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DAVE JONES, Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Jack Reid; Copy editors, Mike Feinsilber, Lee Wheeler; Assistants,
Don Shoemaker, Mary Loubris, .Olivia Florig, Janet Noll. AD STAFF: Connie Anderson, Betty
Schmidt.
Spring Week Parade Suffered Defects
Despite the annual spring monsoons, Penn
Staters showed true enthusiasm Tuesday night
as most participants slogged through the Spring
Week parade to the bitter end. The end was
even more bitter for those groups , which had
their paper floats washed away and didn't come
up with a prize.
There were, however, some faults in the
parade which cannot be overlooked and which
should be ironed out next year.
In an attempt to prevent the parade from
becoming a new car show, the parade commit
tee ruled out all mechanized transportation.
This was a mistake. A few groups were able to
secure horses, but most had to resort to pledge
o-watt, or similar manpower.
Because mechanization was ruled out, stu
dents ended up shoving their heavy floats up
hill on Shortlidge road and trying to stop
them from rolling too fast down Pollock road.
This and the rain helped dampen enthusiasm.
The Spring Week parade committee also
missed the boat in its choice of award classes.
Awards were given only to floats, with no con
sideration to group enthusiasm or participation.
Float awards were given only in most or
Interpreting the News
Secretary of State Dulles ar
rived in Cairo hoping that his
voice would add strength to
American efforts at mediation
between Britain and Egypt, on
ly to find himself in the middle
of a hardening situation.
The United States, through
Ambassador Caffrey, played
an important role recently in
bringing the two countries to
gether in the Sudan dispute.
and had hoped to repeat.
But the Egyptians have been
quite frank in the Suez dispute
about their unwillingness to
brook any outside pressure
against their determination to
oust the British once and for all.
As the situation stands now,
negotiations have been broken
off, Britain is making a show of
force, and Egypt is making a
threat of forc e. Even since
Dulles arrived the Egyptians
have become more intransigent,
suggesting a time limit of two
or three months on the British
stay, with destruction of the
bases "by the people" as the al
ternative.
Already there are almost
daily clashes of a guerrilla na
May 14, 1953
POLITICAL SCIENCE CLUB, 7:30 p.m., Mc-
Elwain Lounge.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Barbara Alri c h, Gerald Bidlack, Octavio
Cano, John Epler, Glenn Grove, James Krauss,
Benjamin Kreider, Lee Kummer, Justin Lip
man, William A. Martin, Walter Pimbley, Wil
helm Reudenbach, Alan Schriesheim, George
Welkie and Kenneth Wright.
Senior Gift
By BAYLEE FRIEDMAN
Graduating seniors as early as
1900 were deciding how to cast
ballots for class gifts. Results of
selections can be seen in the ben
ches scattered over campus, the
scoreboard on Beaver Field and
Old Main's chimes.
The Class of 1900 started the
ball rolling with funds for the
benches. Since then, thousands of
students have utilized them for
studying, resting, and—Weil—re
laxation.
Another ear I y gift was the
Hammond electric organ donated
by the Class of 1903 and installed
at a class reunion in 1938. This
year seniors are again being
asked to donate for an Qrgan—
this time for the proposed medi
tation chapel to be completed in
the near future.
The clock in the tower of Old
Main was the choice of 1904's
seniors. Original works were re-
Tim Elatill 41-altegiatt
SUCCIHISOC to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887
ture which the British feel are
being carried out with official
sanction if not connivance.
The canal itself is no longer
the key consideration of West
ern policy at Suez. In modern
warfare it can not be kept open
for very much if any shipping.
It is as a military base that the
position is paramount.
British military installations
in the zone are worth much
more than a billion dollars.
Seventy miles long, it is a heav
ily concentrated rear area from
which as many as a quarter
of a million men can operate
for the defense of the whole
Middle East. It contains three
permanent military bases, 12 air
fields, and just one of its sup
ply dumps requires 17 miles of
barbed wire to suround it. It
contains the \ headquarters of
Britain's Middle East land for
ces, hub of the whole British
defense system for the region,
and of the Middle East Air
Forces, with all the techniCal
gad cr.ets of such a center.
The British point out that
Suez is not only the jumping
off point for defense of the
Gazette...
Idea Started in 1900
paired when Old _Main was re
constructed in 1929-30.
Ivy was on the collective mind
of seniors from 1908 to' 1912. Gift
funds are responsible for the
green on McAllister Hall, the
Armory tower, Engineering Build
ing, ' Schwab Auditorium, and
Pattee Library.
Balloting the following year
resulted in the construction of the
"1913 Senior Porch" on the front
of the original Old Main. Classes
of. 1917-18 and 1925-26 gave two
entrance gates on E. College av
enue at Pugh street and the front
entrance of the Mall.
Graduates of 1926 purchased the
scoreboard on the then-new Bea
ver Field. After that class gifts
ranged from the elevator in the
College Infirmary to the tele
scope on top of Buckhout Labor
atory to the Westminster Chimes
of 1937.
And then there was the ski
lodge in the mountains donated
by the Class of 1939. It burned
dawn.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
VINCE DRAYNE, Business Mgr.
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iginal, comic and collegiate' classes. No con
sideration was given to most outstanding or
Most artistic. There were floats in the parade
which were outstanding and deserved awards.
but could not receive them because they did
not fall under original, comic or collegiate ,
consideration.
This is not a criticism of the judging or of
those groups which won the parade awards.
Those groups correctly adapted their floats' tO
the award classes and deserved to win in those•
particular classes. •The fault rested, however,
with the committee's choice of float classifi
cations.
Defects in the parade, cannot overshadow
the merits of 1953 Spring Week. The coronation
of Miss Penn State by Mrs. Dwight D. Eisen
hower, and the annual Spring Carnival which
closes tonight, have both gone toward a bigger
and better Spring Week! The Mad Hatter's
Day and He-Man contests this year have prom
ised to develop into long standing Spring Week
activities.
The student body as, a whole, and Spring
Week committees in particular, deserve hearty
congratulatiOn for putting the week over
the top.
By J. M. Roberts Jr.
Associated Press News Analyst
whole Middle East, but also
the defense point for Africa
against any attack from 21us
sia.
That Britain alone can con
tinue to hold the bases is ex-,
tremely doubtful. She has rec
ognized that by agreeing to get
out under certain conditions.
Primary condition is that Egypt
and the Middle East enter into
a defense arrangement with the
Western powers for, some sort of
joint operation.
All the commandos from Mal
ta and all the British strength
in the Middle East cannot
change this political situation.
Britain and the Western Allies
are bound by their democratic
position not to crush national
aspirations by force, even when
these aspirations are produced,
as they have been in Egypt, by
rabble rousing politicians
marilY interested—prior to the
Naguib government—in cover
in Er their own selfish operations.
That's why Egypt can take
its intransigent stand. It's like
a little man sassing a bsg one,'
knowing that he won't- ac
tually be struck.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Students from Philadelphia area wanted for
summer jobs - 1n
Lillian Taylor Camp will interview men and
women May 14.
Men wanted for meal serving jobs on and off
campus next fall.
Men wanted for garden and lawn, housework,
and odd jobs.
Men wanted for production work near: Lan
caster. Full 'time summer work.
FiVe thousand dollars, donated
by 1940 graduates, was set aside
for the Lion Shrine, sculptured
by Heinz Warneke. The College
supplemented $3OOO for its land
scaping and walks. And the flag
poles at Beaver Field were erec
ted with money from the fund of
1944.
Henry Varnurn Poor, with the
fund started by. '32's• graduates,
was commissioned to paint _the
Landgrant Murals in Old Main.
The murals were 'completed in
1946.
Since then contributions have
taken - a most practical. 'turn.
Funds have gone toward the es
tablishment of a student press,
campus radio station, and the
Student Union Building.
When seniors of 1953 pick up
LaVies this month, .they will vote
whether to purchase the Line
man statue, a record library, a
stage for" the Student Union
Building, an arena theater, or an
organ for the proposed meditation
chapel. •
Collegian editorial' -repre
sent the viewpoint or ' the,
writers, not neeessarllg. the'
policy of the newspaper: Un
signed editorials are by' the
editor.
Little Man o
"Boy it mus' feel great to have that ole diploma and be out
in th' world.
Freedom of Speech
In the light of the current controversy over whether or not
teachers with , leftist leanings should be• allowed to teach, the
Daily Collegian presents excepts from a chapter in Zechariah
Chafee's book, "Freedom of Speech."
The views presented were written in 1920 and closely par
allel today's discussions on the topic.
These views are not necessarily those of the newspaper,
but are presented for consideration because of the interesting
parallel.
The state which refrains from fighting revolutionary doctrines
by force except in times of clear and present danger is not helpless,
for besides abolising some causes.of discontent, it can employ educa
tion to establish among its citizens faith .in progress through law.
Question's of the fitness of some
particular teacher .to teach, in
stead of being settled purely on
their merits, have become storm,
centers of conflict ... The author
ities assert that anybne who holds'
certain views as ipso facto unfit
to teach. For example, Dr: John
L. Tildsley . . . declared "that
men or women who are Marxian
Socialists, who - believe in the
Communist Manifesto, have no
right to be in the school system
because such teachers believe in
the overturn by force of those
elements on which our civiliza
tion is based. The student of
freedom of speech is concerned
with the comparative redness of
these prescribed views, and with
the - question whether a teacher
is to be dismissed for merely Joe
lieving in them or only if he ex
presses them to his classes.
We all believe in freedom of
speech, but the question is, do
we believe in it when it is dis
agreeable to us? After all, if
freedom of speech means any
thing, it means a willingness to
stand and let people say' things
with which we disagree, and
which do weary us • consider
•ably.
We cannot be sure that any
statement is either wholly true
or wholly false. We cannot sepa
rate the truth at. once . . . If what
is said does dangerously and di
rectly interfere with those social
interests in order and education
of the young, then speech must
be restrained. But until that, time
comesand we ought to be sure
that it has come—we should be
very 'careful 'how 'we interfere.
Because 'it is by the contest of
argument .that truth is found.
.. The administration in Wash
ington is now publishing text
books . . . When we have a (new)
administration we may have a
different kind of textbook. There
in 'lies the • difficulty with Dr.
Tildsley's argument that teachers
must teach and think 'according
to the decision of a majority of
Congress. It is true that a ma
jority decision is the best way of
determining how the government
shall act, but it is not the best
way - of deciding what, is right.
We have 'to • act on the decision
of the majority, but the minority
are not thereby precluded from
doubting the wisdom of the deci
sion. If the majdrity of Congress
de_clares• war, the minority must
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1953
Campus
realize that we are at war, but
they are not necessarily bound
to believe. that the war is right,
and why should' they not , endea
vor to stop it by argument when
they believe that it has gone far
enough?
... In the old days they used
to get rid of objectionable per
sons on the ground that they
. would overthrow society . . .
They got rid of Jesus by say
ing he planned to upset the
Roman state, and they said it is
more expedient one man should
die than the people should per
ish . . . But let us be sure that
the people, after all, are going
to perish.
in wartime, the problem is per
haps peculiar . . . We, don't care
what sort of war it is. My coun
try, right or wrong . . . I think
this war was right, but the peo
ple who opposed it, who were
wrong this time, may be right the
next time . . . and we ought to be
careful hew we require every
person wlio teaches in the schools
to support every war that is going ,
on.
. . Dr. Tildsley spoke of our
being under the spell of words.
There is one word we are all un
der the spell of -at the present
time, and that is Americanism.
. . . If Americanism means any
thing, it means free speech right
from the start.
People say •that the teacher
is employed by the government.
and. ought to agree with the
government which pays him.
The courts are just as much a
part of the government as the
schools—more so . . . Do we
say that every court must agree
with the government..... Not at
all. . . . The teacher may. be
serving the state even while he
criticizes it. ,
Of course ./. . we cannot let
everything be said in the schools
that might be said outside. A
teacher . . must adapt his dis
cussion: to the maturity of the
pupils before him. And we. cer
tainly . . can require. judgment.
It is all very well to say that
we ought to be loyal to the state
. . . If (the government) does not
stand for the best things we stand
-for—for the development of mind
and spirit and the search for
truth—we begin to wonder whe
ther, after all; -that government
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