PAGE FOUR TO Batty entieljtati Successor to THE TEM LANCE, mt. 187 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as seeond.elaas smatter July b. 1934, at the State College, Pa.. Poet Office under the act of !Larch 3, 1879. Collegiate editorials represeat the viewpoints of the writ ers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsiense editorials are by the editor. Mary Krasnanskr Edward Shanken Editor Business Mgr. Managing Ed., Ron Bonn; City Ed., George Glazer; Sports Ed., Ernie Moore; Edit. Dir.. Bob Fraser; Makeup Ed.; Moylan Mills; Wire Ed., Len Kolasinski; Society Ed., Carolyn Barrett; Feature Ed., Rosemary Delahanty: Asst. City Ed., Lee Stern; .Asst. Sports Eds., Dave Colton, Bob Vosburg; Asst. Society Ed., Greta Weaver; Librarian, Millie Martin; Exchange Ed.. Paul Beighley: Senior Bd.. Bud Fenton. Asst. Bus. Mgr.; Jerry Clibanoff; Advertising Mgr., Bob Leybarn; National Adv. Mgr., Howard Boleky; Circu lation Co-Mgrs., Jack Horsford. Joe Sutovsky; Personnel Mgr., Carolyn Alley; Promotion Co-Mgrs., Bob Koons, Mel vin Glass; Classified Adv. Mgr., Laryn Sax; Office Mgr., Tema Kleber; Secretary. Joan Morosini: Senior Board. Don Jackel. Dorothy Naveen. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night editor, Chuck Henderson; copy editors, LaVonne Althouse, Jake Highton; assistants, Chiz Mathias, Dot Bennett, George Bairey, June Reizes, Phil 'Austin. Advertising manager, Alison Morley; assis tant, Ellie Hennessy. Cabinet Proposals Should Be Passed Although only part of one of All-College Cab inet's three recommendations to the Senate cal endar committee has been adopted in the pre liminary report made by the committee, we think that the other two deserve the serious consideration of Senate members. At least one of them—calling for the con tinuation of the present two-day class-free pre-registration period—is under considera tion. As we understand it, a poll is being con ducted to gather faculty opinion on the ques tion. The part of cabinet's proposal which has been adopted in part deals with starting and ending vacation periods at noon. The proposal has been modified to provide for this during the winter months. If vacations during the winter months start at 5 p.m. and end at 8 a.m., students must drive at night. The modification of cabinet's proposal mak ing the recommendations applicable during the winter months seems sensible to us. We hope, however, that the Senate will not overlook the final cabinet suggestion that a one-day per semester floating holiday be pro vided for in the calendar. Such a device would make it possible for a holiday to 'be called at such times as a football victory over Pitt or Penn, or at the time of Spring Carnival when the entire campus is pre-occupied with pre paring for the big show. If the Senate has any doubts as to the success of such a move, it should remember that such a holiday would not be binding, and if the change does not work out to the satisfaction of the College, it could be dropped in the future. We think the idea at least deserves a test Taft Quote Hurts Election Chances Senator Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) may recently have talked himself right out of the Presidency of the United States. The occasion was a senate subcommittee hearing on mine safety. John L. Lewis was arguing that the government bureau of mines should have power to order an unsafe mine closed down. The bureau now has only ad visory powers, and for many years miners have been killed in mines which the bureau had previously found unsafe. Lewis discussed the question of why his union didn't pull the men out of unsafe mines. UMW attorneys, he said, had advised him that under the Taft-Hartley act, it was illegal for the union to do so. And then he took off on•T-H generally, a favorite of Lewis'. The next day Taft himself appeared to defend T-H. In a widely-reported exchange, then, this extremely significant bit of dialogue occurred. Lewis: "If you are ever elected President, Mr. Taft, and Joe Stalin should ask you about the Taft-Hartley slave act, I don't know how you are going to answer him." Taft (referring to the 1950 election, 'which he won against the opposition of labor leaders): "Well, I managed to answer the workers of Ohio, Mr. Lewis; I guess I can handle Stalin." A good part of the country's press seemed to find this an oratorical victory for, Taft. We wonder. If we were an Ohio worker, we wouldn't be overjoyed with the comparison between us and Joseph Stalin. If we were a worker anywhere, as a matter of fact, we wouldn't be particularly happy with it. The. "handle" asso ciation is hardly calculated to win votes, ei ther. Senator Taft may have won the battle and lost his old, old war. "There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness."—Anon Dolly Madison sent the first personal message over S.F.B. Morse's telegraph wire: THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Constitution Change Could Hurt Peace The most direct attack yet against world gov ernment in general and the United Nations in particular has been initiated by a group of 56 United States senators, led by the Ohio duo of Bricker and Taft. The senators propose an amendment to the Constitution of th e United States. Bricker says he has found a "loophole" in the Con stitution (no mean feat after 163, years of apparent impregnability). - He fears that the United Nations may usurp the sovereignty of the United States. Forty-three Republicans and 13 Democrats agree with him. The amendment would prevent the making of any treaty or executive agreement respecting the rights of American citizens under their own Constitution, and would block agreements vest ing in any international organization or foreign government the powers given by the Constitu tion to Congress, the President, and the courts. Looks innocent? If this amendment is incor porated into the Constitution, it will almost cer tainly slam the door on any hope of an effective world government at any time in the future. Sovereignty. That is the key word—the United States a sovereign power, and not to be held accountable for its acts. For "United States" read the name of any sovereign nation of the world, and you will understand the history of war through the ages. A sweeping statement, perhaps, but whatever the basic causes of war may be, the fact of war can only exist when two nations are sovereign, and c annot be brought to account for their actions by any higher body. In the United States, each state is sovereign in its own affairs, unless its actions endanger the good of the greater body. Then state sov ereignty must bow to national sovereignty. That is the only way world government can ever bring peace. The individual members may be sovereign—in their own affairs, up until the point where their actions endanger the greatest good of the whole, of the two billion people in the world. No, it won't come tomorrow. The 56 sena tors are afraid that it will come tomorrow, in which case it would be catastrophic. But unless the UN is free to work for the distant day when it can take over as a true world government the representative soverign of the ,- people of the world—unless it is free to do so, the world must retrogress—to the anar chy of pre-World War I and II days, and surrender all hope of an absolute end to war. If the United States, one of the two keystones of the UN, lays down the policy that now and forever it refuses to give up its sovereignty under any circumstances, then the guilt is on the shoulders of the United States. It would be a great guilt to carry into history, for a nation, and for 43 Republican and 13 Democratic senators. AP Story Way Off' Two regrettable tendencies in this country show up in an Associated Press story given play in many Pennsylvania newspapers. The trends • are (1) the inherent mistrust of anything collegiate as "loose" morally and generally too avant garde for the good sound American to trust, quite, and (2) the continuing habit of press sensationalism. The AP story concerned a`survey of cheat ing conducted at Temple University by the Temple Owl. The lead on the story, and the headlines it got, screamed that 88 per cent of Temple students admit to cheating. If you go far enough down in the story, how ever, you find• that this "cheating" is • mostly confined to consulting old exams on file at frat ernities, etc., and "not all 'educators concede that form of checking is cheating." This seems to be a pretty obvious example of the second trend catering to and enhancing the first. There is nothing of value in the story, no further examination of the Owl poll results, and no other fact brought out except that 88 per cent of Temple students "cheat." Safety Valve-- Student Vigorously Disagrees With Assistant 'Society Editor TO THE EDITOR: In the Thursday issue of the Daily Collegian, your assistant society edi tor (Greta Weaver) - proceeded to tear the .male wardrobe apart. The first thing that struck me Was . the statement by Miss Weaver that the men copied their tartan plaid jackets from the girls. She claims that "the weaker sex featured plaid weskits as a major innovation in' their 1950-51 wardrobes." This I don't doubt,- but I happen to know that a male student wore a tartan plaid jacket here during the spring of 1950 a full six months before Miss Weaver admits that the women accepted them. From the little slur about the "not-broad enough shoulders" of the men I gather that girls consider the width of a man's shoulders part of his sex appeal. If this is true, perhaps the men should adopt one of the widely used female tricks of falsifying their sex appeals. Every day • one sees more 'women wearing their brother's white bucks. Then there is the poodle cut, which is nothing more than a curly brush cut. There are many such• "steals" that could be listed but these two should show the "originality" of the women. When will the day , come that the ladies will insist that our trousers were copied from their slacks?"' -B. B. —Ron Bonn HILLEL CABARET, dancing and refreshments, Hillel, aft e r the game. WRA SWIMMING, White Hail pool, 7 p.m. , Sunday February 10 NEWMAN CLUB faculty-stu dent reception and dance. Phi Kappa, 2 p.m. PHILOTES TEA, Thompson Hall, 2 p.m. Monday, February 11 • ELECTRONIC WARFARE UN IT 4-3, 200 Engineering E, 7 p.m. . GE 0 GRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND GAMMA THETA UPSILON, guest speaker, 218 Mineral' Sci ences, 6:45 p.m. PHILOTES open house for in dependent women, White Hall playroom, 7 p.m. R. B. Joanna Binkley, Barbara Bitt ner, John Citron, , Robert Derr, Louise Glud, Barbara Greenleaf, Helen Gregory, Alan Grimes, John Hammes, James Harter, Marilyn Levitt, R ollin Mann, Samuel Mann, Martha Rex, Theresa Spar ano. • Bakelite Co. will interview June grad uates in Ch.E. Friday, Feb.' 22. . Boy' Scants of America will interview June graduates in Phys. Ed., A.H., Ag., Ec. Ed., and C&F Thursday, Feb. 21. Carbide and Carbon Ckemical Corp. will interview June graduates in Ch.E.,, and Chem. Thursday, Feb. 21.. Reliance . Electric.. azid: , Ensisieerinz Co. —Rod Snyder Little Man On Campus "Don't worry—the coach knows what he's doing. Heigh t- may prove to •be a disadvantage." Interpreting the News Report Of World Threat By J. M. ROBERTS JR. Associated Press News • Analyst A special subcommittee of the House foreign affairs committee has served notice on squabbling Western Europeans that if they don't drop their nationalistic squabbling and get together on the defense program, they're liable to get their water cut off. The warning was .directed largely against Germany, which was visited by the subcommittee last fall, and the report itself apparently did not take cognizance of the most recent divergencies between Ger Many and France. At a news conference, however, members made it clear they didn't consider the Saar, or Germany's membership in the North Atlan tic Treaty Organization, as Ger mane to the main question of whether Europe as a whole would earn, by utmost exertion in its own behalf, the help the U.S. was willing to give on no other basis. "The subcommittee regrets bargaining by Germany and other nations to attain national interests or objectives," said the report. The treaty creating a European defenSe community and the new contractual agreement between Germany and the Allies should go forward at once, it added. These are expressions of ex asperatiOn which Europe cannot help but heed. Adenauer, fighting political pressure in the Bunde. stag, has veered off from his 'nationalism of the past few weeks to warn Germany of what really is .the great menace—a vast Rus sian military force beyond Tgo bbovoolhich could march against Europe "in 24 hours" if the Krem lin wills it. But if German blood presL , sure seems to be going down a bit, there is evidence of the op . posite in Paris. France has expressed'_ ne w opposition to Germany as• a NATO member and made what American diplomats• think was an unnecessary and certainly untimely faux pas in the• Saar. There has been no, time for Europe to react to the Congres sional report. But the warning in it for, them is that, however Rig golohey may consider their vari ous positions to be, they'd better reconsider how essential ' these issues are •as against the• main job. Gazette . .. Saturday', February 9 HILLEL HOUR casting, Hillel, 7 p.m. COLLEGE HOSPITAL AT THE MOVIES CATHAUM: Lone Star.'2:l3, 4:06, 5:59,, 7:52, 9:45 STATE: This Woman Is Dan gerous 2:11, 4:03, 5:55: • 7:47, .9:39 NITTANY: 6:25, 8:19, 10:15 COLLEGE PLACEMENT Haskins and Sells will interview June graduates in C&F Wedneiday, • Feb. 20. Ingersoll-Rand Co: will interview June graduates in C.E. E.E., 1.E., M.E., and Min.E. Wednesday, 'Feb. 20. Louisiana Division of Esso Standard Oil Co. will interview graduates'. at _ all levels in ,Ch.E., E.E., Metal., LE., 'and Chem. Thursday, Feb.,2l: They will also interview a few outsanding juniors in the above fields. Marathon Corp. will interview June graduates in A&L, C&F, Chem, Phys., Ch.E., M.E. and I.E. on - Wednesday, Feb. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9,=1952 Warns will interview June graduates in M.E. and E.E. Thursday, Feb. 21. Wyandotte Chemical Corp. will' inter. view June graduates in Ch.E., M.E., and Chem. Friday, Feb. 22. .„ Shell Oil Co. will interview Julie 'grad. uates and 1962 M.S. candidates in. Chem., Ch.E, C.E., E.E.,, M.E., Min. Eng. and P.N.G. Monday, Feb. 25. . United States Steel Co. will interview June graduates in. Aero.E., A z ch:E,. C.E. M.E, E.E., S.E., ,Teck, 4nd'.Metal. Friday., Feb-12w: . Kibler
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