Worn where I SIT By CLARE IGOE I hate editors. Editors are flinty hearted, narrow-minded automa tons who say write this and that and then when you write it the; look at it with a nasty sneer, am either make rude comments or jus grunt. When you would rather be do ing other things, editors tell yoi your story isn’t in yet, or you hav to write a column, or they inquire With polite sarcasm, if you thinl you are writing for a monthly mag azine. Tonight, for instance, I wantei to go to the rally. I walke< through the campus, and it was ful of life and noise and movement Everyone was shouting at people and there was a wrarin current o excitement in the air. Big doing: tonight, I thought. And I was glat that I was a student, and that stu dents do foolish things like havin; rallies and noise parades and bon fires. * * * I went over to the Shack. 1 shouldn’t have done it, but I did I bounced happily into the editor’.' office. I’m going down to the ral ly, I said, isn’t it fun. But the editor was unenthus lastic, grim even. I haven’t seen your column tonight yet, he re marked coldly. Well, I hadn’t writ ten it, and there I was, without anything to but sit down to whip it out. While I write, I can hear the parade going on without me. The air is full of the sound of horns and noise-makers, and when I step out side I see cars streaking downtown full of excited students having fun. Here it is, the biggest homecoming in years and besides, I love noise parades. Maybe it isn’t worth it. Maybe today when you read this you’ll think better I should have gone to the rally. But the editor doesn't think so. He thinks I should stay here and turn out something, even if it is drivel. So here I am, but I am bursting with good old Oregon spirit, and my heart is with the rallyers. But the editor doesn’t feel that way—he has no heart. - il Campus Calendar Maury Manning asks that all homecoming sign chairmen have their itemiztil expense accounts handed in by noon today. Judging of the signs will take place at 8 o’clock tonight, the judges being: Ottilie Seybolt, Dean Wayne Morse, and Mr. Scroff. The following students have mail at the "Y” hut: Carl Pordin ger, Milton Levy, Fred Facone, Phil Barrett, Everett McKenna, Jay Wilson, Jim Shepherd, Pearl Paddock, Emguel Arcangel, and John Marange. The class of lillS will greet one another today in the northeast cor ner of the armory at the general ulunmi get-together. The monthly meeting of Alpha Kappa Delta, national sociology honorary, will be held Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the AWS room m Gerlinger hall. New officers will he elected for the coming year. All Order of the “O” men must be at Gate 1 at Hayward field to day at promptly 1:30 wearing let termen sweaters. King of Jazz From then on it ww a round of gay, swinging, laughing music fea turing trumpets, trombones, banjo and a tap dance by one of the trumpeters, who also gave an imi tation of a German band leader, carried out event to the "Aehs," “Ahs,” and "Yus." Whiteman then wielded the baton to his ever-popu lar standby, "Announcer’s Blues.” Whiteman Tired (Continued from pane one) Igloo was too lilgh-ceilinged and too wide for the size of the audi ence, which about half filled the Stadium. When asked about the Whiteman museum at Williams college he replied with interest that it was a “deal whereby musicians can study sound and acoustics, method of re cording, studio arrangement and other things important to concerts in general. He said he believed he was chosen because his band was the only one that played and spe cialized in concerts. They lose money, and other bands are wont to start playing concerts because of that fact. Asked if he used talent scouts for new talent, l'« emphatically stated that he had never engaged talent scouts and that most of his new members came to him. studied With him for about five years, and were then placed on the staff. Ho said he was usually on the lookout for any new spit s Among those he .^discovered were Bing Crosby, Morton Downey and the late George Gershwin. “George Gershwin, the man who Composed the Rhapsody in Blue fors The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, Eugene, pub lished daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays and final examination period; Entered as second-class mail matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. LEROY MATTINGLY, Editor WALTER R. VERNSTROM, Manage LLOYD TUPLENG, Managing Editor t i Inaugurating the Open Fist Policy KIJj, (lie lug event s at hand find appar ently off with more than a bang if the noise parade of yesterday is any indication. Bid, in tlie midst of all the rallying find roistering, Oregon ought to remember that it : is in the position of host. Although the foot ball team will go out to attempt to pound 1 OSCs gridders against their own goal posts. 1 the fray officially and in the best interpre 1 tation of etiquette stops with the closing whistle. Between the student bodies of the stale’s two line institutions, at least for the last sev eral years, there has existed a spirit of the keenest competition—spiced by the cleanest sportsmanship. There have been some in stances of vandalism on the two campuses wit usually it has been remarkably lacking. The few exceptions have been 1 lit* work of small groups and as often as not seem to liave been the pranks of high school students. There’s no denying that the rivalry be tween the 1 wo schools is a hot one. It seems more the indication of a healthy, proud atti tude than something to be condemned. Both schools have always been broadminded about a bit of a tussle for the goal posts, even with a few individual exhibitions of fisticuffs thrown in. The point is that when you run into that fellow from State who plays in the band or belongs to the same organization as yourself, take your hand out of your pocket and extend it to him. But keep your fist open and make it a shake, not a sock on the jaw. Please Prof, Take It Easy JUS I to show that his heart was in tin* ri«rht place, Oregon's beloved (lean of social sciences. Dr. .lames (Jilhert, made a proposi tion to his class in economics Thursday morn iny Tom Turner, one of five Oregon student delegates to the fourth America-Japan student conference held at Stanford during the summer months. In this article Turner tells some of his impVdssions which he got at the round table ses sions.). By TOM TURNER WE AMERICAN delegates were naturally very eager to extract all the information about Japan that we could from our Japanese visitors. The Japanese students were more than willing to answer our many questions. Whenever we asked for a physical description of Japan, we always heard the word “green.” Flow ers, grass, shrubs, and trees apparently are to be seen wherever one goes. I learned that there are many mountains besides Mt. Fujiyama in Japan. In fact, we were told that seven-tenths of Japan is mountainous. However, it is Mt. Fujiyama that is foremost in the thoughts and culture of the Japanese people. After having heard its rare beau ty described, I can now understand a little why to the Japanese it is a symbol of perfection and pur ity. An economic picture of Japan was also of pri mary interest. We learned, not in so many words but from general discussion, that in Japan are Japan's Old Civilization Cultu combined the worst features of capitalism and feudalism. CAPITAL. IS MUCH more unevenly distrib uted in Japan than in the United States. The av erage income of a family of five is 856 yen per year (a yen having about as much purchasing power in Japan as the American dollar). Of this amount, 47 per cent goes to the landowner class, which is very small and select. Taxes to the federal government consume 38 per cent, leaving only 15 per cent or a little more than 125 yen a year for a family of five. Only 26 per cent of the farming class, which is almost one half the total population, own their own land. Nearly half the farming class lives on half a cho, or about 1 1-4 acres of ground on the average. Thus it is readily apparent that Japan's internal economic condition is not sound. However, we did not get the impression from the Nipponese delegates that Japan was poverty ridden. The needs and wants of the Japanese are few and therefore easily supplied. At the same time their cultural standards are high as high as they should be with a continuous history of 2,600 years duration. I could not help but think that our 150 years of independence as a nation look rather insignificant in comparison to the cultural heritage that is Japan's. - Strange Land - Out will coinp the ice packs, steaming coffee, iiinl hooks in preparation for the promised quiz. * # # JN all discussions on the value of college life, the benefit of extra-curricular activities, the friends made, and college life enjoyed, is stressed as of nearly equal importance to the intellectual training offered. If the maximum benefit is to be gained from this side of college life then the professors should be anxious to encourage rather than discourage the stu dents' participation in these activities. Nearly every student'on the campus realizes that he has come to the University to study and plans his time accordingly, but there are exceptions and it would seem that homecoming weekend should he one. * * # jy^ORAL: Please, dear professors, those of you who are planning Monday quizzes, “lay-off ' until we’ve had a chance to make up for the gala weekend to which we are looking forward. M.R. A STORY IN ONE of the weekly news maga zines describes how German citizens go to the public parks or to “Unter den Linden" in Berlin to spend a restful afternoon on comfortable chairs and benches which they can rent for a certain time. Some of these chairs and benches are paint ed yellow to show that they are reserved for "Non Aryans.” The writer observed that Germans oc cupy these benches, too. Voila, he says, this fact proves how little the Aryans mind to sit on "Yel low Benches." It shows that the government is more radical than the people. The point is well put, yet only another exam ple of what you can do by interpreting news. Let me show you what 1 mean. My claim is, to be able to convince you, of an entirely different point, by using the same facts i supposing this yellow-bench story contains facts.I as I didn't see any yellow bench in Berlin. ! The magazine makes believe that Germans don't mind sitting on "yellow benches." I could tell you, and you could not contradict me, that the Germans don't care if a Jew wants to sit on the bench, which is reserved for him by official regulation. They simply occupy the benches, and inform the poor Jews who want to sit there to mind their own business. In other words: the Ger mans are not even as considerate as the govern ment. Or: the German people are more radical than the authorities. TO PREVENT ANYBODY' from getting the wrong idea, my personal interpretation, based on "inside knowledge," would be that the other two stories are giving a false picture. The most proba ble truth is that all the benches were occupied so that the late comers had to sit down on the yel low benches if they wanted to get a seat at all. They were not bashful about it because they knew by experience that barely any Jew would show up for a very plain reason. Jews are usually too busy to rest in parks to enjoy the beautiful au tumn-color of fallen leaves. More so if they have to pay rent for a chair. (By the way: about 60,000 Jews are living and attending to their jobs in Berlin.) My purpose in recounting this story and giv ing the different interpretations is, to call your attention to the generally well-known fact that there are two sides to every story. It depends usually on your viewpoint how facts are inter preted. WAR PROPAGANDA makes us forget this reality and lets the other side of the story pass without notice or attention. But we are not in a war. I claim to have a fair standpoint concerning the United States. I am ready to learn and to keep away from dishonest generalizations. All I ask of you is to listen to the other side. We have our points and the German nation is not a bunch of scoundrels. Neither is our government. We the German people have elected our gov ernment and to blame and accuse the government means to accuse us. Especially the young genera tion. It is impossible to distinguish between Hit ler and the Germans as long as national politics are concerned. Do not say please, that you like the Germans but dislike the regime. For your dislike of the regime may lead and particularly by means of dis honest propaganda into a war that will not only destroy the European culture but will make the German people suffer unbearably. We do not want war. you do not want war. And I cannot convince myself that war is in evitable just because history is slippery ground. nit*, was invaluable to this organ ization. I don't see how we can get along without him " Mach member of the Whiteman band is a skilled musician, not only in modern music, but in symphony as well. When Whiteman wants a symphony band, he simply tones Sown his brass sections and adds trings. He said that he once play- j ed n symphony concert with 140 piece ensemble and did it success fully. “Each of my bandmen, of which there are 24 at the present time, can double on at least two instru ments, making at least 58 instru ments available at all times.” He was asked if he thought the air waves overrun with small bands ami if it had any effect on the ( larger ones. "The difference between the two. [ essentially, is that a large band [ such as mine can play a composi- [ tion in a thousand different ar- [ rangements,” he replied. "The 1 smaller bands play a thousand [ compositions with the same ar- C rangement." P Greatest Homecoming* Plotter Behind Oregon’s biggest homeeoming lies hours of diligent work by Elmer Fansett, above. Early last summer M. Fansett started work on the program that has given Oregon alumni and students the biggest three days in homeeoming history. Anyway, They Haven't Found Old Deady Yet With the turf or: Hayward field branded OSC and the Ore gon state buildings daubed with paint, students from both schools were pondering yesterday over what might happen next. Meanwhile campus disciplinary authorities were conducting an investigation in an attempt to identify those responsible for the estimated $250 damages. Dean of Men, Virgil Earl, questioned i all fraternities yesterday, learn- I ing little, apparently, and deter mined that any further damage woidd best be prevented. Three Eugene high students, known to have been in Corvallis Wednesday night, were quest tioned concerning the Corvallis painting. They denied taking part in the vandalism. The series of incidents began when material for the frosh bon fire was mysteriously touched off Wednesday night, and cam pus buildings at Corvallis were painted. Evident retaliation came Thursday night on Hay ward field after the vandals had eluded a large corps of freshman campus guards. Barney Hall, ASUO president, declared yesterday that he would meet with OSC prexy, Bob Hen derson, in an attempt to adjust damages to the two schools. Musicians Reveal Cost of Lessons And Instruments Sixteen thousand dollars may be a lot of money to pay for the va rious pieces of pipe and tubing sometimes called musical instru ments and the instruction needed to play them; but for their lessons and instruments, 55 members of the University band paid at least that much, and probably more. Results of a questionnaire given j the band by John Stehn, director, j show that the players paid a total | of $5,200 for their horns and $10,- ! 800 for instruction. 1 Several students replied that j gieimj^CilCilcyJCiJCJJQUlHJtHlCiJtyiDJilHJCilCirtHJcyJCiieJC For . . . Superior Foods and a unique setting, bring Your Guest to 0 jj The . . . S ANCHORAGE 3 3 they had paid over $1,000 for les sons. Some had taken no private instruction; one reported an ex penditure of $6. Several accounted for lessons amounting to $500, but the most popular figures ranged from about $75 to $150. About 10 students ranked in the $200-$300 class. This money was spent for lessons on any instruments. Concerning instruments, highest prices for one ranged to about $300 while the lowest figure was $15. But here, too, an amount of $125 seemed to fit the most of the pock etbooks. Some of the students probably spent considerably more since, the questionnaire only con cerned one instrument, and many of the players have as many as five different horns. The poll also has revealed that 25 of the bandsmen are wholly self-supporting, 13 provide about half their living, and only three are entirely dependent. Bollinger Will Speak At Methodist Church Victor Goff to Lead Services, Aided by Other Students By BETTY JANE THOMPSON University students and student religious activities 1 eaders will have important parts in the ser vices of local churches Sunday. "Christ on the Campus” has been announced as sermon topic of Dr. Niel Hollinger, national secretary of Wesley foundations, who \%1 speak at the morning services at the Methodist church. Wesley foundation members will relieve Dr. Parker of his duties by con ducting the entire service. Another visitor at the Methodist church is Rev. Roy Burt, Method ist minister and national executive secretary for the socialist party, who will speak on “The Changing Social Order” at Wesley club meet ing. At the adult forum of the Com munity Liberal church R. N. Wil mot and Allan Benjamin, graduate students of the University of Mel bourne, Australia, will discuss "Pa cific Problems.” First Baptist Broadway and High. Dr. A. ,1. Harms. 9:45—University Sunday school class, H. H. Schroeder. 11:00—“A Foretaste of Heaven.” 6:30—University BYPU. 7:30—“A Soldier and a Maid.” Thursday, 7:30 p.m. — Midweek prayer service. Community Liberal (Unitarian) Eleventh and Ferry. Rev. Her bert Higginbotham. 9:45—Special service for child ren. 11:00—Adult forum. “Pacific Problems,” R. N. Wilmot and Allan Benjamin, graduate students of the University of Melbourne, Australia. 11:00—“What Will the\ Harvest Be?” 2:00—Eclectic half hour, KORE. First Congregational Thirteenth and Ferry. Rev. Wil liston Wirt. 9:45—Sunday school. 11:00—"Open Doors to Life.” 7:00—Plymouth club, Dr. War ren D. Smith of the geology de partment, speaker; Jean Cramer, leader. St. Mary’s Episcopal Seventh and Olive. Rev. H. R. White. 8:00—Holy communion. 9:45—Sunday school. 11:00—Morning prayer and ser mon. 6:00—Student group, 434 E. 13th. Church of God Third and Monroe. Rev. U. G. Clark. 9:45—Sunday school. 11:00—Morning worship. 6:30— Christian Crusaders, Clyde Everton. 7:30—Rev. Merrill J. Hooker, evangelist. First Methodist Episcopal Twelfth and Willamette. Dr. B. Earle Parker. 9:45—Forum for University stu dents, Hayes Beall. 11:00 -"Christ oil the Campus," Dr. Hiel Bollinger. 7:00—Wesley club. “A Changing Social Order,” Rev. Roy Burt. So cial hour after meeting. Westminster House 1414 Kincaid. Mrs. J. D. Bryant, hostess. 9:45—“Love and Marriage,” Mrs. George P. Winchell. 6:00 Forum, Margaret Reid; worship, Harold Cole. Monday, 3 p.m. Student lead ers' staff meeting; 4 p.m., Student Christian council; 9:30, fireside sing. Rooting Sections To Present Stunts Between Halves Spectators at the Oregon-Oregon State game today will see a varie ty of cheering section stunts which will show University “rah-rahers” in their best style. Under the direction of Sam Fort, rally committee chairman, a se ries of card stunts have been lined up for the half-time intermission. Besides this all Oregon students will join in singing Oregon songs. A special, unannounced event will conclude student participa tion in the game although bands from Oregon and Oregon State will offer drills and music on the field. FLY TO PORTLAND FOR THE GAME Phone 526 — Evenings Good Foods • • • • at Economical Prices —enthusiastically exclaim the opening day crowds You, too ' will enjoy the good foods at The BIG y CAFETERIA FREE Cup of coffee and cream puff given free with every lunch and dinner order. I * Brain food of all kinds. * Whole portions or half por tions served * Come! Enjoy this economical place to eat Alder, bet. 12th and 13th BEAT OREGON STATE