Oregon W Emerald
■MARGUERITE WITTWER-WRIGHT
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Bertie’s Tempest
Arc the 675 student enrolled in the principles of economics
course here embarking on the Red party line via their text, Gem
mill and Blodgett's "Economics : Principles and Problems” ?
The United States army has temporarily withdrawn the book
from its Armed Forces institute courses after a Chicago Tribune
attack on the text and President DeWitt Emery, of the National
Small Businessmen’s clubs, tagged it “pure communism.”
Taking up the issue Dean Howard Preston of the University
of Washington college of economics and business, declared:
"We’re using the hook here for the second year. We consider our
texts carefully before we adopt them, and we don’t intend to
worry now just because Bertie McCormick stirs up a little temp
est in a teapot for his Chicago Tribune. The course here certainly
isn’t communistic and the hook never has impressed me as such.”*
Equally emphatic in his denial of the alleged communism of
the text, Dean J. H_Cilhert, of the University of Oregon college
of liberal arts, said: “Any statement that the hook is communistic
and radical is too fantastic to deserve serious attention. It is
soundly written by men who know their subject thoroughly and
the principles set forth have no radical implication.”
Any thoughtful student must be grateful to educators like
Dean Preston and Dean Gilbert for their dispassionate attitude.
Too often public opinion is aroused by “teapot* tempests” like
Colonel McCormick’s. Too often laymen storm a campus with
much shaking of the fists and donning of white sheets to influ
ence educators. And too seldom do the educators defend their
convictions and beat down the opponents.
So the army has banned a book. In itself that may seem like
a small incident. Fools will shrug their shoulders, muttering inco
herently some stock phrase like., “They ought to kno\v what
they’re doing, let ’em alone.” Maybe next time a book won't be
merely banned—it will be burned, in public, with a band playing
“There’s a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere” or
“Atomic Power.” Then it will oe too late for shoulder-shrug
ging —
Again, let us be grateful for men like Dean Preston and Dean
Gilbert.
* The University of Washington Daily, October 9, 1946.
Nickel, Nickel, Nickel...
Cokes at the game this afternoon will sell for one nickel, and
anyone who pays ten cents is simply a sucker.
At the last meeting of the educational activities board there
Avas considerable discussion over the price of the pause that re
freshes. It seems that eager customers were leaving dimes with
the concessions boys and not waiting for the change. It is reported
that the amateur merchants were not adverse to the extra nickels.
Some members of the board, which handles the concession and
directs the profits to the ASUO cache, ivere of the opinion that
if the public was willing to pay a dime why sell soft drinks for
five cents. The final decision was that the price increase ivas
unnecessary and inflationary.
Now there will be signs placed around the grandstands to
dispel any doubts about prices. Those who are careless enough
to continue paying ten cents are only inviting an over-all price
Increase.
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M' BAYONET
Word to the Wise
When the referee drops his handkerchief to decree a penalty
on Oregon, the announcer broadcasting the game from the press
box this afternoon may turn off the microphone until Oregon
jeering subsides. And if the sort of jeering prevalent at the last
home game continues, Oregon gridiron battles may no longer be
aired.
It seems that some listeners object to the vulgarities indulged
in by Webfoot rooters. It seems that calling the referee a bastard
gives radio fans an unfavorable impression of the Oregon student
body. Furthermore, profanity.is frowned on by radio officials.
Evidently, individuals who vent their sorrows audibly and
picturesquely are tolerated because their words are lost in the
noise of the crowd. Radio fans can’t see the blue cloud that some
times hovers over the grandstands. It is only when the rooting
section chants in unison such expressions that broadcasers
shudder.
It isn’t the in-unison counting-off of penalty yardage that
causes the engineers to grab for the mike. It's the epithet at the
end. If rooters could substitute a descriptive word such as “you
knothead” instead of the reference to the official’s ancestry,
games no doubt will continue to be broadcast.
Thanks, But No Thanks
Four hundred and fifty-four years ago things were beginning
to shape up over here. Yet iif 1492 few people realized it. If they
had, perhaps these things would not have been left to time and
natural selection. Perhaps our curious benefactor would have
rowed back to the galleon with a frantic cry of 'Eastward Ho !”
The history department tells us he didn’t, however—and with
all due credit where due we now have New York City, grapefruit,
the Mills brothers, Koroseal, the Chicago Tribune, LSMFT,
Adler’s “elevators”, and the University of Oregon. Without
which we could not do.
Few of the 131 million pause to consider the import. We give
at Christmas, imbibe at New Year, dress on Easter, and cheer on
the Fourth of July—yet on October 12 we tread the rut with no
commemoration.
Without the great donation of Christopher Columbus, Cali
fornia would not have existed as such, and tomato juice would
now face us at the breakfast table instead of oranges. With no
thirteen colonies, our country’s flag might have had 1200 stripes.
If America had not been discovered, the pilgrims would not
have ensued—an dthe speckled variety of domestic hen would
have gone nameless. Pittsburgh would not have become what it
is—and without the steel industry, how would one open bottles ?
Indigent to the America that Mr. Columbus prompted are
rubber bands. Without them, male society of today would be
revealed with visible shirt tails.
Without the discovery, we might finally add, that members
of the Siuslaw tribe would be staffing the economics department.
It is obvious that little thought is required to reach a conclu
sion. The great man deserves our praise and reverence. Services
in observance of Columbus Day will be held on the steps of the
library at 3 :45.
Liberalism is trust of people, tempered by prudence; conser
vatism is distrust of people, tempered by fear.—-Gladstone.
A manly assertion by each of his individual rights and a manly
concession of equal rights to every other man, is the law of good
citizenship.—Benjamin Harris.
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LABEL
By POPS WINDUS
As with all famous men, more
and more rumors are growing up
around the disappearance and al
most certain death of Major Glenn
Miller. The latest is that he is not
dead, or lost, or nuttin’, but is con
fined to a Florida rest home, from
whence he will soon suddenly pop
forth, hale and hearty. Although
Mrs. Miller and his close friends do
not believe that he is dead, there
still is no definite proof to the con
trary. So we wait, hopefully, for
even those who didn’t like his mu
sic, in its sweet-swing vein, did like
him for himself. -tt
Those of you who listen to After
Hours on KUGN every night, heerd
T. Hallock’s new band Re-Boping
forth last Thursday. To the new
listener, the band sounded fine, but
to one who had heard it all through
rehearsals and stuff, it sounded
rough in spots, and smooth in oth
ers. Especially at fault were the
brass, sounding either a bit sharp
or flat. Best sounding were the
saxes, who at times made me think
of a big name band, so smooth was
their phrasing and intonation. And,
as always, big Norm on keys killed
me. What a man. On the whole,
however, the crew sounded good. A
thing to watch.
The “I’m glad it’s America dept.
Pat Mahara, a Catholic, and wife
of bandleader Sam Donahue, a Prot
estant, gave birth Sept. 24 to a boy
at Beth Isral, a Jewish hospital,
while Sam and the band played a
colored date in Pittsburgh. And the
child can still grow up to be presi
dent.
Hottest thing in the biz is the Joe
Mooney Quartet, atomizing every
body and everything in the east.
Combo was on the Whiteman air
show last Sunday, and except for
slight nervousness, were terrific,
mad, great, all geniuses, and quite
possibly the greatest thing to hit
the biz in the last ten years. For
those of you who missed them be
fore they will have another air
shot on the 17th of this month on
the Chesterfield supper club. Give
a listen and be thrilled.
The “I wish I knew why” depart
ment.
Next week we will have Jackson
Teagarden and his band for the
Homecoming dance. Old news, I
know. But what isn’t, is that we
could have had Count Basie and his
great band on that night, if the Ed.
activities office had taken the time
or energy to send out feelers to the
various bookers. Or we could have
booked Woody Herman in this sum
mer, if someone had been on the
ball. It certainly wasn’t a fear of
not making any money, or of even
breaking even, so what is the trou- .
ble.
And if we want to get nas$y, ,
what about the ruling made last
winter or spring term prohibiting
‘ outside” bands, on the grounds
that too many non-college people
got in, and caused trouble? All I
can say is that it is a shame that we
can’t have really good music, when
it was available, but must be hand
ed a band with a name, but nothing
else. Mr. T. has seen his better days,
and they were good days, too, be
lieve me.
The Democratic League of Chi*
na has re-drafted a proposal to be
come a third party and bring about
a compromise there.
GRACE LUTHERAN
CHURCH
Rev. W. B. dialer, pastor
Church School, 9:45;a.m.
Worship Service at 11 a.in.
Gamma Delta meeting for
University students at 5:30 p.m.