PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Vets' PhysEd Showdown The veterans' physical education question will go to the University Senate for a showdown today, with All- University President Jay Feldstein leading the battle to throw out the phys ed requirement. Feldstein, armed with letters, facts and survey re sults, will ask the Senate to reject the recommendation from its Committee on Academic Standards that veterans continue to fulfill the regular two-year physical educa tion requirement. lie will be supporting All-University Cabinet's recommendation that physical education be made optional for veterans. Feldstein should have an impressive argument to present to the Senators. lie has letters from at least 55 veterans in the fresh man and sophomore classes explaining their feelings on the issue lie lias the results of a survey made a year ago show ing that 3:; of 40 land-grant institutions do not require physical education for veterans. He has figures showing that 86 per cent of veterans questioned last year favored physical education as an elective course But the strongest argument against the Senate's corn mittee's report is the report itself. The recommendation to keep required phys ed gives little reason for its stand, saying only that the committee does not consider the fact of military service sufficient reason for a phys ed exemp tion for veterans. The Senate will be presented with the ill•defined re port tomorrow. Feldstein, acting in the name of the stu dent body, will be fighting to kill it. The students have a strong and valid case. The Sena tors should recognize it by voting down the committee recommendation and, with it, compulsory phys ed for vete► ans. The Bullonly The Bul only (pro-nounce-d Bull-lone-ly) originated in Collegial'; editorial columns on Feb. 29, 1956, to project briefly some points of view of Collegian staffers. Some views for today el The boy said to the coed as he bade her good after noon, "Well, I'll call you at 9 tonight, so expect to hear from me about 9:30." o Publicity, publicity. Every organization wants it. Don't they know that The Daily Collegian is the only one that can have it every clay? o As the election returns come thundering across the teletype machines, the only valid reasons for the results that most people can give are that the voters went to the polls. A Student-Operated Newspaper 011 r Daily Toltegiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published lue s day through Saturday morning during the Vniiersity year. The Daily Collegian Is a student-operated "newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 3,191 t at the State College, Pa. Poet Office under the act of March 3, 1379. , MAU Subhcript lon Price; $3.00 per semester $3.00 per year. ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor 1(6a90'.' - 1 p it.441,y1,1 C 0 ) : AUGH! , a /7- —Fisher —Fineman —Franklin FRANK VOJTASEK Business Manager ~i xsc/ THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Letter Moral Laxity is Seen in Women TO THE EDITOR: While engaged in extensive reading of case his tories in connection with the course Child Development and Family Relations 405, I have been appalled by the sharp relaxation of morals and personal discipline inside and outside marriage on the part of women. It is not to be condoned in ei ther men or women, certainly, but if women do not understand the importance of the home, the family, marital integrity and loy alty in the maintenance of a sound society, then who shall up hold these values? The time for quiet pleading with them is past. There are about 80 million women in this country who should he physically beaten to a pulp. What ever hap pened to those fool men before us to let women take over so? I would take the franchise of suffrage from women, bar them from public office, classify them as minors in regard to the pur chase of tobacco and alcohol and freciuenting public houses and make them smart under the law. This is an extreme reaction but after we've sharply whipped them into line and they show that they can obey as well as we demand, then their status may be renego tiated. If women succeed in tak ing over nothing could be more devastating to them ultimately. Women deeply want to be dom inated. If they can't have that, they fight for and take a domi neering role. The one thing they can't stand is to be ignored, Until they come around to terms let us alternately ignore them and slap them down. Every time a woman lights up a cigarette, scowl at her. Every time she guz7les a glass of beer, sneer at her Every time she runs for public office nominate a man and free7e her out. When you hold a door open or hold her coat don't do it obsequiosly, man; stand there smugly superior so that she would have to stumble over you in trying to overlook your presence •Letter cut Gazette Az Hill Part) Committee, 6.30 p m , 217 DUB Blood Donation Registration, 8 a m.-to pm , DUB Lobby Bridge Club, fi .30 p.m.. 'HUB Cardroom Campus Party Publicity Committee, '7 p m , 309 Ilinteke Chimes, 1 p.m.. 212 HUB Chrimtian Science Organization. 7 p.m., 212 Chapel Dancing Class, 1 15 p.m., 6-30 pm , HUD Bal h 0001 Engineering• Architecture Seniors (A-Mi. LaVie Portrait... 9 a m.•( p.m., Penn State Photo Shop Froth Art Staff, 7 p 10 , Froth Office, HUB Graduate Council 9:4 p.m , 218 HUB LaVie Photo Staff. 7:30 p.m., 1A Carnegie LaVir senior board, G. 30 p ni., 1 Carnegie Newman Club Forum Series, "Commu. tiism." 7 p m.. 215 HUB Nen man Chili Legion of Mary. 8 p.m Newman Club Student Center News and Views, 6 :45 p m., 14 Home Ec Outing Club, Ski Division, 7 p.m., 111 Boucke Pre-Veterinarian Society, 7 p.m., 218 HUB University Senate. 4 p.m., HUB Assembly HT I. Bridge Club for Beginners, 7 p m , White Hall WRA Officials Club for Basketball. 6 :30 p.m., White Hall Gym WSGA Publieationo Committee, 6:30 p.m., McElwain Lounge Young Democrats. R p.m Geoffery Boardman. Jean Ann Borden, Barbara Breisch, Ronald Castellanos, Mary Cimmons, Joel Daniels. Yvonne Dubois, Sheila Dubrow, Harry Fell. Carl Fisher. John Glagola, Larry Herring, Kenneth Link, Francis Lopre,ti, James McDeavitt, Joan Miller, Robert Miller, Harry Mun. ford. Limb] Morrow, David Pressman, Ralph Riehl, Walter Smith, Joseph Stepen. osky, Ann Vosbuig, Richard Weeden, John Zerbe. Washington Elections: To the Losers Belong the Excuses By ARTHUR EDSON I didn't get enough votes." the Romans, and the Italians WASHINGTON (A) —To the Historians bog down when had a word for it, "ballotta," they try to find out when man meaning "little ball." The word victors belong the spoils. To the first voted—or when the first drifted north, into France, and losers belong the excuses. defeated candidate tried to then passed into the English But possibly none of the 530 frame a suitable answer to that language as "ballot." candidates who did not get awful query: "What happened?" Appropriately, pebbling was elected senator, representative or But even in primitive socie- used in this country. A voter governor in Tuesday's election ties the head man would call his who worked the fir s t voting can match former Sen. Guy Gil- flock together occasionally and machines pulled a lever, and a lette (D-Iowa) for candor and seek its approval on what could little ball dropped down infii mnplicity. Consider this ex- he touchy matters. eating his choice, a mechanical change after his defeat in 1954: The Greeks invented the sec- throwback to the age of Athens. Q. "What primarily do you ret ballot for special occasions, As far back as 1634 Massachu think accounted for your defeat, with voters dropping pebbles setts used paper ballots, but Sen. Gillette?" into urns. The custom was taken .with an odd twist. Each voter A. "Well, primarily it was that over by those great importers, had to bring his own paper. —William Karn grad student EDMEI 217 HUB UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Little Man on Campus by Dick Eiger °FF V I,9filiDEtlf r g I R t • I'oo4 I",!Aitlfe, ` 4 TEI.. t I . OOA st I . k r m 1.6. 41f ..... "He has terrific recommendations—l'm suspicious the college where he now teaches may be tryin' to get rid of him." E — Fishing Around Watching Football —ln Portuguese Strange are the ways of football to the uninitiated— especially if it is compared to soccer. This is the impression we got while trying to explain the game to seven Brazilian journalists. Since soccer is considered one of their national sports, we tried to use it to make the concepts of foot ball clear. But then you are hit with questions like "Why does the action stop so often?" or "Why do they purposely give the other team the ball (on punts)?" all through an in terp re ter of course, The real stop pe r was a question about the size of our stadium. After being told, in answer to a question, that its cap a city FISHER was 30,000, one of the news men exclaimed, "why, in my hometown we have a stadium that holds 200,000." Seems the gentleman lives in Rio de Janiero. The Brazilians had been in vited to the University to tour the campus and see the Penn State-Furman football game while on a State Department? sponsored tour of the country. We had been asked by the University Public Information office to act as guides since it was felt we would have some thing in common with the newspapermen. After a tour of the journal- THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 1958 (5' 1 .... with Dick Fisher ism set-up, the University took them to luncheon at the Nit tany Lion Inn where we met them. Since none of the visitors spoke English and we didn't speak Portuguese, we were forced to carry on our conver sation through two interpre ters until we accidentally stumbled on the fact they could speak French. With our "pidgin French" we were soon in business. They seemed to have a great interest in money—almost as much as our parents. They started asking questions about the cost of college that would have done credit to Dun & Bradstreet. The journalists wanted to know which team to root for the ones in the all-white uniforms or the ones in the white-and-blue uniforms. We said, of course, the ones in the white (Penn State). So a Mis ter Santoz said in that case he would cheer for the other team since they were the un derdogs. This was after profuse apol ogies and thank you's for the hospitality shown them. But we were consoled when, on leaving the stadium, he found a concessionaire selling pennants and asked him for a Penn State flag.
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