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Oregon W Emerald MARGUERITE WITTWER-WRIGHT Editor GEORGE PEGG Business Manager BOB FRAZIER, TED GOODWIN Associates to Editor JACK I* BILLINGS Managing Editor BILL YATES News Editor MARYANN THIELEN and walt mckinney Assistant Managing Editors BOBOLEE BROPHY and BRUCE BISHOP Assistant News Editors JEANNE SIMMONDS Women’s Editor PAT THOMPSON Executive Secretary JUNE GOETZE Assistant Women’s Editor BOBBIE FULMER Advertising Manager BERNIE HAMMERBECK Sports Editor BILL STRATTON, WALLY HUNTER Assistant Sports Editors ROGER TETLOW DON JONES Chief Night Editor Staff Photographer Signed editorial features and columns in the Emerald reflect the opin ions of the writers. They do not necessarily represent the opinion of the editorial staff, thp student body, or the University. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Enfant Terrible 1946 didn’t exactly die—because 1947 gives every indica tion of carrying on in the old year style. 1947 inherited all the ailments and less of the hopes of the 365-day-old who was ushered in on the eve of a post-war world. Quasi-peace was new on January 1, 1946 and quasi-peace was middle-aged and bored on January 1, 1947. Little 1947 isn’t in the cherubic tradition. He’s plagued by international infirmities, national maladies, and individual ills. But he has courage. And courage may be the solution. There is a contagion about courage much as there is about fear, and 1947 promises a finish fight to put the former upper most. The decision may rest on whether the fight begins on an international, a national, or an individual level. The lowest plane offers the most logical beginning for the subsequent pyramidal spread which must follow. But then in dividual ills may be effected by the maladies of the nations. The middle bracket, where the contagion of courage can -spread both ways, may be the better choice. Can national courage build the individual without sacrificing the internation al ? In history it never has, but .... The third choice, and the one which offers the widest field for activity—international—is being given a contemporary test. The proof remains, perhaps, for 1947. We can think and act internationally, nationally, and/or individually, but the bulk of our endeavor must obviously con cern the latter. If we haven’t already, let us add this to our New Year’s resolutions: Resolved: to rally to the support of 1947 with moral and physical encouragement that it may shake the inherited diseases of the ages and give 1948 that “bright new world.” Greeks at Willamette University of Oregon observers will be glad to note that ceremonies tonight begin the installation of three national •fraternities on the campus of our older sister institution, Wil lamette university. Not only the brother houses of the fraternities, lleta Theta I’i, Sigma Chi, and l’hi Delta Theta, but individuals interested in the spread and betterment of the entire Greek system con gratulate Willamette on the acceptance of three organizations nationally distinguished by alumni like Wendell Willkie and 'Milt Caniff. Willamette, like Oregon, will find that the fraternity sys tem is important to the college as well as to the members of the chapters and alumni. Fraternities and sororities increase the supply of desirable living quarters, and are economically sound because of provid ing room and board at cost. Their social advantages for mem bers arc well-known. And the intangible benefits to character and personality derived from membership in organizations based on brotherhood can only be measured by individual reali zation. It may be well to mention that the Greek system is also susceptible to the pitfalls any organization must guard against. .While the fraternities at Willamette are in the process of be coming well established, their members undoubtedly will take care to set an admirable example and live up to their high ideals. Pater, as has happened occasionally at Oregon, Greeks max forget their original purpose and use their closely-knit Nations for their own selfish purposes, either political’ or otherwise. Secondly, there is always the danger that any necessarily m ^ 4—ut'zori' ^ Copyright 1946 by Esquire, Inc.. 919 N. Michigan Avenue. Chicago 11, III. “It's equipped ivith rudar to spot wolves" ^ ...— Primer for Freshmen No. 1—Breaking Into the Joint You may think you have all your buttons but don’t be too sure about it because things may happen that will jar you to your new synthetic heels. On the first morning after rising with the sun and completing the face washing, hair combing and necktie tying business, you will start for the Center of learning. When you are a fraction of a mile from the door you will find a line. Being normal you will assume that the line goes to the cafeteria door and so you will take your place and start thinking of coffee, eggs, and toast. (Stop reading here and bow your head. This will denote the pass ing of hours of time.) The line does n’t go to the cafeteria door. It goes to the door marked “Entrance.” Coming to the door you will find that you were in the wrong line be cause you don’t have proof of birth, parents, or previous academic ser vitude; so you go outside and find another line. This goes on. After several weeks you think you are accepted; but you find that you must then sit down in a chair and punch holes in a mysterious piece of cardboard. You try to re call how you did it in kindergarten (Please turn to page seven) ■ SOA BOX nEfinv IfBKDV By RAY FRANCIS Happy New Year. Somehow or other, it occurs to me that my wishing the student population in general a happy new year is not particularly original with me. It seems that I have heard it somewhere before, that the say ing is currently on everyone’s lips, a standard greeting after what should have been a happy Christ mas vacation. The phrase itself is very inter esting; by its very nature it sug gests that there was something wrong with the year just passed; it should be noted that we seldom beg that one’s happiness is to continue throughout the ensuing year. In stead, we assume that the unhappi ness of the past twelvemonth was such as to warrant expression that there be some sort of change in things as to result in the new*year being somehow a happy one. The traditional reaction is, of course, the creation of a set of useless reso lutions which we do not want and which we have no intention of keep ing and which we take great pleas ure in breaking. Let us pretend, for the moment, that this matter of living is a sort of business engagement; this as sumption would enable us to borrow some techniques from the horribly real business world. First, leave that we should borrow their idea of an inventory, and then apply that idea to ourselves and our peculiar situations as college students. The biggest step is, of course, a personal inventory in which we seek out a true acquaintanceship with our selves. It is surprising just how good a friend one can be to himself if he would but try. Another step, and terrifyingly difficult, is to become aware of our goals and valuations. That being done, the simple task remaining is the correlation of our stock of our selves, our good and bad points, and whatsoever goal we have in mind. If the process is done intelligently, the individual has a very good op portunity for finding the new year a happy one. Or at least, a more successful one. exclusive and traditionally secret organization, like a fraternity, will become so imbued with its singularity that its members will hold themselves aloof from unaffiliated students. This is when accusations of “snobbishness” arise, and the Greek v es d v re spec i of the universities. It ma\ be v, ell for Oregon fraternities and sororities to ■ d>s r\. tin pivgrts> t f the Greeks at Willamette, and to re lei’.■■■ ■ 1 'n-m.M-'' . - that brotherhood which the Salem campus has recognized. AS WE * SEE IT By DALE HARLAN The Republican presidential aspi rant who appears to have suffered most from the recent result is Har old E. Stassen of Minnesota. His stock was enhanced a great deal when he was hand-picked by Presi dent Roosevelt to represent the U. S. at the first United Nations Con ference at San Francisco. He has an enviable war record, having been for two years a very efficient mem ber of Admiral Halsey’s very effi cient staff. When he returned from the navy^ to start his bid for the presidency, 7 many of Stassen’s old friends told him he would be placed at a great disadvantage as against rivals run ning for office in this year’s elec tions, if he did not also wage an ac tive campaign by accepting nomina tion for the senate. Altruistic Stassen firmly rejected this ad vice, on the ground that his taste did not run to legislative work and he was not going to seek a job that he did not want just for the sake of being a candidate for something. His stand in refusing this senator ial nomination is certainly an ad mirable and altruistic one. The prin ciples this comparatively young pol itician stands for are often some what conspicuous for their absence in American political life. It is refreshing to have young Stassen punctiliously eschew nor mal political convention and step right up to the front of the platform and say, clear and strong: “I am a candidate for president.” Stassen's action was highlighted by contrast. For, on the very same day, Senator Vandenburg of Michi gan, had backed away shyly saying he was not a candidate. Subsequent ly, Governor Dewey of New York said he was not ready to announce his candidacy. The day before, Sen ator Taft had said he wasn’t an “ac tive candidate,” whatever that means. Egotism To be a politician you must pos sess a natural egotism. By the very act of announcing he isn’t a candi date for a certain office the politi cian exhibits his egotism; he is ego tistical to even assume anyone ex pects him to run. Despite this ego tism they can become big shrinking violets when anyone dares suggest they might like to be president. And, ail the time their wives know the secret. Figuratively, they probably have their acceptance speeches pre pared. They can even feel the chilly January wind that sweeps across the Capitol steps where presidents take their oaths. There is nothing quite like the etiquette that has grown up about this business of being presidential candidate. All of our political punc tilio is strange, but the code of pres idential candidates is the strangest and most amusing. (straight Lies It permits an otherwise honest man to stand up and tell a straight forward lie, which he knows he is j telling and the public knows he is I telling. We'might take this advised ly, for some who now are denying they are candidates are doing quite | a lot to promote their candidacies— ] and some of them got busy long ago. In one of his famous essays on government, Woodrow Wilson once write: “The office should seek the man.” We love that old saying and like to think it is true. But it is a good bit like the current hit song, ' “Did You Ever See a Dream Walk ing? "Did anyone ever see an office out seeking a man? Not if the r&ajfcr saw the office first—and he usually does. Harold Stassen is out seeking and (Please turn to paye seven)
