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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1938)
Pollock's FOLLY Ey BOB POLLOCK It Is 4 o'clock in the Shack and all about ns people are engaged in beating the pants of typewriters ... this is a daily occurrence and is done by freshmen, sophomores, and juniors in Oregon s school o journalism. . , . . „ All of these various yokels are engaged in the de-pantsing nt the typewriters for one reason and for one reason only to-wit, they wanta he writers. Because most of them are dumb screws like this department, only this department knows it and they don’t —and because writers are a superior race, probably none of these aoes will ever amount to more than hook* or twenty-five buck a week reporters. And hell has no lower depths than either of Ihese two estates. This, however, does not. discourage the would-be scribes and they go on punishing the typewriters, each of them thinking to himself, “Ha, the rest of the punks in the University may end up on WPA hut not J. Oliver McTwist., no sir.’’ All of which has a tendency to sadden tins department, once we were young like that with unhardened arteries. We regarded the patient typewriter as a means to an end and not as an infernal machine—its natural status. But now we are old. We are a senior and we have spent enough money in the vain pursuit ol knowledge to make a down payment on one of heaven’s more heavily gold plated avenues. We realize now we'll never amount to much. We are resigned to it. We live only in the hope that the Democratic administration will plan things so we can spend the rest of our life in the OCX. One doesn't have to think there. All one has to do is shoulder one’s little axe and go out and make passes at a bunch of trees. After awhile this becomes automatic and one lives in a comfortable state of numbness. But these freshmen, these sophomores, and these juniors somebody oughta tell ’em. And they ought to he told while they’re still in high school so that they’ll stay on the farm and never he exposed to the danger of learning how to think. When one learns how to think one Immediately wants to he a writer or something else. Book at Roosevelt, lie learned to think as a young man and now he’s President of the United States with more trouble than an theist trying to learn how lo play the harp. If one stays on the farm, though, one doesn’t have to struggle with whys and wherefores all the way through this prolonged toothache someone called "life.” The difference between substance and attribute in Aristotle's system of philosophy would not be nearly so important to one as whether Susie, the white-faced Jersey, was going to have twins or was going to play solitaire again. So, friends, let's keep our young 'uns on the farm. And even tually we'll breed a race that not only will not want to be writers but will spend most of its time living down the fact that grandpa on Maw’s side of the family one time went to college. MYSTERY HISTORY iniititiiiiniuiiiiiiiiiiminmiiitimuuminiiiiMiiiiimimmimmininnimniiii Ry GLENN HASSELROOTH Teail S. Buck, one of Amer ica’s premier woman novelists, has abandoned China as the scene of her new novel, “This Proud Heart.” The heroine is an idealistic American sculp tress, who found it harder than she thought to reach the high goal she had set for herself. Since Mrs. Buck is the au thor we have no doubt that it is a very fine novel indeed. Grade B or C writing even by Mrs. Buck is better than the prose of most women writing in America today. But at tin- present tune 11 seems unwise lor .Mrs. BueU to divorce her talent front the Chi nese scene: firstly, because Mrs. Buck is not at her best while \v lit ill of present-day .Ameri cans; and secondly, because the China of today is crying out to have a novel written about it. China’s millions, starved and slaughtered by foreign invasion, are as helpless today as they were when visited by the fam ines and plagues such as those recorded in “The Good Cartli. Mrs. Buck knows and under stands those people. Only she can tell their story. * + * Clyde Brion Davis, the au thor of "The Anointed” whom we told you about a few weeks ago, points to Stevenson us a good model for budding writ ers who wish to develop a style. He advises: “As to developing a style, I should refer you to Robert Louis Stevenson. No finer English stylist ever lived. And he wrote of copying labor iously the styles of masters who went before him. Finally his own style developed, a synthe sis, T suppose, of those he had imitated.” Clifton Fadiman recently made a very salty remark which went under our skin. “Any fool writer can be simple and dull at the same time; the real kick is to be subtle and dull.” Well, we always knew we weren't subtle. $ * * Irk-of-tUe-week: Burton ltas coe makes some of his sentenc es too long. To prevent confu sion he could add a few more commas and semicolons to keep the reader’s mind running straight. His monthly article in Esquire makes fine reading when the sentences arc short and snappy, but some of tin long sentences fill out a para graph. Perhaps he Is comforted by the fact that he is not tin only one who does such a thing. • * * William Faulkner, who gen r e 9 on v,fSf <£mercil& REPRESENTED TOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING DV National Advertising Service, Inc. College /‘ub/ishers Representative 420 Madison Ave. New York. N. Y. Chicago • Boston • Los angeles • San Francisco 1937 Member 1938 Pssociafed GolIc6icilo Press Reporters Leonard Jermain Eugene Snyder Dick I.itfiu 1‘ldl Bladiue Muriel Beckman l’arr Aplin Hetty Hamilton 1’atricia Erikson Bill Scott Glenn Ilasselrooth Ken Kirtlry Dorothy Meyer Dorothy Burke Hetty Jane Thompson Elizabeth Ann Jones Catherine Taylor John Biggs Jack Bryant_ Friday Night Staff Chief Night Editor this issue: John Bings Assistant Night Editors: Adelaide Zweifel Bill I’hclps Doug Barker Eugene Snyder Betty Jane Thompson erally writes novels about the Civil war and the reconstruc tion, has written a new collec tion of short stories which have been joined together in the form of a novel. According to early reports, "The Unvanquished" is one of Mr. Faulkner’s most read able books. He omits satisfac torily many of the passages which has njade it necessary to keep many of his other books out of the sight of little Gwen dolyn. In fact, the stories seem so harmless, morally, that Bernard DeVoto has said of them in the SRL: "They also avoid the in effable and the unspeakable, and may be read by the tender est school girl, if there he ten der schoolgirls." Which is a fine place to stop. Ducks Meet (Continued from page one) in tlie infirmary during the first Oregon State series. His return is expected to mean much to the Webfoot’s victory hopes, for a decided weakness at the boards was apparent in the lilt which the Orangemen won. Wintorimite's Kingpin Teaming with Silver at forward will be Laddie Gale, new kingpin of conference scorers, who will be out to add to his new record. Gale, however, will be a marked man, and if ho is bottled up, the bulk of the scoring burden will again fall on the shoulders of ‘Step-ladder’’ Slim Wintermute, Oregon’s six-foot-eight-inch pivot man who is a dead shot with either hand. Reserves Ready Wally Johansen and Bobby Anet may play a major part of the game tonight. The Astoria "twins" will be counted on to drive through the famed Oregon State zone de fense web. If any of the first five need re lief, Coach Hobson is all set to call upon another quintet his first string reserves. Matt Pavalunas, John Dick. Ted Sarpola, Ford Mul len, and Hay Jewell, all will prob ably see action. Hobson was en thusiastic in praising the work of burly Dick, Pavalunas, and Sar pola in the Idaho series. Stater Sophs Lead Slats Gfll will present a five which will be dominated by sopho mores. Frank Mandic, husky Ha LEROY MATTINGLY, Editor I,LOYD TTTPlTNO, Managing Editor Associate Editors: Paul Doitschinann, Ciare Igo*. WALTER R. VERNSTRGM, Manager Oregon. F'lifarial Bunr.t: IMrrel Ellis. Bill Peace. Margaret Kay, Edwin Robbins. A1 i.i.kbart, K. n„eil, KirtLv. IVn.ar.line R.v.ny.^ TTPPF.R NEWS STAFF Bill Pcngra, City Editor Lew Evans, Assistant Managing Editor Bill Norene, Sports Editor Martha Stewart. Women’s Editor Don Kennedy, Radio Editor Rita Wright, Society Editor Alyce Kogers, i^xcnange i.uu^i I^elty Jane Thompson, church editor Milton Levy, assistant chief night editor The Rejuvenation of Skull and Dagger TIURSDAY afternoon 1he first move m pump now life into Skull ami Dagger was made. Officers of the sophomore soeiely met with prospective freshman candidates and outlined for them the aims and purposes of the organization. Skull and Dagger is at least the second and is perhaps 1 he third, fourth, or titlli sophomore service society to he founded on the campus. They are begun just as Skull and Dagger is now being rejuvenated. 'With, to quote, “a desire that in the future the group would find it possible to follow a more constructive program,” such organizations are launched and re-launched. 1 hey drilt along, becoming more and more wlial Skull and Dagger was the last two years—a scrub man's honorary. Fostered by the administration, service has been the prime ideal—usually that ser vice has deteriorated into the menial, dirty task of cleaning up after campus affairs. ^OR some years Skull and Dagger had con siderable political significance. House politicians fought over the sweaters when it came time to pick the new members. Some of the men chosen by this method were not particularly deserving. Tim organization faced a climax last year when someone at tempted to put the requirements for mem bership on a new basis. Close count was kept and members were to he chosen on the basis of number of hours of janitor work done. What a method for choosing members of a University service group. It was probably just as good, however, as the old-time political * horse trading and it was typical of the level to which the organization had deteriorated. Tn addressing the prospective members, Dean of Personnel Karl W. Onlhank expres sed the desire that the rejuvenated group fol low a more constructive program. If some such program cannot he mapped for it, some one should, in 1 he words of the Corvallis Gazetle-Times, “scotch this snake before it has a chance to coil.’' For 1here is no .justi fication for the continued existence of an or ganization dedicated to the high purpose of sweeping floors. •jj: <!; <!i TF Skull and Dagger is 1o serve as a source of free unskilled labor, a very strong pro gram will have to be devised to otherwise justify its existence. This can, no doubt, be done. There is a place for a worthy sophomore men's society on the campus. In the old days, however. Skull and Dagger candidates did Ihe dirty work, went through an infamous initiation, held a picnic spring term of doubtful charac ter—and the society called itself a service honorary. Because there hasn’t been much emphasis placed on the group's activities this year, it is almost in the position of starting afresh. With redefinition of purpose, a real stan dard for selecting members, and a strong pro gram, Skull and Dagger could take its place as an important factor in underclass campus life. What work the organization has under taken this year has been constructive. Maybe next year’s neophytes will move the society still further along the comeback trail. The Finer Points of Booing PON occasion 1 liis yoar tho raltors, it any, in McArthur court have been made to rock with Oregon cheers. The lype of ball Oregon plays is interest ing and colorful, even though h. 11. (Iregorv doesn’t always approve of it. It has afforded many opportunities for cheering in the past two months. During the Idaho series, and especially in the lirs'l half of the second game, there wasn't, much to yell about—except the whistle toot ing. The Bronx cheers and other customary forms of booing were brought out of the moth balls. They .hadn’t been used much since the Oregon State game here. J^OW, there are many styles but only two types of booing. To quote John Pink, “On the one hand there is the one kind of booing; and on the other hand there is the other.’’ Although the ditl'erenee is easily dis cerned by this definition, it might be added that there is the spontaneous, indiscriminate boo delivered at anything and everything ail ninlieiicp doosn i like; and thorp js tlio virions, unsportsmanlike razzing list'd by a crowd whirli doesn’t 1 i 1<<* any break or decision which goes against its team. Anyone attempting 1o make a case for any kind of booing is asking for indignant criticism. But the first brand has done much to improve the caliber of stage performances, politicians’ speeches, basketball officiating, et cetera. It relieves the boon* s feelings about as well as does cheering-. It may deserve a place in the fan’s vocal repertoire. * # s r! 'TIE second type of boo has never, to our knowledge, accomplished anything con structive. it’s a well-recognized evidence of the old “my country right or wrong” spirit extended into intercollegiate competition. There was too much of the second typo Wednesday night—enough to occasion con siderable unfavorable comment. If we’re go ing to boo we ought to do so in the gentle manly manner advocated by the principal when we were in high school. Something NE hoars so much about this spring stuff. what with poems and all. that one begins to wonder if maybe it hasn’t got something. Si), mincing down the street this afternoon, we set our mind to analyzing just what that something is. It might he connected with school work, we thought, some people say it s so hard lor them to go into the like and study when the sun is shining, and the birds . . . Hut no. 1 pon consideration we decided that it wasn t that— we solved the problem of studying three years. It was so difficult to study any term that we just crossed off the whole matter, so it isn't anything to do with studios. TIOMANCK? Maybe . . . some people go around planting pins and stuff in the spring and others write poetry. But sober analysis soon vanquished this delightful possi bility, for the only time we ever went canoe ing we fell in and caught a cold and we never did have any luck at planting our pin. What is more to the point, we like to have our hair cropped close and go around in slacks and shirtsleeves in the spring, and there isn’t much romance or poetry in a fellow with no hair and no coat. About that time the old brain began to function. We realized what this balmy weather, blast it, does to us. For we remem bered how stuffy it seems to sit down before a typewriter when the sunshine is call mix and attempt to arrive, through careful logic and detailed consideration of all the facts, at the tv eighty and universal Truth about the rally committee or the sophomore treasury or Skull and Dagger. ND then we knew that “something” was swelling within us. Yes sir, we had it at last. In the spring all the old stodgy issues seem flat—the truth seems a distant goal at the end of too long a path, man is illogical, resents the dictates of authority. In short, one is reborn, free of conventions and respon sibilit ies. Alas, just then another great revelation burst upon us, there in the warm afternoon sun. and shattered the happy bubble that had been our definition of that something which is spring. For the sun shone on about us, and the birds .... We might have been in revolt against responsibility, convention, logic, and the Truth—except that we realized we'd ar rived at our definition through the stodgiest, conventional, logical process. We'd eliminated the possibilities one by one, accepted the re mainder as the essential ingredient—by the method of residues. We sighed and went on into the shack to write Saturday's editorials. There may be something in this spring stuff but apparently it is not for us. waiian - born Orangeman, holds down one of the guard positions. Working opposite Mandic will be Chet Kebbe, the only senior on the starting team. Like Mandic, he is a "bearcat'’ at following up shots, as well as being a consistent scorer. Tony Romano, sophomore trans ter from California, is slated for center. Romano, a dark, silent player, is a fierce scrapper when the going is tough. Romano Flays Center Play of the Orangemen proba bly will be directed by Nello Yan elli, swarthy It.alian from Com merce high in Portland. He will line up with Roy Pflugrad at the forward berths. Merle Kruger, speed-bov for ward; Bob Rissman, lanky center; Bill Stadhim, barrel-chested trans fer, Mai Harris, steady letterman who may get a starting role: and Alex Hunter, are other Orange men booked for action,. _ Pink’s Lemon-Aid By JOHN PINK *.. * Without a doubt, and I say this unreservedly, many freshmen are being taken in by the age and time old shibboleth that come out of hiding as soon as the first sun hits the campus after the winter’s dreariness. . .. I know last year I listened avidly to the old timers at the tail end of winter term under the warming rays of the sun. “.lust wai until spring term,” they said, “hoy, it’s like this all the time. So I, having nothing more noteworthy up the sleeve, did "ait un i spring term. “Just wait until the spring term.” Vacation oouldn go fast enough. I hitch-hiked back on the double quick. “Just wait until spring term,” and here it was; I was making my usual touch at the dean's office with which to register Spiing term, flooded with beaming, warming sunshine, alive with ttie mellifluous chirps of birds, punctuated with the bright, cheery cam pus clothes, started. After registration ‘the first week—the sun was on hand to help—the sky began to cloud up. The seeond week of seliool a high fog appeared. The third week the high fog translated itself into a low fog, wliieh made all the cheery spring clothes hang like dislirags in the back closet. But T was never downhearted. ‘‘Just wait until spring term,” kept dancing through my head, which at the time was singularly free from any obstructions to such thoughts. About the fourth and fifth week, the monsoon set in. If you’ve been in India during the rainy season you know what a monsoon is. If you haven t, drop around to my place and we will look it up in a dictionary (the woid has such a pleasing rhythm—repeat it several times to yourself that I find myself using it indiscriminately). Rain set in with the monsoon (there I go again). It wasn t the soft, slappy brow-caressing rain, you read of in romantic novels or short stories but a driving, slashing fury that unmoored every thing in its path. About that time I began to look up some of these old timers who had said at the tail end of winter term under the influences of the first sun, ‘‘Just wait until spring term. I didn't do anything violent. I was pretty lagged out Irom wading in hip-deep mud which is that much deeper than knee-deep depending on how you're built) that seemed to draw my strength from me like giant forceps. I just walked up to them, and glared in my best cinematic fashion and ran my hand through my hair (which is easier than it sounds for I had been clipped very closely' in anticipation of the Imlniy spring) several times. It finally started to sunshine, and what suijshine. Eig juicy gobs of it from early morning to the unhurriedly fading light. But fate dealt a hand off the bottom of the deck. Ironically, the finest week of the term rolled around concurrently with exam week. The one week of a term, and for spring term especially, when the stu dents have to get on the boat. Two hours taking an exam in a stuffy room with your soul in possession of the sun. It was horrible trying to show any semblance of intelligence with the rays capricing outside every window, every now and then slipping into the room to nip you on the ear and goad you. So trusting, gentle, naive little freshmen, don’t believe anything yet—“just wait until spring term.” SIDE SHOW By Bill Cummings and Taul Deutclimann Campus If E. H. T. — writer of the “Bronv Cheer” letter to the edi tor in yesterday’s Emerald—was disillusioned l»y Oregon’s “dis play of poor sportsmanship” during the Idaho game, he' will probably he crying his eyes out along toward the final minutes of tonight’s crucial tussle with Oregon State. For Oregon spirit is riding high again—real Civil War spirit—on (he crest of Hob son’s comeback wave. And little things like gentlemanly conduct are pretty apt to go by the boards. However, E. H. T. has a legiti mate complaint. Booing is un sportsmanlike. That is, when it is clone with malice. Most of it tonight will probably be direc ted at the referees—the boys who can't ’ win—and probably some of it will eke out in the direction of our worthy rivals, the Beavers. As for chanting the number of times the ball is Warren's Lads (Continued from page two) Kooks Rally Rook Coach Bill McKalip must have told his team plenty during the half, for as the second period started the rooks put on a scoring spring to bring the count to 28 to 27 after about seven minutes of play. This was the nearest they ever came to catching the Ducklings. From then on the big Oregon lads outran the Staters, and when the rooks called time out after nine minutes of play the score was 47 to 30 against them. Coach Warren then sent in his third team which battled the Or ange team on even terms until the final gun. Evert McNeeley in the short time he was in the game scored 12 points for high point honors. Marshik and Piippo scored 10 each. Clayton Shaw copped high point honors of the game with 14 mark ers. In a preliminary game the strong University high quintet moved a step nearer the championship of the southern division, district 7, when they nosed out a fighting Spring-field five. 45 to 30. Send the Emerald home to Dad every morning. He will like to read the University happenings. ROBERT H. LEMON Public Accountant Income and Social Security Tax Counsel 1'hone 1689 219 Miner Bldg. passed, that is something in crowd psychology that Slats Gill will have to contend with. He adopted the system of the scientific break and must take the consequences, because, Mr. E. H. T., crowd psychology is something which not even our three white-sweatered yell lead ers can control. ASUO Proxy Barney Hall is fostering a plan whereby the champion “amateur” students of the campus—such as intra mural champs—can participate in an intersehool sports carnival conducted especially for stu dents who like to participate in minor sports. The carnival might include entrants from Oregon, Oregon State, Keed college, Willamette, and other schools of the state, and would probably be rotated among the various campi from year to year. It is a plan which falls in line with the movement toward making Oregon’s sports program more appealing to minor sports enthusiasts. All of which leans toward a broadened athletic program. Fun Round-Up Mayflower: “Parnell.” Starts Sunday, "Saratoga.” McDonald : Starts t o d a y, ‘‘Buccaneer” afid "Love on a Budget.” Heilig: “Non-stop New York” and “Cattle Raiders.” Starts Sunday, “She Married an Ar tist.” Rex: “Bride Wore Red” and “Lancer Spy.” Starts Sunday, “Dead End" and “Perfect Speci men.” # * * Dancing Willamette Park. * Jj: * Saturday’s Radio KORE: 1:45, University Ra dio class. NBC: 7, Symphony orchestra directed by Toscanini; 9, Rip ley: 9:30, Jack Haley’s Log Cab in with Wendy Barrie, Ted Fio Rito's orchestra. CBS: 7, Lucky Strike Hit Pa rade; 8:30, Johnny Presents; 9, Prof. Quiz. Dance orchestras: 9, NBC, Horace Heidt; 9:30, NBC, Eddy Duchin; 10, NBC, Louis Panico; 10:30, NBC, Larry Funk; 10:45, CBS, Phil Harris; 11, Jack Win ston. (KORE from 9:30 to 12.) At the Mac today is one of the foremost pictures of the month, “The Buccaneer,” starring Fred eric March, Franciska Gaal and Akim Tamiroff. Frederic March takes the part of Jean Lafitte, a pirate of Frenrh descent, who has a small kingdom in the swamps below New Orleans. The war of 1812 is in progress and when the British attempt to cap ture New Orleans, Lafitte and his gang decided to turn patriots. Enemy factions in New Orleans send the American forces against Lafitte and it isn’t until the pirate enters General Jackson's private room and threatens “Old Hickory” that he is able to ally himself with the defenders. Franciska Gaal is a Dutch maid rescued from the briny deep by Lafitte and Akim Tamiroff after a boatload of Lafitte’s associates have made her walk the plank. This former Budapest actress is another Wampa baby star of 1937. Not to the discredit of March, but it’s the general concensus of those who have seen the show that this freshman is the one responsible for its success. This is another Cecil DeMille production and has provided jobs for 6,000 extras. The Rex has a strong billing this Sunday in ‘‘Dead End” and ‘‘The Perfect Specimen.” The for mer was one of the top ten films last year, while the second with Errol Flynn is far above average. Single features are still running at the Heilig with “She Married an Artist” starting Sunday. John Boles and Luli Deste (another for eign star) take leading parts. gJSJSiSJSiSISISiS/SJclififSrEJSrEfSMfSfSISJSfH’H] g Mayflower Building a GROCERIES FIRST_ Try our soft drinks. Eat our popcorn. UNIVERSITY GROCERY but A NEW STANDARD The Electric Industry has combined to give you better lighting. After much research many manu facturers now offer a lamp that protects eyes and gives greater efficiency—the I. 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