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Satlg Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 188?
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 5, 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 Krasnaniky
Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Editorial staff: Doris Golub, night editor;
Chuck Henderson, Joan Kuntz, Bob Fraser, copy
editors; Richard Rau, Nancy Luetzel, Rae Delle-
Donne, Marjorie Cole, Sam Procopio, assistants.
Ad staff: Margie SeerPat-Anderson, Dorothy
Naveen.
Help Defeat the
Loyalty Oath Bill
Stalled, amended, re-amended, apparenfly
dead, and now apparently very much alive,
the Pechan loyalty bill is now up for considera
tion by the state House of Representatives.
That the legislators are still not sure of them
selves was evidenced Monday when the bill
was once again delayed. Today a Republican
party caucas will decide whether to allow the
bill to die or to push it through.
The Pecan, bill should be killed. It is not a
measure designed to do the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania any measure of good. The
bill has passed the Senate and been approved
by a committee of the House. But it has not
gone this far. on its merits.
The Pechan bill has advanced to its current
stage because it is a fear bill and is being steam
rollered by fear.
The Pechan bill received the support of many
members of the Seliate, which gave it a 42 to 7
approval, not because they believed in the merits
of the bill, but because they did not wish to go
on record against a bill which asks an American
to swear his loyalty to his nation.
Some of the more astute minds in Harrisburg
had apparently gone to work on the bill over
the summer and the informed guess was that
the bill would die in committee. A politically
inspired series of speeches by Gov. John S. Fine
and Sen. Edward Martin revived the “thing.”
Now the legislators are thinking it over
again. You can help them think. A letter or
postal card to your legislator can help defeat
the Pechan bill.
Pitch in.
Barber Shop
Enters Third Year
With so many male students new to the campus
this semester, it might be fitting to review here
a bit of recent State College history.
Two years ago the first non-discriminatory
barber shop was opened in town. It is still the
only State College Shop which cuts the hair
of Negroes as well as whites.
The opening of the shop, located on Beaver
avenue east of Allen street marked the end of a
two-year struggle.to break down discrimination
in the shops. Since the Council on Racial
Equality led the fight and was instrumental in
bringing the new shop here, is called
the CORE barber shop.
CORE opened a drive for funds to set up the
shop in 1947. It sold tickets good for haircuts
at the new shop when it should open, raising
more than $lBOO with this “advance sale.” The
council began advertising for a proprietor to
open the non-discriminatory shop.
In the meantime, however, stronger action
was attempted. About November, 1948, a student
boycott against all the existing shops was . or
ganized. The strike was ineffective, but feeling
ran high.
THEN, ON SEPT. 30, 1949, CORE announced
the opening of, the new shop. The place did well
from its opening, in part because all male stu
dents on campus knew the significance of it.
Now, however, there are some 2500 new male
students on campus. It is so that they will know
what the CORE shop stands for, how it was
obtained, and what it still is—the only non
discriminatory shop in State College—that this
review is published. ■ —Ron Bonn
Faculty and Administrative Heads
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN.: STATE COLLEGE 1 . PENNSYLVANIA
Be Careful of
WD Book Thieves
When you can’t even trust the people you live
with, things are in sad shape. And students in
the West Dorm area have learned in the past
two weeks that certain persons living in that
area cannot .be trusted. -
An appalling number of books and other
articles have been stolen from the coat room
just off the West Dorm main lounge since the
start of the fall semester. '
For example, we know of two students Who
had' new $5 books ■ taken from' the coat room
two or three days after the books were bought.
The cost of books is high enough without having
to spend double the amount for some of them.
As far as we know, this thievery did not
exist in the West Dorm area last year. Wheth
er an organized gang is stealing the books and
then reselling them, we have no idea, but
something must be done to thwart the thieves
in the area.
It’s almost impossible to post someone to
watch all persons going in and out of the coat
room. How would a guard know whose books
belonged to whom? The only solution, as far as
we can see, would be for the students them
selves to ferret out the offenders. Otherwise the
use of the coat room will be limited to .only
the brave souls in the area.
It is indeed a sad state of affairs when the
privilege of dropping books and other school
material in the coat room during lunch or
dinner is lost to the many because of the
actions of a few dishonest individuals. This
is a warning to unsuspecting students in the
area to be wary of leaving belongings in the
'coat room. Also, we ask the students them
selves to keep a watch for the thieves and
turn then over to the proper authorities. It
seems as though this the the solution until
students can again use the coat room without
fear of losing $5 or $lO worth of books.
* —Moylan Mills
Gazette • • •
Wednesday, September 26
ALPHA PI MU, organization meeting, 102 Main
Engineering, 7 p.m.
HILLEL CHOIR, Hillel, 7 p.m.
INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL
SCIENCES, 219 Electrical Engineering, 7:30 p.m.
INKLING, business, advertising staffs and
candidates, 202 Willard Hall, 7:30 p.m.
INSURANCE CLUB, Sigma Nu, 8 p.m.
LA VIE senior board, 412 Old Main, 9:30 p.m.
MINING ENGINEERING SOCIETY, business
and social meeting, Sigma Phi Sigma, 7:30 p:m.
PENN STATE CLUB, Hamilton Hall recrea
tion room, 7 p.m.
PETROLEUM ENGINEERS SOCIETY, 214
Willard Hall, 7:30 p.m.
PHI EPSILON KAPPA, 303 Old Main, 7:30 '
p.m:
TAU BETA PI ASSOCIATION, 107 Main
Engineering, 8 p.m.
WRA DANCE, White Hall rhythm room,-7
p.m.
WRA SWIMMING, beginners, White Hall
pool, 7 p.m.
WRA BOWLING, White Hall alleys, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Gilbert Lewis, Lester Rowell, Irwin Yeagle.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM: The Mask of the Avenger
STATE: The Big Carnival
NITTANY: Strangers on a Train
STARLITE DRIVE-IN: The Frog Men
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
American Cyanamid company will interview January
graduates, at all levels, in Chem. and Chem. Eng. Wednes
day, October 10.
' Armco Steel Corp; will interview January graduates' in
C.E., M.E., Chem., C. Chem., and Metal Thursday, Octo
ber 11.
E. I. Du Pont De Nemours will interview January grad
uates in M.E., C.E., E.E., 1.E., Chem. E., Chem. and Phys.
Thursday, October 4.
General Motors Corporation will interview January
graduates in E.ETT\SCE., 1.E., Metal., C & F (Acct.), Aero.
E., Arch. E., Ch. E., C.E., Ceramics, and Physics Monday,
October 8.
United Aircraft Corp. will interview January graduates
in Aeronautical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
on .Tuesday, -Oc#>fcer 9: £ ;;
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Girl to care for children during mornings.
Men to set pins for league bowling.
Men who wish to* work as waiters.
Persons interested in babysitting during football games.
Students interested in working on football concession
sales force.
Student ' wives needed to care for children during the
day.
Little Man On Lamp us
"You remember. Thyroid Greenbacks—poor grades, non-alhletic,
sickly, no talent, UNLIMITED checking account—Men, 1 its the
purpose and duty of the fraternity to pledge this boy."'
Poor Mans||p|j
Paradise
Friend Coed, a girl whose name has been bandied about in these
pages before and whom we have occasion to visit periodically, lives
far, far on the other side of town, almost out to Skytop. We live in
town. Now, times when we happen to drop in at Friend Coed’s house,
and after Friend Coed’s father happens, to drop us out again, we must
walk home, having access to no means of transportation. We seriously
doubt if any autoambulator could get to Friend Coed’s house, except
possibly. a mountain goat or llama, but that is beside the point.
To get back to the story, we
have always been a firm believer
in the straight line and two points
theory, so we wend .our. way
across the. famed College golf
course. Therein lies a tale, and
also numerous tees, greens and of
course sand traps. There, are many
things we could tell about a golf
course at night, mostly unprint
able. There was the night. we
fell head first into a sand trap,
coming up with mouth, ears, and
nose full of good, fertile -Nittany
sand and gravel. But that still
is not the story we want to tell
today.
There is another guy, by.
name of Mahlon Ghaner, who
also frequents the golfing fields
of battle at night,' and it' is
this man we are going to talk
about. Mahlon, it seems, waters -
the . greens; at night. He does
this with ,all the most modern,
equipment, including sprink
lers, hoses,, divining poles, aiid
good intentions.
.'He, however, does it the easy
way, riding around merrily on a
tractor with a powerful spotlight,
shining, it hither and thither
amongst the bunkers, .and in gen
eral making a hero out of . him
self for lost golfers and a nui-
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..WEDNESDAY, -SEPTEMBER 26, 1931
ly PAUL POORMAN.
sance for nocturnal strollers. You
know, astronomers and such.,
Mahlon, in all seriousness, has
a' terrific iob to do, and the splen
did greens on the - course are a
tribute to the efficiency of Mr.
Ghaner and other men like him
who ride the trails of aquatic
destiny at night. '
We first got on this trail when
we were striding home one night
across the plains and walked
headfirst into the tractor parked
in a shadow in an off moment.
Another man was running the
witching hour shift at that time,
and when we. finally got around
to interviewing the tractor et al,
the .personnel had shifted; The
tractor 1 was the same.
So the other night we stalked
him until he stopped at the
first green, and got him to talk
a.little about his job. Our first
question, naturally,- was about
the people ,on the course at
night. 'He parried this nicely;
however, by shyly saying that
most people saw his light be
fore he- saw them, and ran
away- before he could deter
mine either theft sex or inten
tions:' Balked along this /line,
'7 Continued on page eight)
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