Oregon W Emerald
ANNE CRAVEN
Editor
ANNAMAE WINSHIP
Business Manager
MARGUERITE WITTWER
Acting Managing Editor
PATSY MALONEY
Advertising Manager
WINIFRED ROMTVEDT
Acting News Editor
LOUISE MONTAG, PEGGY OVERLAND
Associate Editors
Jfane Richardson, Phyllis Perkins, Viriginia
Scholl, Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Norris
Yates, City Desk Editors
Bjorg Hansen, Executive Secretary
Flora Furrow, Women’s Editor
Jeanne Simmonds. Assistant Managing Editor
ShinV> Peters, Chief Night Editor
Darrell Boone. Photographer
Betty Bennett. Music Editor
Phyllis Amacher, World News Editor
Gloria Campbell. Mary K. Minor
Librarians
Jack Craig. W'qrld News Editor
EDITORIAL BOARD
Norris Yates, Edith Newton
Published daily during- the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and
f'lial examination periods by the Associated Students, University ol Oregon,
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.
Miil Smith.,.
“[ would never have been able to go to college if it hadn’t
been for Miss Smith.” So many students made that comment
oii hearing of her death. It is impossible to tell how many
thousand.-, of Oregon students gratefully credit her with their
ability to “keep going" at school, but Certainly the number is
high. h >r since 1933 when she became the University em
ployment secretary anyone who had lived in a cooperative
or worked his wav through school had at one time or another
sat in Miss Smith’s office to receive advice and help in financ
ing his education.
It \va.~. Miss Smith, in the spring of 1936. who persuaded
lh University to let girls try cooperative living so that they
mailt cut down expenses of college living. It was Miss Smith
wlo found a house for them, and. when no one else could he
found, moved in as housemother paying her way as if she
were a student instead of receiving a salary. Her interest in
th co-ops never slackened as over the years she aided and
gu. led them, ever ready to do her utmost to keep them going.
I luring the summer months she toured the state inter
•yi \\ ing applicants for the Oregon Mothers scholarships, speak
ing to high school students, and encouraging many to come to
college by explaining the job and scholarship possibilities.
{since she came here in the midst of the depression years Miss
Smith had devoted her life to helping students get through
college on a shoestring. As employment secretary she found
them odd jobs, part-time jobs, full-time jobs; and when they
graduated she was active in placing them in their work.
“She was a wonderful woman." What more can be said on
tin lo.-s of a person so devoted to serving others? Words seem
futile when compared to her long list of services—her never
ending efforts in behalf of those who worked their way through
school.
(t is a fitting tribute that on the day of her death. Old Ore
gon’' i.'suc commemorating Miss Smith and the coops came
off the presses. Hut the most lasting tribute will he found in the
corner of even co-op and working student’s heart, for none
o' them will ever forget Miss Smith.
I lor name w as a password to education, her life devoted to
those struggling in its search.
JHaoJz into- the tf-utu>ie.,.
Why arc we going lo college? If training for a future career
is >iir goal, were in tune with what Fortune magazine savs
i.. the \meriean public's opinion of the object of a college
education.
I low (In our courses of stuck look in this light? Right now,
when we re still registering for our spring term classes, is a
good time to evaluate our programs.
Am course can he classified as useful in a general or cultural
vv .v . and we aren't discouraging a broad education. Hut signing
ty> tor a class because it is said to be ease or because it will
supple the necessary hours isn't a good police.
Our years at the Iniversity are very precious time out of
our liv es, \\ e may alibi any failure lo prepare for a job bv
Using the timeworn words about the usefulness of contacts
made or of the experience in getting along with others. Their
importance has been admitted, but training for a definite career
is a much more direct approach to future employment.
» We realize that we are verv lucky to be allowed to go on
with our educations during the war. This is our opportunitv
to insure useful employment when the wartime labor shortage
is over.
Fourteen veterans have enrolled for the second semester at
tl c Pittsburg (Kansas) State Teachers college, bringing lo 53
ttie number now on the campus. Most are taking noncollege
two-year courses to remove vocational handicaps. There arc
a few college students in the group, and they attend regular
college classes.
Students ^biAcuAA,
Postwar Problems
Of War-torn Italy
The position of Italy in the family of nations is indeed a
strange one—beginning as an ally of Germany she now holds
the status of a cobelligerent on the side of the United Nations.
For this reason the problem of “What to do with Italy after
the war?” is a touchy and complicated subject. Following are
excerpts from discussions of the problem prepared by the
World Politics class, taught by Ur.
Waldo Schumacher. In general, the
class was fairly unanimous in cit
ing the need for birth control and
adequate planning of industrial and
agricultural growth to take care
of the over-population. All agreed
that Italy would need a great deal
of help and understanding from
the Allied nations, and should be
allowed to select her own govern
ment.
REPARATIONS AND
PUNISHMENT
It is obvious that because of the
country’s desperate economic con
ditions any economic reparations
are impossible. There must be some
other means of making them com
pensate for their crimes, for if they
were to be acquitted of any guilt
and admitted to the status of an
ally then Greece, France and
Yugoslava would have a right to
disagree. Elaine Wilson.
While the slow process of edu
cation is materializing, Italy
should be made to pa„y her repara
tions by providing laborers to re
construct part of war-torn Eu
rope. This would take care of her
war debts and also her over-popu
lation. Betty Lee Stuart.
SLICING THE EMPIRE
In regards to the Italian em
pire I believe Italy should return
the territory acquired during the
Fascists’ regime and in the best
way make up for these aggres
sions. However, Italy should be
allowed to maintain her pre
Fascist empire. The separatist
movement in Sicily is a problem
which should be settled by Italy
herself. Mary Riley.
Ethiopia, of course, is free again
and will remain so. The Dodec
anese islands should be returned
to Greece. Pantelleria will prob
ably go to Great Britain. The east
ern section of Dalmatia is pre
dominantly Slav and should be
given to Yugoslavia. Fiume and
Zara should also be returned to
Yugoslavia. Gorzia, Trieste and
the surrounding vicinity should
either be retained by Italians or
have Italy and Yugoslavia set up
a customs union there so that the
boundaries will be merely admin
istrative. Aleanor Merrit'iekl.
INTERNAL ECONOMICS
Large land claims should be
broken. A complete study of the
best crops, etc. so that full value
and greatest extent of self-support
can be made possible should go
into effect. A study of divisional
productivity should be made con
cerning especially the countries
that are strong importers. In this
way a plan may be hit. upon where
by Italy, and also the other nations,
could produce wanted goods to ex
change for what she must import.
A merchant marine may help to
bring about a balance in her trad
ing. Betty .Jean Johnson.
Because Italy is deficient in
most of the natural resources
needed for industry, those ma
terials should be made easily avail
able for her so that her industry
can be built up. This new growth
of industry would also relieve the
serious population pressure that
will threaten Italy after the war.
Peggy Skerry.
OUR PART
The British want to restore the
pre-Fascist government. This
would enable Great Britain to have
economic control over this country
and it would also mean that the
Mediterranean would remain under
British domination. There is a
strong democratic movement in
Italy which will not be silenced no
matter to what extremes Great
Britain goes to break their spirit.
As things stand to date, Russia
and the United States have left
the entire matter up to the other
state in the Big Three. Fay Rice.
The Allies must agree upon a
policy so that the influence will
be unified. We must hasten eco
nomic achievement with Italy.
There must be an understanding
of the politics in the planning.
Such plans will hasten the return
of Italy to a place of self-govern
ment, self-sustainment, and self
respect, which are necessary if we
are to have a United Nations that
will last. Lynnton Elhvell.
I believe that the Allies should
once more allow a rather high
Italian immigration into then
countries for the time, at least,
that it takes Italy An establish her
prosperity and until she can sup
port a large population. One of
the reasons why the population
pressure became so acute in Italy
was because of the immigration
laws enacted against her by the
United States and some other
countries. This also caused less
money to be had in Italy because
her emigrees had been sending
money home to their people. Peg
gy Skerry.
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In England,
March 17, 1945
Hi Editor and all the gang:
Here is a copy of our newly
begun hospital weekly, the OMAB.
It draws its name from the old
army expression, “Oh, my aching
back!” Four of us, all convalescent
patients, put out the paper for the
hospital under supervision of the
education officer. We have our
staff artist and reporters, but we
all collaborate on ideas. I have
worked out a little variety of
make-up, but I'll confess my sten
cil-cutting abilities don't go too
far.
Our newsroom consist of one
small, over-crowded office, a port
able typewriter, a telephone that
doesn’t work, a run-down mimeo
graph, and some onionskin paper.
I certainly thank that personrwho
ever he is,’ who invented correction
fluid.
It is a little small compared to
the Emerald. And I wish I were
back there. We have been using
The Oregonian, Chicago Tribune,
Boston Globe, and any other papers
we could find here in England, as
guides for our style.
Tomorrow I am going to an
“oss” race, believe it or not.
Special Services is arranging a trip
to England’s biggest race classmT
and I am going along to get the
story. In a week or so I will be
leaving here and am getting seven
days’ leave. Think I’ll go to Lon
don, then on to Scotland. After
that I expect to get a month’s duty
in England, then it’ll be back to
Germany, I guess.
Best of luck to all the Emerald
gang,
COURTNEY SWANDER
Editor’s note: The paper Court
ney enclosed has news of the hos
pital, a weekly war summary, a
crossword puzzle, cartoons, jokes,
and a gossip column. One story
tells about a tour made by Court
ney and several others through a
large war pfhnt in England.
He told of his hospitalization in
an earlier letter:
“I was in Patton’s third army up
among the 88's and whizzing bul
lets for three months with a ma
chine gun-mortar group as their
radio man. We had just gotten
into Germany when I went to the
hospital. I’ve been slightly wound
ed twice, my feet went dead from
the eolS and constant rain, and
now I’m just coming out of a case
of pneumonia that made my doc
tor do a little wondering about
how long he’d have a Swander to
work on!” Y
Courtney entered the University
school of journalism in the fall of
1942 and left for the army after
fall term of 1943. He was an Em
erald reporter.)
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who didn’t neck were put in one
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