PAGE TWO '' Satlg Collegian SacetMor to THE FSEE LANCE, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in doshre during: the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-class matter July 5» 1934, at the State College, Pa- Post Office nnder the afct of March 3. 1879. Dean Gladfelter Editor - MiniginE Ed., John Ualbor; Nnri Ed., iwn Degler; Sports Ed., Kay Koehler; Edit. Dir., Herbert Stein; Society Ed., Deanie Krebs; Feature Ed., Janet Boaen; Asst. Sports Ed., Art Benninc; Asst. News Ed„ John . Ashbroofc; Asst. Society Ed., Bettina dePaima: Photo Ed., Wilson Barto: Senior Board: Jack Boddinston, Bill Detweiler. Asst. Bns. Mcr.. Thomas M. KSrolcik: Adrertbin* Dir., Harold L. Wollin; Local Adr. M*r., Bon R. Mandes; Promotion Mer.. Laura Mermelstein; Circulation Co-Mgrii.. Edward W. Noyea, Gerald F. Yeager; Personnel Ed win Singel; Classified Adr. Mgr.. Shirley Faller; OlHcs Mgr., Loretta Stempinaki: Secretary. Winifred Wyant: Senior Board; Norma Gleghorn. Delores Horne, Mary Kauffman, Sn. Halperin. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night editor: Paul Poorman; Asst, night edi tor- Mildred Martin; Copy editor: Dave Colton: Assistants: Paul Crofford, Bob Fraser, and Joan Kuntz. Advertising manager: Dick Rossi; Staff: Gor don Fisher and Jim Jubiliere. Time For Thought President Eisenhower’s plea that students not slacken up on. their studies because of the un certainties of the future deserves serious con sideration from every Penn Stater. IT IS TRUE that these are trying times—that no student eligible for the draft knows what his future will hold. But this is not the time to forget our purpose in being in college and the place of the intelligent man in modern society. This is not the time for rash action. It is the time for thought the time for intelligent action to cope with the problems which are plunging the world toward chaos. Intelligent men are needed as leader? for today and to morrow, and it is the job of colleges to pro duce these leaders. Men with, specialized training also will be needed engineers, agricultural scientists, chemists and physicists. They will be essential if this country must build up its might in the face of a world crisis. And they—as much as the social thinkers—will be needed for the recon struction which must follow. * The men who will build the future of this country can be produced only in colleges. Those men can serve their country best by continuing their education and preparing to take their places in the future. TODAY THERE IS a great tendency to ease up on studies, with many students feeling there is little use in continuing because they may be in Korea in another six months. This is a ten dency which must be fought, and fought vigor ously. W e therefore add our voice to President Eis enhower’s in urging that Penn Staters make the best of a difficult situation and continue to pursue their studies with all the energy they possess. Open Cabinet Cabinet meetings have outgrown the cramped space of 201 Old Main. THE MEETINGS are open to all students but vou \voui4 never know it from the little space allotted to visitors. If you come early, you might get a seat. If you don’t, you probably won’t even find room to stand. This practice unfortunately discourages many students who might like to drop'in oh Cabinet's sessions. A larger room such as can be found in Sparks, Osmond laboratory or Electrical engineering would easily solve the problem. ~ Those who would benefit specifically are the students interested in some particular question Cabinet might be discussing and want to leave when that discussion is over. Leaving a Cabinet meeting now creates a commotion about hlce the Russians stamping out of the United Na tions. . . . .CABINET NOW meets in a larger room about once a semester to allow students a chance to witness student government in operation. . That once a semester is inadequate is evi denced by the number of meeiings this semes ter In which latecomers have had to stand. The chief argument for a smaller meeting place is that it permits more intimate and in formal discussion. But the chance to encourage students to participate in their own government should certainly outweigh this. Cabinet is al ready a fairly large body and it is open to question as to how much intimacy and infor mality there is now. , , . . „ . MAKING IT EASY for students to attend these meetings can be one of the first acts. di rected toward increasing direct participation. Most students who do attend are likely to take part in some of the discussions and that is ex ited wbat student government or any other ‘ government shouid strive for Owen E. Landon Business Mgr. Hvffcwri Stein THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Absentee Ballot The Collegian wholeheartedly supports the NS A proposal to the General Assembly that an absentee voting law for Pennsylvania be passed. We favor the proposal because it would allow college students many of them who cannot afford to miss classes a chance to vote in local, state, and national elections. CONSEQUENTLY, we hate to sound a sour note on a project which we favor strongly. How ever, we doubt that NSA’s proposal to the General Assembly will receive much consid eration in this session, and we have even graver doubts about its possibility of passage. To begin with, any such proposal is bound to raise a storm of protest among the state's legislators. Some will wish to protect their vested interests, and will show little favor toward any plan which would expand the franchise. Some will feel that if a person can not or does not go home to vole he does not de serve to vote. Some no doubt will oppose the measure merely because they are opposed to change. Secondly, the forthcoming session probably will be one of the most rugged in recent years, with a number of controversial measure's sche duled to come up. The state’s legislators will be concerned with the big problem of reapportion ing Congressional and General Assembly elec tion districts, and that should raise quite a par tisan political dogfight. Structure of the state’s tax machinery probably will be in for a good deal of consideration, because the state needs more revenue. THEN THERE will be problems attendant to the current national emergency, which should consume a good deal of time and energy. Add to this the possibility of serious political battles over appointments which now qan be blocked by. the minority party in the Senate and you have a fine picture of a tumultuous and lengthy session. When all this is mixed well with the fact that a new and inexperienced governor will be presenting his important budget pro posals relatively late in the session, you have a good indication of why the lawmakers prob ably will not get around to the absentee voting proposal. Finally, there is the fact that students who cannot get home to vote have no way of making their opinions felt except by what is called “moral suasion.” Until they can cast their bal lots to vote against lawmakers who oppose ab sentee voting, there is little chance that students will be able to make their influence felt in this or any other measure. NONETHELESS, our hats are off to NSA for its efforts in this direction, and we wish the body all the success possible. Safety Valve ... Stockpiles Of Collegian TO THE EDITOR: It is a well known fact that hundreds of copies of the Daily Collegian are taken by College employees who do not pay for the privilege of reading this paper. Since it is the students who are already assessed a fee for the publication of this paper, they should not be doubly assessed when so many office employees are benefiting by it. If these “free” stockpiles of the Daily Colle giafi were restricted to those who could show a matric card, the excess papers that usually go to the non-paying readers, could be devoted to making a bigger and better newspaper for the students without an increased fee. Another sol ution would be to assess the office personnel who read the paper as well as the students. Regis L. Gallagher Ed. Role Collegian efforts to cut down on this thievery by policing the Student Union desk has done some good, but about the only way one can be sure a person is entitled to a Collegian is to ask him to show a matric card. We would favor such a plan were we sure it would not slow down the process of picking up a paper fo the extent that some students would pass up their paper in the rush to get to class. Gazette... COLLEGE PLACEMENT Farther information concerning interview* and job place ments can obtained in 112 Did Main. Link Belt company will be on campus to interview January graduates in E.E., C.E., and M.£. if there .are enough students interested. Leave name at 112 OW Main by Wednesday, Jan. 10. Houco Hold Finance corporation will interview January graduates at the B.S. level in C A F, A A L, ED., and Fhys Ed. on Wednesday, Jdn. 10. Wheeling Steel corporation will be on campus to inter view January graduates in Fuel Tech., M.E., 1.E., and Metal. If enough students are interested. Leave name at 112 Old Main, by Wednesday, Jan. 10. . Westihglipuse A*r Brake company is interested m M.E. graduates. Leave name at 112 Old Main, by Wednesday. Calvert Distilling company will interview January gradu ates in M.E.. 1.E., E.E.. Bact., Chem., Chem. Eng., Bio- Choni, Forestry, and women in C&F Wednesday, Jan. 10. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT For information conceminr the following jobs. a#plk**t» should stop In 112 Old Main, Two men to split permanent part-time work iit local snack shop; hours 8:30 p.m. to 12 p.m.; cash plus meals. . . . West Dorm residents with no 4 o clocks for 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. duty in West Dorm dining hall; remuneration in cash. , . _ ~ Delivery truck driver for local market Friday afternoons and all day Saturday each week; permanent. . „ ... Nittany or Pollock residents for Nittany din ing cdm mo ns; permanent; remuneration in cdsh. v Technical secretary for campus job; 3 hours per week; shorthand required; ability to han dle numerical tabtos and indexing desired. Little Man On Campus "Did you ask for the salt, Louise' A Bonn Mot Santa In The Chips Christmas, 1950, has gone its violent way. With a single possible exception, it has been the most ballyhooed Christmas in history. Now the battered populace gathers its shattered Visits once more and takes stock. CHRISTMAS IS ONE of the three unshakable ideals of every good businessman the other two are Motherhood and The Amerj can Way of Life. Hence, 1950’s primory manifestations of the Christ mas spirit were at so much, per column inch and per hour of air time. Tallying up radio's Christmas, we get these results. Adeste Fideles was sung twenty-seven limes by six popular baritones, and' ' was never pronounced correctly Crosby made the most gallant try. The clear, reedy voices of unwashed children cracked lb the ■■ demands of Siyulent (sic) night on 83 occasions. Every radio broadcast save three put on a special Christmas per- < formance. The three radicals are no longer with us. Each Christmas performance came complete with a Happy Ending, Usually with the Family gathered about the Hearth singing carols more or less on key. Forty per cent of them involved clearing the reputations of Fallen Women. Other, popular, themes were the Reunion, the Tele gram from the. War Department, the Child (usually with overtones), the Good Lad at Heart, and Father Is a Stupid Old Boy," But He’s Still. Good for a Laugh. INTERSPERSED WITH ALL THIS cracking good entertaimnent was a modicum of commercial announcements a ratio of about three .every five minutes, exclusive of station break spots. These usually look Ihe form of valuable suggestions for the harried Christmas shopper. (Only Communists don't shop at Christ mas, as every retailer knows.) Recommended for Christmas giving were refrigerators, wash boards, pornographic anthologies, insurance policies, 10 0 - pound sacks of cement, 100-pound sacks, 150-pound sacks—no, that's a tele vision actress; how’d she get in here? —and items of even more rele vance to the Joyeux Noel Leaving the airways for the other major medium of Peace on Earth and a 50 per cent mark-up, magazines blossomed in cheery, expensive reds and greens, and were dominated by' two characters— Santa Claus and the dollar sign. The theory behind this is that Santa gives things away, but only after father pays $11.98 for them. Santa is a pretty good businessman himself. Ask his advertising agency. Student Awarded Scarab 2nd Prize Fredrick Sheridan, a senior in architecture, won second prize in the annual “Scarab traveling sketch exhibit,” an exhibition of student work sponsored by Scar ab, national architectural profes sional fraternity, it was announc ed recently. Sheridan’s prize -winning sketch was entitled “Coal Tipple.” The exhibit was judged at the Scarab national convention, Cin cinnati, Ohio. Delegates of the College chapter, Raymond Miller and Regis Gallagher, said more than 100 entries were judged. First prize was won by a Uni versity of California .student. Heat On In Simmons As Fire Guts trdshcan Rihgihg of the fire alarm roused residents of Sirrimons hall yesterday morhing. The alarm was set off when paper in a trash can in a third floor closet was set on fire by a cigarette. There was a lot of smoke but nothing was damaged. For Best Results Use Collegian Classified FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1331 By Bibler Ron Boon Walk Takes Post In The Marshalls Brig. Gen. Arthur R. "Walk, former professor of military science and tactics at the College, has taken over command of the army ground troops at Eniwetok proving grounds in the Marshall islands. General Walk’s troope are a part of Joint Task Force Three commanded by Lt. Gen. Elwopd R. Quesada. US Air force. Task Force Three has the mission of testing atomic weapons for the Atomic Energy commission. Deadline Set For Frosh, Soph Druids Applications Second, third* ahd fourth se mester men interested in being tapped for Druids, sophomore men’s hat society, should send in applications postmarked not later than Sunday night, Gene Kolber, tapping chairman, an nounced yesterday. A list of requirements for tap ping in the society an activities honorary for , men considered outstandings in athletics, appeared in the Dec. 15 issue of the Col legian. , ~ , • All applications should be mailed to Gene Kolber, Pi Lamb da Phi, Borough.
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