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Take It From There
The Pacific Northwest College Congress, which met for
the second time at the Reed college campus in March, was an
outstanding succes: as far as the meetings in Portland are
concerned. As the first student organization in the world to
receive official recognition by the United Rations, and with
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as an official advisor as well as
a guest speaker, PNCC has received wide-spread attention
and interest. Commending the work of the Congress, the Ore
eon State Barometer said editorially:
Resolutions were far more concrete and showed more famili
arity with United Nations problems than did those of the first
congress. Delegates were generally better informed, more ef
ficient, and better qualified than were previous delegates.
Certainly the aim of the Congress to stimulate college
students to a fuller acceptance of their responsibilities for good
government, to probe student thinking on world problems,
to emphasize o student participation in world affairs, and to
provide a medium for expression of student thought was suc
cessful as far as the delegates themselves are concerned.
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But that is not enough. If the impact of the Congress on
the delegates rests within them, the Congress is worthless—
as the Oregon Daily Emerald said last year, “ I he impact of
the Congress and its interest in the United Nations must be
transmitted to the students and through them to the rest of
the nation."
For this reason, we of the University of Oregon have
reason to be proud of Ted Hallock and to appreciate his dy
namic, driving insistence that students must be informed, must
think, must act; that our ability to grasp the importance of
endeavors such as PNCC, our reaction to the resolutions, our
concern with United Nations, our actions reflecting and im
parting meaning to pur thoughts are of primary importance.
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Quoting again the OSC Barometer:
University of Oregon sent, as one of its delegates, Ted Hal
iock, a senior in journalism. The irrepressible Ted, often the
Peck’s Bad Boy of Portland and Oregon eampus affairs, did an
inmsually good job despite his habitual overbearing attitude. He
was complimented as the one committee chairman who seemed
to know meeting procedure. Hailoek was everywhere, offering
suggestions, mailing motions, handshaking, phoning stories to
tire Emerald, and reflecting unbounded enthusiasm for the whole
affair until the last gavel rapped. At limes he became too ener
getic, but this was far better under the circumstances than apathy
or displays of childish temper.
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We are proud of the job Hallock did at Reed. We are even
more proud of the job he is doing now to bring the meaning
and actions of PNCC to the University students and the
people of Lane county. Making good use of his associations
with local radio stations, be has arranged special broadcasts,
j.ast night there was a re-broadcast of Mrs. Roosevelt's speech
and a panel discussion. Tonight, Hallock and Catherine Crom
bie, the* other delegate from the University, will be heard
from 8:45 to 9 p. m. over KUGN and KOAC. Xext week, the
J’XCC resolutions will be presented to the students at a special
assembly.
The final success of this movement, nevertheless, depends
directly on the students themselves. The sponsors of PNCC
and our delegates can only start the ball rolling. It is up to
us—all of us who are conscious of the influence of world affairs
on each of us individually and who recognize our own re
sponsibilities in world affairs—to turn the original motion into
an avalanch.
Suggestion to business office executives in Johnson ball:
to eliminate those long futile queues before open windows
not being serviced either hire adequate helpers or close the
useless windows.
Requiescat in Pace
Despite the definite unsettledness of international affair,
apparently the people of these United States have enough
faith to allow the Selective Service act fo ‘fold its tents and
quietly steal away.’
Only by small stories on the front pages of newspapers
was the death of the act, which directly effected one-third of
the nation’s population, noted. It may be construed as an
evidence of faith in international organizations. It may be
construed as evidence of narrow-minded political pressure. It
may be construed as evidence of military confidence in the
ability to maintain an adequate defensive organization with
out the draft. Probably all and none are true.
P'or six and a half years since September 16, 1940, the
Selective Service administration has effectively, and for the
most part efficiently operated. Except for brief interludes in
war times, the United States has for 150 years effectively and
efficiently looked to its defenses without the benefit of such
a law. No one will contend its necessity in war, but they will
in peace. This—faith in the United States, rather than the
United Nations, politics, and/or military confidence offers
the final requiem to—Selective Service, Born: September 16,
1940. Died: March 31, 1947. May it ever rest in PEACE.
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By DALE HARLAN
All planning, be it economic, so
cial or political, must take account
of a great acceleration, during and
after the war, of the drift of popu
lation from the farms and small
towns of the east.
In Washington’s day, four out of
five Americans lived on farms and
nine out of ten of our people lived
east of the Appalachian Highlands.
In Lincoln’s day, about half of our
population derived their livelihood
from the farm and some nine out of
ten of our people resided east of
the Mississippi. In our time one
agricultural worker feeds 16 Amer
icans and an unknown number of
foreigners. But of even greater
significance to all planning is the
continued shift of the population
center westward until one out of
every four Americans calls one of
the states west of the Mississippi
his home now.
Adjustments
This column is here concerned
not with the economic or social con
sequences of this trend, but with
the political adjustments which
may be necessary. In a federal de
mocracy such as ours political pow
er is based on the massing of popu
lation and the power inherent with
such massing when it comes to elec
tions and representation in the gov
ernment. Hence party leaders must
anticipate the long range meaning
of population drifts.
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Western States
As a result of these population
shifts, the greatest gains are not
in the older industrial states, but
in the West and Southwest. States
such as Oregon, Washington, and
California will undoubtedly gain
more congressmen, delegates in na
tional conventions and electors in
presidential elections as a result of
reapportionment that will be made
following the census of 1950. As
pointed out, before the population
shift is not only from the east to
the west, but from the farm to the
city as well. Consequently, state
wide candidates, including candi
dates for United States senator
ships, will come more frequently
from the cities and will have to
slant their appeals to urban dwell
ers.
The Republican party’s present
thinking and past habits stamp it
as a Northern and Eastern small
town and rural party. To hold its
own with these population shifts,
the Republican party must shape
its policies to satisfy the needs of
urban voters .If the Republican par
ty is to regain complete power in
1948 it must take this factor into
consideration when legislating on
financial and labor matters.
CLASSIFIED
WE SERVE meals to students—
767 E. 15th.
PRE-EASTER MEETINGS
Theme:
"THE OLD RUGGED CROSS"
Each Evening at 7:30
WED. “THE ATTRACTION OF THE CROSS”
THURS. “THE BLOOD OF THE CROSS”
Candlelight Communion Service
FRIDAY “THE GLORY OF THE CROSS”
Choir will sing “THE SEVEN LAST WORDS OF CHRIST”
by DuBois
EASTER SUNDAY: 2 morning services, 9 and 11 o’clock.
Theme: “THE BROKEN SEALS”
BIBLE SCHOOL at 10 o’clock
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Broadway and High Dr. Vance H. Webster, pastor
everybody
loves the
new eat treat!
Footnotes
Froia the Editor’s
Scrapbook
THE OUTLOOK
Peace is now upon the scrool, but
we are battling an intangible. Dur
ing the past six or more years, peo
ple have been battling every con
ceivable foe so it is not strange
that we of the campus kingdom
should be battling; but it is inter
esting to note that we have picked,
a new adversary. When people bat
tle against men, they do so with *
weapons designed to stop heart
beats. Wars between men are predi
cated on the idea that the way to
cure is to kill. The particular bat
tling I refer to is not against men
but against a specific idea that re
sults from a specific act of thinking.
We do not assume that to cure
we should destroy minds.
This intangible may be a logical
one if we wish to accept certain
things as axiomatic and it may be
waved aside as unimportant if we
are both lazy and stupid, but we are
not accepting axioms without ques
tion and we are not mentally tired
and not dumb.
This intangible is one of those
vague fears held by only a very few
persons, but it might easily become
a group one. It is dangerous be
cause it is easy to acquire. It’s a
sneaker and a sticker.
The expression, What’s the world
coming to, tells the tale. Even
though only a few are emotionally
unstable because of a fear of the
future, the few are making it dif
difficult for the many. These fev£
are presenting pessimistic pictures
that force all who wish to carry out
a fine program to go into action. An
irritation for those in the front of
fices, yes, but also a problem for all
students! There are many problems
facing the student and many obsta
cles to overcome, but every task
can be completed and every objec
tive reached. Confidence is essen
tial. The directive for the future of
America doesn’t have the word
“failure” in it.
—R. E. Manchester
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