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PAGE 2 THE BATTALION Wednesday, January 13, 1960 CADET SLOUCH President Warns Anti-Semitic Riots Must Not Spread ' NEW YORK (AP)—President Eisenhower, noting recent anti- | Semitic vandalism, says “the virns of bigotry” must not be al- :: lowed “to spread one inch.” : : In a message read Tuesday jfj; night at an emergency meeting of the American Jewish Con- .. r gress, Eisenhower said that when bigotry “becomes rempant it can cause the destruction of freedom and decency everywhere.” “In this age, when so much is expected and required of Ameri ca, we can ill afford to waste a . single day combating bigotry or prejudice at home,” the Presi- dent declared. : The message was addressed to 5v.» ; the National Conference of ^. 1( . Christians and Jews in reply to G ... a telegram last Thursday from 3 .. .. representatives of the Protest ant, Catholic and Jewish faiths. They voiced concern to the President over the threat of reli- «* •! gious bigotry in politics and the 1 anti-Semitic outbreaks. In a note read at the meeting, a White House aide, Gerald D. Morgan, said: “Like you, the 51.. President has been concerned —about the recent outbreak of reli- . gious intolerance and views it With deep loathing.” Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller wired the American Jewish Con- !g|.—~ Senate Scrap Seen Today On Spending By JOE HALL WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate headed into a scrap to day over a bill to require fuller disclosure of campaign financing and to increase legal spending ceilings. ; The clean elections measure was cleared by leaders as the first major legislation to be ta ken up at this;^&sfeion jof Con gress. Sen. Thomas C. Hennings Jr. D-Mo., the chief sponsor, said prompt action on the bill is nec essary if it is to govei'n this year’s election campaigns. The bill was approved by the Rules Committee last July as the minimum necessary to bring the 1925 corrupt practices act up to date. Chairman Hennings and other members reserved the right to of fer • strengthening amendments in the Senate. These are expect ed to touch off some fireworks. One key issue is whether to make the legislation apply to pri- 'mary elections. In its present ■form is applies only to candi- •dates for federal offices running ;in general and special elections. Hennings said he felt primary Campaigns should be inciuded. Sen. Kenneth B. Keating R-NY has offered an amendment to do this. Ommission of primaries and nominating conventions was 1 de- vscribed by Keating as “Fatal ’flaw” in the bill. gress: “The recent outbreak of vandalism of synagogues and churches is shocking. Every thinking person is indignant at these shameful acts and those responsible for these depreda tions in various parts of the world.’ At the Jewish Congress emer gency meeting, Protestant and Catholic leaders deplored the vandalism. A message from Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston said: “I know I speak for millions of Catholics when I offer my prayerful sympathy to our Jewish friends and neigh bors.” Bishop James A. Pike of the Episcopal diocese of California, said in a message that every ef fort must be made to stamp out the anti-Semitic acts. He said they constitute a “reflection on the inadequancy of the teaching of Christians and others in re gard to brotherhood and the com mon religious and ethical foun dations of Judaism and Chris tianity.” The Rt. Rev. Horace W. B. Donegan, bishop of the Protest ant Episcopal .diocese of New York, a principal speaker at the meeting noted that the huge Episcopal cathedral of St. John the Divine here recently had been smeared with the Star of David. With the mark was the inscrip tion “An eye for an eye.” “The pranksters, neurotic or misguided individual” responsible for the marking would “scarcely have bothered,” said Bishop Donegan, had he known that the Star of David appears over 100 times in the cathedral. Ah official of the American Jewish Congress said the meet ing was the first time that lead ers of the major religious faiths in the Western Hemisphere dis cussed from the same platform the wave of synagogue deface ments. The president of the American Jewish Congress, Dr. Joachim Prinz, warned against underes timating the significance of the swastika daubings. They should not be dismissed, he said, as a mere “mad like the hula hoop or rock ‘n’ roll. The cry of “Death to the Jews’ em bodied in the swastika is a dan gerous lyric for a rock ‘n’ roll number.” President Ensenhower’s mes sage said. “We deeply regret that the vi rus of bigotry seems to be ever present in the body politic. We can not ignore it nor can we ai- low it to spread one inch. For when it becomes rampant it can cause the destruction of freedom and decency everywhere. “In this age, when so much is expected and required of Ameri ca, we can ill afford to waste a single day combating bigotry or prejudice at home. United in a common purpose, in free and re sponsible teamwork between those of all races, of all faiths and of all nationalities, we will continue seeking to advance the general welfare of all our peo ple and our neighbors abroad.” THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers oyily. 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JOHNNY JOHNSON EDITOR Bill Hicklin Managing Editor Bob Weekl«y Sports Editor Robbie Godwin News Editor Joe Callicoatte Assistant Sports Editor Ben Trail, Bob Sloan Assistant News Editors Jack Hartsfield, Ken Coppage, Tommy Holbein, Bob Saile, Al Vela and Alan Payne Staff Writers *k>e Jackson Photographer Russell Brown - CHS Correspondent by Jim Enrh» “I don’t know what he meant .... he said he belonged to the world’s largest ‘Mickey Mouse Club’ !” Norwich Kicks Out Social Fraternities NORTHFIELD, Vt. (I.P.) — Though the blame for the ban ning of social fraternities at Nor wich University “can be put squarely on me,” Maj. Gen. E. N. Harmon, the military college’s president, declared here, “the views of Norwich alumni them selves prevailed at the meeting of the Board of Trustees that took the official action to rule fraternities from the campus.” He pointed out that of the 17 trustees present and voting at the meeting, 11 were graduates of the University. Gen. Harmon Job Calls The following compaines will interview graduating seniors to morrow in the Placement Office on the second floor of the YMCA Building: Texas Butadiene & Chemical Corp. will interview chemical and mechanical engineering and chemistry B.S. and M.S. degree candidates for opportunities in various phases of employment. Federal Pacific Electric Co. will interview electrical and me chanical engineering majors for positions in handling the $ale of low voltage, medium voltage and high voltage equipment. MB TODAY THRU THURSDAY ROBERT "STACK MARISA PAVAN MACDONALD CAREY ERIN O'BRIEN "ECHNICOLOR TECHNIRAMA PALACE Bryan 2'8$79 LAST DAY “Beloved Infidel” STARTS TOMORROW fe Jwm PCOOLCTic-v O" I iitaBDi esms COLO** By OE LUKE -a PKT B01 •CM S' S~£tw s - Y QMV.miL'wov SWIM CARY GRANRTONY CURTIS OPERATOR (§ PffflCOAT O'CONNEIL i omm; •1 WHISK UHMliSM £U3 QUEEN DOUBLE FEATURE ‘Web of Evidence’ & “Wichita” What’s Cooking 7:15 The California Club will meet in the MSC. THROUGH FRIDAY “TEMPEST” With Van Heflin Plus ‘THE MAN IN THE NET’ With Alan Ladd Show Opens 6 p. m. Civilian Student Portrait Dates Set Civilian Students will have their portrait made for The Ag- gieland ’60 at the Aggieland Studio between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. according to the following schedule. Coats and ties should be worn. Civilian Senior and Graduates (Including Jr. and Sr. Vet Med., 5th Year Architects) Jan. 11-12 E-K Jan. 13-14 L-R Jan. 18-19 S-Z Oberlin College Rejects New Curriculum Proposal OBERLIN, Ohio (I.P.) — The faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences at Oberlin College recent ly rejected, by a 64-51 margin, a proposal to adopt a three course, three-term curriculm for the col lege. The proposal, presented by an ad hoc committee, called for aban donment of the college’s traditional two-semester academic year, in which the students ordinarily en- explained the University’s plan for setting up clubs to substitute for the fraternities. Though the questions of dis cipline and morale in the Corps of Cadets was an important fac tor in leading him to the conclu sion that fraternities do not have a proper place at Norwich, Gen. Harmon said, “an even more im portant reason for removing them is that they represent a minority of the enrolled students. “At present only 31.8 per cent of Norwich students are members or pledges,” he said. “That means that more than two-thirds of our students cannot enjoy whatever social advantages fraternities have to offer. I feel that equal social opportunity for the whole Corps of Cadets is an important responsibility of the university administration.” Time Picks Ike ’59 Man of Year NEW YORK—A record num ber of 60,000 college students on 395 campuses entered Time Mag azine’s Man of the Year Sweep- stakes for 1959. Choice of 21% of the students matched the se lection of the editors of Time: Dwight David Eisenhower, Pres ident of the U. S. and “the man who had become the nation’s im age in one of the grand plebis cites of history.” Traditionally, since 192 7, Time’s editors have chosen each year the man or woman who “dominated the news of that year and left an indelible mark—for good or ill—on history.” Once before, in 1944, climactic year of was against Germany, General Eisenhower was named Man of the Year. Students whose choice matched Time’s will receive a wall-size master calendar, accurate from 1776 to 2000. The runner-up can didate in figures released this week was Cuba’s Fidel Castro, who was the choice of 19% of the students. Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Premier Nikita Khrushchev both received 9% of the total ballots. Other nominees, in order of votes, in cluded Pope John XXIII, Govern or Nelson Rockefeller, John Fos ter Dulles, Jawaharlal Nehru, Harold Macmillan and Mao Tse- tung. Time’s Man of the Year se lections over the years: Charles A. Lindbergh, 1927; Walter P. Chrysler, 1928; Owen D. Young, 1929; Mohandas K. Ghandi, 1930; Pierre Laval, 1931; Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932, 1934 and 1941; Hugh S. Johnson, 1933; Haile Se lassie, 1935; Wallis Warfield Simpson, 1936; Gen. and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, 1937; Adolph Hitler, 1938; Joseph Stalin, 1939 and 1942; Winston Churchill, 1940 and 1949 (and Man of the Half Century); Gen. George C. Marshall, 1943 and 1947; Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1944; President Harry S. Truman, 1945 and 1948; James Byrnes, 1946; the “U. S. Fighting Man,” 1950; Iran’s Mohammed Mossadegh, 1951; Queen Elizabeth II, 1952; Konrad Adeneuer, 1953; John Foster Dulles, 1954; Harlow Cur tice, 1955; “Hungarian Freedom Fighter,” 1956; Nikita Khrush chev, 1957; Charles de Gaulle, 1958. roll in about five courses each semester, and adoption of a calen dar of three academic terms. Students would, under the pro posed system, concentrate their study in three courses each term. The plan would have permitted class periods up to eighty minutes long, but might have also have in cluded fifty-minute classes meet ing five days a week. Oberlin has also announced its complete withdrawal from partici pation in the Federal government’s student loan program, under the National Defense Education Act of 1958, so long as an objectionable “disclaimer affadivit” is required of student applicants for federal funds. The Board of Trustees supported earlier faculty and student body objections to the affadavit require ment by voting to return to the government two uncashed loan fund checks totaling $68,146, allot- ed to Oberlin but “frozen” here pending possible Congressional re vision of the National Defense Educational Act. When a bill introduced in the Senate for this purpose failed to come to a vote, Oberlin’s trustees decided to return money already re ceived and to withdraw completely fi'om further participation under existing terms. CARPENTER’S GIFT MADISON, Wis. OP>—The Wis consin Historical Society has re ceived $1,800 for establishment of a 19th Century carpenter shop at the Stonefield Farm and Craft Museum near Cassville. The gift is from the Wisconsin State Council of the United Bro therhood of Carpenters and Joiner! of America. TELEPHONE CREDIT CARD For people “on the go” there is nothing like a telephone credit card for real convenience. Ends fumbling for change and allows you to call from anywhere to anywhere and have charges billed to your own phone. It’s easy to apply for a telephone credit card. Just call our business office for all the details. The Southwestern States Telephone Company PEANUTS By Charles M. Schula