+ 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
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feature Editor: Dorothy Her
Ahs’t. Managing Editor: Anne
Asst. News Editors: Mary
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Chief Nitfht Kditor: Valerie Her.h
Asst. Sports Editor: Buzz Nelson
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