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Orgasm Daily ^ ^EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald is published Feb. 4 thru 8, 11 thru 15, 18 thru 22, 25 thru 29 March 10 Apr. 2 thru 4, 7 thru 11, 14 thru 18, 21 thru 25, 28 thru May 2, May 6 thru 10, 12’thru 16, 19thru22, and May 26 by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscription rates: $5 per "^Opinions expressed page on the editorial are those of the writer and do not 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. Lorn-a Larson, Editor Carolyn Silva, Business Manager Marjory Bush, Don Dewey, Gretchen Grondahl, Associate Editors Phil Bettens, Managing Editor Sally Thurston, Advertising Manager Wire services: Associated Press, United Press. Member, Associated Collegiate Press. Deserving to Be a Tradition It was a complete, all-round success. It was educational. It was informative. It was fun. And we think about 1200 students will agree with us. Who are they? All who attended and participated in the mock politi cal convention “Operation Politics" Friday night. With bugles, drums, party horns and just plain vocal sounds they supported their candidates for Republican nominee. But it wasn’t all bedlam. The nominating and seconding speeches sounded pretty realistic and sincere. The platform evidenced much preparation. And at least one faculty member has expressed to us his admiratipn at the seriousness of the student delegates. Pre vious to the convention, this same professor was convinced someone would nominate Waldo. Gov. Val Peterson of Nebraska paid the convention one of the highest compliments the students could receive when he told us it was actually just like the real thing. We understand congratulatory messages have been coming in from throughout the nation. They're deserved. The students who staged this experiment rate the highest sort of praise. Francis Gillmore, convention chairman, is high on our list. Neil Chase, public relations man, has been arrang ing and arranging for months now. Tom Barry, Jack Bailey, Bob Ridderbusch, Roy Morgan, Nancy Pollard, George O’Dea, Ann Delschneider, Dick Paul and Jim Crittenden, all listed as committee chairmen, deserve praise, as do all the state dele gation chairmen. We’re sure Mrs. E. G. Ebbighausen and Jack Werner de voted much time and effort as advisors. We can’t possibly mention all those who contributed to making this a success because there are about 1200 of you. We hope the “experiment” becomes tradition around here. It would be an excellent addition to the University program. Wonder if the nation will go “as Oregon goes?” What Time Is It? What time is it? That’s a frequently-heard question these days. It wasn’t too long ago that we sympathized editorially with Portland for its some-have-it-some-don’t Daylight Saving Time. Now, right here on the University campus, we have something that beats Portland all the way. Portlanders have only two kinds of time to get confused about—Standard and Daylight. In Eugene we have three— the usual pair plus University Time. It hasn’t taken long for confusion to make itself evident. Persons who got out of bed Sunday wondering what time it was, still weren’t sure their watches were correct when they went back to bed at night. The people who swarmed around the Library bunday wait ing for the grand opening learned the hard way that Univer sity Time (a strange device whereby we don’t really change our time; we just change everything else) wasn’t operating there. Further confusion is provided by the Student Union, which keeps its clocks on one kind of time and its bulletin board on another. But perhaps the unhappiest individuals were the people on the Straub dining hall staff. They had to serve two Sunday breakfasts—one for those who got up to Standard Time and another for the Daylighters. What we’ve seen of Daylight Saving Time so far indicates that it does much more than provide extra leisure time. So far in fact it has been more a depriver of study time than a pro vider of extra time. At least we can be consoled with the fact that we’ll meet a lot of interesting new people before things return to semi normalcy. Contests for classroom seats between individuals in the seven o’clock (ugh) and eight o’clock classes are interesting affairs. And we still have regular time to contend with, some stu dents learned Sunday. Those who had tennis courts signed-up for Sunday found that this hour-ahead business doesn’t apply there. They could always come back an hour later, though. Anyone for tennis?—D.D. ---The Atomic Age-r-^+f Indians Succeed in Holding Even on Senate Floor ' As Fund Increase and Decrease Bills Are Nixed ----By Phil Johnson --- .. “Mr. HOFFMAN of Michigan. After all, would not the gentle man rather this money go to the Indians than to the Hottentots and other people over there that we have to pay to take it? “Mr. BEND ER. I agree. Unless we elect Taft there will not b e anything left—not even for the Indi PHIL JOHNSON ans. This unfor tunate bit of dialogue from the Congressional Record (March 27, 1952) represents a Regenerating point in an important debate up on appropriations for Indian af fairs. The discussion opened when an amendment to increase Indian Bureau appropriations by $8 million was introduced. The main argument for the increase was that it would be spent to train the Indians so they could eventu ally leave the reservations, since the reservations do not have the resources to adequately support them. A large part of the increase, according to one senator, “is go ing to be used to train them to bo printers, bricklayers, electricians, engineers and so forth; it is going to train them in the vari ous crafts and arts so that they can make a living and become self-supporting.” Other arguments centered up on the unfortunate living condi tions of the Indians: “I should like to again call the attention of the Committee to the Papagos in Arizona where the life expectancy of an Indian child born today is 17 years. The tubercular rate among the In dians today is 240 per 100,000, and among the white people is 40 per 100,000.” Another stated, ‘‘Mr. Chair man, immediately after the war I visited every concentration camp in Germany. Last year I tossed a challenge at the Cong ress that nowhere in Germany was any concentration camp as cruel and severe and as hard on any human beings as we have been on the American Indians.” A third senator said, “Many Indians live on land that the best farmer in the world would starve to death on if left in its unpro ductive state; we appropriate two or three cents an acre for soil and moisture conservation on Indian lands. What are the consequences ? Each year their soil becomes poorer and poorer and the Indian problem becomes greater and greater.” Still another representative de scribed an Indian hospital in Alaska—“We were told that in the wintertime ice forms on the inside of the walls of that Quon set hut where those children are lying in bed.” There were arguments on the other side of the question, too. Economy - minded legislators mentioned the need for funds in other realms; the need to fight inflation; the fact that Indian Bureau funds had already been slightly increased, although many bureaus were suffering de creases; the inefficiency of the bureau; the large number of per sonnel in the bureau; and the large proportion of the bureau’s funds going to employees rather than to the Indians. Of $122 million requested by the Indian Bureau, it was point ed out, $70 million was earmark ed for personnel. And Represent ative Tom Steed (D.-Okla.), noting that there was one govern ment employee for every 32 In dians served by the bureau last year and one for every 26 Indi ans this year, remarked: “I think the best thing we can say about that situation is that the Indians are still ahead.” Proponents of the increase re plied by pointing out that very few of the 13,000 Indian Bureau employees are administrators; many of them are teachers, dat tors, nurses, etc. Only about GtO of those in the United States'a)e* “bureaucrats.” ~ They also mentioned thejt'a#* that 57 per cent of the bureaJp employees are Indians. _ » One of those rare occurrence —voting on an important issue tinaliy occurred. An amendrfteit to decrease Indian funds was <lt feaied 114-108 and the amjnl-. ment to increase the funds wejtr down by a voice vote. Think What DST Would Do so«p*n$3&^p] “You’re lucky. Mi! Ill nui m if I got clown in 15 minutes. Most of our dates are required to wait an hour.” ^ ---=—± - - Letters to the Editor - - ■ i ’ Value in Code Vote Emerald Editor: In retrospect, I would like to point out that the honor code plebiscite has not been without value. One of the purposes bf the code was to increase student participation in government. The honor code vote has indicated that this participation is obtain able on a large scale. Within a quarter-hour one-half of the stu dents were polled for their opin ion. ' The time element is important. There were so few at the honor code assembly and the ASUO nomination assembly that the al ready-arranged-for public ad dress system was not needed. At both of these events opinion of the students could have been as certained. But, both of the assem blies took an hour of more of the students’ time. The few visitors to the senate have been given the privilege of the floor to express opinion. This has been valuable. But senate meetings last from two to four hours. The value then of the honor code vote is that a substantial segment of student thinking can be ascertained in a relatively short period of time. This tech nique is a step forward toward greater student participation in government and greater respon : sibility between the elective of I . . ficers of this association and' body politic. Don Collin t & Reitz Is OK * Emerald Editor: .T- <• Perhaps the students of t.e University of Oregon would fi :e to know a little more about, Junior Prom’s orchestra frin another campus viewpoint. ' * The committee has received a" letter from James J. OverlQ< t, program director of Univers y of Washington activities, rent ing the success of Johnny Reiite band when he played there, „ said the ASUW had originaly. scheduled a name band for thir senior ball. At the last mint^e the name band cancelled . aid* Reitz stepped in. ], Overlook stated in his Iettlr: “I can truthfully say we w<re* extremely surprised at how gcd the hand was and how well ; hearsed and organized. Tljy have s’ome excellent no\e;y, numbers and they play a vfty danceable program. Joljnpy. Reitz more than justified ojlT confidence. We are definitely g|o ing to bting the band back, ggjj I think that is the acid test,” , In view of this high reco m mendation and Reitz’s success!ul. engagements at hotels and ball rooms, we of the Junior PrcAn 4 committee know that Johniy Reitz will provide enjoyable anil highly danceable music. Bonnie Birkemeier, John Tatfnt Co-chairmen • i I . f i ' t 1 - . * ^