PAGL FOUR Published • Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily Col legian of thy Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-Clam matter July 5, 1934 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879. Managing Ed., Marshall 0. Donley; City Ed., Chuck Asst. Bus. Mgr., Mark Christ; Local Advertising Mgr., Obertance; Copy Ed., Chi: Mathias; Sports Ed., Sam Robert Carruthers; National Adv. Mgr., Donald Hawke; Procopio; Edit. Dir., Dick Ran; Wire-Radio Ed., Bill Jost; Circulation Co-Mgrs., - Prink Cressman, . Diane Miller: Soc. Ed.,Lynn Rahanowitz; Asst. Sports Ed., Dick McDowell; Promotion Mgr., Ruth Israel; Personnel Mgr., Patience Asst. oc. Ed., Liz Newell; Photo Ed., Bruce Schroeder w llngethuem; Office Mgr., Gail Shaver; Classified Adv. Feature Ed., Nancy Meyers; Exchange Ed., Gus Vollmer: Mgr., Jean Geiger; Sec., 'Carol' Schwhig; Research. and Librarian, Lorraine Gladus; Senior Board, Mary Lou Adams. Records Mgrs., Virginia Bowman, Eleanor Hennessy. DAVE JONES, Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Al Goodman; Copy editors, Tammie Bloom and Jack Reid; As sistants, Roy Williams, Paddy Beahan, Nancy Van Tries, Roger Beidler. Is Discrimination Always Wrong? Columbia University has passed a ruling which bans discriminatory Clauses in the school's fraternities. The action affected four fraterni ties, all of whiCh have chapters at Penn State. In direct contrast, and at about the same time, Boston University chapter of Phi, Sigma Kappa fraternity was suspended from the na tional organization, allegedly for accepting a Negro student. Penn State has its share of student groups with discriminatory clauses or' discriminatory practices. Some of these are social fraterni ties; many are not. Eric Johnston has said "our fraternities must be democratized . . . We've got to live democ racy, not just talk democracy." Others contend intolerance through discrimination halts under standing among peoples of the world. Still others say discrimination is a contradiction of the American principle of equal opportunity. These arguments may be true. But in set ting them forth, one important point is often overlooked: every man has the right to select his own associates. President Edmund Day of Cornell University has said "the college has an obligation to see that its organizations do not interfere with . . . the essential privileges of edu'cation . . . Fra ternities, being primarily social organizations, are free to create whatever standards of eligi bility they wish individually to create . . ." Herein lies a strong point which does not say discrimination is right, but which says it often has a basis. Inkling Deserves Support of Students The appearance of Inkling, student literary magazine, for the first time this year deserves more than the casual glance most students are giving the sales stands. Inkling has long been beset with a lack of funds and as a result is raced constantly with a life and death struggle for survival. There is no reason why this struggle need continue. Inkling provides some of the finest in Penn State student writing. Probably the main reason the Magazine is not purchased is that students frequently do not May 19, 1953 ASSOCIATION OF CHILDHOOD EDUCA TION INTERNATIONAL, 7 p.m., Atherton lounge. COLLEGIAN BUSINESS CANDIDATES, fi nal exam, 7 p.m., 1 Carnegie COLLEGIAN ADVERTISING STAFF, all members, 7 p.m., 9 Carnegie. COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF, all mem bers, 7 p.m., Business office. EDUCATION STUDENT COUNCIL, 8:15 p.m., 108 Willard. PETROLEUM ENGINEERING S O CIE T Y, election of officers, 7:30 p.m., Alpha Chi Sigma. PSYCHOLOGY CLUB, 7 p.m., 202 Willard. TOWN COUNCIL, 9 p.m., 156 Legion Lane. RADIO GUILD, 7 p.m., 312 Sparks. COLLEGE HOSPITAL Ralph Brooks, William Domin Geigle, Joseph Gower, Glenn Grove, INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS One Year Work and Study ISRAEL All expenses paid including round-trip transportation WRITE to: Industrial Engineers for Israel Dept. E The Jewish Agency for Palestine 16 East 66th Street New York 21, N.Y. Elatill Collegian Successor to THE FREE LANCE. eat. 1887 Gazette ... ick, Diane Boy or girl with ability to take x-rays wanted Gary Hawk, for first two weeks of August in State College. SUMMER POSITION Advanced College Stu dent or Teacher. Inter esting summer position for ambitious person. $4BO for 60 days Phone: State College 6733 Monday, May 24th Ask for Mrs. D. Mackenzie for appointment THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. 'STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVA4IA VINCE DRAYNE, Business Mgr. Y:•,y! Social fraternity discrimination is obviously contrary to the idea of complete equality. How ever, it is sometimes queftionable if complete equality is desirable, much less necessary. Discrimination in a professional organization, or in an organization where a distinct honor or privilege attaches membership, 'is wrong. BUt discrimination in a social group, where there is no special benefit from membership, is not nec essarily bad. No man must be forced to accept others on an equal basis if he does not wish to do so. No man must be told to accept others of one creed if he does not want friends there. Every man has the right to freely select his friends. And a social fraternity is essentially a col lection of friends. Therefore. if a fraternity does not want one class of friends, it has the right to discriminate against that group. An organization which closes its member ship and deprives others of a special honor or privilege is not' justly discriminatory. An or ganization which closes its membership, but which does not harm anyone or deprive others of a special privilege is not necessarily wrong in its discrimination. This is not a defense of discrimination or of discriminatory clauses. It is merely to point 'out that fraternity discrimination has two sides. Unfortunately, one side is generally overlooked. Discrimination may be morally wrong. But fanatic strokes against it can be equally wrong. When the day comes that a man may be forded to accept friends he does not want, a wrong deeper than discrimination has arisen. want to read that which is not absolutely re quired or that which. does not rise above the level of the pulp publications jammed on the newsstands. Of course it must be recognized that if stu dents are not willing to read good fiction, they probably will not read this bit of urging either. For those who do read beyond Bibler. however, it would be well for you and the life of the magazine to give Inkling the sup port it deserves. Lee Kummer, Ralph Laudenslayer, Richard Lednak, Willie Reudenbach, Gerald Robinson, Alan Schriesheim, Frank Schweitzer, Estelle Silverman, Wendell Toland, Russell Wasser and Wayne Wolfkeil. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Students from Philadelphia area wanted for summer jobs in selling. 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. Boy or girl with medical lab experience wanted for latter part of July, beginning of August, to work-in State College. . Collegian editorials repre sent the viewpoint of the writers, . not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Un signed editorials are by the editor. • STOP ! Don't Carry Those Books Home The Used Book Agency in the TUB will be open every afternoon during finals week from 1 to 5 p.m. (May 25 - 29) to receive your uted books . that will be sold next semester. (Sorry, No Language Books). n Sal Located $5 ; 10 1.00 i Free es. ' PENN STATE BOOK EXCHANGE in the TUB STUDENT OPERATED Little Man on Campus 0 11 , 7 Ate "Yeah! Well, the chow ain't so hot over at our dining hall either. Shortage Predicted Of Technical Grads WASHINGTON, May 18 (JP)—President Eisenhower was told to day that the nation will be faced with a growing shortage of sci entists, engineers, doctors and teachers unlss young -people are educated to the fullest of their capabilities. In its report, the National Manpower Council urged the govern ment to take a leading role in solving the problems involved in using the "vast reservoir of intel ligent youths" The council, a pri'Vate group sponSored by the Ford Founda tion at Columbia University, said however, it had produced , t`o magic formula" to insure that the U.S. can meet its scientific and professional manpower needs. "Nothing short of a determined co-operative effort involving gov ernment, industry, educational in stitutions and professional and other groups will attain this goal," the council said. —Dick Rau The 263-page report was bound in red and Eisenhower jokingly asked Council Chairman James F. Zellerbach of San Francisco who presented it, if it was necessary to use that color. The story was started while Eisenhower wa s president of Columbia. He helped organize the council. The study recommended strong ly that steps be taken to insure the education of those more "ca pable of profiting from higher education than are currently ob taining it." Today, the council said, only half of those capable of acquiring a college degree enter college and about two-fifths of those who start do not graduate. NON-PROFIT TUESDAY, MAY 19: 1953 The council proposed, \. ,, mong other things, that: 1. The federal government take the lead in the co-operative task of manpower utilization through the' Office of Defense Mobiliza tion. 2. The President appoint a com mission; "to review the impact of governmental research and devel opment contracts upon the pri mary responsibilities of univer sities and colleges to advance fun damental knowledge and train to morrow's scholars and scientists." 3. Scholarship and fellowship programs supported by private and public funds be maintained and expanded to help more young people of ability acquire a higher education. Retailers Oppose Mercantile Tax HARRISBURG, May • ,18 The Pennsylvania Retailers Asso ciation today came out in opposi tion to a proposed mercantile tax which it branded as "burdensome, destructive, vicious and grossly unfair." "On - behalf of the _retail trade of Pennsylvania we urgently request a public hearing on the proposed mercantile license tax bill," Pres ident Frank Burnside said in a telegram made public here today. 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