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Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daily during the college year except Sundays, K'l md tvs, hoiidavs, and final examination periods by tlie Associated Students. I mversity vl <.)• agon. Subscription rates: $1.25 per term and $2.00 per year. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. ___ Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADY ERTISING SERY ICE, INC., college publishers' representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago— Eos %>n—Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle.__ LYLE M. NELSON, Editor JAMES YV. FROST, Business Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Hal Olney, Helen Angell Editorial Board: Roy Y'ernstrom, Pat Erickson, Helen Angell, Harold Olney, Kent Stifl'd. Emmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, adviser _ fun Ken mie Leonard, Managing Editor lent Stitzer, News Editor Fred May. Advertising Manager Bob Rogers, National Advertising Mgr. Editorial and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building. Phones UOO Extension: $32 Editor; 253 News Office; 359 Sports Office; and 354 Business Offices. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Anita Backberg, Classified Advertising Bill Peterson, ( irculation Manager Manager Mary Ellen Smith, Promotiion Director lion Alpaugh, Layout Production Man ager Eileen Millard. Office Manager Extraordinary Entertainment *\ bit of entertainment of a refreshingly bizarre nature should be in store for Oregon students next Friday night. Cer tainly it is not every day that the educational activities office firings a world-famed, adventurer and soldier of fortune to the Campus. Hut aside from the entertainment angle, Captain Dwight liong’s two-hour technicolor film should be rich in educational jmat ‘rial. The film, showing scenes from the various lands visited by the 28-year-old adY'enturer in four and a half years t>f globe-trotting, will cover the highlights of 32,000 miles of travel. if} if} if} JT is indeed a very small percentage of the Oregon student body which has bad, or e\'er will lna\'e, an opportunity to travel even 3200 miles—to say nothing of 32,000, But lacking the opportunity to actually do that amount of traveling then, certainly, the movie Yvhieli Yvill he shown Friday night would fieem to he “the next best thing.” And Oregon students will witness in the short space of a couple of hours many of the unusual scenes and odd, foreign customs which Captain Long traveled over four years and 32,000 miles to see. The picture should he an entertaining way to learn Iioyv the rest of the world lives.—H.O. The Beavers Blow p ROM the sports page of the Oregon State Barometer comes a column steeped in ill-will and dripping with abuse which rail* at Oregon baseball players in general and Coach Hobby Hobson in particular. Hill Yessey’s “Squibs” is the offending article. Ve.sscv takes it onto himself to denounce the Web foots in derogatory and sarcastic terms. He pictures Oregon’s Dick W hitman running back to I’mpire Spec Burke “shooting blue smoke from each word directed at Spec and the battle was on.” The “battle” refers to the mild altercation which ensued following the final decision at the Oregon-OSC game Saturday. * # JF me tiling about the column weren't so amusing, a reader would become very angry after pouring over it. Yessey goes on to make remarks about the “too, too” nice Oregons, but Vessey wasn’t at the game. No, Yessey was home in Corvallis w ishing he were at the game. From his roost in Corvallis. Yessey grasps the whole situation. He is psychic. lie writes: “Whitman poked one of Shaw’s pitches to Shortstop Paul Johnston and Paul threw wide to Lyle Speeht at first. Speeht stepped off the bag toward home plat • and tagged Whitman as he flashed by.” That's all very nice. It takes good vision to be able to see that from Corvallis when the Oregon campus was calling Whitman safe. © *:= *> J^OOKIXO at the column in retrospect, it would seem that Yessey were hitting Oregon for some ulterior motive. Surely, the fact that Howe field was the scene of a little alter cation -one which is common in organized baseball—is little reason for Yessey to attack Oregon in such terms as “the big brave Webfoots witli 1000 to 1 odds favoring them viciously stormed about the scene of action crying for Spec’s scalp. The cry was ‘Take the uinp to the millrace.’ ” The Beaver sports scribe calls it the “whole savage affair,” and "a nasty exhibition.” Yessey is not accurate in his details, lie said Oregon had a man on base which is untrue, lb* claims Heo ard Younee broke up tin* little altercation, when, in reality, Younee was preparing to extend the fight to other parts of the field. He also missed in bis details of the alter cati m. o * * *I*fIIY all this angelie attitude should spring up in Oregon State is incomprehensible. For Oregon State is noted as being the school whose football players fight amongst them selves continually- -when they meet an opponent their fight is gone. That also goes for the basketball squad. If the Beavers would cry “wolf,” they should first clean lip their own ill-tempered feeling.—K.O. UNION NOW! By Ann Reynolds The student-faculty commit tee has at last heard opinion di rectly from students. At the meeting Tuesday night they asked for suggestions and they got valuable ones. Although the number that attended was small, it was certainly representative of the different groups on the cair.< pus. A very evident interest was shown in the discussion of possi ble sites, especially by those liv ing organizations who would be affected by the proximity of the building. Although several representa tives of living organizations ex pressed their views in regard to the advisability of each site, an encouraging amount of interest was shown by the unaffiliated students. Pros and cons were giv en in regard to the two sites that have been suggested by the com mittee. By the end of the discus sion the site north of the Y hut had a slight margin in its favor as contrasted with the Sheldon property location. The main point considered by all the students was the near ness of the building to the main streams of class traffic. Although the Kincaid and Eleventh street property was given the margin, it was generally agreed that other elements such as how modern architecture would fit into the older atmosphere and other land scape problems would have to be considered. New Location The most outstanding point of the meeting, however, was the new consideration of a location on the mill race. This location, previously discarded by the com mittee because they thought that the students would think the building too far from the main routes of traffic, was almost unanimously agreed upon as an ideal setting. The students agreed that the objection of having the building slightly off the campus would be offset by the attractive possibil ities of an ideal pleasure palace. The architecture surrounded by the natural beauty of the race would not have to be so expen sive as the other buildings. Thus more facilities could be provided in the first unit and more oppor tunity for further external expan sion would be available. The main difficulty brought up by the consideration of the mill-race property was the new highway. The state highway commission is planning to reroute the highway and railroad in the very near fu ture and students would have to cross over or under a two lane highway in order to get to the student union building. However, a possible construction of a pe destrian underpass would prob ably solve the problem. Another Site And so another site has entered the picture. This suggestion may prove to be unfeasible but the main point about it is that the opinion came from the students. Meantime the committee plans to investigate thoroughly the ele ments of each site and will have more information soon. Another useful and feasible suggestion came from a music lover. Supporting her argument with the fact that the Carnegie room in the music building did not supply facilities for the ma jority of the students to enjoy recorded music, she suggested that a music roo mbe equipped with a larger record player pri marily for the student use. In creased interest in recorded mu sic certainly merits this valuable suggestion. International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS Politix makes strange bed-fel lows. Last night Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh shook hands on the stage of a packed hall with the man who served as an interme diary in the kid napping of his son Charles Jr. in 193:}. Dr. J. F. (Jaffsie) Condon, elderly physical education teach er who testified as a go-between Cummings m tne nauptman trial of a decade ago, was among those present when Lindbergh spoke at an “America First" ral ly in New York and was intro duced from the stage. Lindbergh told a capacity crowd of 5,000 that “it is now obvious that England is losing the war" and that Britain had misinformed the United States and other nations “concerning her state of preparation, her mil itary strength, and the progress of the war." Overflow Crowd Outside an overflow crowd of 10,000 persons, unable to get into the rally advocating American neutrality, listened over loud speakers and watched a small riot that took place when some pickets representing the “Stu dent Defenders of Democracy" attempted to pass out handbills opposing the rally and were at tacked by persons in the crowd. Mounted police broke up the fighting and bloody noses were the most serious injuries, ac cording to the reporters. Reading about this, I am glad I'm in peace ful Eugene, where we take our politix more broadmindedly and even tug-of-wars are considered too strenuous for Junior Week end. With Lindbergh on the platform appeared Kathleen Norris, novel ist, and Senator David I. Walsh, democrat from Massachusetts who is opposed to convoying ships to Britain. Isolationists Carry on Now that Senators Wheeler and Nye are stumping the west coast and the colonel and others busy talking back east it looks like the isolationists are carry ing their case to the nation, as they threatened to do if the lend lease bill passed. General Hugh Johnson had a very dismal column in the Ore gonian and other papers the other day. He sadly wrote that he was carrying out his promise made in testimony before the senate for eign affairs committee when he opposed the lend-lease bill—that if it passed he would “hammer the hustings” for the bill and na tional unity. Convoying supplies to Britain would be the final step toward U.S. entry into the war, Johnson wrote, but he sees it as the “logi cal” thing to do. God knows why if you don’t want war it is “logi cal” to take the “final step” to wards it, but that is the general keeping his' promise. On the Spot It looks like the general is more or less on the spot. If I remember correctly he used to appear on the Oregonian’s edit page much more frequently than he does nowadays, and since most newspapers seem solidly be hind Roosevelt’s foreign policy it is probable that other editors are using his stuff less frequently. The saddest thing that can hap pen to a columnist is to have his output go unprinted. I know be cause several of my own offer ings have failed to see the light of day (it was for my own good, the editor told me). The next (Continued, on page free) In the Editor's Mail To the Editor and the Oregon Student Body: Along with our beautiful spring weather comes the not so beau tiful thought of student politics. With political bloc heads throw ing promises around as if they meant nothing, I sort of felt as though I wasn't really in things, so I said to a friend of mine, “I am going to promise the student body presidency to Joe College, he's sort of dumb, but he will do what we tell him to do. Of course you know that I am a big shot around here—all I have to do is decide whom I want for a cer tain position and then give the right people the right instruction. That's all there is to it.” Pardon me, fellow students and bloc heads, while I laugh with you at this absurd statement. You do agree with me that it is a very foolish thing to say. What He Wishes Now let’s put aside this coat of analogy and get down to what I wish to impart to you. Priding myself with NEVER having had any political connection with any bloc, I feel that I have a perfect right to draw the following con clusions: (1) student politics should never enter into the choice of any position on the student publications, the Emerald and the Oregana. (2) Editors and managers should be appointed entirely on the basis of their known ability and past experi ence on the publication they wish to direct. Students, let us laugh again when I tell you that the political bloc heads have already prom ised the positions of Emerald edi tor and manager and Oregana business manager to certain ap plicants. They had also promised the Oregana editorship before the night of the appointment; but perhaps in their egoism and overt belief in their “great pow er” in campus affairs, they for got to consider that the Educa tional Activities board is also composed of a few faculty mem bers who are more concerned with the welfare of the students and the student publications than the majority of the student repre sentatives seem to be. Not Against All This letter is not meant to be a condemnation of all the stu dent members of the board, but only of those “whom the shoe fits.” One of the bloc heads has boastfully said more than once that he had three of the student votes lined up. The bloc heads lost their first attempt at political sabotage and I have a feeling it is going to have similar results on the remainder of the publica tion appointments. My four main points in this let ter are: (1) to inform the bloc heads that not all students are blind to the questionable deals they set up and not all students believe them to be the “all powerful” in dividuals they wish they were, but aren’t. (2) to assure Oregon students and the applicants for editor and business managers that the Edu cational Activities board, at least the faculty members and some of the student members, will give each candidate an equal chance and a fair and just consideration. We should be thankful that this (Continued on page five)