p Oattg Collegian
Successor ro TEE FREE LA.NCE, est. 11187
PnblWied Tuesday through Saturday standings in
['WlT! during Die College year by the staff of The Daily
Collegian el Tim Peansylvaala State College.
itered as . efeeesil-claw natter Jrly S. 1,34. at the State
College. Pa.. Peet Office 'ander the act el' March 3. 11179.
Collegian editorials represent the 'viewpoints of the
Writers. and' do not necessarily reflect the policy of the
newspaper. Unsigned editorials are by the editor.
Dean Gladfelter
Editor
Managing Ed., John Dalbor; News Ed., Stan Degler ;
Sports Ed., Ray Koehler Edit. Dir., Herbert, Stein; Society
Ed.. Beanie Krebs: Feature Ed., Janet Rosen: Asst. Man
aging Ed., Art Henning; Asst. News Ed., John Ashbrook :
.Asst. Society Ed., Bettina dePalma ; Photo Ed., Wilson
Bart*; Senior Board: Jack Boddington, Bill Detweiler.
Asst. Bus. Mgr., Thomas M. Karolcik; Advertising
Dir., Harold L. Wollin; Local Adv. Mgr., Hugo H. Mendes:
Promotion Mgr., Laura Mermelstein; Circulation Co-Mgrs..
Edward W. Noyes, Gerald F. Yeager; P,ersonnel Mgr., Ed
win Singel; Classified Adv. Mgr., Shirley Faller; Office
Mgr., Loretta Stempinski; Secretary, Winifred Wyant:
Senior Board: Norma Gleghorn„ Delores Horne, Mary
Kauffman. Sue Halperin.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor: Robert Schooley; Assistant
Night Editor: Lee Stern.
Copy Editor: Ron Bonn; Assistants: Virginia
Opoczenski, Jo Reift, Jack Garretson-Butt. \
Advertising Manager: Hugo Mandes; Assist
ants: Edward Shanken, Cordell Murtha, Norma
Gleghorn, Morris Shanken.
The New Fee
A lot of you who are new to Penn State are
probably wondering what the $7.50 assessment
for a student union building is all about.
A lot of us who are not so new are wondering
too.
AS ESTABLISHED by All-College cabinet,
Penn State's student congress, the fee will be
$7.50 per semester for the first year and $lO per
semester every year after this one for as long as
is necessary. How long that is, we are told, will
be determined by how long it takes to pay off
the cost of the building, furnish it, and keep it
going.
This could mean that your children will be
paying for it, but that's not the important thing.
PENN STATE needs a student union. Look
around you. There are lots of classrooms, lots of
dormitories and lots of students. Now look at
the TUB.
For years responsible student leaders have
been trying to kindle a fire under students and
trustees, looking toward building a student
union of the scope that a growing university
deserves. Last year we got our chance and
took it.
The only regrettable thing is that nobody had
any idea what the student's assessment would
be until a few weeks before the end of the
semester. By then it had to be accepted or the
whole project put off for another year.
SOME OF the conscientious cabinet members
wanted to put it to a general vote of the stu
dent body. But there just wasn't time.
Talk before had been that the assessment
would be a quarter or maybe fifty cents for a
semester. Hardly a student dreamed it would
be as high as $7.50. If any of the leaders knew
it, they weren't doing any talking about it. That
is where they made a regrettable mistake.
ECONOMY MINDED students, as most are,
screamed that they were being robbed. Petitions
were circulated and letters of protest poured
into the Collegian office. At an open cabinet
session, opponents wrangled for three hours
before the assessment was finally passed.
Now the trustees have approved the assess
ment, the site has been picked and if wartime
restrictions do not interfere, the building that
many have howled for will soon be on the way.
We hope future fortunates who actually use it
appreciate what diligent maneuvering it took
to light that fire and keep it burning.
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THE DAILY CuLLEGIAN, STATE CuLLECx'E,
Cooperation
The Borough of State College last week re
ceived a safety award in recognition of its non
fatality accident record 'for the paSt two years.
As Burgess William S.. Hoffman remarked dur
ing the presentation, the borough is now nine
months into a third year of freedom from traffic
deaths.
THIS IS an outstanding achievement for a
town whose streets are heavily overtaxed by
auto traffic. Too, it speaks well of student dri
vers who are responsible for much of the traffic
overload and who, often are looked upon as
careless drivers.
The record indicates that drivers have taken
few foolish chances and, -when they have, have
escaped alive. It means that borough regula
tions and borough police have worked efficiently.
IN A LETTER to the Daily Collegian, Burgess
Hoffman laid emphasis to observance of borough
speed limits, parking regulations, and one-way
street rules. He said that the cooperation of
students, as well as of other citizens, has pro
duced the present record. Cooperation will pro
duce new records of this kind, he added.
Cooperation—among drivers, pedestrians, and
borough officials—remains the key to future
days of safe driving in State College.
Law Of The Land
Law is supposed to be law, but legislation
nowadays seems to be descending to the level
of lawlessness.
TAKE FOR EXAMPLE the recent action of
Congress in changing the law regarding military
men as head of the Defense department. The
law said that no one who had been a member
of the military for ten years preceding could be
appointed as secretary of defense. In the face of
the current emergency, Pzesident Truman de
cided to violate this rule by appointing General
Marshall to the post, and Congress obliged him
by changing the law.
General Marshall himself is not the issue. The
question is this: What meaning can any law
have if it is to be changed at a moment's' notice
any time someone in authority feels it is im
possible to operate according to the law of the
land? Of what value was the original law if it
merely was to be changed? What is to prevent
similar exceptions in the future when a difficult
situation arises.?
THIS IS NOT the only instance of disregard
for law in recent weeks, but it is the most out
standing example and is symptomatic of the
current trend toward hysteria in American
thought. Although recognized as probably un
constitutional, a number of laws for politica:
control of Communists and "subversives" have
been passed by local legislatures which take
the "so what" attitude.
Even the constitution appears no longer in
violate.
Gazette . . .
Meetings of campus. organizations will be announced in
this column throughout the_s em est er. Announcements
should include place, time and purpose of the meeting.
Deadline for notices, which_should be mailed or delivered
to the Daily Collegian office, is 4 p.m. on the day preced•
ing publications.
Tuesday, Sept. 19
COLLEGIAN business staff, sophomore and
junior boards, 7 p.m., 9 Carnegie Hall.
FROTH, promotion staff and candidates, 7:3C
p.m., Froth office, Carnegie Hall.
WOMEN'S Recreation association bowling.
White Hall alleys, 7 p.m.
WOMEN'S Recreation association, fencing..
White Hall, 7 p.m.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM: Tea for Two
STATE: Stars In My Crown
NITTANY: Unconquered
of Cerro Bolivar, the newest,
st iron ore deposit in the world,
ld in an exhibit in the Mineral
ng, on Pollock road.
• The story
largest and riche
is graphically to
Industries Buildi
Fountain Service
•Breakfast
'Lunch
•Dinner
—John Ashbrook
A Complete
Food
•Midnight Snacks
Fred's
ttle Man On. Campus
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•o •ec are, in •ro . nar ge s meaner every year."
Trek To Hunger
For the past few years a caravan of college students from
practically all the colleges in the nation has each Spring
started the long trek from the States to Alaska in search of
quick funds for next year's tuition. This year being no excep
tion, college Joes by the thousands drove, flew, sailed or used
a combination of these to get to the land of booming construc
tion work and fast dollars.
This year a new experience
awaited nearly all corners; the
threat of starvation and being
stranded in a country about 5,-
000 miles from their Eastern sea
board • homes. For this year, in
stead of lush times and boom
towns they found a country suf
fering from strikes and work
stoppages which shoved the al
ready short construction season
back nearly 40 percent.
AN ESTIMATED 1000 college
students arrived in Fairbanks
alone this summer, looking for
jobs in a city already overcrowd
ed with unemployed, and where
living prices were sky high.
Some had funds enough to tide
them over until construction
work began to boom in late July
after the Carpenter's Union went
back to work. Others who were
broke, hungry, and discouraged,
pounded the streets looking for
odd jobs.
Each morning and continu
ing well into the day, long lines
of hopeful employees stood out
side the offices of• the Alaska
Highway Commission, the gold
mining company, and the var
ious unions. For weeks the an
swer was, "Sorry, we're not
hiring today."
Welcome Back
WHITE BUCKS
SADDLE SHOES
Glick's
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1950
By ART BENNING
With no money to pay the ex
horbitant room and board prices,
many set up camps in the brush
outside the city, cooking beans
or spaghetti over open camp
fires, and sleeping in tents, cars,
or sleeping bags. Others took
over unused garages or shacks.
As belts were being drawn tight
er and tighter, the only things
that flourished were beards.
OCCASIONALLY bow is of
were given at the YMCA to the
bread lines that quickly formed
at the smell of food. Those who
tried to sell their cars found that
the market had hit rock bottom.
Others who had the money, tink
ered up their jalopies for the
long journey home.
Here there was a catch also.
Canadian Customs Officials re
quire funds of $3OO per car and
$lOO per adult for travellers on
the Alaska Highway,, although
this is often not enforced. Many
have come back with less; others
were forced to return to Alaska.
Now, Fairbanks faces the diffi
cult end embarrassing situation
of being overcrowded 'with the
fundless and not being able to
help. Those who do not make
the required passage amount in
the remainder of the working
season, or who cannot wire home
for money, may be stranded until
next summer.
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