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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1950)
Orman Daily EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald, published Monday through during tkcdlegeg Kiviiig^hoHdays'HfncUKling0tlie"foflo^wing1 Mondayl^and^after fddSal 'paper on fifay 12 by the Associatfd Students of the University of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per school year, $4 for two terms; $3 per term. Oninions expressed on the editorial page are those of the writer and do not pretend to represen™ he opinions of the ASUO or of the University. Initialed editorials are written by the associate editors. Unsigned editorials are written by the editor. Anita Holmes, Editor Don Thompson, Business Manager Eorna Larson, Managing Editor Barbara Williams, Advertising Manager Tom King, Ken Metzler, Don Smith, Associate Editors Assistant Editor: Sam Fidman News Editor: Norman Anderson Wire Editor: John Barton Sports Editor: Pete Cornacclua Assistant Managing Editors: Bob Funk, Oret chcn Grondahl, Ralph Thompson, I'red Vos Circulation Manager: Jean Lovell Assistant Business Manager: Shirley Hillard National Advertising Manager: Bonnie Birkemeier Layout Manager: Martel Scroggin Portland Advertising: Kfrla Van Loan Zone Managers: Fran Neel, Jean Hoffman, Virginia Kellogg, Don Miller, Val Schultz, Harriet Vahey. if Can't Happen Here Somewhere within its red-brick walls the University of Ore gon may have a Communist cell eating away at its foundations. It’s doubtful, though. A Saturday Evening Post article this week concerning the Red underworld at UCLA tells why. It makes good reading—and answers a great rtlany questions. UCLA is tailor-made for Communist infiltration. Oregon, •diametrically opposite UCLA in many respects, is not. The requirements for establishing an influential and effec tive Communist group on a campus look like a prescription any campus could fill——Post says you only need loyalists (they can be imported), dupes, a little racial discrimination, and a weak point or two. That s what makes a Red coup d etat easy. Maybe so—except for a fundamental difference that distin guishes UCLA from Oregon, and also from many other insti tutions. AT UCLA, most of the 13,000 students desert the campus as soon as classes are over. Only a very few remain for extra-cur ricula functions. Thus, the UCLA newspaper has a staff little larger than Oregon’s—despite the difference in school popula tion. And what does all this mean ? It means that at UCLA a small, alert clique can have the field to itself—because of student apathy. Example: A half-dozen campus Reds may storm the college paper and, within a year, capture key editorial positions and regulate policy. Their opposition is both small and unawares. Control of a newspaper can become important at a school where students are deeply concerned about national and inter national affairs. This never would happen at Oregon. It is not the kind of school the Commies would take it upon themselves to infiltrate. So—the only Red cells Oregon students will ever have will be in the bloodstream.—T.K. 'You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet' A1 Jolson—the man who brought the Great White Way to Main Street—is dead, but it is a death that will be about as thorough as the one that swept vaudeville to a grave where it just wpn’t “play dead.” Old-timers recall the Jolson who was billed as America s Greatest Entertainer;” the Jolson who starred in “Sinbad” at New York’s Winter Garden Theatre from 1918 till 1920; and of course, the Jolson who took the title role in "The Jazz Sing er,” the first talkie, appearing in 1927. The newer generation knows a Jolson that sang his way back from comparative obscurity through the film dubbed 1 he Jol son Story.” They know of his tireless efforts during the last war, and of his more recent entertaining in the bar East. For all that was Jolson, rolled into one—his first stage ap pearance at New York’s Herald Square Theatre in 1899; his vaudeville tour with Lew Dockstader’s Minstrels till 1911; his tour through the "sticks" with “Bombo” from 1922-24; for the famous Jolson quip—"Folks, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet”—for all that and as much more—A1 Jolson was truly an impact on our times.—S.F.___ THE DAILY 'E' • • • ... to Eve Overback and Dana Lind for their work in get ting the social chairmen behind the ASUO reappbrtion ment of desserts plan. THE OREGON LEMON . . . ... to the 40 faculty bowlers who broke no records at the student union alleys Monday night except for fouls and gutter balls. The Word By Stan Turnbull The inquiring reporter’s ques tion concerning a 9:30 to 10:30 coke dance Wednesday night at the Student Union gave us a thought along a similar line. We’ve found that just about this same idea has been brought up at the Student Union board meetings. We hope they decide to do it. The idea is simply this: With all the facilities available in the building, couldn’t a room with a jukebox or piped-in music be made available for a few hours Friday and Saturday nights for people just to drop in and dance when and if they felt like it ? It would be another step in building up things to do around here, such as the new Friday “College Night" at he Park. Maybe this idea wouldn’t catch on, but with old devil cost of liv ing rising faster than Sam Fid man with a hotfoot, here’s bet ting it would. Speaking of Sam Fidman with a hotfoot reminds us of a favor ite subject of ours: The fact that there seem to be no campus-wide characters around here. No mod el T’s assembled in people’s rooms. No Doodles Weaver bring ing toothbrush and shaving ap paratus to 8 o’elocks after being chided for late appearances. No life. Sure the Administration here would tear its hair. But it would likely put new life into those ag ing auricles and ventricles. And it would undoubtedly do a lot to make more cheerful the lives of what are laughingly referred to as the students. This department will person ally award a (deleted by column ist just to heat the editor to it) to the first person to stage a mam moth tricycle race down 13th street between classes, or name a Miss All-Campus Slob at the Homecoming Dance. Awake! —-Letter*-•— The Campus Answers Spirit Best Yet Emerald Editor: Saturday’s half time celebra tion at the Oregon-St. Mary’s Game was one of the best yet. Mr. Robert Vagner, University band director, and Mr. Leo Harris, Uni versity athletic director, are to be commended. It is activities of this sort which do much to instill spirit and harmony in the stu dent body. Tom Barry But Something Missed Emerald Editor: The performance of the Ore gon band at the game Saturday was excellent. But wasn’t there something missing from the pro gram ? Our past college experience has led us to consider it proper and customary for the host musical organization to honor the visit ing athletes by playing their school song. Such was not the case Satur day. This oversight or omission would seem to indicate poor pro gramming and poor public rela tions on the part of the Oregon band. Bob Thalhofer A Simple Way to Save a Million Amendment 302, 303 Probably closer to the University than any other measure on the ballot this fall is the proposed constitutional amendment whic wou lend state tax credit for higher education buildings. It’s numbered 302—Yes and 303 No. The Measure Would: Enable the State Board of Higher Education to redeem and refund revenue bonds which now finance the higher education buildings in Oregon. Allow the board then to issue general obligation bonds backed by the full faith and credit of the state. Buildings such as Carson Hall, and the Student Union, which are self-liquidating and self-supporting, are now financed by revenue bonds. These command a higher rate of interest than do genera o ligation bonds backed by the state. The difference in interest rates makes the saving. Proponents Say: Interest savings of more than a million dollars can Additional taxation is not proposed. The proposal includes only self-financing projects. be realized. ^What if the projects on these campuses should default on their bonds and the charges would go back to the tax-payer’s pocket: The Emerald Says: 302_Yes. To the one objection—the State Board of Higher Education has never failed to meet its bond requirements in the last quarter of a century. A simple change of bonds—with no additional taxation will mean a million dollars to the people of Oregon. Only lack of understanding of this amendment will prevent its passage. You might tell those voting friends and folks that a 302 Yes vote will remedy the present situation which is like buying a horse for $100 when the trader will settle for $50. —Magazine Rack ^ - If You Want Tradition Get a Publicity Agent By Marge Scandling TIME this week tells how com mittee at Boston University de cided traditional trophy would add spirit to B.U.’s annual Syra cuse game ... so B.U. publicity man found a 100-pound bean pot in a local pottery, took it down to the river bank and spilled some mud on it . . . and fed Boston newspapers story Of “gigantic bean pot found on river bank . . . definitely .authentic ... 50 years old” ... next step was to say that Syracuse U. claimed it, and story was set . . . teams will play for the bean pot... at least the pub licity man tipped off local editors it was just a hoax . . . says he doesn’t care who knows it — yes, a tradition has to get started sbm,ehow. Pro football isn’t football at all, claims COLLIER’S article this week, and the many they’re quot ing is Army Coach Earl Blaik v/ho says it doesn’t have what col lege football has, namely “youth, condition, spirit, and continuous • hard work by coaches and play ers” . . .asked what’s wrong with pro football, he says “Nothing ,.. it’s what it aims to be—a show. The pro’s are in the entertain ment business.” * * * NEWSWEEK has pianist Ar tur Rubinstein telling one on him self ... a little boy approached him between plane flights in Ari zona and asked for his autograph ... finally admitted to Rubinstein he didn’t know who he was, but thought he was a celebrity be cause he “looked funny.” * * * Winston Churchill remarked in .. 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