The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, January 06, 1956, Image 4

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    PAGE FOUR
rublifthed Tuesday through
Saturday morning* during
the I'nirrrßiiy year, the
Daily Collegian is a student*
operated newspaper.
Entered as aecond-cUss matter July 5, 1934 at' the SUt* College, I*a, Post Office under the act of March 3, 1873,
MIKE MILLER. Acting Editor
Managing Editor, Roger Heidler; City Editor, Don Shoo* Co-Asst. Bus. Mgrs., John Kmetz, Dorothea Koldys; Local
maitfir* r’on. rw« • u» nn «. c nnr <. cau** wii AUt. Mgr., Fajr« Goldjteln: National Adv. Mgr., Jerry Fried:
maker. Cop, Editor. Dotty Stone: Sport. Editor. Roy W.l- Co-Circulation Mgrs.. Israel Schwab. Chriatin. Kauffman:
liamt; Editorial Director. Jacki. Hudgins; Society Editor. Promotion Mgr., Delite Heopea; Co-Personnel Mgr*.. Atetta
ln,i Allliciuif: AmiiUiA Sport. Kditor; Ron Gat.hon.,: Pho- M.nb.ck, Cannit Anderson: Offic. Mgr., Ann Kceaey: Cl»».i
-„ ..... .j u, ~ at t» j t» * -i i»ed Adr Mgr., Peggy Dans; Secretary. Lit Melko: Research
fgr.ph, fcdltor. Ron W.lk.r: Senior Bo.rd. Ron Le.k. and R, cor d, »lg r .. VirginU LiUhnw.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Ed Dubbs; Copy editors, Sue Conklin, Rog Alexander; Assistants,
Joe Cheddar, Dot Hunter, Marian Beatty, Dick Fisher, Clark Polak, Becky Zahm. Ad Staff: Claire
Murray, Doreen Hayward, Lois Stonebroker, Joan Wallace.
Jan, Graduates: Speak Your Mind
The Senior Class Advisory Board deserves
praise for its decision to place suggestion boxes
at various points on campus so that seniors
graduating in January may make suggestions
for their senior class gift.
The suggestion boxes will be available until
Tuesday when they will be collected by the
committee. A ballot will then be drawn up
carrying the leading suggestions and seniors
will be able to vote on their selections when
they pick up their caps and gowns.
The two or three suggestions with the most
votes will then be placed on the spring ballot
when the rest of the class of 1956 votes.
The action by the advisory committee cer
tainly corrects a long-standing injustice which
denied the January graduates a voice in the
selection of their class' gift to the University.
January graduates should be sure to take
advantage of this opportunity afforded them
by their class committee. The money for the
senior class gift is accumulated from student
fees over a four-year period and thus all should
have an active interest in seeing that a suitable
gift is selected.
Last year the senior class presented approxi
mately $lO,OOO to the University for pews and
furnishings for the nave of the Helen Eaken
Eisenhower Chapel. Gifts to the chapel were
also made by the classes of 1954 and 1953.
Safety Valve...
What Does the Veteran Really Deserve?
TO THE EDITOR: Some of the main arguments
among veterans this semester against talk con
cerning passage of any restricting rule on cam
pus have been: “I’m a veteran, therefore I
shouldn’t have to do that"; or “I’m a veteran,
therefore I should be allowed to do this."
I cite as examples the veterans’ stand on the
blanket freshman car ban and the Sunday dress
rule in dining halls.
The veteran is attending college on the GI
Bill, which he would not have without first
having served his country honorably. The GI
Bill was passed by Congress because, among
other things, the people o! the United Stales
wanted to express their appreciation and grati
tude to the veteran for his honorable service.
The veteran deserves this GI Bill because he
has shown himself to be worthy of it. He has
worked for it, therefore he deserves it.
There is a joke in the service that a Silver
Star and a dime will buy a good cup of coffee.
The title, “veteran," and a dime will do exactly
the same thing, and nothing more. The veteran
will not get anything other than the GI Bill
Today SABBATH EVE SERVICES. 8 p.m.. Hillel
CATHOLIC STUDENTS 01‘KN HOUSE, 8 p.m., Student „ . ,
Coittor University Hospital
LUTHERAN STUDENTS OPEN HOUSE, 7:30 p.m., Luth« Frederick Blair, Vatricia Dolinaky, Jamo4 Foyle, Claire
prim Student Center Ganim, Robert Hnnson, Lewis Jones, Elaine Kloures, Richard
NEWMAN CLUB DAILY ROSARY, 4:15 p.m., 209 Tletael Moore, Hale Neff, Richard Phelan, Carolynn Quarles, Mari-
Union lyn Seltzer, and Elaine Shaffer.
Commissioner
Suggests Meet
MADRID, Spain, Jan, 5 (/P) —
Lt. Gen. Rafael Garcia Valino,
high commissioner for Spanish
Morocco was quoted today as say
ing conference between Spain,
France and Morocco is a neces
sary step before Moroccans can
obtain their independence.
The commissioner’s statement,
published today, was made to the
newspaper ABC.
Garcia Valino is to confer this
month with AndreDubois, resi
dent general of French Morocco,
Garcia Valino was quoted last
month as saying Spain plans local
government soon for her Moroc
can protectorate, but full inde
pendence is still a long way off.
Plant Science Club
Samuel P. Bayard, associate
professor of English composition,
will speak at the Plant Science
Club meeting at 7:30 p.m., Tues
day in room 111 Plant Industries.
“The Anglo-American Folk
Song” will be the topic of Bay
ard's talk, which will include tape
recordings of authentic folk songs.
Students entering the Univer
sity have their pick of 60 curric
ulums offered by tea different
colleges.
lath) Collegian
Sacrt'tMor Ui THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887
ROGER VOGELSINGER. Acting Business Manager
Gazette. •.
Guided Missiles
To Be Installed
HEIDELBERG, Germany, Jan.
5 </P) —The United States Army
plans to install its Nike super
sonic antiaircraft guided missiles
in Western Europe, it was an
nounced today.
Army headquarters here said
survey of sites for the radar-con
trolled weapons would begin im
mediately. The announcement de
scribed the plan as “a significant
step strengthening the over-ail
European air defense, system.”
The Nike rockets “intercept and
destroy enemy air targets regard
less of evasive action,” the Army
said.
Nike units are stationed around
American cities and strategic tar
gets but have not been sent over
seas. The Nike, a large rocket, is
named after the Greek goddess of
victory. The Army claims it has
proved highly effective against
modern jet aircraft in tests in the
United States.
28 Students Withdraw
Twenty students on campus and
eight at the centers withdrew
from the University between Oct.
6 and Dec; 12.
The following reasons were giv
en for withdrawing: illness 5, fi
nancial 1, personal 16, scholastic 4,
transferring 1, and other L
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Other gift suggestions which were made last
year included social television facilities, re
building of a recreational lodge, and an endow
ment fund for the Pattee Library.
The centennial- monument has now, of course,
lost its timeliness and would not be a suitable
gift for this year’s class.
The social television gift is of questionable
merit since when suggested it was intended
primarily to televise events taking place on
campus to other central points such as the Het
zel Union. This could detract from attendance
at athletic events, student theatrical presenta
tions, lectures and other events which depend
on admittance fees for their continuance. The
Board of Trustees, which must approve the
gift, might view the merit of such a project
with justifiable doubt.
But funds toward the building of a recrea
tional lodge, more books for Patlee Library, or
another gift to the Chapel would all be spent
in a worthwhile manner and again deserve con
sideration by this year's seniors.
And we are sure that the 1956 graduates have
many other worthwhile ideas for a gift which
would better their Alma Mater.
Let’s hear them. The advisory committee has
provided the means for ideas to be expressed.
It is now up to the seniors to speak their minds.
—The Editor
simply because he is a veteran. Anything he
gets other than that is because he has worked
for it, therefore he deserves it.
The Veterans Club was re-organized on cam
pus this semester and, although it became
somewhat of a political football during recent
elections, it is essentially a good organization.
It is potentially one of the strongest single in
dependent organizations on campus because all
of its members have been through similar last
ing experiences and therefore have a stronger
common tie than most other organizations. And
these veterans not only are older and have a
solid common meeting ground which other stu
dents do not have, they are more experienced
in leadership than most other students because
of their military service.
If the veteran wants something, he has an
organization available to use as a sounding
board, a voice that will be heard: the Veterans
Club. He will not get anything simply because
he is a veteran, but he will get something if
he has worked for it and has earned the right
to have it.
Attorney Sets Up
Scholarship Fund
A scholarship to be known as
The Delta Upsilon Scholarship
Fund, has been established by
Charles D. Prutzman, New York
attorney.
The scholarships will be award
ed to male students having satis
factory academic averages who
are in need of financial assistance,
with members of Delta Upsilon
fraternity having priority.
The scholarship fund was es
tablished as a part of the reor
ganization of the Charles D. Prutz
man Lion Fund which Prutzman,
a 1918 graduate, established in
1946 to aid members of the Delta
Upsilon fraternity.
Flood Film Entered
For Academy Award
BOSTON, Jan. 5 <7P)—An Army
Engineers’ documentary film on
the New England floods of last
August has been entered for
Academy award consideration.
The film shows pictures of com
munities once inundated were
saved by preventive works con
structed by the Corps of Engi
neers.
The documentary is titled “Op
eration Noah,” based on the com
ment after the August floods that
“this was the worst deluge since
,the time of Noah.”
Editorials represent the
viewpoints of the writers,
not necessarily the policy
of the paper, the student
body* or the University.
—Bill Kling
tile Man on Campus
...
one thing for that NROTC instructor—he very
seldom has a discipline problem."
lnterpreting the News
More Dissension
On Foreign Aid
By J. M. Roberts
.Associated Press News Analyst
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s suggestion for a long-term
foreign aid program can have only limited meaning in the cold war
unless Congress approves it with a unanimity which now appears
very doubtful.
Since it would depend upon year-to-year appropriations, reci
pient nations will not be able to give it complete confidence in the
face of possible congressional
changes of mind.
They will have before them,
however, the record of the Mar
shall Plan for Europe, set up for
four years on the same basis and
carried through to completition
despite serious opposition in its
later stages.
The Marshall Plan represented
one of the most unselfish and dar
ing naional actions ever taken by
any country in an effort to estab
lish an international atmosphere
in which it could live comfort
ably. The current proposal would
revive the policy for an area—the j
underdeveloped area of the world]
—which is now threatened even
more seriously than was Europe
in 1947.
The ability of the nation to ac
cept the Russian challenge for
domination of Asia and Africa
was apparent in the President’s
discussion of the final situation.
He said the United States govern
ment, after nearly a generation
of deficit financing, would be on
a pay-as-you-go basis within the
next six months.
And that takes into considera
tion the anticipated increases in
foreign aid, military preparedness,
and domestic social services such
as health, security, schools and
roads.’
The President did not hold out
any definite promise of being able
to do all this and reduce taxes,
too, although he was obviously
hopeful that could come after a
start on reduction of the national
debt. And there he may run into
a snag with Congress, where
Democrats and Republicans alike
would prefer to put off expendi
tures, especially in such an un
popular field as foreign aid, in
favor of a tax-cutting appeal to
the voters this year.
Why is foreign aid unpopular,
in the face of the successful rec
ord of the Marshall Plan?
There are many reasons.
No amount of argument will
convince some people that reliable
allies can be bought.
There is, indeed, no certainty
that the economic ties the inter
national experts wish to forge will
prove strong enough to thwart the
Communists. It’s just something
to try in the face of Russia’s adop
tion of the method already intro
duced by the United States.
The prospect of a long-term
need for continued expenditures
of this type leads to a certain feel
ing of futility. If it's never going
to end, some people ask, and if
FRIDAY. JANUARY 6. 1956
By Bibler
there is no certainty of definitive
victory in the foreseeable future,
and if there is uncertainty about
the value of the underdeveloped
nations as allies even if they are
won, why not hoard American
strength and depend upon a policy
of massive retaliation for secur
ity?
That’s isolationism, already
proved by World War II to be
the weakest reed upon which a
nation ever leaned. To revert to
it would be to abdicate the na
tion’s inter national leadership,
and to renounce the hope of ever
[establishing the world atmosphere
'in which Americans wish to live.
Profs to Attend
Health Confab
Three faculty members from the
University will participate in the
National Conference of College
Health Education in Washington,
D.C., January 8 to 13.
Dr. Miriam E. Lowenberg, head
of the department of foods and
nutrition, will be a representative
for the American Home Econom
ics Association. She has been as
signed to the discussion group on
“Interrelationships—College, Col
lege Health Program, Commu
nity.”
Marie Haidt, professor of physi
cal education, and Arthur F. Da
vis, professor of physical educa
tion, will represent the College of
Physical Education.
Miss Haidt will take part in dis
cussions concerning required
courses in physical education, and
Davis will participate in the
teacher-training program discus
sion group.
LaVie Proof Deadline
Frederick Romig, editor of La-
Vie, requests that seniors in lib
eral arts, mineral industries, and
physical education who still have
the proofs for their LaVie pic
tures return them to the Penn
State Photo Shop by noon Satur
day.
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