(PAGE TWO Prices In State College i Hhese has been considerable comment recently (about State College merchants who failed to comply with President Truman’s request to r educe prices 1,0 percent. Critics pointed out that Bellefonte re tailers went all ou* for the campaign, and while ft was for only a short time, most of the commodities were subject to a HO percent slash. ln an interview with Colonel Guy Mills, president of the local Commerce Club, we were told why State College merchants refused to ' join in the campaign to control spiraling prices, i, The Colonel stressed the point that ta»l store : owners wanted to be cooperative, but. that they feu unable to absorb a 10 percent deduction ' from thoir profits, unless the manufacturers cut 1 the wholesale prices of goods ha a simHar man / 'pointed out that the retailer is the test one exfarudt his profit from the article before it passes tatoljhe buyer’s hand. M any slaah in prices »to he reaKzed, it must Amt start with tefoor and ttie manufacturer. Aiming art only om; group i 8 unteir. - Apparently the issue was thoroughly discussed by ,’lhc itocel merchants before they decided that it , wouldtoM; work here. v The average student who has to keep a close tab on expenses finds it difficult to sympathise ' with the local merchant, particularly when the " price cutting plan was put into effect In numer ‘ one other towns including nearby Bellefonte. Certainly retailers in these otho T towns faced tfte same problems as the local group# and yet lfiey advocated the mark-down In prices# It shoedd be pointed out here# that in many cases, 2h* supposed *0 percent slash was nothmg mote Ass an annual clearance salor an event . prevalent here in State College also. Letters - F rom the Editors Mailbox Cabinet This Week TO THE EDITOR: The following is the agenda for th € Aai-Ooloiege Cabinet meeting on Thursday, May 22, 1(947. Beport on Student Boole Exchange. Approval of new Tribunal and Election Com mittees. Appointment ot now Book Exchange, Co-op, Public Occasions, and Orientation Committees. Appointment of parliamentarian, reprosen laliYe to COKE, delegates to National Student Organisation, consideration of Permanent Ad visee. On Hat Societies TO , »™k EEMTCXR: We presume that the hat soci eties were Seamed as honoraries extending member ship to those men outstanding in campus activities. Lately it seems there is very little distfinctioh in being a hat ' raam Anybody can be a hart man just by knowing the light people 0* belonging to the right fraternity. The three most active extra-curricular activ ities—Players, Collegian, and the Engineer—re ceive very little recognition froin hat societies for lhei r work even though working on one of these consumes more time than any other activity on campus. They have received mfore intercollegiate recognition than any college cabinet or social fraternity. Those members of these activities w!ho do make the bat societies only do so usually because Joe who was a member happened to be a good friend or IratonSty brother of theirs. We heard, of a case where one hat man of a certain fraternity crossed a few names oil the prospective hat men list be cause they belonged to a rival fraternity. Of course, there isn’t any proof we can offer, because it is accepted Just as common knowledge. One fellow explained the other day that he'd Collegian Gazette All calendar items must be in the Daily Collegian office by 4:30 p.m. on the day pre ceding publication. Tuesday, May 20 THETA SIGMA PHI meeting, 24 Atherton, 6:30 o’clock. College Health Service Admitted to the infirmary Thursday: Pa tricia Rodll'i, Elaine Rosenfeld. Admitted Friday: Stephen Greene, Floyd Selbst Discharged Friday: Frances Berkey, Frank Clack, Geoffrey Coleman, William Klein, Don ald little, Richard Mauithe, John MoCue, Norma Robinson, Patricia Rodli, Elaine Ro senfeld. Gordon Schneider. Admitted Saturday: Frances Gundtack. Discharged Saturday: George Latzo. Admitted Monday: Robert M. Bllsweig, Herbert Hailenfberg, Robert' Johnston, James Stevenson. Discharged Monday: Robert M. Bllsweig, Stephen Greene. College Placement Service COLGATE-PALMOLIVE-PEET CO., May 20, Bth sem. men in. ME, lE, and CE. Men for summer work in ME and CE. SPERRY GYROSCOPE CO., May 20. Bth sem. men in EE, Phy., ME, and AE. PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE CO., May 20 and 21, Bth sem, men in C & F and A & L. —Thomas J. Lanaarn All-CoHega President THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA The local merchants may 'have a legitimate argu ment, but it hardly seems worthwhile to contest the validity of it, if the campaign would only last ten days or thereabouts. During this short tbne the consumer doesn’t stand to benefit any appreciable amount. A student ad the College who lives in this town approximately seven months out of the year would be more concerned with a five or even two percent reduction If id was on a permanent basis. It seems lo us that the constant wrangling that lias gone on between the student and the merchant in Stale College for some years t now could be settled once and for all by answering the question: How do prices in State. College compare with prevailing prices in other aec- lions of the. country? Only a very thorough and carefully conducted survey «xf State College prices and a subsequent comparison with, the cost of similar commodities other places, will determine whether or not th#, accusations are true. Aimed with facts arid figures, the student body could then conduct an organized campaign' to brine local prices down to the proper level. It may turn out that only certain local stores are overcharging the consumer. If this is true, and it was gwea proper publicity, the erring merchant would be forced to lower his prices to the level of a com peting merchant who was getting alii the student business. An accurate survey is the first step. It will ♦niro time and energy and could probably bo best conducted by a group working for college credit in a marketing or psychology course. —LGF feel honored if tapped by a bat society but still' would wonder it he'd been chosen just because he knew Joe. Naturally there are a few who deserve what honor there is to belonging to a hat society, but stacked against them are the nobodies who made it because they knew Joe. —John Balega Leslie Rosencrans If Still Goes TO THE EDITOR: This is to acknowledge the let ter (in Friday’s Collegian) Which questioned the validity of the Penn State Club award for 1047. The award was established in 1936 to honor the outstanding independent man on the basis oi "extra-curricular activities and service to the College and the student body." The award for 1947 was the ninth in the series. The award committee from the beginning has been <1) the Dean of Men, (2) the Manager of Stu dent Union and (3) the President of the Initerfra temity Council. There has been no change through the years either in the basic idea of the award nor in the committee which is charged with the respon sibility of selection. The Penn State Club has neve. r had any reason to question the award or the committee which made the selection. The Twisted Tale Senior Ball will be upon us once more and with it will come the usual influx of imports that we have come to expect and coeds have come to dread as an inevitable outgrowth of big weekends. "You can Always tell an import," say the initiated on campus. When they're women, they wear hats and they carry bags and they are never, never seen in blue jeans rolled up to the knees; When they're men, and occasionally they are, they wear ties and they have pleats in their trousers, and they never, never wear cast-off GI clothing. But sometimes even the initiated make mistakes. To wit: . After standing in that place with the windows that the bus aOiways stop* opposite of, for 'three days, we finally caught a glimpse of two bedrag gled appearing young meen getting ready to leave. A mad da9h landed, us breathing hard, but happy and triumphant, at our four-legged goal. We wait ed. dancing excitedly first on one foot and then the other, while the evacuation was completed. While sweating out the waitress,,we noticed two shiny dime* resting on the table, but being preoccupied with the scene outside, it was a windy day, w e paid the coinage little heed. Finally, the woman in white recognised our unfamiliar face and tripped daintily toward us. “Wihafll it be?” sihe demanded. After discovering what it was going to be, she started back to wherever it is they start back to when they find out what it is going to be. “But hold,” s aid we, being the honest young man we are. “Don’t you want your two shiny dimes?” Her jaw dropped. “You mean that money is mine?” dhe asked in tones of extreme incredulity. “Yep.” “Well whaddya know,” She said. “They didn't took like out-of-towners." Editorials and features in The Collegian reflect the opinions of the writer. They make no claim to represent student or University opinion. All unsigned editorials are by the editor. —Albert C. Lucas, Jr„ President, Penn Stale Club —By David Adelman Alpha Zeta James Pierson is chancellor of Alpha Zeta. Other officers are Howard Wise, censor; Roy Gun ther, scribe; Emory Brown, trea surer; Olin Simipson, chronicle:; and Henry Funk, house manager. Tau Phi Delta Recent initiates of Tau Phi Delt include Francis Kennedy, Paul Mursch, C. William Pfan stiel, Edwin Stout, J. Donald Tar ter, and Henry Wessel. Pi Kappa Alpha Pi Kappa Alpha recently elect ed the following officers for the fall semester: Edwin S. Hanford, president; F. T. Andrews, Jr., vice-president; R. H. Owens, treasurer; C. J, Binkman, histor ian. HEAVENLY DAYS ! Ain’t.they tho’? When you’re wearing one of your bright and saucy COTTONS. You’ll like ours—jthey’re beautifully made and you’ll just love the way they launder. Have that “spic ’n’ span” approach. Shop at f Vi ' .' ' * Smart Shop TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1047 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Successor to the Free Lance, eat, 1877. Published Tuesday through Friday mornings during the College year by the staff of the Dally Collegian of the Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second class matter July a, 1934, at the State College, Fa.,-Post Office under the act of March 3, 1819. $2.60 a semes ter M.OO the school year. 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