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BILE MAIN WARING. Editor
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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.