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ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Hal Olney, Helen Angell
Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrom, Pat Erickson, Helen Angell, Harold Olney, Kent
Stitxer, Jimmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, adviser.
Jimmie Leonard, Maifftfring Editor
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Editor
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Editor
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Editor
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Editor
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Editor
Corrinc Wignes, Executive
Secretary
Johnnie Kahananni, feature
Editor
“Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for
yourself. ’ ’—Lessing.
The Importance of Your Ideas
rJX) to the six members of the executive committee of the
associated students, Glecson Payne, John Cavanugh,
Marge McLean, Harrison Bergtholdt, Betty Buchanan, and
Lyle Nelson, is entrusted the control of all ASUO affairs.
They arc the heads of the ASUO governmental system and
represent all sections of the campus.
Many important decisions come down from the executive
committee meetings—decisions which as a. rule are not based
on political bias or promises. When the executive committee
does something it is usually by unanimous vote. When it
makes an appointment it is usually after carefully weighing
all factors.
It has become the rule, Dean of Men Virgil I). Earl says,
for students to take a more broadminded attitude and to
play politics less when they become members of the executive
committee. Even though they get onto the committee by
political means they usually forget affiliations in an attempt
to do their job well.
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'J’MIE reason is apparent. It is the only practical one. Mem
bers of the executive! committee begin to realize when
they get in office that appointments must be made according
to ability, that they must see; that a good job is done, or it
will reflect on them when they step down at the end of the
year. They are, in popular language, on the spot.
Occasionally a disappointed office seeker or a student who
has had his pet project voted out by the committee starts
the rumor that it is a political machine or that the committee
is “a bunch of grafters.” In a majority of the cases this is
not so. Usually tin; fault is with the student because he has
not made a favorable presentation or because he has not
bothered to contact the members and explain his ideas.
It takes he entire committee—a committee representing
many factions—to govern the ASUO. Members ot that com
mittee are anxious to serve the students and to get student
reaction on campus affairs. They have expressed this desire
many times during the year.
It is their duty to serve you—your didy to express yourself
to them.
Better Than a Workout
rT\llliiTY years ago life on the University oL' Oregon campus
must have been awfully dull. It, seems almost impossible
to conceive a student walking leisurely across Thirteenth
street without having to beat off all sorts of gas monsters.
How boring it must have been to see the length of the street
without an armored racehorse in sight!
The University student of today leads a much more exciting
life. lie must be a fast thinker and quick on his feet to cross
the few yards between sidewalks on the eampus boulevard.
He must be, immune to auditory disturbances in order to
ignore the constant blending of horns and brakes.
He is taught to be ever careful and watchful, blveu when
late to class lie must pause as the world wheels by. lie is
taught to use careful judgment in selecting his opportunity
to make a dash for freedom—and the other side of the street.
Lastly the University student of today is taught to be
considerate of his fellow men—especially if they have a
steering wheel to back them lip. He must be humble and wait
until the "Wilbur Slmws of the city speed on to victory, lie
must not, under any condition, let them think him incon
siderate.
“ Yes,” said t he freshman who had just been bumped, ‘‘It’s
a stimulating life.”
The Emerald s rGrub Street’
few weeks ago the Kmerald departed from the regular
newspaper field and inaugurated, under the direction
of Feature Editor Johnnie Kahananni, a literary page. This
page includes short short stories, poems, columns, etc., w rit
ten by students, and appears every Saturday morning.
It was begun in the hope of gi\ ing creative student talent a
chance to present itself. The contributors are not limited to
the Kmerald staff. Anyone interested in creative writing has
a chance to see his work in print.
For years there have been requests to the educational activ
ities department for a literary magazine. These requests have
been given careful study, the setup at other colleges has been
obtained. In almost all eases, the activities department dis
covered, literal-' magazines have never paid for themselves -
were a net loss to the school, lienee, the requests fur a ‘Grub
Utreet” at Oregon have been turned down.
The need for some outlet for this type of material was
■apparent, however, and the Emerald is attempting to furnish
•this outlet. W hile we realize that a small page in a newspaper
one day a week is not enough—cannot in any manner compare
with a complete magazine—we hope that it may iu some way
serve the students.
Comes a time an the life of every newspaper editor when he
v lie could tind a Alice peaceful .little farm suuiev litre—
away front politicians and publicity men.
For Whom Shall I Vote?
Vote for Willkie
By ED LUCKEY
University of Oregon students should vote
for Wendell Willkie and Charles McNary
rather than for the third terin candidate, be
cause if any man could at any time in this
country of 130,000,000 able citizens be jlisti
fied iii seeking a third term,
that justification must be
found in his second term,
not his first.
The third term candi
date’s second term certainly
inspires us to discard well
founded principles of the
“common law” "two term
limit for our presidents.
Students of Oregon will isolate the second
term from the first, and will note that the
third term candidate’s record in that term is
not that of an indispensable man. The third
term candidate’s supporters point with pride
to the Vandenburg Bank Act—of 1933; the
CCC—of 1933; the WPA and PWA—of 1933,
and other first term reforms to indicate the
worth of their man. All right, we give him
credit for a good 100 days.
But we do not hear the third term candi
date’s supporters point to his record in the
second four years. They do not point with
pride to the sit-down strikes of the winter of
1937; to the recession of 1937-38; they do not
point with pride to the attempt to pack the
supreme court immeditely upon his first re
election; to the attempt to eliminate the office
of comptroller general, whose duty it is to
prevent the illegal use of government funds
by the executive department; they do not
point with pride to the “purge tries’’ of 1938
and 1940; they do not point with pride to an
increasing federal debt, and 9,000,000 men
unemployed in 1940.
Mr. Roosevelt said in Madison Square Car
den in 1932: “The genius of America is
stronger than any candidate or any party . . .
1 slid know that the fate of America cannot
depend on any one man. The greatness of
America is grounded in principles and not
on any single personality. I, for one, shall
remember that, even as president.” He was
right that time. But he forgot.
The third term candidate has attempted to
divert the attention of Americans from the
issues of 1940 to those of 1932. He points to his
record, and says: It is well . . . we are built,
lie tells us that our industries have recovered,
and that we are now more prosperous than
we were in 192(i. if that is true we find it hard
to justify the continued increase of the na
tional debt, even without considering the
necessary appropriations for national defense,
when between the years of 1922 and 1928, our
national debt was decreased six billions of
dollars, and our taxes were lower than today.
We say that the New Deal administration is
going to kill private enterprise. We see huge
bank reserves lying idle in the country, while
those reserves draw only about '!'/> per cent
interest. We feel that something is not right
when business cannot return a profit of 2}i
per cent because of taxation which forces
money into tax-exempt government securities
rather than into productive enterprise.
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.So now, why should Oregon students vole
for Wendell Willkie?
Because he will provide for expansion of
business so that we who rapidly find our
selves in the school of hard knocks will have
a chance to find jobs in private enterprise,
llow will be do this?
Today, business is controlled not by law,
but by many executive department adminis
trative boards which formulate the rules for
business—sometimes on 24 hours notice they
change them—they enforce their own rules,
and then they are their own arbiters to deter
mine whether or not they have correctly ad
ministered their own rules.
\\ illkie will have stringent regulation of
big business, but according to laws made by
the people’s elected representatives rather
than by appointed administrative boards,
which render a very personalized and unpre
dictable control. Investment is dependent
upon a reasonable amount of certainty.
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The ta\ program today is such that money
is forced into low-rate tax-exempt government
bonds, and is punitive rather than regulatory
in nature. It does not promote the expansion
of private enterprise. “Soak the rich” is a
popular phrase, but we know that as Franklin
Roosevelt said in 1932, taxi's are paid in the
sweat of every man who labors. The poor man
pays the great burden of the taxes no matter
how much we may soak the rich. Make the
man with capital pay w hat he can, but do not
direct your taxes at his business in such a
way that, lie w ill put his profits in tax-exempt,
government securities instead of in expansion
of industry which will provide more jobs for
the man who really pays the taxes. That is
. ‘v* F*'-.-wy'"
\\ illkie s programs.
The fear is iu the minds of the New Dealers
that we should not change horses in the middle
od tin? .1 ream They Lay that we would slow*
the processes of government. They didn't say
Vote for Roosevelt
By HAL OLNEY
In four days the voters will choose a man
to lead this nation for the next four years.
Not that there is anything very startling about
that fact, for Americans have been doing that
every four years for the past 150-odd years.
But this presidential cam
paign is certainly unique in
many respects. Many have
termed it “the most mo
mentous campaign in the
history of the nation.” For
this reason we feel that the
issues in this election de
serve special attention from
those who will make the dc
cision next iucsday.
We believe it is an undeniable fact that the
intelligent voter casts liis vote not so much
on the basis of campaign speeches as on the
past record of the candidates. Let us look at
the records of our two major candidates.
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President Roosevelt has been in office for
seven of the most turbulent, trying years in
the peacetime history of the nation. During
those seven years there has probably been
more legislation passed through Congress than
ever before in the history of the nation. Those
years have seen such progressive legislation as
the NRA, the AAA, the TVA, the NY A, the
CCC, and a host of others. Those seven years
have seen the establishment of labor’s right
to collective bargaining, of unemployment in
surance, of a minimum wage law. During
those seven years we have seen the abolition
of child labor for children under 16 years of
age. Nine million moor workers are now work
ing in private industry than in 1932.
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Not that there anything very startling about
age. Nine million more workers arc now work
ing in private industry than in 1932. We have
seen the establishment of a free nationwide
public employment service which has obtained
jobs in private employment for 30 million of
our unemployed.
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One of the most severely criticized sections
of the New Deal has been the WPA, PWA, and
other work relief projects. There are students
who bitterly condemn these projects while
they are daily receiving the benefits of such
projects. Chapman hall, our beautiful library,
our new physical education plant, the new
infirmary were all built by relief workers.
In addition, Fenton hall was remodeled and
Hayward stadium was enlarged by these same t
workers.
Now for just a glance at Mr. Willkie’s rec
ord. During the past seven years lit: has been
the president oL' Commonwealth and Southern,
a huge public utility. We have all heard Mr.
Willkie's business ability and honesty praised
to the skies. But the facts do not support Mr.
Willkic in this.
During the seven years of Mr. Willkic’s
leadership dividends on preferred stock of
Commonwealth and Southern were only paid
in part and common stock paid no dividends
during most of his presidency. The market
prices on Commonwealth and Southern stock
declined sharply during those seven years.
Does 1his record indicate any startling busi
ness ability?
One would be led to believe, from Mr.
Willkie’s campaign speeches, that he is the
laboring man’s greatest friend. Yet this is
the man who fought both the unions tooth
and toenail during the past seven years, lie
was finally forced to sign a union contract
which he promptly violated. The records of
Commonwealth and Southern show constant
friction with their laborers. This is indeed
peculiar friendship.
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During the past few months President
Iiooscvelt has been severely criticised for
accepting the nomination to run for a third
term. Taunts of “the indispensable man” have
been repeatedly hurled. AYe do not believe
that Mr. Roosevelt believes he is the ‘‘in
dispensable man.” We do believe that lie has
sincere confidence in the American system of
government and in the ability of the American
people to elect their own executive's. If the
American people have sufficient judgment to
elect tlufr, own representatives they have
sufficient judgment to re-elect them and they
do not need any precedent or tradition to
protect them from themselves. As long as we
have the privilege of electing our executives
every four years we need not worry about
dictatorship. And wc need not fear that we
will lose that privilege through the election of
a man who has shown himself to be a thorough
humanitarian and friend of the common
people.—HO.
that in 1!K!‘_\ and their own speed in getting
into action on that occasion should satisfy
them that a president does not spend three
mouths finding the drawers in the .White
House desk..
We should have a fresh, dependable horse
to steer us through the uncertain future,
rather thau a spent one.
—Willkie-Mc Nary club.
International Side Show
By RIDGELY CUMMES'GS
The bells of hell rang ting-a
ling-a-ling, but not for you and
me last night. Our nights are
in the future. Last night it was
the Greeks and Italians and Ger
mans and English who had an
opportunity to find out if death
has a sting-a-ling-a-ling and the
grave a victory.
In case this ting-a-ling-a-ling
business is confusing to you, we
might as well tell where we got
it, before we start the tale of
who bombed who.
We’ve been reading an excel
lent book by the late Web Mil
ler, who was killed in a train
accident near London some six
months ago. It is called “I
Found No Peace.” Not a new
book by any means, (published
in 1936), it is still a valuable
commentary on what is going
on in the world today.
Miller started out the chap
ter devoted to his experiences
on the western front by quoting
a British soldier’s war song
which has been ringing in our
ears ever since we read it. Here
it is:
The bells of hell go ting-a
ling-a-ling
For you but not for me;
Oh death where is thy sting
a-ling-a-long
And grave thy victoree?
There is doggone good psy
chology in it. Each one of us is
inclined to think the bells ring
for the other fellow but not for
himself. It even worked out that
way in this recent conscription.
By splitting us up and taking
us at different times, the ‘‘pow
ers that be” (that phrase comes
straight from St. Paul, we
learned recently) have destroyed
the unity and solidarity of the
draftees.
A fellow learns that his order
number is in the six thousands,
say, while a friend is due to be
called in the first five hundred.
Does he sympathize with his
friend? Not unless he’s an ex
ceptional person. The natural
reaction seems to be: “Too bad
old boy. I feel for you but I
can’t reach you, for my number
won’t be called for a couple of
years.”
If we all had to jump into uni
form next week, without a dec
laration of war, there would be
enough mass resentment to kick
Mr. Roosevelt light out of of
fice; but taking us in dribbles
and drabbles each man feels
himself a very small unit, pow
erless in the face of irresistible
forces, and the general mood
is one of fatalistic acceptance.
We are wandering a little
from the grisly news of the
turned loose a blitz-raia on me
major towns of Greece, killing
90, according to a Greek com
munique, an dwounding 209.
Towns bombed included Sa
lonika, raided six times; Corfu,
five; Athens, twice; Kastoria in
Macedonia (sounds like a baby
medicine but it’s serious stuff
to the Greeks); and a lot of
other names that have a famil
iar ring_ for anyone who has
looked into Grote’s “History of
Greece”: Corinth, Candia, Me
gara, Thebes, Larissa, etc.
The British raided Berlin and
Amsterdam, killing, according
to the Nazi version, 19 German
soldiers in a hospital in the
Dutch city. London, Liverpool,
and the Midlands were also un
der heavy bombardment, Eng
lish reports indicated.
On the home front, Roosevelt,
speaking in Brooklyn, told a
Democratic rally that a full
page advertisement paid for by
the Republican party appeared
in the Daily Worker, commun
ist sheet, and said it indicated
an "unholy alliance” between
radical and ultra-conservative
groups seeking his defeat.
Willkie made another one of
his numerous speeches, this time
saying that the New Deal had
“neglected and abused” the avi
ation industry so much that it
would be years before the U.S.
can reach its goal of 50,000
planes a year.
The more speeches we read
by Roosevelt and Willkie, the
more shaky our fence-straddling
becomes. Norman Thomas, we
noticed, polled five per cent of
campus votes and this column
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Dr. William H. Dale
Non-Partisan Candidate for
for Mayor
Dr. Dale's Program:
1. Regular Office Hours
2. Traffic Safety
3. Tax Economy
4. City Beautification
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“The University and the city
administration must be co
operative friends at all times.’’
VOTE DALE FOR MAYOR
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From
All Sides
By COKINE LAMON
Political Deadlock
Republican and Democratic
debators before a student forum
at the University of Minnesota
ended their presidential contro
versy in a deadlock. Question
to be decided by the debate was:
“Resolved that the 23 billion
dollar increase in the national
debt under Roosevelt's admin
istration is justified.” The
judges differed on so many
points that another debate will
have to be held before a deci
sion can be reached.
—Minnesota Daily.
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Back Talk
Talking to a
certain girl i
know is like
patting yourself on
the back
she yesses and
ohs and
ahs at
everything I say
ugh
—Daily Texan
is now leaning in his direction,
for he is the only candidate at
all likely to approve the slogan:
Peace. It's wonderful.
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CANDIDATES 1
General Election Ballot
for Eugene Precinct No. 1
Lane County, Oregon
NATIONAL:
President and Vice President
12 Wendell L. Willkie
Charles L. McNary
STATE:
Congressman, 1st District"
lo James W. Mott
Treasurer
19 Leslie M. Scott
Attorney General
22 I. H. Van Winkle"
Representative, 14tlfDistrict i
_(3)_
23 Truman A. Chase
24
25
District Attorney
29 William W. BartTcT
Angus Gibson
James A. Rodman
COUNTY:
Assessor
111 Harry L. Chase ~~
Clerk "
33 W. B. Dillard
Commissioner
36 Allen P. Wheeler
Coroner
38 Charles P, Poole ^
Sheriff —
40 C. A. Swarts
Surveyor
41 P. M. Morse
EUGENE JUSTICE
DISTRICT:
Constable
42 Mark Hathaway
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