F' ',C:E FOUR
Published Tuesday through
Saturday mornings inclusive
during the College year by
the staff of The Daily Col
legian of 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
DAVE JONES, Editor
Managing Ed., Marshall 0: Donley; City Ed., Chuck
Obertance; Edit.
Ed., • Chiz Mathias; Sports Ed., Sam
Procopio; Edit. Dir., Dick Ran; Wire-Radio Ed., Bill Jost;
Soc Ed., Lynn Kahanowitz; Asst. Sports Ed., Did: McDowell;
Asst. Soc. Ed., Lix Newell; Photo Ed., Bruce •Schroeder:
Feature Ed., Nancy Meyers; Exchange Ed., Gus Vollmer:
Librarian, Lorraine Gladus; Senior Board, Mary Lou Adams.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Phil Auktin; Copy editors, Bill 011endilce, Ed Reiss; Assistants,
Bill Pete. Al Munn. Ad staff, Louise Caspary.
Present Gift Coverage to Continue
A policy concerning senior class gift publicity
recommended to the senior class gift committee
by an All-College Cabinet committee needs some
clarification.
The policy set forth is intended to control
publicity given to senior class gift suggestions.
The amount of publicity, including arguments
favoring or condemning gift suggestions, is ex
pected to have some bearing on the gift selec
tion.
The cabinet committee's suggestion is in
tended to prevent the wholesale distribution of
propaganda by a group that will receive some
particular benefit from the choosing of a gift.
This. was. the 'case last year when the Radio
Guild distributed cards urging seniors to vote
for using the gift money to help - establish a
student radio station.
The cabinet committee wishes The Daily Col
legian to devote equal space and play on the
page "so far as possible," concerning stories
on the gift suggestions. However, backers of
particular gift suggestions should keep in mind
two points: (1) the Daily . Collegian has the final
say as to what story is run and where it is placed,
Misrepresentation
In every society there are those who find it
difficult to tell the truth, and, unfortunately.
some can be found at Penn State. Saturday
night, someone called at leaSt one women's
dormitory and said that he was taking an official
Daily Collegian poll concerning dating habits
of the coeds. We have not been able to locate
the person who made these calls and thus mis
represented the Daily Collegian.
The Daily Collegian has not taken a poll on
any subject for some time, and certainly not on
Saturday night. In fact the chances of Daily
Collegian personnel working Saturday night are
rare, and the possibility of a Daily Collegian
staff member refusing to disclose his or her
name is even more rare. .
In the future, if the Daily Collegian conducts
a poll, an announcement will be made before
the poll is conducted. If no such announcement
is made, any poll in this paper's name will be a
false one.
Interpreting the N ews .l
By offering $50,000 for any
Communist pilot bringing in a'
modern jet• fighter, and $lOO,OOO
for the fir s t one, Gen. Mark
Clark is adopting a most in
triguing form of warfare.
Even if no plane ever shows
up it can be extremely effective.
especially under the Communist
military system in which a clean
gun is not nearly so important
as "clean" thought.
For the purpose of the offer
is not merely to get Soviet planes
for engineering anal y s is, al
though some of them' are re
ported to carry some extremely
interesting electronic devices
which the U.S. doesn't know all
about yet. •
Its principal effect can be on
the morale not only of the
Chinese who have been taught
to fly the Russian planes, but
also on units of the Red army
itself in the Far East, on . Rus-
Sian soil as well as Manchuria.
Aviation units, especially, are
tight little bands of men whose
lives depend more heavily on
each other than in any other
April 29, 1953
ANDROCLES HAT SOCIETY, 7 pm., Phi Ep
silon Pi.
CHESS CLUB, 7 p.m., 3 Sparks
GERMAN CLUB, 7:30 p.m., 105 Willard Hall
WRA LACROSSE CLUB, 4 p.m., game' on
Holmes Field.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
'Roger Ahlers, Howard Bachman, Sidney
Blecker, Eniil BOrra, Charles Cole, Joan Cress
man, Nancy Fortna, Alice Guthrie, Leroy Harris,
Robert Homan, Lee Kummer, Donald Long,
. ,
. .
atte 'Datil" eatiegtatt Collegian editorials repre
. sent the , viewpoint of -the
1 writers,. not necessarily the
Ipolicy of the newspaper. Un
signed editorials are ,by the
. editor.
Successor to THE FREE :LANCE. est. 188?
-D. R.
form of war. Among Commun
ists, as everywhere else, - they
demand and get a freedom for
relaxation not attained by other
troops: But also, in Communist
•units as nowhere else, suspicion
Is carried to the nth degree, and
the slightest oddity in;, a man
or a unit, in the face of such an
offer, will produce extremes of
discipline, and encouragement of
the men to spy on -one another.
Enough of that could wreck the
effectiveness of a unit.
The offering of bribes in
warfare is close kin to another
form of war 'which has often
been considered but. ' never
used extensively. That is . fi
nancial infiltration, by• flood
ing'. an enemy country with
bogus currency. ,
You would say offhand that
it would have little effect in
areas like China, where currency
is' little good anyway, and Rus
sia, With its complicated, controls
of sales and spending.
"'But there' have been secret
currency expansions in peace-
time before now, and they have
Gazette 4,..
THE 'DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVAInA
' FRANKLIN S. KELLY, Business Mgr.
Asst. Bus. Mgr., Richard Smith: Local' Advertising Mgr.;
Virginia Bowman:. National Adv. Mgr., Alison Morley:
Circulation Co-Mgrs., Gretchen Henry, Kenneth Wolfe; Per
4onnel Mgr., Elizabeth Agnew; Promotion Co-Mgrs.,- Terese
%losIA:. Don Stahl: Classified Adv.. Mgr., Marty Worthington;
Office Mgr., Mary Ann Wertman; Senior Board, Nancy
Alarcinek. Ruth Pierce. Betty Richardson and Elizabeth
Widman. .
and (2) mechanical limitations will in some cases
restrict the length of stories. .
To explain , the first point, , a story on a gift
suggestion is not necessarily the biggest story
of the day and must be used accordingly. The
use of any story will be relative to the other
news of the day.
,On the second point, it is ridiculous to assume
that a story describing a gateway to the campus,
no Matter how beautiful it may be, will take
up as much
,space as a story, for example, that
describes the complexities of a radio station.
In the past there have been both attacks and
praise in the editorial colUmns for vaotis gift
suggestions. This was particularly true when
the policy followed by the Radio Guild in sup--
porting a campus radio station and the 4sire
of some members of the Daily Collegian 'edi
torial staff to see a student press established
came into conflict.
In order to maintain a newspaper of integrity,
the honest expression of opinion on the editorial
page must exist. Without this freedom to re-,
sponsibly express opinion, the newspaper merely
becomes a propaganda organ for a chosen few.
—Dick Rau
Safety Valve
Hits Student Apathy
TO. THE EDITOR
A. brief article in yesterday's Daily Collegian
was, no doubt, overlooked by many readers.
It announced that Alan McChesney had ex
tended a cheer writing contest deadline. Why
was this necessary? The reason must be quite
obvious to the majority of students who are
well acquainted with the general apathy dis
played by their fellow classmates concerning
such matters.
Mr. 'McChesney received only four entries in
the contest. And students continue to gripe
about the _lack of decent cheers employed at
football and basketball games. The cheerleaders,
the rest of the student body, Must be rather
tired of spelling out 'NI TT AN Y and STATE'
every .five' minutes:
Cerfainly Penn State and its athletic achieve
ments offer more sources of material than a
lion and a mountain
• Letter cut
Charlotte Lutinski, Philip Matin, Barbara
Schmidt, Jordan Smith, and tubing Sorriatinadja.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Lillian ,Taylor Camp, Pa. will interview men
and women May 14.
Sagainore, Pa., an adult resort in the Poconos,
will' interview men May 6.
Stu'clents' wives for evening counter work
Tu e s n co M ro a r y a 1 8 rin . ,,Pa.,•will interview men and worn.
Waiters and dishwashers wanted.
—Betty Kessler
By J. M. Roberts,Jr.
Associated Press News Analyst
in time wrecked the economy
Which some. of them were ac
tually designed to bolster.
The effect in wart!me, how
ever, . would come primarily
• from the exploitation of greed
and suspicion among enemy
officials, who would soon be
come aware of what was hap-.
pening, but would be inter
ested in cleaning. up for them
selves before the money be
came worthless, or would be
suspected of doing so whether
it were true or not.
Some people who know China
well have suggested already that
Communist war lords may not be
too different from the old fash
ioned kind, and that a little
money judiciously spent might
buy them off as it did during
the internecine wars. That, of
course, referred to real Ameri
can money, rather thap infla
tionary bogus.
Nobody has ever tried any of
these ,schemes on a big scale, but
the present experiment in a kin
dred field. is going to be inter
esting to watch.
Little
an °D Campus
"Since the end of the semester Las slipped up on us and we've
only studied from this book, we're going to have to cover quite
a bit before the finals."
Short. 'Change
By GUS VOLLMER
With the revision of the staff for the Daily Collegian, the position
of exchange editor, formerly held by. - Bob Landis, was vacated.
With this position assigned to me, I was given the job of writing
this column and finding a suitable name for it.
Mimi Ungar, just like all theother retired senior board mem
bers, is still putting up her . last struggle before going doWn for the
third time. It was through her
efforts that the name "Short
'Change" was born.
* * *
The UCLA Daily Bruin reports
that as a part of its Greek Week
activities a chariot race is being
scheduled
"A 'chariot' is any three:Wheel
vehicle drawn by six men, with
driver's weighing between 190 and
310 lbs.
"Some of the chariots will in
clude a three-wheel bathtub and
a rickshaw driven by Herm Mc-
Coy, 245, and Mason Kight, 235."
The following classified ad ap
peared in the Daily Ncirthwestern:
"Lost, Beta pin. Last seen on, west: :
bound Alpha Chi. - Finder may
keep pin, please return girl."
A University of Illinois student
thinks college cheers are not dig
nified enough, so he recommends
the following changes:
1. For "Get that ba11"---"Qbtain
the oblate spheroid.".
2. Rather than "Hit 'em again ,
harder"—"Henceforth, smite them
more fiercely than you smote
them heretofore?) '
3. Instead of "Go team go"—
"Proceed, oh valiant, proceed."
4. For, "Hold. that line"—"lm
pede the • i:4*S . forward thrust
along the two-dimensional en
tity."
5. In place of "We want a touch
down"—"We demand a thrust,
forward maintaining as our ob-
Debaters Rank
sth in&Tourney_
Penn State's men's debate squad
finiShed. Mtg. . the Duquesne
Novice tournament Saturday in
Pittsburgh, winning : four • out of
eight( debates. Dickinson College
finished first among the 10 schools
competing in the tournament.
The affirmative team composed
of Murray Horewitz and Ronald
Isenberg won three out of four
starts. They defeated Duquesne,
University of Pittsburgh, and Car
negie Tech, and lost to Canisius.
Representing the negative, Carl
Saperstein and Burton Triester
returned with 'one win and three
losses. Their lone win came from
the University of Pittsburgh, with
losses at the hands of Dickinson
College, Duquesne, and Kent
State.
-WEDNESDAY, APRIL - 29; 1953
By Bibler
EMIEIi
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jective the passage of our adver
sary's goal."
-Kent State University is spon
silriirig a beard growing contest.
Trophies will be awarded for the
best - all-around beard, and the or
ganization with the largest per
centage .of its members bearded.
Certificates are to be awarded•for
the 'reddest beard, the blondest
beard, the longest beard, the cu
test beard, the blackest beard and
the best try. •
The ' Georgia Tech' Technique
reports in its International Stu
dent :News column that "Free
cocktails are served to English
students at the beginning of -psy
chology lectures at Bristol Uni
versity. Acting as barman is the
professor, himself, who wants to
try out on his students the effect
of .small, doses of alcohol on dex
teritY.and .reaction aptitude.
"A-head:line in the Rutgers Tar
gum .read , "Dancing Girls at Beer
Blast?" The story which followed
read:.." 'T.he possibility of having
dancing girls as entertainment at
the senior class, beer party has
definitely not been eliminated,'
declared Myron Linder, publicity
chairman for the affair.
."There had been rumors that
since -the . affair _will start at 9
o'clock we could not import any.
exotic entertainment. This is def
initely not true," the .story said.
Council I Voting
Set for Fall
. Elections for student council
members for the 'School of Busi
ness will not be herd' 'until next
fall, Philip - Greenberg, president
of the new council announced yes
terday.
The postponement' of the elec
tions was necessary because many
students were undecided as to the
school in which they would like
to enroll.
Greenberg said that -question
naires will be circulated , this
spring to determine Which stu
dents wish to enter the new schooL
The results of these forins will be
tabulated, and the students pre
ferring the business schools will
be separated next fall.
A constitution for.the school has
been written and aPProVeci by cab
inet. The constitutions• contains
provisions for elections..