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'-And See the Sea' News Item: Atomic scientists are being asked to develop "an atomic powered marine-engine for American naval vessels. Such an engine would enable l\ S. ships to stay at sea for an indefinite length of time. It lo6ks like the navy would want to hush up news of this kind. If such reports are kept up naval enlistments are sure to drop. Breathes there a sailor with soul so dead who never to him self hath said, “So, help me if we don’t get a shore leave pretty soon I’m going to strangle the exec and the Old man.” Consider also the plight of the poor women the sailors re portedly leave behind in every port. With indefinite times be tween sailing and arriving these unfortunates might be forced to take up exclusively with the army. An event like that might cause naval enlistment figures to drop another notch. (Which, of course, would break the heart and spirit of the air force.) All in all the best solution would be to keep such demor alizing news from the ears of all “old salts” and prospective “boots.” (Tom Marquis.) Bouquet to Dr. Schleicher Nobody feels buddies with a man from Mars, for no one’s ever met him. It is equally difficult to do anything but idealize, be sus picious of, or indifferent toward persons from a country you know only from pictures in books. To penetrate this wall of distrust Dr. Charles Schleicher of the political science department has organized a team of for eign students in the University to make a speaking tour of the state. Starting in eastern Oregon they will tell clubs and class groups about life inside their native lands. The foreign stud ents, in turn, will meet a larger segment of America than they could at the University. If the University of Oregon trip is successful — and it should be— other universities in the state will send out teams. A bouquet to Dr. Schleicher for his fine idea. With the Legislators BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington The nomination of Dean Ache son to be secretary of state won unanimous approval of the senate foreign relations committee yes terday after he indicted commu nism as “fatal" to freedom. An excerpt from Acheson's se cret testimony, released by com mittee Chairman Connally (D Tex), declared: “It is my view that communism its a doctrine is economically fa tal to a free society and to hu man rights and fundamental free doms. Communism as an aggres sive factor in world conquest is fatal to independent governments und free peoples.” Thus Acheson capped his pub lic testimony Thursday in which lie scornfully rejected the label >f “appeaser” in his views toward Russia and pledged himself to clean out any disloyal persons in the state department. 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He is slated to suc ceed the ailing Gen. George C. Marshall on Jan. 20, the day Pres ident Truman is inaugurated. Oregon W Emerald The Oregon Daii.y Emfrai.d, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University 01 Oregon Subscription rates: J.’.QO per term and $4.00 per year. F.utered as second-class matter at the postoflice, Eugene, Oregon. Ull I. YATES. Editor VIRGIL TUCKER, Bustness Manager Bob Reed, Managing Editor Toni McLaughlin, Ass’r. Bus. Mgr. Associate Editors: JuneGoetre, Boblee Brophy, Diana Dye. Barbara Heywaod Advertising Manager: Joan Minnaugh UPPER NEWS STAFF . \ > •' <J|eim Gillespie. Sports Editor Tbm Marquis. Radio Editor Ann Goodman, Ass’t. Acws Editor UPl'ER BUSINESS STAFF Beth Miller, Circulation Mgr. Eve OverbeCk, Nat’l Adv. Mgr. Sally Waller, Assistant Adv. Mgr. Joan .Vlmaiugh, Assistant Adv. Mgr. \ irgmta Mahon, Assistant Adv. Mgr. Donna Brennan, Asst. Adv. Mgr. lack Sdinaidt, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Jt Porchlight Parade By Ed Cauduro Little Jack Frost hasn't got ten lost and it doesn’t look as if he's going to for quite some time . . . seems he’s had a decid ed .effect on Cupid’s capers though cuz most Ducks are turning to love to keep them warm with Danny boy getting in a lot of overtime . . . understand John L. is trying to get him un der union contract. . . . The AOPis report that many of the clan have traded their hearts for rings . . . Phyll Hoff man swaping with Theta Chi Bob Miller; Norma Parpala with hometown boy Don Suru; Pat Kepp with West Pointer Tom Dadley; Renee Cowell dittoing with Sig Nu Kay Gannett and Eli Sakrison likewise with Norm Bliorklund, a Cow-towner, bring it to a total of five. . . . Even the Mortar Boards are in love . . . fainting at the mere mention of the name of Ralph Johnson . . . seems the gals voted him the man they would like most to marry . . . imagine being mar ried to 12 Mortar Boards .... The Phi Psis dusted off their well worn crate Thursday night to hustle Jim Love over to the waiting arms of Gamma Phi Donna Rankin . . . Donna, tools in hand, went right to work and in no time had Jim out with the ensuing smooch melting the ice and snow all up and down the mill race. . . AXO Mary K'e Mac* ariana, a budding' Kathleen Windsor, is giving me the exclusive lights to her memoirs about her vacation in Mexico ... it will be a sequel to “Open the Door Richard” . . . the title: “Behind the Door With Richard” . . . Two Pi K Phis didn’t keep their pins long . . . hanging them right after initiation . . . Jim Shaw on Gamma Phi Jane Carson and Bill Higgins on Barbara Drosselineyer . . . and those many trips to OAC really paid off for G Phu Kath leen Seekatz. She’s now sporting Jim Clabby’s KDR pin . . .anoth er Gamma Phi Barbara Shultz is wearing an SAE pin . . . it's John Richmond’s . . . natch . . . and then there’s Alpha Phi Ann Mc Geroge, lucky Beta Dale Brueg ger has her all sewed up and SAE Scot Kadderly dropped his badge to Theta Peg Dougherty. . . . What strange fascination does Prof. Stovall have for Snowbelle The canine ex-Jr. Weekend prin cess caused quite a commotion in his Geomorthology class Friday morn which led to the immediate dismissal of the class. . . . Two more left hands in the lime light belong to ADPi Peg McKillop, engaged to TKE Don Sweeney, and Marilyn Chaison of Portland who is blinding friends with the chunk of ice Beta prexy Sheldon Jones gave her. . . . Would just like to mention that the top GPA contenders for last spring term, the TKEs and DGs, are spending much time in the libe these wintry days . . . too much sociology fall term maybe ? Don't be alarmed if you see Chi O Glenna Hurst chasing black dogs around the quad . . . the poor lass was a victim of a sneak thief that barks . . . the hound went off with her mittens . . . Beta Dick Waibol also has a missing possession . . . his gal friend’s picture . . . last reports from that tong indicated that it was in a mighty peculiar hiding place . . . and then there’s your reporter . . . lost my specks and will prob ably have to resort to braille for Tuesday’s printing. -Raising Kane ” Columnist Kane Continues Assault Against America's 'Fairer Sex' By Henry Kane If a coed dresses well without looking like an anemic model in a fashion magazine ad it is be cause she is partially immune to the dictates of fashion or her long-suffering father has put a ceiling on her checking account. This columnist was back East in the summer of 1947 when American women were first being assaulted with the masterpiece of the designer’s calling, “the new look.” Great was the outcry from the distraught women who moaned it would make obsolete their entire wardrobe. They swore they would not buy the monstros ities, but, vowing they would never consent, consented. Flushed with the success of their easy conquest, the design ers once more sortied from the upholstered sewers called night clubs and the garrets dignified by the name “salons.” This time they were going to fasten their nightmares on American men. A timid notice was planted in the New York newspapers saying that coming men’s fashions would call for cuffs above the ankles, wrist-revealing coat sleeves, and suede shoes. The reaction was instantane ous. With scorn and vituperation the newspapers assailed the fash ion “experts” who had dared show their heads in broad daylight. The adjectives employed are too de rogatory for repetition in this or any other family newspaper. There was no more talk of a rad ical “new look” for men. Thus four years after the end of the war the man-about-campus is still trying to wear out his army clothes with a conspicuous lack of success. The average man doesn’t buy much these days with the exception of gaudy neckties and sweaters. Nor does he have to buy many pairs of socks be cause the girl-friend back home and the campus girl-lriena Keep - him supplied with argyles. But the coed doesn’t believe in . men’s dictum that the only pur pose of clothing is to conceal one’s nudity. She does her best to - imitate the department store dummy down to its unnatural posture and vacuity of expres sion. The real reason she does this is not to dress for herself or . to please her boy-friend, but to impress her fellow coeds. In addition, our coeds take childish pride in displaying their fraternity pins in a conspicuous _ manner best designed to impress their envious girl-friends. Foreign war brides brought to ' Eugene by their student-hus bands feel right at home when they see coeds wearing the shawls and wool horse blankets coeds term coats are first cousins to an - army enlisted man’s long over coat. And army coats were de signed with extra depth and yard age to facilitate the carrying of glassware without detection. These coats are as shapely as Mother Hubbard’s and are almost identical to those worn by expec tant mothers. Skirts are almost as badly de- „ signed as coats. Coeds seem to. like them decorated with vertical and horizontal patterns to em phasize the square aspect of the wearer. When white saddle shoes are worn the purpose seems to be to show how many times the owner’s feet have been trod upon since breakfast. But men dress for comfort and to please themselves. They rare ly wear a suit to class and a sweater takes the place of a shirt. Besides, if a man came to class . at the beginning of the term wearing a suit, shirt, and tie, peo ple would think he was the in structor. "In MY Opinion"... (READER EDITORIAL) The American newspaper read er has one unique characteristic which proves beyond doubt, I sup pose, that he is an American. He’ll swallow anything. Just put it in print, and Mr. and Mrs. Av erage American will surely take it for the undeniable truth. A few of the big boys in the newspaper racket love to take advantage of this fact for their own financial improvement—and the average American gets equal pleasure out of being gullable to everything, no matter how pre posterous, that appears on the editorial page of the Sunday pa per. It’s a nice arrangement in some ways. The professional liar, the journalistic .:Judas, ..succeeds ..in feathering his nest; and the read er, poor boob, gets acres of anti vivisection, flag-waving, pro-big business, imperialistic tripe to drop a tear on and to work his feeble mind over until the next issue comes out to feed him a fresh supply. Many of our readers will re member that during the war years, the American citizen learned, through newspapers, movies, commentators and maga zine articles, that all, repeat all, Japanese, Germans and Italians were heels, doomed to hell and unreconeilable to the principles of humanity and decency. Said citizen learned at the same time that British, French, and - Chinese are gallant, chivalrous fellows, well meaning, though of an obvious inferior cut to that of our Americans—Nutrition, I guess. • And the American citizen was taught that the Russians, while strange, were really a wonderful - people under it all—something of a diamond in the rough. But what is happening to our fellow men? Our destined-'to-en dure-the-ages friendship with our . former allies, the Russians, is al ready tottering on the brink of destruction. “Those little yellow - dogs,” the Japanese, have turned out to be a nation of progressive, modest people who were merely misruled and who are more than eager to be on good terms with • their big brothers, the Americans. The “Mad Dog of Europe” is proving to be just another good customer for the produce of American farms and factories. Yes, in only three and a half years, America has executed a neat and very complete turn about. At a cost in lives and dol lars beyond human conception, we have learned exactly nothing. Our sources of information— newspapers, magazines, motion -■ pictures, radio—and therefore our public opinion, have reversed themselves with amazing speed, and with no apparent effort. How inconsistent can we be? —'Vern Hammond