Oregon
. ALL-AMERICAN 1946-47
The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the University of Oregon, published
daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and final examination periods.
Entered as second-class matter at the postomce, Eugene, Ore.
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Not Always Halloween
Reports of “vandalism" (a word meaning "good clean fun
to some and "hoodlumism to others) have been rife on the
campus for several weeks.
The climax was reached this week after the Susan Campbell
Villard hall affair, details of which appear on Page 1 of today’s
Emerald. Settlement of the particular situation was eventually
achieved in a manner satisfactory to everybody concerned. The
puishments were light, in light of the suspension recommenda
tion of Heads of Houses and the Interfraternity council, both
of which had pledged their support to the administration iri the
effort to stop this great epidemic of cops & robbers (college
level).
The penalty inflicted upon the Susan Campbell girls was l-ight
because there was a better than average chance that the girls
were innocent of “wrong intent,” that they didn’t realize they
were really doing wrong. That is reasonable, because of the al
most nightly forays of fraternity and sorority members, who
have been stealing one another’s fron doors so chummily.
Heads of Houses had met only the night before the fracas be
tween the two dorm. The Susan Campbell girls were not told
of the action of that group, because the religious speaker who
was visiting them that night stayed until a rather late hour.
A more severe punishment would have been unreasonable.
There should be no doubt about what the future holds. The
word is out. Everybody knows now that these cowboy and
Indian games are verboten. The administration will no longer
ignore them. In the future participants may expect little consid
eration from the dearts, because they have been warned.
Perhaps the Susan Campbell case wasn't handled too well,
although it would appear that many of the rumors floating
about the campus Thursday night will not hold water. Perhaps
these things are all in the spirit of good clean fun, and perhaps
we are only young once. Perhaps there are a lot of scandals and
dirty deals connected with this whole affair.
But the fact remains that somebody is going to get hurt if
the situation continues. In addition to this there is the matter
of property damage. A house we can think of—one of the female
establishments on Alder street—would dearly love to> know
just which men’s house has how much of their furniture, and
just how much of the furniture is in another house, and so on.
There have also been some reports of breakage. That all costs
money, and father's pocket can be only so deep, even in the
most well heeled house.
Then there is the matter of publicity. It doesn't exactly look
college level, to the sober citizen who pays the taxes, which
support the institution. It doesn’t seem very adult.
Incidents such as the Susan Campbell-Villard mess of this
past week can be prevented if the leadership in the houses will
give in and admit that every night is not Halloween.
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Reprinted trom the
October, 1947 issue of esquire
Copyright 1947 by Esquire. Inc.
“/ think one of these statues should be turned around”.
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Coffee Dregs, Penny Matching
All Just Peachy Funsy for Ivy
By BETTY ANN STEVENS
Now that the hubbub over Betty
and Joe has quieted, it seems only
appropriate to draw from a page
in the diary of Ivy Butterphlop, f
Phi Phi Phi, sophomore in pottery.
7 a.m.—Tossed panda bear at
Waterbury.
7:15 a.m.—Threw double wham
mies at pledge on wake-up duty.
Just seething.
8:01 a.m.—Weaved to kitchen for
coffee dregs with saccharine,
wheatie tastie, vitamin pill, and the
Oregon Daily. Turned to “Taylor’s
Tattles,” and am Positively Furi
ous mecause “Feenamint Gargoyle
is chugging dixie cups these days
with Fuzzy Schimmelpfennig.”
Just amazed.
Cut 9 o’clock to study for 10
o’clock at the Rush, with butter
horn, three eggs, fried horniny grits
and double malted . . . Ran into
the miraculous Peter B. Still. He’s
peachy, but pinned.
Cut 10 o’clock . . . Just a panic
. . . Talked to Barry . . . Made date
with Larry . . . Harry didn’t speak
Left for Co-op with Schmoe . .
Some stupid serf stepped on my
longest fingernail.
10:40—Just a riot. Matched pen
nies for Sid’s Jifi pin before class
in Japanese. Won this Brownie
button . . . Sat beside Boomer Cog,
chairman of Agnostic Emphasis
Week . . . Got ink on the ruffle of
my best “new look” bobby socks,
and learned how to say, “Yes, I
speak Dalmatian.”
Noon—Appointed sergeant in
Soaring Speech Squadron after
plugging for the Septic Hour.
Lunched on celery and vitamin pill.
Just a scream.
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.—Rested eyes for
a minute.
4:10 p.m.—Late for Quandry
meeting at the Side . . . Wangled
chairmanship of Crumb Commit
tee for cupcake sales in the law
school stacks.
4:45 p.m.—Ate six doughnuts
and played hinky pinky with Lance,
Vance, Ranee, and Schmoe. Just a
kill. Schmoe can balance three
toothpicks on the bridge of his
nose.
5:30 p.m.—Wore longies to din
ner. Piles of funsies. Toyed with
jello salad and vitamin pill.
6 p.m.—Listened nine times to
B.V.’s recording of “Some Lousy
Lug Put Clams in My Mandolin.”
Just super.
7 p.m.—Skipped study table to
work on Emerald.
7:22 p.m.—Skipped Emerald to
meet Larry at Libe.
7:32 p.m.—Weed with Bill.
8 p.m.—Fag with Gil.
9 p.m.—Pall Mall with Phil.
9:49 p.m.—Met Schmoe in brows
ing room. He’s so cute when he sets
fire to his hair.
10 to 10:30 p.m.—Discussed an
tidisestablishmentarianismisticabil
ity, or the “pooh-pooh theory,”
with Larry on the front porch.
10:35 p.m.—Snacked on two
cream puffs, 12 sardines, and pint
of peanut butter. Repaired finger
nail. Put to bed.
One World Club Hears Visitor from Puget Sound
Explain Procedure of Aid Under Marshall Plan
By THE ONE WORLD CLUB
Dr. Warren Tomlinson from the College of Puget
Sound discussed the Marshall Plan at the One World
club meeting, Wednesday, October 27. A digest of his
remarks follows:
The Marshall plan is not as yet a plan.
Preliminaries were laid at the Paris meeting, but
the plan is not complete.
The Marshall plan is set up to give aid to impov
erished Europe. The 16 nations negotiating it have
estimated their production capacity and subtracted
this from 'their economic needs to put those nations
back on their feet. The plan is to avoid the present
system of aid to Europe, which is like putting water
in the ocean, since the countries do not receive
enough to put them economically high enough to
exist alone.
Under this plan, Europe will have a better pro
duction record at the end of four years (1952) than
she has had since 1938. The estimated amount of aid
is 22 billion dollars—three billion to come from the
world bank, and 19 billion from the United States,
with five and a half billion included in this figure
to be exported from Latin America, but paid for
by the United States.
Credit System
While 19 billion dollars appears to be an enor
mous figure, we do not actually take 19 billion dol
lars and toss it across the ocean, but give this
amount worth of credits in the United States. While
this is a drain on our production system, it is not
nearly so great as our war figures and will increase
production here at home.
Russia sent Molotov and 80 delegates from her
staff of experts to the Marshall plan conference.
This would indicate a definite interest on her part.
Yet she looked over the proposed plan and returned
home. Five reasons were set up for this: 1. America,
as the instigator and administrator of the plan would
be securing capitalistic control. 2. If the plan were
put into effect, America would administer the plan
directly and would send men to Europe to control
it. At the beginning, Russia would be on the receiv
ing end and would therefore be subjected to a cer
tain amount of United States control on her eco
nomic system from within her own boundaries. 3.
Russia believes the United States will inevtitably
have a depression and she did not want to enter into
an agreement which would break up in the middle.
4. The plan, she believed, was in part, at least, to
fight communism. 5. If the aid were to be given to
each country separately, she says, she would be
in favor of it. But the unilateral plan gives aid to the
whole block of Europe and she believes the little
countries would lose their sovereignty as a result of
unequal distribution.
Russia Wielded Power
Russia could have wrecked the plan if she had
joined since W'e believed that Congress would never
join if Russia and her satellites were included.
If we don’t give aid to Europe, she will soon
reach economic ruin, but if we do give aid, and it
results in a depression in our own country, then we
are pulled down, even if a little later, to economic
ruin ourselves. That is how delicately we are inter
woven.
Russia is now building eastern Europe to
strengthen pommupisip, ^Jnder the Marshall plan
the United States could be building western Europe
and strengthening democracy. However, Russia is
not aiding her satellites under any organized system.
There is no “Molotov plan” which we have assigned
to them. Russia is giving some food to these coun
tries and has sent a little machinery 'to Yugoslavia.
Economic Straits
However, Russia is in economic straits herself.
Nevertheless, she believes that under her system she
will do a better job of reconstructing eastern Europe
than we can do with western Europe under the Mar
shall plan. Russia’s trump is that there will be a
depression in the United States. If there is a de
pression it will break down the Marshall plan and
Russia wins. On the other hand, the United States
is betting that the Marshall plan will be so success
ful that at the end of the four-year period, these
countries of eastern Europe will be forced to join.
If this happened, Russia would then probably be
be working with us even better, in the political as
well as in the economic arena. The results of this
will be in five or ten years. And then outcome will
be decisive in the world situation.
Impoverishing
As to a depression, the most threatening ele
ments will be our steel and coal. The Marshall plan
will not ruin us in material resources and we would
not be impoverishing ourselves economically. How
ever, we have & steel shortage now and if we were
to send steel to Europe we might cause inflation
here with an eventual depression.
Russia cannot have a depression. Her economic
control is too rigid. She does not have to close fac
tories as happens here at home, and she is not sub
ject to economic cycles such as we see. That is part
of her theory of communism.
European Support
What kind of support is the plan getting from
the 16 European countries negotiating? Although
they have learned not to trust the foreign policies
of the United States from past history, they are
giving it wholehearted support because they are in
such difficulties. The main trouble at present has
been in tariff agreements. At the Paris meeting
where they 16 nations are negotiating, it was pro
posed that there be no trade barriers. Actually we
have lowered our trade barriers 25 to 35 per cent by
the laws of the Intertrade conference.
Germany Is Key
Although Germany is not one of the nations, she
is the key to Europe’s recovery and she would re
ceive one-fourth of the aid under the Marshall plan
at its institgation. We do not have to love Germany,
and we can even be afraid of her, but this aid is of
necessity.
If the Marshall plan is taken up at the earliest
possible date in congress, it cannot be initiated until
September 1. The “starvation deadline" as reported
by President Truman is D.ecember 1, 1947. France
has already reached her deadline. That is, a week
ago France had spent her last dollar in the United
States. However, through a technicality she found
an old war debt which we owed her in the amount of
50 billion dollars and which she is drawing on at the
present time.
Our biggest mistake is in not cooperating with
the socialistic countries in order to gain their sup
port in preventing totalitarianism in Europe.