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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1945)
ANNE CRAVEN Editor ANNAMAE WINSHIP Business Manager MARGUERITE WITTWER Managing Editor PATSY MALONEY Advertising Manager WINIFRED ROMTVEDT News Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Norris Yates, Edith Newton 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._ _ The Kinerald has a new editor and the campus has a new editor, all in one. Too often this is not clearly understood by students who are not well acquainted with the activities and management of the Emerald. The editor is chosen by the educational activities board, but that board only makes a recommendation, ft is the executive council of the A SIX) that passes final judgment on the recom mendation of the board. Students also often fail to realize that the profit and loss of the Emerald is.not an item in the budget of the h niversity. Rather, it is handled through the activitiesdSoard. so profits at anv time would go hack into student activities such as sports and concerts, and-losses are covered by the fees collected for activitv cards purchased at registration each term. Thus the Emerald can rate itself as definitely a student news paper. The editor and business manager are responsible to the activities hoard and to the ASUO of which everyone enrolled a: a regular student is a member. There is a theorv concerning freedom of the press which emphasizes the fact that the public is responsible for such free dom. In no other situation than the one on the campus could (In- theorv operate more definitely. This paper belongs to the .students who compose the majority of its readers and it is their respuusibilitv to see that the press at the University, as represented In the Emerald, is the kind of free and progressive press that thev want. Each student can express his opinions through the'Emerald, can look lor the expression of other cam pi i> opinions, because this is a student newspaper—it belongs to YOU. fyutube Education... Kvidence of what is to come in colleges and universities all over the United States may he seen in the increased enrollment this term over spring term 1944 at Oregon. Realization of the personal value and national need for education is spreading further with each year. Under the 01 Hill of Rights. 60.000 war veterans, along with main- workers whoso johs will cease with the end of the war ;ov expected to return to campuses all over the United States. .An increased enrollment of 30 per cent over that of 1939 is ("• peeled when the war ends. Mam colleges have been hard hit by the war as usual sources of their revenue have been curtailed. Some of these may lie forced to close bv 1946 if thev do not receive financial aid soon. Institutions of higher learning will face a bloody reckoning ■when students begin to flock back to academic life only to find <l it the schools of their choice have not expanded sufficientlv 6 handle them. Thev will find, moreover, unless some action is taken, that in many cases not even provisions for future c pansion have been made. Will this situation be entirelv the fault of the individual school, or is there a national educational responsibility? At the present time students under the leadership of the 'American Youth for nomocracy organization are urging federal legislation to aid higher education. The AN H minimum pro-' g' am for federal aid calls for a system of national scholarships for students, long term, low interest loans for both institutions ai d students, assistance to schools for the development of adult education programs, funds for research programs, and grants for repair and construction of permanent equipment. Legislation along these lines is expected to be introduced in the 79th congress soon, though as yet no specific bills have been introduced. Students at Oregon have heard a great deal in the past three n inths regarding increased stale financial aid in preparation fi r the post-war expansion of the Oregon state schools of high vi education. Students on the Oregon campus and other cam puses in the state worked in these interests. Those students 'showed the initiative am! intelligent recognition of the coming 'state of affairs in higher education. They showed the interest ,tbat students all over the country must show if the higher edu cational program in the United States is to fit the needs of the people and accomplish its purpose of educational oppbrtunitv Jot’ fill young1 people ancl old people regardless of race, religion. \< national origin;—M..M.K. *'Jo. <7lt&ie At cMo *m By TED HALLOCK (Ted Hallock, former UO stu dent, gave out with a solid piece of writing called “Jam for Break fast’’ for the Emerald before leav ing school to join the armed forces. He is a captain in the army air forces now stationed at Ft. Lewis, and at present is visiting friends on the campus.) Everything always happens when I come home. Always there is turmoil and I seem to be buried beneath same. Yet still this is home. Eugene. The campus. They all seem basically the same. It has been three years since I slept here and lived here, and yet I see the same faces and read the same thoughts among the people who study here. It is such a simple task to write blithely during war and so diffi cult to write of grass and lives as I used to, when drunk with our self importance and beauties. I return, and know that perhaps this is part of what we have been struggling for, as would beasts in killing and being killed. I assume, however, that these men and wom en on this campus know more of the meaning within this conflict than we did as we attempted to quell an enemy that was meaning less. For in the knowledge that is being, or should be, bred within the minds of the youth, my youth, there should come understanding of the previous struggles which have been waged by the peoples of our earth in defending freedom from fascism. May then, and I speak for the men with whom I have fought, you carry the flags you raise through to your victories over dark and un true elements in government. And may you all be true to the “dream of thy youth” as Goethe would and will have you be. I leave you to the destinies and pleasures that are most certainly yours as inheritors of- liberty, and inhabitants of these buildings of learning and life. Do not waste what time you have here, else per haps someone shall return again someday and plead with your sons. Make for us who have left this place, yet keep it within us as our former life, a prospect of finis: i.e., of war and strife. lllllialllMillllllllffiM Hit the Road mam.irtmaiiimiiimiiiimiiiiiiinmHinKiiiniiiiBiiiiriiiiiiiniiraimimiBiBimmyfiHiriiBimiiHiHitiiUH.....wmammm By BILL BUELL ‘'We’re not supposed to pick up anyone but we all do.' 1l,ne energetic young man in the brown sport coat started talking as soon as we climbed into his car a few miles out of Seattle and hardly stopped until we climbed out again on the edge , of Olympia. “I work for the state department of agriculture,” he ex plained. “I spend most of my time going around certifying seed. [ • “I used to teach agriculture in high school. Then I worked for the farm security administration for a while. The farm bureau boys and a lot of the big time ranchers raised a hell of a fuss saying the FSA was communistic. The most communistic thing they ever did was to encourage small farmers to set up cooperative plants for the processing of their own products. Actually, the FSA’s program of establishing an agricultural econ omy based upon small, family-sized £arms is just the opposite of com munism with its big collectivized farms.” Detour After asking us if we wanted a ride thru the country he swung off onto a sideroad. We drove along a lane cut thru secondgrowth fir for a while and then came out into a long flat valley. Most of the land in the valley was plowed and finely cultivated. In some of the fields people of both sexes and all ages walked slowly and stooped over down rows marked with string, set ting young blackberry plants. Our friend stopped the car several times and got out to talk to men who were supervising these crews | or driving big yellow machines. ‘‘Those machines grind the soil to a powder,” he explained. ‘‘We got them from the RFC. The army used them to build airports. “We’re trying to teach the farm ers out here to use sprinkle irri gation and proper fertilizers. If they did they'd get a big increase in production, but a lot of them are hesitant about trying anything new. They’re slowly coming around, though.” Farmers’ co-ops were our friend’s favorite subject. He told us how these organizations marketed the farmers’ products and procured their machinery and supplies at reduced prices. Market Safer “Before the co-ops when a farm er took his eggs to town he never knew whether he could sell them GET YOUR FLOWERS for The Butler's Ball or not. He was at the mercy of the speculators. Now it's different. “There are a lot of politico mixed up with the co-ops, of course,” he continued. “A lot of them are purely local affairs, but there are several big national or ganizations that run co-opg^Thc Grange is oldfashioned, individual istic, conservative. It looks like they’ve bit off more than they can chew, though, with their anti-Jap anese stuff. The farm bureau is controlled by the chambers of com merce. In parts of the South and Middlewest the businessmen use it to keep agriculture completely un der their thumbs. The Farmers’ Union is a good liberal outfit. They all fight each other constantly.” He was enthusiastic about co operation as a general principle. “People in this country have al ways tried to fill their own pdUkets and fight everyone else,” he ar gued. “The country is getting more and more people in it all the time, and that system won’t work much longer. We’ve got to learn to work together instead of against each other.” (To be continued, maybe.) ATTEND THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE — CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 10th Ave. at Pearl Rev. Norman K. Tully, Pastor Soldiers, Students ad Visitors Cordially Welcome at Divine Worship 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Broadway and High Dr. Vance H. "Webster. Pastor University Group, 9:45 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Evening Service 7:30 p.m. ST. MARY’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH f 13th and Pearl Rev. E. S. Bartlam, Rector Services at 8 and 11 a.m. Canterbury Club, 6 p.m. Service, Wednesday in Gerlinger, 7:30 a.m. FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH 1166 Oak Street Walter J. Fiscus, Pastor University Classes, 9:45 a.m. Dr. Victor P. Morris, teacher Youth Discussion Groups, 6 :15 p.r.i. Fireside Meetings, 8:45 p.m. Worship Services, 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 490 13th Ave. East Telephone 4192 _ Wesley Goodson Nicholson. Minister Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. College Fireside, 8 p.m. Student Director, Mary Kay Williamson CENTRAL LUTHERAN-" CHURCH 6th and Pearl—Phone 4623 Harold Aalbue, Pastor Morning Service 11:00 a.m. Holy Communion last Sunday each month L.S.A. Sundays. 7:00 FIRST METHODIST CHURCH 1165 Willamette St. Llewellyn O. Griffith, Minister University Group 9:45 a.m., 7 :00 p.m. Morning Worship, 11:00 a.m. Wesley House, 1258 Kincaid, Miss Mary Beth Carpenter Student Director