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Last Chance
Bought your Valentines yet ? Better hurry,
this is your last chance.
If you haven’t bought a box of candy or
paper heart for that special gal, fellows,
you'd better get on the ball. This is one gift
giving occasion when having just one girl
pays off. Only one Valentine is necessary
instead of a dozen or so.
And you can get yourself in a lot of trouble
with more than one Valentine. We know one
poor guy who sent to three girls in one living
organization. Hasn’t been seen since.
Of course, there are always the comic
type \ alentines. All kinds of comic Valen
tines—those for people you hate and people
you just dislike mildly and sisters and
brothers and great aunts twice removed.
Remember when we were kids and used
to make our own Valentfnes. That was great
fun. You'd smear glue and red hearts and
paper lace all over the dining room rug and
then decide to run away from home because
mother just didn't understand your creative
ability when she saw the mess.
Those were the days of Valentine boxes,
too—and the prettiest girl in the room al
ways got the most Valentines. This, we think
was pfobably the forerunner of campus
queen contests — (J.W.R.)
Pairing Rules
Most houses have been surprised at on£
time or another when they read in the Em
erald that they were paired with the Quadru
ple Etas or Phi Bracks for the All-Campus
Riot. Beer Brawl, etc. (Sorry. Funk, for bor
rowing the names of your favorite sorority
and fraternity.)
Some of these pairings have not conformed
to a Student Affairs committee ruling of sev
eral years ago.
The only pairings which qualify under
the committee’s rule are those for Home
coming and junior Weekend or those ap
proved by a vote of the Interfraternity coun
cil, Interhall council and Heads of Houses.
We assume that the pairings for all-cam
pus events have been made by persons who
were not aware they were violating a ruling
of the Student Affairs committee.
The ruling, a wise one from our point of
view, was to cut down the surprise pairings
which tended to force houses to participate
or to feel like heels. We hope the rule will he
enforced in the future.—(l‘.k.)
‘Very Impressive ”
“Very impressive” is the best way to de
scribe the Army ROTC retreat held Thurs
day afternoon on 13th street.
It was well executed and certainly worth
the "time the cadets put in preparing it and
the time people spent watching it.
It would make an interesting addition to
campus life if the ROTC department could
work out a schedule so the ceremony would
be put on several times during the year, pos
sibly oitce or twice a term.
Members of the drill team, the band,
and the Army ROTC department are to be
commended for their fine showing. (!’. K.)
ft Good Idea
“The Role of Studegt Government on the
University of Oregon Campus" lias been
chosen as the theme for an essav contest
sponsored by the ASUO Senate.
We think the contest is a good idea. It
should stiimilate interest in student govern
ment ami thinking about student govern
ment. More important, it will serve as a
sounding board, not only for student opinion
about what the role of the ASUO should
be. but also for the amount of existing in
terest in student government and what can
be done to stimulate more interest.
Student government cannot effectively
operate without the support of students and
an interest on the part of students. Under a
liberal administration like Oregon’s, the stu
dents have a chance to take a major share
of the responsibility for their activities.
Occasions arise, however, when faculty
members are forced to take over some
phases of actvity. not through any motive of
imperialistic infringement upon student re
sponsibility. but simply because the students
will not take the lead.
We're lookng forward to the results of
this contest. '1 hey should lie valuable for
the new light which will be thrown on a
frequently dark area.
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Russian Shift Seen as Source
Of Strength for Western Unitv
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
The Russians have done it
again.
For several days, since the fall
of the Mendes-France cabinet in
France, proponents of the Paris
agreements on rearmament of
Germany have feared for their
success.
German opponents of the step
had taken on new Life. Chancel
lor Adenauer began an intense
campaign for popular support,
realizing that he was running a
very close race.
The French internal situa
tion was such that nobody
knew what would happen. By
any slight amendment the
Council of the Republic, weak
counterpart of the British
House of Lords, in the French
parliamentary system could
send the proposals back to a
widely divided Assembly which
had passed them originally
only under great pressure from
Mendes-France.
The uncertainty has by no
means been resolved. But Tues
day's shift in the Soviet govern
ment, emphasizing the “tough
line” and accompanied by bom
bast and military threats against
the West, was immediately hailed
by supporters of the Western al
liance as having put the neutral
ists and the doubters on the spot.
I often wish that I had started
making a list, at the beginning of
the cold war, of the number of
times that Russian actions have
caused a stiffening of Western
intent when it was wavering. The
historians will do it some day.
Their efforts to explain the psy
chology of it will be very inter
esting.
Actually, the sudden appear
ance of what seems to be in
creased military influence in the
Russian government may not
carry great international signifi
cance.
In Russia, as in the United
States, the international situa
tion has an impact on practi
cally every movement and ev
ery policy. But this is true In
varying degree, as measures
pertain more to domestic or
foreign affairs.
The present upheaval in Rus
sia seems to be more of a domes
tic affairs, although heavily in
volving the allocation of produc
tive capacity for purposes of war
or peace. WTar production has
won.
That might be taken as an in
dication that military leaders are
emerging as a result of their own
strength. The appointments of
Zhukov and Bulganin and the
prominence given General Konev
before the Supreme Soviet add
color to this interpretation.
There is always the angle,
however, that the real motive lies
in the need of Khrushchev to of
fer patronage in his rise to a po
sition which appears to be al
most identical with that Stalin
assumed before, with a war de
veloping, he stepped into unvar
nished control.
If there Is an actual increase
in army power in Russia, Jt
does not necessarily follow that
an increase in war danger is a
corollary. General staffs have
a long record of restraining or
opposing military adventures
unless they are convinced of
easy victory. No military staff
can be convinced, of easy vic
tory in a general war today.
But the West has chosen to in
terpret the whole series of Rus
sian events as threatening, in a
military union to face the new
Western alliance in line with her
organization of the satellites.
And by that token they are re
quired to permit no sins of omis
sion among themselves.
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'On Campos
(Author of ‘ Barefoot Boy With Cheek," etc.)
THE TREEHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON
Spring is just nround the corner, and with spring, as always,
will come tree-sitting contests. This I applaud. Tree-sitting is
healthful and jolly and as American ns apple pie. Also it keeps
you off the streets.
Tree-sitting is not, however, without its hazards, as you will
presently see when I tell you the dread and chilling tale of
Manuel Sigafoos and Ed Pancreas.
Manuel and Ed, friends and room-mates, were walking one day
past the folk music room in the School of Dentistry and Fine
Arts. Suddenly they stopped, for coming through the door of
the folk music room was a clear and thrilling alto voice singing
the lovely folk tune, 1 Strangled My True-Love with Her Own
Yellow Braids, and I'll Never Hat Her Sorghum Any More.
When the last shimmering notes of the ballad had died away,
Manuel and Ed rushed into the room, and there they thought
their swelling hearts must burst asunder. For the singer was as
beautiful as the song! Fair as the morn she was, doe-eyed and
curvilinear.
“My name is Manuel Signfoos,” cried Manuel Sigufoos, “and
I love you madly, wildly, tempestuously!”
“My name is Ed Pancreas,” cried Ed Pancreas, "and 1 love
you more than Manuel Sigafoos.”
“My name is Ursula Thing,” cried the girl, "and I've got
a jim-dandy idea. Why don’t you two have a contest, and 1 will
go steady with the winner?”
“What kind of contest?” cried Manuel and Ed.
“A tree-sitting contest," cried Ursula Thing. “Natch!”
“Done and done,” cried Manuel anti Ed, and they clambered
up adjoining aspens, taking with them the following necessaries:
food, water, clothing, medicaments, bedding, reading matter,
and — most essential of all - plenty of Philip Morris cigarettes.
We who live on the ground, with all the attendant advan
tages, know how important Philip Morris cigarettes are. Think,
then, how much more important they must be to the lonely tree
dweller — how much more welcome their vintage tobaccos, how
much more soothing their mild pure flavor, how much more
comforting to know as one sits in leafy solitude that come wind
or weather, come light or dark, Philip Morris will always remain
the same dependable, reliable, flavorful friend.
Well supplied with Philip Morris, our heroes began their contest
— Manuel with good heart, Ed with evil cunning. The shocking
fact is that Ed intended to win the contest with a Machiavellian
ruse. It seems that Ed, quite unbeknownst to Manuel, was one
of three identical triplets. Each night while Manuel dozed on
his bough, one of Ed's brothers - Fred or Jed — would sneak
up the tree and replace him. Thus Ed was spending only one-third
as much time in the tree as Manuel. "How can I lose?” said Ed
with a crafty giggle to his brother Fred or Jed.
But Ed had a surprise coming. For Manuel, though he did not
know it himself, was a druid! He had been abandoned as an
infant at the hut of a poor and humble woodcutter named
Winthrop Mayhew Sigafoos, who had raised the child as his own.
So when Manuel got into the tree, he found to his surprise that
he’d never felt so at home and happy in his life, and he had
absolutely no intention of ever leaving.
After four or five years Ed and his brothers wearied of the
contest and conceded. Ursula Thing came to Manuel's tree and
called him to come down and pin her. He declined. Instead h>
asked her to join him in the tree. This she could not do, being
subject to acromegaly <& morbid allergy to woodpeckersl so
she ended up with Ed after all.
Only she made a mistake —a very natural mistake. It was
Jed she ended up with, not Ed.
Ed, heartbroken at being tricked by his own brother, took
up metallurgy to forget.
Crime does not pay. e»i». ™
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