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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1949)
An Olive Branch? The lifting of the Berlin blockade Wednesday is a good omen. It is an omen that signifies peace. Concrete details must be worked out on four power control of Germany and a great host of other problems. It remains to be seen whether the US SR is sincere. In a larger sense Berlin represents a victory for American policy of firmness and policy that refused to allow us to be bullied into war. American policy has been based on the promise that there can be no appeasement of aggression; that to appease now only would lay the foundation for future trouble and war. There comes a time when appeasement fails, a time when vital interests demand a policy of firmness. When a country is willing to give up its honor for peace, it will receive neither peace or honor. Great Britain and France gave up their honor at Munich and received war. The United States has always been willing to negotiate with Russia on the basis of equality, without a blackjack held behind its back. The U. S. has demonstrated to the world that a peaceful and united country can follow a policy of firmness and justice. In so doing peace in our time has been preserved. —W.D. Thoughts of Union Cord Meyer* the president of United World Federalists ■who spoke Wednesday night, is an earnest young man with a vision. Just as Woodrow Wilson stumped the nation following the last war in an effort to drum up popular support for the Lea gue of Nations, Meyer is touring the country to explain his plan for world federation. Unfortunately, the nation is no more ready for his idea than it was for the League almost thirty years ago. During the en suing decades, school children have been taught that keeping the United States out of the League was such a serious error that it was one of the main factors that doomed the League to failure. By the end of World War II they were willing to try a League-like organization—the United Nations. Of course, there are definite differences between the Lea gue and the UN, but Meyer would carry these still farther. Among the most vitally needed additions are a world police force and a world court, he said. But these are some of the points on which public opinion has not yet caught up with the young intellectuals. There is little doubt that some sort of a world organization is necessary for world peace. There is even little doubt that it will develop eventually. Meanwhile a small group of young men with a vision and a mission are doing their best to make that eventually “why not now?”—J.G. . Oregon W Emerald The Oregon D wly Emerald. published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon, Subscription rates: $’.00 per term and $4.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the post office. Eugene, Oregon. BILL YATES. Editor VIRGIL TUCKER, Business Manager . Associate Editors: June Goetze, Lloblee Brophy, Diana Dye, Barbara Hevwood Advertising Manager: Cork Mobley BOB REED, Managing Editor Editors: Stan Turnbull, Don Smith TVVEEDELL, City Editor Editors: Ken Metzler, Ann Goodman Sews editors Steve I.ov, Vic Fryer, Diane Meckam DEPARTMENT EDITORS Tom Kinjj, Sports Editor Connie Jackson. Women's Editor waiter uoau, £ earure r.uitor Warren Collier, Chief Night Editor UPPKI BUSINESS STAFF Bill Lemon, Sales Mgr. Eve Overbeok, Nat‘1 AJv. Mgr. Leslie Toaze. Ass't Adr. Mgr. Helen Sherman, Circulation Mgr. Bill Plummer, Ass t Adv. Mgr. Tack Schnaidt, Ass’t Adv. Mgr. Donna Brennan, Ass’t Adv. Mgr. Rae Evans. Ass’t Adv. Mgr. Joan M.mnaugh— Assist. Business Manager A Letter to All Mi 11 race—Now or Never To the Editor: Perhaps the campaign for res toration of the millrace hasn’t been fully explained to everyone's satisfaction and for this reason I would like to make clear what is expected from the student body of Oregon. The executive council agreed last year to pledge $3500 as the students' contribution and $4000 as the alumni contribution. This is ail that is required from the Oregon campus as part of the to tal $50,000.00 needed to put wa ter in the millrace. As the re mainder, the city has voted $25, 000 and the citizens of Eugene will raise the additional $17,500. The millrace residents fall un der the citizen’s share, and the eight frateynitiees and sororities have already pledged $400 apiece to this fund. It is planned to raise the total $7,500 (students and alumni) through our present campaign. 1'his will insure immediate ac tion this summer rather than having to wait for the alumni returns to come in. The $4,000 :rom the alumni, however, will be collected and placed in the hands of the students (execu tive council) to be used in the construction of canoe fete bleach ers or in beautification of the surrounding grounds -—- (please note front page for proposed park grounds). This park grounds and millrace area will be for student use to be employed for his or her own recreation, so it is quite evident that in order to have such a park we must first have water in the millrace. Our part of the total campaign is a small one in the monetary sense. However, it is this cam paign which will prove to the cit izens of Eugene that we really want the millrace, and it will guarantee that their con'tribu tive share will be raised. I fully realize that this drive is for something many of you have never seen but if you can corner an old timer and have him ex plain how important the millrace was to the traditional Oregon of old you’ll see the importance of its return today. This is not a compulsory drive but one of student interest in something they want—let’s each and everyone sign a pledge card today. At this writing approxi mately $2,700 has been pledged. LET’S GO. That’s a long ways to go—SO Warren E. Davis, Chairman Campus Fund Drive Something for Ali Of interest to a great many persons—whether or not they realize it—should be the meeting on campus of the West Coast division of the American Society for Aesthetics. Aesthetics is a formidable word. It sounds forbidding. But in itself it really just doesn’t mean much. The word is just a conglomerate title for the thinking and experimentation that had been done on many phases of art. And everybody likes some kind of art, or some philosophy about some sort of art. It’s a good menu of original thought and creation that you are being offered this week. Today there will be lectures on the graphic arts and the chang es that have been accomplished in that field. There will be talks tying in psychology with art; and in the afternoon newer com positions will be played at the music school. In the evening will be two experimental dramas—one of which has never before been produced. Saturday brings more of the same. It would profit all to consult the schedule and pick an event to suit his tastes.—B.H. Traditions or Haunts? Isn’t someone forgetting something? We mean that left-over Junior Weekend bandstand that’s flapping in the breeze that rustles the pines on the old campus. If we were at war, we’d think that is was conservation of materials. If we believed that a mystic sort of humor existed at Oregon, we’d conclude that a haunted structure was being established. But as things stand, we can only conclude that the band stand must already have become traditional. And if it is tradi tional, there the bandstand will stand, until doomsday, a cy clone, or a triumph of the termites.—B.H. The Future, Ha! Listen, my children who think campus life is a bit foolish! Here’s what you'll mee.t outside Dad's Gates. (This knowledge is not first hand. It’s gleaned from press notices and magazines that all journalists should read.) TO MEN CHILLUN: You’ll have to be fashion minded when you leave the quad. Take your cue from this bulletin: “. .. Then, there is to be a marked prevalence of widespread collars. This might well be corrupted into plunging neckline for the hairy-chesteds . . . Cravats are to be crazier yet. and socks must have a bold design. Ankle-area embroider)- is not frowned upon in the least. The man about town comes to look more and more like a needlepoint mannequin ... A progressive haberdashers’ movement decrees that the keynote of clothing purchases should be ‘rugged masculinity.’ This is further des ignated as the ‘lusty look'.” TO ALL CHILLUN: Although you’ll be through with ..Junior Weekends and week-long fund drives, you’ll be expect ed to support all manner of things. You’ll be asked to give you’re whole-hearted cooperation to National Baby Week and National Canned Asparagus week. You'll be subjected to all manner of wide-spread experi ments. If you were in New York right now officials would be encouraging you to stop saying “hello” on the telephone. Con versations are considerably shortened by this elimination, they speculate. Instead of going through the “hello, who's this,” routine, you merely say. “Smith speaking!" Things are foolish all over—B.H. Hot Spot Analyst Says Reds for Ruhr By J. M. Roberts, Jr. Associated Press A diplomatic report in London that France has proposed to give Russia voice in control of the Ruhr has been received in the United States with skepticism. All sorts of possibilities are being mulled over in connection, with the forthcoming negotia tions looking toward a four power settlement of the German problem. But none of the west ern allies would be expected to make such a proposal pending receipt of Russia’s demands. Industrial Base Although there are political gains to be sought by Russia in a communized Germany, Mos cow’s real objective has always been the Ruhr. It is one of the world’s five great industrial bas es which is capable of supply ing the sinews for wars of any' size. The others are Russia her self, Japan, the United States and Britain. India may soon be another. Possession of the Ruhr emboldened Germany to defy the world twice. The allies have no slightest in tention of seeing her do it. If there were to be any four power settlement, which seems very doubtful, Russia would have to have some sort of voice, of course. But not as in the four, power council which fell apart two years' ago, a voice capable of derailing the allied program for western Germany. Loopholes Whether she would accept membership in the Ruhr control without the veto on which she'al ways insists, knowing that she would be in a 6 to 1 minority, is highly problematical. But that’s as good an offer as she is likely to get. There is room for allied coun ter-attack in this Ruhr question, too. Russia has frozen out Brit ish and American participation in the enforcement of the peace treaties with Hitler’s former sat ellites in eastern Europe. Where as Russia has no investment in the Ruhr, Anglo-American inter ests had vast prewar investments in the oil and other industries of southeastern Europe from w'hich they have been evicted. The west might at least get some ponies in return for any horse it trades to Russia.
