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Oregon W Emerald MARGUERITE WITTWER-WRIGHT Ed.tor GEORGE PEGG Business Manager " TED GOODWIN, BOB FRAZIER Associates to Editor ___ JEANNE SIMMONDS Managing Editor BILL YATES | News Editor BERNIE HAMMERBLCK Sports Editor DON FAIR, WALLY HUNTER Assistant Sports Editors___ walt McKinney Assistant Managing Editor BOBOLEE BKOPHY and JUNE GOETZE Acgictant Npws Editors BARBARA TWJtUKU Advertising Manager PHYLLTS KOHLMEIER Executive Secretary Don Jones, Mairrnoiograpnci _____ Virginia Fletcher, Joanne £^?eniu"\Yng Phyllis Kohlmeier, Betty Lagomarsino, June BSflgfeSEl&teffc’—»~cypet- !r_ cw°jLRLEEl^fciRESS UOiVf^ed as second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon.__ Rufus Rides Again In a telegram from Washington Tuesday, Senator Wayne Morse told the Emerald that he knew nothing about-the Amu kan Foundation, Inc., a new nativeMascist organization of •which ex-Senator Rufus C. Holman is president. Incorporation of the new group was announced m Monday s Oregonian. Norma Lundeen Holman (Mrs. Rufus Holman) is t0 be treasurer,and Dellmore Lessard of Portland will be sec retary. The Oregonian’s article quotes Lessard as sav ing, I he Senator (Holman) is in harmony with the expressions of John T. Flynn.” This statement and the organization’s purpose: to expose the "Roosevelt conspiracy,” are clues to the real nature of Holman's so-called “nonpolitical, nonprofit and purely edu cational” organization. Senator Morse may not know it yet, but chances are the Holman organization, if it gains enough support from Oregon s backwoods Republicans, can be a most efective weapon against the things Morse is fighting for and a most destructive weapon against democracy as we wish to see it. Holman has denounced the "international people who have insinuated themselves into strategic places of authority in our government . . . and their mouthpieces, Walter \\ inched, John Roy Carlson, author of ‘Undercover’, Drew Pearson, etc.” Well, let's see what kind of people Holman does approve of. In John Roy Carlson’s sensational new book “The Plotters” (E. P. Dutton Co., New York, 1946) we find Mrs. Holman men"1 tinned as a member of the American Justice foi lyler Kent committee. Tyler Kent, a former decoding clerk at our London Embassy, was sentenced to seven years in prison in 1940 because he merely turned over state department secrets invol ving 1,500 telegrams between Churchill and Roosvelt to a Nazi agent named Anna Wolkoff. Ambassador Joseph 1 . Kennedy said that Kent had a “terrific anti-Semitic complex.” The Amer ican super-nationalists and isolationists had hoped that Kent would be able to disclose that Roosevelt had conspired to get the United States into the European war. And who is this John T. Flynn with whom Rufus Holmr^. agrees ? Carlson reveals in “The Plotters” that Flynn was former New York chairman of the America First committee. He was a smear-artist playing in the big leagues. Flynn opposed nation al preparedness for the inevitable war, and published thousands of pamphlets smearing \\ endell W iljvie, Roosevelt, W illiam Allen White, and others, as war-mongers. Flynn wrote a widely distributed booklet, “Pearl Harbor Exposed,” which spat poison at Roosevelt in flaming invective, purporting to give the low-down on "the most diabolical con spiracy to plunge the world into war to satisfy the lust of a few power-mad politicians.” Another of Flynn’s pamphlet’s, “The Truth About Pearl llarbor” was distributed by the Imperial Fascist League decor ated with swastikas. Flynn denounced Dumbarton Oaks, called the l’NO an “international monstrosity,” and was patted on the back by Fascist Gerald Smith as a comrade of such men as Colonel Robert McCormick, General Robert Wood, and Sam Pettengill. So this is the Flynn that Oregon's honorable ex-Senator Holman will mimic in his exposure of- Roosevelt and Roose velt’s liberal and international policies! We can only hope that Oregonians asked to become mem bers of his American Foundation, Inc. will bother to look into the facts. We can only hope that those Oregonians who want democracy as men like Wayne Morse want it will make Holman ■ the laughing stock of the state. The Nasty Old Press An aunt in Baltimore sends us an old column from the Balti more Sun in which veteran columnist Frank R. Kent discusses the state of the nation in general and the state of the Republi can party and the American press in particular. '1 he author of “The Great Game of Politics” puts a new wrinkle in the already fuzzy accumulation of criticisms of the American press. The press, he tells us is dominated by left-wingers and New Dealers. This, it would appear, is the reason for all the "bad press the Republican congress has been receiving. The hatchet men of the left wing press have jumped upon them at every turn and have given the public the wrong idea about a lot of conscien tious public servants who, after all, have the answer in their pockets. This is, as we said, a new wrinkle. Since the age of four, we have heard about the venal press, the pandering press. We have heard stories about censorship, control by the big advertiser, deliberate slanting of political and labor news. In high school we made and heard outside reading reports on the "Plearst Empire,” and “Is Our Press Really Free ?” But this is the first time we ever heard anybody seriously accuse "left wingers” of controlling the press. It seems to us that the reason the new congress has received a bad press is open-and-shut. They campaigned all summer and into the fall with the idea that if price control were removed prices would go down. This was the plank that appealed to the man-in-the-street and the housewife-in-the-market. It just ain’t happened that way. But let us not criticize Mr. Kent unduely. Let us give him a little credit, too. He breaks monotony, and give the malcontents new whipping boys. For that he is to be congratulated. / i find jpA. fyu+i! ! By BEV SHORE Probably one of the biggest “tear jerkers” that movie land has pro duced is the motion picture “Kings Row” which has been showing down town this week. From where I was sitting in the theater it was quite difficult to see the screen, what with people running outside to wring their handkerchiefs all the time. All in all, it was a good pre sentation of a mighty fine story. Top stars for this film that was re leased several years ago and brought back again were Ronald Reagan, Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings and Claude Rains. Also showing this week was “Cal ifornia,” filmed in technicolor. Rough and tough Ray Milland who sobered up from “Lost Weekend” ygf1* “f| if rORUM : By DALE HARLAN On four major vet legislative is sues this week; the veterans’ emer gency housing act, the bill to raise monthly wage-subsistence ceilings, the bill to increase monthly subsist ence pay to GI’s in college, and the bill to make terminal leave bonds immediately cashable, concrete evi dence developed that indicate vet groups and their lobbyists will have to fight like the very dickens if they expect to get anything at all out of the 80th Congress. The house of representatives seems par ticularly obdurant when it comes to correcting inadequacies in pres ent laws for the vet or in enacting new laws for his benefit. Many college students like to spend their summers working in a novel job or visiting new parts of the world. According to a high placed interior department official there will be several hundred sea sonal jobs available in Alaska this summer. The bulk of these jobs must be obtained on the spot, that is at Fairbanks or Anchorage. (Please turn to page seven) 4 brings law and order to the great state of California and also to Bar bara Stanwyck. Giving fine support in the picture was Barry Fitzger ald, who seems to come through on any part he plays. I would like to suggest a little better selection of short subjects along with the show, however. The “Golden Slipper,” one with “Cali fornia” just about reached the height of ridiculousness. Surely a grade school child could think of a plot that had more to offer than that!! Ah well, watching Milland fight for the justice of California sorta made up for it. Incidentally, I heard some na tives of the fair state popping but tons at the first of the show when they gave the rah rah song for all its beauty. Before I quit, I gotta remind you people who aren’t blessed with eight o’clocks to be sure to flip on your radio and get into a good frame of mind for the day from that fine ar ranger of music, Fred Waring. He comes on from 8 to 8:30 with his usual good listening pleasure. That’s one guy who can put on a program that even the typical "morning grouch” will listen to and enjoy—don’t ask me how I know!! Browsing** with LARRY LAU It didn’t quite take an act of Congress to get back on the Emer ald, but almost. Spring term activ ity is really starting in earnest; this column hopes to give you a play-by-play. Politicians who have been sharpening their knives all winter will be looking about for a likely back. The rivers and streams hereabouts that haven’t been bothered with anything be sides floating logs have already begun to sprout cooling beer. Bio logically, its a good time of the year too, as the influx of pins and engagement rings bears out. In case you guys and gals pick up a few grass stains on your clothes from a portable-blanket-beer date,^ The Best Cleaners does a mighty smooth job in repairing the dam age. Omega Hall’s maestro of the air ways, Paul' Marcotte and Alpha Gam’s Elouise Rockwell are in nothing but tizz. Two young Delts have evidently come to the con clusion that a pin is inadequate. Rob Lewis and1 Rev Dichler have become engaged and ditto for Herb Leonnig and Ruth Hanson. The genial gent at the University Sport Shop wants me to remind all you pleasure bent lads and lassies that he's got a new stock of Lord Jeff sweaters in a host of different colors. Lynn Rennick, Hen Hall’s peren ial butterfly astounded a good many when the news about her taking Jim Ellison’s Chi Psi pin came out. The very lovely Zeta Sinclair is still seeing too much of ex Phi Psi prexy John Noble to make the rest of the boys very happy. Sigma Chi’s youngish Chuck McDonald got serious with a bang the other night and plantqjjf his pin on Alpha Chi’s Sally Churchman (yum!). With the idea of Jr. Weekend the “Gay Nine ties,” a lot of people have been thinking about the Gibson girl as a theme (especially a handsome young brute named Dick Schlick er). Joan Lochead, in the Sacred Heart with appendicitis, has re ceived more visitors and flowers than any other twenty patients. Chi O’s smoothish Pam Newton is right on the verge of making a conquest of the unconquerable Roscoe “Rud” Hurst (smell that jasmine massah!). To get down to the lower levels, how about taking a quick peek at those shoes you have on. If they need shining or repairing the Campus Shoe Shop is just about as handy as any and the prices won’t make too much of a dent in that slim allowance. Guess we’ve had it. With a little luck and no actions for libel, I hope to throw another blurb in Fridays paper. As always, tips are appreciated. Pd. Adv, When you take ' Harriet to the beach next Sunday, Bob Mooers, why don't you go across the street to the University Grocery on 11th, first and get some potato chips, olives, pretzels, crackers, and ginger snaps?