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Counterrevolution
Last Tuesday 10 campus veterans threw
off their shackels, united, and started what
amounted to a small revolution.
Thursday night. 16 other veterans, meet
ing in Barrister Inn, staged a coup that
amounts to a counterrevolution.
We sense in the formation of the second
group some strong satire—the group is called
“Veterans' Committee of More Than Ten."
It too proposes to work for veterans—but
it also plans to give credit where credit is
due.
We’ve met the president of the first Veter
ans’ Committee, and he is sincere in seeking
solutions to some serious problems confront
ing veterans. We also see in the first group
some self-seekers, loosely bandying about
the name "veteran" much as experienced
politicians use the "founding fathers,” “our
boys,” and other weasel words.
We don’t know when the second group
will meet again, and what will come of it—
but it looks like veterans will be in the news
for some weeks, and maybe some months, to
come here on the campus.
The Oregon Picnic
Most every college in the country annually
sets aside some period devoted specifically
to frolic ... gay abandon . . . light hearted
ness, etc. At Dartmouth they call it the Win
ter Carnival, and at Cornell it’s Spring Week
end.
But at Oregon this period of fun and frolic
is known simply as spring term. And the
heart and soul of spring term is the Oregon
picnic.
This Oregon picnic, in our opinion, is
something special. It’s distinctive. It’s got
a flavor and an aura of its own that sets it
off as the epitome of picnics.
Its essence is its casualness. Like thistle
down in the breeze, the Oregon picnic repre
sents complete surrender to the path of least
resistance. It’s a rare picnic at Oregon that’s
actually planned . .. usually they just result.
Another characteristic of the Oregon pic
nic is its utter flexibility. It can happen dur
ing the day in the sun or at night under the
moon. And ran and storm can’t even stop a
good Oregon picnic. Oregon picnics are com
pletely flexible in numbers of participants,
usually ranging from two to 200.
There seem to be a few basic rules, how
ever, that should he followed for a proper
Oregon picnic. Usually, there is a representa
tion from each sex. Some body of water—
river, lake or ocean—is usually considered
standard equipment. The water is usually
bordered by some stretch of rocky or sandy
area known a- beach. It is in this area that a
picnicker spreads his standard equipment
blanket. A beverage is usually included on
the list of standard equipment items. Finally,
if warmth is needed, a fire is added.
Picnic extras include singing, swimming,
eating, ukuleles, and maybe an open con
vertible or a canoe. Season to taste.
And that's it—the Oregon Picnic. A vir
tue is its complete lack of specific aim.
It’s a passive affair seeking little more than
good cheer and boon companionship (and
sometimes a suntan).
Two things, however, occasionally mar
Oregon's picnic season each spring. One is
over-indulgence and another is lack of dis
cretion. The over-indulger goes whole hog
on picnics and just dismisses the scholastic
side of school. The usual cure for this type of
attitude is the army — where they go on
maneuvers instead of picnics.
The over-indulgers usually just hurt them
selves. but those lacking discretion both hurt
themselves and smear their school.
Because age requirements for a picnic and
age requirements for the beverage often con
sumed at picnics do not coincide, picnickers
sometime? find themselves engaged in prac
tices frowned upon both by the school and
the state police. Lack of discretion as to
where the picnic i' held, how much noise is
made, who is invited, etc., can result in ar
rests. fines and social probation or expulsion,
any of which could considerably dampen
spring term.
But strangers (especially high school
seniors) invited to picnics are the worst
example of lack of discretion. A picnic re
quires a certain development of maturity
and understanding of Oregon tradition be
fore it is taken in the right perspective.
Strangers are apt to place undue emphasis
on the picnic. And from such evaluations
come terms like “country club,” which do
not paint a true picture of University life,
but do frighten away some potential Oregon
students who believe them.
In conclusion—picnics at Oregon are the
greatest! But the whole picnic concept can
be dirtied and misconstrued by immature
Oregon students who refuse to practice
moderation and discretion.
So have fun . . . but use vour head.—(D.L.)
INTERPRETING THE NEWS .
Segregation, Nationalism Pose
Major South African Problems.
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
There’s another member of the
British Commonwealth besides
India which is constantly flying
in the face of Western public
opinion.
That’s South Africa.
South Africa has now with
drawn from the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cul
tural Organization (UNESCO)
because its committee reports
and publications are critical of
the government’s racial policies.
In fact,, the council lias walk
in very softly regarding South
Africa, never having done a
real job on the subject. It once
set up a special committee to
do the job, but South Africa re
fused entry for it, and since
then the shooting has been
desultory.
One of the embarrassments, of
course, has been that the United
States also withholds approval
from United Nations proposals
which would permit other coun
tries to inject their voices into
her own racial problems.
But the United States is mak
ing a determined effort, which
all the world can see, to eliminate
racial discriminations. The South
African government is making a
determined effort to increase
them.
In both cases the South Afri
can government has merely stat
ed that what it was doing was
its own business.
Thus, in the seven years
since the rise of the National
ists to power, the world has
seen the development of a new
nationalistic state which more
and more isolates itself from
world opinion and uses racial
discrimination as one of its
chief political weapons.
It is currently involved in for
cible removal of black residents
from white cities. It claims they
will be better off in the new seg
regated towns, which with re
gard to kitchens and bathrooms
may be true, but which ignores
any care for the human spirit.
It also ignores certain econom
ic problems which business men
ire beginning to point out—that
it interferes with the distribu
tion of native labor and may
make business and industrial op
erations increasingly difficult,
rhe government merely replies
that it is not going to let that
happen, but does now say how.
Since many of the economic
problems involved strike more
closely at the British interests
in the country, the latter are
now wondering whether or not
they have been led down the
garden path by their interest
in white supremacy. They are
wondering if the Africaners, or
Boers, didn’t actually win the
war more than 50 years ago.
One thing that disturbs them
s the determination of the gov
ernment to turn the country into
i republic with the obvious corol
lary of withdrawal from the
British Commonwealth. That
would most surely bring expro
priation of British diamond, gold,
•vood pulp and other important
business interests, and further
solate a nationalistic South Af
rica.
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SCIENCE MADE SIMPLE: NO. 2
Though this column is intended solely as a vehicle for well
tempered drollery, the makers of Philip Morris hnve agreed to
let me use this space from time to time for a short lesson in
science. They are the most decent and obliging of men, the
makers of Philip Morris, as one would guess from sampling
their product. Only from bounteous hearts could come such a
pleasurable cigarette-so felicitously blended, so gratifying to
the taste, so soothing to the psyche. And, as though bringing
you the most agreeable cigarette on the market were not enough,
the makers of Philip Morris have enclosed their wares in the
Snap-Open Pack, an ingeniously contrived wrapping that yields
up its treasure without loss of time or cuticle. And, finally,
this paragon of cigarettes, wrapped in the paragon of packages,
can be had in king-size or regular, as your taste dictates. Who
can resist such a winning combination? Not 1.
A few weeks ago in this column we had a brief lesson in chem
istry. Today we take up another attractive science medicine.
Medicine was invented in 1006 by a Greek named Hippocrates.
He soon attracted around him a group of devoted disciples whom
he called "doctors”. The reason he called them "doctors" was
that they sat around a dock all day. Some fished, some just
dozed in the noonday sun. In truth, there was little else for them
to do, because disease was not invented until 1492.
After that doctors became very busy, but, it must be reported,
their knowledge of medicine was lamentably meagre. They
knew only one treatment—a change of climate. For example, a
French doctor would send all his patients to Switzerland; a
Swiss doctor, on the other hand, would send all his patients to
France. By 1789 the entire population of France was living in
Switzerland, and vice versa. This later became known as the
Black Tom Explosion.
Not until 1924 did medicine, as we know it, come into being.
In that year in the little Bavarian village of Pago-Pngo an
elderly physician named Winko Sigafoos discovered the hot
water bottle. He was, of course, burned as a witch, but his son
Lydia, disguised as u linotype, smuggled the hot water bottle
out of the country. He called on Florence Nightingale in London
but was told by her housekeeper, with some asperity, that Miss
Nightingale had died in 1910. Lydia muttered something and,
disguised as a feather boa, made his way to America, where he
invented the blood stream.
Medicine, as it is taught at your very own college, can be divided
roughly into two classifications. There is internal medicine,
which is the treatment of internes, and external medicine, which
is the treatment of extemes.
Diseases also fall into two broad categories-chronic and
acute. Chronic disease, is of course, inflammation of the chron,
which can be mighty painful, believe you me! Last summer my
cousin Haskell was stricken with a chron attack while out pick
ing up tinfoil, and it was months before the wretched boy could
straighten up. In fact, even after he.was cured, Haskell con
tinued to walk around bent over double. This went on for some
weeks before Dr. Caligari, the lovable old country practitioner
who treats Haskell, discovered that Haskell had his pants but
toned to his vest.
Two years ago Haskell had Addison’s disease. fAddison,
curiously enough, had Haskell’s.,) Poor Haskell catches every
thing that comes along. Lovable old Dr. Caligari once said to
him, “Son, I guess you are what they call a natural born catcher."
“The joke is on you, Doc,” replied Haskell. "I am a third
baseman." He thereupon fell into such a fit of giggling that the
doctor had to put him under sedation, where he is to this day.
But I digress. We were discussing medicine. I have now told
you all I can; the rest is up to you. Go over to your medical
school and poke around. Bring popcorn and watch an operation.
Fiddle with the X-ray machines. Contribute to the bone bank
... And, remember, medicine can be fun!
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