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
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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.
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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
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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
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