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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1945)
Emerald ANNE CRAVEN Editor ANNAMAE WINSHIP Business Manager MARGUERITE WITTWER Managing Editor PATSY MALONEY Advertising Manager WINIFRED ROMTVEDT News Editor LOUISE MONTAG, PEGGY OVERLAND Associate Editors Jane Richardson, Phyllis Perkins, Viriginia Scholl, Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Norris Yates, City Desk Editors Bjorg Hansen. Executive Secretary Wary 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 ffcaai examination periods oy the Associated Students, University ot' Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. PSPA • • • Last weekend student leaders from IS northwest colleges and universities met 'in Seattle for a conference. From this meeting the students went back to their respective schools with a new outlook on student problems brought about by the exchange of viewpoints, ideas, plans and information on present conditions. Sometimes such conferences flop miserably, but this par ticular Pacific Stu'dents Presidents’ association meeting pro duced a wealth of good discussions and ideas. Our delegates .Andrew Holliday and Joe Grimm came back enthusiastic and pleased. Among other things, the idea of intercollegiate debate was scrapped for an Oregon-sponsored plan for intercollegiate sym posium. Headquarters of this activity will be here on our cam pus. Individuals or teams will visit other schools to discuss national and international problems—an excellent means of combining stimulation to persons interested in speech plus student discussion and exchange of ideas on important pf( iblems. After a discussion of the relationship of the University and tbc community, the group presented an idea for better relations between the two. Since the University is tin integral part of lliv cite in which it is situated, it was suggested that a co ordinating bode be set up which would further participation of townspeople in University activities of interest to the com immitv and would encourage students under the guidance of their facultv in discussing problems of the community. Most important of all, the conference discussed the student to relation to the administration. The delegates felt that if a student government was to be truly an educational function preparing students for participation in the communities in w hich they are to live they should take a more active part in the ad ministration of their life—especiallv in regard to discipline, social events and living rules. However, it was definitely agreed tli it at all times tlie Universitv administration should have 'veto power over student decisions. , 'I'he University is supposed to be a training ground for the leaders of tomorrow. W e agree with the l’SPA that it can best setae this purpose through utilizing students as much as pos sible in making decisions effecting student life. As yet our esteemed ATt-. Hoyt l'ranchere has not gone into t)i. subject of freedom of the collegiate press. Last weekend th 1’Sl’A took up the topic and passed a resolution that college paper- should be free ot control by both administration and student body. The association added that the editor, while a member of the executive council, should not be restrained from o iticizing that board. The h'.merald has been fortunate in these respects. There is U-C) censorship. The editor makes all decisions of police and use- his own discretion in attacking or praising campus affairs. Tlie adviser acts purely in that capacity and does not lay don n rules. Occasionally an editorial or article in the daily arouses the ab-approval of students or administrative officials. In its best Conn, this disapproval is expressed in letters to the editor. Any •editor welcomes such letters because they show an interest in ca.mpu- problems and because they usually point out v ital in formation on the other side of a question. They are open and bank and do not attempt to restrict the editor's right to his opinions. Criticism is :ilsi> voiced to the editor personally. It has never taken the form of tlion shall not.-. The editor may or may not tollow this unsolicited advice, as he sees fit. He may use the idea.' or opinion.' in future editorials or in his police, but he io under no obligation to do so. He is placed in an awkwayd l^.o'ition sometimes, however, because advice coming" from a)>o\ c mat create an impression of control and the obligation to follow suggestions. The editor’s freedom to comment on action taken by the .executive council is important. His place on that hoard does Hinds Replies To Attackers (Editor’s note: The following ar ticle was written by Mr. Hinds as an answer to the articles which follewed his story of Franco in last Tuesday’s Emerald. It is the policy of the Emerald to print such re plies.) By ROBERT E. HINDS The military article I wrote for the Emerald has attracted such a generous response I must thank the donors. Your opinions are yours, Profes sor Merriam. I believe, even as you do, in being able to express one self. The poetry was really excellent; but I am a trifle surprised that our Kentucky feudalist could find time for such diversions. It is fine that so many people read the Emerald after the staff goes to such great efforts to print it. I once had the good fortune to see Mr. Sinnott presenting one side of a debate at Westminster house. The subject was “Planned Econ omy versus Free”—something or other—“Love,” I think it was. His opponent was a very brilliant boy. Mr. Sinnott I note the imperial “we.” Mr. Sinnott is evidently no believer in false modesty. “We, too, were for Franco once.” Is “we” a turncoat? Surely such an extinguished gen tleman as Mr. Sinnott has far more profitable, interesting, and pleas ant ways to spend his time than misquoting military history. “Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was born at Ferrol, Galicia, Dec. 12, 1892.” Very likely true. But the generalisimo “Francisco Fran co Salgado-Aranjo”* was born at Ferrol, Galicia, Dec. 8, 1892. If Mr. Sinnott does not believe me, he may go to the UO library, enter the reference room, locate the “Encyclopedia Americana,” ex tract Volume 12, and gaze at the very first article in the book: “Franco, Gen. Francisco.” This same article (while not to be com pared with my original manuscript, "A Brief History of Franco’s Rise to Power”) also uses the figure “3,000,000 Falangists.” It even says that Lt. Col. Franco finished Abd-el-Krim. I sort of thought so myself. The Tribesmen “The tribesmen of Abd-el-Krim did not fight in the last war as Spain was neutral.” Tribesmen have been known to fight when their governments were neutral. So have civilized foreigners. I did not meet Gen. O'Duffy and his 6,000 Irishmen; but I saw something of the Argentines, Brazilians, vet erans of the Gran Chaco war, the Sons of Italy from all three Amer icas, etc. But who am I to argue with such a learned critic of mili tary history as Mr. Sinnott ? Un doubtedly, he, too, fought, bled, and came away. rne Spanish navy consisted cl a few pre-1914 relics divided equal ly between both sides.” See ‘‘Fight ing Fleets.” Rimington, 1943. for details of the Spanish cruisers of 1925-35, pages 142-3. See also Jane’s “Fighting Ships,” and the encyclopedias. I meant the Portu guese men of war that mutinied and became Spanish, as well as the loaned Italian fleet. “Mr. Hinds' article contains enough inaccuracies to shame even a professor of political science.” I (Please turn to page three) Steinbeck Book Deals With Scum of'Society, j ■By BILL BUELL' In “Cannery Row,” John Steinbeck’s latest eulogy of rougR spoken and unwashed but thoroughly loveable human beings condemned by moral bourgeois minds as the scum of society, the leading characters fall into three main categories: bums, whores, and a biologist. Minor characters include a Chinese grocer, a pseudo-artist, a feeble-minded child, a flagpole sitter, Take It From Me By DOC Jean McClanathan, Mariam Te sarik, Lois Emerson, and Dot Habel, Hendricks hall, had the privilege of showing some visiting firemen the campus last weekend, and it is their opinion that no tour is complete without a trek through the territory south of Gerlinger field. They are hoping the boys can come back for Junior week end. Anyway they have the invita tion. Fraynie Watkins, University house, seems to find the grass is greener on the other side, or so it appears when she dates the boy from OSC. Doris “Dodo” Salveit adequate ly represented Alpha hall at the Interdorm dance last Friday night, but I'd certainly like to know what lured them away so early in the evening. Jackie Paikuli, Gamma hall, will find out one of these days that she should stay home once in a while, and then she wouldn’t miss those long distance calls that come from Watson who is ■In Texas. Speaking of phone calls, Marita, the prexy of University house, was pretty disgusted because Frank didn’t phone this weekend. Some Omega hall boys decided to take advantage of the nice wea ther the other day and went can oeing on the millrace. Their con duct, as they approached the Gam ma Phi house, was just enough to tip them over. Loren Woods likes the water so well in that vicinity that he is thinking of making his home down there. Or is it the Gam ma Phis that attract you, Woody? Art Berg, Oregon medical school, came down last weekend to take Pat Geil, Hendricks hall, to whom he is engaged, to the Butler’s ball. Maggie Thompson, Joyce and Joanne Utz, and “Frenchie” Her man, Alpha hall, came back after a very strenuous weekend at the beach. I faintly recall the fact that they have coast guards at the beach, but I’m sure it was only the sea breeze that tired them. Why is it that Dodie Dednar, Highland house, gets so mad when Earl asks her if her “Cute little nose is real’’ ? June Hart hasn’t done much studying since her husband ar rived home on leave from the mer chant marine. It must be a true loss to the GPA at University house. For privacy deluxe, try the shores of the Willamette river at the foot of Emerald street when you want to take a sun bath. There is usually a beautiful view, too! Coed: “My boyfriend in Scotland sent me his picture yesterday.” Friend: “Swell, how does he look?” Coed: “I don’t know yet — it hasn’t been developed.” not keep him from having opinions on the way that body func tions or on the program it adopts. His membership gives him the chance to know the situation thoroughly and to criticize it intelligently. If he were denied the right he would probably find it best to resign from the board. The PS PA thought that freedom of the collegiate press was contested enough to discuss it and pass a resolution on it. That in itself is proof enough that it should not be taken for granted. We think we have a good deal at Oregon. To preserve it we must exercise it and accept its responsibilities. anci a sexuany-irustraiea gopner. These assorted individuals are all inhabitants of the sardine-can ning district of Monterey, Califor nia. The bums reside in a 'former storehouse for fish meal which slightly sticky fingers and a can of red paint have transformed into the highly decorated hostel known as the Palace Flophouse and Grill. The whores inhabit the stuniy mansion of orange-haired Dora Flood who keeps an “honest, one price house” and allows no vul garity. Beer-Drinking Doc The biologist is brown-bearded, beer-drinking, music-loving Doc, owner and operator of the Western Biological laboratory where stu dents of the science of life may purchase anything from rattle snakes and octopi to sliced and pickled human fetuses. Doc, scientist, philanthropist, and seducer is also a social {fcii losopher. He expresses Steinbeck’s own disapproval of modern capital istic society: “The things we ad mire in men, kindness and generos ity, openness, honesty, understand ing, and feeling are the concomit ants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism, and self-interest are the traits of success.” To make such an evaluation of society is easy. The big question is what to do about it. We don’t think Steinbeck is at all sure of Wft" answer. “In Dubious Battle,” for instance, presented a group of com munists who solved the problem by dedicating their lives to a des perate fight for a new and better society. But “Cannery Row” presents a group of people, who, instead of trying to remake society, attempt to lead their own individual lives as independent as possible of its encumbering traditions and posses sions. They succeed in obtaining a higher degree of happiness than the convention-ridden solid citizens who lead Steinbeck to ask, “What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and to come to his property with a gastric ulcer ai-.jjfr bifocals ?” Mack and the boys get more real enjoyment from a stolen chick en stewed over an open fire on the river bank than any banker ever derived from a multicourse dinner with imported wines. New heights of ecstasy are reached in the drunken brawl with which the residents of Cannery Row celebrate what they think is Doc’s birthday. But the happiness is never en tire. For all its seeming natural ness and spontaneity, it always has a desperate, strained, decadent quality, as if a laughing mask had been strapped over a sorrow-rid den face. “I been sorry all my life,” Mack confesses in a rare moment J(► introspective honesty. ‘‘I don’t do nothin’ but clown no more. Try to make the boys laugh.” The serious thought of the book is buried in a somewhat discon nected series of humorous, ironic, and descriptive episodes. Stein beck's style is sheer joy to read. The descriptions of tide pools, building interiors, and junkheeps are detail-studded, color-splashed masterpieces. The characters are treated with a marvelous mingling of sympathy and satire. The humor is terrific. We laughed so hard over the anec dote of the beer milkshake ^ui1 stomache muscles were sore for :hree days.