PAGE FOUR rth fainkeheo Tuesday through Satanlay moralan dada, e Unleersit, tear The Oak" Canteen u a student. operated salirspaper 53.00 per semester 93.01 i per year Entered ea second-class matter .taly b. 1934 at the State College. Pa. Post Office ander the set of March S. 1879 MIKE MOYLE. Editor Deanna SoMs Aut. Bus. Mgr.; Steve Higgins. Local Adv. Bsor Conklin, Managing Editor; Ed Dobbs, City Editor; Fran 4gr.; George Shambaugh, Ant. Local Ade Mgr.; Marilyn Fanurei, Sports Editor; Beaty Zahm Copy Editor: Eels Elias. National Ada Mgr.; Don Stohl. Promotion Mgr.: Anne °nat. Assistant Copy Fditor; Vince Carocei, Assistant Sports Caton and David Posca, Co-Circulation Mgrs.: Jo Fulton Per- Editor: Pat Hunter Features Editor: Dave Bavar Minter- sonnet Mgt.. Harry Vaverbaum Office Mgr.; Barbara Ship. rook• Edlin. man Classified Ad Mgr.: Roth Howland. SAC.: Jane Croff STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Judy Harkison; Copy Editor, Paula Miller; Wire Editor, Bob Frank lin; A,i,:st.ints, Pat Earley, Pam Chamberlain, Barb Stone. Don Thompson, Tom Beadling. Safety or Power in Power and design come first and the safety features of an automobile come last according to the emphasis of most car manufacturers. Power has been emphasized to the point where a 1957 model of almost any car can, from a standing start, break a 60 mph speed limit in 11 seconds. Is this important? Actually cars now have so much power that it cannot be used because of the speed limits. Many car manufacturers claim that the power is important in enabling drivers to get out of a "bad passing jam." Actually such things as power foi fast acceleration, better cornering, more rubber on the pavement, easier steering control, less plunge in panic braking and sev eral others are features which attract the race driver for use at speeds far above the speed This would mean that these safety features would be of use at speeds far greater than the speed limits. The safety features for lower speeds have been considerably neglected. and, according to statistics released by the National Safety Council. 87 per cent of automobile acci dents occur at speeds of 40 mph or less. Even on the Pennsylvania Turnpike with its 70 mph limit, 75 per cent of the accidents occurred at a speed of 50 mph or less. The fact that the largest percentage of acci dents occur at lower speeds shows that if the right .;afety features were emphasized, many deaths and bad injuries could be averted. For safety at lower speeds American cars before last year were no safer than the World War I bi plane. There have been, in fact, private planes developed for several years which could crash at 70 mph and cause no injury. Most late model cars, on the other hand, can kill passengers at 35 mph. A great number of the moderate speed acci dents could become no hazzard to life or limb. All that is necessary is a change in the design UCA Will Hold Two Seminars For Faculty Thi University Christian As sociation will hold two faculty seminars for the next six weeks. beginning Monday. Both seminars will be held at 8 Monday evenings in the Program Center of the Helen Eak in Eisenhower Memorial ChapeL Six lecturers will conduct the seminar on "What Present-Day Theologians are Thinking." The speakers will present the major contributions of some of the out standing contemporary Protestant theologians. Gibson, First Lecturer Sam N. Gibson will deliver the first lecture in the series this Monday. Other speakers and their topics are: the Rev. William McClain, "Karl Barth"; Dr. Luther Harsh barger, "H. Richard Niebuhr"; the Rev. Robert Starbuck, "Paul Til lich"; Professor Thomas V. Gil patrick, "Reinhold Niebuhr"; and the Rev. Preston Williams, "Ru dolf Bultmann." Seminars Are Open The Rev. Donald Melivride, acting director of the Westmin tser Foundation, will conduct the other seminar on "The Life and Ministry of Jesus." The seminars are open at no COst. Persons may register by calling or writing to UCA office or by attending the first meeting of the seminar on Monday. • Nearly 2,300 cadets are enrolled this year in the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the University. Service and Sales *Radios •Cca Radios - *Phonographs •TV Sets I 44. .;. - -Aw-5. 4 01..• ... • State College TV 232 S. Allen SI. ( 1 31113 BAH entirgian Successor to THE FREE LANCE eat. 1887 DAVE RICHARDS. Business Manager Cars ? New pledges of Phi Delta Theta house manager; and Gene Wentz, are Cooper Bishop, Donald Book,, corresponding secretary. Robert Brown, Walter Cottom, Ri- New pledges of Phi Sigma Delta chard Engelbrink, William Fork- are William Jaffe, Jerome Gar er, James Gaskell, David George, finkle, Sam Savitz, Lewis Her- Paul Richardson and Paul Sny-1 Hal der. man, David Epstein, Stanley New officers of Alpha Chi Ome ga's pledge class are Jessie Jan 3igian, president; Ellen Butter worth, vice president: Barbara Knight, secretary; Margaret Max well, secretary. New initiates of Theta Kappa Phi are Richard Dill. Steven Gar bon, J. Riley Johnson. William Kovaleski. Donald Nair. Robert Nastase. Henry Reich. Frank Voj tasek, Michael Yaccino and James Zuratt. New• initiates at Alpha Epsilon Pi are Morton Linder, Michael Lipschultz, Gerald Gomer, Martin Freedman, Kenneth Slotnick, Da vid Pressman, James Apple, Ron ald Weitz, Martin May and Sam uel Fleishman. Alpha Epsilon Pi has pledged Robert Ber s o n, Donald Block, Howard Cohen, Barry Frank, Mil ton Frieman, Norman Kahn. Peter Glick, Morton Gulak, Harry Klapper, Ira Rosenbaum an d Floyd Silver. New initiates of Phi Sigma Del ta are Robert Parsky, Sigmund Sandler, Edward Rosenblum, Al lan Rosen, Stuart Klein and Henry Gilbert. New officers of Theta Xi are Leonard Sichel, president; Ed ward Harrison, vice president; 'Bernard Musial, treasurer: James Burns, caterer; Richard Walton, THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Research ■nd Recoris Mgr emphasis of cars. According to a study conduct ed by the Indiana Stale Police, proper car de sign could have been a life-saver in 84 per cent of the accidents which they studied. What reaction did this study bring from auto mobile manufacturers? They made an attempt to supress the information. However, several other states have joined the Indiana police by conducting similar investigations. One apparent effect of the information has been an effort to clean up dashboards and clear them of knobs and sharp objects which can kill passengers in accidents. However, very little of the need for safety features has gotten through to automobile manufacturers, who still prefer to make cars that will go up to 145 mph when the highest speed limit posted on any road in the country is 65 mph. Why have they done this? Obviously because this is what sells cars. They have ig nored such features. as safety belts, proper placement of door handles, adequate visibility, adequate rear-view mirrors, enough fresh air, anchoring the rear seat and many others. The design emphasis has been with length such as to make many garages and city parking meters obsolete. Tail lights too have been changed for effect only. Car manufacturers, it would seem, are far more interested in selling cars than in prevent ing injury or death. They have had all the statistics at their disposal and have chosen to ignore them for the more flashy features which sell. This leaves the choice up to the public. Evi dently the only way that safety features will be installed in cars is for the public to demand them. Only when the public demands safety belts rather than power, will cars begin to take a modern trend. Co-edib .ler, Nathan Koenigsberg, Mark Willensky, Jerome Karp, Robert Solot, Elliott Freeman, Joel Mil ler and Jerome Neil. Alpha Zeta has pledged James Holt and Foster Billheimer. New initiates at Sigma Alpha Epsilon are James Beggs, Charles Herlocher, Richard Lloyd, Cary Campbell, Donald Carlson, Wil liam Charlton, Leroy Edwards, Walter Ferer, Larry Hartzell, Walter Lloyd and Peter Moran. Theta Xi has pledged Kenneth Skinnell, Richard Barth, Edward Zimmerman, William Doak, Theo dore Lerch, Joseph MacEcevic, James Gould and Hubert Swartz welder. New pledges of Theta Kappa Phi are Patrick Farrell, Wolfgang Al ber, William Lovrinic, Joseph Lynch, John D'Angelo and Mi chael Scarlote. Social Security Director Will Speak Wednesday Paul C. Moomaw, executive di rector of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Social Security for Public Em ployees, will speak Wednesday on the plan to integrate the Federal Social Security and the State Em ployees Retirement System. The talks will be given from 4:15 to 5 p.m. ar.d from 8 to 9 p.m. in 10 Sparks. EARN YOUR MASTER'S DEGREE AND PREPARE FOR N EXECUTIVE CAREER IN RETAILING • , prehensive nine-month program for A.B. and B.S. aduates emphasis on executive direction in major • res dovetailed with classroom work. Total pas for • work $450. Coed. Scholarships. Selective job place ent before graduation. G.I. approved. Next class. .umber 1951. Apply now. Write for Bulletin C. SCHOOL OF RETAILING UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Plethora!' 13, Po. Editorials represent the griewPoints of the writers. not neresurily the pulley of the paper. the strident body or the University —Sue Conklin Man Little •,, ~--- ry ° 4/ . I 4e:4W, Nasser Putting Squeeze on Egypt President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt appears to be ready to put his country through an increasingly severe belt-tightening process rather than yield any part of the political position he attained by nationalization of the Suez Canal. The fact that Israel has withdrawn from Egyptian terri- tory, thus alleviating the tension which has existed throughout the area for months, has brought a re sumption of canal-opening work. But all evidence from Cairo is that Nasser intends to see it operated under_his own terms. Includes Tolls Among these is payment of all tolls directly to Egypt. This is counter to an internationally sup ported proposal for payment of part of the tolls to Egypt and part to an international fund which could be held as a guaran tee of proper operating conditions until the World Court can pass on the whole question. Egypt has also said that the ca nal will not be open to Israeli shipping. This constitutes an ex ception to a previously reported Egyptian view that a settlement can be reached under the terms of the international treaty of 1888. Is Still at War This is also a key to Egypt's attitude in the whole matter of Middle Eastern settlements. She refuses to alter the attitude that she is still at war with Israel de spite the 1949 armistice. She thus maintains the basis for continuation of the Arab cam paign of hate against Israel. Israel has just given at least partial token that she is not guilty of the Arab charge that she plans eventual expansion at Arab ex pense to meet the demands of her unlimited immigration policy. Arabs Not Satisfied But the Arabs are by no means satisfied regarding Jerusalem's attitude toward Jordan. Jordan is a state founded after World War I on a political rather than a nationalistic or economic foundation. Britain has supported it, but Jordan has bucked her out in favor of support from other Arab states, primarily Egypt and Saudi Arabia. How long that will prevent collapse is a question. SATURDAY. MARCH 9. 1957 Campus The Arabs expected Israel to make a move toward Jordan as soon as the Sinai campaign was cleaned up. World reaction to that campaign has probably put a damper on Israel's intentions to ward Jordan, if any. Israeli Has Vital Interest Israel has a vital interest, how cever, in what happens. So has 'lraq, which might complete its split with Egypt and Syria if they try to absorb Jordan. 1 The canal situation is closely entertwined in Nasser's mind with ! his prospects in these other mat ters. He is gambling that Egypt can get by economically until his strength from canal control can have its effect elsewhere. When canal negotiations are re sumed, however, as they should be soon, Nasser's time will begin Ito run out. He will be faced by the necessity for an agreement or the danger of application of more stringent economic sanctions by the Western powers. 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