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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1949)
daily EMERALD Boundaries, Politics Complicate Island Rule, Keesing Points Out BY SISTER MARY GILBERT A co-ordinated approach to common problems of Pacific Island peoples is the major advantage of the South Pacific Commission, according to Felix M. Keesing, senior United States member of that body. Mr. Keesing stressed political and economic difficulties in this, the second Condon lecture given Thursday in Chapman Hall. C. P. Schleicher, professor of political science, introduced the speaker. “The major objective of Pacific Island Policy is strongly debated,” Mr. Keesing pointed out. “Some nations favor preserving native culture, others feel that it should be exposed to other civilizations.” The arbitrary nature of bound aries and wide variations in size sp-and political status are factors complicating island government, Mr. Keesing explained. He advo cated progressive development of a sense of political unity among these peoples to develop a kind of nationalism among them. “Local administration is work ing reasonabi well,” he asserted, “but above the local level, success varies. Diversity of language and customs makes consolidation diffi cult.” Trusteeship or guardianship is the temper of the times in dealing with islanders, Mr. Keesing ob served. But natives must be pro tected from politically articulate groups of outsiders. Maintaining a final supervisory power by the administrative nation is the solu tion to this problem. Economically, the islanders’ problems are the development of local resources, marketing outlets, transportation, and health meas ures such as sanitation and nutri tion. “The social system of the is landers is being modified,” Mr. Keesing declared. The long-term picture, though not bright, is gradually being improved through research and experimentation.” Faculty Eleven Has Workshop Eleven University faculty mem bers are instructing Springfield High School teachers at workshops yesterday and today. The workshops, sponsored by the State Board of Higher Education in various parts of the state, have been aided by several University faculty members in the past year. Faculty members assisting at Springfield include: Mrs. Jean K. Glazer, M. R. Sponenburgh, and A. M+. Vincent, art; D. M. Dougherty, foreign languages; V. S. Sprague, and Mrs. Jennelle Moorhead, physi cal education. Others instructing are: N. H. Os wald, English; Herman Gelhausen, voice; Quirinus Breen, history and social science; and P. E. Kambly, R. E. Eiserer, and P. B. Jacobson, education. Queens Read the Oregano CO-JUNIOR WEEKEND QUEENS of 1949, Mary Margaret Jones (left) and Phyllis Morgan, take a look at “big name” pages in the 1949 Oregana. Occasion—the Oregana swings into the last week of its “late sales” campaign for the 1950 book. Among other features, the new issue will contain pages commemorating the ascent of Misses Jones and Morgan to royalty. (Emerald photo by Gene Rose). Grand, Glorious, Sewage-Laden Millrace Back After Four Years IT’S GREAT FOR CANOEING! After a four-year interlude, Webfoots may once again try out their sealegs on Oregon’s famed Millrace. Ees Cutting, Dolores Steele, Pat Bishop, and Mac Epley (from left) do their navigating for Photographer Art French. By Bob Funk Oregon’s Great Sentimental In stitution, the Millrace, is finally back after four long years of drouth and despair. It flows, as in days of yore, down behind the An chorage, shallow and sewage-laden. But, by jiminy, it's there, and that’s the important thing. People around Eugene and the campus have been working for a long time to get the Millrace re stored. “Inclement weather” got downright nasty one day four years ago and the dam at the head of the millrace was washed out, leaving the race bed extremely dry. Long-time empty It stayed that way for some time, collecting weeds, beer bottles, and lovers’ trysts. An organization known as the Eugene Millrace Park Association decided that Players Introduced Last Night At 'Beat Washington' Spirit Rally A large turnout for last night’s spirit rally at John Straub gave the Oregon Webfoots a rousing send-off for Saturday’s football game with Washington, to be played at Portland’s Multnomah Stadium. More than 1000 students, many with posters illustrating the “Beat Washington’’ theme, gathered to see Coach Jim Aiken and his Ducks introduced. All players and coaches said a few words, emphasizing the team’s own keyed-up spirit. After Yell King Jim Crismon led several yells, Woodley Lewis took over and led the team in a cheer for the students. The Ducks leave for Portland early Saturday morning. Oregon students attending the game must be in their seats by 12:45 p.m. Saturday. Those with athletic tickets enter gate “B,” on S.W. 18th Street. Gates open at 11 Saturday morning. Weather Conditions Affect Sleep, Class Attendance By Marjorie Bush Empty seats at eight o’clocks and nodding students in the back row may not indicate utter laziness! In fact, these things may be proving a scientific law. This heartening news was told recently by J. C. Stovall, professor of geography, to his class in climatology. “Under certain climatic conditions, that eight o'clock class doesn’t seem important at all, Stovall said. These conditions prevail when a warm rain storm moves in from the Pacific Ocean, with subsequent temperature boosts and lowering of barometric pressure. This lowering of pressure is ex tremely relaxing, Stovall added, and gives that complete “let down” feeling. A lot of oversleeping end absences result. However, he chuckled, some stu dents bring this relaxed feeling on themselves with no help from the climate. Another dark point was added. We haven’t had a typical storm of this kind this fall; there fore, science can not excuse the early morning class-skippers to date. These storms with high tempera ture and low pressure with a warm rain are called “cyclonic storms.” They occur especially in the fall and from February to March. Another phase of the subject “which everybody talks about but nobody does anything about’’ was brought up by Stovall. “There is a nice correlation be tween the weather and business conditions,” he pointed out. After a long period of bad weath er with business going on as usual, a bright day brings on a vacation effect. People forget their doctors’ and dentists’ appointments and business is slack until about the third day when it returns to normal. People plan their shopping ac cording to the weather, especially that of the morning. A rainy morn ing will discourage shoppers, but on a rainy afternoon, even if the morn ing was sunny, people will have made up 'their minds and will go shopping anyway. In conclusion, it would seem that people can blame weather for many of their often otherwise unexplain able actions. And 8 o’clock class at tendance continues to fall. something had to be done. Something was. The EMPA people got busy and convinced Eugene voters that mon ey should be voted for millrace res toration. The money was voted in. an election held in the spring of 1948, the amount being $20,000. EXCITEMENT More money had to be raised, though, for reasons which now seem rather obscure. So, with the aid of an ASUO millrace commit tee, EMPA presented the City of Eugene with some handsome matching funds. Engineers poked around, the Register-Guard and Emerald wrote stories, meetings were held, and things got terribly exciting. Then tragedy struck. A down town printing firm started to fill part of the lower end of the race. Their object: to utilize some valu able property. JrlJLjL COMPLETED EMPA and pals began an inten sive drive to prove that such go ings on were illegal, unpatriotic, anti-Oregon, and possibly immoral. Nothing came of all this. The fill was completed—with a pipe to allow for water passage. This crisis reverberated around for awhile, and was then forgotten. Last spring Oregon students signed their breakage fees away for millrace restoration, and this fall the first water seeped down past the Anchorage. Things were supposed to return to normal. With water in the millrace, Ore gon traditions such as canoeing, junior weekend floats, dunkings, and general horsing around could be revived. Then too, old millrace songs such as “As I Sit and Dream at Evening” would again become up-to-date. ODD HAPPENINGS Things were not to be so rosy, however. First, odd things kept happening to the water level. At times this fall the water has risen threateningly, holding the fascina ting prospect of an llth-Street flood. At other times it has drop ped without apparent cause. To add to the changes in water, it was found recently that the millrace has a high content of Springfield sewage. This sewage is sufficiently potent to give swim mers or dunkees anything from a head cold to the bubonic plague. It is now apparent that the mill race will be a campus problem child for some time to come. How ever, this is a great boon to all the people who have such grand fun working in EMPA and the ASUO millrace committee.