PAGE FOUR Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings during the University year, the Daily Collegian is a student operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July a. 1934 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. DIEHL' McKALIP, Editor Managing Ed.. Mary Lee Laurier; City Ed., Mike Fein silber; Copy Ed., Nancy Ward; Sports Ed., Dick McDowell: Edit. Dir., Peggy McClain; Radio News Ed., Phil Austin; Soc. Ed., Marcie MacDonald; Asst. Sports Ed., Herm Weiskopf; Asst. Soc. Ed:, Mary Bolich: Feature Ed.. Edmund Reiss; Ex change Ed., Paddy Beahan; Librarian, Bill Pete; Photog. Dir.. Ron Hoopes: Senior Board. Bev Dickinson. Ann Leh. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Inez Althouse; Copy Editors, Nancy Fortna, Don Shoemaker; As sistants,' Sally Sykes, Mike Moyle, Larry Jacobson, Jane Casselberry, Tom Shiels. UMT: What It Means to Nation's Youth (This is the last of two articles on Universal Military Training. Information here was taken from the New York Times and Sabot-. astic Magazine. Yesterday's article gave arguments favoring UMT.) First and most important of arguments against Universal Military Training is that the training of many thousands of 18-year-olds for a six month period every year would be highly im practical because of the increasing complexity of modern warfare. What a trainee learns this year might be largely useless in two or three years, necessitating his training all over again in an emergency. . A second argument concerns the various types of dangers which might result from the proposed UMT program. Since most 18-year olds are claimed very impressionable, it would be bad to put them under military discipline at the time they should be learning to think for themselves. The danger exists, it is argued, that UMT may make robots out of trainees when they become used to direction and begin to depend on it. The Army, too, is a great catch-all which inevitably will affect trainees' moral development, it is argued. Along with possible dangers to individuals, some dangers to America are put forth by UMT opponents. They fear that * UMT will fur ther an already apparent trend toward an in creasing influence of the Armed Forces in American life.• It might help lead, they say, to complete military control of our national affairs. Also, just the existence of a UMT program will lure the country into a false sense of security leading to a neglect of other essential lines of national defense. It is also claimed that UMT will have an adverse affect on the Youngsters and Ice Youngsters in the State College area should be allowed to enjoy the new ice skating rink as often as possible. But, this enjoyment should not be at too great a risk. Youngsters under high school age should not be permitted to skate at the same times stu dents are skating. The only exception to this ruling should be those times when the number of student skaters can definitely be predicted to be low., Sunday afternoons are not such times. Sunday afternoons the rink is crowded with students, faculty, townspeople—and youngsters. A large number of youngsters, not even waist high to the average student, are just learning to skate. They stop and start unexpectedly, they fall, and they get in the way of students whc may not be too handy on skates themselves. No serious skating accidents have taken place yet. But there is a grave possibility that some time in the future one of the three or four year-old skaters will fall in front •of a husky six-foot student who can't get out of the child's way and will fall on top of him. This may sound absurd, but anyone who frequents the rink while youngsters are skating realizes how very possible such a situation is. "An ounce of prevention . . ~" a revision of the times at which the rink is open to young sters, will help both the youngsters and stu dents to more safely enjoy the rink's facilities. —Ann Leh Gazette ... Today CHESS CLUB, 7 p.m., 3 Sparks FIELD AND STREAM .DIVISION OF PENN STATE • OUTING CLUB, 7 :30 p.m., 317 Willard MARKETING CLUB, 7:30 p.m.,Zeta Beta Tap NEWMAN CLUB, DAILY ROSARY, 4:^,0 p.m., NOVENA 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Victory Church PRE-VET CLUB, 7 p.m., 109 Agriculture UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL • William Achenbach, Raoul Casciari, Dorothea Cassel, STU IrY Al 3 E2CAID will again provide a magnificent program of orientation and entertainment for the summer 1955 special student sailings of ' / "The Happy Campus Afloat" 0 0 THRIFT FARES TO AND FROM EUROPE For information writs .eArod.4p:AreTai 250 We: 37in Strcet,)N.Y.l9, N.Y. 4 Ohre Batty Cattegiatt Successor to THE FREE LANCE. est. 1887 CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING THE CENTER THEATRE Lewistown, Pa. MONDAY, JAN. 17 8:30 p.m. Big Bill Miller vs. Oyama Kato Bay Thunder Stern vs. Danny Ferrazzo MIDGET TAG TEAM MATCH Tom Thumb and Ivan, the Terrible vs. • Toughy McCra and Pee Wee James Prices: $2.25,. $1.50 and $1 including tax Tkkets now on sale at: CENTER THEATRE Lewistown, Pa. (Mail orders nromptly attended) THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA WILLIAM DEVERS, Business Manager Asst. Bus. Mgr., Benjamin Lowenstein; Local Adv. Mgr., Fay Goldstein; National Adv. Mgr., John .Albrecht; Cir 7 ' 'eulation Mgr., Richard Gordon; Promotion Mgr., Evelyn Riegel; Personnel Mgr., Carol Schwing; Office Mgr., Peggy Troxell, Classified Adv. Mgr., Dorothea Ebert; Sec.,Gertrude Malpezzi; Research and Records Mgr.. Virginia oskery. economic life of the country by the withdrawal of several hundred thousand teen-agers from the nation's labor force for six months. Education; too, will be affected by UMT, it is claimed. A mass withdrawal of 18-year-olds once a year will interrupt college plans and when the training period is over, much of the desire to go on to college will have been lost. It is suggested that the minds of these young men will be dulled, that their habits of study will be diverted, and general college work will be more difficult• than ordinarily it would have been. On the international scene, opponents of UMT claim that such a plan would be like telling the world that the United States no longer expects or believes in peace and that, under cultivation of communist propaganda, it is an imperialistic power, seeking domination and war. Economy is the third major question raised by opponents to UMT. A plan of this type wouldn't save the nation much money—the draft, although slowly being cut, will continue and money must be spent for lengthy refresher training in event of an emergency. Also, they argue, since it will be a multi-year program and will continue to grow, more and more expenses will be spent on pay, allowances for dependents, subsidies for education, plus equip ment such as arms and ships for transport, if realistic training is to be offered. Many persons / feel that such added expenses could be spent toward furthering public health, education, and scientific research. The question has also been posed whether the proposed six months training will be a suf ficient amount of time to mold teen-agers into soldiers. Safety Valve Clarifies Proposal TO THE EDITOR: In both the story printed following last Wednesday's, All-University Elec tions Committee meeting and the editorial Fri day, a few additions should be made to more nearly represent the proceedings. First Mr. Famouth specifically stated that the change of penalties for violation of the elections code was not his idea and that he neither sup ported nor opposed it, but was merely passing on to the committee a• proposal made to him by someone else. This was not made clear in either 'he report or Ile editorial. Secondly, my proposal was quite changed by a faulty explanation. I proposed a compromise oetween the two alternatives of docking all •andidates votes for an infraction, or fining he party a specified amount of money and in .his way not directly affecting the candidates. My proposal was that in case of an infraction the offending political party be fined an amount of money to be decided by the Elections Com mittee to correspond with the severity of the violation and, in addition to this, if the viola tion were due to the conduct of one particular candidate or his representatives, that he be docked a number of votes to be decided upon by the committee . . . ()Letter Cut A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, • but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.—Francis Bacon It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.--=Syrus Thomas Davis, Francine Fineman, John Harlan, Charlotte Klippel, Winifred Kuashay, John Kuntz, Harriet Learn, Jules Levine, Gwen Neiditch, Arthur O'Connor, Joan Rapo port, John Serrian, William Serrian, William Fehr, Eliza beth Savidge. Editorials represent the viewpoint of the writers, not necessarily the policy of the paper. Unsigned editorials are by the editor. Serrill —Has Simm Ot\'4ll ~~YtiE~ --_-. "You know how fast . he _ium — pp—in.to bed—well, last night we short-sheeted him." Third Times , a Charm' Adam's - -Other. Rib The idea of a campus third. party gets ; dragged over the coals at least once before almost every .elections campaign. This fall the idea was circulated twice before the .campaign for , freshman and sophomore class officers—the "airnost':'lq'ittany party encouraged by John Lyon and the brief University 'salty, initiated by Rudy Lutter. Snack Bar rumor and the like; has it that campus politicos are now considering, a third attempt . at starting a new Party—lnterest ingly enough, plans are more ; . sec retive than vague this time ; and' show some signs of being success ful. The question comes up, though, of what would make a third party successful on campus; and the an swer always boils down to. - the chief prerequisite that there. be a need for a third, party, and that potential clique members recog nize this need. • . - Take fora instance the previous attempt to form the Nittany narty in September. After one clique meeting, Mr. Lyon said he would discontinue his efforts for a third narty because he had received -,upport from some freshmen lnly. It's hard to say what motivated these frosh to attend one clique meeting, or Mr. Lyon to hold it in the first place. But obviously, none we r e so thoroughly con vinced of a need for an addition to campus politics that they could inject their enthusiasm into many students. Again, take the instance of Mr•. Lutter's University party in Octo ber. A multitude of campus poli ticians were supposedly linked with this attempt, but it too got no further than the first clique meeting, because it did not have strong enough support from the students. This is not to say that success ful third par,ties are impossible to create. Both the present parties are results of such revolutionary After the'Cleering Stop at ~...,...uspt 4,;' i e • RAY'S RANCH ito . 1 CP__ , For your favorite beveragets and snacks West on Blithe 322 WEDNESDAY,. JANUARY TZ:)1955 .pus / // /// I/ /44 // /7' By: PEGGY McCLAIN movements. In the spring semes-, ter. ; of 1947 State Party replaced the Campus Key party, which died after taking only one seat in the- 1946 elections. State party became so •strong that year it left its,. opponents, the Nittany Inde pendents, . out in the cold. The next. year Lion party pushed out the Nittany Independents. It made a weak entrance, but evidently its-need-was felt because it grew into its -present role in - campus politics. , liewever, the success of these two movements cannot be consid ered complete indication of :.sue, cess for a third party -at this.stage of the game. At that time; in:the 1940!5, - student voters' could:•..not split their votes between - parties:. Until Lion and State took over, it was a straight ticket, either, C-K or N-I. This factor alone created a need for some new' blood. At present there seems - . little need for a third party,. as - su,dh; on campus. Even now t l . l 9:"tviP parties have considerable - trouble' finding candidates to fill _them , slates. Because of the politica:Viet, up here, these candidate's" , must (Continued on page f fiie) Tonight on WDFMr: 91.1 MEGACYCLES 7:25 7:30 ___ Sports 8:00 __— Opeiit# Question 8:30 Masterworks from France 9 :00 Call Card "The, Informer" N 9:15 .__ .News .9:30 Light Classical. . Jukebox 10:30 Thought•ltir'the Day Sign On Roundup Stand-by
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