Weather— Cloudy and Colder VOL. 54, No. 40 Housemothers Not Seen for Fraternities Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs, said yesterday that the recent clarification of the Unchaperoned Dating Code call ing for increased chaperonage was not a step towards housemothers in fraternities. He also said, in answer to the question of whether housemothers were included in long range plans of the College for fraternities, that there “currently are no pro posals before any official body of the College 'dealing with the question.” Dean of Men Frank J. Simes, whose office issued the code clar ification, . also said the expanded definition was not to force house mothers on fraternities. He said he was unqualified to comment on whether housemothers were included in the long range College plans. • Workshop Scheduled For Tonight The fourth annual Interfrater nity Council workshop will begin at 6 tonight with exchange dinners between fraternities. Following the dinners, speakers selected from leading' towns people, faculty and fraternity members will speak at seven dis cussion periods on various phases of fraternity, life. Each fraternity will send one representative to each discussion group. Fraternity presidents will meet at Alpha Sigma Phi with chair man, John Note, alumni and pub lic relations chairmen at Kappa Sigma with Robert Briggs, social chairmen at Beta Theta Pi with Burritt Haag' and scholarship chairmen at Theta Chi with Louis Martini. Rushing chairmen will meet at Phi Gamma Delta with John Speer as chairman, pledge masters at Sigma Nu with George Rich ards as chairman, and treasurers at Beta Sigma Rho under Carl Nurik. The workshop will be climaxed Friday night by a banquet at the Nittariy Lion Inn. Guest'" speaker will be Lloyd S. Cochran, vice chairman of the National -Inter fraternity Conference. Six Fraternity Trophies Stolen Six trophies were stolen- from fraternity houses over the last two weekends, the Daily Collegian learned yesterday. Most of the thefts occurred over the West Vir ginia game weekend. Delta Upsilon reported losing two trophies over that weekend. Sigma Nu, Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Theta also reported tro phies stolen. One trophy was tak en. from each house. Phi Delta Theta reported an other trophy theft last weekend. _ In most cases the trophies were taken early Sunday morning. Simes to Speak Dean of Men Frank J. Simes will discuss “The Purposes and Functions of the Dean of Men’s Office,” before the American As sociation of University Professors at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in 105 Agri culture. Truman CaffsCharge Ridiculous Other Story Page Three NEW 7ORK, Nov. 10 (TP) Harry S. Truman declared tonight it was ridiculous to suggest that as President he was soft toward Communists. He said he did, how ever, show respect for the rights of the individual. “I think the record will prove it,” he added in a speech that he may have intended as an answer to Republican charges in the Har ry Dexter White case. Truman not only scoffed at his critics, but he went on the of-, fensive with a demand that con gressional committees keep their hands off churches and schools. Leave any house cleaning of sub versive educators and clergymen to the institutions themselves, Truman said. Atty. Gen. Herbert R. Brownell Jr., charged last week that Tru man promoted the late Treasury aide, White, despite FBI reports (Eire Batlg 0(EoU To Act as Chaperones Both men said plans had not been discussed concerning how housemothers would be used if the fraternities should decide to use them instead of the expanded dating code. They agreed they would probably be accepted by the College as approved chaper ones except for special events when another couple would be required to help them. Kenworthy explained that if the fraternities should decide to take housemothers, they would be completely divorced from the the College so that there would be no “divided loyalties.” They would be chosen and paid by the house and their selection would be subject only to the approval of the College on mutual stan dards set up by the College and the Interfraternity Council, he said. Additional Rules In addition to the housemoth ei's, Kenworthy said, there would still be other checks on fraterni ties. He said rules and regulations concerning them would still be set up by the College and stan dards of good conduct for both the fraternities and the house mothers would be established. Thomas Schott, IFC president, said the clarification of the dat ing codes was really just the Col lege’s definition of them. Prior to this, he explained, they had been applied. by the IFC’s definition. Self Protection Simes said the letter from his office was to explain the inter pretation which the College felt was too liberal. He added that additional chaperones were also a matter of self protection for the fraternities. He listed two advantages in having added chaperones. First, he said, people expect adult sup ervision of student social events and frown on the institution that does not provide this, and, sec ond, it will enable fraternities to establish contact with influential adults outside the house. Junior Prom Refunds Refunds of $1.50 will be given to holders of Junior Prom dance programs starting at 1:30 p.m. today at the Student Union desk in ' Old Main. that he was a Russian spy, Truman made no reference to Brownell or White in his speech prepared for a dinner of the Alumni Association of the City College of New York at the Com modore Hotel. But he spoke of “hysteria,” of “demagogues among us” and of persons “playing on our fears to further partisan pol itical ends.” And' near the end of his speech, he declared: ■ ' “In all I did, when'l was Pres ident, to combat communism, I al ways sought to preserve the rights of the individual. I always tried 1 to hold in check those ugly pas sions of intolerance and hate which can be so easily manipulat ed by unscrupulous demagogues. “For this I was sometimes ac cused of being soft. “This, of course, is ridiculous. I think the record will prove it. The great measures we took in for- STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1953 FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Town Group Sets Second Elect Rivals Study RIVAL CHAIRMAN of campus political parties catch up on the Daily Collegian's stories of the sophomore and freshman class election campaign. Kenneth White, left, is clique chairman of the State Party and Benjamin Sinclair, right, heads the Lion Party clique. Sophomores and freshman will vote tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the lobby of Schwab Auditorium for class officers. Candidates V/ind Up Election Campaign Candidates of the Lion and State Parties for freshman and soph omore class offices wind up campaigning tonight as class members prepare to vote tomorrow in Schwab Auditorium. First through fourth semester students may vote between 8:30 a.m. arid 5:30 p.m.' in the lobby of Schwab. Students must present their matriculation cards in order to vote, Edwin Kohn, chairman of the .All-College elections commit tee, has announced. Party clique membership is not necessary in order to vote, Kohn said. Freshman candidates of both parties will campaign jointly in the West Dorm dining halls be ginning at 5:15 p.m. today. They will speak in each of the three dining units. Lion Party sophomore candi dates will visit Chi Phi, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Tau Phi Delta and Phi Sigma Delta at noon today, and will visit Simmons Hall din ing hall, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Delta Tau Delta and Kappa Delta Rho at supper tonight. State Party sophomore candi dates will visit fraternities at noon and between 6 and 8 tonight. Fraternities being visited have been contacted by Rudolph Lut ter, sophomore clique chairman of State Party. Freshman men candidates will campaign in Hamilton Hall and the Lion Party freshman nomi nees will campaign in other areas of the West Dorms tonight, cli maxing a three-night drive there. Marilyn Seltzer, State Party candidate for freshman secretary- j treasurer, - and Virginia Hance, Lion Party candidate, will both campaign in Thompson Hall to night. Barbara Stock, State Party can didate for sophomore secretary treasurer, will tour Atherton Hall tonight. Shirley Mix, Lion Party nominee, will tour women’s dorm itory areas where she has not pre viously been, Edward Goldston, party campaign chairman, has an nounced. Hugh. Cline, State Party candi date for sophomore class presi dent, and Richard Allison, vice president, will tour Pollock dorm itory area tonight. j Robert McMillan, Lion Party! (Continued on page eight) i Collect $7016 In Chest Drive Students and faculty have con tributed $7016 to the CampiTs Chest drive, Myron Enelow, solici tations chairman, announced yes terday.. . A total of $1516 was received from the faculty and $5500 from students. A final total will not be avail able until solicitors have turned in in all money collected and pro ceeds of the Powder Bowl touch football game are received. Money may be turned in at the Student Union desk in Old Main. eign policy to check Communist aggression abroad and the meas ures we took at home to enforce the laws against espionage and sabotage and subversion are evi dence that I was l moving relent lessly against all our enemies, both foreign and domestic. “But if our central government does not distinguish between the real dangers of communism and hysterical fear of it, if our na tional leaders do not stand firm against panic, and against the in vasion of freedoms, then we are. in for some bad times.” Truman has persistently re fused to comment on the Brown ell allegations two days here in which he has made two public ad dresses. He seemed his usual chipper self throughout a day in which the House Un - American Activities Committee issued a subpoena for his appearance Friday. . ♦ . , Referendum Idea TIT ¥ XJ tT Contrary to Law— -44 444 4 4 See Page 4 ,1 t : 19 Districts To Choose Delegates By BILL SNYDER New elections for the Town Council will be held 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, in 103 Willard, Ches ter Cherwinski, Town Council president, announced last night. The old elections of Oct. 21-23 were declared illegal Nov. 2 be cause nominees for the council did not bring in signed petitions. The Town Council constitution provides that nominees must have petitions signed by 20 men from each nominee’s district. Representatives and alternates for 19 Wards will be voted oh Wednesday, Cherwinski said, and some 3000 town independents will be notified of the elections through an announcement in the Daily Collegian. May Not Vote If the turnout is poor Wednes day, Cherwinski said, all men who have petitions signed by 20 men residing in' their districts, will automatically become either representatives or alternates to the council.' Thirteen wards, or districts, must have signed petitions by Monday, Byron Fielding, Associa tion of Independent Men elections committee chairman, said at the meeting. If Cherwinski can’t raise the required petitions, Field ing said, an attempt to amend the constitution will be made through a referendum to the body of town independents. .Six town independents ap peared at last night’s meeting. The meeting had been announced in the Daily Collegian calling for all men seeking places on the council to appear with petitions. Five brought in petitions, two from ward 13. Cherwinski Confident Cherwinski did not appear wor ried by the turnout. He told the Daily Collegian reporter that he knew of at least seven men who cpuld not attend the meeting ]put had promised to bring the neces sary petitions. He expressed con fidence that 13 wards would be represented by petitions by Mon day. The wards represented by pe tions last night were: ward 13„ Marvin Bollman, and John Phil lip; ward 7, Thomas Smeal; ward 6, John McMeekin; and ward 11, Donald Weidner. All but Weidner had won places on the old council. Weidner brought in 45 names on his peti tion, though only 20 names were required. Mass confusion seems to have (Continued on page three) No Action Taken On Name Change Progress toward final action on the name change petition of the College remained un changed last night as Judge Ivan Walker of the Court of Common Pleas of Centre Coun ty reported that the formal petition had not been returned to him from Harrisburg. He said he had hoped to re ceive the petition today from the State Council of Education so that he could avoid the Armistice Day mail holiday. Now, he expects it to arrive sometime Thursday. The council approved the re quest to change, the name to The Pennsylvania State Uni versity on Friday. Walker said that he will act on the petition as soon as possible. FIVE CENTS
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