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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1955)
+ EMERALD EDITORIALS + Your lilewspaper The Emerald has been publishing eight page daily editions since the beginning of this term. We hope to continue on an eight page daily publication schedule for the re mainder of the school year. A rather uneven course has been steered by the campus daily in the past two and a half years since we last published daily eight page papers. In the fall of 1952, the paper was cut back to four eight i>age papers per w eek (Monday paper eliminated). Winter, 1953, the Emer ald returned to a five-day-a-week publica tion schedule with three four and two eight pagers. Regular daily four page papers were established in spring of 1953. Only by spring of 1954 was the Emerald able to put out even one eight pager per w'eek, on Friday. This situation continued through last term. And now, we are back to daily eight page papers after a two and one-half year interval. The step-up in Emerald publication was originally made possible by the large ad vertising surplus earned fall term. A bud get allotment from the University will make possible the continuation of eight pagers for most of the remainder of this term. But eight pager daily papers spring term is up to us on the Emerald staff and you who read the paper. We think we can sw ing it by increased advertising sales and by trim ming our production costs. We can't do it all alone though. Genuine campus interest in an expanded newspaper must be forthcoming in order to stay at eight pages. We will be looking for a larger news staff, more advertising sales men. If you, our readers, are interested in a larger paper, we will give you one. If not, we can always return to four page papers. Possible retrenchment over here will clearly be a sign of student apathy in their campus newspaper; the blame should not be placed on the Emerald staff. What’s in an eight page daily paper for the students? More news of campus activi ties; interesting feature and column ma terial, a two-page sports section; more extensive coverage (through our Associ ated Press service) of significant news of the world—an all around better news paper product of which the University of Oregon can be proud. We ask you to bear with us in the next few weeks as we complete the transition from four to eight page papers. It‘s been a long time since we’ve put out these daily eight page papers. Most of us have had no previous experience with this size paper— new skills must he mastered, old techniques relearned. During this temporary changeover per iod, we would appreciate any suggestions and comments on the eight page papers. We want to know what you would like to see in an expanded Oregon Daily Kmerald. It’s your newspaper. Oregon Sweetheart The Emerald seldom devotes editorial space to praise of a specific person on or oft campus, but we feel that Sally Jo Grieg has earned such praise during the year ami a half she has been on campus. Miss Grieg was recently awarded the Mor tar Board plaque for having the highest Gl’A among freshman women last year. This in itself is an accomplishment, hut far from her only achievment. Last year’s Sweetheart of Sigma Chi on the Oregon campus. Miss Grieg has been entered by this chapter as their candidate for International Sweetheart. Winning candidate will he announced this summer, and we wish Miss Grieg luck. With her beauty plus activities and grades we agree with the Sigma Chi’s—she’s a natural win ner. Activities haven't been neglected by Miss Grieg. She’s a member of the rally squad, women’s page co-editor of the Emerald, and has been active in Student L’qion work, the barbershop quartet contest and numerous publicity committees. Naturally she's a mem ber of Kwama. We feel Sally Jo Grieg is a perfect example of a person getting the most out of college. She seems to have found the right combina tion of studying, social life and activities. We congratulate her and wish her luck in the Sweetheart contest.—(J.W.) Footnotes Carpenters, plumbers and others still at work on remodeling of old Emerald Shack (next to Deady hall) in preparation for ar rival of psych department’s monkeys. The primates are likely to end up with most plush quarters on campus. We expect a few professors to complain about this discrimin ation. INTERPRETING THE NEWS GMC, US Officials Predict Greatest Prosperity Ever By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst Two of the country’s biggest organizations, the United States government and General Motors, have just expressed the view that the next year or two are going to be one of the most pros perous periods ever. On the basis of anticipated revenue revealed in the Presi dent’s budget message, personal incomes are expected to increase about 4 per cent and corporate profits about 7 per cent in 195§ 56»- * Increase Predicted President Harlow H. Curtice of General Motop guessed an in crease of 4 per cent in goods and services this year. The stock market went up Tuesday, but it appeared to be as much of a reaction to Mon day’s drop as anything else. The budget seemed, as a mat ter of fact, to be much as ex pected. There was even some talk that a deficit has been pre dicted which could be, if busi ness forecasts proved correct, reduced or eliminated. This of course, would be mighty good business for the Eisenhower administration if it turned out that way right in the middle of a general election cam paign. Budgets have had to be re vised upward, and even some times downward, "before now, un til they are no longer accepted as important criteria. So have other business guesses. But there is no denying that there is general optimism now. Congress Considers Whittling There was immediate talk in congressional circles that the budget could be whittled still more. In particular, there is a strong movement to keep on re ducing foreign aid. At the same time a fight was promised over reductions in the direct military spending pro gram. Both of these items are di rectly involved in international affairs. For one thing, two more coun tries are being drawn into the anti-Communist military defense system, Germany and Japan. They are expected to take up new burdens in expenditures for re armament while the United States acts on the theory that the military situation is less dan gerous than before. The United States and Britain also think that with the shift to atomic weapons they,will ac tually have more powerful forces than before. But this is not easy to sell, especially in Japan where, unlike West Germany, there is an increasingly unstable econoniie situation. Confusion Reigns With regard to one angle of foreign aid, the proposed Asiatic economic program, there is a great deal of confusion. Foreign aid in that area so far has not bought the goodwill expected. In some places it is even feared. Yet the reaction to a program once proposed and then dras tically cut or eliminated, as fac tions in both the administration and congress are proposing, might be severe. THE LOOKING GLASS English Films Found 'Off the Beaten Track' By Len Calvert Emerald Calumnitl For those Interested In movies about subjects “off the beaten track," the offering of the Eng lish film “Crash of Silence" should prove Interesting. The movie deals with the story of a six-year-old deaf and dumb girl and the emotional problems she and her family go through until she finally learns how to talk, which gives the film Its title, "Crash of alienee.” A rather long offering, we felt that the movie was hamp ered by a very Involved sub plot Involving the headmaster of the school for the deaf, the child’s mother, an enemy of the teacher's who tries to stir up a scandal about the two and the child’s father who almost stops the child’s education be cause he believes the trumped up charges. Not a pretty story, the tale of the girl's efforts to learn to speak is sympathetically told in a very matter-of-fact way. lh«r ticularly effective are the scenes showing her at the school and the various methods used by the teachers in training the children to speak. The scenes were filmed at a school for the deaf in Man chester, England. Fine performances are turned in by the east as a whole. The emotional strain on the family and the headmaster is well drawn and well acted. However, we think that the movie could have been far more effective by dwelling more on the child'll efforts to talk, the terrific emotional strain put up on her and the methods used m teaching her how to make Hounds. It was In these scenes that the movie reached Its heights. The tangled plot only served to confuse the basic Issue, Showing with "('rash of H|. lenee" was another KnglUli film entitled “Both Hides of the law." A rather ordinary movie on the whole, the title Is ilerl\ ed from the plot which tries to show that the law Is both strlet and humane. The styry deals mainly with the London policewomen and particularly with three cases which runs concurrently through out the movie. Although slow-moving most of the time, the show does have some high points of Interest. On the humorous side, there was one amusing scene in which the mother of a bait boy berates the desk sergeant for feeding her boy sweets. Becuusc of this, all the kids in the neighborhood purposely "get lost" to take ad vantage of the police depart ments generosity. Both movies are long and a little too slowly paced for our taste. However, both do have their good points In some good acting and in the slackness with w’hich the action Is portrayed. There is no particular effort in either film to glamorize the sub ject. particularly In “Crash of Silence." Clothing Selection ‘Did you notice that genuine imported cashmere sweater?” oreqo nj=i ■ j4 PiEGOCO .JUIPTa™! E”*r*1,‘, h. • *eelc during the echo,,I year r.repl ?r“ * *n,i v*«f'on period*. hy the Student Fubl,ration. Board ..I the Unori.ity of Oregon. KhooTy "r ;*l2“?tern^“ “ "** P*“ to*, tie, Oregon. Subreption rate,: »i per on,0 "T*"" i,S?,A‘li'<,ri.*1 ttr »»il«T and do not pretend to rrpre tai !a !| °1 ,h* AtU0 "5 t'oaigneil editorial, are written hy the editort initialled editorial* by immibera id the editorial board. JOE GARDNER, Editor_ JEAN SANQJNE, Buidno* Manager _PICK LEWIS, JACKIE WAKUELL, Amooutc Editors DONNA Rl’NfiKRG, Advertising Menage1’ GORDON RIC E, Sport* Editor PAUL KEEFE, Managing Editor JERRY HARRELL, New* Editor ERte?lf^1R52fj1Skie,VV^?*r' Jerry Harre"- l'*«l K«(e; OirfTuwi;, Gordon i r.imor. Chief Makeup Kditor: Sam Valiey feature Editor: Dorothy Her Ass't. Managing Editor: Anne Ritchey Asst. News Editors: Mary Alice Allen, l arol Craig, Sam i'rear, Anne Hill, Hob Kobinson Chief Night Kditor: Valerie Hcrsh Asst. Sports Editor: Dura Nelson Office Manager: Hill Mainwarttig Natl. Adv. Mgr.: Mary Salazat ( irculation Mgr.: Hick Hayden Office Mgr.: Marge Harmon Layout Manager: Dick Koc ( la»&»fied Adv.: Helen H. Johnson Morgue Editor: Kathleen Morrison Woman's Eagc Co-editors: Sally Jo Grcig, Marcia Maunty