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On the State of Disunion
REDS KILL 5 MARINES IN CHINA
PHONE STRIKE HANDICAPS NATION
MOLOTOV DENOUNCES GREEK AID PLAN
TRUMAN SAYS WE WILL FIGHT COMMUNISM
U. S. REDS PLAN COUNTERATTACK
MORE KILLINGS IN INDIA
These are our current headlines. And the overall picture
is nothing like the “brave new postwar world” we heard so
much about. So what can we do about it?
The most constructive step we in the Northwest have taken
* to “do something about it” is the Pacific Northwest College
Congress.
Why?
Because the first prerequisite of constructive action is con
structive thought. Through the activities of PNCC, univer
sity students are encouraged to analyze and criticize the move
ments, trends, thought, and history which are responsible
for the state of disunion today. Through PNCC students are
stimulated to form intelligent opinions, the basis for intelli
gent action, and are enabled to express their opinions for
whatever they are worth.
And evidently the opinions of America’s up-and-coming
generation of college students is worth quite a lot. At least
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Senator Warren Austin think so.
It seems they realize that we are the characters who will take
over the reins when they climb out of the saddle.
Other schools of higher education in various parts of the
country are saying nice things about PNCC. Stanford and
the University of Chicago were so impressed with the work
being done by the Northwest students that these schools are
now planning to establish similar institutions.
It is evident, therefore, that this idea of sounding the
thought of college students is just beginning to take hold.
There’s no telling how far it will go. Opinions on PNCC’s
resolutions expressed on the 75,000 ballots returned to PNCC
bv the students of the Northwest will be codified and sent
to Warren Austin and the United Nations.
The maturity and comprehension of those opinions will
help determine, the attitude of United Nations officials, not
only toward the students and schools of the Northwest, but
also in some measure toward the whole body of American
students to whom the world must look for future leadership.
Perhaps this movement begun by PNCC doesn’t look like
definite action vet. It won’t stop the Reds in China or the
building of atomic bombs by Russia. But it does furnish a
foundation for future action which will.
No Number, Pliz
That modern man is a slave to his inventions is an old
observation, dating from the day when some caveman hollowed
out a log and floated down stream. The truth of the state
ment was demonstrated clearly yesterday morning when all
manually operated phones conked out, leaving Eugene, save
only the campus exchange, without its most used medium of
communication.
Alexander Graham Bell, the man who started all this, was
born a scant hundred years ago—a fact of which we have
been reminded many times lately in all the better magazines.
How, one wonders, did our ancestors get along without the
telephone? How did Horace Greeley’s boys cover Xew York?
how did Grant's army fight their 1860 version of the "Battle
of the Pentagon?”
The obvious answer, of course, is that they walked.
Such reflections do nothing to solve the problems which
brought this strike about. They do nothing to hasten our com
Toward One World. ♦.
UNESCO Combats Nationalism;
And It’s Not a Biscuit, Either
Editor’s note: This is the first of the spring term
series of weekly articles submitted by the One World
club designed to stimulate student thought on a na
tional and international scale. This article was writ
ten by Flora Furrow, senior in Journalism, who
Shortly will join the Emerald staff as a weekly col
umnist.)
(Editor’s note: This is the first of the spring term
UNESCO is not a biscuit, Neither is it a type of
caffiene-free postum for sleep pursuing coffee drink
ers. It is not a secret formula for the construction of
the atomic bomb. UNESCO is UNESCO.
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scien
tific' and Cultural organization, is an autonomous
group of national states’ representatives who meet
in Paris at 19 Kleber Avenue, rts charter, (ratified
by many governments including the United States
but not Russia) and members dedicate themselves
to effecting the proposition that “since wars begin
in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the
defenses of peace must be constructed ’’ Significant
ly, peace is not to be constructed in the minds of men
but "the defenses of peace.”
Nationalism
Though its charter does not say so in direct terms,
and its members (i.e., national state governments)
would swoon at the suggestion, UNESCO is unde
niably dedicated to the extinction of that nasty old
thing called nationalism.
Nationalism is the emotional condition brought
about when children are taught “Our flag is the best
in the world”—even though its intrinsic aesthetic
value may be no greater than that of a hammer and
sickle projected on a red background. (I am not a
communist.) Nationalism makes people say, “We
don’t like the Russians,” when they mean “We don’t
like the Russian form of government” or “Lavrenty
Beria.” Nationalistic thinking is such that it con
ceives the state as an entity and does not distinguish
between a country’s people, (as people, i.e., humans.
You know: men and women, boys and girls?) its
political system, and its political leaders. As j
consequence it puts greater importance on political
systems than on human life and many otherwise nice
people are killed in each war, dying for the chimera
of state sovereignty.
Reaction or Reproduction
This is true1 also because nationalism has a quality
of living organisms. It reproduces its own kind
through reaction, (a neat trick for living organisms).
Around 1860 the Italian principalities were united as
a reaction against the Austro-Hungarian national
state and Bismarck brought the German states to
gether to counter-act the “power” of a united Eng
land, France, and all the other national states. Now
the Viet Nam republic is striving for the characteris
tics of national statehood, and India, Burma and all
the other little and big countries of the world cling*
to independent, sovereign, national government
visions—of political self-determination. Independence
is related with this political self-determination in the
public mind. In the United States, we relate de
mocracy with the independence or sovereignty of our
nation. (Thank you, Dr. Dull.)
Nationalism is a reasonable condition insofar as it
recognizes the interdependence of political and social
institutions within a country, and presupposes that
people with the same language and customs don't
want an outsider dictating what those institutions
shall be. (A kind of legislation without sufficient
representation idea.) However, nationalistic thought
falls short of recognizing that the system of national
states’ sovereignty is a system of anarchy—especially
in a world which has effected Einstein’s theory of
the relationship between energy and matter.
Join the Parade
UNESCO is trying to construct a bandwagon
flashy enough so everyone will want to ride. That
bandwagon will consist of an exchange; UNESCO
will try to introduce people as people. If its plans
work, the peasant will trade homilies with the peon
and the flunkey, and American kiddies can play skit
tle while Chinese follow Batman’s exploits. Canadian
gourmets will talk curry powder with Punjab sikks,
and Guatemalians will talk turkey with Egyptians.
munication. Vv e still must jolly well walk when we would
otherwise call up.
But they may serve to sharpen the sense of humor, to re
place the snarl with a chuckle or a wry smile, to soften the
acrimonious commentary about the union or about the com
pany, to take these minor inconveniences “philosophically.”
Such an attitude, mixed with a proper amount of curiosity
to causes, is a recipe that should work if we are to live to re
spectable old ages—with or without telephones.
Editor’s note: Lack of space prevented giving credit to
the authors of the fragments of verse used in the Easter edi
torial “Renaissance” (Emerald, April 5). In order of presen
tation the poetry was from: ‘‘The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot;
“Aftermath,” Siegfried Sassoon; “Spring,” Edna St. Vincent
Millay; “Hymn,” Stephen Crane; “The Hollow Men” T S
Eliot, and “Spring Morning,” D. H. Lawrence. Complete
poems may be found in “Modern American and British Poetry”
edited by Louis Untermeyer, published by Harcourt Brace '&
Co., New York, in 1942.
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Side Patter
By BOB WHITELY
Just how long does this “Aprul
showers brung May Flowers” bus
iness going to last? With softball
season here, everyone wants to get
going out to the meadows and pitch.
A couple of cannon shots to the
newly tapped Phi Delta Phi men of
the law school . . . “Cliier” Schil
l ler, “Lover” Combs, Richman, Mc
Donald, "Balding Doug” Hay, Hess,
Brophy . . . et al. The next time
Norm Weener comes up to the Tau
house for lunch, the whole group
will make a hurried exit out the
first door. Weener, whose class is*
listed in the gaslight era, circa 190(
. . . is still in law school, and heavec
Doug Hay in the tub for his recem
honor-Being a choosing offense
and Hay’s class being ’42, the whoh
house hit the tub with the exceptior
of Henry Kavanaugh, whom th<
freshman thought was a guest. Th<
Alpha ..Chis ..Barbara ..Twifon
is carrying more brass than i
plumber’s helper ... Lee Eden of th<
Spee Eden’s hung his heart . . . oi
should that read “hanged his hear
on her.” The jolly Deegees had i
momentous week of legalized ro
mances. Engagement notices cami
like first editions. . .. Bece William:
and Nigamanoo Sprague Carter
Pat Keck and DU Bob Wren ... am
Tau “Ox” Wilson put his romanci
on ice with Marilyn Stratton. Chucl
"Joyboy” Beckner is obviously con
fused, and quite wrought up ove
DG Ellery Ferson and Joan Herron
Odds at the SAE house are abpu
even . . . and no one will take thi
daily double. Several of the SAE’;
are shedding a salty tear ove:
Wayne “Lubbo” Strowhecker wh<
is getting pin priveleges minus tin
formalities of hardware. Mar;
Fairchild flipped his pin back . .
and the boys are hoping that Lubb:
can make it to meals in time now
... New Endearing Charms Dept. ...
Wot’s in a name ? Hhatsziz aboo
Lovestruck Tamale” Adams of the
SAE Adamses cooing into Kaj^ja
Molly Moores pink shell-like. ...
“FAWN - EYES” . . . 'that’s the
straight poop from the groop. Keep
your eyes peeled for a large an
nouncement from the law school as
to the theme for their weekend.
They have the Johnson office on fire
. . . Social note: The Inside Straight
and Thanatopsis Club will hold
their weekly meeting tonight a't 8 in
Wine Cellar No. 2 . . .tunnel 5. Cool
morning is coffee time . . . coffee
time is any time at Jim and John's
emporium, de Side. . .
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