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VOL, 52, .NO. 48
Chest Tote',
Goes Ov6i' '
$7700 Mark
Campus Chest leaders yester
day said they expect student
contributions this year to to p
last year's by the time the.• drive
ends Tuesday. Lates t reports
showed chest income from stu
dents to date is over $7700.
Student contributions in last
year's chest drive totaled
$7892.02, - and faculty and Col
lege personnel donated $2330.40.
This year's goal is $12,000 as corn
pared with last year's aim of
$14,000.
William KliSanin, drive chair
man, said income . from the, stu
dent drive,.'the faculty and staff
drive, the Kickoff Dance, and
other special events to be held,
later this year, should allow the
chest to reach its goal at a later
date.
,"I am pleased with the pickup
in drive income during the 'ex
tended donation period," he said,
"and I .realize the solicitation
program needs some consideration
for the future." The solicitation
period was extended from Nov.
10 until this TueSday ' when it
failed to near the goal during the
two-week drive.
Drive leaders earlier, expressed
disappointment in chest solicita
tions during the drive sand often
said they fe It many solicitors
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Father Rice
To Speak
At Colloquy
"The Religious Basis of Free
dom" will be the theme of this
morning's session of the colloquy,
"The Loyalty of Free Men."
Father Charles Owen Rice, di
' rector of the Association of Cath
olic Trade Unions, will speak on
the subject of .-the session at 9:30
a.m in 121 Sparks and discussion
will follow. Dr.....Tohn Mourant of
the Philosophy department will
preside.
The theme . of the afternoon
session, "The. Use of "Power in a
Free Society," will be handled by
James Fulton, congressman from
the 31st district of Pennsylvania
and Col. Francis Miller, consul
tant of the State Department.
Presiding .will be Richard Ma
loney, • executive secretary in
President Eisenhower's offide.
Movies pertaining to ..the' ,col
loquy theme will be shown to
night at 121 Sparks.
The Chapel address and 'a ses
sion beginning at 2:30 p.m. to
morrow will complete the col
loquy schedule The theme to
morrow afternoon is "A Strategy
for Free Men,"- to be outlined by
Harry Butcher, -secretary, the
Committee .of 70, Philadelphia.
Dr. R. Wallace Brewster, heact.of
the Political Science department,
will preside.
TUB Jam' Session
Open to All Musicians
- The weekly jam session- at •2
p.m, tomorrow in the TUB Will
be open to any -musician desiring
to take part. Students" wishing -to
take part need not sign up in
advance at the Student Union
desk as previously.
The. jam sessions are. sponsored
by the Dean of Men's office
thiough the resident counselor
•rogram.
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STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1951
Wiggins, „, Dilworth Open
.',./Day-'.l. o yr c iltie Colloquy
Dilworth Slams
Loyalty Bills
In Opening Talk
By DAVE PELLNITZ
Tlie sponsors of so-called loy
alty oath \ bills forget that our
freedom of thought and speech
is the real Source of American
strength, Richardson Di 1 worth
said at a meeting following the
opening banquet of th e inter
collegiate. colloquy on "The Loy
alty of Free Men" last night.
"The right of non-conformity
is one of the in os t important
rights of a free society," said Dil
worth, Philadelphia's city treas
urer and newly-elected district
attorney.
"Nearly all of our great teach
em have been non-conformists.
Conformity inevitably leads to
mediocrity, to sterility of ideas,
and 'to general stagnation •of
thought," he said.
Practice More Democracy
Dilworth pointed out that loy
alty oath bills are really bills of
inquisition nearly always aimed
at the teaching profession.
He . quoted an . instance which
occurred when Senator Anthony
DiSilvestro of Philadelphia op
posed the Pechan • loyalty bill in
Harristairg. `-`.l am glad -you spoke
against my bill," said Senator
Pechan, according to Dilworth.
"Now •I can go home and tell my
people that a dago from Phila
delphia was against it."
Dilworth also said that we must
realize that .we cannot fight com
munism negatively, or by sup
pressing our basic freedoms.
'Security Is Important'
_ .
-Dilworth pointed out that the
departure of our • country from
its own greatest principles is hav
ing an evil effect. He said scien
tists refuse to work in govern
ment fields where they may be
subject to suppression and to abu
sive attacks, and fields where
they ma y. be accused with no
chance to vindicate themselves.
"Security iv' important to .us,
but -- it can be a great - evil and .
can become the means of justi
fying 'the destruction of what it
sets out to protect," Dilworth
•
Architects Plan
Lawn Display
Architecture students will draw
up individual plans this morning
for a Christmas _lawn display in
front of Old • Main.
. A committee of .six judges from
the faculty -of the Department of
Architectural Engineering will
select the. three best plans. All-
College. Calianet each year pro
vides,pcash--,awards-.of $l5, $lO,
`dna winning -plans.
Milton S. Osborne, professor of
architecture; is in charge of the
-
contest.
Stan Wengert, chairinan..of the
display committee, told 'All-Col
lege Cabinet Thursday t night that
a limit of $9O had been designated
for the display, and that the plans
will be judged with that in mind.
He said that the display will
be set up on or about Dec. 12 and
will remain up until after the
Christmas holidays. Plans are also
under .way to provide Christmas',
music from Old Main, he said.
Book Receipts
AR
.students who received
notice from the Used Book Ageri;
cy that their books have been
sold will be reimbursed when
they send their book receipts to
Robert Spragg, Delta 'Sigma Phi,
508 Locust Lane. Checks will be
sent .out. after .Thanksgiving...
BETTER PENN STATE'
Colloquy Get-Together
NOTABLES assemble in the Nittany Lion Inn for intercollegiate
colloquy on "The Loyalty of Free Men." They are, left to right,
Jerome Weinstein, Editor of the Centre Daily Times; Rev. Charles
0. Rice, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh; Luther Harshbarger;
J. R. Wiggins, Managing Editor of the Washington Post: and Harry
Butcher, Secretary of the Committee of 70, Philadelphia.
Scholarship Forms
Are Now Available
Application forms for scholar Ships offered at the College are
now available.
The forms may be picked up at,the Dean of Men's and Dean of
Women's offices, the office of the Executive Accountant in 110 Old
Main, and the office of the Chairman of the Senate Committee on
Scholarships and Aw,ards, in 101 Osmond Laboratory. Completed
forms "should be returned to the
specified Office by Jan. 5, 1952.
'Dr. Robert L. Weber, chairman
of the Senate committee on schol
arships and awards, suggests that
students take the forms home with
them over the, Thanksgiving and
Christmas holidays in order to
talk them over with their parents,
and to have their, parents sign
where required.
There are 66 scholarships and
40 student loan funds available
to members of the student body,
but Dr. Weber said that the num.:
ber "of requests. for these aids are
in excess of the number available.
For this - reason, the committee
has given preference to upper
classmen and, to those applicants
who have been on the campus for
one or more semesters.
For those interested, a new
booklet, "Student Aid' at The
Pennsylvania State College," has
been published. 'The booklet N gives
complete information! on 'scholar
ships and loan funds, and is avail
able at, the above mentioned
offices.
Turkeys Cash to Be - •
Prizet at Shoot
Turkeys and cash prizes will
be awarded at a turkey shoot,
sponsored by the Dairy Science
Club at 1 p.m. today. The shoot
to be held at Penn State Trailer's
Sales on Route 322 will include
a live turkey, the shotgun pat
tern, and the small target con
tests.
Thanksgiving Holiday
Thanksgiving vacation will
begin at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Today
is the , last day of publication
for the• Daily• Collegian. .Pub
lication will be resumed Tues
day, Nov. 27,. ,
Help Polio Fund
rgiatt Through Campus
Chest •
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=Photo by Schroeder
Elections
Have Poor
Turnout
Thursday's election, in con
trast' with. the fall elections of
1949, revealed one of the poorest
turnouts for class voting in cam
pus politics, in many years. • -
• In 1949, spurred by the fact
that they would, not receive. tic
kets to their class dance - unless
they • voted, sophomores turned
out-to the-polls for a percentage,
of 56.7. Last fall 44.6 percent
voted.
_,Freshmen in the 1949 fall elec
tions •went to the polls for a 53
per cent vote. That marked the
first freshman class election since
before the war. At the time there
were 500 freshmen women on
campus.
* Only 27.5 percent of the fresh
man class, which numbers 2790,
voted in ,Thursday's election.
Ina stiatement after the ballot
counting . -Thursday, Robert Am-'
ole, State Party clique chairman,
said he thought the editorial at
tacking th e State platform in
Tuesday's Daily Collegian "defi
nitely hurt the party's chances."
He said he thought both plat
forms may have been weak but
the Lion Party's was not much
better if at all.
Clair George, defeated candi
date for All-College president
this fall, said the elections prove
what was said last year, "the
Lion Party may be down but it
isn't out."
"I wish to congratulate Evert
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
Wiggins States
5 Basic Rights
Of Free Press
By CHUCK HENDERSON
There are five basic rights re
quired for a free press, J. R.
Wiggins, managing editor of the
Washington Post, told me open
ing banquet of the Penn State
Christian Association's colloquy
on "The Loyalty of Free Men"
at the Nittany Lion Inn last night.
"Events in history do not in
fluence affairs nearly as much as
the knowledge people have of
these events," Wiggins said.
To be able to spread this know
ledge, Wiggins said, the news
paper must have the right to get
the news. He said that the United
States happened to be fortunate
because nowhere is this right so
universally conceded.
We also need the right to print
the news ,without restraint, he
said. A deMocratic paper cannot
perform its function without this
right. He backed up his statement
with examples of the suppression
of the early American press.
Right To Distribute
Wiggins said the right to pub
lish without threat "of harm for
wrongful publication is a right
not enjoyed by too many, He
spoke with authority when he
cited the British press as an ex
ample of a "frightened press'
since he just returned from cov
ering the English elections.
The free press also needs the
right to access to printing sup
plies, for at least 12 totalitarian
states didn't permit this right and
forced newspapers to close by
limiting newsprint, he explained.
Report - All The News
, The important function of the
free press, Wiggins said, is to re
port all news of both good and
bad events to the public. He en
larged on the press' function by
saying that it, was also the duty
of the press to interpret these
events with editorials, features,
and columns.
Jerome Weinstein, Centre
Daily Times editor, introduced
Wiggins, and toastmaster Marvin
Krasnansky, editor of the Daily
Collegian, introduced Richardson
Dilworth, district attorney of
Philadelphia; Mrs. Dilworth;
Harry Butcher, secretary of the
Committee of 70, Philadelphia;
and Father Charles Owen Rice,
Duquesne University
Ti
The Nittany Lion Roars
. FOR the PSCA's intercollegi
ate colloquy on "The Loyalty of
Free Men."
The wily cat appreciates the
attempt by the colloquy to de
termine just how much religion
means in regard to politics. And
the stately beast roars his ap
proval, too, for the second pur
pose of the meeting; "To assist
students and faculty in making
an application of their religious
faith to concrete political situa
tions."
. The old boy purrs contentedly
as he sees that the colloquy, now
in its second year, is on its way
to becoming an annual affair.