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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1949)
A Worthy Cause The March of Dimes has now become as familiar to the public mind as the Red Cross or the Community Chest. Yet this drive is one of the newest to be put into effect. Recognizing the need for medical research and aid to vic tims, the people of the nation have become more and more in terested in contributing to the March of Dimes. Yet, with all the work that is being done to delve into the mysteries of poliomyelitis, little is actually known about its causes. It may strike upon one person in the family and pass over the others. Sometimes whole families are stricken. There are theories that it may be communicated through contact, food, or drink, but research has not yet definitely established just how polio is contracted. Theories on cures, too, may differ widely. Sister Kenny’s methods are now being taught and studied in some of the lead ing hospitals and medical schools. Whatever the cause, whatever the cure for infantile par alysis, funds from the March of Dimes will be used in discover ing them. In spite of all the work that has been going on, incidence of polio is on the increase. 1943 was the sixth consecutive year in ■which its prevalence was so noticeable. Trained doctors and nurses who are trained to cope with the problem are few. It has often been necessary to send these specialists from one city or district to another, leaving yet an other district short-handed. There’s no need to say more. There’s no doubt about the •worthiness of the drive. It we would rid the nation and man kind of one of its worst afflictions, this is the time and way to do it. Fall in with the March of Dimes. J.G. American # AIRLANES By TOM MARQUIS Hearing Aire Burrows on the “Bing Crosby Show” Wednesday /right made me start wondering again why some smart sponsor doesn’t grab him off pronto. Abe himself seemed at some thing of a loss to describe his rapid decline in the field of radio art. As he so neatly put it: “Only one year in radio and I’ve already lost my sponsor.” i Anyone who has heard Abe and his wonderful parodies on the present crop of Tin Pan Alley of ferings will probably wonder along with me why somebody •doesn’t get smart and put him to work. Some of his better known compositions are “The Girl With the Three Blue Eyes,” “Wander ing Down Memory Lane With Nothing to Remember," and “If You Were the Only Girl in the World and I Were the only Boy, All Right—But Right Now Leave Me Alone.” It doesn’t lake much of an im agination to see that Abe lias quite a sharp sense of humor. He's not suffering from radio’s lack of interest, being pretty busy with night club engagements, but *t personally feel radio is suffer ing from a lack of Abe Burrows. To help shake the old Monday blues try listening to “The Rail road Hour." Heard every Monday on ABC at S p.m. PST, this show offers a host of good entertain ment presented by a topflight group of stars. Host of the show is tire young newcomer Gordon MacRae who is on hand every Monday to wel come the shows famous guests. The program offers outstand ing musical productions original ly seen on Broadway, often with the stars who made the show a success. Host MacRae sings one of the prominent parts and the guests do the rest. Recently Eddie Cantor recre ated the role he made famous in “Whoopee." Jeanette MacDonald sang her original role of “Naugh ty Marietta." Next Monday, Jan uary 31, Miss MacDonald returns to the program for the presenta tion of "Bitter Sweet." On Feb. ruary 7 Patrice Munsel will be present for “Rose Marie,” with the help of comedian Pinky Lee. Our best recommendation goes along to “The Railroad Hour.” Sunday, which, is the day be fore Monday, Fred Allen will ven ture forth from “Allen's Alley" to do a spot as commentator for “Living—1949’s” query into "The State of American Humor.” The program will attempt to trace humor from its origin: First Cave Man—Who was that lady I saw you with last night? Second Cave Man—That was no lady, that was my dinosaur, to its present state of develop ment. Allen can think of no other joke that could have preceded the one listed above. Oregon W Emerald The Oregon Daii.y Emkrat.d, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondavs, holidays, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, university ot Oregon Subscription rates: $2.00 per term and $4.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter nt the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. VIRGIL TUCKER, Business Manager Tom McLaughlin, Ass't. Bus. Mgr. BILL YATES. Editor B^b Reed. Managing Editor Associate Editors: June Goetze, Boblce Brophy, Diana Dye, Barbara Ileywood Advertising Manager: Joan Minnaugh Ftan Turnbull, Ne\ys Editor Tom King. Sports Editor JDick Cramer. Sports Editor Tom Marquis. Radio Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF , Don Smith. Ass t Managing Editor Ann Goodman, Ass't. News Editor UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Xlelen Sherman. Circulation Mgr. Eve Overbeck. Nut’l Adv. Mgr. flliil Lemom. Sales Manager Leslie Too/e. Assistant Adv. Mgr. jOk Mobley, AJ\. Mgr* Virginia Mahon, Assistant Adv. Mgr. Donna Brennan, Asst. Adv. Mgr. Jack Scliuaidt, Asst. Adv. Mgr. -- Footnotes Columnist Would Add a Class In Advanced Ice Navigation By Michael Callahan Revising the list of classes of fered at this University has long been a favorite pastime of columniis'ts. Now that winter has closed every school -within a radius of ten ifiles (ex cept for our own dear home), i'f m i a h t hp worthwhile t o take a second look and see if we are getting a square deal on our monthly checks. First off, it is obvious that all is not as it should be in the physical educa tion school. A glance at the cata log shows that the Jack Arm strong department is offer ing such odd courses this term as “Advanced Apparatus” and something rather improbably called “Principles of Camp Lead ership.” I must find out if they have a winter lab in that last one. From here it would seem that a wiser course for the PE school might be “Advanced Ice Naviga tion.” This could cover as subject matter such important points as how to roll under cars after slip ping in front of them, how to get down the 19th street hill in one piece, and how to spot the edge of a curb under two feet of snow. It can, at least, be said that the prof would have no trouble with grades here, as the slower stu dents will also be extremely dead students in no time at all. “Ice Navigation I and II” would also meet with official approval because its graduates could be converted into first rate com mandos for the next Big Shoot. Skipping over to the architec ture school, I find valuable hours being wasted in construction classes on such useless objects as plumbing, ventilation, acoustics, and so on. It is about time some one mentioned this, because with the annual spring flood right around the corner (it should be a whopper with all the snow scat tered around), the shortage of good, qualified boat builders is going to get mighty acute. To wind things up, another big change could be made in the psy chology department's courses. Al though hour after hour is given over to such obscure matters as psychometrics (it has something to do with batteries and Christ mas lights) and counseling pro cedures, not one course tells a thing about—well, ^let’s call it "Abnormal Drivers I and II. Every one knows, of course, that there are drivers and then there are wild-eyed jet pilots whose aim is uncanny. These last are the ones that zoom up and down 13th street, and always seem to be lurking on the campus street corners. In all fairness it must be said that the psych course titled ‘‘Psy chology of Testimony," which concerns itself with reliable tes timony and proof of guilt, is a step along the right direction, but somehow it doesn’t seem to have the right spirit of ‘‘safety first.” No sense in being pessi mistic, after all! The small list of changes that I have offered is naturally rather brief, bu't perhaps someone will carry the ball from here. Reform is a great thing, and we might as well clear away the deadwood be fore they throw the midterms at us. From Our Mailbag LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SOME PROPOSALS To the Editor: Why do we hear the cry, “Red menace!” ? Perhaps this is the explanation: 1. There is no political theory competing- successfully in the world with the one activated by Russia. 2. Many of us do not wish to live in a socialistic or communis tic society. 3. We do not know how to fight these ideologies with reason. Therefore, in order that we may take a more active part in determining- our futures, I pro pose: 1. A lecture series in McArthur court on past and present politi cal theories and social move ments. 2. School sponsored and faculty ty led, small discussion groups to develop our ideas. 3. Student debates on the im portant issues of our time. 4. In the Emerald, a suggestion colunui for the improvement of our society, with contributions by the faculty and students. No force will stop an idea, un less it is a better idea put into action. The believers will continue to spread their gospel as long as they live. To develop and initiate a better political theory is our problem today. It is as much our responsibility as it is our legisla tor's: maybe more; we have a greater stake. Donn Hopkins REPLY TO KANE To the Editor: When the Emerald’s columnist Hank Kane strays “from the safe field of attempted humor and good-natured satire,” as he puts it, to expound the meaning of American freedom, the result is nothing other than degeneration from attempted humor to intel lectual farce. First of all, Kane disqualifies himself from any serious, rational discussion of political theory. He is in too much of a hurry to dis play his abject conformity to prevailing political winds. Referring to the conservative Oregon student who discovers his American government professor has departed from the textbook and is teaching socialism instead of American government, Kane declares the student “quickly cures his incipient case of high blood pressure by simply chang ing his section. . .” As Kane so obviously places himself among the predominately conservative part of the student body, the fact then must appear that he has never permitted himself to hear the arguments for socialism. In using the City College of New York as an example of the horrible consequences of a minor ity using a school as a "forum for Marxian dialectics,” Kane is hard ly in a position to act as a judge of what is or what is not Marxian dialectics. For by his own remarks, he could not possibly tell the differ With the Legislators aaiem Four senate Democrats intro duced a bill yesterday to make presidential candidates in the Oregon primary file campaign ex pense statements with the secre-' tary of stgte. The bill is the outgrowth of last May’s presidential primary battle in Oregon between Thomas E. Dewey and Harold Stassen. Democrats attempted to force Dewey and Stassen to file state ments, but the attorney general ruled the campaign expense state ment does not apply to presiden tial candidates. The new bill provides that if such candidate fails to file his expense statement, he would be barred from appearing on the fol lowing general election ballot. Sponsors of the bill are Sens. Richard L. Neuberger, Portland; Ben Musa, The Dalles; Robert D. Holmes, Gearhart; and Austin Flegel, Portland. Washington Rep. Tollefson (R-WasV) said he believes a housing bill intro duced by 11 Republicans in the house yesterday is the best an swer to the nation’s housing needs that can be worked out. Tollefson is the group’s only member from the Pacific North west. He has worked since the opening of congress with the house group and a similar senate group to perfect the measure. It would provide for 810,000 homes at a rate of up to 200,000 a year, with the entire program to be completed in a maximum of six years. “This legislation, in the opinion of its sponsors, is superior to the administration sponsored Ellen der bill in that it more nearly meets the needs for low cost housing, slum clearance and rural housing at a much less cost to the administration,” Tollefson told a reporter. “The measure also differs from the administration backed bill in that it provides direct, loans to lower middle-income families ($2,000 to $3,500) for housing not to exceed 60,000 units a year.” Tollefson said the measure also would provide federal funds for housing cooperatives and limited dividend corporations. It would amend the federal housing act, too, to make more money for housing loans available to banks and financial institutions. A somewhat similar bill intro duced in the senate today, had Senator Morse (R-Ore) among its sponsors. ence between Marxian dialectics and Fabian socialism. Unless, of course, he has sneaked into a se cluded corner with copies of “Das ■ Kapital” and Shaw's “The Intel ligent Women’s Guide to Social ism.” If Kane cares to contradict this observation, then let him consid er, before speaking, that he is guilty of un-American activities and disloyalty to the conservative majority. He has betrayed the purity of thought on this campus, weakened the majority, by in specting left-wing doctrines. But the inplications of Kane’s intellectual farce do not end with merely self-disqualification to ramble through the fields of po litical thought. No, they go so far as to explain why the General MacArthur Colonel Robert E. McCormick American military government in Japan can restore the cartelized industrial structure and the ag gressive potential of Japan with (Please turn to page sez'en)