+ 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