PAGE fUUK Pabliahatf Tacadar thraach /fTtart 4« /j(P r*l I Editorial* rapreaaot tha satardor a..™ in*. d.rln* I*l nl* Ttj3.ll IT \LIIILFIIIdU riawpointa of tha writara. tha Unlvcralty ytar, Tha t)**** 1 not naraataHly the polity Deilr CoHecian U a elodent- Bocceaaor to THE FREE LANCE, eat. 1887 ? f ‘ h * F*?"',.* I }* * t " dent •p*rmU4 new«p»prr. body, or tht University ___________ _ 1 St.OQ p tt stnezter 95.90 per yesr l _____ __ Entered no second-claw matter July 6, 1934 at the State College, Pa. Post Office ender the act of March l, 1871. ED DUBBS, Editor Asst. Bdi. Mgr., Sue Morten ion; Local Ad. Mgr.. Marilyn Managing Editor, Judy Barkleon; City Editor. Robert Prank* Elias; Asst. Local Ad. Mgr., Rose Ann Gonzales; National Un; Sports Editor. Vine* Caroeci: Copy Editor, Ann Pried- Ad. Mgr., Joan Wallace; Promotion Mgr., Marianne Staler; Serg; Assistant Copy Editor, Marian Beatty; Assistant Sports Personnel Mgr.. Lynn Glassbnrn; Classified Ad. Mgr.. Stere Editor, Matt Podbesek: Make-ap Editor, Glnny Philips: Pho- Billitein: Co-Circulation Mgrt„ Pat Mlemickl and Richard tography Editor, George Harrison. Lippe; Research and Records Barbara Wall; Office Secretary. Marlene Marks. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Les Powell; Copy Editors, Mike Maxwell, Pat O’Neill; Wire Edi tor, Mickie Cohen; Assistants, Mike Dutko, Ted Wells, Mary Fran Cowley, Sherry Kennel Cabinet: Why Waste the Students’ Money? (Editor's Note: This is the first of several editorials on the National Student Association. Tomorrow we will take a look at whether NSA can be made to work at Penn State.) Turncoat All-University Cabinet just can’t seem to make up its mind on the National Stu dent Association. Cabinet voted 12-9 last night to send four delegates to the NSA convention this summer at the University of Michigan. Just last week Cabinet voted not to send one delegate by bus and not to send two delegates by car. The transportation for the four would be by car. These delegates—yet to be selected—are to go to the University of Michigan and report back to Cabinet just what NSA is. On the surface this appears to be a splendid move by Cabinet; spending $434 just to be bet ter informed on NSA. The reason Cabinet members want to be bet ter informed on NSA is because it is expected to come up for a vote in the fall. NSA is now in a difficult position on campus. Foimer All-University President Robert Bah renburg vetoed the University's membership March 7. However, the dues are paid up to October. Cabinet in October then will have to decide whether it wants to continue membership in When’s a Child Ready for College? Anybody who has ever seen teen-agers in a classroom knows how much they vary In size, from the childishly small to the beanpole tall. And their minds develop toward maturity just as unevenly as their bodies. That thought was the basis of an interesting experiment financed by the Ford Foundation through the Fund for the Advancement of Education. It put up scholarships at the University of Louisville and 11 other colleges. They went to carefully selected boys and girls who seemed to. be ready for college at the end of junior or even sophomore year in high school. The young peo ple were admitted as college freshmen at about two years below the average age. The experiment has worked well. After a little uncertainty at the start, these bright boys and girls soon forged to the front in both class room work and in campus activities. Their rec ord, says the Fund, has been “impressive.” It now covers 1024 boys and 326 girls who have Impressive Parade The University’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corp units were in their pride and glory yester- day evening. It was Armed Forces day on campus. And yesterday, as has been customary in the past, was the day for the ROTC to put on a parade in honor of this occasion. This year's parade was by far the most suc cessful. eye-catching, spectacular and well-or ganized performance we've seen. Perhaps this is true because of the military status of those partaking in the parade. The program yesterday included only the ad vanced ROTC students and those who belong to military units such as Pershing Rifles, Scab bard and Blade and Angel Flight. Missing were The Bollings Have Their Work Cut Out By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON, May 16 (IP) —Third anniversary of the Supreme Court’s his toric decision on school seg regation comes around to morrow, ana Rep. Richard . Bolling (D.-Mo.) wants you to know the Bollings still are on the job. This story starts with Spotts wood Bolling, a Negro boy who tried to get into an all-white school here. When he was turned down, his case was taken to the courts. On May 17, 1954, the Su preme Court handed down sev eral decisions, among them “Spoils wood Thomas Bolling et al," that segregated public tchools were unconstitutional. Now let’s move along to Rep. Bolling of Kansas City, a con gressman for eight years. Bolling is a Southerner by background. Robert Bolling’s wife, Jane Rolfe, was the daughter of Pocahontas. John Bolling was a governor of Vir ginia. Another branch of the THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA So Cabinet will spend 5434 to send four dele gates to the convention so they can report back on what NSA is. But where the hitch comes in is here: dele gates were sent to the conference last summer and they too were to report back on what NSA is. They never did. Cabinet still doesn’t really know what NSA is. Our experience with national conventions is that the only persons who really benefit from them are the delegates. Cabinet did not benefit from the NSA con vention this year and nine Penn State students were at the national convention. Even the ar dent NSA supporters have to admit this. Even the delegates have to admit this. But next year it will apparently be different. Cabinet will benefit by sending four delegates. We got lost somewhere in the reasoning. When Cabinet couldn’t learn about NSA from nine students this year, how can it learn from four next year? NSA has never worked at Peon Stale. And every year Cabinet Takes a new look at NSA. It spends money collected by student fees lo send delegates to the NSA convention in order to take this look. By now Cabinet should realize that it is a " waste of the students’ money. made the leap over the final high school years with almost universal success. - These able young people were. freed from what the Fund report calls "the educational lockstep." It offered them an escape from high school work that was 100 easy to interest or challenge their nearly-maturing minds. A good many bright young people drop out of school at that stage from a feeling of restlessness and frustration. The Fund program gave them a strong motivation for college work. Now 70 per cent of lhem are moving on lo graduate studies. The Ford Foundation has performed a useful service here. Many people feel that our mono lithic educational system is too rigid, too firmly based on the needs of the average or sub-aver age child. With the great resources at its com mand, the Foundation has made a demonstration that educators should hearitly welcome. —The Louisville Courier-Journal FACULTY WOMEN’S CIUB. 12:45 p.m., HUB ballroom. LECTURE. Jean Dalrym, **, director of City Center Theatre Company, New York, on “Collaboration in the ArU,” 8 p.m. HUB assembly hall. SUNDAY CAMPUS PARTY, steerinjr committee. 2 p.m., 212 HUB, Robert Berish, Richard J. Brown, Ernest Bowley. Stan ley L. Burd, Glcnna Gilmer, Richard C. Neely, William C. Newhouse. John Sweeney, Barbara J. Whitner. the many basic students who are in ROTC only because it is required. We think this made for a better all-round military presentation than we have had in the past. It is then no doubt that the judges and hun dreds of onlookers were impressed by the qual ity of the entire performance. family includes the Walkers. John W. Walker was Bolling’s great-great-grandfather, and he wound up as the first U.S. Senator from Alabama. Rich ard Bolling went'to high school in Huntsville, Ala., and to col lege at the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tenn. And what is Bolling doing right now? Working for the so called civil rights bill, legisla tion that is almost universally berated by all Southerners. Now let’s move another step. Mrs. Bolling has been fooling around with geneology. In her researches she noticed that the planation next to the one Rich ard Bolling’s forbears lived on was called Spottswood, after an early Virginia governor. Although she can’t prove it yet, she’s convinced that in all probability Spottswood Thom as Bolling’s ancestors were slaves and Richard Soiling’s ancestors were masters on the old manse in the pre-Civil War days. And there they are, each in his own way, working the same side of the civil rights street. STEVE HIGGINS, Business Manager Gazette TOMORROW HOSPITAL UNIVERSITY "Kind of interesting, isn't it?" Bolling asked. Bolling is a member of the House Rules Committee which has before if a civil rights bilL Its job: To decide whether and when it is to come before the whole House. Anyone who doubts whether this is still a controversial issue should have been at the Rules Committee hearing today. The witness was Rep. Elijah Lewis Forrest (D.) of Lees burgh, Ga., who calls himself a mere country lawyer and who pleads his case with the fervor of an evangelist. Forrester doesn’t like civil rights- legislation, and he has endless ways of saying so. “This obnoxious legislation,” “this offensive bill,” “this shocking proposal.” And when he came to one Justice Department proposal he disapproved of, he said: ’"Now listen to me. They're squirming”—it's not in the book but that's what the man said— "and they’re squirming, but they can't get away. I know what I'm talking about." Little Man on Campus —The Editor When President Dwight D. Eisenhower lays his military reputation on the line in favor of the national defense budget there isn : t much the layman can do but accept it. Indeed, congress already has displayed a wariness about cutting defense money despite its stampede for economy. There has been talk, however, that a V-k billion cut in this field might be attempted. The President says no “honest” cut of that size could be made, and that he wouldn’t want to be responsible for the country’s safe ty if it were. In these words he takes the po sition that, where cuts were pos sible four years ago when he was making his bid to balance the budget, that situation no longer exists. At that time the question was asked in some circles whether the administration was taking a chance with national security on advice from those who were too economy-minded. At the time of the original de fense cuts the possibility of shoot ing war with Russia seemed more acute than it has since the Ge neva conference, where the Rus sians displayed at least some un derstanding of the risks of war in the atomic age. Now the r nphasis is on keep ing those risks visibly alive, as a deterrent, through —feverish de velopment of more and more modem weapons. —Mike Maxwell In the original concept the ability for strategic retaliation overshadowed the maintenance of large and powerful ground forces. Now there has been some shift toward not larger but more powerfully armed ground forces. Tactical atomic weapons—field guns and short-range guided missiles—are replacing old-fash ioned artillery, and tactical air support. The changeover is ex pensive, and will have to be paid for. The President seems likely to vin on this one point. Where he runs his big risk is in laying his great personal pop ularity, and his weakened last term influence with Congress, on the line for other government spending. Resentment against high taxes among run-of-the-mill people this year has exceeded anything I have seen before. There is a widespread feeling that the gov ernment is doing a great many things at home that it doe's not need to do and should not be doing—that there are too many public employes doing too little work on too many pork-barrel ."Wonderful talk. Professor Snarf—l've never hear a class lecture in which the most important points were more cleverly disguised." Interpreting the News' Congress Wary On Defense Cut Associated Press News Analyst FRIDAY. MAY 17. 1957 By J. M. ROBERTS projects. ' There is a widespread feeling that too many public employes are spending 100 much lime de-. vising expensive new. boon doggles lo excuse their presence on the payrolls. These feelings exis regardless of whether they are based on fact. So does a feeling that, while a foreign aid program may be nec essary, there is something wrong with the current one. The Presi dent is expected to make his aD on this point soon. In these fields the President is not the expert witness that he is in the military field, and his chances of defeat are far greater. At the moment, his appeals have left Congress unmoved and the cutting continues, although the re turns from the public are not yet in. Rho Tau Sigma To Initiate Ten Ten students and two faculty advisers will be initiated today into the newly-created Theta chapter of Rho Tau Sigma, na tional radio and television society. The advisers are Dr. Harold E. Nelson, associate professor of speech, and Robert M. Pockrass, assistant professor of joumnalism. Student members to be initia ted are George Mastroianni; Stew art White, James Raleigh, Kim Rotzoll, David Pollock, Sandra Greenspun, James Barkley, Rob ert Zimmerman, Elizabeth Mar vin and Richard Schilpp. The radio-TV society was begun in 1953 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,. to promote collegiate broadcasting and tele casting through cooperation among its members. Tonight on WDFM »!.! 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