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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.
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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.
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ent before graduation. G.I. approved. Next class.
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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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