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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.” ^
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- - 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 •
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