+ EMERALD EDITORIALS +
Unfinished Victory
The first Canoe Fete on the Millrace in 14
years lias been held successfully — and judg
ing from some of the comments we heard
from alumni and townspeople, the '55 Fete
was as good as. or maybe better than, the
Fetes of the past.
But as things are right now — the vic
tory is an unfinished one. The steering
committee has sent out a cry for help —
bleachers and floats must be disassembled,
property must be stored, and the area must
be policed.
The committee is tired — a lot of mental
and emotional labor went into the fete along
with the long hours of physical labor.
The cooperation of the University in stag
ing Canoe Fetes of the future will probably
depend to a large degree on the job that's
done this year. The physical plant isn't going
to be too enthusiastic about helping to stage
an event which they’ll have to clean up after.
Oregon’s student body, ably led by the
Canoe Fete steering committee, has struck
a strong blow> for restoration of the Mill
race and for the reinstatement of the Canoe
Fete as Oregon’s top tradition.
Now let's finish the victory.
Postscript
When the occasion has demanded — and
it has on numerous occasions — the Emerald,
like its big city counterparts in Portland,
lias resorted to its editorial columns in an at
tempt to influence the weather.
For fourteen years, minus only one, the
Kmerald has faithfully run it> letter to Ol’
Jupe Tim ins. And the letter always worked
—until this year. So now we add this post
script.
But this year, Mr. Pluvius let us down.
Actually, he was good enough to hold off
the rain Sunday and let the rescheduled
Canoe Fete go on in relative dry, but still,
he let us down.
Therefore, Mr. Pluvius, the Kmerald here
by serves notice that it will in no wav feel
bound to pay homage to you in future Junior
Weekend ]*tpers.
You could have gone to Washington, Cal ,
or L SC last Saturday, but instead you came
around to annoy us. nearly give the Canoe
Fete committee heart failure, and generally
disrupt Mothers' Weekend and Junior Week
end.
You weren't even good enough to have
the rain come at the right time. If it hadn't
cleared up Sunday for the Canoe Fete, the
University would have suffered a great
financial loss, and all because you turned
off the storm between 5 and 8 p.m. Satur
day — the hours during which it had to
rain for the Canoe Fete’s rain insurance to
be collectiable. .
So Mr. Pluvius, god of rain or whatever,
not only have you lost some worshippers,
but also some friends. We have to live with
you. especially here in Oregon, but it will be
a ''cold war” type of coexistence after la^t
weekend.
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Ike Administration Approves
New Eleven-Point Polio Program
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The Eisen
hower administration Monday
proposed a 28-million-dollar Fed
eral fund to help the states pro
vide polio vaccine for children in
low income families.
This was one of 11 recommen
dations submitted by Secretary
of Welfare Hobby to President
Eisenhower. The White House
said Eisenhower approved the re
port and endorsed the recommen
dations.
The aid-to-states program
would become effective after
the completion of the free im
munization program now be
ing conducted by the National
Foundation for Infantile Par
alysis.
The Foundation’s program ap
plies to children in the first and
second school grades.
The administration’s proposed
federal fund contemplates an im
munization program for all
Americans through the age of
19.
The administration also pro
posed an additional two million
dollars for extra inspectors and
technicians in the Public Health
Service “to insure maximum pre
cautions in continued testing of
the vaccine for safety and po
tency.’’
Eisenhower presumably will
send a request to Congress for
the proposed funds. Except for
the appropriations, the recom
mendations would require no leg
islation.
Resisting demands in Con
gress for government alloca
tion of the now scarce vaccine,
Mrs. Hobby and her advisers
said they are convinced “the
most effective and equitable
distribution of the vaccine will
be accomplished through the
voluntary cooperation of all
concerned, within the frame
work of existing law.”
No other kind of distribution,
Mrs. Hobby said, “can be mo
bilized quickly enough to be ef
fective during a brief period of
shortage.”
The nationwide vaccination
program itself, temporarily
halted a week ago pending new
safety checks, was slowly get
ting under way again with vac
cine from two laboratories al
ready freed for use.
The Public Health Service
Sunday approved all supplies
shipped by Eli Lilly & Co., In
dianapolis. This raised to about
1.400,000 shots of the vaccine re
cleared since the safety recheck
was started. On Friday, it ap
proved principal shipments by
Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit.
Mrs. Hobby presented her re
port in an hour-long meeting
with the President. She made no
reply to congressional criticism,
mainly from Democrats, who
have charged the administration
was “bungling” the program—
both in failing to provide gov
ernment distribution and to set
up adequate safety standards.
Afterward, while posing for
photographers, Mrs. Hobby re
plied with a smiling “no com
ment” when asked about pub
lished reports she might re
sign.
Here in brief are Mrs. Hobby’s
recommendations:
1. The Public Health Service
“must have every facility, in
eluding necessary additional
funds and personnel, to insure
maximum precautions” in test
ing the vaccine for safety and
potency.
2. All current distribution
should be aimed at completion
“at the earliest possible date”
the National Foundation’s free
immunization program for first
and second graders.
3. The vaccine should be ad
ministered for the time being
only to children of the 5-9 age
group.
4. The secretary of welfare
should “direct on a national
level the division among the
states of the entire output of
Salk vaccine as pledged by the
manufacturers.”
5. Vaccine supplies should be
allocated to each state on the
basis of the number of children
it has in the 5 through 9 group
until all those children have been
vaccinated.
6. Each state governor should
designate a single agency to di
rect the distribution of vaccine
within the state.
7. More funds should be given
to the Food and Drug Adminis
tration for “vigorous enforce
ment’’ of laws prohibiting sales
of the vaccine outside authorized
channels for prescription clings.
8. Medical organizations
should do all they can to make
sore doctors (A) vaccinate and
issue prescriptions only for
children within the priority
age groups, and (B) doctors
keep a record for each child
showing the age, date of vac
cination, place on hotly of vac
cination, name of vaccine man
ufacturer, and lot number of
the vaccine.
9. Manufacturers and all oth
ers concerned with distribution
should keep careful records
showing where every shipment
goes.
10. Congress should make
funds available to states for the
purchase of vaccine, “or, in lieu
of funds, the vaccine itself.”
These funds “must be sufficient
to pay the cost of vaccine for
children through age 19 in low
income families.” The funds
should be used between the end
of the free Immunization pro
gram and the end of 1956.
11. Eisenhower should desig
nate a special committee for
further study of ways to help
other nations get Salk vaccine.
Mrs. Hobby said the latest in
dustry estimate is that enough
vaccine will be available by July
1 to make possible two inocula
tions’ for all children in the 5-9
group.
CAMPUS COMMENT
Little Ladies Laws
Confuse Columnist
By Sam Fraar
Emerald Columimt
We have never been ones to
dispfite traditional theories of fe
male inferiority. An everyone
knows, the female Ih both intel
lectually and physically inferior
to men.
As the song says, "If a gal
could be intellectually what she
only is biologically, then a gal
could be. take it from me. a won
derful. wonderful thing."
Hut we retreat for a moment
from natural inusculine egoism
to defend the other (and more
fairer) sex, avowing that she
is not ipiite as stupid, or quite
as immature as the writers of
this I'niv erslt y’s ''Handbook
for Dormitory Women” evi
dently believe.
From this book one might be
inclined to think that the Univer
sity of Oregon is either a reform
sehooi for naughty girls or Ynnle
Tsop's School
for Social
Charm. That ii
isn’t the latter
is fairly ob
vious.
The hand
book in ques
tion informs
the girl* that
"Freshmen are
to be tucked
into bed by
11:00 p. m.
and counselors
will count noses at this time —
upperclaas noses too." Now isn’t
that sweet? All da iddy biddy
widdle girls must go to bed nithe
and early tho they can gwow up
to be gweat big widdle' dirls.
And also all present and ac
counted for.
Now you can wander Into
any of the rumpus barbershops
hml srr nil ty|M-s of nude cal
endars. Vou rim get chrap se\
by looking at pocket hook cov
ers In lh«* Co-op. Or spending a
weekend In Seaside.
But the female form 1m care
fully obscured on this campus by
having our girls wear shorts and
pedal pushers "only under touts
which cover them adequately.”
Now. "Our faces, our hair, our
nails, and our clothes all deserve
attention before we ever go down
to the dining room, not only for
our own poise and self-assurance
but also for the sake of all the
other girls who will enjoy us
more If we are all well groomed.”
Yeah, ma’am. But suppose you’re
Just naturally a pig?
(And did you notice that inti
mate shifting into the second
person ? i
Female food hounds In the
chow line are ail vised that “\\ e
do not push or crowd, and are
not i olsy and rowdy In line.”
This means no dirty joke tell
ing. swapping licks, line burk
ing. “r practicing of wrest ling
holds,
Here’s a clever one. "Usually
we turn in the bottom sheet and
use the top on® for the bottom
the next week. Or tf this is too
much trouble, get a sleeping bag.
Another choice quote: "We're
not allowed to move our furmtuie
from room to room ..Natur
ally, unless you've got a good
strong crow bar. It's bolted down.
And to prove that the women
have rules for everything. "A
definite, concrete description of
the < lost i article ... should be in
cluded In the report.” For a good
description of concrete we recom
mend A A 469, a course In "Struc
tural Design in Reinforced Con
crete.”
Easy, Boy!
"I better help that new student stretch his canvas_he seems
pretty anxious to <et started.”
Th,- Oregon Daily Emerald is published five days a week during the school year except
examination and vacation periods, by the Student Publications Hoard of the Unicer* tv «.f
Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post office, Eugene, Oregon. Subs, notion
rates: $5 per school year; $2 a term.
I
Opinions expressed on the editorial pages are those of the writer and do not pretend !o
represent the opinions of the ASUO or the University. Unsigned editorials are written by
the editor; initialed editorials by members of the editorial board.
JERKY HA KKEI.I.. Editor
PAUL KEEFE, Managing Editor
CORDON KICK, News Editor
_____ DONNA RL’NHERO, Business Manage?
LEWIS, SALLY RYAN, Associate Editors
BILL MAINWARING, Advertising Manager
NANCY SHAW. Office Manager
JERRY CLAUSSEN, CHUCK M I Tf'll ELMORE, Co-Sports" Editors