PAGE TOUR Published Tuesday dimwit Satorday mornings during the University year, The Daily Capetian is • student. spetatnd newspaper. 63.00 per semester 15.00 per year Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1974 at the State College, Pa. Post Office ander the act of March 3, 1871, ED DUBBS. Editor Asst. Bus. Mgr., Sus Mortenson; Local Ad. Mgi. Marilyn Managing Editor. Judy Harbison: City Editor, Robert Prank- Elias; Asst. Local Ad.. Mgr.. Ross Ann Gonzales; National lin: Spurts Editor. Vince iaIrOCCI Copy Editor. Anne Fried- Ad. Mgr.. Joan Wallace: Promotion Mgr., Marianne Maier; ben: Assistant Copy Editor. Marian Beatty: Assistant Sports Personnel Mgr.. Lynn Glassborn: Classified Ad Mgr., Steve Edgers. Malt Mathews and Lou Prato; Make-up Editor. Ginny Billstein: Co-Circulation Mgrs.. Pat &Bernick' and Richard Philip.; Pheteerephy &Attar. George fierriees. Lippe; Research and Records Mgr— Barbara Wall; Office Secretary. Marlene Marks. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Dave Fineman; Copy Editor, Lianne Cordero; Wire Editor, Dick Drayne; Assistants, Marcel Van Lierde, Barb Hodge, Bonnie Jones, Bobbi Levine, Mac Ebert, Jim Moran, Janet Dtirstine, Louise Peterson. Annabelle Rosenthal, Ann Jacobs, Lucy Theisser. Football and Student Government Football and student government, at first thought. don't seem to have much in common. But atter a closer look, they really have two important things in common. Both need leadership and support. The football season's first pep rally will be held at 7:30 tonight in front of Old Main. No student should have to be told he should attend this rally, and no student needs to be told what support from the student body means to a team. Half an hour later, at 8 tonight, All-Uni versity Cabinet will meet in 203 Hetzel Union. Cabinet is more than the highest student government body. It represents you. It is your voice. This alone is reason enough for you to take a look-see at Cabinet tonight_ However, there is also another important reason why you should drop up to 203.Hetzel Union after the 'rally: student government, like the football team, needs your support. Sometimes Cabinet members become dis couraged. They sit up there in 203 Hetzel Union and work pretty hard at times to do things for you, and they seldom reecive praise. More Than a Friendly Chat Needed The daily congestion in the dining halls of Simmons and McElwain is turning mealtime into chaos Since the dining halls in the new women's residence halls are not open, these students are being served in Simmons and McElwain. In Simmons, about 700 women eat meals in the same amount of time which last year ac commodated 450. The meal hours were not ex tended enough to compensate for the increase in coeds. Since they were extended only 15 minutes, the result is an uncontrollable amount of line hopping and discourtesy, waiting in line for about half an hour and, many times, completely missing a meal. We realize the reason for this inconvenience and also realize that it will continue at least until the end of the semester. The meal hours, first of all, should again be extended. At - noontime, for example. 350 women must be served in one Simmons dining hall dur ing a 45-minute period. In Waring Hall, 400 Thompson women are served in one hour and 15 minutes. If it works in one dining hall it should work in another, as well. Another 15-minute extension of the meal period was requested last Tuesday by the Wom en's Student Government Association in a let ter to Mildred A. Baker. director of the food service. Miss Baker said she was aware of the situa tion and asked representatives of WSGA to meet VI. The Winner Names the Age (Novelist Lillian Smith today gets to "the crux of the matter" in her June commencement speech at Atlanta University.) Here is the crux of the matter: In a democracy, enlightened, civilized public opinion must pre vail; not mob opinion, but the opinion of mil lions of individuals who have held on to their reason and conscience, and their belief in the free, growing human being. The only way this public opinion can prevail is for people to stand up and speak out. Those who believe violence is wrong must say sc. Those who believe a man has a right to be dif ferent must say so: those who believe a clergy man should preach according to his religious conscience should say so: those who believe school teachers must not be asked to take a loyalty oath defending segregation or the "Southern way of life" or capitalism or any other form of idolatry, must say so: those who believe that our artists and writers must be left free to create their dreams and ideas into paintings and books must say so. These who believe survival is more important than security must say this too. For otherwise democracy cannot survive, nor, I think, can civilization survive For the mob's power can destroy our freedom as completely as can any Communist dictator. What a price we have paid for silence! So many decent, warm-hearted, intelligent people are silent today—not only in our South but all over our country, surrendering their opinion be cause they are torn between the teachings of • Today TONIGHT ON WDFM WOMEN'S ORIENTATION PROGRAM COUNSELORS. 10 - G:45 Stem on and -News; 7.:00 Contemporary Concepts: p.m.. McElwain Lounge. Attendance is required by 7:50 State News gnd National Sports: 9:00 ,Guest 134: counselors. Special permission will be granted. WRA BRIDGE CLUB 1 p.m.. 109 White Building. 8:30 Showcase: 9:00 News, Local. National and World; WRA OFFICIALS CLUB, C:3O p.m., 2 White Building. 9:15 Special Events; 10:00 News; 10:00 Chamber Concert; ABA SWIM CLUB TRYOUTS. 7 p.m.. White Building Pool. 11:10 News and Sign•oiL 11.4•it$if 53 Years of Editorial Freedom olw Elattg entlrgiatt Soccessor to THE FREE LANCE. eit. I8!7 .M l .-'Vr- Gazette THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA STEVE HIGGINS. Business Manager A large turnout at the meeting will show Cabinet that it has your support just as a large turnout at the pep rally will show the football team you're behind it. And why not check up on what your repre sentatives are doing for you. Maybe you won't like if, and if you don't like it, let them know. But freshmen and new students say they haven't elected anyone to Cabinet. This is true, but freshmen and sophomore class elections will be held soon. Take a look at the present Cabinet members and judge them. See what you - want in your freshman and sophomore class presidents, who will represent you on Cabinet. Come out and learn the faces'and abilities of your representatives so you can recognize them on campus. Each student is represented by as many as six or seven members. Especially get to know them and tell them what you would like them to do for you. We can have a good football team this year. We can have good student government this year. But not without your support. with a member of her staff to try to work out some of the problems. If Food Service claims it does not have the student employes to facilitate a longer period, what will be done when it is necessary to staff the new dining halls? The only difference is that now 700 women are served by one staff and next semester these 700 will be served by two staffs. It seems only logical that extra students would be hired to handle the crowd. If it is difficult to find student waiters, maybe Food Service should either give them two meals instead of one for their wages or seek employes from tcrwn. • Another way to alleviate the crowd would be to allow some of the women to eat in Ather• ton instead of dividing them between Simmons and McElwain only. Many complaints about the service have been' heard this fall, but there have been few criti cisms of the food itself. The quality and prepara- - tion have been good—as far as institutional cooking goes. The major questions--and they have been raised many times during the past two weeks— are the extension of hours and the possibility of,sending some of the women to Atherton din ing hall. When the representatives of WSGA meet with the food service staff member. we hope more is accomplished than just a friendly chat. —Judy Harkison their childhood and what they, today, know in their minds is right. Or silent because they are afraid to make the hard and necessary choice. In their efforts to be moderate or neutral, they either do nothing or something totally irrelevent to the situation.. And in a crisis that is a danger ous kind of behavior. The power of free people has to be controlled, channeled, disciplined by values and knowledge, and law—or it can be more dangerous to us than hysterical world opinion (which it is close to) or than nuclear energy, out of control. Because this is true, I consider the demagogue the greatest enemy a democracy has. Not the dictator: that is Communism's problem. Our problem is the demagogue: .the man who de liberately betrays the people; the man who scares them, calling fire when there is no fire; who tells the people they are free to break the law, free to trample .other -people's rights, free to slough off their conscience and their reason and behave like mad men when they want to. This is the number one subversive man in our culture; this man is the people's real enemy. For he deliberately breaks down the controls of the church, of conscience, of civilization, of the courts to get the people under his control. What can we do about it? Ah, how everyone whispers this to himself, his family,. his close friends! ("What cars we do about it?" Miss Smith ask ed. She answers that in the next and final in stallment of her speech.) Editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers. not necessarily the policy of the paper. the student body, or the University —The Editor Little Man on Campus by Dick Bible'. nice thing about this course—you only have one text to buy." Interpreting the News Does America Have Feet of Clay? By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst If you are talking with a man from Asia, Africa or parts of Latin America you will sooner or later get around to the topic of racial relations in the United States. Hindus who are still trying to slough off the effects of a most rigid caste system are no more understanding than the others. The United States is a vast country, a rich country, a country where magic is per formed. Both her written history and her folk tradition are full of expressions of regard for the dig nity of the human spirit and the rights of the individual. She was a founder of the United Nations, whose charter proclaims this spirit "without regard for race, sex, language and religion." If this motive is so strong in American history, ask the peoples of color, why is there such trou ble over the Negro? Nearly all of them approach the question frcan the same angle, exploitation. Many of them' bring it up de liberately in discussing why a large part of the world gives Communists at least a hearing. . For the Communists make much of this tag of exploitation.. But most foreigners don't even know they have swallowed the Com munist line. Explanations about the special factors which enter into relations between the white and black races in the United States make little or no impression. To them, Amer ica presents herself before the World as the land of economic and social magic. Does she have feet of clay, they ask, and if so shouldn't they be just as suspi cious of her as of Russia? The President says it is hard • PEANUTS SNOOPY, I GOT SOMETHING TO. SAY TO THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 26. 1957 to exaggerate the effect. Indeed it is. I've heard it hundreds of times long before Little Rock. The American people are not yet accustomed to thinking in terms of their world responsibili ties. They have shown that in re cent years especially by their at titude toward the Korean War and the foreign aid program. Bridge Lessons Offered at HUB Free bridge lessons will be of fered at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in the card room of the Hetzel Un ion Building. Tomorrow's lessons will be the first of a series of three bridge lessons to be co-sponsored by the Association of Independent Men and Leonides. Students may register for the lessons at the HUB desk. Dr. Roger Saylor, professor of business statistics, will conduct the lessons—Members of AIM and Leonides will assist him. Leffler Writes Article "Stock Rights" was the subject of an article in Barron's Financial Weekly by Dr. George L. Leffler, assistant dean in the College of Business Administration.
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