DregdnW Emerald
MARGUERITE WITTWER-WRIGHT
Editor
GEORGE PEGG
Business Manager
JEANNE SIMMONDS
Women’s Editor
BOBBIE FULMER
Advertising Manager
TED HALLOCK, MARILYN SAGE
Associate Editors
JACK L. BILLINGS
Managing Editor
MARYANN THIELEN
and WALT McKINNEY
Assistant Managing Editors
HERB PENNY
News Editor
BOBOLEE BROPHY
Assistant News Editor
JUNE GOETZE
Assistant Women’s Editor
BERNIE HAMMERBECK
Sports Editor
BILL STRATTON, WALLY HUNTER
Assistant Sports Editors
ROGER TETLOW
Chief Night Editor
DON JUNKS
Staff Photographer
j EDITORIAL BOARD
Tom Kay, Byron Mayo, Bea King, Billie Johns
Faculty Adviser—Dean George Turnbull
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Entered as second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.
Features and columns in the Emerald reflect the opinions of the
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staff, the student body, or the University.
WSC Takes a Hand
On the Washington State college campus the traffic bugaboo
j has also shoved its ugly visage into view. The Washington State
I livergreen, college newspaper, ran a long story announcing new
! .traffic rules.
WSC students apparently weren’t given the chance to help
I solve the congestion problem in their own way—as the Univer
! sity of Oregon administration has allowed here. As far as can be
gathered from the the newstories, the officials in Washington
i simply handed down an arbitrary set of regulations.
The regulation follow:
(1) Driving by permit only will be allowed in an off-limits
traffic area around the campus. Some streets will have no traffic
during class hours. Others may be used during class hours pro
viding the driver has a permit. No night parking will be allowed
in the area without special permit.
(2) Students must register their cars and motorcycles 48
I hours after arrival on the campus. Bringing cars to WSC is dis
couraged.
(3) Overnight parking is allowed only to students in dormi
tories.
(4) Parking in most areas is limited to 30 minutes.
(5) Only visitors are exempt from these special regulations.
Webfoots should consider themselves lucky that as yet they
are still allowed to bring cars to the campus and not required to
, register them. We are equally fortunate in that the administra
tion has enough faith in Tom Kay and the ASUO officers to allow
them to solicit student cooperation during this emergency, rather
than taking immediate compulsory measures.
The Emerald storngly urges all car-owning students to follow
■ the advice and keep their cars off the campus during class hours.
If we cannot do this, if we insist on adding our bit to the conges
tion, we alone are to blame if suddenly the administration issues
such undesirable edicts as imposed on students in Washington.
Telling the Editor
To the Editor:
The apparently money-mad
world seems recently to have en
gulfed the local movie houses as
they surreptitiously boosted their
prices with the beginning of fall
term.
At present movie houses are
playing to capacity houses every
night in the week. Occasionally ex
ceptions occur—but only because
the bill is like a fraternity house
lunch. If their business is running
..ft maximum efficiency, why is an
Increase justified—certainly not be
cause they’re losing money. When
ever any business man thinks he
can take advantage of consumers
merely because they have no alter
native then some social pressure is
needed to correct his attitude.
As businessmen in this locality
are well aware, the spending habits
Qf student* measurably affect com
munity welfare. This is particularly
noticeable in the amusement and
food fields. The income of the aver
age student is not rising—certainly
not the income of veterans.
I say the remedy is to strike
against these exorbitant prices by
refusing to attend them until these
local businessmen realize that the
student group exists not for exploi
tation, but for mutual cooperation
and advantage.
—Bob Johnston
To the Editor:
In his last column Larry Lau pre
sumed to join the ranks of Addison
and Steele. Mr. Lau’s satire was
brilliant though a bit unsuhtle.
However.Larry neglected to men
tion one of the prominent charac
ters in the fable. I take the liberty
of adding that character now.
Gorgo the Greek wolf was not
only the most powerful animal in
the woods, he was also the warmest
Quest Editorial. •.
Let's Qo, Ducks
The Emerald strongly urges all car-owning students to follow
leadership, a plea to which we naturally can respond. For, after
all, are we not all leaders, at least potential ones? Are we not a
select group of youth, elevated in talent and ability to those who
do not pursue a college education? You bet we are, and we dash
madly across the campus to whomever it is that is currently
calling for leaders. Not all of us become leaders, but we submit
ourselves to a sort of servitude that will give us training for lead
ership so that, on some more remote date, we may fulfill the capa
bilities inherent within our makeup.
“COME ON, OREGON—LET'S GO!” There is work to be
done on various committees that are certain to make various
events total arid unsurpassed successes. And we, as committee
members are vital to that organization. The success of each en
deavor depends entirely upon us as individuals. There are home
coming committees, with all the attendant work; social com
mittees of various organizations and houses—dances to be
arranged for, decorations put up, and all that sort of thing; there
are political activities of a campus nature that are pleading for
help. We must enlist, we must serve, we have our duty to fulfill.
“COME ON, OREGON—LET’S GO!” To the Libe? Not to
night ; tonight is committee night. Tonight we are engaged in the
arduous task of planning a Big Event, one of the Biggest Events
of the Year. Who knows, perhaps as a result of our effort, which
shall (of course) be widely and wildly acclaimed, we may get
some student body office next year in order that we may be more
effective in the direction of some of these essential activities.
To the Libe? No, you go; you are not interested in the social
activities of the school. You lack school spirit; you need an edu
cation. We are engaged in living as well as becoming educated.
The matter of developing social graces, of perfecting our capa
bilities in various fields of endeavor, is more necessary than what
you call an education. You go to the Libe; whatever facts you
may learn shall be forgotten ten years hence, while the training
we have undergone shall endure literally forever. You develop
your mental approach, your intellectual habits; that is well
enough for you. But we are leaders; and we shall develop our
capacity to lead.
“COME ON, OREGON—LET’S GO!”—and may I suggest
a destination? —Roy Francis
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By Pops Windus
OFF LABEL
With the start of a new term
comes the start of new things in
the music world, both on the cam
pus and in the great world beyond
the gates of Eugene.
Once again Ted “Squirrel” Hal
lock has conceived and brought
forth into this world a band. From
what I have heard of it at rehear
sals, it promises to be a great thing.
With Bob Hayes and Wally Heider
writing like mad all this summer,
and things coming in from Tommy
Todd in L.A., etc., starting rehear
sal two weeks early, plus new blood,
things are shaping up fast. Inciden
tally, the band that played at the
“Hello Dance” was a small combo
from the big band. What kicks.
Strictly a jam job, the boys really
played for all. Wish I could hear
more of them.
Suds “Foxie Grandpa” Chaney, as
you must know, is the prop of
KUGN’S “After Hours” radio show.
Friend Chaney has come forth with
a fine idea for those of you who love
your Jazz (yes, it's spelled with a
capital) hot. Tied down with re
quests for all the latest commercial
pap, he is making an effort to give
a place on the show to Jazz classics.
In order to do this, he has started a
“Collectors’ Corner.” No gismo, ho
top of your cabbies head to send in:
just the title of your favorite hot
disc. Judges are the aforementioned
Suds and Teddy, and yours truly.
Just a blurb in the latest Beat,
but it signifies things to come, when
the U.S. might be devoid of its only
Original Art form. The Don Redman
band has or rather is making a tour
of Europe, with Denmark as its
first stop. Redman has such stars
with him as Peanuts Holland, late
of C. Barnet, and Don Byas, proba
bly the best of tenor men going.
As I say, this is only the begin
ning of the exodus of top flight Ne
gro bands to the continent. The
Duke and Armstrong are soon to
follow, plus many others. And they
won’t want to come back, either.
Gone is the bigotry, gone is the
petty, small minded hotel manager
who refused King Louis a room,
asking him to sleep in the gutter.
Rather there is treatment as an
other human being and nothing else.
Must be wonderful and sooo differ
ent. Oh, happy KKK. Who knows,
we may have a chapter on this cam
pus.
and fattest. Gorgo, like all fur-bear
ing animals, had lice. Since Gorgo
was the warmest and fattest animal
in the woods, it followed that the
louse that lived on Gorgo was the
biggest and fattest louse. This
louse was so big and so fat that he
would tolerate no other lice on Gor
go and made all the other lice, who
were smaller than he, live on the
lesser animals. Of course none of
the lice lived on Teddy Squirrel be
cause Teddy was so small and
skinny that not even the littlest
louse could have been happy there.
When Gorgo the Greek wolf was
driven out of the woods and died
the big fat louse didn't have any
thing to live on so he went to the
other lice but they spurned him as
he had once spumed them. Finally,
in desperation, the big fat louse
crawled into Teddy Squirrel’s fur
taut since Teddy was so small an J
skinny he couldn’t support such a
big louse and the louse died.
Suds Chaney
To the Editor:
Temperatures in the University
library have varied during the three
days I observed them, from 79 to
82 degrees. Normal room tempera
ture in classrooms is controlled, as
far as I have been able to find out,
between 68 and 72 degrees.
Yeah, I mean it’s too hot in the
library for even staying awake,
much less studying. The heating
system is controlled by thermostats,
would whoever Is in charge please
consider lowering the indicators to
at most 72 degrees.
Rex Gunn
AS WE
SEE IT
By DALE HARLAN
It is becoming increasingly ap
parent that no program of post
war action is to come from the Re
publican party in the few weeks
remaining before the important
congressional elections in Novem
ber.
Instead, the leadership of the mi
nority party seems content to rest
its case on a slogan. The slogan is
“Red Fascism.”
Needless to say, this slogan does
not set well with the few men of
the Republican party who are fin
progressive liberals. But the 1 o
eral element does not contrn
Republican party.
The Republicans, as a party
been working for fourteen yes
"sell” America the idea that
forward step taken by this nat
or its government is Communis
and its campaign argument in tb
year’s election will be that the po
cies of the late Franklin D. Roose
velt and President Harry S. Tru
man are “Red Fascism.”
Chairman Carroll Reece of the
RepublicanNational committee has
made many speeches against the
administration’s policies and about
the only argument he has used is
that they are “Red Fascist.”
Applying Mr. Reece’s argument
to the majority of the American
people, who four times elected Mr.
Roosevelt to the Presidency:
If you believe in exteending price
control long enough to prevent a
post-war inflation, you are not
worthy of the status of citizenship
in America; you are a “Red Fas
cist.”
If you believe your government
owes it to the servicemen who de
fended this country a little while
ago to make decent homes available
to them and their families at a price
they can pay, you- should be called
on the carpet and grilled as an un
American.
If you believe the American peo
ple who paid three billion dollars
to deve.lop the first practical use of
atomic energy have a right to share
in the benefits of later, more con
structive uses of that great force;
if you believe no corporation should
be allowed to buy up the patent
rights on that discovery and use or
abuse them for its own profit, you
are a “Red Fascist.”
So says Chairman Reece and the
party leadership that made him the
spokesman for the Republican par
ty. In their actions, both in and out
side congress, the Southern Demo
crats, or at least a majority of them,
are just as guilty as are the Repub
licans.
The Democrats may use slogans,
too, in this campaign. Let us hope,
however, that any slogans they may
use will K additions to the pro
gram of action which has been the
policy of the Roosevelt-Truman ad
ministrations.
The Democrats shall have to be
excused from giving out any slogan
to answer the one already adopted
by the Republicans. If there are
“Reds” in America, they do not in
tend to dignify them as the target
of their campaign. If there are
“Fascists” in America, they do
not intend to misapply that name
to the good Americans, their neigh
bors and fellow-citizens, who may
decide to vote Republican.
We would all like to see the real
Issues of this campaign debated
out, point for point. We would like
to see the candidates meet on the
traditional American debating plat
form with its rules of fair play and
good sportsmanship. Along with its
privileges a political party has cer
tain inheritent duties, one of the
most important of these is to keep
the public informed of the real
truth on any given issue at any
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