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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
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Oh, it's you, Professor Wilkins, pardon me for not speaking
thought you were just another student."
McCarthy Visits
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- 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
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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)
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