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20 Days
Only 20 days until graduation. There are
two more weeks of classes and then, for
seniors, the last final week.
For some students this meanj only nine
more days in class and three, four or five
finals. For others it is more significant.
Those of us who have attended rtie Uni
versity tor four years have acquired a certain
attachment to the campus, and although we
will be happy to begin our first job, we will
regret leaving friends and the sheltered at
mosphere which has provided a certain se
curity.
It seems a little early to become senti
mental but the next 20 days will see many a
senior looking back on the education he has
received in his four years at Oregon, the op
portunity to meet a variety of students and
professors, and the many good times.
Some may leave at the end of the next 20
days having gained a littfe education and not
much else. For most, however, it will have
been four years of valuable experience, at a
University where social life and activities
have ther proper place in relation to classes
and studying. —■ (P.K.)
How and Why
The Emerald today enters its final week
of publication, climaxing a full vear of in
creased news coverage and service to the
campus. Basic to this has been the allotment
received from the Student Union and Educa
tional Activities Fund Allocation board at the
first of winter term.
The additional monies have made it pos
sible for the campus daily to steer a more
even course this year, after fluctuating
back and forth with eight and four page
papers for two and a half years. The in
creased space has meant more room for
campus news and world affairs through
Associate press. The latest addition has
been a wirephoto service. It all adds up to
an improved service to the campus—to
you.
1 he Emerald is not alone in receiving
benefits from the new budget board. The
Oregana, too, was able to improve its publi
cation this year with the increased funds
made available to it.
More basic than this is the principle of
the budget board itself. It has given Oregon
students a new voice in the spending of their
own money in a realm previously under fac
ulty control. And it exemplifies the willing
ness of the University administration to re
linquish to the students what is rightfully
theirs. With this increased power goes in
creased responsibility, and a more active par
ticipation in campus activities through the
very essential area of financing them.
The first year of this board has proved
its worth. The careful consideration given
the rifle team request and its referral back
to the ASUO Senate show how conscien
tious the group has been this year. They
ask for a demonstration of student interest
in the projects for which funds are to be
expended.
Sucli caution in granting requests bids well
for the board, and the basic assumption un
derlying its establishment: ()regon students
are mature and capable of deciding them
selves. with some guidance, how the money
which they pay shall he spent.—(S.R.)
Needed: One Dog
Have you ever walked across the campus
at 6 in the morning? We don't suppose vou
have—rational people seldom do such things.
But one has to see the campus early in the
morning to appreciate the growing squirrel
threat. This brings us to the inevitable sub
ject of Hood Ol' Waldo—long since fanned
out to Washington State, where he was more
trouble than he was even at Oregon.
Actually, in his less vicious moments,
Waldo was valuable. Not only had he be
come a genuine campus tradition, but he
kept the squirrels in the trees, in the
bushes, or somewhere out of sight.
But since lie's been gone the little Mon
sters have acquired unheard of courage. It's
getting to the point where persons who cross
the campus in the quiet of the early morning
are in danger of being rushed bv a pack of
vicious squirrels.
We'd hoped that some of the other dugs
would follow the \\ aldo Tradition — but it
looks like the current canine generation is
content with disrupting basketball games,
strolling across football fields, and begging
at the SU.
Footnotes
Having spent a large portion of the week
end on the highways, we've come to the con
clusion that the best summer job a person
could get would be to join the kids who walk
along the sides of the highways picking up
beer bottles and redeeming them.
* * *
The traditionally well-placed sprinklers
were doing one of the best jobs of watering
Oregon students in recent years on Friday
afternoon.
* * *
How can Maxie’s tea room be so crowded
on these beautiful sunshiny Friday after
noons? Students are strange critters.
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
More Liberal US Trade Policy
Could Relax World's Tensions
By J. M. ROBERTS
AP News Analyst
President Eisenhower’s revela
tion that America's economic
policy toward Communist coun
tries is under review reopens a
matter which has troubled the
Western Allies for years.
None of the other free coun
tries has been as rigid as the
United States about holding
back from any sort of trade
which would increase the mili
tary potential of the Red bloc.
On occasion the other Allies
have raised loud voices against
restrictions insisted upon by the
United States, which she was
able to enforce for a time be
cause she was helping to support
them.
Now the American economic
aid program for the Western
countries is being cut down or
has ended, and her voice in such
matters is neither so loud nor so
insistent. Not long ago the list
of restricted commodities was
greatly reduced.
Other considerations, such as
the value of trade as a bargain
ing point, have brought the Pres
ident to a position which is more
or less traditional in internation
al affairs—that trade is an im
portant diplomatic weapon.
It is true that trade which aids
an enemy economically also in
creases his war potential. Every
Allied move in recent years has
been made against the essential
background of keeping the free
world’s economy sound, in the
knowledge that, without it, a
stable defense system is impos
sible.
On the other hand, the need for
economic expansion is the tradi
tional cause of war, and no na
tion will keep its guns holstered
in the face of economic strangu
lation.
Economic strangulation of the
Red bloc is impossible. Its terri
tory and its undeveloped re
sources are too great. But even
partial strangulation has its ef
fect on national attitudes.
The President indicated the
T'nited States was prepared to J
take a more liberal view of t
how trade could benefit the
United States and her allies,
in the balance against how j
much it might help the Com
munist sphere. I
And there is always the pos- [
sibility, mentioned frequently in
this column, that mutually prof- 1
itable trade might be one of the <
levers by which the Reds can be 1
pried away from the idea that
they can live safely only in a \
■world conquered by communism. '
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SUMER IS ICUMEN IN
Sumer is icumen in;
Lhude sing eueruf
Thun, as every achoolboy knows, begins T. S. Eliot's immortal
Hiawatha. And no wonder “The Hoy Orator of the Platte” (ns
T. S. Eliot is commonly called) was moved to pen such light
hearted lines! For summer (or the “vernal equinox" as it is
frequently referred toi is the happiest season of the year, mild
and balmy and contented-making.
Which brings us, of course, to Philip Morris Cigarettes. They,
too, are mild and balmy and contented-making. Hut that is not
all. They are also genial, placid, and amiable. Hut that is still not
all. They are, moreover, smooth, pacific, and lenient. Hut hold!
There is more. They are, in addition, tranquillizing, clement, and
dulcet.
Indeed the list could go on and on, until every adjective is
exhausted that would describe the mildness of Philip Morris,
the subtlety of their blending, the delicacy of their flavor. What
more perfect companion could be found to n summer’s day?
What more apt complement to a summer’s night?
If you have been pleased with Philip Morris through the win
ter and spring-as who has not who has a taste bud left in his
hoad?-you will find your pleasure compounded, your enjoyment
trebled, when you smoke Philip Morris in the warm and joyous
months before you.
My own plans for the summer (except that I will smoke Philip
Morris through all my waking hours > are still vague. I have been
invited to attend a writers conference, but I don’t think i’ll ac
cept. I’ve been attending writers conferences for years, and I
always have a perfectly rotten time. The trouble is that Alexan
dre Dumas and Harriet Heecher Stowe are always there. Not
that I have anything against these two swell kids; it’s just that it
breaks my heart to see them. They’re so in love so terribly de
voted and so hopelessly! Dumas will never divorce Jane Eyre
while she is with Peary at the North Pole, and Miss Stowe has
long since despaired of getting her release from the Pittsburgh
Pirates. So hand in hand, brave and forlorn, they go from writers
conference to writers conference while Dumas works on his mon
umental Stover at Yale.
So, thank you, I’ll do without writers conferences this summer.
I think instead I’ll try to improve my fishing. As Izaak Walton
once said, “No man is born an artist or an angler.” I often turn
to the worVs of Walton (or “The Fordham Flash" as he is fa
miliarly called) when I am searching for a choice aphorism. In
fact, I told him so when we met some years ago at a writers
conference. Walton was accompanied, as always, by Henrik
Ibsen (or “The Pearl of the Pacific” as he is known as). They —
Ibsen (“The Pearl of the Pacific”) and Walton (“The Fordham
Flash’’)—were collaborating on Mister Roberts at the time, but
they fell to quarreling and abandoned the project and the world,
as a consequence, was deprived of a truly robust and entertain
ing comedy.
It is not uncommon, I must say, for writers to fall into dispute.
They are, after all, a sensitive and high-strung lot. I’ll never
forget what William Makepeace Thackeray (or "The Body” as he
was universally called) once said to me. “You show me a good
writer,” said Thackeray, “and I’ll steal his wife.”
Well, as I was saying, I think I’ll give writers conferences a
miss this summer, and I recommend that you do the same. Why
don’t you just take it easy ? Swim and fish and sail and smoke and
read and sleep and tan your lithe young limbs. I want the best
for you because-if I may get a little misty in this, my final
column of the year—I think you should know that it’s been real
kicks for me, delivering this nonsense to you each week.
And in conclusion let me state what Jane Austen (or "Old
54-40 or Fight” as she is called the world over) once said to
me. “Nothing is so precious as friendship,” she sutd, “and the
richest man in the world is the one with the most money."
QMaX Mhulfnaft,
Our “On Campus” campaign hat departed in many respects from
conventional advertising methods, We’d like to hare your opinions
on this type campaign — and on the product, too, if you see fit — as a
means of guiding us in planning our future college advertising efforts.
Ilouo tdtout dropping us a note? Thanhs - llill Watts, Duke ’SO,
Mgr. Philip Morris College. Dept., 100 Park Avenue, Nets York, !\. Y.
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