PAGE TWO afte Batty Collegian Sueeeseor to TEE FREIE LANCE. est. 11187 Published Tuesday throng* Saturday mornings ta• elusive during the College year by tie staff of The Daily Collegian ef The Pennsylvania State College. itateroi as seeead-class matter Jody i, 1424. at Ma State College, Pa., Peat Offi ce ultdee the act el Marcia 2, MS. 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 Owen E. Landon Editor Business Mgr. Managing Ed., John Dalbor; News Ed., Stan Degler; Sports Ed., Ray Koehler; Edit. Dir., Herbert Stein; Society Ed.., Beanie Krebs; Fehture Ed., Janet Rosen; Asst. Sports Ed., Art Denning; Asst. News Ed., John Ashbrook; Asst. Society Ed., Bettina dePalma; Photo Ed., Wilson Barto; Senior Board: Jack Boddington. Bill Detweiler. Asst. Bus. Mgr., Thomas M. Karolcik; Advertising Biz, Harold L. Wollin; Local Adv. Mgr., Hugo R. Mandes; Promotion Mgr., Laura Mermeistein; Circulation Co-Mgrs., Edward W. Noyes, Gerald F. Yeager; Personnel 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: Dottie Laine; Assistant Night Editor: Sally Miller; Copy Editor: Dave Colton; Advertising Manager: Anita Ranallo; Assist- Advertising Manager: Amita Ranallo; Assist ants: Laryn Sax, Carolyn Alley Dorothy Na veen, Cissie Judge, Don Jackel, Bob Koons. Sucker Bait King Football is back, and along with him the big time gambling syndicate and its weekly football pool. EVERY YEAR, three or four of the pools spring up in State College, and the weekly "take" is estimated to be between $3OO to $lOOO. A student fs usually the vendor of the slips, but he is only . a little wheel in a network that blankets the entire country. Each week syndicates issue lists of 20 odd games to be played that Saturday. Along with each game, a point spot is given to one team. You have your choice of taking either team. You pick as many games as you like and the odds go up with each choice. Sounds pretty easy. Especially for armchair quarterbacks who read every line written about every team in the country. What most of the people who play the pools don't know or just don't want to know is that they're matching wits with men who are professional at picking winners. One of the prize tricks of the pool makers is to place a juicy piece of bait on the pool. They spot points on a sure winner. The player clever ly sees this "sure thing" and puts up a buck, in the meantime picking three or four or more teams. After the games are' over he finds that he "missed" three or four or more, but he did pick that sure thing right. Maybe that is some consolation—or is it? ANOTHER THING that leads the player on is the betting odds. A guy plays four games with the odds ten to one. But if he picks one more game it's 16-1, and one more its 25-1. More often than not, he ends up playing the maxi mum of 10 games at 200-1. The chance of pick ing that many winners is next to nothing. Oh, you'll win at times. The pool makers aren't perfect. But 19 times out of 20 you won't. And then there's the problem of col lecting if you do hit. Chances are when a num ber of hits are made on the same weekend, the syndicate will fold in the area and no one gets paid. And you can't do a thing about it—not a thing—because you can't beat a gamble+ at his own game. AT THE MOVIES CATHAUM: Panic In The Streets STATE: The Furies • NITTANY• Caged STARLITE DRIVE-IN: Chicago Deadline FRATERNITY NEWSPAPERS All Kinds of Printing Commercial Prinling Glennland Bldg.. State College STARLITE DRIVE-IN ON BELLEFONTE ROAD Shows 7 and 9 p.m. THURSDAY & FRIDAY "CHICAGO DEADLINE" Alan Ladd Dona Reed Also Selected Short Subjects COMING SOON "LONESOME ROAD" —Ernie Moore THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Safety Valve . . . Playing At West Point TO THE EDITOR: I would like to inquire why the State football team always plays Army at West Point? Penn' State plays at Pitt and a few other schools every year, and I can understand why— because of the larger crowds. But Michie Sta dium at West Point only seats 28,000 while our own enlarged stadium holds approximately 30,000. It seems to me the enlargement of Bea ver field was useless. • Letter cut Ed note—Regulations of the military aca-. demy prohibit Army from playing more than a few games each season away from West Point, according to Harold R. Gilbert. grad uate manager of athletics. In addition, sched ules are arranged from three to five years in advance which means that this game was contracted while Beaver field held 14,000. Half A Loaf TO THE EDITOR: Your editorial concerned with whether we are fighting Russia or com munism omitted to say that the two are not entities, but the producer and the product of a destructive scheme for world domination. Nations do not just fight, as you infer the United States and Russia are doing, without the trappings that give reason for that struggle. We can call it democracy versus communism, but more, it is freedom versus tyranny. Would you consider these minor issues to be shorn from the nations who represent them just to bring a peculiar sort of clarity to the situation? The allies we have are not whitewashed in the people's concept of such things, even though the government is working in another direction. Sometimes it is better to have half the loaf„ corrupt as it is, than nothing at all. • Letter cut Plan For The Union TO THE EDITOR: I'm for a Student Union building, naturally, but I'm not at all in favor of the method used to finance it. , A student book store—one that sells new books is the only real solution to raising money for the major part of the cost. I'm not asking that we print our own books as they do at Harvard, only that we sell them and keep the profit for our own benefit. A few years ago we were refused permission to operate a book store because of pressure put on the board of trustees by certain townspeople. It seems the reason given the students was that it was undemocratic, or uncapitalistic or some such thing. If democracy, or capitalism, there means making money, why shouldn't the stu dents be given such a noble opportunity to practice it? Why should we give up the fight for a new book store, especially now when it seems that we'll have to shell out an extra 7.50 or 10 dollars every semester for the rest of our stay here? Gazette . . . Thursday. October 5 PENN STATE FORESTRY' SOCIETY, 105 White Hall, 7 p.m. SIGMA TAU, 219 E.E., 7 p.m. NEWMAN CLUB lecture-discussion "reli gion and science," 106 Osmond, 7 p.m. PENN STATE POULTRY CLUB meeting, 204 Hort Building, 7 p.m. WRA SWIMMING, White Hall pool 7 p.m. WRA OUTING, 2 White Hall, 7 p.m. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT For information concerning the following jobs applicants should stop in 112 Old Main. Linotype operator, experienced only. Experienced clothes presser. COLLEGE HOSPITAL Admissions: Kenneth Hager, Richard Mock, Henry Stewart. Discharges: Melvin Boyd, Ruth Rand, Rich ard Patterson, George Watson, Margaret Con sidine, Theo Isenberg. —Rayinond George '5l —Joe Hudak —Joseph K. Geiger Little Man . On Campus ~ ..5..,--',.- '• . • r ••'-'- -,.... Fre ;11\ 77,111)), 1 1 1 A A I\ i . \AW "I I "What's this I hear about working out a hidde Oliver Says— (Continued from page one) ready sent copies to Secretary- General Trygve Lie and President Nasrollah Entezam of the Gen eral Assembly. Links North Korea, Russia Oliver called Soviet possession of the letter "another direct proof" of the connection between North Korea and , the Soviet Union and said that the contents of the letter were turned over to the Russian foreign office when the Communists,seizgd. Seoul. Former manager of the Wash ington bureau of the Korean Pacific Press and authoi• of "How War Came To Korea," Dr. Oliver is now acting as counselor to the Korean delegation to the United Nations.• Club To Sponsor Belle The Penn State club voted un animously Tuesday night to spon sor a girl in the Belle Hop Queen contest. Club members should turn photographs of their choices to the club office, 411 Old Main, no later than Tuesday, Oct. 10. A new rule of the club states that all members must attend at least one of three successive meetings. Plans were made to begin a club combo, which will play at all club functions. Ray Evert, club treasurer, will be in charge. Hat Men To Usher Members of Blue Key and An drocles who will serve as ushers for today's inaugural ceremonies are asked to report to David Mc- Kinley, College marshal], in 121 Sparks at 8:30 a.m. THURSDAY, ciurubr.rt a, 10:5.0 ATth the new coach baXl play?" ROTC Units Show Increase Numerical strength of th e Army ROTC units on campus stand at 1135, Col. Arthur R. Walk, professor of military sci ence and tactics, revealed yester day. . This is an increase of 610 stu dents participating in the mili tary -program at the College. Much of the increase represents the influx. of freshmen, who in previous years received their bas ic training at cooperating schools. Commenting on draft defer ments for the ROTC students, Col onel Walk said deferment quo tas regulate the .number of fresh man and sophomores who will not be drafted. All advanced ca dets are at present in a deferment class. Freshmen in ROTC on the cam pus and at 'cooperating schools. who are exempted from the draft number 453, and 440 sophomores fall into that classification. Students finishing the four year course offered by the ROTC may be called for two years active duty, the Colonel said. Women's Debate A preliminary meeting for all sophomores, juniors, and- seniors interested in women's intercolle giate debate will be held in 2 Sparks at 7 tonight. Tryouts for upperclassmen will be held next Thursday night. Those freshman women who did not attend the preliminary meeting last night may report to 2 Sparks at 7 p.m. next Wed nesday. There wil be no fresh man tryouts. By Bibler Igig 1 1) 11 1%IiI I II:it, i I . c . I j.n • it . ~. P I, ' I ",t -
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