Old Friend Returns
Freshmen entering the University next fall will be greeted
with the Ore-Nter.
Revived this year as an executive council project, the Ore
Nter will again inroduce new students to the ways of the Uni
versity in its own traditional and amusing manner. ,
The warm hand of welcome and handy reference contained \
in the Ore-Nter will ease the strain of the first few weeks and
speed adjustment for the new student.
The project of orienting new students raises the question
“Whose responsibility is it?” It should be a joint responsibili
ty of both students and faculty, of course.
From the pages of the Ore-Nter the students themselves
can best present the ways of campus to other students. But the
administration should accept part of the financial responsibili
j ty, too.
Although the committee is making no plans for the future,
' it is the hope of the group that future Ore-Nters will be put on
; a firm financial footing.
This year student groups have been asked to donate to the
Ore-Nter and the administration will turn over the Welcome
Book funds to the undertaking. This practice could well be
f continued. It would put the financial responsibility on both
j students and the administration.
But regardless of how future Ore-Nters are financed, we’d
! like to say we’re mighty glad to see an old friend return and
hope the books will help next year's freshmen as much as our
own did four year’s ago. D.D.
"In tAY Opinion"...
Favors CVA
Speaking in Eugene Saturday night C. Girard Davidson,
assistant secretary of the interior, called for the establishment
of a Columbia Authority.
The issue of a Columbia Valley Authority is of paramount
importance to the people of the Northwest. With a rapidly ex
panding population and industrial frontier, with a severe pow
er shortage, and a unemployment rate double the national av
erage: the Northwest must give careful consideration to a full
and frank understanding of its problems.
The CVA bill calls for the consolidation into a single agen
cy the federal activities of the region. These programs are now
being carried on by the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bonne
ville Power Administration in the Interior Department, and by
the Corps of Engineers of the Army.
No new federal powers or activities would be established.
The Columbia Valley Administration would provide a work
ing plan to integrate the many federal agencies which are now
duplicating and overlapping in the Northwest.
This consolidation would provide for a balanced program
of construction dams, irrigation works, power transmission
lines, but also for a operating plan for using these facilities for
flood control, navigation, power generation and transmission,
and fish protection.
Under the CVA bill administration would be decentralized
in the Northwest, instead of at Washington as it is at present.
Decentralization provides flexibility to meet the unique needs
and requirements of the Northwest.
The Columbia Valley Authority would bring fuller and
quicker relaization of the potentialities of our rich abundance
of natural resources through closer coordination and planning.
—Walter Dodd.
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Where Communists Invade
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ARROWS INDICATE points along the Yangtze river where Chinese
Communists are reported to have invaded Nationalist China by force.
The important city of Kiangyln, flanking Nanking to the east, fell
last week. Over the weekend, Nanking itself reported captured by
the invading Communists. (AP Wirephoto)
A Letter
He Liked
The Sound
Experiment
To Fred Young:
I can verify with considerable
enthusiasm the every-other-col
umn blurb of yours I’ve been
reading in the Emerald the past
week that I’d miss something if
I spent Sunday afternoon in the
sun instead of in the Guild thea
ter.
Congratulations to the “Sound
Experiment.” Repeat soon with
similar sounds.
I was impressed by the diver
sity of the program and the
craftsmanship of the artists as
well as with the idea that it
should have happened in the first
place. Surely the Educational
Activities Board will recognize
the fine beginning that was made
Sunday. It should be made the
basis for continuing offerings.
Sincerely.
Norm Johnston
Declaration Of Human Rights?
Can We Make It Work
By Bud Hurst
THE UNIVERSAL Declaration
of Human Rights is a beautiful
document. Adopted at the 10 De
cember, 1948 plenary meeting of
the United Nations General as
sembly it embodies all the pre
cepts and pricinciples of good
conduct among nations that have
been gleaned from the experience
of the past years.
The question is—can we in the
United States stick to it and live
by it even if we want to. It’ll be
hard.
Let's just take one of the arti
cles and hash it over.
Article 14 states, “Everyone
has the right to seek and to en
joy in other countries asylum
from persecution. This right may
not be invoked in the case of
prosecutions genuinely arising
from nonpolitical crimes or from
acts contrary to the purposes and
principles of the United Nations.”
That’s all very nice but it poses
a problem involving immigration.
* * #
SENATOR McCARRAN of Ne
vada told the senate yesterday
that the senate judiciary sub
committee has “conclusive and
alarming proof of extensive sub
versive activity being carried on
in this country under the diree
tion of foreign agents.” He was
introducing legislation which,
would tighten immigration laws
and strengthen espionage defens
es.
Senator McCarran is an honest
man who loves his country and
wants to protect it from harm.
He sees clearly the danger of
fifth column infiltration into this
country. You can read what he
said in the papers today. You
can’t help but agree with what
he says.
Yet Article 14 says, “Everyone
has the right to seek and enjoy
in other countries asylum . . .”
And we have committed ourselves
to that principle.
How then can we successfully
regulate and restrict the immi
gration of subversive characters ?
As we said above—t’ll be hard.
But it can be done.
* * *
WHEN AN immigrant comes
to this country he may show an
innocent outside in every way.
There will be no way in which the
officials that approve his visa
can know of his subversive in
tentions. He is in, Senator Mc
Carran. and there is nothing that
your tightened immigration law
can do about it.
The answer to the whole thing
lies with the American people
with whom that man will live.
They must pass on him and eith
er accept or reject him. They
must judge him, appraise him,
watch him, applaud him or criti
cize him. The home-loving Amer
ican is the stalwart of our whole
system of counter-espionage. It
is he who can make or break the
newcomer.
If John Jones notices that Ivan
Ysaritsch, “that new guy from
Hungary down the street" is act
ing funny and talking wrong talk
he should get in touch with the
proper authorities. If he is what
Jones thinks he “might” be, Ivan
won't be around too long.
* * *
THAT’s THE remedy. A reali
zation on the part of everyone
who loves this land and would
protect it that it is his duty to be
both vigilant and thoughtful.
If such were he case there
would be no need for any re
strictive immigration laws at all.
The screening would come after
instead of before.
Then, and only then, could we
honestly say, “Article 14 in that
Human Rights think is okay by
us. Put ’em on a ship and send
’em over.”
Foreign Students On Increase
FOREIGN STUDENTS in the
United States in 1948-49 number
26,759, as compared with 21,000
in 1947-48 and slightly over
16,000 in 1946-47, according to
the Institute of International
Education. A census was con
ducted by the institute in coop
eration with the Committee on
Friendly Relations Among For
eign Students.
Following are some of the sa
lient facts disclosed by this sur
vey.
Foreign students this year
came from 151 countries and de
pendencies. They are studying in
1,115 colleges, universities, and
technical schools in all the 48
states as well as Alaska, the Can
al zone, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
They represent 152 different
faith9, and among them are ad
herents of all the more widely
known religions, as well as Zo
roastrians, Jainists, Sikhs, Chal
deans, and Anthroposophists.
Men outnumber the women three
to one. The youngest student is
16 and the oldest 68, the aver
age age being 25.
* * *
NEW YORK leads the country
in foreign student population
with 5,000, or 18.7 per cent of the
total. California comes next with
3,098, or 11.6 per cent.
It is not surprising to find that
our neighbors Canada and New
foundland sent us the greatest
numbers—4,197 (16.5 per cent);
China is represented by 3,914
(15.4 per cent), and India by
1,493 (5.9 per cent).
There is almost no limit to the
fields of study pursued by for
eign students in this coun
try. Most popular are en
gineering, in which 20 per cent
are engaged; liberal arts, 14 per
cent; medicine. 10 per cent; and
social sciences, 9.5 per cent. Fol
lowing in rank are physical sci
ences, education, and agriculture.
* * *
GRADUATES and undergradu
ates are almost equally represent
ed in the foreign student body—•
graduatees 47.3 per cent and un
dergraduates 52.7 per cent. Of
the undergraduates, freshmen
outnumber seniors nearly two to
one.
Financial support for interna
tional study comes from a va
riety of sources. Slightly more
than one-third of the students
were able to come entirely on
their own resources. Of the re
maining two-thirds, 37.4 per cent
were assisted by colleges and uni
versities, private sources, or gov
ernment in the United States,
and 26.7 per cent by their home
government or private sources
in the home country.
Although the census reveals a
steady increase in numbers of
students coming to this country
since 1944, the rate of increase
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