Second Round

They're knocking at your door again. Entry-mates, armed with statistics and dietary advice, are pushing this year's second blood drive, and pledges are already mounting. But no matter how rapidly the ubiquitious progress charts fill up, there can never be too many donors.

For, despite its current fall from journalistic grace, the war in Korea is still very much a fact, demanding as many pints of blood as ever. The Red Cross has not had an easy time filling war's requirements for blood, and it will continue to have trouble unless its drives are well received. Moreover, many surgical operations have been postponed because of the wartime drain on local bloodbanks.

So, bloodmobiles are making their rounds again, rounds paved with whatever pledges the local drive organizers have been able to get. Perhaps there are some who assert that Harvard has done enough paving for one year, having set the national collegiate record this fall with 2,116 pints. But as long as the present need for blood continues, such objections miss the point. It would be unfortunate if undergraduates were so blinded by their earlier prodigality that they would refuse to bare their arms once more.