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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1945)
Oregon If Emerald ANNE CRAVEN Editor ANNAMAE WINSHIP Business Manager MARGUERITE WITTWER Managing Editor PATSY MALONEY Advertising Manager WINIFRED ROMTVEDT News Editor LOUISE MONTAG, PEGGY OVERI .AND Associate Editors Jane Richardson. Phyllis Perkins. Virginia ocholl, Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Norris Yates, City Desk Editors Bjorg Hansen, Executive Secretary Mary Margaret Ellsworth. Anita Young Women's Page Co-Editors J(.-.anne Siramonds, Assistant Managing Editor Darrell Boone. Photographer Shirley Peters. Chief Night Editor Betty Bennett, Music Editor Gloria Campbell, Mary K. Minor Librarians Maryan Howard. Assistant News Editor Jack Craig. World News Editor C.L/1 L IN. i. ^ uwnnw Norris Yates, Edith Newton Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, aud holidays and €»iial examination periods by the Associated Students, University ot Oregon Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice. Eugene. Oregon. _ • • ^Uatz fla lten&r iaa . “If we don’t pledge ourselves to vote 100 per cent Greek, our house will he kicked out of the Greek bloc for four years and we won't get anv appointments or have any of our mem bers in Phi Theta or Ivwama.’ We are dismaved and extremely disappointed that just such threats were made on this campus a few days prior to election. We know it is nothing' new; we know it is a time-proven practice of forcing unknowing freshmen and sophomores into voting a straight Greek ticket; we know that Oregon elections have always reeked of foul play; hut we believe it is time changes were made. Propagandists in fascist countries have a theory—tell the people anything often and long enough and they will believe it. Perhaps that is the assumption some of our happy little politicos here are going on. W e are speaking of the threat that members of those houses kicked out of the Greek block will not get into honoraries. 1’hat is not true. Members of Phi 1 beta and Kwama are picked by the outgoing members on the basis of merit, and on the whole these selections are made carefully and with an eve purely on the activity record, ll politics enters into the selection, then an investigation should be made and can he made. ho \ our house will he thrown out of the Greek bloc. And what is to keep vour house from immediately joining up with tin ISA bloc? '1'here are many schools where houses decide to back a candidate because of what the members believe arc lii> merit.-, not according to his affiliation. We find the idea not only acceptable, but much more democratic than the "bayo net’' method. \\’e are not claiming that every Greek house on this campus used "vote Ja or else" tactics during this election and we are not accusing the Greek bloc of making such threats, but we have undeniable proof that a few houses did. We do not think thi- is a harmless practice—not as long as one house is guilty, (hi the contrary, it is dangerous because it embodies the very sort of thing men from this University are fighting and dying to wipe out. 'There is no wav one can link up coercion with democracy. It just can’t be done. And if we start out this way during the \ ears w hen we are supposedly learning and pre paring to become the leaders of tomorrow, it is very likely we will earn those practices along when we step into responsible positions. After four years one doesn't just suddenly change overnight, you know. Pel’s take a good long look at ourselves. 'Think it over, you who are guilty. Arc you talking and learning democracy, and pi ucticing totalitarianism ? 'The "voting Ja or else" system is going out of style; it’s time Oregon got on the band wagon, too. ANY BONDS TODAY? By Jack Benny Illustrated by Gregory D'Alessio I 3*T~)r CA !*l’m returning your rin Mr. Potlilcwhistlet but the War Boniis I'm keeping.” The news of the week is the fall of the Churchill coalition government. Winnie has kissed hands as the head of a purely conservative ministry. Labor had grown tired of the predom inantly Tory cabinet of Mr. Churchill. The present situation is unlike that of 1918 when Lloyd George won the Khaki elec tion with the wartime coalition intact. The Lloyd George gov ernment did not break up until I --- By BILL SINNOTT ernment did not break up until 1922. The tories have ruled England in reality since 1931. The present par liament was elected in 1935. Bald win used the League of Nation’s poll of Lord Cecil in that year to return his party to office. Churchill became prime minister in 1940 after the Norwegian de bacle undermined all confidence in Neville Chamberlain. Winnie saved his country after Dunkerque by the magnificence of his eloquence which was about the only defense England had at that time. Chur j chill would be wise to retire at the peak of his glory; he was the man to win the war but obviously he is not qualified by temperament to deal with postwar reconstruction. In this he bears an amazing par allel to Lloyd George. Labor Forces Election The Labor party conference at Blackpool last week decided to force an election this year. The Laborites will campaign on a platform of nationalization of mines, banks, and capital goods industries. Eng land has veered to the left. Eveu that most vested of all vested in stitutions, the Church of England, indorsed socialistic measures in the Malvern Manifesto. The Labor party suffers from a paucity of leadership. Messrs. Att Jlo-oJ?Uuf to the tf.uiu>ie New Women’s Building Tops List Of Physical Education Desires By F.STHF.K FAKONF.X Preparing for a larger numbei of physical education majors anc adjusting their program to meet the present needs in the field, en larging the dance school, and get ting a new women’s building art among the postwar desires of tht physical education school. One of the first changes which is expected in the school oi physical education is preparation for a good many more majors According to Dean Ralph \Y Licughton. numerous letters have been received from fellows in the armed services who plan to take up physical education. The demand for teachers has in creased. This increase is due not merely to the present teacher shortage hut also to a steady growth in the demand for physical educators in the last eight or ten years. More Practical Oregon’s new legislation on physical education will influence the programs a good deal. A more specialized program is one result. People are asking for programs more definitely concerned with physical wellbeing, hence the prin cipals and superintendents are in terested in securing teachers who can put on good programs which emphasize physical growth, well being, and definite stress on cor rectives. There is also need for more work on the graduate level. People with a higher degree of specialization than ever before are needed. Effect of the War This war has had a definite ef fect on physical education. Dean Leighton says, “This war period (Please turn to page three) lee, Morrison,* and Bevin do not inspire one with their ability to cope with the problems facing Britain now and after the war. The Labor party has never re covered from the premierships of Ramsey McDonald. McDonald was termed the “Boneless Wonder." Mayfair went to his head. The one time socialist ended up by being the lapdog of the chatelaine of Londonderry house. Tories Bank on Record The Tories will fight on Chur chill’s war record. They favor free enterprise and the preservation of the empire. The Beveridge plan will be put forward as evidence of the conservative party’s social sense. In times of crisis, the Eng lish prefer to be governed by the Tories. They feel the conservatives are better equipped than the so cialists to restore the world trade that enables England to exist. Recent by-elections have gone against the Tories. They lost the traditionally conservative Chelms ford seat last week. A threat on the left is the Commonwealth party of Sir Richard Acland, an idealistic dreamer like Hoyt Franchere. The Liberal party is a splinter group nowadays. Its chairman is Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, the brilliant daughter of Asquith. “Monty” has agreed to stand as a Liberal candidate. Churchill Slated to Win It will be hard to gauge the re sults of the July election. The Brit ish people have been shuffled about so by the war. Churchill will prob ably be victorious as the full flush of his popularity as the “Architect of Victory” will not have worn off. We must realize that Churchill is essentially an 18th century Whig aristocrat, with all the virtues and vices of that class. He is an im perialist of the Kipling era. Win ston is the greatest master of Eng lish prose now living. He is a ver satile man of many talents: paint er, historian, soldier, bricklayer, and a gargantuan drinker. Agent: Sir, I have something here which will make you popular, make your life happier, and bring you a host of new friends. Fellow: I'll take a quart. To Michelangelo Nere earth will blessed be by God, Like to the day that thou was born, Oh King, With master hands that spirits set a-wing. From hard immortal stone the fig ures trod, With firm and stately tread, so bravely shod. In drapes of stone, yet seeming free to swing With vagrant breezes that softly sigh and sing, Among the statutes there of king and rod. But if as now above the azure skies, You feel you never made the higher goal, Upon which you did early set your eyes; Have peace beneath the heaven’s starry bowl. My heart has felt your mil^t in wild surmise. In answer! you have given stone a soul. —Darrell Daniel Boone The way to keep your feet from falling asleep is not to let them turn in. DeAnnis Modiste 895 E. 13h H ALTERATIONS DESIGNING ''l COEDS The rainy season may be over but before you pack your rain coat away for the summer, send it to us for cleaning. > EUGENE CLEANERS 245 E. Brdy Ph. 75 We'll be here next fall students to welcome you back ^ with DELICIOUS HAMBURGERS CREAMY SHAKES PIES — CAKES THE SIBERRIAN 774 11th East ^