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MIKE VEINSILKER, Editor
MIKE MILLER, Amoulate EAU*,
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Al Klimcke; Copy Editors, Sue Conklin, Terry Leach; Assistants
Lni k John Mi Arthur, Juan Chase, Thom Snields, Ruth Grossman.
Cive May Day Back to the Grade School
lit a au,e• holidays and celebrations are not the
Usual topic for coritrrive•riy they are seldom
evaluated and analyzed. And it is unusual that
We take an analytical look at the May Bay cele
bration. !tut wel...feel justified in our critical
study because May Day is an unusual celebra
tion
One thing that sets it off from other festive
occasions is its lack of significance. Encyclo
pedias don't agree about its origin, they guess
at its meaning, and they say nothing about its
age.
But obscurity is not reason enough to banish
the May Day celebration from the University.
There are other reasons. though, that we feel
are good enough to put the pagen pageant back
in the grade school where its appeal seems to
be stronger.
Pt ept r jtttin, art- tune coniurnlng and trouble
slant'
fhe pageant e> ten weeks away and already
Women under thr leadVrAliP of the House of
Wore-a-rind ves of the Wornen':; Student Gov
et ;uncut A,'oc•iation have begun to work.
Dancers and dancing group•: have been en
gaged Singing groups have been signed up.
Old Main's front yard has been booked for
May 12
When the day is near at hand underclass
women will work long hours on the hemlock
chain. Maypole dancers will rehearse—though
their dancing probably won't show it. if we
can depend on precedent.
Is the time well spent?
May Day is set to be the Saturday afternoon
before Mother's Day. The parents who come
from all over to visit the campus must be en-
Party Candidates: Names or Personalities?
It's no secret that quite some time has elapsed
since steering committees and clique officers
first began discussing candidates for the March
21 and 22 elections.
Tomorrow night members of the two campus
political parties will gather in 10 and 121 Sparks
for the purpose of setting forth preliminary
nominations for the slates they will present be
fore the student body in less than three weeks.
And it is also no secret that tomorrow night's
nominations are little more than a matter of
formality. it would be difficult to say just how
long it has been since the 1956 candidates have
Ok'd thew availability and begun "campaign
ing" for March 21 and 22. Of course there could
be slight alternates in the slates tomorrow night
and next Sunday, when final selections are
named. But since the All-University Elections
C'ommittee set up the "I
-F-I-F-I" plan its been
pretty clear—to those who make it their busi
ness to be concerned—who is going to run
where.
This procedure—since it is all an integral
part of political turmoil—can't really be con
demned.
Among the host of names which will be heard
tomorrow night and next week will be the nine
All-University, Senior Class, and Junior Class
offieets for the 1956-57 school year.
Penn State student government is fortunate
in having such a large student body to pick
horn, for within the masses there is certain to
always be a sufficient volume of individual
competence and leadership ability.
It is not our fear that the sophomores and
juniors to whom we have just referred will not
have their mimes voiced tomorrow night. No
doubt they will, be it for reasons of novelty or
political enthusiasm.
thither, it k our fear that personalities, rath
er than nanie.;, will be brought up with an ex
cess of enthusiasm, and perhaps, that too much
attention will be directed to the name rather
than the person himself,
Tomorrow night and next Sunday eyes and
ears must be open and heads must be clear.
What has been discussed and has taken place
the pa•ti few months between clique personnel
and prospective candidates Must be thrown out
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ROGER VOGELSINGE.R. Business Manager
tertained and this outdoor celebration is the
most colorful event of the whole weekend.
May Day apparently symbolizes the coming of
spring, the revival of vegetation. the budding
of flowers.
But parents come to the University not only
to visit with their children, they come to get
to know Penn State. There's very Lillie that's
Penn Statish about May Day. May Days are all
alike. If parents have seen one they've seen
them ail.
The Glee Club usually performs during the
Mother's Day weekend, we can count on Players
for a show, and there are always several ath-
I-tic contests. So as far as entertainment for
the parents, there's usually plenty.
Another defense for the celebration is that
it is a functional one. One of its purposes is to
bestow honor on outstanding senior women by
letting them carry the Honor Arch down the
green.
Is this any way to honor our truly outstand
ing women? Is this the type of reward they ex
pect for their service to the University?
If we must have a formal welcoming of
spring, (which, incidentally will have arrived
three weeks before our May Day) why doesn't
WSGA design its own celebration—one not so
childish as age-old incipid May Day, one not
so reminiscent of the grade school pageant.
Haven't we got something more significant to
celebrate than the revival of vegetatidn? Is
there nothing better to do than crown a queen?
May Day has not stood up so well under our
critical eye. We think we could do without her.
She should be replaced.
the window tomorrow night and forgotten un
til March 23.
Many factors are to be considered when nomi
nation time arrives tomorrow night—athletes,
coeds, young blood, experience, and available
time among them—but no matter how the chips
may fall, names must be forgotten and person
ality, competence, and character must emerge.
The Flullonly:
By Any Other Name
•For several weeks running, sessions of All-
University Cabinet have resembled—in spots—
distinguished discussions of learned linguists
in the finest academic fashion.
Debate has centered about two words: com
pensations and scholarships. But on Thursday
the dirty word, pay, was introduced.
The distinguished Cabinet members who
favor—ah, shall we say awarding funds to
those hard-working public servants, student
leaders—have shown a distinct preference to
call such scholarships.
AIL but the nefarious opponents of this just
measure, they call it compensations.
And on Thursday night Samuel Walcott,
chairman of the committee which believes that
service is not its own reward, took to the floor
of Cabinet and shed enlightenment. The Daily
Collegian, that vulgar sheet, he revealed, had
gone to the extent of using that filthy word—
pay—on its front page.
Well, you can imagine the shock!
But can you imagine our shock when we
discovered that Noah Webster, founder of "Web
ster's New International Dictionary of the Eng
lish Language," a guide book to which The
Daily Collegian occasionally refers to, is on the
side of the vulgar.
About scholarships, Mr. Webster says this:
. .. An allowance to an undergraduate or grad
uate. as of a university, to aid him in prose.
cluing his studies.
Since it has been called to our attention that
student activities sometimes do not aid the
student "in prosecuting his studies," we knew
that Mr. Webster and Cabinet were not talk
ing about the same thing.
So we checked him on compensation. About
this he said:
. . . Act or principle of compensating; also,
an instance of this.
And he defines compensate as:
. .. to remunerate.
And this, he says, means:
.. . to recompense, requite, compensate (and,
gulp) pay.
And to top the whole dirty business off. Mr.
Webster notes, on page 1797:
"Compensate and remunerate are often polite
ly used when pay might have a more or less
offensive connotation."
If Mr. Webster were to drop in at a session
of Cabinet, he would, we suspect, be quite
shocked about how his words are being argued
about.
And if Mr. H. L. Mencken, author of "The
American Language" and cynic extraordinary,
were to drop by, he would have a good laugh.
While if Mr. William Shakespeare. play
wright. were to happen in. he might be prone
to quote himself to this effect: "A rose by any
other name . . ."
But if anyone from Madison Avenue were• to
catch the -act, he would be proud.
Eiliterisle represent the
viewpoints st the writers,
net necesearlis the soltelt
et the palm. the student
beds. or the tholversits
—Jackie Hudgins
—Ron Gatehouse
--Feinsilber
Little Man on Campus
"OK, OK, Henley—other students have had to
face required courses, ya know."
In Footste . s of the Russians:
Are on
Critical
Eyes
In
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
Secretary John Foster Dulles is moving into an extremely vola
tile area where political concepts balance on knife blades. In some
places his standing isn't too good.
Every word he says will be measured carefully. It wilt be one
of the most difficult trips he has ever undertaken.
Not that there is any great
trouble in the Southeast Asia
treaty organization, a meeting of
which is the immediate cause of
the trip.
An indication of what faces him
in India, however, is contained in
the Times of India's reaction to
President Dwight D. Eisenhow
er's decision to seek another term.
The Times, generally consid
ered a mouthpiece of the Nehru
government, welcomed the de
cision and referred to the for
mer possibility that his illness
would knock him out as a "cal
amity."
"It is a measure of India's
confidence in his policy that
many here refuse to identify
him with Dulles' procolonial
statement on Goa."
Dulles has explained that it was
just an expression, used in a joint
statement during a visit of the
Portuguese foreign minister some
time ago, and that he was not
taking sides in the Goa dispute.
That statement referred to Goa,
claimed by India, as a Portuguese
province. Thursday, not being
specific, he acknowledged that
relations with India had been
clouded by "superficial irrita
tions."
The Indian government, how
ever, has clung to its umbrage
even beyond reason, indicating it
probably wants some American
concession before it permits the
air to be cleared.
This has created an atmo
sphere which could produce
public demonstrations against
Dulles when he visits the coun
try. Thai would cause great
rejoicing among the Commun
ists, whose Russian leaders
were recently greeted with
great public acclaim, in which
the government was a prime
mover at least to the extent of
Closing the schools so the chil
dren could get out and cheer:
Dulles will also face a delicate
situation in Pakistan. where in
creasing tolerance for Soviet ac
tivity has been displayed since
the visit of Bulganin and Khrush
chev.
The fundamental trouble be
tween India and the United
States 'is the supply of American
arms to Pakistan under both
SEATO and a bilateral mutual
aid agreement, while Pakistan
and India keep an uneasy mili
tary truce over possession of
Kashmir.
All reports 'from Indonesia in
dicate a considerable trend to-
SATURDAY. MARCH 3. 1956
By Bibler
Dulles
Asia
ward communism there. Yet the
United States was a strong factor
in arranging the settlement which
produced East Indian indepen
dence from the Dutch. The secre
tary's reception there will be in
teresting to watch.
Missing Millions
Makes Mailman
Most Miserable
By ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON (EP) A mail
man's lot is not a happy one.
Here he is, toting the heaviest
mailbag in history, delivering
everything from light bulbs to
toothpaste, and yet some • cus
tomers keep complaining service
isn't what it used to be.
Jerome J. Keating, vice presi
dent of the National Association
of Letter Carriers, claims_ the
mailman is convinced there is but
one solution: More carriers.
And so he has been trying to
get the Senate to put back the
$10,880,000 that the House cut
from a post office bill. He is glad
to note that the Eisenhower ad
ministration sees eye to eye with
him on this.
"We are in hearty agreement,"
he said heartily.
Faculty Luncheon Club
Dr. Gilford G. Quarles, director
of the Ordnance Research Labor
atory and professor of engineer
ing research, will address the
Faculty Luncheon Club meeting
at noon Monday in the Hetzel
Union Building. Dr. Quarles'
topic w ill be "Sponsored Re
search."
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