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Oregon’s Infant VFW Likely
To be an Orphan
ALTHOUGH facing unfavorable comment con
cerning organization of a Veterans of Future
Wars chapter on the campus, a small group of
students have felt it necessary to fall in line with
the national VFW and establish a local chapter.
In weighing the advantages of VFW against
the disadvantages, this paper has expressed itself
opposed to the group because of its ineffective,
although "funny,” tactics. In ridiculing the Amer
ican Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars
as organizations, the VFW is taking undue liber
ties with the sincere patriotism of millions of
veterans who are not essentially in sympathy
with the "big boys” who keep the American
Legion active as a means toward making a living.
* * *
On the Oregon campus neither extreme of the
military question appears to sympathize with the
movement. For instance, Don Thomas, leader of
advocates for retention of required military, ridi
cules the VFW action, and says it will accomplish
no good purpose. And on the other side of the
fence, liberal leader and avowed pacifist Charles
Paddock refuses to join.
Other campus leaders also decry the move
ment. They say they cannot particularly see where
the organization, especially considering its late
start here, can accomplish much good. They agree
with R. Allan McClung, leader of the local group,
that it is a ridiculing movement and has its
humorous side. But they point out, too, that the
humorous angle has already been exhausted all
over the nation, and that the joke is stale and
worn out.
Therefore it appears as though organizer Mc
Clung is likely to have little success securing
active backers on the Oregon campus. Students
here seem to have had their fill of chuckling and
ridiculing war with the Princeton burlesquers. it
ulso appears that once having exhausted that
angle, serious workers in the cause of world peace
and war prevention would attempt educational
means to accomplish their purpose instead of be
lated ridicule.
A thorough understanding of what actually
causes war, and a knowledge of what soldiers
are fighting for, will do more to keep world peace
than a ridicule of bonus seekers.
* # *
It is evident that Oregon’s VFW advocate
McClung and his cohorts do not reflect the atti
tude of the majority of Oregon students.
Stardust, A Real Theme
OTARUUST! An ethereal motif for the Canoe
Fete! Stardust . . . on a moonlight night in
May. It. sounds poetic and is. Contrasting with
last year's sprightly "Melody in Spring" come the
dreamy strains of "Stardust.”
This theme 1'its. Against the dark green hack
ground of the east bank of the millrace the floats
will stand out in soft harmony. The sprightliness
of last year's idea will be counteracted by all the
beauty of “Stardust" and the possibile develop
ments on this theme. The musical strains of the
ever-popular song will form a fitting accompani
ment to drifting- floats.
Stardust was a grand suggestion, but if
they d picked "Popeye” as the theme someone
could have built a "Eugene the Jeep” float!
LI HOUGH it should not be recommended as
J v a steady occurence, the injection of such
experienced actors as Horace Robinson and Mary
B nnett into a campus production cast is a real
treat. Their portrayals last night in Sutton Vane's
‘ Outward Bound” wore truly outstanding. In this
they weren't alone. The test of the east seemed
to take their cut from Mr. Robinson and Miss
Bennetts professional assurance and to plav up
to them.
It i., realized that Guild hall is a place for
students to gain experience, but if it is possible
to cast all the students in strong roles and also
include in old hand at the game with them, the
result is more than satisfactory.
There is an old saying concerning any com
petitive activity, if one wants to learn to do a
tiling quickly and well, do it with someone who
can do it better ttian oneself. In tennis, the novice,
gains by playing with the expert. In golf the same
situation obtains. Ou the stage this is also true.
By playing opposite Mr. Robinson the Guild hall
playe ., received training they could get in no
other way. And the result was one of the finest
Guild hull productions iu recent years.
Eugene!
Robinson, Bennett
Pace ’’Outward Bound’’
A Show a "Coke”
Or PerTiaps a life
WHILE students on this campus complain
about the light showers that cut off the
sunshine for a day or so, there'are soqre showers
of a different nature falling, in the southeast
portion of the United States. Down there a “twist
er" has rained death and destruction upon
thousands of people.
The Red Cross has gone into the field with
coffers nearly empty after their work in the flood
areas of the eastern states. Students rarely think
of the world outside them in terms of help, not
because they’re selfish, but because their interests
are within the school. We might benefit by looking
across the ravine once.
By contributing the price of a show or a milk
shake they can help some poor chap who has lost
his family and his home in the path of the
“twister.”
Miscellanything
Being Stuff From Heali and Tliculi
By LYLE BAKER
AMERICA'S PLACE IN THE SUN
America is proud and rich. We defy the world
to equal our government, our aptitude for inven
tion and industrial accomplishments. Our people
are hard working, peace loving, and clever. We
deride our political institutions, yet brook no out
side criticism and stand behind our principles.
Americans believe in the right of guiding their
destiny without outside influence and are ready
to fight for that right.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Eighteen years ago on November 11 the Ger
man republic consented to an armistice that ended
the World War. The acceptance was made with
the understanding that the peace settlement would
be founded upon the fourteen points of President
Wilson a plan that would mean a peace without
victory, a treaty of international understanding
and agreement. Gleefully the French accepted,
the Germans laid down their arms, allied troops
marched into German territory, and a conference
was called at Versailles to consider ’.he terms.
THE HALL OF MIRRORS
From America came Woodrow Wilson, idealist
and dreamer, advocate of America’s “war to end
wars.” From London sailed David Lloyd George
with his crafty mind conceiving plans to increase
British colonies and commercial supremacy. Up
from the Balkans scurried the suddenly victorious
Slavs and Croats, craftily and greedily flattering
the mighty to pave the way for revenge on the
long dominant Austrians and Magyars. Across
the Alps strutted the Italians, hoping to realize the
long awaited chance to humiliate their northern
neighbors in Austria.
From war-wracked, starving Germany came
Brockdorff-Rantzau and his delegation of fearful
but hopeful ministers. In Fiance “Tiger” Cle
menceau and his cohorts waited in their lair to
get revenge on the German eagle for the insult of
1870, to ensnare thei naive American eagle in his
own net of good intentions, to outsmart the Brit
ish lion in his commercial ambitions, and to see
that the French “liberty, equality, and fraternity”
should be recompensed for its defense of the peace
lovers of the world! In this atmosphere of hate,
revenge, and greed was born the Versailles treaty,
the “peace ’ treaty that was to insure forever
international good will and understanding.
The Mockery of Forced l’oaee
THE MOCKERY OF FORCED PEACE
From the first the conference was a travesty
on justice and humanity. Germany found to her
dismay that the conference was not considering
the “fourteen points” but methods by which they
could crush Germany forever. Greed and revenge
triumphed over reason, justice, and humanity.
Germany lost her colonies to the world. Her dig
nity and pride were humiliated by French occupa
tion of her fatherland. Her scattered people were
foi mod into other nations ,to brood and contem
plate revolt from the rule of their oppressors.
Her commerce was destroyed in the abolition ot
her onee-great merchant fleet. Her industry was
shattered by the theft of her coal and iron mines
by France. Her recognition as a great nation was
refused by a clause forbidding her membership in
the League of Nations. To crown all of these great
humiliations with a greater one, after all her
natural resources in her colonies had been taken,
away, alter all means of developing resources she
stdl did possess were impaired by the loss of her
coal and iron, after all means of shipping the
goods she could produce had been destroyed in
the destruction of her merchant fleet the French,
British, and allied spoil-grabbers imposed on Ger
many a cash indemnity so staggering that it sur
passed the combined resources of Germany before
the war.
GERMANY'S PLACE IN THE SUN
Germany is proud; once she was rich. She
defies the world to surpass her aptitude for in
'cation, her government, am! her industrial accom
plishments. Her people are hard working, peace
lo\ mg, and clever, she brooks no outside eritisism
ot her principles, (iernmns believe in the right of
guiding their destiny without outside influence —
and stand read.* to fight for that right.
CAN AMERICA HOWL?
tan America criticize Germany for her defense
° hor. ngnt!i> tiu? ‘lct u> reestablish her place as
one of the great nations of the world? German
nuimamonf means German assumption of her
place in world polities. German occupation of the
Knmvland is a balm to a nation of hurt people.
‘ an we as nationalistic, pioud, independent Amer
icans question these acts of nationalistic, proud
independent Germans ? y o °
Oveiheard: "By - if he doesn't appT.ir
me cleanup chairman 1 11 tell about the dirtv dei
he pulled on the B;ju Wigas last term.”
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By BARNEY CLARK
WUXTRY! WUXTRY!
READ ALL ABOUT INTEL
LECTUAL LOVE ORGY!
WUXTRY!
Bigegst emotional crash of
all time for the Oregon campus
was last week's collapse of
Fredie “The Brain’’ Colvig un
der the impact of b!ond, artis
tic Constance Kletzer, Delta
Gamma tennis star.
Astounded wore Oregon’s
socialites by this sudden birth
of the divine passion in the
aloof heart of the University’s
No. i untouchable. Long the
goal of feminine campus intel
lectuals, “the Brain’’ has been
considered as impregnable as a
bank vault, due to the impos
sibly high standards he lias set
for his mate. Surprising, then,
was his surrender, ridiculous as
(he collapse of a' startospherc
balloon.
Pressed for reasons by a
horde of newspaper reporters,
Colvig last night shyly admitted
that he “loved her for her
beautiful brain.’’ With a boyish
smile he added that he “chased
tennis balls for her like a New
foundland setter.” With another
boyish smile he pointed out that
“she didn't have to pick up a
single ball all afternoon, by
gad!”
Informed by an alert news
hawk that no such dog as a
Newfoundland setter existed, he
smiled boyishly. He readily ad
mitted that he had held hands
with her during the process of
exchanging tennis balls but
hastily added that “t’here is
nothing physical in our rela
tionship, nothing but the meet
ing of perfectly attuned minds.”
Asked about future plans, he
raised his head dreamily from
a glass of beer to say (quote)
“At present I am content to sit
and worship her. Later on I
may do something about it.”
(unquote).
* * *
Strollers passing College Side
Inn late Thursday night were
astounded by the spectacle of
two neatly clad Pi Phis lung
ing up and down on the handle
of a tire pump, while a large
circle of husky males stood
around and guffawed. This,
oddly -enough, was not a tableau
depicting “The Collapse of
Chivalry’ but rather a neat
illustration of the wages of
vandalism.
'Villa Bit/, and Marvel “Mona
Lisa” Twiss, the two Pi Phi
pumpers, were engaged in in
flating the left front tire of
Howard Hoskin’s Plymouth be
cause THEY had let all the air
out of the aforesaid tire and had
been caught in the act by vigi
lant Sigma Chis Bob Braddock,
Mel Johnson, and Frank Mi
chek. Captured after a scream
ing half-block chase, they were
dragged back to the scene of
the crime and given ten min
utes to inflate the tube. The
penalty for failure was a sum
mary immersion in the chill
waters of the millrace.
Fortunately, ten minutes of
frantic push-and-pull served to
blow up the tire to the rolling
point, and the perspiring prank
sters were allowed to sink to
the running-board. Explanation
of the deed came from Ring
leader Twis. “It was spring, I
guess,” was her comment,
forced out between easDs.
Music in
The Ai r
By BILL LAMME
Spring Fever
Spring fever is envinced in
about three nutty manifesta
tions. It may make a young
man’s fancy turn to wht wom
an’s has been turned to all the
time; it make break out in the
form of a rash; or it may be
sappily sublimated in poetry.
Tra la, tra la, and tra la.
Spring .is here and so is poetry.
SU ING MUSIC
•Verse:
1. You cannot recognize the
the tune,
(What little bit it has)
But it’s the type you like
to croon,
And it’s the latest jazz.
Chorus:
So swing it, brother, make
it hot!
Bang away and blow a lot.
Make it sizzle, don’t care
what
A nut you are. Like as not
We’ll be list’ning! Every
sot
Will clap and call for what
you’ve got.
So swing it, brother, make
it hot!
Verse;
STAR DUST
AMERICAN and British films are obviously limited to English
speaking countries, giving Charlie Chaplin a logical reason
for not talking on the screen. Pantomime is a universal language,
and because of this his pictures are played in all parts of the world.
If Chaplin talked, he would lose popularity and royalties from
those countries who know our film industry only through his
pictures.
Richard Barthelmess has deserted Hollywood for the stage,
after tiring of mediocre roles which were robbing him of his popu
larity. His performances in “Tolable David,” “Classmates,” “Twenty
One," and “The Patent Leather Kid” were real contributions to
the screen. . . . James Stewart, the foreign correspondent in “Next
Time We Love,” is a sure bet for stardom. . . . Buck Jones never
shoots the villain, probably thinks it might put ideas in the minds
of tlie younger fans. . . . In the old days of the screen, a western
star’s horse was more famous than the winner of the Kentucky
I terby. Every one remembers Tom Mix's horse, Tony, who was so
valuable that the Fox studio kept his death secret until they coflid
train Tony Jr. to hate cattle thieves. . . . Lawrence Tibbett will
play “Don Q, Son of Zorro," another case of Hollywood miscasting.
• • ■ 1 he trouble with most double bills is that they have only one
redeeming feature.
STAGE
WORLD
By WILLIAM THOMASON
I am safe today in saying
that I am neither a Democrat,
or a Republican. That leaves
me either a Hammonder, or a
Finleyer. These two parties, in
case you don't know, are the re
spective sorority-nabbing ma
chines of the politicos Fred
Hammond and Craig Finley.
For it is the sororities who elect
the president of the AUSO—•
again in case you don't know.
In backing up my opinion as
to who will win I am still un
decided just how deep to go. It
is really a very tough “sitia
shun” to figure out, and will be
a very tough campaign for t.he
participants therein. Many
nasty words will be said behind
many newly-tanned backs, but
few of these back-bristling de
nunciations have a ghost of a
chance of making the rounds of
all the living organizations. On
that account I am offering my
services to voice denunciations
for the 66-100 per cent (ob
tained by subtracting 99 and
44-100 per cent from 100 per
per cent) who never have the
opportunity to say and hear
really nasty things.
Now much of what is said is
2. Your notes are blue, your
rhythm's nerts.
We listen with our feet.
And that's the thing that
always hurts—
Our feet and brain don't
meet!
Chorus:
So siwng it, brother, make
it hot! Etc. . . .
Verse:
3. So tune the trumpet to an
“A,”
(Remember “A” from
school ?)
Let the trombone player
bray,
The drummer act a fool.
4. Let the clarinetist screech,
The saxophonist blurp.
Let the leader grab his
stick
And start each silly twirp.
5. Don’t take time to learn
the notes,
For music is a bore.
Just let nature take its
course—
And jam and swing some
Chorus:
So swing it, brother, make
it hot! Etc. . . .
Radiography
All right, all right, wise guys,.
Just remember you don't have
to read it if you don't want to.
And you don't have to listen to
the raddio this balmy, springy
eve, but if you do you’ll hear
Smith Ballew emseeing Shell
Chateau KGW-NBC at 6:30 . .
Olsen and Shutta, Inc. at 7:30
KGW-NBC ...Glen Gray
without his camels on KEX
NBC at 8:30 . . . Ziegfeld Fol
lies on KOIN-CBS at 9 . . .
and for that rotnantic mood be
ginning (!) to pervade the
campus, try Meredith Willson’s
waltz time at 10:00, the witch
ing hour, KGW or KPO . . .
L’Envoi
To sum it up, to make it terse
This column’s getting verse
and verse!
Reviewing France’s Watch on Rhine
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"When the trumpet sounds on the Moselle river ami the Rhine we must all of us be Frenchmen
nly," General Maurice Gamelin, chief of the French arim general staff, exhorted listeners at Strasbourg,
ssuring them that the military was “ready for all eventualities." This XE.V Hadiophoto shows him
rxiewing the garrison at Strasbourg, which is separated from Germany only by the Khine. On the
•ft io General liering, military governor ot the city.
very vehement. It could not be
printed, but Sadie McGluck is
a girl with her ear to the
ground at all times, and there
she hears only those things
which can be printed. Yester
day she slipped up to me in the
College Side Inn, and before I
could stop her she whispered,
in such a loud tone that nearly
everyone in there heard her,
that there was some dark-horse
candidate in the offing. I could
not help but mentioning that he
must be very dark, as politics
being what politics is, horses of
a midnight hue are not wel
come, and I could not see him.
As she went on the veracity of
Sadie began to be doubted by
all who had eagerly gathered
round. The horse had the gall to
suggest that he run sans ma
chine, sans platform, sans ev
erything. It was unbelievable!
Imagine anyone running
without promising to do or die
for the independent students,
the fraternities, the sororities,
the ASUO, the “U.” None of
us stopped to think that ex
tremely little had been done by
past presidents of the ASUO
for these organizations, but
what if they hadn't? They had
the right attitude, and—just
imagine what type of person
anyone must be who wasn’t go
ing to promise to lay down his
life for any of these groups.
Even to the distribution of the
gravy this wolf in “ship’s”
clothing was going to do it
solely on merit; none of this
"how many firesides did you at
tend, how many “pepuls” did
you cart to the polls election
day, how many ASUO cards in
your tong, how “regular” have
you been, how much campaign
fund did your “casa” contrib
ute?” No sir, this person was
“utsnay” enough to say that
there wasn’t a whole heluva lot
he could do for any group, and
that he intended doling out the
honors according only to whe
ther they were deserved by the
recipients. It was too much for
us.
One cent a mile was added to
auto operating costs in 1935 be
cause of traffic accidents, ac
cording to a recent survey.
Ten meadow mice to each
acre, in a 100-acre meadow, will
eat 11 tons of grass annually.
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Folder About Trip
Dr. L. S. Cressman. anthropolo
gist, has received folders advertis
ing the Rainbow Bridge Monument
valley expedition to northeastern
Arizona to study that country for
scientific purposes. The trip is
open only to a few, according to
Dr. Cressman, who has been sent
an application folder.
The expedition is divided into
fields of engineering, archaeology,
geology, botany, photography, and
art and architecture. Any man
who has had experience or training
in one of the fields is eligible. The
party leaves Berkeley, California,
in June and returns in September.
Any one who is interested is asked
to get further information from
Dr. Cressman. Dr. Cressman was
invited to help direct the anthro
pology section last year but was
unable to go as it conflicted with
plans already made for the annual
eastern Oregon field trip.
“Alaskans to eat reindeer in
stead of beef.” Next Christmas
dad can tell the kiddies that Don
der, Blitzen, etc., were parboiled
by mistake.
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