Editorial Opinion Those Most An inconspicuous item in a major city news-, paper points out that Dwight D. Eisenhower has topped the list of men that Americans admire most. The former president has pushed Lyndon Johnson out of the first place position he has held for the past four years. Following LBJ are evangelist Billy Graham, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Pope Paul VI. The ar ticle doesn't list the remaining five on the top' 10 totem, pole, but these first five comprise quite a list in their own. It's interesting to note that President Johnson has dropped to the No. 2 place to be replaced by for mer President Eisenhower. Both men share approxi mately the same views on the war in Vietnam—that it should be continued. Eisenhower says he.cannot support any GOP candidate for - the Republican Presidential nomination who advocates a dove policy on the war. Johnson, of course, is steadfastly hanging on to his committed course of action in Vietnam, maintaining that an "honorable settlement" is his goal. The latest word from Hanoi that peace talks "will" be held if the bombing of North Vietnam is stopped is looked upon with suspicion in Washington headquarters. North Vietnam can't be trusted, says Secretary of State Dean Rusk (whom, incidentally, the top 10 list makes no mention of). The Vietcong violated the cease-fire truce over New Year's and that proves they're out to get us, he claims. Those who don't want to take Hanoi for its word this time are forgetting that we are in a war, not a game. The questions of whether things are "fair" does riot apply. The U.S. forces will not be defeated if North Vietnam does use the time during a bomb ing halt to wage seine kind of war effort. On the other hand, Washington would have taken Hanoi at its word to negotiate if it did stop the bombing to hold talks. And possibly President Johnson's rating might go up with the apparent large numbers of people who placed him No. 1 during the last four years. It would show how sincere he is in his often repeated pledge to hold peace talks with Hanoi Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Olg• Elatig Tollpgiatt 62 Years of Editorial Freedom Published Tuesday through Saturday during the Fall, Winter and Spring and once weekly on Thursdays during June, July and August. The Daily Colle g ian Terms TODAY ON CAMPUS N a student•operated newspaper. Second class postage paid at State College, Pa. 16101, Circulation, 12400. Agriculture Faculty Meeting, 4 Jawbone Coffee Ho Ise, Sherry p.m., Hetzel Union Building Erhard (soul and blues), 8 Assembly Hall p.m., 415 E. Foster Chinese Club, 7:30 p.m., 215 I-hilosophy Dept, Coll. 4 p.m., HUB • 214, 215, 216 HUB LETTER POLICY Classic Dept. 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The Daily Collegian reserves the right to select which letters Mall Subscription Price: $8.50 a year Mailing Address Box 467, State College, Pa. 16801 Editorial and Bu&leas Office Basement of Sackett lblorth End) Business office hours: Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m Member of The Associated Press RICHARD WIESENHUTTER Editor Managing Editor, Sue Diehl; City Editor, William Epstein; News Editors, Martha Hare and Mike Surdll; Editorial Editor, Andrea Fallen; Editorial Columnist, Jay Shore; Sports Editor, Paul Levine; Assistant Sports Editor, Ron Kalb; .PllO. todraphy Editor, Mike Urban. Personnel Dlrector•Oßice Manager, Phyllis Ross; Weather Reporter, Elliot Abrams Board of Managers: Local Advertising Manager, Larry Bruciu Assistant Local Advertising Managers, Marcia Snyder and Edward Fromkin; Co• Credit Managers, Judy Soitis and Bill Fowler; Assistant Credit Manager, George Geib; Classified Advertising Manager, Patty Rissinger; National Advertising Managers, Mary Ann Ross and Linda Hailer; circulation Manager, George Bergner; Office and per sonnel Manager, Karen Kress; Public Relations and Promotion Manager, Ronald Resnlkoff. Committee on Accuracy and Fair Play: Charles Brown, Faith Tenney, Harvey Reeder. PAGE TWO GROUP GR • UP GROUP Phone —86 S-2531 DICK WEISSMAN Business Manager FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1968 IF YOU HAVEN'T RE-COOP-ED YOUR $3.00, YOU'RE BE; /IND THE GAME . . . UES ,YOUR CARD AND SAVE I Popular whenever Hanoi is ready and cooperative. Meanwhile, as the war goes on and on and on, the nation is putting those men who seem most in terested in ending it into the most admired list. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who ranks No. 4 on the list, has said he favors a change in .policy. Although he has not committed himself to Eugene McCarthy in his bid for the Democratic presidetial nomination, Ken nedy is a thorn in President Johnson's side. The Kennedy name, when it can't be linked with John son's and when it rests under a dove banner, is cer tainly no help in a Johnson popularity contest. Pope Paul VI has no bearing in American poli tics, but he does favor an end to the war. Recently he criticized the U.S. for various strategies in Viet nam and has said he would not like to see the war extended to Cambodia even with U.S. forces in pur suit of fleeing Vietcong. According to the top 10 list, two hawks are still the most popular. But their antagonists are creeping closer. And, the No. 2 man on the list should be con cerned with November 10 months away. Smart Move Daniel Clements, USG Supreme Court justice, confirmed last night that USG does not plan any type of investigation of Froth. Although USG President Jeff Long, who first mentioned the possibility of an investigation of the humor magazine on a WMAJ broadcast has not yet made an announcement to the contrary over the same airwaves, we feel that this reconsideration was an appropriate move. As an earlier Collegian editorial stated, a USG led investigation into the merits of Froth's humor would have put the organization into a dangerous position—that of attempting, no matter how slight, some kind of control over a campus publication. n investigation may not have shouted censor, but it could have paved the' way for future blue-pencil action. We're relieved to hear that USG, which has a victory to celebrate with its push to have a,pass-fail grading system now an academic policy, has no plans to take a backwards step along with the many it has taken in the right direction. CHOP COOP COOP YOU'VE BEEN CRABBY SW DAY ! DO YOU REALIZE THAT? 00 YOU REALIZE THAT YOU HAVEN'T MISSED A SINGLE DAY ? NTS WORLD "I'm glad to see John Wayne getting into this Vietnam thing—he's never loit a war!" Letter to the Editor A Challenge TO THE EDITOR: Several of the terms and statements in cluded by Professor Pollard in his Senate attack upon dis ruptive student demonstrators and, apparently, faculty members sympathetic to these students, are by no means clearly understood in the same way by all readers and listeners. Therefore, I am writing to propose that the issues raised by Professor Pollard be the subject of an immediate debate, formally staged, during which Professor Pollard and those who agree with his opinions could be challenged by (and could challenge, in turn) those of us who differ rather sharply from his position. The need for a fully-informed university community has, it seems to me, never been more clearly demonstrated. Now is the time to join the issue, in public, before audi ences which can freely join the discussion. It is my hope that The Daily Collegian can initiate the procedures needed to create the forum for such a debate. I WISH (AX) HAON'T ENTIONECI IT WNW I NOT ? -• z 7 4.1 --- ATTENTION RUSHEES ACACIA ALPHA ALPHA ALPHA ALPHA CHI PHI DELTA DELTA DELTA DELTA KAPPA DELTA RHO LAMBDA CHI ALPHA OMEGA PSI PHI ...••'''....'"''''. 0 1968 by NV, lfic.*llir Wells Keddie Assistant Professor, Labor Studies NOW ( iOO I IIE, JINXED ME„. I WAS GOING FOR A NO-HITTER f THE FOLLOWING HOUSES WILL BE OPEN THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR ALL MEN RUSHING THIS TERM CHI RHO EPSILON PI PHI DELTA SIGMA PHI CHI SIGMA PHI TAU DELTA UPSILON IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, FEEL FREE TO CALL THE RUSH CHAIRMAN J. Robert Shore Is it safe yet? Has everyone finally finished uttering and sputtering their 10 best lists? Russel Baker, satirist for the New York Times, probably thought he had the last say when he listed the 10 grossest excesses this week. But I've been waiting also to release nine items—just to be different. In the name of responsible journalism. may I present nine news stories which although they didn't shake the world, did show that rapes and fires and killings are not the only things that make up a news paper. So with all due respect to Walter Cronkite and Chet and David (in case I've stolen any of their closing snippets). let the presses roll! \ For our Ripley's Believe it or Not department two wire services vie for top honors: `NASHVILLE (/P) They even took the kitchen sink from \a house owned by Hazel Harris. Mrs. Harris said she rented the home to two men and, in checking it when they moved out discovered a television set, cedar chest, dishes nd the kitchen sink missing. From a UPI dispatch: Lorin .1. Laughlin, 71 years old, who has bee wearing dentures for 30 years, sprouted a new tooth rec ntly. Unfortunately, because of the false teeth he had to ave his new tooth removed. For our yo 're-sure-there's-no-other-reason depart ment, we read fro a UPI correspondent in Lincoln City. Ore. that Sheriff Ever tt Hoekema of Lincoln County grows marijuana plants in his office so his deputies will know what they look like. For our it-pays-to-b -sterile department, Reuters re ports from New Delhi tha the Indian government, which dropped plans to introduc compulsory sterilization for men with three or more chil •en, is working on a plan to increase the pay of government employes who are steri lized. Perhaps a Mr. Turner from Au tralia read the 0. Henry tale of the vagrant who tried to hake the police give him a winter home. In any event, Reuter\ writes: When John William Turner left jail without money, friends or job, he pleaded to be returned. The police \ efused to arrest him as a vagrant, so he stole a watch, turn d up at a police station and admitted the theft. UPI takes the supernatural departme i eerie tales. From Paris, police held a 67-year \ H engineer accused of slashing Rubens' paintin Virgin of the Angels" in the Louvre Museum. e museum guards the painting gave him "the evil ey K' And from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: It was s\per natural, the Straits Time quoted a geochemist as saying. I\ First stones fell on the roof. Then stones fell inside t e house. Articles in the house caught fire. The geochemist, S. Seeveratnam, sought Chinese temple mediums to see what was wrong with his house. They blamed evil spirits. U Thant leads everyone in the guess-what (who?) department. London (UPI) Only 58 per cent of 2,000 Britons polled in a recent survey knew who U Thant was. The United Nations Secretary General was variously de scribed as starting the war in Israel, leader of the Chinese Communist Red, Guard movement, a pop singer, and actor in horror movies, a dressmaker and . . . a submarine. UPI, which has consistently strived to make the bad news sound not so bad, captures this final category with the following report: Phillip Rosewarne and his family are sound sleepers. When the automobile of Earl N. Casler Jr. careened across a lawn, smashed through the Rose warne garage, struck the Rosewarne car and drove it through the wall into the Rosewarne recreation room, the family slumbered on. But when Mr. Casler knocked on the door, the family awakened. PHI DELTA THETA PHI EPSILON PI PHI GAMMA DELTA PHI KAPPA TAU PHI MU DELTA PI KAPPA ALPHA PI LAMBDA PHI SIGMA ALPHA MU SIGMA CHI SIGMA NU SIGMA PHI EPSILON SIGMA TAU GAMMA TAU PHI DELTA TRIANGLE Nine More t with two \old retired of "The "ie told
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