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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1951)
THF ORFC.ON DAILY EMERALD is published Monday through Friday during the coH«e rear except Oct 29; Nov 22, 23, 2b; Dec. 5 through Tan. 3 ; Mar. 4 through April 1 : and after Mav 29; with issues on Nov. 24 and May 10. by the Associated IStudents ofthe University of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugt t, K Subscription rates: $5 per school year. $2 per term. Lorna Larson, Editor Abbott I’aink, Business Manager Phil Bettens, Managing Editor Guktchin GronPAUL, Hill Clothik*. Associate Editors Gretchem Grf.ee, Advertising Manager News Editor: Larry Hobart Assistant Managing Editor: Bill r rye Sports Editor: l’hil Johnson .Mgnt rumor; oarau i uuum.i Ass*t. News- Editors; A1 Karr, Eraser, Bob Ford. Kathleen How About a Solution? In case you haven’t noticed we re paying through the nose ■again. All living organizations are blessed with nice, new, shiny pay phones, and the best that can be hoped fs that the toll remains at five cents a talk instead of going higher. But before anyone calls down the wrath of God on the niversity administration, we want to point out that the univer sity opposed such a move and did everything possible to pre vent this new wrinkle in the higher cost of living. As a matter of fact the blame cannot even be put entirely on the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. Maybe you can blame the Oregon Legislature. At any rate the move is in line with a ruling of the Public Utilities Commission in Ore gon which requires pay phones in any public building where thei probabl users number more than a half dozen per instru ment. They call this the telephone tariff. Two years ago the telephone company notified the univer sity that pay phones were bound to come just as soon as the necessary equipment could be found. And now they ve found it. Louis Eade, manager of the PT&T company, says pay phones have been installed in all other campus living organia tions throughouzt the state. Oregon State College has had pay phones in the dormitories for two years. Each of the university buildings will have a business phone which is reserved for the exclusive use of university emploes or other key personnel for calls connected with their work. Each fraternity, for example, will have a business phone con nected with the campus exchange which will be available only for the house manager. In that light, we wonder if each dormitory will have a business phone for the use of the resident assistants and spon sors. Perhaps the university has plans for working out this problem with the telephone company. If not, the sponsors, interdormitory council, and interfraternity council should pool their influence and see if some sort of solution can be worked out. It’s bad enough to pay for your own phone calls. It’s downright undemocratic when you have to pay for a call made in the interest of another person.—B. C. = So THIS Is Oregon Aihlefes' Intellect, Phi Thetas' 'Atmosphere' Questionable ■Sy Jim Haycox; W. F. G. Thacher, once a fine teacher of short story on this campus, now retired, told this one more than once. Big time athlete faces a chem istry final which he must pass to play the big game and, to the surprise of all, does just that. His teacher was asked to ex plain the phenomena and replies: “I asked him two questions. What color is blue litmus paper and what is H20.- As you know,” the learned gentleman contin ued, “I only require 50 percent as a passing grade.” “The first answer was blue,” -Teplied the professor in answer to a fellow professor’s query. “As you knew, I only require 50 percent of the answers correct so he passed.” The fellow prof., having heard that somewhere before, contin ued. What about the second an swer ? “Ink”, replied the first. * * * “At least,” said a friend of mine following the West Point shakeup, “At least we don t Have -an- honor code to worry about.” And we don t. Phi Theta's, members of the junior women’s honorary, receiv ed interesting orders during freshman week. They were told to be “atmosphere” for in coming freshmen. And just how does one go about this wearing a baggy, blue sweater with a conglomeration of greek letters tacked across one’s bosom ? Or do I have atmosphere mixed up with something else ? Haven't heard the official reason why fraternities and so rorities are now blessed with pay telephones. Anyway, may be a lot of gals will discover they’re not worth nickel to the old man now. There are supposed to be solu tions to the problem. The Ameri can penny, when inserted just so, reputedly has a brazenly honest sound to the operator. The Indian or Jefferson nickel, dangling on a thin piece of string of leader, and lowered a certain depth into the guts of this one-armed bandit with of ficial sanction, is also a free ticket. That's what they tell, me, anyway. —Internationally Speaking Intrigue Generated by Soldiers, City Residents Impressive at Recent Japanese Peace Conference ___ — By Pat Dignan ~ Most of us are familiar with the outcome of the recent Japa nese Peace Conference. But there are few who are aware of the intrigue and suspense that was generated in San Francisco before the opening session. We were drawn to San Fran cisco in the hope of seeing a great exhibition of diplomatic skill. We left impressed with the proceedings. We were also impressed with the happenings and the feelings of the people in the city. These are often overlooked when speaking of the conference. Plans for a quick conference and equally sudden signing seemed doubtful before the con ference began. Many of the people in San Francisco believ ed Umt the arrival of the Rus slan Delegation meant sure de lay. They resented the Soviet In trusion and openly showed It. In the exclusive Hillsborough district, where the Russians hud rented a mansion, people gathered in lurge numbers. The local residents were up In air over the presence of the Rus sians. No Incident occurred, however, and the police were out in force to prevent any trouble from the "onlookers." Still in another section of the city other signs of hostility were present. While we were view ing the War Memorial Opera House, the site of the confer ence, the Japunese Delegation arrived. Mingling about were —A Day at ihe Zoo— Dr. JekylTs Mr. Hyde Returns, Pens Tragic Farewell to Bird By Bob Funk . ~ Here beginneth the third year of our being served at breakfast in lieu of a tablecloth. Why we continue to write this ridiculous column is some thing that is nobody's business but our own. Possibly Mr. Freud could ex plain it if he were here. At first we hoped to rise above this col umn. There are a number of oth er aspects of our life, such as cheeseburger-eating, which are more important and dignified than writing a column. Howev er, the wages of writing for the Emerald is being introduced by fraternity brothers as "that -er person that writes that column.” This is unfair. Here we are quietly pursuing our lives as Dr. Jekyll and then being introduc ed as Mr. Hyde. We even tried to find shelter in the lee of a pronoun refer ring to ourself as we instead of I, in this way confusing the reading public. Nevertheless, at the last count there is still only one of us, smiling a sac charine, ink-smear smile out from under the toast crumbs and syrup on various disenchant ed morning. Actually (we feel a tide of sentimentality sweeping heavily over us) our journalistic career on this campus began three years ago, when eve ryone was much younger and the ribbons on the Emerald typewriters were new. There is a big hole behind the SU where the Bird used to be. To us, that hole is tragedy. Fol lowing are ridiculous lines writ ten in a mood of pathetic dejec tion. Bird that occupied the coffee and doughnut thought of all of us, now you are gone; The place that you occupied being left to progress, history, nostalgia, and a new and unex citing portion of the University of Oregon lawn. It is perhaps an ill omen to those whose lives are still centered upon thing archaic and gastron omic That you shold not have been chosen to survive this age atom ic. Renedezvous of lovers, sorority freshmen escaping the scholar ship chairman, peripatetic girls from Carson and boys from Straub, Who, came and were for. a mo ment pathetically happy over their simple cup of coffee or first-of-the-month cheeseburger and never asked for squab; (NOTE: it is just a little diffi cult from time to time To find words thut ard logical and still fit the rime.) Haven for KOTC officers and their students, the latter fre quently watering down after six pages of multiple choice (A,B,C, or none of these) had been done — Wondering whether it is the hoozis or the thingus that you take off first when dismantling a gun. Bird that was the Falcon, but could have been the Pelican or the Trumpeter Swan or the Do do (an extinct herd) And still have been called by the run-of-the-mill, overwhelm ing majority of us by that somewhat cryptic, if undisting uished title, the Bird. It was Fate, and the advent of the Erb Memorial Student Union that dictated that this lore-ridden beanery Should be so untimely ripped from off the campus scenery. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, ye that are coffee-bound ye know full well; It's hail to thee, blytlie spirit, Bird that wert: Hail and Fare well. many soldier* who shown! their dislike of the "Imperial Japanese Delegation,” In the words of one of them. It wan evident that many would not he quick to forget the recent World War. It was In teresting to note this iiecnuse at that time It was generally felt that Itussla would capital ize on such a feeling at the con ference. Several countries had already showed their dissatis faction with the "easy” terms of the treaty. The streets of Sun Francisco seemed barren for a Labor Day holiday and a peace conference. There were many MP’I and HP's on the streets, but few other military personnel. Upon in quiry, it was learned that sol dicis of the Presidio, Sixth Ar my headquarters, were restrict ed to base. We believe the purpose of this was to keep the soldiers out of contact with communist sym pathizers. The pro-communist element in other American ci ties had managed to start riots to discredit groups. If they could have done this in San Francisco, then the theme of the conference, "peace," when at tacked by the Soviet Delegation, would have lost Its effect. We received information that banners were being displayed near the Presidio entrance. Such signs as "Do not sign the Treaty" were carried. Was this an effort to stir up trouble with the soldiers? Or was this the famed communist propaganda machine in operation? Whatever the purpose »r tile nIpn-carryinK. one thing ««' certain. It hail Its effect. It helpeil create mi ulr of Intrigue and It added to the fooling of HpecuUttlon In regard to the Rus sians and their strategy. The “San Francisco News" In an editorial of Sept 3, Intimated that Russia held many of the strings that would decide the conference. Your writer doubl ed at the time whether they held any strings. We know now they didn’t. The United States and Great Britain were prepared to upset anything the Soviet Union of fered. They solidified their al lies through pre - conft rent e pacts. As added insurance they drew up rules of procedure that made it impossible for the Russians to u • the .r famed “Stall." We proved that we were pre pared to match the Soviet ma chinations with peace-loving settlement. ; B-2<? «:,|I P,y,, _ I • 4‘| v>>isli . ,