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Tim Elaitg_ettitegiatt
Successor to THETitEE 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
torials are by the editor
Dean Gladfelter
Editor ztt.
Managing Ed., John Dalbor; City Ed., Herbert Stein;
Sports Ed., Ray Koehler; Edit. Dir., John Ashbrook; Wire
Ed.. Art Henning; Society Ed., Beanie Krebs; Feature Ed..
Janet Rosen; Asst. City Ed., Jack Boddington; Asat. Sports
Ed.. Joe Breu; Asst. Society Ed.,
.Bettina dePalma; Libra
rian. Bill Detweiler.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor: Rosemary Delahanty; Copy Edi
tors: Re d Keller, George Glazer; Assistants:
Greta Weaver, Janie Reber, Doris Golub.
Advertising Staff: Dick Rossi, Bette Agnew,
Margie See, Lew Hoover, Stanley Zimmerman.
Hardships Involved
In Acceleration
With the possibility that classes may be ac
celerated because of the national emergency
and the draft, Penn State again is facing the
type of trying times through which it had to
struggle in World War 11.
Acceleration, because it is more intensive,
would work many hardships on both students
and faculty, both of whom will have to work
harder and longer. There could be difficulties
involving revision of the whole curriculum,
in translating credits. Possibly some toes
might be tramped upon in the process. In
addition, many if not all students will be
come iregular and class distinctions, for all
practical purposes, might be wiped out.
Extracurricular activities also would suffer
due to the shortage of time available to students.
College life could well become more barren
and hectic.
But, in difficult times, about all that can be
done is to put up with difficult situations and
make the best of them. Penn Staters apparently
are in for more trying times, and the best thing
they can do about it is to accept the fact and
salvage as much as they can of today's easier
mode of college living.
Improved Depot
If the boroughs of State College and Belle
fonte act soon, they will be able to acquire land
for a new air field or to improve the present
depot and will have to pay, at the mast, 50 per
cent of the costs.
The boroughs will make a big mistake if they
don't take advantage of the partial federal and
state subsidies set aside for the development
and improvement of airfields.
IT IS TRUE that committees have investi
gated the airport situation within the last year
and a half and that action was taken Feb. 5 by
the Bellefonte and State College borough coun
cils to set up an air authority for investigation
and management of the air facilities in the Cen
tre county area.
But the boroughs should do more than set
up authorities; they should take advantage of
the subsidies before the fiscal year is up this
summer.
According to William N. Leonard, chairman
of the State College Commerce club's aviation
committee which recently investigated the coun
ty airport situation, the federal government will
provide 50 per cent of the money needed for
acquisition of land for a new air field.
Also, under existing laws, improvement of the
present depot could be financed 50 per cent by
federal money and 25 per cent by state money.
THE PRESENT DEPOT has been closed since
the first week in January when All-American
airways, the only airline operating from the
field, closed its offices. A suspension of services
Was granted the airline by the Civil Aeronautics
administration because of the poor conditions
of the field. A new or improved field must have
a landing strip of 4000 feet, a hard-surface run
way, and lights for night flying.
J. Robert Rowley, public relations manager
for the airline, has said that All-American is
anxious to resume service as soon as proper.
facilities are available. He said that figures.
proved the State College area has the largest
travel potential of any stop on the company's
New York-Pittsburgh route.
In these times of national uncertainty and
growing demand for preparedness in case of ari
emergency, a properly equipped airport would
be an asset in the county's civilian defense pro
gram. Supplies could be brought to the area;
evacuations could be made, if the need arose;
and that all important contact with the rest
of the world could be maintained even if roads
were blocked.
STATE COLLEGE and Bellefonte need not
share the entire burden of the development or
improvement of an air depot if they take ad
vantage of the state and federal subsidies.
Committees and air authorities are fine steps
in the right direction. But more definite action
by the borough councils, a yes-vote that State
College and Bellefonte will use the subsidies
for a modern efficient airport, should be forth
coming.
IN THE WORDS of Sherm Lutz, operator of
the depot before its closing, action must be
taken and it must be taken before the fiscal
year is over or a golden opportunity may be
lost.
Owen E. Landon
Business Mgr.
Moylan Mills
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Council Support
Spurs Inkling
Many of us probably recall the fable in which,
for the want of a nail for the shoe of a horse,
a great battle was lost. For a while it appeared
that such a situation h a d successfully fore
stalled publication of the Inkling, the yet un
born literary magazine.
Before Tuesday's action by the Liberal Arts
student council, it appeared that the Inkling
might never see the light of day because there
were no funds available to meet possible losses.
In the absence of such funds, it seemed that
the only solution would be guaranteed circula
tion, possibly by making the magazine required
reading for certain English composition courses.
NOW the Liberal Arts council has voted to
grant $5O to its meagre budget to the Inkling,
and editor Samuel Vaughan has announced that
he intends to go ahead with publishing the first
issue. The backing given by the LA council ap
parently will serve as a spur to other interested
groups or persons able to stand behind the mag
azine financially. At least, Vaughan now is will
ing to go ahead with production on the basis
of the LA grant.
Let us say immediately at this juncture that
we wish every possible success to the staff
of the magazine, and that we hope the Ink
ling will find widespread acceptance and sup
port among the student body for which it is
being produced.
We also would like to congratulate the LA
council for its unselfish action action which
it was under no obligation to take. This step by
the council, which put aside its own private in
terests for what it conceived to be the good of
the student body generally, should set an exam
ple for the many other students and groups who
all too often act only on the basis of what is
in it for them. Were this unselfish attitude man
ifested more often, the Penn State campus
would be a much happier place to live.
IN ADDITION, we would suggest that pro
posals for a guaranteed circulation not be
dropped without further consideration. Finan
cial backing to meet losses will not solve all
problems of the Inkling, and no avenue should
be left unexplored in the efforts to establish the
literary magazine.
Now that the Inkling seems to be on its way
toward realization, we may be thankful that it
did not die unborn for the want of a nail.
Voting Petition
Penn State students should be glad to support
the-National Student association petition urg
ing the state General Assembly to adopt an ab
sentee voting law or to propose an amendment
to the state constitution• making such a law
valid.
If the petition should prove successful, it
would be a major victory for the student move
ment, in that it would set up machinery which
would make it possible for students of voting
age to cast their ballots without having to make
trips home.
We can see no good reason why students—
or anyone - temporarily living away from home
—should be forced into the inconvenience of a
trip home in order to vote in an election. A
system of absentee voting would be far bet
ter than a student holiday on election day,
or the present practice of excused absences
for students going home to vote.
Every student on campus should be ready
and willing to sign the NSA petition and to give
it his support until 'the issue is fought through
to its conclusion.
Gazette ...
Thursday. February 15 •
CIRCLE, and Square club, 405 Old Main, 7
p.m.
CIRCULO ESPANOL, main lounge Simmons,
7 p.m.
FROTH candidates, 3 Carnegie hall, 7:30 p.m.
NEWMAN club lecture, "The Reformation,"
speaker Dr. Rix, 106 Osmond, 7 p.m.
PIVOT verse magazine, 239 Sparks, 8 p.m.
PSCA, FTA, ACEI joint meeting, 110 Electri
cal Engineering, 7:30 p.m.
WRA SWIMMING, White hall pool, 7:30p.m.
WRA OUTING, 2 White hall, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Further anformation concerning interviews and job place
ments can oe 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.
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics will inter
view June graduates at all levels in Chem. Eng., E.E., M.E.,
Aero. Eng.. Metal., Phys., and Phys. Chem.; at the Ph.D.
and M.S. level in Arch. Eng. and C.E.; and at the Ph.D.
level in Math. Monday. Feb. 26.
Ingersoll-Rand company will interview June graduates in
M.E., 1.E., Mining Eng., and Chem. Eng. Monday, Feb. 26.
E. R. Squibb & Sons will interview junior students who
are interested in summer employment in Chem. Eng..
Chem.. Commercial Chem.,and Science Tuesday. Feb. 27.
Arma corporation will interview June graduates in
M.E., and Physics Tuesday, Feb. 27.
Merck and company, Inc. will interview June graduates
in Chem. and Chem. Eng. Tuesday, Feb. 27.
__Armstrong Cork company will interview June graduates
In Chem. Eng., Chem., Arch. Eng., 1.E., M.ll, A&L, C&F.
Journ.. Ed., and Advertising Wednesday. Feb. 28.
Linde Air Products company will interview June grad
uates at the B.S. and M.S. levels in M.E., Chem. Eng.,
Aero. Eng., C.E., E.E., LE., and Chem. Wednesday, Feb. 28.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
For information concerning the following jobs, applicants
should stop in 112 Old Main.
Girl or boy to cook for couple and , share meal Plus
receiving $l.OO, five days per week; hours I to 7 p.m.
Humor Angles
"We'll have to have a heart to heart talk with him some
night about what he intends to do when he graduates."
Roberts Says ...
Red Campaign
Starts Backfiring
•
By J M. ROBERTS, JR.
Associated Press Foreign Affairs Analyst
Russia's campaign to mobilize Europe's Communists for action
in the event of war is backfiring.
Several months ago reports began to come out that party lead
en in France, Germany, Italy and elsewhere were being told to
clear their skirts, weed' out unreliables, and prepare for sabotage
not only of the European rearmament program, but of their coun
tries if war came. For months
before that the Communist party
had been busy weeding out the
weak-kneed among its members
in the satellite countries
ADDING to the pressure, seek
ing to centralize control of every
strategic weapon in Moscow, the
Russians increased their grip on
both the military and economic
resources of -the satellites. She
had been requiring them to sell
.her their industrial and other
products at prices fixed far below
world markets. But they . still
were permitted to sell any sur
plus elsewhere.
Now, according 'to American
trad experts, Russia is taking a
vast proportion of all satellite
output—at the same low prices—
and acting, as middleman for them
in world trade to build up her
own supply of dollars.
Being required to foreswear
their own countries in favor of
'Russia, and to build up expensive
. and Russian-controlled military
establishment while their econ
omies were thus drained, has
proved too much for a lot of
Communists. They have taken
to the Tito road.
Several of Italy's chief Com
munists have • resigned outright
rather than agree not to defend
their country against Soviet at
tack. An Associated Press survey
shows Titoistic "deviation" and
resultant purges throughout the
Cominform sphere.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA is boiling.
We do not ha•Ve details but Vlado
Clementis, f or m e r Communist
foreign minister, is missing. There
Bat Battered By Science
The story of a bat that meandered into the Smithsonian institp.
tute and wound up as a museum niece was disclosed recently.
The bat was flying around in the department of zoology one
morning when one of the Smithsonian's scientists opened up shoo
for the day. The scientist quicklY batted the bat down, humanely put
it out of commission, and then preserved the skin and skull for the
Smithsonian's collection of mammals. .
The Smithsonian has long had bats in its belfry suecificallY in
the famed "Brownstone Tower" overlooking the capitol mall. But
this was the first time one of the creatures had shown uu on one of
the lower floors of "America's treasure house."
.
The story came to light when a reporter was looking over a list
of recent acauisitions to the Smithsonian's vast collection of animals,
plants, reptiles. insects, pottery, rare stones, meteorites, dress goods,
and other materials from all over the world. The erstwhile touring
bat was- duly-listed as a "gift" to the museum from the scientist who
had scored the early morning K.O.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1951
were reports that President Klem
ent Gottwald had lost out for
"protecting" Clementis too long.
This has not been confirmed.
American observers in Czecho
slovakia have been suspicious,
however, that Clementis an d
Gottwald could not last because
they would turn out to be more
Czech than Communist. They are
members of a Communist clique
which resented Russian coddling
of Germans across the border, and
who opposed Russia's desire for
the return of several hundred
thousand Sudet.an Germans to
work in Czech factories.
Gottwald also was believed too
slow about farm collectivization
to suit the. Russians. This was one
of the issues which brought about
the Cominforrn split with. Tito's
Yugoslavia.
At any rate, the European Com
munists, whether in free or satel
lite countries, seem to be learn
ing that even the greatest subserv
ience to Moscow is insufficient;
that Russian promises are not
meant to be kept; that interna
tional Communism not only steals
their patriotism but saps their
economies. Russia's going to have
a hard time out-arguing that.
Latin-American Musk
Professor Robert 3. Clenients;
head of the .Department of Ro
mance Languages, will play and
comment upon records featuring
Latin-American versions of North
American music tonight on "The
Music of the Nations" over WMAS
at 8:30.
By The Associated Press