PAGE FOUR Satly Collegian Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. JLBBT Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-class matter July 6. 1934. at the State College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879. Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writ ers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned editorials are by the editor. Marr Krasnansky Edward Shan ken Editor Business Mgr. STAFF THIS ISSUE Editorial staff: Chuck Henderson, night editor; Jane Reber, Jack Mounts, copy editors; Jean Berg, Dot Bennett, Lix Newell, Nancy Luetzel, John Sheppard, assistants. Patience, Frosh! While we think that many frosh are not particularly disappointed over the lack of adequate supplies of customs at the Book Ex change, it might be a good idea to make it clear that the inadequate supply of dinks, ribbons, and bowties is not the fault of the BX manage ment. Like everybody else on campus, the people in charge of the BX underestimated the number of frosh who would enroll at Penn State this year. The result was the shortage of customs which has left some 300 frosh without ties and dinks. The word from the BX, frosh. is that the dinks, made of the finest green wool, are ex pected within a few days. In the meantime, patience is - the byword. If you have any problems—and this goes for all upperclassmen as well as the frosh—about school supplies, used books, etc., stop in at the BX. We're sure they'll do their best to help you out. Bad News Travels Media, Pa., — (JP) —Daniel Kennedy of nearby Upper Darby drove only two blocks but it cost him $lOO. Patrolman Chester Souders said this is what happened: Starting the wrong way on a one-way. street, Kennedy knocked over a pile of cinder blocks, hit a one way traffic sign, smacked down a no parking sign, struck a, parked car, splintered a contractor’s shack, sideswiped another car, bowled over another stop sign, hit three trees and wound up in front of his garage trailing 50 feet of picket fence. Kennedy took the ill fated ride on June' 9. He entered a plea of guilty before Judge Wil liam R. Teal today on a charge of operating a car while under the influence. He said he didn’t remember a thing after the cinder blocks. Libby, Mont., —(/P) —Frank Rutsohn didn’t want to walk on the highway to his home two miles from here because he feared he’d be hit by mi automobile. So he started hiking down the railroad track. He is in a hospital with a broken leg; hit by a train. Frank must have heard about Daniel. Walking the railroad tracks may not be the way to avoid being the millionth U.S. traffic death but care might be. Local Item STATE COLLEGE, Pa.—The street lamp in front of Atherton Hall shone with a red gleam Sunday night. Someone replaced the regular white bulb with a red one. WASHINGTON—Sen. Joseph McCarthy yes terday demanded investigation of “communist influences” on the campus of the Pennsylvania State College. Three With One Washington C. H., O., —(A*) —Danny Wipert, 12, has a real hunting yam to tell his pals today. • Hunting with his father, Roy, Saturday after noon, Danny saw two squirrels on a stump. As he drew a bead with his shotgun, a third squir rel jumped up on the stump. He killed all three with one shot. * * * Two birds with one stone? Phooey! —L. K. Gazette... Friday, September 21 ALPHA PHI OMEGA, business and organiza tion meeting, September 24, 3 Sparks, 7:30 p.m. LUTHERAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION, Grace Lutheran Church, 7:30 p.m.; open house at student house, 8:30 p.m. PENN STATE ENGINEER, September 24, 410 Old Main, 7 p.m. PLAYER’S SHINDIG, Schwab Auditorium, 7 p.m. SABBATH EVE SERVICES, Hillel, 8 p.m. COLLEGE HOSPITAL Robert Bowen, Bruce Brown, Helen De Laine, Charles Dennis, Nancy Erb, Walter Hoffman, James Howard, Harold Klemaw, John Meros. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLECT;” Iteto Safety Valve— Opposition to Oath 'General and Fabricated ‘ TO THE EDITOR: In this “hysterical era” as you term it, many of us are of the opinion the only hysterical people are "those opposing the loyalty oath. Your five, “We oppose the loyalty oaths be cause,” are very general and wholly fabricated statements. How will the loyalty oath destroy the free expression of ideas and inquiry other than prompting the propagation to confine to facts instead of conjecture? Your statement that the bill would limit the pursuance of truth contains an inkling of truth, only in the respect that it would igtard an in dividual, in a position of influence; thinking it to be the truth that the color yellow is' green, from trying to convince others that this be so. You have crawled to the end of the limb (beware it’s rotten) in charging that it is' adding to national hysteria. The integrity and level headedness of the organization supporting the bill removes the loyalty oath from that category. The statement by you that this type of legis lation plays into subversive hands is fallacious in view of the historic fact .that the little countries of central Europe were all the victims of liberal toleration and communist intrigue. The opinion of the matter of fact individuals among us is that we are just installing machin ery to keep our educational and public official bouse tidied up, a. human vacuum cleaner, figuratively speaking. Contrary to your charges, we feel that the loyalty oath is giving the peoples of the op pressed countries of the world hope that their oppression may not be a lifetime. It is an evi dence of our serious intention to do what they failed to do, force the liberal “vacuumite” social., idealists from their places of influence, and into the gutter where they belong. Students Can Help Ease Parking Congestion TO THE EDITOR: We have one of the finest Colleges in the country. You cannot find a bet ter bunch of guys and gals. Now of course we have problems. Who doesn’t? It pains me when I read that it is impossible to control our students morally, as well as phy sically. It especially pains when I read “There is no way to control parking at certain times on the lower end of Shortlidge Road,” Now I agree the Campus Patrol cannot control this situation without a line of men from one end to the other when the guys and gals come “home” at night; I doubt if even an order from any official of the College. would stop parking along this stretch of road at that time. However, there is one way to control this situation which devel opes into a hazard at time—and that should be obvious to all. IF AND WHEN all users of this road—especially the “dates” of the girls in the dorms —decide to obey any and all directive signs on this piece of road—then - the situation will be clear. But it seems there are quite a number of stu dents that are out to “beat” any system of rules and regulations. They do not seem to see road signs and if they do, they, feel it means someone else. They - wouldn’t think of properly filling out a statement of whether or not they intended to have a car on campus this semester. Since we have a few of this..'type of -student we will have trouble, but just think how easy it would be for everyone to work toward a common goal and to cooperate. Why not try it? If you see someone mis-parking. tell them about it—your word should.bear, as much weight as the word of a campus patrolman in these matters. In conclusion —for a better Penn Stale— CO-OPERATION is the watchword for both students and faculty. We are in this thing to gether—and if we - want to be able 1 to point with pride at "OUR PENN STATE"—Iet us ALL work together. If the Patrol can help any of. you—ve will be glad to do so . . . and let me tell you, for you students and faculty can surely help us. —P. A. MARK, Capt. Campus Patrol —B. F. —M. K. Frosfi May Challenge TO THE EDITOR: To prove to the Frosh that most of us upperclassmen jvant them to take this custom period in their stride and good naturedly, I’d like to remind the Frosh that they have the right to challenge any suspicious hazers by politely asking to see their matricu lation cards. This challenging should be confined only to night hours on State College streets and to youthful hazers, for such things as I witnessed one night could not happen while the high school classes are in session: A gang of high school fellows Was stopping and hazing lone Frosh inside the main gate on College avenue. If these high school students wish to be hazed, it’s all right with' me, but where .did they' get the official green dinks four of their members were wearing?. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours will interview January gradu ates in M.E., C.E., E.E., 1.E., Chem..JE„ Chem, and Phys. on Thursday, Oct. 4. Barbers, experienced; for worlc in local establishments. AT THE MOVIES CATHAUM: Force of Arms STATE: Angels In The Outfield NITTANY: Take Care of My Little (Sri STARLITE DRIVE-IN: Take Care of My Little Girl—plus—Sunset In The West Dick Rohland, Class of "S 3 COLLEGE PLACEMENT STUDENT EMPLOYMENT —G. J. Salak One of the staunchest friends a Penn State male ever had is the well-known Dr. Clifford Ad ams. Dr. Adams, of course, is the gentleman who writes a marital relations column for—of all things—the Ladies Home Journal. On campus he is -most famous for his Psychology. 17 'course—That Marriage Course. ■ . None of this, of -eourse, reveals him in his true light of eman cipator of the oppressed, cham pion of lost causes, and guardian of our fundamental rights to" have enough women to go around. . To understand this facet of Dr. Adams, you must actually attend one of his Psych' 17- ses-' sions currently so popular that one cozy section lists 120 students. Here you begin to understand the doctor's attitude '’ when you hear him pronounce,' in a magnificent drawl, "The ratio at Penn Stale lends to make spoiled brats of the girls." He goes on to attack the ex istence of a 2.68-to-l ratio in all its unnatural facets. “For every hundred women on campus there are 168 spare men, who must import or go dateless,” he points out. “A coed can kick off a man at one building and pick one up at the next.” Besides spoiling the women, the doctor says the ratio is frustrating to the men, an idea whose exposition is praisewor thy if not exactly original. For the women, Dr. Adams admits, Penn State is a sort of collegiate Eden. “Girls,” he lectures with the fervence and accents of a, Georgia revival preacher, “Girls, this is the most magnificent opportunity Reinier Says Loyalty Bill; Is Really Disloyalty Bill i Labeling the Pechan loyalty bill “vague, ambiguous’ arid' dan gerous,” Neil Reimer, assistant professor of political, .science, 1 yes terday told a Collegian reporter why he opposes the bill’and-why he feels it has become steadily worse with successive amendments. “The loyalty bill is really a disloyalty bill,” he said. “It can be compared to asking a woman to announce publicly that she is not disloyal to her husband a paraphrase from Alan Barth’s book, The Loyalty of Free Men,” he continued. Prof. Riemer summarized his objections to the bill as follows: L “It runs counter-to American. iYXpn jjrk Little Man On Campus "You hate me now, but think of the fun you'll have telling new students I teach a snap course." rijabfvr, Sftsr A Bonn Mot By RON BONN you will ever have. This is. a challenge.” For the women, he says, there are more dates per square inch in State.. College than in any . oiherjprincipality in the known . universe. Apparently referring to the fact that Penn State was not even co-educational until 1894, Dr. Adams says that women had to force their way into the school in the first place. He has no sym pathy for the policy which still keeps female enrollment signifi cantly below that of the men. The women,- with the aid of Se lective - Service, are still forcing. While 2.68 can cause as many frustration cases as are normal to an entire 1.0 country, the 3.2 and 3.5 of previous years must have, been truly catastrophic. Most of Dr. Adams’ blistering remarks .on’Penn State’s unnat ural situation are asides to his primary interests fostering of happy marriage, which the doc tor ..evidently considers the high est stat.e of bliss on . this par ticular plane of existence. He claims that statistics prove married people live long er, apparently holding no grief for those who think it just seems longer. There is, he says, less insanity and suicide among married people than among single, which would seem .to.in dicate that avoidance Of ’ in sanity and suicide requires a measure fully as drastic. Just as a footnote to a 1 discus sion of sexual disparities at Penn sylvania’s state college, may we note, without comment, that gov ernor John S. Fine has proclaimed the third week in’. September, “Plant Pennsylvania •’Week. : ”_’ By BETTIE LOUX principles of justice iand:iair deal, that is it permits”a--man-•with unorthodox ideas to be; bounced without real’ proof he. is'ia' sub versive.” . - ■ ’ Oath Unneceessary . ./ 2. /The loyalty oath is/unnec essary because the- real-.commun ists will take the oath.” - Gurdpre- (Continued on page eight) By Bibler
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