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OregonWEmerald 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 postoffice, Eugene, Ore. Member of the Associated Collegiate Press BOB FRAZIER, Editor !!l _• BOB CHAPMAN, Business Manager BILL YATES Managing Editor H _ JUNE GOETZE, BOBOLEE BROPHY Co-News Editors DON FAIR FRED TAYLOR Co-Sports Editor JEANNE SIMMONDS, MARYANN THIELEN, BARBARA HEYWOOD Associates to Editor i’** I VIRGIL TUCKER Advrtising Manager DIANA DYE Assistant News Editors Editorial Board: Larry Lau, Johnny Kahananui, Bert Moore, Ted Goodwin, Bill Stratton, Jack Billings. \ PHYLLIS KOHLMEIER HEI>EN SHERMAN Asst. Managing Editors National Advertising Manager -.-...—.Ju?5'Cr Circulation Manager ..-...-.—--Billijean Rietbmiller For a Big Vote Agitation over ASUO politics is astir again, and spring term is truly rolling toward its big campus election. The Independ ent Students Association has thrown the first whammy of the political race, with a petition requesting a change in the nom inating day, with its consequent change in election day. The Independents seem justified in this appeal. A Tuesday election, which is now planned, does imply a lesser turnout at the polls. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays see almost every student on the campus sometime between 8 and 6. Tues days and Thursdays are slack class days (proof of this is the quasi-official Wednesday date night that allows students to “sleep in" Thursday mornings.) And it is certainly true that it’s easier for a student living at 15th and Alder to hop down to the YMCA when he wouldn’t normally be on the campus, than it is for the student who lives at 25th and Willamette. A Tuesday election does appear to load the vote. A further detriment to a Tuesday, May 25 election, as now planned, is that Henry Wallace has been scheduled to speak that night, and confusion in Mac court would be rampant. On the other hand, it would seem that a Monday election (the result of a May 19 nominating assembly) wouldn’t be desirable either. There is no Sunday or Monday Emerald, and election publicity might suffer. However, if the nominating assembly were held May 21, a week from tomorrow, the el ection, by constitutional decree, would fall on the following Wednesday, May 26. This seems to be the solution. It is probably unfortunate that the traditional losing party should be forced to take the initiative. Their request is reason able, when viewed from within the ISA, or ASA. Their peti tion carries the legend that “Elections are designed to follow public opinion; therefore, the largest possible vote is the most democratic vote.” That is certainly irrefutable on even a non-partisan basis, and it will be up to the Executive Council at a special meeting to decide on the merits of the appeal.—J.B.S. The Student's Lobby PNCC—Pacific Northwest College congress—is something new among pressure groups. The assembly, meeting for the first time three years ago, represents intellectual, not selfish, interests. And it represents students. Student interest in international affairs was perhaps not so great before the war as it is today, but those students who did wrinkle their foreheads now and then over the problems of war and peace had no official body which would represent their viewpoints. PNCC, organized in 1946, filled this rapidly increasing need. Tt was the first student group to carry its res ’ olutions to the United Nations assembly, and its efforts were recognized by congress in the second year of existence. The delegates felt triumphant when the foreign affairs committees of the senate and house called for the PNCC proposals. Students in several other regions of the United States have emulated the 37 colleges and universities of the Northwest, Canada, and Alaska, banded together to promote the under ; standing of international politics, to fight provincialism, and ■ to develop and spread ideals. PNCC has the beginnings of a powerful student movement, and thoughtful vote is your share in this movement.—B.II. The Eyes of 48 States Are on Oregon's Primaries By LARRY LAU Recent public opinion surveys, as was ex pected, show that the hard working Mr. Dewey has forged nearly abreast of Air. Stassen in Oregon’s hottest presidential pri mary. Not since the days of “54-40 or fight has this land of late spring received so much national attention. Newspapers the length and breadth of America are front-paging wire stories on the Oregon campaign. Life maga zine has had photographers in the state since mid-March. Why this tremendous fuss over only 12 convention votes: oimpiy this: Oregon’s primary election is the last one before the Repub lican national convention in, I June. It is the only indication l the politicians will have on \ what the people of the West I want in a president. It is the only primary, far from both 1 Minnesota and New York, where the two leading contenders have de liberately clashed head-on. If Stassen wins a decisive victory in Ore gon newspapers throughout the country will banner the news as evidence that the Stassen steamroller is still potent as ever. The Man from Minnesota will be able to go into the June convention with just claim to being the people’s choice. If Dewey wins a decisive victory he will be able to go into convention and point out that in the only state where he chose to fight, he won. He will have demonstrated that he has n’t lost that magic touch that gained him 22 million popular votes in 1944. He will have greatly slowed down the Stassen bandwagon. If Stassen wins, it will virtually eliminate the New York governor from further con tention. If Stassen loses he may have To con tent himself with dickering for No. 2'spot on the ticket. Should either candidate Win by a very narrow margin the real winner may be either Vandenberg or Warren whose chances lie in a deadlocked convention. The next president of the United States may be elected May 21st. Oregon’s 12 dele gates to the convention may find’their in fluence far out of proportion to their num bers. The campaign itself, plus the._exciting possibility of another “Lincoln-Douglas’’ de bate has, in the words of a recency, polled Eugene housewife, “left us breathless!’’ " The Trumpet was a Barnet Man Bv FRED YOUNG Hooray for Drake university and the at tempt there to correct a serious situation. Kissing on the campus doesn’t sound like much fun anyway. Not sure how many noticed the jazz trurn : pet witn Y\ 1 11 usDorne. j Named Dave Nichols, and on I a five-week leave of absence | from Charlie Barnet’s band, j as Charles is dabbling in the | Hollywood night club busin I ess. Unfortunately, Osborne I only capitalized on Dave’s I ability hourly with a short solo and then returned us to the doldrums, which were danceable. The reaction to Os borne's music seems indifferent, with the majority of the after dance talk relating how to get in without paying. new records are fewer and farther between, sara vaughn is the second to record “nature boy.” since it is a post-ban cutting—there is the disadvantage of having only a chorus to accompany her. but miss vaughn’s great in flections and range cause this to be very listenable. sinatra will be no. 3. Comet records have an album in tiawn with two 12-inch records which illustrate Red Norvo, Charlie Parker, and Diz .Gillespie. More good contributions to the files of mod ern music. s~ Checking over a few dusty issues of the past finds the addition of Parts 3 & 4 to El lington’s “Reminiscing in Tempo” on Colum bia. Interesting, dissonant music of the type that never tires the interested listener. Also. Kenton’s “Concerto for Doghouse” and “Reed Rapture” whch Decca issued in 1941— and have now reissued. This shows the pleas antly relaxed Kenton that gained quick suc cess. Also, start saving those nickels you’re making, Kenton’s new “Progressive Jazz Album” is scheduled for May delivery. Lots of this thing that’s replacing music, this be bop. Cottage Grove Armory, May 21, Dick An derson’s West coast Negro band. Bop, blues, what have youse—should be a very worth while musical function. The Marshall Plan and Communism By VINITA HOWARD When the United States warned Italy before the elections in that country that should that nation go Communist the United States would refuse to give her aid un der the Marshall Plan, the world saw an example of how the Mar shall Plan has become a part of the tug-of-war between the east and west. This practice of making the Marshall Plan a part of politics is not a wise one in the opinion of Warren Miller, Oregon’s delegate to the PNCC. And, for this rea son Miller is supporting the PNCC resolution which asks that no gov ernment be excluded from Mar shall Plan aid for political rea sons. A move to alter the Marshall Plan by including all governments without regard for their so called “unsatisfactory” internal politics would be one more step in realizing the possibility of a working compromise between the east and the west, according to Miller. By continuing to base Marshall Plan aid on a political basis, Miller says, we are “de stroying the humanitarian basis on which the plan was formed.” If countries are to be exclud ed for political reasons from Marshall Plan aid, Miller asks who is to decide what countries should be left out. The tendency is, at present, to label anyone a Communist who isn’t a 100 per cent J. Parnall Thomas brand of American, Miller said. The way is thus open to forbid aid to na tions who are liberal or nations which are merely suspected of be ing under Communits rule. Short sighted selfishness, Miller contin ued, may cost American popular support as was indicated when Czechoslovakia was allowed to fall without American aid. In connection with the final point under the resolution con cerning the Marshall Plan, Mil ler concludes that its only signifi cance is that it is related to the problem of refusing aid for po litical reasons. “I oppose,” Miller said, “the further overt action of America to give military support to nations which it favors, while at the same time condemning Russia for giving aid to nations it supports.” It is the agreement of Miller and Bob Allen, the other Oregon delegate to the congress, that the only way in which a discussion of this question may be made intel ligent is to consider the resolu tion as advocating a change in the present American use of the Marshall Plan. It is an accom plished fact, they said, that the Marshall Plan has been utilized to oppose Communism in Euro pean elections. In tomorrow’s Emerald the views of Bob Allen, who opposes this part of this resolution, will be presented. The resolution follows: That in order to enable success (Please turn to page three)