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aim Bag Collegian
soccoooor so THE MICR LANCE, we Isl 7
Published Tuesday *roil:orb Saturday mornings inclusive
donna. the College Year by the staff or The Daily Collegian
of Tile Pennsylvania State College.
Entered as leeond-clans matter July 5. 1934. at the State
Collette. Pa. Post Office antler the net of Mareb 3. 1879
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of tke writ•
era, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigne'
editorials are by the editor.
Mary Krasnansk* , Edward Shanken
Editor Business Mgr.
Managing Ed.. Ron Bonn: City Ed.. George Glaser:
Sports Ed.. Ernie Moore: Edit. Dir.. Bob Fraser: Makeup
Ed., Moylan Mills: Wire Ed., Len Kolosinski: 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, Joan
Kuntz: Exchange Ed.. Paul Beighley: Senior Bd., Bud
Fenton.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor: Chuck Henderson; Copy edi
tors: Andy McNeillie, Julie Ibbotson; Assistants:
Irwin Weiner, Dick McDowell, Bob Landis,
3etty Allen. '
Ad Staff: Alison Monley, Betty Lou Yarnell.
Ag Fee Increase
Justifiable, Fair
While the move to have all students pay a
ten cent per semester fee for the support of the
agricultural judging teams appears on the sur
face to be an attempt by the aggies to get the
rest of the College to bear the expenses of the
teams, such is not the case. Careful considera
tion of all the facts leads us to believe that the
fee is both justifiable and fair.
The nine judging teams for which the fee is
being asked do not represent
,the School of
Agriculture. They represent Penn State, just as
much as does the football teams, the debating
team, the glee club, and the blue band. And,
just as these activities are to a large extent
supported by student fees, so should the judg
ing teams.
While it may be true that the large majority
of men on the learns is enrolled in the School
of Agriculture, it is also true that a large
part of the debating team is enrolled in the
School of Liberal Arts and in the technical
schools. The same analogy might •be made of
athletes; a large number of athletes are en
rolled in the School of Physical Education
and Athletics.
We have heard no proposal that students in
these schools be expected to meet the costs of
debating or athletics without the aid of the
remainder of the College chipping in.
The committee which has drawn up the pro
posal has been aware,- however, that the peo
ple up on Ag Hill have a far greater interest
in the judging teams than do the people "down
on main campus." For that reason they have
not proposed that the cost of supporting these
teams' be spread equally throughout the Col
lege.
_
Since Ag Hill has a special interest in the
judging teams, students enrolled in the School
of Agriculture will be paying 85 cents per
semester for the teams under the plan, while
all non-agricultural students will be paying
but 10 cents a semester. If the figures drawn
up by the committee are accurate, and we
have every reason to believe that they axe,
18.2 per cent of the students (those enrolled
in agriculture) would be paying about two
thirds of the costs of the judging teams, while
the 81.8 per cent of the students , in non
agricultural curricula would be paying one
third the costs.
In cold cash figures, agricultural students
would be paying about $3OOO per year in fees
and all other students would be paying about
$l5OO.
The need for the fee is apparent from the
study made by the School of Agriculture com
mittee. Judging team members are paying an
average of $44.80 per year out of their own
pockets in order to represent Penn State in
intercollegiate competition. On some teams the
personal expenses of team members run up to
$87.20 a year.
Just as we would object to members of the
debate team, the blue band, the glee club, or
the football team being asked to pay for trips
out of their own pockets, we think it is un
fair to ask the members of the judging teams
to do so.
Ten cents from each student is not asking
too much. It is a fee which should be ap-
proved.
Without Honor
(From the Pitt News)
In the past, basketball—as played by Pitt—
has occasionally bordered on the farcial. When
it did, the reason was mainly because we were
so obviously the underdogs. The farce was in
the lopsided score.
We have become accustomed to supporting
second-rate teams, but our unhappiness about
the win-loss record has always been tempered
by a certain amount of good-humored tolerance.
We didn't expect too much but we knew our
boys were always trying. If they lost, it was
not without honor.
But, no matter how you look at it, the per
formance last Saturday night was nothing but
pure farce. The similarity between TV wrest
ling and Pitt basketball was overwhelming.
We lost and lost without honor. The "deep
freeze" tactics may have kept the score down
but they made Pitt look like a troop of buffoons.
If we are to follow the theory that our athletic
teams represent us on the playing fields, what
must they be thinking up at Penn State?
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We think it stinks!
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE •COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Chapel Goal Would
Increase Collections
We wouldn't like to make any predictions,
but the prospects for a campus chapel seem
to be getting better.
Sentiment for the chapel is growing among
students as well as faculty members. Before
we will be able to get a chapel, however,
we
will have to get the funds, and that means that
the Chapel collection will have to be diverted -
toward the construction of a chapel.
At present the Chapel collection, which in
recent years has reached $4500 annually, has
been going to Penn State-in-China. But since
the communist government has made it im- •
possible for Westerners to operate on the
mainland, the Penn State-in-China operation
at Lingnan University has ceased.
The Penn State-in-China funds are now go-
ing to Daddy Groff and an assistant who are
preparing research data on Oriental plant life.
We think the original intent of the Penn
State-in-China has long ended and that stu
dents would rather see the Chapel collection
go toward the ,construction of a chapel
One result of the diversion of the funds to
a chapel would probably be an immediate in
crease in the amount of money given in the
collection. Given 'a tangible goal, students
and other Chapel-goers would, we feel cer
tain, be more generous with their money.
From almost every angle, the diversion of the
collection for a chapel seems the wise thing to
do at this time.
Safety Valve--
Reader Calls Prejudice
Against Jew a Sickness
TO THE EDITOR: The recent controversy
concerning the alleged anti-semitism and bigo
try of Upton Close, has prompted me to put
into writing my . personal views on the subject
of religious prejudice. I can honestly say that
in: my lifetime, I can remember hating only
one thing: that thing has been, and always will
be, prejudice against the Jew. Please don't mis
understand me and form the opinion that I
hate people who are prejudiced against Jews.
I don't hate these individuals, I only feel a deep
affliction for them. I firmly believe that the
existence of such a prejudice-feeling in the
mind is a definite form of sickness.
By now, the reader probably realizes that I
am a' fanatic on the issue of prejudice. I can
not for the life of me understand how anyone
can dislike a person because he is Jewish. In
the next few lines, I would like to present
true-to-life happenings that may give the reader
a few sound reasons to agree that prejudice
against the Jew is the sign of a warped and•
unjustified form of thinking.
My very best friend is a Jew. 'He firmly
believes that Christ has not yet arisen. I am,
on the contrary, a firm believer in the present
day existence of Christ. Although the two of.
us differ greatly in these respects, we are
still the best of friends. Yes, Harold Gold
stein is now. and I hope and pray, always
will be my best friend.
Let's suppose that I had been prejudiced at
the time that I met Harold. By being preju
diced, I would have denied myself the greatest
friend a person could hope to find. We've taken
trips together; we've gone out on double dates
together; we've stayed at each other's homes;
and we've eaten at each other's table. Is there
anything wrong in this? Even though Harold
would do, and has done, anything I ask of him,
should I despise him because he is a Jew? I
cannot imagine how any broad-minded, sensi
ble human being can answer yes to any of these
questions.
I fully realize that „I, and people who think
as I do, are in the minority, but I pray to God,
that the present day minority will someday be
the majority. I am not trying to change any
one's opinion on this matter. I am only making
an attempt to try to get the Jew-hater to think,
and to ask himself, "Why am I prejudiced?",
and to be honest with the answer that God
will put into his heart,
• Letter Cut
Gazette ...
Wednesday, March 12
CAMERA CLUB, demonstration on "The Use,
of Varigam," 305 Horticulture Building,•'
7:30 p.m.
CHESS CLUB, 3 Sparks, 7 p.m.
COFFEE HOUR, dean of men and cabinet, 109
Old Main, 4 p.m.
DELTA SIGMA PI, Phi Kappa Tau, 7:30 p.m.
MINING ENGINEERING SOCIETY, Mineral
Industries art gallery, 7:30 p.m.
NEWMAN CLUB lecture-discussion, Prof.
Case in charge, Rectory basement, 7:30 p.m.
THETA SIGMA PHI, Grange game room,
6:30 p.m.
WRA MODERN DANCE GROUP, Modern
dance room, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL •
Ascher Barmish, Elva Burgess, Sally Collins,
Paul Crofford, Douglas Frey, William Hamilton,
•William Hartie, Lucy Joinef, Leonard Kilmer,,
Barbara Lascher, Irving McNair, Jean - Nisley,
William Parks, Hudson Samson, Charles Suer
ken. '
AT 'THE MOVIES
CATHAUM: Detective Story 2:13, 4:06, 5:59,
7:52, 9:45.
STATE: When Worlds Collide 2:11, 4:03, 5:55,
7:47, 9:39.
NITTANY: The Strip 6:25, 3:19, 10:15.
The Russians are burning both ends of the candle in this climatic
effort to prevent West Germany
from making new contractual ar
rangements with the Allies in lieu
of a peace treaty.
Moscow appeals to the Ger
man desire for unity, offers to
let her have a national army
under a• general government,
talks blithely of freedom of
speech, press, religion, political
convictions, and assembly.
She appeals- to France with a
warning about the revival of Ger-,
man militarism and offers to en
ter into a. multi-power treaty;
something 1i k -
the one she al
ready
has with
France, directed ,
against any Ger
man attack on 1 1 0-i, • molds
the nations who ^ -'! , `;`rkVl
fought her in
World War 11.
All of the old
Russian double-
talk is there •,..1411h
about suppressing organizations
which threaten democracy; • and
everyone now knows what Rus
sia means when she uses that
word—she means her own system.
If Russia were to - grant to her
Own citizens the rights which
she now 'offers Germany—and
were to live up to Western defi
v,.nitions of the termi— there
ivOuld be no more cold war and
no threat of hot war. She calls
her iron disregard for the dig
,;,mity of the human being demo
. 'cracy.
Although this latest manuever
was carefully planned, going back
a month or more to its inception
Bob Boudreau
Little - MarrOn Cappus
"Honest, Worthat I'll just pop if I eat another bite."
Interpreting the News
Reds Try to Block
German Cooperation
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
Russia is making• a new and carefully conceived effort to prevent
the integration of Western Germany into the European defense setup.
Her proposal for• a German peace treaty climaxes years of lip
service to the ideal that Germany must be reunited, but with treaty
regulation of her ability to make war. . . . .
Gazette . . .
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
American Smelting and Refining Co. will
interview June graduates in Metal. and
Min.E. Monday, March 24.
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.
will interview June graduates in Commerce
Monday, March 24.
Corning Glass Co. will interview June
graduates in M.E., Ch.E., E.E., 1.E., and
Cer. Monday, March 24. They will inter.
view Chem. and Phys. graduates at all
levels.
Curtiss Wright Corp. (Propeller Division)
will interview June graduates in Aero.E.,
M.E. and E.E. Wednesday, March 19.
Dr, Paul E. Williams will interview
June graduates in Metal., M.E., E.E., C.E.,
C&F, A&L, Chem., Pre-Med.,
Zoo.. Sci. and M.S. or B.S. candidates with
experience in Bact. Monday. March 24.
Rohm and Baas Co. will interview June
graduates in Ch.E. Chem. and Phys, Mon
day. March 24.
United Aircraft Corp. -will interview
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1952
throUgh the puppet government of
Eastern Germany, it contains'dan
gers for Russia, too, and by that
very fact proclaims itself as a
step in desperation.
The Allies can now, and prob
ably will, take the offered op
portunity to make Russia put up
or shut up. They - can hold a con
ference,
,and take the Russian pro
posal paragraph by paragraph
and make the Moscow delegation
back down. There can be no clear
cut victory, because the ultimate
failure to agree would be over
definitions. But this is one of the
best chances yet to highlight Rus
sian insincerity.
In the meantime, the Rus
sians would accomplish one of
their purposes if they could de
lay =the arrangements now un
der way between Germany and
~the Allies. The Allied cue would
be to go right ahead with, the
contractual an d military ar
rangements, on the grounds that
everything of this nature has
always been subject to an ulti
mate peace Ireaty. Russian in
sistence that all steps should be
delayed during negotiation
might well bog down the whole
conference. Russia would prob
ably
Profit some by this,
'through increasing confusion in
the German mind.
There is ha r dly any doubt,
however, that the Allies and the
internationalists among the West
Germans will push the contrac
tual an d military negotiations
now under way.
June graduates in M.E. and Aero.E. Mon
day, March 24.
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. will inter
view June graduates in A&L and C&F
interested in either sales or claims work
on - Tuesday, March 25.
Phillips Petroleum Co. will interview
June graduates in Ch.E., M.E. ' E.E., P.N.G.
and Metal. Saturday, March 15.
S. S. Kresge Co. will interview June
graduates in A&L, C&F, and any other
fields interested in management, Tuesday,
March 25. .
Westinghouse Electric Corp. will inter
view June graduates in M.E., E.E., 1.E.,
Ch.B., Metal., Cer. and Phys. Tuesday,
March 25. They will also interview M.S.
and Ph.D. candidates in E.E., Metal/and
Phys. and Ph.D. candidates in Phys. Chem.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
- - -
Married couple without children for local
summer employment.
Woman with dictaphone experience for
Part-time employment.
- Camp Conrad Weiser, Wernersville, Pa.
will interview male councelors .March 18
from 9 to 12' noon at the Student Ear
ployment Office, 112 Old Main.
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