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Entered a3 second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene* Oregon.___
Happy Ending...
The radio play entitled “Happy Ending by Evelyn L.
Keller, cut off the air by KOAC technicial Bob Merrell fhuis
day afternoon is a “loaded” show. The script is without doubt
slanted against labor unions. It is pro-management.
But that 'does not justify Merrell’s action.
The play deals with Joe, a worker in a kitchenware fac
tory, who refuses to join a labor union because he feels that
the employer has always played fair with his men. The union
organizer uses high pressure methods on Joe; Joe goes to
mayor:
Joe: The unions are pushing their membership drive at Daly”s,
and they’ve gone so far as to try to force Tom and me to join.
Mayor: What am I supposed to do?
Joe: Tonight one of the union men ... I won’t mention any
names . . . met us at the gate, and when we refused to sign, he
pulled a gun at us.
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Joe: Am I to understand then, that you refuse to give us any
protection whatever?
Mayor: It’s my only choice in the matter. . . . Why don’t you
boys join the union? . . . You’ll be on the right side of the fence
in ease of trouble.
So Joe leaves the office thinking that the mayor is being
paid off by the union. He attends a strike meeting and tries
to talk the union members into continuing with their work;
Employer Daly, Joe explains, can’t afford to raise wages. But
the union men beat him up in an alley and strike. Joe goes
to the hospital with a variety of injuries. The strike causes
the factory owner to die—heart attack. The plant goes bank
rupt, and the “happy ending” comes in when all the workers
wind up out of a job. As Worker Ben explains:
Ben: The original principle of the unions was . . . and still is
... a fine thing. To keep up the living standards of laborers . . .
to see that they get a square deal . . . that’s fine. But the trouble
with unions . . . like a lot of other things ... is that somebody
goes to a lot of trouble to get something honest and worthwhile
going, and then another guy comes along and figures it’s a nice,
easy way to get money, or power . . . and pretty soon it’s been
turned into a racket.
Anne (Joe's little sister): Gee!
The play infers that labor unions are up to no good, and
is designed to have the audience weeping into their beards by
the time Old Man Daly dies.
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Tt is not difficult to understand why Merrell, a former stu
dent, infantryman, local farmer, and member of the wood
workers union, would feel bitter about that script. It is not
•difficult to understand why he cift the show off the air.
But the important point is this: Merrell interfered with
freedom of speech. It was not his place as a technician to do
so . . . just as it is not the place of a linotype operator to refuse
to set a newsstory he does not agree with. Whether the script
was pro-labor or anti-labor is not the fundamental question;
regardless of what it said the cast was entitled to present that
plav over the air. And Merrell, regardless of his personal feel
ings, was not entitled to interfere.
There is the argument that KOAC, as a state-owned sta
tion, should not broadcast only one side of any controversial
subject. That is undeniable.
However, we believe those responsible intended the
play, not as propaganda, but merely as another type of play.
Art for art's sake—regardless of social or political implica
'tions. This mav not be wise, but it is excusable.
The incident is unfortunate in that it caused embarrassment
-;o manv individuals. It is more important, however, in that
t made these persons realize very vividly their responsibility
,o the radio audience in the presentation of information—just
as newspapers are supposed to be responsible to the public.
And it is extremely important in that it illustrates that cur
tailment of our freedom of speech, regardless of what is spoken,
is intolerable. Perhaps THAT is a happy ending.
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Toivard One World...
Responsibilities of United Nations
Trusteeship Council Explained
By BOB MITCHELL
For the One World Club
The United Nations Charter in Article 73 declares
that members which have responsibilities for the ad
ministration of territories whose peoples have not
yet attained a full measure of self-government, rec
ognize the principle that the interests of the inhabi
tants of these territories are paramount. They accept
as a sacred trust the obligation to promote to the ut
most the well-being of the inhabitants of these ter
ritories. To this end the member states undertake
to insure, with due respect for the culture of the peo
ples concerned, their political, economic, social, and
educational advancement; their just treatment, and
their protection against abuses. They undertake to
develop self-government, to take due account of the
political aspirations of the peoples, to assist them in
the progressive development of their free political
institutions according to the particular circumstances
of each territory.
The trusteeship chapter lists three categories of
territories which may be placed in trust by means of
trusteeship agreements. These are:
1. Territories now held under mandate. (This
would include the only remaining Class A man
date, Palestine; Class B mandates over former
German territories in Africa; Class C mandates
over German islands in the Pacific.)
2. Territories which may be detached from enemy
states as a result of the war. (This would in
clude Japanese owned islands in the Pacific,
for example, Okinawa.)
3. Territories voluntarily placed under the sys
tem by states responsible for their adminis
tration. (This would include areas now con
trolled by colonial powers which might eventu
ally decide to place some or all of them under
the trusteeship system.
The trusteeship arranged for each territory to
be placed in trust is to be agreed upon by the states
directly concerned, including the mandatory power.
This provision has been described as a “joker” or the
“joker clause.” Thus countries which at subsequent
peace conferences receive territories detached from
enemy states are free to abstain from placing them
under the trusteeship system, if they so desire. ' "*
The trusteeship agreement may designate a stra
tegic area or areas which may include part or all of
the territory to which the agreement applies. In
accordance with the provision, separate arrange- 1
mento are made for administration of the two types
of areas. All functions of the organization relating to
strategic areas are to be exercised by the security
council while all functions with regard to areas not
regarded as strategic are to be exercised by the gen
eral assembly through a trusteeship council.
It can be seen that the future of native peoples
depend upon the moral obligations of the trustee
powers. On the fundamental reconstruction of the
world after the last war will rest the fate of depen
dent peoples. Consequently, the future of the trustee
ship agreement system will depend upon the future
of international organization in its larger setting.
Telling the Editor
ABOUT HEALTH SERVICE
Thursday afternoon a baseball player, playing in an intersquad game,
broke his leg. Trainer Tom Hughes, realizing the leg was broken,
’phoned the student health service and asked that an x-ray be taken. He
explained fully the emergency nature of the request. He asked that the
leg be set, so that the player might be relieved of some of the agony.
The person at the Health Service told Hughes that it was too late,
and for the player to “come back in the morning.” In other words, our
school physicians could not be bothered with such a trivial thing as a
broken leg, and wanted the ballplayer to spend the night with his leg
completely broken, and come up at 8:30 the next morning. The time
then, incidentally, was 4:30 p.m.
If the infirmary closes at five, why was this person refused proper
medical attention? True, they did offer to put “hot and cold compresses”
on the limb, but an idiot knows that will not relieve a broken leg. As
the situation finally ended, the player was taken to the Sacred Heart
hospital where the sisters called a doctor to the'hospital, who set and
cast the leg immediately.
This is only one of a like series of incidents that have caused contempt |
for our health service among the student body. Another student, still
on the campus, contracted pneumonia last spring and lay in the infirm
ary three days while the doctors treated him for “pleurisy.” An outside
physician finally came in and gave treatment.
The money being spent freely on our student union might well be
duplicated by the state to provide decent health service to the students
who ultimately pay the salaries in this school.
Eill Larner
(Editor’s note: When asked about this problem yesterday, Dr.
F. N. Miller of the infirmary said, “We do not have a staff sufficient
to give service outside of the regular health service hours.” The reg
ular hours are 8 a m. to 4 p.m. He explained that patients were ad
mitted to the hospital after hours but that in case of serious injury
doctors from downtown were called to handle the patient. He said
that patients after hours should be taken to downtown hospitals.—
The Emerald will investigate this matter further.
ABOUT CO-OP REBATE
At the risk of being censored by
thrifty savers of Co-op receipts (I
saved a few myself), I offer a sug
gestion for equitable adjustment of
Co-op profits:
Why not refund the customary 5
per cent and put the remaining 25
per cent in the student union fund ?
The entire 30 per cent allotted to
the S.U. fund would be even better.
Either plan would be fair and
equitable to all students.
Objections may be made by stu
dents expecting large rebates, but
these objections could be satisfac
torily met and pacified by the con
siderable benefits of an additional
$19,000 or $22,800 in the S.U. fund.
Objectors would not be “cheated”
as they have received goods, at mar
ket prices, for all their expended
monies in the Co-op.
I believe that this distribution of;
Co-op profits would, in three or four |
years, make a sizeable contribution
to Student Union. It would be a
practical way to define the word
“co-op.”
Wm. E. Pearson
OOPS—ERROR
I should like to correct an error
in your editorial of Wednesday,
May 14, 1047, in which you state, in
your list of campus positions, that
the business manager of next year’s
Oregana is an Independent.
As a matter of record, I am an
active member of a campus soror
ity and not an Independent.
Olga Yevtich
Business Manager, 1948 Oregana
Americans spent a record total
of $7,800,000,000 on alcoholic
drinks in 1945, an average of about
$56 per man, woman, and child in
the country.
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By DALE HARLAN
Advanced registration will be
held on May 26, 27, 28, and 29 for
all spring term students who intend
to go to either one or both summer
sessions. This is being done so that
the veterans’ subsistence pay will
not be automatically cut off at the
end of this term. Also, the veterans
who intend to attend the first ses
sion of summer school are request
ed to keep in rriind that they must
report back to Glen Sweeney at the
dean of men’s office on June 18 or 19
so that the VA will know that they
are in actual attendance at the Uni
versity. If this is not done the Uni
versity will automatically interrupt
their training and it will be some
time before subsistence payments
can be reinstated.
ah veterans are cautioned to
pick up all supplies that they have
coming to them before May 20. Af
ter that date the Co-op will not is
sue any back supplies.
The Republican “High Command”
in the house of representatives
seems to have made two major long
run decisions. First, that the Re
publican-controlled house will not
cut any existing vet benefits even
though the GOP economy axe will
spare few other phases of federal
activity. And secondly, that a “very
moderate” start will be made this
year on new vet legislation with the
big improvements being saved for
1948’s national election year when
it will do the most political good.
Senator Wayne Morse (R., Ore.)
is chairman of the special vet sub
committee of the senate committee
on labor and public welfare. This
committee is considering bills to re
peal or increase combined wage and
subsistenuee ceilings and later will
turn to proposals for higher sub
sistence to vets studying or train
ing under the GI Bill. This writer
believes Morse to be one of the two
or three ablest senators in Wash
ington. Other members of this spe
cial subcommittee are: Senators*
Ives (R., N.Y.), Jenner (R., Ind.),
Thomas (D„ Utah) and Hill (D.,
Ala.).