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By Their Fruits
"By their fruits ye shall know them." And by
their conduct at sports events will Penn State stu•
dents be known to outsiders
Good sportsmanship is the accepted standard of
collegiate conduct. There has been scattered evi
dence in the past three years that students of this
College maintain high standards of what they
expect from others.
Most of us, when reading or listening to an
appeal for good spectator sportsmanship, will
readily agree that it is desirable and should be
maintained at the highest possible level.
Yet in the heat and excitement of the game,
controls yield to the rising fury of mob reaction,
good intentions fade into insignificance when "our
boys are robbed."
Individual self-control is the only way to
achieve collective self-control. The acquisition of
such self-control should certainly be an important
objective of a university education.
That self-control at athletic events can be based
on a commonly-known premise that persons fre
quently see things in different ways. Officiating
"errors" usually cancel out.
Finally, more cheering of the home forces, in
stead of booing of the opposiiton and referees, will
make the games more enjoyable.
Relevance of Religion
As the time approaches for Religion-in-Life-
Week on campus religious organizations as well
as the general committee are beginning to present
their purposes and aims.
The general committee is made up of students,
staff and faculty representatives from each of the
church groups, and the Christian Association and
representatives from campus organizations, such
as All-College Cabinet and Interfraternity Council.
The purpose of the week is to try to reach stu
dents who are not influenced by either church
groups or the Christian Association and help them
to see the relevance of religion in their everyday
lives. It seeks also to deepen the religious convic
tions of those people who are already mildly
interested.
Plans for the week which starts February 20
and ends February 24 include some outstanding
speakers from religious organizations and else
where.
For those who are not well acquainted with the
activities of Religion-in-Life-Week, take some
initiative, and learn of its worthwhile purposes
and plans.
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Corner Rumors
Yesterday, the "twelfth day of Christmas," traditionally marks
the end of the Yuletide festivities. Or were you finished after New
Year's Eve?
Post-Christmas is as much a special season as fishing or hunting
season, and has its own distinctive characteristics. It is the time of
the mammoth sale, the empty pocket-book, glittering engagement
rings, and a few stupid resolutions. Witness that great American
institution, the "close-out" sale. Where else do you fight your way
into a store "just to look around" and boomerang out hours later
with a red sale ticket tied around your nose?
Well, Harry finally got his raise. Both Republican and Demo
cratic members of Congress voted $25,000 more yearly to the man
with the toughest job in the world. That puffs the annual presi
dential salary to $lOO,OOO plus a $50,000 tax free expense account.
The fight for higher salaries for congressmen has its embarrassing
implications. The legislators claim that you can't hire (secure is a
better word) capable men for the pittance now offered. And the tax
payer rallies with "What do the incumbent law-makers keep under
their skulls? Suet?"
They say Reading still reverberates from the wedding celebra
tion of DV, Jeff Durkota, and Delta Zeta, Das Dittman. The ex-Lion
wingback and his bride have returned to the West coast where Dur
kota has been under contract with the Los Angeles Dons for the past
season. . . . Called "Matty" Mateer to check on the rumored Corner
Room alterations. Said he, "We don't know anything about it around
here!" . . . Homework pays off! For Manuel Herbert, senior Pi
Lambda Phi, at least. His one act comedy, "For Old Times Sake,"
written for a dramatics course, is being published. . . . The College
Co-op Board of Control is working beaverishly to put the student
store in operation by next semester. Two years ago the plan was
just a dream baby.
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Glaring Documents
TO THE EDITOR: Suppose that the "Free
loin Train" would be in Lewistown tomorrow.
We would stand in the awesome presence of
heroes who braved the axe, the gibbet, the firing
quad to move history onward; men like those
who forced the powerful king to sign the Magna
Charta, pioneers like the Pilgrims of the May
flower Compact, warriors like our revolutionary
ancestry, Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, Washington.
We read documents like the oe of Washington
to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island, in 1792:
"Happily the Government of the United States
gives bigotry no sanction, to persecution no .assist
ance." Other magnificent documents like the Dec
laration of Independence, the grand Bill of Rights
are there glaring with all their truth right at you;
and then again, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amend
ments to the Constitution.
We read the first Section of the 15th Amend
ment: "The right of citizens of the United States
to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States or any State on account of race,
color, or previous condition of servitude—" We
read further into these and many more documents,
such as a letter written by Abraham Lincoln about
July 1, 1854, we come to this significant sentence:
"Advancement—improvement in condition—is the
order of things in a society of equals."
. "All men are created equal; equal, all men.
This is what the people at the time when the
Declaration of Independent was written stated
with much emphasis, especially for us, the future
generations, to abide by. But do we abide by this
declaration? Does the Ku Klux Klan? Are the
Talmadges and the Rankins abiding by this decla
ration? Are we in State College abiding by this
declaration? Are we? And if not, why? So we
come out of the train, out towards the reality of
the present.
What are we to do to maintain this heritage of
Democracy? I say apply in practice what we have
learned in history. Fight discrimination with all
you've got.
• Letter cut.
Shorter Letters
Since the tendency for letters to "The Safety
Valve" has been to become increasingly longer
and wordier, we've analyzed the situation and
liscovered that• it's all our fault.
In the past we've been much too lax, hating to
;lash any of our readers' contributions unless space
requirements made it mandatory. The result has
',een , that the 200-word limit is being increasingly
:gnored.
Since letters are an indication of an alert and
'nterested readership, we like to get and print
them, but we prefer by far to run more shorter,
punchy letters than few dragged-out epistles.
So please don't feel abused if we enforce this
very necessary limitation on your letter.
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At the Movies
CATHAUM—One Sunday Afternoon
NITTANY—I Wake Up Screaming.
STATE—BIood on the Moon.
FRIDAY JANUARY 7. 1949
—Sigmund WeiL