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You Owe It to Yourself to Vote
‘Y'OTI owe it to yourself to vote today.
There is a tendency in all elections, campus or otherwise,
for the individual to minimize the importance of his own vote.
“Oh well, my vote won’t make much difference,” is not an
uncommon expression.
Such an attitude is not conducive to good government. In a
democracy every vote counts as much as any other—every vote
is as important as another. It goes without saying that every
citizen, or student, should exercise the right to vote.
# # #
'JpiIIS year every student lias been granted suffrage. Critics
of the plan said it wouldn’t work—that if everyone were
given the right to vote, only a few would exercise the right.
The election, we hope, should disprove their contention.
Different student groups are backing diffei’ent candidates.
The administration or any outsiders are not backing any of
the candidates. Student votes and student initiative will decide
the campaign.
You owe it to yourself to vote, or as a California editor
recently said, you’ll make a good subject for a fascistic ruler.
A La Boston Red Sox
“^^REGON has the heaviest-hitting baseball club that the
northern division has ever seen,” quoted Coach Buck
Bailey of the Washington State team.
The sixteen players who have seen at least one time at bat
this season have averaged a terrific .346 for the eight games
played to date. Never has the northern division seen a whole
team which could whack out such an average. Think of it.
The Ducks average about 12 hits per game which they generate
into 10.5 runs per game.
Those hits are collected off good pitchers, too. Henry Bush
man of Washington State is probably the best chucker in the
league. Dick Snyder, Idaho; Bill Sewell, WSC; Glenn Elliott
and Glayt Shaw, Oregon State; and Warren Sierer, Washing
ton, are no mean pitchers. Yet the hard-hitting Oregon club
continues to smack out hit on hit.
* * *
IT'LL be the hitting that will carry Oregon to the divisional
pennant, if and when it happens. Oregon State’s pitching
might upset the apple cart, but at present the Ducks are riding
high.
The acid test of their season will come next Tuesday when
the Webfoots begin a road trip comprising six games in seven
days—the toughest grind on the pitching staff. The one great
saving factor for Oregon will be that the hitters can and will
carry the pitchers through the trip.
Game on game tends to sharpen a hitter's batting eye, while
the road trip saps a pitcher’s strength. For this reason Oregon
should come out of the road trip with its shoulders above water,
while second-place Oregon State might sink — without the
hitting.—K.C.
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Campus Calendar
Amphibians will hold their in
itiation tonight at 7:30 in Ger
linger. Members should be
dressed in white.
The YMCA speakers’ commit
tee will call other campus relig
ious group representatives to the
“Y” hut at 4 o’clock today to
make plans for the campus ap
pearance May 18 and 19 of Ar
thur Cushman McGifford, presi
dent of the Pacific School of Re
ligion, Berkeley, California.
Jurors for the moot trial to
night are asked to report for duty
at 7:15 at the county court house.
In the Editors Mail
(Two letters, presenting opposite sides, are printed below.
From these the student can draw his own conclusions.)
(Editor’s note: Mr. Luoma for
gets, or overlooks, two very im
portant facts. (1) Mr. Luoma for
gets that if the Emerald editor
desired merely to promote Greek
candidates there were several
others already nominated that
he could easily have promoted.
(2) Mr. Luoma makes it very
clear to Greeks and independents
alike that the independent party,
as well as the Greek party, rests
its campaign not upon the basis
of the respective merits of the
candidates, but upon procuring a
large share of the gravy for an
adopted bloc.)
To the Editor:
The Greek candidate shot by
Greek Emerald Editor Nelson
(who has acquired a humanitar
ian reputation for his sincere de
votion of time, genius and Emer
ald space during the past hectic
nine months to the cause of the
independent students) two days
prior to spring term elections has
perplexed many a campus inde
pendent with his stand.
This letter, collected from
campus independents, conveys
some of the reasons for the ques
tions that have arisen.
Subsequent campaigning, which
includes the argument that the
new Greek candidate is both pro
Greek and pro-independent, and
will bring the two parties togeth
er harmoniously, sounds like the
Communist candidate who said,
vote for me, I am pro-Republi
can and pro-Democrat, and will
bring these two evil, bickering
factions together.
Others feel that this Greek
bombshell is more appropriately
referred to as a “tool” for ulti
mate Greek success. They reason
that the proper type of campaign
ing, which has been conducted,
will influence some independents
to leave the real independent can
didate; but they know that the
highly-organized and sheep-like
Greek vote will not deviate from
the original Greek candidate.
Therefore, what result? Just
this, say our friends: the “tool”
will break the independent vote
and place the other Greek candi
date on top.
But the independent students
are also well organized. Through
proper political procedure their
representatives have selected
candidates who will best repre
sent their interests. Naturally,
the results independents desire
will be best achieved by their
own candidates—duly selected to
represent them by the democratic
independent pre-election proced
ure.
This year, with a vote - for -
all - and - no - charge ASUO
election, is the opportunity to ob
tain a long-awaited independent
victory. The independents have
followed through with their pre
election organization. They have
selected their best candidates.
And there is only one independ
ent candidate for each position.
Who will best represent the in
terests of the independents? An
independent! Who will best rep
resent the interests of the
Greeks? A Greek! This fact
stands high above any last-min
ute political maneuvering that
takes place annually in our elec
tions. This fact has been well ar
gued, discussed and reasoned.
This is a potential independent
victory year. Only with a proper
manifestation of the election
privilege, that w’e all now have,
can this latter statement be made
a fact.
Marvin Gorrie
Gerald Huestis
George Luoma
This letter is submitted not as
an argument or reflection of per
sonal beliefs, but it is submitted
To the Editor:
Today approximately 1800 as
sorted saps, yours truly among
them, go to the polls trying to
kid themselves into thinking they
are deciding who shall hold the
student body governmental posi
tions. The funny thing about it
is that we suckers should know
better.
We should know better because
most of us will be forced to vote
for one bloc or another; most of
us have been bamboozled by eith
er the “Greek” politicians or the
“purity” hypocrites; most of us
will not be voting for the candi
date most worthy of the office,
not by a long shot, because we
would be double-crossing that
which has been arranged for
years.
The suckers, among other min
or details concerning the execu
tive committee and representa
tive “gravy” posts, will make
sure that one Buck Buchwach, a
midget screwball, is not elected
to the senior position on the ex
ecutive council.
Why? Well, yours truly does
not belong to a fraternity and
therefore (God forbid) must not
get onto the council or most as
suredly he would do everything
in his power to kill any Greek
measure. And yours truly does
not belong to the independent po
litical “purity” party” either, and
(horrors) does not and must not
get their vote because if he gets
onto the council he might vote
for a Greek measure, instead of
lining up solidly with the hand
some hypocrites.
Which leaves nobody to vote
for yours truly except one room
mate (who must be provided
transportation to the polls).
The moral to the story? If you
think you are the best man, the
best qualified for the position, for
God sakes don’t run. The revolu
tionary attempt would only meet
in dismal failure, trampled by the
Greek bloc and smeared by the
Puritan independents.
Pardon me while I find that
automobile to get my roommate
to the polls. My initial attempt at
politics, no matter how naive,
must not be blanked altogether.
By Buck Buchwach.
International Side Show
By RIDGELY CUMMINGS
One step at a time the clique
of interventionists that surround
Roosevelt are preparing us for
war. Tuesday night Secretary of
War Stimson called for convoys,
a step that ev
eryone is agreed
will lead to a vio
lent clash with
the German
blockade around
the British Isles.
That will, of
course, mean war.
■m. It’s a disgust
UntKmT ing game which
Cummings the state depart
ment and the Roosevelt adminis
tration has been playing with the
American public. They know just
as you and I know that a national
vote on the simple question:
Should the United States enter
the European war? would result
in an overwhelming chorus of
“no’s.”
But they also know, our demo
cratic representatives, that al
though the American people
have been opposed all along to
an outright and blind jump into
the conflict they are lethargic and
trusting enough to allow them
selves to be pushed slowly closer
to the brink. So that has been
the technique. In the name of
peace the neutrality legislation
was scrapped. It was even argued
that the lend-lease bill was a
“peace measure.”
On the Brink
Now we are on the brink of the
precipice (many declare we are
already over the edge) and the
stimsons, et al are pushing with
all their no small might and main.
It is shrewd psychology to re
peat over and over that the cause
for peace is lost and that willy
nilly we are already in the war.
This engenders a spirit of defeat
ism in the isolationists. Many
feel they are fighting a lost bat
tle and their protests are already
turning into weak cries of re
crimination.
But the cause for peace is not
yet lost. No American boys have
yet fallen on European soil. No
ships flying the American flag
have yet been sunk. The lend
lease bill was dangerously close
to a declaration of industrial par
ticipation in the war but it wasn’t
an outright declaration and the
interventionists are worried. They
as a concise, representative inde
pendent reaction to this year’s
anti-independent movement.
are afraid they have moved too
fast for public opinion.
Still Hope
If the nation balks on the brink
there is still hope. Just because
. we have taken several large
strides toward madness, there is
no inescapable law which says
we must make the final lunge.
To change the subject slightly
—that staunch militarist but oth
erwise admirable chap, Bruce
Hammond, yesterday wrote a
poem about ostriches, copper
heads, and isolationists. I am an
swering him today in doggerel
less polished than his own, but
since I couldn’t find a good
rhyme for “copperhead” I’d like
to say that I’m not one, for one
of the first tenets of an isolation
ist is that the U.S. can’t be suc
cessfully invaded, while a “cop
perhead” is one who thinks his
nation is doomed to defeat.
Answer to Hammond
Now Bruce is not an ostrich,
For the ostrich fights alone,
And Bruce wants lots of com
pany
When he offers blood and bone.
He says war is no foreign thing
To any man or breed;
But if peace is just a whim to
him,
To others it’s a creed.
Thou shalt not kill
Is mandate still
For many good and true,
And the man with the gun
Has a long way to run
And many misfortunes to rue.
So Bruce you may jump
To the drums’ thump thump,
And follow the bellowing herd—*
But those ostriches all
Who for hatred won’t fall
Will be happier, having demurred.
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