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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1944)
imimimiiiiiuiiimwiwiimiuiiimiui Oregon W Emerald MARJORIE M. GOODWIN ELIZABETH EDMUNDS EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER ' MARJORIE YOUNG GLORIA MALLOY Managing Editor Advertising Manager ANNE CRAVEN News Editor Norris Yates, Joanne Nichols Associate Editors EDITORIAL BOARD Betty Ann Stevens Edith Newton Mary Jo Geiser Betty Lou Vogelpohl, Executive Secretary Warren Miller, Army Editor Bob Stiles, Sports Editor Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens Co-Women’s Editors Betty French Robertson, Chief Night Editor Elizabeth Haugen, Assistant Managing Editor Margurite Wittwer, Exchange Editor Mary Jo Geiser, Staff Photographer Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. _ Qo44Mcil Oh 9t& Ouin, . . The new student operating fund will have great value to the student body as a whole, as well as to the executive council which controls it year after year. Previous to the council’s action this week, money for ASUO activities was budgeted and controlled by the educational activities board and by the athletic board. As a consequence, ASUO officers were handicapped in many of their projects, and obtaining money was a cumbersome process at best. Students, who will be asked next year to give one dollcr each to the operating fund, have a right to know the categories under which the fund will be budgeted—where their money is going, in other words. The ordinary needs of the council will be met with this fund first of all. These needs include office equipment, postage, tele grams, and long distance telephone calls, and regular awards. The two boards have divided these expenses in the past— but now the executive council is on its own. Not only must it pay for regular expense, but must also provide for the wai board, for the student union, for the newly inaugurated stu dent handbook. The war hoard, and activities similar to the campus canteen will have places on the budget. In addition, as the need comes, money from the fund may lie used for special projects, such as a special award to a University student who has gained distinction or for traveling', hormerly, this type of spending was difficult. ♦ * Although the operating fee will give the council a conven ient and ready method of financing' its activities, there are definite controls on the fund as it is received during registra tion. The money collected will be entered into the University business office, and requisitioning is subject to the approval of the council’s advisor. More important from the standpoint of economy is the pro vision that all money left over from each year s activities will he turned over to the student union fund. In order that the fund will continue to grow, the council must save all the money possible. Each new group of ASl O officers must collect the operating fee from scratch. There will be no carry over from year to year. * j|i * * 'Phis year, as in those past, students have wished that they could manage a certain amount of their operating funds. Be ginning with fall registration they will be able to do just that. Students will contribute voluntarily, and they will not get special privileges as thev do for an educational activities card. But the request for one dollar per student is not ‘‘nothing for something"—the little card which proves they have supported their student government with cash makes them stock holders in the organization which serves their interests the most.—M.M.U. Jla Jlikesitad . . . Literature and moil of letters are respected to a remarkable degree in South America, despite the fact that much of it is still more or less in the pioneer stage of development. The onlv fiction writer who ever became head of a nation was Luis Sarmiento, who rose to the presidency of the Argentine re public. And yet ample proof is presented to us that the course of freedom of thought and writing seldom runs smooth even there w ith the coming to the campus of Dr. Luis-Alberto San chez, one of the most noted of South American novelists. Lor Dr. Sanchez, like so many of his European contempo raries, and unlike any American writers—yet—is an exile from his native land. There are several reasons for this, hirst. Dr. Sanchez appears to believe in the supposedly antiquated doc trine that a man should practice what he preaches, and besides Globally Speaking By BILL SINNOTT The imitation invasion of “festung Germania” places the few remaining neutrals of Europe on the spot. They are all under intense pressure from both sides to grant or withhold the exportation of vital war supplies. Last week both the British and American ministers to Sweden called on the Swedish foreign minister and delivered a formal protest; accusing Sweden of unneutral conduct. Sweden is entirely surrounded by axis-controlled territory. She is allowed to send a few boats a year through the blockade. The force of circumstances has caused the country to enter into trade agree ment with Germany. The Riech needs the high-grade iron ore for her war machine. Sweden, in turn, needs manufac tured goods and coal, which Ger many alone can furnish. The minister protested specific ally against excess shipments of iron ore and hall bearings to the nazis. The S. K. F., the Swedish ball bearing trust, sent technicians to restore production in the Schweinfurt ball bearing plant that was “blockbusted” by allied fliers a few months ago. The operations of international companies are in teresting. The president of S. K. F., Inc., the Swedish trust's wholly American-owned affiliate, is Mr. William Bott, vice president of the war production board. Compromisers The Swedes are the great com promisers. They have been at peace since 1809. They desire only to be left alone. In the past hundred years Sweden has emerged as the “land of the middle way”—a com promise between communism and unbridled laissez-faire capitalism. Perhaps this “middle way” of compromise has colored the think ing of the Swedes. They cannot take an extreme stand on any mat ter. One can always make a deal. Sweden developed into probably tlie world’s most utopian country before the war. Illiteracy was un known, there were no rich or poor, cooperatives did approximately half the retail business. There was a high standard of public service among government officials. Sweden, however, did produce two of the “mystery men” of the Europe between the last two wars Ivar Kreugar and Axel Wenner Gren. Kreugar and Wenner-Grenn were the modern Monte Cristos. The de pression caused Kreugar’s world wide match empire to topple, and in 1982 he blew out his brains in his Paris snuggery. Ice-Box Man Wenner-Gren flourished until last year, when he and his com panies were placed on the Amer ican blacklist. His fortune is based on his control of the Bofors muni tions trust, the Electrolux refrig erators, and the Ericsson Telephone company. His friends, among oth ers, included Goering and the Windsors. He tried to make peace between Germany and the Allies in 1940. Now he lives in that sun ny place for shady people, Mexico City. Like Finland, Sweden’s foreign policy is colored by her extreme fear of Russia. In the last war her upper class was pro-German. Sweden is essentially pro-United Nations. Her prime minister, Per Albin Hansson, leader of the so cialist party, is called Sweden’s Roosevelt. The country’s collabora tion with the nazis is a marriage of convenience. Oregon Graduate (Continued from page one) my own living' if I flopped. So I told him to come back in a year if he was interested.” The scout took another look at the billboard figure and decided he was. He would wait till she got her sheepskin, lie said. Miss Heather’s screen test won her a role in Paramount’s “Our Hearts Were Young and Gay,” film version of the best-seller by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough. She just finished the second lead in the Leo McCarey production, “Going My Way?” with Bing Crosby and Rise Stev ens. We went on a tour of the studio costume room, where there is an enormous array of everything to delight the feminine heart,' from unmentionables on up to earrings and hats. “An actress could walk in here with practically nothing on and come out completely outfitted in nothing flat,” said Miss Mary Kay Dodson, Paramount fashion de signer. She opened drawers and drawers uf lingerie, which, I learned, isn’t used much. Things like girdles and tiras. Hollywood gals photograph better without ’em. I looked at filmy evening gowns ind Sequin-sprinkled dinner dres ses. Dancing costumes made of yel low and green feathers. And bath ing suits made of almost nothing at all. “I’d feel more at home in one of those,” said Miss Heather. “That’s my old working outfit.” There was only one disillusioning note. Many of the figure-revealing dresses have the figures sewed right inside. You only think you’re seeing how a sweater girl looks poured into an evening dress. When she takes the dress off she takes her shape off too. Very dis appointing. I’m glad to report Miss Heather doesn’t need that kind of a dress. As the billboards have already proved. University of California’s naval ROTC was instituted in 1926. writing about liberty lie belongs to Aprista, an active society for the furtherance of "practiced freedom.” Secondly, Peru is one of the most dictatorial!}' inclined of all the South American countries. The Italian fascist influence was felt more strongly here perhaps than in any other place in the western hemi sphere. And thirdly, the state of society today is such that almost anyone who rubs the powers that be the wrong way without a world of tact is likely to find himself soon in a rather embarrassed condition. jjc >j; i|c Put Dr. Sanchez, while tossed out of his native country, has been duly honored in several others, namely Chile, Cuba, Ar gentina, and Panama, and the United States. Thus the existence of liberality of thought in these countries has been partially verified. It augurs well for the future of Latin-American rela tions that four countries in this dictator-ridden sector of the world do not blush at doing honor to one who is not onlv a pronounced but a militant liberal.—X.Y. Clips and Comments By MARGUERITE WITTWER This is the spring term report to the nation from the exchange newspaper shelves of the Emerald: Welcome back, Syracuse univer sity’s Daily Orange! We haven’t received any issues for weeks ancl have missed you. Welcome, too, to the following newcomers: the Var sity News of the University of Detroit, the Ubyssey of the Uni versity of British Columbia; arid mentioning across-the-border pa pers we also find the University of Hawaii’s Ka Leo O Hawaii, Fort Greeley, Alaska’s Kodiak Bear, and Quebec’s Le Carabin from the Universite Laval, very in teresting. Among the servicemen’s papers received here the Bayonet from Fort Benning, Georgia; the Engin eer from Camp Abbot, Oregon; the Camp Adair Sentry; and the Bea finer from Camp Beale, California, are all commendable. Our only all Negro newspaper, Lincoln (Mo.) University’s Clarion is enthusiastic and well done. The Rock Chalk Talk column in the Daily Kansan is one of the best campus feature columns we've seen. The Reveille from Louisianr^<„. State university gives the impres sion that it would be fun to live on that campus, always something going on—and the University of Washington Daily is the same kind of paper, alive and full of vivid stories of collegiate life. Northwestern university’s Daily prints pictures of really lovely coeds on its front page almost ev ery issue. Chicago must have a lot of beautiful women and certainly good morale. The Indiana Daily Student pub lishes a supplement called The Key for the Naval Training school at Indiana University . . . it’s a fine paper anyway and this is one of the best ideas they’ve had. The University of Idaho's Argonaut has the best army page and columns and the Oregon State college Baro meter is also to be congratulated on their interest in their soldier students. The Stanford Daily News does really fine stories on international affairs plus handling the campus events well. Berkeley’s Daily Cali fornia has exceptionally good edi torials and their reader interest is evidence by their always interest ing letter-to-the-editor column. University of Minnesota’s Daily and the Southern Cal Trojan are equally good for a general all around paper. The many other college news papers received by this department deserve recognition of their best aspects, too, but unfortunately this column is too short to include comments on them all. However, many of our clips in other columns come from these newspapers which were not mentioned today. Institutions of higher education in the United States had an in crease in enrollment of 84 per cent immediately after World War I. 4 EUGENE va HOTEL V Presents V ART HOLMAN A AND HIS ^ ORCHESTRA A Every Sat. Nite - Dancing 9 ’til 12 in the Persian Room I