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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originally made possible by the large ad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§
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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
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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
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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