PAGE SIX Editorial Opinion De Gaulle's Duty The French people have voted a resounding "oui" for the constitution of Gen. Charles De Gaulle. That yes vote a personal victory for De Gaulle holds hope to France for the strongest government she has enjoyed in nearly a century. Not since 88 years ago, during the reign of Napoleon 111, has she had a strong executive government. The re action to that government was so great that France tried to make sure that she would never again fall under the power of one man. But by trying ineffectually to coordinate the powers of hundreds of men through her Parliamentary system she has plunged herself into a chaos of crises, splinter parties and financial difficulties—with a great loss of stature as a world power. So France has turned to De Gaulle. And with his tre mendous constitutional powers for rebuilding a weak eneded and chaotic France, there rests on his shoulders an equal responsibility to use these powers wisely for the preservation of democracy. For De Gaulle will have much power to interpret the new constitution, under which he will presumably be come president of the French Fifth Republic. These powers of interpretation will not only guide his own administration, but will largely determine the functions of those presidents who succeed him. De Gaulle must do nothing less than fulfill the over whelming confidence France has shown in his personal abilities, his honesty and sincerity and in his respect for the French people's traditional love of liberty. IFC Rushes Apathy The partial lifting yesterday of the ban on fraternity members entering men's residence halls not only affects the rushing picture, but the new wording of the regula tion will have a stultifying effect on the fall campus elec tions. With the "no exception" provision added to the Inter fraternity Council regulation on fraternity men in resi dence halls during the hours of 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., the result is that fraternity men running for office cannot campaign in the residence halls. This was the opinion of IFC Board of Control Chair• man Ronald Siders, whose business it is to interpret IFC rulings. Most of the effective campaigning in both spring and fall is done in the residence halls. This new development by the IFC seriously limits this outlet and will tend further to increase apathy—and cor respondingly decrease voters' turnouts—in the fall elec tions. The rule. Siders said, will further mean that students who happen to be affiliated with fraternities can not counsel in the residence halls. Both these interpretations are perhaps in part justi fied by the difficulty residence halls counselors would have enforcing the regulation. But these side results are too harmful to student government and, in turn, to general student welfare to be justified on such a slim basis. Editorials are written et the editors and staff members of The Daily Collegian and do not necessarily represent the •levee of the Unl•ersity or of the student body. A Student-Uperatect Newspaper o . llr Bak! Toliggitut Successor to The Free Lance, est. 2887 Publlshed Tuesday through Saturday :morning daring the University year, Tile Dady Collegian is e student operated newspaper Entered as setand-clans natter July t. 1931 at the State College Pa Post Office ander the act of March 3. UM& Mall Subscription Price: 53.116 Pitt semester $5.93 par year ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor •(IESO" City Editor, Dared ,Fineman; Managing Editor, Richard Drayne; Sports Editor. Loa Prato; Associate Sports Editor. Matt Mathcws; Personnel and Public Relations Director, Patricia Evans; Copy Editor, Lynn Ward; Assistant Copy Editor, Dick Fisher; Photography Editor, Robert Thompson. Credit Mgr., Jenks Smith: Local Ad Mgr.. Tom Batley; Asst. Laval Ad Mgr.. Robert Piecone: National Ad Mgr.. Betsy Brackbill; Promotion Mgr.. Kitty Bar. gert; Personnel Mgr., ?Macey Nash; Cls‘sified Ad Mgr.. Rae Waters; Co citoslatien Mgrs.. Mary Anne First and Murray Simon; Research and Records Met., Mary Elerbeini Office Secretary. Myla Johnson. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Corr Ed'tar. Jeanette Saxe: Wire Editor, Bill Jatte: aistants: Sandy Biber, Betsy Anderson , Sissie Arrnon, Ken Feil, Su. Pohland i Judy (IrtinJ,y, Zelda dreenspun. Carol DuChak.k. Steviu )sstritabeor, Betas/ Mutat. Sellj 111.101.er..Su.un, VW, Karen Swift. THE OAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA FRANK VOJTASEK Business Manager Interpreting Press Called Best Informant For U.S. News By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst George V. Allen, director of the U. S. Information Agency, says the primary responsibility for in forming the world about the Uni ted States rests with the press services. Allen, experienced both as a newspaperman and a school teacher, was not running down his own job. His primary vehicle is the Voice of America, broad castin news, music and cultural programs which would reach every part of the world except for Communist jamming. Incidentally, he mentioned that this Red jamming program costs them perhaps a $lOO million a year. That's in addition to an official propaganda program which would cost the United States from $5OO million to $750 million a year to match. The Uni ted States spends less than $lOO million all told. The need for nongovernment help in putting America over is therefore obvious. But the press services do not disseminate just what the United States would like the rest of the world to hear. They operate strictly on a basis of what is news. If press media began to report only the good things about peo ple or nations they would not only fail to attract interest, but soon would be distrusted, If press media are responsible for the impressions of the world regarding the United States, then the U.S. people and government need to act constantly with con sideration for that impression. The Little Rock story, for In stance, has been told all over the world. And all over this world editorials have asked how people can have faith in. America if its democracy does not work any better than that. Just as long as there is color prejudice in the United States, so long there will be suspicion of the United States among the world's colored majority. The picture the American press presents to other peoples will be good only if this people make it so. Gazette TODAY Byran Green executive commit tee, 2:15 p m., 121 Waring Hall. Christian Fellowship, 12:45 p.m., 218 HUB. Collegian Business Staff candi dates, 6:30 p.m., 217 Willard. Collegian advertising staff, 6:30 p m.. 9 Carnegie. Collegian classified ad staff, 6:43 p m., Collegian office. Collegian promotion, 6:45 p.m., 215 Willard. Delia Nu Alpha transportation fraternity, 7:30 p.m., Beta Theta Pi. Education Student Council, 7:30 p.m., 214 HUB. Freshman Council, 6:30 p.m., 217 HUB. Freshman Customs Board, 6:30 p.m , 217, 218, HUB. Freshman Regulations Boar d, 12:30 p.m , 212 HUB. Gamma Sigma Sigma pledges, 6:45 p.m., 214 HUB. History Round Table, film "Night mare in Red," 7:30 p.m., 303 Willard. Home Economics Club, 7 p.m., Home Ec Living Center. Intercollegiate Conference Gov. ernment, 7:30 p in.. 203 HUB. Liberal Arts Student Council, 6'30 p.m., 212 HUB. National Science Foundation, 4:10 p.m . 112 Buckhout Lab. Neu Bayrischer Schuhplattlers, 7 p.m., 2 White. Panhellenic Council, 6:30 p.m., 203 HUB. Science Fiction Society, 7 p.m.. 215 HUB. Senior Class Advisory Board, 8:30 p.m., 216 HUB. Senior Class committee for an nouncements and invitations, 1 p.m., 218 HUB. Society of Automotive Engineers, 7:30 p.m , 105 Mechanical En gineering. WRA Tennis Club, 7 p.m., gym, White Hall. WSGA Judicial, 5:13 p.m., 217 /3UB. . . ittle Man on Campus by Dick Bible/ et cetera Baby's Happiness Really a Gag Discoveries of modern science can cause a little dis tress when they intrude upon some of our old and com forting beliefs. Beliefs like infallibility of favorite high school teachers—and the natural love of a baby for its mother. My high school science teacher once fashioned an interesting piece of apparatus using a bottomless bottle, a 2-holed rubber stopper, a Y shaped glass tube, a sheet of rubber, a gum band and a pair of rubber balloons. The result was a crude imi tation of a pair of lungs, a chest cavity, a diaphragm and a bronchial tube. The Y-shaped tube was turned upside down, the bal loons were tied to the legs of it, the other end of the tube was pushed up through the bottomless bottom of the bot tle and through the hole in the stopper, which was pushed into the bottle's neck. The rubber sheet was then gum banded to the cut—open bot tom of the bottle. He demonstrated the way we breathe by pulling the "diaphragm" (r u bb e r sheet) down, thus lowering the air pressure inside the "chest cav ity," causing air to rush into the upper tube and into the balloons, forcing them to ex pand. After doing this 20 or 30 times—he really did become fascinated by it to the chagrin of the class—he told us he was going to .make one modifica tion in order to demonstrate how we talk. He cut another smaller piece of rubber sheet, made a short slit in it, and stretched the slit r /AY DAD 5A,'"5 WREN E4E. WAS LITTLE, THE KIDS USED 10 SLIDE DOWN RILL ON ik k PrECE6 OF 1 CAROB...I I RD. A RA)). 11 1 1 : e: 1 • WZMMi TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 30. 1958 r morale . . . I told them SOMEONE s going to pass." by Dave Fineman across the mouth of the pro• truding glass tube. He then pulled down the diaphragm and released it. The rush of air through the "vocal cords" (rubber slit) made a strange, baby-like moan. After 20 or 30 dia phragm pulls with the new modification, he became ex pert enough to make the little slit say, "Ma-ma." "This," he was beaming tri umphantly under his tiny gray moustache, "is the way babies make their first sounds. And the sound, 'Ma-ma', since be came the word for the mater nal parent, which was only natural." But my respect and admir ation for that old science teacher and his colorful ex planation was completely sha ken the other day by a news item which the Associated Press flashed over its wire in an idle ,minute: "Two college professors who did research on baby babbling say sounds that resemble 'ma ma' mean discomfort. 'lt's an unhappy utterance'. said Dr. Ray Bixler. 'A cry of distress', added Dr. Harold Yeager." The report added. that "baba, dada, gaga, dididid and club club are happy sounds," Or perhaps the child is chok ing. WAS THAT tN WELL, IT THE OLDEN WAS BEFORE - DAYS'? MU)( 441Z1. r•• Vq , '1)1 OH. YOU MEAN 'WAY BACK IN THE PIONEER DAYS! Alk 4" N 1111 - „ AV A:4Z) 0-lf 5409;reZ
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