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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
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"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.
Please note tiieae corrections.
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