didieeirtals and e,leetrta appearing in The Daily Weldon rograimailt the Wanner of the writer rher make no claim re reflect Student or Universit, eiesenous. Unadiraild eiltotials are wrktia bp ibe anima
Chinese Puzzle
China, judging by the headlines, is in a sad state
The newspapers report that Chinese Commu
nist forces have swept down out of Manchuria and
are driving on Nanking. At present they are only
200 miles away and meeting the Government
forces' opposition, although just how much is an
other question.
The Chinese government is calling on the United
States to send more and more aid—both monetary
and material. The Chinese ambassador to Wash
ington has asked for a definitive statement of
policy.
The advisability of sending more money anal
arms or taking a stand on a situation that learns
in a high state of flux could quite properly be
questioned.
It would be to the point to ask for an account
ing of the materiel shipped to Chiang Kai Shek's
government, both during the late war and after it.
Just how much of this nateriel wißs used for fight
ing the Japanese and hoi much topl.r IFISORiAIf t
regime in power? How much equipment WO ex
pended against the enemy algid how *nch yK
sold on the black market?
Perhaps we might even paraphrase the ques
tion of Mr. Koo, the ambassador. Just whatthe
attitude of the Chinese government tOward the
principles for which we stand? How much per
sonal liberty does Chiang allow the Chinese
people? Just what is the extent of secret police
activity? Is there any freedom of the press? How
far has Chiang's regime gone along the road to
putting into effect all the pretty sounding, demo
cratic phrases with which it wooed the United
States into sen4ing Lend Lease aid during the
war?
How many people, for instance, have ever cast
a ballot under China's democratic , constitution?
If, after getting the true answers to these ques
tions, the United States decides that China's
regime is worth maintaining in power,
.then, by
all means send aid.
It is more likely however that the United States
will discover that it has more in common with the
Chinese Communists than with Chiang. In which
case, no aid would ever go to China—it being in
conceivable, at this juncture, that the United
States should ever deliberately aid a Red group.
That does not mean, however, that we ohoUlcl
get out of China entirely and leave her to war and
revolution.
On the contrary, the United States should act
as the power it is, and effect changes in the pres
ent Chinese government. It must be assumed that
the men who direct our foreign policy have some
knowledge of our history. The principles of democ
racy on which this country was built could—if the
State Department willed it—be put into effect in
any country seeking U.S. aid.
Too much attention to the sensitivity of Chiang
on his nation's sovereignty has brought China to
its present pass.
Revamping China on the U.S. model might pro
duce two effects. One, some of the causes for the
present lighting might be eliminated, and two,
even if the fighting is not stopped, a less corrupt
regime would probably put American supplies to
more efficient use and end the war sooner.
—Elliot Shapiro.
Edit Briefs
• It•has been said that it takes a college grad
uate five years to learn to compromise some of his
ideals . . . Well! Do college graduates still have
ideals?
• Changing the name of the College to what it
should be, "The Pennsylvania State University,"
would at least discourage the narrow-minded indi
viduals who insist on saying cow college.
• Non-voters in student elections are always
the first and loudest complainants that student
government never does anything.
• One of the oldest colleges in the nation is a
hang-over from the horse-and-buggy days, and
should be eliminated—the electoral college.
• Deans and IFC's may come and go, but the
mixed-drinking problems will stay forever.
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`MY—that Wagon& cooking smells good'
Now that we've put away the track shoes used in last weekend's
race to hit all the parties, and turned over the derned old imports'
letters to roommate .... who made more headway than you, we
pray en masse:
"Dear High and Mighty Board of Trustees, Council of Admin
istration . . . and all other interested deities, Grant us, we beseech
you, one paltry football holiday. . . . Bless us with Thanksgiving
recess at Tuesday noon.
Rememberest thou, how we squelched The U. of P. in the name
of thy heavenly domain, the Farmer's Highschool?
"p.O. We beat Bucknell, too."
Incidentally, the coed who lost her formal gown at Franklin
Field may retrieve said article by contacting Rosenbloom's Clothing
'Store in Suhbury. • You may have been dancing with glee, Baby,
but who' haw-pond?
Informative sources tell us that a group of U. of Penn's Play
ers, who intend to give "Skin of Our Teeth" soon, attended the Penn
State Players production for purposes of scouting . . . 'twill bp
mighty sad if the dram scouting results in as woeful a performance
as Penn's grid sherlocking.
Where. oh, where are the dear old seniors?
Nine of them, Art Miller '47, Walt French '34, Woody Bell Mer
riman (former Daily Collegian editor) '46, Frank Neish '47, Bobbie
Hutchison '4B, Chuck Hurd '47, Robert Spinnenweber '47, Robert
Emmers '47, and Freddie Dietz '47 compose the multi-vitamin injec
tion given the McKeesport Daily News by dear old Farmer's High
school.
The orchid pile soared over the weekend. Said an import (whis
per that word) from Washington, D.C., "I've never seep more beauti
ful girls concentrated in one place "
And Sigma Ni, Johnny Long, told his local brothers he had
never played at a more hospitable place . . . also wonders what
haw-poned to the Farmer's Highschool's beautiful campus of last
year.
What? You say this is a Uhiversity? Well, you could have fooled
the outside world!
In the Land of Jim Crow
Roy Sprigle, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter and staff member of
"The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette," recently disguised himself as a Negro
and forfour weeks "lived black" in the South among his fellow
Americans. This is the eighth of a series of twelve articles in which
he presents his findings. Mr. Sprigle has changed the names of per
sons and places in some instances to protect those involved.
In this little, straggling Negro
cemetery, its graves weed-grown,
its headstones leaning drunkenly,
stands a magnificent sarcophagus
of white Alabama marble. It is an
astonishing thing to find here on
the edge of this Mississippi Delta
town of Clarksdale. Quite likely
there's nothing like it all up and
down the Delta in either white or
Negro cemetery.
Within it lies the bodies of a
dark woman and'her baby, both
dead in the hour of the baby's
birth. Proudly, Dr. P. W. Hill,
wealthy Negro dentist, shows us
through this gleaming mausoleum
where 'his wife and baby lie and
where some day he too will rest.
In all simplicity he regards it
only as his tribute to the ones he
loved.
Hot Mist latiallsi
__Nod Roth
The Daily Collegian Editorial Page
Corner Rumors
By Jo Fox
8► Ray sprigla
on the edge of the cotton fields is
a monument to the cold-blooded
cruelty of the white man; to the
brutal mandate of a white world
that black men and women must
die rather than be permitted to
defile a cot or an operating table
in a white hospital with their
black skins.
Marjorie Hill and her husband
had planned to have their baby at
home. Mrs. Hill was strong and
active and in perfect health.
The competent Negro physicians
in attendance foresaw no compli
cations or difficulties. Her ap
proach to motherhood was wholly
normal until just a few hours be
fore another little dark soul was
due in this white world. Then
something went tragically wrong.
glinsOinstail psoil size
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19 1948
Sa/4 V.I.
Addressed Wrong
TO THE EDITOR: I was disappointed in the
Collegian's handling of the piece advocating pres
ervation of the , Hort Woods tract. What this
amounted to was making of it just another "letter
to the editor," to whom it was addressed. It was,
I think, misleading to drop the title "AN OPEN
LETTER TO THE ALUMNI COUNCIL AND TO
THE ALL-COLLEGE CABINET."
And while the one-fourth of the letter that was
cut may have seemed ancient history, it had been
put in with deliberation to strengthen this initial
presentation of the case. I had hoped that the an
nouncement might have some news value. With
the tree cutting that has been done in the far end
of Hort Woods it is obvious that efforts to preserve
it are already belated. Something ought to be done
—SOON.
A Best Seifert
TO THE EDITOR: The report of the Food Com
mittee is a natural for a "killing." By all means
send the script to a publisher. It ought to reach
the top in a few weeks. It will create a sensation.
Bob Hope will be out looking for a job because of
this best seller.
Believe me, I swell with pride in knowing that
the authors are from dear old State.
—John L. Clark.
The College Nurses
TO THE EDITOR
To the Nurses at the College Hospital
This is to the Florence Nightingales of 1948.
Without them, I'm certain, we all would hate
To spend a day in a hospital room.
It certainly would be a day of gloom.
From seven 'till seven their work is not done.
It seems that they always are on the run.
Even when seated for a moment of rest,
"Nurse, hurry!" comes from the mouth of a pest.
Endless patience is a virtue possessed
By all nurses they have confessed.
To them no request is ever too small.
Their ever-present kindness is displayed to us all.
And when the tears came into my eyes,
They comforted me with the most gentle sighs,
And when I clamored for water or food,
Their reassuring answer, "It's for your own good."
Perhaps God called you to your chosen profession.
Your cheerful spirit helps many out of depression.
Great servants of humanity, it is true.
I'd like to close with—l salute you.
—.To Ann Natalie Esterl7.
Collegian Gazette
Friday, November 19
ALPHA PHI OMEGA, 3 Sparks, 7:39 p.m.
College Hospital
Admitted Wednesday: Nancy Altland and Har-
Jld Wolfson.
Admitted Thursday: William Sampton.
Discharged Thursday: Emerson Leiter, Dorsey
Strayer and Ralph Cash.
College Placement
Arrangements for, Interviews should be made to MI Old Malt
at ones.
Monongahela Connecting Railroad Co., Novem
ber 22 and 23, eighth semester men in CE.
Pennsylvania Railroad, November 23, eighth
semester men in EE and ME.
United States Civil Service Commission, Novem
ber 23, eighth semester men in Aero Eng, Arch
Eng, CE, EE, lE, ME, Sanitary Eng, Metallurgy,
Petroleum & Natural Gas Eng, Chem Eng, and
Chemistry.
Babcock & Wilcox Co., November 22, eighth
semester men in lE, ME, Fuel Tech, and Metal
lurgy.
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., November 30,
eighth semester men in CE, EE, lE, ME, Chem
Eng, and Chemistry.
Philadelphia Electric Co., December 1, eighth
semester men in EE and ME.
North American Aviation Corp., November 30,
eighth semester men in Aero Eng, Civil Eng, EZ,
and ME.
Douglas Aircraft Co., December 2 and 3, seT
enth and eighth semester men in Aero Eng, ER,
ME, and Physics.
J. C. Penney Co., December 2 and 3, eighth se
mester men in lE, C&F, Arts & Letters, Adver
tising, Education, Hotel Adm., Ind. Ed., Psy
chology.
Ingersoll-Rand Co. December 2 and 3, seventh
Semester men in lE, ME and EE.
Standard Oil Company of Indiana, November
30, Ph.D. candidates who will receive their de
grees during 1949 in Chem Eng and Chemistry.
Standard Oil Company of Indiana, December 1
and 2, seventh and eighth semester men in ME
and CE.
Standard Oil Company of Indiana, November
30, Graduate students in ME.
Stet:WM Employment
Owlad Mr. Anse Room TIRE
Substitute waiters and dishwashers
Experienced clothes presser.
Girls for modeling.
At the illowies
CATHAUM—Fighter Squadros.
STATE—JuIia Misbehaves.
Pwasire.
H. E. Dickson. '22.
Professor of Fine Arts.