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Oregon's Great Influx
Four more days till the Great Influx.
Sometime Friday a few hundred high school seniors will
begin their annual campus invasion, colloquially known as
Duck Preview.
And that’s just what the weekend’s planners are trying to
make it—a preview of life at Oregon, including glimpses of
social, academic and extra-curricular activities.
All kinds of people—committee members, house presidents,
administration personnel—have been at work for several
months to plan a truly representative and entertaining week
end for our high school guests. \\ e’d venture to say that the
brain power which has gone into this thing, if converted into
electrical energy, would be enough to. run the entire University
power plant for a couple of weeks. All this in an effort to plan
a. program the high schoolers will like.
Just what do our prospective guests want in a Duck Preview ?
We tried to find out, in a very modest way, by asking frosh
who were Preview guests last year what they liked—and didn t
like—about last year’s program.
We got all sorts of answers. Generally, they thought the
weekend was good (naturally enough, since they came to Ore
gon). Some thought there was too much free time, others not
enough. Most liked the noon picnic and All-Campus \ odvil,
though the latter was criticized by some as being too long.
On one subject nearly everyone seemed to agree: high school
students should be encouraged to attend the scheduled dance
Saturday night, rather than being turned loose on collegiate
picnics and similar activities. Sample comments: Many high
school kids get ‘carried away’ on picnics” ... “kids got drunk
and it didn’t look good’... “it’s sort of a shock for your first
glimpse of college”... “the dance was marvelous and more
kids might be encouraged to go.”
There’s a Duck Preview dance scheduled for this Saturday
night. We hope that those responsible for arranging dates for
our high school guests will use all their influence to see that
the dance is where they go.
We don’t think there’s anything morally wrong with beer
drinking on picnics. But in the case of high school students, be
sides the legal aspects involved in their minor status, it s all
too likely to leave the wrong impression. They’re being told
that at Duck Preview they see the real highlights of life on the
campus; should we be surprised if, seen in that light, they
should exaggerate the role of “ye olde brew ’ out of its proper
perspective?—G. G.
-The Atomic Age
Japan's World Trade Position
Improving at Britain's Expense
_-_ By Phil Johnson -
Foreign policies in the Pacific
are profoundly influenced by
Anglo-Japanese rivalry in that
area.
The ener
getic Japanese
are steadily
i mproving
their position
a t England’s
expense.
Japan’s ma
jor weapons
in the trade
war with
Great Britain
are lower lab
or costs and
shorter d i s -
PHIL, JOHNSON
tances to the markets. In addi
tion, Japan can purchase food
and raw materials in Asiatic na
tions and can offer consumer and
capital goods in return.
Pakistan is planning industri
alization with Japanese machine
ry and technical aid. Japanese
money is entering the Portu
guese colony Pf Goa, India, to de
velop iron-ore deposits for Jap
anese steel.
Japanese capitalists also have
been active in India, Thailand,
Malaya, Indonesia and the Philip
pines. The latter two nations
have accepted the principle that
Japan will pay World War II re
parations in the form of techni
cal know-how and services. This
will give the Japanese an eco
nomic foothold in those regions.
A British-owned Asiatic news
paper charged last January that
Americans were supplying cheap
cotton to Japan, Hong Kong's
greatest rival, while denying cot
ton to Hong Kong for fear that
it would be sold to Communist
China. The paper claimed that
this would permit the Japanese
to export cheap textiles, much of
which would ultimately end up in
China, anyway.
The democracies must find a
solution to this problem without
limiting Japan’s industrial rise
and without dragging the Brit
ish Empire down to economic
collapse.
If the situation becomes des
perate for either nation, open
trading with China may result.
A Korean truce would reduce the
stigma of such a policy.
-Confusion Confounded
Improved Laundry Equipment
Is Swift and Also Destructive
__By Sam Chirman_
(Ed. Not*-: With today’s Issue
•e Introduce to you a new eol
m n, "Confusion Confounded,”
rlt ten by Sam Chlrman, Rradu
te In p»yrholttjy. We hope you’ll
njoy Sam's “Confusion.”)
Curiosity, one of our major
weaknesses, led us recently to
visit a local laundry whose adver
tisements in the newspapers had
Dcen proclaim
ing the use of
new, modern
machinery, dc
signed for
swift and im
proved work
manship.
"Aha! You
’re wearing a
new shir t,"
said the man
ager, greeting
us jovially at
the entrance
SAM CHIRMAN
of his shop. We beamed with sny
pride and licked his hand in grat
itude. Here was a man w’ith es
thetic sensitivity. "Don't worry,"
he said, adjusting the safety pins
that kept his collar closed, “we’ll
fix it up in no time.” We licked
his hand again, and he fed us a
lump of sugar.
“Here is one of our finest ma
chines,” he indicated, starting the
tour. We saw a large table cover
ed with many fine-toothed combs.
Our host chuckled jovially, “Rips
buttons off In a flash—even the
holes sometimes.” We chuckled
t<00.
“Now guess what this one
does," he challenged us, in front
of a large drum topped with a
sharp-edged blade. We wrinkled
our brow, puckered lips and
twitched our nose with intense
thought. "Potato masher?” we
ventured. He spat in our face.
"Not quite,” he grinned at our
shame-faced expression, restor
ing the milk of human kindness
in our heart, “it’s a slip-strip
per.” His eyes lit up with rougish
humor. We strained hard for a
similar visual effect, but man
aged only to disturb our hernia.
"Naturally,” we agreed, only
half-lit.
“Keen as a raxor,” he said,
“and especially designed to slice
through slip straps bnly half
way. That method, we find, helps
the wcldi'nlH happen In public,
when the Kirin expect It leant.
Jolly, eh?” We nodded, still too
Involved In trying to got lit with
roguish humor to attempt speak
ing.
"And here Is our mixmastcr,”
he pointed to a Urge vat. "It’s
for socks. Collegiate life would
be dull if students wore matched
pairs, so wc acramble them up.
Ninety-five per cent success too.”
He fixed thumb in vest with a
look of prideful ownership. We
pulled our pants down to our
knees to hide our matched socks,
unfortunately revealing to our
host the unimpaired status of
our shorts.
He sighed deeply. “I wish I
didn't have to tell you this,” he
said, "but our elastic stretcher
outer is on the blink. I’m afraid
your underwear will fit until we
fix it and it's liable to drag be
yond mid-terms at that.”
Deeply moved at this tragedy
we hastily draped a burlap sack
over our form to conceal our
shapely shorts. “That’s all,” he
said, leading us to the door,
“come back anytime.”
We stumbled out, curtsying.
Indeed, we had witnessed gigan
tic progress.
rf-KHtt the Matofve.-..
10 YEARS AGO
April 21, 1042—John Warren
is appointed head football coach.
He replaces Tex Oliver, who has
received a commission with the
I'.S. navy.
15 YEARS AGO
April 21, 1987—The National
Broadcasting company makes
plans to broadcast highlights of
the Oregon junior weekend cere
monies.
Oh the §toye...
Letters
to the
Editor -
A Basic Inconsistency
Kmcrald Kdltor:
If quoted correctly, the Delta
Tau Delta field secretary spoke
in realistic terms. Tom Shepherd
IS an ldealiBt and certainly in
this instance demonstrated na
ivete. Perhaps Tom is now a bit
more enlightened as to the state
of politics on most university
campuses.
One need not mix with the "lay
politicians” to develop a cynical
concept of our contemporary
American political environment.
Kather he should remain on the •
campus and "fraternize" with
our campus elites- in the midst
of these prospective "leaders of
our society" he can fill his noH
trils to overflowing with the .
stench emanating from the ma
chinations of our "realistic" 4«ili
ticos, both male and female. ^
I trust that this one instance
serves to demonstrate to the nu
Ive the fundamental and haste in
consistency between the Greek's,
philosophy und that compatible
to even a pseudo-democracy.
True, Tom, within the fraternal
system you will find most of the
future sources of power and in- *
fluence—the nepotism of fra
ternities is even noticeable in
state politics. Yes, these will be
the "leaders" for they conform
admirably to our materialistic,
superficial, anti-intellectual en
vironment both on and off the
campus.
Don't be bitter Tom. Having
had you as a student and know
ing that you possess a keen mind -
and that rare something call# ty
character, I’m sure you will find
other environments more con
genial for your idealistic, naive
pursuits.
Marko I- Haggard
'The Devil' Is Enjoyable Show
By Toby McCarroll
Friday night was the first open
performance of the University
theater’s twin musical bill.
"The Devil and Daniel Web
ster” is an enjoyable ntory about
the legend of Daniel Webster
arguing a case with the Devil for
the soul of a man.
Eyes Left, Bowerman
“H’lo Coach V’
The most outstanding part of
the production Is Gordon How
ard. The excellence of his acting
is well known to this campus and
his rich voice makes his per
formance all the better. Howard
portrays all the cunning, intelli
gence, sensitiveness and wit of
the opera’s Webster and adds
some qualities of his own, with
extremely good results. Webster’s
main urla is the most enjoyable
and best executed single musical
piece of the evening.
Larry Swanson does a good
job, although his actions as the
Devil are at times artificial and
weuk. Stone is played and sung
well by Morris Beachy. Janice
Evans is weak as Mrs. Stone but
her voice, though small, is very
pleasing.
The well trained chorus adds to
the general excellence of the pro
duction both in voice and action.
The unmistakeable hand of Hor
ace Robinson can be seen in the
organized realism of the "mob”
scenes, and the ability of Donald
Allton is definately reflected in
the quality of the voices.
"The Old Maid and the Thief”
is a good opera but it is perform
ed as a concert. The story relates
the humorous incidents which oc
cur when a spinster and her
maid take in a man whom they
think is a thief. The singing is
good, but not outstanding, and
the acting is very weak. A lot of
work went into the preparation
of the performance but it was
obviously not well channeled.
The orchestra exhibits a con
siderable amount of stupidity,
egotism and lack of talent. Much
of the stage singing and speakW
lug Is completely drowned out.