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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1952)
The OaEGON Daily Eufraib is published Monday through Friday during the college year, except examination and holiday periods, with issue* on Homecoming Saturday and Junior Weekend Saturday by the Associated Students of the University of Or re on. E 111 ere, I as sec ond class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates. $5 per school year, i per term. Opinions expressed on the editorial page are those of the writer and do not pretend to represent the opinions of the ASUO or of the University. Initialed editorials are written by the associate editors. Unsigned editorials arc written by the editor. _ Wire services: Associated Press, United Press. Member, Associated C olicgutc I rcss. Action Speaks Louder Than— Today marks the end of a special Emerald series on the Millrace problem. A good deal of time and space has been de voted to consideration of what’s wrong with the Millrace and what students, administrative representatives and city officials think should be done with it. Now the question is—where do we go from here? The Millrace should be developed—starting with the basic problems of insufficient flow and pollution and going on through the possibility of a Canoe Fete—or forgotten about. And it’s silly to have proceeded this far—at least to have a trickle of water replacing the old dry bed—and to have spent as much money as has been spent, without making the Mill race a definite asset to the campus rather than a half-baked project. We-put it up to the ASUO Senate to cooperate with the planning commission, the administration, and the city in pre senting a definite plan of what should be done with the Millrace now. After all, the city’s voters approved a $20,000 bond issue for the restoration of the Millrace in 1949, and those bonds have never been sold. We fail to see how the city, if presented with a concrete plan for development on which those interests con cerned agree, could refuse to sell the bonds and make money available. We want to be able to report a conference between Oregon student leaders and the city council soon. To cpiote an old saw, in the Millrace situation as well as most others "action speaks louder than words.”—G. G. A Fresh Sea-breeze ' The storm-tossed Atlantic has claimed the Flying Enter prise. The United States is claiming Captain Kurt Carlsen, who was born in Denmark, but England is serving as the locus of admiration festivities. In more ways than one the Carlsen saga shapes up as an international incident of the type which has almost become extinct. Man against the elements is always a good story. \\ hen "de votion above and beyond the call of duty ’ enters the picture, the story becomes twice as good. No matter that the Flying Enterprise went down, the superhuman efforts to save his ship, at the clear risk of his life, appeals to the popular fancy, regardless of nationality. Carlsen’s exploit temporarily wipes out the somewhat sordid picture of international politics. A fresh sea-breeze has cleared away some of the muggy air. It won’t last but right now it smells good.—B. C. Student Officials—Why? Let’s abolish University of Oregon student body offices. PRO: “Bill Carey ... extended the deadline for petitions to the va cant senator-at-large position. His reason: no petitioners. With no petitions ... there wouldn’t be enough business to warrant calling the group together.”—Wednesday’s Emerald, page one. 1. No one wants to be a student body official. Today you’ll read that the deadline has been extended again, because only two petitions were in Carey’s hands by 'I hursday afternoon. This isn’t the first time-it’s been a struggle to get students to volunteer for jobs. Last term the Student Union board begged and begged for board replacements from two schools. After weeks they got ONE petitioner from one school; there’s still no representative from the other. 2. ASUO officials don’t have anything to do after they take office. The senate last met on Dec. 6, 1951. Now—35 days later— the ASUO president says there’s no reason to hold tonight’s meeting because the senator-at-large interviews won’t be on the agenda. If, in a university of 4100-odd students, there’s nothing more for the students’ legislative body to do after better than a month's recess except interview petitioners for a position wifh their own group, why have one? CON: We should have student officials because we have student government. * * * The actual and the theoretical are not always one and the same. -- The Atomic Age Racial Prejudice Makes Easy Reds' Propaganda Campaigns __—- By Phil Johnson - It is unfortunate that so many individuals living in a '20th cen tury world are equipped with 15th century minds. An exumnle of thin strange phenomenon in a statement Is sued last week by Gov. Her man Tnlmndge Of Georgia. According to this eminent Southern lead er, the tele vision industry Phil .Johnson snouiu stop casting Neg roes and whites together because the "spirit" of the South's segre gation laws is "flagrantly vio lated" by such practices. The Kremlin's propagandists can work overtime exploiting this demand. The news can travel by teletype to Western Kurope, by radio to the Middle Kast and In dia, by courier to the remotest sections of continental Africa. Naturally there is an addition al, more important reason why that statement was undesirable. It is an indication of support for the cruel subjection of minori ties which has been a normal practice in some areas through out American history. This mistreatment of minority groups has always been illogical. Perhaps the governor’s next re quest will be a demand that tele vision programs be restricted to color-TV shows so that all of the images on the screen will not be black and white. There is no shortage of Tal madges in .America. Not long ago, officials of a Phoenix cemetery refused to bury in its veterans’ section the body of a Negro soldier killed in action in Korea. The keepers of the tombstones later relented under popular pres sure and buried the body after it had remained unburied for six weeks. The state civil service commis sion informed an officer of Port land's Urban league that Negroes are not given state positions in Salem because it is too difficult for them to obtain housing in that city. On Christmas night, Harry Moore, Florida state leader of the Oh the Screen... Dickens Classic Good Movie Bet By Larry Hobart Excellent acting and a bitter sweet story by Charles Dickens are combined in the J. Arthur Rank production of ‘‘Oliver Twist" showing at the Mayflower through Saturday. Dickens’ story of an orphan who is shoved around by bullies and pickpockets as he seeks to find a spot of tenderness in a hard world, is full of sharply drawn characters, and the British ac tors make the most of it. John Howard Davies, the Eng lish edition of Dean Stockwell, plays Oliver in a sensitive and re strained manner. Unlike many American child actors, Davies does not appear precious-just believable. Alec Guinness as Fagin is something to be seen, not des cribed, as he plays thief against thief in an effort to gain his own ends. The boys who constitute his band of closely controlled pickpockets represent a study of the homeless. The supporting cast, in the way seemingly typical of Rank pro ductions, turns out a fine per formance. The picture never loses the sense of a period piece and a commentary on an age. The ac tion is fast; photography is good. For 55 cents you can’t miss. You can see the previews for the Tales of Hoffman (and they’re really good) too. National Association for Uu* Ad vancement of Colored People, nun killed by a bomb plaeed under the corner of his bedroom. It was the duy of "peace on earth, goodwill toward men." Of course students at the Uni versity of Oregon, where most fratt rnltles and sororities do not admit Negroes, don't need to look to Georgia or Arizona or Salem for evidence of racial discrimina tion. We have it right here on the campus. fyiont the Motyue... 30 YEARS AGO .Ian. II, 102’i—Four |ier cent of the Stanford Fnlverslty stu dent iHKly wore flunked out lost term, an Emerald story from l*alt» Alto reveals. The School of Mimic In offering a slimmer jaunt to Kurope for students and others. Cost of the 70-day tour Is ]fl075. 5 YEARS AGO •Ian. II, 1047—Webfhot coach Howard Hobson takes Ills crew of Beaver-starved hoopsters north tonight for the first game of the 1047 "civil war” series with Ore gon State College. "Honest John” Warren, Ore gon swimming coach, sends his varsity splashers Into action to day In un Intrastpiad meet to determine entrants In the sea son’s opener. Jutfi Loo Inn Arouna Wait for Further Education — Ph.D's by Correspondence Next - By Jackie Pritien - Perhaps the State Board of Higher Education's feelings on master's degrees don't naturally fit into the coffee-and-doujrhnut variety of the undergraduate conv ersation, but we can't help wonder ing about the trends w h i c h their recent ac tion indicates. As we Inter pret it, the ac tion was taken to make avail able a master's degree in ele mentary e d u - Jackie i niwn cation which would give the op portunity for further specializa tion in a field which has been relatively specialized throughout the preceding four years. An in cidental outcome would be higher wages for teachers awarded such degrees. The feeling seems to be that procedure at the University In gaining master of science or arts degrees is too involved In studies not completely relevant to the problems of the elementary teach er. While we have every sympathy for the lot of the elementary teacher, it seems that advanced work for teachers should include more work in liberal studies which would provide more sub ject-matter background in tech nique studies. In short, it seems that concern with "how to teach” is over-emphasized, and that more concern for the teacher's back ground of knowledge in liberal fields would produce teachers more qualified In the category of "what to teach." We therefore feel that the re cent move h_* the hoard actually lower* the requirement* hir an advanced degree, and It follow* that lowering requirement* ulti mately lower* educational stun dards—which many feel to lie low enough already. Plotting the curve of this trend ns we interpret it, we might ad vise joining the army now, and postponing our educational ef forts until w-e can get a I'll D. by correspondence these days; just < surprising when one consider* all the things that can be done by correspondence there days; just clip out a coupon application in the back of most any magazine. And while we’re commenting on collegiate development*, we might note that several freshmen classes in women’s physical edu cation have been issued skirts to lie worn Over the traditional leo tard. The reason seems to he that men are enrolled In these classes ton. And while we would be the last person to rush to the defense of leotards, we have come to con sider them philosophically as a lesson in perseverance common to all freshmen women. And per haps those co-eds with the privi lege of wearing Hkirts will by pass a lesson-in-llfe which we have considered a noteworthy If unintentional contribution to the building of well-rounded college co-eds in the field of character. Repeat Performance /' ,-V ' u “Aww, this course ain’t so rough—I never cracked a bonk in it /ast term.”
