Oregon Daily . m _ emerald except ondclass matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per per term. Opinions expressed on the editorial pa»e are those of the writer anJ do not pretend *° resent the opinions of the ASUO or of the University. Initialed editorials aie written by represent the opinions v..w —, v -- - , the associate editors. Unsigned editorials are written by the editor. Lorn a Larson, Editor Robert Greenlee, Business Manager Phil Bettens, Managing Editor Gretchen G RON DAHL, Bill Clothier, Don I)ewky, Associate Editors Gretchen GrEfk, Advertising Manager_ Wire services: Associated Press, United Press. Member, Associated l ollegiate I revs. The Big Question We should know soon the answer to the big question: \\ ill Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower run for president? When Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R., Mass.) announced Sun day he would place Ike's name on the New Hampshire primary ballot as a Republican candidate lie took tne most significant step so far toward extracting a statement of political ambition from Eisen hower. Why? If Lodge does formally enter Ike's name (and we assume he will do so) sometime previous to the Jan. 31 deadline for filing for the Mar. 11 New Hampshire primary, the public will know his intentions. New Hampshire law gives the candidate 10 days within which to withdraw his name. Otherwise it stands and the man is a candidate. A statement from Ike may be forthcoming at any time. What would he say? Senator Lodge said Sunday he was confident that Eisenhower would not deny his Kepublican candidacy willingness n con tacted by newsmen in Paris. He was right. The general didn't deny it. But he didn’t confirm anything, either. Ike can play the “no comment’’ game and keep the public in suspense for a while longer. Still, the New Hampshire law re mains; if he doesn't withdraw his name from the ballot, lie's a candidate. The New Hampshire primary is Mar. 11. The deadline for filing is Jan. 31. Ten days from the latter date—Feb. 10—the people will know. Let'sjHave Games, Not Massacres The Pacific coast area’s annual humiliation is over, and there are only 359 days until the next Rose Bowl game. Even the California boosters will admit it now: The Big Ten conference plays a heck of a lot better brand of ball than does the Pacific Coast conference. You can’t blame a 40 to 7 wallop ing on “the breaks,” especially when it is the seventh consecu tive Rose Bowl defeat for the Bowl’s host teams. The Pacific coast teams played a rough schedule this year. Most of the Coast schools put forth squads that were fairly evenly matched. And by late November Stanford, the fat times) best team on the Coast, was on its way to the Rose Bowl. The intense competition among West coast teams seemed to indicate that Oregon was operating in a right tough circuit. But it wasn’t tough enough to cope with the Big Ten-type, all around power of Illinois. Unfortunately, many of the sports writers and enthusiasts up and down the coast have been too slow to recognize the fact that the boys from the Pacific just can’t cut it against certain competition. Because of this, 96,825 football fans again sat through a football game that was a good first half, period. Despite this rousing demonstration of Pacific Coast futility, we on the coast, and we Oregonians in particular, can take pleasure in two facts. Firstly, Stanford led in what has become the most important aspect of Bowl games, despite the fact it was a 33 point inferior to Illinois. The men from the farm are expected to collect some $85,000, while the Fighting Illini figure to bank less than $45,000. Secondly, the Oregon and Washington schools have not been involved in any of these seven consecutive Rose Bowl defeats. First Southern California lost to Alabama. Then the Big Ten pact was signed and UCLA and USC lost in rapid order. Then it was California that lost one, two, three games. And now it’s Stanford. ^ It is time to break this entangling Rose Eowl alliance so that a football game, not a massacre, can be provided for the foot ball faithful of the Los Angeles area. The majority of Big Ten members have indicated that they would prefer to get out of the Bowl as soon as the current five-year plan is ended. Pacific coast schools should announce their willingness to let the Midwesterners leave in peace. The Big Tenners must be tired of winning these no-compe tition games. The question is, are they tired of taking home the many thousands of dollars that come as their share of the gate receipts?—D. D. 1 _ Qm/i 'UiUta'il Sficzk . . • | Indian Finds Holiday Costly, Misses Out on Kij By ManakkalS. Ramani During fall term I had been talking to people like some of the fabulously rich oriental princes of American magazine fables. I hinted that I was considering the question of spending my vacation either in Canada or in Mexico. Ii then struck me that I might take a look into my pocketbook and this simple procedure induced me to think of spending Christmas at Seattle or at San Francisco. Further self-examination led me to weigh the advantages of spend ing the vacation in Portland or in Pendleton. At last I made my de cision to stay in Eugene itself. In my own country, India, Christmas is u time of festivities. Universities in India have a more developed sense of responsibility towards students and close down for a whole month. In the major cities we have high-brow enter tainment programs featuring top artists in the fields of music, dance and drama. These are be yond the reach of the common people and even of a middle class family. For these humbler folk, (I am one Of them), we have in our towns during Christmas the equivalent of the American coun ty fair. During Christmas in India, many of us spend money more freely than we do in the rest of the year. Nevertheless we have nothing to compare with the spending spree which I found Americans indulging in during recent weeks. I had great fun watching crowds in the shops downtown stampeded by high-powered sales talk into purchasing articles for which they may not have any urgent need. Before I knew what had happened I found myself holding a package containing complete sets of dresses for my little nephews and nieces. I am at present spending sleepless nights trying to figure out how I could find the money needed to send the articles which I had purchased to my folks in India. I spent Christmas Eve with people who were my first friends in Eugene. My host is an execu tive in a local lumber mill. I met him quite by chance the day after my arrival in Eugene in Septem ber last. Since then I had been a frequent visitor to his hospi table home and was therefore specially happy to be with him and his family on Christmas Eve. The three little daughters of my host sang Christmas carols after which had some home mov ies depicting Oregon scenery. Af ter dinner my host read to us an interesting story touching on the significance 0f Christmas and stressing Christian virtues. Worn out as I was by the final exami nations, (and the revelries which followed the exams), 1 fell Into a deep and peaceful slumber a.s my host continued his reading. The next day I was the guest of a professor of the University who had invited me for Christmas dinner. I will refrain from nar rating In detail the estimable qualities of this gentleman and his charming lady. I thought that 1 would spend New Year’s Kve quietly at home, liut a pleasant surprise was In store for me. An attractive girl, whom I had encountered in my school, asked me whether I would rare to join tier and her friends in a New Year's Kve party. It did not take me long to tell her that 1 would be glad to accept. I was very pleased when her group took me to the Waldorf Astoria of Eugene. For at least three hours the people who had gathered there behaved just as they wanted, without any re straints imposed on them by con siderations of age, position or prestige. In that atmosphere even Mr. Freud himself would have speedily shed all his complexes, obsessions and phobias. At about 11 p m. paper crowns were distributed along with an assortment of noise-making de vices. I found a venerable gentle man sounding a trumpet with all his might; an interesting little thing seated at a WM" emitting a series li^ crlbaWI.- yells; a third waVhl inK 0,1 ruh*)or balloons S, 'j eoncculed delight. I WJ ",th ‘■•“""••Jerable amu^ heso happenings and I „ that ail the time j hJ°' 1 witling a rattle for a» i? worth. ‘ * > had read In Americas bo, ■ at al the stroke of n,|i„ there ssas a free-for-all J! during which It sva, for gentlemen to take (,scUJ llhertles with ladles in the 1 lag. 1 was determined not to regard this old and res,*, American custom, I told charming friend, that, ,,ld married though I was, t n honour I lie custom by ot((| her a brotherly (?) kiss* tlie ness year was announced.I 1 excited? I sat on waiting for the ns to stop and the announcemes be made. Strange are the ss of Providence. Stranger are pranks of Providence when eagerly seek something. Bys oversight the stroke of midn passed tinlieralded. I will not scribe to you how I felt at nasty trick played on me by fellow who ran the hotel. I get even with him some day, bet. -I //if» Zoo A Moral: Don't Sob^on Floor, Especially Not in Wintertime* - By Bob Funk --—-—_ It was winter term, and bitter ly cold. "There is going to be a warm spell," the radio kept say ing. A typical lie of the kept radio, the implement of the cham ber of commerce. In the fraternity house the members of the intelligentsia were lying around 0*1 the floor, sobbing into the rug and thinking esoteric thoughts. The thoughts were so esoteric that even the thinkers did not understand them. It was the ultimate in thinking. "I think," said one, lifting his lint-covered head off the floor, “that it is the horrible, stifling at titude of the fraternity that is, er, urn--” "Stifling us,” a second genius answered. Everyone glared. It was obviously too simple, too un soulful. “It Is the peasants around us,” the first oracle continued, “that frustrate our souls, that force us to stay up late at night gossiping about them, so that we are too Winter Term at Oregon you *VIUl- BtEXftCTtO IN TM|SCOW«*5 rent books to Buy. T4 COOKA IN THE. LlBRACy (REAP All). 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