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A Report, But No Backing
Penn State's budget has triple billing in the State
Legislature right now, something Governor David L.
Lawrence wants to correct before he gets to the main
future
This main feature is the report of his special com
mittee on education which recommends .the revamping
of the state's education system and which was presented
to the legislature last Wednesday.
However, the Governor feels that all pending busi
ness should be clerz!ned up before the report's prOblems
and recommendations are discussed.
Part of this pending business is Penn - State's appro-
priation.
The education committee's report gave much support
to Penn State's plea for more money.
But if Penn State's appropriation is determined be
fore any action is taken on the education report, the Uni
versity will lose the benefit of any moral suasion which
the report might have instilled in the legislators to favor
the increased appropriation.
'Postponement of action on the education report
means that Penn State's budget for next year will be—
decided long before the legislators ever get to discuss the
needs of the University and the job it wants to do in ex
panding Pennsylvania's educational potential.
And what, then, is to be the fate of the three bills
concerning the University appropriation which are now
on the floor?
One of these bills is the Governor's own recommen
dation that the University get $17.1 million for the next
fiscal year. The Governor has not increased it since re
ceiving his committee's report.
The other two back President Walker's request for
$23.1 million. One is in the House, the other in the Senate.,
If Lawrence's professed concern for education is
sincere, we fail to see how he can refuse to back the Unif
versity's $23.1 million request.
Without Lawrence's backing it is extremely doubt
ful that the full appropriation will be passed. And this
would mean the inevitable tuition hike.
Though the Governor's press secretary has insisted
that the Governor's mind Is not closed to any increase for
Penn State and that he would probably not cut an in
crease if passed by legislature, the full appropriation is
still doomed unless it receives his support,
This crucial backing he has not given in spite of the
results of his education committee's report.
By not openly supporting Penn State's request, Law
rence is shirking his leadership in a field where he has
s.oudly been pledging leadership for the last week.
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Letters
Supervisor
Accused Of
Hitting Student
TO THE EDITOR: At the eve
ning meal in Simmons Dining
Hall on April 11 some men
went to refill their glasses with
milk whereupon the waiters,
who had been rudely trying to
rush the students through their
meals because they had been
unable-to reach the dining hall
until shortly before closing
time, cleared the table seizing
the remaining parts of the stu
dents' meals.
The following evening a
number of sympathetic fellow
students who were outraged at
this brash action arrived at the
dining hall just before closing
time and got their meals.
Eventually, when the wait
ers realized that they might
have to remain a few minutes
longer because the students did
not intend to be rushed and
wanted to enjoy their meals,
they resorted to their usual
discourteous hecklings.
The diners, unpreturbed,
continued eating.
At this time the supervisor
of the dining hall came to the
tables. He pounded one stu
dent on the back while the stu.
dent tried to drink his cof
fee. This failing, he roughly
pulled his chair back while the
student still tried to drink his
coffee.
A threat was also 'uttered
that if he did not leave he
would "get the coffee in his
face." The student left.
Similar discourteous actions
followed. 'Students' desserts
were seized from them. More
abusive language was used.
All the students left.
Is this the proper way for a
university employee to act?
—Mark Dance, '63
Chuck Reilly, '64
'Call to Arms'
Not for Grad
TO THE EDITOR: Heaven for
bid that anyone with any sense
should listen to Joel Myers'
"Call to Arms" in his snowy
column.
If Mr. Myers had been of age
in 1950 he would haVe seen the
"most powerful nation on
earth" get rolled 'up like a car
pet by a bunch of rubber
shoed, rice-eating creeps using
Russian weapons and equip
ment.
The "time to fight" was 1951
in Korea and 1954 in Indo-
China, not now. Let's leave de
cisions like this in the. able
hands of our leader, "Good old
Jack S." However, if we do
have to fight, I nominate the
indomitable snowman, Mr. My
ers, to go in my place.
—Edward S. Evers,
Denver University, '52
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Letters
Soph Attacks 'Call to Arms'
TO THE EDITOR: It is regret
able that Joel Myers has to
descend to vague generalities
in attempting to prove that the
United States is being re
strained by her allies in the
cold war against communism.
There are a number of inac
curacies in Mr. Myers feature
that should be corrected.
He accuses Britain and
France of becoming increasing
ly squeamish since World War
11. I would recommend that
Mr. Myers read some of the
editorials and reports in Amer
ican newspapers on the Suez
intervention in 1956.
He will find his "squeamish"
allies accused of imperialism
and vicious aggression, What
ever else may be said about
Suez, it put a stop to commu
nist infiltration in that area.
To be quite logical in the
proposed elimination of all un
desirable threats to Democracy,
the potential danger of Cuba
should be pointed out. Here,
lying 90 miles from the Ameri
can shore, the possibility of
Fidel Castro being supplied
with nuclear weapons by
Khrushchev is very great. I
am sure Britain and France
could be persuaded of Mr.
Myer's logic regarding the de
sirability of Cuba's extermi
nation.
.If Mr. Myers is advocating
armed intervention in Laos, I
hope, true to his ideals, he will
be one of the first to volunteer
World at
Pilots Finish
'Space Trip'
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. l/P)
An Air Force jet pilot declared
"our hats are off to the Rus
sians" for their successful space
flight after he and another
officer completed a month
long simulated space trip yes
terday.
"I hope one of these days
we'll be there," Lt. Eugene
Carlson declared after he and
Capt. Ramon C. Horin e k
stepped from an Bxl2 foot steel
tank at the end of the test of
man's ability to endure some
of the stresses he will encount
er in space.
Carlson said he wouldn't
care to undertake a real space
flight "without the proper kind
of indoctrination my fears
would probably get the best
of me."
Horinek, 28, and Carlson, 27,
said they were surprised when
word of the Soviet orbital
flight came over the loud
speaker about an hour before
the 29-day, 22 1 / 2 -hour test end
ed at 6:30 a.m.
Officials at the School of
Aviation Medicine at Brooks
Air Force Base suspended the
practice of keeping the occu
pants ignorant of outside hap
penings so the men would have
time to recover from the sur
prise.
Both men's wives and Hori
nek's father, Alton, of Atwood,
Kan., were on hand when the
pilots emerged from the cabin.
Each pilot was pale and about
10 pounds lighter than when he
entered.
Kennedy Asks
Agency Changes
WASHINGTON (iP) Presi
dent Kennedy asked Congress
yesterday to whip the federal
regulatory agencies into
streamlined shape. He singled
out the Federal Power Com
mission for the biggest over
haul.
Except for the FPC, Ken
nedy's proposals were broad
and general in dealing with the
agencies that, as he described
them, "permeate every sphere
and almost every activity of
our national life."
In the case of the FPC, Ken
nedy asked Congress to in
crease the number of commis
sioners from five to seven. He
also suggested breaking up a
logjam of cases by exempting
small natural gas producers and
some pipeline construction from
jurisdiction.
FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1961
to go. Mr. Myers seems to be
incapable of reading between,
the lines on the allied position
in this situation. The United
States, the self-Appointed cham
pion of freedom and democ
racy, as was well proved in
1939, is being presented as the
bold rugged protector of the
faith to the communist bloc.
It is the role of the allies to
be classified as the restrainers
in the situation to prevent what
could easily erupt into a third
world war. If the United States
wants a "show down" in Laos,
as Mr. Myers - professes, noth
ing could be more easily ar
ranged. But if fakes a lot more
guts to prevent it.
With regard to taking the
initiative in the fight against
communism, the United States
is a little late in Africa and
Asia. The colonies nursed to
independence by Britain have
shown themselves to be
staunchly pro-western, and In
dia, too, inspite of being an
obvious breeding ground for
communism has shown herself
to be averse to the system.
As regards the sun having
set on the British Empire, this
is entirely by choice. Accord
ing to the Myers philosophy,
the role of "Imperialistic ag
gressor" should be assumed by
the United States. I hope the
United States succeeds as well
and accomplishes as much.
s Letter cut
—Gerald Norman '63
a Glance
'Spaceman'
Tells Story
MOSCOW (IF') When you
go orbiting around the earth,
says Yuri A. Gagarin, you
float above your chair in the
space ship. The sun blazes "tens
of times brighter than here on
earth."
The earth's sunny face is
separated from the black void
by a band of delicate blue
color.
On the descent into the
earth's atmosphere "one's legs
and arms feel as before during
weightlessness," and "I am no
longer hovering over the
chair."
The 27-year-old pilot gave
this account to the Soviet news
agency Tass somewhere in the
Soviet interior yesterday PS
Premier Khrushchev prepared
a tremendous welcome for him
today in this .excited capital.
Gagarin said he found it
easier to do everything when
the tug of gravitation ceased
on the second stage of his
flight, Tess said.
JFK, Adenauer
Agree On NATO
WASHINGTON (/P) Pres
ident Kennedy and German
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
agreed yesterday the North
Atlantic alliance should pre
pare to defend the West by "all
military means," including nu
clear weapons.
At the same time they chal
lenged the Soviet Union to join
in disarmament and other ne
gotiations to lessen the danger
of war and work toward a
"general and total peace."
These purposes were set
forth in a joint communique
issued by the two leaders upon
the conclusion of two days of
talks at the White House.
Minimum Wage Law
WASHINGTON (PP) Pres
ident Kennedy's minimum
wage measure moved to the
Senate floor yesterday and
promptly ran into a brisk cross
fire from Southern Democrats
and. conservative Republicans.
Administration leaders re
mained confident they have the
votes to put over their pro
posal _to boost the minimum
wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour
and extend coverage to about
four million workers.