Editorial opinion Once again it's time to play - Elections," that age-old game of chance thbot decides which crooks will be running thcountry next year. Actually, not all politicians are crooks, even in light of Watergate and all it has revealed. And "Elections" certainly is no game. Shapp for governor Four candidates - will be vying tomorrow for the prize of Pennsylvania's governorship. But the real contest is between only two Democratic incumbent Milton Shapp and Republican challenger Drew Lewis. The candidate with the most experience and strongest leadership ability already has won.the prize once. Although Shapp's superior skill is obvious, Lewis questions it. Lewis had questioned the virtue of some of Shapp's appointees: "I see corruption in the Shapp administration, not in Shapp himself. I can understand thAt corruption exists in gov ernment. But what - I cannot understand is why Mr Shapp puts up with it." Granted, Shapp had made some mistakes in his appointments, most,notably Frank Hilton as secretary of property and supplies, and Rocco Urella, who was fired, and Shane Creamer, who was forced to resign, because of their in volvement in the King of Prussia wiretapping case But at the, same time, Stlapp has made some excellent appointments -- :Herbert Denenberg, who originated the no-fault insurance fight, John C. - Pittenger who has succeeded in passing through the State Board of Education guidelines to end discrimination in school athle9cs; and Joel Weisberg, who extended the services of the Consumer Protection Bureau. - The state Supreme Court did void hun dreds of Shapp's interim appointments not because they were bad, but because it did not agree that the period when he appointed them was a legislative recess. Appointments made Schweikr for U.S. Senate A big-spending Republican and a • cheapskate Democrat are running for the U.S. Senate. The Democrats, it is said, are running Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty, who was able to cut taxes there, because - they want to gel him out of Pittsburgh. Even though Richard Schweiker is known for not voting along party lines, the Republicans are running him because of his good voting and attendance records. ' Flaheqy lists in his platform a 10-point anti-inflation program and says, "Don't let anyone tell you that when you cut the budget you are going to lose vital services." When Flaherty cut the budget in Pittsburgh, maybe no vital services were lost—but no new, innovative programs were gained either. That is why the Democfats want to get rid of him—so they' ca get rapid transit and other necessities in For the past 11 years, the: residents of the 23rd Congressional District have been represented by Albert W. Johnson. This year, as in the past several elections, Johnson is run ning for re-election mainly on his record in Congress. Johnson certainly is experienced in dealing with people and politicarth. His seniority in Congress has allowed him to become the second-ranking minority member on the House Banking and Currency Committee and third ranking minority member on the Post Office and Civil Service Committee. Experience is not merely valuable to a legislator: it is vital. Yet even an experienced legislator can do his constituents little good if he is not attuned to their interests. The truth about Johnson is that he is not working,to provide for the needs of the 23rd district. No matter how impressive his creden tials may seem to the banking interests of the Republican Party, neither his seniority nor his committee memberships are doing muctlrgood Ammerman, The state legislature probably affects Penn State students mere than any other governmental body. Most students here are Penn sylvania residents, and even out of-state students are subject to Pennsylvania laws. Like all citizens of the state, students need a responsible legislature, which in turn needs good legislators. Sen. Joseph Am merman and Rep. Galen Dreibelbis, this area's represen tatives in the General Assembly for the past four years, have proven themselves to be capable and responsible legislators. These selections were made by a vote of Collegian editors eligible to vote in each race. Their reasons ap pear below. You the voter are free to follow the Collegian's sug gestions or' to ignorp them. Whatever you decide, • vote tomorrowl. But while the - state payrolls grew by 32.5 per cent in the first three years of the Shaffer ad --ministration and by 12.2 per cent in the Scran ton administration, they have grown by only 6.9 per cent under Shapp. . Pittsburgh . bOore inflation makes them any more expensive. Schweiker,lcT the other hand, is a big spende new projects such as Sbcial-- Security and minimum wage increase, disaster relief of more than $3OO million af ter Hurricane Agnes, ' pension reform, and tax credits for the cost of college education._ Schweiker also voted for revenue sharing, which Flaherty used heavily in Pittsburgh along with the higher property assessments he pushed, which together yield more revenue without an obvious tax increase. Schweiker saves the taxpayer money by voting against such projects as the SST and ABM and by working to close tax loopholes which have 'allowed some of the very rich to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. Schweiker has Mast for Ammerman has risen to a position of authority as secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus. He is a member of two important committees The Rules Com mittee and the Appropriations Committee. Since his election to the Senate, Ammerman has constantly fought for funds for Penn State. He sup ports revising the state govern ment's budget policies policies that have often left state-funded agencies with no appropriations at the beginning of a new fiscal year. He has advocated public financing during such a recess, do not need the approval by two-thirds of the Senate which is otherwise necessary. Governors of both parties have ap pointed many officials during recesses ,o avoid having the Senate play politics with them. The approval system is bad not,Shapp's use of it. Lewis had questioned the Shapp ad ministration's spendir4g. Hg points out that Shapp has doubled the state budget in four years and has spent more than his two predecessors combined. SherCp was able to reduce the corporate net income tax twi enabling.. Pennsylvania to compete with ottitt states in encouraging in dustrial development. Under Shapp the six per cent tax on residential gas, utilities and home necessities such as soap was eliminated. While Shapp had the expensive compassion to provide free public transportation for the elderly and grant tax and rent rebates to the elderly and the disabled, he had the business sense to provide a lottery to pay for them. When Shapp entered office, the state gov lernryiept was spending $1 million a day more than it was taking ln. To end deficit spending, .Shapp worked to( implement the personal in come tax and! later• saw that it was reduced `from 2.3 to 2 per cent. Lewis has questioned Shapp's not paying in come tax records to the Gleason Committee in vestigating alleged irregularities in state con- for the people of the rural district he repre sents. It is time for the voters of this district to change the situation by changing the represen tatives. Yates Mast may not be experienced in the ins and outs of legislative and party politics, but he does have valuable experience elsewhere to contribute to-the people of the - district. He Its acquired legal and financial expertise in 21 -*ears as a practicing attorney and four years as a tax lawyer for the U.S. Treasury Department. . More important, he has gained experience in dealing with the people he will represent. There is little question that Mast can represent Penn State students. As the Univer sity's student legal adviser since 1972, he has been in contact with students every day for more than two years, during which he has come to understand their ideas and their needs. But Mast is more than just the students' can didate. He can also represent the "little man" of the 23rd district. Dreibelbis for Assembly Voting for the candidates of one's choice is the responsibility of every American citizen 18 years old or over. It is -a respon sibility that must be taken seriously. In this election The Daily Collegian is endorsing five of sponsored legislation to set a ceiling on government spending, much of which appears in the new budget-control bill. Schweiker voted to . cut military and Vietnam spending. Maybe that's why he got one of the honored positions on Former President Nixon's enemies list. But Schweiker also was one of the first senators to speak out against the Watergate messigind to call for Nixon's resignatio7. He called the pardon "a tragic mistake." Schweiker has first-and second place honors in his favor. He is the first Pennsylvania senator in 40 years to sit on the Appropriations Committee and he has the second best attendance record in the Senate (98 per cent). Schweiker has another first place honor. He has maintained the highest bipartisan voting Congress of political campaigns and believes that current landlord-tenant laws must be reformed. He supports lowering the drinking age to 19. Ammerman's opponent, J. Alvin Hawbaker, also has some good points. But Ammerman's first four years in the state Senate .have been so productive for the people of his district that his fine, record as a senator outweighs Hawbaker's promises. Similarly, Galen Dreibelbis has proven himself as a legislator, despite some claims that he is the puppet of the Democratic Pa ty. the candidates _whose names will appear on the ballot tomorrow: Milton Shapp for governor; Richard Schweiker for U.S. Senate; Yates Mast for . Congress; Joseph Ammerman for state Senate; and Galen Drei belbis for state House of Representatives. ' tracting practices. Shapp explained to the satisfaction of both parties that. he did not pay personal income taxes because . he was ac tually losing money. The c6l, - imittee has proven no wrongdoing by Shapp. Lewis' ability. to implement his commendable ideals is questionable. He has never held an elected position, and his involvement in govern ment and politics is limited to five years as Sen. Richard SchWeiker's campaign manager. Lewis says three major areas need reform the highway department, agriculture and the welfare system. He has not revealed how he will improve transportation while at tho same time cutting the highway department "to the bare bones." He has not explained how he will give bothconsumers and farmers a break. Lewis says he will take all the ineligible peopleloff the welfare rolls. But Shapp has already reduced the rolls by 100,000. , Lewis ability to provide strong leadership is questiohable. Shapp's is not. He was always there when Pennsylvania needed him. Shapp had the courage .to veto both the capital ' l punishmentand abortion bills. He provided an innovative flood relief program and persondlly became ,involved in helping Penn sylvanians recover from Hurricane Agnes. During the gasoline shortage Shapp went to Washington to'make sure Pennsylvania got its share. During The truckers' strike he listened to legitimate grievance Sand helped bring about a tentative solution. The people of Pennsylvania need Shapp for another four years. record in the Senate. He votes for bills that will help the people, not necessarily the bills his party wants him to vote for. _While voting for the good of all American poeple, Schweiker has helped Pennsylvanians specific - ally. During the gasoline shortage last winter he was in strumental in getting Pennsylvania more gas. He has protected such Pennsylvania industries as mushrooms and speciality steel from unfair foreign competition, thus saving jobs. And Schweiker won, after a long battle, a five-year federal program to fight beach erosion at Presque Isle. Schweiker must not be replaced with Flaherty because Pittsburgh wants to get rid of its mistakes. Vote for the big spender Who spends your money in the right places—Richard Schweiker. He has pledged to work toward eliminating the tax loopholes which allow the wealthy to escape their tax burden while the poor pay more than their fair share. tie has pledged to work for reforming campaign practices, better economic planning and preserving the en vironment. He has pledged to help."thake life more livable for the nation's aged and han dicapped through providing ,grants for senior citizens, promoting mass :transit, raising the minimum 'wage and establishing a legal services corporation. Johnson has opposed many of these measures. The 23rd District Can no longer altord to be represented in Congress by a man who places banking interests and his own seniority above true concern for the people he represents. It needs a representative who will work to im prove the quality of life in his district and throughout the nation. Yates Mast will be that kind of represen tative. Give him his chance., Vote for Mast tomorrow. Lif He has s oiled full legal rights for 18-y s-olds, including lowering the d king age. He has voted _ for pro-abortion bills. He believes in increasing state scholarships to middle-income students as the best way to help them overcome the costs of higher education. Ammerman and Dreibelbis have worked hard in the past four years for the people they represent. Tomorrow, show them that you ap preciate their efforts. Re-elect Am merman to the state Senate and Dreibelbis to the House. Let them continue working for you. This side Hpid hold By JACK JACKSON of the Collegian Staff For her birthday. I decided to take my sex education teacher out to dinner. Because it was late and we were getting ready lo.study. we decided to go to a fast food joint. - Originally I„wanted to buy her a pair of earth-socks. but I only, had enough money fora cheap dinner. That's how we found ourselves walking into Universal Burger: Miss Smith and I (she's assured me her real name is Smith) walked into the place bout 9 p m The only people there were Youtht a I of workers f We were greeted at the : door by the anager. who was wearing a yellow hp embersnp s a a ren w t Inyroniemployes—allibhye Nazinna pop t rhakeer Party. . were and earing blue uniforms reminiscent of t ody suit. a red wig and red oversized i edroom slippers. His face was painted ihite with grease pant. and he was arrying . a plastic hamburger. Hi. there! Welcome to the land of I urgers.' he\ said. smiling furiously. Please sign right here." He handed me a I gal form and ushered me over to a otary public dressed the same way he was "Wait a minute," I protested, "what am signihg 9 " "This :is' our Universal Burger uarantee. It says that if you agree to eat ere. we-guarantee you your money back we're not the most FRIENDLY people the world. We'll serve you hot food or I e'll 'replace it with fresh food. We'll lean your table or we'll refund your oney, and if we forget to say a cour -ous 'thank-you,' there's- no charge for e meal." II sounded good, so I signed. The r otary public 'stamped the form with a ickle and the manager took me over to e food counter. I The girl behind the counter, smiling I l e a goof. asked me for my order. 'Well." I began as she wrote. "well zve Iwo Cosmic Pounders. no cheese. o small Cokes and an order of french 'es. *. 'How would you like your fries?" she earned. Rare. medium or'well done?" I didn't have a chance to answer. She palked off to gather up my order and 4me back with 30 or 40 different articles f food. each individually wrapped in five -yers of paper. each in its own bag. on dzCollegian lANE M. 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BOARD OF MANAGERS: ADVERTISING MANAGER, David Lang; ASSISTANT ADVER TISING MANAGERS, Susan Voytovich, Kim Batey; NATIONAL ADVERTISING MANAGER, Bob Rosner; ASSISTANT BOOKKEEPER, Heather Walden; BILLING, Sandy Pollock, Michele Reilly; DELIVERY, Steve Staley, Jorene Proper; ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES, Rob Moffet, Jeff Berney, Tom Tull, Ellen Clair; Steve Wallach. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: PRESIDENT, Randy Woodbury; VICE PRESIDENT, Jon Frantz; EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, Curtis Reeve; DIRECTORS, Rosemary Antonelli, Bill Davis, H. E6gene Goodwin, David Ladov, Gerd Rosenblatt, Ron Smith, Al Stoltet PRODUCTION of the truth the the pach peace oft which was printed the inscription put litter in its place '1 One of ihe stronger busboys helped me carry the meal to my table. No sooner had I set ihe packages down when two guys on the clean-up crew. grinning tike gremlins. came running over with mops. rags and qejergent and started to wipe ,he table Clean [able. sir?' asked the one Table clean. sir? asked the other I shooed them away. and Miss Smith and I started opening packages. After I had gotten through three layers of paper. .he table was full of refuse_ Like smiling vultOres. the:two table cleaners swooped in and whisked the paper off the table "Paper too much," said the one. Too much paper. - said the other. They just stood there smiling like idiots. ,ind then in unison they said. Put litter in :Is place." They ran off with the paper Ad threw it in a trash can Some dlumbs had fallen on the table a result of all the paper shuffling. The manager saw the crumbs and went running off to have the cashier make out .1 check' He came back and handed it to me "In restitution for this grave transgression of clean dining. - he said. weeping gently. Please accept this check for the exact amount of your meal " His makeup started to run. so he went off to fix it The busboy called after him tis he walked away. You didn't smile and t,ay thank you: Horrified.' the manager ran back to the cashier and made out two more checks He walked over to me and handed me the checks. this time smiling violently through his tears He backed off muttering courteous thank-yous foa few minutes By this time our food was cold. so I ,isked for my free replacement dinner It N,IS 9 30,..and I was weakening from hunger They brought over tile hot food. ,ind as soon as they put it down. the two able cleaners'da - rile running over Table clean. sir' ) ' the first one asked The second one started to open his mouth bun I put litter in its place He ...ialked off smiling We finally finished our meal. I had ....liked into Uniyersal Burger with $3 50 I as walking out, with close to 525. I turned to the;manager and smiled. l hinking of th'e earth-socks. I said Thank-you ' as courteously as I could. Hippy birthday. Miss Smith And mile Successor to the Free Lance, est 1887 Member of the Ass - ociated Press Charter member of the Pennsylvania Collegiate Media Association Off-Campus - $22.00 per year On-Campus - $13.00 per year pickle, lettuce CYNTHIA A. ASHEAR Business Manager Business Office Hours: Monday through Friday 9:30 am. to 4 pin.
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