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Oregon W Emerald ANNE CRAVEN Editor ANNAMAE WINSHIP Business Manager MARGUERITE WITTYVER Managing Editor PATSY MALiOJNKl Advertising Manager WINIFRED ROMTVEDT News Editor LOUISE MONTAG. PEGGY OVERLAND Associate Editors Jane Richardson, Phyl’.is Perkins, Viriginia Scholi, Mar}’ Margaret Ellsworth, Norris Yates, City Desk Editors Bjorg Hansen, Executive Secretary Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Anita Young, Co-Women’s Page Editors Jeanne Simmonds. Assistant Managing Editor Darrell Boone. Photographer Shirley Peters, Chief Night Editor Betty Bennett, Music Editor Gloria Campbell, Mary K. Minor Maryan Howard. Assistant News Editor Librarians Jack Craig. World News Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Norris Yates. Edith Newton Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and tftaa! examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon, Entered a3 second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. ____ tyutu/ie UMOQl . . . For two years Oregon’s women students have been basking in the activity spotlight, holding major campus positions in the absence of male competitors gone to war. KWOCs, who are enjoving to the fullest their new responsibilities, may well hark hack to normal times on the campus, just three years ago, when other KWOCs took a hack seat in the race for top • activity posts which were open to both men and women. In those davs, after working in activities for three years, onlv the extremely exceptional or luck}' coed in a few cases won an important office from her male competitor. Men dom inated the jobs which no doubt could have been handled equally well In women, if the latter had been given the chance to .•demonstrate their ability. Now women have been given that chance and have proved their capability in handling man-size activity jobs. Kut coed underclassmen who will he qualified to step into their places may not find their paths so unobstructed. With an announcement bv Dean lvarl that between 200 and 500 more discharged veterans are expected to return to the Uuiversitv next fall, BVVOCs and prospective BWOCs will no doubt face some competition. Many of these veterans who will be freshmen will be the same age as junior and senior coeds next \ car. Some men will even be older than the coeds, for the University expects veterans up to 35 will return to school. But male students don't relish the idea of female superiors, especially when these superiors are of the same age or younger than thev. Disregarding the veterans who believe campus activ ities are foolish after the lighting they have been through, those who do go out for activities with an eye toward the posts which women are'now handling may expect to win over coeds win. have spent three years at the University working up in •activities. Most coed underclassmen who arc spending long hours on activities gaining valuable experience to lit them for top cam l*us positions when they become seniors, aren't readily going to relinquish their jobs to returned veterans who have not gone through a college activity maze. The situation could right itself within a few years if the returning men would be willing to start at the bottom with freshman coeds in the activity t-ace.—B.L.S. # SUanb Subjects . . Spring term, The magnolia trees bloom on the campus and IP sidewalks swarm with bright cotton dresses, and once Spain the tennis courts and the millrace become the most popu lar spot.- on the campus. And once again the mildewed question of ‘correct’’ campus attire must he answered. It seems that some of our prim neighbors have been elevating •e\ ehrows at the annual spectacle of lovely, longlegged coeds to brief shorts wandering around the sidewalks or tanning on living organization lawns. It seems that the elderly “for 21 year> l been workin’ here" caretaker of the University tennis courts has been quoting non-existent rules to women students ■wearing halters and ordering them to dress in blouses on the courts. Actuallv there is only one rule pertaining- to sports clothes on the eainpns. according to Dean ot Men Karl, and this regula tion requests all men to wear shirts on the tennis courts and, supposedly, on eainpns. The physical education department does not specify the type or amount of clothing to he worn on the courts; director of dormitories, Mrs. Turnipseed, lists in- rules; Dean of Women Wickham, high priestess of campus -ernilvpostia. has no plush-covered Yictorian-age volume of laws concerning campus clothing. Ten vears ago the late Mrs. Hazel I\ Sclnvering. then dean of women, attempted to regulate women’s clothing and tabooed the w earing of shorts on the courts and on campus. The rule li.i> nev er been strictly observed. Independence and maturity of the students is impaired when rui.' are allowed to regulate every action and almost every Jlaahuuj, Ahead Journalists Cite Need for Radio Courses, Added Staff Members The question “What future do you believe the journalism school has, and what developments and changes would you like to see for the postwar period?” was asked faculty members and senior stu dents of the school of journalism to form an overall opinion on the sub ject which will come first to Uni versity journalists when the war is won. The major problem brought to the front was the manpower short age, which has struck the journal ism school with acute force. The second suggestion almost always concerned radio journalism, a course now absent from the cur riculum, but which seems fairly certain for the near future. “Journalism offers excellent postwar opportunities in its several aspects—newspaper writing, edit ing, and managing; advertising in its varied forms, and the prepara tion of news, comment, and adver tising for transmission by radio,” said Acting Dean George Turnbull. “Given some natural aptitude and a willingness to work, the young man or woman can go confidently into journalism as an unusually en Here is the fourth in a series of articles putting forth student and faculty views on needed postwar improvements at the University. Anyone wishing to add to ideas expressed in these columns are welcome to con tribute them to the Emerald for publication. joyable and reasonably profitable field.” Price Discounts English That a journalism student has to bargain for another course in addi tion to his professional one was emphasized by Associate Professor Warren C. Price. “Economics, po litical science, and history are good,” he said, “but it isn’t likely to be English. In the postwar per iod, stude'nts will have to be taught to understand a great deal more of the massive problems the press has to face.” Leonard L. “Bud” Jermain, grad uate assitant, declared, “The jour nalism school is going to grow in personnel and in the fields offered. It will retain the same high stan dards and carry these on in its development.” Edith Newton — Professors should encourage more students to work on the Emerald and the Ore gana, and even without professor ial supervision of these activities, the school should give scholastic credit for these activities in order to give them more actual news paper experience. Added Faculty Needed Jean Taylor—The key, of course, to the entire postwar future of the journalism school is the faculty. There should be more instructors included in it. We might have courses on book reviewing ^|pd criticism, and a combination course of journalism and politics. Phyllis Churchman—I definitely feel that the journalism school should include radio courses coordinated with it, rather than separate departments. All the facilities should be enlarged to pro vide for the returning veterans. I might even go so far as to say we need a whole new building. Carol Cook Sibulsky—Well, we need a bigger staff for one thing, to give us a large scope of journal ism. We could use a-course on jour (Please turn to page three) QlaLaUtf, SpeahisUf By BILL SINNOTT Mr. Hind's eulogy of the Spanish dictator could have ap peared without change in either the “Volkskischer Beobrach ter” or the “Arriba.” We were not aware that such an ultra montane bigot as Mr. Hinds appears to be existing in the 20th century. It is too bad that our ‘ Soldier of the Hooked Cross” did not live in the days of Torquemada. We were reluctant to enter the controversy over Mr. Hind’s article in Tuesday’s Emerald. We are ashamed to confess that we, too, were for Franco once. Like so many other conservatives, the oc cupation of Prague by the Wehr macht made us see the light. We believed that the Spanish Civil war was a contest between the individualistic Spanish tradi tion and an alien pseudo-Marxist collectivism that could never suc ceed in Spain. The leading articles of J. L. Garvin, the editorial mouthpiece of the Cliveden set, in the London Observer expressed our then ideas perfectly. Welcomed Anti-Red Fight Franco was a “Christian gentle man,” fighting to save western civilization from the onrushing Red tide. We were afraid that western Europe was going Communistic. The Popular Front had just won the French elections. How wonder ful, we thought, if Hitler and the Russians should fight. Both Hitler and Stalin would battle each other to the death and a new democratic regime would be set up in Ger many and Russia. Mr. Hind’s article contains enough inaccuracies to shame even a professor of political science. “Francisco Franco Salgado-Aranjo was born at Ferrol, Galacia, De cember 8, 1892.” Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was born at Ferrol, Galicia, December 12, 1892. “In 1925 the tribesmen of Abd el-Krim lately returned from shoot ing Germans in France and suffer ing from boredom, butchered 10,000 Spaniards in Morocco. A full army corps was sent to civilize these barbarians. These 50,000 well equipped European soldiers were badly defeated and inflamed by easy victories, the Biffs came down into French territory like a wolf on the fold. New Spanish forces were sent to save the French and reconquer Spanish Morocco. Franco planned and executed the final bat tle that finished the Riffs and cap tured Abd-el-Krim.” Spain Neutral The tribesmen of Abd-el-Krim did not fight in the last war as Spain was neutral. General Silves tre’s army of 250,000 poorly equipped men was defeated in 1923 by the Riffs. This defeat caused thought of the individual. Mrs. Wickham believes that less formal rules concerning clothing and more careful adherence bv the students to the standard conceptions of good taste will solve the problem. Styles and fashions and ideas of correctness varv each year, but common sense and good taste are unchange able. Most college women are old enough to know which clothes are most flattering and just how few clothes can be worn without detracting from their attractiveness. If a woman looks good in shorts and a halter or in anything else she chooses to wear, there is no reason why anyone should discriminate against her. It is only natural that students, confined to class rooms part of each day, should want to get as much sunshine as possible during spring term. On tennis courts all over the nation, shorts or very brief skirts worn with halters are accepted as regulation tennis out fits. The briefest of two-piece swim suits are permitted in pools. Tennis courts are no more public than swimming pools or beaches. The regulation that men must wear shirts seems unnecessary. With men. as with women, the choice of what and how much to wear should be made by the individual. JleMeM *7a the ZdUtosi Dear Editor: May I add a word in the discus sion of Dictator Franco’s part in the present situation? At the sug gestion of the German Nazi gov ernment he has systematically subsidized an anti-American cam paign among our neighbors to the south. This campaign attacks && political and economic interests of the United States and also our national faith in democratic insti tutions. He has opposed bitterly the present attempt of the Amer ican government to bring all the states of the western hemisphere together in the interest of world peace. Readers who are interested in these activities of the Spanish government will find interesting accounts in R. Joseph’s “Argentine Diary,” and in an article by Mar garet Shedd “Thunder on the Right in Mexico,” published in the April number of Harper’s magazine. Sincerely, HENRY D. SHELDON the king to make Primo de Rivera dictator. The Spaniards were saved be cause Abd-el-Krim invaded French Morocco. France sent large forces under Petain that captured Abd-el Krim in 1926. Franco was the leader of the military revolt in 1936 solely be cause General San Jurjo, who had been slated for the chief command, was killed the day the revolution began. “The godless Bolsheviks held Catholic Spain.” The only truely religious people in Spain — the Basques—were violently pro-Loy alist. Cardinal Vidal y Barraquer, the bishop of Tarragona, was out spokenly in favor of the legal gov ernment. ^ Seeing Double Mr. Hinds claims 3,000,000 Fa langists supported Franco. The Falangists were a minute party in 1936. The Falange only waxed af ter 1939, when the Franco regime made it the only political parry. “Over 400,000 Americans flocked to the banner of Europe.” The for eign volunteers on the Franco side amounted to 6000, mainly Irishmen recruited by General O’Duffy. This does not include the “heroes cf Guadalajara” or the German air men who civilized Guernica. How horrible that the Loyal^s stabled horses in a cathedral, our (Please turn to page three)
