Oregon WEmerald
MARGUERITE WITTWER-WRIGHT GEORGE PEGG
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JEANNE SIMMONDS BOBBIE FULMER
Women’s Editor Advertising Manager
TED HALLOCK, MARILYN SAGE
Associate Editors
JACK L. BILLING &
Managing Editor
i MARYANN THIELEN and
i walt mckinney
Assistant Managing Editors
HERB PENNY
News Editor
BOBOLEE BROPHY and
BRUCE BISHOP
Assistant News Editors
JUNE GOETZE
Assistant Women’s Editor
EDITORIAL BOARD
Tom Kay, Byron Mayo, Bea King, Billie Johna
Faculty Adviser—Dean George Turnbull
Published Daily except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, and during
the final exam periods, by the Associated Students, University of Ore
Entered as second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.
Features and columns in the Emerald reflect the opinions of the
writers. They do not necessarily represent the opinion of the editorial
staff, the student body, or the University.
Gradually the necessary steps to clear up the 13th street traf
fic situation are being taken.
ASUO President Tom Kay has requested heads of Greek
living organizations to ask their members to keep their cars off
the campus during rush hours.
The Emerald has published pictures, cartoons, and editorials,
as well as news stories, covering the problem from every angle
and urging students to cooperate.
The administration has uncovered their hole card by recom
mending a three-step plan to the city council. Dr. Newburn, tak
ing a personal interest in the problem and realizing his weight as
president of an institution which has helped make Eugene one of
the finest cities in the state, has discussed the problem with the
street committee.
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The matter is now up to the city council.
' We realize that the council will hesitate in approving the pro
posed plans. As City Manager Deane Seeger has indicated, log
ging interests in the community object to further restrictions on
their trucks. And naturally the city council is somewhat influ
enced hv the attitudes of an industry economically responsible
for the growth of Eugene. However, the suggestion that through
trucks he ruled off Thirteenth is valid. These heavy rumbling
trucks constitute a hazzard to the student crossing the streets,
and no one who has had classes in Condon or Oregon halls can
deny that the shifting of gears on the corner of Kincaid and Thir
teenth disturbs lectures.
As a representative of 5600 students the Emerald adds its
voice to the requests by University officials.
As citizens of this community we demand that the city council
consider favorably Dr. Newburn’s plans. -
Tf some student is killed by a logging truck on Thirteenth we
can indirectly blame the city council for their indifference.
If University officials are forced to prohibit student-owned
cars on the campus because that is the last resort, then we can
directly blame the city for their indifference.
The traffic situation on the campus has been a long time
coming.
It must be corrected NOW.
Qerman Honorary
During the war the activities of Delta Phi Alpha, the German
honorary society on the campus, were disrupted. If this was
caused by the same kind of feeling which banned the playing of
music by German composers during the first world war, this dis
ruption is doubly regretable.
Literature, music, art—any cultural product of any people,
produced because it expresses some truth or something beautiful
—cannot be bound to one nationality or confined to one time.
.Anything that is truly good or beautiful must belong to all people
capable of appreciating its value.
For this reason an organization such as Delta Phi Alpha,
designed to promote appreciation of the cultural achievements
of some nation or people, should never be influenced by the irra
tional feelings fermented by war. The fact that the Japanese
bombed Pearl Harbor does not cancel out of existence the fact
that the Japanese art is beautiful. The existence of Dachau in Ger
many does not taint the poetry of Goethe or the symphonies of
Beethoven. The color of Marian Anderson’s skin does not change
the excellence of her voice. Steinmetz was a cripple but he was a
great scientist. Some of the greatest medical scientists were Jews.
The tendency of most persons to generalize in their judg
Letter to the ASUO
7 October 1946
ASUO, Executive Council
Dear Sirs:
I have been delegated by- the executive coun
cil of the ISA to submit the following proposal
to the exec council for your thorough and im
partial consideration:
“Moved that the executive council of the ISA
go on record as endorsing the following pro
posed procedure for voting in all ASUO elec
tions :
1. Establishment of polling places in each of
the following buildings:
YMCA
McArthur court
Music building
Library
2. That a committee composed of an equal
number of Greek and Independent students be
present at each polling place while the voting is
being done. The duties of the committee will be
supervisory, and to safeguard against election
fraud at the polls.
3. That at least two days be set aside for
ASUO elections in order to accommodate the
increased number of voters. It is desirable that
Monday and Tuesday of election week be desig
nated as the days for ASUO spring elections.
4. That each student at the time he or she
votes will be required to submit an educational
activities card (University of Oregon registra
tion card). After presentation of the card to the
polling officials, it will be checked against one
of the four master lists of qualified and eligible
voters. If the individual is an eligible voter his
name will be lined out and the above mentioned
card will be stamped with a rubber stamp thus:
“Voted: May20, 1947. Poll No. 1".
It is to be hoped that this proposal will be
adopted. It seems that college students who are
above average citizens can be trusted to vote a
simple ballot in a simple and expeditious man
ner.
In recommending the location of the polling
places consideration has been given to the
centers of student living and daytime activities.
The music building would be of convenience to
the veterans of Hudson and to the sororities
above 15th and Alder. A polling place in**We
Igloo would accommodate the men and wo
men’s dormitories. The library would be an ideal
place for off campus resident students, and the
YMCA would serve students living, near the
lower campus.
We solicit speedv and impartial action.
' HOWARD R. LEMONS
President, ISA
ments of the good or evil, or rightness or wrongness, of any given
subject is responsible for much of the injustice in discrimination
by nationality, race, or religion.
Now, when so much, so infinitely much, depends on tolerant
understanding and unbiased appreciation, the reactivation of
groups such as Delta Phi Alpha must be encouraged. If an appre
ciation of German culture is all that this group accomplishes, its
existence is justified.
Tonight, Delta Phi Alpha begins its reorganizational meet
ings. Advance news indicates that any University student will be
encouraged to join the group as a prospective member. This, then,
is one opportunity for students to broaden their outlook.
The Emerald hopes that many other such opportunities will
arise on the campus. There is a definite lack of appreciation of the
world’s achievements because Avar has overshadowed so many of
them. Now there should be more organizations eager to bring
them to the fore.
‘The Letter’
This afternoon the ASUO executive council will debate action
on ISA proposals to enlarge polling facilities and extend the num
ber of voting days.
The ISA letter, printed on this page, is well thought out, on
the whole. It is true that establishment of polls in the Igloo would
enable students to vote conveniently. It is evident that everyone
is beginning to realize that convenience is the most important
factor involved in voting.
Too bad that students will avoid trekking a few blocks to regis
ter their approval, or disapproval of student administrations, but
•that is the case.
Howard Lemons, ISA president, and letter author, asks for
an equally partitioned supervising committee to be present at
the polls. Good idea. Then no one could complain about the out
come. Lemons further mentions that the committee’s presence
would be a safeguard against fraudulent voting. That statement
contains a serious insinuation, especially when no evidence of
fraud has been uncovered within the past few years.
All students should have at least two days for voting. With
this suggestion we agree. Often class schedules, or other activi
ties, prevent the mass from sandwiching in a vote on the one
appointed day.
Lemon’s suggested presentation of activities card at the polls
is a good one. Previously registration list-checkers have accepted
any identification. Such procedure is fine elsewhere, but in no
way proves that the voter is actually a registered student at this
university.
The I.S.A. letter ends with a plea for “impartial” action. The
only grounds for such a plea are that the current executive coun
cil balance is now unbalanced. Greeks can out-vote independents
on any issue.
The letter, on the surface, is a request for quite ordinary
changes in our voting set-up. Actually it can, and probably will,
become the subject of another heated political battle. The sug
gested changes are good ones . .. ideas which would improve our
system.
The executive council today can decide that the letter is out of
order. They can decide that the suggestions will be accepted and
made official. Or they can assume that, since the independent fac
tion is large and unwieldy, it would be to Greek advantage, to
defeat the changes.
Let's hope that there IS impartial action this afternoon.
TRIAL
BYLAU
“Whereja’ dig up that ratty ole
housekeeper, Dad?” Morphine
asked.
"Hush, son,” I remonstrated.
“The lady has an illustrious past.
She was a big wheel once at a great
university, but times got tough ajd
when they cut expenses, Gilda went
out with the free erasers. She’s a
little down at the hub now.” . . .
Morphine wept.
"My girl is coming over tonight,”
he blubbered. “Think she would
mind making a few bread sand
wiches ?”
I threw up my hands. “Gilda,” I
said, “isn’t socially minded; she
thinks young girls should only be
taught half the alphabet. Let us not
ask for sandwiches. She picks up a
lot of dirt around the house and
that’s good enough for me.”
“Looks like she puts most of it
under the carpet,” Morphine ob
served. I looked at the little bumps
in the rug and decided he might be
right. There came a demanding
knock on the door, and Morphine
lumbered over to open it.
“Father,” he said, leading a weird
creature by the hand, “May I pre
sent Lena Snerd. She’s a big activ
ity girl on the campus.”
She was indeed big enough. “So
nice to have you,” I lied, “won’t you
sit down?”
“No thanks,” she rasped, ‘Til
just lie on the floor.”
“Lena is sophisticated, father,”
Morphine explained.
“Would you care for a swim?” I
offered, “we have a nice drainage
ditch running through the back
yard.”
“I think not,” she drawled, “wa
ter gives me the hives.”
“How about a drink,” I asked.
She brightened imipediateely.
“Got any tobasco sauce?” she
asked.
I was not a little perplexed. “Not
right on hand,” I said, “but per
haps I could rustle some up.”
“Don't bother,” she said, chew
ing reflectively on a corner of the
rug, “I brought my own.”
“Well, perhaps you two would
like to take in a show,” I suggested
desperately. “And get up off the
floor, son!”
“Lena is bored with life,” Mor
phine said, wiping his lips.
“I don’t blame her,” I said, “wM*
an abominable publication.”
(Please turn to page seven)