UTCHINS DENOUNCES LOYALTY OATHS VALIDITY
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ol. XLV
Les Angeles, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 3, 1953
No. 51
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UTCHINS INTERVIEW
Oaths Threaten One s Character
by David Henley
Robert Maynard Hutchins, former president and chan-llor of the University of Chicago and present associate di-:ctor of the Ford Foundation, yesterday said he does not lieve in any kind of loyalty oath for school teachers and '•ofessors.
“Schools in America have al-ays been a center for freedom id free-thinking. Those so call-I 'loyalty oaths’ are nothing ore than threats and intimida-rms against one’s character,” he
ated.
"I do not feel the Communist rty is as dangerous as profess-Some people take it for grant-that just because a person is member of the Communist par-he is dangerous. This is not
Me.
“For example, in the state of ashington, most of the protest's at the state university, when dor investigation, proved to be me of the weakest and most eepish men I have ever heard he said.
Against McCarthy Dr. Hutchins lamented Senator cCarthy’s denunciation of Harold as a “smelly mess" and the ntement made by Indiana’s ¡.ate director of education which id “Robin Hood” is a book ad-iting Socialism and Commu-1 sm.
‘These two incidents are typi-1 il of the hysteria that is grip- (■ ng the nation today. I believe at leadership in human freedom in jeopardy. The tradition of .ademic freedom was made in nerica. It should be kept,” itchins said.
Denounces Religious Head "he professor vociferously de-unced Cardinal Spellman s ?ech made in Europe last :nth in which the noted urchman said no one in Amer-is being hurt by congressional v estigations. Hutchins said the >hole nation as well as many dividuals. have been injured by ¡esc probes.”
When the question of Red Chi-came up. Hutchins gave some be tty definite views on the mat-
jr.
“I heartily advocate the admis-3n of Communist China into the jiited Natiohs. The Red Chi-?se seem to have the situation er there pretty well in hand "id at the present do represent e people of China.”
Hutchins said Attorney General irowncll’s views on the wire-taping issue and the proposed chang-in the Fifth amendment were direct violation of the Consti-ition. He further stated that con-ressional committees, which pub-shed lists ol subversive Commu-st and Fascist organizations, rere run by a bunch of “charac-trs.” He therefore inferred , in fiis reporters opinion, that he »es not believe that these lists ]ould be made public.
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS
. . Ford Foundation head
ides to N. Y. eeded Most Car Pool
the Alpha Phi Omega 3" pool got into its third to the New York city became the most needed, jht off the bat New York .the surrounding area l>e-- most popular of all number of students plan-drive to various points in r and Montana have no , but cars to the Empire Ci-are the most wanted.
lirman Shelley Jones says about two caialul are set riders and rides all matched Cars are available to such states as Georgia. Illi-«, West Virginia, Ohio, Texas Oklahoma, and north to Ore-on, Washington and Idaho.
The sign up booth will remain cn from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. un-Dec. 11.
L. A. Foreign Students To Be Feted
Foreign students, studying at colleges and universities in L. A. County, will be guests of honor at the Los Angeles County Museum reception Sunday at 2 p.m.
SC foreign students wishing to attend the reception may register in the foreign students’ office, 322 SU, today and tomorrow.
Students will also witness the opening of the costume gallery, displaying 150 years of wedding costume styles.
Christmas music will be played from 3 to 5 p.m. at the reception in the loggia gallery on the second floor. Refreshments will be served.
Next Semester Varsity Show Authors Named
The Varsity Show script chosen for the spring production has been authored by Hal and Stan Charnofsky, Dave Rankin, and Ross Sonne, announced Dick Por- 1 ter, Varsitvy Show producer.
The Charnofsky twins were mainnstays of the 1950-52 Trojan baseball teams. Hal won All-American laurels as a second baseman in 1952. They expect to receive B.A. degrees in physical education in February and plan to work for their masters degree this spring.
Baseball Player Rankin is a two-yea^ baseball letter man, performing as a pitcher in 1951-52. At present he is teaching freshman English at SC while working for a masters degree. He received his B.A. last June.
Sonne is a graduate student in English, and also an instructor of freshman English. He received his B.A. at Southern Methodist University.
Title Release Later The title and plot of the Varsity Sh9W script will not be divulged until later, said producer Porter, but work is progressing on technical plans for the show.
Petitions for Varsity Show production personnel are available ig the ASSC office, said Porter.
Police, Firemen General Clark
World Affairs Talk Planned
Danny Grad. Winners Told
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Danforth Graduate Fellowships j for the academic year 1954-55 were announced by the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis.
The fifty nationwide appointments are intended as “a relationship of encouragement” to students who are preparing themselves for college teaching and who see in teaching a vocation of Christian service, the Foundation said.
Applicants may contact the Graduate School for information and papers which must be submitted between Nov. 15, 1953, and Feb. 15. 1954.
Plan Annual Bike Auction
The Los Angeles Police department today extended to all SC students a special invitation to attend the semi-annual Police and Firemen’s Bike auction, to be held Saturday morning at 8 at 130 North Central Avenue.
Bicycles and bicycle parts will be auctioned off to the highest bidders, and all sales will be on a cash and carry basis. The “carry” does not refer to what you do with the bicycle after you buy it, because, as Lt. Roy R. Merchant, officer in
charge of the property section says, "Many of the bikes are in excellent condition.”
When asked what it thought of SC students riding bikes to school, Rocki Rhodes, notorious muck-raker of the Row, said, “I think every campus lovely, mainly the Thetas, should seriously consider purchasing a bike. What better and more economical way is there to take off that excess baggage?”
6 Calif. Artists Exhibit Works In Harris Hall
An exhibition of paintings by six prominent Southern California artists is currently on view in the Upstairs Gallery of Harris Hall, 829 West 37th Place.
The show, which started yesterday, will be open until Dec. 29. It features over 30 abstract oil paintings of Oskar Fischinger^ Robert Mallary, Douglas McClel/ lan, Lorenzo Tedesco, Jack Zajac, and Hans Burkhardt.
Fischinger’s work in abstract painting and films has received international awards, including Grand Prix and the 1949 Brussels International Art and Film Festival awards.
Robert Mallary turned to art after starting studies for a musical career. He is primarily known for his experimentation into new technology in art.
The Los Angeles World Affairs Council will feature Gen. Mark W. Clark as its next speaker early next month, Walter P. Coombs, executive director, announced today.
Adlai Stevenson, Vice President Nixon and Harold Stassen have also accepted invitations to speak before the council at later dates, Coombs said.
The World Affairs group past two program speakers were Henry Cabot Lodge and Sherman Adams. Coombs expressed high approval of the response to the first two World Affairs talks. He said the place of Gen. Clark s forthcoming address has not yet been decided.
Office Change
Coombs also announced that the main offices of the World Affairs Council would be moved to the General Petroleum Building around the first of the year where he hopes there will be room to establish a proposed library. The new library will contain a collection of all documents released through such organizations as the U.S. State Dept., Foreign Policy Association and the United Nations.
“All available official documents on foreign affairs will be available in the library. This information has not been gathered in one specific place before. We hope to have the room at our new offices for the library,” Coombs said.
The World Affairs headquarters is now situated in the Occidental Life Insurance Building.
Promoting Understanding
Coombs said that in promoting international understanding the World Affairs Council will form discussion groups in communities. The council will also bring representatives from other countries so mutual problems can be discussed and a* joint understanding be found, he said. In this way the good done by the council can be transferred to the community and the American people.
Through the representation of the many educators on the board of directors, students will benefit from any conclusions arrived at bv council’s research, he said.
WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP
Eisenhower Agrees With Dulles On Criticism, McCarthy Rebuff
by United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—President Eisenhower threw his weight behind Secretary of State John Foster Dulles’ criticism of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy today and declared anew that “fear of Communists” in government will not be a 1954 political issue.
The President told a news conference he is in "full accord” with I Dulles’ charge that McCarthy has i attacked “the very heart of U. S.
| foreign policy.” Mr. Eisenhower ; added on his own that the United States never will “turn impatiently to coercion of other free na-' I tions.”
The Chief Executive also re-i pea ted “my previously expressed j conviction that fear of Communists actively undermining our gov-: erirment will not be an issue in
•	the 1954 elections” because sub-
•	version will have been wiped out.
He predicted the main issue in next year's battle for control of I the narrowly divided Congress will j be whether or not the Republicans push through a “progressive, dynamic program.” If the GOP fails in this, he said, “it does not j deserve to remain in power.
At the same time, however,
; Mr. Eisenhower made clear he i expects his administration’s sue-! cess or failure in weeding out Communists to be an issue next i November. He said he hopes the
voters will wish “to commend the efficiency of this administration in "eliminating this menace.”
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ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 2—Anthony Barr, a diminutive ex-«»nvict wanted in connection with the apparently senseless “want ad” murder in Los Angeles, was arrested here today. Barr, who said he was a 54-year-old inmate of the Ohio State Prison, waived extradition to California, but denied any knowledge of the slaying of an insurance adjustor, Andrew Kmiec, on Nov. 21.
The suspect was picked up by Detective Sgts. William Murphy and tins Ernest in front of the main postoffice on Market Street where he had gone to get a “planted” letter.
Barr said he was in Akron, O., at the time of the slaying. Los Angeles police said, however, his bloody fingerprints were found on Kmiec’s auto after the shooting.
The suspect said he had driven from Los Angeles to Akron where he bought a new car with a/worthless check from an Akron auto dealer. He said he drove back to Los Angeles, arriving there last week, met a friend and the two decided to
I come to St. Louis to look for | work.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—Presi-i dent Eisenhower today ruled out j any Big Three move at Bermuda to admit Red China to the United ! Nations now.
He also refused to commit the United States to accept Russia’s proposal for a Big Four foreign ministers conference in Berlin.
He said a Big Four meeting depends on whether Moscow meets certain indispensable conditions.' While he refused to elaborate, the State Department has insisted that Germany and Austria must be prominent items on the agenda of any such conference.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived at Tucker’s Town, Bermuda, for the first conference of the Big Three heads of state since World War II.
President Eisenhower is due there Friday for the top level conference which may decide the future of a combined European army, the keystone of U. S. foreign policy in Europe, and whether to accept a Russian bid for a Big Four meeting soon.
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PITTSBI’RGIl, Dec. 2—Some 33,000 CIO United Steelworkers walked out at 68 plants of the nation's two largest can manufacturing- companies today in a
strike which Florida citrus industry spokesmen said could prove “disastrous” for them.
More than half the plants of the American and Continental Can Companies, scattered in 37 cities from coast to coast and in Canada, closed down when picketing began this morning.
Meanwhile, Florida eanners were caught with at most a 10-day supply of cans on hand. They said their multi-million dollar industry could suffer serious losses if their supplies are not renewed.
An industry spokesman in California said the effect there would be less serious because nearly all the fruit crop has been processed.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—Senate spy hunters today decided to try to quiz former Soviet code clerk Igor Gouzenko about Red espionage in this country despite the stringent censorship conditions laid down by Canada.
The decision was reached by the Senate Internal Security Committee shortly after William Ludwig Ullman, linked by FBI reports to the Harry Dexter White "spy” case, refused to say whether he ever was a Communist or an espionage agent.
Songleaders
Final Vote Slated For Next Session
by Gary Kreutz
The ASSC Senate last night »picked up the songleader football again and tossed it around for awhile before passing on to other business. The issue was deflated a little more in the process and it now looks like it is destined for a slow death.
The decisive vote will be cast at the next meeting.
The original proposal to have songleaders perform at SC football and basketball games, was introduced near the beginning of the semester and -has been bandied about
ever 6ince. A motion to kill the idea will be voted on at the next
meeting.
The only other significant action in a remarkably quiet and short session, was passage of two measures, both brought forth by Murry Bring, independent men’s representative.
The first measure passed eliminated the inactive Student Union Committee and transferred its duties to the Greater University Committee. The GUC now has power to allocate offices in the Student Union for use by student organizations.
The Senate also passed Bring’s proposal to set up a Commitee on Recognition to compile and maintain a file of all campus organizations — including constitutions and officers.
Only Lively Discussion
In the song leader debate, the only lively discussion of the evening, Joan Vasseur, AWS. president, led the seemingly predominant faction to kill the proposal.
She said the entire AWS cabinet had voiced reluctance to experiment with female songleaders.
“They (the cabinet members) felt that since songleaders had already been tried (1949) and were not successful, it should not be tried again,” she said.
‘They also felt that UCLA songleaders were not effective enough and didn’t help singing enough to warrant our trying it,” she continued.
“Learn the Songs Week”
Joan Price, Chimes president, suggested an alternative proposal of having a “Learn the Songs Week” to help impfove singing at ball games.
“With such a week, we could have better singing without girls jumping around oistracting the audience,” she said.
Bob Hildenbrand, proxying for IFC president Jim Biby, pointed out that alumni reaction to songleaders also was bad.
“Not only is alumni reaction bad, but there has been vigorous protest against it,” he said.
He stressed that alums play an important part in 9chool activities and should be considered in deciding the question.
Defense of Songleaders
The only defense oi songleaders was voiced by Doug Morgan, pharmacy representative, who first introduced the idea way back when. He argued tnat songleaders should be given a fair chance to show what could be done.
“We aren’t going to vote out on fact but on opinion,” he charged.
He said the 1949 trial was only for one game and wasn’t a fair chance.
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In further Senate action last nigm, two changes in the bylaws were introduced and will be debated and voted on at subsequent meetings.
The first was *a proposal to create a High scnooi Relations committee to work with the university high school relations office to promote a .better high school relations program.
The second was to revise a constitutional by-law so that the (Jreater University committee will not have the power to appoint the Student Hanubook editor.
Joe Thomas, chairman of the
toard of Publications, introduced le measure and stated that for some reason the constitution empowers both the Board of Publications and the Greater-U committee to appoint the handbook editor.
“We (board members) have to take the responsibility for the handbook, we should therefore have the sole power to appoint the editor,” he said.
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MURRAY BRING
. . . kills SU committee
JOAN VAS5EUR
opposes songleaders
Country Girl' Stars New Type Heroine
Junior drama major, Mary Alexander, who plays the title role in the drama department's presentation of ,“The Country Girl.” said in an interview yesterday her part depicts a new kind of heroine in the theater—a woman who keeps her feelings to herself.
“Geòrgie Elgin, the country girl, doesn’t do things or say things.”
Miss Alexander said, “so how can the audience understand her?”
Geòrgie, as the wife of Frank Elgin, an alcoholic who was once a brilliant actor, tries to aid her husband in making a comeback
MARY ALEXANDER
. . . 'real Geòrgie'
Scholarships Are Available To Graduates
The National Science Foundation has announced the availability of graduate fellowships, to be awarded to graduate students in biological, engineering, mathematical, medical, and physical sciences.
Examinations Due
Applicants for graduate fellowships will be required to take an examination designed to test scientific aptitude and achievement. They will be screened by a committee of scientists appointed by the National Academy of Sciences.
Fellowships will be granted in four categories:
1.	First year fellowships of $1400.
2.	Intermediate fellowships of
$1600.
3.	Terminal year fellowships of
$1800.
4.	Post-doctoral fellowships of
$3400.
• Applications
For application blanks students should consult Dean Cooke, 102
Administration.
The deadline for receipt of applications for 1954-55 is Dec. 15, 1953, for postdoctoral applicants, and Jan. 4, 1954, for graduate applicants.
when he is offered”a good part by an earnest young director.
“If she tells the director the truth about her .husband's drinking,” the actress pointed out, “he’ll take the part away.” So she remains silent.
Can’t Speak Out
“Being a person of integrity and directness, when she can’t speak out, she has a hard time gaining the sympathy of the audience,” Miss Alexander said.
The role of Georgie is different from any other played by Miss Alexander, who has taken parts in “Dangerous Corner” at SC, and several other shows in the midwest.
“Most big parts have big acting scenes—that’s the way they’re written,” she continued. “But here, Georgie is just a bystander. She must keep up Frank’s self-confidence or he’ll return to the bottle. She has only one explosive scene late in the play.”
Miss Alexander said her first problem was to leam to stop worrying about audience reaction and to begin concentrating on what worries Georgie.
Orchestra tickets are available pt the University Ticket Office for 51 and balcony seats sell for 50 cents. Activity book holders will be admittted to the orchestra section without additional charge.
Letters Chairman To Talk Saturday
Dr. John D. Cooke, Division of Letters Chairman at SC, will speak on “Medieval Interpretations of Classical Paganism” Saturday before the Classical Associations of the Pacific States.
The lecture, the first of two to be given befoce the Classical Association’s Winter Meeting, is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. in 133 Founders Hall.
Dr. Cooke stated that he intends, in his lecture, to trace the various methods of interpreting the pagan gods from Classical times through the late medieval and Middle English authors to the end of the sixteenth century.