PAGE FOUR flro Battg_enttegiant §uecessor to THE FREE LANCE, est.—lBB7 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in elusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian of The Penney vania 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 get necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned edi• terials are by the editor. Dean Gladfelter Editor Managing Ed., John Dalbor; City Ed., Herbert Stein; sports Ed., Ray Koehler; Edit. Dir., John Ashbrook; Wire Ed., Art Benning; Society Ed., Beanie Krebs; Feature Ed., Janet Rosen; Asst. City Ed., Jnck Boddington; Asst. Sports Ed., Joe Brett; Asst. Society Ed., Bettina dePalma; Senior Board, Bill Detw•eiier. Asst. Bus Mgr.. Thomas M. Karolcik; Advertising Dir., Barold L. Wollin; Local Adv. Mgr., Norma Gleghorn: Pro. motion Mgr.. Laura Mermelstein; Circulation Co-Mgra.i Edward W. oyes, Gerald F. Yeager; Personnel Mgr., Edwin Singel; Classified Adv. Mgr.. Shirley Faller; Office Mgr., Sue Halperin; Secretary, Winifred Wynn!. Political Platforms Should Be Examine 4 Political lines are being drawn once again and with the spring-like zephyrs will come the smoke of political conflict in increasing volume. And with that smoke comes a problem. FOR A NUMBER of years campus politicos have bid for the favor of student voters on the basis of "platforms" submitted before elections for student consideration. There is some variety as between parties and election years, but there is one basic similarity which has pervaded the field of campaign promising for some time and that is the high degree of forgetfulness ob served by the politicians after election time and the subsequent absence of fulfillment. For example, the attainment of a student press has been a mainstay in all party plat forms since the day (it seems al least) that the printing press was invented. The press is still conspicuous by its absence. Improvement of dormitory phone service has• been another popular issue. but one can still dial 5051 for fifteen minutes in the evening and get the dreaded busy signal, or stand in endless lines in dormitory lobbies. Granted, many of these proposals involve circumstances which it is difficult for student groups to surmount. And certainly student gov ernment groups should • make whatever effort possible toward realization of these goals. The objection lies not so much in non-performance, bu t in the continuing practice of "conning" votes from innocent believers by giving the im pression that student government can accom plish anything overnight. THE STUDENT VOTER, certainly, should re view the platforms, giving careful thought to the practicality as well as the theory, but he should cast his ballot for those individuals, not parties, whom he feels are most honest and sincere in their personal desires to further stu dent welfare by whatever means at hand. Jack Boddington PSCA Project A practical demonstration of the value of town-campus cooperation will be presented when the Penn State Christian association takes over operation of the . College Sportswear store for a week, beginning Monday. Main goal of the plan is to overcome the PSCA budget defi cit under which the group is now operating. THE COOPERATIVE PLAN, suggested by .Tohn Baldwin, owner of College Sportswear, involves staffing and operation of the store by students and allotment of ten per cent of the week's gross income to PSCA. The individual student having the highest sales for the period will receive $5O in merchandise. Regular store employees will supervise operations. Christian association leaders hope that the project will produce sufficient funds to put the organization's operations back into the black. A large number of students will be needed to man the counters during store hours. If you're looking for commercial selling exper ience, or interested in the $5O merchandise prize or in materially aiding PSCA through this stormy financial period sign up in 304 Old Main this week. Sign Of Progress As spring weather, including March rains, approaches, students will find themselves stumbling through many fields of mud. Reac tion generally will go no further than the mut tering of a choice phrase or two. Some will complain that the College must be conserving grass seed. In a sense, however, mud is a Penn State sign of progress. Usually its presence indicates that a new building foundation is being dug, that workmen are installing underground utility equipment or, even, that a new sidewalk is under construction. When it is none of these, students probably are ignoring sidewalks situ ated nearby. For the past five years, through a period of one of the biggest college expansion programs in the nation, students unhappily have faced the prospect of spring mud. Still, that campug sea of mud constantly has meant a sea of pro gress for Penn State, Owen E. Landon • Business Mgr. —.John Ashbrook -J. A. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Red Cross Drive Starts Tomorrow This year the Collegian was spared (some would, say, denied) the task of writing innum erable "contribute to this worthy charity" edi torials in support of equally innumerable fund drives by sundry charitable organizations. This is due to the fact that most campus charity drives were combined in the Campus chest campaign last semester. YET, a separate fund drive will begin in State College for the Red Cross tomorrow. Because of a national policy, the Red Cross declined to become a part of the Campus chest drive, and as a result has been barred from actively soli citing funds on the campus. Students, of course, may make whatever contributions they deem fit. We do not know the reason for the Red Cross policy against cooperating in chest cam paigns. We assume the Red Cross has its rea sons and feels they are sufficent. Neither do we feel capable of judging whether the policy of excluding non-cooperating charities from campus solicitation is ethically correct. Argu ments both for and against giving to the Red -- Cross can be presented. One position which, we feel, cannot be main tained is that, because it would not cooperate in the Campus chest, students should not con tribute to the Red Cross. Contributions to char ity remain , a matter of personal feeling and evaluation, and, we believe, students should base contributions to the Red Cross on the mgrits of the organization and not on its disassociation with the combined charity drive. Gazette . . . Wednesday, February 28 • AIM Board of Governors, 214 Willard,o7 p.m. AMERICAN SOCIETY of Civil engineers, speaker, Dr. Jorrissen, 107 Main Engineering, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN business freshman board, 9 Car negie hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN editorial sophomore board, 1 Carnegie hall, 7 p.m. DUPLICATE BRIDGE club and tournament, TUB, 6:45 p.m. NEWMAN club lecture-discussion; "The De fense of the Faith," rectory, 7:30 p.m. PSCA cabinet meeting, 304 Old Main, 8:45 p.m. ROD AND COCCUS bacteriology club, 206 Patterson hall, 7:30 p.m. WRA BRIDGE, White hall play room, 7 p.m. WRA DANCE, White hall rhythm room, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN business freshman board, 9 Car negie hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGE PLACEMENT Farther information concerning interviews and job place-. monis 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. National Supply company will interview June graduates in 1.E., M.E., and Png Eng. Friday, March 9. Elliott company will interview June graduates in M.E., and E.E., Friday, March 2. Duquesne Light company will interview June graduates in E.E.. M.E.. and C.E. Monday, March 5. Union Carbide and Carbon corp., Electro Metallurgical division, will interview June graduates in M.E., E.E.. C.E., CO'. Metal., Chem., Chem. Eng., Phys., and Math. Monday, March 12. American Cyanamid company will interview June grad uates in Chem. and Chem. Eng. Monday, March 12. Koppers company, Inc. will interview June graduates in C.E., 1.E., and M.E., Monday. March 12. Haskins & Sells will interview June graduates in ac counting who are interested in public accounting Monday March 12. Colgate Palmolive-Peet company will interview June graduates in Chem. Eng., and M.E. Monday. March 12. Diamond Alkali company will interview June graduates at B.S. and M.S. level in Chem. nod Chem. Eng. Monday, March 12. General Electric company will interview June graduates at the B.S. and M.S. level in E.E., M.E., T.E., Aero, Eng., and Phys. Tuesday, March 13. Sears. Roebuck & company will interview June graduates interested in retailing Tuesday, March 13. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT For information concerning the following jobs, applicants should atop in 112 Old Main. Room and board for student able to do outdoor work farm experience preferred. Barber, for three afternoons a week; intake offered; local shop. Substitutes wanted for dining ball and snack bar; re muneration in meals; off-campus residents. Interviews now being scheduled for Camp Henry, Mo.- hopes Fall, N.Y. Male student in Ed., Soc., Psych.; juniors, seniors, graduates. General, nature music counselors wanted. Representative will interview morning of March 3. dusky man with transportation for permanent part-time job Monday and Friday mornings and all day Wednesday. COLLEGE HOSPITAL Patients: John Allen, John Herren, Margaret Betts, Gary Bromberg, Joseph Burke, William Cook, William Craven, Lorraine Dolphin, Ervin Hamme, John A. Harris, John R. Harris, Mino cher Karkhanavala, Harry Kohl, Wayne Mur phy, Eugene Peterson, Nathan Rambo, Michael. Sabo, Harry schwartz,_ Audrey Seely, Walter Seibert, Fred Stanley, Albert Zihmer, and Da vid Zinn. AT THE E MOVIES CATHAUM: Hit Parade of 1951 STATE: South Side 1-1000 NITTANY: Two Flags West STAFF THIS ISSUE Night editor: Lee Stern; copy editors: Bob Fraser and Carolyn Barrett; assistants: Frank Hedrick, Bettie Loux, Pat Nutter, John Shep pard, and Ted Soens. _ Advertising manager: Joan Harvie; assistants: Betty Zimmerman, George Wieand, Merritt Din nage, Eleanor Puno, Helen Brown, Cordell Mur tha, Cyril . Farrelly, Ed Shanken. Little Only. Principle For Which American Youth Will Fight Look magazine, among others, recently featured an exhaustive article on the reaction of college men to the world situation, par ticularly in - regard to the draft. In Look's four-campus survey, the phrases, "something that's got to be done," "job of work," "I guess I'll go if I have to" seem to keynote reaction. There is no flag waving, no eager drive to make the world safe for something or other. In short, the old-time three cheers and a brass band patriotism is completely lacking on the cam puses surveyed. The reaction is a fatalistic, "I'll fight because the government says I have to." LOOK SUMS UP its ideas on the reason for the decline of hoop la in the sentence, "Five years, it seems, is not long enough to forget." By this, the writer re fers specifically to the horrors of war, brutally brought home to American youth by the veterans returning fr o m World War 11. Certainly no one can doubt that stories of men burned to scream ing death by jellied gasoline; of "basket cases," strange living fragments of human beings who might better have died; of men chopped up in a hundred bizarre manners—that these stories have curdled the stomach of the new group of fighlers. So no one can deny that, in part at least, the lack of pa triotism among draft-eligible youth stems plain and simple from a horror of the personal effects of war. But, despite Look's conclusions, that is not the whole story. After the bit ter slaughter of the first World War, after the hideous realism of "All quiet on the Western Front," men still rallied to the American cause in World War 11. The five years since that con flict are significant not primarily because the horrors of war are still fresh in the American mind, but because the American mind will not accept the proposition that white can turn black and 70 per cent of 'Gentlemen, Be Of Good Cheer' The Feb. 28, 1941 issue of the Daily Collegian, in observance of the first anniversary of the 1940 leap year, was produced by an all female staff. A male .member of the staff staff think it's their world. Okay, let 'em have it." In "their" issue, the coeds re ported that men should be "sure to wear long pants to the Senior Ball tonight . . . It's .formal you know." And, "Gentlemen, be of good cheer, Coeds to the extent of 76 per cent prefer personality to clothes, convertibles, cash or comeliness." One ga 1 reporter observed, "Every coed soon realizes that something doesn't add up when her date stares into her eyes and • The Ordnance Research laboratory conducts research and de velopment work in mechanics, hydraulics, electronics, and dcoustics. Laboratory operations are directed toward creation and. develop ment of underwater equipment for the Bureau of Ordnance of the U. S. Navy. The laboratory building provides 30,000 square feet of floor space for offices, shops, and special research rooms Man On Campus I see it's about the end of the hour and say, I'd appreciate it if you'd try and cut-down on the noise when you leave." WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1951 By Bibler . //.e A black, white; that savages can become friends and friends, sav ages; that evil becomes good and good, evil, all in the short time since the Japanese surrender. THE BUTCHERS and rapists whom we were taught to hate as a 'Nazi scourge of freedom have suddenly become shoulder-to shoulder staunch allies of that freedom. The Japanese fiends whose abominations could only be hinted at in print have metamor phosed into our little brown bro thers.' Spain is no longer a strong hold of facism but a bulwark of defense, to be pumped full of American dollars. Meanwhile, the Russian sol diers who held a world breath less with their defense at Sta lingrad, who soaked up enough German elite divisions to help save England, who took the most brutal beating with the • most splendid courage ever seen—these Russianl have be come our deadly enemies. The wise, friendly Chinese people who climaxed a battle for free dom by ousting an intolerable warlord are now an evil scourge of the east. Whether these things are true or not, wiser men will say in some distant time. But no people with as great a stake in war or peace as the American can possibly sac cept these propositions. And so American youth counts itself be trayed in its principles and will not fight for those principles, but only for the principle "the gov ernment says I have to." noted, "The women on Collegian pours forth words strikingly simi-. lar to thpse uttered by his fra ternity brother last week-end." "It's, surprisingly easy to clas sify your date by the type of line that he uses," she wrote. Examples of lines included: "You know I've never met a girl quite like you before. I like you because you're so unusual." "Your -intelligence is what interests me." "You're so sweet and feminine. I'd like to take care of you for a long, long time." --Ron Bonn
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