No Need for a Class Coundl
Thursday night the ASUO senate abolished the class coun
cil.
The council was created by the senate in September, 1951. It
consisted of the president and vice-president of each class and
\vas presided over by the vice-president of the ASUO. Pur
pose of the group was to provide for greater cooperation be
tween classes.
Thursday evening three former members of the class coun
cil had this to say about it:
Don Collin, senator-at-large—"Attendance was very, very
poor; probably because we had nothing to do.”'
Bob Brittain, Junior class president—The class council is
“not harming anything;” it never got going last year; such
regularly scheduled meetings are an aid in solving class
problems; the success of the group depends on the persons in
the group; let’s give it another try.
Judy McLoughlin, senator-at-large—"Many times we sat
there trying to think up things to do. We had to hold four
meetings to have our pictures taken because not enough
people came.”
We consider the abolishment of the class council a good
thing. During its year of existence it accomplished nothing of
importance.
The class council held seven meetings last year. It dis
cussed seven major items including a freshman-sophomore
vaudeville show, class dues, tradition enforcement and intra
class harmony. Nothing material emerged from any of these
discussions.
The senate exhibited, a healthy attitude toward student
government when they dissolved the council.
Currently the ASUO senate is operating on the committee
system. Problems are given to appointed- committees which
do the necessary research and report to the senate before the
matter is discussed. Under such a system there is no need for
a. class council.
-Nov. 77, 7978
Thirty-four years ago today World War I ended. It was
known to Americans as the “war to end wars.”
A total of 8,538,315 persons were killed or died during World
War I. The war produced the song "Over There,” the legend
of Mata Hari, Wilson’s 14 points and the League of Nations.
It was a big war for its time.
We All Make Mistakes
THATS RIGHT/
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OWNJ LIBRARY
ALLTH' TIME.
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“It’s a disgrace to think a book could be missing for 3 years—Put a
tracer on it and phone my office immediately on any information—
and furthermore—
Ormm dailu
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War Generation
Well Described
In La Due Novel
By Michael Lundy
We find ourselves this week
in the precarious position of go
ing against both time and book
critics and endorsing a story
which has received the plaudits
of neither.
“No More With Me" by Russell
La Due was first published by
Doubleday in 1947, and Avon
seems to have reprinted it only
because it has a frank attitude
towards sex. They have commit
ted the unforgivable; changed
the title (to attract the lower
minds) to “Hell-Bent With
Jake!" The cover picture and the
blurbs on the Avon two-bit edi
tion also misrepresent the book
as a “sex-novel.”
Missed the Boat
Reviews of the book when it
was first issued also missed the
boat, so uniformly that we begin
to wonder how many critics ever
really read new books by un
known authors, before making up
their minds. Also, can it be pos
sible that in this day of honesty
and realism that book critics are
still trying to slay the dragon of
sex which lurks, in their eyes,
behind every bush and under ev
ery bed ?
“No More With Me” is a love
story, not a sex story, a chron
icle of pain, not pleasure, a trag
edy, not a comedy. Only those
with dirty minds will find dirt
in this book.
Mike and Jake
The story concerns the week
after Mike Odell is discharged
from the marines and his des
perate and unsuccessful attempt
to win back Jake, the girl he left
behind him, from the man to
whom she has become engaged.
Jake is quite a wonderful char
acter, a woman who is liberal,
intelligent, and frank, but who
remains completely moral and in
nocent. Contrasted to her is Ann,
the girl who loves Mike. Ann is
also intelligent, but not very lib
eral, nor frank, nor modern. She
is aristocracy, product of a girl’s
school, and would like very much
to not be moral and innocent.
Carefully Nurtured
Mike is strongly attracted to
Ann, but is deeply in love with
Jake. He talks her into a wild
weekend trip from New York to
their midwest home and uses
every device to bring back the
relationship he feels they once
had. His final loss of her has an
inevitability carefully nurtured
from the start with very fine
W'riting.
Some of the best scenes are
those after Mike leaves Jake for
good and goes for a drunken re
union party to Chicago with his
two closest friends, Zeke and
Holberg, who are a pair of the
most perceptive and intelligent
lads who have been written about
in some time.
Good and Substantial
“No More With Me” certainly
does not succeed in every respect.
It is sometimes brittle, repeti
tious,, and a little too self-con
sciously smart. The conversation,
though brilliant, is often inane.
The tragedy of lost love is not
really very tragic.
It belongs to that category of
post-war novels about intelligent
people who are mixed up, but it is
not as good a book as either
Merle Miller’s “That Winter” or
Frederick Wakeman’s “Shore
Leave.” But it is a good, substan
tial piece of fiction and it suc
ceeds very well in transcribing
the motivations and ideas of this
wartime generation, which may
not be as romantic as Heming
way’s and Fitzgerald’s group of
the twenties, but is much more
realistic.
A LONG STORY
French 'Clumsy' in Indo-China
By E. A. Van Natta
Behind the stories coming froffi
Indo-China bemoaning tin' sad
plight of the French forces en
gaged there lies a long story of
French ineptitude and clumsiness
in the handling of an explosive
situation which might have been
satisfactorily solved in the early
post-war years.
As early as December, 1943,
the French provisional govern
ment in Algiers gave definite in
dications of planning for the fu
ture of the French colonies in
Asia once the war ended. -Ac
cording to the statement issued
from Algiers, France "would give
a new political status to the
people of Indo-China.”
Another Statement
On March 24, 194.r), the provi
sional government issued another
statement setting forth the basis
for an “autonomous Indo-Chi
nese Federation within the
French Union.” It was apparent
that the French recognized at
this early date that some drastic
Notes to the Editor
. W I). !'
To the Editor:
It's high time the rally hoard
did something about this card
hurling after card stunts. Per
haps they could replace the
heavy cards with a lightweight
cardboard.
This year and last two sisters
have come from Homecoming
games with nasty bruises near
their eyes and across their noses
—the last one resulting in a
black eye having been hit by
the sailing cards. Does one of
them have to lose an eye before
something is done about this?
Donna Pastrouich
To the editor:
We feel that the freshman
class is as eager as any other
class in the University to uphold
the traditions, but when upper
classmen fail on their part of the
customs, something should be
done.
Seven of us volunteered, and
got up early Saturday morning
to paint the “O" on Skinner’s
Butte. It seems the Order of the
“O was to have the blasted part
re-cemented in time so that the
frosh wouldn’t have to worry
about that. It wasn’t fixed, no
one had even started to fix it and
to this moment it's still a blasted
“C.”
The Order of the ‘’O’’ suppos
edly was to meet the frosh who
volunteered, and furnish them
transportation to Skinner’s
Butte; they didn’t show up. They
were also supposed to get the
paint; it didn't show up! All in
all, we think the Order of the
“O” really messed up the whole
affair. As far as we can see this
is the only frosh tradition that
we didn't take complete care of,
and it wasn’t our fault. If the
cementing, purchasing of paint,
etc., had been left up to us, the
University of Oregon would have
a bright, yellow “O,” not a dull
orangish-yellow “C,” on Skinner’s
Butte now.
Dennis McFerran
Dennis Olson
Jerry L. Beckley
Spencer Snow
Shannon Oldham
changes were in order for the em
pire in the post-war period.
They of course hoped that their
colonies would agree to a slow, ■
evolutionary process toward poli
tical independence but such wici i
not the attitude taken by the
Indo-Chinese colony of Annum.
On Sept. 7, 1945, the Nationalist
party, or Viet Nam, issued a dec
laration of independence and c
tablished a coalition government
at Hanoi under the leadership of
Premier Ho Chin Minh.
A New Agreement
The French government on
March 6, 1940, signed an agree
ment with the new Republic in
which this latter was recognized
as "a free state within the Indo
Chinese Federation of the French
Union.”
However negotiations over im
plementing the terms of the new
agreement bogged down while
the French carried on an exten
sive build-up of their forces in
the Hanoi region. By December
of 1946 open warfare was raging
between the French troops and
Nationalist forces with the resort
that the latter were finally driv
en from Hanoi.
Military Action
Early in January, 1947, Prem
ier Leon Blum .sent Marius Mu
tet, Minister of France Overseas,
ostensibly to negotiate a settl -
ment with Ho Chin Minh. In '
Hanoi, however, Moutot anno in ^
cd: "Before there is any' negoti ,
lion it will be necessary to get 3
military decision. There is noth- -
ing left but military action.
Some 75,000 French troops, wi:
tanks, guns, bazookas, flame
throwers, and airplanes (many .
of them American), were rein
forced by Foreign Legionnaires.
By 1949 the French parliamei '
had cancelled the colonial statu
of Cochin-China, allowing it to
unite with tho former protect*
ates of Annum and Tonkin in o.
der to form the Vietnam. Can.
bodia and Laos, also former pr
tectorates, were, along with t:
new Vietnam, recognized 1 .
Franoe as independent stab i
within the French Union.
With Blessings
In 1950, Bao-Dni, the tan
king of Annum was restored 'o -
his throne with the blessings >[
the French government, Bao r —
turned to Indo-China but i— <-iv 1 '
a very cool reception upon la: *
ing at Saigon. Prince Buu-H i
stated flatly before the puppt ;
return that the latter "does not
enjoy in the least the support f "
his Vietnam countrymen." Pop
ular demonstrations against the
new king were ruthlessly put
down by the newly-formed gov- -
ernrnent.
Since the return of Bao the
government has grown corrupt -
and inefficient and is utterly in
capable of mustering any popu
lar support among the people. '
The Vietnamese Army has r.o
general staff and is generally
disorganized.
With the fall of China in 1919
to the communists, the Nation- ”
alist movement in Vietnam re
ceived much sympathy and aid
from the new Chinese regime
which was more than eager to
exploit a bona fide independence
movement for its own subversive
ends.
The rebellion as it stands to- «
day is more than likely under the
complete control of the Commun
ists with the results that what
was once a genuine, if premature,
movement for national self-detcr
mination and capable of easy so
lution has now become an inter
national source of strife betwoefi'
East and West. Had the French
been a little more realistic and _
flexible in their handling of the
situation in 1945 the present ini-.
passe would probably never have
developed.