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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1948)
Wanted: Nice Warm Tent For Light Housekeeping The $5 board and room increase for dor mitory space effective the first summer ses sion of 1948 completely demolishes the old illusion that living in a dorm is cheaper than living in a fraternity or sorority. Sadly enough there doesn’t seem to be anything dorm students can do except pay up, pledge, or look for a tree-house. The state board of higher education felt forced to pass on the raise because of the in creased cost of labor and food during the past year. The labor angle has become especially potent since the civil service took all state employees under its wing recently thereby cutting down the number of working hours from 44 to 40 a week and raising employees’ wages. The obvious reasoning is that they have to eat too, even during inflationary times. However, this meant that the John Straub and veterans’ dorm dining halls had to employ more help. More help means more money and so John Q. Student is asked to dig a little deeper and come up with $62 a month rather than the present $57 and then pay his house dues. Board bills in the Greek houses run be tween $60 and $62 a month and there is no contemplated increase according to Bresee Warner, local accountants for affiliated groups. This is more understandable when one realizes that fraternities and sororities are not state institutions and therefore not bothered by the civil service employees prob lem. As long as they keep their membership up they can keep their house bills down. Also, anyone who has compared the quan tities of food served in the dorm dining halls readily see why rising food costs would hit the dorms harder. The dorms serve a large meal at both lunch and dinnertime, which is not the rule in the houses. And so the noose settles snugly around the dormitory student’s neck. Possibly he can gain some mental lift or prestige by know ing it is costing him more to live than his affiliated neighbor. More likely he will start haunting the war surplus sales looking for a swell tent. M.E.T. Letter Writers Object to UMT; Call It Obsolete for Atomic Age To the Editor: Regarding the letter of Lieutenant Colonel Sheets in Wednesday’s Emerald, he assumes that universal military training will provide security; therefore, anyone who is against UMT is against security. That is a fine basis upon which to argue, but it isn’t true. Nor is it true, as he stated, that General Holdridge is against preparedness. He, along with many other of those “average veterans” for whom you claimed to speak, fails to see how UMT will provide security. May I quote such a “pacifist” as the president of the Reserve Officers’ association, Col. William Neblitt, air reserve. He wrote in an editorial in the December, 1947, Reserve Officer Magazine, “The professionals have no plan to meet the menace of these frightful weapons. Instead of going to congress with a plan for national security, our military lead ers seem to be in disorganized retreat from the prob lem of peacetime preparedness presented by the atomic bomb, radioactive dust, and bacteriological warfare. They do have some vague idea that UMT would meet the emergency presented by these weap ons. They have pinned all their hopes on UMT. The fright campaign which our military leaders are making to obtain UMT is not well founded.” Nor is this all. Our highest military leaders, in testifying for UMT, have made the following state ments: It would take at least six months to mobilize the reserves; population, manufacturing, and trans portation centers would be the chief targets in a lightning war; the war would be decided within 60 days after it began. When confronted by these statements from their own side, proponents of UMT provide no explana tion for them, but fall back and parrot their pre vious arguments. They should be told that repe tition of an argument does not increase its validity. The colonel speaks fondly of “marshaling and maneuvering a unified army should the need for one arise.” Exactly what benefit would the nation derive from mobilizing men several months after the war was over, when many transportation centers would have been crippled? It still resolves to the fact that only with a well-trained professional force can se curity and retaliatory power be maintained. Richard Smurthwaite 1st Lt., Inf.»Res. To The Editor: I would like to draw to Lieutenant Colonel Sheets’s attention and to anyone else's who might be Interested, that his arguments presented in the January 28 issue of the Emerald were excellent ones for a strong and well-organized voluntary reserve organization which can be immediately and effec tively activated. However, I fail to see the necessity of enacting anything so drastic as compulsory mil itary training. If the armed services can't get enough volunteers for their regular and reserve forces for any emergency', then there must be some thing inherently wrong. I should like to present the following arguments for a strong voluntary reserve organization and against any form of compulsory military training: 1. Our country is faced with three possible situa tions in the near future. They are: a. Peace b. War of the atomic bomb, guided missile, and bacterial types of mass annihilation c. War essentially as we knew it in World War II If we have peace, our problems will be of an in ternal economic nature. Certainly UMT can't help us in this situation. If we have war of the atomic bomb type, it will no doubt mean near total suicide for both sides. We won’t even have time to get all of the regulars out of their sacks let alone mobilize thousands of peace time trainees. If another country who also possessed atomic bombs, guided missiles, and germs should remember that we too have them, they might not wish to start a war of this type because they would know that they couldn’t get all of our arsenals at once and would thus run the chance of being annihilated themselves. They might, however, decide that they could invade us without our using atom bombs against them because we knew they had them too—• a vicious circle somewhat like the poison gas situa tion of World War II. (Z) rne major reason we ueieaieu me enemy m the last two war's w'as because of our tremendous productive capacity. Our efforts therefore should be directed toward those goals rather than towards a massive armed force which would sap our internal economic strength. (3) The largest armed force in the world would not prevent such a fiasco as occurred at Pearl Har bor December 7, 1941. (4) From my own experience and through talk ing to other veterans, I am led to believe that it was not what we learned in basic training or boot camp, but it was the cooperation we learned from our school mates, the mechanical knacks we learned from our jalopies, and the many other things we learned as civilians which aided us the most in our particular job in the service. (5) No country in history which practiced peace time military conscription ever succeeded completely in peace or war. Consider the fates of Sparta and Rome, of Germany and Japan. (6) Why should we believe that the United States of America would be any better a place to live un der a militaristic government which would certainly evolve out of any such program as UMT than Ger many was under Hitler? (7) I am sure that if a little of. the unnecessary “H" igh "S” tandards were removed from the armed forces and their social standards were brought up to date, there would be a sufficient number of volunteers to maintain an adequate regular and re serve force. James S. Witzig Lt (jg) USNR Oregon If Emerald ALL-AMERICAN 1946-47 The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of cne University of Oregon, published tally during the college year except Sundays, Monoays, and final examination period-. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Ore. Member of the Associated Collegiate Press iOB FRAZIER, Editor _ BOB CHAPMAN, Business Manager Everybody Gets Along Just Peachy at Oregon By BETTY ANN STEVENS Tlie following item should be for the blonde Gamma l’hi who writes the who-is-with-what column, but this columnist found it first. All mine. Wav last spring, in the SDX edition of the Emerald when “sprig terb” politics were in full blast, Filler Editor '1'. Berton Moore wrote, "Aril black Parker pens look alike," and "Stan Williamson and Howard Lemons are very good friends." among other incredible bits. V bile there have been a few doubts expressed as to the valid ity of the former statement, the latter is unquestionably true. Playing escort at the Senior ball to S., pinnee, the ever-ef fervescent Maggie Harrison, was H. Stan and Howard are such bosomy friends that the indepen dent member of the student body cabinet has been subbing for the prez., on weekends while he has been away chalking up baskets. This is significant in extreme. If ASA-ISA teeth-baring at Ore gon can be transformed into a pearly smile, there seems to be no reason at all why the Americans and Russki’s can’t waltz in har mony. A likely thesis topic. Joe Gurley, who would stamp on the foot of any Russian pre suming to waltz with him, is deep in economic cycles and their relation to sun spots. (Thesis re search sometimes is uncovered in devious paths.) He has been won dering if the “Gypsy” palmist out on Highway 99 might be able to throw some light. A talented soul, she is able to determine the GPA of seekers-after-the-trutb, by the manner in which they clench their fists. This is ac cording to Hank Volk. Sacrelegious note: At a local theater, where the loges are pleasantly overstuffed' blocks of comfort, a materialist paused reverently and genuflected be fore settling himself beside his date. And it wasn’t during the chapel scene of “Green Dolphin Street.” Items From Roundabout By BOB REED The student who scribbles something and then wants the professor to tell him what he wrote reminds us somewhat of the statesman, tuning in on the radio commentators to see if he said what he said in his last speech. « * * Society and etiquet experts point out it is polite for the man to alight from a public convey ance first. Thus, if the lady slips, the gentleman not only can break her fall but is freed from any suspicion of having pushed her. :i: $ :>s A California woman complains her husband thought more of his car than he did of her, “And a 1937 model, too.” It is hard to de cide the justice of this case, how ever, without knowing the model of the wife. ijs sj: Henry Morgan has a new spon sor, a shampoo company. This will be a new experience for the comedian, who has ordinarily been in his sponsor’s hair, instead of vice versa. Don’s Disc Data I’M LOOKING OVER A FOUR LEAF CLOVER has arrived — you know it! You.might be sur- "* prised by the age of that tune. FOUR LEAF CLOVER hit its stride in 1919. The 88th Divi sion (Infantry), with a four-leaf' clover as insig nia, was in Gon dreeour't, France, waiting for the ship home. Nothing to PORTER do . . . an inspi ration . . .an army mess hall ... and the biggest musicale in the . E.T.O. Hit of the show was I’M LOOK ING OVER A FOUR-LEAF CLO VER. Also from the same produc tion were MY CLOVER-LEAF GIRL and WHO CAN TELL. We can end that s'tory by saying, yes, who can tell? Records to look for: 1— NOW IS THE HOUR (Cap itol 15024) vocal Maggie Whiting, Frank DeVolorch. Another res urrection. This came from Aus- . tralia, by way of England and its ambassador of song, Gracie Fields. It’s a Maori love song, sweet and simple . . . clean ar rangement . . . lots of sincerity. If you want to dream—Buy It! 2— I'LL NEVER SAY I LOVE YOU (Columbia 38061) Horace - Heidt orch, vocal—and get this— The Masked Spooner. Two rea-C sons for this listing. First, this is the first waxing for Horace after an absence of three years . . . which gave him time to make money in California real estate. » Second, the hidden talents of a gas company testimonial by the _ Masked Spooner. Listen to him run through his true love story— ugh! 3— IT ALL CAME TRUE (Co- * lumbia 37966) Frank Sinatra, Al vy West and his Little Band. Not^ enough imagination or feeling for Sinatra. This was cut during his _ "tired and am getting a cold” spell. Watch Alvy. Six well-“ trained musicians with the feel ing for doing great things. The coming tune: Mel Torme's COUNTY FAIR. It’s a grave situation if you . can’t purchase your favorite wax- _ ing at 1198 Willamette street. Don Porter. Music Art graves 1198 Willamette, Phone 4107