Huey's Son Calls Filibuster a 'Precious Heritage'
WASHINGTON (AP)—Sena
tor Russell Long (D-La), whose
father made filibuster history
nearly two decades ago, told the
•; senate yesterday the right to fili
buster is “one of our most pre
; cious heritages."
The 30-year-old son of the late
< Senator Huey Long was making
' his first senate speech. He car
ried the South’s battle against an
anti-filibuster change in the sen
; ate’s rules.
In the same chamber, Huey
Long, talking of “pot likker" and
other matters, made a long per
sonal filibuster in the early day3
of the Roosevelt administration
in battling for an amendment to
the National Recovery act.
Senator Elbert Thomas (D
Utah) said President Truman
hopes the senate will decide
promptly its fight over an anti
filibuster rule.
Thomas, chairman of the sen
ate labor committee, talked to re
porters after a call at the White
House. He said most of the con
versation dealt with the current
southern filibuster against chang
ing the senate rules to choke off
debate.
The president two days ago
called for a showdown battle on
the issue.
Thomas said he is anxious to
get a quick decision and the pres
ident agreed with him. The sena
tor added:
“I told the president that any
country that can send its people
to war on a bare majority vote
ought to be ashamed of itself
when it takes a nearly unnani
mous vote to change a rule of pro
cedure in the senate.
“The president said I was
right.’’
Thomas indicated, however,
that he doesn’t look for an early
end to the fight. Noting that Mr.
Truman will leave for a vacation
this weekend, Thomas said he told
the president “to go ahead and
have his vacation and be of good
cheer.”
Thomas said that with the sen
ate tied up by the filibuster there
is no need for hurry on the ad
ministration labor bill.
Meantime, Senator Vanden
berg (R-Mich) said he doesn’t
want any personal loyalty to him
to sway Republicans on what
may be a vital point in the effort
to crack the filibuster.
The point would develop if they
are faced with upholding or re
jecting a ruling by Vice Presi
dent Barkley that could end the
present senate talkathon.
"I want the Republicans to
vote the way they think is right,
without any thought of whether
they are upholding me or Bark
ley,” the Michigan senator said.
He added that he has no per
sonal “pride of opinion” in a rul
ing he made as the senate’s pre
siding officer last year that a
cloture—or debate limiting—peti
tion can’t stop senatorial talk
about a motion.
What Would Nelly Say?
In 1929, the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin made the
globe-circling trip. Her time was 20 days and four hours from
Friedrichshafen to Friedrichshafen; the distance 21,700 miles.
The late Wiley Post made two trips. In 1931, with Harold
Gatty as navigator, he flew a northern route of 15,474 miles in
flight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes. In 1933, flying alone, he cover
ed roughly the same route and distance in seven days, 18 hours,
49i/2 minutes.
Howard Hughes, airplane designer and former Hollywood
producer, flew around by way of Russia, 14,824 miles, in three
days, 19 hours 8 minutes 10 seconds in 1938.
In 1948, William Odom, with Milton Reynolds, the owner,
flew a converted air force medium bomber over a 20,000 mile
route in elapsed time of 78 hours, 55 minutes, 12 seconds.
Between Nelly Bly’s time and today there were many
world-circling trips made by a variety of means, but until today
none was non-stop.
Now—who’ll be first to fly around TWICE without
stopping?
Yesterday an American airforce bomber completed the first
non-stop flight around the world. The trip took less than four
days.
This globe-girdling business all started back in 1899 when
a woman named Nelly Bly turned the trick in 72 days, six hours,
and 11 minutes. Nelly made her jaunt by steamship and train.
She actually made much better time than the first round-world
trip by planes.
On April 6, 1924, four army planes took off from Seattle,
headed westward. By short jumps and long waits for weather,
supplies and such, they hopped across the Aleutians, down
through India, up to England back to the United States. Only
two of the original planes finished the flight. It took 175 days,
of which 14 days and 15 hours was actual flying time.
The idea of refueling in flight came soon after world war I.
And army fliers were among the first to try it. On August 27-28,
1923, a war-time De Haviland bomber kept aloft for 37y2 hours,
refueling from another plane of the same type.
THERE’S ONE in every crowd. We mean the professor
•who delights in alternately sneering and cheering at the “young
er generation now in college.
One such prof was leaning over his rostrum delivering a
dissertation on the mode of talk sported by the younger among
us. “Now what’s that silly saying the girls on the campus are
in the habit of saying?" he mused to the discomfiture of the
coeds in the class.
“NO!” shouted a male from the recesses of the back row.—
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A Greedy Little Man
HeWanted Whole World to'Himself
By George Tucker
NEW YORK—(AP) — Once
upon a time there was a greedy
little man who wanted the whole
world for himself.
He was a sickly little man, with
tiny hands and feet, and a head
too large for his body.
His feet were always cold. He
would lie in hot water for hours,
claiming the cold was locked in
his bones.
Not for one minute did he con
sider himself effeminate, though
he had wide hips and narrow
shoulders, like a woman, and a
complexion as fair as a girl’s.
In fact, women adored him. A
look from him and they were at
his feet. He had seven mistresses.
“I love nobody,” he declared.
“Freindship is only a word.”
Yet he was monster of jealousy.
One day he left town on a short
business trip, and next day he
wrote his wife. “I want you on my
heart. Quickly, fly, fly.”
She was slow in joining him and
he cried, “Have you a lover ?
Have you taken up with a strip
ling of nineteen?”
‘‘What a queer fellow,” she
laughed.
“I no longer love you,” he cried.
“I hate you, you are hateful, stu
pid, inept.”
He had a mania for being on
the winning side. He could not
bear to lose, even at games. When
his friends played chess with him,
they tried hard to lose. They even
sent out for players who were
less skilled than he.
One day a preacher’s son tried
to kill him. The plot miscarried,
and the boy was dragged into
his presence. They searched him
and found a knife and the por
With the Legislators
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Salem
Oregon's two-gun cowboys of 1960 got a break in the state legis
lature yesterday.
A proposed regulation of fireworks won’t affect the all-year privi
lege of youngsters to load and fire .25 grain cap pistols.
The “fire when ready” reprieve was granted in a public hearing
on a bill to limit sale of fireworks from June 20 to July 5 of each yea.r.
Two years ago the house passed a bill to ban sale of all fireworks
by a wide margin. But a children’s lobby killed it in the senate.
This year’s bill is supported by the Oregon Parent-Teacher assos
eiation and fireworks manufacturers.
Although atomic energy didn’t figure directly in the discussion,
complain was made against “finger length firecrackers that flatten
mailboxes.”
Mrs. J. C. Henderson, Corvallis PTA leader, made this complaint,
saying people in her neighborhood stay awake all night the year
round because kids shoot off firecrackers.
Committee members, who daily struggle with such involved prob
lems as corporate excise taxes and hydroelectric power, were stumped
by the explosive propensities of modern-day salutes and firecrackers.
trait of a pretty girl. The por
trait fascinated him.
“You wanted to kill me?”
“Yes, I intended to kill you.”
Whose portrait is this?
“The girl I love.”
“If I let you go ... I suppose
it would gladden the heart of this
girl.”
“Then I shall be able to kill
you after all.”
He looked at the young man
sadly. The face in the portrait
could have won so easily, with a
little help. He nodded to his
henchmen, and left the room.
His whole life was a preposter
ous tragedy. He wanted to be a
great man. But he couldn’t tell
the truth. His friends were so par
tisan and his enemies so preju
diced that nothing they could say
could be believed either.
The church excommunicated
him. His tantrums were so great
that he summoned people to the
bath room, where he was bathing,
and splashed them with hot wa
ter.
Every word I have said about
this extraordinary man is pre
served in his letters and papers,
and can be read by anybody.
So unusual a man deserved an
unusual name. It would have been
an irony for him to be called
Smith, or Jones.
But he was spared that com
monplace. His name was very un
usual. It was Napoleon Bona
parte.
May Deadline
Graduate students are warned
that if they expect to graduate in
June, their theses are due in May.
Theses for a master’s degree are
to be in not later than May 16, and
doctoral theses must be submitted
to the graduate school not later
than May 2.
From Our Mailbag
Letters to the Editor HP*
FAVORS SEGREGATION
To the Editor:
Traditions are things handed
down from the past. Segregation
on the campus is a tradition
which certain factions of the Uni
versity feel, at this time, is either
good or bad. Pros and cons have
flowed like blood through the
lines of the Emerald: some say
it isn’t “natural" to have segre
gation and others say that since
the boys outnumber the girls two
to one that the boys should-have
reserved sections. Others say it
is a tradition.
When we look into the patterns
of past traditions we would find
that usually there is not a too de
tailed explanation for such tradi
tions. In Europe years ago, a boy
followed his father’s footsteps
and couldn’t usually raise his
standard of class even though his
mental capacity was that of a
wizard. Today we have traditions.
Even the very being of life is a
form of tradition; we inherit
genes from our parents, we are
raised by our parents and thus
follow some of their traditions,
and we will adopt ideas and tra
ditions as we progress through
life. What is the reason for adopt
ing patterns?
This could well be answered in
terms of our school. We say “hel
lo” on the walk between Villard
and Fenton because it’s tradition.
The Sigma Chi’s select “The
Sweetheart of Sigma Chi” be
cause it’s tradition. Whether we
have an explanation for the tradi
tion or not, we at least respect
it. It may not be democratic in
all senses but it is still tradition.
A tradition of the University of
Oregon stands that the men will
not bring their girls into the boys'
seating section. The girls have
their sections and if the boys real
ly want to take their girls, they
can—to a certain section. It’s a
tradition and could continue to
operate as such.
Bruce D. Wallace