PACE FOUR r»i»lUfe+« ru?*4»7 Ihroash moraine* during lit* URiifMil; p**r, tbn Doily C«lU|iin U * itidtnl* «p«r»t«d a«irioio«r. f’Mrrrd m irrond>rliti matter Jit; l, 1134 ml ifao StmU Collect, Pm. Peat Offic« mnder the met ®f Hmreh 9, 197#. MUCK KKINHII.HER. Editor MIKK Mll.l.KK, A...J.1.U Editor Vitniiinr Nitor. R»r»r Hfldltr: City Editor. Don RHm< Ad». Mgr., Jerry Pried; National Adv. Mgr., Eitelle Coplan; mokrr ; (op; Kdilor, Dotlie Stone: Sport* t-dit a movie concern inn a dupe peddler and his manner of enticing other, to um* marijuana cigaiettos. The film was banned in 1958 by the State’s Motion Pic tin e Censor Board but last year a Common Ideas Court judge over-ruled the ban. On Tues day, the commonwealth's Supreme Couit, in a four-to-one decision, upheld the lower court’s vet du t Tin- 1 !H5 law under which the censorship board bad been operating for 41 years was de tlaied unconstitutional by the high court on the giounds that its terms were vague and in definite The law, the cotut field, is a denial o( the due piocess clause of the Fourteenth Amrndment and a violation of the First Amend ment of the federal constitution. The decision followed the precedent of the United States Supieme Court decision on "The Muacle.” That deci-non held New Voi k and Ohio law's censor ing movies were unconstitutional. Don't bother rushing to the local movie bouses: the decision doesn't mean that, at this moment, anything goes on the screen. The Su preme Court pointed out that obscene films are still subject to police censorship under other taws of the Commonwealth. But the decision does mean that the General Assembly is about to pass an amendment to the PJir> act, removing the vague terms m the law and substituting other words which, to us, ap pear iess vague but more undesirable. The new law, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, "would, in fact, give the censors great er power than formerly, since it grants them the right to disapprove movies regarded as ob scene or show scones tending to incite to crimes of violence." In addition, films which advocate the use of narcotics or habii-lorming drugs would be outlawed. A few hours after the court handed down its decision, the Senate Committee on Law and Order hastened to approve the long-pigeon holed amendment to the act which will restore censorship. The amendment passed the House msl June by a 198-0 vote. It. presumably, is pet feel I v constitutional. But how desirable is it? Judging from the vote favoring the amend ment, members of the House feel censorship is essential. So does Supreme Court Justice Michael A. Musmanno, the sole dissenter m the court’s decision, who declared: ‘‘The vilest motion picture now devised" could now be shown. He termed the court’s opinion “gra tuitous and uncalled for” and one that would permit public showing of “shameless and de grading” films. Musmanno is not alone in supporting movie Caesar and Taxes Beware the Ides of March. A quick look through the history books shows us that it was exactly 2000 years ago today—at 9 a.m., March 15, 44 8.C., to be exact—that Julius Caesar was assassinated. To commemorate the occasion, the Bureau of Infernal Revenue has established a new policy lor filing income tax returns. Now. April IS is the deadline, one month later than the old March IS date. The motive behind the change undoubtedly was to remove some ol the stigma surrounding March 15. But the tax-collectors were thwarted. Gov. Leader last week signed a three per cent sales tax into law. Now every day is tax day—for van urns, at least. Beware, Gazette UHU.K Cl AS.S, The Ten Commandments, 9 p m h oUHilrtlHHt HI.OCK AND HUIDI.K CLUB. 7:30 pm.. 914 HeUel Union I>AIKY sUTKNCK. 7 pm., \l? Dairy ~ NKWMXN CLUB Lwum*. 7:30 pm.. 304 Old Main NhWMAN CLUB TV l'arty, S pm. Student Center DSYi’MOI.OtiY CLUB, 7:30 pm, Usvcholoicv Laboratory SOCIETY Or AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS. 7 t> m , 1 C*rrt<*«u* WOULD AGRICULTURE SERVICE SOCIETY, 7 p.m., 217 Hetzel Union University Hoapitol David Romford, Atthur Diamond, Laura ErtV-scm, Mamif Henning to Address Block and Bridle Club Dr. William L. Henning. State Secretary of Agriculture, will be the Speaker at the Block an d Bridle Club meeting at 7:30 to nighf in 214 llctze 1 Union. Dr. Henning was given a leave of absence as head of the animal husbandry department to act as Secretary of Agriculture. atlje Sailt; Collegian lutnui to THE FREE LANCE, mC UM -SEE Pennsyl- —Don Shoemaker Delta Nu Alpha Initiates Naval Science Prof New initiates of Delta Nu Ai- To Speak at Meeting ;pha, transportation fraternity, „ . ... . _ Curnn.nn t Capt. Vlctor B. Mc,Crea, profes ate John Moftatt, Dean Swanson, sor G f ff ava j Science in the Naval iWilliam Neifert, James Jeffery, Reserve Officers Training Corps ] James Snyder. Robert Sargent, Unit, will speak at the Society of IRav Mvers, George Mills, Dale 1 American Mili f a r y Engineers Libensperger. Arthur Fre n c h,| mee . tln S at 7 tonight m 1 Car ,Ronald Kozura, and Ernest Den-jhegie. hung. 1 Interested students may attend. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA JtOCKK VOCKI.SJNGKR, Easiness Msnaper CVA»»I. Ifu« Mgr*., John Kntli, Dorothea Koldyi; U«tl censorship. But Pennsylvania is practically alone in maintaining it. Only four other states— New York, Kansas, Maryland, and Virginia— have motion picture censorship laws. And the others haven't, as far as we have been able to determine, gone to the dogs without it. Maybe the reason is that the people of the 43 non-censoring states have imposed their own extra-legal censorship on out-of-bounds films. Church groups, such as the Catholic Church’s Legion of Decency, have promoted this type of self-control. Motion picture theatres them selves have refused to show pictures which they have felt to be in bad taste. And Holly wood, through the Johnson office, has proven adequate to police itself. This type of censorship is far superior than state censorship. How effective it is has been demonstrated by the comic book ban, imposed not by states, but by families. Parents showed themselves to be more able to curb sales of comic books pitcuring sadistic crimes than state agencies could be. And both the comic book industry, and the movie industry, have demonstrated that they are super-sonsative to public criticism. It is the public, not the legislatures, which set public standards and tastes. But the Gen eral Assembly undoubtedly will persist in feel ing it must protect the morals of the public. In so doing, we hope the General Assembly gives the public a larger role than it now has in determining what is immoral, what is obscene, wbat tends to incite crimes of violence, and what advocates the use of narcotics. The way to do this is to increase the member ship on the Motion Picture Censor Board. There are now only three members, hardly a repre sentative cross-section of Pennsylvania’s popu lace. We suspect that a board of 50, with widely varying backgrounds, selected from as many areas of endeavor, would reflect the tastes of the people of the state with more accuracy. Since the principle behind movie censorship is one of “we-must-protcet-ourselves-from smut” it seems only logical that a cross-section of the people should do the protecting. The state would have no trouble, we're willing to bet. in finding citizens willing to devote themselves to the job—and to do it without compensation, too. Almost everyone at one time has observed: "I wish I were a movie censor." We don't think people say that because they feel a need for public service. People say (t because they want to see uncensored movies. But we must protect ourselves. Movies are better than ever, Hollywood claims. They have to be good if the public is going to continue to pay to see them. But thev have to be good in another sense of the word if the censors aren't going to shear them. And that’s not so good. Safety Valve A Job for Cabinet TO THE EDITOR: I have recently seen Robert Spadaro’s position on the campus book store issue and I am in' complete agreement with him. I believe he summed it up nicely when he said that apathy toward student government and other related activities is well deserved. Stu dent government should serve the needs of the student. I would like to know of a better stu dent need than a campus book store. Talk has been going around lhal a campus book store would harm "free enterprise". If this is so, then the University should stop hous ing and. feeding students. After all. isn't this fundamentally the same type of interference with "free enterprise"? Why do we have student government? If seems that if they really want to do something, they can. The passing of student compensation is an example. We need a campus book store and it is the duty of the elected representatives of our student government body to act! If they do not act, how do they know whether or not we can have a campus book store? I would like to see many letters written, both pro and con, to see if we can get a much needed campus book store at Penn State. —Boris Stoiancheff frvhnel. Malvin Goode, Sidney Grobman. Daniel Hartin* Goo rite Koch. Jean McGearv. Kenneth McKee. MHHs Mer »hon, Roy MIU», Ko*er l’ttnfil. Richard Phillips. Ann Rich ards, Dale smith. Ulcu Thiervcochter. Samuel Valentine Vern Vanordcr, Diane While, and Joseph Zimmerman. ' KditoriaU represent tt« viewpoints of the writers, not necessarily the policy of the paper, the stodent body, m the University —The Editor Little Man on Campus By Bibler "That's just a ten minute quiz. You should see him when he's giving a blue book." Will Nixon Run? Ike Announces They're Buddies Associated Press News Analyst President Dwight D. Eisenhower and a lot of people in New Hampshire have made one thing very clear—they like Richard Nixon. The President moved at his news conference yesterday any idea he might be connected with those who would like to Nixon. They have, he said, as much chance of driving a between him and Nixon as of j driving a wedge between him and; his brother. He’d be glad to be on any political ticket with his vice; president. I That, following Republican ! Chairman Hall's word that Nix on is satisfied to go by the pro- j prieties which the President endorses, waiting until the con vention to decide about the vice presidential nominee, was in tended to put a quietus on what was developing into a full-sired Republican hassle. Any Republican who tries to keep the issue alive now will be going against the wishes of the President. That doesn't mean he can make it stick, i The Nixon write-in in New Hampshire was rather amazing, since there were no formal en tries and no campaigning. Repub lican state leaders want it to ap pear spontaneous. But there was an inkling of it in advance of the vote, and somebody must have done some work on it. Considering the difficulty of getting voters to [take the initiative of a write-in, however, the testimonial is im pressive regardless of how it was obtained The Kefauver showing in. the Democratic primary also was im pressive, but discounted in ad vance by the fact that Stevenson declined to campaign. New Hamp shire Democratic leaders remain, by and large, in the Stevenson camp. In a decidedly Republican stale, with no formal contest beyond the individual candi dacies of Stevenson supporters for convention seats, there was just no organised campaign for him. Political observers mostly look the line that the whole business showed only that Ke fauver is popular in New Hamp shire, where he made a vigorous campaign. In the nation he was still a Southerner with a tough tradition to break to get the nomination, and still the sec ond-ranking candidate. A much more decisive contest between the two will be decided in Minnesota Tuesday, when Ke fauver runs up against a Demo cratic leadership really organized for Stevenson. A good showing there would give his campaign, a big boost Neither primary, however, car ries as much portent for the Dem- THURSDAY. MARCH 15. 1956 1 ' I'. 1 By J. M. ROBERTS ocratic party as does the new rift over civil rights, now centering primarily around the Supreme Court and race desegregation. The manifesto signed -by Southern members of Congress, urging re sistance to the court order on schools, broke a three-year truce on a subject which party leaders had hoped could be kept in Pan dora’s box. Study Rooms Used By 4 Each Night Approximately four students each night have used the study rooms in Willard Hall, a Univer sity official in the registrar’s of fice said yesterday. The University recently desig nated 107 and 204 Willard as study rooms. The rooms are open from 7 to 11 p.m. Monday through Friday. The study room plan had been presented to University officials by students who felt there was a lack of adequate study facilities. The University official said he will give the plan more time be fore he makes a statement con demning or approving it. Candidate Distributing Directories to Students William Clark, Campus party candidate for All-University vice president, is now distributing di rectories containing names of presidents and members of ma jor campus activities. Clark is distributing the 14- page booklet, which was pre pared by Campus party, as he makes his campaigning tours to fraternity, sororities, and inde pendent groups. Tonight on WDFM 7:15 Sign On 7 20 New* 7 :2o Sport* 7 :30 —. „ ... Starlight Review 8:00 Jaax Club 8 ;30 Just Out 9 *.OO .......... Man on the Mall 9 :1S New* 9:30 i Scenario 10:30 Sign Ott To get a free program schedule, send a postcard with your name and addreaa to Program Schedule, WDFM, Sparks Build* ing. to lay > dump wedge *l.l MEGACYCLES