+ EMERALD EDITORIALS + 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. ' Paid Atlverliiemf nt 0&Carapus„i5i, (4i 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. The Oregon Daily Emerald it published five a week during (hr mhool year e.rrnt ^ ,hC •S,'"Um ■'“Ma-'U-.n. Ilna.d of (hr IWr-.tv of ,™rat ,h* ',o'1 ^ •o--'- *■>>—•« °~ **pr.e‘SM) ™ the cOitoriul pages are those „f the writer ami do not pretend to eprcheti, the op.mons of the ASUO or the I nive. t 'nnigned editorial, arc written b, w- editor; initialed editorials by members of the editorial board* M