?AGE FOOK
Hatly CflUc^tatr
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive
during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian
erf 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 viewpoint of the
writers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Un
signed editorials are by the editor.
Dave Pellnilz <a g^sgt ia Franklin Kelly
Editor Business Mgr.
Managing Ed.. Andy McNeillie; City Ed., Dave Jones;
Sports Ed., Jake Highton; Copy Ed., Bettie Lour; Edit.
Dir., Jim Gromiller; Wire Ed., Chuck Henderson; Soc. Ed.,
Singer Opoczenski; Asst. Sports Ed., Ted Socns; Asst.
Soc. Ed., LaVonne Althouse; Feature Ed., Julie Ibbotson;
Librarian. Dot Bennett; Exchange Ed.. Nsjncy Luetzel.
Asst. Bus. Mgr., Bichard Smith: Local Advertising Mgr.,
Phyllis Kalson; National Adv. Mgr., Alison Morley; Circu
lation Co-Mgrs., Gretchen Henry, Kenneth Wolfe; Personnel
Mgr., Elizabeth Agnews Promotion Co-Mgrs., Marion Morgan.
Therese Moslak: Classified Adv. Rlgr., Eleanor Mazis: Office
Mgr., Mary Ann Wortman: Secretary, Patricia Shaffer;
Senior Board, Nancy Marcinek, Ruth Pierce. Barbara Potts.
Betty Richardson, and Elizabeth Wxdman.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor: Bob Landis; Copy editors: Tam
mie Bloom and Sam Procopio; Assistants: Bob
Shoellkopf, He r m Weiskopf, Helen Luyben,
Peggy McClain, Myron Feinsilber, and Bill Pete.
Collegian Defends
Its Press Freedom
Last night at All-College Cabinet the Daily
Collegian was once again forced to stand up to
defend its freedom. The attempts to abridge this
freedom were not malicious, nor were they in
tended to restrict the total operation of the
newspaper. They were well-meaning sugges
tions made by a committee trying to fulfill its
assignments, but they were suggestions made
in ignorance of how a newspaper is run.
Let us first fill in the background events
which led to the current situation. Last spring,
when debate over the senior class gift selec
tion was going hot and heavy, some people
charged that certain of the gift suggestions
were getting more publicity than other sug
gestions. The charges eventually came near
to name-calling.
To prevent such situations in the future it
was suggested that All-College Cabinet form a
committee to investigate ways of equalizing
publicity on the gift suggestions in the future.
This committee was set up and made its report
to cabinet Thursday night.
In four of the committee’s five recommenda
tions definite advances were made toward solv
ing the problem. The committee went off base,
however, in its recommendation concerning the
Daily Collegian. The committee wanted Col
legian to give each story on the class 'gift
suggestion the same position on the same
page. It also asked that each story be given
the same amount of space and that the stories
be written by the groups backing each gift.
Anyone who knows anything about the op
eration of a newspaper knows that to promise
such a thing is impossible for many obvious
reasons. First, the position of news is de
termined by its relative value in comparison
to other news available that day. In the sec
ond place, the amount of space that can be
given to any one story is determined by the
amount of space available for all the news.
Third, more can be said' about certain gifts,
like the student press and the student radio
station, than can be said about a scholarship
fund, for instance, or a statue.
As for the request that the groups backing cer
tain gifts write the stories on their gift that are
to appear in the paper, we think it only fair to
warn that in most cases these stories will
probably have to be rewritten to conform to
newspaper style.
The Collegian is willing, on its news pages,
to try, as far as is humanly possible, to give
equal prominence to these stories. This has
always been our policy. As for the editorial
page, our policy will continue to allow staff
members to plug one gift oyer another as long
as their editorials are factual and in good taste.
Students who wish to make their views-known
on the gift suggestions, as on any issue, may
write letters to the editor.
We realize the cabinet committee did not
have as its objective the trampling of the free
dom of the press, -and for this reason we did not,
and have not, become too upset over the matter.
However, we resent, as any newspaper re
sents, any attempt to abridge our freedom,
even though the attempt is made in ignorance.
We are aware, too, that success in one attempt
may lead eventually to other similar attempts.
We are giving fair warning now that such
attempts will meet with stiff opposition. We
believe we will have the backing of the stu
dent body in our opposition.
Parking
Are Limited
Beginning Monday strict enforcement of 'the
new traffic regulations will begin. At that time
only student drivers with permit stickers on
their cars will be permitted to drive on campus
during class hours, and tickets will be issued
to all cars illegally parked.
Many students are not happy with the cur
rent parking plan. They feel that too many
spaces have been given over to the faculty
and staff and not enough to students. Un
doubtedly some complaints are justified, buf
we believe that in most cases the parking
Costs
Lot
Factor
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
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spaces have been fairly assigned.
Everyone realizes that, although the new
parking plan is designed to make the fullest
possible use of the available parking spaces,
there is still a great shortage of adequate park
ing lots. The shortage of lots is not due entirely
to the lack of space, however.
According to the information we've re
ceived, the building cost of a hardtop space
for one car is approximately $lOO, while a
cinder lot for one car costs about $5O to build.
In addition to this, the cost of maintaining a
one-car hard surface lot for one year is about
$lO. It costs about $5 to keep up a cinder lot
for one year. These maintainence costs ' in
clude removing snow, patching, and painting
in white lines.
This money all has to come from the College.
If the lots were -to be rented to automobile
drivers, the fee for a hardtop lot would be $2O
per year, $lO a year for a cinder lot. By the end
of ten years, the average life of a parking space,
enough money would have been made to pay
the yearly upkeep and enough saved to con
struct a new lot.
However, it is very doubtful that this will
come to pass, although’ it would seem to be an
effective way of eliminating the parking space
shortage. »
Is It a Spy Group?
Just what the newly-organized sophomore
customs enforcement committee has for its ac
tual purpose seemingly remains a mystery. Al
though it was stated by theN:ommittee that its
avowed purpose was “to stir up greater class
spirit,” it was also stated, “that the main pur
pose of committee members is to act as ‘plain
clothesmen’ to see that freshmen are wearing
customs.”
Now the point arises. Are we io sacrifice
school spirit for a more unified class spirit?
And must we rely on outright spying and
informing to enforce our customs system?
We are losing sight of the very purposes for
which freshman customs was inaugurated;
namely, facilitating the intermingling of class
men, learning of the school norms and tradi
tions, and orientation into the College program,
itself.
A program, then, that works toward these
ends is what we’re after, rather than a ‘spy
system.’ Frosh meetings, Frosh singing and
cheers, Frosh study-groups, or even dances, but
not a ‘spy-system’!
Safety Valve'
Protest Frosh €ampusin.g
TO THE EDITOR:. For the last few days we
have been reading about the Board of Custom
Regulations concerning freshmen going home
on weekends. To quote Tuesday’s Daily Colle
gian: “All other freshmen desiring to' leave
campus for any reason during the customs per
iod must appear before the board for’permis
sion.”
Then in Wednesday’s paper we read that 16
freshmen were “awarded” permission to go
home.
This is ihe most disgusting thing we have
ever seen. Customs are, after ail, a tradition,
but when they start to restrict a person's per
sonal and private life it is time to slop. The
wearing of dinks and signs and dating regu
lations are one thing, but to "award" per
mission to go home is another.
Freshmen are paying just as much to come to
school here as any upperclassman, so why should
they be forced to ask another “group of stu
dents’’ for permission to go home?
• Letter cut
Editor's note: It is unwritten College policy
here as at most other colleges that freshman
students should remain on campus for their
first few weekends in order to gain a better
foothold to college life. The Freshman Cus
toms Board is attempting to fulfill this policy
by requiring students to appear before it in
order to encourage their staying on campus.
CjrclZotto • . „
Sunday. September 21
LA VIE candidates, fifth semester, '405 Old
Main, 7 p.m.
LION PARTY steering committee, 104 Wil
lard, 2 p.m.
Monday, September 22
ALPHA PHI OMEGA, 3 Sparks, 7 p.m.
FROTH Promotion staff, Froth office, 6:45 p.m.
LA VIE art candidates, 105 Temporary, 7 p.m.
PENN STATE ENGINEER, 211 Mechanical
Engineering, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Lura Akers, Edward Baranski, Bertha Creas
ing, Stanley Gardner, James Hill, Albert Kerr,
Carole Lipton, Gertrude Malpezzi, John K. Mil
ler, Theodore Spaulding.
AT THE
CATHAUM: Jumping Jacks 1:30, 3:32, 5:34,
7:36 9*43
’STATE: High Noon 2:03, 3:56, 7:42, 9:38
NITTANY: The Last Musketeer 1:30, 3:32,
5:35, 7:37, 9:45
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Continental Can Co. will interview January B.S. and M.S.
candidates in M.E., 1.E., E.E., C.E., and Chem. Eng.
and Wood Utilities Tuesday, Sept. 30.
E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Co. will interview January B.S.
and M.S. candidates in M.E., 1.E., C.E., E.E., and
Chem. Eng. and Chem. Wednesday, Oct. 1.
JE, I. DuPont de Nemours Co. will interview Ph.D. can
didates in Chem. BioChem., Phys., Engineering Me
chanics, M. 1., M.E., and Chem. Eng. Wednesday, Thurs
day, and Friday, Oct. 1,2, and 3.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Boys from West Dorms interested in Student Dry Cleaning
' agency.
Women for waitress work.
Woman for housework (five days per week from 8:30 a,m.
to 12 a^xu>
—Leonard Goodman
—Ed weird Hinderleter
Charles Hamly
MOVIES
tie Man on Campus
interpreting the News
First Guided Missile
Fired in Combat by U.S.
The headline was enough to make your heart leap:
. “U.S. Fires First Guided Missile in Combat:” .
The reporters and the Navy experts were obviously and under
standably enthusiastic.
But the details left something of a gap between presently avail-
able weapons and the push-but
ton warfare which we have been
predicting ever since World War
11.
What actually happened Sept.
1 was that the Navy took an old
light bomber, i:
stalled radio co:
trols somethii
like those whii
have been usi
for years, put
television came:
and broadcasts
apparatus in tl
nose, strapped
bomb under t]
belly, and sent
off with a mot
it to its target.
There were two major ad
vantages over ordinary bomb-
ing tactics, and one appendage
which was primarily a thrill
_ for the sponsors and a promise
' for the future.
The personnel in- the mother
plane could stay safely out of a
major flak area, an important
factor in these days when com
plicated planes and tactics require
long training of intelligent men
of a type not too easy to find.
The test was made in an area
where there was practically no
worry about enemy interceptor
planes. Under ordinary circum-
Npval Reserve
Unit to Meet
Monday Nights
The Naval Reserve Electronics
Unit 4-3 will hold scheduled meet-:
ing from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. every
Monday in 300 Engineering E.
Veterans and other interested
civilians between 17 and 64 years
of age, who are not members of
any other military unit, are eli
gible for membership.
Naval Reserve officers and pet
ty officers are urgently needed to
help out with the program, ac
cording to a spokesman.
A complete radio transmitting
and receiving installation for Na
val and amateur frequencies will
be available for qualified per
sonnel. ,
Morse' code records and auto
matic code tape machines are
available for instruction': Radio
construction kits, test instruments
and .’a radar set will be used for
class instruction and laboratory
- work.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER- 20, 1952
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
stances in modern war, both
planes would have been in dan
ger instead of the robot only.
And harrassment by enemy fight
ers might easily have broken the
mother plane’s control of the mis
sile-carrier. '
The second advantage was
that the real pilot of the mis
sile, sealed in the mother plane,
had a kamikaze view of the
target through the • television
eye, making for accuracy in the
last moments of the robot's ap
proach which would be un
. known to ordinary bombing.
But the bomb-carrier was slow
by modern conceptions, and
just as prone to being shot down
as a piloted machine, meaning
that it is no more likely to
reach its target. On this point,
pilot saving- remains the great
advantage.
The thrill, and a portent for the
future when there is real push
button war, lay in the television
room aboard the carrier from
which the robot was launched.
There, apparatus followed the ac
tion all the way. Real- push-but
ton war will come when missiles
are launched and guided to their
targets directly from home base.
The horizons of that sort; of thing
are still very short range.
FMA to Report
At 9FC Meeting
The Interfraternity Council will
hear a report by the Fraternity
Marketing Association, large-scale
buying plan for fraternities, at 7
p.m. Tuesday in 101 Electrical En
gineering.
William Hafl e y, association
chairman, will report on the plan
and its success so far this year.
The FMA now works with 15
members, and is still open for
membership, Hafley said. Interest
ed, persons may attend the IFC
meeting for more information.
Home Economics School
To Open Meal Service
The Home Economics S c h o o 1
will open its public meal service
for the fall semester with lunch
eon on Monday.
Luncheons will be served cafe
teria style Monday through Fri
day from 11:55 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Dinners are served from* 5:30 to
6:30 p.m. Monday through Thurs
day. Dinner on Monday will. be
cafeteria style, and waiter serv
ice will be used throughout the
remainder of the week.
By Bible