Editorial Opinion
Where Are They Now?
Ever since the fall semester began a constant
clamor over downtown housing problems has filled the
atmosphere.
The State College Chamber of Commerce took an
interest in the situation and decided to look into it further.
They asked the most qualified man they knew—Dr.
William G. Mather, head of the Department of Sociology
and Anthropology—to draw up a housing survey._
This is a concrete step to analyze the downtown
housing situation. But now where are the students who
were raising the clamor?
Last week a call was issued for all interested students
to work as interviewers. Only 31 signed up. At least 250
are needed to conduct the survey efficiently.
A final plea has been made for student workers to
attend a meeting at 7 tonight in 12L Sparks.
If there are 250 students on this campus interested
in the downtown housing situation, they should be in that
meeti»g
'Honor' Residence Halls
Dean of Women Dorothy J. Lipp's plan to initiate
"honor" dormitories for women is perhaps idealistic but
certainly workable and we hope she has the opportunity
to carry it out
When Penn State's women graduate and go out into
the world to work, there will be no senior resident around
to makc sure they meet that 11:30 deadline.
Far women who have demonstrated their responsi
bility such dormitories would be both a reward for
achievement and a place in which to develop even more
responsibility. It will give them a chance to function as
adults.
Women are scheduled to be moved into Runkle Hall
next fall and this dormitory has no facilities for hostesses
or senior residents.
If the honor plan were to go into effect then, the
women living in Runkle would have their own keys and
would pot sign in or out. These women would staff and
organize activities in the residence hall themselves.
We hope some of the problems connected with the
plan can be worked out in time for it to be instituted on
a small scale next fall and eventually to be expanded.
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'Negotiations'
Undesirable
TO THE EDITOR: After read
ing your editorial of Jan, 12,
1961 concerning Laos, we find
that we cannot agree with your
solution of the problem that
of settling it by negotiation
for a coalition government in
Laos.
We also h diSagree with your
contention that negotiation
with the Communists is the
way to settle disputes.
Such negotiation can only
bring eventual disaster to the
free world; for in every nego:
tiation with the Reds since FDR
recognized them, they have
gained and we have lost.
We agree that if Laos falls
to the Communists. it would be
a stepping stone for them to
conquer the rest of Southeast
Asia. and that the Weit can
not tolerate this; but we feel
that a." Coalition Government."
such as the one that was re
cently in power in Laos (and
packed with Reds), would be
merely a halfway step in the
Communists' attempt to take it
over.
Let us demonstrate just how
the ' Communists conquer
through negotiation. You have
a pie. A bully wants it. In or
der to avoid a fight, you give
him half. You lose, he gains.
The same bully then demands
the rest of the pie. Again, to
prevent a fight, you give him
half of the rest, leaving you
with one fourth of the pie.
Again you lose and he gains.
That is exactly the method used
by the Communists to get ter
ritory throughout the world,
and it is the exact method and
pattern occurring in Southeast
Asia today.
Before 1954, all of Southeast
Asia was solidly pro-Western.
The Reds started a war in Indo
china with nothing to lose and
all to gain. So, to stop violence,
we negotiated.
The Communists gained
North Viet-Nam; the West lost
it, and now has but two-thirds
of the territory it had before
the negotiation. Should we ne
gotiate again and lose more? Is
that the solution?
Negotiate for a compromise.
and eventually all the SE Asia
will go Red. Withdrawal from
Laos would only speed up the
Reds. The only solution is for
the West to put enough force
into Laos to scare the Reds out
of the place and fast. A bully
will always retreat when his
challenge is met,
—Carl Thormeyer '64
—George Kelchner '64
interpretin
UN to Pay
By J. M. ROBERTS
The United Nations is now
about to reap the harvest of its
own mistakes or perhaps it
would be better to say its awn
disabilities in the Congo.
It was fairly clear at the be
ginning of the crisis that by at
tempting to police the situa
tion, and to help the Congolese
establish a stable government
in the meantime, the United
Nations was attempting to give
help where
there was no
one to help.
Trying to es
tablish a sta
bl e govern
ment quickly
was hopeless.
So was try
to establish a
long - ter rck
trusteeship,
under which ROBERTS
the United Nations would have
taken over lock. stock and bar-
rel for perhaps 20 years until
a government cadre could be
established. Too members lack
ed either the money or the will.
In this situation a police ac
tion was
_trie4l, in which the
police were not authorized to
act, as though they were deal-
Snowed
Missile
.Lag Exists
by Joel myers
A few weeks ago a statement slipped out of the State De
partment which carried the claim that the missile lag had gone
up in a puff of smoke.
This statement proved rather embarrassing to the new chief
executive, since much of his victorious campaign for the presi-
dency was constructed on the
declining strength of the United
States.
Just a few days before the
statement slipped out, Ken
nedy had told ' • .
the nations
"the tide of t '
events has 0 %
been running , ,„.„.
out and time i "3"
has not been!
ou r friend."
This further
implied that
a time 1a g s
existed be
tween our ekt -
military capa
bilities an d
those of the Soviet Union
The recent launching of the
Venus Space Station by the
Russians served to again warn
the people of 'the United States
and the rest of the world that
Russian space gains continue
to, surpass ours.
This demonstration of space
leadership is probably well
correlated with military rocket
leadership.
If so, this would nullify the
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for Mistakes in Congo
ing with a civilized country
where the mere presence of
world public opinion could
have some effect. It did not.
Different factions constantly
challenged U.N. authority from
the first, even when every ef
fort was made to st&nd clear of
Congolese politics. Then Ila
jeshwar Dayal, of India, was
sent to head the operation.
Soon there developed a feel
ing in Me West, and there
were concrete reports from ob
servers in the Congo, that
Dayal was pursuing the Indian
type of neutralism which play
ed into the hands of the Lu
mumba group.
In the last" of many arrests,
deposed Premier Patrice Lu
mumba *as physically mis
treated and finally killed.
The international police had
not kept order, and such at
tempts as they had made gave
the neutrals an impression that
they were working for the
Western powers and for Bel
gium, the ousted landlord. This
feeling grew despite the sub
merged feeling in the West
about Dayal.
Now the Soviet Union has
broken relations with Sec
retary-General Dag Hammer
skjold, bringing the situation
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 1961
unfounded claims that the mis
sile lag had vaporized.
This will be of great value to
the Soviets in furthering their
policy of intimidating the
smaller nations of the world.
It puts the United States on
- the diplomatic as well as the
military defensive.
However, it does again dem
onstrate that we are not in a
position of command. We con
tinue to slip behind a national
power whose ultimate goal is
to "bury us."
The precision of the Venus
shot, if successful, may be
shown by reducing its scale to
something that we are all
capable of visualizing. It is
quite similar to a man firing
a gun from the Kremlin in
Moscow and hitting the Ameri
can flag atop the Capitol
Building in Washington.
The tide of events has not
yet completely deserted our
shorelines, it can still be diked.
Time is a flexible dimension, it
can again be transformed into
our friend.
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back to where it was in 1950
when the Soviets also broke
with a former secretary-gen•
eral Trygvie Lie, over U.N. ac
tion against the North Korean
Communists.
The bridge between the free
world and the Communists in
the United Nations was broken.
Lie eventually removed him
self in order that it might be
re-established.
U.N. observers are betting
Hammarskjold will serve out
his term on the ground that re
tirement of the secretary-gen
eral under such pressure would
be bad for the United Nations,
despite the fact it will mean
three years of non-communi
cation between his office and
the Soviet Union. Routine will
go through the secretariat.
At the end of three years the
Communists will veto his reap
pointment, and refuse to agree
on a new secretary-general
while promoting their proposal
for a three-man top secretariat
which would give them a vir
tual veto on implementation of
General Assembly decisions.
The United Nations, having
refused in the beginning to
pick up the hot coals left by
Belgium in the Congo, now
faces nothing but trouble.
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