Oregon Emerald
MARGUERITE WITTWER-WRIGHT Ed.tor GEORGE PEGG Business Manager
BOB FRAZIER
Associate to Editor
JEANNE STMMONDS
Managing Editor
BILL YATES
News Editor
BERNIE HAMMERBECK
Sports Editor
DON FAIR, WALLY HUNTER
Assistant Sports Editors
walt McKinney
Assistant Managing Editor
BOBOLEE BROPHY and
JUNE GOETZE
Assistant News Editors
BARBARA TWIFORD
Advertising Manager
PHYLLIS KOHLMEIER
Executive Secretary
Don Jones, Staff rhotofcrapner_____
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Prime Examples
To that exclusive group of outstanding junior men and
women whose names are inscribed on the Gerlinger and Koyl
cups, two new members were added at the Junior Prom Sat
urday night, and the school of journalism is justifiably proud
of Jeanne Simmond^s and Boh Frazier.
Dean George Turnbull’s fledgling newspapermen and
women, almost ready now to try their wings in the “field,”
were cut short when this year’s Phi Beta Kappas were pledged,
it seems that the Emeraldites who spend their time at the
“shack” instead of in the library generally leave the 4.00's to
the more erudite. But when all-around development, wide
awake service to the school, and ability are considered, the
journalists rate second to none.
The inscription on the Gerlinger cup, “For manners are
not idle, hut the fruit of loyal nature, and of a noble mind,” will
be an inspiration to Miss Simmonds, an “activity girl” who has
worked hard to achieve her honors: Phi Theta GTpSil0n, Theta
Sigma Phi, and Mortar Board.
Bob Frazier is another worthy name on the list of those
who have been chosen for, as the Koyl cup inscription reads,
“attaining the best symmetrical development by his junior
y ear.’” An Emerald worker before lie went to war, member
of Sigma Delta Chi, father of a yqung son, Friar, and editor
elect of the Emerald, Frazier is an excellent example of the
rare type of student who can successfully combine an active
interest in campus affairs as well as in scholarship. And he is
the fourth Emerald editor since the war began who has held
the Koyl cup.
Many Thanks,. Jupe
(Last Friday the Emerald re-printed Buck Buckwach’s fa
mous 1941 plea to Jupiter Pluvius to bench the Oregon mist
during Junior Weekend. Jupe did. And we think Buckwach’s
“thank you note" should be relayed to Jupe, too.)
There are those, albeit mistakenly of course, who will openly
scoff when it is suggested that the Oregon Emerald had any
thing to do with the sunshine that blessed the campus over the
Junior Weekend celebration. There are those, albeit mistakenly
of course, who will pooh-pooh the suggestion that Jupe Pluvius
could be deterred by a college rah-rah newspaper, filled with
gossip columns and spicy social details, and perchance, once
in a while, with school news.
But not down here at the “shack," where freshmen report
ers laboriously type away at their curious masterpieces, and
the copy editors in moleskins cross out a word here and there
1X1411 worldly knowledge; down at the shack where the sports
writers sit and dream of covering a world series or a Rose Bowl
encounter, or perchance a Joe Louis prizefight, where the edi
torial scribblers start out in true Pulitzyr award-winning fash
ion and end up trying to stall for three more lines to fill up
the page.
No, down here at the journalism school a new feeling of
pi ide has swept through the corridors. True, we have gained
-\ 11 Ameiican honors with the Emerald for many years; true,
the Emerald has contributed some outstanding writers to the
press services, and the local papers, and not too infrequently
to the big metropolitan dailies. But to earnestly ask for sun
shine in the editorial columns—to influence Jupiter to cease
foi three whole days . . . that is an achievement not to be so
lightly dismissed.
lo the unbelievers, to those who would hastily dismiss the
entire phenomenon, for in truth it is that, let us remind of these
pertinent details:
1. Verily it was showering Sunday and Monday, Tuesday,
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and even Wednesday of the week prioi to our Junior celebra
tion.
2. The Emerald very humbly asked the showers to abstain,
to cease and desist, just for Junior Weekend, you understand.
■ 3. Friday dawned cloudy, but the warm rays of Old Sol
caressed the campus as the picnic began, and the Queen and
her court could bask in the sun on their royal thrones while
the honoraries tapped and the tradition-breakers swam in the
duck pond.
And verily, the stars shone brightly Saturday night as
couples strolled slowly home from the prom, and on Sunday
not a drop of rain fell from the heavens, nor did a single cloud
peek out to cause the least consternation among the beaming
mothers, nor did the weather man manage to get in any of his
sly tricks.
... 1 hanks, Old Jupe; and we promise you we will be care
ful of what we ask for—we don’t intend to abuse such a revered
journalistic privilege.
fylosia fyuWbuji
Korea has again been tossed into
the U.S.-U.S.S.R. political game
after a year-long deadlock. Viaches
lav Saturday consented at last to
include all Korean groups—not just
the Korean communist party—in
discussions for a Korean-manned
provisional government.
The Korean position is a difficult
one from anyone’s view, whether
Russian, American, or Korean. This
strateegic peninsula, formerly
thought of by the Japanese as a
dagger pointing at their home
land’s heart, is placed so as to com
mand great respect from the China
and Manchurian land mass and
from the entire Pacific area.. Ko
rea has 29 purposeful all-weather
harbors. These factors alone—con
sidering the United State’s consist
ent Far-Eastern open door policy
and Russia’s continued drive to
wards ice-free ports—make Korea
a potential cauldron for intrigue
with both .the United States and
Russia contending for the favored
position.
How was Korea thrust into this
battle of “Americanism versus So
vietism ? After Teddy Roosevelt
patched up relations between Rus
sia and Japan at the end of the
Russo-Japanese war in 1905, Japan
gained control of Korea, effecting
a recognized predominance there
five years later—with the British
and the United States sanctioning
the move with a winking of the eye.
Life, Toil, and Death
The Koreans lived, toiled, and
died under Japanese vassalage for
40 years. Japanese was taught in
the schools—where t&ere were
schools. Factories were built and
operated by non-skilled Koreans
and skilled Japanese. Opium was
insidiously innovated. Where, for
merly, native genius had invented
and used the first movable type, the
first iron-armored warships, and a
marvelously-simple alphabet in the
midst of horrifyingly-esoteric ori
ental scripts, the Koreans squirmed
and sank in the squalor of Jap sub
jugation.
At a meeting in Cairo in 1943,
Chiang K’ai-shek, Winston Church
ill, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
solemnly declared they were “mind
ful of the enslavement of the Ko
rean people,” and that “Korea
shall, in due course, become free
and independent.”
A plan for freeing Korea from
the Japanese was blue-printed at
the Malta conference; and here,
the fateful error, committed. With a
magnificent show of good will but
a gross lack of foresight Roosevelt
bid the Russians occupy the north
ern part of Korea and offered to
occupy the southern half with
United States forces. The 38th par
allel was to be the separating line.
It was to become the fateful divid
er.
Wheat, Beans, and Cotton
Korea is a potentially wealthy
country. In the north are heavy in
dustries, with mineral, coal, and
hydro-electric resources. The rich
agricultural land of southern Ko
rea produces rice, barley, wheat,
beans, and cotton. Two-thirds of
the Koreans (the labor supply) live
in the south. Textile mills and food
processing factories grew up here.
But the farmers of the south can’t
get fertilizer from the north. The
southern factories are idle for lack
of northern coal. With the division
of Korea between Russian and
American occupying forces, any
cooperation in establishing unified
transportation, communication, and
financial systems was flubbed from
the outset. Until a government is
established in Korea, no currency
standard can be used for intra-Ko
rean or international trade. The
iron curtain has precluded all trav
el between the north and south. Ac
cording to Bob Whitely, formerly
with the Ash-and-Trash Carriers in
CBI, the Koreans are fed up.
Discontdfct, Rumor, anti Opposition
Extremist Korean leaders on
both the right and left have used
the discontent to sow rumor and
opposition — playing the United
States against the Russians. The
U.S.A.F.I.K. (United States Armed
Forces in Korea) is said to have
favored conservative elements
while the Russians are commended
for having “redistributed” the land
—though on a non-ownership basis.
Up to this time, U.S.A.F.I.K. has
concentrated some effort on better
ing the educational system, and has
maintained freedom of expression.
John R. Hodge, commanding gen
eral, has done nothing more than
complain of the propaganda attacks
against the United States occupa
tion. In the Russian zone, freedom
of information refers only to So
viet-sponsored information from
north of the 38th parallel.
At the Moscow conference, De
cember, 1945, Byrnes, Bevin, and
Molotov agreed that the two zones
should be united immediately, that
a Korean provisional government
be established, and a trusteeship of
Korea by the United States, the
U.S.S.R., China, and Great Britain
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Side Patter
By BOB WHITELY
Well, mom has gone back home
with less sleep . . . and far less
money than what she had Friday*2
. . . but as she said at Tiny’s over
her Sunday breakfast ... It was a
bully show. The Junior Prom was
THE place to go Saturday night
. . . and the decorations, to say the
least were well put up. It was hard
to concentrate on dancing with all
those airy formals displayed . . .
early Sunday morning bull sessions
were going full blast with fashion
lingo . . . Did you see what she had
on . . . or did she have that formal
on backwards? The music was su
perb, although some of the fellas
complained that their borrowed
black shoes hurt. The float parade
came off in great style, although
many people thought the Gamma
Phis should have walked away with
top honors . . . Congrats tb all the
newly tapped Friars and the price
of roses certainly went up on Mor
tar Board . . . Can't bandy words
now with Chi Oh’s Dodo Misled now
that she is a Mortar Boarder ... it
will have to be Miss Misley from
now on. DG “Smiley” Johns will
have to put another card in hpf
sweater index . . . the only “Mufti
Day” she has left is Sunday • . .and
the Deegee’s don’t wear sweaters
at dinner. A big five-cent cigar to
Bob Frazier . . . “Aging Bob” that
is . . . for limping off with the Koyl
Cup . . . and to Jean Simmonds for
walking off with the Gerlinger
hardware. Funniest deal of the
whole prom was Frazier waiting
with his beat up Graphic camera to
take a picture of the Koyl cup win
ner . . . and lo and behold if he was
n't named! Enough pins were
passed around this weekend to fill
a bucket. Sue Sullivan of the Kappa
Klan announced her engagement of
SAE Don Pinkerton ... Marge Hus
ton of the Sigma Kappa Hustons
announced her engagement to El
don Foster. Bert Moore did not
plant his pin over the weekend.
Flora Furrow . . . who speaks now
and then in the Emerald . . . was
seen sampling a cigar at the Pioneer
while talking over Korea. She in
sisted that she did not get sick
... it was something she ate at din
ner! “Anyface” was deeply grieved
at not walking off with the Koyl
cup. Both our man and Bess Back
ache are protesting to the board.
Well that winds up the poop from
the groop for Tuesday . . . Don’t
forget your morning cup at the
“Chamber of Horrors” ....
Pd. Adv.
After being buried under peat
for 1000 years, a keg of butter dug
up in the Isle of Skye was found
still to be fresh.
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