fyp, NosUh
h By BILL, BUELL
We hitdihikeil to Seattle during'
spring vacation. In cars anil in
bars, we talked to soldiers, sailors,
Canadian airmen, carpenters,
plumbers, Kaiser workers, Boeing
workers, housewives, f a r m e r s,
bureaucrats, and d r u n k s. \\ e
* learned some of the things people
are thinking.
When we stood on the edge of
highway 99 and pointed our thumb
north we found that the well-to-do
people, the solidcitizens who be
long to rotaryclubs and chambers
ofeommerce, usually swished on by
us in their sleek chrometrimmed
cars. Farmers and laborers, the
kind of people who drive model
A's, picked us up mostly; and a
few people like the man who took
us from Vancouver to Kelso.
He was stout, weu ieu, wen
di cssed, looked like a businessman.
On the door of his black coupe
vwts a US government shield. He
explained that lie worked for the
federal works administration, in
•which he was apparently a fairly
important executive,
‘•I'm working on several projects
at once now," he told us. "We’re
"building schools, sewers, watei
systems, and so on for some of
these little towns that are swol
len with war workers and aien t
able to take care of the increased
population.'
Memories of Eugene
When we told him we went to
the University of Oregon he said
that he'd been with the WPA in
Eugene when they built Chapman
hall.
“We had a tough time in Eu
gene," he went on. "I went down
there and found the PWA workers
doing little but dig unnecessary
ditches and rake leaves along the
highway, A lot of people have
o iticized the federal government
for wasting the public money in
such useless activities but actually
the fault lay mainly with the local
governments, officials, and poli
ticians who refused to put up their
share of the money for construc
tive projects and failed to cooper
ate in planning public works that
would be of real value to the com
munity. We found a lot of obstruc
tionists in Eugene,”
"How did Bill Tugman stand on
it we asked him.
"Bill Tugman was one of the
worst obstructionists we ran into,"
he said. "About the most coopera
tive man in Eugene was Dr. Norris,
a physics prof at the University.
He gave us all sorts of practical
help in connection with projects on
the campus."
Ami After the War—
Our friend was optimistic about
the employment situation after
the war. "Right now* we're making
plans for schools, water systems,
highways, all sorts of practical
p ejects, plans that we can take
off the shelf and get to work on
a,s soon as there is any indication
of a slump in employment. When
»o first started public works pro
grams during the. depression there
was a lot of confusion and ineffi
ciency. No one knew just what he
was doing. But it will be different
this time. Everything will be ready
ah soon as it is needed."
He hastened to assure us that
lie was not a radical, socialist, or
visionary. "The government should
never try to compete with private
lousiness,” he explained. “But it's
just plain common sense that when
private business fs unable or un
willing to provide employment or
to build necessary public works
that the government,should step
jw. 1
"What people want is to be sure
of a job. We intend to give them
that surety."
(To be continued)
Oregdn W Emerald
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Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and
iinal examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. _
Gould He the Ai/i. * .
Spring' term is a tradition at Oregon. Canoes on the mill
race, ]uniur W eekend, the queen and her court, soft green
grass and no shoes, picnics, sandlot baseball, honorary tap
pings, cotton dresses, sunshine mixed with showers, crocuses
and daftodils, -elections, finals, and graduation are all part of
the tradition that anv Duck knows is as much a part of the
University as the Pioneer Father and English comp.
The spring' term we are now facing' should he one filled with
most iif the traditional ingredients, and one that will be long
remembered bv everv \\ ebfout. I fiis year will have more than
the usual traditions sprinkled through it. rL his year we wid
likely he hearing good news from the war fronts, we will-plan
for the time when service men and women will he returning,
and we will take part in the seventh war loan drive.
Spring term has ahvavs been a time when Oreg'on students
have happily gone at their work both in classes and activities.
It has about it a legendary spirit of the very meaning of
spring—the re-awakening of life. Students feel it in a happi
ness and a iceling of being more alive towards all the world.
This is the time of year when big plans evolve, and everyone
looks forward to doing more work and having more fun.
It is true that some of the traditions must be cut this year
because of the war. Hut the war is no reason to lose the spirit
of spring, instead, more should he added to it. J his should
he our biggest and best bond drive. Our Red Cross work
should break its own records. Our dime dinners, scrap drives,
and knitting should thrive as never before.
Certain spring terms of the past have been famous for
Canoe I'ctcs and dances, sports and parties. But this year let s
have a spring that won’t he forgotten soon as the term when
we really worked towards what we want most—A ictory.
It's not a hard and dreary thing when we work at it in the
traditional spring term spirit that is something special to every
1 Hick who has experienced it.
Reltind the Rcufco-tt. . .
Xo hotter indication of the actual reasons behind anti-Nisei
agitation can he found than in the boycott lists now being'
circulated in Hood River. “Patriotic" legion members, hoping
to encourage Japanese-American citizens to sell their excellent
farm land and move elsewhere, have prepared a list of undesir
able members of the community.
Surely it is obvious that race has nothing to do with the
attempted boycott. The reason is purely economic. It is un
fortunate for the Nisei that they are able to grow produce
more cheaplv than Americans of German, English, Swedish, or
what have you, extraction. Perhaps if they were a little less
industrious their neighbors would he more likely to accept
them ax American citizens. The question we would like to
bring up is: "Since when has it been American policy to dis
courage and punish a hard worker?” Perhaps the answer can
be found in the minds of greedy Oregon farmers.
QUOTABLE QUOTE
“Re-education is something the Germans must do them
selves—the hard way. They must take the responsibility for
their political development, and they must get rid of their
ideas of super-nationalism. If the Germans can’t.we can’t. It is
something that cannot be forced upon them. We can only help
them if they want to be helped. My idea and, I think, the
general idea of the Allies is to give the Germans a chance—a
chance to become civilized and cooperative so that they may
he an important factor in the future." Dr. Konstantin Reicharit,
University of Minnesota professor of German stresses the need
for self-re-education of Germany in a recent address. (ACP)
St. Louis university and Southeastern Missouri State Teach
ers' college are joint operators of a seismograph.—(ACP).
Qlaballq Sp&cJzitMf
By BILL SINNOTT
The resignation of the Duke of Windsor as governor-general
of the Bahamas marks another stage in one of the most aston
ishing careers of modern times. The future of the ducal couple
is uncertain. At long last they are on the beach.
There are few places left where that set of cosmopolitans
irreverently termed the “international white trash may hide
out from wars and death duties.
The ex-king had a very strict
upbringing. Queen Mary was deter
mined that her son should not fol
low in his grandfather’s footsteps.
He was built up as a supersales
man of British goods in those days
after the war when the world was
seeking a return to “normalcy.”
Edward performed his public
duties with an air of perfunctory
boredom. He was the center of that
crowd of “Bright Young People”
whoso doings wrere so ably satirized
by Evelyn Waugh in “Vile Bodies”
and “Decline and Fall.” The duke
had the same liking for fast and
merely rich people that his grand
father, King Edward VII, pos
sessed. Old King Edward had more
discretion than his grandson; be
sides he was well satisfied with
the status quo. When a certain
black brougham waited outside the
home of Mrs. Keppel, London
looked the other way.
‘The Woman I Love*
Edward was forced to abdicate
not because Mrs. Simpson had two
husbands living but on account of
his interest in the depressed areas
of Wales and the Midlands. Those
good businessmen, Stanley Bald
win and Neville Chamberlain, re
garded this as being unconstitu
tional.
The ex-king never intended to
marry Wally. She would have oc
cupied the same position Lady
Warwick and Alice Keppel had in
the Edwardian era—that of a sort
of maitresse en titre. The British
press never mentioned the constant
presence of the king's favorite at
official ceremonies.
“ The royal idyll was abruptly
ended when the Hearst papers and
“Time” played up the startling
fact that a certain Mrs. Ernest
Simpson, an ex-Baltimore belle, of
some forty-six summers was the
mistress of the king.
Trade in Small Talk
Wally is not intelligent but
possesses a genius for witty small
talk that delights the easily bored
Edward. The duchess had a good
effect on the king. She cut down
his brandy drinking that was fast
turning him into another Queen
Anne.
The sermon of the Bishop of
Bradford brought on the abdica
tion crisis that threatened to split
the British Empire. Nowadays it is
hard to believe that the august
“New York Times’’ devoted its
first nine pages entirely to the
attempts of the aging Romeo to
place his American Juliet on the
British throne.
The once most popular man in
the empire was only supported by
a few crackpots like Lady Houston
and Sir Oswald Mosely. The con
servatives wanted to displace him
because of his interest in social
reform—the laboritcs because Ed
ward and Wally were regarded as
pro-fascist. It was rumored at that
time that Wally had shared her
favors between the king and Rib
bentrop.
King Eased Out
Baldwin eased the king out of
England with consummate skill.
"TONIGHT AND
EVERY NIGHT"
with
RITA HAYWORTH
JANET BLAIR
and LEE BOWMAN
The Windsors were married in
1937 at the home of Charles Be
daux, who killed himself last year
while awaiting trial for alleged
collaborationist activities.
The duke and duchess lived in
exile in Paris and on the Riviera.
The fall of France forced the ex
king to leave Europe and accept
the job of governing eighty thous
and blacks. Wally disliked the Ba
hamas. Hattie Carnegie and Eliza
beth Arden were too far away to
keep the duchess well groomed.
The circle of people around the
duke that caused him to lose his
crown are widely scattered. “Dear
Noel’’ is persona non grata in
Brooklyn; Lady Meridl lives in
Beverly Hills surrounded by her
usual crowd of neuters; Elsa Max
well still gives paid parties for the
friends of her most intimate
friends.
The Windsors seem doomed to
spend the rest of their lives in lux
urious idleness. The British ran
never forget that Edward let them
down.
Wave Ph.M.: “There's a patient
in my ward who hasn’t tried to
make love to me yet.”
Second Wave Ph.M.: “Yeah. One
of mine is unconscious too.”
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