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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1946)
Oregon If Emerald L.OUISE MONTAG Editor ANNAMAE WINSHIP Business Manager MARGUERITE WITTWER Managing Editor GEORGE fiiUu Advertising Manager JEAJNJNJfi BIMJW.UXSUB News Editor MARILYN SAGE, WINIFRED ROMTVEDT Associate Editors ' Editorial Board Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Jack Craig, Ed Allen, Beverly Ayer Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays tma Inal exam periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the poetoffice. Eugene, Oregon. Plan loft ScUolaMiUpA . . . The red tape involved in getting a scholarship at Oregon may be trimmed to a minimum this summer. The educational activities manager has suggested that his office might compile information about all the scholarships offered regularly to students and prospective students. The information would include the amount of the scholarship, its donors, the requirements for applicants (in terms of need, scholarship, and activities), the method of payment, and per haps a list of recipients. Just as important to bewildered scholar ship-seekers would be the directions for procedure—what office to contact, what petitions to file, and what people to interview. So far this is just a plan. The educational activities office may not be able to. swing the job because of shortages of funds or office help. Compiling scholarship information may take longer than a summer vacation, and some of the material may not be available. But it is a plan that offers many advantages. If it can be carried out, students will find one central source of scholarship information. They can survey the field and apply for scholar ships that suit their needs and their records. And possible donors will have an indication of the supply and demand for assistance. Once the statistical side is taken care of, honoraries and clubs have the opportunity to do another vital service. A cam paign for new scholarships may well head the list of recom mendations that this year’s honorary members leave their in coming members. jdeafiintf, ^elepltOMeA, . . . Picture the telephones in Johnson hall leaping to ring the Shack "to invite a clarification conference every time criticism is expressed” about University administrative methods or policies. It reminds the reader of a magazine ad trumpeting the miracles of modern communication, but it also gives the reader the impression that Kmerald workers are called on the carpet daily for lectures on the University as administrative officials see it. The picture was painted by Sigma Delta C hi in its con structive criticism edition of the Emerald, but it doesn’t present the case as regular Emerald workers know it. Only once this year has any administrative official invited the editor to a clarification conference. The meeting concerned the vandalism committed by Oregon State students on campus buildings and walks. Although the vandalism had gone beyond the amusing, rah-rah stage, the Emerald s news stories had continued to treat the situation as jolly good fun, and the edi torial page had ignored it. The official asked the editor to publicize new rulings made against the vandalism so that stu dents would be aware of them. If the request was unreasonable, the editor failed to see that it was. If the picture outlined by Sigma Delta Chi comes to life in the future, both the Emerald and the University will be in a sad condition—the Emerald because the staff will be refusing to admit any views but its own, and the University because administrative officials will be ignoring student opinion com pletely, 9temiye fyee. •. Rich or poor, five dollars is quite a significant sum. That’s the amount University of Oregon students advance at the be ginning of each term as a breakage fee. No one objects to this: school property must he paid for if destroyed or damaged. Shortly after the end of the term the deposit is refunded by mail. Sometimes two . . . sometimes three . . . sometimes as much as four dollars have been deducted. Why? You have the check but no explanation is given. Is it too much trouble foi University officials to itemize the deductions? We say no, This page feels the students have a right to know why they have been fined. That is their right. When driving a car, a little inattention can go a long way toward an accident. An empty train of thought doesn't whistle a warning. Be alert today—be alive tomorrow!—National Safety Council. I’ rjp r-g-i ryp r-j. rj Fred Beckwith and Tonuny Hazzard’s %uoktati(m iji ^ 41 '1* '1' r|' i(i i}< ']i i|«'I' ri' fl’ 'i* 't1 i1 i* t1411 'l By Pat King To give American radio audi ences more thorough interpreta tions of the Shakespearean plays and the Ibsen drama to be present ed under.the auspices of the “Co lumbia Workshop,” the time has been extended to one and a half hours. This will cut out the CBS symphony to make room for the program from 11 to 12:30. The dramas will be presented by London’s world famous Old Vic Theatre company and will star Laurence Olivier and Ralph Rich ardson. This Sunday, both will ap pear in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV”; June 2, Olivier will star -in Shake speare’s “Richard III”; June 9, Richardson will star in Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt.” These are the first broadcasts in America by the Old Vic players and the only ones they will make during their current six week stay on Broadway. As a forerunner to the broad casts, “Invitation to Learning” will discuss the plays to be presented. Beneke On Matinee The revived orchestra of the late Glenn Miller, which is using its old name under the baton of Tex Beneke, will headline “Matinee at Meadowbrook” this afternoon from 1 to 2 over CBS. "Tommy uorsey Riaysnop, iea turing Dorsey and his orchestra, will premiere over KORE at 8:30 tonight. Dedicated to the forgotten man of music, the arranger, the program will feature the famed stylings of Cy Oliver, Hugo Win terhalter, Dean Kincaid, Billy Fin negan, Sid Cooper, and Fred Stalz. More joyous tidings—Stan Ken ton will be at Jantzen Beach in June. Closed weekend, of course. The latest stint dreamed up by Hollywood press agents was the staging of the preview of “The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers’’ in a Constellation, huge airliner, while flying between Hollywood and New York last night. The preview and the stars present were a surprise to the other passengers. When the plane landed a red carpet was roll ed out and kleig lights played over the scene as the stars were inter viewed over the air, preceding the regular premiere of the picture. When the emcee of the “Bride and Groom” show asked a pros pective bride why she finally decid ed to accept her suitor’s proposal, she replied seriously, “Well, he was eating over at my house all the time anyway, so as long' as I was feeding him I though I might as well marry him.” Highlights Saturday: Victor McLaglen re creates his Oscar-winning role in “The Informer’’ over “Academy Award’’ at 3, KNX. Sunday: British film star Rex Harrison in “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” over “Hollywood Star Time” at 10:30, KNX. . . Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff, eminent duo pianists, will be guest artists on "Ford Hour” under Fritz Reiner’s direction at 4, KEX. . . Gene Kelly stars in comedy drama “Boy Meets Girl” on Theatre Guild at 6, KEX. Monday: President Truman’s ad dress to the 38th annual Governor’s National Conference will be broad cast by all major stations at 10. . . Margaret O'Brien, Jimmy Durante, and Jose Iturbi appear in "Music for Millions” on Lux at 5, CBS— followed by Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Virginia Field, and Frank Morgan in “The Firebrand” on Screenguild at 6. Oregano House Pictures Living organizations or individ uals who want their entire picture section in the Oregana may get them from Dick Williams at the j educational activities office. No individual pictures will be sold as | in former vears. Jewish Homeland Plan Reviewed by U O Club By One World Club A great deal of thought should be given to the question—should Palestine be made into a Jewish commonwealth ? The Jews have been persecuted in every land since they were first driven from Palestine. As a people they do not know what security means. For hundreds of years they have been living on a dream that someday perhaps they might go back to their homeland and live among their own people, enjoy their own culture, and feel secure, knowing that whatever happens they will never again become com pletely dispossessed of home and friends. Until the emancipation the Jews had no freedoms and since the emancipation has only come in the last century for most of them freedom is still a very new thing. Many Jews who have prospered in the different lands since the eman cipation still feel that their pros perity will not last and with the next economic crisis they will be beaten down as before. Real Problem The real problem is in Europe. The Jews in the Americas and Great Britain haven’t much to lose by staying where they are. The Jews in Europe feel they have everything to gain by moving to Palestine. Most of the people in Europe would like to get out. At present there is little in Eu rope for anyone, but the Jews have lost everything. If they remain in Europe there is little chance of their regaining any of their old possessions since the anti-semitic feeling is probably as strong as it was during the war. Palestine Palestine covers an area of about 10,000 square miles and is the size of Vermont. The total population at the present time is about 2,400, 000, three-fourths of this number being Arabs. Only one-half of its land is regarded as cultivable at the present time, but with proper irrigation systems a great deal more land could be used. A conservative estimate of the number of people who might im migrate there without overcrowd ing is 2,500,000. There are approxi mately 3,000,000 -views left in Eu rope and of the number it is not known how many want to go to Palestine. It is known, however, that at the end of the war Jews from every part of Europe started on a spontaneous movement away from Europe moving toward Pales tine. Ancient Belief The reason for this is partly the ancient belief carried down through the ages that Palestine is their real home and more recently be cause of Great Britain’s commit ments to establish a Jewish Pales tine. In 1917 by issuing the Balfour Declaration, Great Britain declared that it viewed “with favor the es tablishment in Palestine of a Na tional Home for the Jewish peo ple,” and would use its “best en deavors to facilitate the achieve ment of this object.” On April 25, 1920, the Supreme Council of the Allied Nations con ferred the mandate over Palestine on Great Britain and again Great Britain bound herself to the dec larations in the Balfour Declara tion. Since obtaining the mandate, however, Great Britain retracted some of the statements in the Bal four declaration in two white pa pers which said that it was not necessarily binding that Palestine become a Jewish homeland. Committee Recently the twelve-man Anglo American committee of inquiry on Palestine met and asked that (1) there be immediate admission of 100,000 Jews into Palestine; (2) all nations recognize Jewish de porties as their responsibility; and (3) all Jewish and Arab terrorism be repressed. Since the Anglo American committee failed to^" recommend either a Jewish or Arab Palestine both sides were dis satisfied. The Arabs believe for many rea sons that the Jews are trying to invade their homeland. A support of this view is a statement of President Truman that “We be lieve that all people who are pre pared for self-government should be permitted to choose their own government by their own freely expressed choice without interfer ence from any other source.” The Arabs believe that this prin ciple should be applied in the Eas tern states as well as the Western. Jerusalem is a shrine to the Mos lems as well as the Jews. They have even more places of worship in Palestine than the Jews. For the past 1300 years the holy land has been an Arab land in which Jews have been a small minority. The Arabs state that they hav^, no quarrel with persons of Jewish* faith as such, but with the Zionists who wish to create a Jewish Pales tine. They feel that this would necessarily push the Moslems out of Palestine. They, cannot see why their land should be forced to open its arms to all of the homeless Jews while richer, less populated coun tries keep immigration laws in ef fect. Aran wish The Arabs would like to see the immediate establishment of Pales tine as an independent democratic state where Jews or any other peo ples might come to live, but along with this, see immigration barriers in more sparsely settled countries of the world lift their restrictions and also accept the Jews. The problem in Palestine is not - an insignificant squabble betweei^"' a few Jews and Arabs. It is a world problem. The Arab objections do not come from just the Arabs in Palestine but from all the Moslems in the world. Moslem World By creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine the Moslem world might be infuriated into a state so that they would, be willing to fight. Many authorities believe that it is a mistake to be constant ly thinking in terms of nationali ties, but that it is better to ap proach national problems from a world viewpoint. In referring to matters of this kind Professor Reinhold Niebuhr, noted authority on the Jewish ques tion, has stated, “Perfect justice cannot be done to both sides, nor will any solution completely satisfy either. The best to be hoped for is the greater justice, the wiser state craft, the minimal wrong, and when all things have been considered, the fairer decision.” FURNACES — FLUES Vacuum Cleaned Prompt Service SAM HUMPHREY’S Tel. 3940 RIGHT DOWN YOUR ALLEY Phone 4716 For Reservations DORSEY’S U-BOWL llth and Willamette