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TO on PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Fred W. Colvig. editor Walter R. Vernstrom, manager LeRoy Mattingly, managing editor EDITORIAL BOARD Associate editors : Virginia Endicott. Clair Johnson Mildred Blackhurne. Darrell Ellis. Howard Kessler. Wayne Harhcrt, Dan E. Clark Jr., Victor Dallaire, Charles Paddock EDITORIAL OFFICES: Journalism building. Phone 3300 Editor, D>oal 364 : News Room and Managing Editor, 353. BUSINESS OFFICE: A SCO of-ices. Phone 3300 Local 237. UPPER NEWS STAFF Lloyd Tupling, assistant man- Robert Pollock, chief night ed aginq editor itor Pat Fnzzell. sports editor Paul Plank, radio editor Paul Dcutschmann. news editor Howard K'-sler, literary editor Ed Robbins, art editor Clare Igoc. women's editor Gladys Battleson, society editor Copyreadcrs Roy Vcrnshom. Reha Lea Powell, Mary Hopkin**, Hazel Dean, Jane Mirick, Bill Garrett. P.ill Pengra, Geanne Eschle, George Ilalev, Frances Borden, Rita Wright. Jack Townsend, Patricia Duggan. Pat Uarson. Jean Kawson. Catherine Callaway, Sylvia SarlcL Harry Proudfont, Mignon Phipns. Blanche Brown, Ruth Ketchum, Anna Mae Halverson, Irman Zeller, Russell Espy, Orville Wilitams. Kathryn Morrow', Matt Kramer. Beverly Brown, Patricia Allison. Margaret Rankin. A1 Branson. Stan Hobson, Peggy Rob bins, Janet Gala van, Frances McCoy, Theo Prescott. Reporters Parr Apliti. Loui e Aiken, Laura Bryant, Morrison Bales David Cox. Jean Cramer, Marilyn Dudley, Myra Hulser, Stan Hob son. D.tw IT , Ota May lloldman. Anna May Halverson. Ken neth Kirtlcy. Roy Knud^n, Hubard Kuokka. Doris Lindrgrcn Dick Littin Felker Morn-. Alice Nelson. Bill Pengra, Ted Proud foot, Peggy Bobbinv Wilfred Roadman. Ruth Mary Scovel, Kathc rinc Taylor, Roy \’ernstrom, Rita Wright. Desk tJtaff This Issue Day editor: Assistant day editor: Bcrnadinc Bowman Corriene Antrim Assistants: Mary Kay Booth Marge Finnegan Peggy Jane Peeldcr Night editors: Edwin Robbins Bob Knox Realistic Military Training pROFESSOK (1. Osborn’s proposal that, so long as military training must be com pulsory, '.vi- do a thorough job of it and show war in both its "lory and its gory should find little dissent on the campus. For ourselves, though we supported the optional ROTC initiative bill, we should have no qualms in doing an about-face, if there were installed on this campus a compulsory military course that showed the full horrors of war. On the other band, even our erstwhile oppo nents, the Oregon Liberty association, have gone on record in favor of such training. One of the principal arguments in their campaign for compulsory ROTO was that college youth should be compelled to learn the war method so that they might appreciate completely the filth, terror and brutality of war. * * # DOTH sides, then, are agreed that the mili tary curriculum should treat of the hor .rors of war realistically, if the training is to have the generally-desired pacifistie effect. With this united front we should now be able to prevail upon the campus military establish ment to install such a course. For, indeed, Ihe system which the “optionalists” have been lambasting and which the “compulsion ists” have been fostering does not at present provide this sort of instruction. Military training as it is now presented at the Fniversity of Oregon, and presumably in other schools of the country, deals with neither the social nor the personal angles of armed combat, which, of course, are the only points of view from which the full horrors of Avar can be appreciated. Tlic existing ROTC course is utterly im personal and’unsocial. That is, on the one hand, the leolings of soldiers and civilians as they endure the discomforts and terrors of Avar are disregarded. And. on the other hand, Aval's brutalizing ettect upon the social spirit and its destructiveness to the institutions of civilization receive no consideration. * # * X-J Idvh is where Professor Osborn s pro posal comes in :■ establishment of a com pulsory I year course in trench warfare. We van imagine the way it would work out. The colonel picks out the most unwholesome bit of terrain in the vicinity and has the cadets dig in. Of course they are not allowed to return to their warm beds at night, flood lord, no! They must shiver under a scratchy army blanket until, after three of four sleep less nights, they catch a few exhausted winks. Then rains come and mud gets deeper and deeper in the trench. And all this while they get nothing but hard-tack and corned villv to eat. TJie bugs get something fierce. Cooties, lice and fleas. Sanitary facilities aren't so hot mm**** and the place gets pretty bad. A few of the boys die ever once and a while, but this is {rood experience and necessary to appreciate the full horror of war. Every day or so one of the cadets is set up and splattered all over the map with a burst of shrapnel, so the rest of the boys can learn about death and {ret a familiarity with detached members of the body. Then under the cover of darkness an artill ery outfit is sent up to shell the new library. At the time they don’t feel bad about it, be cause its pretty exciting watching the bricks fly as the missiles strike. But later they are taken with remorse and finally the valuable lesson of war's destructiveness begins to sink in. , * « # jyi' cetera, ('util finally, in the words of ROTr's most ardent supporters, .Joe Col lege becomes “acquainted with the horror and brutality of the war method” and gets “peace conscious. ” Of course an approximation of this peace consciousness could be reached if the ROTE course contained even a hint that war isn't all milk and honey. The drive to make mili tary training optional has failed, but its vic torious opponents are bound by their campaign arguments to work for pacifism through the creation of a course in military training that doesn’t shun reality, a course in military training that makes war genuinely repugnant. | Campus Comment (The views aired In this column are not necessarily | expressive of Emerald policy. Communications should be j kept within a limit of 250 words. Courteous restraint should be observed in reference to personalities. No unsigned letter.s j will be accepted.) ' DEFENDS TOUCH FOOTBALL Mr. Editor: Why all this fuss over touch foot ball injuries? Anyone remembering bruises, bumps and breaks of previous years will find that there are few if any more than in previous years. Every year there are some victims of intramural sports wandering around the campus or in the infirmary. Probably a good many of these can be blamed on touch football. But not when it is properly supervised. I know of only two serious injuries in an official game this fall. A broken arm was one. Another serious injury resulted from a boy’s running into a pole, but besides bruises and cuts I know of no others. There are two other injuries blamed on touch football, Russ Cutler’s broken cheekbone and Ver non Sprague’s fractured skull and jaw. Mr. Cutler was injured in a gym class game. Sprague was j hurt playing on the paved street in front of Phi : Delt house in hob-nailed boots. Every noon and evening when passing this hoiise you see these members'playing in the street. One of the first things taught us when we are kids is to keep out | of the street and there are University students playing in the street endangering their own and other’s lives, when they could go half a block in either direction to a vacant lot. Are we going to let some Morning News brand of crusading keep us from the most popular do-nutf sport in recent years? Jim Mountain. GUN MOLLS To the Editors: I wonder how many of you no ticed, over your third glass of Bromo-Seltzer Sun day morning, the picture in the ‘‘pink section" of the Sunday Oregonian of five young ladies play ing soldier. The photograph was so conspicuous as to divert my mind for a moment from the "fun nies" and Cause me to ponder upon its significance. Scanning the explanatory material beneath the picture, 1 learned that these girls were a quintet from our own University representing a group of 105 “markswomen" who are being taught the use of firearms by Sergeant Harvey Blythe. To many, perchance, the picture suggested only the fact that the young ladies, wearied by lucu brations, were out for a bit of sport. But it sud denly occurred to me that the movement repre sented by the girls in the picture might be sym bolic of something else the fact that the indom itable spirit of patriotic zeal which flames among us lads of the “monkey suit brigade" is really shared in all its intensity by those of the gentler sex. 1 heaved a sigh of relief; for a disturbing ques tion I had had in mind seemed to have an answer. The question was: "If, in the next fracas, an un expectedly large number of us chaps are demol ished, who will carry on for God and country (and the DuPonts) ?” the DuPonts) ?" Have no fear, boys. We’ve a re serve behind us. Incidentally, if you see me trotting around in shorts at drill next week and assuming threatening attitudes with my musket, you’ll know that I think there s a man with a camera behind the next tree. Bob Knox. Men & Nations By HOWARD KESSLER Colvig: Sorry, Fred, cannot find time to write that column so don't count on it or anything till I've passed this trim;). Never happened before, but then I've never been married before. You have no idea how much it disrupts coherent thought. H. Kessler. Scabbard and Blade meeting to be held at College Side tonite at' 7:00. I Oregana Sales To Close in 2 Weeks Only a short time is left in which to purchase 1937 Oreganas. This year's edition is to be limited to 1500 copies and sales are rapid ly approaching that mark, with agents lined up on the campes for the final drive. Howard Overbook Orogana bus iness manager, yesterday slated. "Sales will be closed within two weeks, and all students not signing for yearbooks by that time will be placed on the waiting list, with possibilities of not getting one." An illustration of the new two page living organization setup i j being shown in the windows of the Co-op thi ; week- and student arc1 loud in their approval of it. In formal snapshots around the hous es and at their dances, enlarged pictures of the officers, besides the usual block picture of members, make this department of the 1937 Oregaua outstanding. Yearbooks can be purchased, or I reserved, either from students agents or reserved at the ASL’O ; offices. KARA \T COIJ'MKtA Kensaburo Hara. '36. is attending ; the graduate school of Columbia university in New York. He is planning a trip to Europe next year I to observe political movements there. t.ct a shake at TAYLOR’S, ad. Scud the Emerald to your friends. Subscriptions only S3 00 per year 1 Tune er Out... By BOB POLLOCK You may soon be able to flip the starting gadget on your living room set and notice that your fa vorite tenor’s tonsils have been re moved. that the blond singer with the featured legs and husky tones really has peroxided her hair, and that the hero in the big air melo drama has a fat pan and looks like he beats his wife. Friends, televi sion is almost upon us . . . so says a press-release from NBC. anyway. Of course, up to now the maximum distance obtained has been 45 miles and it costs a lot of money, but radio was pretty terrible in its infancy, too. All of which remind i us of the local lad who, in a moment of «. weakness the other night, called on his babe and professed a vio lent and undying affection—for somebody else. ’Tis said, the lass crossed her right on him. And if we told you who it was, she might dcuble-eross it on us. Besides that, there are the libel laws. . . KGW at 6:30 this eve. Fred As taire Johnny Green’s orchestra, and Allen Jones, who made love to skinny Irene Dunne in. “Show Boat,” will all be there . . . and they toss in funny-man Charlie Eutterworth, too. Also try KGW about 9:30 if you’d like to hear “On the Trail” from Ferde Grofe's “Grand Can yon Suite” . . . that's the tune with rhyme as alive and pulsat ing as the booming of the drums in “Bolero” . . . you’ll also get Prexy Roosevelt's much-publi cized favorite, “Home on the Range” . . . it s sort of a celebra tion of Armistice day and the scheduled opening cf the Frisco Oakland bridge. Edward Everett Horton, the guy who looks like a good spieler for one of Hamlet's gloomier soliloquys has an air-conditioned kennel for his dogs . . . and it even has a shower . . . we mean he has a ken nel for his canines and not for his feet, wise guy. 'J'HE other evening I was stroll ing- down the local rialto, upon mere pleasure bent, when whom should I happen to run into, as the saying goes, but an individual whom I shall call, for lack of a better cognomen, a friend of mine. Now this bloke had always been one of our deeper drinkers, as Ring Lardner once put it, and was al ways a person to be getting him self thrown in the clinks of various cities and towns. Well what does he do but invite me and my little friend up for a snort. I’ll buy ye a drink by God he said and he did, a green one which I hope 1 never see another like it. As 1 say, this gentleman, which he was not, was the cham pion drinker of several counties down in our state and had spent many days and months on the premises, hoard and room free, of several of our picturesque townships. The reason for this was usually that he had a habit of telling the police people where he thought they ought to go and to what use they could put sun dry articles such as peace and the good name of their town. * * * niGHT here I will say that I’m not telling how the individual. of whom I speak came to bo in the charmed circle of my acquain tances, altho there are those who know. At any rate, he was a very jood thief and could promote li (+> r c a o n C: m c ra l & The Orev.on Daily Emerald. official student publication of the University of Oregon. Kunvuo. published daily during lh»* college year except Sundays. Mon days, holidays, examination periods, the fifth day of December to January e\ori11 January t to 1J. aund March >'» Marc’i : Match JJ to March Entered as second-class matter at the postot fiee. Eugene. Oregon. Subscript tion rate. SJ.00 a year. MEM It ED OF MAJOR COUEUK PI'IM.ll’ \TlONS R presented by \. J. Norris Hill Qo., 1 •'* K. ‘ ■ d St.. New York t 11> . : . • U Madison St , Chicago; iO"l Ave.. Seattle: 1031 s. Broadway, Lew Arcoles (all Duildinjr, San Francisco. Business Office Assistants d dean Favrons. BetD'cm Swarf. Sa’ly Metirew. Wlr.'.a Smith, \nne Karrest. j Bet I y i rider. Margaret Carlton, DoD, lWounjj. dean Cleveland. Helen lluvsf, dai'.e: Fames. \nne Fredriek.'Cn. Mic ron Phipp>. Barbara F-py. Caroline j Howard, dams' Burkett, l.ouise Plum mer. Nancy Cleveland. BUSIN ESS STAFF Nate n: 1 Adve-tUiny Mur. !’ai \ N al Assisiam : Eleanor Anderson Cireidat on Ur, -n. Mcr. (Jerald Cri-man Circulation Manner Frances Ol-ou Assistant : Jean R.,wsvn Mcivliamii • . Mr • „a-r 1.,-. Miuc Portland Ad\. M ■ . Bui San.' .1 Executive S«vv; .r\ Caroline H. . Ikdlccuoti Mat.a-v.- lived hui Extra—Verbal Barrage Lifted quor practically out of a hat, so Emart was he. Not only that but for a small fee, a nominal sum as they say, he would gladly walk up and whop some guy you didn’t like, and that very much, with great dexterity and, I might even add, aplomb. But I fear, alas, those days are but a part of history, and al though the worm has not turned nor has there been any wholesale turning over of new leaves, there is now a job. In fact one of the first remarks my subject said was, after I throw out the profanity and a pity it is, “I’ve been up here eight months and I've only been in the clink once.’’ Naturally I was surprised—shocked, I was. And so I look back on those days, which I’m sure he never does, with regret. For he was one to always take advantage c.f the “pursuit of happiness” | clause and he succeeded. 'X'O some, I almost said “to our,” standards he is a downhiller, and maybe he is, I wouldn't want him in to dinner myself. That'3 not snobbishness. But everything tends to even up, even as Emerson said in that terrible essay on compensa tion. I say terrible; that's what it was to me in high school. And he doesn’t know a lot of things that people know, maybe, who go to college, or have gone to college. And if he has what we | call an aesthetic sense he covers I it up admirably. His ideas, if any, i are of ways to mix new stuff and of ways to pass the time till next Saturday night. The point here is that he doesn’t give a damn and he’s as happy as the next man. Not that he's right or wrong but that it takes all kinds of people. For what he doesn't know won’t, hurt him. Reminding me of the \| story about King Levinsky who ( didn’t fear Joe Louis till he learned to read the papers and saw what a killer the bomber was. Then poor Kingfish found himself in such a state that he appeared to have been construct ed of some watery substance. By the same token my drunken friend is spared a thousand wor ries to which the flesh of educa tion is heir. Thus has he lived and if there is justice—if, I say—I suppose it’s "unwept, unhonored, and unsung,” for him. But I know he’d never trade and perhaps it’s just as well. Campus Calendar Infirmary patients today are Boh Piper, Laverne Littleton, Gayle Meyer, Beverly Brown, Alice Mor ris, May Hoover, Peggy Hayworth, Jean Rawson, Harry Ragsdale, Mackie Cornwall, Donald Arm priest, Everett Naylor, and La Nelle Mathews. Mathematics 100, section C, will meet Thursday evening from 7 to 9, room 205, Deady hall. AWS council will meet at 5 o’ clock Tuesday in the AWS room, Gerlinger hall. Phi Theta will meet at 7:00 o’clock in women’s lounge in Ger linger. Writers’ club will meet Tuesday evening, 8 o’clock, at Westminster House. Frosh commission officers will be installed Tuesday at five o’clock in the Y bungalow. Gamma Alpha Chi meets Thurs day, November 12, at noon at the College Side. Phi Theta Upsilon, drama hobby group meets at the Kappa house at 4:30. Freshmen trying out for the frosh yell squad are requested by Don Chapman to be at the Delta Upsilon house today at 12:30. Sigma Delta Chi pledges me6t at 11:50 in the journalism shack today for photographs. Philomilete art and music group will meet at 4:00 Tuesday at Ger linger. The charm group of Philomilete will meet at 4:00 at the Alpha Chi Omega house. Master Dance will meet in Ger linger, Wednesday night at 7:30. Roll call will not be taken. 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