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Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in
efeafre during the College year by the staff of The Daily
Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College.
Entered as second-class matter July 3, 1934, at the State
College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers,
uot necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned edi
torials are by the editor.
Dean Gladfeller
Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor: Dorothy Laine; Asst, night edi
tor: Nancy Moncton; Copy editor: Paul Poor
man; Assistants: Pat Nutter, Margaret Trolier,
Bettie Loux, and Dot Benr.et.
Advertising manager: Don Jackel; Assistants:
Evelyn Marasovich, Elaine Notare.
Better Collegian
In the past, the Collegian has pleaded the
cause of many ideas deemed of value for Penn
State. This time, for a change, Collegian finds
itself in the position of pleading its own cause.
WE FEEL that the best way in which we can
serve the student body is to print as much of
the news as possible for the information of the
students. Over the years, we have come to real
ize that the present size of the Collegian is in
sufficient for this purpose. Consequently, we
have proposed the 35-cent increase in the Col
legian assessment to enlarge the paper to eight
pages daily.
With an eight-page newspaper, we feel we
should be able to give sufficient coverage to
all of the many campus activities especially
those which have had little news space be
cause of the small size of the paper and also
to present' added features, such as a greater
amount of world news.
Collegian realizes that, to tackle such a job,
it will be necessary for many of its staff mem
bers to give more time than before to their
work on the newspaper, and for the system of.
news coverage to be expanded immensely. The
results, however, we deem worthwhile both
from the viewpoint of greater service to the
students and the school, and more experience
for the staff. If the students are willing to give
the necessary financial support, the staff stands
ready to contribute its time and effort for the
project.
WE ORIGINALLY presented the proposal be
cause we considered it a project of advantage
to the students and the College as a whole. The
proposal comes up before cabinet for its first
of two votes tonight'. We feel that, on the ques
tion of the assessment increase and the subse
quent expansion of Collegian news space, cab
inet would best be serving the interests of the
students and the College by voting “yes.”
Voting Holiday
In a recent editorial, we indicated that vote
less students that is, those who caiinot afford
to cut classes to go home to vote in local, state,
and national elections will find it rough go
ing in their efforts to have the General Assem
bly pass an absentee voting law.
OUR POSITION, which we have maintained
for several years, is that: “Unless they can cast
their ballots to vote against lawmakers who op
pose absentee voting, there is little chance that
students will be able to make their influence
felt on this or any other measure.”
In other words, we see little chance that
students will obtain absentee voting rights
until they are able to make their pressure feli
by actually voting.
Such a proposition seems almost an impossi
bility. However, there is one suggestion of
fered time and again in recent years but never
accepted which would allow students to make
their voices heard. This suggestion is a voting
holiday oh election day.
In the past, the College has excused absences
for voting, but classes were continued on elec
tion day and many students were little inclined
to lose a day of classes. The reason given for not
accepting the proposal always has been that it
came too late to be included in the College
calendar, which is adopted a long time in ad
vance of any dates included in it.
ANOTHER PRINCIPAL objection —and
probably the most important one is that most
students will not bother to go home to vote
anyway in fact, that many students will hot
be eligible to vote.
We can only admit that these objections are
true enough. Even with a voting holiday, many
students will be unwilling or unable to incur
the cost of going home for a day merely to
make X’s in little squares. However, we do not
think that these objections preclude considera
tion of the voting holiday proposal.
We would suggest that the proposal be con
sidered on the basis of whether the good it
would do in turning out some sort of student
vote would be great enough to outweigh the
possible evil in everybody’s getting a holiday
fbocn classes.
Owen E. Landon
Business Mgr.
Advertising Revenue
TO THE EDITOR: On Jan. 4 you had an edi
torial on the subject of cost of the Collegian.
In addition to the other assets, I believe all
would be interested in the sum received for
advertising. We aren’t paying for that, are we?
In the same issue, of 600 cubic inches of space,
280 cubic inches were taken up by advertising.
This is approximately 47 percent of the paper.
It doesn’t leave us too much does it?
Charles Lansberry
Ed. note The January 4 issue was the first
following the vacation in which a number of
town merchants wanted to advertise year-end
inventory, sales. The 47 per cent figure is un
usually large. The inches referred to were
probably square, not cubic, since the Colle
gian has never been known to be three di
mensional. Advertising revenue figures ap
pear on another page in today's paper.
Shower Nozzles
TO THE EDITOR: So some of the men in the
West dorms do not like the shower nozzles, tsk,
tsk. If they are veterans of the army and the
Nittany dorms, I am sure they have forgotten
the conditions in these places far too soon. I
suggest they join the army or exchange rooms
with my roommate and I. Contact us at dorm
36, room 18 in the Nittany area.
Gazette...
Thursday, January 11
CIRCLE and Square club, 100 Horticulture,
7 p.m.
AMERICAN Society of Mechanical Engineers,
316 Sparks, 7 p.m.
FACULTY society meeting, 105 Forestry, 7
p.m.
INDUSTRIAL Relations Research association
election of officers for spring semester, 202 Wil
lard hall, 7 p.m.'Regular January meeting can
celled.
AMERICAN Chemical Society, student affil
' iate chapter meeting, 119 Osmond laboratory,
7:30 p.m.
WEST DORM speaker, Professor A. M. Wel
lington, of the School of Engineering. Topic:
“The Three B’s,” Thompson hall lounge, 7 p.m.
INTERNATIONAL Relations club, election of
officers, 218 Willard hall, 7:15 p.m.
DELTA SIGMA PI, Lambda Chi Alpha frat
ernity, 8 p.m.
SCABBARD AND BLADE, 7:30 p.m., Sigma
Pi.
SIMMONS musicale, 7:30 p.m., Simmons hall
lounge.
WRA swimming, White hall pool, 7 p.m.
WRA outing, 2 White hall, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Farther information concerning interview* and job place
ments can he obtained In 112 Old Main.
Seniors who turned in preference sheets will be glvai
priority in scheduling interviews for two days following
the initial Announcement of the visit of one of the com?
pantes of their choice. Other students will be scheduled
on the third and subseauent days.
Rohm & Hass company ■will interview graduate students
who will receive their M,S. and PhD in 1951 in Aero.
Eng., Chem Eng., Eng. Mech., M.E., and Phys. Jan, 23.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
For information concerning the following jobs, applicant*
should stop in 11? Old Main.
Truck and driver for Student Dry Cleaning
route Monday, Tuesday: Thursday .evenings,
Friday afternoons; cash reimbursement.
Off campus resident for substitute duty in
women’s dining hall; remuneration in meals.
One or two engineering students to work on
campus evenings mainly; reading thermometers
and manipulating mechanical equipment; about
12 hours a week; permanent.
First class telephone engineer for local trans
mitter repair and maintenance; 20 hours per
week.
Stenographer for remainder this semester;
possibly second semester; local church office;
work schedule flexible.
Factory demonstrator for electric appliance
firm to work in State College and Bellefonte on
Saturdays. C& F majors with car preferred;
permanent: excellent hourly rate; interviews
being scheduled.
Five salesmen to work until February Ist
selling Valentine candy; 15 per cent of every
thing sold; local territory; can sell when sche
dule permits.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Safety Valve ...
An Expanded Paper
TO THE EDITOR: Space limitations most
consistently hindered adequate Collegian cov
erage of campus and outside news during my
four years on the staff (1945-49), even though
Collegian expanded from two four-page papers
weekly, to four and then five editions, with
one or two eight-pagers, per week. (From an
average of about 9 to an average of about 27
pages weekly.)
Since Collegian has been and can be a vital
medium for the constant improvement of Penn
State, a cabinet dedicated to the advancement
of Penn State will approve the increased assess
ment, and give Collegian the opportunity to
improve its service to the College community,
both next semester, and in years to come.
While you are to be commended for promot
ing this short-term answer to the space prob
lem, it is hoped that the long-range answer to
all student printing needs (toward which Col
legian led in the major steps taken during the
last three years) has not been abandoned.
AT THE MOVIES
CAHAUM: Bom To Be Bad
STATE: Highway 301
TtftrSAßHfc Ifatu m
—Lewis Slone, '49
Richard Herald
Little Man On Campus
"This text is $6.85, but if you'll write your name only once in pencil
don't mark or dog-ear the pages manage to keep from
soiling the binding, we'll give you $1.35 for it next term."
Col legion Fee—
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month. A large group of new
students is riot expected in Feb
ruary.
Landon said furthermore that
a 1000 drop in erirollment would
necessitate proportionate reduc
tion in circulation unless print
ing costs remain stable.
He pointed out that cost of
newsprint has risen from $6 to
$lO a ton throughout the natiori
and that typographical unions
were pressing wage raise de
mands.
Landon explained budget item
increases thus: Cost of photo
graphs and engravings would in
crease because more’ pictures
would be used in an expanded
paper. Cost of Associated Press
news would be raised because a
teletype machine would be rented
to provide more world news than
currently is used. More materials
and supplies—the paper currently
is running ahead of its budget on
this item— would be needed for
a larger paper. The same would
be true of costs of distribution.
The editorial features item was
increased to allow coverage of
more Nittany’ sports events away
from home.
Local Advertising
Although local advertising has
increased this year, its future is
uncertain, and national advertis
ing has dropped; because many
firms are investing in television
promotion, he said.
Gladfelter stated that the edi
tors were at work on a new
system of extensive news- cover
age which is expected to make
it possible to report news of all
groups on campus. He said an
effort would be made to get in
touch with every campus group.
Organizations would have a
greater guarantee of seeing their
news in print if the paper were
expanded, he said.
Other Papers
Landon stated-that the assess
ment plan would not be out of
line with what is being done by
student newspapers of similar
size at the universities of Utah,
lowa, and Kansas, which have en
rollments near that of Penn State.
Reducing the amount of space
alloted to advertising and keep
ing the present assessment would
not provide more news space be
cause the number of eight-page
issues would have to be reduced
proportionately, Landon said. He
pointed out that volume of ad
vertising determines the number
of eight-page papers to be
printed.
Gladfelter said the theory that
a student press would solve the
news space problem was not
sound, because there ■would be
no financial saving by which the
Collegian could increase its size.
Offset type printing—the only
method possible with funds now
at hand—would prove unsatis
THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1951
By Bibier
■ ■/
IFC Votes Against
Collegian Increase
Interfraternity council last
night voted to instruct President
Harold Leinbach to vote against
the proposed 35-cent Collegian
assessment at the meeting of All-
College cabinet tonight. The vpj|e
was 26 to 12.
previously, IFC had voted in
favor of the assessment. The vote
taken at the meeting Dec. 6 was
18 to 16.
Induction-
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said, was that a student whose
induction had been postponed
had been accepted for the Army,
but would not be taken until the
conclusion of the current school
year.
Other draft regulations sum
marized in the notice were:
1. All students must register
with Mrs. Sara E. Case in the
dean of men’s office, 109 Old
Main, *when they reach the age
of 18. '
2. Students can arrange to take
their, physical examinations in
Altoona by seeing Mrs. Case.
3. Students who are notified
to take physicals should- have
R. M. Koser, assistant, recorder,
G-4 Willard hall, notify the local
draft board that the student is
enrolled at Penn State.
4. Students ordered to take
physicals cannot enlist in one
of the services.
5. “These regulations do not
apply to those men who are in
the reserves. Decisions concern
ing postponement reservists are
by the services involved .. .”
6. These regulations are sub
ject to change by Congress.
All advanced Army and Air
Force ROTC students are de
ferred. Most, but not all sopho
mores are deferred; little mpre
than half the second semester
freshmen are deferred, and nd
freshmen are deferred under
present Army and Air. Force
ROTC regulations.
Juniors To Hold
Meeting Tonight
A junior class meeting will be
held tonight in room 3 White hall
at 7 o’clock, David Mutchler,
junior class president, announced.
The additional Collegian
assessment will be discussed at
this time. A committee to con
sider the choice of the class ring
will be appointed at the meeting.
Preparations for the all-College
square dance to be sponsored by
the class this Saturday night wiU
be made.
factory because it would make
impossible the covering of news
events occuring after dinner, he
said.
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