Oregon
Emerald
LOUISE MONTAG
Editor
ANNAMAE WINSHIP
Business Manager
MARGUERITE WITTWER
Managing Editor
GEORGE PEGG
Advertising Manager
JEAJMJNE SIMMUJNUS
News Editor
MARILYN SAGE, WINIFRED KOMTVEDT
Associate Editors
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Editorial Board
Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Jack Craig, Ed Allen, Beverly Ayer
Published daily during the college year except Sunday*, Monday*, and holiday* ima
Snal exam period* by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered a* *econd-class matter at the poctoflice. Eugene, Oregon.
*7echtucal fCtvochaut...
The proposed new ASUO constitution, setting up a student
congress, will not be on the ballot next Tuesday because of a
technicality. That technicality involves submission of a petition
signed by 100 members of the ASUO and publication of the
proposed constitution in the Emerald twice—one week before
the vote.
Since these necessary details were neglected, the constitution
can become a campaign issue only as part of the program for
next year. But, judging from the lack of interest shown in get
ting the measure on the ballot, the constitution is not the vote
getting plank it was considered. The small response to the
special election held winter term backs up this statement.
The proposed constitution, then, is dead for this year. Even
a rabid pro-constitutionalist isn’t eager for another special
election this term.
If its backers still want it, they will have to put it to another
special election next year.
/In Omp&dant AiAe-mauf....
Students who object to the “rally-rally” type of assembly
cannot object on that basis to the meeting today in McArthur
court.
They may say that it will be dull and uninteresting because
the candidates who will be nominated for ASUO offices have al
ready been selected and announced. But actually, it will be the
only chance of the campus as a whole to meet its prospective
student body officers, and to hear their platforms. If the as
sembly still seems unpromising, there is the possibility that
“dark horse” candidates will be nominated.
The nominating assembly is an important step in student
elections, and should be well attended. Of equal importance
are the class meetings today for nomination of class officers.
Attendance is important, since in the past quorums have been
lacking.
Kven if nothing happens in student nominations today,
there will be a surprise in the form of tapping of new members
for Phi Theta Upsilon, the junior women’s service honorary,
also to take place at the assembly.
Telling the Editor
About ISA Candidacy...
Dear Editor:
Mr. Penny's recent letters to the
editor expressing his views on cam
pus politics have been filled with
half ti uths and misinformation.
This letter is written in order to
clarify the situation regarding the
independent Students association.
First, Mr. Penny has at no time
attended any meetings of the ISA,
all of which meetings are open to
any independent student. The ob
vious conclusion is that Mr. Pen
ny's information is second-hand,
and unreliable.
The decision that the loser be
tween the two candidates nominat
ed for Number I position on the
Independent ticket should not au
tomatically become the nominee
for second position, was not made
by Mr. Roberts, as Mr. Penny in
dicates, but was made by the group
as a whole, who felt that anyone
who had a candidate for Number
2 position should be given an op
portunity to nominate such candi
date.
At no time during the meeting,
as declared by Mr. Penny, did Mr.
Roberts state that if Mr. Halloek
were nominated for Number 2 po
sition he would resign from the
ISA. Because at that time the two
men were fundamentally opposed
in their stand on a probable cam
paign issue, Mr. Roberts at first
thought it would be better if he
did not become a candidate with
Mr. Hallock. Yielding to the wish
es of the group, Mr. Roberts later
withdrew from this stand and con
sented to run.
As to the accusation that the
nominating of candidates was done
behind closed doors, may we call
attention to the fact that nomina
tions were opened to the floor at
two meetings, both of which were
open meetings, and both of which
were announced in the Emerald.
There has been no coercion shown
by any leaders of the Independent
party, the candidates, or members
of the party. There will be no co
ercion!
It is suggested that in the future
if Mr. Penny wishes information
concerning Independent politics,
he attend the meetings or consult
the minutes, get his facts straight,
and then, and only then, express
his views in the Emerald.
Anne Van Valzali.
Catherine Crombie.
GanaAeiliatuU
Gamme+tti
By Ted Hallock
If we do not publicize the ac
tivities of Mr. Rankin and his kind,
there is a definite possibility that
the Helen Hokinsonish ladies of
Missouri will soon pass a group of
Rankin Rangers, drilling, with
arms, on some Kansas City golf
course, to put down the “commu
nist” working - man. Evidently
some of us have forgotten about
Frizt Kuhn, the bund, and the
“Newburg maneuvers,” as the
German high command was wont
to call them. Mr. Kuhn, long for
gotten by front-pagers, now has re
turned to the Reich, to work as an
inoffensive little chemist in Mu
nich. Unless U. S. CID men keep
their eyes open, Mr. Kuhn, feeling
that men of his calibre are needed
to enlist now, may join the ranks
of a re-organized, Standard Oil
backed, I. G. Farben. When the
press lays off Rankin, watch out.
OPA
The public seems to be evincing
a bit more interest in OPA. At
least a few more letters are being
written Washington ward. Congress
keeps commenting and killing.
More sense was made last week
than ever before, during both house
and senate debate. Some foolish
ness also crept in, unavoidably.
Rep. Alexander Wiley, of Wis
consin, said: “We listened to Mr.
Bowles on the radio and also his
stooges of the CIO, Walter Win
ched and others.” Which just does
n’t seem correct, unless Jergen’s
lotion is being up out by Mr. Hill
man these days, personally.
Mr. Rankin, losing composure
for a moment, speaking on appro
priations for the Natchez Trace
(we don’t know what it is either),
slipped and admitted: “I think this
table from the May news letter of
the National City Bank, of New
York, showing the profits made by
corporations during the first quar
ter of 194G may cause some of the
gentlemen who have attacked and
assailed OPA and the administra
tion to hang their heads in shame.
It appears from this, private en
terprise in America is doing all
right.” The understatement of the
year.
Park-bencher Baruch was quot
ed (from a 1941 Rotarian article)
as saying, sagaciously: “If infla
tion is to be prevented, we must
have an all-out price control law,
as we must have an all-out indus
trial effort.” Simple statement, but
perhaps the best method for ex
plaining a simple problem.
Labor Mistake
John L. Lewis can be easily nom
inated, by even the most earnest
defender of labor, as the biggest
fool in the history of labor’s rise to
power. Congress can be goaded
just so far. Having just finished
finishing Petrillo, injuring every
individual musician in the nation
while doing it, they will now turn
to Lewis, with a will, thereby prob
ably smashing most everything la
bor has gained, if they can, under
the guise of limiting one man’s
power. If labor allows leaders to
ascend whose ambitions demand
their exercise of an undemocratic
bargaining power, labor can ex
pect prompt legislative action de
signed to reduce the guild system
to its medieval state. No one is to
blame but the workingman who
elected the leader.
Propaganda Accusation
Mi. V ursell, in the house, seems
to have plagiarized from Mr. Ells
worth to some extent. At least, he
believes that "the greatest threat
and danger to representative gov
ernment in America today is the
government propaganda machine
with its headquarters here in
Washington.” It’s odd that neither
representative has stated just what
agencies constitute the “machine”
of which they speak. They are both
[ eager to add that “it is supported
Browsing...
With Joe Young
With Mother’s Day, the Jun
ior side-show, and generally, a
“fair” weekend for all, relegat
ed to memories and pages of
next year’s Oregana, we again
return to the silly old conven
tionality of studying—assign
ments, crgms, and exams. . .
And peering ahead one can al
most see the alphabetical GPA
guillotine waiting for those
fretting under the scholastic
ball-and-chain. . . Perchance
your grades have been l'ower
than anticipated—and you are
planning a tete-a-tete with the
cause of such erroneous analy
sis of your achievement. . .
You will need “reasons” for
getting a better grade. . . Be
fore any aforementioned con
ference, check the 24 sugges
tions listed in a little 2x4
frame hanging in the McClure
entrance hall. . .
Anthology of tradition-al com
ment. . . “Was preparing to enjoy
. . . stomach was turned by reap
pearance of old and sickly “bone”
. . . taboos and traditions loom
forth . . . heavy-handed order will
enforce . . . with severity . . . the
phrase heavy-handed be altered to
read heavy-headed ... if a watch
ful eye catches . . . punishment
will be only reward . . . may remind
ancients that traditions were some
of the things we all went out and
fought for . . . main components of
university is tradition . . . what
alumns remember and talk about
long after Caesar and Plato are
forgotten . . . have here only a bush
league group of sadists . . . wear
skull caps made of old campaign
ribbons and . . . plugging for con
tinuance of some customs for all
. . . were admired for our “guts”
. . . forgot to bring them home . . .
even tender years . . . shouldn’t be
considered too long-haired to in
stil a little logic into . . . personal
conduct . . . want to go back to
“country club” era . . . suggest
. . . rough . . . transfer to Vassar
by radical organizations headed by
the Communists of New York,”
but don't seem to define “it” very
clearly.
This grammatical incongruity of
Mr. Ellsworth’s is not just one pe
culiarity of the aforesaid congress
man. He has also told us, publicly,
that no lobbies exist in Washing
ton, with the exception of the CIO.
Which, of course, completely white
washes the National Association
of Manufacturers, the lumber inter
ests for which Mr. Ellsworth has
been loyally working since elec
tion, and financial interests who.
obviously, do not care at all about
the loan to Britain. Please, Mr.
Ellsworth, we’re real grown-ups
now. We even vote.
Food and Fascism
Dept, of Utter Irony: The agri
culture Dept, s Famine Emergency
committee is using the slogan
“Suffer Little Children” to obtain
more food for Europe’s starving.
They have forgotten that “Little
Children” of Spanish Loyalist
families are dying faster than
flies around Hendaye, France,
where they fled Franco's wrath in
1937. Reason: because every offi
cial food dispensing agency in Eu
rope refuses to touch them; label
ing them “controversial matter.”
Even anti-Fascists can't live with
out food, strangely enough.
CLASSIFIED
LOST: Eversharp pen and pencil,
black and gold. Duke Dennison
1660.
LOST: Billfold, tan, ample identi
fication. Saturday night. Phone
1024. E. K. Jackson.
LOST: Shaeffer Lifetime pen,
black with brown stripe—be
tween Johnson and Straub. Re
ward Mildred Kraft. Ex. 279.
. . . good-natured acceptance is
not submission . . . thereby gain
ing high esteem and admiration^?
ladies . . . speaking as one who
has amazing faculty for getting
into trouble . . . keep tradition
alive, or let it die, letting the long
hairs reign supreme . . . came for
an education and not for tradition
performance . . . why weren’t these
students allowed to carry on these
old traditions . . . grimly thinking
of days when we’ll be lettermen
and upper classmen . . . babies stop
crying. . Sic transit gloria Web
footus. . .
• * *
Definitely tire book of the
year—’46 Oregana. . . There
seems to be a standard proce
dure of breaking in this techni
colored volume . . . first check
for all your own pictures . . .
then check pictures of friends
.. . finally, glance through with
little quips, such as, “How did
she get into This or That?”
or, “This really is a terribkSf
picture of me here with the
Hot Stuffies!”. . . And surely
you did not miss McClintock’s
endsheet duekartoons. . . ,
Found a nostalgic note along
about Page 172 with the Indi
ana Union cut—for I’m a
Cream and Crimson scion. . .
Bought my first college texts
in this building. . . Shared my
first freshman coke here, too.
* *
It is never too late to paraphrase
a retrospective synopsis of the ex
cellent library contest exhibits. . .
There was some delightful brows
ing in these student collections—
varying from children’s books to
art and religion. . . The “Complete
Greek Drama”. . . and “The Lonely
Ones”. . . works circa 1850 . . .
and copyright, 1946 ... It was
day for students to list suggested
additions to their own library . . ,
for as Thomas Carlyle wrote . . .
“All that mankind has done,
thought, gained or been: it is lying
as in magic preservation in the
pages of books. . .”
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