PAGE FOUR PrttUM T««iar threat* B«t«rii7 ■•raifefi tfcriiif tiM (Jaitmltr fur, Tha Daily Collcfiaa Sa a atadeat' •yintid Mrt^aper« ll.OO per WBMttr ' 15.00 per jeer Entered u •econ4-cla*j urttter lalf I, 2054 at the Btete Colleje, Pa. Poet Office snier the act of Merch 2, 1870. ED DUBBS, Editor A tit, Bqi. Mrr., Sot Mortenson; Local Ad. Mrr., Marilyn Manaftnf Editor, Judy Btrkicon: City Editor, Robert Prank* Eliu: AuL LoctUAd. Mrr., Rom Ann Gonttles; National Sin; bporta Editor. Vine* Carocel; Copy Editor. Ann Pried- Ad. M*r., Joan Wallace: Promotion Mfr., Marianne Maler; tors: Aniitant Copy Editor. Marion Beatty; Assistant Sports Personnel Mar.. Lynn Glas&bnm; Classified Ad. Mgr.. Steve Editor, aiatt Podtoeek; Make-np Editor. Glnny Philips; Fho- BiUstein: Co-Cirrnl*tion Men.. Pat Miimicki and Richard torraphy Editor. Georse Harrison. Linpe: Research and Records Mar., Barbara Wall; Of flea Secretary. Marlene Marks. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Mike Maxwell; Copy Editors, Dave Fineman, Pat Evans; Wire Editor, Mickie Cohen; Assistants, Bill Jaffe, Mary Fran Cowley and Marie Russo, Political Pie: Cabinet Missed Biting It A request from the studems of the University of Alaska that Penn State students through All- University Cabinet consider the statehood for Alaska issue brought little enthusiasm Thursday night. The letter requested the Penn State student body to endorse statehood through letters to Congressmen. It listed other schools in the United States which already have taken this action. " Although Cabinet voted 17-7 against dis cussing the issue. James Stratton, president of Iht Mineral Industries Student Council, voiced opposition to discussion even before the Cab inet agenda was adopted. ' Stratton said that the issue “was outside the realm of student government" and “would turn Cabinet into a comedy.” Thomas Hollander, senior class president, de fended the recommendation and called Cabinet sounding, board lor student opinion.** He said students “lack intellectual interest in out side matters” and that student groups “should be stimulated by discussions such as this one.” Although controversial, statehood for Alaska Is not a complex issue. We hate to think that student leaden at a large University are so Studying to Death Republicans are going to study Leader’s edu cational program. This is what they say. But the truth is they are going to study it to death. Instead of facing the issue head on. the GOP moved yesterday to have the Joint State Gov ernment Commission conduct a thorough study of higher education problems and report back to the Legislature by January 1. 1959. This is studying something to death—some thing which has been studied by educators all over the country. This is not to mention that the program Leader ha* proposed was deter mined after a year's study by a special com mission on higher education! The Governor’s proposals—for award of 5000 state scholarships a year, for- an educational loan fund, and for a program of state aid to encourage local school districts to establish junior colleges—is a forward-looking means -of meeting today’s crisis in higher education in the state. It would be financed by a one-cent-a bottle tax on soft drinks. Leader’s program has drawn the praise of President Eric A. Walker, who wired the Gov ernor: "Heartily endorse your proposal . . Few men in the state are better aware of this crisis in higher education than is Walker. Said Dr. Charles M. Long, head of the Uni versity’s Department of Education in a personal message to Leader: ‘‘Your comprehensive pro gram for increasing post high school educational opportunities is a step in the right direction.” The program was studied for a year before Leader proposed it. The crisis is here. The time is now right for action, VAY DAY CEREMONIES. *:3G p-tn.. Old Main front Uwn. MOTHER'S DAY TEA. 2-3 p.m. in lounges of all women’s 4ormitori««. OPEN HOUSE IN WOMEN'S DORMITORIES. 2-S p.m. Tomorrow DRILL TEAM DEMONSTRATIONS, 2 p.m., Oltf Main front lawn. Speech Prof to Leave For Australian Post Dr. Robert T. Oliver! professor and head of the Department of Speech, will leave on May 31 for a three-month appointment in Australia, under the Leaders- Specialists Program of the U-S. Department of State. In Australia he will work with school authorities of the five Aus tralian states on the "development of courses in speech in their secondary schools and colleges. Pla r ers ‘ jip Tnu/ii Philadelphia Mental and Su PP Ls FREE The Teahouse of Ihe j J|umHioww ; Health Clinic I .Batteries BOX STORAGE August MOOII j good food and training in •Portable Radios for yOUr CLOSING PERFORMANCE | fast service at PSYCHOANALYSIS QariTlCnfS tL- I Application* are acceptable jural f iy | 1 _ ' SCHWAB P-M. j Iflo at any time during the year. BBUU evive l aiiunßV . i PFNN QTATF <*«.« ?«».«,. PENN STATE LAUNDRY Tickets at HUB Desk I rCWruaiMIE Execatito Secretary || SfflfO Coflfiflfi T\/ II BHd CLEANERS .... l*\lklCD Peychoanalytie Stndiee In.titat. JIUIC VUIICytt IV ,ir o , *“* j DINER Htl Pin. Stmt, Philadelphia *, Pa. 232 S. Allen SL Ph<L AdTtwI 6 ' 3Hjp Hath} Collegian limnr to THE FREE LANCE, at. ISS7 —The Editor Gazette Prof to Help Integrate Ed Graduate Program Dr. Rose Cologne, professor of education, has been named the University’s representative for a, study aimed at developing an in-! tegrated graduate curriculum for! professional workers in the field of adult education. The study is financed by a five i year Kellogg Foundation grant to .18 participating universities, in- 1 ; eluding Michigan, Florida State, Columbia, Chicago and Ohio State. I THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA STEVE HIGGINS, Business Manager narrow in their knowledge and interest in na tional affairs. ~ As far as turning Cabinet into a comedy, we believe it might work the other way. Many students are apathetic to student government because what is “contained in the realm” is of little interest to them. If Cabinet thought it did not have the time, or that students were disinterested, the recom mendation should have "been referred to a Na tional Student Association committee. One of the purposes of NSA as a national group is to serve as a political sounding board. When membership in NSA_w.as turned down March 7, it was partly because students could not visualize student government’s role to be political. Cabinet had the chance Thursday night to put NSA to work, NSA could have sought student opinion and presented a report to Cabinet. Then Cabinet could have decided whether it wanted to support Alaskan statehood. Simply because the University is isolated here in the Nittany Valley doesn't mean student government should concentrate solely on cam pus affairs. Cabinet missed a potential opportunity Thurs day night to take a bite of NSA political pie. —Judy Harkison Testing H-Bombs _ An experienced United Nations observer be lieves that in two or three years the H-bomb powers will agree to stop all nuclear tests. The reason, he says, is the pressure for such an agreement building up in Japan, India, Nor way and West Germany and even in the atomic countries themselves. The observer preferred to remain anonymous. One can say that the observer is optimistic, but the only way of disproving him, of course, is waiting three years. We hope he’s right and can see trends even in the United States since Adlai E. Stevenson brought H-bomb Tests into the campaign as an issue. Americans seem more aware today of the possible dangers from testing than they did back in October. Scientists disagree over whether there really are radiation dangers from the tests. An author itative answer—if there is one—to this question is to be given in a final report to the UN Gen eral Assembly. The report is due July 1, 1958 from its 15-nation Scientific Committee on Radi ation Effects. In a way, we hope the report shows radiation from the tests to be dangerous. For it seems that this is the only way to obtain public sup port for banning nuclear tests—if people are shown their health is at stake. The world cannot continue producing bigger and bigger bombs. The free world against the Communist world. The lid some day will blow off. The first step at banning nuclear weapons— and putting nuclear power to peaceful use— is banning tests. And the sooner it is done, the better. GLEE CLUB CONCERT. S p.m.. Schwib. LANTERN CIRCULATION STAFF, candidates and mem bers. 7 p.m.. 203 HUB. OTEN HOUSE IN WOMEN'S DORMITORIES. 2-4 p.m. University Hospital Stanley Burd. Carole Gibson, Harry Klapper, Robert Larson. Roberta Lerch, Barbara McMillan, Virginia Rimer, James Robinson, John Sweeney, Kurt Erman, Janet McHugh. Eng Professor Writes Article for Magazine ; Chester Linsky, assistant pro cessor of industrial engineering, •jis the author of a 12-page article jin the current issue of “Flow,” a * magazine -for the materials hand . ling field. \ The article is entitled “Auto mation with Off-the-Shelf Com ,'ponents,” and deals with methods '.by which small manufacturers Imay develop automation. Editorials represent tho viewpoint* of the writer*, not nee Kuril? tho policy of tho paper, tho otadent body, or the University —The Editor Little Man on Campus Interpreting the News Mideast Salesman Hands Out Samples Associated Press News Analyst James P. Richards, the Eisenhower Doctrine ambassador, is enthusiastic on his return from the Middle East where, like many a traveling salesman, he has been handing out samples. Nobody he saw refused to take something. Because of political conditions, he didn’t see three prospective customers —Jordan, Syria and Egypt, Jordan, however, was getting $lO million at the time out of another of Uncle Sam’s pockets, and Syria and Egypt, believed un der Soviet influence, were put in the position of having to ask if they want something. Richards committed about $l2O million, half for miillary supplies and half for economic aid, some in loans and some in grants. He didn't make public details about who got just what. Some liked the samples so well they already were asking for more. For some it was merely an increase in what they had been getting. Just what the samples will pro duce in demands for the future remains to be seen. Certainly neither new nor old customers are satiated. As in many other places, when you go through the Middle East holding out a handful of money you have to be careful not to have the hand snapped up, too. Optimism about the loyalty of your associates in such a deal can be overdone. A part of the Arab code is to expect and even demand aid from anyone who can give it. A frequent saying among them is that they will shake hands with the devil if it profits them. They can divorce that from what they really think about him. There is strong evidence, how ever, that as Richards reports, there is greater faith in American sincerity now than before last fall’s crisis. The demonstration that the United States opposes aggression not only by Russia, but by anyone even including her best friends, has had its effect. How much the' Eisenhower Doctrine can accomplish with out including Syria and Egypt SATURDAY. MAY 11. 1957 By J. M. ROBERTS is, however, a major question, since they offer more encour agement to Russia than any of the others. When the -Marshall Plan was offered to all of Europe, Russia refused and barred her satellites from accepting. Everyone thought she had invited a major outcry among the satellites. It undoubt edly contributed to general un rest, but produced no crisis. Only one thing is sure. The samples distributed by Richards in the Middle East will produce a snowballing demand for more. Godfathers are always subject to continuing expense. Roscoe Elected Choir President Lewis Roscoe, junior in archi tecture from State College, has been elected president, of - the 1957-58 Chapel Choir. . ' The other officers are Roger Seremula, first vice president and head librarian;'Elizabeth Savidge, second vice president; Elfrieda Bauer, secretary: William Kling, treasurer; Joan Esslinger, histor ian; and Roy Miles, Richard Rod gers, Ralph Shields, Lewis Wag man and Howard Wolfley, librar ians. Grad Student Receives $2OOO Cheat Fellowship Robert Etter, graduate student in chemistry from Chambersburg, has been awarded a $2OOO fellow ship by the Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation for the 1957-58- academic year. Etter, a candidate for a doctor of philosophy degree in organic chemistry, was graduated from Gettysburg College. by Bibler
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers