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Editorial Opinion
Bookstore Idea Is Not Dead
All-University Cabinet has wisely kept open the door
to a possible University bookstore.
Cabinet last night voted to recommit recommenda
tions stating that the University does not need such a store.
And, in a straw vote, Cabinet members voted favorably—
with no negative votes and one abstention—in favor of
the eventual establishment of a bookstore.
The Cabinet action was based largely on the argu-
ment that no matter how little a University bookstore
might save money for students, it should be considered so
long as it would save them any money at all.
The bookstore committee did a good job in gathering
a great deal of information, but it approached the question
from the wrong angle, considering primarily the fairness
of downtown merchants rather than emphasizing possible
savings to students.
The committee report also would have made difficult
any further consideration of a bookstore in the light of
changing conditions, since it did not report on how the
University's expansion program might affect the needs
of students in this area.
At the same time Cabinet recommitted most of the
report, it did adopt some valuable recommendations which
could be put into effect in the immediate future.
These include selling of engineer's supplies, especially
slide rules by the Book Exchange: expansion of the BX
when the Helsel Union Building is expanded: keeping the
BX open during the summer: and eventual hiring of a
full-time manager for the BX.
These suggestions are valuable in themselves and
pertain to areas of real concern for existing student
enterprise facilities.
But the idea of a University bookstore demands
a great deal of further specific study, with the emphasis
on possible benefits to the students.
Fifty-four Years of Student Editorial Freedom
MR Elattg Oluttegtatt
Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887
PUbliehed Needs, through Saturday morning during the University year. The
Daily Collegian is a student-operated newanaper Entered am second-clue matter
July C. 1431 at the State College. Pa. Poet Office under the act of March 11. 1871.
Mall gubseriptlon Priest $3.00 pee semester agli per ►ur
ROBERT FRANKLIN
Editor 'ID"
City Editor, David lineman; Managing Editor, Richard Orayne; Sports Editor,
Lou Nolo; Associate Sports Edltnr, Matt Mathews; Personnel and Public Relations
Director, Patricia Evans; Copy Editor, Lynn Wards Au'slant Copy Editor. Dick
Fisher: Photography Editor Robert Thompson.
Credit Mar. Janice Smith; Local Ad Mgr., Tom Mickey; Asst. Local Ad Mitr,
George Meturk; National Ad Mgr., Betsy Brorkbill; Promotion Rigr., Kitty Bur.
ger': Personnel Mar.. Mickey Nash; Classified Ad Mar, Rae Waters; Ca
Circulation Mgr,. Mary Anne Viral and Murray Hiram Research and Records
Mar. Mary Iterbein s Office Rerretary idyls Johnson.
STAFF TINS ISSUE: Night Editor, Torn Feeler: Copy Editor. John Black; Wire
Editor. Nnki Wolford: Milatants, Zanily Slnason, Judy Rosenblum, Barbara Fos•
Or, Pat Galan, Duck Goldberg, Jim Whalen, Margie Colfax, Karen Hyneckeal,
Yob'wk. Carol Fagan, 'Karen ShaHeroes, Barbara Laney, Meg Teichholtz.
Little Man on Campus by Dick Bible,
he VERY SAME students flunking my class axe out tit
tooling away their time on the archery tielcL"
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
ROBERT PICCONE
Business Manager
ICA Scientist
From Thailand
To Study Here
Sathit Tandanand of Bangkok,
Thailand, visiting research scien
tist with the ICA program, has
arrived at the University to com
mence doctoral studies in mining
engineering.
He received the visiting scien
tist award in competition with
outstanding Thai scientists from
many fields. He is also the reci
pient of a special grant from the
National Academy of Sciences
which permits him to pursue re
search and doctoral work at the
university of his choice in this
country.
Tandanand is a graduate of
Chu 1 along korn University in
Bangkok where he received a
bachelor of science degree in
1943. He also holds a master of
science degree from Colorado
School of Mines, where he studied
in 1954-56 under a Fuibright fel
lowship and a teaching assistant
ship.
The recipient of a Graduate
School scholarship, he is conduct
ing his work in the area of drill
ing and rock penetration.
Accompanying Tandanand
during his 2-year stay here are
his wife and 6-year-old son.
Gazette
TODAY
Committee on Interrellgioue Affairs, 8
p.m., HUB assembly hall
Industrial Education Bridge Party, I p.m
22J•t5•16 HUB
Interlandia Folk and Square , Dance, 7:90
p m., HUB ballroom
International Christian Fellowship, 12:30
p m., 218 HUB
Landscape Architecture, 1:80 p m., HUB
eardroom
Penn State Bible Fellowship, speaker, 710
p in., 214 Boucke
Philosophy Lecture Series
Marian, speaker, 8 p.m., 12t Sparks
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Jerome Abracmnskas, Isaac Aurelio,
Charles Reechan. Rebecca Birnbaum, Pa
tricia Couch, Madeline Dimeling, Burton
Golden, David Hill. Charles Hoffman,
Susan Hopnian, Yean Hwang, Thomas
Phillips, Alberta Ragozzine, Dennis Roy.
er. Richard Schmoyer, Barbara Smith,
Mary Stones, William Traver, Mary Ann
Welkie, David Whipple. Kathleen Winnie,
Valentine Worona, John Zinn.
Job► Interviews
APRIL 13
Delaware Power & Light Company: BS
EE.
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory: BS &
GRADS: PHYS, EE, ME, MATH,
METAL. _
Melpar, Incorporated: BS: ME, EE, PHYS.
Pittsburgh Steel Company: BS: ME, IE,
METAL
APRIL H
LA, BUS ADM, ED,
Allied Stores: 13S
JOURN. PSYCH.
Arma Division. American Bosch Arms
Corporation: DS: ME. FE, PHYS. ALSO,
SItS: EE, ME, PHYS (Summer Employ
ment)
Department of the Navy, Bureau of Ships:
BS CE, EE, ME, ARCH E. ALSO,
ROMS, IRS, CE, EE, ME, ARCH
E (summer employment)
U.S. Coast Gunrt: 138 & GRADS: ARCH
E. ARCH. SEC SCI. CE. EN, ENG SCI,
lE. ME, SAN E. ALSO. JRS. & GRADS:
ARCH E. ARCH, SEC Sc!, CE. ER,
ENG SCI, IE, ME. SAN E. (summer
employment).
APRIL 17
Bessemer 7 Lake Erie Railroad: BS: CE,
IE, ME. ACCTC.
Columbia Gas Systems
AS: EE, IF:, ME,
CE. PNG. ACCTG. CH E.
General Telephone Company of Pennsyl
vania: BS: ACGTG, ECON, MKTG. EE,
ME, PHYS.
Mead Corporation: MS: ME, CE. GRAD
STUDS: CHEM. ME, CE.
Camp Interviews
The following camps will interview at
the Student Employment Service, 112 Old
Main. Appointments must be made In
advance.
Camp Adahi. Reading. Pa., (Women), Apr.
9, 10
Camp Conrad Weiser, Reading, Pa., (Men),
Apr. 13. 14
Camp Weequable, Lakewood. Pa., (Men),
Apr. 4
Clear Pool Camp, Carmel, N.Y., (Men),
Apr. 10
Indian Lake Camp, Bushkin, Pa., (Men
and Women), Apr. 11
It's a political tr on y that
Rep. Daniel Alden Reed of
Dunkirk, N.Y., who died re
cently at 83, was only half
successful.
For Reed had the winner's
touch with the voters of his
district. Ever since March 4,
1919, this uncompromising Re
publican had been their rep-
Motor Club Ex li resentative. But, when he
pans needed it most, his party lost
Unsigned Licenses Valid control of Congress.
The Centre County Motor Club Reed put in 40' 7eari in the House. s seniority was announced yesterday that Penn- ceeded only by that of Speaker
ex
sylvania motorists have been ar- Sam Rayburn (D.-Tex.), who
rested in other states for failure came here in 1913, and by RO.
to have the signatures of the sec- Carl Vinson (D.-Ca.), who
licenses.
retary of revenue on their oper
ator'scame along a year later.
The club pointed out that un-
And in all those years he
signed operator's licenses are was chairman of his beloved,
legal, although policemen in oth-
and important, Ways and
er states may not recognize them Means Committee only one.
as being valid. The club suggested That was in 1953, when
that motorists arrested and, fined Dwight, D. Eisenhower and a
on these charges should pay the Republican- Congress were
fine under protest, secure a re- swept into . office.
ceipt and other pertinent data and
then notify the club immediately.
IT'S JUST THAT IT'S 6_
ITS 60...60... ttXU.., IT'S SO..
Washington
Capital Considers
Congress, Culture
WASHINGTON (IP)—Those who yearn to be a con
gressman got the winning formula that turns out to be
pretty simple:
If possible, arrange to have prominent parents;
Hang around the town, or at least the vicinity, where
were born;
Pile up a good war record; and
Join and this seems most
important—everything in sight
Spurn no civic chore, ignore
no fund drive
Dr. Julian
If you play your connections
and your committees right,
Congress probably will be in
evitable.
These thoughts must come
to anyone who wades through
the biographies of the 436 rep
resentatives and 98 senators in
the new Congressional Direc
tory. The congressmen supply
th e information themselves,
and the pattern is repeated
again and again.
Let's take one name, at ran
dom: Rep. John James Flynt
Jr., 44, a Democrat from Grif
fin, Ga.
Flynt was born in Griffin,
went to the University of
Georgia, studied law at Emory
and George Washington uni
versities, spent almost four
years in the Army, busied him
self in .legal work and still had
time to join:
Methodist, Mason, Shriner,
Elks, American Legion, 40 & 8.
VFW. Kiwanis, Woodmen of
the World, SAE and Phi Delta
Phi fraternities.
Many a congressman has an
even longer list.
. . .
To succeed in Congress, you
have to cash in on a couple
of long-range shots.
Not only must you get elect
ed again and again and again,
but your party also must pros
per.
,• • •
Probably no other city takes
FRIDAY. APRIL 3, 1959
WATS WRONG wELL:n4E2E's
WITH /AV NOTHING REM.
FACE? wow WITH IT..
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By ARTHUR EDSON
such a kicking around as the
nation's capital.
It's climate is denounced by
almost everyone.
Sen. Wayne Morse (D.-Ore.)
points to slums, within six
blocks of the magnificent Cap
itol, which he says he would
not permit his cattle to enter.
Its majestic circles have
turned into frustrating traffic
bottlenecks.
Mostly these criticisms are
taken in stride, as either true
or too nearly true for effective
rebuttal.
But now it's different.
Patrick Hayes, a concert
manager, wants the world to
know, that no matter what na
tional magazines may say, this
is not a city of cultural boobs.
Maybe you've noticed stories
about proposals to build a $25-
million national cultural cen
ter in Washington. The money
would be raised by public sub
scription, and would provide
a spot where the best in music,
ballet and plays could be pre
sented.
In speaking of the center,
one magazine, The Reporter,
said:
"Lord knows that Washing
ton badly needs it. Not only
does it have a thinner cultural
life than many other American
cities of comparable size; its
culture is practically invisible
by the standards of European
cities."
Another magazine, Time, was
even more blun t. It called
Washington "a cultural back
water."
Most of us local culture
lovers managed to remain
calm in the face of these at
tacks, but not Hayes.
"I challenge anyone," Hayes
said, "to name one city of com
parable size in the United
States which in a reasonably
careful comparative analysis
would find Washington with a
thinner cultural life."