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Presidential Aspirant?
Then Help the ASUO
BECAUSE of a monkey wrench in the machin
ery of the pre-election controversy for the
junior class election, campus politicians are once
again at eacli other’s throats. There are two
parties formed. One of them has a candidate.
Piior to the break, both parties looked with favor
on this candidate. However the junior class elec
tion upset the accord and now it’s do or die with
both parties.
All of this is of little importance. If campus
politicians choose to waste their time beefing over
who shall be appointed Junior Weekend chairman,
and then transfer this beef into the student body
election that is their own business.
* * *
But there is now a real problem facing the
school the task of selling student tickets for
spring term.
In the next two weeks the embattled politicians
will pull and haul at the fraternities, sororities
and tiie independents in an effort to get their
candidate elected; and in the meantime, the ASUO
Will go begging.
The ASUO needs support NOW. Regardless of
what comes from the reorganization, regardless of
what peisons think of the spring term program,
the future of the ASUO will be impaired by failure
to sell more tickets! This is a plain statement of
truth; and in spite of this harsh reality, the
fellows who run politics on this campus insist on
bludgeoning through in their own interests and
leaving the organization they seek to control high
and dry!
There has been lots said about the evils and
inefficiency of politics on this campus. Right now
there is a practical application of just these ob
jections! i
Where is the loyalty? Where is the concerted
action ? Where is the devotion to the school, its
activities, its self-respect? Right now it is sub
merged in the debris of political bickering that is
occupying the thoughts of politicians who want
an ASUO president but don’t give a rap about
the ASUO.
Does a candidate for ASUO president want a
Slogan for his campaign?
HE HELPED THE ASUO!
To the candidate who really helps should go
the gravy.
A Different Frosh Glee
Coming Up
I A DUELS to the class of ’39! The freshmen
are sparking! The annual Frosh Glee is Satur
day, April 11. The usual plans are of course under
way for the affair. But the plans are different.
Preparations are decidedly original.
Class leaders decided on a scene of Japan
motif for the traditional dance. But the directorate
didn't stop there. It decided to make it authentic.
So before Mr. Jiro Harada, instructor in Japanese
art and culture, left for California the class went
to obtain his advice.
The popular instructor gratiously gave advice.
He aided in planning the decorations, and gave
Decorations Chairman Sam Fort many ideas. And
then he took another much appreciated step. He
lent the class many Japanese prints, kimonos, and
statues to be used in the decorative scheme.
The class is to be commended for its original
ity and taking on the extra burden of work, which
will be necessary to carry out the scheme. Mr.
Harada merits commendation for making possible
the carrying out of the plans in a better fashion.
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is set to publish your literary creations.
The section means what it says . . . pronounce
it any way you wish. At any rate, fire away. It's
an opportunity to give that hidden l dent no one
else appreciated a chance to show itself. Maybe
people will say, "1 always thought lie wrote like
the great novelist "Conroi," or the poet "Shapes
vvorth.”
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and Smirks (Safety Valvei. The amateur section
wants sketches, poetry, essays, descriptive writ
ings, interesting experiences, original anecdotes,
sonnets, short shorts, and anything else you can
think of that it ought to have.
You've always wanted to write. You know
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Miscellanything
BpinjU Stuff From Heah and I heah
Vocation Impression
Of Eighth World Wonder
THE San Francisco Bay bridge takes its place
as the eighth, and perhaps the greatest
wonder of the world. A tribute to concrete and
steel, and to the daring mind of man, the bridge,
a challenge to credulity, stands almost complete.
All roads of the Golden Gate city lead, to the
“bridge” as dwellers of the Pacific metropolis
are wont to call it. A visitor to the city cannot
help but be impressed by the enthusiasm and in
terest the San Franciscans show in watching the
biggest bridge in the world grow almost out of
the waters of the bay. On the street cars, ferries,
in busses, theaters, restaurants, and other public
places in Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Russian,
French, German, and English languages, the
“bridge" is the object of conversational sport.
But then, the eighth wonder of the world is
something to talk about! Progress, symbolized by
the colossal concrete piers, skyscraping steel
towers and graceful suspension cables of the Bay
Bridge, soon will end, for all time, San Francisco’s
isolation. Early in 1937, the picturesque ferry
boats will lose their prestige, as motorists will
whisk across the Bay witers in ten minutes via
the great steel highway. •
Extending for 23,000 feet (about four and a
half miles) over the San Francisco Bay waters,
the Bridge will really be two huge structures,
each longer than the largest bridge as yet con
structed (George Washington Bridge across the
Hudson at New York City). East of Yerba Buena
Island the “bridge” will be a cantilever structure
more than two miles long. Between Yerka Buena
Island and San Francisco it will consist of two
suspension bridges, built in tanden, each approxi
mately one mile in length, each a complete bridge
in itself. Such an engineering fete has never been
done before.
Neither has a bridge ever been reared above
piers which were sunk by this caisson method
from the surface of the water down through both
water and mud to rock bottom. Never before did
suspension bridge towers rear themselves until
their hollow steel frames rose 505 feet above the
water and their concrete bases sank 235 feet below
the water level. From rock-bottom base to the
tip of its tower, each major Bay Bridge pier and
tower is the equivalent of a sixty-story sky
scraper.
Other "never before" features of the “bridge”
include a magnificent sweep of 218 feet above
high water, 70,800 miles of cable, enough to girdle
the globe three times; 17,464 wires in each cable
forming a solid metal mass 28% inches in diam
eter, to support the highway, the railway tracks,
the thousands of motor cars and motorists and
the electric trains whose weight will be on the
structure at one time.
Under the genius direction of Chief Engineer
C. H. Purcell, the Bay Bridge will be ready for
the champagne christening in less than four years,
with a total of 54,850,000 man hours of labor.
ICHAKD Mortimer Fabbitt, people called him
■1' Mort for short, stood in the rear of the
Riviera and sniffed the air accusedly. “Stinking
place” he lisped, “rotten party enauseating
women bah.”
A twig snapped.
“Ah, the villain,” thought Mort.
He whirled, a six gun handy in his hand.
Expressions of pain, pleasure, and passion
quickly shot across his brow.
A young gal, in her tender twenties, was
standing there panting.
Fabbitt, famous for his fastidiousness,
strummed his fingers on the branch of a large
oak tree nearby. "You have cute legs,” he imagined
almost audibly.
The gill giggled and giggled, showing two rows
of pearly second-growth teeth.
Fabbitt, a dentist by hobby, squinted and
edged up.
The girl closed her mouth and giggled through
her nose for a little while. Then she began to look
a trifle panicky and started to vibrate ever so
slightly.
For an instant Mort lost his temper. He ran
his hand slyly through Iris sleek hair. “Grrr” he
shouted.
“I feel kind of empty inside” said the blond
in a hollow voice.
Suddenly drops of moisture fell, one by one,
from her large dreamy eyes. Mort sniffled a little
himself. He could feel the moth ball in his pocket
too.
tTomorrow Bay Bridge History)
Toothsome Tragedy
\ Story—By Bob Moore
More shook himself. After alt he should appear
more maseuline before this proud beauty.
"Perhaps," tie said warmly, "you would like
to view my etchings."
"Why don't you scratch 'em ’" The girl guf
fawed al her exceedingly smooth humor but Mort
had heard something go "bang" or "pop” behind
him. Again lie thought it was Joe Jukes, the
villain. He flitted about, bracing himself for flic
impact of the bullet.
It was another twig. But a brunette, ttie
electric type, was standing there this time. Jter
teeth were swell too. A gentle breeze ruffled her
white hut dress. Perfume wafted its way through
Mart's carefully plucked mustache into his slender
.sophisticated nose, lie shifted his gaze hack to
the bolnd. The moon smiled contentedly. It east
shadows on tin' girls glistening, half-pa tied lip
There Mott wa. torn between two dandy sets
ot teeth tile kind of teeth that would put a gleam
in any alnatgiiY. dentist's °eye.
Mort didn't know what Hie heck to do, so he
just stood there. He didn't even hear a twig snap
when Joe Jukes came up presently and plugged
him in the guts.
Molt was still gazing at those teeth when lie
gasped "Ah, the villain" and turned swiftly over
on his face and died.
Europe Firsthand ❖
By Howard Kessler
CJCENE: Petticoat Lane, London.
^ Characters: Bill Cull, retired metropolitan police officer;
Harry Brandon, young salesman: and inevitably, the American, who
is being guided through the East Sides street of a thousand bar
gains by his hosts.
Time: A busy Sunday morning, when hundreds of poor London
ers besiege Petticoat Lane for three dollar suits and genuine
silver-plated utensils.
Place: It is a street of stalls, or rather, a network of arteries
thrown into a great space of ground in East London. Barkers
shout their wares, some good, most of them gyps, and the Lane
is a clanging cymbal of coarse salesmanship.
Bowler Hat: Gather around me lydies and gents! Let me dem
onstrate for your benefit what is ab-so-lute-ly the most stupendous
discovery of the. age! Now, tell me, what do you do when you get
a cold? What do yudo? Why, lydies and gents, you take a bit of
sulphur and molasses, that’s what yudo! Now, by this simple ex
periment, I shall proceed to show you what happens down in your
insides when you take sulphur. Watch closely now, you see I tyke
this sulphur, and I add a little of this, and then I apply a match. So!
Wren: Coo! Don’t it alt smoke!
Bowler Hat' Exactly! Now, this preparation I have in this
bottle is the latest, the very latest, scientific discovery for the cure
of colds. You see, whiy I try to set it on fire, it will not burn.
Now, lydies and gents, I am prepared to offer, for a short time*
only, bottles of this truly marvellous preparation, for the amazingly
low price of two and six a bottle . . .
Bill: Come along. We've had enough of this.
Check Shirt: ... so what do I offer you! I offer you these
fine tailored serge and tweed suits for one pound, no more and no
less. And why can I do this, dye arsk me ? Why, simply because
thri.ugh my contacts with Bond street, I receive these suits tailored
for all the lords, when they cawn’t pay fer 'em!
(The crowd roars, and we move on.)
Tarzan: (stripped to the waist) . . . Now I'm going to show
you how I stretch a 1500 pound tension spring, (he does) Se that,
all you weak-kneed, chicken-chested, pasty-faced infants! I'm a
man, that's why I can do it. I’m a man!
Bystander: Lor’ bless me, so he is!
Tarzan- Now, 1 11 tell ye what I’ll do. I'll challenge any man
in the audience to come forward and pull that spring. Yes, sir,
and anyone who can do it gets this five-pound note I’m holding.
No. I didn't think anyone would. You know I'm the strongest, I'm
the fittest man in London today. And do you know how I developed
my strength? Just by taking a teaspoonful of this mixture I have
here in the bottle after each meal. That’s what you skinny chumps
need.
The American: Looks like water to me.
Harry: It is. With a dash of sugar.
Patches: Wanna buy a dog, mister? Thoroughbred rat bund,
’e is.
Bill: Plenty of chaps down here loading dogs. You see, this is
a good place to get rid of ’em. Some nice pups you can pick up
for two bob.
Gold Teeth: You see wht I ’ave in my ’and, don’t you? Six
genuine, guaranteed, solid silver forks, as usually sells on lr’Oxford
street for four bob apiece! Now. I add to them six forks in my right
hand, six mote knives, solid silver knives. And to show you 'ow
big-baited 1 am, 'ere goes six silver spoons in that same 'and.
Now. lydies and gentlemen, what I'm goin’ to say next is fair
gain' to swipe your toppers off your bloomin' 'eads. I offer to you
all this beautiful silver ware ft r six bob, half a dozen shillings!
Scarf: Blimy! That ain't ’alt a bargain, ain’t it!
Bil!: At any rate it helps home industry. The tin mines in Corn
wall haven’t been working full shift for years.
Play ❖ By ❖ Play
Marian Bauer
HKILIG today Astaire and
Rogers in "Follow the Fleet."
u. pOLLOW the Fleet' bring3
tis again that pleasing
combination of Rogers-Astaire
with all their tcrpsichorean tal
ents. There are plenty of novel
numbers and good gags in this
latest box-office sensation, but
the dual love story deal often
breaks the continuity and ne
cessitates awkward transitions
which stand out like A. B and
Nevertheless, and who cares
we accept it wholeheartedly,
not as perfectionism, but as a
pleasing piece of singing and
dancing comedy, with Fred and
c i v 1 .a tue tiv *. f -e.
Irving Beilin. Harriet Hilliard
makes her screbn debut with
Randolph Scott as the other ro
mantic part.
I)r. Os**ood Speaks
At Science Meeting
Dr. Edwin Osgood, of the medi
cal school, was guest speaker at
the meeting of Sigma Xi. science
honorary, last night. He spoke on
blood grouping and its ’ legal
medico aspect.
Members of the Lane County
Medical association were special
guests at the lecture. A short
business meeting followed the in
formal banquet held before the
speech.
Music in
The Air
| By EILL LAMME |
Musicelluny
J^ORE, Eugene’s leading radio
station, is to move into its
own building to be constructed
soon at, Willamette and 19tn
. . . George Olsen and his sing
ing half Ethel Shutta are head
ing west . . . they open at the
Ambassador, Los Angeles, April
13 . A1 Jolson is off Shell
Chateau and Smith Ballew, or
chestra leader, singer and mas
ter of ceremonies takes his place
Saturday . . . Fred Allen’s pro
gram tonight has an April Fool
theme ... on future programs
they’ll just drop the April . . .
Harriet Hilliard was meta
morphosed from a sexy blond
into a wistful brunet for Follow
the Fleet . . . wonder what hus
band Ozzie Nelson thinks about
it . . . Clyde McCoy, razzed for
his corny music which reached
its height in his record of Sugar
Blues, has the last chuckle . . .
largely because of its popularity
he got a new recording contract.
Wnllerings
Thomas “Avoirdupois” Wal
ler is 34 and the son of a min
ister. Until he was 15 he played
organ and sang in the choir of
his father’s church. Later he
played theater organ and
thumped out mechanical piano
rolls.
In 1930 he wrote the music
for “Hot Chocolates,” which had
the hit, “Ain’t Misbehavin.’ ’
Returning from a tour of clubs
in London, Paris, Berlin, and Vi
enna he, joined the staff of WLW
in Cincinnati.
He’s Victor’s best seller of
records, and as you’ve listened
to some of them you’ve probably
wondered if he has ever taken
lessons. He has. From THE
Godowsky of Vienna and THE
Carl Bohn of Yew Nork.
Dial Exercise
While you dine at 6:00, KOIN
with Rosa Ponselle . . . while
you smoke your cigaret at 6:30
KGW-NBC and 20,00(f Yrs. in
Sing Sing (not a musical!) . . .
while you ruminate, KOIN-CBS
at 7 :30 for March of Time
(DON’T confuse with Marsh of
Time) . . . while the Sminksy’s
drop in for a visit so you can’t
hear a darn thing try,Burns and
Allen ..KOIN-CBS . 8:30 (turn
’em up loud) . . . pray for the
*&lb*!!*@ Sminksy’s to leave
by 9:00 so you can concentrate
on ..Freddie ..Allen KGW-NBC
. . . 10:00—give yourself up and
go to bed.
Lines to A
Vain Lady
I bring these flowers to
Madame
Naught but a small corsage
But still I hope that you will
deign
To take them and them not
disdain
For they convey for you,
Madame,
A meaning sage.
Wear them and cease your
being vain
For tho unpleasant, yet 'tis
true
Just as these flowers will fade.
Just so will you.
—The Tulane Hullabaloo.
Punters Sought
By Coach Callison
Successor lo S. Kiordan Is
Needed for the W ehfoot
Buckfield
Coach Prink Callison looked
over his punting possibilities in the
varsity spring football workout
last night in an effort to uncover
a long-distance booter to fill the
shoes of Stan Kiordan, who tor
mented Webfoot oponents last
season with sixty yard spirals.
No exceptional punting is in
evidence this early in the season,
but a few of the men show possi
bilities of future development.
Lettermen Bud Goodin and Dale
Lu.se lie. and sophomores Tomj
Blackman, Dave Gammon, and
Bobby Anet were drilling hard on
kicking essentials. The second
week of spring practice is now in
session, with the squad of some 45
hard at work on fundamentals. -
Later in the season the squad will
be divided into two separate
teams, and scrimmage games will
be played between the two every
night. !
International Ball
Date Postponed
Dance to Be Held April 21;
Model League Assembly
Will Be Presented
International Ball scheduled for
April 4, has been postponed to
April. 24, at 9:00 o’clock in Ger
linger, according to Chairman John
Espy.
A standing committee of faculty
members in connection with inter
national relations will take charge
of a dinner to be given before the
dance. This dinner will be in honor
of a few expected noted guests
from Portland. The committee
will be made up of V. P. Morris,
chairman, J. J. Landsbury, A. L.
Lomax, H. J. Noble. G. Rebec, W.
Shumacher, S. S. Smith, and W. D.
Smith.
In the afternoon, a Model League
assembly will be held for the cam
pus. Several students will repre
sent different countries, debating
on the following subject, “Oil sanc
tions against Italy, with reference
to the attitude of the United
States.” The speakers will be:
England, Maxwell Morris; Ethio
pia, Robert Goodwin; Italy. Scott
McKeown; Germany, Carl Anthon;
Japan, Charles Shimomura; Russia,
John Tuvas; First American ob
server, Jason Lee; Second Ameri
can observer, Donald Serell. The
representatives from Austria, and
Fraflce Have not as yet been cho
sen.
Yeomen-Orides Dance
Scheduled for April 3
The postponed dance of the
Yeomen and Orides is scheduled
for Friday, April 3.
An amplifying system and a
phonograph will offer the music of
the nation's leading dance bands
for the evening.
The price has not been raised
and it is possible for students tp
dance all evening for a nickle.
Those with Yeomen or Orides
cards will be admitted free.
Partons and patronesses will be
Dr. and Mrs. Schwering, Miss
Janet Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. O.
Lindstrom and Mrs. Siefert.
Inivited geusts include Mrs.
j Alice B. Macduff and Mr. and Mrs.
O. L. Rhinesmith. Co-chairmen
for the dance are Ruth Orrick and
Phoebus Kolonoff.
Andrew Jackson was the oldest
president of the United States. He
lacked only 11 days of being 70
when he left the White House.
ASU to Meet With
Peace Committee
Plan on ROTC Initiative
Campaign to Be Made
Thursday Evening
With plans for an initiative on
military training receiving state
wide notice this week the Ameri
can Student Union and the Oregon
Committee for Peace and Free
dom will hold a joint session
Thursday evening to determine
whether or not the campaign will
be undertaken. Reports of the
Union’s labor investigations com
mittee will also be heard.
The military issue assumed state
importance yesterday when third
party organizers in Salem pon
dered whether or not to write the
initiative into the platform of a
Farmer-Labor party which will
put candidates in the field for the
first time this fall. Howard Oh
mart and Charles Paddock, mem
bers of the optional military
group, attended the Salem session
to aid drafters of the party plat
form in determiinng a course on
ROTC.
Today a broad committtee rep
resenting labor, grange, women's
clubs, churches, and the National
Council for the Prevention of War
will meet in Portland to decide
whether or not to undertake the
initiative. It is expected that fav
orable action will be taken. Up
state reports are that interested
persons in Washington are plan
ning an initiative in that state.
Idaho may also be the scene of a
showdown on compulsory drill.
Optional leaders are anxious
that the tri-state initiative be
undertaken. If it is successful,
prominent speakers from the East
will tour the states in behalf of
optional drill.
Meantime Oregon students are
wondering just what their part in
the campaign will be. Head
quarters will probably be in
Salem or Portland so that students
here favoring optional drill will
have as their principal duty
petition-pushing in Lane and
neighboring counties, and educa
tional work both on and off the
campus.
Library Group to Meet
The library committee will meet
tomorrow to discuss plans for the
new library. Browsing- room fur
nishings will be an important
topic. The library staff is also ex
pected to recommend courses on
the library for freshmen.
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IF
If I were to live my life again,
I would live through the moonlight nights,
Holding your hand as I did in the past,
Sitting with you in the dimming lights.
Holding your hand when sorrow was near,
Kissing your cheek when the children cried,
Smiling, my dear, when things went wrong
Or, shedding a tear when the baby cried.
If I were to live my life again for a wife
And I'd worship you as I have in the past
E'en though I knew of our coming strife.
Yes, if I were to live my life again,
I'd pledge it. ray deaf to you
As I used to do in the long ago,
\\ hen you were my sweetheart, good and true.
—Franklin Lee Stevenson.
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