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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1946)
Telling the Editor (Continued from page two) we Cannot, through a smaller body such as the executive council, exert such pressure now that our repre sentatives on the council repre sent our views, how can we expect to do so with a group of 20 or 30 representatives? How can we ex pect to establish a more efficient organization with 50 or 60 mem bers, than we now have with 10 or 12? Questionable Duties Assuming that student interest is aroused, and a capable group of representatives selected, just what will be the duties of the cong ress? According to the proposed constitution, the congress will have regulatory powers over various and sundry campus organizations. Just what the term “regulatory” means, no one knows, probably not even the members of the congress committee. Unless there is enough business for the congress to trans act, interest will lag, and the need for a congress, if indeed there is any, wll no longer exist. As fast as is indicated now by the terms of the constitution, the - “Congress will be a mere ratifying body, most of the power being vested in the ASUO president. Is it insuring a more democratic sys tem to vest almost all appointive power in the president, subject only to ratification by the congress? The improvements in election policy submitted in the constitu GIRL INTERESTED SOCIAL WORK GIRL SCOUT TROOP 31 NEEDS A NEW LEADER IMMEDIATELY Meets Near Campus, ROOSEVELT JR. HIGH SCHOOL TUES., 3:30-5 p.m. • EXCELLENT SOCIAL TRAINING • NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY Phone 1002 "THE SPANISH MAIN" PAUL HENREID MAUREEN O’HARA tion, are admirable. Why is it not also provided that student body cards be punched after voting, and voting booths made obligatory? If we adopt a new constitution we will be setting the pace for student body government in years to come. The matter deserves seri ous, thoughtful, intelligent consid eration. Catherine Crombie. A Duck at the Dial (Continued from page two) celebration of the 100th birthday of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Roosevelt Memorial program. Mil waukee’s birthday will be broad cast from 7:30 to 8 p.m. on KEX and will feature Spencer Tracy, Hildegarde, Dennis Morgan, Pat O’Brien, Jack Carson, and Woody Herman’s orchestra. A memorial program in honor of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt will be heard on KEX from 8:15 to 9 p.m. and will have Bob Hope, Jerry Colonna, Dinah Shore, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Frank Sinatra, and Meredith Wil son’s orchestra. President Truman will make a plea for contributions to the March of Dimes. KORE will carry the program from. 10:15 to 11 p.m. Benny'Goodman and his sextette will be guests on Frank Sinatra’s show on KNX at 6 p.m. . . Red Skelton appears on the Ginny Simms show on KNX at 8:30 p.m. . . . Danny Kaye will welcome Grace Moore at 7:30 p.m. on KNX. Thursday Suggestions Elsa Maxwell will ask the sec rets of a successful marriage be tween two professionals of the same field when Helen Hayes and her playright husband, Charles MacArthur, appear Thursday, and Lily Pons and Andre Kostelanetz appear Friday on her program from 3:45 to 4 p.m. on KORE. Mrs. Kostelanetz will also guest on her husband's program at 6 p.m. on CBS. . . “Which Way to Full Employment?’’ is the topic sched uled for America's Town Meeting at 8:30 p.m. with Harold E. Stas sen, former governor of Minnesota, participating. POWDER BURNS (Continued from page five) there was fear-—a longing — a vague yearning, and unrest. And the ocean was the same that day. It was gray and sullen and uneasy . . . there were no waves but a swelling — a subsiding — a "grumbling in the reefs. It came up from the ocean to the tents. It was prelude and prologue and no sanity between—a million hints of nothing-—an ocean in a stream —an avalanche of calm unheard— foreseen. Welcome Dads AN INSPIRING EXAMPLE OF ACHIEVEMENT DESPITE HANDICAP j 0 Because Franklin Roosevelt himself had long suffered, from infantile paralysis, he was zealously devoted to extending re search toward completely conquering the disease .. . and to the Warm Springs Foun dation whose fcilities can aid those already stricken. The man who became president in the face of so great a handicap appreciated all the more the value of com pletely restored health, and the need for an institution which would make necessary therapy available to all. Until infantile paralysis smites someone dear to you, you cannot realise how tragic it is. May you never know! But to help those whom it has already claimed, give generously .. . Join the March of Dimes. ! Oregon W Emerald