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Editorial Opinion
Louis H. Bell
Louis H Bell left Stale College on Wednesday to
check -.aie, reae'ion to the first book published by the
Umveioity Press, of which he was executive director and
a foundei. He died suddenly early Thursday evening m
Lew York City, apparently of a heart attack.
It is not surprising that Mr. Bell should have suc
cumbed while attending to University business, for he
spent most of his 52 years in serving Penn State.
Tins service began before he was graduated from the
Umveisity in 1929, when he was editor of The Daily
Collegian and a leader in student activities.
It continued when he became instructor in journalism
m 1934 and during his 15 years as director of Public Infor
mation and University editor.
These last two jobs are among the most important
in the University, but also are filled with pressure and
among the most wearing. And they took their toll, for
Mi Bell was forced to take an 8-month lest in 1949 fol
lowing a severe heait attack and had to resign from these
positions last July 1 because of his health.
Dining his 15 years as director of Public Information,
Mi Bell made countless friends throughout the state.
And Ins friends weie also the friends of Penn State, for
he winked ceaselessly to promote the University.
He was made an honorary member of the Pennsyl
vania Society of Newspaper Editors and of Sigma Delta
Chi, men’s professional journalism society. He was cited
fur outstanding achievement by the American College
Public Relations Association in 1953.
Through his many newspaper contacts, Mr. Bell
helped tmd jobs for University graduates who aspired to
journalism. He took a vital interest in campus publica
tions and was a petsonal fiiend to hundreds of alumni and
students.
Penn State is a much better University because of
Blinders in Little Rock
The Little Rock Private School Corp. plans to open
classes on Monday m what was formerly the University
of Arkansas graduate center.
Dr. Thomas Raney, president of the corporation, has
been quoted as saying the entire block on which the
building is located will be off limits to newsmen on
Monday.
Not only is the corporation’s plans a flagrant attempt
to violate the spirit of the law, as interpreted by the U.S.
Supieme Court, its attempt to bar newsmen from the
area and thus keep the American people from knowing
exactly what is going on represents a contradiction of one
of the basic principles of our society.
When the people are denied the right to know, they
are denied the right to judge intelligently, for no valid
interpretation can be made without knowledge.
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Dulles to Ask
For Reduction
In Island Forces
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles will ask Chiang Kai-shek
next week to make a peaceful
gesture by thinning out his mili
taiv forces on the off-shore is
land-,
He will get a very polite but
very firm question as a replv.
It will be approximately: “What
are you doing to get the Reds to
reduce theii two-year build-up,
10 times as large as ours, on the
mainland opposite Quemoy and,
more importantly, opposite Tai
wan (Formosa! 7 ”
Then the two allies, whose
relations have become strained
since the Washington adminis
tration has expressed public
doubt about the prospects for a
Nationalist reconauest of the
mainland, will have to start
searching for a compromise
gesture.
Washington has made it fairly
obvious that it would like to give
the Reds some sort of face-saving
payment, short of appeasement,
for stopping the Quemoy bom
bardment
But since the Dulles influence
in Poimng is something less than
powerful, he doesn’t stand much
chance of getting something from
the Reds to save Chiang's face,
ton
Not to mention the fact that
Chiang has a fundamental point
on his side
In the free world's relations
with Red China, the Nationalist
forces represent what a "fleet
in beina" once mean to one for
eign office in trying to impress
another.
The imnortance of this idea,
and the danger of reducing the
threat, has been forcefully dem
onstrated recently by the Ameri
can fleet in Formosa Strait.
Gazette
TODAY
Association for Childhood Educa
tors, 9 a.m., 214 HUB
Club Hubanna, 9 p m., HUB ball-
room
John Gielgud reading, B'3o p m.,
Schwab Auditorium
Soccer, versus Colgate, 1:30 p.m.,
Beaver Field
Student movies, 8 p.m , HUB As
sembly Room
TOMORROW
AIM Judicial Board. 2 p.m., 213
HUB
Alpha Lambda Delta tea, 2:30
p m., Simmons Lounge
Cabinet Committee on Parents
Association. 7 p.m., 212 HUB
Campus party, steering commit
tee, 2 pm., 213 HUB
Campus parly meeting. 7 p m.,
110 Electrical Engineering
Chess Club, 130 pm., HUB card-
room
Delphi, 1 p.m., 203 HUB
Entre Nous, 2 p.m., 217 HUB
"Integration in the North" con
ference, 8 p.m., 121 Sparks
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellow
ship, 145 p.m. 212 HUB
Newman Club, 7pm, 214 HUB
Student movies, 6:30 p.m., HUB
Assembly Room
' MONDAY
AFC, 7-30 pm, HUB Assembly
Hall
Alpha Phi Omega, 8 p.m., 214
HUB
Christian Fellowship, 12:45 p.m.,
218 HUB
Dancing Class, 6:30 p.m., HUB
ballroom
Dr. Lorentz Eldjarn talk, 4 p.m.,
210 Armsby
Engineering Mechanics Seminar,
4:15 p.m., 203 Engineering A
Faculty Luncheon Club, 12 noon,
dining room A, HUB
Junior Prom Queen Committee,
7 p.m., 218 HUB
State College Color Slide Club,
7:30 p.tn., Mineral Science Aud.
Vesper Services. 4:15 pm. Helen
Eakin Eisenhower Chapel
Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibict
"I hear he's datin' a real 'beast.' "
■— top of the mall
Coffee Break—
A Social Pattern
The coffee break: The coffee break is indisputably an
American institution. We don’t mean that it is peculiar to
America. The Tibetans no doubt have their coffee breaks,
but the coffee break is an institution of America
The sociologists probably
would say the coffee break is
among our group variables.
That is to say that the manner
in which people celebrate cof
fee breaks varies among the
peoples making up our hetero
geneous society
li's not very revealing to re
ly on the authority of a diction
ary to fully explain a coffee
break.
According to the dictionary,
a breakdown of the words
mak i n g up ,
the term
coffee and
break mean: HHHH
Coffee: a
drink made *■
by in f u s i o n
or decoction .JW
from the
roasted and
ground or
pounded seeds
of coffea ara- HHBfIHHH
bica.
Break: a for- miss ward
cible disruption or separation
of parts or a gap.
However, this somewhat
cold, analytical approach to
something as firmly entrench
ed in the American mind as
the coffee break leaves much
to be desired.
We can approach the coffee
break from the student’s point
of view (particularly appropri
ate in our present situation).
The student naturally as
sumes all coffee breaks last 50
minutes—allowing the remain
ing 10 minutes of the hour to
get to class. But many of us
may be disillusioned when we
step into business and indus
try to find that before we
reach management positions,
the coffee break will last about
15 minutes—just time enough
to put 10 cents into a vending
machine for a soggy paper cup
filled with what we assume to
be coffee.
The student also sees the
SATURDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1958
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by lynn ward
coffee break as a mid-morning
or mid-afternoon (for late ris
ers) chance to wake up from
lecture -grogginess.
The hours of 9 and 10 a.m.
are probably the most popu
lar for the coffee break, since
one may have toast or dough
nuts in place of, or as a sup
plement to, breakfast.
After the first cup of coffee,
participants are generally wide
awake enough to launch into
a conversation There are no
established' topics for the con
versation so it may assume any
proportion. If the conversation
gets interesting enough, stu
dents have been known to cut
classes so they won’t have to
leave the amiable little group.
Rationalization for this gen
'erally sounds something like
this. “I probably got more out
of that stimulating conversa
tion than I would have out of
the class I cut.”
Research Center
Given New Name
The Soil Conservation Re
search Center on the Univer
sity farms has been renamed
the Soil Research Center.
The new name is more de
scriptive of the use of the fa
cilities, University officials
said.
Although a limited amount
of research conducted at the
center is concerned with soil
and water losses, the principal
activities deal with irrigation
research, soil physics, soil con
ditioning and deep tillage.'
Prom Queen Applicants
To Register by Monday
Applications for Junior Prom
Queen will be available at the
Hetzel Union desk until 1 p.m,
Monday.
Any junior woman may ap
ply and self-nominations will
be accepted. A picture of the
contestant must bo enclosed
with the nomination.
Alum Gives Scholarship
James P. Armel, alumnus
from Wilkinsburg, has willed
$5OOO to establish a scholarship
at the University.
Armel received his bachelor
of science degree from the Uni
versity ia 1909.