Oregon W Emerald MARGUERITE WITTWFR-WRIGHT Editor GEORGE PEGG Business Manager TED GOODWIN, BOB FRAZIER Associates to Editor Managing Editor News Editor BERNIE HAMMERBECK Sports Editor DON FAIR, WALLY HUNTER Assistant Sports Editors walt McKinney Assistant Managing Editors BOBOLEE BROPHY and JUNE GOETZE Assistant News Editors JEANNE S1MMONDS Feature Editor DOUG EDEN Advertising Manager REPORTERS Beth Basler, Leonard Bergstrom, Beltye Jo Bledsoe, Hugh Davies, Diana Dye, Ruth Eades, Virginia Fletcher, Lejeune Griffith, John Jensen, Donna Kletzing, Dick Laird, June Mc Connell, Kathleen Mullarky, Barbara Murphy, Laura Olson, Joan O’Neill, Nancy Peterson, Marjorie Rambo, Katherine Richardson, Adelaide Schooler, Helen Sherman, Jackie Tetz, Gloria Talarico, Sally Waller, Hans Wold, Phyllis Kohlmeier. MEMBER —ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE SERVICE _ Signed editorial 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. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Happy Dads’ Day Welcome to Oregon, Dads'-. . . and Granddads! Remember the first time you came to the campus for Dads’ Day, in ’43? President Erb made the speeches, and the Ducks played the Beavers in the Igloo—and won, 50-35. Your son was a freshman then .... Remember how proud he was of the campus . . . how he insisted on introducing you to all those people whose names you couldn’t remember . . . how he kept talking about that special girl .... how young he was? Remember how worried you were about the war? And he didn’t want you to know he was thinking about it too. Most of his fraternity brothers were already gone; both of you knew it wouldn’t be long. And, actually, it wasn’t a very happy Dads’ Day because it might have been the last. . . . Now you’re back again—you’ve been looking forward to this weekend. You haven’t seen much of your son since he came back and married that special girl. lie’s a sophomore now . . . and he’s no longer young. He’s in a hurry to get out of school, to find a permanent home, for his family, to work, to live. But he’s even more proud of the campus than before; he still wants you to meet all the new friends lie’s made. He wants to drag you down to Tay lor’s or the Side . . . just to recapture for you the collegiate spirit he hasn’t quite been able to find in himself. He’s so proud of you, Granddad. Ever since his own baby was born he’s begun to understand how you have felt all those years. lie wants you to feel now that this time the treat’s on him—he. wants to show you that this is a happy Dads’ Day. Union NoRU/¥f; ft*. ( THE CAIHPUS (IS YOURS DAD. .WSfl ) A-lS-47 VETERANS 1 Any veteran who has not re ceived his January 1947 subsis tence allowance should contact Philip Lynch, contact representa tive, veterans administration, room 110, physical education building. A thorough undercover survey by the field staff of the Disabled American Veterans has uncovered some disturbing conditions in vet erans administration regional of fices. Conditions are particularly bad, (“lousy” according to the DAV report) in the handling of Vet benefit checks. Quietly, DAV officials turned over their findings to General Omar Bradley, Veterans Adminis tration chief. General Bradley ordered immediate and drastic re forms—in both procedures and personnel. All this happened a little over a month ago and now the DAV is back on the job in an effort to learn whether the drastic overhaul ordered is* in fact im proving the situation. Survey Made DA V’s field sfhff decided to make the survey late last year because of a growing flood of com plaints. These complaints were mostly from vets in college and the just plain disabled that their benefit checks were weeks, yes, even months late. This large, well-trained field staff went to work at regional levels, without lotting even VA regional manag ers in on their objectives. This of course was to eliminate any possibilities of a “cover-up” by VA officials. While the check delays were blamed on lack of personnel in some instances the primary diffi culty laid to “indifference and un concern” on the part of many em ployees. DAV investigators found that some offices required . two months to pay simple adjusted awards, two to three months to Expert Radio Repairing 24 Hour Service ENDICOTTS Radio and Appliance Service Down from the Lemon-O on Alder Phone 5739 pay benefits under public laws 16 and 346, and 90 days to get out monthly subsistence checks. Lack Efficiency. The report went on to say, “ . . . it is the consensus that it is not the lack of personnel . . . but rather the lack of efficient per sonnel that is responsible for the deplorable state of affairs. . . .” This statement would undoubtedly be readily seconded by most of the veterans on this campus. Both the investigation and the VA’s immediate reaction are a big feather in the cap of the DAV. The smallest of the original three vet groups, it was the first to win real action in a problem that has been plaguing veterans for months. R. J. Gridley, training officer, veterans guidance center, has in formation available on foreign universities. He will be glad to advise with any veteran thinking about attending one of the many recommended foreign schools. OF ALL THINGS! By LeJEUNE GRIFFITH Manhattan manholes -— Manhat tan has been getting a little variety in strikes lately with the picketing of open manholes by an A.F.L. elec trical workers union. Men carrying the traditional cardboards have . been marching in tight circles around open manholes, wherein la borers from a New York telegraph and subway company work. Union spotters tour the city looking for open manholes. When one is spotted which has conduit re pairers in it, the alarm goes back-f to union headquarters. The dis patcher there shouts “open man hole,” and pickets scurry for signs and race madly to the scene, try ing to get there before the manhole is closed. Occasionally the marching routinue is broken by strikers yell ing derogatory remarks at the workers below. The occupational hazard of the strike — dizziness — is combated by walking slowly and changing the march from clock to counter clockwise. » * * For collectors Of sentences end ing with prepositions: “Why did you bring that book I don’t like to read to be out of up for.” Dog facts — Scientists believe a dog’s bark is an effort to imitate the human voice. 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