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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1955)
+ EMERALD EDITORIALS + Time Treatment Oregon is in the national limelight this week, with the smiling pictures of our two United States senators adorning the cover of Time magazine. The four-page “cover story” in the Jan. 17 Time is typical of the profile articles the widely-read weekly newsmagazine pub lishes. It is well-written, interesting and dis plays a meticulous preoccupation with the minutiae of detail. The article is neither re vealing nor significant, which perhaps would be too much to expect from the glossy Luce publication. One would have to look other than in the pages of this week’s Time if he wanted an accurate and penetrating insight into the political significance of Senators Morse and Neuberger. To those of us who know the two men, the cover story is interesting and a little amusing. We might better re gret that the great army of Time readers across the nation will probably let their opinions of the men be formed by the “editorial” treatment of the magazine. Time’s well-known bias is evident in al most every adjective it applies to Morse and Neuberger. The whole approach to their sub ject seems flippant and insincere* as con trasted1;o their laudatory cover treatment of New Jersey’s Clifford Case—an article well timed to appear on the eve of the crucial senate race in that state. Publicity for Oregon and its senators is not to be denied. It is only unfortunate that the publicity had to be presented in the man ner Time magazine chose. Were Waiting Looking over the winter Jerm activity schedule, we find a fall program of campus events: Dad’s day, Senior ball, Frosh Sno Ball, barbershop quartet contest. Religious Evaluation week and the resurrected Mili tary ball. Success for these events depends, in a large measure, upon student interest and participation. In order to be interested in the programs offered, the students must be informed of them. And that’s where the Em erald comes in. The Emerald, we like to think, is a fair approximation of an average community newspaper. Its community is the campus, and local news—campus events—takes up a large percentage of its news columns. We like to give as full and complete cover age as possible to the events taking place here at the University. % But local news, in the Emerald as in most community newspapers, must compete with the significant developments in the world outside of the immediate environment. Thus, we are expanding our coverage of state, na tional and international news with the aid of our Associated Press wire service. News of the winter term activities men tioned above must be promoted by those sponsoring the events in order to warrant coverage by the Emerald. The campus daily is not a bulletin hoard for campus activities. The publicity chairman of the various events have the obligation of contacting the Emer ald news department as soon as possible tQ guarantee adequate news coverage. We will do the writing and editing of the stories the publicity chairmen bring to us. W e do not feel obligated to give an unlimited amount of free advertising space to those events which are money-making ventures. The burden of promotion rests with those who are sponsoring the events. Last term, the so-called publicity chair man for the Sophomore Whiskerino never bothered to contact the Emerald to make the necessary arrangements for news cov erage of the event. Consequently, our coverage of the dance received consider ably less emphasis than either we or the Whiskerino committee desired. This term we have heard from only one of the pub licity chairmen about news coverage of the event being sponsored. Let this be fair warning to those in charge of RE week. Dad’s day, the Military ball, etc. If they want news of their events cov ered in the Emerald, please send us your publicity chairmen to make the proper ar rangements. And send them now. Footnotes We don't like to complain all the time, so will have to admit Student Union coffee is tasting better this term than ever before. Better, that is, in comparison to coffee served at the SU in the past, and not neces sarily better in comparison to coffee served other places. That’s about the nearest we will probably ever come to complimenting the SU on its coffee. * * * Looks like someone tried to burn some thing on SU lawn. What it was, one can't judge from sorry state of grass bordering University street. INTERPRETING THE NEWS Frances Trading Premier Surprises WEU Conferees By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst French Premier Mendes-France who has become known among his country’s allies as a man who believes in trading when the trading is best, met conferees from seven other countries Mon day who must find themselves at least slightly surprised to be there. The subject is a pool of arms production under Western Eu ropean Union, a subject they thought had been put far into the future when the groundwork for the whole business was being laid in London. They turned down Mendes France then. Now he has the support from Italy, and the United States is naturally in clined to lean toward any meas ure which revives some of the super-national features which were killed off when France re fused the old European Defense Community idea. But Britain was just barely able to make up her mind to join the Westen European Union without these supra-na tional features giving the Euro pean members a say in her arms program, and shows no indica tion of going farther now. Germany, of course, reads the Mendes-France proposal as de signed to place greater restric tions on her position in WEU than she was willing to agree to in the beginning, and adoption of the production. The existing agreement on allocation of arms under NATO was about all he could take. Observers Wonder Observers were wondering whether Mendes-France was contributing more to European unity than to take danger that WEU might fall through after all. He was, of course, using the French political situation to fos ter his idea. He had a close squeak in getting by the first Assembly vote on WEU, and must yet face a final vote after Senate action. The production pool should make that easier, since it would provide another guarantee against any tendency of Ofermany to get out of hand. Threat Would Shift But if it brought about a Ger man -rebellion against unequal partnership in the defense of Europe, a rebellion already be ing fostered by important seg ments of German political life, the threat to ultimate formation of WEU would merely be shifted from Paris to Bonn. Mendes-France may expect to get some other concessions even if the pool idea fails. One thing he wanted originally is for the United States to agree, which she would not do, to deliver- her military aid to Europe through the WEU arms control arrange ment rather than to individual oountries. This would remove the fear that Germany might be built rp faster than France could teep pace. Personality Revealed In Emerald Interview By William T. 1-lnklulcr (Editor's note: The follow ing column whn written an a satire on the personality sketches of University faculty and administration figures, which the Kmerald has been running as a series.) For a warm smile am! a tepid conversation over a hot cup of coffee. Leo Nuttman, personnel head at John Straub hall, ia the man to sec. Many student Job applicants, who had previously thought of Nuttman only as a mess hall boss, have emerged from his of fice realizing that he is also an accomplished aviator, profession al photographer, expert bartend er, former World War II hero twice recommended for the Silver Star, geographer, president of several organisations, and Impor tant, legal research arm of the law school who has been half way around the world several times. An hour with Nuttman in his modest room in Hale Kane is inevitably a busy one. During this interview he lent his liquor license to a bearded freshman, shouted out the window to ar range a movie date, pounded on the wall to quiet the record play er next door, lit the wrong end of a filter-tip cigarette, and mis took a tube of shaving cream for his toothpaste. Nervously scratching hts nose and srmhng, he said, "I don’t know how I keep up with this busy routine." Priding himself on his bound less affection for those who work under him and those whom he serves, Nuttman declared that he frequently enjoys standing in the mess hall lobby and smiling at the students in the line. "In fact, when "the line extends out into the street on a cold, rainy day, I even chuckle," he added ebulliently. Nutt man regrets the fact I hut most student* tlilnk of him only a* the age-man over the student help. "Of u staff of forty I only fire about five per cent a day; I upend the xast preponderance of my time turning student* over to the Student Affair* office for un ruly conduct In the mew* hall." Asked to state hi* attitude to ward thoae who work under him, Nuttman shifted hla form around in hla chair and, whistling a few bar* of "Chicago," leaned over and switched on the radio. Dur ing thia pause, your reporter noticed a plaque on the wall above Nuttman'a deak, reading in large, old Kngltsh lettera: ‘•We’ll Vote for Grant Again." At the opposlte end of the room hung a small portrait of Raspu tln. N»;UiS*r‘e beady, brown eye* piercing through the dusty win dow to the fog outside, he said slowly, even movingly, "Thi* i* my country!" And he add- 1. answeting the earlier question, "My workers have learned to get along with me; I’ll always Jet them have their say. My policy was beat Mated by Voltaire when he aakl, ‘I may disagree with what you aay. but not one cent for tribute.'" By this time the person next door Mas kicking on the wall Iwrause Nuttman’s radio xxus too loud. Tilting In his chair while searching for a bottle opener In his pocket, Nuttman fell oxer backward onto the floor, afterwards ohsrrxlng, “It seems I never liaxe a free moment." Having spent an hour with doubtless the busiest man on campus, this reporter could read ily agree. Careful Workman T ■fi”’’ ' " ""um "Ik th«*re a rotten wire to spllct* on that pole again?” D“1 Em"*U. '* P"MW-» d.y. * »«k during (lie .cho.,1 ye.r rv..,.l ‘ . 1 v*c* lon Per",H*' **y •»**• Student p„bll. .ii„„. Bu.td „| ||„. lJnt.rr.ily .,1 (>rrV .n. KUIyr“r«! lrlJr ** Oregon. Sub.. r.pUon . IS ,-u ■ rnt>^h°n“'n'^i.ri'‘l’"~**r'l|0n .'-f, «<llg>rl|*1 “rr "I He writer end do not pretend to re,.re • y - - - e ASUO or the University, I lutigned editorial* are written by the edMufl ru r*l tli.. w.lii..wl.l L i Initialed editorial* by members of the editorial JOK (JAKDNKK, Kd.tor .1 !• A N S A \ f) 1 \ K, 15 ii ii K I.hWIS, JA( kll. WAKUKLI., Ahiioriate Kditorw Chief Makeup Editor: Sam Vahey feature Editor: Dorothy Her Ahs’t. Managing Editor: Anne Asst. News Editors: Mary Carol Craig, Sam Frear, An Kobinson Chief Nitfht Kditor: Valerie Her.h Asst. Sports Editor: Buzz Nelson Kitchev Alice Allen, nc Hill, Boh i/iiicc manager: mil MamwarniK Nat’l. Adv. Mgr.: Mary Salazar Circulation Mgr.: Rick Hayden Asb't. Office Mgr.: Marge Harmon Layout Manager: Dick Koe Clarified Adv.: Helen K. Johnson Morgue Editor: Kathleen Morrison Woman’s Page Co cdJtors: Sally Jo Greig* Marcia Mauney
