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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.
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