PAGE TWO For Better Publications For years now the student body of the College has been asking for their own printing press and nothing has come of it except as a point in a political party's platform. It is true that there are other things needed on campus, but an independent student press, run by the students is a necessity if better publications, representative of the College, are to be produced. Publications have been criticized as just mediocre, and worse, and not worth the money. But it must be understood that these publications must enter into business contracts with publishing companies, and large sums of money are in volved. One four-page issue of the Daily Collegian costs over the $135 mark alone. It would cost considerably less for stu dents to print their own publications. The space for editorial (news) material wouldn't be governed as much as it is now by advertising which exerts great influence, and which is re sponsible for a considerable amount of the revenue. As in the case of the Collegian, some of the cost of pub lication is paid by the students in their tuition fees, but this amount is not able to substantiate the cost of printing—thus advertising returns make up the remaining and the ,greater funds needed for continuous operation. Other colleges and universities, some smaller in student body than we have here, maintain their own student press and the favorable results are evidence of its success. Another advantage besides better publications and a saving of money is that by having students learn the press organization and operation, new courses in education, jour nalism and industrial education would be realized and prac tical. Dependence on outside publishing concerns would be ended and the cost of and reliance on advertising would be lowered noticeably. Results would be improved publications and training! Editor's Mail call Birth of a Nation TO THE EDITOR: I would be vety much obliged if you would publish the following letter. The Hebrew State will be offi cially established in Palestine on the 18th of May. On the occasion of Statehood Day, the Penn State chapter of the "Inter-Collegiate Zionist Federation of America" will present on Sunday an im portant program to which I want to attract .the attention of every student. It will include: the reading of the "Independence Declaration"; the reading of an important re port of a student convention and question period; election of new officers; presentation of a dra matic film, "The Voyage of the Unafraid" filmed on board an - illegal" ship going to Palestine. The making of the film was a nerve racking task because of the limited facilities on board. It was confiscated by the British, later resecured by the Haganah. It was produced by Meyer Levin, writer and producer of documen tary films of the Office of War Information. With the world's attention on Palestine, with a student body here at the College proud of its nolitical consciousness, I am sure that many will be at the Hillel Foundation on Sunday at 7:30 With thanks I am sincerely 'tours, —Gerard Weiser, Penn State Chapter of IZFA. Blossoming Poet TO THE EDITOR: Some of the fellows rooming here with me think my poetry as good, if not better than lines composed by Captain Mark. I only write the stuff; you be the judge! To Doris norts, thy beauty is like the rose. Fair, tender, fragile, serene and new; Kissed by the gentle winds of day, And watered with twilight dew. Vet roses in their most radiant hour Can not hope to compete with thee; They vanish; wither from the bower; llay beauty is preserved for all eternity. long 6 4,1115 anall ~tared or e can read Dreg a't u• flit- ruse I:eta's have vaniAied into dust. "1 gracious loveliness, un changed by time • Le 0,•c•or ithin my Lunible THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. 'PENNSYLVANIA —Arnold Gorton Books For China TO THE EDITOR: Will you please print the following letter from Congressman Walter H. Judd? —William B. Reed. "I do not know any way or place for spending money to greater advantage than in the purchase of books for Chinese students who managed to keep their colleges going during the war even though removed hun dreds of miles from their normal location, working under the most primitive conditions, and without adequate equipment or libraries. "They are literally 'starved' for up-to-date text books, informa tion as to current ideas and de velopment in thought, as well as the standard works containing the wisdom of the ages. "If your class of 1948 should see fit to set aside a fund for the rebuilding of the library, the fundamental foundation stone of scholarship, in your sister college Lignan, I am confident it will be of the greatest helpfulness, not only to the Chinese students who are privileged to use it, but to better relations between our two countries." —Walter H. Judd, Rep.. Minn. Where's the Seniority? TO THE EDIT 0R: Coeds, what's the score? This informa tion comes straight from the Dean of Women's office. All the coeds are supposed to know this but we find few do. We think you ought to be told. Do you want to live with your present roommate next semester? Well, you can't if either of you are going to practice teaching or into a practice house. All coeds going practice teaching or into the practice house must live in Women's building the en tire semester in which their prac tice is included, Their roommates cannot live with them anywhere off campus. The majority of the girls feel that by the time they are juniors and seniors they should have the right to select their roommates and their rooms. This has always been the seniority ruling at Penn State. Most of the juniors and seniors on campus have waited two or three years for the privi lege of using their seniority rights. Now these rights are being taken away from you!! We would like to know what the rest of the coeds think about this. —27 Ath Hall Coeds. •mN AND LIAR ft "If they're serious about eliminating profit in the next war, I'll simply refuse to enlist as a dollar-a-year man again!" Digging Down by Elliot Shapiro Boy, these scientists are wonderful! About a hundred years ago some guy named Fournier invented a process of paper making that made rolls of paper. In fact it's all his fault that the modern newspaper can print. Fast presses and thous ands of copies an hour wouldn't be possible without these rolls. Now, it seems they've come out with what is supposed to amount to health in roll form. A roll of paper Is impregnated with triethylene glycol which is supposed to kill amost everything harmful in the air. One part of glycol vapor in 400 million parts of air will kill pneumococci, streptococci, and influenza vir uses, it is reported The story of the archeologist who searched the world for an cient relics and then found them in his attic during a' thunder storm has often been told. Not long ago in Nabraska the remains of Early Americans were discovered through , the work of a thunderstorm and flash• flood. The remains were estimated to be 15,000 years old. Remains of some early Penn Staters would no doubt be found in State College, by unplastering the walls in some rooming houses. In some of the rouses, the same type of thunderstorm and flood would do the uncovering. Instead of Tepexpan man, ama teur archeologists might run across that interesting fossil, 1880 Man. A $300,000 modern building and printing plant devoted exclusively to student printing needs is the pride of the Uni versity of Michigan student body. The Daily Illini, which is published by the students of the University of Illinois in their own plant, carries Drew Pearson's Washington Merry-Go-Round in addition to full time Associated Press service. TRADITIONAL SENIOR BALL FRIDAY, MAY 21 MUSIC BY Claude Thornhill HIS PIANO AND HIS ORCHESTRA There's a club in New York that might find its counterpart in any local lunch room after 1 a.m. Sun day morning. It's the Explorer's Club, made up of famous scientists and ex plorers. According to an article about them in a recent magazine they sit around the "Long Table" and swap reports and stories of their investigations. You could probably find simi lar stories of investigations being swapped in any all-night restaur ant in State College of an early Sunday morning. Purely scientific investigations, that is. "Plant doctors," is seems, have been abl e to produce seedless cu cumbers, peppers, squashes and tomatoes. Someone, no doubt will be sorry to lose the feeling of tomato seeds between his teeth. Most people will be complacent, though, until the scientists come up with a skinless banana. Edit Briefs 'ftmAY, MAY 14, 10441 My Lich CALENDAR Friday, May 14 PENN State Bible Fellowship, 200 CH, 7 p.m. CATHAUM—Fighting 09th. STATE--To the Ends of the Earth. NITTANY—GoIden Earrings. College Hospital Admitted Wednesday: Frances Mitchell, William Overberger, Shirley Place, Robert N. Sura vit4. Discharged Thursday: Emily Stanley. Placement Service Department of Army. May 21, research analysis in the field of communications, for men and women in any curriculum who are in top third of class. Aetna Casualty & Surety Com pany, May 19, eighth semester men in C&F, A&L. Connecticut Mutual Life In surance Company, May 18, eighth semester students interested in this field. North America Companies, May 18, eighth semester men in C&F. Group meeting, May 17, 228 Sparks, 7 p.m. West Penn Power Company, May 18 & 19, sixth and seventh semester men for summer em ployment. EE, ME, lE, CE. International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, May 17, eighth semester men in EE, lE, ME. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN iucceuor to the Bree lance. at 1877 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings during the College year by the staff of the Daily Collegian of the Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second class matter July 5, 1934, at the State College, Pa., Post Offlce under the act o f March 3, 1579. $2.50 a semester: $4.25 the school year. Editor --- Eiuelneas Manager -___ Vance C. Klepper Managing Ed., Elliot Shapiro; News Ed., Malcolm White; Edit Dir., Arni Gerton; 'Feature Ed.. Jo Fox • Sports Ed.. Thomas Morgan; Society Ed.. Frances Keeney; Asst. Soc. Ed., Claire Lee; Wire Ed.. Lois Bloomquist; Photo Ed.. Betty Gibbons: Co- Prom. Mgr., Selma Zasofsky; Senior Board, Elaine Nelson, Loretta Neville, Anne Kov• alenko, John Hall. Ant. Business Mgr., Margaret Breese; Adv. Director, Barbara Keefer; Local Adv. Mgr., Selma Lampert; Circulation Man agers, William Frazier, Brett Kranich; Class. Adv. Mgr., Wilma Brehm; Promo- tion, Elliot Rosengarten; Junior Board Director Kosti Barger; Sophomore 'Board Director, George Latzo; Secretary, Mimi Pomerine. STAFF THIS ISSUE Managing Editor Assistant News Editor AS4 istant Copy Editor Advertising Manager Dean Kern Travels Dr. Frank D. Kern, dean of the Graduate School and head of the department of botany at the Col lege, will speak at four southern colleges and universities this month. Dr. Kern is making the trip as national president of Phi Kappa Phi, national general honor so ciety. He will speak on the topic, "Unity and Democracy," at the University of Tennessee, Knox ville, Tuesday; Georgie Institute of. Technology, Atlanta, Tuesday; Florida State College, Tallahas see, Saturday; and Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, May 24. At the Movies Lew Stone Ruy Benfor Elliot Keane Watson EIDE= Jane Schwing Kosti Barges
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