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Brecon H Emerald The wrcgon umy Era^ram, pu unshed daily during the college year except Sunday*, >n<toy& holiday a,-ari<lMftml examination periods by the Associated Students, University Oregon. Subscription fortes. $1.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second* ss mailer if the postoftice, Eugene, Oregon. Eeftfoscnted far national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SER\ ICE, Kircollege publishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago— Bos 6m—lx>s Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. iriTLL M. M ELSON, Editor JAMES \V. FROST, Business Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Hal Olney, Helen Angell Editorial Board: Roy Vemstrom, Pat Erickson, Helen Angell, Harold Olney, Keut Jkitzer, fiminic Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, adviser. let Eeorrarct, Managing Editor t Jiljlzer, Nows Editor Fred. May, Advertising Manager Bob Rogers, National Advertising Mgr. »5ditm-i:il and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building Phone* 4J00t Extension' Jdi Editor; 353 News Office; 359 Sports Office; and 354 fcusines* Offices. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF A»ta niKlti.crg, Classified Advertising Manager •oil Alpangh, Layout Production Man ager 15M1 VYalian, circulation managrr Emerson Page, Promotion Director Eileen Millard. Office Manager UPPER NEWS STAFF Fat Hi»cfc:.<>», Womens Editor Bob Flavclle, Co-Sparta I'.ditor Keil.f tiristian.'iOti, C ) Sportj Editor Kay ScliricK, ass t iuanag ing Editor Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t News Editor Wes Sullivan, Ass't News Editor Secretary Mildred Wilson, Exchange Editor No Politics Here DILL less provincial people debate the ever-threatening *' - iiicrcnne of federal power, local undergraduates imbued will) universal suffrage and the body politic bicker about faculty domination of student affairs. The securing of Lincoln ian doiux tacy “of, by and for the people” has been preached t»y activity men periodically. Sadly enough those preaching offea are not the ones who would accept responsibility if delegated. Convinced until recently tjiat a transition should take place. «|. is jmvv om desire to recant. AVhy ? Recently several big wigs fmvc. begun Going i:: The Emerald and Oregana editor and Ini,smes!. in uiagerships with bloc politics. They have spread and even convinced some more gullible souls that the dictates of bloc .bosses would determine the successful candidates for these very important positions. Sheer hokum, have the politicians been prating. If they understood student affairs as well as they understood tawdry Inn.ie (ruling, they would say less and think more. And here is the explanation : jE'J HTORR md business managers of The Emerald and Ore gon are picked by 1 lie educational activities board. This board composed of ten faculty members (with Dr. Erb present) and four students. Two of the faculty members are trcx officio” ami do not vote. One of the students also serves tiof accused the eight voting faculty members of selling out then: voles for a pot of message. )i in <|mte evident that some of the student officials could be.su influenced yet there might be a split in their individual opinion,: At the ultimate there would be but three biased votes cast out of a. total of eleven. Draw your own conclusions just .flow much strength Ihe spring-term politicos might have in determining these positions. From the effect of this example alone we are frequently in spired in exclaim: “Thank God! Faculty control exists on the fmard to curb those who are afflicted with this annual spring term public'll insanity.”—E.N.Y. Oregon Recalls Tragedy JT \vn. ju.it two years ago today—April 9,1939—that Oregon’s fcleepy> willow-shaded millraee took it' last death toll l'roui ibe Welt loot campus. Popular Boh Bailey, president of Ore H'OiPs senior class that year, was drowned one warm Sunday afternoon while canoeing. .A;, thoughtful undergraduates who remember that last (Spring term fatality look hack, it comes to mind that it is nnr springtime ago:.., and soon the millraee will become the gather ing place of romantic students bent on “trying tlm rapid.-.” Death left its calling card of warning back in 1931 ami it ;s jvjsc.to give due consideration to the risk entailed in canoeing in the niillroce before the season actually begins. La-1 -pring 4he.inier.fr.eternity council caused a warning sign to be placed 4u (he voce just below the rapids which are deemed by author ities too dangerous to pass. Undergraduates will do well t follow (hose warnings . . . only in that way can fatalities he avoided during the coming term. Those .who canoe keep in mind three rule-: Dress appro priately for a sudden upset. Know how to swim. Stay or.- of fhe dangerous section of rapids. T’his can he another record year like 1910 if undergraduates will remember Bob Bailey and the many others before lam when they plan their millraee expeditions.—II.A. Parade of Opinion By Associated Collegiate Press PROPAGANDA Perhaps as never before, America’s collegians are conscious of the propaganda about them. If proof of this consciousness were neces sary, we might quote briefly, almost at random, from the college press: “The British Library of Information and the German Library of Information both favor this office with free copies of their publica tions. On the whole the British do the better job, although their propaganda seems a little staid and colorless to eyes conditioned by the American press. . . —The Minnesota Daily. “Out of Europe come rumors and lies—and little of anything else. The papers print what they can get and what they believe is the most truthful. They are performing the service of making their readers doubt what they hear. . . . ”—The Akron Buchtelite. “Powerful short wave broadcasting stations, located in Berlin, Lon don, Rome, Paris, Moscow, and Tokyo are blasting their ways through to the Paciifc coast with the volume of local stations. The flood of propaganda reaching this country by way of these stations is enor mous. War travels fast via radio. . . —The Oregon Emerald. Concerned over the effect of foreign and domestic propaganda, the Duke Chronicle believes “it is time that our generation of college students asked the writers and teachers of the preceding generation one very serious question. In its simplest form, the question is this: What are we to believe ? “To a large proportion of his professors and to most of the leading American journalists, a member of the class of 1941 might reasonably address himself thus: ‘After the last great war, you told us how un reasonable and unprofitable was this business of killing our fellow men. Today, before our very eyes, you have changed your tune. You tell us that war has become glorious and necessary and manly again. You apologize for your former teachings of skepticism by telling us you were caught in a popular trend. Is that not what accounts for your present attitudg also?’’ “At any rate, we reserve to ourselves the right to do our own thinking from now on. If youth is ever to decide with clarity and certainty about such vital things as war and democracy and tolerance and the worthiness of human life, the decision must be made by youth itself, for our present ‘leaders of thought’ have failed dismally as a consistent formative influence.” * * * The Denver Clarion raises the point that “our problem now' is not to criticize and evaluate the propaganda of other countries. Our porb lem is to build a propaganda at home strong enough to keep us from getting an inferiority complex—should we start reading Ger many’s claims to righteousness.” In this belief the Clarion agrees with a recent utterance of Dr. Harwood L. Childs, associate professor of politics at Princeton uni versity, who, incidentally, has urged that the United States conduct a vigorous war, either formal or informal, against the axis powers. “We need, in this present emergency,” said Dr. Childs, “a propaganda ministry to defend the people of this country from the propaganda attacks which are now being directed at us from abroad. In view of the effectiveness of propaganda as a w'eapon, why should democracies cringe at the thought of establishing such a ministry to defend their ideals, when they do not hesitate to appropriate billions for arma ments of other types?” International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS Things looked dark for Greece last night as word came over the wires that the Greek high com mand had abandoned Salonika and was with drawing Greek forces to a new defense line west of the strategic Greek port. The blame for the Greek retreat was placed upon collapse of the Cummings Serbian army along the Vardar river in southern Yugoslavia. Western Trace was abandoned to the Germans Monday, cutting off Greece’s connection by land with her potential Turkish ally. Division Encircled Details of what looks like a disaster were not available last night, but at least one Serbian army division was said to have been encircled by the swift Ger man sweep. Salonika has been recently mentioned in news dispatches as the port of entry for the British expeditionary force transferred from Africa to strengthen the Greeks. If General Wavell has rot already moved his Australians and New Zealanders farther west he is in danger of facing another Dunkerque. It is probable that the British army of perhaps 150,000 is dug in along a new line west of Sa lonika. The Greeks’ main hope seems to lie in Wavell’s army and their own, for they have al ready lost considerable strategic territory. If all the above is true—and I have no guarantee that it is be cause all European news these days is very apt to be tainted with propaganda—then one can expect to hear some interesting explanations for the misfortune. After the dust settles we will probably hear stories about a di vided command, perhaps even a lack of cooperation between the Greeks, Yuogoslavs, and British. The Fate of Axis Ships On the home front, President Roosevelt prepared to take over 28 Italian and two German ships which were seized ten days ago. Roosevelt didn’t reveal details of his plan to take over the Axis vessels, but he told reporters he has authority to take them over under the existing limited nation al emergency. In an effort to take the strain off of B'itain’s shipping crisis, Roosevelt also announced he is planning to ask congress to give him money enough to purchase the 39 Danish ships which were seized at the same time. There is a lot more news to night, but I am carry on a little war of my own, with a bug, so I’ll call it a day. From All Sides By MILDRED WILSON Jim Sherman, from Delta Chi house at the University of Kan sas, phoned Adolf Hitler the oth er night. The boys were sitting around bulling about who had made the longest distance phone call. Let’s phone Hitler and tell him he’s a so-and-so, said one of the boys to Sherman. “OK,” said Sherman. They looked up the cost of a person- to person call to Berlin, found it to be $19, and agreed to split the cost three ways. Came the big moment. The operator made connections first to New York and then to Berlin, where a Nazi secretary told him that his conversation would have to go through an in terpretor-censor. Sherman was still ready to air his views to the Fuehrer when another secre tary told him the Great Man re fused to accept the call. Report charges were $2.50. -—The Daily Kansan. Ht Hi Hi A club of young women stu dents in Cleveland desired to in vite Franklin P. Adams, news paper columnist and “Informa tion Please” radio star, to address them at a meeting. In the true spirit of femininity they felt that the invitation should be flawless in every detail. After two weeks of -work by the club’s best literary artist, the letter was perfectly typed on the club’s best station ery and mailed to Adams. A few days later they received the reply, scrawled on a torn memo sheet. “I don’t never speak and I don’t never leave town.—Adams. —Daily Trojan. An associate professor in psy chology at the University of Illi nois was explaining that sitting on a tack was a drive. From the back row a student said that it was not an external drive, which had been under discussion. “That's a good point,” quipped the professor. Sounds like a psy chologist, doesn’t it? —Indiana Daily Student. Brecon If Emerald Wednesday Advertising Staff: Ji mThayer, manager Lee Barlow, office secretary Genevieve Graves, office sec’y Leonard Barde Dave Homles Dave Zilka Night Staff: Herb Penny, night editor Dick Shelton, assistant Marge Curtis Betsy Hanchett Copy desk staff: Bob Frazier, city editor Bill Hilton, assistant Barbara Lamb Yvonne Torgler Helen Angell “Ox” Wilson Joanne Supple Marjorie Major Movies Shown .Paul Bolton, business adminis tration student, showed moving pictures taken on his trip on a Norwegian freighter to the South Sea islands last summer, at the Condon club meeting Monday night in Condon. A group of Eugene townspeo ple who are interested in form ing a geological society were guests of the club at the meeting.