PAGE FOUR Pifcllahtd Tuesday thrniigli Satardajr mornings daring the University year, the Dally Collegian la a atndent* operated newspaper. Entered as second-elaso matter July 5, 1914 at the State College, Pa. Poet Office onder the act of Mareh t. 1879. MIKE MILLER, Acting Editor ROGER VOGELSINGER, Acting Business Manager Managing Editor, Roger B.ldlar; City Editor, Don Shoo- . Boa. Mgra., John Kmeta. Dorothea Koldgat Local . „ _ " „ . Adr. Mgr., Faye Goldateln: National Adr. Mgr., Jerry Fried; maker; Copy Editor. Dotty Stone; Sport. Editor. Roy WII- co-Clreulatlon Mgr.., larael Schwab, Chriatlna Kantfman; Hams; Editorial Director, Jackie Hudgins; Society Editor, Promotion Mgr., Delite Hoopea; Co-Personnel Mgra., Aletta Inea Althouae; Aaaiatant Sport. Editor; Ron Gatehooae; Pho- Manbeck, Connie Anderaon; Office Mgr., Ann Keeaey; Claaat , . „ „ „ „ . ’ , „ , fled Adr. Mgr., Peggy Daria; Secretary, Lit Melko; Reaearch tography Editor, Ron Walker; Senior Board. Ron Lelk. >nd R* cord . Mgr., Virginia Latahaw. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Mamie Schenck; Copy Editors, Nancy Showalter, Mike Moyle; Assistants, Terry Leach, Anne Friedberg, Lil Junas, Lianne Cordero, Lynn Ward, Clark Polak. Ignorance as a Cause of Prejudice (The second in a series of editorials on racial and religious prejudice.) The next consideration in our analysis is the relative effect of ignorance on prejudice. According to Rose’s “Roots of Prejudice,’’ prejudice is nearly always accompanied by in correct or ill-informed opinions regarding the people against whom it is felt. Southern haired of Ihe Negro as a race is enhanced by Southern belief that the colored man is inherently stupid and dirty. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's report placed a good deal of emphasis on what social scientists call "stereotypes". “These are exaggerations of certain physical traits or cultural characteristics,” states the UNESCO report, “which are found among some members of the minority group and are then attributed to all members of the group. When stereotypes exist, an individual is judged, not on the basis of his own characteristics, but on the basis of exaggerated and distorted beliefs regarding what are thought to be the charac teristics of his group. All members of the group are falsely assumed to be alike, exceptions being ignored or their existence denied.” This so-called identification is blown up by many Southern newspapers which consistently refer to thieves, murderers, and prostitutes as "the 31-year old colored robber." "a murderous gang of Negroes," and "a house full of Darkies." Without thinking, even reasonably fair-minded people lend lo classify all Negroes along with the few among them who have broken laws. “The ignorance which supports prejudice has great range,” according to Rose’s UNESCO re port, “It may take the form of false information Safety Valve... Reader Outlines Advanatges of FMA TO THE EDITOR: It was encouraging to see that two fraternities joined the Fraternity Mar keting Association this week, but it comes as a disappointment to find that another fraternity has withdrawn its membership. At present there are 28 members in FMA which is only about one-half of the total num ber of fraternities on campus. It seems to me that these non-member fraternities are over looking future potential advantages which may accrue to them through membership. Many of them give the argument that they can get the same or better discounts outside of FMA. This may be so, but did they ever con sider the possibility that they would not receive these discounts if FMA was non-existent. There are not too many of us left who re member that before FMA contracted to handle meats in 1953, meat prices were exorbitantly high. I am inclined to think that if FMA was dissolved, there would be a reoccurance of this undesirable situation. It is obvious that the ven dors ... are giving these discounts to non- Today ANDROCLES. 10:16 p.m., Phi Epallon PI BIBLE TEXT COURSE, 8 p.m., Hillel Foundation MI PROSPECTOR STAFF AND CANDIDATES, T p.m.. 121 Mineral Industries NEWMAN CLUB EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 7 p.m.. Stu* dent Center RABBI'S COURSE IN BASIC JUDAISM. 7 p.m., Hillel Foundation SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS. 7 p.m.. I*2 Carnegie Ml LaVie Pictures Seniors in the College of Min eral Industries will have pictures taken for LaVie today through Tuesday at the Penn State Photo Shop. Men are asked to wear dark jackets, white shirts, and long ties. Women should wear dark sweaters. Pearls are optional. FOR SALE 1841 CHEVROLET, 4-door sedan, five new tires, heater, excellent radio, 1952 motor, $l5O. Robert Moyer, 734 N. McKee St. LONG-PLAYING records. Many for Music 5 & 6;; in good condition. Low pricea. Call Holley. 328 McElwain. CORNET. Ringmaster Model No. 2 sterling silver bell, gold-plated ; leather case. In cluding mutes, excellent condition, reason ably priced. Call EL 5-9107. LADIES WHITE figure skates. Size 7, _ good condition. <4. Call 48 Simmons Hall, CHRISTMAS TREES. Sizes to order foi fraternities and sororities. Hoy Brothers Company AD 7-3241. ENTIRE LP collection. Many for Music 546. Ail in excellent condition* Call Holly 323 McElwain. >NE MIL BALL ticket. Phone AD 7-8266 after 5:36 p.m. latly CoUrgtati Sacdi.r t» THE FREE LANCE, aat. ISIT Gazette... Leetch to Speak Tonight G. N. Leetch, Director of the University Placement Service, will speak on “Opportunities in the Field of Public Relations” at 8 tonight in 209 Hetzel Union. The talk, sponsored by Theta Sigma Phi, national woman’s journalism honor fraternity, 'is open to the public. COLLEGIAN CLASSIFIEDS ONE MIL BALL ticket. Call Tom AD 7-2767. LEITZ VALOY 36 mm. enlarger with Varob f/3.5, scm. lens. Also Luxor en larging easel and miscellaneous equipment. All like new. Best offer. Call Brooks. AD 7-3012. 33 FOOT SPARTAN Royal Mansion Trailer, 1949. Excellent condition, air conditioner and television. AD 7*7267 after 6 p.m. PRACTICALLY NEW Sunbeam electric razor—originally $2B on sale for $l2. Cali AD 8-6358 ask for John. PROMPT, PROFESSIONAL Radio and Televiaon Service. Batteries for all port able. State College TV, 232 S. Alien St WANTED TWO MEN to work in kitchen for meals. Call Ron Martin* Pi Kappa Alpha. AD 1 0*9682. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA about people’s physical characteristics, cultural practices, or beliefs. It may take the form of myths about super-human powers or child-like weaknesses. The prejudice of Germans about other peoples included stereotypes about the French as immoral degenerates, about the Brit ish as bumbling fools, about the Americans as narrow-minded wastrels, about the Russians as stolid and stupid ignoramuses, about the Jews as scheming perverts.” People who refer lo the most obnoxious of certain racial and religious groups as "typical" are responsible in part for encouraging group hatred. “One of the requirements for ignorance about a group of people,” the report stated, “is isola tion, which can occur even where there is con siderable contact. People can live next door to each other as neighbors, one person can even work in another’s home or shop, but still they will not necessarily get to know each other as human beings. Both physical and social segre gation usually accompany prejudices: they are among its effects, but also among its causes, as they promote ignorance and ignorance bolsters prejudice.” And it is this consideration, among others, that prompted the Supreme Court of the United States to declare racial segregation in public schools and in places supported by public funds unconstitutional. To prohibit one race from asr sociating with another race is to imply strongly that the two races are not equal. So, in many instances prejudice has been the product of segregation rather than the cause. Tomorrow’s editorial will, deal, with the “su periority complex” as a cause of prejudice. —Jackie Hudgins member fraternities in order to discourage them from joining FMA. Do you non-members believe that you would still receive these discounts if FMA competition was removed? I do not. In conclusion, I would like to quote from the FMA circular: “Fraternities do an annual busi ness of approximately $1 million in the local area. Although this volume of business repre sents one of the largest single blocks of pur chasing poorer in this area, fraternities as a whole effect few savings and command no lower prices than the average individual cus tomer. "If organised properly, this purchasing power could command respect and cotild bring tre mendous savings to toe. whole fraternity system. FMA is the specific agent to effect such savings and to organise such purchasing power—but only if all fraternities cooperate and partici pate. “This is the ultimate goal of the FMA idea.” —Ralph T. Vernot UNIVERSITY PARK PROMENADERS, 7 p.m., 100 Weaver YOUNG DEMOCRATS CLUB, 8 p m.. 104 WUUrd University Hospital John Anderson, Patrick Boob, David DiFebo, Richard Elder, Dorothy Ford, Karl Goetx, Robin Harrison, Marie Harvey, Jamee Headings, Paul Hill, Louis Klein, Dolores Kominskl, John Larimer, Lanice Moore, Philip Mullen, Ellen Steinberg, Robert Stiteler, Dorothy Thompson, George Weimer, Thomas Wolfe, Lester George, and Gains Frost. Ml 'Prospector' Staff The Mineral Industries “Pros pector” staff and candidates will meet at 7 tonight in 121 Mineral Industries. Plans for the January issue and a permanent cover will be dis cussed. Any interested students may attend the meeting. HALF A double room for male student. Near campus. 284 S. Pugh. Call Mrs. Fraser at AD 7-8152. WANTED TO occupy % double room. Call AD 7-7167 Mrs. Keller, 136 8. Atherton. TO BOSTON for Christmas. Call Jeanette Wyllle, 411 Simmons. RIDE WANTED Mississippi or adjacent state on 20th or 21st of December. Call A 1 Garcia AD 7-7045. RIDE TO Fredericksburg, Vm. or Wash ington, D.C. for Wed., Dec, 21 at noon. Call 292 Simmons. > PASSENGERS to Florid* or potato bo _ Ltovlnc o« or about Do*. 11. (tag Do* AD 3-BM*. Editorial, normal th. Tl.wpolnU of th* wrltor*. not noemarll, th. poll*, of th. p*pw, th. atnd.nt bod,, or tho Unto.nlt,. Treasurer. Bearer House Fraternity ROOMS FOR RENT RIDE WANTED PASSENGERS WANTED Little Man on Campus ■ Interpreting the News Labor Faces By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst Clement Attlee’s retirement as leader of the British labor party involves a great deal more than the mere selection of a successor, which will in itself be a noisy fight. More important in the long run will be whether the new leader can preserve the tenuous threads which hold the mod erate and leftwing sections o: Several times the ideological schism between the two tactions has threatened a final split. Aneurin Bevan, left-wing lead er, haa been constantly shooting at the parly's leadership and trying to take it himself. Att lee's pro-American attitude and Jus unradical -socialism were anathema to Bevan. who will now try once again, although; apparently without great hope of success, to grab the reins. Attlee will go down in history as the man who engineered the welfare state tor Britain. Despite Bevan, and despite - very -.great difficulties with some failures, he did it in fairly. orderly fashion. He overestimated the willingness of the voters to’assume the neces sary expenses of his various health and industrial nationaliza tion programs, and they turned conservative after his years as prime minister. But he, was looked upon, even by Winston Churchill in the periods yyhen there was no heated political battle, as a good man. During, the war, he and Churchill presented an amazingly united front against Britain's ene mies. Hugh Gaiiskill, regarded by many as Attlee's most likely successor, is a youngish intellec tual who is about as far removed from Bevan as a Socialist can be. In person and politics he is not very far removed from the more liberal members of the Conservative party. Where AH lee was sometimes willing to LOST WILL PERSON who took blue coat from Alpha Chi Rho contact Clark Polak ext, 2»0. CARDIGAN SWEATER, heather blue. handmade—left In 114 HEc Bldg. Tuee. Nov, 29. Call 1> Simmons. Mary Lou. BLACK RONSON lighter with Initials J.A.E. Friday Dee. 2 in or near Sparks. Call 14 McElwain. MEN’S SHELL rimmed glasses, in maroon leather case. Call Freddie AD 8-8000. PERSON WHO took wrong leather jacket from 105 Whitmore -Thursday morning please call Chuck Waggoner ext. 284. LOST: K * E SLIDE rule. Finder call AD 7-5588 ask for Fe—lor. ONE WHITE rain eoat DTD Sat. night Call Dick ext 784 Bm. lIS. Reward. WILL PERSON who took wrong jacket Irons Pond Lab Wed Nov. M tall Jim AS T-22*5. I hare yonra. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1955 "PLEASE pass the rolls." Party Crisis the party together. Compromise his own views and submerge his own personality in order to,keep peace -with Bevan. it is hard to tee how Gaitslcill can dd so.- Oh this particular point, Her bert Morrison, anohter leading candidate might da better. Morri son is a genial man who, more than any of the others, reminds one of ah American labor leader. But is getting along in years, and many party stalwarts feel the times require a younger man' to meet the flexibility demonstrated by the Conservatives -since their return'to power. Bevan has lost evOry major fight since he. began bis anti- American campaign and has even been read out of the party on oc casion, only to return. The last time only Attlee was able to com promise the situation. It may be that no one qan continue to do it. Andrpdos to Meet Tonight - Ahdrocles, juniormen’s hat so ciety, will meet at 10:15 tonight at Phi Epsilon Pi. Tonight on WDFM 7:28 ; ■ Sica Oa ■ 7:30 Starlight Review 8:00 Jan Club 8:80 Just Out 0:00 —— Call Card . «:1B _ News 0:80 Scenario 10:80 Thought for the' Da? 10:8B Sign Oft MISCELLANEOUS NEW SERIES “Today's Great I»uea and the Bible Answers." Beginning Jan. ( la The Christian Science Monitor. Sub scribe at special student and faculty rates. Call Jack Erway AD 7-8787. THE STUDENT FLORAL Agency tbanka you for your many. ooraage orders. To. nite between B p.m. and 7 p.m. will bo the laat chanee to order. See you by the West Oorm Post Office or the Nlttany-Polloek Pining Hall. NOTICE—WILL the joker who took (or borrowed) film-holders from my ear Sat. night please return to. Lion Studio im medlatoly, important—no questions naked. WHEN YOUR typewriter aaeda eery Isa just dial AO T-I4H ar Mac maeblwa HIM W. Cel lege Ays. ' PHOTO COPT iarrlaa. Wa espy iwm. thtaf bat money. Hrerytklag far the Niw ONt mmlasa. Cal AO t MIL By Bibler *l.l MEGACYCLES
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