PAGE wo Letters Suspects Russian Democracy TO .TIME EDITOR: The avalanche of criticism ■which .has descended upon Mr. Stone’s article, “Russia Dominates Poland; Freedom Rules Den 'ir.'ark,” onlv. serves to impress me with the gross unenlightenment which apparently prevails among our student body conceding the present situation in foreign 'countries. [''have visited both Poland and Denmark during the' course of the past year, as well as several other (European countries which were overrun by the Germans. (Although, las Mr. Davis correctly indicates, the 'historic bases for judging Poland and Denmark are not comparable, it is an error in his reasoning that he attributes the present deplorable situation .in Poland entirely to the natural course of history. 1 seriously- question Mr. Schuster's, eulogy of Mi'. Davis’ reasoning powers. ■lf Mr. Stone's artiol e is wanting, the reason is more probably that it 'does not stress the degree to which Russia is responsible 'for present conditions. Mr. Davis’ inference that 'the Polish peasants, “who now own a lew acres of land,” are improved in 'their position, is a gross misstatement! They hav e neither the seed with which to sow this land, nor is any provision being made by the Russians to supply the essentials for production of crops. Only through American UNiNiRA does productive equipment enter Poland. One of the mysteries of oif this post-war period is the use to which this equipment is put. While I was in Poland I visi'ted several, farms with an UNiNiRA veterinarian who had previously personally supervised th e transport of cattle and horses to these dame (farms. There was no evi dence of the stock. Through an interpreter we were provided 'the dubious enlightenment that the cattle and horses had “strayed.” [May I add to Mr. Stone’s list at incidents, these which I personally observed: The mounting of a (machine gun in the dock area of Danzig and the shooting of a Pole who whs gathering scrap dun nage with which to bull'd a fire in his home; the indiscriminate firing ol pistols and rifles toy 'Rus sian troops; file indign.tiy of a personal search of American ships’ officers; the refusal .of the Rus sians to allow any communication over the sole telegraph line connecting Jjanzig with Warsaw; the obvious hush which replaces relaxation as sobn as Russian soldiers approach a gathering; arid many others which afe flagrant violations in other war-ravaged countries such as Prance, (Belgium, Denmark and Holland It is certainly true that on e does mot need to'be present in a place to be aware cif conditions in that place, however arguments by the unprejudieial Mr. iDavis; Mr. Millard, who discusses Gzechoslo- Nittkin ■vo.-tihcr than 'Poland; Mr. 'Schuster, wh'o con fuses one’s right to analyze with one’s ability to accurately analyze; and Miss Ghasberg, who reads the'New York Daily News, do not materially clar ify the situation. Collegian Gazette ' AM calendar items must in at the Daily Collegian oft ice by 4:30 p.m. on the day preceding publication. Thursday, Dec. 5 FROTH business and advertising staff meeting, Frioth 'office, 7 o'clock. NEWMAN club executive and committee chairmen' meeting,' Church rectory, 7 o’clock. AT JPiHA LAMBDA DELTA meeting, 2 White Hall, '6:30 o’clock. ... TAU PHI SIGMA meeting, 411 Old Main, 6:30' o’iolock. • ■ GAMMA PI EPSILON meeting; 11.05 Frear Lab, 7 o’ldock. •LA VIE art -staff meeting with' Prof. An drew Case, 233 Engineering “F,” 7 o’clock, i W'RA BOWLING -club, White Hall alleys, 7 o'clock. : 'WRA (BRIDGE clulb, beginners, White Hall playroom, 7 o’clock. • • CHRISTIAN Science student meeting, 200 'Carnegie ~Hal 1, 7:30 o’clock. • WRA SWIM iclub, 'White H-all (pool, 7:30 o’lctlock. •F|ENN STATE Bridge clulb business and game meeting, 40'li Old' Main, 7:3,0 o’clock. MI COUNCIL and committee ‘chairmen meeting, Phi Epsilon Pi, 7:30 o’clock. PENNS VALLEY Ski iclulb meeting, 1-10 -Electrical Engineering, '7:80 o’clock. PENN STATE Grang e meeting, election ol officers, TOO Horticulture, 7:30 o’clock. WRA FENCING clulb, White Hall fencing room, 8:30 o’clock. . 'ALL-COLLEGE Cabinet meeting, 201 Old Main, 8 p.m. At The Movies ■ OATHAUM: “The Cockeyed Miracle,” Keentan Wynn. STATE: “The Bowery,” George Raft. NITTANY: “If I’m Lucky,” Vivien Blaine, College Health Service Admitted to fihe infirmary yesterday: Rich ard DeCariuoci, Charles Diefenderfer, Ellmer Sealover. Discharged yesterday: Hilbert Noel, College Placement Service DEC. s—General Electric Co. will inter view graduating men from the following curricula: EE, ME, lE, metallurgy, chem, chem eng, and physics. General Electric Co. will also interview graduating men for possible appointment to 'their Business Training Program. DEC. 11 —New York, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad' Co. will interview senior civil engineers and graduating senior areh i teotural arid E.E. N. Raymond Shibley THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, RELVNSYLVANIA An Open■ Letter . . . ‘l-o those who accuse Collegian o£ toeing a re actionary. timid rag . . . o£ following a mushy, wishy-washy attitude ... -of having narrow edi torial views ... I do nol know if you’ve had the time to follow Collegian’s edit page closely-bul I think you will find that we have printed several edits lauding the wiqrk (and speech! toy "St. John who'is certainly no timid, reactionary; we have printed several edits denouncing British Imperialism in Greece and Palestine which wer e definitely' not reactionary. We advocated better housing (a cry that has been actively push eel by the AVC and the Common ■Sense Clulb) in edits and urged students to attend the meetings held toy these two' groups but the student body failed to respond. We objected to the administration's surrender on the Dairy problem; we supported the Liberal Arts Post-War Planning committee editorially and through our news columns—and the Liberal Arts students didn't bother to attend the meeting, though they can be found sitting around the Cor ner Room, complaining about lh e "poor profs in the L.A. school." iW, e ihavo been lighting lo r a Student Union building . . . and that is toeing d'on e chiefly by Larry Poster, news editor of the Collegian, and a very small handful of students —men like Sid Gold who give of their time and energy. The Coed Coordinating committee sent us a letter (which we .printed) advocating corsage-less dances, in an effort to Save students money in these inflationary times ... as yet no student groups or even individuals ih'ave bothered to write a letter discussing such a plan. The only reaction to that seems to have toeen the very noticeable reduction in advertising toy the Florists in 'town —la toss of .better than several hundred dollars' worth Of advertising monthly— perhaps by coincidence tout certainly apparent to our business staff if not to our readers. Maybe we are timid, tout nve printed that letter knowing flill well what might and seems to have happened. I am not complaining because we feel that w e were right in printing that letter—airing the opinion 'of the .Coed Coordinating committee — ■for this is a free country. Don’t forget, we 'can talk (for the student .body tout we need active’student support and we aren’t getting it. • Many .CoHegiah* edits ith'is semester have .“‘sard nothing” insofar as their toeing- “two-fisted.” at tacks. Many a time th e editor or staff members would spend as much as’six or eight hours run ning after the details of 'some “grave injustice” only 1q find that there was another, side Wan is sue . '. the resultant editorials printed both sides ■tend .that can hardly toe called “a narrow edit, policy”), leaving it up to -the" stu'dent body to de cide whiat the riex't step should be. You talk about racial prejudice that exists in Elate College 'and you are right. A Negro cannot ...walk into a'State College barber shop and iget a {haircut. This is well-known. I have mentioned this to various student leaders but what group has come to me and said, “We have ‘a solution and we want your, aid”? None. We supported the X-GI club's objection to high movie prices and second rate pictures by printing their letter. Tuesday we had as our lead story the iree movies the club will bring to Schwab Audi torium. In Wednesday's issu e we again had a page .one article publicizing these free movies. Yet what groups have come forth to second this excel lent proposal? Again we printed what the students (wanted pub licized and pushed a move, knowing .feat. we ran .the risk of 'offending one oi£ our largest (advertisers because w e think 'fee student’s could benefit by' a free movie venture—that imaybe we dan help stretch 'that $65 or $9O a month that the VA sends .veterans. It whs suggested in a letter that ticket sales be limited; darned .to the proper authorities, arrange ments Wave Jbeen made -.to limit Thespian ticket safes to six'per person (as is the ; case with' Artist's’ .Course.* tickets): Mr.- Donovan, Student Union. Manager, is still trying to work out a successful method of limiting sajes of dance tickets feat will be satisfactory jib a'inmajority «f student’s.. Wpjimye yet to see any student epone forfe. wife' a yalidi solution to this problem l though. ~ ; Everyone wjaji'ts scmetjhihg done about some thing but not many 'are anxious to'step forth and accept responsibilities... .... Reorganization, of a Student-Faculty Relations., committee was urged by 'a.lGcllegian e dfe-to.. main tain (coordination between Students and members of the College staff. The College has (tajfcen isev eral measures to bring about, suidi cooperation'.' W e pushed class meetings (where students can give vent to their feelings) and staff member Rich ard IS'ange- promoted three ipep rallies which had' moderate turn-outs. Th e Collegian backed the IMA in its fight io get College-served meals 'fo r students. But most of that battle is being carried on 'by Gene Fhlraer, president of the Junior class, and Frank Davis who is feature editor of the Collegian. Never does the Daily Collegian pretend to be the official voice of the student body. The discrim inating reader sees every day on our edit page the statement, “Editorials and features in The Colle gian reflect the opinions of the writer.” We’ve opened our edit lo the student body, placing letters 'to the editor in the same size type and position as edits ibecaus e we do not believe that Collegian writers alone have all (fee answers. As a result many letters have been written, clarifying muddled situations; too many letters have been out and out gripes, but we have prfetefe thesg to air the gripe and in hopes that somebody will take the tim e to work out the problem. —The Editor < • I'icv ■ Editorials and features in .The .CpUegigm reflect the af sie yyrite|. .TKbxP»^k;e no claim 16'repyesenl student oy 'UnjLvpi|ity opinion. All ’unsigned editorials are by the odilor. m.H .'.wujrfdStdH CLASSIFIEDS LOST Before Thanksgiving, necklace of carved white 'beads. Sentimental value. Call 3117. LOST Navy leather flight jacket, taken by mistake Wed nesday Sparks. -Name plate on front Wado Kcmercr.’ Call 4979. Sentimental value. FOR SALE—Two Tuxedoes: size 34, single breasted with vest; size 37. double breasted with vest. Call 4083. FOR SALE—'Double decker bed, good condition; reasonabl e price. Call 4095 after 0:30 p. m. WANTED Tenor saxophonist, good reader; steady work. Call Joe,' 4908, Jbetween 5 and 7 p. m. LOST—Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority pin; initials M.L.M. Call Mag gie, 2nd floor Irwin. FOR SALE—(Men’s gold wrist watch, W-jewel Swiss, gold ex pansion wrist band. Also new Par ker “51”. Call Brown, 4304. FOR SALE: Practically brand new Reflex type camera with 3.5 lens with complete set accessories. Call 3971. LOST before Thanksgiving a black and gold Eversharp pen in Eng. A. Please return to Student Union. RIDERS WANTED: to Pittsburgh leaving 1:00 p. m. Saturday. Re turning late Sunday. Call 3181 be tween 5:30-7:00. Boib Ball. ' SPECIAL RATES' lor. Time, Life. Students. $4,25; yets s3.so'year ly. See or call' yince Bachman, Baaron Pittenger, 2:848. WANTED: Ride to Harrisburg or Washington, D. C., December 18, ■after 12 o’clock. Call Ruth'2647. . WANTED: Passengers to Pitts burgh. Leave Friday afternoon. Share expenses. Len Freedman 396,0. . . • LOST: green Esterforook fountain pen between Chi Omega house and Carnegie. Hall.. Phone. Kay, 4660, or return t 0„ S. U. • WANTED: Riders to Meadville, Saturday noon.. Return Sunday. Room 28, Dorm 7, Pollack Circle. FOR. SALE: Woman’s ice skates. Figure type blades, white shoes 6 1-2. Reasonable. Call 3840 after 9 p. m. WANTED—ride to Philadelphia and return. Leaving Friday af ternoon, returning Sunday. Call Len, 4933; FOR SALE: medium-sized trailer priced low. Installed in Wind crest. Immediate possession. Call at 377 Windcrest anytime. SOMBREROS: want to rent 5 sombreros 3 nights, good care, guaranteed. .Call ißetty Schmitt 2,622. . " FOR SALE: Skis (6 ft. 6 in.) and (bindings very reasonable. Call 3840, after- 9 p. m. Does HER Christmas gift, have you worried?-How ,about Chanel N0..5; ? .Call Lew 2087. . THURSDAY, DECEMBER .5, 1946 THE DAILY GOUEfiIAII Lance,’ fesjt.' 1877. Published Tuesday through .Friday mornings duriiig the College year by the start ot the Dally Collegian of, the Pennsylvania Slate College. Entered-as second class matter July C. 1034, at'the State College, Pa„ Post office under the act of March 3, 1870. $2.30 a semes ter s4.oo'lho school year. Represented for national advertising by Notional Advertising Service,' Madi son Ave„ New York; N.Y., Chicago. Boston, Los Aiigeles, San Francisco. Michael "A. Blais: : Editor Rosemary Ghuntous Bub. Mgr. Successor to the Free STAFF THIS ISSUI- MnhuKiiiK Editor :Nc\v« Editor Ahsl. News Editor Up^°^ e ' - |||V Looking , that urn portant week-end?' Better slip • .. • ~*t* y. •••. ••<»( into a comfortable designed) for-juniors Plientform and 0 yourself a slick city figure! 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