PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion 2 Parties Show Initiative; Where's the Third One? An off-term election to fill six vacant seats on the USG Congress will be held during the week after next. These six seats make up approximately one-fifth of the Congress Two of the three political parties on campus—Liberal and Campus—will nominate candidates in the election. The third party—University—has decided not to nominate candidates, but will endorse candidates running inde pendently. University Party has decided not to nominate candi dates because of the shortage of time before the elections. The constitutional by-laws of student government state that an election to fill vacancies must be held within two weeks after the vacancies occur. This has been in cluded in the by-laws since last spring. Judging from the past experience of the Congress and from the prescribed policy of the constitution on the fill ing of vacancies, it seems to us that each political party would find it expedient to tentatively schedule a, party meeting during the first week of each term. At. this time it could be determined if and how many vacancies there are on the Congress which must be filled. The parties could then nominate persons to run in the election. They could also line up potential candidates should more vacancies occur during the term requiring other elections. We believe that the party system on . this campus must be strengthened. One action which would eventually lead to this would be for parties to nominate candidates for every position in every election, We realize that this will require the parties to main tain active organizations all year. But, we believe that for parties to be an effective force in student government they must put up candidates who will convert their party's voting strength into effective legislation on the floor of the Congress. We believe that Campus and Liberal parties are per forming a vital part of their function by scheduling a meeting to nominate candidates for the six vacancies. Vie believe that University Party is not fulfilling its obligations as a campus political party by not nominating Candidates, Its endorsements could wind up as a "you're a nice guy so we'll support you" type of arrangement. This is not the responsible action we expect from stu dent organizations. An Optimistic Effort The agreement between this University and the Jefferson Medical School will undoubtedly aid both schools involved, while helping to decrease the shortage of doctors. It will aid Penn,State in that the University will have an official tie-in with- a medical school. Jefferson will benefit from the fact that they will be receiving some of the top pre-med students. We can see only one weakness in the plan. We won der if a student will be able to fulfill the requirements of the two schools. It will take five straight years of study without a break to fulfill these requirements. We believe the plan may be a little optimistic, if not completely idealistic, in its setting up of these strict standards. But the benefits which will be reaped if it. is a suc cess far outweigh the risk of failure in the experiment. A Student-Goerated Newspaper 58 Years of Editorial FreedotA 13aitli Tilltertian Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 6, 1031 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1870. Mail Subscription Prim; $6.00 a year Mailing Address Box 261, State College, Pa. MT PALMER Editor - 063*. Member of The Associated, Press City Editors, Joan Mahan and David Bolbach ; News and World Affairs Editor, Kay Mills; Editorial Editor, David Runkel r Sports Editor, Dean Billiek: Photog raphy Editor, Den Coleman: Assistant Photography Editor, Bill • Goodman; Per sonnel Director, Saralee Orton; News and Features Editors, Donnan Beeson and Sandra Vaggi. _ Local Advertising Co—Managers: Jean Rohl, Jane Silverstein; National Ad - Barbara Brown; Credit Mgr., Ralph Friedman; Assistant Credit Mgr., Harry. Rauch: Promotion Mgr., Barry Levitz; Classified Ad Mgr. Catherine flaunter; CirruP•tion Mgr., Phil Guest :• Assistant Circulation Mgr., David Spirt: Persrm.ml - And. (I.Ci.e Mgr., hynat.. Murphy.. * * * HERBERT WITMER - Business Manager THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA —qui salt? Three thousand printers in New York City are striking for wage increases which would raise their. salaries from $l4l to $l6O weekly. In addition to the $l9 wage in crease, the printers are asking benefits which newspaper pub-. lishers say will amount to' an ad ditional $3B weekly. The strike has affected nine daily newspapers which together comprise 10 per cent of the total newspaper circi lation in the Uni ed States., TI printers union, Li cal 6 of the Inte national Type graphers Unio: staged a walkot on four of the pt per s, The Ne York Times, T 1 New York Da News, The Wor Telegram and Sun and The New York MISS ORTON Journal-American. The other five, The New York Herald-Tribune, The New York Evening Post, The New York Daily Mirror, The Long Island Press and the Long Island Star-Journal immediately closed down. Now in its 34th day, the strike could conceivably last into March, according to Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, At present, some 20,000 persons employed by the papers are out of work, $3 million a, week in wages is being lost and before Christmas, it was esti mated that the industry was losing $7 million a week in revenue. • A 19-day strike in 1958 cost the industry an estimated $25 mil lion. The printers union, called Big Six, and the New York News- WDFM Schedule FRIDAY, JAN. 11 The Philadelphia Orchestra: Itimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq D'or Suite Glinka: Russian and Ludmilla Over ture Liszt: Mephisto Waltz Dinner Date: Tons Duorley playing mood music " - Washington Reports to the People: Congressional tapes Weatheracope with Joel Myers Ballet Theatre: Stravinsky: Argon Prokofieff: Scythian Suite Bernatien: Fancy Free Sports Parade: Comments by John Egli, basketball coach Album Review: Doses Nova (John Winter Septet) N.-, Marguee Memories: Stop the World— I Want to Get Off: Paul Krow host Send Off: Jazz, pop, folk and show music Night Sound: The Junas touch with cool sounds till 2 a.m, itAV I BLANKET-NATING Ii eRANDbIA 16 oh* To VislT BE ON ME THE FIRST THING ,ABOUT THIS BLANIGT.„SHE'LL HOUND ME To DEATH... SHE SAY 6 SHE RAISED FIVE CHILDREN OF.HER OUJN, AND MEI/ DIDN'T HAVE BLANKETS AND NO GRANDCHILD OF HERS (S GOING TO HAVE A BLANKET EIMER!' MAE/BE 5155' 1 CALMED DOWN SINCE THE LAST TIME SHE WAS HERE... A News Is Bad News WHAT AM 1 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said that, in the. light of the mass of data ob tained by Mariner 2, it had de cided against another Venus launch planned for .March - 1964. Instead a somewhat similar craft will be sent to Mars in No vember or December 1964, and there will be later Venus missions with an improved type of Mariner spacecraft. Although officials weren't com menting, one factor in the change of plans may have been the probe which the Soviet. Union an nounced last Nov. 1 that they launched toward Mars. The Soviet scientists said their 1,965-pound craft carried equip ment to photograph the surface of Mars from a distance of 600 to 6,800 miles next June 25, and re lay the data to earth. MAYBE THE MOON (JILL FALL OUT OF. 11-1 E SKY: papers Publishers Association are still far from settlement. Bertram Powers, Big-Six negotiator, ,said earlier that -his union was pre pared `!for a strike,that could last a long time. Equally, adamant Arniory Bradford, head of the publishers negotiating committee„ said "We are' not going to ne gotiate ourselves out of business." --The possibility of negotiating themselves out- 9f business is ap parently very real to• the pub lishers. Mrs. Dorothy Schiff, pub- Biller of The Evening Post, said the strike could cause the death of the Post. The president of The Daily News said that "one or two or more of the city's newspapers could' beput ,out of business by the strike." The other papers put in a dangerous position by the strike are the Herald-Tribune and The World Telegram and Sun. The Daily, News, highest circu lation paper in the country, warned of considerable layoffs if strike settlements forced steep price increases, The New York Times has announced salary cuts ranging from 20 to 50 per cent for . 900 employees still on the payroll despite the strike. Some labor analysts feel this strike, the ( first walkout led - by _ Kg, Six, may be an effort by the ITU to make itself the dominant union in the newspaper industry. The printer's, union has lost this Position to the American News paper Guild, the organization of news and commercial employees of newspapers. The ITU Seeks to control the use of new processes in the pub lishing business which would eliminate printing jobs and speed up the printing process. Among these are typesetting by electron. World at Plans Dropped For Venus Probe WASHINGTON (AP) The United States dropped plans yes terday for another probe of Ve nus and decided instead to try a spacecraft look at Mars. The major shift in the Inter planetary research program re sults from the unexpected success of the first Venus launch, Marin er 2. Victory of Goulart May Cause Crisis RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (IP) —President Joao Goulart'i land slide referendum victory for full executive powers was blooming yesterday into a major political controversy. It had the earmarks of the political crises of the past year. The president- -hamstrung by a parliamentary system that strip ped him of full power-won . a heavy margin in a plebiscite last Sunday to restore Brazil's tradi tional presidential system. Under terms of the plebiscite law, how ever, Goulart would have to :wait 90 days, at most, after the new Congress convenes' Jan. 31 to re shape the new presidency. Refreshed and obviously happy, Goulart, 44, announced yesterday he planned to adhere to the ple biscite law. - • FRIDAYAANUARY 11. 1963 by. saralee orton is tapes instead of linotype opera tors and computers which auto matically correct copy errors. These automatic devices would cut costs for publishers in the part of the pljsiting process which is now" the most costly anethe most. time-consuming. There _are those in the country who.are not even aware that nine of the biggest newspapers are on strike. There are more who do not know that the two big Cleveland papers, The: Plain Dealer and" The Press have been struck since Dec. 1. There are a lot of people who don't read newspapers. In fact according to a survey of Ameri cans, the majority depend upon television or radio for their news. With split : second methods of modern communications, news 'papers are in many' ways obsolete. They are five or more hours late with the news. They take timeto read. Newsprint comes off on your fingers. But there are still those of us archaic enough to believe that a good newspaper is the: best source of news this country can offer. It explains some of the aspects they don't have time to explain in two or three minutes on television. It covers all the news or as much as it can put on its many pages. It keeps. It can be referred to again if a question arises'. One can't tell Big Six to settle bedause they're depriving the citi zens of adequate news channels. Printers have to live too, and they know best whether they can live satisfactorily on $l4l a week. But right now, as former Presi dent Truman said, "its a very very sorrowful situation for, a country boy (or girl) that wants to learn what's going on." a Glance Diplomats Cite Hopeful Future WASHINGTON (AP) Secre tary of State Dean Rusk and Rus sia's Vasily V. Kuznetsov joined yesterday in expressing hope that "we are entering a period in which some outstanding problems might be solved," a U.S. spokes man said. This statement, by State Depart ment press - officer - Joseph N. Reap, was not repeated by the Soviet deputy foreign minister himself after nearly • four hours with Rusk and other U.S. 'officials. Kuznetsov described his second day of Washington discussions as "interesting" and "useful" and said they covered "some impor tant international problems." He declined to go beyond that. After the Russian's meeting with President Kennedy Wednes day and with State Department leaders yesterday, U.S. informants were inclined to think there was some indication that the Soviet's are interested in reaching a disarmament agreement, particu larly a ban on nuclear testing. Khrushchev .Halts Trip For Talks At Warsaw WARSAW, Poland (AP) Pre mier Khrushchev broke a train journey to East Berlin for seclu:- ed talks ' yesterday with Polish leaders as the Soviet government newspaper warned that a Berlin crisis more dangerous than the one over Cuba may be coming. Ever since it became known that Khrushchev would attend the sixth East German Communist party congress next week, specula tion has mounted that the Soviet leader would make it the scene for a new effort to settle the Ber lin problem. • • JFK Appoints Lawrence WASHINGTON (AP) --, Gov. David L. Lawrence of Pennsylva nia said yesterday he has, accept ed an appointment by President Kennedy as chairman of the Pres; ident's committee on equal oppor, trinity in . housing. Lawrence, who steps down, as governor Tuesday, made the an nouncement-after conferring with Kennedy at the White House. .
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