PAGE FOUR o . lle Elatig Collegian Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive 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 writ ers. not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned editorials are by the editor. Mary KrasnanskyiD 1 Edward Shanken u.csl, Editor tz Business Mgr. Managing Ed., Ron Bonn; City Ed., George Glazer; Sports Ed., Ernie Moore; Edit. Dir., Bud Fenton; Asst. to the Ed., Moylan Mills; Wire Ed., Len Kolasinski; So ciety Ed.. Carolyn Barrett; Feature Ed., Rosemary • De lahanty; Asst. City Ed., Paul Poorman; Asst. Sports Eds., Dave Colton, Robert Vosburg; Asst. Society Ed., Greta Weaver; Librarian, Bob Schooley; Exchange Ed., Paul Beighley; Senior Board, Lee Stern. Asst. Bus. Mgr., Jerry Clibanoff : Advertising Dir., Howard Boleky; Local Adv. Mgr., Bob Leyburn ; Circu lation Co-Mgrs., Jack Botsford, Joe Sutovsky; Personnel Mgr., Carolyn Alley; Promotion Co-Mgrs., Bob Koons. Melvin Glass; Classified Adv. Mgr., Laryn Sax; Office Mgr., Tema Kleber: Secretary. Nan Bierman; Senior Board, Don Jackel, Dorothy Naveen, Joan Morosinl. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night editor, Arnold Bloom; copy editors, Mildred Martin, Jake Highton; assistants, Greta Dunsmore, Dot Bennett, Laura Badwey, Free man Singer, Emily Jackson. Advertising manager, Terry Moslak; assistant, Lew Hoover. Students Name Eisenhower Prexy' "The trustees can appoint a president for the College, but only the students can appoint. him 1 3- rexy'." Yesterday the students, through retiring All- College president Robert Davis, did just that. It was an honor the President has earned. If we know the President at all, it is an honor he will cherish. Not since the death of the beloved Ralph D. Hetzel in 1947 have the students had a Prexy. Hetzel won the title of Prexy shortly after he came here from New Hampshire. He won it be cause he never forgot that students were more than mere matriculation numbers being pro cessed through an educational mill. He won it for his understanding for and sympathy with the problem of the student. There was never a time that his doors were closed to any student. In the less than a year Milton Eisenhower has been in the Nittany Valley he has shown, de spite the tremendous schedule imposed upon him by the duties of his office, that his major interest is the individual student. Coming here two years after the death of Hetzel, the Presi dent found an office loaded down with an ac cumulation of work. Despite this burden, he has found time to chin with students on every ques tion imaginable, sign autographs for the curious, attend athletic events with unfailing regularity, and keep the College informed on national and international affairs. In the word's of one of the President's assistants at Kansas State, Milton Eisenhower "doesn't just occupy an office; he absorbs it." We first met the President , during Orienta tion Week. We were reporting his address to the new students. To make things easy for "the press" the President gave us his notes when he was finished. We can remember him coming out on the steps of Old Main for a football rally and stand ing in the rain telling the crowd that he had heard the noise from his home and "couldn't resist joining in the fun." We remember how he.dropped in at the TUB the afternoon the Windcrest children were rollicking through their Christmas party, and when he pulled a good many fraternities out of real trouble by granting' a request that 133 men be released from their dormitory contracts. Fully aware that "Ai least 50 per cent of the value of education comes from the total en vironment in which the students live," Presi dent Eisenhower has contributed much to the Penn State environment. Penn State students have themselves a Prexy. Political Partiality In a recent edition of The Campus, the Southern Methodist student newspaper, the number one story was the news that a charge of "supporting a campus political party" had been lodged against the paper. The charge, made during a student council meeting, stated that. "the Campus had stifled politics and shown partiality" to one of .the parties. Although like charges have been placed against the Daily Collegian this year, it was not uncommon to have members of either party complain about the coverage that the political factions were being given. At one point in the campaign. clique offi cials of both the Lion and State parties com plained about the "slant" in a story printed the day before. Each claimed that the same story was slanted to favor the other party. Occurrences such as these cause the reporter involved to wonder just what is required of a THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Radio. Station Best Choice For Seniors Members of the senior class yesterday began voting to determine what will happen to the $BOOO set aside for the class gift. That balloting will continue through today in the lobby of Old Main. Seniors are faced with seven choices. As has already been noted in these columns, one of these gift suggestions is, unnecessary, another frivolous. The gate at the juncture of Route 322 is unnecessary, the statue "The Lineman" is frivolous.. Of the five remaining choices, it would seem that the wisest would he the campus radio station. A further contribution to a student press fund would at this time appear to be unwise. Some $20,000 is now in, the student press fund. Yet there fails to exist in the minds of responsible student leaders a concrete plan as to what should be done toward the establishment of a student press. That there is doubt about plans for a student press was indicated at the last meeting of cabi net. A motion to select a committee which would study the student press situation during the coming year was approved. If cabinet feels that study of the plan should take from six to 12 months, seniors would tie rather foolhardy to allocate the class fund for a student press at this time. In contrast, there is every indication that the allocation of the $BOOO to a campus radio station would be sufficient to set up a system that would serve all students on campus, in fraternities, and in the larger independent living units in town. A campus radio station could be operating on campus by fall with the support of the senior class. Seniors would do well to consider this when they cast their ballots. Gazette . . . Thursday, May 3 CIRCLE AND SQUARE, 405 Old Main, 7 p.m. COFFEE HOUR, cabinet and dean of men, 109 Old Main, 4 p.m. DISPLACED PERSONS committee, 304 Old Main, 7 p.m. ENGINEERING student council, new and old member, 102 Engineering A, 7 p.m. FRENCH club, Simmons lounge, 7 p.m. • NEWMAN club, Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas lecture, Dr. Mourant in charge, 107 Main Engineering, 7 p.m. PHILOSOPHY club, meeting scheduled for Thursday cancelled. PSCA BIBLE STUDY, 304 Old Main, 4 p.m. WRA OUTING, 2 White Hall, 7 p.m. WRA SWIMMING, White Hall pool, 7:30 p.m. COLLEGE PLACEMENT Further information concerning interviews and job place rents can be obtained in - 112 Old Main. H. J. Heinz company will interview students with a basic training in Chem. & Biology for summer work Monday, May 14. Navy Bureau of Ordnance will interview June graduates in Chem. Eng., Chem., Phys., Aero. Eng., C.E., E.E., 1.E.. M.E., S.E., Metal., Meteo., Mining Eng., and PNG Tues day, May 15 . Allen B. Dumont Laboratories will interview June grad uates in E.E. Thursday, May 17. General Electric, Steam Tubine Division of Philadelphia will interview June graduates in M.E. Friday. May 11. Fairchild Aircraft will interview June graduates in Aero. Eng., M.E., C.E., and E.E. if enough students are interested. Interested students should leave their names in 112 Old Main before May 10. American Flexible Coupling Company will interview June graduates in M.E., 1.E., E.E., Thursday, May 8. Remington Rand, Inc. will interview June graduates in Marketing and Acct. interested in selling if enough stu dents are interested. Interested students should leave their names at the college placement service before May 10. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT For information concerning the following jobs, applicants should stop •in 112 Old Main. Odd jobs available in quantity for remainder of the week; hours to fit your schedule. Presser for local tailor shop; permanent part time to fit class schedule. Student's wife with days free for permanent part time job binding books; local concern; good working conditions. Two interviewers with cars for three weeks work in sur rounding counties; salary and expenses plus cash for car mileage; men or women who can give almost full time to the project.. COLLEGE HOSPITAL Fred Abeloff, Paul Bickel, Larry Boxer, Bar bara Bright, Beatrice Cetlin, Annemarie Cola russo, Jack Cunningham, Robert Decker, Don Farley, Bill Haltiwanger, Virginia Hamilton, Ronald Kimmich, Chester Makarewicz, Virginia Melcher, Rose Ann Monack, Jim Paterson, Al Plotkin, John Ruffner, Louis Sheckler, Lewis Tomlinson, Glenn Wiggins, Ronald Wint, How ard Wolff. AT THE MOVIES CATHAUM: Fighting Sullivan STATE: Belle of Grande NITTANY: Kim STARLITE DRIVE-IN: The Petty Girl newspaper account in order to include all that should be printed and remain impartial. The only people who are willing to set up tnese requirements are those in the news them selves, hardly the ones to whom the newsman wants to listen. Little Man On —Bud Fenton -~ 4."4 '-~;rw:rv4.+may { ~ . 2v ~=.y "Just don't let an engineer stand you in front of a wind tunnel!" Fundamental Issues Iranian Sorespot To many Americans, Iran is as unfamiliar a household word as was Korea ten months ago. Then the so-called police action by the United Nations following June 25, the day on which North Koreans blazed across the 38th parallel, brought Korea home to Americans. Now, Russia's increasing pressure on her neighbor Iran may make that country just as familiar. In a major war with i.he West, Russia will need the rich oil re serves inside the Iranian borders. An analysis of data recently available from the Soviet press shows that Russia is far behind the united States in the produc tion of oil. Furthermore, the re habilitation of the oil fields at Baku, Russia's chief source, has failed to materialize during the fourth Five Year Plan. With conditions in Iran ripe for breeding communism, the Soviet is not missing a chance for a coup in that area. She is both wooing and threatening her distressed neighbor. The Iranian people are on the whole destitute, and disease, poverty, and unrest are the fertilizers on : which the Kremlin-sown seed thrives best. Moscow and mis ery have always gone hand in hand. Against this background one factor grows in importance. The only highly organized political party in Iran is the Tudeh, the pro-Red faction. It has been out lawed but can operate advanta geously underground as well as above.' Furthermore; the Tudeh has in the past boasted that Iran will follow along the general pat tern of Korea. On Monday, th e Tudeh had 30,000 May Day demonstrators in Parliament square in Teheran. The communists were loud in their acclaim for the Soviet and just as noisy in the jeers they threw at the United States, Bri tain, an d the present Iranian government. With the assasination of Pre mier Haj Ali Razmara and the Safety Valve ... Wants Dope On Party Lottery TO THE EDITOR: Sometime ago. I was asked to 'contribute to the Lion party, a small donation apparently for campaign pur poses. In return I was given a ticket which I hold in my possession, for a drawing to be held on April' 14, 1951. Now I don't mind the loss of 10. cents (we lose a lot more on assessments, etc.), but if the drawing was held, why wasn't• some note made of it? Is such a drawing illegal? Why was it kept Campus ~f`~ { :`~.~~ v : ~: r}.~~ !J owo. r _ ^~`-_ i. ,Y~%l i %tr4.p~~ ~~ f re• - •;"' OMR By LEN KOLASI•NSKI resignation of his successor Hus sein Ala, the West has lost two men sympathetic with the Wet ern world. Last Saturday Moham med Mossadegh took over th e soot left by both men. He is the anti-British leader of th e Na tional Front party. Though Russia cannot, as in the case of Korea, prod a sat ellite into open warfare with Iran, there have been indica tions that the Tudeh may at tempt a coup. To assist in any such action it has been esti mated. that between 10,000 and 15,000 troops are in readiness across the Soviet border. More over, to offset any tie-in with Russia, the troops have been referred to as "liberation" for ces and "free Iranians." The play for Iran is on. Mean while, both the United States and Britain are countering any con centration of Russian power along the Iranian border by rush ing to completion air bases in the Mediterranean area. The United States has also sent a 25- man military advisory mission and an undisclosed number of tanks and arms to Iran. Further more, a $25,000,000 Export-Import bank loan has been offered to stabilize the economy of the, im poverished Middle East country. However, the situation has taken a new turn. Yesterday Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi signed an act which seizes the British-owned Anglo-Iranian oil company. Some observers feel that the Iranian government is incapable of operating the oil fields successfully. What happens next will fore tell whether GI Joe may have to defend those oi 1 reserves. so quiet? —Marvin Crompton Ed. Note—U.S. postal regula tions do not allow the publica tion of news of lotteries. For that reason, the Daily Collegian has not reported the drawing. THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1951 By_ Biblcr i, /'4,
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