FRIDAY, MAY 8, «** •Safety \Jaiue Continued from page two Lost Americans TO THE, EDITOR: I confess I am one of the lost Americans. To me the American dream is a mirage and Horatio Alger is Caligula reincarnate. The sacred phrase, “equality of opportunity,” rings as emptily in'-my 'ears'as it does in yours. I believe that tab forces that have spoken and acted for America have never meted out economic justice to its people. And I believe that if equality of eco nomic opportunity and everything that glib phrase carries with it are not forthcoming, America will die. Here yop and I part. For I am not a Commu nist and I reject Communism. The sap, the vital Of civilization is the nameless masse? who have lived on earth and gone. The needs arid want? of the people,have made civiliza tion And coming from the people the growth is slow, as slow as time. But throughout historic time there -have been forces who have been im patient, yho have wanted to alter the face of the World With' one blow, and always they , offer as the'shortcut to glory the Greatest Lie: war. For, a 6 far back as man remembers, war has destroyed in ani instant the growth of years. The ruin and waste df generations—this is the, curse of war, and this i$ the, gift of the forces who offer speedy salvation fpr, : mah)i)ind> ■- 1 Tfou are'k part of these forces. You are of those who Wish to.cure the world's ills too 'rapidly. Be cause lipankind moves slowly and revolution means rapid change, world-wide Communist revolution means War, You Will have to kill. T believe in evolution, not revolution. And I think that America is evolving. Call it what you want New Deal, Fair Deal, Socialism, any name; the economic change is coming. Slowly but it will stay, and. it will need' no police-state or purges to> keep itself, because the people will want it. You would force the change. But let me warn you, engineering Lecture Dean Arthur R. Warnock. will Speak- on “Personality” at the senior engineering lecture in Schwab auditorium at 4:10 p.m. today. Aeronautical Sciences Michael Cozzolli, chief design engineer of the Fairchild Aircraft Corporation, Hagerstown, Md., will speak to the Institute of Aer onautical Sciences in 101 Main Engineering building at' 11 a.m. today. Barbell Club The Penn State Barbell Club wijl meet on the balcony of Rec reation Hall at 8 p.m: Monday. Pi Lambda Sigma Newly elected officers of Pi lambda Sigma, pre-legal honor ary are FrankßfcNelis.president; Ralph ". Wagner, vice-president; anji Richard. Bard, secretary treasurer. Ralph Brenner and Lois Jane Dickson were initiated at the meeting. Dairy Exposition. A milking contest for profes sors will be one of the main fea tures of the Dairy Exposition to beheld in the Ag Hill pavilion at 1 p.m.' tomorrow. Bible Fellowship The spring conference of the Penn State Bible Fellowship will bfc he Id at “Camp Hate-to-Leave- It” tomorrow and Sunday. Stu dents attending should' report to the Engineering parking lot at 1 p.m. tomorrow. Clrculo Espanal Recently elected officers of Cir cujp Espanol are Marty Soles, president; Le Claire Barnett. vide T president; Ellen Large, sec retary; Jack Diamon. treasurer; and Frank Lucia, social chairman. Eta Kappa Nu The following officers were elected at a reoent meeting of Eta Kappa Nu, Electrical Engineer ing honor society: • Norman Pomerantz, president; Bay C. Williams, vice president; Frank J. Terkogki, recording sec retary; Edward H. England, cor reaponding secretary; William F. Marklay, correspondent to the “Bridge of Eta Kappa Nu,” nat as and News Briefs Poultry Club Mr. Kropp, personnel manager of Swift and Company, will speak on the opportunities available to graduates of agricultural fields and the qualities which prospec tive employers look for in the personnel, at the Penn State Poultry Club meeting in 100 Hor ticulture building at 7 p.m. Mon day. All students majoring in poultry husbandry, animal hus bandry, dairy husbandry, and ag ricultural economics are invited to attend. Pi Alpha Xi Pi Alpha Xi, national collegiate floriculture honor society recently tapped William M. Clark, Milton B. Davis, Robert J. Eshelman, William R. Failor, Malcolm L. Finger, Donald W. Griffiths, Ken neth J. Hager, William H. Heyser, Richard C. Koch, Donald B. La cey, Emil N. Lesko, Donald E. Musgrave, Clifford Myer, Charles P. Ruhl, William F. Schildmacher, Robert J. Snyder, James Stark and George R. Teel. Faculty Luncheon M. S. Osborne, professor and hea'd of the department of archi tecture at the College, will add ress the Faculty Luncheon Club at the Hotel State College on Monday noon. His subject will be: “Present Day Problems of Home Building.” VA Contact Man Comes to Campus Louis P. Nardi, contact repre sentative of the Veterans Admin istration, will be at the VA build ing from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. next Thursday lor the purpose of explaining and discussing Vet erans Administration benefits, or to assist veterans and their de pendents in the completion of any forms that may be required. Tree Tags Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, recently placed tags on 400 trees on campus. Each tag has the common name and the scientific name of the specie* inscribed on it. Twenty four members and pledges par ticipated in this project. Philip Barker and Robert Knecht served as co-chairmen in charge. The department of physical plant sup plied the tags and Mr. H. Norton Cope, professor of forestry, dir ected the etassiMatien of the THE DAILY COLLEGIA*, STATE COLLEGE, PMBTSYLVANH Letters te the editor aioet bt *lga«l tor inelvilon in th< Sefetjr Voire, illhentb nemo* will bo withheld on reqneit. Tele ohone nambers end oddresee* moat ho Included to facilitate verification of authenticity of •ignatarea. Letter* exceeding 20# word* in length may be cat when regnlred by epaee 'lmitation*. You would have to be ruthless; you Would have to kill enemies and friends and innocents because you will be opposed; you would have to shackle every life, even your own, to totalitarianism, -to the total state, because, your quick cure can have no competition or it will fail. Maybe you could succeed, Maybe you’re right. But count me and more like me out. I’m weak and sentimental and I never acquired a taste for blood. —Seymour Rubenfeld. American Imperialism Planned TO THE EDITOR: -Previously, a letter had been inserted in the Collegian stating that the Atlantic Pact is a defense-mechanism for peace. In reference to this assertion, I quote Rep. Clar ence Cannon’s April 13th speech. “With the signing of the Atlantic Treaty, we have the bases, and all we need now are the •planes to deliver the bombs. . . . The atom bomb must be delivered at the right time and' right point. In the first three ' weeks' of the war, we must make the atomic bomb pulverize every mili tary center in Russia. ... We will blast at the centers of operation and then let our allies send the army in, other boys, not our boys to hold the ground we win.” (The first sentences quoted above are from April 14, N.Y. Herald Tribune; the last sentence is from the April 14 N.Y. Times:) The words were so blunt and revealing that, said the Herald Tribune, they “startled the House.” The House was startled only because Repre sentative Cannon, who is chairman of the key House Appropriations Committee, spilled the beans about the Atlantic Pact which is being palmed off as a measure for peace. He was so care less as to openly state its real aims and so undiplo matic as to let the people of Europe know about future American imperialism planned for them. ADS Pledges 16; Plans Banquet Alpha Delta Sigma, men's na tional advertising honorary, re cently pledged 16 men. The new ly pledged men are Richard Anderson, Mark Arnold, Karl Borish, Norman Borish, Guyer Candy, James Cochrane, John Ernst, Louis Gilbert, Richard Hoffman, Peter Kalamdiok, George Latzo, Carl Lucyk, Jacob Meckler. Walter Reynolds, Ralph Shiner, and John Way. Plans ar e being made for a banquet and initiation on Sun day, May 8. At the same time, the chapter will initiate three men as professional members into the fraternity. Thes e men are Richard. Byers, professor of jour nalism at the College, Mr.- Donald Bridge, of the Gannett Newspa pers, and Mr.- Richard Eldridge, head Of the Eldridge-Northrop advertising agency in Trenton, 'Crest' Residents To Hold Carnival Wiridcrest residents will join in the carnival spirit at the park ing lot on the corner of Pollock and Shortlidge roads from 2:3Q p. m. to midnight May 14. Bingo, / penny-pitching, child rens! fishing pool arid other garpes and. contests will be fea tured at the carnival sponsored by Wjndcreat Council and Wind crest Wives. A ' universal mixer and. baby stroller will be award ed as prizes. Home made cakes and pies, either whole. or slices, candy and cookies will be sold, as well as hot dogs, hamburgs, pop, ice cream, cigarettes and chewing gum. Some- handwork will also be on- sale. NROTC Riflemen Receive Medals Six members of the NROTC rifle team were presented rifle medals by Capt. W. T. McGarry at a battalion parade on the Arm pry drill field at 11 a.m. yesterday. They were Midshipmen And rew Adelman, Paul Baumgard ner, John Brown. William Myers. Richard Pulling, and Shull.. Of these six, two members. Baumgardner, captain of the team, and Pulling, received bars to their medals for the second year of participation on the team. May Day Rehearsal May Day rehearsal will be held at Holmes Field from 3 to 5 p.m. today* Excuses may be obtained from tbe dean of woman's office and dm dean —Hubert Rubenstein. LIONeI "Now everybody watch the board whil Summer Work Includes Labor In Small Begium Mining Town (This is the sixth in a series of eight articles on summer work camp experiences of members of the student body and faculty. Further information concerning similar projects to be conducted this summer may be obtained by contacting the PSCA office. 304 Old Main.) As told to the Daily Collegian by Marjorie Allen, a member of the Friends Service Committee group working in Boussu-Bois, Belgium, last summer. Our job at Boussu-Bois, a small coal-mining community near the French border of Belgium, was to level the coal-tip, or terril, so that it. could be used as a playground for the school just beneath it. A terrill is the man-made mountain that is built up over a period of years bv dumping slag from a coal mine. This project had more relevance for us Americans because an American bomb had de stroyed the local school, which was now being replaced by one twice as large. It would take up the place formerly used for play ing Many Countries Represented Other countries represented at this camp were Belgium, Den mark, England, France, Holland, Sweden and Switzerland. All these, various nationalities joined in the project which involved cut ting with pick and shovel 5000 cubic meters of dirt and rock, and dumping it over the side. This tremendous task was at first con ducive to aching backs and wrists. I must confess I didn’t mind tak-. ing my turn at KP, cooking, or even scrubbing floors. One of the first days I worked on the terril, looking down at the neat row of red-tiled houses on one side and fields of waving grain on the other. I thought that in a sense we were moving a mountain. ' Pleasant Greetings The community supported us in a hundred different ways. We were always greeted with "Bon jour” or “Mademoiselle.” Retired miners from time to time would tap me on the shoulder, take the shovel from my hand and show me how it should be used. News of our work spread far and wide, as was evident by the conversa- Don't Forget Your Alma Mater Keep In Touch With Campus Activities And The Success of the Nittany Lions! SUBSCRIBE TODAY $2.00 SEMESTER $ 4.00 YEAR Address Th e Name DAILY Enclosed: COLLEGIAN $2.00 Sent ( ) £4.00 Tear () 8M* C ColU>gL P*, PAGE THREE tions we overheard when we went into Mons, the nearest large city. Most of the villagers were poor by American standards, but they always shared with us. Scarcely a day passed that some woman or child did not appear at the door of the Protestant minister’s home, where we stayed, bearing a gift of coffee, chicory, cookies, or even precious eggs. Or they would invite us to pick cherries in their orchard, or dig carrots or potatoes from their gardens. Even the gro cer’s wife gave-us cut rates. We felt that this spirit of warmth and friendship was strongest when we visited various family homes for Sunday dinner, or coffee in the evening. Though discussion of the prob lems of peace on an intellectual level would have been limited even if all of us had spoken flu ent French, we found something with these people that went be yond all words—human fellow ship. Goethe in Song Giving a preview of the “Goethe in Song” program to be presented May 16, Dr. Philip Shelley will play records and discuss this Ger man music in 117 Carnegie Hall at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday. Every one is invited. it again.'
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