Editorial 0 inion
Books For a Cause
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One cause of present international tensions stems
from the growth of misconceptions about . the United
States, its people, form of government and institutions.
Therefore, one of this country's objectives should be
to correct these false impressions, many of which have
been created and fostered by Communist propaganda.
Penn Stale students have an opportunity to aid in
this battle of words and ideas this week by contributing
books to the Asian books drive, which is being conducted
by the Sophomore Class Advisory Board.
The worthiness of this program is self-evident. It
affords every student an opportunity to fight for this
nation' without carrying a gun, to speak for his country
without setting foot on foreign soil, and to aid the eco
nomic and social development of foreign nations without
joining the Peace Corps.
The donation of a few books today might be valuable
insurance against the carrying of a rifle tomorrow.
So►nething Accomplished
There was one important difference between the En
campment reunion last year and the one this year.
Last. year this reunion, which is a congregation of
students who attended Encampment before the start of
the fall semester, was nothing but a social gathering.
At last Thursday's reunion, the chairmen of the En
campment workshops gave follow-up reports on what, if
anything, had been done with the recommendations his
committee' had made at the conclusion of
.Encampment
last September.
Every year each Encampment workshop draws up
several recommendations for improvements In student
activities and policies on campus. But in prior years a
subsequent check was never made to see how many of
the recommendations were carried out during the year.
This year each workshop chairman followed up the
progress of the recommendations made by his group and
reported all action taken as a result of these recommenda
tions.
Now the students . at next year's Encampment will at
least have a starting point. They will have background
information on what has been done in each area and how
it worked out. They will not have to waste time rehashing
everything gone over at last year's Encampment.
Olir Batig Cillrvin
Successor to The Free Lance, eat 1887
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Letters
Ulsh Notes
Journalistic
inaccuracy
TO THE EDITOR: I am fully
aware that The Daily Collegian
serves at least two functions to
the University Community.
First it serves as a means of
communication among • t h s e
memilers of the community
and secondly, it serves to edu
cate the students who partici
pate in the activity as all 'stu
dent activities should.
Realizing that "to err is hu
man" one can overlook some
mistakes of those that are
gaining some experience in
their journalistic endeavors:
however, it is very difficult to
overlook gross errors of those
who write articles for your
newspaper if they don't first
insure the accuracy of the
source of action taken by cer
tain campus organizations be
fore they print that I was
"proposer of the code,"
I could go a step further
when quite probably the same
reporter made false accusations
as to the time of my departure
from the Liberal Party meeting
on Sunday evening when it was
stated that I "walked out of
the meeting in the middle of a
discussion on the position of
Liberal Party." Such failure to
communicate the truth consti
tutes a failure to realize the
two functions of The Daily
Collegian that were afore
mentioned.
First of all continued publi
cation of unreliable falsehood
does not lead to ideal corn
munication among members of
the University community, and
secondly, I doubt that such ac
tions on your part better serve
the aims of The Daily Col
legian,
Mandate For
Elex Head
TO THE EDITOR: I am in com
plete agreement with your edi
torial of April 19 concerning
voting areas on campus. As an
SGA assembly member I am
acutely aware of the problems
which are currently plaguing
student government.
One major difficulty is our
inability to get out the student
vote, Although increasing the
number of polls is not the only
answer, it would certainly be
a major step in achieving our
goal, •
The job of Elections Com
mission Chairman is one of the
most important chairmanships
on campus, To fulfill this ca
pacity one must be capable,
responsible and WILLING 'to
work.
Most certainly there will be
more work involved in having
multiple voting places on cam
pus, but Mr. Dufner must rea
lize that he was appointed to do
a job, not to make excuses for
not doing a job.
I might also point out that
Mr. Dufner has been desig
nated by the SGA Assembly to
place polls in each residence
area, a constitutional mandate
which he as Elections Commis
sion Chairman cannot ignore.
—Allison Woodall '62
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Letters
Committee Revisions Asked
TO THE EDITOR: There has
been much discussion on the
form that student government
is to take. However, just as
important from the standpoint
of actual performance is the
part that each component of
the structure is to play.
One of the components is the
committee system, which forms
the backbone of any efficient
organization. At present there
are two types of committees in
the Student Government Asso
ciation: executive and legisla-.
tive. The executive committees.
are to aid in carrying out legis
lation, whereas the legislative
committees are to deal with
formulating legislation.
In practice, there is no func
tional distinction between
them, and there is opportunity
for duplication of effort. There
is no need for two types of
committees. They should be
consolidated into one system.
Consolidation doesn't solve
every problem either. In prac
tice, the committees are not
assigned defined functions and
spheres of operation.
No positive influence is
World at
JFK Warns
About Cuba
Communists
WASHINGTON UPI Presi
dent Kennedy served notice on
Communist foes and non-Com
munist friends yesterday that
the United States will act on
its own against Cuba's Reds if
necessary for U.S. security.
Kennedy did not specify
when this time might come:
But in a speech delivered to an
editors' meeting amid news of
a major setback for anti-Castro
invaders, he said somberely:
"Any unilateral American in
tervention, in the absence of
an external attack upon our
selves or an ally, would have
been contrary to our traditions
and to our international obliga
tions.
And should America have to
go it alone, Kennedy added, in
obvious reference to the Soviet
Union, "We'do not intend to be
lectured on 'intervention' by
those whose character was
stamped for all time on the
bloody streets of Budapest."
Soviets Predict
New Cuba Attack
By The Associated Press
Predictions of new attacks
on the island nation 90 Miles
off U.S. shores came from Mos
cow press and radio yesterday.
They asserted the strike might
come at any hour. They charged
U.S. Marines were poised to go
in despite Washington's re
peated statements of non-inter
vention. They warned again
that intervention might bring
war to U.S. soil.
Kennedy served notice on
the Communist world that "our
restraint is not inexhaustible."
Conceding that news from
Cuba was not good, Kennedy
told the American Society of
Newspaper Editors in Washing
ton that the Cuban guerrillas
are determined that Cuba must
not be abandoned to the Com
munists "and we do not intend
to abandon it either."
The Swiss, handling U.S. af
fairs, notified Washington that
20 Americans have been ar
rested in Havana.
Sikkim Gets Ist Press
NEW DELHI, India (111
Five-hundred-odd years after
Gutenberg printed his Bible,
the little Himalayan state of
Sikkim is getting its first print
ing press. In the capital, Gang
tok, it will turn out publica
tions in Hindi, Bengali and
English.
JFK Holds Conference
WASHINGTON (WI Presi
dent Kennedy had a secret con
ference Wednesday with the
chairman and five members of
the anti-Castro Revolutionary
Council of Cubans.
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1961
exerted for higher standards
of performance. The commit
tees report irregularly. Com
munications among the com
mittees and the Assembly is
poor. All this leads to duplica
tion of work, misunderstand
ings which can develop into
hostilities, and overall ineffi
ciency.
There is a need for gUidance
and supervision in the commit
tee system. The vice-president:
without the burden of chairing
the Assembly. could fill this
need by being charged with
the responsibility for the com
mittee system.
This would make one man
accountable for the function
ing of the committee system;
not a collective group where
responsibility can be hidden or
shirked.
The president would assume
the logical and traditional role
of chairing the organization.
He would be much more effec
tive than he is at present--
sitting at a meeting nearly in
the capacity of spectator.
—Earl Gershenow '62
a Glance
Senate Ok's
Wage Bill
WASHINGTON (IP) Th e
Senate passed President Ken
nedy's minimum wage bill
yesterday in the form he want-
The bill would extend pro
visions of the wage-hour law
to four million more workers
and increase the minimum
wage from the present $1 an
hour to $1.25.
The measure now goes to
conference with the House,
which rejected the Kennedy
bill last month and passed a
narrower-gauge version in
stead.
The House measure would
extend wage-hour law cover
age to 1.2 million chain-store
workers only and limit the
minimum wage increase to
$1.15.
The Senate's 65-28 vote, cli
maxing a successful five-day
fight by administration leaders
to stave off major amendments,
gave Kennedy a more impres
sive victory in that chamber
than he had won with a similar
bill last year as. a senator.
Last August the Senate vote
was 62-34, with Kennedy act
ing as floor manager for the
bill. That measure died in con
ference when the House re
fused to accept any of the Sen
ate provisions.
Voting for the Senate bill
were 51 Democrats and 14 Re
publicans. Opposing it were 17
Republicans and 11 Southern
Democrats.
The biggest group to be
brought under the law by the
Senate bill passed yesterday
would he an estimated total of
2.5 million employes of retail
stores and service establish
ments,
The wage floor would be
raised to $1.15 after four
months and to $1.25 two years
later. In addition, 1.1 million
newly covered workers would
benefit by the increase to $1.25.
Eichmann Denies
Israeli Charge
JERUSALEM In his
own memoirs of the role he
played in Nazi Germany's mass
murder machine, Adolf Eich
mann yesterday emerged as an
administrator, not a killer.
The picture is etched sharply
-in a record of Eichmann's inter
rogation by Israeli authorities
after his capture last year in
Argentina. In the record, Eich
mann denies accusations that
he ordered use of poison gas
to kill Jews in extermination
camps.
"I am neither a Jew-hater
nor an anti-Semite. Some of
the relatives of my stepmother
married Jews. Even in Hun
gary, there were my Jewish
relatives, which was never de
nied," he asserted.