The Daily Collegian Editorial Page gdit flair and eoluenna appearing in The Daily Collegian Tennantt the opinion, ot the writer. Thee woke so claim to rolled student or trrilrefelft UweNpuid editorials ft* IMAMS bp IN Mho& TWO Need for Education Probably the most malevolent, venomous and diabolical letter we've ever seen, arrived the other day, bearing a Lakeland, Fla., postmark. Consisting of a bigoted diatribe against Negroes and Jews, the letter bore evidence of being part of an organized drive to foment race hatred in the United States. Characteristically unsigned, the letter was a carbon copy of one which had been sent in De cember to the University of Chicago's student newspaper, after students there had staged a walkout protesting discrimination against Negroes in the university's medical school and clinic. The letter was so gorged with malicious fabrica tions, willful distortions of truth and spiteful lies, that a meticulous search was made for the slight est grain of fact. None was found that had not been grossly dis torted, twisted or used out of context. It is difficult to perceive how anyone in these United States could become so nauseously de mented. Persons of his ilk are probably beyond hone; they refuse to listen to reason. Yet their poison must be prevented from spread ing. Unfortunately, this cannot be accomplished by quarantining them. Antidotes and preventives must be widely and wisely employed. Proper education is perhaps the best preventive, but ,it must be administered early, and continu ously. By proper education we mean, of course. the cultivation and training of the mind, to develop the ability and willingness to think. Thinking persons are far less susceptible to the venom of race hatred than non-thinkers, and logic can penetrate and break down the barriers of any "race supremacy compartments" which may exist in their minds. Spring Week It's a new year, and soon a new semester. Just the time when campus groups seem to latch on to new enthusiasm. And what Vetter way would there be to direct this enthusiasm than into the promotion of our College? Instead of falling into the sloppy habit of criti cizing campus activities, classes, profs, and all the other things that we are so apt to tear down with out really thinking, why not take this time to get interested in some outstanding project, and put a whole-hearted, all-College effort behind it? All-College Cabinet has approved the principle of holding a "Spring Week" next semester from March 31 to April 2. Other large organizations, such as the Interfraternity Council, the Associa tion of Independent Men, and the Panhellenic Council, have okayed the Froth-proposed program for a big spring weekend to give the College favor able publicity on a large scale. It remains now for the entire student body to help with this idea. Small and large organizations can band together in an effort to promote Penn State. Working for this week will benefit financially each organization that takes part in it. At the pro posed carnival scheduled for the weekend, all proceeds received from a booth or project set up by any group will remain in the hands of the organization sponsoring the booth. Previous all-College drives which have fallen short are certainly not good publicity for Penn State. Can we show other colleges that we can throw an all-College effort behind a proposed project and succeed? Edit Briefs When the College• agreed to provide free ice-skating for students by flooding the practice football field, a pleasing example of student-ad ministration cooperation seemed in the making. Now if the weatherman would just cooperate— In magazines, on buses and in the newspapers we are constantly confronted with the news that Mr. Soandso has switched to a new beverage or hair tonic. A Cabinet committee can also publicize a new switching campaign with announcements that "Campus Bigwigs have Switched to Side walks!" Mr. C. Bigwigs said, "I like sidewalks better because Tke Deg Collegian eiueceaaor to THE FREE LANCE. eat. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings incluaive dur. .ng the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian of The I'Lnneylvania State College. Entered as second class matter July 5. 1934 at the State College. Pa., Post Office under the .ct of Marcel 11. 1879. Subseriy ions -- 82 a semester, $4 the .chool year. Represented for national advertising by National Advert's Ong Service, Madison Ave., New York. N.Y. Chicago. Boston I. Angelis San Francisco. Editor Lew Stone , danaging Ed.. Elliot Shapiro; News Ed.. Malcolm White; Sports Ed.. To Morgan; Edit. Dir. Arni Gerton; Feature Ed., In Fox. Society Fd.. Frances Keeney; Asst. Soc. Ed.. r.orett■ Neville; Photo Ed.. Betty Gibbons; Promotion Mir.. Selma la - 01AY Senior Board. Clair, Lee. STAFF THIS ISSUE Managing Editor New■ Editor Coo,' Editor nlatsnb _ Albert Ryan, Tracy McCormick, Shirley Austin vertising Manager_ _ Louis G. Gilbert 'string,* Mad Soria. 81 Illiekle„ Masai Ages —Pauly Moss Business Manager Vance C. Klepper - 1 1. Elliot Km* Clarke 1,1 inch Janie Schw Int Silence, please!, Senior Functions "Forty-niners" will have their first opportunity to get together as a class for fun, relaxation and making new acquaintances in White Hall between 2:30 and 4:30 tomorrow afternoon. Profit will be added to the attractions of free dancing and re freshments, as three cash awards will be presented to the wearers of the best-decorated Lion coats. Class functions of this nature have been woefully infrequent in the past. Active participation by all seniors will demonstrate to the class officers that more are wanted. Another senior gathering, this time a class business meeting, takes place the following day, in Schwab Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Deciding upon the method for selecting the class gift is the most important item on the agenda, and is important enough in itself to warrant a large turnout. Since several thousand dollars is involved, each senior should be concerned about its expenditure and should be present to insist that it is done democratically, and not by any small clique. Seniors interested in enjoying a pleasant afternoon with their classmates, and in the welfare of the class should make every effort to attend both of these important class events. "If you're going to wear your father's Lion Coat for a $5 prize, I'm going to wear my mother's 'Charleston' dress!" 'Secs' Rears Its Head An interesting missive arrived in the Collegian office recently from SECS, Society for the Enhancement of Career Secretaries. The Sobiety wishes to change the name of the "secretarybird" to the -boss bird." The SECS give as their reason the fact that the description in Webster better describes the boss than the secretary. The description is as follows: "a large, long-legged, rapacious creature that feeds on reptiles." If the SECS should by chance get the ornithologists to agree to the change would they also agree that they, often classed as the boss' favorite dish, should be termed reptiles? O John Held, Jr, Varsity Magazine --Z. Nwpiack. FRIDAY SANtrART $ 1 Try It Yourself It is with a grain of hesitation that I, a "spine. less, wishy-washy" reporter, attempt a reply to the letter captioned "No Guts?" appearing in "The Safety Valve" column of Tuesday morning's Daily Collegian. In my opinion, this instantaneous outburst, A. harangue leveled at this paper's editors, was a crea tion of the immature mental apparatus of two pre cocious, youthful persons who have no respect for the sagacity and experience of the elderly men who chose our present acting president and our present basketball coach. It is indeed a very' smug, complacent position in which you find yourselves, Messrs. Leeper and Deckman. I challenge you to offer your praise worthy contributions to the editorial staff of the Collegian. Come out for the staff of our newspaper and work your way up through the ranks as did our editors!. I feel sure that our editorial columns will no longer reek of "spineless, wishy-washy" material when your 'brilliant minds create them. Yes, we had our arm-chair generals during the last war, but they did not bring us victory. It was the brave men of action, who carried the brunt of the fighting and endured the heat of battle, who brought us the final victory! Simple But Important Do you have a heart? Not just a physical heart, to pump your blood, but an emotional heart. If you do, you have prob ably felt it twist at the sight of a child, sitting helpless, unable to play with his fellows, con demned to sit always on the sidelines. Condemned by the dread scourge of polio myletis, better known as infantile paralysis. Infantile paralysis can strike anywhere. You probably have in your home neighborhood, some youngster, or oldster, for the disease knows no limit, who has been stricken. One day he is play ing, happy. The next he is lying on his back, with the disease wasting away his limbs and strength. Everyone feels pity for these poor unfortunates. Everyone feels that helpless feeling in the face of a crippler of children. There is no need to feel helpless, though. You can do something about it, something simple, yet important. And that is to contribute your dimes and dollars to the March of Dimes. Collection will begin on this campus today. Don't wait for collectors to seek you out. Look for them. Your dimes and dollars can help a child walk. Do you have a heart? 5h.5./4 M. "Lack of Faith" TO THE EDITOR: Elliot Krane's editorial in a recent issue of The Collegian expressed a lack of faith in democratic processes which came as a severe shock to many members of the student body. He appeared to feel that the election of a representative gives that representative thereafter during his term of office a blank check to express his own views as those of his constituents. Tins I deeply disbelieve. Any political scientist knows that in a democracy, representatives must maintain contact with those who elected them or pay the penalty of losing their future support. Krane therefore, in this sense, encouraging those persons to whom the editorial was addressed to forego fur ther campus activity for the sake of expressing their personal views on the single issue of the boy cott. It is a tribute to the integrity and responei. bility of the AIM and IFC leaders in question that they felt strongly enough their duty to those rep resented by them to protest their being coerced into supporting measures possibly opposed by their organizations. One more point should be made. The issue of the boycott is a serious one. There Wave been sin cere differences of opinion regarding the desira bility and probable effectiveness of the methods used. To say that this question—mentioned as a "major issue" in the editorial—is on a par with the•many picayune matters which frequently conic before Cabinet is patently absurd. —Corbin S. Ifiddair. Collegian Gazette Friday, January 14 College Hospital Admitted Wednesday: Frederick Smith, Harold Nef, George Smith, Margaret Dennison. Discharged Wednesday: Gladys Singer, Yvonne Fish, John Antonette, Sidney Blatt, Fred Hazel wood, Philip Barr, Dale Claypool, William Marsh. College Placement Johnson Service Co., January 14, January grad uates, EE, IE, ME. Procter & Gamble Distributing Co., January 17, January graduates interested in sales, A&L, C&P. At the Movies CATHATM—YeIIow Sky. STATE—Live Today for Tomorrow. Di/WAXY—The Search. -Ray Bonier. —Elliot Shapiro.
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