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.
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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.
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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
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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