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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1951)
Oregon Baity _ . _ _ EMERALD l*HTAt ' The Oregon Daily Emrrald is published Monday through Friday during the college year, except examination and ho»id.ay periods, with issues on Homecoming Saturday and Junior Weekend Saturday by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon. Entered as^sec ond class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per school year, %l per term. per term. _ . n„:,nnni expressed on the editorial rage irt those of tHe writer and do not pretend to represent the opinions of the ASl.’O or of the University .Initiated editorials are written be the •associate editors. Unsigned editorials §*■" wnttef* bv the editor. Louxa Larson, Editor Abbott Paine, Bukzcm Maniftr Phil Bettkns, Managing Editor Gutcuen Geondahl, Bill Clot him, Don Dewey, Associate Editors Gretch ex Geefe, Advertising Manager News Editor: Larry Hobart Assistant Managing Editor: Bill Frye Night Editor: Sarah Turnbull Sports Editor : Bill Gurney Ass’t Sports Editor: Larry Lavclle Ass't News Editors: Kathleen Fraser, Phil Johnson. A1 Karr Makeup Editors: Kathleen Fraser, Judy McLoughlin, Harriet Walrath Feature Editor: Ward Lindbeck Layout Manager: Jack Cady Classified Ad Manager: Tom Matthews Women s rage bailor: uiaays sergcni Wire Editor: Tom Jauucs Asst’t Wire Editors: Theda Jack, Mary Ann Mowery, Herb Y'oremberg Photographer: Pete Moe Ass’t Photographer: Chuck Plummer Dav Managers: Carolyn Silva, Carolee Tate, Mary Waddell, Sally Thurston, Irene Bullard , _ _ Advertising Salesmen: Merle Davis, Janet Petersen, Marcia Dutchcr. Sue Mikkel sen, Denise Thum. Ward Cook, Sally llaseltine. Barbara Keller At Last-Some Action The wheels of municipal government have begun to grind on the University’s perennial 13th ave. traffic problem. And it looks as if results might be expected soon; the Eu gene city council has turned over two aspects of the problem to its traffic safety commission, and has already authorized an investigation into the long-range problem of using 13th as a main cross-town thoroughfare. City Manager Oren L. King has told the Emerald that the committee may be expected to report at the next council meet ing, Nov. 12, on two issues: the letter from University Presi dent H. K. Newburn requesting that standard traffic signals be installed on 13th at University and Kincaid sts., and the request from the'student court and University planning com mission that Campus Policeman Jens Jensen be authorized to issue traffic tickets. In addition, the council Monday night authorized an investi gation which may have long-range implications on the question of just how valuable 13th ave. is as a main thoroughfare through Eugene. As part of the state highway department’s “origin-desti nation, route analysis, and off-street parking survey” now being conducted in this are£, vechicles passing through the campus on 13th ave. will be counted and checked as to where they have come from and where they are going. 1 his will pro vide an indication of the type and amount of use of the thor oughfare. The survey will be taken around the end of this month, King asserted. Meanwhile, as this .page commented recently, we’re still spending our ten-minute between-class periods dodging assort ed vechicles; but it looks as if speedy action to solve the im mediate problem and a careful survey to probe into the over all picture are at last underway. —G. G. We Let Them Dupe Us We’ve been duped. But it was partly our own fault. Remember back this fall when the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company assured us we could do nothing to delay installation of pay phones. Oregon State college already had the phones, we were told. We grumbled, but the nickle-eaters went in anyway. Well . . . the OSC Daily Barometer had a different story on page 1 last Saturday. We quote: “The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company has agreed to postpone a project of installing pay telephones in campus living organizations which was scheduled to begin next Mon day.” OSC dorms do have pay phones, but fraternities, sororities and cooperative houses do not. And what was responsible for postponement- Campus op position. The phone company halted action to give the student a chance for a hearing they requested with the public utilities commissioner. According to company rules, pay phones must be installed in semi-public living groups. The OSC living organizations claim they are private, not semi-public homes, since students We’ve had it—unless something can still be done, live there three-fourths of the year. Why didn’t Oregon students raise some opposition to the phone company? We grumbled to ourselves and close friends, but was there any concerted, united opposition? No. There was at OSC. And, although the matter is by no means settled, it got some results. True, we were misled into believing OSC already had the phones' But . . . we could have investigated and protested. 0u* 'UiAita'iA Sp&aJi'" Asians Look to U.5. For Democratic Lead (Ed. Note: The writer is a stu dent In pre-med here. His home U In Trinidad, British West In dies, now but he was horn In India. He has spent four years In the U.S., although he was in Trinidad last year.) By Vasudev Omah Maharajah As a result of my contact with many well-intending American friends on this campus I find that there are many questions of a challenging nature which have puzzled the American public In regard to democracy's stake in Asia. For a proper understanding and appreciation of the situation in the East it is essential that we have a background in the follow ing issues: 1. The historical background and the aspirations of the people must be borne in mind. 2. It must be realized that one sided propaganda has been car ried on in the United States in regard to the freedom movements in the East as well as movements for nationalization of alien-owned undertakings. 3. Even in some of the so-called free countries in the East the interference of European colonial powers in the economic life of the community in collaboration with local oligarchs has stood in the path of efforts towards an improvement of the standard of life of the masses in this swiftly changing world. It U surprising to find that several American newspaper? are looking upon the spontaneous movement of the Eastern peoples to overthrow their political and economic bondage as fanatical or communist-inspired. At this moment the people of the United States should take a decision. On which side would they stand on the liberation of the Eastern people? It is very heartening to find Governor Dew ey stating in a recent speech that America must take the lead in a movement of "Asia for the Asia tics." The Asiatic people have for long looked on the United States as the champions of democracy. Their hopes should not go in vain. . Students from Asiatic countries are glad to find that a greater interest in the problems of Asia is developing among their Ameri can friends. We find that the In ternational Relations Club will be holding a discussion on “The Stake of Democracy In Asia” on Thursday. It is hoped that Ameri can students will take part in the discussion and express their views on this important issue. Plight of the Campus Cop -- A MPnff ni 1h* Zoo Chastened Columnist Blames 'System' for Soda Bar Service __—- By Bob Funk - Having spoilt a week in a state of gi-neral social leprosy (which we eased by feasting on a num ber of small children) we arc again emerg ing gamely in to the arena. There was a time, back about last Monday, when we were seri ously consider ing writing a column entitl ed "An Ans wer to the An swers to the Column on tjie BOB FUNK Soda Bar. Kortunatciy, me length of this title discouraged U3, and the though has been lost. About mid-week we also got Into the swing of things by writ ing ourselves a critical letter, which would have been published if the editor had not smelled a rat and decided that the letter was Indeed written by us, and not by a new, strange foe. We par This Isn't UCLA “Men, we lost a great game; th’ other team just got all the breaks, that’s all,” tirularlv liked Inin Irtler bceausf we railed ourself (or ourselves; wr are never certain on iliti |Hilnt) a yellow journalist, an ego maniac, and a dasa-MMeloui snob. Wc have been interviewed bj any number of persons who wert either fcr or agin, and perhaps tin best reason we have dug up sr far for soda bar service bring poor is ttie System. The System allows the thundering herd tc converge upon the BOda bar with out regimentation of a cafetorii line or the conventional boott service. This onslaught of trudi between classes makes it rathe! difficult for the people behind t he bar to make any sense out of the entire procedure. (It should lie here noted thut the above paragraph is not 'til another snide slur at the sods bar people. It Is a serious puraj graph. And no letters from tin thundering herd, please. So \mi don’t thunder. It Is merely a fig ure of speeeh.) A controversial life is lnten t ing, but it can become vantageous when your fraternity brothers stop wearing their b.idi ges for fear they will be Identified and called upon* to explain thf vicious column on the soda bar. There are other, more importj ant things going on in the world and by next week we may be abl to tiling of some of them. Unt! then let’s all read our favorit chapter cut of Dale Carnegie. —To the Editor— Emerald Editor: In ray opinion, the time is non r ipe to reveal to the world a fool proof scheme to taise the Uni verslty’s grade point average t| an unprecedented level. The plan is a simple one whicj mere ly involves the opening of \ beer room in the spacious depth! of the Student Union. Where does the University enter the picture. That’s easy Those students unfortunut y enough to fail to make a ‘i. <«l’j would he harred automatically from the beverage room for <1h following term, or until thef make their grades. Undoubtedly University off! cialswill agree wholehearted! that supervised drinking, with till attendant rise in grades, wool] be far superior to any other si tv ation. A Martin Meadows .