Oregon *<§' Emerald
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, Ure.
Member of the Associated Collegiate Press_
BOB FRAZIER, Editor_ BOB CHAPMAN, Business Manager
RILL YATES
Managing Editor
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Co-News Editors_
DON FAIR iKtu iaxluk
Co-Sports Editor ____
JEANNE SIMMONDS, MARYANN THIELEN, BARBARA HEYWOOD
Associates to Editor_
VIROI L TUCKER DIANA DYE
Advrtising. Manager_Assistant News Editors
PHYLLIS KOIILMEIER HELEN SHERMAN
Asst. Managing Editors __
A Good Place for Grass
Wednesday evening two University students were injured
while crossing 13th street in front of the College Side. It
was a dark and rainy night, and the intersection there poses
many problems for the driver who has just come through the
dark campus.. He is suddenly confronted with many distrac
ing lights from the block of store fronts that makes up the
campus business community. After driving through three
blocks where tlRre is virtually no pedestrian traffic in the
evening, he comes upon the “most crossed" street in the Un
iversity section.
The wonder is that such accidents have not happened more
often.
The University and the city took a step in the right direc
tion last year, when, after years of campaigning by the Em
erald, they blocked off 13th street during class changing
periods. Ideally now we look toward the day when 13th will
be blocked to traffic entirely, when grass will grow between
Commerce and Chapman.
But that time is not yet. Before much more can be done
about 13th street, there will have to be some provision made
for east-west traffic through Eugene. Right now 13th is the
only artery through the city between the highway and 19th.
It is only reasonable to expect that the citizens of Eugene
be allowed to cross their town.
Anybody who has driven on 13th at 10 minutes to the hour
knows what a headache the present light system is to the
driver. He must either stop and wait 10 minutes, or he must
skirt the campus, using University street, 11th, and the muddy
wagon-road that connects the two. Then he must get a re-do
on shock absorbers, wash job, and temper. If he meets a bus
on University street, that’s just tough.
Any further closing of the street would result in even
greater inconvenience to the city’s drivers.
The answer seems to he to run 11th through, north of the
physical plant, and to provide an adequate north-south outlet
at Onyx or Emerald. Then we could plant grass on 13th
from Kincaid to University.
Lucky Is He With an Uncle
To many students (in the terminology of a freshman comp
class) “My Summer Vacation Means My Summer Job.” The
old question of where to find work is a natural harbinger of
spring. It is also a blight on the season, because the day when
full-time employment, let alone part-time or summer-time
work, was nearly unobtainable is not yet forgotten.
These lean years have not returned, but the University
branch of the U. S. employment service has announced that
summer work will be more difficult to obtain. The branch is
judging mainly by the number of office and industry jobs
available in Lane county. Dean Karl W. Onthank was more
Optimistic about job conditions in Portland. Many of the jobs
he listed, however, are open only to graduates. The usual
quota of resort jobs is still offered to college students.
Therefore let the student whose favorite summertime sport
is check-cashing start soon an application-letter barrage, for
although things are not had, they are not good. That ragged
old scarecrow. No Job, is sitting on a distant but visible pin
nacle, leering.
Fortunate indeed is the student who has a standing summer
job, a special talent that assures him of work, or a great in
dustrialist for an uncle.— B.H.
All This for Free
Are you happy with the Oregon state liquor law? Do you
wr approve the actions of the people who run your local, state, and
national government? Do you think Lane county is run effic
iently? Are you interested in a mill race?
If any of the above issues titillate you, and if you really want
to see something done—one way or the other—about them,
you have your chance next May, at the Oregon primaries.
But before you can vote, you must register. It’s easy today.
There will be registration booths open all day today in the
co-op. Its free.
Regional Inequalities Seen
In Granting Research Funds
By BILL WASMANN
An article in the February 6 issue of
Science magazine makes interesting reading,
but it is not recommended for those having
blood of a low boiling point. Inequality in the
granting of research funds in the field of
medicine is the author’s, Clarence A. Mills’,
thesis. Although we’ve no statistics to prove
it, we do feel that his thesis could be expand
ed. to almost any field of study.
"There exists no evidence that native in
telligence is better in one part of the United
States than in another. Opportunities for the
blossoming of exceptional ability do vary
sharply from region to region, however—a
variation which is correlated closely with
the availability of institutions of higher
learning. This is particularly true of the de
velopment of young scientists; there is no
way in which promising individuals can be
discovered except by bringing them into
• close contact with science subjects. Encour
agement of research in America must thus
mean the greatest possible broadening of the
base of student exposure, as well as the
broadest possible support of promising in
dividuals once they have been found,” he
says.
The Mills investigation into the distri
bution of research funds brought out “very
disturbing inequalities in the granting of such
funds—inequalities so pernicious in end re
sults as to indicate the need for an entirely
new basis of action with the large federal
outlays in future years.
The article divides itself nicely into two
parts; one dealing with his findings, the
other dealing with federal outlays in future
years. We shall deal with the latter question
at a later date.
For the sake of brevity here are a few
of the inequalities. The American Cancer
Society raised $14,138,897 by public sub
scription all over the country during 1945-46,
and of this about 39.5 per cent was contrib
uted by the northeastern states. In the dis
tribution fo these funds up to February, 1947
this same northeastern section received 66.7 ’
per cent of the total. The remainder of the
country, which contained more than 70 per
cent of the total population and contributed
60.5 per cent of the funds, received only 33.3
per cent of the research money distributed.
More than half a dozen ether institutions
which grant funds for similar purposes are
mentioned. Many of them are not dependent
upon public support, but practically all of
them ignore, in the main, the fact that the
United States extends below the Mason-'!
Dixon line and west of the Mississippi river.
The fairest distribution of funds Mr. Mills
could find was that made by the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. “For
once, less than half of the funds (48.7 per
cent) went to the northeastern area with its
29.7 per cent of the total U. S. population.”
Anybody Here Like Newsreels?
Newsreels are hardly worthy of the name
nowadays. More and more they have become
publicity mediums for the movie industry;
the occasional shot that actually features
news of the day—real news—is almost a
rarity.
Universal-International newsreels invar
iably have pictures of J. Arthur Rank himself
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some kind (it’s never very
clear) of a conference, leav
ing New York after a confer
ence, visiting Washington to
see H. Truman, taking tiffin
with King George, or going
on lengthy walks with a Un
iversal v. p. I like a good
many of the pictures Rank's
company turns out, but I’m
getting awlully tired ol those interminable
shots showing him embarking, disembark
ing, or hobnobbing with international wheels.
20th Century-Pox always makes a point of
getting Darryl F. Zanuck into their "news
reels." He plays polo . . . contributes to
charity . . . graciously accepts academy
awards . . . once, so help me, they took pic
tures of him as one of the recipients for some
American Defense medals that were being
passed out to members of the American Le
gion post on the 20th Century lot. I confess
to being curious about just how many veter
ans employed by 20th Century are members
of that post; the quota probably resembles
the latest figures on Ivory Soap’s purity.
Let's not bother to consider Barney Bala
ban, Louie Mayer, Spyros Skouros, or the
rest of the movie colony big guns individual
ly; let it go by saying that pictures of them
presenting (or receiving) awards, medals,
checks, etc. are boring to an extreme. They
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do the work of nembutal without the danger
of nembutal.
Let’s consider Eric Johnston, ex-presi
dent of the United States chamber of com
merce and currently czar of the motion pic
ture industry. Eric is another distinguished,
well-groomed bore, and the only difference
between him and others of the Balaban
Mayer-Skouros ilk is that ALL the Compan
ies numb theater audiences with bits from his
latest speeches.
I’d gladly pay roadshow prices to see a
full length picture starring Eric Johnston if
the newsreel companies would promise never
again to devote one iota of space to his ex
tremely unimportant doings. That’s purely
a dream situation, of course. See a newsreel
without one shot of Eric Johnston addressing
the National Association of Key Chain Man
ufacturers or some other select group? To
cjuote Sam Goldwyn: “I give you my answer
in two words: Im-possible.”
Actual news shots are something else
again, but they’re almost as bad, sometimes.
'1 he Hollywood idea of making events con
form to someone’s idea of how they should be
often gets played to a fare-thee-well. Eugene
theaters last week were featuring scenes of a
Midwestern flood; one newsreel showed the
usual flood scenes, then the camera focused
on a dog riding the roof of a doghouse float
ing down-country. Pure happenstance that
the newsreel cameraman just happened to be
within easy camera range when that dog
just happened to drift by? Must have been.
M ho, cocking a critical eye at Hollywood,
would ever dream of suggesting that the dog
was placed there just for the benefit of the
camera ? Speak up, you dirty Red Commun
ist bum, you.
In answering a polling reporter's question of “Why Should
One Go to College?" an instructor at Villanova college said,
"It is one of the obligations exacted for the privilege of being
alive that a man must ask these three questions about him
self: 1) What am I? 2) Why am I? 3) Where am I going?
One goes to college to help him find the answers to these
questions.”
Library to Close
The library will be closed Sun
day, April 18, from 1 to 5 p.m., to
permit library personnel to attend
the Isaac Stern concert, according
to Dr. R. c. Swank, librarian. ^