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Eugene Rally Committee
Sets Pace
THE University of Oregon football team will
play more fine games on its home grounds
this season than in previous seasons. The de
mands for such action have been met by the
office of the graduate manager who, by past
attendance, has been assured of taking a size
able loss on those games.
The pressure for these heme games has been
asserted by many factions, the most persistent
of which has been townpeople, and merchants of
Eugene. But these people have reciprocated ad
mirably and have in many ways shown the active
students at the school what real pep and con
structive publicity means.
For the past week the Eugene Chamber of
Commerce and Eugene service clubs have been
making trips to Bend, Roseburg, Salem, and Al
bany. Service clubs, and Chamber of Commerce
meetings in these towns have been thrown open
to the speeches and entertainers representing
Eugene. John Stehn, director of the Oregon band,
has taken parts of his band with these groups
to lend color and spirit. In Bend the band was
taken to the high school where it gave a half
hour concert on the lawn of the high school be
fore the assembled student body.
The town committee for stimulating attend
ance at the Oregon football games, and for dis
seminating Oregon spirit throughout the state
is headed by Lynn McCready, who has been en
thusiastic in building this sort of procedure.
Oregon students should be appreciative of the
efforts of these people and should recognize that
in many respects their elders are "beating them
at their own game.” The student body too, has
a rally committee that might well function in
Portland, in the high schools there, before the
California game. But it takes the organization
and the efficiency of down town group to suc
cessfully complete a program of this sort.
The Oregon men's and women's rally com
mittees are capable of carrying Oregon into
Portland high schools. What is needed now is
action!
Why Fight With
Ethiopia?
f’T'HE papers are full of it; cables and tele
graph wires buzz day and night; laymen
mull it over dining tables and lunch pails; states
men frown, worry, boast, threaten and prophesy;
historians stand on the sidelines, watch and wait;
it’s Italy, Ethiopia,- Mussolini, Haile Selassie,
the League of Nations, and the sound of bombs
and war drums. The long threatening war clouds
have burst, and again—another war!
Thousands, yea, millions perplexed citizens
all over the world ask- what is all the fuss
about? Why should a sane European nation wish
to pick a fight with Ethiopia?
The economic standing of Italy is well known.
The II Duce's success in building up his country's
industry and agriculture is admired by most of
the world, even though a large portion of that
world thinks him a madman. The need of re
sources is set out as the first reason for Italy's
imperialistic expansion; population pressure, due
to some extent, to Mussolini’s policy of mass
production of Italian bambinos, as well as the
American closed gates comes second. Ethiopia,
from the European point of view, is virtually
one wide open space, and her pleasantly green
highlands resemble the summers of Sicily.
The third reason is purely an emotional one,
but is being used by Mussolini to rouse his people
to the highest pitch of insane patriotism, it is
the revenge for Aduwa in 1895. In the words of
Carleton Coon, “the picture of Italy’s cherished
thousands lying on that hot and gory field, their
emasculated corpses the prey of kites, is one
that is firmly engraved in the Italian imagina
tion.”
Looking at the situation through neutral eyes,
and glancing over the pages of history, the rec
ords show that all of the great colonizing powers
have taken their colonial territories with as
flimsy excuses as Italy flaunts. "All Italy now
heeds is a Kipling to glorify her rapacity.” One
of the chief reasons why the great powers are
kicking is that they now have all they want,
have become static in their foreign policies, and
suddenly have developed a shadow of a con
science, say some writers.
Two years ago Italy’s ambitions in Ethiopia
were well formulated and known to the countries
of the world, but it was not until the fall of
1834, when the eastern half of Italy’s projected
Red Sea Empire, that is the possession of the
Yemen, anil Hadhramaut, which lies just across
the Gulf of Aden from the eastern tip of Italian
Somaliland, was prevented by English assistance
to the natives, that the campaign against the
Lion of Judah had its definite inception.
Through the winter and spring of 1934-1945
Italy’s preparation for war in Ethiopia went on.
At first England and France were impassive, but
when Italian troops arrived in Eritrea. England
begun to take action in her desire to prevent a
war. Ethiopia was offered an outlet to the sea
through British Somaliland, in exchange for pro
posed concession to Italy. England has never
been known to give land away willingly, and
why she is so eager to preserve peace, other
than her desire for free passage in her trade
routes, only her suave diplomats know.
Peace has not been maintained. Italy and
Ethiopia are at war. Reports indicate that Italy's
revenge of Aduwa is near, with the bombing of
the ancient city. Slaughter, butchery, and death
are rampant in the Lion of Judah's kingdom.
The League of Nations meets today. The
world awaits its receipt for peace. Will Italy be
stopped ? Will another world war be averted ?
And what of white man's civilization?
The world waits!
Oregon Swimming
Pool Problem
WHEN Oregon’s new physical education
plant is completed it will not have a swim
ming pool. It is to be regretted that such a fine
structure shall not contain a prerequisite of
complete physical education equipment, an ade
quate natatorium, within the building and not
three blocks away.
With Oregon putting championship swim
ming teams in the field, the insufficient training
facilities are becoming more noticeable. Two
small pools, neither deep enough for first-class
fancy diving, are but excuses for proper equip
ment. One in Gerlinger, has a hot, stuffy balcony
capable of seating about 200 people. The other
in the men’s gym has no room for spectators.
The fact that plans are being considered to
remodel the present men’s gym to allow seating
space for 600 spectators by the pool shows that
the authorities are cognizant of the need. But the
necessarily temporary remodeling of the rooms !
next to the pool does not make the pool any
longer or any deeper. With a pool too short for
even the short sprints, Oregon will have to con
tinue to hold her major contests away from
home.
Oregon appreciates the government’s assist
ance which enables her to eradicate one of her
most pressing wants, the construction of the new
physical education plant. It is hoped that the less
urgent but nevertheless strongly felt need for a
new, large natatorium will be considered again
in the near future.
Europe Firsthand
By Howard Kessler
By Howard Kessler
£T isn't safe to argue with a newspaperman,
especiallly a foreign correspondent, for he can
always bluff you into thinking that he has an
appreciation of so many facts of which you are
unfortunately not cognizant.
This situation held me at bay those two hours
1 spent with Chuck Hewitt anil Ed Martel. I had
just entered Germany from Switzerland and was
eager to learn, though very ignorant of condi
tions within the Nazi realm. The American con
sul supplied me with the names of a few jour
nalists and I sloshed through the streets of
Munich that April day trying to make contacts.
Scene: The Nurnberger Backwurst Glock'l,
just besides the grey mass of the Frauenkirche
Munich.
Time: Noon of a blustering day.
Characters: Hewitt and Martel, American
newspapermen, representing one international
news agency and a dozen papers independently.
Not long graduated from Cornell. The American.
Setting: The old-fashioned, mellowed dining
room of this famous eating house, over the
finest beer in the world and the finest sausages
and sauerkraut in Germany. The furnishings
are dark hardwood and souvenirs from many
illustrious men and women line the walls.
Ed: So you want to know something about
Germany ?
The American: I do.
Chuck: Take our words for it, Bud, it's a
lousy mess.
Ed: Hitler has destroyed Germany. Had
Stresemann lived and continued in power, all
Germany’s hopes would have been gradually
realized. The Versailles treaty was on the way
aut . . .
Chuck: Hitler has roused the world against
him by his insane tactics . . .
Ed: The biggest thing scheduled to come off
now is the church battle. They’re all Catholics
nere and Hitler is determined to found his Na
tional church . . . Alight get a story there . . .
Chuck: Hitler is like a curtain flapping in the
breeze . . .
Ed: Childish, turning from one toy to a still
more glittering one . . .
Chuck: Fanatical, and has a crazy love for
I power . . .
Ed: He has no policy, no object in view . . .
Chuck: Hitler is the front for a group of
I financiers. Lincoln Steffens says that every gov
| 3rument must have a front, a showy personality
I to attract votes and under whose lure they can
! it raft all they want. Like Jimmy Walker for
Carey . . .
Ed: And no justice whatsoever in Germany
"day. Take this man Roiderer . . .
Chuck: Bad stuff that.
Ed: X spent two weeks last year in one of
the German labor camps w here every voting
student must serve six months manual work be
fore he can matriculate from university. About
300,000 in them now. and it will soon tie com
pulsory for all youths. No system at all. Run
m terrible shape. Work maybe two hours a day
peeling spuds and then sit around the rest of
the time looking at each other and yawning
Oh yes, we had drill. Used to march around
with shovels over our shoulders, singing like all
get-out. making the motions of rifle drill with
mt the guns, flopping down on our bellies and
crawling over the ground. Suddenly we would
run like hades one tva\\ then turn around and
tun like htfdes the other way.
Chuck: 1 hope you see now that Hitler is the
worst thing that could have happened to Ger
many.
The American: Your sausages arc cold.
THAT 5
.Wink
By DICK WATKINS
CAMPUS TONITE—Big rally
dance up in the Igloo at nine, for
the benefit of home town pigskin
spirit, sponsored by the local Jr.
C. of C., with music by Buck Mc
Gowan’s Orioles . . . Most likely
this jig will replace the much-men
tioned Hello Dance, now more or
less indefinitely postponed . . .
Other attractions include the
Green Parrot, offering Art Hol
man presiding over the bandstand,
and the Park, featuring McLean’s
10-piece campus ork, plus free
rides both ways . . .
RADIO IIILITES — Nino Mar
tini and Andre Kostelanetz’s 45
piece concert orchestra at 6:00
this eve, (CBS) . . . “California
Melodies,’’ directed by David
Brockman, at 5:30 (CBS) . . . the
first nite football game in Big Ten
history the annual battle between
Northwestern and Purdue, at 6:30
(CBS) . . . Best Bets on Manana —
Jack Benny, supported by Michael
Bartlett, (with Grace Moore in
“Love Me Forever”), & Johnny
Green's band, at 8:30 (NBC); Phil
Baker, “Father of Stooges,” along
with Hal Kemp's unique staccato
music, at 5:30; . . . (CBS); Har
riet Hilliard, Ozzie Nelson, plus
“B.I.O.N” Ripley, at 4:30 (NBC)
BANDS — Del Courtney, who
played Jantzen Beach this sum
mer, is now over in the Paradise
of the Pacific, batoning at one of
Honolulu's big beach hotels; . . .
Leon Belaseo, formerly at the
swank St, Regis in New York is
now broadcasting from L.A.'s Con
tinental Cafe; . . . Johnny Hump
has replaced Ted Fio-Rito's band
at Chicago's rambling Edgewater
Beach hotel; . . . Glen Gray’s Casa
Loina is now on tour in parts un
known, as well as is Jimmy Lunce
t'ord, Little Jack Little, and our
pet aversion. Fats Mailer . . . Ish
am Jones opened up this week in
Manhattan’s Hotel Lincoln . . .
KIXOMMFNBFD "Big Broad
cast of '3t>." coming up Sun. at the
Mac; Grace Moore in "Love Me
Forever." now at the Mayflower,
and "Diamond Jim," due in at the
Heilig, tomorrow . . . Morton Dow -
iu\\, radio’s high-voiced tenor, now
heard on l’aul Whiteman's pro
, grants ... he is good, if not bet
i ter. than ever before; . ! . the Fred
Waring Hour, especially the one
coming up this week, featuring all
j of Foie Porter's hit tunes, includ
ing numbers from his new Broad
way .'how. "Jubilee"; . . . Del Milne
and his McElroy’s Roof orchestra.
. playing out at the Park tomorrow
levelling . . . His outfit includes]
some 14 musicians and entertain- j
er all told, and had a very success
ful California tour this season, in
facts arc now heading back down
there for more dates . . .
* * *
m:\IFN THERE — Kiddie t an
tor will introduce a different guest
' orchestra each week, during his
new series of Sunday evening
broadcasts, w ith (Jus Arnhcim lead
ing off the parade . . . Others lined
up so far include: \nson Weeks,
Jlium;. Grier, Phil Oilman and
Gecrgie Stoll; . . . Jack Hylton’s
far-famed British band kicks in
with another super-wax job on
“Girl with the Dreamy Eye6” and
“Orchids to a Lady" (Victor;; . . .
Jan Kiepura, Polish singing star of
“My Song Is You," and other hits,
is now in Hollywood, at work on
his first U. S. film; . . . “I’m in the
Mood for Love.” tops all tunes this
week, in popularity, according to
the radio netwrk chains . . . Close
runners-up, in order of their rank
include, “Cheek to Cheek"; “You’re
All I Need”; “Accent on Youth”;
. . “Couldn't Believe My Eyes”;
“Top Hat”; & “East of the Sun”
. . . All for the present . . .
Innocent
Bystander
By Barney Clark
If our six readers will gather
around in a circle and be very,
very quiet, we will tell them a
story.
* * *
Once upon a time there was a
drunk, a very drunken drunk.
He was not a Sigma N'u, but you
couldn't have fold the differ
ence, except he was married.
So, about 3 o’clock of a Friday
evening, he came cruising down
the street and up his front steps
(elapsed time, 17 minutes). He sat
down on the top step and institut
ed a personally conducted tour of
his clothing, emerging at last with
a key. Thus armed, he attacked
the facade of the building, with
the exception of the front door.
His wife, aroused by the sound
and fury, opened the door ana re
marked icily:
“Tommy, daring, why don’t you
come in and go to bed?’’
“O.K.,” said he, vaguely, “Ooooh
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Kay. Might as well. I’ll catch hell |
when I go home anyway!”
* * *
It was Craig Finley who re- i
marked the other eve that the
Phi Delts had been dining on
“enthusiastic hash.”
“Enthusiastic hash?” queried
I.B.
“.Sure,” quips Finley, “the
cook puts everything she has
into it!”
The body will be interred at
Forest Lawn.
* * *
A little bird (well, medium-sized
anyway) has whispered to us that
Ralph “I'm the Man” Schomp will
commit matrimony a week from
Sunday. Irr.ogene “Monk” Wiley is
scheduled for the role of victim. It
is with considerable misgivings
that we chronicle this proposed
union between Phi Delta Theta
and Delta Gamma, since a good
proportion of our marriages last
term didn’t seem to be existent
after the first fine fury of public
ity, and we’d hate to be left hold
ing the .w.k. gunny once more.
TERSE VERSE
“Loving arms- and a generous
heart
Don’t belong with a girl
who’s smart.
She gives them both the frosty
eye,
And keeps her market value
high!”
‘‘SIR! . . . I'm the Dean of Wo
men!”
Wonder what would happen if
Benito or II Duce didn’t feel like
attending when Mussolini called a
cabinet meeting?
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In Review
By Stuart Portner
Editor’s note: Emerald theater
criticisms this year will he writ
ten by Stuart Portner, graduate
student in history. Portner re
ceived his B.A. degree at the
College of the City of New York,
and his M.A. at New York uni
versity. He is now studying for
a Ph.D. degree at the University
and is a regular member of the
Emerald staff. Portner has made
an intensive study of the rela
tively new art of motion picture
criticism and is peculiarly qual
ified as a critic in both the fields
of the motion picture and the
drama. Mr. Portner’s first re
view is one of the situation in
the field of aramatic criticism
at present and is an indication
of the thoroughness of his grasp
of nis subject—criticism of the
light arts.
The seeming platitudinous con
entio.'i that the present era is wit
lessing a more critical approach to
ivery field of human endeavor has
seen utilized in similar fashion to
lepict the apparent birth of great
;r realism in the dramatic arts,
rhe theater, languishing for years
n the throes of an intellectual
ethargy, broken only by the ef
forts of isolated groups through
nit the country to terminate the
imnipotence of New York produc
es has declared its independence
)f the professional stage ana' is un
lergoing an internal reformation.
Professors Mabie and Flanagan of
.he University of Iowa and Vassar
lollege, Elmer Rice and Virgil
3eddes, have assumed the leader
ship in the contest against Broad
vay. With Iowa City as the cen
er, and with Professor Mabie as
:he motivating force behind this
attempt to institute the Western
iheater, the struggle between the
community theater and the pres
rnt eastern stronghold has as
sumed an official status.
Ana’ as there has been a definite
move twards the freedom of ex
pression in the legitimate theater,
so has there been a marked
growth in the range of cinematic
production. Though the devision
of forces in the motion picture in
dustry has not attained the stage
of vituperation to which Rice knelt
in his blanket denunciation of the
“Broadway mind,” there has been
a. desertion of importance from
Hollywood in the establishment of
the Long Island studios of Hecht
and MacArthur. The spirit of Hol
lywood, proved too enervating a
force to the producers-playwrights,
and their opposition camp has
gained repute for the dexterity in
which the extraordinary has been
presented.
Yet the power of the cinema in
this country remains in Hollywood.
The present mergers of Twentieth
Centuiy and Fox, of Warner Bro
thers and Cosmopolitan, the emer
gence of a more powerful R-K-O
group under the influence of John
Hay Whitney, have resulted in the
advance of the technical and dra
matic bases of the industry and
are indicative of desire of the ma
jor studios to respond to the de
mand of the motion picture audi
ence for a more intelligent film
than the traditional Hollywood
product.
With regard to a third party,
most Americans feel that two's a
crowd, three’s a catastrophe.
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