PACE TWO The Dally Collegian Editorial Page Udnnriain and eolumne appearing in The Dally Collegian repreeent the oplnlona at Iha writer. They make na data ta reflect atadent or ITnlre ratty eonoenaua. Unatrnad editerlale are written fey the edtteek Worth $1000? Is Penn State getting its money’s worth from its NSA affiliation? National Student Association dues and convention expenses will consume $lOOO of the 1948-49 Interclass Finance budget. Penn State has been instrumental in the forma tion and growth of NSA, nearly from its inception, and has compiled an enviable record of participa tion and leadership in conventions and in the re gional and national organization. But of what use is all this prestige to the indi vidual students who compose NSA, and for whose benefit NSA exists? The ultimate worth of NSA can be measured only on the basis of concrete accomplishments on each individual campus. Granted the local committee has consumed much time and energy planning for the year’s pro gram and the regional assembly, as well as con ducting many surveys, what has it done to im prove the College? If NSA is to fulfil its proper function as an association of students, it must create student interest in itself. To do this, a program of action, properly publicized, is absolutely necessary. What happened to the publicity campaign and the membership drives? Why have the delegates to the national assembly failed to prepare reports for publication in Collegian? All-College Cabinet, as the sponsor and patron of NSA on this campus, cannot be relieved of the responsibility for ascertaining that Penn State students are receiving full value from the NSA appropriation. The Public Grows Up Whether we like it or not, the picket line, like sex, is here to Indeed, one might go so far as to call this the “Age of the Picket Line.” The picketing by the NAACP to protest refusal of State College barbers to cut the hair of Negroes is nothing new; for the past several years the picket line has no longer been confined to the working men striking for higher wages, but has teen employed by numerous groups wishing to get a message across to the public. Student picketing has almost been the vogue for the last few years. In addition, white-collar employees, such as those in the stock exchange, have hit the pavements carrying signs and hurling cat calls at scabs. Even men of the cloth have joined the lines and have taken an active part in picketing. Men, women, and sometimes even children, have registered their protest against situations or events in this way. AH in all, it’s a good sign; it augers well for the future. Picket lines, when they become so widely-spread, begin to indicate the de gree to which the public is beginning to come to grips with the problems that face it, problems which usually would go unnoticed ,-ave by a few avid reformers. Once the people take a more active interest in the conditions which surround them—the conditions which, by constituting their environment, play a great role in shaping individual lives and atti tudes—then the alert public will begin to look after its own in terests and take action to protect those interests. So don”t be disturbed about the picket lines. They’re merely symptom of a populace finally coming of age. Kr -O W * ' v ’ 'j " w "S@sSS^? '• :, s^^?SJc7] ife, fC-' *r ' pip till- And he sent forth a dove... PteilSW*: /-v 1 * '~mmo*~rr* £ \sf /* ; '.^V \'V'v