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* tion rates : $5 per school year ; $2 a term. 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 r “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. 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 If! Ho, ft ALDER DIAL 5-E022 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