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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.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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