PAGE Fbt9l2 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings, during the University year. the Daily Collegian is a student operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matte 5 1934 the S to Coll. TAMMIE BLOOM, Editor Managing Ed., Diehl McNeill': City Ed., Mike Feinsilber: Asst. Bua Mgr., Benjamin Lowenstein; Local Adv. Mgr., Copy Ed., Mary Lee Lauffer; Sports Ed., Dick McDowell; Sondra Duckman; National Adv. Mgr., William Devers; Edit. Dir., George Bairey; Radio News Ed.,Phil Austin; Circulation Co-Mgrs., Richard Gordon, Gail Fromer: Pro- Soc. Ed., Peggy McClain; Asst. Sports Ed., Brm Weiskopf; motion Mgr., Evelyn Riegel; Personnel Mgr., Carol Schwing; Asst. Soc. Ed., Nancy Ward; Feature Ed., Baylee Friedman: Office Mgr., Peggy Troxell; Classified Adv. Mgr., Dorothea Exchange Ed., Edmund Reiss; Librarian, Marcie MacDonald: Ebert; Sec.,Gertrude Malpezzi ; Research and Records . Mgr.. Senior Board, Bev Dickinson. Virginia C oskery. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Ann Leh; Copy editors, Betty Koster, Bill Snyder; Assistants; Mar nie Schenck, Sally Sykes, Joy Sponsler, Bill Eisenberg, Harry Davis. Ad Staff: Linda Holmes, Fred Schmidt, Ilena Wolfgang. Centennial Stamp: Denial Reasons Not Clear The University will not receive a commem- period of time. Surely centennial celebrations orative stamp in honor of its centennial next of large universities are not everyday occur year, .:. as requested, according to an announce- rences, as the department would . have us be ment from the Post Office department. Just lieve. why this ultimatum was issued so bluntly is In view of these circumstances it becomes not quite clear. Evidently the office of the more and more difficult to account for the postmaster general does not deem the centen- - Post Office department's apparent benevolence nial celebration of the University worth such toward Columbia University, when it will not recognition. Here again, the reasoning is not be so toward Penn State. quite clear. Behind the scenes in any such proposal to The University of Columbia was granted a a governmental department there is much' stamp on its bi-centennial earlier this year. campaigning and politiking on the part of However, it was explained this was done be- legislatures involved. The proposal for the cause of the international scope of the theme commemorative stamp• was made by Sen. Ed of the celebration—" Man's right to knowledge ward Martin (R.-Pa.) at the request of the and the free use thereof." The "international , Board of Trustees. There is no doubt 'that scope" of this theme, as compared to any other Senator Martin did his best for the University, theme a University might choose for its cen- as no doubt, did the representative of New tennial celebration, is rather difficult to de- York through whom the Columbia request termine, in view of the fact that, whether ex- was forwarded. There is some doubt, how pressed as such or not, this is obviously the ever, as to why the representative from New basic idea of most other such themes. The fact York should be given obvious preference when that. Columbia University expressed its theme the reasons given for that preference are just as such was apparantly the determining factor as obviously unsound. . In the eyes of the Post Office department. Perhaps the whole incident boils down to Postmaster General Arthur H. Somerfield just one conclusion. You can't fight politics. also said there are too many colleges and uni- "It's bigger than both of us." Stamps can be versities to make the practice of granting these issued to honor birds, animals, or trivial his requests practical. It is a matter of considerable historical incidents about which one no longer speculation as to just how many `;such re- cares. But the centennial celebration request quests" the department receives in a short of the University is denied. —AI Klimcke • Station. WDFM: Experiencing Growing Pahts Campus Station WDFM has been the butt of regardless of - what they do later on in life. many critical comments by the student body. Commendation for these efforts and the quality Because of numerous difficulties encountered of work produced has not been publicize d. Criticism has. by members of the staff in putting the station Thursday's announcement by the Board of into operation, it can be heard only on fre- • Directors that the station cannot be blamed for quency modulation sets. , interfering with television reception from Members of WDFM are the first to admit they Johnstown is an encouraging sign for members have made many mistakes since the station of the staff and the student body. officially went on the air five months ago. Stu- The University has long needed its own sta dents fail to realize this fact—the campus sta- lion not only for the practical educational bene tion has been merely experiencing "growing fits derived from such an undertaking, but al pains" just like any other new organization so for the general entertainment which it can operating on such a large scale. provide for the entire student body. Station WDFM is providing professional ex- Student engineers have suffered many dis-, perience for many students, whether in minor appointments in overcoming operation diffi jobs like selecting records for presentation or culties, but they have not given - up. It is hoped major ones such as writing and directing any that the crystal unit transponders now being of the student programs. Directors of the sta- tested will prove successful and that WDFM will tion have been successful in integrating opera- be , able to continue its operation on a' campus tions with courses offered by the University. wide scale in the Fall. If patience and hard They have also attempted to conform to high work are to be considered principal reasons for , professional practices which will provide stu- success, then campus Station WDFM should dents with good habits well after graduation reach great heights. —Betty Koster Monday 4-H CLUB, 7 p.m., 100 Horticulture UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Richard Blank, Myrtle Brown, Marilyn Crow ley, Joseph Dudek, Evelyn Grubb, Daniel Hutch inson, Earl Kohnfelder, James McLean, Allison Munn, Edward Patrick, John Pine, Cecelia Poor, William Schwarz, John Strahie, Nancy Thomp son, Raymond Walter. Bair to Head Station WDFM Theodore Bair, sixth semester arts and letters major, has been appointed station manager fo r campus station WDFM. Other department heads fo r next year are Beverly Marcus, program director; John K. Stern, assistant program director; San dra Greenspun, production Man ager; Craig Sanders, chief an nouncer; Charles Folkers, campus and community service depart ment manager; Barbara Lee Ed wards, continuity director. Morton Slakoff, drama direc tor; Herbert Hamburger, musical director; Allison Munn, promo tion and public relations direc tor; Jane Cameron, record librar ian; Mary Lois Henry, office man ager. Arthur Simm, special events; Stephen Fishbein, sports director; Marjorie Bahb. traffic manager; Philip Austin, news director; and Stephen Capin, special services. 'The chief enqineer and special events as-istant for Station WD FM will be announced later. ahr Elatig (Entirgtau Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887 Gazette Library Displays Include Exhibit Of Rare Stamps Three exhibits are on display at the Pattee Library. A stamp ex hibit, sponsored by the Mount Nit tany Philatelic Society, in the main lobby of the library, includes many rare and valuable stamps. Also in the main lobby is an exhibit showing the before, dur ing, and after Penn State period of Fred Lewis Pattee. This exhibit was prepared by the library staff of the Penn State Room. An exhibit of Penn State authors is displayed in the show cases on the second floor. Included in this exhibit are works •of Theodore Roethke, recipient of the 1954 Pul itzer Prize for poetry, who was assistant professor of English Composition at the University from 1936 to 1946. LaVie Pictures Juniors who will student teach the first eight weeks of the fall semester, may have their pic tures taken for LaVie from May 17-22 at the Penn State Photo Shop. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE _COLLEGE.- PENNSYLVAN6iA FRANK CRESSMAN, Business Mar. EUDENT EMPLOYMENT Sinking Creek, a Boy Scout camp near State College, will interview prospective counselors Friday, May 14. Camp Starlight will interview. men and women today in Old Main. Meal Jobs available at fraternities and eanipus dining halls. • Mark Forbids Rat Shooting Shooting rats, or any other form of firearms practice on the Uni versity salvage depot is strictly forbidden, according to Captain Philip A. Mark of the campus patrol. Firearms being used on the de pot will be confiscated. Mark said. The depot is located east of the main campus, north of the ever greens. Students practicing with firearms on the depot have been responsible for breaking locks and windows and destroying oth er University property, Mark said. A sign to this effect will be erected soon, and the ruling will be strictly enforced, Mark said. He stressed that students using firearms in that locality are -a threat to anyone nearby. Private dumping will also be prohibited on the depot. which is for the exclusive use of the University, Mark said. The horse latitudes are zones of high atmospheric pressure with calms and variable breezes, which border the polar edges of the Trade Wind - areas. Editorials represent the viewpoint of the writers, not necessarily the policy of the paper. Unsigned edi torials are by the editor. he act of March 3. 1879. Little Man on Campus , k\,10,1 , e ti ) t Akk ll_ll. to t Oh, it's you, Professor Wilkins, pardon me for not speaking thought you were just another student." McCarthy Visits • • , - The P htling Station By PHIL AUSTIN Twelve members Of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, took in, a day in Washington Thursday. The. idea of the trip was to observe how the gentlemen of the press handle the news out of the nation's capital. We saw. But whatever we saw = and it was plenty—the climax of the day came with the two hours we spent 'in the caucus room the. Senate of fice building. This is the home of the "Big Show": the hearings on the ,row between Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens. At first, sight of the personali ties involved=regardless of per sonal opinions—made us wonder if one were dreaming or not. It didn't take long, however, to real ize that these were 'the people —not just a tele vision image of them. Seeing them naturally, instead of in black and white as we usually do removedfrom the scene, made a big difference. Thelonger we were there, how- Phil Austin ever, the less lustre there- was about any of the personalities in. volved. Having followed the hearings to some degree, I knew the subject of the. investigation, and I 'knew that the subject wasn't being fol lowed. McCarthy did his 'best to keep that subject from being dis cussed. (How else can he keep up the Big Show?) McCarthy was in good form. When we got there, the junior senator was highly excited. He just couldn't understand why Attorney General Herbert Brownell couldn't be brought before the committee to testify on a letter that's top secret. And he couldn't understand why the committee's temporary chair man, Sen. Karl E. Mundt of South Daktkta, wasn't willing to use Congress' prerogative to summon Brownell and investi gate. Sounds logical, since that's all McC's been doing since . . . (When?) Later, with the Army's top legal counsel, John G. Adams on -the stand, the committee went through the alphabet, and gave the room a laugh. McCarthy was question ing Adams in his inimitable fash ion about a "Mister X" who was on an army loyalty screening board—when the man in. question (Mr. X) met McC face to face— with only microphones (and a spotlight?) in between. Seems Mr. X had offered his lawn for a Mrs. B's party to raise funds for an organization which was listed as subversive. I'm not sure the organization was listed as subversive then. . Anyhow. McC _asked - Adams SATURDAY; MAYZ.11954 B:7 . Bible if' he would let X work for the government if X knew that. Mrs. B's husband, Dr. A. was a. sub versive, and why X had let Mrs. B use his lawn if he knew Dr. B was a Communist. McCarthy forgot to look at the next page in the transcript where X' had testified he didn't know Dr. B was a Communist. Adams read his to the senator frOm the transcript. ' Didn't stop •Swand Joe.- Actually, - ':we didn't' learn 'any thing new at the hearing. We•al ready knew that. McC was a first class. showman. 1 The committee hearing sat at one end., of a long table across the far corner of the room. Secretary Stevens (and Adams) . faced the committee - from a table 'about a quarter ,of the way across the room.' On both sides of the, witness table were long tablesperpendicu lar t0.. -- the: witness tables.. There were: four tables ~for the press, with a. fifth press table approxi mately halfway • across theom and narallel to the committee r ta ble.. That's where we' were. Behind that, there's- a rope. The public is admitted behind this rope. While we were there the public's half of the room was packed. There was, usually a line of people waiting to get a glimpse of the floor show. The half-room was solidly packed, people standing all the . way around the walls of the white marble room, and - down the aisles. At leadt a half dozen • Capital Hill policemen worked hard keeping the view clear for spectators. • All the television and motion picture cameras are up on the left' (Continued on page five) Thig Weekend On 91.1 MEGACYCLES. ' Today 1:30 Basel:mall—Penn State vs Syraciese 7:30 Jazz Moods 8:00 Music of the People 8:30 Paris Star Time 9:00 Light Classical Jukebox 10:30 Sign Off • Tomorrow Glee 3:00 7:30 8:45 _. 10:30 Monday Sportlig — lit _—_ Broadway in Review Top Drawer 7:36 _. 7:45 _. s:00 _. .8:15 - 9 :00 9 :15 ____ 9:30 NOW -- bib Concert Music Sign Oft Hatitbur _ _ ..News pliony nail
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