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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1949)
The Final Push The Millrace is looking more like a probability than a pos ! sibility. Warren Davis, who is heading the drive for campus con tributions, announced yesterday that the students have pledg ed enough to fill their quota. But behind this simple announcement is a lot of hard work. Ever since the race became waterless more than three years ago, there has been talk of restoring it. A small crew of inter ested Eugeneans and students kept the idea alive. The houses along the millrace have pledged money; the Students have pledged their part; and donations are coming from the alumni. The University has done its share. When the word came that the funds were necessary, Da vis was appointed to direct the drive. He and his small band of workers devised posters showing nostalgic scenes of the Race as it was. But they didn’t stop with the usual promotion and publicity. They personally canvassed the living organizations to see how the donations were coming in. They willingly explained to the uninformed the whole history of the race, its demise, and its forthcoming resurrection. For sheer enthusiasm in their mis sion, they could not be surpassed. Now, thanks to their efforts, another step in the long drive has been completed. Future canoers along the race may well look back on these people who in 1949 gave the final push for the restoration. J. G. Boyles Column Life in a Brown Study By Hal Boyle NEW YORK — (AP) — My mother-in-law had a wise old saying: “A woman convinced against her will is of the same opinion still.” In mv twelfth year of marriage to this dear lady’s daughter, Frances, I am begin n i n g to understand the truth of this saying. For the more you try to change a lady’s mind the more you change your o w n. A h i g li wind may sway a tall building, a tempest of objection may bend a woman's purpose. But, as soon as the pressure lets up, both the building and the feminine mind snap back to their old position. They can be broken- but they won't be warped. I discovered this, rather late in life I must admit, after my wife started having an affair with Brown. I am referring to brown, the color. One morning Frances an nounced to me suddenly at break fast: “Black has gone out of my life.”. "Whom?" I asked. I always say “whom” to my wife now, because every time 1 say “who” she ac cuses me of being ungrammati cal. “Anything black," she said. "I’m not going to'wear anything black any more. Black gives me a haggard look. It has gone out of -my life forever.” This was all right with me, as the only black I have ever worn was a shot or two—or an eye or two. Frances blossomed out at first in dark blue. I liked that. Then one day I came home and found her dressed in a flappy new look suit. And under the blue jacket was a brown blouse—a very brown brown. ‘‘Donate it to a rummage sale,” I suggested. “Brown is for wood chucks. It's duller than a kitchen knife.” “Is that so?” queried my haus frau. “Well, brown has come into my life to stay. I like brown.” Then began the busy business of making me like brown, too. The next time I went to buy a suit Frances pointed at one on the rack. “Trv that.” “It’s brown. Haven’t worn a brown suit since my voice started to change.” “It isn’t brown at all. It’s tan.” So I bought the suit of tan, which is a kind of pale stepbroth er to brown. Then came a tan shirt. Then a striped shirt, and the stripes looked brown to me. And then a necktie arrived, and I knew I had been sold down the river. It was as brown as the feeling you have when you ask the boss for a $5 raise and all you get back Is a $10 explanation. Next came the problem of fur nishing the second bedroom in our apartment. The original idea was that it was to be a kind of (Please turn to page eight) Oregon WEmerauj The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daily during: the college year except Sundays, Btfondays. holidavs, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, l Diversity of Oregon. Subscription rates: $2.00 per term and $4.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter Kt the post office, Eugene, Oregon._ Bll.I. YATES, Editor VIRGIL TUCKER, Business Manager Associate Editors: June Goetze, Boblee Brophy, Diana Dye, Barbara Hey wood Advertising Manager: Cork Mobley BOB REED, Managing Editor Assistant Managing Editors: Stan Turnbull, Don Smith BOB TWEED ELL, City Editor ^Assistant City Editors: Ken Metzler, Ann Goodman NEWS EDITORS Chuck Grell. IltU Coleman, Steve Loy, Vic Fryer, Diane Mecham DEPARTMENT EDITORS Torn King, Sport* Editor Counic Jackson, Women's Editor Walter Dodd, Feature Editor Warren Collier, Chief flight Editor UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Bill Lemon, Sales Mgr. Eve Overbeck, Nat’l Aav. Mgr. Leslie Tooze, Ass’t Adv. Mgr Helen Sherman. Circulation Mgr. Bill Plummer, Ass t AJy. Mgr. lack Schnaidt, Ass’t Adv. Mgr. Donna Brennan, Ass’t Adv. Mgr. Rae Evans, Ass t Adv. Mgr. Joan Mimnaugh—Assist. Business Manager Looking for a Job? Things Are Gettin' Tougher By Michael Callahan The June bride is facing some stiff competition. You, gentle reader, .may be sa voririg tut; prua pects of a hot hundred words on free l.o v e Which is too bad, because the items here in have nothing’ to do with Top 1 ic A. So let us - on with the siuiy. Time was when all the June traditions were wrapped up in lace and champagne. Now 'thanks to the monthly 75 from Uncle, the post-war June rush is in sheepskins and help wanted ads. Which brings us to 'the big question: where ave the thousand odd (and some of them are very odd) Oregon grads this year go ing to land their cushy jobs ? Some lucky few are already in with business moguls who also happen to be their uncles and fa thers. A few others have put off the big step and will be back for a year or two and another set of initials after their names. To those harried hundreds who are still sweating out replies to their application letters, we would like to pass on a few words of cheer. The chances are that you will soon be right in there work ing for your pensions. A recent survey of 100 out of the more than 30,000 possible jobs open in this country shows that for the next year or two, things will continue to be pretty loose. For everything from sales men to dentists, insurance agents, librarians, social workers, nurses, From Other Editors— International Universities (From Christian Science Monitor) Internationalism is something less than universality. But an in stitution devoted to the pursuit of universal truths is more likely to serve its purpose in proportion as it escapes from the cramping con fines of any one national viewpoint. Delegates from 12 western European naions, meeting in Gert many at a conference on comparative education, have enthusiasti cally endorsed proposals for the establishing of several international universities in Europe. Actual plans for the founding of one such institution at Bremen have been made. In a country which has so tragically felt the heavy hand of nationalism laid on its intellectual life, here is something that .promises a new breath of vitality to education. It has been suggested that Unesco (the United Nations Educa tional, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) 'might well get the project started. The first great problem is to finance it adequately, and American aid, as usual, is looked to as the answer. More im portant still, however, is the desire of educators in the countries con cerned to surmount barriers of tradition which are higher even than the financial hurdles. The vision of a university where German learning, French civilisa tion, Slavic reflectiveness, Anglo-Saxon pragmatism could rub elbows is a good one. This is the sort of substratum on which political federa tion must rest if it is to be more than a flimsy superstructure. While national universities may approximate this ideal, Europe may well need he example and influence of internatonal universities specifically dedicated to a new universalism. teachers, and clerks, the doors are all wide open. There are some gloomy cor ners in this job picture for a few majors, according to the survey. Journalists, whether lowly re porters or top-notch editors, will find the competition rough. So will photographers, musicians (they seem to starve by the num bers), store managers, artists, advertising agents, and authors. Accountants will find opportuni ties only slightly above average, as will business executives and managers, decorators and dis play advertisers, hospital atten dants, hotel managers, theater and recreation managers, radio men, office managers, and engi neers. The survey (the work of a col lege administrator) also has a word of warning for those who are now underclassmen in the University, or who are piecing out their graduate theses. By 1952, the reports say, things are going to be tough in every field. By then the big war time drought of skilled workers and executives will have been filled out and the jobs will settle back down to the “opportunities fair” or “only normal replace ments” stage. The big boom where soft, rich jobs went beg ging for framed men will belong to history. . t| Footnote: June brides and hearts and flowers will be back in style then. ^ j| ‘Mystery Thriller' Set for Tonight “A notable mystery thriller set in a. background of intrigue and men icing totalitarian enemies.” That’s “Lady Vanishes,” an Al fred Hitchcock production slated 'or showings tonight in 207 Chap nan at 7 and 9. Picture star^ Mar garet Lockwood and Michael Red rrave. Protest Eisler Detention Carrying placards denouncing the detention of Gerhart Eisler, pickets parade in front of London’t Bow Street court during tlie Communist leader’s hearing before a magistratee. Eisler, taken off the liner Batory at Southampton after he had fled New York while out on bail, was sent to jail to await hear ing on whether he will be returned to the U.S. as a fugitive from justice. (AP Wirephoto via radio from London)