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01le Elaity Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE. est. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday In orn ingot tualltaire
during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian
of The P►9nnylvania State College.
Entered as second-class matter July S. 1934, at the State
CoSere. Pa.. Post Office tinder the act of March 3. 1879.
Collegiate editorials represent the viewpoint of the
writers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Un.
signed editorials are by the editor.
Dave Penults Franklin S. Kelly
Editor '463})io° Business Mgr.
Managing Ed.. Andy MeHeinle: City Ed., Dave Jones;
Sports Ed.. Jake Dighton; Copy Ed., Bettie Loux; Edit.
Dir., Jinn Gromiller; Wire Ed., Chuck Henderson; Sot. Ed.,
Ginger Opoczenski; Asst. Sports Ed., Ted Soens: Asst.
Soc. Ed., LaVonne Althouse: Feature' Ed., Julie Ibbotson:
Librarian and Exchange Ed.. Nana:, Lnetzel.
Asst. Bus. Mgr., Richard Smith; Local Advertising Mgr.,
Phyllis Ralson; National Adv. Mgr., Alison Morley; Circu
lation Co-Mgrs., Gretchen Henry, Kenneth Wolfe; Personnel
Mgr., Elizabeth Agnew; Promotion Co-Mgrs., Marion Morgan;
Therese Moslak; Classified Adv. Mgr., Eleanor Mazis; Office
Mgr., Mary Ann Wertman; Secretary, Patricia Shaffer;
Senior Board, Nancy Marcinek, Ruth Pierce. Barbara Potts,
Betty Richardson and Elizabeth Widman.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor: Mary Lou Adams; Copy editors:
Bob Schoellkopf, Janie Reber; Assistants: Neida
Fralich, Jack Reid, Roy Williams, Craig Sanders,
Diehl McKalip.
Advertising staff: Eleanor Ungethuem, Ethel
Wilson, Eli Arenberg, Sondra Duckman.
Consider All Facets
Of Radio Situation
A student radio station on campus seems to
be getting closer and closer to reality. On Mon
day, the announcement was made that the Col
lege was considering sharing half the yearly
operating costs of the proposed station. This
would amount to approximately $3OOO.
The other half of these annual expenses are
supposed to come from the student body. The
natural method of obtaining these funds is
through the levying of a student fee. However,
•no matter how small the fee or what the pur
pose of tke fee, groans of distaste over such
an idea always are heard. -
Penn State needs a radio station. If a small
fee (in this case about 15 cents a semester has
been suggested) is necessary to obtain the sta
tion, then there should be little objection to
the fee.
But before action is taken on the fee pro
pcoal, several questions must first be cleared
up. Among these are: How soon will the sta
tion's coverage extend to all students, or at
least to the top number of students that can
possibly be reached? Does the $6OOO annual
operating expenses allow for this expansion
to take place? Just how much control will
students have in the operation of the station?
If the station is expected , to operate only two
hours a day to begin with, how long will it
take to increase the daily number of hours
of operation?
Some students will also question the state
ment issued by the radio committees that the
-basis for the fifty-fifty split in expenses is that
the station will provide a means of educating
students in radio work and at the same time
provide a means of communication for the stu
dents. They will say that if the operation is go
ing to be fifty-fifty, what about the $lO,OOO
that students have already put toward the
station through senior class gifts.
The question of future expansion may prove
to be one which could cause trouble for the
station. Naturally the fraternities and the large
living units downtown will want assurance that
they will eventually be able to receive the
station's signal before supporting the fee. If
the estimated $6OOO yearly expense does not
allow for this type of expansion, the 15 cent
fee may have to be increased. Or perhaps the
College could assume the cost of this expansion
in upholding the fifty-fifty cost split.,
Now that the station.is so close to reality.
and yet not close enough to go into any real
operation until next fall, it would not be wise
to rush into the matter without careful' con-"
sideration of all the issues involved. It seems
safe to assume, however, that the radio sta
tion will be operating next fall.
Academic Honesty
Is Student's Duty
Before Christmas vacation the Council of Ad
ministration emphasized Rule W-1 under Reg
ulations for Undergraduate Students. The rule
deals with cases of academic dishonesty..
It was reported that faculty attention was
being called to this rule to insure uniformity
of treatment in academic dishonesty cases. The
rule reads, "The College regards all acts of dis
honesty as deserving severe punishment. Any
case of dishonesty shall be reported to the stu
dent's dean, through the head of the department
and the dean of the school in which the dis
honesty was committed."
At the same time the emphasis came, a stu
dent was dropped from the College for academic
dishonesty. The College has shown that it will
act and act promptly. With final exams but a
few days away it is not too soon for us to re
emphasize the importance of honesty—consid
ered by most to be a virtue in life.
The pressure will soon be on. It is up to
you, the student, to uphold the conduct which
is expected of not only Penn State students,
but students throughout the world.
—Mimi Ungar
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, 1-zairN SYLVANIA
March of Dimes
A Worthy Crusade
The March of Dimes is currently holding its
annual campaign for funds. One of the features
of this campaign in the College area has been
the WMAJ Discs for Dimes show, on . which
listeners pledge various amounts to the drive
to hear certain records played on the program.
This year's Discs for Dimes Show will be held
Sunday night.
There is little doubt that the March of Dimes
is one of the favorite charities which conduct
annual drives. Its stock in this area rose tre
mendously last fall when Centre County was
classified an epidemic area. The county group
spent over $20,000 last year. Most of this money
went into hospitalization costs, which totaled
over $15,000. And 25 per cent of the people
stricken with the disease during the epidemic
are still in the hospital.
The March of Dimes is not conducting an
organized drive on campus. It cannot because
it is not a member of Campus Chest. Last
spring there was a great furor caused by a
misunderstanding concerning the March and
the Chest. A national foundation ruling does
not allow local chapters to take part in com
bined drives such as the Chest.
The ruling is one which causes some bewild
erment on the part of many people. The reason
given by the national headuarters is that such
drives cut the money gained by the March by
about two-thirds.
One important thing students should remem
ber when they see the March of Dimes cans
downtown is that they are covered by the Cen
tre County fund. Fifty per cent of the county's
collection after the drive remains in the county.
Of the 50 per cent which goes to the national
group, a certain per cent goes to aid epidemic
areas (such as Centre County). The rest is used
for research, etc.
Centre County,is considered the home county
for all students at the College. Thus, if a student
should be stricken while here, the local fund
is at his disposal. This makes the county's lot
a tough one, especially since few funds come
from the College community of 11,000 students.
While a March of Dimes campaign will not
be conducted on campus, students should be
cognizant of the great work being done by
the group. Their recognition of these efforts
can be shown by• contributing to the drive
through the March of Dimes cans in down
town business establishments.
Spring Schedules
Two weeks from today registration for the
spring semester will begin in Recreation Hall.
Under the new centralized registration system,
which worked quite successfully last fall, stu
dents are to have their schedules checked by
advisers early. Therefore, when they come back
from vacation, if they manage to get home dur
ing finals, they are ready to pick up their
forms and register.
As those who made mistakes last year
found out, little errors, just do not jibe with a
fast - m o v i n g; highly-organized registration
system. Now is the time to work out a sched
ule and check and recheck it to make sure
that no silly and avoidable mistakes have
been made. This can save plenty of trouble
later on.
At the same time, advisers could probably
save themselves a great many headaches by
calling in their advisees to at least get them
moving toward the completion of a schedule.
With the final rush before exams now in pro
cess, many student are becoming somewhat
flustered. A little reminder on the part of
advisers could prove a great help.
Safety "Valve
Lawn Display Lauded
TO THE EDITOR: I would like to take this
opportunity to thank the students for their
generous contribution in supplying a most mag
nificent display during the Christmas season
in the front campus. We have seen many dig
plays during our time in State College, but
this was one of the finest to ever adorn the
front campus. The people of the community
and visitors have passed along to us many com
plimentary remarks about the display.
We wish to you and the other students of
The Pennsylvania State College a very success
ful year and if there is anything that we can
do for you, please let it be known.
—M. C. Mateer
President, Chamber of Commerce
Gazette ...
Wednesday, January 44
GERMAN CLUB, Simmons Lounge, 7 p.m.
HILLEL CONCERT, 224 S. Miles St., 8 p.m.
KAPPA PHI KAPPA, 207 Willard Hall,
7:30 p.m.
MINING ENGINEERING SOCIETY, Sigma
Phi Sigma, 7:30 p.m.
PENN STATE GRANGE, 100 Hort. Bldg.,
7 p.m. .
PENN STATE HELLENIC SOCIETY, TUB,
7:30 p.m.
PI TAU SIGMA meeting, 211 Main Engineer
ing, 7 p.m. .
WRA BOWLING CLUB, White Hall, 7 p.m.
WRA MODERN DANCE CLUB, White Hall,
7 p.m.
Little Man on Campus
"I got several to clip to my final exam papers—l don't
want Prof. Snarf to forget whose paper he's grading."
Interpreting the News
British
Now
Associated Press News Analyst
The British campaign for "trade, not aid," predicated on a demand
for removal of American tariff barriers, has gone into high gear—
perhaps prematurely.
Britain wants to try to bridge the dollar gap and thus bring
sterling back into the fold of hard currencies. Her top leaders, right
up to Churchill, have joined the effoA to convince the United States
that it is to the general benefit_of everyone.
R. A. Butler, Britain's chancellor of the Exchequer, says,
"The right policies for a creditor country like the U.S. include
readiness to receive imports, and to let foreign goods compete in
their domestic markets without artificial obstructions. In the
U.S. that touches particularly upon, tariff policy and tariff pro
cedure. quota restrictions, buy-American legislation, shipping dis
criminations and subsidies. Moreover, the trade, not aid, policy
would be greatly strengthened by a continuation and expansion
of U.S. overseas investment, both_ governmental and private . . .
reasonably steady American purchase of raw materials, at reason
ably stable and economic prices, would be a very great help."
British negotiators are expected to bring their proposals directly
to Washington very soon, perhaps even next month. If they do, they
are likely . to run into an American situation which has not jelled.
They will hve the support, in the main, of the United States
Council of the International Chamber of Commerce. But there is a
strong movement in both business and government circles to con
solidate all U.S. activities in the international economic field under
one agency. The argument over this seems likely to keep policy
unsettled for a much greater time than the British are inclined to
wait. And if the idea is ultimately adopted, organizational delays
will be added.
The British, unless they are to add to the natural hesitations
of a traditionally protectionist country, must also be prepared to
answer promptly a very pointed question. That will be. "What
commitments are you willing to make against trade with the
Iron Curtain countries?"
Andrei Gromyko, the nimble Russian ambassador to London,
has spent a great deal of effort trying to make a new trade deal
with the British. The U.S. takes a dim view of anything which helps
the Communist economy and thereby eases the pinch put on Iron
Curtain peoples by the Kremlin's emphasis on heavy, or • war, in
dustry. Britain takes the view that she benefits more by her imports
from Eastern Europe than the Comthunists do by her exports. She
gets a fifth of her timber, of which she is very short, from them,
and a third of her course grain imports, as well as many other im
portant items. Yet only 2.5 per cent of .her imports come -from there,
in return for 1.5 of her exports. It's not so much the size as the kind
of business done there in which Britain is interested. But she may
have to agree to further restrict it—war materials are now banned
—in return for U.S. concessions in other fields. For one thing, she
continues to sell rubber to Russia, within the limits of pre-Korean
War demand, although she has cut off sales of this definitely stra
tegic material to Communist China.
Britain may be asked, too, if she cannot display a little more
friendly attitude toward the two great projects which Europe is
now working on, the European Coal and Steel Community and the
European army.
The forthcoming negotiations, therefore, will not consist merely
of presentation of British proposals and American consideration of
them. There's going to be some bargaining. If the British insist on
beginning them before the new Washington administration can get
itself set, they may-result only in frustration.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1953
`Trade' Drive
in High Gear
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
By Bibler