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«/ The P«*ngylvanta£ State ■ College.
Entered as matter July 5, 1934, at the State
College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoint of the
writers, nut necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Un
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Mgr., Mary Ann Wertman; Secretary, Patricia Shaffer;
Senior Board, Nancy Marcinek, Ruth Pierce, Barbara Potts,
Betty Richardson, and Elizabeth Wtdman.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor, Dick Rail; Copy Editors, Sheldon
Smoyer, George Bairey; Assistants, Mary An
gel, Barry Fein, Diehl McKalip, Betty Allen,
Mareie McDonald.
Guilty on No Proof;
Can This Be Right?
During the last week in August the press of
the state carried a report of the firing of Wen
dell S. Macßae, production manager of public
information at the College, after the College’s
Loyalty Review Board refused to certify him
“not subversive.”
Thus appears in this first test what oppo
ents of the much talked about Pechan Loyalty
Act charged would happen: an innocent man
is made to suffer for a ridiculous law passed
by a legislature influenced by fear—the need
to do something, but not knowing just what
to do.
Macßae, a 52-year-old Marine veteran of
World War I, is not believed subversive by
anyone. His immediate superior vouches for
him; no one on the review board which heard
his case charged he was subversive. Yet the
board refused to certify him “not subversive"
because Macßae would not, himself, sign a form
pledge of his loyalty.
Instead of signing the College's question
naire, Macßae asked for a hearing before a
review board on the assumption that such a
hearing was an alternative method of ascer
taining the loyalty of a college employee and
that the board could, on receiving other evi
dence of loyalty, certify fhe loyalty of that
person without requiring that he answer fhe
College loyalty questionnaire or take a loy
alty oath.
This was ihe impression of many on the
faculty last May when the procedures were
announced, and it also was the understanding
of the Faculty Advisory Council when the
. question was raised Aug. G.
In the original procedures approved by the
Faculty Advisory Council May 7, it was pro
vided that the Loyalty Review Board must de
cide “that a fair preponderance of the evidence
shows the uncertified individual to be a subver
sive” before that person may be dismissed.
The Review board in its decision in the Mac-
Rae case declared “that it lacked evidence es
sential to certify that Macßae was not sub
versive.”
The latter wording resulted from a change
announced Aug. 1 by President-Milton S. Eisen
hower. At that time he announced that “the
phrasing” on the rules had been altered “to
restate the possible findings” of the board. No
body realized the significance of the change
then, and no protests were filed to it.
For "other evidence" Macßae introduced
the reaffirmed oath he took when he entered
the Marines, "a sworn statement giving evi
dence of loyalty to my country that goes far
beyond the unsworn statement the College
has obtained from other employees," to quote
Macßae's published statement.
Under the Pechan Act heads of colleges and
universities receiving state aid are required to
certify to the loyalty of their employees. Macßae
appealed the board’s decision to President Eisen
hower, but the President was powerless to over
rule the very system he had established at a
time when his certification of loyalty was due
in Harrisburg. ’ ,
Friends of Wendell Macßae have rallied
around him, seeing full well that an injustice
has been done. The committee of five faculty
members representing the citizen’s group has
as yet received no assurance, however, that the
case will be reopened.
The_ point of fact, however, is that Macßae
was fired because the review board, repre
senting the College, could not or would not
certify him as "not subversive." There has
been no evidence presented to show that he
has or has had any subversive tendencies.
It all boils down to this: Macßae and his
supporters are protesting that the rules were
changed during-the conduct of the loyalty pro
cedures with the result that ihe burden of
proof was lifted_from ihe board and placed
upon the defendant.
It is a bit ironical that Sen. A. R. Pechan
(R-Armsirong), author of the Loyalty Act.
should comment as part of a 12-page state
ment about the Macßae case: "In America
and in my book a person is innocent unless
proven guilty."
•—Jim Gromiller
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Sound Ideas Result
Of Encampment
The first annual Penn State student encamp
ment was a great success. Ask any person who
attended the three-day conference at Mont Alto
and he’ll tell you the same thing. Not only
did everyone have a good time, but a great
deal of constructive work was done.
Part of this work was in the form of the
resolutions which will soon be presented to All-
College Cabinet. These recommendations are
currently being printed in the Daily Collegian
in a series of articles. A great deal of intensive
study was put into the forming of these reso
lutions, and while all of them may not meet
with cabinet approval, we believe that the ma
jority of them will be in effect before next
year’s encampment group meets.
Bui there is still another function which
the encampment had besides the fun and the .
forming of resolutions. This was the job of
improving relations between the staff, faculty,
and students. To any students who may have
doubted it. the encampment proved that the
faculty and members of the administration
are really human, too. You can't help but
realize this when you are with these people
constantly for three days.
Some of the resolutions passed by the group
have already been put into effect. It was largely
through the efforts of the Book Exchange com
mittee, for instance, that the current expan
sion of the Used Book Agency in the TUB was
arranged. A student-faculty relations committee
recommendation that faculty and staff mem
bers invite students into their homes has also
proved fruitful. H. K. Wilson, dean of men,
and his wife have invited members of All-Col
lege Cabinet to their home on Sunday after
noon.
The idea of the student encampment came
to the College from Kansas State with President
Milton S. Eisenhower. According to a Time
magazine article the student encampments be
gan at Kansas when students, mostly veterans,
presented the Prexy with a list of “gripes.”
President Eisenhower was impressed by the
list and called in members of the faculty to
hear some of the complaints. From this meet
ing came the 1952 version-during which 125
students gathered with 40 professors for three
days of talk.
According to the Time article, 100 different
topics were discussed—from the time coeds
should be in at nights to ways of bettering
the foreign student program. These topics
finally were whittled down to 30 recom
mendations which have been handed to Kan
sas State's President, James A. McCain.
In the past, the encampments at Kansas State
have been responsible for such changes as turn
ing the bi-weekly student newspaper into a
daily and placing sidewalks around the campus.
In seven years 80 per cent of the encampment
recommendations have been adopted.
Perhaps so large a percentage of the recom
mendations coming from Penn State’s encamp
ment will not be put into effect. Though all
the suggestions were presented sincerely, many
of thgjn may not be practical. However, we can
rest assured that All-College Cabinet and Pres
ident Eisenhower will devote careful attention
to all the resolutions presented.
There is lifile doubt in the minds of those
who attended the first encampment that the
affair will become a regular part of the Penn
State traditions. We suggest now, therefore,
that those who receive invitations next year
take advantage of the wonderful opportunity
to further the interest of the student body
as well as the College as a whole.
Safety Valve—
The Old College Spirit
TO THE EDITOR: Well here we are, an
army - of students, new students that is. We're
the new freshmen.
All this past Orientation Week we have been
walking and waiting in lines, waiting in lines
and again walking.
A few l of the old upperclassmen even smile
to themselves as they see us shooting by. But
do we mind this hustle and bustle of our new
college life? No, not a bit. In fact, this new
experience in our life is actually fun. We’re
enjoying it. Oh well, once in awhile we do
curse under our breath when things aren’t
going right.
Our rooms are as good as can be expected
and the food can't be argued with. The in
struction we've gotten in the meetings the
past week will help us along the road in
weeks to come.
Come on, upperclassmen, have your fun
on us. It was given to you, so give it back
to us. We can take it. We're not sissies. We're
grown-up freshmen. We'U do what you say
for we're not ones to break customs that
have lived down through the years.
• Letter cut
Gazette...
Wednesday, September 17
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LAKONIDES, WRA Lounge, White Hall,
6:30 p.m.
PENN STATE RIDING CLUB, 317 Willard,
7 p.m.
THETA SIGMA PHI, Grange Playroom,
8 p.m.
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Mice to have you
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Interpreting the News
Russia, China Pull
Save-Face Deal
The Russians and the Chinese Communists seem to have worked
out about the best face-saving arrangement they could' for abro
gating their 1950 agreement to rel
The Russians say they are re
which connects Port Arthur and
are continuing their occupation of
Port Arthur by Chinese “request,”
and you can betHHBHKgj
your bottom dol-
lar the railroad H&HBT'
—and all Man-|Wp ""*g
:huria along with i F J§|
it—is going to be I 1
run as the Rus-ft|r>- ' ' iFlf
sians say. . Pl, : '.'sJ
The excuse fori ’■% .
ab r o gating the I \ .
treaty is that Ja-1 ' '
pan is now in® ’ SMHH
position for new aggression. The
words must have been, wormwood
in the mouths of the' Chinese
Reds, who specified in 1950 that
Manchuria would be returned to
the Chinese sovereignty because
China under the new regime, was
now able to defend it.
Now. Russian withdrawal is
made dependent upon a peace
treaty with Japan. Not because
Japan is a major force in present
circumstances, but because the
original treaty was worded that
way.
What everyone will be wanting
to know now is what else was
agreed upon at Moscow, the an
nounced portions having caused
no surprise.
On the face of it, China gets
nothing but a setback in her
hopes for reinclusion of Man
churia. Nearly always there is
at least a bunch of words about
the economic help Russia is go
ing to give her allies. That may
come later, but so far the silence
on this point is striking, since
the Chinese delegation to Mos
cow included several economic
experts, and she was generally
adjudged to be in need. There
were discussions, that's all we
know.
It is natural that anything about
continued or extended military
aid should have been excluded
from the public announcement.
The situation in Korea is, of
course, the hub around which all
Russo-Chinese relations revolve
at this time. If there is any shift
in policy there, it is more likely
to be revealed through actions in
the truce negotiations or on the
battle front than through public
announcement.
We learn no tiling new. either,
about the new “peace offensive”
which the Russians obviously are
preparing for-this fall. There’s to
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER - 17, - 1952
>ne of my classes again Miss—ah. Miss—l
name, but I never forget a beautiful face."
By J. Mi ROBERTS Jr.
;urn Manchuria to China.
turning the Changehung Railway,
Vladivostok with Russia. But they
be a big peace congress in Peip
ing about which you can bet the
Chinese Reds were well-coached.
In this connection, it is in
teresting to speculate about the
presence in Moscow during the
Chinese-Russian talks of the
.Mongolian Premier. Mongolia
was the first part of China to
be snipped off by the Russians,
who began their infiltration
there soon after World War-1
and. consolidated it during
World War 11. Russia may be
working out •an Asiatic United
I Nations of her own, a "peace
front" including Mongolia.
North - Korea, Red China and
Tibet, with which to Jrtke
propaganda hay.
But Manchuria remains under
the Russian thumb, just as every
body knew it would. The next
thing you hear about her opera
tions there may be some sort of
-Asiatic version of the “50-50”- cor
porations by which she took , vir
tual ownership of the. industries
in her European satellites.
Mackey Speaks
To Radio Guild
David R. Mackey, assistant pro
fessor of speech, spoke last night
to a meeting of approximately 50
Radio Guild members and new
candidates, explaining .the .past
and the possible future of a cam
pus radio station.
Listing briefly the . complete
history of the proposed station,
Mackey traced the work of adjoint
student, faculty, and adihinistra
tive committee in studying the
possibility of setting up such . a
station.
Mackey said that an -applica
tion for a license for the proposed
station has been filled out and
will be acted on' soon, A record
library with a nearly complete set
of sound effects has been obtain
ed and work is now progressing
on a sound wagon for studio use,
he added. ( -\-
Patricia Hathaway, of
the guild, announced plans for
personal candidate interviews at
7 p.m. Monday and 8 p.m. Tues
day and also a general candidate’s
meetinglat 7 p.m. Tuesday. ,
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