PAGE FOUk Olge Eittilg Collegian Successor to THE FREE LANCE..est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in clusive 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 under the act of March 3. 1879. Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned edi• toriala are by the editor . Dean Gladfelter Editor Managing Ed., John Dalin.; City Ed., Herbert Stein; Sports Ed., Ray Koehler; Edit. Dir., John Ashbrook; Wire Ed., Art Benning; Society Ed., Deanie Krebs; Feature Ed., Janet Rosen; Asst. City Ed.. Jack Boddington; Asst. Sports Ed., Joe Breu; Asst. Society Ed., Bettina dePalma; Libra rian, Bill Detweiler. Asst. Bus Mgr., Thomas M. Karolcik; Advertising Dir., lfarold L. Wollin: Local Adv. Mgr., Norma Gleghorn: Pro motion Mgr., Laura' Mermelstein; Circulation Co-Mgrs.. Edward W. Noyes, Gerald F. Yeager; Personnel Mgr., Edwin Singel: Classified Adv. Mgr., Shirley Faller; Office Mgr., Sue. Halperin; Secretary, Winifred Wyant. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor: Carolyn Barrett; Copy Editors: Lee Stern, Jack Garretson-Butt, Bob Vosburg; Assistants: Virginia Sinclair, Ad a Bortoluzzi, Jake Highton, Evelyn Kieler, Paul Crofford. Advertising Manager: Ed Shanken; Assistant: Joan Harvie. Donor Facilities For State College An important way in which Penn State stu dents could serve in this period of national crisis is through donation of blood for medical use. A valuable medical item in normal times, blood is of even greater importance while Amer ican soldiers are engaged in a shooting war. Red Cross blood banks constantly are seeking more and more donors. With a student popula tion of some 10,000 and more than 6000 resi dents in the borough, State College is in an excellent position to aid in this project. AT PRESENT, the Red Cross is operating a "bloodmobile" in central Pennsylvania. To bring these portable facilities to State College, various financial, administrative, and operational prob lems would have to be worked out. But these problems are far from insurmountable. The student group best equipped to promote this project is the camous unit of the Red Cross. Working with the town Red Cross and with other campus and borough organizations, the student unit might be able to establish donor facilities in State College within the next few months. For a project so worthy of one's interest and energy, a project through which many can con tribute materially to the well-being of others, action cannot come too soon. Alpha Phi Omega The Boy Scouts of America this week are celebrating the 41st anniversary of the organi zation's founding. Boy Scout week is being ob served in ceremonies throughout the nation, in cluding one at the White House where President Truman greeted a group of eagle scouts. For more than 18 years, value of the scout movement has been demonstrated on the Penn State campus by the Alpha Beta chapter of Alpha Phi Omega. Alpha Phi Omega is a service fraternity whose members all are former scouts. THOSE WHO have been confined in the in firmary are familiar with the regular visits of APO members to perform various services for patients. New students entering the College last September were aided by the Alpha Phi Omega information booth on the Mall. Members of the fraternity regularly collect lost-and-found items from camnus buildings and assemble them in the Student Union, and they serve as ushers for the community forum series. Soon they will be assisting in the Religion-In-Life-week program. Many other projects of this group could be cited. Herbert Axford, president of the Alpha Beta chapter, has said that the purpose of the fra ternity is "to assemble college men in the fel lowship of the scout oath and law, 'to develop friendship, and to promote service for human ity." He notes four major fields of activity: ser vice to the student body and faculty, service to youth and community, service to members of the fraternity, and service to the nation as participating citizens. The 125 Penn State members of Alpha Phi Omega are demOnstrating by service to fellow citizens on campus their adherence fo this code and to the lessons of past scouting days. —J. A. o Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. • Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression: this right includes free dom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of fron tiers. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. • Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. Uni versal Declaration of Human Rights. Owen E. Landon Business Mgr. John Ashbrook THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Change Needed In Voting Age In line with our previous discussion on an absentee ballot which would simplify voting for college students, it might be well to take up again the question of whether the voting age should remain at 21. • DURING WORLD WAR II there was a con siderable movement in favor of lowering the voting age to 18. One state Georgia has done so, and apparently has suffered no ill ef fects. A constitutional amendment to lower the voting age once was introduced into Congress, but nothing ever came of it. Since the war, sentiment on this issue seems to have died out. At that time, one of the major arguments was that, since 18-year-old youth were eligible to be drafted into the armed forces, men who were old enough to die for their country cer tainly were old enough to vote for the officials who decided the nation's policies including the policy of drafting 18-year-old men. If that argument contained any validity half a dozen years ago, it is just as valid today. An argument even more valid, we feel, is that young men and women fresh out of high school are still comparatively untouched by th e corrupting influences of contemporary American politics, and probably can be relied upon to vote as intelligently as their elders. It also has been suggested that failure to let citizens vote before they are 21 helps to limit the total vote because young people quickly lose interest in their franchise. The best way to keep up their interest is to let them vote as early as practicable. On the question of intelligent voting, we can not agree with those who charge that young people are more prone to be irresponsible in casting ballots. We doubt if more than a small minority of our citizens really vote with much inteligence, and we doubt seriously whether including 18-year-olds in the enfranchised group would lower this percentage. BX Benefits The recent announcement by the student book exchange and supplies store, the BX, that 20 per cent returns were paid on all purchases made during the past semester, proves what a remarkable success an undertaking like this can be. The book situation has always been among the main gripes of the student body, and now, through the conscientious efforts of the stu dent operators, a solution seems in the offing. Already it has been made possible to sell used books and to pick up lower-priced texts, like wise used. School supplies have been sold at what has turned out to be a 20 per cent saving which, over the course of a semester, can cer- thinly be a large enough figure to make the patronization of such an enterprise worthwhile. AT THE PRESENT time, the BX has a com plete line of used textbooks on its shelves. If students would really get behind this non-profit business and push it to the fullest, they would be doing themselves and all the incoming Penn Staters a real favor, and at the same time give a hand in improving the book retail situation. Bud Fenton Gazette . . . Wednesday, February 7 COLLEGIAN sophomore board, 1 Carnegie hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN junior board, 1 Carnegie hall, 8 p.m. COLLEGIAN business staff, freshman board, 9 Carnegie hall, 7 p.m. WRA dance, White hall rhythm room, 7 p.m. WRA bridge, White hall play room, 7 p.m. COLLEGE HOSPITAL Patients: Robert Allman, Elmer Feller, Aron Hoffman, Richard Lee, Lawrence Lindberg, and Janet Rosen. COLLEGE PLACEMENT - - Further information concerning interviews and job place ments can he obtained in 112 Old Main. Seniors who turned in preference sheets will be given priority in scheduling interviews for two days following the initial announcement of the visit of one of the com panies of their choice. Other students will be scheduled on the third and subsequent days. Bethlehem Steel company would like to have preliminary application blanks from June :Traduates in M.E., E.E., C.E., Chem. Eng., Mining Eng., Metal. and Ceramics. Blanks may be obtained in 112 Old Main before Feb. 9. National •Bureau of Standards will interview M.S. and Ph.D candeates in Physics, Electrical Engineering. and Mechanical Engineering Mon :y. Feb. It. R.C.A. Victor division will interview June Graduates in Chem. Eng., E.E., and M.E. on Monday, February 19. E. I. Dupont do Ncmours company will interview June graduates at the B.S. and M.S. levels in Chem. Chem. Eng., C.E., E.E.. M.E., Mining Erg., Pro. Eng., Ceramics, Metal, and Fuel Tech. Monday, Feb. 19. The Department of State will consider June graduates from among those who have taken the junior manage ment assistant and social science assistant examination. All students interested in being considered should leave their names at 119 Sparks or the Placement service. 112 Old Main. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT For information concerning the following jobs, applicants should stop in 112 Old Main. SENIOR GRADUATE student fo r organic chemistry research; permanent part-time job on campus. MALE STUDENT, liberal ar t s major pre ferred; to work in exchange for room; must have late part of afternoons free. WEST DORM RESIDENTS for West dining hall; no 4 o'clocks, no 8 o'clocks; remuneration in cash. BUSBOYS and dishwashers for TUB; per manent hours Tuesday 9 a.m. to 12 a.m.; Wed nesday 9 p.m. to 12 a.m.; Saturday 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. Little .ran On Campus By Bibler • oto s . :40 iho• ° /‘ ', • • \l o s /-0630.ret - • "Your blind date is an Alpha Phi Omega and all I can find out about him is that he's trustworthy, loyal, helpful. friendly, cour. teous, kind. obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent." (Note: The following is what we hope will be a weekly view of doingf on the campus, and other assorted items. Being at a loss for a name. we solicit your advice. This will be a contest unlike any others. We won't offer the bell tower of Old Main or the tail of the Nittany Lion. In fact, we won't offer anything, other than the chance to see your idea in print. This method will also protect you from jumping to a higher income fax bracket.) COLLEGIAN'S EXPANSION to eight pages daily meant new jobs for some of the staff and more work for everybody. Some staff members were even, half jokingly, asked to pound their typewriters in search of new columns for the editorial page. This is the editorial page, in case you didn't know. Many students know it only as "the page with the Bibler cartoon." Publication of the columnist's picture was offered as one tant alizing incentive. We hope this will not also serve to direct the aim of irate readers who like to throw physical as well as verbal ham mers at their favorite recorders of campus trivia. That is a picture, by the way, which heads this column. It is not "the thing" as 'was suggested by one unkind observer. "The thing" may now be viewed, incidentally, hanging on the office wall in Carnegie hall. An Ardent Reader recently mailed it in. He said he found it near the Duck pond, stabbed it to death in a groundhog hole, sliced off a piece of its hide and sent it to us for chemical analysis. It's black, rectangular and soft and that is about all I can tell about it, ex cept that you can have it for the three cents postage which Ardent Reader forgot to put on the en velope. A VISITOR at t h e Home Ec cafeteria one day last semester appeared to be picking at hi s stuffed pepper, prepared by a Home Ec class, with considerable caution. "What's wrong?" some body asked. "Don't you like the food?" "Oh, it's all right," he re plied, "but I'm always afraid I'll get a dish prepared by somebody who's flunking this course." One prof made certain his students would not miss all the questions in h !s recent final exam. The first in a series of matching questions read: "this institution," and in the, right hand column was found "the Believes Gym Shirt Proper Attire TO THE EDITOR: I think that it is very fine for Mr. G. Roderick Snyder to believe that coats are the proper attire for dinner, as expressed by himself in Thursday's (Jan. 18) Collegian. Had Mr, Snyder stopped his letter at that point he would have made a fine impression (maybe). Mr. Snyder went on to say that the regulation gym shirt is not proper attire for the kitchen help. In this he may have had another fine idea, except that he ob viously does not know that the person in question did not come running from gym class and does W EDN E:•3IJA IIi',LIIZUA4Y 7, 1951 You Name It By HERBERT STEIN Pennsylvania State College." A later question tested the know ledge of a more select audience. In the left hand column ap peared "the beer that made Milwaukee famous" and at the right, "Schlitz." Then he really got tricky by throwing "Lr,;;, Boudreau" and "the Bo s ton Red Sox" into the answer col umn without a corresponding question. * * SEX, sports and the draft were shoved aside for exams and cheat ing in the conversations of stu dents late last semester when two students, one graduate and one undergraduate, w e r e implicated in the theft of a Spanish final. Comments heard in every coke fountain, hallway and restaurant in town indicated that the ethics involved evidently depended on the stability of your pocketbook: We heard everything from "Who would pay $25 for any exam?" to "Why would a guy take such a chance for a lousy 25 bucks?" A blind date is like a grabbag," a friend complained to us re cently, "and my grabs always end up as bags." not exude a bad odor. The gym shirt belongs to the person in question and, in my opinion at least, does not. endanger your health as much as the meals. P.S.—I question if this person would accept one of your shirts, Mr. Snyder, if he were in dire financial difficulties. ' ***7 Harry M. Carroll
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