Oregon^Emerald
ALL-AMERICAN 1946-47
The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the University of Oregon, publishe
daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays^ and final examination period.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Ore.
Member of the Associated Collegiate Press _
BOB FRAZIER, Editor _BOB CHAPMAN, Business Manage
BILL YATES JUNE GOETZE, BOBOLEE BROPHY
Managing Editor_Co-News Editors
" DON FAIR FRED TAYLOR
Co-Sports Editor___
JEANNE SIMMONDS, MARYANN THIELEN, BARBARA HEYWOOD
Associates to Editor _^^
VIRGIL TUCKER . .DIAI1TTA
Advrtising Manager _Assistant News Editors
Editorial Board: Larry Lau, Johnny Kahananui, Bert Moore, Ted Goodwin, Bill Stratton
Jack Billings.____
PHYLLIS KOHLMEIER . HELEN SHERMAN
% Asst. Managing Editors__
cS'o^M-^ “r.—
So You Like to Argue?
With Oregon primary elections coming up the 21st of
May, there appears to be an unusual degree of interest among
students in the issues concerning the great world outside.
Political arguments (some of them quite intelligent) seem to
be almost the rule these weeks.
The Emerald is eager to help shed light on the issues in
volved in the several contests—without giving its blessing to
any specific candidate or measure. Between now and elec
tion, we should like to carry discussions of the issues. Stu
dents interested in presenting a certain side of an issue may
contact the editor in the Emerald quonset hut at 12th and
University streets for details as to length, form, etc. of the
statements.
This paper will carry no statement without the opposing
statement, and for the sake of brevity will carry no statements
for candidates who have no opposition in the primary. All
statements involving any single issue will be carried the same
day, and will be equally displayed.
Any takers?
The Gentleman Offends
Ever since the advent of the lipstick and the comb, women
have listened to male censure against using these beautifying
aids in public. “We don’t shave in public, the men have
growled, “so why should women bring their make-up kits into
public places.” But a flaw has been discovered in the perfect
male. Now it is the women’s turn to rant, rave and deplore.
In nearly every lecture class there is at least one male stu
dent who accompanies the professor s voice with the persist
ent snip- snip of an ingenious nail clipper. Although the gad
get iself has long been in use, only recently has it seemed
to find its way into the classroom much to the annoyance and
danger of students in its vicinity. Nor is the operation a simple
one. In nearly every recorded case—and there are cpiite a
number—nail trimming for one individual takes the full class
hour. Either Oregon men have the longest", fastest-growing
nails in the world or they have more than the usual five fingers
on each hand.
Grades will undoubtedly suffer in any class where nail
clipping individuals operate. It is impossible for students to
concentrate on a lecture while waiting, teeth on edge, for the
next loud snip to resound throughout the room. And the
hazards offered by flying bits of old fingernails should be
obvious to anyone.
Against the nauseous, irritating nail clippers, we'll take
the silent-moving comb and lipstick anytime.
M. E. T.
Public Service
The San Francisco Chronicle is more than a big voice from
Fifth and Mission streets in the Bay City. It has also from
time to time proved to be a public service institution. Another
evidence of this side-line activity appeared in the Emerald’s
mail yesterday as “A Political Primer for Americans.”
Written by Earl C. Behrens, political editor of the Chron
icle, the primer, a 27 page collation of facts and figures, is an
excellent discussion of the process Americans must go through
each four years in order to elect a president. Air. Behrens has
► apparently taken note of the appaling ignorance of the av
erage American about things political, for the book contains
the most elementary information. It: also contains an excellent
list of primarv election dates, delegation strengths at the
national conventions, senators and governor^ who are to be
elected this year, and state primary regulations. In short it's
a valuable little pamphlet to have around.
Off hand the only flaw we could find was that Oregon was
left out of the list of states which choose governors this year.
And that is an excusable omission, since our gubernatorial
election this Year is not in the regular scheme of things.
As We Rush to Destruction '
By HENRY KAMIN
“CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL” by Arnold
J. Toynbee, 263 pages, New York Oxford
l press, $3.50.
Strikingly qriginal evaluations of the
Western World and its future overflow “Civ
ilization on Trial” by Arnold J. Toynbee, Bri
tain’s, if not the world’s, outstanding his
, torian-philosopher.
It is a minor supplement to his already
classic “Study of History” and an indication
of what the eagerly awaited three volumes
of the series will discuss. Indeed, familiarity
with the “History” will help readers appre
ciate the heady flavor of these 13 essays
which are based on lectures given for the
most part in Eastern schools last year.
After explaining his view of history, the
author declares that the intercine warfare be
tween parochial states which our world is
now enduring destroyed the ancient Greek
civilization. If we fail to meet the challenge,
our civilization, too, may succumb, because
international anarchy was not replaced in
time with international order.
“The contest between the United States
and the Soviet Union for the political and
ideological no-man’s land lying between
them” may develop into the war of extermin
ation which would destroy our civilization or
establish a universal state on the lines of the
Roman empire.
Unification Certain
But no matter how this contest is resolv
ed, the world will be unified politically in the
near future either by voluntary federation or
through a conqueror’s peace.
At present, “the United Nations constitu
tion represents the closest degree of coopera
tion the United States and the Soviet Union
can reach at present.” And the author points
out that such weak political organizations
have never proved stable or permanent in
the past.
Toynbee has performed a valuable ser
vice for Americans by giving in brief, tan
talizing snatches of history how and why
medieval Russia developed the character
istics associated with Communism : the po
lice state, hostility toward the West, and the
sense of manifest destiny in which only Rus
sia was right and the rest of the world wrong.
All or Nothing?
Russia has attempted to prevent being
forcibly Westernized by adopting Western
techniques as rapidly as she can, while trying
to control the rate of assimilation. The ques
tion is whether or not she can partially adopt
an alien civilization without embracing it
all.
She must decide “between taking her
A BOOK HE VIEW
place in a Western world or holding aloof and
attempting to build up an anti-Western
counter-world of her own.”
Fear of Communism is described as most
ly due to its propaganda which “magnifies
the seamy side of the Western world and
makes Communism appear a desirable way
of life” to a dissatisfied faction of the West.
Nobody is Immune
But neither world is immune to subversive
influences from the other. “They reveal their
fears in the measures each takes to protect
itself against the other’s radiation. The fact
that Communism threatens us by exposing
our defects rather than by forcibly supressing
our virtues proves that the challenge comes
not from without, but from within our
selves.”
Much of the cause of the trouble in the
world lies in the fact that “Man has been a
dismal failure in the things of the spirit, and
it has been the great tragedy of human life
. . . for the spiritual side of man’s life is of
vastly greater importance for man’s well
being, (even for his material well-being, in
the last resort) than is his command over
non-human nature.”
Despite the threatening clouds, Toynbee
is optimistic about mankind’s future even in
the event of an atomic war. “Christianity
may not only endure, but grow in wisdom
and stature,” and eventually rebuild a new
civilization if our present one is destroyed.
Christianity is Tough
This may occur because “institutions
created or adopted and adapted by Christian
ity are the toughest and most enduring of
any that we know and are therefore the most
likely to last and outlast the rest.”
In attempting to answer the question of
why civilizations die, the acknowledged ex
pert on civilizations advances the breath
taking idea that “the breakdowns and disin
tegrations of civilizations might be stepping
stones to higher things on the religious plane
. . . the continuous upward movement of re
ligion may be served and promoted by the
cyclic movement of civilization’s round of
birth, death, birth.”
Toynbee concludes with the majestic con
ception that “the historical progress of re
ligion in this world as represented by the rise
of the higher religions and their culminations
in Christianity may almost certainly bring
with it an immeasurable improvement in the
conditions of human life on Earth.
' Its direct effect and its deliberate aim
and its true test is the opportunity which it
brings to individual souls for spiritual prog
ress in this world . . .”
The Cold-Metal Revolution Looms
One of the big headaches in many busi
nesses today is the rising costs of produc
tion. That is one of the obstacles originators
of many of these new methods are striving
to overcome. If the}- succeed, the door will
open to many enterprising journalists who
wish to enter the publishing field, but who
lack the capital necessary to purchase ex
pensive, present-day machinery.
In the Chicago strike, photo-engraving
has been proved successful, even if it has
presented certain drawbacks which have not
yet been overcome. But the future is bright.
The Justowriter Corporation will soon
have new printing machines which will do
away with the present necessity of tvping
copy twice in order to have marginal align
ment before photographing. The typist
punches out a tape and makes the necessary
marginal adjustments. An automatic casting
machine sets the copy from the tape, margin
ally adjusted and ready for photographing.
W illiam J. Higgins has developed a new
packaged printing plant which by-passes
stereotyping as well as the lead composition,
and makes use of the much lighter mag
nesium plates. This will allow for greater
By BILL LOVE
press speeds, and lighter and less expensive
rotary presses in the future.
In these days when "cold war” and “revo
lution are commonplace terms in interna
tional headlines and in our vocabularies it
is worthwhile to glance briefly at a more
peaceful type of "cold revolution” now in
progress—one that is of vital importance to
the journalistic future and the newspaper
of tomorrow. It is the “cold metal revolu
tion.”
Many new developments for the publica
tion of printed material have come to public
attention since the Chicago publishers began
printing their daily- newspapers four months
ago w ithout the use of the conventional “hot
metal slug. Some of these new devices are
teady for actual operation; others are still
in the laboratory or testing stages. Com
bined, they are the weapons for this cold
metal revolution, which is the production of
the newspaper (or other printed material)
y\ ithout resorting to lead type as in the past,
nobody forsees a complete change to
these newly developed techniques, and in all
probability, the Chicago papers will return
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