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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1956)
+ EMERALD EDITORIALS + Endurance Contest We are tired, after a weekend beginning Thursday and ending Sunday — filled with events to keep students and guests scurry ing from one place to another in order not to miss anything. Without assuming too much, we also think visiting parents are tired — many of them said so Sunday. All the events were enjoyable, but there were just too many. ^ And, for students, eight and even nine o'clock classes Friday morning al ter a Prom Thursday were a little hard to attend in an awakened condition. A Thursday Prom was necessary this year in order to crowd everything into the weekend. Administrative officials kindly allowed two o'clock closing hours, on what they termed an “experimental basis.” We think the experiment showed the idea to be poor, mainly because it shouldn't be ne cessary to have the Prom on Thursday. A quick review of weekend events re veals many traditional events. Revival of the Canoe Fete has been unquestionably one of the nicer things the University has sponsored in many years. The all-campus sing is nice, particularly since it means new trophies for living organizations. We understand that the Sing was an event substituted during war years for the Canoe Fete, when that spectacle was dis continued. Yet now, with revival of the Canoe Fete, the Sing still is held and the Junior Prom is crowded into a school night. Members of the ASUO Senate have dis cussed the feasability of combining differ ent weekends in ways which would permit more relaxation and hence enjoyment of ihe ones we now have. At one time it was suggested that the Sing be moved to a sepa rate Mother’s weekend, or to Dad's week end — anything to alleviate the crowded Junior Weekend schedule. Maybe it wasn’t suggested by Senate members then, but undoubtedly someone has by now thought that the Sing could be eliminated altogether. While this sounds unpatriotic, it does present itself as a defin ite alternative. Whatever is done, the new Senate will have several decisions to make concerning the outcome of this year’s Junior Weekend and plans for the next. Perhaps when they consider scheduling the activities, they will remember sleepy Monday-morning eyes to day, and will move in the direction of alle viating the activities which have made a pleasant spring weekend a veritable endur ance contest. (A.R.) Partnership Pilfery Republicans may not Tealize it. but it looks as if they are being robbed. I be pil fer v . if successful, will deprive tbem of their principal argument for the partnership plan for the development of natural resources in the Pacific northwest. The thiefs in this caper are the Demo crats. They hope to deprive the (iOP of its favorite argument — that is. that Congress is becoming increasingly reluctant to pro vide the necessary funds to build dams which would produce much-needed hydro electric power in the Northwest. The Republican reasoning goes some thing like this. Unless new dams are built, and soon, the Northwest will be faced with a serious power shortage by 1962 or there abouts. And to meet the anticipated needs. Congress would have to appropriate $1.5 billion more in the next 10 years than it did in the last 20. Congress isn't that generous. Therefore someone else is going to have to help out. Ergo, give the local interests, pub lic or private, an opportunity. The solution: partnership between Uncle Sammy and the « locals. So what are the Democrats doipg? They evidentally are trying to show that Con gress is more philanthropic than Republi cans imagine. Thus a House appropriations subcommittee lias recommended substantial increases for two major products — John Day and Ice Harbor. The administration asked for only $500. 000 for planning on John Day, but the sub committee approved the sum of $1,450,000, while construction money for Ice Harbor was increased from five to eight million. These sums must still be approved by the full committee and by Congress, but the strategy is obvious. The Republicans may suffer even more before election time. Recent winds from the nation's capital have carried rumors that the federal Hells Canyon dam mav be approved by Congress this session. The De mocrats, especially Senator Wayne Morse, have been trying for this for a long time. In the meantime. Idaho Power company al ready has begun construction of two smal ler dams with the approval of the Federal Power commission. The failure of the De mos to gain approval of the federal dam in the past has helped to strengthen the COR argument that Congress just isn’t willing. But now if congressional appropriations for Northwest projects are increased, and if Hells Canyon is approved .the Republi cans will indeed have been robbed. It’s still an “iffy” probability, and the COP would like to see it, remain so. (J.C.R.) interpreting the news Indonesian President Reads Lesson on Feelings of Asia By J. M. Roberts AP Newt Analyst President Sukarno of Indo nesia has read to the United States one of the best lessons it has ever had on the feelings and intentions of Asia. By not pulling his punches, by his familiarity with and ad miration for American insti tutions, by his expression of ob viously sincere gratitude for the reception accorded a revolu tionary leader and “poor man’s son,” he has captivated Wash ington. Indonesia and Asia are going after stable independence in their own way, he said, and 'would not sell a bit of it for all the dollars or rubles in the world. He criticized the American military aid program as making recipients dependent on Amer ica, and stressed the need for economic development without political strings. He speaks much of democracy, but reminds that ballots are not edible. “We believe in methods and ideals of democracy but ... in the midst of want, social in equality and poverty, democracy cannot exist for long." . Sukarno made a good im pression on a congress which was even at the moment think ing of curtailing rather than ex panding the administration’s authority to prosecute the for eign aid program. Western colonialism is still £0 real to all the Asiatic lead ets that they fear it more than the prospects of a new Com munist colonialism. The clank ing of Eastern Europe s chains cannot be heard very loudly along the shores of the Pacific and the Indian oceans. It becomes increasingly clear that the United States cannot win these people to its side in the cold war. The only possi bility is to keep them from taking the other side. It is not only that democracy cannot live long amid the eco nomic conditions of Asia. It can not even be started under con ditions where millions of people cannot cease their daily scrab ble for a bare existence even long enough to learn to read and write. Monday After ASSlG^r foe i +OMOH.I "SHE'S IN ONE OF W CLASSES—RATHER DISTRACTING ISNT SHE?' BLUE MOWPAY An Election Aftermath; The Campaign Flopped By Scott McArthur Emerald Columnitl The election furor is over. And tut* of the rubble of un successful campaigns come the stories of oddities in the election news. Our favorite concerns a writ in candWate who was far eclipsed by the tremendous Stevenaon-Kefauver campaign. As a matter of fact, this cam paign was so obscure, we seriously doubt the candidate himself was aware of it. Perhaps it was a desire to re peat the political success of Sen. Wiayn*- Morse, a former dean of the UO law school Anyway, our spy in the law school informed us sadly Saturday that the law students' campaign in behalf of dean Orlando J. Hollis was think kindly of us. men a flop. The legal eagles of Fenton hall climbed off the law school step* to do political battle for their estimable dean an un willing write-in candidate for county coroner. A law. he didn’t make it. Talk of a college education an "pieparatton for the future." The hard-working and long suffering students of th<- archi tecture school haw this j. «e| thrown in their lapa a whii< back. An instructor toio hi^ class their a <»gnment w i to "desgn a tree for a woodp— V’i ■■ They did Just one of those thing* that come* In might by handy out In the field. SIGNS OF* OUR TIMKS: The big romantic' noise from Monaco has made itself felt even In Lane county. Our favorite bartender tells us that patrons are beginning to call Seattle’s finest brew "ItehnYea’.” 1 Letters to the Editor Km*’raid Kditor: Regrettably, I wish to cor rect an erroneous impression which must have been made in a short insert paragraph in the Emerald on Wednesday, May 16. In quotation remarks I was reported to have said, "Who's Stevenson." I made no such re mark. Anybody with whom I have taken speech courses, as I have done for two years, will remem ber that we many times men tioned the ex-governor of till nois, in fart almost daily for some weeks thw term, in my theory and literature of public speaking class. Ar to Chuck Mltchelmore's report that American political figures "don’t interest me,” my actual words were that "I am very busy, and not interested right now." as I was working on a paper for international rela tions. 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