Council to Allow PBH to Operate '58 Charity Drive

The Student Council voted unanimously last night to permit the Phillips Brooks House Association Drives Committee to operate the Combined Charities Drive on a trial basis next year, under Council control. The move was made "in the interests of a better drive."

The group agreed that in May the Council would name the chairman, who would either be in the Council or be appointed a member of it.

The Council then voted 12 to 3 not to endorse a letter from the Harvard Young Democrats which recommended that future Combined Charities drives should not advertise in "normally-political publications," since this might "tend to indicate partisan preference" on the committee's part. The letter referred to the committee's advertisement in the Times-Republican during this year's drive.

Although several Council members thought this letter "unrealistic" and saw the ad as just "another medium of publicity," others felt that the T-R was "a partisan mouthpiece in which I don't think we should advertise." Another member remarked that the T-R did no harm, since "many people throw it out anyway."