PAGE FOUR THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1958 ---- - . • Editorial Opinion Railroads by Dick Bibb*, Little Man ®~ Campus . An American Irs--------- -----..---------------- Help for the Library? Pos.,ibly the bigg:. - ..,t benefit ever to befall the Uni- Wa yof Life 9' ) cp......v5 . , Ae! - 1 Versity library is in the works. Is Vanishing The State Library Association has proposed estate-By ARTHUR EDSON ,:• I ,i ?. 106,1:, wide library system which would include the University .4, .Imo ' y7,,,!!;‘,:•,.ift,v and J. M. ROBERTS iibi at y system as one of four regional research libraries. 4 ~ ,w .,;,- ,:i.wino, WASHINGTON (A To any- ' (i , -- .. %AigRW - "' I If the plan is enacted by the state legislature, pre- one brought up in a railroad , (.; ..: '` --r-. - •-:--• --- .. 1 441 t.,, town, the blackest news from the . ,f% :.` '.- . //',/ i i _., _ A.,"/ . : -.3.g,,,, it • •;•,, sumably the legislature would provide most of the neces- nation's capital hasn't been the #ii 'iil*.i nary financial support. And the University library system misfortunes of Sherman Adams : ( Q . , -I',-- - ..) -/1 • l eml --. 4 '.:• , . 1 :. .•: :,.,. , " or even the perils of Quemoy. ll '" ' . -. L : ,- tfe".lWl ....„ -. . . ) . -.,.. . Mi4:Af. would have to double its present number of volumes No. it was a prosaic little item . - • r - •• , - ~ ..,----4") **441.41:4. which predicted that, except for . t '''4:2, ,. • ...-., —with the aid of state funds. 1 • ~ . commuter trains, the last passen- "$ , ..er g. 4.-.- - ,_,- ..,• ' - . ger coach would go out of bust- - ) 1 „0 0. ''lttt.:-.P.MN;;- : One million volumes was the minimum number ree- - ,iLl'.l!.. • 1..: AI. ness by 1970. r 7 \ . ( . *OtP-11 orornended by the library association for each of the four No passenger trains? What kind . i, ----...,".4.b. , tre of a transportation world is this? • regional research libraries. The University, as of June 33, ri -----.-..-..-.-_ ,c. ") - - z• - .A --- Ireir:i - .. -...... ;o z . • Everyone knew the old patient ..-...-.... ~. - • had 484,852 volumes on the main campus and 43,971 was ailing, of course. Each fiscal t , \"--4 .-........ _._.„ report had said that passenger • , -....._ - ' • C= o/ (, I N .O (--- .- , volumes in off-campus extension facilities, a total of travel was 'going down, down, v#P' 523,823. down • / ft/ Y Now has come the final, chill- The number of volumes in the University library ing diagnosis, by Howard Bosmer, • f 1 \ an examiner for the Interstate • "grzai l ,,, ~, system and the funds allotted to it have been scandalous Commerce Commission. 'W • ' .7:...., ; .. ~- .;:. fur years. While the University is among the top dozen He said that not since 1890 have railroads carried as few -ko tNX..,'.4P4N ,e,,..„ A . 2 .3 -ligliv",._., ,: ,z -iii the nation in student enrollment, the number of vol- passengers as they did last year._ ' , --....,: ... :4 /- 41.7. el iirs'l., ' ' .i• . times in its library system doesn't rank in the top 50, And Hosmer predicted that, bar ring ~ a railroad miracle, the last "I've waited for five years for someone according to estimates of University Librarian Ralph W. sleeper and parlor car would dis- to ask me that question." ' McComb. appear by 1965 and the last inter city passenger coach would go McComb also estimated that less than two per cent by passenger coach of the mall Along with love and the moon • of the University budget is spent on library facilities. and June and America's rivers, • there are enough songs about the This figure is below average, he said. In MemorLam. trains, and the tracks and the who Perhaps the State Library Association's plan can pro- men in drove them, to swell an album to a library. vide the more adequate library facilities that the Uni- Casey Jones, Old 97 and that A Lost Weekend versity slow train through Arkansas, the so far has been unable to provide. men who finagled millions of dol lars worth of rights-of-way and by lynn ward -- the men who drove the steel and the golden spikes once stood for With little fanfare another Penn State tradition is No I Conneciions' Needed th'e spirit of onrushing America. They had a glamour not even slipping away from the students. The world will little attained by "The Chief." note nor long remember Penn weekends. The importance of "who you know" is being taken It was a train which bore the But students who attended them will, to say nothing casket of Abraham Lincoln back out of student government. through New York and Albany of the alumni. Penn weekends and their many phases of and along the shining lakes to entertainment have long been All-University President Jay Feldstein yesterday Springfield, whi 1 e throngs of a topic of conversation among had reserved it. But if was one held personal interviews for all students interested in Americans, literally lined tracks gra dua t es, whenever and of those .. . "Well, I thought to express a sorrow seldom felt wherever they meet. you had phoned in the reser student government. Feldstein will file the information before in America. on each interview and consult the files for appointment There was the General, the Students ha v e anticipated vation." train the Confederates stole from Penn-Penn State weekends 47 "Me? You said you were..." to All-University Cabinet committees, the Federals in Georgia for a brief times. We met Penn for the So these celebrating Staters first time in 1890. (we won the game that year) hour of track-wrecking which be- Too often in the past appointments to committees ' came a Civil War saga. Freshmen may ask why diffused into other parties in have been determined by "connections," simply because Oh, there have been so many upperclassmen clin g so des- the town. trains. Wrapping a continent in- perately to a "silly old" foot- It's amazing, too, what col. student leaders knew so few qualified persons. As a result to a package where there might ball we e k-e n d—particularly lege students will go through it was many times harder for a newcomer to break in, have been Balkanization. when it's practically impossi- for a football weekend away They carried cheering Ili e n ble to p ark .. - . from campus. They will leave, and the same groups controlled much of student govern- through cheering throngs to the clo s e r than - : : ...-.. - - ' six or seven deep in a car, meat, wars of 1898 and 1917, and slipped three mile s ', ' ... - -,. ' with no idea in the world silently through worried days and from the sta- . = ... - . where they will stay once they But now the picture has changed, and students can nights to secrecy-shrouded ports dium and the ! hit the City of Brotherly Love. benefit from the services of people who are genuinely ~.. -• ' ' ... of embarkation for World War 11. hot dogs are ' # 0 1 4 0 , --. - '..: But they generally don't have They served as hosts who in- generally cold i' ' ~,' ~ -, . - much trouble. t h e After pa party yey situation have investigated Friday interested in representing the student body. - troduced Western Americans to when the yen- . 12 ,7 4;_i, - ,: . , ` : ...- , • Southern and Eastern Americans. dor reaches ', .. i . • Feldstein said he began the interviews to create "a They made a vast contribution to your seats in , S.;. night (and it's really more in broader base of interest" for student government. He the whole character of the nation. Row Xof the -,. • : :• , . / . 5 „..,.. to Saturday morning), one of Well, the automobile, which is fourth deck. .. . . 2 .. the happy little group from did not want to make all the appointments from people more convenient, and the air- D o n' t let Penn State will remember that anyone fo o 1 ' he knew personally, he said, and did not want to rely plane, which is faster, have done . • .•• . . l.• . : •,:. '.. ... :: -- •• - • his roommate of three years their dirty work, bringing this you. This isn't WARD ago lives somewhere in the on others who might just recommend fraternity brothers tribute—and this confession. what the old grads talk about suburbs. A telephone book It has been years since I have with an address solves -his im and good friends. when they reminisce a b'o u t been on a train. And it's a sorry, Penn weekends- mediate problem. Feldstein is to be congratulated for instituting and business for an old passenger The rest of the weekend train lover to have to admit that It's the ext r a things con- is a' series of "do-you-know" carrying out the interview program. Student government, he, too, helped kill it. cerried with the weekend that games. These generally gain and the University as a whole, should reflect the benefits are long remembered. Like the them admittance to the Penn time when som 35 mmbers of fraternity parties, and wh a t of the new system. a Penn State fraternity and more could they ask for! Gazette their dates entered one of the„ The unfortunate classes for downtown Philadelphia hotels the next five _years or more TODAY with the intention of going up won't share this unique privi- Itelitariala are written by the editors and staff member Alpha Nu, 7p m , 214 HUB to the suite they had reserved. lege of experiencing a Penn of rho Daily Collegian and do not nee aaaaa Ily represent Agricultural Extension, 10 a.m.- Well, they thought sorheone weekend. A true experience. the view s 2 1 the University or of the student body 3:30 p.m., 213 HUB ___ . , , Artists' Series, New York Pro ' - . - -- - PE - AN/ITS v . , Musica, 8:30 p.m., Schwab Audi- i WONDER S . IT JUST PURE CHANCE, A Student-Operated Newspaper torium WI-IY SOME OF 0 OR WHAT IS IT? 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Virginia Dean, William Eden, MM. Mary Herbein: Office Secretary. Idyls. Johnson. Jerry Ferkett, Charles Guzy, Joan Hamil- aw at Al , . • ton. Jean Holcombe , Eta Eats, James n• • STIFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor. Linda Segar: COPY Editor. Bobbi Levine: Liberto. Francis McGowan, Robert Moyer. ." 4 * N,:i ' i % "" 1- *- 4 • 2 /4./.-41.-su-.41.5. 0" 1 Wire Editor. Lolli Neuharth: Assistants, &air Linkroum, Judy Rosenblum, Amy Richard Piuossi. Alice Schwartz, Barbara 12.Kent 1 eil, RWIS Le Terre. Bill Barber, Nancy Simrnonds, Sue Eberly, Sue Pohlant. Tonmaic, John Uhrich„ Michael Wammin, ----A...wm............ " 2711 s.l.g"46l4e pilitshsn, pacryon, Ersueeu ,Gulds. ; •:i ! , ~ , „ ; ; ,- ~ , ; , , „ „ „ •,;„ „ ~ „ , .; fu,san,-.Ptryz.„ ! :, , : ; ~• ; a A : A :. : •
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