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Educators Opposition
Could Defeat Oath.
(This is the fourth in a series of articles on the loyalty oath and
civil rights legislation now pending before the state legislature.)
Outspoken opposition by leading Pennsylvania educators could
probably bring certain defeat to the loyalty bill now pending in the
state legislature.
Rep. Harry E. Seyler (D-York) said last week that the opinions
and feelings of such men as college presidents and other outstanding
college officials in the state usually carry great weight with legisla-
tors in Harrisburg.
Seyler, himself a teacher, said,
a storm of protest by these men
■would be enough to' convince the
representatives that the Eechan
loyalty oath bill is an up wise
measure and should bg tlefpated.
Amendments Se.gn
The bill now is in the slate gov
ernment committee of the House
of Representatives. It passed the
Senate several weeks ago, 42-6.
Indications now are that passage
in the House is doubtful unless
amendments are made. Strong op
position from outside Harrisburg
probably would ensure decisive
defeat, of the bill as it stands.
At first glance, in view of this
feeling in the House, the over
whelming majority in the Senate
is difficult to explain.
Although all six senators who
voted against the bill were Demo
crats, the vast majority of Demo
crats seemed to be swept along in
the emotional current which now
adays envelops any legislation
concerning communism.
Democrats Split
In prior Senate debate, more
Democrats than Republicans spoke
in favor of the loyalty oath. The
Republicans sat back and enjoyed
watching the split in Democratic
ranks.
Party lines here seem to have
converged. And the six opponents
appear to have voted solely ac
cording to the dictates of their
own consciences.
At the present time, logical ra
tional thinking, free from hysteria
and pseudo - patriotic screaming,
even among our governmental
leaders, seems lost and muddled
in a frenzied effort to protect
America from the Red menace, to
crush all Communists, pinks, and
even doubtful liberals, to root out
so-called subversives. \
Court Not Impetuous
The Pennsylvania Senate is no
exception. It decided overwhelm
ingly that a loyalty oath and simi
lar abridgement of civil rights are
necessary and vital.
However, the United States Su
preme Court has not acted so im
petuously. It has seen fit to give
months of deliberation to the con
stitutionality of the Smith act, the
law under which the 11 top Com
munist leaders were convicted.
In the state Senate, though, fear
and emotional thinking was spread
and it was spread fast. Public com
mittee hearings on the bill were
rejected by a mere 29-20 vote, but
several weeks later the bill was
swept through, 42-6.
Undoubtedly the seriousness of
the current world situation is the
main reason for such a majority.
Similar measures in Harrisburg in
the not-too-distant past, but be
fore the present hysteria period,
were defeated.
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By JOHN DALBOR .
Chem-Phys Sets
Election Plans
The constitutional amendment
to run off election of officers be
fore new council members-are
chosen was passed 01 the second
and final vole by the Chemistry-
Physics council at a meeting last
week,
The council,also passed on the
first vote an amendment to add
three representatives to the coun
cil from three undergraduate, so
cieties in the Chem-Phys school.
The proposal, sponsored by Robert
Miller, must be passed again to
become law.
Lincoln Warrell and Henry
Weiler were appointed to the com
mittee to chose the Chem-Phys
school’s candidate for the out
standing faculty member to be
chosen on a school-wide basis.
Harold O’Connor and Richard
Brown were named to the elec
tions committee. Election of offi
cers will be April 25.,
Hazleton Has Plan
To Educate Adults
By Book Studies
“Adventure In Great Books,” a
program in adult education, is be
ing conducted at the Hazleton cen
ter.
At the request of the citizens of
Hazleton, who were aware that
independent reading was not suf
ficiently enlightening, Prof. -Wil
liam Powers, director of arts and
science extension, formed a com
mittee to study the situation.
James Stewart, assistant professor
of English composition, Dr. Brice
Harris, professor of English litera
ture, and Dr. Robert Dengler, pro
fessor of classical languages, com
posed the committee.
The group has prominent men
lecture on books related to their
field. The lecture is followed by a
group discussion regulated by a
moderator.
Dr. John Mourant, head of the
Philosophy department, will pre
sent the third lecture of the series
tomorrow. His topic will be “The
Republic of Plato.” The series of
lectures will conclude May 25.
Belles Lettres Sing
Pennsylvania German folk
songs will be'on the program of
the Belles Lettres club at 7:30 to
night in the northeast lounge of
Atherton hall.
A. F. Buffington and W. E.
Boyer, of the German department,
will sing and explain the songs.
Refreshments will be served fol
lowing the program.
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Enrollment'ln
Frats To Stay -
Up—Warnod:
Fraternity enrollment will drop
very little this fall, Arthur R.
Warnock, emeritus dean of men
and the president of the National
Interfraternity council, said at
the annual convention of the sec
ond province of the Delta Upsilon
fraternity Friday night.
The convention was held this
past week-end 'at the local DU
fraternity. ,
“Few 18-and 19-year-olds will
be drafted before September;
therefore, the freshman class
should be fairly large this fall.
Most houses will, however, suf
fer some loss in upperclassmen,”
Warnock said.
Warnock also said that no one
has been able to read Stalin’s
mind yet; thus, the fraternity
houses might be emptied with, a
sudden emergency.
“Most of us will have to return
to semi-mobilization, which seems
to be the normalcy for the coun
try at the present time,” he said.
Warndck suggested: (1) that
the fraternities talk this new nor
malcy over at regular house'
meetings and (2) that individuals
not look at the draft situation
from the negative side but from
the view-point of “how can I
stay in college?”
Opportunity Day
Bargains On Sate
. Twenty-five downtown mer
chants-. are sponsoring special
sales on a number of items to
day in an “Opportunity Day”
organized by the Daily Colleg
ian promotion staff.
Special banners in store win
dows and. insignias for adver
tising are part of the campaign
designed by the staff. Co-pro
motion Managers Melvin Glass
and Robert Koons announced
yesterday that most merchants
in town were co-operating by
offering sales on items such as
neckties and handkerchiefs.
Dead Pans Under Scrutiny;
Doctor Warns About Wrinkles
To keep your face from developing ugly Colds and wrinkles in
old age, you should use pleasant expressions while you are young,
Dr. George Bennett, dean of Jefferson Medical school, said aha
meeting of Alpha Epsilon Delta, pre-medical honorary.
Dr. Bennett spoke to the group last Friday night on “Facial
Expressions..”
Since facial muscles control facial expressions, the muscles we
, use : determine which wrinkles
will' develop, he said.
Pointing out that the left side
of our faces differ from the right
side, Dr. Bennett divided a pic
ture of the face of Venus down
the centers, and by use of slides,
reproduced two separate pictures
of-Venus. Each picture, was made
by printing one half of the face
from the original picture and the
other half an exact copy of it
made by reversing the film. The
two pictures showed striking dif
ferences. I
The doctor said that we can’t
draw definite, conclusions about
a person’s character from' the
shape of his nose L eyes, or head,
but the lines around the mouth
do show character. He showed
slides of historic figures and
pointed out the individual char
acteristics revealed by their facial
expressions.
Eisenhower
Nominated For
Alger Awprd
President Milton S. Esienhower
is one of 19 national leaders
nominated for a 1951 Horatio Al
ger award, it was announced'
yesterday.
Ballots have been distributed
among 3,000 undergraduate lead
ers on 450 college and university
campuses, and seven of the 19
will be chosen for the awards
through this nation-wide poll.
The American Schools and
Colleges association, a non-profit
corporation, sponsors these
awards. They are presented an
nually. This will be the fifth year
the awards have been made.
■ Among previous winners are
Bernard Baruch, Charles E. Wil
son, Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg,
Conrad. Hilton, Dorothy;: Shaver,
and Earl Bunting. -
Candidates for the awards in
clude David Sarnoff, president" of
Radio Corporation of America:
Roger W. Babson, economist;
Norman Vincent Peele and'Dan
Polling, religious leaders ( and
writers; Sen .Margaret S. Smith,
of Maine; Harold Stassen, presi
dent of the University of Penn
sylvania; J. C. Penny, founder of
the J. C. Penny Co.;, and- S. S.
Kresge, chairman of the board of
Kresge stores. '
Forum To Feature
Emi!y Kimbrough
Community Forum series will
present Emiiy Kimbrough, noted
author and lecturer, Thursday
evening in Schwab auditorium.
Miss Kimbrough, author of
“It Gives Me Great Pleasure” and
collaborator' with Cornelia Otis
Skinner on “Our Hearts Were
Young and Gay,” has also fre
quently demonstrated her keen
sense of humor on the lecture
platform. She is also the author
of “We Followed Our Hearts to
Hollywood” and is a contributor
to “N e w Yorker-,” “Atlantic
Monthly,” and “House and Gar
den.”
Tickets for the lecture are $1
and are now at sale' at the Stu
dent Union office in Old Main.
All seats are reserved. But sea
son tickets will be accepted at the
door.
TTJESDAY, APpiL 17, I§sl
Engineer To Go
On Sale Today
The April issue of the Penn
State Engineer is scheduled to go
on sale today.
Featured in this month’s issue
are articles on electronic compu
ters by H. S. Ozarko, eighth sem
ester/aeronautics student, and on
gray cast iron, a substitute for
steel, by Paul Braun, eighth sem
ester mechanical engineering stu
dent. ' ,'V ' ~
Other articles include a feature,
“New Eyes for Industry,” an-arti
cle, “Campus Broadcasting!”; a
story about the new: sanitary , en
gineering society, Sigma Epsilon,
and the regularly featured article
by Dean H. P. Hammond of the
School of Engineering and the
photo page'
Reduced Train Fare
Sought For Students
,The student transportation com
mittee is working on a plan for
getting reduced rates for students
on the Pennsylvania railro aid’s
trains out of Lewis Town, accord
ing to Edward Shanked,-chairman.
More than 1500 students re
turned from Easter vacation on 10
.busses arranged for by the com
mittee. The busses left from Phila
delphia, Harrisburg, Scranton,
Wilkes-Barre, -and Pittsburgh.