PAGE FOUR Editorial (Opinion Costs Less Than An Atlas The Peace Corps has introduced a new look into United Stales foreign policy. This new branch of our international program, although costing less to launch than one Atlas missile, could be the blockade that halts the advance of communism. The recent growth of communism has apparently been a result of their “to the people” policy, which was directed at the man in the street and on the farm. The Reds attempt to influence these common people is based on the assumption that they will ultimately control the attitude of the government. The United States, on the other hand, has been trying to secure and maintain the support of the men in control of these governments with little regard for the common people. Although a policy of this type has short-range advan tages, the undermining influence of the Communists seems to he more profitable in the long run. The creation of the Peace Corps is the first concrete step in the direction of selling the people of foreign nations the “fruits of Americanism.” Society in America is constructed on the rights, atti tudes and basic beliefs of the individual, and is not aimed at building a stronger state as in Russia. Success and achievement in America are based on ideas and work. A farmer can get a piece of land, and if he works hard he will probably have something to show for his labor. Under communism, hard-working farmers are forced to share the fruits of their labor with all of the other farmers including the lazy ones. The foundation of America's society which is the ability of anyone to achieve any rank on the social and economic scale, restricted only by his ability to work and think, should be "sold” to the underdeveloped people by the Corpsmen. This advancement of our ideological program to gether with the respect gained by technically assisting underdeveloped nations could make this program the most successful foreign policy venture in several years. It’s interesting to compare its relatively inconsequen tial cost with that of the other defense and foreign policy programs. A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom ®ljc Saily (Eollcgtan Successor to The Free Lance, est 1887 PuUH*hed Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered *» «econd-fla>M matter July 5, IM4 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. Mall Subscription Price: $3.00 per aemester $5.00 per year. Mailing Address Box 261, State College, Pa. Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press JOHN BLACK Editor City Editors, Lynne Cerefice and Richard Leighton; Editorial Editors, Me* TckhhniU and Joel Myers; New* Editors. 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The Daily Collegian, however, uphold!) the right to maintain its independence and to exercise its own judgment as to whnt it thinks is in the best interest-of tho University as a whole. y WE WANT \ r (TO JUMP ROPE,/ « VSNOOP I /.,. JJ l{ !i ■n->- (S) life WAYNE HILINSKI Business Manager IN fact, we want to JUWP ROPE RI6NT WHERE YOU'RE SITTING....SO MOVE! IF THIS HAD BEEN NATIONAL 006 me, T NEVER WOULD HAVE MOVED/ — ' THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA 'Good Losers' Plan Show Of Class Spirit TO THE EDITOR: On Tuesday night the SGA reorganization committee formally decided to recommend the elimination of class-members-at-large from Assembly representation. From the establishment of this committee, the Freshman Class Advisory Board has strongly supported and heart ily fought for a provision that would assure at least one rep resentative elected from each class, plus the four class presi dents on the new Assembly. Tuesday night we lost the fight. Many people were pleased to see class representation abol ished because they feel that class-standing is on the way out. The Freshman Class Advi sory Board, however, feels dif ferently. To demonstrate our feelings, we are proclaiming Friday, May 19, as the Fresh man Class LAST FLING. At this time the Class of '64 will be given the opportunity to celebrate before finals, with a program to be held in the Skating Pavilion starting at 8 p.m., and lasting until 12:30. Featured will be the Niftany Five, folk songs by fhe Nomads (who recently appeared on tele vision), the announcing and crowning of the Frosh Queen, and an informal falk by Dr. Walker. Through this class night the Freshman Class Advisory Board would like to show the SGA reorganization commit tee just what a class can mean; we also would like to show the entire student body that the class of 19G4 is the best class Penn State has ever seen. —Jim Sloane, Freshman Class President Gazette Award* Dance, North and West Halls, 9 p.m., HUB ballroom Block ‘S', 9 a.m.-4 p.m., HUB first fltmr Bridge (’•tub, 7 p.m., HUB card room IVCF, 12:15 p.nu, 218 HUB Mineral Industries Colloquium, 4:15 p.m., Ml Auditorium Penn Stat* Singers, ‘Dido and Aeneaa,' 7:30 & 9 p.m., HUH Assembly Room Rho T*u Stem* initiation ceremony), 6 p.m., 215 HUH 'The Three Sinter*,' 8 p.m., Center Singe Mercedes Dieter, Mary Dubin, Law rence (ieary, Jacqueline Hatters, Rich ard Heller, Frank Hugos. William Kimmel, Aaron Konstam, Date Mon nin, Annette Mazes*, Rowena Rotcop, Beverly TUs, interpreting Africans Parley on Politics Associated Press News Analyst Two meetings have been going on in Africa this week which are closely connected with major forces at work in that politically emerging continent. One is in Monrovia, Liberia, a country long associated with the United States. There representative, of a 'ire of new na ns sought :ans to offset tendency to ird Balkaniza in which re lied from de ircation lines it were pro iced through ionization and sudden end. Roberts Comm unica tions and, in many cases, di vorcement of economic con centrations from their natural hinterlands, represent problems for these countries which can Letters to the Editor TODAY HOSPITAL' By J. M. ROBERTS CD. Protest TO THE EDITOR: Mr. Whiton Paine, in his criticism of the Civil Defense demonstration, seems to have all the answers. However, I cannot agree with his contentions, and I feel it is my duty to present arguments stemming from better informa tion. Mr. Paine states, firstly, that “the danger of fall-out is over rated.” The experts on the matter are of the opinion that the extent of the danger of fall-out cannot be known with certainty. It is known, however, that a dosage of only 450 roentgens is almost invariably fatal. Smaller dosages of only 50 to 150 ro entgens, have been shown to kill many types of human body cells. Therefore, even a dosage of 50 roentgens may cause con siderable damage to the cells of the human body. This is to say nothing of mutations, us ually detrimental, which are transmitted to future gener ations, and are induced by any amount of radiation, in propor tion to the dosage received. Mr. Paine mentions “the abil ity of the human body to re cover from the effects of radi ation.” It is to be hoped, in order that he himself be well informed on this subject, that he will do a little research to ascertain the fact that, in the majority of possible types of damage to the body from radi ation, the body cannot “re cover.” Furthermore, Mr. Paine would have us believe that, in the event of nuclear war, "only Sr. Questions Stone Valley Fee TO THE EDITOR: This letter regards some not-unusual in formation about the Stone Val ley Project. Sunday, after deciding to go to Stone Valley, we drove over the mountain, proceeded over the pot-holed road to an il legible sign reading CE camp. Assuming this was the place, we turned left on a dusty, netted road. Over the crest of the hill and now at Stone Valley, we saw two things. One, a body of water like any other lake; two, SATURDAY 2:00 Metropolitan Opera (Live) 6:00 Spotlight 6:55 Wefttherscop* 7:00 Hi Fi Open House 9:00 Off-Beat 1:00 Rony and Mr. X 8 :00 Sign Off only ,be answered through po litical cooperation. Bui they are looking more toward political union. They have agreed to respect each other's sovereignty and to oppose Ghana's federalist and expansionist ideas. In Cairo, capital of a coun try so different that it is fre quently not considered African at all, President Toure of Gui nea, who along with Nkrumah of Ghana seeks to carry many of the neighboring countries into a federation which Mali already has joined, conferred with President Nasser of tha United Arab Republic. Toure talks of making the U.A.R and other Arab repub lics African again as a part of his and Nkrumah's federation, forming an economic magnet for all the former British and French slates. Nasser, of course, isn’t inter ested in that, but wants Toura to help him and Tito of Yugo slavia in organizing a political block of nations uncommitted in the cold war. The minister in charge of Lauded a small amount of radiation** would be received. Let it be pointed out here, to quote Curt Stern, a scientist who has been associated with many of the research projects probing this question, ‘‘Radio active fallout following a nu clear explosion can cover with high concentration hundreds or thousands of square miles, or . . . (even) the whole globe. I have seen first-hand that the demonstrators and their sympathizers have been sub jected to much scorn, mock ing, name-calling and abuse, because they are brave enough to stand up for a cause they believe in. Most of these people who were so ready to censure knew nothing of the demonstration or its motives and objectives. It is these stupid fools, these know-nothing, do nothing cow ards, these all-too-common and all-too-commonplace creatures, these rubber-stamp impressions who would not have the cour age to be in the minority or to question an accepted practice or dogma, who are in the wrong. We are prepared for their scorn and we can endure it. It does not bother us, for wc have faith in our conviction. We will defend this faith, carry in this crusade, and suffer the insults. We will persevere de spite all persecution. —Richard Sfein, 'G3 • Letter cut (Editor’s Note: We feel that all sides of this issue have been fully covered in these columns. The above is the last letter on this subject that will be pub lished.) a fellow student standing in the dust. Naive enough to assume he was giving directions, we found he was collecting a fee to park to look around the lake. After all of us here have been subjected to propaganda about Stone Valley and after the class of '6l voted to build docks there, why should any student have to pay to walk around and look over this lake? The fee is minute, but it is the principal I question. Is this going to continue? If so, why? —Gerald Arndt. '6l WDFM Schedule SUNDAY 5:00 Ch.pel Berricc 6:00 Chamber Mu,l« 6:30 Mormon Choir 7:00 Highlights of the Week 7:HTh»'Thlrd Progrommo 1:00 Sign Off Mali’s three-year plan of eco nomic development has naive ly revealed one of the prime motives in addition, o£ course, to the lures of person al power which motivate them all. Mali is getting economic aid from Ghana, the Communist bloc. Western Europe, Britain and the United States. “Competition between the great powers will help us in realizing our plans," said Min ister Mamadou Awe. Ha could learn things from Nasser and Tito about how to play that game. But Toure'a Guinea is another mailer. He has gone so far with the Soviet Union that Guinea's, economic independence is threatened, and without that there is lit tle inducement for Western governments or business inter ests to play the game. Amid this log-rolling, the ef forts of Nigeria, Liberia, the Ivory Coast, Tunisia and other members of the French Com munity to invite foreign aid through an Operation Boot strap represents a highly con trasting force. FRIDAY. MAY 12. 1961
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