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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1951)
Oregon Daily ERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald is published Monday through Friday during the college year, except examination and holiday periods, with issues on Homecoming Saturday and Junior Weekend Saturday by the Associated Students of the University ot Oregon. Enteral as sec* ond class matter at the post ofF.cc, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: per school^year, per term. Opinions expressed on the editorifl page mix those of the writer mod .da not pretend to represent the opinions of the ASUO or of the Umrerxtty. Initialed cditorimls mre written hr the associate editors. Unsigned editorials a*": written by the editor.______ Lorn a Larson, Editor Abrott Paine, Business Manager Puil Bette ns. Managing Editor Gretchen Grondahl, Bill Clothier, Don Dewey, Associate Editors Gretchen Grefe, Advertising Manager News Editor: Larry Hobart Assistant Managing Editor: Bill Frye Night Editor: Sarah Turnbull Sports Editor : Bill Gurney Ass’t Sports Editor: Larry Lavelle Ass*t News Editors: Kathleen Fraser, Fhil Johnson, A1 Karr Makeup Editors: Tudy McLoughlin, A1 Karr, Feature Editor: \\ ard Lindbeck Women’s Page Editor, Gladys Sergcnt Wire Editor: Tom Jaciues Day Managers: Carolyn Silva, Carolee Tate, Mary Waddell, Sally Thurston, Irene ltullard Advertising Salesmen: Merle Davis, Janet Petersen, Marcia Dutcher. Sue Mikkel* sen. I)eni>e Thum. Ward Cook, Sally Haseltiue, Barbara Keller Football... Big Business? Is big-time football a big business? The first vote on this controversial question was recorded last week, and the fair name of King Football was more than somewhat sullied in the process. College football is a big business and the players are em ployees" of their schools—at least that's the way it is in Col orado. Coaches, alumni and college officials across the country were given a shock by this recent ruling of a referee for the Colorado Industrial commission. The referee ordered Denver University and its insurance company to pay a player $11.87 weekly disability compensa tion from the time he received a spinal injury during spring practice. The gridder’s back pay will top the $800 mark since the compensation is retroactive to June 11. The matter is still open in Colorado. The insurance com pany announces its intention of appealing to the Colorado Industrial commission and to the district court if necessary. If the case is appealed through the upper courts it may be years before the sport is officially branded. No matter how wide-open the Colorado controversy is, this referee’s decision will have national implications. Dissatisfied collegiates the country over—at least the ones who read news papers—will recognize this as an opportunity for “squaring accounts’’ with the school which may have placed them among the unemployed when they failed to make the varsity. Oregon can pride itself on its freedom from the stigma of professionalism. (Pros just don’t go around losing 63-6 games; hot even to other professionals.) President Harry Newburn announces he expects the Pacific Coast conference to return soon to its once-high standards of amateurism. At one time an outstanding example of simon pure athletics, the coast conference has slipped far in recent years in its vain attempts at a Rose Bowl victory. Newburn said individuals arguing for close adherence to amateur standards are gaining more attention from conference officials and football fans up and down the coast. The time appears close at hand when coast football will be viewed in its proper perspective; it mustn't be de-emphasized, and yet it must not remain the prime consideration of college life, as it is in certain schools. Even the Portland Duck club is cooperating in this worthy drive away from professionalism. The organization s new motto is “Don’t Buy Athletes but Sell Oregon.” A conference wide poljcy along this line could help the Pacific Coast con ference avoid farcical and embarrassing situations such as that which occurred in Colorado. Are collegiate teams big business operations? At Denver they are, for now at least; at Oregon they aren't. Who's next? We'd Like to Make a Point ! Recently the Emerald ran a letter to the editor written by a person who wondered if the Red Cross blood drive was being paid for twice. This, in turn, caused others to wonder if the Emerald was guilty of bad taste in printing the letter at such a crucial time (the same day tfie blood drive opened on campus). What, we ask editorially, would have been a better time? We feel that everyone has a right to his own opinion and the chance to express it. That’s why we have a letter-to-the -editor section. Often we won’t agree with the letter writer. We’d also like to set a few people straight on another thing. We don’t think the people in charge of the Red Cross blood drives are getting rich from the proceeds. We don’t think they are making a red cent. We think they're doing a mighty fine thing. It requires time and effort to organize a blood collecting cam paign. It also costs the local Red Cross chapter a little cash to set up their collecting stations and provide doughnuts and apple juice for the people who want to help and aren’t afraid of a needle. After the blood is collected the Red Cross turns it over to the army. Then they’re through. We understand that the department of defense has provided a certain amount of money for the Red Cross to activate other blood collecting units in specific areas. What’s wrong with that? Could they allot it to a better organization for a better purpose? We’d say it was cheap at a dozen times the price—if anyone can figure out what the price would be. The only people making a profit in the Red Cross blood drive are the men in Korea. Figure it out. They get the blood. The Red Cross helps them get it. That’s ■what counts. JJ.C. • ■ .... -A ni ihv Zoo Cosh Register Know-How a Must When Ordering Food ot Union __By Bob Funk Approximately a year ago wo wrote a column about poor serv ice at the Student Union soda bar. It was a rather sarcastic column, and we wrote it with out consulting anyone at the muueni union. For the first mentioned dr awback, there is not much defense; in the second instan ce we felt that poor service is poor service, and that it is possible to write a column quite ethically condemning poor service, without necessarily asking why. Since we have a free and rep resentative press, the "why” had its day un the editorial page, too. It seemed that poor service was due to (I) low wages, (2) lack of help, (8) the fact that the union had just opened and it was diffi cult to achieve a smoothly func tioning organization so early. Again, without asking why be forehand, we are pointing out the extremely poor service at the so da bar. On the Ail... Cowboy Tunes.. Spice of Radio By Ann Moyes Dagmar may be the darling of the rest of the country, but it looks as if Oregonians will have to be content with Mary Margaret McBride and AM ra dio for the next three years. Television may have Cantor, Ber le, and Faye Emerson, but let’s take a squint at radio's current roster of stars. But don't sell radio short Take, for example, the Lone some Gal, who's fast becoming a national rage. Now here’s a kid with talent. We quote: “Hel lo, muffin, here's your gal. Re member, baby, no matter what anyone says, I love you more than anyone else in the whole world. By the way, angel, if you need a car why don't you go down to visit my friends at— etc” Lonesome Gal gets highbrow, too. She recites poetry to intro duce records. “I want to live in a house by the side of the road” would introduce “Comana My House”. We suspect Lonesome Gal is lonesomer than ever since her local sponsor dropped her re cently. She’ll undoubtedly be attempting to drive sane men back soon at her post at MBS, to suicide. Griping about the lack of va riety in music broadcasted over Eugene stations is again heard on campus. We think this is uncalled for and unfair. We find a huge vari iety in the selections. Why, they play happy cowboy songs, sad cowboy songs, fast cowboy songs, slow cowboy songs, soft cowboy songs, and loud cowboy songs. Besides, Western music is com ing into its own. “The Tennessee Waltz” did all right on the Hit Parade. It is probably only a matter of weeks before such classics as “I Told You I Loved You in Thirty-Two Bars, Now You Can Buy Your Own Beer, Dear” and “Since We Ain’t Spe akin’ My Eyes Cain't Keep From Leakin’” are among the top 10 tunas in America. Radio still does have a few re, maining highlights, however. Foremost is Groucho Marx. Quiz shows are usually painful, but “You Bet Your Life" (KGW, Tues., 9:00-9:30 P. M.) is the fastest moving 30 minutes in ra dio. Groucho must be bribing the network censor because his ad libs are. strictly murder!- • ■ The remnants of last year's crew (which turned out to be quite efficient) are still doing a good job over there. But they are working against tremendous odds the scarcity of help, and the poor quality of the new employ ees. After three week* «f school It seems reasonable that a soda bar attendant would be able to find where the milk Is kept without asking customers. That another attendant would be able to find out the price of a certain Item without haggling for five minutes with a customer, and fi nally disappearing Into the dep ths of the kitchen to ask the cook. (leaving 10 customer* drumming their fingers on the counter). It would seem that when there are 40 customers, and two per sons to wait on the 40, the tw'o persons would not stop in the midst of mixing confections to exchange private (although un doubtedly extremely witty) jok es. It is a new and ingenuous gen eration over behind the soda bar. They are w-aiting, perhaps, for Christmas, at which time Santa is going to give them a book en titled "How to Operate a Cash Register." Until that time the customer is not only always right - he is also going to have to di rect the entire operation himself. The following points should be kept well in mind by soda bar customers. (1) When ordering a drink, know what si aw and type of container it h* supposed to bo brewed in. You may be asked. (2) Count your rhange. They probably won't short you. but the HV Is continually shorted, and we would hate to have them go broke this year. (8) Order general things—such us “a Coke, or coffee, or a root beer.” You will get one of these, and by not pinning it down you will not hurt the lady’s feelings when she com es up 10 minutes later with the wrong thing. (4) By all means know how to operate the rush register. You WIL.I. be asked. As we mentioned earlier, we have not asked why. It is proba bly all part of a plan of some sort, or due to many extremely good reasons. There can be a mul titude of explanations. We, like the majority of SU patrons, do not know these explanations. We know one thing: the service is poor. Oui VuUom SpecJi.. Pakistan Leader's Death Sad Blow Ity M. S. Vciikuturumunl The news of the assassination of Llaquat All Khan, prime min ister at Pakistan, has been re ceived with profound grief hy In dian and Paklatant students at the University of Oregon. The death <>r l.la<|imt All Khun at this erltleal Juncture deprives I’aklstan of » wise tinil trusted administrator and u statesman of no inrun order. There is, perhaps, no parallel In history to the manner In which Pakistan came Into being A de termined Individual, who had nei ther battalions at his back nor millions in his pocket, succeeded in fashioning a homeland for a people by the sheer force of his outstanding personality and fer vent advocacy of the cause. In that achievement, Mohamed All Jinnah, the architect of Pakistan, was ably and loyally assisted by Llaquat All Khan. When Pakistan became an ac complished fact in 1947. Llaquat Ati Khan was the unanimous choice of the Muslim League for the Prime Ministership. The death of Jinnah In 1948 left Llaquat AH Khan as the chief leader and spokesman of ins country. Ltuquat \II Khun gave Pakis tan u strong nnd stable adminis tration. Ity his firmness and tart he kept the Muslim league us u united and disciplined politlral forre. In Mureh lust a plot to overthrow Ills government was discovered anti scotched. A num ber of high-ranking military of ficers, who were reported to have been Involved In the conspiracy, are now undergoing trial In the very city where Llaquat All Khan met with his end. The nmn who killed the Prim*’ Minister is slated to l>o a member of an extremist Muslim organiza tion which advocate's a holy war against India Had the assassin been a Hindu, a wave of anger would have swept over Pakistan and the consequence would have been to worsen further the al ready strained relations between the two neighboring countries. Mahatma fjundhl, the greatest leader of modern India, was shot dead by a Hindu fanatic, l.iuquat All Khan, trusted leader of the Pakistani |M-ople, met his death at the hands of a mad Muslim. These grim fuels should make the |H'ople of India and Pakistan sit up and think. They should ask themselves where their present course of mutual animosity Is leading them to. Progress In any field will Ih- Impossible if this festering sore is not healed. The sands of time are running out. Midterm Serenade He’s flunkin’ the course anyway.”