PAGE FOUR Edit~riafOpinion Immediate Action Needed On USG's Housing List One of the greatest end-of-the-year questions facing student governmem seems to be whether or not the USG student housing list will be available to provide service during the summer. - - We strongly feel that arrangements to maintain this valuable -service for Penn State students should be the immediate concern of USG arid of the housing committee chairman, Suzanne Flinchbaugh. Student government fought for several years to assu.me responsibility from the Office of the Dean of Men. They finally won their battle last year. By taking the responsibility to 'maintain this list, on which only the names of landlords who have pledged to practice non-discriminatory rentinj appear, USG under !tool: one of the most valuable of all possible services for ;the student body. • This list was an excellent service under the Oan of men and can, under student government, be a great Ric' to the than 3,500 students who annually look for places to . live in State College. - _ _ Since the time they took over this service, the hOusing committee has found it difficult to imintain an adkuate staff to hap the list up to date. Several landlords have s commented that the service rendered USG is inferior to that rendered formerly by the dean of men's office. Now is the perfect time to revamp the committee, to find students willing to work on such a . worthwhile project and to make plans to maintain the list , during the summer so that the service Will be available to students searching for rooms for the fall-term. Miss Flinchbaugh, at present , does not have any defi nite plans for maintaining the , list during the" summer since sbe will not be on campus then. She said that she will confer with:USG President Dean in the next few 'days and thdt final plans will be announced either at the end of this Week Or at the begin ning of next week. Wharton said yesterday that if after he!tneets with Miss Flinchbaugh no satisfactory prans can be arranged for the maintenance of the housing list during the gum mier, "I - guess we'll just ,have to turn it back to the dean of nieli's office:" We strongly criticize Wharton's feeling on this prob lem. We feel such an action would be a - basic indication that studrnt government is not ready to accept the re sponsibilities for which it has so vehemently fought. We feel it is imperative that USG find Someone to staff this committee and that it do so quickly. We would like to see the housing list become a permanent success rather than just an unsuccessful attent to make USG . the true student governing body of this' University. ÜBA's Text Tax Status The Pennsylvania four per cent , sales . tax on textbooks and other. instructional material sold by university and college-operated boOkstores has been abolished. The tax was eliminated.by an executive , order signed by Governor David L: Lawrence on February 21. The state action, taken some four-months ago, ap parently slipped by all persons—both students and staff —concerned with selling books on this campus. When contracted :se - sterday, neither Melvin Schulman, chairman of the 'Book - Exchange and past head of the Used Book Agency, nor William F. Fuller, manager of Associated Student Activities, were- aware of the change in the law. - • Although the position of the privately-owned book stores in State College is clear, they must continue to collect the tax, the position of the student-run Used Book Agency is "up in the air." To qualify for tax exemption. the University must sell the textbooks. William H. Wagner. an official of the state Bureau of Safes Tax, Said yesterday. The exact status of the ÜBA will ha ° '•e to be studied by the bureau before a ruling is made on whether or not the four per cent sales tax must continue to be collected. We urge the ÜBA managers take immediale.and posi n tive action, classify the exact= status of ÜBA, a complete report to the Bureau of Sales Tax, and follow up this possible sales tax exemption._ THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA Interpreting 'Rug Jerking' Tactics Associated Press News Analyst The. United States, - which . has consistently warned the small er nations of the "rug jerking" dangers of the Soviet aid and trade progrims, sometimes en traps herself in situations which leave her own professions of altruism open to question. ' In Laos, unable t 4) convince the loyalist and pro-Western government that its entrance into . a coalition government with the Communists will not mean political iuicirtb., the Ken nedy administration' has been withholding economic aid which had been given regular ly as long as there was no dis agreement. There are justifications, but also there is doubt whether they are sufficiently well known to offset the act in the minds rif those whom Piesident Kennedy has been so intent on impressing with a cooperative image. In another case, the majority of a Senate cominittee- has openly announced a desire :to chastise India, for straying 'Letters Froth Sees Appeasement In Aqions of Pacifists TO THE EDITOR; Many times. as I read a newspaper I see pictures and articleS about the world's pacifist groups march ing en masse carrying such signs as' "Fallout :Maims and Kills Children." "Stop Bomb Tests." and other assortments of "Ban the Bomb" cliches. It makes me paase,, When I see these articles about pacifist groups pleading for suspension of bomb tests and for peace I think of one word appeasement a word which became ever popular in the 1940'5. Aftel the • war) it was a pacifist grpup of wives who marched oh the White House demanding the - return of their husbands from Europe. It was after the soldiers left Europe' that the Communists spread freely over its Eastern section. It makestrne pause; • Presently the world's leading democracy is lo ck ed in a cold ware with the world's heir of vice violence, and inequity. Permitted by our . laws of free dom of speech. press, and, as sembly, many of our fellow countrymen have "risen to pro tect any further development of U.S.; military power in' the form of nuclear weapons. • Khrushchev in Report 'to, the Party Congress in,1956 blurted, The West's "public figures • 'still do • not venture to state that capitalism will find its - grave' in another world war . . .: but they are already obliged to .admit openly that the socialist camp is invincible. Their more farsighted representatives are beginning to adrnit that , the 'position of strength' . . has failed." . . I Penn State students. has it? - Are not some of: us admitting that our defeat is inevitable and, that we must recognize after tieing the world's first power eighteen years' ag„p we must bow or face destruction? It is a - noblek and humani larian movement that wishes to preierve mankind from nuclear destruction. - in one form or an othdß but is also foolish for it ignores humanity's older foe- 7 - political . destruction and its •SuCceSsor to The Free Lance, est. 188? • p u bu s ha Tue s day tereagh Saturday morning, during the talvenilty year Daily Colkgiss la a studied-operated newspaper. Entered s wand-class JO/ 5. 113$ at file fitate College, Pa. Poet Office under the act of Match 5. . Salmicripttom Prise: SSA a year Malltecc Lidraeo State College. Pa. By J. M. ROBERTS 4 Student-Operated Newspaper 57 Years of Edipriat Freedom Batty Tollentan Member of The Associated Pre_s ANN PAEMER HERBERT WITMER 413110- Business Manager -! from U.S. policies in a political way, by cutting her new aid appropriation. Other countries.— Americas most important Allies, are touched by this. Acting , in con cert at the insistence of the United States, they have agreed to supply rndia with certain development funds through a consortium. . The American money repre sents an important administra tion commitment to them as well as to the already-planned Indian program. If the United States now fails to meet her, own commitment in full, what is the effect on India's newly evident recog nition that, in the long run, her greatest self-interest lies in her association with the West? ;And what is the effect on the future willingness of the Allies to help the United States carry • part of the aid load for under developed 'countries? Indiais reacting moderately ` to the threat to her program. ‘• joining the Kennedy adminis tration in the .hope and belief that once the Senators have pillage, rape..and murder.; We are faced with two choices: submission or 'resist ance. Only the latter promises any form 'of victory. Are, we going to refuse this chance and surrender thousands of yeaiq of progress in political freedoms, recorded with pain and agony? It is evident that fall • the moratoriums that cotild be; made with Russia in the next 100 years would be broken as soon as their usefulness be; came a hinderance World disarmament is an attempt to accomplish the i im/ possible. The Soviet Union's re fusel to permit the U.N. to b the sole possessor of the atom bomb clearly shows that even before nuclear weapons became the keystone of defense she was not willing to confine it and rely on conventional weaponii. The Russian's violation of tbe atomic moratorium proves that she won't stop developing nu. clear weapons, much less kkin them. And is it anymore. plausible that she will reduce f her control of the convention' I weapons upon which rely h r guerrilla armies in Laos. Nor h Viet Nam. Korea, , Cuba and other pro-communist bands. in Africa. Latin America and In donesia? NyeL . I The answer is a difficult 0ne..1 for one believe that the answer lies in a firm Ipolicy ai in e.d at countering t;he U.S.S.R. with her own tactics and 'an excellent -.propaganda system to favorably guide world tensions. i "We have always advocated a policy of 'luring the enemy to penetrate deep.' We can .iltill fully induce the enemy to cdm mit 'mistakes by staging' a `feint: 'The objective of retreat is to induce the enemy to com mit mistakes and to detect them," stated Mao Tse-Tung in "Selected Works." ; Are we - going' to make Ithe mistake• of not developing . pur 'defenses, of- following.a "feint," or• by being lured into the deep of defeat? We, P.S.U. students the leaders of tomorrow, ivill help decide. - -Conrad Rogal '65 TUESDAY. MAY 22. 1962 • their palitti.they will be .• . . with a tolum cut of !•• - er dimensions: -- These . specific matters, how er, appear tope less nnpor :nt than the long-term effect ! f such attitudes on whether, e "no strings" protestations I the United States are to be djudged, in many of the small r countries; as a myth. effers icy, ie Reguiations Questioned , TO THE EDITOR: In our so ciety, laws have a purpose and two provisions. These provis ions include- not only law en forcement, but also a means by which a law can be obeyed. I believe provisions have not been adequately provided to park bicycles. Where Ore bi cycle racks located on Ag - Hill? Where is the nearest bicycle rack to Burrowes - Building? Where are the nearest racks to libraries? Is one expected to park his bicycle at the HUB and walk to Weaver }all? Adequate bicycle` - parking areas have not been provided. Please don't enforce the . law until it can be obeyed: • . —Curtis Bouser, '63 . (Editor's note: The Bicycle regulation which states that bi cycles:must be-parked 'in licks provided we's set up by the De partment of Security to solicit student cooperation in presert ing campus facilities and-in eli minating fire and physical haz ards caused by misused bi cycles. Several areas on' cainpus do not as yet have adequate IA ? cycle rack facilities. Complete rack plans are scheduled for completion by Septembei, 1962, according to Paul Pierson of th e Division of Landscape Planning. Col. William C. Pelton, direc- tor of security. has asked stu- dents to park their bicycles in a --. o <cisonable location." in areas • where no racks are avaitabte. A ,a - reason ab le location" is i ,that location which eliminates the chance of parked bicycles be coming a hazard in front. of ' doors or on sidewalks. PEAM..._atill.llllllll.o r CM • ON.CHARUE BROWN,PiTCH IT TO NIA, ," Bog! , YOU . CAN DO It CHARLIE BROV4fSHOcO HAM' 51I1FF! 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