Omxw Daily
EMERALD
The Oregon Daily Emerald is published daily five days a week during the school year
except examination and vacation periods, by the Student Publications Board ot the Univer
sity of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subscrip*
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Opinions expressed on the editorial page nre those of the writer and do not pretend to
represent the opinion, of the ASUO or of the University. Unsigned editorials are written by
the editor; initialed editorials by the associate editors.
ELSIE SCHILLER, Editor
DICK CARTER, Business Manager
JACKIE WARDELL, RON MILLER, Associate Editors
KITTY FRASER, Managing Editor
VALERA YIERRA, Adv. Mgr.
The McCarthy Plague
We keep receiving literature from various groups around
the country, pushing campaigns for various and assorted things
and asking our support.
The latest plea to come in over our desk is a letter from
a group of students at the University at Ann Arbor, Michi
gan. And they bring up the rather familiar problem of Sen
ator Joseph McCarthy and his activities in the U.S. senate.
The students at Ann Arbor have organized a group known
as the Green Feather, taken from the report of a textbook
commissioner in Indiana who felt that the story of Robin
Hood should be banned from the schools as it fostered com
munist ideals. An example of this, the commissioner felt, was
the practice of Robin Hood of robbing the rich and giving to
the poor.
The "Merry Men” of the Ann Arbor Green Feather group
urge students and townspeople to organize and write letters
to their representatives in the government in an effort to get
the Wisconsin senator "to curb his activities.”
They remind us that McCarthy has: 1. not been responsible
for the conviction of one communist; 2. not suggested one
single legislative bill concerning communism; 3. acted as
though honest errors, which could be viewed as advantageous
to the enemy, were therefore premeditated acts of subver
sion; 4. by both his activities here, and those of his operat
ives abroad, greatly damaged American prestige, and 5. in
effect, usurped the powers of the judicial by conducting his
investigations in a quasi-judicial manner.
With all of which we agree. But, before joining up with any
^roup, to rid America of the plague of McCarthyism, we’d like
lo present an excellent interpretation of the whole McCarthy
problem, written by Robert Frazier, which appeared in the
.Eugene Registher-Guard editorial columns April 21.
Nothing Personal About It
From Nevada and from Wisconsin come reports of attacks
upon Senator Joe McCarthy, and in some otherwise enlightened
quarters, these attacks are being hailed as blows for liberty.
They should not be so regarded.
In Wisconsin the battle is being fought by the “Joe Must
Go” group which seeks to get Joe out of the senate by legal
means. In Nevada they are less patient. There the attack is
by Hank Greenspun, the Las Vegas editor now under federal
indictment for suggesting too broadly that Joe should be
eliminated as Huey Long was eliminated.
Both these attacks are probably well-intentioned. But both
miss the point. McCarthy is no Huey Long, inspiring the love
■of the underfed and the undereducated, promising a new world
•with every man a king. He is no Hitler, with a broad program
for national glory. He is just an ambitious, unprincipled, and
rather obnoxious jjolitical prospector who found where the po
litical treasure was buried.
If McCarthy were to be eliminated today, McCarthyism
would carry on. Other prospectors, jealous of Joe’s big strike,
would mine the same vein, hoping to reap the same rich re
wards. McCarthy didn’t put the treasurer there. He bor
rowed an old map and it led him to the old mine.
He discovered what the Kno-Nothings discovered a hundred
3rears ago. He discovered what the Ku Kluxers had left behind.
He discovered the political value of suspicion and distrust. He
■discovered how to use hate. All these discoveries are old. Joe
discovered how to apply them to the current situation.
These old treasures he wrapped in a shining gilt blanket of
patriotism, the same blanket used by the Know Nothings and
the Ku Kluxers, and the same blanket used by Hitler and
Cromwell and every other demagogue of every other time.
It is convenient to focus a fight around a personality. It
is easier to hate Joe McCarthy than it is to hate shabby
ethics. McCarthy knows that. He used the technique when
he focused his early crusades around the person of Dean
Acheson. He knows you can hate Dean Acheson easier than
you can hate intellectualism or soft-headedness or that most
loathsome of vices, “wrong-thinking.” It does no credit to
Joe’s enemies if they adopt his techniques.
The answer to McCarthyism is not the elimination of the
brilliant'and determined prospector. It is the elimination of the
feelings he plays upon. Joe McCarthy is merely one character
riding across the stage of history. It happened he filled a par
ticular need at a particular time. If Joe goes, the people who
embraced him will gather around somebody else.
It's Not the School
--7-psr-rm-"I
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“I thought you told Juno I’d had my last blind da to Wuh a I hy*.
Ed. major.”
O' to Punish Violators
At Fenton Pool Today
Junior Weekend traditions vio
lators will receive their punish
ment today, Order of the "O’’
President Doug Clement has an
nounced. The violators have been
ordered to report to Fenton pool
at 12:30 p. m.
Tradition* violators listed Wednesday in
cluded: Janet Bibby, Marilyn Patterson.
ROTC to March
In Float Parade
Both University of Oregon
ROTC units, approximately 1,000
strong, are preparing to march in
the Armed Forces day parade, Sat
urday. The Army and Air Force
units are participating in the Eu
gene parade as a part of the Na
A new ruling for the assembly
of the Junior Weekend floa’t pa
rade has been made, according
to Mary Wilson and Ann Hop
kins, co-chairmen.
Previously, all floats would be
eligible for judging as long as
they arrived at the place of as
semblage by 3 p.m. on Saturday.
Now, any float that arrives after
2:30 p.m. will not be eligible for
judging, but may be in the pa
rade. Any float arriving after
3 p.m. will be completely dis
qualified.
tional Armed Forces day, an event
observed by all Armed Forces
units in the nation.
The two groups will assemble at
the same time, Saturday at 2:30
p.m.; the Army on the upper drill
field behind the ROTC buildings;
and the Air Force in its regular
location on the intramural track.
The color guard and band will
group on the intramural track
with the Air Force.
Roll will be taken at 2:30 p.m.,
as in a regular ROTC drill period.
Each house on campus has turned
in a list of its members who are
working on the float parade, and
only these cadets will be excused
from the drill. They will not have
to make the drill up, according
to Col. Edwin B. Daily, professor
of air science and tactics.
After roll has been taken, the
two groups will form into a single
marching unit on the lower
(frosh) baseball diamond. At 3
p.m. the parade will start; the
ROTC units will move up 18th ave.
to University st., where they will
join the Junior Weekend float pa
rade.
There will be 60 entries in the
parade, including the ROTC
marching group and 21 University
floats by campus living organiza
tions.
Donna Bti*e, Judy Morlc, M.»ry Hctdeman,
Mary ( air, l harroaync < hailey, Ruth IL*il>c.
Rat Sykes, Mary Hrook*. Marcia < «**k,
Gloria St«»lk, Sat ah Smith, ami Huntley
Alvey.
Mary Anne Simmon*, Sally Thompson,
Coleen Smith, Mary Smith, M.rna Smith.
Don Smith, Sally Slate, lone Scott, Diane
Skidmore, Nancy Woodruff. Cary Wetn
stein, Sid Woodbury, Marian Winters.
Ed Bingham, Darrel Rutter, Carol Kero.
Bill Moore, Sam X<>to*. Jack Nance. Raul
Frahm, Arden Christenson, Jean Nielson,
Harlara Williams, Jani* (ilmion, ( oimic
l.<niK, Ted O'Neil, Hob Anderson, Donna
Aarift, Marilyn Merry, Jean Hoyden, Mar)
Brennan, Eltcn Hurbano, Carolyn Call, Sue
Carol hers, Samira Deck, l'atty Fagan, t ar
lene Faires, Chloe Fair weather, Lynn Gilder
sleeve, Donna Glaske.
Nancy Gossett, Mary (jotter, Nan Hagen
dorn, Chuck Huggins. Nancy Dunhe*on, Jim
Hansen, Nancy Hill, Valerie Ifersh. Mar
rict Ifornhrck, Helen Johnston, Jackie Jones,
Ken Kescy, Rat Kiligailon, Heverly Lemmon.
Carol Long, Linda Lundy, Marian M< I) well.
Rhil McHugh, Jack Mold, VaJ Motfraun,
Sharon Mullins, Stan Oswald. Emil me Over
hulse.
Martin Pedigo, Judy Pierce, Sandra Price.
1-irry (Juackenlwsh, Betsy Rinehart, Anne
Ritchey, Helen Robertson, Bill Frye and Rat
Gildea.
Are They For Real?
It looks like Oregon needs a
chapter of the gestapo to track
down traditions violators. >
Of 85 names given the Emerald
Wednesday afternoon by Order of
the "O” representatives, seven
were not registered in school. The
list was checked with the Pigger'n
Guide and the registrar's office.
Lois Cross ley, Shirley Andree,
Sue Krigle, Polly Krieger, Harriet
Dawson, Dudley Mukhunaloha.
and Terry Dixon are the names
which could not be verified.
MAYFLOWER
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NOW FLAYING
MARLON BRANDO . JAMES MASON
JOHN GIELGUD • LOUIS CALHERN
EDMOND O’BRIEN • GREER GARSON
DEBORAH KERR in
JUUUS
CAESAR
Noted Economist
To Visit Campus
Noted economlHt Hirneon K. Uc
tun<l, professor of economics and
dean of the college of liberal mix
at Ninth western university will be
on campus for a three day speak
ing engagement starting Monday.
Leland rated as "one of the
leading economists In the United
States" by C. Ward Mary, head
of the economies department, is n
specialist In taxation and fiscal
policies. Before his appointment
at Northwestern he was head of
the department of economics at
the University of Chicago f,n.
many years.
The speaker has often served n
an adviser for the federal govern
ment and served as public mem
ber of the board of directors of the
Chicago federal reserve bank.
I-eland's speaking schedule Is
: as follows:
Monday evening he will speak
on "Current Fiscal Policy" in the
Dad's room of the Student Union
' at 7:30 p.m. This talk will stiess
the current tax and budget nut
* ters before Congress. The public
| is invited.
"The Current State of Econorn
: ict;" will be Iceland's topic on
| Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the SU.
Deland's final lecture will con
' aider "The Urban Fringe and Its
Problems.' It will be the brows
I ing room lecture for Wednesday
••vening, 7:30 p.m.
Air Force ROTC
Interviews End Fri.
Interviews of Air Foscc ROT<'
1 sophomore cadets applying foi ad
j vanced training will be complet' d
Friday.
Officers of the University ah
force detachment Interviewed 30
of the 60 applicants last Friday,
and will screen the remaining 30
this Friday. Except for military
veterans and a few possible non
flight applicants, only sophomores
(qualifying for flight training will
be accepted, according to Lt. Col.
Ham E. Sheffield, assistant pro
fessor of air science and tactics.
To Ire accepted for flight train
ing. a student must make mini
mum scores in the eight-hour of
ficer qualification tests, and pass
the flight physical examination.
Campus Calendar
Noon Smith Lunch 110 SU
Journ Fac 111 SU
Speech Dept 112 SU
Deiteret Cl 113 SU
Phi Betn Cab 1H SU
WKA Cab Com Lnch
4:30 Campua Cleanup Jdgo
110 SU
Terruc Dance SU
6:30 City Panhel 112 SU
H.hc Chaplain* 315 SU
Hae Mgra 334 SU
7:00 Delta Theta Phi
Gcr 3rd FI
7:30 NAACP Steerng 110 SIJ
Aakleptad* 111 SU
8.00 Crane Lecture
DucIh rm SU