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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1952)
Orman Daily . _ _ ^EMERALD 1 >'thru 16, 19 thru 22, and May Jo by the Associated Students of the l niverstty of Oregon Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription lates. »5 per school year, $2 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 are written by the editor.__ Phil Bettens, Managing Editor Cakolyn Silva, Advertising Manager____ Gretchen Grondahl, Bill Clothier, Don Dewey, Associate Editors Wire services: Associated Press. United Press. Member. Associated Collegiate Press. Semi-public Phones No Bargain tfou might think semi-public pay phones are more advan tageous to the campus than public pay phones. But they re not. If a living group or other organization is designated as semi public, by implication it is also semi-private. And we profess great respect for private rights in this country. Elsewhere in Eugene (hotels, for example) tne pay phones afe public phones and as such they are the sole responsibility of PT&T. Generally, says Alfred Vogt, assistant manager of die PT&T in Eugene, such pay phones return a commission on "receipts to the business establishment where they are placed. Iif no case does the proprietor guarantee a fixed fee to the phone company as is the case on the campus. This is no special trap devised for the University but has ■been in effect for some time. It’s all very legal and proper. Public phones have one set of operating rules and semi-public phones another. We are not advocating the installation of purebred public pay ■phones. What interests us is the disadvantage of being classed .as semi-public. The phone booths in the railroad or bus stations are a better deal than the ones we now have on campus.—B.C. Beer is"Bad...for Rats There is a certain pressure group on campus which has urged us to launch a crusade ior beer in the Student Union. Byt- we’re about crusaded out. Naturally, we refused to discuss such a proposal. Beer drink ing is immoral. And very dangerous. To prove our point we wish to quote from an editorial published in The National Voice in 1935. The National Voice is supposed to be the oldest prohibition weekly in America. We quote: “Beer business is a queer business. 'I here is death connected with it any way you take it. Do beer guzzlers know that every year thousands of rats leap into the beer vats, die and rot there? That fine flavor in your favorite beer may be only the essence of dead rats. “You have all heard about the brewery rats. It is impossible to make a rat-proof brewery. It will be a matter of special in terest, now that beer is back, to know that rats are crazy about malt when it is fermenting. They will even climb a ladder to get near the malt in the beer vat. “Climbing to the top of the vat, a hungry rat, crazy to get to the fermenting malt, would lean down toward the beer and presently would fall in. He would go to the bottom and drown, and under the foam on top of the beer could not be seen. “Some months ago a bootleg vat in Pennsylvania was raided and it was decided to clean it out to see what it really con tained, and in this big beer vat they found 69 dead rats. Not only rats, but the dead bodies of two men came out of a huge beer vat in a brewery in St. Louis, Missouri, according to a reputable physician who watched the vat being drained into a sewer. “Many persons have wondered why beer has a bitter and acid taste. May this peculiar taste come from the flavor of the rats that have lost their lives through their fondness for fer menting malt? “Persons who are thinking of cultivating a taste for beer would do well to make sure that all the rats have been des troyed in the vicinity of the brewery they intend to patronize. Be sure that there is no rat taste in the beer you drink. If the poison has been taken out, it is not real beer. “But we have got to drink beer, rat essence and all, to balance the budget. Soak5 the nation’s flag in the filthy slop to raise revenue to meet the extravagance of a beer administration. Drink beer morning, noon and night. Drink it until your stomach rebels against its deadly poison. Until your nerves are -shot. Until your brain is on fire and tremens drive you to the asylum. “Drink beer until in your madness you ‘see the flashing tongues of snakes or hideous faces of dead rats leering from the foam. For beer is filled with the souls of dead rats that have drowned in the brewery vats.” We unquote. Let that be a grim warning to those thirsty souls in the pres sure group. Incidentally, this is a nice job of slanted editorial writing. And it’s aimed at xl very specific audience—those who hate beer. That’s why we thought it worth printing. All of us hate beer, too.—B. C. *»*»»«• i • '• - - Letters to the Editor - - Law Students Say ... Emerald Editor: In effect, the Emerald has com Once again the undersigned members of the student body of the University of Oregon School of Law, in the furtherance of justice (or, to use the Emerald's own words, "fair play" see Wednesday's editorial), feel it necessary to censurq the "modus operandi" of the Emerald writ ers, both individually and as rep resentatives of the press. For the past month, the stu dents of the University have been subjected to a motivated, "cru sade-type" presentation of the news, with regard to the pay telephone controversy on the campus. We hope that the Em erald's conduct is not typicul of the publishing profession. The Emerald has broken many of the fundamental rules of ethical jour nalism—to wit 4pthionated and unobjective stories, slanted front page cartoons, and a highly biased and prejudiced editorial policy. The incidents are too ob vious and numerous to cite. The Emerald editorial writers, taking full advantage of the edi torial "we," have allowed their emotions to get the better part of their reasoning. There is a matter of more serious import than mere breach of ethics which we feel must be called to your attention. The second paragraph in an editorial Wednesday, writ ten by one of your associates, reads, in part, as follows: “If this “beating the system" meant that the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company was tak lng a loss we'd be all for It." mitted itself to thd policy Otcon doning land possibly even en couraging t under certain circum stances the commission of acts which have been made misde meanors by law in the state of Oregon. Instead of reprimanding Ore gon students for committing de liberate acts of fraud and violat ing the law, you only say. in effect, “don't put slugs in the phones, fellows, because you and your brethren will have to foot the bill in the long run anyway.” The editorial certainly infers that in situations where the telephone company must stund the loss, the use of slugs and pennies would be justified and encouraged. Such an nttitude hus no place in our society. Again we strenuously denounce the lack of upjectivity and "fair play” in the news reporting and editorial policy of the Emerald this year. For the future, we would suggest that you spend less time worrying about the telephone situation on the Ore gon campus, and a little more time instructing your associates with regard to the canons of con duct allegedly governing your profession. The following subscribers speak only for themselves as in dividuals, and do not, in any way, purport to represent the views of the law school student body, the law school administration the student body of the Univer sity, or the administrative offi cers of the University. (Signed:) -A MPatf fit aw J&fHP Impressed Columnist Finds Libe But He Still Likes Foyer Best - By Bob Funk — We have always been tremen dously impressed by the persons who went to the library to study in the evening. “If anyone wants me, 111 De in the Rose Bro cade Memorial Study Room, annex level 3 " stack 818.11,” they would say. They did not really think anyone would want them. They just wanted every one to know how studious they were. BOB FUNK At another time, we overhear someone asking someone else to “meet me in Humanities.” This was one of the great questions of Our dim life until we discover ed that Humanities was a part of the library. The other evening, just to in flate our ego a little, we, too, went over to the library. After various misunderstandings with the turnstiles, we made our way up to Humanities. There were several persons there, reading Humanities books with Human ities expressions on their faces. We also explored stack deck 5 and stack deck 4. We are saving the other decks for some other time. The big part of the librar'y population, however, was not in any of these places. It was in what we imagine is called the foyer. There was a great crowd of people in the foyer, smoking feverishly against the time the scholarship chairman would come and whisk them back to Human ities. The foyer seems to lie some sort of purgatory between the paradise of Taylor’s and the in ferno of the Rose Brocade Me morial Study room, or whatever we called it In the first para graph. That there are more people in the foyer purgatory than in either paradise or the in iferno 1st perhaps a commentary upon the general fence-sitting tendencies of Jhe. times. _ . m m m r • m V «*»■*«»»• t • r • m. This discovery that most of the library people spend their time in the foyer has somewhat abated our inferiority complex, however. It is undoubtedly only a matter of time until a Coke machine, a refreshment bar and (this is most important to the atmosphere of the place) a cigarette vendor arc installed to make life in the foyer more lush. They could use a couple of good ventilators, too. Besides smoking, the chief in terest of the foyer crowd seems to be love. "How to Make Love in a Public Place” is the general theme. It is not really too pub lic a place, at that. The smoke conceals a multitude of minor sins. William K. lAvc, Robert \v. Hill, 'Robert B. Abram*, I*at Young, Ouane Graske, Kenneth A. Poole, Robert A. Boyer, John R. Sabin, William K. Ounlialme, Lester l>. Pederson. (Kd. Note: The |M>lnl of the 10 law school students In well mude. And, we hope, well taken. We did not mean to encourage or justify the use of pennies or Mings In the pay phone*. The Kni erahl is un«|uallfledly against such practices under any uiul nil circumstances even though the Wednesday editorial I m pile il otherwise. It was a thoughtless remark on our part and all credit is due the future lawyers for blasting It to bits. We were wrong, carelessly wrong, and we owe un apology to the phone company and the t nl verslty. We got caught with our galley proof down.—B.C.) Pay Phones a Swindle Emerald Editor: I though that slot machines were outlawed hi Oregon! Yet every day, dollar after dol lar is poured Into machines (hut are nothing more Uiun legalized swindle Ikixck. Yes, pay phones are a swindle. They are nothing more than slot machines. Tonight I parted with 40 cents for one person-to-person call from fraternity row to Carson hall. One dime after another went down the slot. For six months now the A SCO and various student committed have been promising "positive action” and so far nothing One reason is that the administration has not given us one word of sup port or approval. lad's blow this thing wide open. I/Ct's have more rallies, demon strations, and letters of com plaint. We'll hiillil a fire that's really hot under the people who are in a position to get these machines out of our frats and dorms. M<VUf we* • f 5 YEARS AGO Feb. II, 19-17 — I)r. Robert Dean, new chemistry professor recently arrived from the I'nl verslty of Hawaii, declares that Hawaii Is ready for statehood “hut congress is just too busy.” 10 YEARS AGO Feb. II, 1942—"Come to Mc Arthur Court” Is announced as the slogan for a dance In Mac court. The dance, in honor of Gen. Douglas Mae Arthur’s stand in the Philippines, will lx- used for “some defense project.” Any Rats in There, Worthal? WARNING TO CHEM STUDfNK 1 This is 190 PROOF — alcohol top UST IW CHf M LA* ONiy — WARNING TO CHEM ^TUCfen^s^ VA.r> iM_ 190 Alkq&o/ " «er - f F*