A Sincere Idealist During the Christmas holidays the University suffered that sort of loss which cannot be made good when Dr. H. G. Townsend, long-time faculty member and head of the de partment of philosophy died. Dr. Townsend had been with the University since 1926. Eesides what his fellow professors describe as his devotion to “high ideals in teaching” he brought honor to the grow ing school by his books and articles and his work in the American Philosophical association of which he was a char ter member. At the recent meeting of that group—Dr. Townsend had been scheduled to present a paper there—Dr. Bertram Jes sup of the philosophy department made this tribute to him: “All of us in this community of philosophers will ever re member Professor Townsend as one who worked in philoso phy with single-minded conviction and self-exacting devo tion and as one who taught it with severe and high demand. Those of us who were privileged to know him well will also remember him as one who in finest quality and in highest degree lived philosophy throughout his every day and in all his affairs, personal as well as professional. In his life and his, work philosophy has been lastingly enriched.” Mrs. Golda Wickham, director of women’s affairs, who served with Dr. Townsend on the scholarship committee which he headed said that she remembers the professor es pecially for his devotion to the interests of the individual stu dent. “He was an idealist, he was sincere, and he was one of the fairest people I have ever worked with,” said Mrs. Wick ham. Truly, this seems one time when it can be said sincerely: “He will long be remembered.” Barbara Heywood. -•-Raising Kane Here's One Degree Anyone Can Get — Just By Lookin' .The University hasn't granted m degree in engineering in years hut a student can easily earn an honorary degree in sidewalk en gineering without leaving the campus. One way for a student to be come a full-fledged sidewalk en gineer is to make a minimum of one daily inspection of the vari ous building projects on the cam pus to ascertain the progress be ing made. A sidewalk engineer may be only learning to toddle or he may be tottering to his dotage, for there is no age limit. The only re quirement is an insatiable inter est, Sidewalk engineers share critical comment and shop talk and in this respect they resemble rabid football fans at the height of the season. The conversation may center around the relative merits of the j espective construction firms, their methods and equipment, or what a nightmare the new build ing will be when completed. The true sidewalk engineer . hows more interest in the job ihan the members of the crew, 1 retting over each delay and audi bly wondering how the deadline •will be met. The square yards of concrete poured each day will be computed Krcti. Man.n ■’ C 1‘ * " V1TUUT. TUCK ER. Business Manager l\>tn McLaughlin, Ass't. 13us. Mgr. A . ~ >ciatc r.aitoi HoUlee Brophy. Di$nn Dye, Barbara Hey wood \ •. Manager: Tuan Minnaugh iippFT* ItIJSINESS STAFF Bet': Miller, Circulation Mgr. },v * Overbeok, N.it'l A lv. Mkt. &aiiy Waller, Assistant A*iv. Mg** l Mimnauffh, Assistant Aviv. Mgr. Virginia Mahon, Assistant Adv. Mgr. Donna Brennan, Asst. Adv. Mgr. lack Schnaidt, Asst. Adv. Mgr. UPPER NEWS STAFF S' » i'mnlmll. Now' Ill'S:'1. i«il!o>i>»c\ SiK»rtN hJ;lw Mii'nuis, KuJi^ 1-lit^r I /on Aim Goodman, xWt. .Nc«> Editor ---The Political Front What'll Truman Tell the Congress? President Truman goes before the joint session of the new con gress today to .deliver his state of Uie union address. What Truman will ask or tell the congress has been the subject of much specu lation in recent weeks. His program will probably boil down to these main issues: 1. Tighter economic controls over business in order to stop the inflationary spiral. 2. A national budget for 1949 of $43,000,000,000—an all time high for peacetime. 3 A speed-up of national de fenses which will account for a large share of the budget. 4. Still higher income taxes on excess profits in business. 5. A civil rights program that threatens to renew his fight with southern Democrats. Of course, there is still the question of the Taft-Hartley labor law. Just what will happen to the Republican bill aimed at curtail ing union strength remains doubt ful. Some speculators say Truman will trim it down, others say he will let it stand, all of which means nothing. Of the five points in Truman’s program listed above, at least three will be in for some heated debate. These are the civil rights program, the higher taxes and the tighter economic controls on business. The Democratic majority in both houses is already paving the way for these issues by suggest ing that the power of the house rules committee be trimmed. Demos are all in favor of this be cause many times bills that the opposing party doesn’t want can be pigeon-holed in the house rules committee so that they never get to the floor for debate. The Republicans aren’t much in favor of the change and there is talk that the GOP and the still disgruntled south-of-the-Mason Dixon-line Democrats may team up to force an early showdown of Truman strength. Incidentally, keep your eye on the southern Democrats—they’re not through feuding with Harry even though the election is over. It’s no secret that for a number American • AIRLANES (Editor’s Note: Over the holi days Emerald Radioman Tom Marquis spent an hour or so in Los Angeles with “Hawthorne,” wacky but popular radio disc jockey. Here’s his report of the meeting.) By Tom Marquis As I opened the door to sta tion KECA a large bull moose came galloping down the hall straight at me. I thought for a minute the moose was Haw thorne, but it wasn't wearing glasses, so I knew I was wrong. The moose charged out to the middle of Highland and headed for the Hollywood hills. I walked down the hall follow ing a trail of gadgets strewn in utter confusion on the floor. Bird whistles, duck calls, bells, cym bals, bells and more bells littered the darkened hallway. Following this easy trail I came at last to a doorway marked StuSio 4. Stu dio 4 looked more like a suite at Bekins Van and Storage. In the center of the room was a large pile of junk under an ABC mike. A large, friendly looking head protruded from the pile. I knew instantly on seeing the Holly wood goggles the head wore that this was the one whom I sought. “Hogan,’ said the head as I bowed to the east. “Hogan yourself,” I replied. “Hawthorne, come out of there and explain yourself. Millions of radio listeners are eagerly await ing a statement of explanation on “the thjpg.” “I can't explain it,” Hawthorne said testily. “I just do it. When the spirit moves me I react spon taneously.” “You mean you don’t know what’s going to happen until it happens.” “That's exactly what I mean. When anything breaks the show’s continunity I come up with a quickie retort.” I got a big yak out of Haw thorne's reference to continuity. Anything resembling continuity on this show is purely accidental. Not that it matters of course. Hawthorne's fans would probably be outraged at any attempts to coerce their leader to change his style of confusion. Hawthorne finally climbed from the junk pile and settled down to tell me how it all came about. Coming from an apparently normal family there was no indi cation in early childhood that he was any different from the other children on the block. He was raised in Denver, and it was there that he first got interested in radio. He played it straight at first as a disk jockey. Seeking bigger and better things our young hero headed west. Knowing that movies are THE thing in the west he went straight to one of the Hollywood cinema factories. Politely asking for a job as assistant director he never even paled when he was hired in the capacity he had speci fied. Later, after a bout with Uncle Sam’s fly boy battalions'* he re turned to Hollywood, but this “HAWTHORNE” time to his first love—radio. A couple of years in the outlying district of Pasadena went by be fore his zany disk show came to the attention of ABC officials. Now, assisted by his boon com. panions Skippy, age 93, and Je rome, age 9, he continues in his uninhibited manner. Broadcasts originate from station KECA 6 nights a week. The ever faithful Egbert plays records and tran scriptions, Hawthorne began to fidget. This had been a long session for him to read his lines straight. “I have only one more question to ask,” I said. “WHY?" (Please turn to page 7) of years the U. S. government has been, through numerous controls on private enterprise, swinging slightly to the left, despite all the present fervor concerning com- _ munism and socialism, Norman Thomas has stated many times that for years every plank in his platform has eventually been adopted by either the GOP or the - Democrats. Now the consensus is that the Truman version of the new deal, when and if adopted by Congress, will be even more to the left than the late FDR’s ad- - ministration. Certainly his suggested pro gram is an indication of leftist tendencies. This trend is particu larly apparent in the move to in- . crease business controls. For in stance, in a Washington report it has been suggested that included in the tighter economic controls will be power to tighten rent con- _ trol, stronger authority to regu late bank credit, stronger anti monopoly laws, renewed controls on imports and exports, manda tory power to allocate steel and other scarce industrial materials and more control over install ment buying—particularly in the . automobile industry. Say what they will such a pro gram cannot be considered any- * thing but leftist, and, if this trend continues some fine morn ing the American people will wake up to the fact that what we really have for a government is - closer to democratic socialism, if there is such a thing, than to a Republican form of government. By A1 Pietschman . . . ice and cotton, grades and classes occupy the discussion of quad people for the new year. And though belatedly late, we wish one and all a happy new year—and good grades! . . . many students spent their time at the mountains, and al though we didn’t make the trek to the snow we hear that many Tri-Delts stayed at Mt. Hood. Last year the DG’s swarmed over the slopes, this year the TD'a. . . . and of course party after party heralded the holiday sea son. The Delts had a big blast in the Rose Bowl (couldn’t make the Pasadena one) and many more of the clan dropped their pins including Glenn Keltner, Howard Davis, Jerry Hunter and John Barton. . . . among those that worked during the vacation we noted that Max Angus helped Uncle Sammie deliver the mail, and Grace Hoff man sold men's shirts, i . . . this term might be quieter than fall, but look at impending events causes us to wonder as on the 22nd of this month there is the annual Senior Ball, the first all campus formal, on the 25th the world famed pianist Robert Casadessus. And then Dad’s day, Heart Hop, Military ball and bas ketball games too. . . . we happily viewed Laurence Olivier's “Hamlet” during the hol idays, and stepping from our usual gossip role, suggest most heartily that film-goers include it on their “must-see” list when it comes to Eugene, even if the price its a little steep. . . . but prices are not steep for the fine jewelry that youcan find at Carl Greve, Jewelers, in Port land. Yes, you’ll be proud to say, “It came from Carl Greve.” • Pd. Adv.