RAGE FOUR atm Elatig Collegian Successor to I'llE FREE LANCE, eat. 1882 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 6. 1934. at the State College.' Pa. Post Office under the net of March 3. 1879. Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writ. era, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned editorials are by the editor Mary Krasnansky , ry e Edward Shanken Editor Business Mgr. Managing Ed., Ron Bonn; City Ed., George Glazer; Sports Ed., Ernie Moore; Edit. Dir„ Bud Fenton; Makeup Ed., Moylan Mills; Wire Ed., Len Holasinski; Society Ed., Carolyn Barrett; Feature Ed.. Rosemary Delabanty; Asst. City Ed.. Lee Stern; Asst. Sports Eds.. Dave Colton, Bob Vosburg; Asst. Society Ed., Greta Weaver; Co-Librarians., Bob Fraser. Millie Martin; Exchange Ed., Paul Beighley. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night editor, Nancy Luetzel; copy editors, Pat Nutter,u Jane Reber; assistants, Lu Martin, Dot Bennett, Bab Landis, Rose Geha. Ad manager. Joan Morosini; assistant, Dick Smith. Legion Showdown Long Overdue The six-month long charges of communist and subversive activities at Penn State have ,come to a long overdue head with the disclosure that a special committee of the College Board of Trustees will hear the evidence. Although the establishment of the committee has not been confirmed officially by th e College, 'reliable sources indicated that the committee would be set up in the near future. Ever since the charges were first made against the College by the 23d district of the Legion July 22, the Legion has been chal lenged to present the evidence. The (challenge has been "Put up or shut up." The charges by the Legion have from the start been marked by double-talk and misrepre sentation. And even in finally agreeing to take its "evidence" to the College for investigation, the Legion has engaged in the same double-talk. When the charges made 'against the College July 22 were repeated DeCember 2, the Daily Collegian inquired whether the Legion had ever submitted any of-its evidence to the College. Reported the Daily Colle g ian of December 4, "Renewed charges of "un-American activities at the Pennsylvania State College" were accom panied by an admission by an American Legion official yesterday that the Legion had never submitted any evidence to the College." The Legion official credited with that state ment was Paul W. Beardslee, 23d district com mander. This is the same Paul W. Beardslee who Thursday night stated that attempts had been made to present evidence of communist and subversive activities at Penn State to proper College authorities. Efforts to get this evidence to the College was' "blocked" Beardslee said. The fact is that the Legion had never made any attempt to get the facts before the proper College authorities. In a reply to the Legiori's original charges, President Milton S. Eisenhower said, "If evi dence were presented to me in good faith, I would make an immediate investigation and would recommend to the trustees whatever ac tion seemed appropriate in light of the facts." At that time the President pointed out. that One case had been brought to his attention, that the matter had been thoroughly investi gated, and that the loyalty of the faculty mem ber had( been established beyond any doubt. The President acted in good faith in this in stance and the Legion had no reason to doubt that he would do the same again. But the Legion never presented its evidence to 'the President. The conduct of the American Legion throughout the entire controversy leaves , us to doubt the sincerity and honesty of the charges. We feel certain that this showdown will prove the Legion's charges to be irresponsible and reckless. Instructor Listings Thursday's recommendation to the College Council of Administration by cabinet for the listing of all instructors before the pre-regis tration date seems almost a foolproof system. There appears to be no reason for the viola tion of this system by any school or depart ment if it is accepted by the council. The recommendation asks all schools to - list their instructors if at all possible, but it also presents a plan for the listing of instructors not made known in time for publication in the time tables. Those sections would be given a symbol and instructors would later be posted under those symbols on the school's bulletin board be fore preregistration. By this system students could still choose their instructors even though they were not listed in the time table. This system might also pay dividends for the' administration. Working . on the assumption that students choose the best instructors, the admin istration would have a kind of "measuring stick" to the relative value of the College's instructors, at least from the student viewpoint. Past systems of measuring instructor's ability have proved unsatisfactory, but here is a system that could work. Why not give it a try? —Andy McNeillie THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE Ca:.LEGE, 'PENNSYLVANIA Decision Making Is Cabinet Function (Ed. Note: This is the fourth in a series of five editorials designed to present the back ground and clarify the issues on a subject which has been the issue of much discussion, the proposed Student Union building and the $7.50 student fee recommended to the College Board of Trustees by , All-College Cabinet and approved by the trustees 'in 1950.) IV. Referendum Some contend that the $7.50 Student Union assessment' should have been put to a student referendum: The facts are that it already had been as we have indicated in previous editorials, and thiat another referendum would have been impossible to conduct in time for-the next meet ing of the trustees. And, it should be added, student leaders who presented the assessment to cabinet did not plan to present it at such a tide as to make it impossible to hold a referen dum. In the words of Thomas Morgan, Daily Col legian editor 1949-50, and a student member of the College SU committee. "It was impossible for cabinet to be approachee on the fee at any earlier time, simply because construction and financing plans were not finished by' Mr. Hos tetter's office (Ed. Note—College comptroller) and the College architects until two weeks, be fore the cabinet. meeting MacCallum (Ed. Note —All - College/secretary treasurer; 1949 - 50) broached the subject to cabinet; and the final plans of facilities and methods of financing were not, approved by the College's student union commttee until ten days before the cabinet meeting. No cabinet meeting took place in the interim . . . " We have never had any reason to doubt Tom( Morgan's honesty and shall maintain that faith until such a time when we can be shown otherwise. We further doubt the validity of the claim that a student referendum should s be held to determine student opinion on every important issue which comes before All-College Cabinet: If there is to 15e a student referendum on each important issue, why then have student govern ment? It is the function of student government, through its leaders, to make these decisibns. Penn State is either •going to have responsible student' government or no student government at all. Safety Valve-- Charges Collegian 'Has Taken A Nasty Swipe at NM' TO THE EDITOR: The Collegian editor has taken a nasty swipe at AIM. the largest student organization at the school. He states that AIM has had a superfluity of investigations. W_e are not going to argue that point. However, he points out sPecific investigations which were useless, even detrimental. It ain't so. Why the inyestigation of BX ring sales? The Collegian says the charter restricts sales in the BX to certain items. But Mr. D. of the College says "The BX can sell anything it wants to." An investigation was legitimate` even if to find out who was right. Why the investigation of the SU building?' The Collegian says that the building is being held up by the shortage of steel. Mr. L., high up on student government, says that the hold up is bequse of a controversy over architecture. Once again, who is right? AIM felt an investigation was in order. There is a third investigation. of interest. Last year many of the independents were asking for Collegian editors' heads because of inadequate distribution. AIM came out with a :committee report fully backing Collegian policy. It seems to us that AIM should be praised rather than ridiculed •for taking particular in terest in these matters. What would Collegian have• the student government organizations do? Maybe they should hold their regular meetings, read the minutes, and then sit back and let the benevolent protectors on 'All-College Cabinet watch over them. Finally, it might be said that there are a great' number of unnecessary editorials written. But, of course, if editorials come less frequently, edi tors must necessarily become more scarce. —Paul Zanoni, William Brown, Frank Reese Gazette . Sunday, December 16 CHRISTMAS PAGEANT, two performances, St. Andrews' Episcopal Church,, 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. RADIO DAY PERSONNEL, 305 Sparks, 4 p.m. Monday, December 17 GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION, business meeting, Old Main lounge, 7:30 p.m. • INTERCOLLEGIATE CONFERENCE 0 N GOVERNMENT, Home Economics living center, 7 p.m. • COLLEGE ;PLACEMENT' Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. have opportunities in sales leading to retail management or wholesale . sales. Fur ' ther information may be obtained in 112 Old Main.- .STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Women for waitress work from 7:30 to 11 p.m: in dairy store. Busboy for Mondays from 9 to 12 a.m. Man for work on farm on edge tlf town; 4 to 6..eyery day. Woman for housework five days per, week from u. a.m. ' to 6 p.m. . Little Man On 'campus _ "Progessor Snarf says that I stole this sentence for my theme but HE'used it in the text HE wrote and called it a reference." 160 Needy Children To Be Entertained • 'About 160 children of needy families will be entertained this year at seven Christmas parties, Agnes McElwee,' coordinator of the Christmas project and president of the State College Welfare Fund, said yesterday. • Six other campus groups, have cooperated with family projects and 40 families received food baskets from various fraternities. High School `Talks Delayed Over Holidays Students fridm the College will not speak in high schools during the Christmas season, it was de cided' by the All-College Enroll ment committee at a meeting early this week, because the holi day season is too "hectic" a time for both the 'high schools and the College. The purpose of these student speeches• is to acquaint graduat ing high school seniors with the advantages of a Penn State edu cation, Edw a r d Shanken, co chairman of the committee said. Students rather than the admin istration are sent because the high school students will ques tion them more freely on various aspects of college life, Shanken said. Fraternities, sororities, inde pendents, and all other groups at the College will be split up into sections. Each section will have a chairman who will contact stu dents interested in speaking at various high schools. Those interested in working on the committee and speaking at schools may come to a meeting to be announced in the Daily Collegian after Christmas vaca tion. ' The committee also discussed plans and organization for the rest of the school year. Dinner, Pageant Set For Canterbury Club The Canterbury club will have a dinner at 5:30 p.m. tomorrovrat the St. Andrew's Parish 'House. Following the \ dinner. the group will present "The Christmas Pag eant." A Christmas .supper ,has alsa been planned by the United •Stu dent Fellowship of the Faith Re formed Church. The dinner will take place at 5:30 p.m. toxiorrow after the- singing of Chris,tmas carols. A Christmas play titled "The Blessed• Vagrant" :will be given after the dinner. "Great talkers are, like leaky vessels; everything runs out of them."--Simmons SATURDAY, DECEMBER.IS, 1951 By Ribter 1Z 1 59 8 1E 76 t.Ef-f 1 • • Kappa Delta Rho, Tau Kappa Epsilon and Delta Gamma, Beta Theta Pi and Alpha Omicron Pi, Chi Omega and Delta Tau De 11.% and Sigma Chi will hold parties today. - Started This Year Delta Zeta and Pi Kappa Al pha will entertain 20 five to seven-year-old children tomor l row. A fraternity cooperating .with the family project first finds out what the family needs and wants. Then after taking a food basket to the family tomorrow, it will bring the children back to the house for dinner and give them presents that they need. One family will receive furniture, a mattress, food, and clothing. The, family projects were in augurated this year because there were not enough children to at tend all of the planned parties. General Party Since many children attended more than one party this year, Miss McElwee suggested that there be one general party in Recreation Hall next year for all the children. The patty would cost little as students could pro- Vide the entertainment. The money thus saved could be 'used for- more family projects, she added., • • Miss McElwee said the Welfare fund appreciated the cooperation of all campus groups which parti cipated in this year's Christmas project. Davis Presides At Convention t • Di. Arthur F. Davis, professor of physical education, was mod erator at the health_ education section' of , the 30th annual con vention for health, physical edu cation, and recreation — held in Philadelphia from Thursday un til today. 1 Dr. Arthur L. Harnett, profes sor of physical education, was summarizer for this section of the convention. In a general session meeting of the convention . yesterday after noon, Dr. Lloyd M. Jones, pro fessor of physical education, re ported:- on the • national confer ence on ' mobilization of health, physical 'education - a n d recrea tion. Prof. Fred 'M. Coombs, of the physical education s ch o 01, re ceived an honor award fo r achievement in recreation at the banquet held last night. 7 / c roo pntsf