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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1949)
Porchlight Parade By Ed Cauduro Baby sitting among the college clan has reached new heights in popularity, although it has been a common practice with the lads of the campi for decades . . . among its latest converts is DU Ron Fraedrick. To get out evenings he has been telling his frat brothers that he lias to sit with his little sister •while his folks are out to play , . . truth is, there is no blood re lationship between Ron and the cute AOPi redhead Marilyn Tyk ;-on who he’s been doing all his sitting with of late. . . . To TKE Bob Funk and DG Barbara Hollands goes the award for keeping a secret the longest. . . . They’ve been pinned since Bob’s initiation 3 weeks ago and only now the news comes out . . . ■and then there’s DG Flo Mitchell, always game when it comes to a dare, who is now wearing an SAE pin . . . wonder who the lucky guy is . . . she won’t tell . . . but I understand Sig Hob JDtiele could clear up the whole mystery. . . . In the “Not For Me Dept.” Members of Gordon Wright’s “Europe Since 1939’’ class have • n average GPA of 3.6 . . . With all the so-called beauty contests the rage nowadays, the Alpha Chi house boys are conducting one of their own. They’re hot on the t rail ’to find the “Girl With Whom We’d Like Most to Be Quaran tined" . . . Zeta hall’s Joan Wegman has been wandering around the cam pus in a big, fat daze . . . gazing with adoring eyes at a “dreamy’’ ) licture of Sig Ep Glen Yost . . . wonder if Glen's pin is sewed to 3 is sweater with permanent thread. . . . The question and answer dept. . . wonder if Phi Psi Dick Sclilicker is through with love . . . he’s hung a “For Sale’’ sign on his sweetheart pin. Pi Phi Joan Manning is deter, rained to get to know the Theta Chis much better . . . shes's taking .dates with Dick Bennett and Bob XJeArmond, both of that tong, on alternate nights . . . understand this isn’t a triangle . . . just a friendly circle. ““At “ the”AXO—house-"Shirley Vhelps passed around candy for her sorority inmates announcing her engagement to Phi Delt Rich Mckolson of Cornvalley .... The Shack’s own Stan Turn 1 mil and Pi Phi Delight Kolar are f.et for two dates this weekend ... so sudden, too. Also Kolar has future plans for Turnbull . . . an other Sliack-rat Don Smith, Campbell club, has been going around biting Theta Sigs since he has been dropped from the Miss Vogue finalist list . . . l.ooks like the Dads have finally traced their pocltetbooks back to the Oregon campus . . . glad to ; ee, ya! It's Your Campus, Dad Hello Dad! It’s darned good to have you with us again. This weekend the campus is yours. We hope you’ll enjoy all the events we’ve planned for you. And when its over we hope you’ll go away with that warm glow of satisfaction which comes when one has completely enjoyed himself. Each year the University sets aside Dads’ Weekend in the belief that in this way we, your sons and daughters, can prove that we’ve not completely forgotten you. Honest Dad, we don’t really forget you. It’s just these darn ed professors—they make us work so hard. And then of course, between studying and attending class es, we do have to squeeze in a little diversion, too. Remember what you used to tell us about all work and no play? So, you see, it is sometimes pretty difficult to find time for that long overdue letter. But then, knowing you’re an understanding guy, we sus pect you’ll forgive us readily enough if we show you a good time this weekend . . . and we plan to do just that. With the Legislators BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Salem The bogged-down Oregon leg islature ended its fourth week yesterday after having passed only 27 of its 456 bills. While leaders are optimistic that the session will last 70 days or so, many members are afraid it might be as long as the record 1947 session. That one ended on the 84tli day. So far, 456 bills have been in troduced, compared with 546 at the same stage two years ago. The senate has 148 bills, com pared with 220 two years ago. But the house has 308 bills, plus 35 more which are prepared for introduction Monday. The num ber two years ago was 326. The house has passed only 67 of its 308 bills, while the senate has approved 28 of its 148 bills. The house social welfare com mittee decided yesterday to in troduce the bill calling for $50 minimum old age penions, blit the committee hasn’t decided if it would support it. House Democrats introduced a memorial asking congress to ap prove President Truman’s propo sal for a Columbia Valley Author ity. It is similar to a memorial in the senate, which will hold a pub lic hearing on the matter Febru ary 24. The senate defeated a bill to day which would require sports men to get licenses to fish for salmon in the ocean. * # * A bill to force schools and pub licly-supported colleges to close on general election days was in troduced by Sen. Richard I*. Neu berger, Portland. Washington Paul J. Raver, Bonneville pow er administrator, said yesterday he favors “early creation of a federal agency in the nature of a Columbia Valley Authority." Raver made his statement to a reporter in response to a question after he had testified before the Oregon® Emerald The Oregon Dili v Emerald, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods !>y the Associated Students, University ot Oregon Subscription rates: $2.00 per term and $4.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter sit the postoth.ee, Eugene, Oregon, IBP I, YATES Editor VIRGIL TUCKER, Business Manager Bob Reed, Managing Editor Tom McLaughlin, Ass t. Bus. Mgr. Associate Editors: Tune Codec. Bobtee Brophy, Diana Dye, Barbara Hey wood Advertising Manager: Joan Minnaugh UPPER NEWS STAFF . Eton Turnbull, News Editor Oon Smith, Ass't Managing Editor flout King. Sports Editor Ann Goodman, Asst. News Editor Dick Cramer, Sports Editor Tom Marquis, Radio Editor senate interior committee in an overall examination of Interior department functions. BP A is an interior department agency. ‘‘I am glad you asked me that question,” Raver said. “In an or der to keep the record straight I want to make it absolutely clear that I am wholeheartedly in fa vor of the early creation of a fed eral regency agency in the na ture of a CVA. “This is not merely because I may be expected, as a federal of ficial, to support the president— but because I firmly believe that such a step is essential to the most beneficial development of the river systems, from the view point of the people of that re gion. Senator Taft (R-Ohio) assert ed yesterday that “no one is pro posing to repeal the Taft-Hart ley law in substance—only in form.” “The question of repeal of the Taft-Hartley act is disposed of,” Taft told a news conference. He predicted that congress will re tain two-thirds of it when a new labor law is passed. Taft called the conference to sum up what he described as the results of the first three days of hearings on the administration’s bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley law and replace it with a modified version of the old Wagner act. Taft repeated again his conten tion that President Truman lacks any inherent powers to deal with strikes threatening a national emergency. Mr. Truman and his attorney general, Tom Clark, say the pres ident does have; that the author ity of his office gives him such power without anything being written about it in labor laws. Taft said: “I completely deny there are any such powers.” Canterbury Club Members of the Canterbury club in Corvallis will be the guests of the Canterbury club here in a joint meeting tomorrow at 4 p. m. in the parish hall. “Philosophy and Religion" is the topic of a lecture which Dr. Quiri nus Breen will deliver to the stud ents at 5:15. Dinner will be served at 6:30. Members of the University Can terbury club will conduct the even ing services in St. Mary’s Cathedral beginning at 7:30 with the evening prayer. --— Raising Kane Want To Know How You Sound To Others? Get 'Recorded' i By Hank Kane A wire recorder is a devil of a gadget. One never really learns how to operate it perfectly. When one does, the immediate urge on nrst. hearing one’s voice is to put ' one’s fist, through it for 1 literally voicing the unpleasant truth. Two speech department wire recorders are available to stu- * dents foolhardy enough to use them. three by four reformed broom The “recording studio” is a closet. It dates from the last century when Friendly was a men’s dor mitory. The brooms and beer bottles have been removed, but the two chairs and a shelf make it as clut tered as a coed’s closet. Once the team of experimenter and helper has entered the stu dio” by climbing over each other there is the problem of making the machine work. This isn’t as easy as it looks, and the appearance of the infer nal machine is discouraging. Plugging in the current is not too difficult thanks to the experi ence gained from countless dorm room hot plate sessions. But how to adjust the knobs is a problem. The middle one alone has four positions. Marked clockwise, they are: “rewind, play, play, rewind, record, re cord.” The instructor’s classroom dem onstration isn’t of much imme- - diate aid. He twirled knobs without get ting any results. Next he shook ' the machine and finally, his fist. The demonstration ended with the instructor’s suggestion that practice and patience were needed to learn how to operate the re- ■ corder. By the end of the first hour the experimenters achieved their instructor’s hoped for goal at the cost of plenty of practice and ex- _ hausted patience. When the first trail recording is played back there is a slight ■ pause* for astonishment by the speaker. This is followed by horror when he realizes that the musical file he is hearing is his voice. It sounds like a combination of a housewife gossiping oyer the back fence, a concrete mixer in * action, and an inebriated driver telling a policeman he is sober. Immediate oaths are sworn that every speech defect will be corrected immediately if not . sooner by daily practice. Every free afternoon will be de voted to making one’s voice fit - to be heard, if not respected. Shortly before' going to the first remedial practice session the fol lowing afternoon the fledgling Daniel Webster is invited to join . a card game at “The Bird.” Being a man who can resist ev erything except temptation, he ' decides that since people have been enduring his voice all these . years one day more won’t matter. From Our Mailbag LETTERS TO THE EDITOR “BIG STICK” SCHEiUES To the Editor: Dismissal of three University of Washington professors for communist membership or sym pathies illustrates the new con cept of intellectual freedom, per suasion, democratic compromise, and moral leadership in this coun try. At the same time, students interested in the broader implica tions of restrictive practices at home should consider the conse quences of this policy on our deal ings abroad. Let me draw attention to two stories in Tuesday’s Oregonian. The first is a dispatch describing our bigger and better A-bombs. It reads in part: “The atomic enery commission Monday disclosed the United States has greatly improved pro duction methods and stepped up destructive power of A-bombs to assure continued world leadership “In layman's language this means the A-bombs now being produced are many times more powerful than the missies that blasted Hiroshima and Nagasaki and hastened the end of World War II.” To one who believes firmly in our democracy and is convinced that example, friendship, and as sistance without ulterior motives is the only possible kind of leader ship that can win the world to our way of thinking, such a brazen force is distressing and disturb ing to say the least. The second dispatch reports Army Secretary Royall, en route to Tokyo to discuss the Japanese situation with General MacAr thur, has a new plan for bypass ing the Far Eastern commission, the allied body which is supposed to make policy for Japan. “Royall is going to call on Mac Arthur to join in a plan,” accord ing to the account, ‘‘which would deny the other Pacific allies any voice in the occupation and gov ernment of Japan.” ‘‘The army secretary and others here who share his views,” the story goes on to say, ‘‘want to . embark on a two-fold policy in. Japan: “First, they want to build up Japan as an anti-Soviet bastion . in the Pacific. “Second, they want to stop American-style liberal reforms in Japan and follow restoration of a considerable measure of prewar Japanese ‘normalcy’.” What kind of leadership is this? First we blast Hiroshima and Nagasaki with A-bombs, kill ing many thousands of women and children, to hasten the end of the war, free the Orient and ourselves from any future threat of Japanese totalitarian aggres sion, and build a new, democratic Japan to assume a place among the peace-loving nations. Then we manufacture a more destructive A-bomb in order, ap parently, to restore and back a “considerable measure of pre war Japanese ‘normalcy’.” Just to make sure the new leadership is really leadership and not a display of democratic dec adence Royall’s proposals for Ja pan would “deny the other Pacific allies (Britain, Canada, Australia. New Zealand, the Philippines, Chi na, France, Holland and Russia* (Please turn to page eight)