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Oregon ^Emerald MARGUERITE WITTWER-WRIGHT Ed.tor GEORGE PEGG Business Manager ’ TED GOODWIN, BOB FRAZIER Associates to Editor JEANNE SIMMON'DS BILL YATES Managing Editor News Editor BERN IF. IIAMMERBECK Sports Editor DON FAIR, WALLY HUNTER Assistant Sports Editors walt McKinney Barbara twiford Assistant Managing Editor Advertising Manager BOBOLEE BROPHY and JUNE GOETZE PHYLLIS KOHLMEIER Assistant News. Editors Executive Secretary Don Jones, Staff Photographer REPORTERS _ „ Beth Basler, Bettye Joe Bledsoe, Diana Dye, Ruth Eades, A1 English, Luwayne Engwall, Virginia Fletcher, Joanne Frydenlund, Chuck de Ganahl, Laverne Gunderson, Dale Harlan, Donna Kletzing, Janice Kent, Pat King, Phyllis Kohlmeier Betty Lagomarsino, June McConnell, Barbara Murphy, Laura Olson, Carol Jo Parker, Nancy Peterson, Helen She man, Virginia Thompson, Jim Wallace, Sally Waller.__ MEMBER — ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE SERVICE Signed editorial feature, and columns In They do not necessarily represent the opinion of the editorial statt, tne siuoem. u y, University.^ ^ secon(l c|as9 matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.___ Keep the Outlet Open Article I, amendments to the United States Constitution. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridg ing the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Thus begins the Bill of Rights. If it were necessary to Strip every clause but one from the Constitution, this article would undoubtedly remain. We should find then that the free doms of religion, speech, press, and assembly aie the most fundamental cornerstones of democracy, that they alone can preserve a nation from the evils of totalitarianism. These freedoms came to be recognized as inherent rights only after a long struggle in many countries, led by Voltaire, Rousseau, Paine, Jefferson, and hundreds of other far-sighted men who were often persecuted for their convictions. But it was not only as inherent rights that these freedoms came to be accepted. If a dam is built to stem the flow of a mighty river, there must be an outlet through which the water may pass, other wise it will pile up behind the dam and eventually pour out over the top to flood the land below. So it is with institutions of society. They, like a dam, must not stop up the natural flow of public thought and communication. There must be an outlet if these institutions are to survive and not crumble underneath the flood tide. Our established freedoms supply such an outlet. They make it possible for government and society to adjust to constant pressures of a dynamic world in which there is always change. Throughout history the outlets of thought and communica tion have been plugged, and when the force of tide behind institutional dams has grown great enough, revolutions have broken out, governments have fallen, complete civilizations have disintegrated. At this time, when many are predicting the collapse of our present civilization, when bitter conflicts are arising over political, economic, and moral questions, when fear is causing the abolition of many human rights, we must place renewed faith in the freedoms enumerated in our Bill of Rights. We must not plug up the outlet in the dam for the tide cannot be stopped. We must prevent disaster by keeping the outlet open even though the water which flows through may not always be to our liking. This America has done for a century and a half. This is the duty of every American now. —DAILY TROJAN, U. S. C. Hal Brevig and his committee of executive council mem bers should be commended for their work (with Dr. C. G. Howard of the law school) in writing a constitution for all classes. There has long been a need for a definite visible set of regulations applicable to the classes, and this constitution, adopted by the ASUO exec council, certainly seems to fill the bill. Good work! * * * Robert Browning said, "It is the glory and good of art, that art remains the one way possible of speaking truths . . . .” [We refer anyone who doubts this statement to the current exhibit in the Little Art Gallery of M. R. Sponenburgh's sculp ture. In these few works we find no stark social implications, no neurotic affectations, no struggling for impossibilities. We find the profoundly satisfying work of a man who recognizes the fitness of raw materials in relation to the creativeness of Man, and uses them accordingly. We find, therefore, honesty— ■which is another word for truth. And we find controlled mo tion; dynamics, if you will, held within credibility. Syrnfiluanotel By Many Many ate t ^bu*tdane It’s true that music knows no sea son, but to glance at the amount of musical activity at the moment, it would seem that spring influences even seasonless things. The com ing of the Minneapolis symphony to Eugene was quite an event; we are grateful certainly to the Civic Mu sic Association for arranging such concerts as this, where townspeo ple and students may hear not only good music, but also that music per formed well. However, while Eugene has no large symphony orchestra, we do not need to look to the outside alone for concerts, etc., of good music and able performance. Too often we as sume a “green are the hills far away” attitude, and don’t take ad vantage of talents and efforts of lo cal origin and development that are in our midst all the time. One evi dence of such talent was the piano recital Tuesday night of Thad El vigion, a freshman in music. His program was varied, with the em phasis on modern music. Though much modern music is a little hard to take until it has had several hearings, the unfamiliar composi tions which Mr. Elvigion played were enjoyable, from a standpoint of the music and of rendition. The most interesting feature of the pro gram was Mr. Elvigion’s original “Suite for Two Pianos,’’ with Au rora Potter Underwood at the sec ond piano. The suite exhibited the excellent creative ability of Mr. El vigion, and further convinced the audience that here was an unusual ly talented student. There are many more programs scheduled this term; they will con sist of both faculty and student per formances. The highlight of the term’s musical activity will of course be the Festival of Contem porary Music, in May. About this there will be more later; at the mo ment it will suffice to say that it is a project of mammoth undertaking, and that it will mark the Univer sity music school as a sort of cour ageous pioneer in this field of per formance of contemporary music. AIRING the NEWS By G. HOLCOMB The luckless liberal seemingly only fosters further ferment these days, no matter which way he turns. If he veers to the right he sees the collectivistic handwriting on the wall and hears these disheartening words: “A fallacious assumption of all liberal reformism is that if the peo ple can be induced to give, through a decisive majority vote, a mandate to their government to bring about some ideal measure of social justice and economic abundance, and if ed ucation and moral indoctrination in culcate the' right attitudes, this mandate can be carried out within the framework of existing institu tions and ways. . ..” That was written by Lawrence Dennis, who publishes a paper in New York these days, in his book The Coming American Fascism; and he means it, too. His substitute for liberal reformism would be to have the “elite” simply nationalize industry, leave the present top men in the industries and merely make them part of the government, inas much as they have, in his opinion, so capably built up the efficient cor porations of the da^y. New Line-Up And if the liberal turns to the left, he discerns under the popular re formist movement of the commun ists the same collectivistic hand writing, only instead of being in the fine slant of the “elite” it dem onstrates the scrawl of the “sa viors of the working man” who would nationalize industry, remove the present top men and substitute a new line-up. On the other hand, there is the status quoer who thinks the balance of power system between labor and capital will keep the good old sup ply and demand economy working quite satisfactorily. He spends most of his time trying to decide whether “right” or “left” is slinging most of the propaganda. At present, of course, it's the “communist” side which is about to overthrow the government and all decent society from here to the moon! (“They” say.) | Now if the liberal feels that mere balance of power is not a cure-all and/or doesn’t believe that a bal ance exists at present except in fa vor of industry, then he finds him self an antagonist of the status quoers and fascists and a protagon ist of reform with the commies who have temporarily backslid from their admissal of authoritarianism. Common Man And if the liberal sees collectiv ism WITHOUT totalitarianism as a potential, he is foolish per se in the eyes of the other three standard bearers. Fascists, communists (un der their breaths) and laissez fairees unite in calling him a delud ed idealist if he feels that education and moral indoctrination CAN bring about more social justice and eco nomic abundance while working un der the majority rule system. He’s so optimistic he thing's the “com mon man” can make a reasonable decision IF he is informed, and he thinks the most reasonable decision is toward moderately increasing collectivism. At any rate, confusion is umping, and if someone doesn’t dust off home plate to find out if the liberal is standing on it, the liberal may be due for a fast ball that’ll knock him clear back to 1547 A.D. (I’m bet ting it’s a fascist pitching, too. University Chemists Slate Out-of-State Trips Out-of-state trips are scheduled by University chemists and a cam pus visit is planned by a University of Illinois chemist, in connection with spring activities of the Amer ican Chemical society. A tour of the aluminum plant at the Reynolds Metal company will be a highlight of the regular monthly meeting of the Oregon section of the society, Saturday at Longview, Washington. Staff members and graduate students of the chemistry department will be among those present. The University of Idaho on May 2, and Washington State college on May 3, will be hosts to the society’s second annual regional meeting, which nine faculty members and graduate students from the Univer sity of Oregon expect to attend. Arriving on the campus May 6 will be Dr. John C. Bailar, Jr., pro fessor of chemistry at the Univer sity of Illinois, and a representative of the committee on the profession al training of chemists for the so ciety. Oregon is one of nine schools in the Pacific Northwest to be vis ited by Dr. Bailar. Side Patter By BOB WHITELY Deeyar M. J. B. (Henry Morgan can use you to offer unsolicited testimonials) I’m deeply disap pointed in your actions of prevL ous years of putting old beat-up shades on your machine while you osculated! What’s the matter . . . no guts ? The spirit of adventure and romance hasn’t died, M. J. B. . . . just slip on your bi-focals and come out of the closet. Sorry to see “Wee W’illie” Stratton leave the sheet ... he took his 96 Jake Leicht cuts with him. Jubilation rang supreme at the Tau house when “The Body” Barney Franks announced that he had at last made the Sigma Kappa house dance. Barney beat “Mr. Stroin boli” . . . who is stiff competition any way you look at it . . . for the honor of taking SK’s brilliant Miss Green to the ball. The Kap pa’s went hog wild over spring vacation with Julanne Chevier pledged Kappa Sigma (Has Haight) . . . Buz Engvvail and “Hardnose” McKinney see nothin’ but red'. Another Feasley from the Phi Delt house (Bob) hung his shield on Gammaphi Florence Guthrie . . . and Phi Delt Buss Monahan ditto with Treva Torsen. Nancy Buell and Jim Kenton^Sn nounced their intention to wed\. . . as well as Anita Fernandez and Beta Bob Koch. Noo Too . . .Joan Hoppe and Figi Warren Davis. The Spee’s and the Alpha Gam’s have a new Triple Entente . . . with Jim Northam, Jon Goldsmith and Vern Behrens pinning Cafryl Itno sher, Bev Howell and Carolyn Wil liams respectfully. Congrats to Warren Miller for walking off with hardware in the Pacific Fo rensic League. Noting that next year’s contest is being held at Reno . . . watch the speech en rollment double! 7-11! Don’t forget the First Foul Ball dance this Sat. . . . young Barrett’s rendition of “Casey at the Bat” is superb . . . and there is a movement underfoot to talk Sally Timmens into dem onstrating “The different meth ods of handling a foul ball.” Some unknown Easter Bunny gave The Emerald’s Bernie Hammerbeck a beautifully labeled 5 gallon jug of . . . you guessed it, water! The law school is serving notice on the BA school that they are starting spring training at the meado\V^in preparation for the great law school-ba softball game. At last reports, Bill “the bulb” Bernard is gaining impetus in the law school queen contest. All contes tants, “Senator” Carmicheal, Jesse James, Rex Kooler, “Kremel” Walker, “Ersats” Weener . . . are all worried over the outcome. Mar cus Winkler may throw the whole contest into confusion if he is the write-in candidate from North western. Those delish chocolate dipped do-nuts at the Side are sumpthin’ . . . you’ll have to dunk fast to enjoy ’em. Get them while they’re hot ... at Jim and John’s chamber of horrors. Pd. Adv. CLASSIFIED FOR SALE — Convertibles, 41 Chev., $1550.00, 40 Ford $1350; both excellent condition. George Johns, 849 E. 11th. ^ FOR SALE—Pasche tilt top artist table. Nearly new. 1031 Mill.