(Eto lattg f*| Olnlbgtan VOL. 51 —No: 117 Oath Bill May Not Include State Schools Faculty members of state-supported colleges may be exempted from the terms of the loyalty oath bill passed recently by the state senate. Senator Albert Pechan (R-Armstrong), sponsor of the bill, made the announcement as word came here that the Bellefonte post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars had passed a resolution favoring the. oath, As passed by the Senate, the bill would compel all state em ployees ■ (except elected officials) to swear that they belong to no subversive organizations. Pechan said if amended, the measure would probably allow the col eges themselves to decide wheth er faculty members should take the oath He said that legal experts in the justice department are study ing the college question, Pechan’s announcement recalled the fact that in an interview with Col legian reporters Tuesday, Repub lican House leader Charles C. Smith cast strong doubt on the bill’s constitutionality and pre dicted its possible defeat by the House unless amended. York Democrat Harry E. Seyler also told Collegian interviewers he thought tre bill would fail in the House. He said a recent Cali fornia court- decision voiding a loyalty oath at the University of California would affect voting on the Pennsylvania measure. Locally, the Bellefonte VFW resolution will be forwarded to Rep. P. A. Frost (R-Centre) in Harrisburg. The oath bill is sched uled for consideration by the House state government commit tee. Claude F. Glenn, member of the Bellefonte VFW, said the res olution was prompted by “con tinued revelations of evidence re garding Communist infiltration into colleges throughout the coun try.” He said the post based its opinion on disclosures by the House committee on un-Amerieap activities and a magazine article by Matthew Cvetic, an FBI agent in the Communist party. Inter-American Club To Hold Fiesta Today The Inter-American club is sponsoring a fiesta today in com memoration of Pan-American day. The fiesta is one of the activities for Pan American week which ends tomorrow. It will be held at 8 o’clock in 304 Old Main The fiesta will be opened with greetings from Mr. Alvara San chez, president of the Inter- American club. Folk songs are next on the program and will be directed by Mr. Joseph Bentivegna. Latin American movies will be shown of Argentina, Uraguay and Col ombia. Latin American ballroom dan ces will be demonstrated. These dances include the tango of Ar gentina, the samba from Brazil the rhumba of Cuba, the mambo of Porto Rico, the merengue from Porto,Rico, and the paso doble of Spanish origin popular throughout Latin America. Program chairman of the event is Mr. L. M. Banks. Director of the dances is Mrs. J. Shepperd, while master of ceremonies is Mr! E. Hinojosa. Following the pro gram a social get-together and refreshments will be served. Part of the home economics spring festival is an exhibition of how Mexican children are eat ing. This exhibition is open today in the Home Economics building. Pan American week will close tomorrow with a silver tea spon sored by the Penn State Chris tian association. The tea will be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Hugh Beaver room in Old Main. The tea is for all faculty members and students. Patricia Jones is ! chairman. Cushman Is LA Speaker On Monday Dr. Robert E. Cushman, head of the department of government at Cornell university, will speak at the third Liberal Arts lecture at 8 p.m., Monday in 110 Electri cal Engineering building. The lecture is open to the public. Cushman will speak on “Civil Liberties—The Balance Sheet for 1951.” The topic will deal with civil liberties and the control of subversive activities. He has written several books. Among them are “Studies in Police Power of National Govern ment,” “Excess Condemnation,” and “Leading Constitutional De cisions.” He is a member of the board of editors of the American Politi cal Science review. Cushman is also director of the Cornell Research in Civil Rights. He received his Ph.D. degree at Columbia in 1917. He - was president of the American Poli tical Science association during 1943. Cushman spoke on campus about four years ago on the re lations between the state and church. The final Liberal Arts lecture in May will be delivered by Pat rick M. Malin of the American Civil Liberties Union, N.Y. Lion Coats Go On Sale Monday At SU Desk Senior Lion coats will go on sale Monday afternoon at Student Union desk in Old Main. Walter Miller, chairman of the Lion coat committee announced. The coats, which are priced at $1.95, will be sold at Student Union for the next tv>o weeks in the afternoons only. Miller urged seniors to pick up their coats as soon as possible. P/ay, Films , Panel Discussion To End Home Ec. Weekend The Home Economics Spring Week-End swings into its second and final day of exhibits and pro grams based on the theme of “Children and Youth In Our Homes,” today in the Home Ec building. The program combines the an nual meeting of the Pennsylvania State College Home Economics Alumni association. Freshman week-end, high school and par ents’ visiting days, leaders’ con ferences, and open house for fami lies and friends. Included are the problems and needs of all age groups represent ed in children and youth, from babies to 25-year-olds, including young married couples. Space has been turned over for exhibits and programs of clothes, toys, games, dramatic productions, and meet ings. A loudspeaker installed in the lobby of the Home Ec build ing is used to announce at the be ginning of every hour, the events which will take place. Some of the highlights of to day’s program include a play, “Fresh Variable Winds,” by Nora Stirling, about ten-year-olds, their parents, and their mutual prob lems, with, a discussion following; a panel discussion on “The Report STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1951 Applications For Deferment Tests Applications for draft deferment qualification tests will be distributed in the basement of Willard hall, beginning at 10 a.m. Monday. Major John Prosser and two assistants from state selective service headquarters will give o*rt the forms. Each student planning to take the test must pick up his own application. It is not yet known whether the draft officials will remain on campus beyond the first day. Dean of Men H. K. Wilson yesterday urged all interested students to get the forms as early as possible. Subject To Change Draft and college officials throughout the country have urged draft-eligible men students to take the examinations. While under the present deferment set up, top fractions of each class would receive automatic defer ments, the situation is subject to several probable changes soon. The house of representatives yesterday passed a universal mil itary training bill which has been amended to prevent the auto matic deferments. The bill would, throw the deferment question back to the individual draft boards. These boards might use the deferment examinations as criteria. Shaw Opening JAMES BEAVER, appearing as Peter Keegan, philosophical, defrocked Irish priest in the cur rent Players' production of George Bernard Shaw's "John Bull's Other Island." The show opened at Center Stage last sight and will run-for five more week-ends after tonight. Candidates To 'Meet Press' Candidates for seats 'on All- College cabinet will answer ques tions at a “Meet the Press” ses sion at a Collegian-sponsored political mixer Tuesday night at the TUB. Staff members of the Collegian will fire questions at State and Lion party candidates for All- College president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer, and for senior and junior class president. Questions will be submitted (continued on page eight) of the White House Conference on Children and Youth;” and an op portunity for parents of students in the Home Economics school to visit individually with Dr. Milton Eisenhower, Dean of Women, Pearl O. Weston, Dean of Men, Harold K. Wilson, and Dean of the School' of Home Economics, Grace Henderson, at 3 p.m. in the Home Ec living center. Several films will be shown to day, including “The Fight for Better Schools;” “This Charming Couple” and “Marriage Today,” from the “Marriage for Moderns” series; “Within Your Reach” and “Heart of the Home;” “Are You Ready for Marriage?” and “Choosing for Happiness;” “The White House Conference on Chil dren and Youth” and “The School That Learned to Eat;” and “Pre face to a Life,” a film showing how adult'treatment in a child’s earliest years affect his later life. Some of the exhibits will in clude “Toys You Can Make,” “Right Heights for Parents and Children,” “Finger Paint and Clay Demonstrations,” a “Review of Clothing for Children and Youth” with nursery school children and others as models, “Housing Ar-J. Show Filins House Wants Local Boards To Defer WASHINGTON, April 13—The House ,of Representatives today passed a draft bill which throws the question of college deferments back to the local draft boards. Other major provisions of the bill are the lowering of the draft age from 19 to 18% years, length ening of the service period from 21 to 26 months, and arranging for a later study of universal military training. Back To Senate The House passed its modified draft-UMT bill by a vote of 372 to 44 and sent it back to the Senate for adjustment with the draft bill that chamber passed on a 79 to 5 vote on March 9. The big differences are that the Senate put the minimum age at 18, fixed the term of a draftee’s service at 24 months, and pro vided for a system of universal military training to go into effect after the need for a draft is deem ed to be ended. A joint Senate-House commit tee will now go to whip out a compromise that, with President Truman’s signature, will become the law. To 1954 Both bills would extend the draft three years, to July 1, 1954. The House bill provides that deferment of college students would be left largely to local draft boards, and that the boards would not be bound by the apti tude tests the administration is planning for hundreds of thou sands of students this spring and summer, During months of debate, in committees and on the floors of (Continued on page•. three) rangements for Children and Youth;” and “You, Your Child, and The School Lunch.” All of today’s events are open to the public. Cafeteria Style All departments of the school are participating in the weekend. The meals being served in the cafeteria and Maple room, both yesterday and today, ai-e prepared cafeteria style, by students of Hotel and Institution administra tion for the public. Other displays show “Make- Over Suggestions for Children’s Clothing,” “What Children Eat in Other Lands”—a display of food as it is served and eaten by children in several countries of the United Nations; and how col lapsible furniture for one room which packs into two cartons helps in cutting cost and labor in moving. The Home Economics Alumni association i s holding its annual meeting this morning at 10:30 a.m. in room 14 of the Home Ec building. The alumni banquet will be tonight at the State College hotel. Dr. Ethel Waring of Cor nell will be guest speaker. Home Ec students are acting as hosts, and are conductiong cam pus touts for the visitors. “ PRICE FIVE CENTS Draft Ready The exams will be given na tionally on May 26, June 16, and June 30. They will be three hour tests, based on learning ability rather than present knowledge. If the President’s deferment sys tem is not impaired by congres sional action, a score of 70 per cent would be necessary to per mit the student another year in school. Automatic Deferment The top half of the present freshman class, two thirds of the sophomores, and three quarters of the juniors would receive au tomatic, deferment under the President’s plan. Selective service last week an nounced a freeze of inductions scheduled for May. This move will permit students who have passed their physicals and who are under induction postpone ment for the present year, to be included under the deferment system. Coed Debaters Meet Oswego At Rockview Two members of the College women’s debate team will jour ney to the Western State peni tentiary at Rockview on Monday for a debate with Oswego State Teachers college, N.Y. Lois Pulver and Greta Weaver will debate the affirmative of the national intercollegiate debate question at 7 p.m. They will be the only women to debate before the prison inmates this year. Another women’s team will meet the Oswego affirmative on Monday at 4 p.m. in 15 Sparks. Patricia Shaffer and Shirley Gal lagher will debate the negative of the national intercollegiate de bate question. Seven members of the women’s team will accompany Miss Pulver and Miss Weaver. They are Ethel Brown, Marilyn DuPont, Alice Murray, Eileen Olessker, Mar- Zilberberg, Miss Gallagher, and Miss Shaffer. An open forum, in which the prison inmates will take part, will follow the debate. The national intercollegiate de bate question, which will be the to P lc r2 f the debates, is, “Resolv ed: That the non-Communist nations should form a new inter national organization.” Teachers Must Know Many Subjects - Trabue It is impossible to crowd into a four-year college curriculum formal courses in all the areas in which a modern teacher must demonstrate competence. Dr M R. Trabue, dean of the School of Education, said Thursday a t the University of Pennsylvatoa-’s Schoolmen <s week.
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