldrich, president of the Philadel
phia Penn State Alumni club,
which is sponsoring the Glee
club’s appearance in Philadelphia.
Home Economics Club
Meets With Ag Group
Members of the Econom
ics club held a joint meeting with
the Agriculture Economics club
Tuesday night.
A panel discussion on “Farm
and Family Financial Planning”
was held with members from the
the two clubs participating. Par
ticipants were: Betty , Anders,
Constance Matlavage, William
Nichol, William Shute, and Car
roll Hess, ag* ec. club advisor.
The discussion was followed by
games and refreshments.
State, Lion
Gash Over
State and Lion party chairmen clashed yesterday in attacks
upon and defenses of the parties’ campaign platforms as the cam
paign finished its fourth day.
The exchange of verbal blows was made by Milton Bernstein,
chairman of the Lion party, and Murray Goldman, State party
chairman.
Bernstein described the Lion planks as “things that can be
accomplished this year.” Gold
man called the same . platform
“not concrete” and said that it
promises nothing more than “to
look into” things.
Home Ec
Committees
Announced
Committees have been an
nounced for the School of Home
Economics annual Spring week
end which begins today and will
continue -tomorrow.
The committees are: General
co-ordinating, June Moylan, Ed
ward Erotas, Patricia Robinson;
entertainment of freshmen, Mary
Jane Dean; tours, Edward Erotas,
Petty Anders; speakers for high
school students, Patricia Robins
son; guides and hosts, Jane Rush
in, Barbara Norton; students help
ing in meal preparation, Joanne
Eldred. The faculty advisors are
Dr. Helen Leßaron and Lilia
Cortright. Betty Anders is presi
dent of the Home: Economics club.
Many of the visitors to the cam
pus will be high school students
from surrounding areas. Other
guests will be freshmen from the
Penn State centers. For all groups,
there will be special tours of the
campus, the three home manage
ment houses, McElwain hall, and
McKee hall.
On Saturday morning several
students will speak to high school
visitors on “Professions in Home
Economics.” Discussions on child
development, home management,
and clothing programs will be
held. In addition, two food classes
will be in regular session.
Students have volunteered to
serve lunch in the cafeteria and
Maple room, which will be open
to guests for lunch today and to
morrow and also for dinner today.
Entertainment for the visiting
freshmen from centers is planned
for this evening.
Students To Attend
Model Congress
Sixteen students accompanied
by Lee E. Cortex of the Political
Science department will partici
pate in a “Model Congress” in
Harrisburg tomorrow through
Sunday.
The group who are members
of the central region of the Inter
collegiate Conference on Govern
ment will be welcomed at the
opening session by Gov. John S.
Fine and will hear talks by Sen.
Wallace F. Bennett (R-Utah) and
Congressman Richard Bolling (D-
Mo.)
The students who will leave
for the trip are Richard M. Bard,
John F. Beiter, Frederick W.
Hopkins, David Fritzcharles, Jos
eph S. Lenchner, Jo Ann Esterly,
Lola J. Edmunds, Virginia Mayes,
Virginia M. Sinclair, Robert D.
George, Joseph V. Galati, Louis
C. Teneroye, Lewis Shollcross,
Leonard G. Wargo, Edward G.
Gildea, and Thomas B. Shriver.
Korean Committee
To Collect Clothes
The committee for the Korean
Klothing Kampaign will collect
clothes tomorrow afternoon, Ra
chel Witherow and David Kin
caid, co-chairmen, announced
yesterday.
The campaign is scheduled to
close Sunday, Miss Witherow
said, but the committee will con-'
tinue to answer any calls received
after that date.
Posters announcing the cam
paign were placed in the win
dows of local stores last Saturday.
Nineteen medium-sized cartons of
all types of clothing for men,
women, and children already
have been collected, Miss With
erow said.
/RIDAY, APRIL 13, 1951
Chairmen
Platforms
Bernstein Disagrees
Bernstein said the State plank
that asked permission for w;omen
to appear before Judicial inwall
cases of rule infractions was con
trary to laws set up by the, wo
men themselves in their student
government handbook.
The State leader called his
party’s platform more specific
than that of the Lion party.
Bernstein attacked the State
proposal to investigate the possi
bility of constructing sorority
Houses. He said that it is a defi
cient issue and doubted whether
either party would be in exist
ence by the time the proposal
was acted on.
Meanwhile, candidates contin
ued to make personal contacts
with voters in living units yes
terday. The Lion party canvassed
the West dorm area last night at
meal-time and the State party
was in the women’s dorm area
for the first time in the campaign.
Applications Ready
For Scholarships
For Ag Students
Applications for three scholar
ships for students in the School of
Agriculture are now available,
Russell B. Dickerson, vice-dean of
the school, said yesterday.
Applications may be picked up
in 111 Agriculture and must be
returned by noon Thursday to be
considered.
The $lOO KDKA scholarship
will be awarded to a junior or
senior in agriculture judged out
standing in leadership and the
advancement of agricultural in
formation through radio.
The winner will also be the
guest of radio station KDKA in
Pittsburgh on the evening of
May 18 and the morning of May
19. One of the three winners from
Ohio, West Virginia, and Penn
sylvania, will be selected to work
with Homer Marzt, KDJECA radio
farm director, this summer.
Two Danforth foundation
scholarships, one for a freshman
and one for a junior, will also be
awarded.
The first scholarship provides
a two-week period of intensive
training in leadership in Michi
gan to a freshman in the school.
A four-week summer fellow
ship will be awarded jointly by
the Danforth foundation- and the
Ralston Purina company to. an
outstanding junior. It will pro
vide instruction on food proces
sing and selling, as well a'leader
ship training period in Michigan.
Sheepmen's Course
Attracts 16 Men
Sixteen men were enrolled in
a sheepmen’s training course at
the College this week.
Newly acquired sheep, pur
chased by the College, were used
by the class to improve the qual
ity of the flocks. Assisting the
students was Carroll Shaffner,
new superintendent of sheep.
A. L. Beam, director of short
courses, pointed out that this is
the first time such a course has
been presented. The training
course was arranged in response
to demands for such instruction
due to the revival of interest of
sheep growing in Pennsylvania
Inter-Church Fellowship
To Sponsor Festivol
The Inter-church Student fel
lowship is sponsoring a spring
carnival tonight at 7:30 p.m. in
the Wesley foundation gymna
sium. Entertainment will include
square dancing and group, sing
ing. Refreshments will be served.