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Oregon M Emerald ALL-AMERICAN 1946-47 The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of che University of Oregon, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and final examination periods Entereu as second-class nmter at the postoffice. Eugene, Ore. Member of the Associated Collegiate Press BOB FRAZIER. Editor BOB CHAPMAN, Business Manager • -n-s JUNE GOETZE, BOBOLEE BROPHY r-" Managing Editor Co-News Editors DUN FAIR FRED TAYLOR Co-Sports Editor walt McKinney, jeanne simmonds, maryann thielen Associates to Editor _ phf^WshehmaF* winny caki. As® Al?nnging EdftOT Advertising Malaga_ DIANA DYE JIM WALi-ACE Assistant Nws Editors National Advertising Manager.....-.-Marilyn Turner Circulation Manager .....Billi Jean Riethi_.tller Jane Russell Has Her Points Columnist Finally Agrees By MIKE CALLAHAN One of these days we are going to sit down to a large plate •of our own words, and eat them comma by comma. The words concern one Jane Russell, actress, and lately singer by pro fession. Miss Russell is the number one attraction both in the re cords and on the cover, of an album just released by Colum bia. Titled “Let’s Put Out the Light,” this offering lives up to its name better than anything except a short-circuit. Be sides the title song it includes “Body and Soul,” “I Must Have That Man.” “Do It Again,” “Love For Sale,” “Two Sleepy People,” “A Hundred Years From Today,” and “Until the Real Thing Comes Along.” The "them” girl sings in a low, breathless voice that is well-perfumed with s-x. As the cover blurb puts it, she sings “incredibly close to your shoulder.” She may be s-xational but she's also good, very good. Which brings us to the matter of the words. Some months back this column plugged a collection bv Diana Lynn, young M-G-M star, and a pianist with a couple of original trills to her stylings. At the same time we heaved a passing brick at Russell, whose jive waxings with Victor’s Kay Kyser were as jumpy as a lead balloon. Shortly there after Lynn quit recording and Russell switched from hot to hotter by signing with Columbia. We found our predictions batting a perfect zero. Jane Russell has two strikes against her in the vocal biz, her own billboard publicity and Peggy Lee. Lee is currently leading the "low and intimate” league for Capitol. But if Russell can top her “Outlaw” reputation and a tendency to lose control of her voice on low or sustained notes she will be in. In the top ranks, that is. Platter lines: If every crooner must have his year, we pick ’48 as the Mel 'forme year. Tonne (e as in a) has drawn a steady rave from the Broadway press and has jaunted the whole million-dollar circuit. And we mean million-dollar; with nitcspot dates, a Hollywood contract, and his own radio show, 'forme has hit the big money brackets. Now Musicraft (whose small string includes such glitter ing names as Diz Gillespie, Teddy Wilson- and Carl Sand burg) has jumped on the 'forme express with an album of his best. As if the 'forme name weren't enough to skyrocket sales, Musicraft has packed its offering with a strong list of all-timers. These include: "The Day You Came Along,” “Fine and Dandy,.fhree Little Words,” “I Can’t Give You Any thing But Love, Baby,” "i'll Always Be in Love With You,” and "Love, You Funny 'filing.” forme's singing style is best described in the words of his former G.l. audience as "the velvet fog.” High and thin in the upper registers, Tonne’s voice broadens into some of the smoothest lower tones we’ve ever heard. This style first formay-ized" the dogfaces, and from these hit the big time with Artie Shaw in "What Is This Thing Called Love.” With this new popular collection released, the Tonne future looks like "ceiling unlimited.” Great hits department: With the discompanies already rationing out their stockpiles of new releases, look for some topnoteh reissues to become available. With this column we take a second look at the outstanding oldtimers now being rewaxed. "Sugar Blues" by Clyde McCoy and "Wabash Blues" (pair ed with "Stumbling”) by Russ Morgan are two of the finest trumpet clasics ever cut. First pressed in the great days of Bunny Berrigan’s sky-climbing horn, these two set a unique trumpet style. McCoy’s control of his instrument was so pre cise that his famed "wah-wah" (later adopted by singer Bonnie Baker) tones seemed almost human. Russ Morgan followed McCoy’s lead but varied it with his own high-weaving solos. Don’t miss them; their arrangements are now a lost art. i Liberal Groups Urged to Purge Communists from Their Ranks The tendency to label persons with whom we disagree as communists or fascists is get ting the American people into a bad habit. It creates fear and distrust- results in disunity, and weakens our domestic and foreign policy. It is time we made our choice between emo tional patriotism and imperturbable courage. The weak always believe the pseudo-Christs who prevail from right or left, but we must have a few who will reason and dissuade in the midst of the stampede. The lengths to which'we seem prone to go in fighting com munism will gain us little if we lose our lib erty in the process. Communists always grovel in the shadows of liberalism. The liberal parties have been guilty of irresolution in dealing with them, but Ave should not alloAV this to indict the Avhole liberal movement. The hope of the lib erals must be premised upon the vigil they keep to repel the Communists. Associate Avith communism and you destroy liberalism; de stroy liberalism and you paA'e the Avay for a police state. If the democratic processes in our nation are just, if the gOA’ernment is efficient, if the schools are free, if students learn to think in terms of the historical deAelopment of civili zation, Ave shall groAv to appreciate man’s ewolutionary struggle for self determination. If avc educate our youth in terms of the lit erature, the art, the music, the philosophy, and the history of man, and if Ave balance this Avith technical training, Ave shall develop dis cerning men and good voters. A person Avith a full stomach and a free Avill is rarely searching for communism, a creed Avhicli is more likely to appeal to the DY 11C9 VV /iHU ^ ill-clad, the ill-housed- and the hungry. To fear communism is to admit the class war. We need not fear Communism if we attack the defeat in our system of government with a view to correcting them. In 1948 many people will vote for liberal 1 candidates. For the sake of the sincere, and the preservation of our elective system, we must not overlook the danger of labeling all liberals as leftists. We must inquire as to the motives of those who attempt to besmirch the intent of the liberal party. Why do they try to kill the liberal party? Purge the communists from liberal ranks. Define the issues. Determine who is con servative, who liberal and who communistic. 1 Then we can know of whom we speak; then we can identify our neighbor’s belief. Be- j cause we would know, we would not fear. We could have confidence in a government where liberals, conservatives, and communists vie for ELECTIVE office. If we cannot believe the voters will select the good, we cannot up hold constitutional government. The com munists do not like the liberal party, which is as indigestible to them as “gold exchange.” Communists go all the way, and this they cannot do as liberals. As we come nearer the showdown, the liberals will move to the middle of the road, the conservatives will move more to the side of the vested interests and the militarists, and the communists will continue to spread their mental excretions. But honest, educated- 4 detecting voters will spurn the overtures of the right and left alike. Such is the historical evolution of political movements. Dialectic? Maybe. Utah Daily Writer Sees Liberalism As Division of Wealth> Responsibility (Reprinted from an article by David S. Kahn the Utah Daily Chronicle) For all practical purposes, a man is a liberal if he is called one. However, if we are to know lib erals by other methods than the “expedient” ways of politics, it is necessary to be impractical. We must try to measure the man by some objective standard. There is nothing very wrong with saying that a man is liberal to the extent that he believes it is possible to enhance the dignity of his fellowman. It is just that there remains a big problem of decid ing how much that “extent” is.. One might say that a hundred per cent liberal was a fellow who believed that there should be an absolutely equal division of everything; be it social prestige, politi cal responsibility, or physical wealth. SINCE HUNDRED-PERCENTERS are a bit cracked, I see nothing wrong in assuming that lib erals have a lunatic fringe. But if a man is less than hundred per cent liberal, as most men are, what foreign doctrine shall we have compromising his good intentions ? I believe we can best assume that the faith at the opposite pole of liberalism is authoritarianism. For the liberal emphasizes the common factors in man, and the authoritarian em phasizes the differences. A hundred per cent authoritarian would have one man supreme, a philosopher prince, before whom all subordinate men would have to cringe and crawl like dogs in the meadow. But most lib erals must qualify their attempt to elevate the status of humans by the practical realization that there are differences among men. We may say, then, that a man’s faith in humanity can be meas ured by finding out simultaneously the degrees to which he feels it is desirable or inevitable that au tharity be buttressed. IN A DEMOCRATIC society, it is politic for a man to claim he is “liberal” because he holds to the flattering tenet that it is possible to increase the dignity of the voter. And so one comes to think of liberalism as the idealistic position. This need not be for two reasons. First of all, the Platonic vision of a “philosopher king” certainly has a uto pian concept of the attainments to which common clay can aspire. Secondly, a liberal can take the cynical position that we are all sufficiently irre sponsible and unenligh'teneed that absolute power will only corrupt a man absolutely. And so he may argue that no matter what the weaknesses of a lib eral society, nothing can be worse than the total and absolute corruption of absolute rulers. Thus, a liberal might find the common elements * of man by glancing into the gutter. Aside from the problem of idealism, there are two main points at which there is confusion, in identifying the “lib eral.” One is the narrow belief that only one par ticular proposal can be consistent with liberal be- 1 liefs. It is clear, however, that men can advocate diametrically opposed policies and remain liberals if their prime motivation is a desire to enhance human dignity while correspondingly reducing the power of an elite. Thus, sincere liberals were ? opposed to the New Deal because it seemed to in volve an undue concentration of power. * The other point of confusion is the belief that militancy in the sense of accepting discipline and authority to accelerate reforms is “more liberal.” It is certainly more radical in that in this way the old order may fall more quickly. But clearly, it is not more liberal. Althought he is not, the com- 1 munist should be embarrased by the similarity in the political relationship of the citizen to the state „ in prewar Germany and in Russia. IF WE ARE GOING to determine the extent to which a man is liberal, beyond making a shrewd guess, we must have a yardstick. To do so, one must arbitrarily assume some criteria and norms. ' For example, one may assume that there are three main spheres of activity in which it is pos sible to enhance the dignity of man; social, political and economic. Thus, a typical liberal viewpoint would favor * racial equality, the secret ballot, and unions, re spectively. All these sample institutions diversify power more greatly and in so doing enhance the dignity of the individual. An elaborate test of this nature could be drawn up and scored for liberalism from zero to one hundred. Our norm could have it that those scoring under thirty could be classi fied as authoritarian. I think this scoring system-'-— shows my bias. Such a test may show me up, but I think I'm a liberal.
