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Oaths vs. Reality
As the current school year wears on it
becomes increasingly apparent that the poli
cy of requiring loyalty oaths of all ROTC
students is developing into a major problem.
The most recent flare-up, the winter con
troversy at Syracuse University, shows how
unworkable the loyalty oath is in a demo
cratic society.
The free intercourse of information and
ideas has never, until recently, been a
problem in the United States. Consequent
ly, many organizations which had already
been recognized on college campuses have
now been added to the Attorney General’s
“subversive” list for one reason or another.
At UCLA, the thing went a step farther.
Since ROTC is required for all physically
fit male students, even those who would or
could not sign the loyalty oath must parti
cipate in the program.
So those who have not signed drill in a
separate group, without uniforms and with
out rifles.
At the University of California the Daily
Californian, the student newspaper, carried
an article Fall term on what it termed a
“loophole” in the ROTC Loyalty Oath pro
gram. Chancellor Clark Kerr of the Univer
sity’s Board of Regents issued a statement
denying the existence of a “loophole” in the
plan.
Kerr said that the phrase “formally en
rolled" had been added to the original
amendment requiring the loyalty oaths,
so that students not planning to take the
full four year course in ROTC leading to
a commission in the armed forces would
still be able to take the required two-year
basic course.
What does it all add up to?
It all adds upto a good case against loyalty
oaths, or to any regimentation of the thought
of a free people.
It's pretty basic that a loyalty oath at
best can be little more than negative influ
ence. A person who had attended one meet
ing of a “subversive” organiation but who
might be loyal and yet is not willing to He to
conceal the fact is discriminated against. The
ardent Communist, however, would certain
ly feel no qualms about signing the oath.
If some bureaucrat needs a little piece of
paper for each ROTC student and each mem
ber of the armed forces so that he can he
satisfied as to their loyalty, he could at least
seek a more positive form of evidence.
Attendance at meetings and subscription
to publications later deemed “subversive”
doesn’t appear to us to be any indication of
a person’s loyalty or disloyalty. Why not
require a simple positive affirmation of
one’s loyalty to the United States govern
ment and constitution?
Oregon lias not had any trouble over the
loyalty oath. Perhaps if a realistic attitude
is adopted in higher quarters, we won’t have
trouble in the future.
Test Files?
What's to become of the University's
Test Files?
The way it looks right now, the orphan
examinations may suffer the same fate ris
the Honor code system under which they
were to be administered.
The library doen’t want them: the Stu
dent Union doesn’t have a ready place for
them. The files have been taken from the
library as requested and are currently in
the hand of the ASUO senate’s test files
committee.
The committee plans to take a poll of cam
pus living organiaztions to see if students
really want the test files saved. The commit
tee lias asked for the opinion of off-campus
students in the form of letters in the ASU( >
suggestion boxes.
If anyone wants the test files saved, they
should do something about it within the
next three weeks—after that there may be
no more files.
We’ve never used the files, but we know
people who have and who say that the
files have been helpful, for discovering
the methods of testing used by different
instructors if for no other purpose.
If there are others who want them, this is
the time to shake off their good old Oregon
do-nothingism and let themselves be heard.
Chimes Need Help
One thing leads to another.
Xow. because of a shortage of experienced
musicians who have an excess of spare time,
an automatic player is needed for the chimes
in the Student Union.
We’ve become accustomed to the chimes.
Actually, they sound good in the morning,
and they’re always usable as evidence that
you're really not late for class because the
chimes have not finished bonging.
We question the reception that a plan to
take the money voluntarily from breakage
fees would receive. True, everyone forgets
about the breakage fee and is pleasantly sur
prised if he gets a refund in the middle of the
summer, but once reminded that the break
age fee exists, people might be reluctant to
give it up.
It’s probably the best plan, though, and
should the ASUO senate, the SU Board, or
whoever ends up with the idea decide to re
commend it to the students, we hope the
response will be good.
The chimes could be a nice thing to have
around—traditional and that type of thintr.
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Transport Centralization Uraed
By The Associated Press
. The Hoover commission pro
posed Sunday that the govern
ment centralize its transporta
tion services, costing three bil
lion dollars a year, under civilian
and military directors.
The commission said in a re
port to Congress that govern
ment-owned transport facilities
are competing with private op
erators and, in the Defense De
partment, with one another.
It estimated its recommenda
tions would trim costs by 150
million dollars annually, and
relieve the government of
some business it said is need
ed by the private transporta
tion industry.
The report was one of a se
ries from the commission head
ed by former President Herbert
Hoover on reorganization of the
government’s executive branch.
It said “horrible examples of
waste and carelessness’’ in gov
ernment transportation could be
“multiplied almost to infinity,”
and it cited such examples as
these:
Defense department aircraft
carried about eight million pas
sengers in the 12 months ended
June 30, 1954. About 4,800,000 of
these were “hitch-hikers,” or
servicemen on leave.
Canned salmon bound for Bre
merhaven, Germany, was shipped
overland from the west coast to
the east coast. The cost was
about twice what it would have
been had the salmon gone by an
all-water route.
I'ing-pong balls were flown
from Westover Field, Mass., to
Berlin. "A substantial quan
tity” of dog food was flown
from the west coast to Okina
wa. As a result, the commis
sion said, some dogs on Jhe
island outpost were fed at a
probable world’s record cost
per pound.
The commission recommended
that transport management for
all civilian branches of the gov
ernment be placed under a cen
tral traffic bureau in the Gen
eral Service Administration
(GSA), the government’s house
keeping agency.
The Department of Defense,
the commission report said,
should establish a director of
transportation to oversee, co
ordinate and consolidate the
military’s world-ranging hauling
systems.
—Paid Adverii»*menl —
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
The first thought that comes into our minds upon entering
college is, of course, mnrringc. But how many of us go about
seeking mates, ns I like to call them, in a truly scientific manner?
Not many, you may bo sure. Most of us simply marry the first
person who comes along. This can lead to unpleasant conse
quences, especially if fhe person we marry is already married.
Let us today make a scientific survey of the three principle
causes of marriage-homogamy, personality need, and propin
quity. We will examine these one at a time.
Homognmy means the attraction of like for like. In marriage
it is rarely opposites which nttract; the great majority of people
choose mates who resemble themselves in taste, personality,
outlook, and, perhaps most important of all, culturn! level.
Take, for exnmple, the case of two students of a few yenrs
ago named Anselm Glottis and Florence Catapult. Anselm fell
madly in love with Florence, but she rejected him because she
was majoring in the Don Juanian Poets and he was in the lowly
school of forestry. After graduation Anselm got a job ns a
forest ranger. Still determined to win Florence, he rend every
single Don Juanian Poet cover to cover while sitting in his
lookout tower.
His plan, alas, miscarried. Florence, sent on a world cruise
as a graduation present, picked up the betel nut habit in the
Indies. Today, a derelict, she keeps body and soul together by
working as a sampan off Mozambique. And Anselm, engrossed
in the Don Juanian Poets, failed to notice a forest fire which
destroyed 29,000,000 acres of second growth blue spruce. Today,
a derelict, he teaches Herrick and Lovelace at the Connecticut
School of Mines.
The second reason why people marry, personality need, means
that you often choose a mate because he or she possesses certain
qualities that complete and fulfill your own personality. Take,
for instance, the case of Alanson Duck. As a freshman, Alanson
made a fine scholastic record, played varsity lacrosse, and was
very popular with his fellow students. Yet Alanson was not
happy. There was something lacking in his life, something vague
and indefinable that was needed to make his personality complete.
Then one day Alanson discovered what it was. As he was
walking out of his class in Flemish pottery, a fetching coed
named Grace Ek offered him a handsome brown package and
said, “Philip Morris?”
“Yes!” he cried, for all at once he knew what he had been
needing to round out his personality —the gentle fulfillment of
Philip Morris Cigarettes, the soul-repairing mildness of their
vintage tobaccos, the balm of their unparalleled taste, the ease
and convenience of their bonny brown Snap-Open pack. "Yes,
I will take a Philip Morris!" cried Alanson. “And I will also
take you to tfife if you will have me!”
“La!” she exclaimed, throwing her apron over her face, but
after a while she removed it and they were married. Today they
live in Prince Rupert. British Columbia, where Alanson is with
an otter glazing firm and Grace is a bookie.
Propinquity, the third cause of marriage, means closeness. Put
a boy and a girl in a confined space for a long period and they
will almost surely get married. A perfect example is the case of
Fafnir Sigafoos. While a freshman at Louisiana State, he was
required to crawl through the Big Inch pipeline as part of his
fraternity initiation. He entered the pipe at Baton Rouge. As
he passed Lafayette, Ind., he was agreeably surprised to be
joined by a comely girl named Mary Alice Isinglass, a Purdue
freshman, who had to crawl through the Big Inch as part of her
sorority initiation. When they emerged from the pipeline at
Burlington, Vermont, they were engaged, and, after a good hot
bath, they were married. Today they live in Klamath Falls, Ore.,
where Fafnir is in the weights and measures department and
Mary Alice is in the roofing game. They have three children,
all named Norman. CM„ ,9l,
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