LEROY MATTINGLY, Editor WALTER R. VERNSTROM, Manager
LLOYD TUPLING, Managing Editor
Associate Editors: Paul Deutschmann, Clare Igoe.
Editorial Board: Darrel Ellis, Bill Peace, Margaret Ray, Edwin Robbins, A1 Dickhart, Kenneth Kirtley, Bernardine Bowman.
UPPER NEWS STAFF
Elbert Hawkins, Sports Editor Martha Stewart, Women’s Editor Alyce Rogers, Exchange Editor
Bill Pengra, City Editor Don Kennedy, Radio Editor Betty Jane Thompson, church editor
Low Evans, Assistant Managing Editor Rita Wright, Society Editor John Biggs, Chief Night Editor
The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, published daily during the college year
except Sundays, Mondays, holidays and final examination periods. Entered as second-class mail matter at the postffice, Eugene,
Oregon.
Discussion Marches On
^^i3uui a montn ago rue lianeraia sug
gested that sometliing akin to an “all
campus bull session” be revived or started.
Recent notices that an all-campus discussion
group would meet in Gerlinger next Tuesday
and Wednesday indicate that the problem is
being attacked.
While the discussions planned for next
week do not satisfy every student demand
for exchange of ideas on world and national
problems, they are an excellent beginning.
The topics chosen and the method of handling
indicate that the two-day program will be
interesting and informative. Four topics re
lated to the insurance of peace have been
selected—armament budgets, America’s inter
national policy, raw material and population
pressure, and peace and war propaganda.
Leading the discussions during the two
afternoons will be an authoritative array of
professors—each an expert in his field—who
will present pertinent facts and direct stu
dent remarks.
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THE aim behind the movement, mainte
nance of peace through education, repre
sents as constructive an attitude on the prob
lem as can be maintained. Although the paci
fist or any other peace movement may be of
Denent in itseir, tne really vamaoie service
that all of these efforts render to the accom
plishment of the general goal is the education
of people toward a peace attitude. It is only
by the creation of a strong anti-war attitude
capable of withstanding the propaganda
which would be hurled against it in the event
of a conflict that peace can be preserved.
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valuable extension of the services of the
discussion group might be an attempt to
enlarge its activities, to present further oppor
tunities for students to gather and talk over
the news of the day.
An opportunity to work toward such a
setup is provided in the visit of Lieutenant
Commander Bryant, assembly speaker next
Thursday. The commander’s talk is already
listed as part of the program, but as the
assembly has been scheduled for 10 o’clock
a forum could be easily arranged. The navy
man is an interesting and informed speaker,
and students would enjoy discussing his
views in a more personal manner than the
assembly talk provides.
If the all-campus discussion group could
arrange such a meeting they would have im
proved the possibilities of organizing a- per
mament, effective “all-campus bull session.”
An Orchid for Us
£^U1!ING the course of a year of publica
tion, every member of the staff of a uni
versity daily patiently listens to a great many
complaints about the sins and supposed sins,
both of commission and omission, of his paper.
As he moves up with the years through the
list of staff offices, the worker is given more
responsibility, meets more people in an official
capacity, and hears more complaints.
Four years of effort on The Emerald have
convinced this writer that in the minds of
some of its critics the college daily can do
no right. Comparison with other newspapers
in matters of proof reading, writing, and
copyediting isn’t conceded to the hapless uni
versity production—it must stand alongside
the perfect, the golden ideal, and be eternally
damned in all three respects.
in policy, too, when it puts down its foot
on the delicate toes of some campus person or
group, it is cursed as malicious and misin
formed. The editor is a sulky devil—the term
used is usually stronger than this—who never
appreciates anything and who intolerantly
condemns the best efforts of an honest poli
t it ion to swing an election the right way; or
who, worse still, thinks dorm eaters ought to
be assured of being served whole milk.
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the ears of every staff member there occa
sionaly floats small, much-appreciated) ges
tures of commendation. These bits are often
the occasion lor great rejoicing. Journalism
holds its head erect with new pride, new dig
nity.
Therefore, it was with great pleasure that
Emerald workers yesterday received the news
that their paper had been named an All-Am
erican Pacemaker by Associated Collegiate
Press—one of *six college dailies so named
from the approximately 450 which were con
sidered. Last major prize for the daily was
granted Jay that same body in 1933 when the
volume edited by Richard L. Neuberger, now
rapidly gaining fame as a free-lance author,
was given All-American rating.
And so, for one day at least, staff mem
bers can look their harshest critics in the eye,
nod condescendingly, and say, “Well, after
all ...”
*= & v*
J? ACII staff member from the editor down is
able to iook at almost any copy of this
year’s paper and find at least one thing which
he, personally, could have improved. But,
though Ave realize full well that our errors
have been numerous and glaring, it is at
least somewhat comforting to be listed with
the best.
The ACP’s detailed criticism of the paper
has not yet been received. It is certain, how
ever, that the new typography made possible
through the efforts of Superintendent Robert
C. Hall; the alwavs-eonstructive suggestions
of* Advisor George W. Turnbull; and the ef
forts of Stephen Cady, backshop foreman, and
Linotvpemen Frank Evans and Stanley Min
sliall, all added points to the paper’s score.
And, incidentally, congratulations, Em
erald staff.
In the Mail
REBUTTAL
To the Editor:
The class (of 1941) was torn
apart and dissention was caused
when a minority, supported by
The Emerald, attempted to do
away with class cards. The
Emerald heartily approved of
the movement but at the same
time failed to propose a plan
where the class could raise
funds to function.
We then had a bonfire to re
vive the old tradition. Our bon
fire was not the largest or hot
test there has been but it served
the purpose. This function cost
the class exactly $1.75.
An appeal was made to us
for cooperation to the extent
of $50 for decorations and cur
tains for the Igloo. We. support
ed the issue and did our part
by paying the amount.
The athletic department
asked us to buy numerals for
the frosh athletes. This we did,
not because it had been done in
previous years for this was the
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QHOVlf PAUL DEUTSCHMANN
By JIM BRINTON
Today the franc is worth
just 2.79 cents. It would take
over 35 of the French monetary
units to be worth one good ol’
American “buck.”
Yesterday Premier Edouard
Deladier announced that the
franc would be devaluated and
stabilized. The devaluation was
approximately a 10 per cent cut
from the average value during
the last year.
Daladier gave as his reason
for the move in a radio speech,
“that our economy is deeply
shaken, that legitimate profit
is tending to disappear, that
partial employment is increas
ing in business, that our com
mercial balance is impoverish
ing us, that our production sta
tistics remain a humiliation for
all Frenchmen.”
The lowered franc will make
French products cheaper in the
world market, and, Daladier
hopes, set the wheels of a stag
nant French economic system
rolling.
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Announcements came from
Sir John Simon, chancellor of
the British exchequer, that
there would be no adjustment
in the pound sterling exchange.
United States Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau also de
nied that the United States dol
lar would be devaluated.
$ $ :i*
Almost synonymous to to
the currency juggling act was
Daladier’s announcement of
increases in French armaments.
France is faced with the fact
that the Berlin-Rome axis may
be more than an ephemeral
thing.
II Duce and the fellow with
the Charlie Chaplin moustache
and! swastika arm band have
too many things in common to
let anything come between
them. Fra‘nce also realizes that
Italian aims in the Mediterran
ean are exactly opposite to
those of Great Britain and
that there seems to be little
chance of permanent good-will
between those two nations.
*
Thus, JDaladier with his new
decree power, piled another
4,712,500,000 francs onto the
25 billion already in the budget
for national defense for 1938.
In the army forces. will be
increased by an unstated num
ber; in the navy, the increase
will be from 69,500 to 72,500
men. New equipment planned
includes two new battleships,
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• •.and how it grew and grewj
In 1891 this writing desk type telephone was
installed in a Long Island general store. It was
a good telephone, but it could he connected
with only a part of the Bell System’s 250,000
telephones in the country at that time. Service
was slow and expensive.
L ear by year this strange looking telephone,
w ith a more modern transmitter and receiver
substituted from time to time, grew in useful
ness as the Bell System grew longer in reach—
shorter in time needed for making connections
—higher in quality of service—lower in cost.
In 1937 ' old faithful” was retired to be
come a museum exhibit, but 15 mil
lion modern Bell telephones "carry on.”
BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM