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55 Years Tomorrow
Happy Birthday to us.
With Monday’s issue of the Oregon Daily
Emerald, we will begin our fifty-sixth year
of publication.
Since 1900, size, type, publication dates
and the very news itself have varied in ac
cordance with the times. Fiftv-five years of
the University's history are chronicled on
- the pages of the Emerald.
Many are the men who have used the
Emerald as a stepping stone to bigger
things. One of the earliest editors, 1911 to
1913, was Karl Onthank, now associate di
rector of student affairs.
Congressman Harris Ellsworth was busi
ness manager in 1918. Arden Pangborn, Em
erald editor during 1928. is now editor of the
Oregon Journal in Portland. Senator Rich
ard Neuberger edited the Emerald in 1932
when he was a sophomore. The 1947 editor.
Bob Frazier, is now associate editor of the
Eugene Register-Guard.
The tradition is an imposing one. and a
great challenge to present and future Em
erald staffs.
For 55 years the Emerald has been a
leader in the reflection of campus thought,
opinion, and reactions. Through its news
and editorial columns, a reflection of the
University as it has been and as it is be
comes apparent.
It is the history of the University in print
and a representative of the University to the
“outside world." The Emerald is Oregon—
and the Emerald is you.—(S.R.)
A Matter of Rules
Following is a partial list of rules for the
Dads’ day sign contest as published on page
one of the January 25, 1955 Emerald :
1. No decorations or pictures on signs.
2. Signs will consist of a rhyme, slogan, or
verse.,
3. N erses cannot exceed 25 words.
If the winning sign conformed to the rules,
we certainly can't see it. Whether the judges
were not informed as to the rules or whether
they chose to ignore them, is not a matter
for discussion.
We cannot argue as to which were the
best signs because we are convinced that the
ones selected for the winning spots were the
best. Our only question was whether the
winning signs conformed to the rules and
whether the sign contest chairmen should
have informed their own living organizations
as to the rules.
Should houses which violate the rules win
a contest ? —(F.K.)
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Pattern of Soviet Shakeups Show
USSR Needs Economic Grace'
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
A P Foreign News Analyst
A pattern is beginning to
emerge from the series of Soviet
shakeups. It indicates the Soviet
Union hopes for at least four
or five more years of grace in
which to build its economy.
The Communist Party has en
tered into a deal with the forces
representing career men of the
Soviet army, and some attention
will be paid henceforth to army
views on preparations for even
tual war.
It is good news in this res
pect! The world may have time
to compose its differences, while
the internal Soviet structure
evolves from a monolithic dic
tatorship under the Communist
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Party to a sort of hybrid mili
tary dictatorship in which con
servative army leaders have in
fluence.
This seems to follow from
the appointment of Marshal
Georgi K. Zhukov as defense
minister and the spotlighting
of other military leaders in the
rubber - stamp Soviet parlia
ment.
The fact that Zhukov has ex
changed warm words with Presi
dent Eisenhower need not pre
sage any softening of Soviet
policy toward the United States.
But Zhukov is a hard-headed
career general likely to think of
military consequences ahead of
dialectics on the inevitable tri
umph of world Communism.
HI d 1
Letters to the Editor ;|
Sign Contest
Emerald Editor:
In regards to the Emerald’s
recent “comments” concerning
the Dad’s Day sign contest we
wish to repeat the following in
formation for those on the staff
who didn’t read their own proof.
1. A complete list of rules
were published in the Emerald
one week prior to the contest.
They were designed to elim
inate expense and cause less
confusion for the organizations
taking part.
2. The judges were picked
from the faculty and local
Eugene personalities. The jud
ges did the judging in accord
ance with their understanding
of the rules and the way in
which they evaluated the signs.
3. This is the normal way
for judges to react.
We sincerely hope that this
will solve your confusion re
garding the sign contest. We also
express our appreciation to all
living organizations for their fine
displays which contributed to the
overall success of Dad’s Day.
Dave ChaAibers
Barkey Herman
Co-chairmen, Sign Contest
(Editors Note: See editorial
entitled “A Matter of Rules”
for comment.)
For Virility
Emerald Editor:
Your recent editorial to the
effect that NAACP has given up
in its efforts to assist fraterni
ties in the elimination of their
discriminatory clauses came as
no surprise to us. We had no
ticed the recent change in staff,
the increasing amount of space
devoted to the exaltation of the
merits of the Emerald, and the
sterility of the news and edi
torials in general.
But, in its attempts to stir up
a campus battle, did the Emerald
have to refer to the “. . . NAACP
and people with similar views
.. thus implying that, in ad
dition to fraternities and sorori
ties, we also have an exclusion
clause ?
Nothing could be further from
the truth. For the information
of the Emerald and the rest of
the campus, membership in our
organization is open to students
of all races, nationalities, and re
ligions—even fraternity and Em
erald staff members.
Lawrence T, Schwartz, President
Kenneth R. Cunningham,
Treasurer
NAACP, Oregon Chapter
There undoubtedly has been a
compromise in the Soviet hier
archy. Some of the army leaders'
views must be taken into con
sideration by Nikita S. Khrush
chev, the leading personality in
the Soviet Union today.
If Khrushchev has come to
terms with the army men, Mime
attention will be paid to the
consumer sector of the Soviet
economy to quiet the army's
fears of a brittle situation which
could crack in wartime. Appar
ently, however, this must be ac
complished without sacrifice to
the heavy industry sector. The
army, if satisfied this can be
done, probably will go along
with the stepup of Soviet heavy
industry which produces arma
ments. No army is ever interest
ed in weakening a nation’s armed
forces.
The Soviet Union, therefore,
can be expected to put forward
strong talk, in the Stalin manrler,
in foreign affairs but to avoid
going far enough to risk plung
ing the world into war.
This was implicit in Tues
day’s address by the new prem
ier, Nikolai Bulganin. He con
demned the United States as
“aggressive” in China, but he
carefully noted that the Soviet
Union sympathizes with and
supports “the Chinese people”
over Formosa. He said nothing
about Soviet government sup
port for the Chinese govern
ment.
Bulganin gave other hints. The
Soviet Union is thinking in terms
of five to six years for the re
pair of its agricultural situation.
While that remains in its pres
ent state, the Soviet Union would
not be likely to take long chan
not be likely to take long chang
es.
The Soviet Union thus, for
some time to come, likely will
say one thing in foreign affairs
and mean another. It will be
talking tough but apparently
hoping nothing too serious will
come of it. But it will not relax
for a moment its program of
expanding Communism in the
world, exerting pressure against
the lines of least resistance.
CAMPUS COMMENT
Columnist Ponders
Which Came First
By Sam Fnar
Emvrild Columniil
If you ever tried to figure
what made them that way. it
would be u hen before the egg
sort of a proposition. You can
always wonder, when looking at
the inmates of the various
schools and departments around
this place, were they like that
before or do they become that
way afterwards?
You can take the fellows in
the law school for example.
Most pre-law majors are really
quite human. But when they en
ter Kenton’s
corridors they
not only be
come secluded
they also as
sume a rather
superior atti
tude.
Now this
could be caus
ed by: (at
They are all
over 21 which
allows them
to be among the elite that meet
at Maxie's, or. (bt The have
somehow absorbed the propagan
da about the selectivity and dif
ficulty of their school, and like
the rest of the campus, thor
oughly overrate their position.
Now there's the question. Is
it the man or the major? IHd,
say, students majoring In so
ciology form the nucleus of
liberal attitudes on this cam
pus after they started mujor
ing in sociology, or did they
major in sociology already pos
sesslng liberal attitudes.
Not all. of course, but a whole
lot of radicals, would-be-radicals,
married radicals now called lib
erals, skeptics, belligerents. Dem
ocrats, and administration haters
can be found with sociology
books in their flats.
Pedanticiam and just plain
snobbishness are traits often
found among English professors.
If you believed them, the cam pun
in composed of nothing but foot
bull players, immature freshman,
low-grade idiots, and one or two
intelligent English majors.
Now did English majors maj
or in 'English because they found
pedanticism fascinating, or were
they pedantic before entering
Friendly's not-too-friendly at
mosphere. *
The difference between last
year's senior and this yeai a
graduate student is often found
in the fact that graduate stu
dents wear ties. We had this to
distinguish them from the human
race when lo and behold, we
found quite a few juniors in Kd
mutton also wealing ties.
Now our problem is whether
to admit Education majors in
to the human race even If they
do wear ties (and double
breasted suits) or 'Miotild we
omit them because of the fact
they will be teachers, He have
frankly wondered why anyone
would major in education. It's
so precarious, one never know s
when to l»e progressive or re
trogressive.
Architectii arc handy people
to have around. Every Imiih
should have at leaat one. They
can design, paint, and erect
homecoming signs, construct
floats, and do all kinds of other
worthwhile tasks. But the point
at hand in, were they that handy
before deciding to waste eight
or nine good yearn of their life,
or la that what they were taught
to do? •
Next week wc will discuss
why there are introvert* in the
School of Journalism if it i«
a Speech Department prerequi
site to b<- banned from Friday at
Fours and who those people are
that dwell in the dismal confines
of Condon Hal), and which did
romc first, the egg or the chick
en ?
Scientific Approach
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