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STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Dave Fineman; Copy Editor, Bob Franklin; Wire Editor, Maggie
Lieberman; Assistants, Lynn Ward, Mike Dutko, Edie Blumenthal, Sheila Miller, Barb Stone, Ruth
Billig, Tom Beadling, Judy Berkowitz.
The Budget, and John Public Jr.
Some weeks ago we wrote about the terrible
circle budget-cutters got themselves into when
ever the Federal budget came up for approval
in Washington.
At that time we said that this also applied
just as well to the state governments. This prob
lem is easily brought down to the University's
situation when one reads about the efforts cur
rently being made by Dr. Eric A. Walker to get
what he feels is necessary for the University
to - function for another two years.
What affects the slate economy also affects the
University since a goodly amount of the Uni
versity's income comes from state aid.
The problem becomes more acute each time
the University appropriation comes up. It is
known that the University didn't get as much as
was asked last biennium. Of course, this is prob
ably true for every group (with some .excep
tions) which asks money from the state. If
everyone got exactly what he needed, the state
would likely be spending twice as much money
as it had available.
From our remarks in that past editorial we
hope we have made it clear that we are not
in that group which just rears up on its hind
legs and blasts away when it doesn't get what
it considers a fair shake.
We have the utmost sympathy with the slate
legislators who, just like their counterparts in
Washington, have to make some cuts some
where. Governor George M. Leader and other
state officials have pleaded that there is just
not enough money to go around. This is true.
But from Dr. Walker's recent efforts to get an
increase in the $27.7 million appropriation which
the Governor suggested to the Assembly, we
sense that things are much worse than two years
ago.
In Pittsburgh Monday night Dr. Walker told
a Alumni Fund meeting, "We consider this to
be a disaster budget. It would barely permit
us to maintain our present programs. 4
Don't Lower the Voting Age
To lower the voting age to 18 would be a
serious mistake and would lower the overall
quality of the votes.
Those who say that the voting age should be
lowered claim that if a person can go to war
and die for his country he should be allowed
to vote and help decide who will be its leaders.
We see no correlation between the two what
soever. Any person who is not physically dis
abled and is not an idiot can fight in a war.
Some soldiers are known to have I.Q.'s below
the normal range.
In fact, a person with high intelligence, and
a person who likes to think for himself can be
a real hazard in a war or a battle. The military
tends to train men to take orders without ques
tion and generally discourages a great deal of
free-thinking on the part of the men. The fact
that a person has the physical capability and
the mental ability necessary to follow orders
does not qualify him as a good voter.
Generally speaking people at 18 are more im
mature than those of 21. We realize that this is
a nebulous topic, but we must say that in the
long run this will be true. It is also difficult
to say who can cast an intelligent vote and who
cannot. Probably it would be better to let all
college students vote regardless of their age,
but then a new difficulty arises in that some
college students have no interest in politics and
do not read up on the questions at stake in the
vote. All that can be done is to let anyone in
the population between certain ages vote. We
Safety Valve
Fraternity Men Better Scholars?
TO THE EDITOR: I was amused by the remarks for joining a fraternity and because the hide
of Professor Arthur M. Wellington at the Out- pendent group includes the freshmen who have
standing Pledge Banquet as reported in the the highest rate of failure of all classes.
Collegian yesterday.
It seems that one should join a fraternity It is true that the fraternity members have a
because he would then have a far greater chance better scholastic average, but this no proof that
of graduating than if he remained an inde- the fraternity membership gives them this scho
pendent. This conclusion, of course, was based tactic advantage.
on statistics. May I point out that it could be Professor Wellington should take English
shown by statistics that freshmen who "join" Comp 5 to learn how to analyze statistics and
the West Halls dormitories after their freshman Psych 2 to see that in scientific experiment or
year have an even greater chance of graduating. analysis it is necessary to have both an experi-
Taking statistics and applying them to such mental and a control group for comparison in
conclusions is plain and simple propaganda. order to draw conclusions. Maybe fraternity
Here at Penn State the fraternities will have a membership helps scholastically, but it is not
higher graduation percentage than the inde- proved from these statistics.
pendents because of the scholastic requirement
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DAVE RICHARDS, Business Manager
Pennsylvania has always been ranked rather
low on the list of states when it comes to money
spent for education. In a rich state like ours
(compared to some others which rate higher)
this is slightly incongruous.
As Dr. Walker said, this thing goes farther
than the University itself. It reaches right down
to the elementary schools. There the pangs of
too little money are being felt also. And when
these children are being deprived of a decent
education then the problem can become no more
serious.
We have never been able to explain why the
people refuse to recognize the importance of
what is perhaps their most precious heritage—
a clear-thinking, well-educated generation to
follow. This kind of generation may not be
forthcoming if things continue the way they
have been going.
Yet, we are not, in writing this, issuing a
warning to the state legislature to get on the
ball and give Penn State a decent appropriation.
This is because the blame may lie elsewhere.
More taxes would be one way to solve this
problem. Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public wince
when this is mentioned, but John Public Jr.,
age 6, may be sitting squeezed into an inade
quate classroom with classes only half a day be
cause his parents are loathe to pay more taxes.
Also we implore the public to become more
conscious of the need for improvements in edu
cational facilities because they are precisely the
ones who can do something about it.
If Pennsylvania has ranked low in education
for a number of years, it would follow that a
worried citizenry would be up in arms. How
ever, it seems that people of the state like the
status quo. If their child complains that he
isn't getting the correct treatment in school
they will be quick to take action, but why wait
until then? Why not now?
can say that the intelligent voter is the person
who reads the news on both sides and does not
formulate his opinion with too much bias be
hind it.
The person of 18 is often economically depen
dent on his family. If he has not been out work
ing and living on his own he does not have any
conception of taxes, prices or labor conditions,
except by what he reads. In other words, it is
hoped that by meeting up with situations first
hand it will help the person have a base for
formulating his opinion.
It is also claimed that people voting at 18
would just duplicate their parents' vote. This,
of course, would not be true in all cases, but we
suspect that it would be true in a good many.
Particularly when the person is still economical
ly dependent on the parents.
Even the college student who has better
perception perhaps than the older person with
out a college education, cannot claim the ad
vantage of experience which tends to make a
person weigh the pros and cons more carefully
without jumping to a decision.
On the whole the person of 18 is less mature
than the person of 21. His conditions often put
him in a position where his thought is too easily
affected by others and he lacks experience.
Letting people vote at 18 would provide more
votes, but we doubt if it would improve the
quality of the votes. Do the people want just
votes or good votes?
Gazette
—The Editor
—Sue Conklin
—David Houghton
NSYLVANIA
the Man on Campus
interpreting the News
Containing Russia
May Be Expensive
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
The American public is pretty well convinced b 4 now
that it is going to be required to pay and pay for contain
ment of Soviet expansionism and the search for ultimate
peace.
When 'President Dwight D. Eisenhower says world peace
is an objective that overrides high taxes, because without it
the world faces virtual destruc
tion, it is taken as merely routine.
There is less unanimity, how
ever, when it comes to the ques
tion of whether money is really
the answer, and how it is to be
spent.
The President was talking more
about the budget and the possi
bilities of a tax cut than about
ways and means to peace. He
sounded at one point as though
social problems at home and
. the
foreign aid program were just
parts of the budget.
But then he brought in the im
portance of making the world
truly understand America's posi
tion in it,
All of-these things are more
fatefully joined together than
merely through inclusion in the
same budget.
.One of the things that gives
Americans pause as they contem
plate their outlays for peace is
that they can't see what has been
done so far as a concrete, definite
program with definite - results.
After 10 years of foreign aid
as it has, been practiced from
time to time, the taxpayers still
see a world which moves from
crisis to crisis with the brink of
war as a familiar shadow which
follows them throughout the day.
A great many of them are con
vinced that what they see is not
the prosecution of an American
policy, but a series of reactions
to Russian deeds.
This is true only in degree.
However, it is true that there
would be no such policies and
no such reactions except for
fear of Russian expansionism.
Perhaps it is time not so much
for a revision of policy as a revi
sion of outlook under which the
public can be given added reasons
for different programs. -
If the rest of the world is to be
given an understanding of what
America mean s, then AmeriCa
must be that which she professes.
By that token, social programs
which enhance rather than dimin
ish the dignity of the individual
must be carried out in that light,
and presented to the world in that
light, rather than as political sops
to pressure groups. .
If the United States believes
that the world must be lifted. by
America's econom is bootstraps
until its component parts: can al-
WEDNESDAY. APRIL'3. 1957
by Bible
ford to live freely without fear.
then more attention must be paid
to broad general principles of de
velopment, rather than be cen
tered, as now, on a few countries
bordering the Communist bloc
which the West wishes to use as
buffers in containment.
America is at her best u a
proponent of principles, as an
example of the good life which
men can attain when truly de
termined to live together in
peace.
Chemistry Prof
To Go Abroad
Dr. John C. Aston, professor of
organic chemistry and director of
the Low Temperature Laboratory,
will leave for Europe Thursday.
While there he will participate
in two conferences and lecture at
several universities.
He will deliver a paper at the
Conference on Surface Activity to
be held in London from April 8
to 12.
Dr. Aston will serve as chair
man of the theoretical section of
the "Chemical Purity" symposium
in Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
from April 24 to 26.
He will give lectures at the
University of Wales. St. Andrew's
University in Scotland, and Ox
ford Tridiversity in England and
will visit the University of Leeds
in England and the Universities
of Louvain and Brussels in Bel
gium. •
Mrs. Aston and their son will
accompany him. They will return
to the United States early in
June.
Metallurgy Prof Given
Committee Appointment
Dr. Robert W. Lindsay, profes
sor of metallurgy, has been ap
pointed to the 1957-58 nominating
committee for national officers of
the American Society for Metals.
Dr. Lindsay, who is chairman of
the University chapter of the so
ciety, will represent the lqcal
chapter. He is the first officer of
the University chapter to be ap
pointed. to this national commit
' tee.