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IVe Want the Facts Abont Korea
What’s the true story about Korea? Are you and I being
tolcl the tacts—or are the facts being colored?
We wonder about such things as—
The charges recently levelled by Columnist Drew Pearson
against General MacArthur concerning false estimates of Red
Chinese manpower in Korea.
We wonder even more about the lack of a denial. On the
contrary—the Army has indirectly confirmed it.
MacArthur, it seems, estimated that there were more than
1,000,000 Chinese in Korea on Dec. 4.
That’s what the public was told, too. At that time the "home
iby Christmas” pronouncement was quickly withdrawn.
But Pearson claims that “if intelligence is correct, Chinese
manpower in Korea was only 285,000 (altogether, including
reserves) plus 150,000 North Koreans.” He claims the infor
mation comes from secret messages sent from Tokyo to Wash
ington.
lias anyone attempted to prove Pearson wrong?
On the contrary—
The army in Washington, according to a report four days
ago, announced that Pearson was quoting from secret mes
sages with authorization when he cited intelligence reports
contradicting MacArthur’s estimate.
Thus, by direct implication, the army concedes that Pearson
did obtain his information from valid seciet intelligence le
ports.
We are not concerned whether Pearson did so without au
thorization, though we wonder whether this whole affair has
. anything to do with the recent strict censorship of news re
cently clamped on by the Eighth Army in Korea.
The report is substantially true—or at least all present evi
•dence points in that direction.
If ft is—then why aren’t you and I being told? Why were
the true facts concealed in this country? Pearson says they
are not being concealed in the European press.
If the doughboys and the rest of the U. N. in Korea are
getting a solid thrashing even though they are NOT vastly
outnumbered as reported—then we want to know it.
Yes_we want to know the true story of the Korean catas
•trnnhp.
And we want to know why.—T.K.
The Man Behind the Lectures
The Condon lectures are for those of us who know Thomas
•Condon only as the man after whom Condon Hall, the Condon
•Oaks, and the Condon lectures are named.
And for those who don’t even know that much about Con
don.
Dr. Condon was an early Oregon geologist, who first made
■considerable geological research into the h.astei n Oregon
•country. This research, as is much other research, was paid
for by the layman—and the State Board of Higher Education
felt that the results of research should be made known to the
man who pays for it.
So, once every year, the State Board presents a lecturer,
usually a well-known expert in a particular field, who reports
•on scientific research in such a manner and in such language
that we, who have never been fascinated by the scientists of
Deady and McClure, can understand scientific research.
The lecturer talks at OSC, at the University, and in Portland
—all expenses handled by the State Board.
This year the Condon lecturer is Dr. Perry Byerly. He'll be
in the Student Union to talk Jan. .10 and Feb. 1 on Pacific Coast
earthquakes.—D.S.
THE DAILY
goes today to J. Van Dyke, Medford attorney, who has
been appointed to the State Board of Higher Education
by the Oregon Senate. He was speaker of the House of
Representatives several years ago.
Colleges From Coast to Coast
War Conditions Result in Failing Grades
While University Of Oregon
students are finally forgetting
about fall term grades, the Uni
versity of Oklahoma reports that
uncertain conditions in the world
have resulted in poor morale and
low grades on that campus.
Forty-six per cent of the stu
dents came through with grades
of "D” or “F” for the mid-semes
ter. Even the girls are jittery, de
clared the university’s counselor
of women.
Withdrawals to join the armed
forces have numbered 86 from
the beginning of fall quarter to
Dec. 1. In an attempt to stem the
tide, the dean of admissions and
records argued that the army
wants college-trained men.
The student attitude on this
subject can be summed up by the
remark Of a graduating senior:
“It took me 22 years to grow this
blood. I don’t want to lose it in
one hour in Korea.”
Sharing the news with Korea
at West Virginia University is a
controversy over majorettes at
basketball games. The AWS has
squelched a plan to have a ma
jorette appear during halftime,
saying “these appearances would
not be m accordance with stand
ards which have always been
maintained! by University wo
men.”
Women at Phillips University,
Enid, Okla., found themselves in
a hot situation last week. Eager
to try out the swimming pool
after the installation of a new
boiler, the girls dived in and came
up screaming. The temperature
had been set at 110 degrees by
mistake.
Higher education is in hot
water at Appalachian State Tea
chers College. The Appalachian
student newspaper, has declared,
“The school system in the Unit
ed States is a mass production
assembly line for gridiron greats
and cross-country runners, seven
foot high basketballers', swim
mers, wrestlers, and baseball
stars.”
And the Hawk, newspaper of
Rockhurst College, Kansas City,
complained recently that “one of
the most disheartening features
of college life today is the steady
decline in the study of Greek and
Latin classics . . . genuine cul
ture is in danger of disappearing
completely from the American
scene.”
Sky’s The Limit
A Belief to Bridge
The Gap in Our Faith
By Sam Fidman
Tons of paper and oceans of
ink have been expended, espe
cially within the last year, in an
effort to explain to Americans
just what it is that is missing in
our ideological engine.
There have been scores of an
swers, approaching what seems
to be the problem, from almost
every conceivable angle. But
none of them has gone far enough
to satisfy the gap in American
faith.
For example, there is the ap
peal that claims what America
needs is a return to religion. Well,
it doesn’t seem, if religion is wha’t
religion is supposed to be, that
millions can turn to it for what
they need simply by saying “I'm
going to be religious.” That
would be likened to a New Year’s
resolution.
Religion implies a spiritual
reaction; that is something you
must feel within, in order to re
act physically. And, it would seem
that the religious system has
failed to keep abreast of the
times. The best evidence of that
is the fact that many millions of
Americans pay no more than lip
service to religion, and religion is
not going to get those millions
back into the spiritual fold mere
ly by beckoning with a come
hither motion.
The real trouble, the basic
cause of our ideological frustra
tion is caused by the seeming
successes; of communism, tjiat
scavanger that feeds itself on the
shortcomings of democracy. The
appeal of communism is greatly
enhanced by the fact that it of
fers to the masses an embodi
ment of all the things that de
mocracy for one reason or an
other, has left to stagnate in the
trash can.
If American faith in American
ideals is so weak as to falter in
the face of military reverses a
time when the strength of ideals
should come to the foreground,
then what is needed is a renais
sance of belief in ourselves.
A powerful light that tries to
diffuse its rays over a vast area
loses its brilliance. If that light
glows unfalteringly in a dark
world, the people in the darkness
will see it, and come to it for
warmth and escape from the
darkness.
Then, we need to bolster our
system where it is weak, and we
will not have to “sell democracy’’
with a prayer that its failings on
the American scene are not de
tected. We need confidence in our
product; but then, among other
things, tolerance cannot be
taught in the classroom.
From Congressman Velde (K.,
111.) have come charges that the
University of Chicago is a “hot
bed of communism.”
Communist propaganda, he
said, is being issued from that
university and distributed to
other schools such as Northwest
ern and Illionois.
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Charles L. Diener
The Second Cup
Do not be too moral. You may
cheat yourself out of much of
life so. Aim above morality. Be
not simply good; be good for
something—Thoreau.
The memory of the recent ar
rival of the new . year coupled
with the reopening of the near
campus drinkeries calls for a
few choice comments on the art
and evil of drinking:
Drink today, and drown all
sorrows; You shall perhaps not
do it tomorrow—John Fletcher.
Water is the only drink for
a wise man—Thoreau.
It Could Be Oregon •
—■ I in ■ . T THiTTtfrfBgirii'B¥*V
“Did I get an ‘A* oiita this course ?—Did I get a ‘B’ ?_a ‘C’ ?_A ‘D’ ?
•Flunked it huh.”