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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1957)
- —» - Daily EMERALD The Oregon Daily Emerald is published fiv* days a weeh dur ing the school year, except during examination-- and vacation periods, by the Student Publications Hoard of the University of Oregon. Entered as second class matter at the post ©thee, Eugene, Ore. Subscription: $5 per school year, $2 per term. BILE MAIN WARING. Editor Opinion* expressed on the editorial pnije are those of Th« Kmerald and uo not pretend to represent the opinion of the ASUO or the l-niveraity. InM^ncd editorial* are written 1>T the editor ; initial*! editorials by members ui the editorial boavd. LORKTTA M EVER. Business Manager Wanted: Another Queen This University, which already boasts of 1,217 Queens of Something-or-Other, may be showered with honors and prominence again soon. The Eugene Junior Chamber of Commerce has asked our coeds, if single and aged 20-25, to enter the local elimina tions of the Queen of the Canadian Rockies contest. According to the pages of our favorite campus newspaper, “selection of the royal ty on all levels will be made on the basis of beauty, charm, deportment and person ality.” If The Emerald’s primary function was to win friends and influence people we would immediately predict a campus tri umph. Why obviously, we could reason, in beauty, charm, deportment (?) and person ally our gals are unmatched this side of the Canadian Rockies. So far this editorial hasn’t actually said we believe all this. If we did, perhaps we’d he first to get into the race with a Miss Kmerald Press Photographer contest, or sonic such fabulous event. We’ll ju-t sit on tlie fence and wait and see what our gal-, can do. Far he it from us to throw cold water on any girl’s chance to he Queen of Most Any thing. We urge all those with queenly ex periences. and the minority who have thus far struggled through life uncrowned, to drop your books and run . . . don’t walk . . . to the Jaycee office. We look forward in 1958 to see a Can adian Pacific Railroad calendar decorated by a young lovely in Kwanta sweater. Weeds of Compromise Reprinted from the University of Detroit Daily News To contribute something’ of worth to the world in which they live is perhaps the goal of most of the young of today, of yes terday and it will probably be the goal of tomorrow’s young as well. The aspiring novelist desires to write the great American novel, one that will carry the cry of the times—tolerance, peace, understanding, or whatever. The inventor wants to build a better mouse-trap. The scientist and doctor mere ly wish to take away all of humanity’s ills. But somewhere between the idealism of youth and the practicalism of maturity, there lies a sort of sterilizing field. This field is covered with the weeds of compromise, rationalism, and intellectual hide-aml-seek. It is quite necessary fur everyone to cross this lot in his short trip from one phase of life to another. However, not everyone walks out from this morass unscratched. Almost everyone is marked to the extent that he has modified his goal a little; he shortens his sights and lessens the distance between him and his final aim. Perhaps the reason fur this i-> that the young idealist- is disillusioned upon find ing that his elders are only men like him self; men who <lo nut epitomize the golden rule of right and wrong that they have given him as his inheritance. Students Polled Ike's Popularity Reflects Faith ... MINNEAPOLIS i ACP) — Many Republican politicians have attempted to interpret President Eisenhower's tremen dous popular vote last Novem ber 6 as an equal endorsement for the Republican party. Demo cratic politicians are prone to believe the people voted for the man Eisenhower more than for the Republican party. In order to get some opinion on the matter, as far as col legians are concerned, Asso ciated Collegiate Press asked the following question of a rep resentative national cross-sec tion of college students: President Eisenhower re ceived an overwhelming popu lar vote on Nov. 6 but the voters still re-elected a Demo cratic senate and house. Do you feel that Ike's re-election was more indicative of the people's faith in him as an individual, or their faith in the Republican party, or both, or neither? The results: Men Worn. Tot. Faith in Ike 90% 91% 90% Faith in Repub lican party 1% 1% 1% Faith in both . 4% 4% 4% Faith in neither . 4% 3% 4% Undecided .1% 1% 1% The figures show that nine out of ten college students be lieve the people voted for Ike and not the Republican party. And the great majority of this ninety per cent justify their re sponse by pointing out that the people also elected a Democratic Senate and House. Here are a few typical remarks: "They voted for the individual, or else they would have select ed a Republican Congress also,” is the statement of a freshman coed attending Moorhead State Teachers College (Moorhead, Minn.). And a Villanova University (Villanova, Pa.) sophomore puts it this way: "I believe that Ike must have won because of his popularity since the people still re-elected a Democratic House and Senate." An Ohio Univer sity fAthens) sophomore states: “It’s so obvious when the House and Senate are both Demo cratic." Other students stress the point that Ike was re-elected because of his personal popu larity, or because of his ability to handle the world crisis, his background as a military man, etc. Here are a few representa tive comments: A Rochester Institute of Tech nology (Rochester, N.Y.i fresh man feels that there is “very little difference in the issues of the two major parties and peo ple tend to vote for the indi vidual,” while a University of Nebraska (Lincoln) sophomore coed believes Ike’s re-election is “indicative of the ‘personality cult’.” And a senior at Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, N.Yj says simply: “Ike represents the 'father image’.” Faith in Ike is due "mostly to the world situation," is the feeling of an Arkansas Univer sity (Fayetteville) junior. A freshman at Jacksonville Uni versity (Jacksonville, Florida i says: “I believe people voted for Ike because they felt that he could keep the United States out of war.” The very small number of students who felt Ike's over whelming popular vote was re flective of faith in the Republi can party can best be represent ed by the statement of a fresh man coed at the College of St. Catherine (St. Paul, Minn.): “It’s a good party and they have proven that they can do a good job of running the country.” Some students feel the vote indicated a faith in both Ike and the Republican party. A junior at Northern Illinois State Col lege (DeKalb) thinks the vote reflects “a faith of what Ike represents in the Republican party; he is something new in the Republican party and that is what the people want.” A few students felt the large vote was not indicative of faith in either Ike or the Republican party. For example, a Barnard College New York City) fresh man coed puts it this way: “The vote is due to a fear of change in the administration because of the Middle East crisis, plus a lack of interest in long range plans.” No Swell-Head He ’’AMP NOW, PR ClOPPATE, WHO WILL RELATE H6 EXPEDIENCES MCU6 THE HEAD SHRINKING NATIVES OfCSV** **CAf Interpreting the News King Saud's Visiting Group From Undemocratic Nation By JAMES MAUUIH A I* News Analyst WASHINGTON * Nothing illustrates .better the mix'-d-tip condition of the world than the plane load of 50 people flying here Wrdnes tiay. They came straight out of the Arabian night* into the 20th century. In the war a gain at com munism this country haa had strange bedfel lows. None is stranger than King .Saud of Saudi Arabia, heading his party of 50. Saudi Arabia i« one of the most undemocratic nation i on earth. King Saud Is absolute mon arch. His seven million people— 5*0 per cent Illiterate—know no law except his wishes and that of their religious teachings. There a thief has his hands cut off and a runaway slave Is be headed. President Kisonhower will meet him at the airport. King Saud will get the red carpet treatment while he’s here be cause this country is anxious to keep him friendly to the West and away from Russia. But Russia and communism are just about the last things he wants. The majority of his people are homeless nomads, wondering around, looking for water and food for themselves and their herds. King Sand is neither home less nor hungry. He has 28 pal aces and acres of food freezers stocked with frozen foods esti mated to be worth $250,000. He doesn’t have to travel by camel. He has at least one air conditioned airplane and a fleet of Cadillacs. Besides liking Cadillacs for himself, he gives them to friends, relatives and various sheiks. His income is 300 million dol lars a year, his share of the pro fits from the oil which the Ara bian-American Oil Co. (Armco) takes out of the earth of Saudi Arabia. Four American companies make up Armco. They produce around a million barrel* a day. The oil reserve* of Saudi Ara bia, one of the richest store - houses in the world, have been placed ut 30 to 31 billion barrels. King Hand, who hns developed a llktnfc for American aleak* and foam rubber mattresses, ha* four wives, probably somewhere betweeen 5o und 100 concu bines, 40 sons, and daughters whose number no one heir will guess at. It haa been eatimated that there are 300 princes of Saudi Arabia: non*, grandsons and great-grandsons of old King Itm Saud, who died in lDf>3. They have to be taken rare of too. It has been reported each gets u whopping allowance, plus expenses. Thin writer asked one govern ment official if any of the 300 million dollar* trickles down to the people. He aaid '‘Perhaps not trickles down di tectly to the ‘people,’ as you < all them. But remember, every tune King Saud hands out a Cadillac, that means a job for someone. Someone has to be hired to drive it.” But Saudi Arabia reportedly is 300 million dollars In debt. The Fnitcd States Iniilt ait air liese at Dhahrun ut a cost of ut least 30 million dollars. The agreement ran out hist June. King Saud Is said to want some more millions from this government to itermit continued use of the base. The blocking of the Suez Canal has given King Sami no reason to like Egyptian Presi dent Nasser, who blocked the canal. He shut off the flow of oil to Kurope and in so doing cut into Kang Sand’s profits. Because King Saud never had it so good, with American money, he should be one Arab t his country can deal with reas onably at a time when it Is try ing to persuade the Arab world to be reasonable.
