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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1951)
Dail* EMERALD The OaacnN Daily Ekiiau published Monday through Friday during the college year eatcept Oct. 30; Dec. 5 through Jan. 3: Mar 6 through 28; May 7; Nov. 2*. through 27; and after May 24. with isues on Nov. 4 and May 12, by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon Entered as second class nutter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates; $5 per school year; $2 per term. Better Pay for BetterjEducators Five men are now considering the future of higher educa tion in Oregon. They are state senators and representatives who make up the joint ways and means sub-committee on higher education. And they are discussing an 18 percent increase in professional staff salaries in Oregon's colleges and universities. If these five legislators expect Oregon to hold top quality professors, they will come out of committee with a report fa vorable to the increase. If they will share our shame of the de plorable economic bracket in which America’s professor has been buried, they will say “yes—an 18 percent increase.” Close to the bottom of that economic bracket is the Univer sity of Oregon. Note these comparisons: Pacific Coast Colleges Institution X Y Middle West A B C U. of Oregon Professor $8,150 7,510 Associate $5,930 5,674 Assistant $4,760 4.629 Instructor $4,000 3,858 7.840 7,623 7.619 6.393 4.764 4,766 4,466 4.169 3,618 3.728 3.258 3.223 5.732 5,748 5.645 5,137 The Pacific Coast is 25 percent above Oregon at the profes sorial rank, and the Big Ten is 20 percent higher than the OSC-UO average. You’ll notice that the greatest difference is at the professorial rank. It is the opportunity for economic advancement which hires good men and holds them. State Board of Higher Education members considered this when they prepared the budget in May. They proposed an eight percent increase. That was before the price rise prompted by Korea. In Governor McKay’s budget message to the legislature, he slashed higher education requests to the bone, but he left in that eight percent. Then a short time ago a committee of pro fessors from state colleges went to the State Board, and asked for a 20 percent increase instead of the eight. The Board settled for 18. That was proposed to the legisla ture by Chancellor Byrne last week. Tomorrow, wage raise requests from all departments will be considered. Undoubted ly, higher education will be among them. If the 18 percent goes through, it will cost the state $979,980 per year. The legislature must be stingy this session because of the veterans’ bonus and basic school measures passed by the voters in November. These measures will virtually drain the state’s coffers. However, $979,980 isn’t much of a dent when the returns are considered These are all considerations resting with the five-man sub committee. Incidentally, in case you’re interested in writing to your legislator, these five are Senator Carl Engdahl, chairman, Senator Dean Walker, Senator Angus Gibson, Representative Roy Houck, and Representative Rudy Wilhelm. Senator Howard Belton and Representative Henry Semon are ex-officio members of the committee. We hope all these men will strongly favor giving Oregon professors a raise, thus maintaining these state institutions as more than stopping places for outstanding educators. = IOO CENTS' = 56 CE.NTS PROFESSOR'S PURCHASING POWER Although professors’ salaries have been adjusted upward In the last decade, in terms of purchasing power present salaries buy 18 per cent fewer goods than in 1940, even before income taxes (which are now greater proportionately) are deducted. The consumers’ price in dex for Portland has risen from 174.8 pre-Korea to 192 in February, 1951, an increase of 10 percent. Rumblings from Up North Beaver Answers Columnist's Blast at SU Oregon State Barometer is the newspaper. Winter ia the term. Picayunish would have been the Emerald if it had answered the following column. So we didn't. A Beaver answered instead. The letter following the col umn was printed, Jan. 31. Entitled "Oregon Student Un ion Cost Seen Impressive”, this article was written by Jim Clab by, popular Baro columnist. In part, Clabby said: "After getting a pretty fair peek at ttie mammoth, new Erb Union In Eugene, I cannot any that I came home impressed by much bet ide- the cost—u cool $2 million . . . "At the present time, this mas sive heap of adobe brick swims in a sea of mud. The Webfooted in habitants down at the Southern branch claim that this will be remedied soon. "My first impulse, after stroll ing np the winding concrete side walk, through the pUte-gtass doors and into the spacious lobby of Erb SI', was to msk for a time table ami tin* schedule of busses leaving for Lain Angeles . . . "The pueblo has three of four floors ... I understand they e.ven serve beer In some of Erb’s upper or lower reaches, although I did not see this fabled place. "Everything is In confusion, however. The new union I abiding —opened nbout three months agt>—has not yet berm organized. There is none of that machine like precision, with which we ure so familiar, In Erb SV. Of course, the folks down south are out to remedy thnt, too. I noted a copy of the Emerald (a newspaper) which told of some 69 committee vacancies at the SU, and for a moment I thought I was back home . . .” * * * And here is the letter which followed the column, both printed, let. us repeat, In the Barometer: A HAM) FOR O REASON “It doesn’t seem probaldc that Mr. flabby and I visited the same Student I'ninn building in Eu gene. Though I presume he is try ing to be clever in his liaro arliele Re: Hash Catfish Editor Probes Night Crawler Scandal i... By Bob Funk = ~'M Item from Wednesday's Reg ister-Guard : “SALEM — — a bill to permit catfishing at night was passed by the senate Wed nesday and sent to the house.’’ Before this subject is roped and thrown by other editorial writers less circumspect than we, we would like to express our own heartfelt opinions on this Crisis. To begin with, any political ob server at Salem will tell you that this bill would never have passed had it not been for the pressure from the night-crawler-indus try’s lobby. It is a well known fact that one of the leaders of the night-crawler industry, a junior at Eugene High School, paid a crew of 20 suave lobbyists to push the bill. Countless unidentified senators were bought outright, some at ridiculously low prices. We also feel sincere regret (with a hrrmph and a ho and a toh, teh, tch) that the rider pro hibiting live bait was defeated. Another example of the slimy carryings-on of the night crawler people. The fact that the State has handled the Catfish Question in such a slipshop, plip-plop manner is cause enough for great con cern and caterwauling around. Just as the national government (those old meanies) threatens to help the South solve its race problem by direct intervention so the government may deal with the Catfish Question. Let us solve this problem ourselves and keep the Democrats out of Oregon. KEEP OREGON GREEN AND BACKWARD! WILLIAM HOW ARD TAFT FOREVER! We do understand that a small group of liberals (not nasty, free thought liberals, but a nice group comprised of mothers, civics tea chers, and village idiots from vil lages under 450 population) is THE DAILY *]?'... :o William L. Minehart, U.O. journalism school graduate, who refused to bow to armed :orees censorship and resign ed his radio broadcasting po sition in Berlin to protest the eensorship. preparing a test case to be taken before the state Supreme Court. Any durn fool known that night in the time for ratfish to turn homeward, spend a quiet evening eddying around some stagnant pool with the old lady and the fry, and ehew on some mud. Why the Oregon legislature must In terrupt this commendable domes ticity Is beyond us. A past president of the Asso ciation for the Preservation of the Homelife of Catfish in the Evening and on into the Night once said at a national conclave in Akron: “When a ratfish with open eyes accepts a hook by the glare of noon, that's sport but when a hook and a catfish meet at night, it is merely a collision.” of •l&miary HI, which fuel I can appreciate, I can’t (overlook I ho attitude Ids letter reflect* as this attitude is so basic here at Ore gon State. School spirit Is, of course, a wonderful thing, and I am highly in favor of showing It at the proper time, but let's keep it on un intelligent plane and give credit where It Is ho obviously due. When school spirit goes that far It resolves into simple jealousy. "Was he trying to be funny when he mentioned the muddy grounds? If he hUH been to the coliseum on a rainy day he had only to plank down his feet, big or small, off the sldcwulk for a couple stepH to become thorough ly aware of good old Oregon mud which is so prevalent after a rain storm . . . "If the spacious lobby reminds him of the t’nlon Station It may be that he has no comprehen sion of the needs of the progres sive institution, whleh is, though many of us hate to admit, nearly as large us OKt’. f "I am sorry he didn't spend more time enjoying the game room facilities. Perhaps he was in too great a hurry trying to check on the rumor concerning beer sales in the depths. Personally I stopped in for a quick game of ping-pong (yeh I lost i and sort of enjoyed myself. As I left it occurred to me how many years they have spent without any stu dent union, or similar facilities, and I can honestly say that I am glad they now have a building which they can be proud of, for probably, many generations of future students unless they ell come to OUC." David L. More. The Second Cup More contradictory proverbs depending on how you feel at the moment: If there's a will, there's a way —Don't butt your head against a stone wall. Destiny shapes our ends. I am the master of my fate. Two can live cheaper than one. When a man marries his troubles begin. It Could Be Oregon • \ * *T- ' ■-jrAS’jm’ ' l “Worthal, it appears to me that if you have today’s outside assignment ready—you copied it.”