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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.