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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1954)
This Is My Weekend Move over, fellow. You think you're in control here. You think you're in the driver’s seat and nothing can touch you. You think you’re safe because, after all, you're a good, careful driver. But this is ray weekend. See that red light up there. You can make it. There’s no cross traffic in sight. Step on the gas. You’re not really tak ing chances. This is a sure thing. Go ahead, have another drink. You’re not intoxicated, this is just a little picnic and you’ve only had a couple of beers. They don’t hurt a fellow. Sure, you're still in control. W ho says <lrinking and driving don't mix. They do with us. This is my weekend. She’s signaling for a turn. Add a little speed. You’ve got nothing to worry about. Let the other fellow worry about himself. As long as you’re careful, nothing else matters. This whole business is just a bedtime story, anyway. We’re big kids now, and we’re in control here. This is uty weekend. We don’t like people telling us how to drive, do we? \\ e don’t like orders. This is our car, isn't it, and we don't have a thing to worry about. All those pleas for safe driving—they're not talking to us. It’s the other guy. We’ve never had a traffic accident. And we don’t on my weekend. Big weekend? Three days, hmm. Lots of time to go to the beach and zip back. This is our favorite girl, isn’t it? She’s more important than that car heading our way. Go ahead, give her a little kiss. It’s a beautiful spring day and we’re young. We don’t have any worries. And this is niv weekend. You can make it past that car. Slowpoke! \\ hat’s a converti ble for if not to get up speed and to feel the wind in our hair? Come on, off to the open road! You’re a good, safe driver. Nothing for us to worry about. This is my weekend. I'm in vincible. We're safe as long as it’s me behind the wheel. Who am I? I'm death. I’m death on wheels. AND THIS IS MY WEEKEND Opinions— An editorial is an expression of opinion. Whatever one •writes, the ideas and the words are presented in the contest and bias of the writer.__ _ _ , . The Emerald stand on Senator Joseph McCarthy has been presented within a bias. We have written our editorials from the viewpoint of one holding anti-McCarthy opinions. There ' fore, we have not felt it necessary to start out each opinion with "We don’t like McCarthy and . . .” We have also been influenced by the general feeling of opposition to the Wisconsin senator which is prevalent on this rather liberal campus. During our two years at Oregon, v heard a faeuhy-member or stu.dent present a pro-McCarthy viewpoint, although we have heard countless number of criticisms of the man and his techniques of as ~ suming a person guilty by accusation. f Remember the-cdd story of tli^' pr^aclyer.bailing out his r congregation for the members who were not present. That.is ."’our position on this campus concerning Senator. Joseph Mc Carthy.. ■*" -• — But a group of students on campus have now raised the ques tion of our stand on McCarthy ism. _ So_mav _ we outline it £o r our readers,-point-by pomt‘ 1. We believe that Senator McCarthy has endangered our American heritage of-freedom and idedls more than the Com ~~ munlsts he would destroy. We continually find ourselves re minded of the old story that Rome fell because of internal causes, not because of any physical force from without. It is only too easy to draw a parallel. 2. We dislike-the idea of 200 percent Americans advocating . thought control and-investigating institutions' of higher learn ing equally as much as we dislike those same practices in the Soviet Russia. 3. We protest the limitation of any American’s right to ex . plore fields of knowledge and to arrive at his own opinions. 4. We protest the right of any man to make the accusers al ways holy. We think guilt must be proven bv actions, not by the words of another man. Guilt by association is a dangerous ' game for any American to play, 5. We have been shocked, amused and amazed at the pres ent army hearings in Washington. We sincerely hope the na tion and Washington has more important work to do than has been evidenced in the weeks of these hearings. We fear that we may forget what we should be defending and over look the real dangers of totalitarian governments if we prac tice such totalitarian purges within our own government, 6. We believe that present movements of a “Joe must go” nature are aimed in the wrong direction. It is not Senator Mc Carthy which we must eliminate. It fs McGarthyism and its - emotions. If the present .movement in Wisconsin to recall Mc Carthy from the senate fails, as it may well-do, then America • has, in essence, giVen Joe a vote of confidence—at a time when • public opinions demonstrate that his star has reached its crest - and Americans are rejecting this leader of McCarthyism. i ’ ..... Letters ... ...to the Editor The Chimes Emerald Editor: Whore does integrity begin, What is her shape and form ? i What are those things called , Values, i Whence comes our ethic norm ? Magnetic tape and shadow shape Upon a whitened wall, A canned and standard resume Is given to us all. The wall that's poured in con crete form Receives its brick veneer. The surface then at least is there, Tradition’s trust—so dear! We know the word, “Truth," “Honor,” “Real." And structures which they frame, They stand aloft while shallow sham Receives deserved shame. Yet, here across or campus rolls. With character ironic. The fakery of massive Bells, A voice, alas, electronic! —Anonymous The Good Side Emerald Editor: We were quite pleased with the recent feature “article on Dick Neuberger, concerning his unpopularity with students while on the Oregon campus during depression days. The article was well written, and we have no criticism other than that the writer relied solely on news items and letters to the editor, failing to adequately consider and appraise the numerous edi torials Neuberger wrote as Em jipald ec^tgr-Which serve to better focus attention on the perspec tive of his philosophy. . ,* There Is another side to Neuberger besides the contro versy that Tie stirred up. He was not just a “rabble-rouser” hut had many sourd Ideas to place before the minds of the •University students at a time when these ideas were of spe. dal Importance. We believe that Neubcrger’s .editorials -not only touched upon highly pertinent campus and na 4ional_pfoblems of the time, but also contained much in the way 5? .appetizing food for thought, fndwied in this latter phase of his writings were the following excerpts from editorial columns which w'e feel are as applicable io our own troubled times as they were in 1912. Neuberger's. governing princi ples regarding his own philoso phy were clearly shown in an editorial entitled “A Man’s Con science.” In his own words, . . after all, a man’s conscience is his own, and if he dares to stand out for what he believes is right or against what he believes is wrong, when it would be easier to conform, then he should be given an opportunity to do so." Neuberger carried out his philosophy in actual practice as was illustrated in an edi torial regarding the stand of the editor of the University of Nebraska in supporting Nor man Thomas in the 1982 presi dential election. Neuberger stated ,. the Emerald hopes the powers-that.be at Nebras ka will have enough fortitude to permit the young man to retain his position in the face of the criticism that is sure to follow. If nothing else, the ed itor of the Nebraskan has shown himself to be a person of courage, which Is something in these days of compromising and hairsplitting.’’ As to his implied troublemak ing, Neuberger made one point very explicit in a statement re garding EmeralcTnews and edi torial policy. He stated, . . it is the opinion of the writer that a 1 OwKm Daily EMERALD The Oregon Daily RmrrnM I* pnldlahed daily five daya a week during thr achonl yr:,r ixcept examination anil vacatiun period it, by the Student 1‘ublkationa Hoard o( the I'nfver lity of Oregon. Kntered na aecond claaa mutter at the putt office, Eugene, Uregon. Subrcnp ion ratea: $5 per achool year ; $2 a term. Opiniona expreaaed on tlie editorial page are thorr of the writer and do not pretend to epreaent the tipmtona of the ASUO or of the fJnfveraity. linaigncd cdiloriala arc written by he editor; initialed editoriala by the aaaociate editora. paper can oppose an existing or der without turning radical in doing so." In closing, we wish to quote from President O. Meredith Wil son's article, "The Power of Ideas"; "It matters some, but is not crucial that no law restrains our freedom of speech, A man who doubts his powers no longer has them. A man who refuses to express a divergent opinion be cause of external pressures to conform is more effectively re. strained than one who is under obligation of the law. Americans know how to fight tyranny when it can be identified, but they are not so clear about how to pro tect their freedoms against forces as insidious as personal doubt and public pressure. Yet the con tinued freedom of thought and expression is the secret of our power, and the foundation of all the other freedoms that we call American.’’ Kenneth K. Cunningham Lawrence Schwartz Torn Shepherd So Proud Emerald Editor; To An Unknown Vandal: You are to be commended on your recent nocturnal, hurculcan feat of strength which saw you completely demolish, devastate and destroy the sign in front of the Lutheran Student house dedi cated to Christ, the King. Don Quixote attacked wind mills. You have improved on this legendary lunatic and have succeeded In stalking and over coming a stationary pole. Hur rah—you are a true man of the first water (or was it some thing besides water which flowed through your veins in. spiring you to such noble deeds of conquest*). Now you have much over which to bare your arm in front of your fraternity brothers -they will be so proud! And such fine news to write to the family back home, investing thousands an nually so that you can demon strate your virility "Dear ma, •Last night I tore down the sign in front of a church building . . They’ll be so proud. The old adage, boys will be boys, has now due to your heroism been altered and im-1 proved to read “boys will be; jackasses." I don’t know you which is fortunate for both of us - so I really shouldn’t attempt to analyze you, but I would sus pect that you are the kind of fel low that when someone first; meets you, they don’t think much of you, but after they get to know you, they hate you. How do you explain this non sensical little kid vandalism to yourself? Is this part of your “e ducat lonal emancipation" manifesting ItselfOr were you Just drunk? Or an* you ul waya a little off balance, men tally? Stop by the Lutheran Student Mou.se no hard feeling)*. You’ can have that sign If It meant i that much to you. Jim Kallas ■ 1 Student Pastor. Freshman Spirit? Emerald Editor: ■ 1 Where la the freshman class spirit? Certainly It la not In help ing to paint the "O". This one-time Oregon tradi tion has now degerated to the point where hut one Freshman, - even a tougli veteran, was the only man who had enough spirit to volunteer for tills - thankless duty. We realize that the Freshmen had other things to do, but when. a group of let ter men asked the idle Freshmen to volunteer, they" were greeted with false promises,, lame excuse*, and slamming doors. How can we solve this prob lem ? Is it possible to revive this tradition to the point where it" was a few years ago when the Freshmen were living in frater nities? We fool that the Freshman • girls, who fought so valiantly against the Order of the "O,” showed spirit which should put ’ these mere males to shame. . j Our hats off to the martyred Freshman, Leonard Svarverad,* who we hope has put the present Freshmen to shame mid may he inspire our future Freshmen to . fulfill our Oregon traditions. Darrell Klntnpr j Jack Fenton Misunderstood Kmc raid Editor; j Several perrons who read my ] letter in yesterday’s Emerald felt * it gave tacit approval to Me-* I Carthyism. I wish to correct thL ex- • tremely erroneous linpreWon. *j I am opposed to any attempt.I to curtail academic fr-adorn, - either by McCarthy or any other group. Nona Cllazer ^ Cosmo Club Slates Officer Elections Cosmo Club will meet from 8 to 12 tonight at Plymouth House. Temporary officers for 11)54-">5' will be elected. Entertainment for the meeting will be Indian dances and slides orf Crater Lake. Students planning to go on the trip to Crater Lake May 29 should check at Plymouth House for available space in cars. t SAUTER-FINEGAN on RCA VICTOR Records In Person TICKETS $1.50 Plus Tax (WEDNESDAY—8 P.M.—E.H.S. AUDITORIUM) 1235 WILLAMETTE^ FRI1=NDLY RECORD STORE
