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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
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Pennsylvania Slate College. Entered-as
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