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The World Serious
Today is the day they’ve been waiting
for. Today 100 million Americans become
baseball experts for the next four to seven
days. In spite of the fact that they have not
looked at major league standings since last
year at this time, these people become au
thorities on this nation’s greatest athletic
institution—the World Series.
And it isn’t very hard to become an expert
in this field—the facts are just about the
same as they usually seem to be. Once again
it’s the case of a large group of people who
are devout Yankee fans “just because they’re
the Yankees” against an equally large group
of people who are not Yankee fans “just
because they’re the Yankees.”
It’s the case of a grizzled old man named
Casey, who is known for his use of poor
grammar, matching wits with a ’ag. shrewd
thinking man named Walt, who is known
for not talking much at all.
It’s the case of a number of old men (as
far as baseball is concerned) trying to prove
that the Yankees are not quite as sure as
death and taxes. It's the case of the Dodgers
trying once again for the right to be called
World Champions for the first time, and
running up against a team which seems to
have a perpetual hold on that right.
It’s the case of milkshakes against cups of
coffee and doughnuts, of bubblegum against
candy bars, of tanks of gas against rides to
Portland.
And somewhere, after all the other rival
ries are taken care of, it’s the case of nine
men at a time going out to play a game
against another nine men. This, as Walt
Kelly has said in his play on the national
pastime, is the “World Serious.”—(C.H.M.)
To Open or Not to Open
A long-time controversy over who has
more right to 13th street within the Univer
sity, students or motorists, came to a head
Monday night at a meeting of the Eugene
city council. But. in typical council fashion,
a decision was delayed by sending it back
to committee, from which it had already
gone.
The issue centers on complaints concern
ing the present method of protecting Uni
versity students crossing 13th street from
heavy traffic, especially during the 10 min
utes between classes. The system of shut
ting off the street to traffic one-sixth of the
time during class hours has not solved
much.
The council had decided at a meeting a
few weeks ago to refer the matter to their
public safety committee for study. Three
choices were, and still are, open: leave it
the way it is now; open the street at all
times; or close it at all times, at least during
the day. Monday night it came back from
committee, and the recommendation was to
get rid of the lights and the ticket-giving
policemen and open the street to full-time
traffic.
But University President Wilson and sev
eral other University officials were at the
meeting. Their purpose was to keep this
measure from being railroaded through
without consultation with the University.
We think that it was a good thing that they
were there.
Judging from past performances by the
council members, who seem to think the
city belongs to them instead of to the voters
they represent, it appears that the measure
was being railroaded. What they forgot was
that the University has an interest in this
problem, financial as well as administra
tive, and W'ilson 4id a good job of repre
senting the school’s side.
Despite having to ward off verbal sar
casm and other cracks from a certain coun
cilman notorious for his disregard of the
dignity of the citizen, Wilson showed the
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council that the planning and money that
went into the present 13th street traffic
system could not be discarded without sonic
joint discussion.
Eventually the issue was referred hack
to a joint committee of councilmen and Uni
versity officials, where the whole prob
lem will be rehashed again. This action re
minds us somewhat of last winter's arterial
street paving issue and the present city
library site issue in which the council can
not seem to make up its collective mind,
meanwhile valuable time is lost.
So now the problem is still a long way
from a solution. The joint committee still
has several choices. Certainly the present
system, despite the $3000 invested in “Do
not enter” signs, plus the policeman’s sal
ary is distasteful to many people. It is little
more than a moneymaker for the city. As
Wilson says, money is invested and it this
system is discarded, a definitively better
one should be worked out.
However, we think the street should be
thrown open to traffic at all times. Cross
walks have been painted and can be used.
College students are able to get across the
street by themselves.—(J.C.)
We ’re All Wet
We're all wet. We're even more all wet
than usual.
Even old seniors have to re learn about
one of Oregon's freshest traditions—about
pipes and hoses. It wouldn’t be so bad if
they were all the same, but some swirl out,
some shoot up, and some burst forth in
geyser fashion. And there are always those
backhanded ones which follow no set pat
tern. They're the worst of all.
There’s more to it than that. too. They
lurk behind the pioneer father, they hide in
the grass, they creep out from behind the
trees on the old campus. But the worst ones
are right out in the middle of the sidewalk.
After three years. Amaranth Glugg should
know better than to get all spruced up for
her trip across the campus to her 8 o’clock.
She should know better than to wear her
new cashmere sweater and reversible >kirt.
Aloyious Blurbum should know better by
now than to get his new white bucks all
polished up. And Professor Snarl should
know better than to carry that stack-of
papers uncovered. After all, they’re not
freshmen.
But somehow, after three months of clerk
ing in a Portland department store, or of
working in a sawmill, or of taking a fishing
trip, you forget about those things.
You forget about the physical plant’s
monsters, and most of all, you forget that
they always seem to have the largest num
ber of sprinklers going on a rainy day when
you're late to class. (S.R.)
Footnotes
More and more the University is becom
ing a self-reliant community. In addition to
the housing, educational, recreational, and
athletic departments, the school has added
a police department to its many functions;
at least that’s the heading on the traffic
tickets that are being handed out thi* year.
We’re just wondering on which side of the
budget they put this department: expense
or income?
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These freshmen must be real movers. On
the third day Earl hall was open, there was
a sign “Girl Wanted” on a window in the new
Stafford hall.
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What’s this about the Aggie coliseum be
ing pink and charcoal? It does sound a bit
more stylish than the gung ho green and
yellow house of the local chapter of Beta
Theta Pi.
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INTERPRETING THE NEWS
Iraq Revives Secret
Diplomacy Argument
By J M. Robert*
Associated I'ress Xfwn Analyst
The old argument about se
cret diplomacy has been revived
in tlie United Nations by the de
mand of Iraq that interested
small nations be invited to Ge
neva next month, along with the
Big Four foreign ministers.
“No Impression should be left
that the Big Four are meeting
to make decisions for other na
tions behind their backs.” said
Delegate al-Jamali.
Secret diplomacy, he Maid,
should Ik* finally abandoned for
the sake of peace arul mutual
confidence.
Since the tugging and bungling
which went on in Europe in J914,
open covenants openly arrived at
have been an objective, although
few have been arrived at without
a great deal of work in private,
the details of which have not
been published. Some nations
lay their cards, or most of them,
on the table, and some don't.
Some make unilateral inteprota
tions and reservations, and some
don’t.
The truth of the matter is that
in any negotiation where nations
are required to compromise, a
complete fishbowl operation is
not possible, any more than the
(IfUnix of a bank merger ran be
worked out at a convention.
General I<I<-;ih may Im- r\ -
pressed openly. Step by step
approaches ran artuatly !»• hln
drrrd by publicity which makes
It (llffirull to rhmiijf prelimi
nary attitude* an the negotia
tion* continue.
If the representative# of a
dozen or so small nations should
be present in Geneva next tnonfh,
each demanding the ear of the
foreign ministers on every point
affecting their Interests, an al
most impoaalble situation would
develop.
The principle that the large
nations would have to make the
peace, with the smaller ones co
operating to guard it once it was
made, was accepted at the found
ing of the United Nations as the
only practical method of pro
cedure.
This did not mean a reserva
tion by the great powers of any
right to sell small nations down
the river while arranging bal
ances of power, as was the Iftth
and lHth century practice. The
small nations have their forum
in the U. N., where their views
can be made known and where
they will he weighed at least by
the Western powers.
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