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Editorial Opinion
That Old Lion Party Debt
All-University Cabinet last night recommended that
a $155 bill for 1957 campaign material for the now-defunct
Lion party be sent back where it belongs—to the printing
company
Cabinet members voted to send back the bill beeat,e
it 'does not concern the Student Government Association
nor the Lion party organization," in the words of the
resolution that was adopted.
Two factors allowed the debt to be accumulated
1) The out-dated, excessively restrictive and corn
pletely unenforceable Elections Code limitation on the
amount of money political parties may spend in any
given campaign
2) The willingness of downtown merchants to play
politics with student politicians, to aid them in circum
venting the Elections Code.
The Elections Code financial limitations allow the
parties to spend so little that they can hardly conduct a
good campaign if they stay within the limits.
Often the party chairman will resort to a process
known as "double billing." In other words, he will get
his suppliers to charge only the legal amount of his bill
to the party. He will pay for the rest of the bill out of
his own pocket, hoping to pay himself back from money
collected for the party from candidates and parts workers.
"Double billing" has been a common practice in Penn
State student politics for years. Elections Committee has
been unable or unwilling to stop the practice and enforce
the provisions of the Elections Code.
And apparently many downtown merchants have
been only too willing to cooperate with students in thwart
ing enforcement of the Elections Code.
In sanctioning "double billing," downtown business
men know full well that there is a chance they may not be
paid by the party chairman. Neither student government
nor any organization connacted with student government
has any responsibility to pay an individual's debt under
these circumstances.
The student politicians have been irresponsible in
pt acticing "double billing"; downtown merchants have
been irresponsible in sanctioning it.
Cabinet acted responsibly in refusing to pay the Lion
party debt, for to pay the debt would have been to condone
past irresponsibility' and to promote future irresponsi
bility.
However, past Cabinet members and past Elections
Committee members did not act wisely in preserving an
archaic Elections Code financial requirement. A change
of the code should be high in Cabinet's order of business.
Top Scientists
The University campus may be the scene of some
significant scientific developments during the next few
Five of the wot ld's top scientists—representing Bel
gium, Russia, England. France and the United States—will
attive un camp,i, today in preparation for the meeting of
the Executive Board of the International Geophysical
Ye,(r
The United States' representative at the executive
meet I t, Dr. 11,ircel Mc°let, secretary-general of the
Special Colnmittee of the JOY and consultant to the lono
sphei e fle , :ealch Laboratory at the University.
The scienti , ,t; will begin their meetings tomorrow
inn fling, and v. ill participate in a television program,
Greatest Enterprise on Earth," on Altoona's Channel
10 on Sunday. President Eric A. Walker will serve as
model ator of the telex ised panel discussion.
The meeting on campus may provide interesting
scientific data, and is almost sure to raise the University's
already-growing scientific prestige.
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Letters
Reader Attacks
United Nations
TO THE EDITOR: (In regard to
Dave Fineman's column Satur
day, in which he deplored dis
plays of military might as sym
bols of peace and of the United
Nations), how can any adult with
a claim to a measure of common
sense advocate sitting in council
with liars, thieves, murderers:
propose to maintain peace with
gangsters dedicated to the de
struction of our way of life,
sworn by their ruthless leaders
to bury us, the United States of
America?
Rather, why don't these so
called adults suggest to the Phila
delphia or New York Police that
they hold conferences with those
who assault law abiding citizens,
and strive to come to an under
standing with the murderers and
the rapists, with the strong-arm
hoodlums who terrorize peaceful
citizens? Rather, why don't these
so-called adults wake up'
The world had another United
Nations, and they called it the
League of Nations. It's would-be
law was shredded on the "Eight
Million Bayonets" of Mussolini
and Ethiopia lay in chains. Still,
fools believed in the power of
talk, and they paid a terrible
price for their stupidity: they
made the checks payable to
Shicklegruber, to Tojo and to
Mussolini, and these checks were
cashed at Dunkirk and Rotter
dam, at Singapore and in North
Africa.
To you, believers in talk, in
cheap, lying, deceptive, vilifying
talk, the U.S. placed some mea
sure of trust in talks with the
Japanese . . . we paid, too, at
Pearl Harbor. Thank God, you
gullible friend of Mr. Fineman,
(who expressed dismay at the
military-like UN Day celebration)
you gullible people all over the
U.S., that we didn't trust in the
League of Nations. or perhaps in
stead of ROTC cadets, S.S. Troop
ers would do the flag raising at
Penn State . . . and everywhere
else.
The UN had its Ethiopia, too.
when in 1956 our fell o w UN
members, the Russians, tore the
heart from the Hungarian nation.
While this thing went on the
chicken-livered UN, its guts quiv
ering in fear of the Russian gang
sters, miserably raised its feeble
voice in protest, and in a final
gesture of wretched helplessness,
sent the murder victim a first
aid kit.
Any man or woman who sug
gests that the UN has accom
plished any good which could not,
or if necessary, would not have
been done by the U.S., just doesn't
respect historical fact. We, the
United States, don't need the UN.
not one little bit.
To Mr. Fineman's friend: I too
was sorry to see those ROTC ca
dets raising flags on Friday. I
regret they weren't out on Nit
tanv mountain with a full field
pack or studying firing tables or
doing something else of concrete
value to this nation, instead of
paying -undue homage• to an or
ganization dedicated to the cas
tration of the United States of
America.
—Richard Ferguson, '59
EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Fineman
will devote his column tomorrow
to a discussion of the United Na
tions and the League of Nations.
Gazette
TODAY
Alpha Phi Alpha. 7 p m., 217 11UB
Bloodmobile Registration, 8 a.m.-
5 p.m.. HUB lobby
Bridge Lessons, 6:30 p.m., HUB
cardroom
Eastern Orthodox Society, Halle r
ween social, 8-11 p.m, Halter
recreation room
Hillel, Sabbath Eve Services, 8
p.m., little! Foundation
Hub-za-poppin, 7-39-8:30 p in.,
HUB assembly hall
Interlandia Folk Dance, 7 p m.,
HUB ballroom
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship,
12 45 p m., 218 HUB; 7:30 p.m.,
214 Boucke
LSA, Spook party, 7:30 p.m., Luth-
eran Student Center
Newman Club, Halloween dance,
8 p.m , Church hall
Pennsylvania Junior Dairy Show,
10 a.m.-3 p.m., 212 HUB
Pep Rally, '7 p.m., HUB lawn
Wesley Foundation, Halloween
Party, 8 p.m., at the foundation
Little Man on Campus by Dick Sibiu
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Marks Stay Same
Someone has said that "Monkeys is the craziest
people." Maybe the same could be said for the inhabitants
of our institutions of higher learning.
Where else can a person find such weird traits, cus
toms and dress habits than on a college or university
campus?
Where can a person find it a§ utterly impossible to
get through to a specific num
ber from 7 to 10 each night
than calling a women's resi
dence hall? And then find that
the party at the other end is
not there"
Then again, where can you
find such extremes in dress?
In one walk across campus of
any college, it is possible to
find a student bedecked in the
latest Ivy league dress, another
bedecked in levis and a third in
the latest fashion of the "beat
generation."
Where but at college can one
find more peo
ple who are
willing to stay
up until all
hours playing
cards, yet be
too tired to
possibly read
a chapter of
economics af
ter 11 p.m.?
Where is it
possible to get
engrossed in a
deep discus- THOMPSON
sion over the merits of Bru
beck or the genius of Bach
without stepping out of the
house?
Or where can you find so
many sadistil' , ,jokes and ~o few
completed literature assign
ments?
Or so many who are willing
to brave 20-degree tempera
tures to watch a football game,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1958
by bob thompson
yet so few who are willing to
brave 50-degree temperatures
to walk three blocks to an
eight-o'cicok class?
Where have so many stayed
up so long to drink so much,
or crammed so much into their
heads in so short a time for
an exam?
Where but around the halls
of ivy can one find so many
who can yell themselves voice
less at a pep rally, and so
many who cringe at th e
thought of speaking up in the
classroom?
Then again, where but in a
campus town is driving more
hazardous than at one in the
morning on a Sunday?
Where but at a fraternity
can so many watch TV on a
Saturday night, yet so few ac
tually see the show?
Again, where but at a fra
ternity can one find such a
wide variety of cars and so
large a collection of strange
mascots?
And where can you find so
much splurged on party favors
and so little spent on new text
books?
It's a big contrast, every stu
dent will tell you, and many
admit it should be changed,
but who is going to be the
martyr who is willing to try?
"After all," they cry, "We're
only young once!"