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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1951)
Daily EMERALD The Orbgom Daily Emkialo published Monday through Friday during the college year except Oct. 30: Dec. 5 through Jan. 3: Mar 6 through 28; May 7; Nov. 22 through 27, and after May 24, with isues on Nov. 4 antf May 12, by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the poslofhce, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per school year; $2 per term Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the writer and do not represent the 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 Martel Sceoggin, Business Manager LoaNA Lakaon, Managing Editor Tom King, Kin Metzlkr. Jackie Pkitzkn, Associate Editors Shirley Hillard, Advertising Manager News Editor: Gretchen Groncffchl Sports Editor: John Barton Wire Editor: Al Karr Feature Editor: Bob Ford Asst. News Editors: Marjorie Bush, Bill Frye# Larry Hobart. Asst. Managing Editors: Norman Anderson, Phil Bettens, Gene Rose. Promotion: Barbara Williams. Sports Editor: Phil Johnson Night Editor: Sarah Turnbull. CiroulaUou Manager: Jean Lovell. t Zone Managers: Fran Neel, Harriet > ahej Denise Thuiu. \’al Schultz, Sally Xhurstor Gretchen Grefe, Edith Hading. Layout Manager: Keith Reynolds. National Adv. Mgr.: Bonnie Birkemeier. After a Slight Pause... KWAX This is the one the campus has been waiting for. Days, weeks, and months that stretched into two years have passed by. Swept away now are the complications, frustrations, and obstacles. In their stead comes the birth of the voice of the Uni versity, KWAX. It’s been a long time in coming—so long that the tardiness of the thing began to develop into a standard campus gag. But today—at 7:30 p.m.—KWAX (alias KDUK) goes into operation—and a basketful of congratulations to Glenn Star lin, assistant professor in radio, station manager Jack \ aughn, the students who generously contributed breakage fees to fi nance it, and other responsibles. Thus—KWAX has arrived. Now consider—what has the University got. First of all: it has another medium for reaching the student body. In this, it joins the Daily Emerald—which extends a per sonal welcome to its blood relative in communications. Time was when radio and the newspaper were considered competitors in the most competitive sense of the term. That antiquated viewpoint has been turned around. The radio and the newspaper today are supplementary. 1 he one has actually created interest in the other—resulting in a more conscious awareness on the part of their audiences as to what constitutes .the news, the trends, and the information, knowledge, and opinions of the present times. KWAX logically should have a similar effect—the develop ment of a more extensive and intensive interest on the part of the students as to what is happening on the campus. Second: KWAX means expansion and fuller scope for the speech department and all those who are concerned with any phase of radio. The practical experience value of KWAX should be invalu able. Third: KWAX means a branching out on the part of the University itself. In keeping with the present expansion pro gram, the University last fall saw a Student Union rise up on 13th and University—a library annex completed—and now comes radio. There will be many criticisms—especially considering the fact that KWAX wilt operate on FM. Some of those who would like to listen will not find reception on their receivers. Still—half a loaf is better than nothing at all.—T.K. May J Have This Dance IF... A class in ballroom dancing has been a long-standing need on the campus and at last one is being planned and will go into operation soon IF . . . If the Student Union recreation and dance committees can find a suitable instructor. If a suitable time can be found. At present committee mem bers are considering Wednesday night just before the square dancing class. If enough persons are interested. Present indications are that there will probably be enough men interested enough to enroll but the supply of women is another problem. Solutions offered by members of the committee include enrolling by. „ couples, or obtaining a supply of good dancers from the wo ment’s houses. Eliminate the if’s and students will find an opportunity to learn some of the dances they may know and to polish up on some of their weak steps. It would be a desirable thing and it can be done—if—K.M.____ I THE DAILY ftf... to Rebec House which received the Women’s Recreation Association participation cup for activities during the past year, and to those sportsmen of the faculty, the Fly ing Saucers, for winning their bowling league champion ship. «— IMaf$n/Jno Itnrk Senate Antics, Alcohol, Bribery Revealed by Neuberger Article _ . Marge Scandllng-- ■ ■ Everything from legislative bribery to the alcoholic intake of Oregon's senators and represen tatives is revealed in Richard L,. Neuberger's “Confessions of a State Senator” in this month's TOMORROW magazine. The sen ator characterizes the Oregon legislature as "friendly, cautious, well-meaning, slow-moving, pre ponderantly honest, and deplora bly uninformed on many basic issues.” He states the position of his wife, Mauri ne, a member of the House of KeMresentatives, and himself as two of 18 Demoerats among 72 Republicans, despite the fact that Oregon has more registered Democratic voters than Republicans. The cause is district zoning which favors rural and small town representa tion, which according to Neuber ger, are “generally citadels of Republican voting strength.” * * * As to the pay Oregon legisla tors get, he says that the $600 paid annually barely takes care of 50 per cent of essential ex penses during four months resi dence in Salem, to say nothing of the time lost from one’s busi ness. Some states are far worse off. with Utah legislators getting only $300 a year. ttf>: H atth By M Funk This is that extremely improb able time of year when initiations, house dances,TDuck Preview, All Campus Vodvil, Junior Weekend, and maybe some other things all occur. No one will ever understand how these things are able to take place within such a short space of time. It might be a good idea to use the same theme for your house dance, vodvil act, campus sing number, and Junior Week end Float. If the law of averages is still working, the theme ought to be a winner at least once. It is always a thing of great wonder that between these grand and springlike events, classes are held. Classes spring term are likely to be somewhat different from those held during the rest of the year. Present in the spring-term class-room are members of the window-peering cult. These per sons fix their eyes upon sun bathed objects outside of the classroom, such as the cement elevator on the new science build ing, the far away hills, or the Side, Members of this group are likely to reply, when asked about the Byzantine Empire that they pre fer carbonated water in their fresh limeade. A frequent visitor to the spring term classroom Is the drone bee, which hovers about various nerv ous persons, evidently trying to make up Its mind whether to land or push on to a greener pas ture. It must be said in conclusion that spring affects Emerald col umnists in an extremely drastic way. Columns are likely to be shorter than usual, which is a great boon to typesetters, column readers, and the world of litera ture and literary attempts. Neuberger (lr»crlbeK the |»«*r sonnel of the Oregon Senate an "about equally divided between the young eager-heaver* who feel they are on the threshold of glory and the old, tired political war horse* who have never quite at tained it.” The old-timers tie describes as considerably more humane and bearable. The bulk of the legisla tors are financially honest, he says. The chief suspicion of a member comes when he puts in a bill which has a high nuisance ef fect on a certain industry, as a bill which would require all trains to pass through townships at a five-mile an hour creep. The im plications is thut if the sponsor has never before been interested in such matters, he may be will ing to kill his own bill, for the proper inducement. Neuberger attributes the large ly honest reputation to the fart that most of Oregon’s senators and representatives are from farms and small towns where charges of corruption would really he damaging, whereas In a big rity they might la* lost hi the shuffle. • • * Many of the legislators, and es pecially those from Oregon's wide open spaces, frankly come to the state capital for a good time, Neuberger asserts. • • • Hostility la-tween the rity of Salem and the legislature is men tioned . . . Neuberger tells of Marion County’s refusal to carry the vote to raise legislative pay to even $600 last November, al though the vote carried in the state at large. In addition he blasts the state capital as “one of the most ineffi ciently operated communities in Oregon," giving as an example the hardy perennial complaint that “the main line of a transcon tinental railway” goes past the State Supreme Court Building, causing the justices to stop their deliberations every time a train goes by. * * * Oregon's legislature has de liberately been kept weak and lrreaposlble, according to the senator. He pointa out the dis crepancy in having the authority to approve expenditure of nearly 350 million dollura from Oregon cltirens biennially, but not hav ing commltteea with authority to take testimony under oath. On such unrecorded testimony the legislature levies taxes, fixes prnal Hentences, and sets educa tional stundarda ... it meekly accepts for confirmation the gov ernor's appointees, without in vestigating them independently. • • * Much of Neuberger’a article Is devoted to recommending a noe Imusc legislature. A lower cham ber baaed on population and a Senate bused on urea were origi nally needed to lure the amaller colonies Into the Federal oniony he says, but this no longer ap plies to the states, and lie sees no reason for every bill to Is- passed twice. He calls the average legisla ture a three-ring circus compris ed of House, Senate, and confer ence committee, and quotes po litical editor of the Oregon Jour nal as saying it's nearly impossi ble to cover all three thoroughly. A lust recommendation he makes is for nonpartisan election of legislators, since party affilia tions are allied with international affairs und often have little con nection with the business of the state. The Second Cup Speaking of ugly men . . . • * * Better an ugly face than an ugly mind. Kills. • • * Absolute aud entire ugliness is rare. Kuakin. Nobody’s sweetheart is ugly'. Yadr. * » * All that glitLers is not gold. Cervantes. * * * By outward show let's not be cheated. An ass should like an ass be treated. <«ay. It Could Be Oregon n “Come on—come on—It’s 5 minutes to 8—There’s no excuse to he late with those pajamas." : W * * i S 1