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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1938)
CURB RUISING qiii!!mimimiiiii!itiiinini!min!iimnui::i! " .mat By A. K. “Pollock's Folly’’ back to spur the hard - working - for - what- journalists, almost re vives a theory that you really don’t need a subject when it comes to writing! But may we say it takes something to write some 500 words about nothing and make it sparkle. Of course, we didn’t expect a column from his honor without half of it con sisting of activities of his bro thers in the SAE tong. Nice to have him back in the “banana belt,” nevertheless, but where did he develop his “life is a hol low mockery” theory? Bob's influence is still appar ently around because I feel I must gripe about a few of those who expound the higher mat ters, such as those who gaze out a distant window as they lec ture lazily on for about an hour and the class occasionally comes out of a coma to look and see if maybe there isn't something out there after all. . . . And those who are regularly seven mintues late to their 8 o’clocks and blow off, amusing only themselves with their trivial chatter. . . . And not to forget the ones who bawl the class out three out of three times and * offers so many bad examples that one forgets where perfec tion lies! Jean Farrcns, the Gamma Phi with the depthy-monotone, prepared to cut Shakespeare Friday, announced it with a. none too quiet finality and there was Dr. Erb holding the door open—leaving no recourse. Seniority ought to count even in the “den,” says Mary El Bailey, Alpha Gam prexy who has recently been given the rush by Ted Sarpola, who incidently had his pin on another of the Silo Susies a year ago. Nothing like keeping things chummy. He kissed Helen Hell ensued. He left Helen Helen sued. —Barometer. That winding- maze of card board, hay, chicken feed and cement walls really made the Kappa Sig tunnel black-out Saturday night as hard to get through the law school. . . . Familiar song and dance around the Emerald "shack" is Jack Bryant’s: If you see four good looking girls looking for some one, tell them I'm over at the Press.” . . . His latest is Gamma Phi’s May Rawlinson whom he thinks is a perfect Sonja Heinie. . . . Lucky for the Chi Psis that they tied the Phi Psis as that monthly beard wager wouldn’t give that smooth ap pearance. ... We understand George Pasero is anticipating a good golf game after seeing Ruth Tustin curve into the classroom the other day. . . . We hear that a couple of the Sigma Chi boys have acquired a "kiddie car” which is a dan gerous implement around the house. It's reached third floor and no one has bumped down the cases with it yet. . . . Grant Alexander, Sigma Nu shagger, really got a prize with Roberta Beck, Alpha Phi! * # * Jean Bert and Barbara Barn ford are Hendricks hall can didates for the Sigma Chi sweetheart, not announced in the list yesterday. That dinner tables will no doubt have the sweetest bunch of coeds ever around it at one time! Gal: Yes, but he’s such a quiet guy. I like ’em rah-rah! Wotta Boy Brokos: Well, I'm a bit rah myself. CXIS03 Qmi-iaa n ixh c.laj i.ast ri.Mi. toI>\\ ^ A COLUMBIA ru l Jfrfc DOROTHY LAMOUR “Her Jungle Love” The Oregon Daily Emerald, official student publication of the University of Oregon, published daily during the college year except ■Sunday, Mondays, holidays and final examination periods. Subscrip tion rates: SI.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. PAUL DEUTSCHMANN, Editor HAL HAENER, Manager BILL PENGRA, Managing Editor Associate Editor: Lloyd Tupling Upper News Staff Bud Jermain, News Editor Lyle Nelson, Asst. Managing Ed. Charles Green, chief night editor Elbert Hawkins, Sports Editor Bernadine Bowman, Women’s Ed. Assistant Business Manager, Keith Osborne National Advertising Manager: Jean Farrens Circulation Manager, Clayton Ellis Wednesday Manager: Assistants: Jean Stinnette Maxine Glad Ray Foster Priscilla Walsh Opportunity Goes A-Knocking 111’ A FIVFj dollar bill were lying on the side-walk in front of Condon ball I lie chances of it remaining there long would be pretty slim- Th crustle of a green-back would undoubtedly produce quick action. Yet the opportunity of picking up a five spot with just a little more effort than bending over has been sadly neglected by Oregon students. Over a week ago the rally committee announced that such a reward would be given to the student suggesting the best idea for a rally stunt between the halves of the Orog(tn-lISO game in Portland this weekend. The response up to dale has been so insignificant that one might conclude that the most unheard sound on the campus is that of opportunity knocking. « # # * JN 'I'll I*] PAST llio student 1)ody Inis lind an active interest in 1 ho (loin*; of tin* rally ronmiilIee. In fart it was so activo (critically) that members of the rally committer were afraid at times to show themselves. Now that the organization has come to life with a good suggestion, the campus has settled bfick on its respective davenports, agreed that the idea' is splendid, and left it up to Tom. Dick and Harry to carry it out. Criticism is important, but merely negative criticism is valueless because it destroys what e&ists without suggesting a mot hod of reconstruction. The student body has asked for t h is op port unity by its genera I crit ic ism of the committee ; the rally group has responded by presenting this opportunity. A challenge to the student body has been neglected. The difficulties of suggesting a good betweep-tlie-halves stunt are many, but surely in 111is group of 11350 minds there must be several ideas capable of surmounting the problem. * # « # ^^Nl) HERE is a final bit of information on the situation. The rally committee and the Emerald (now that, they are so chummy) have agreed on the side, so to speak, that they will split the prize and think up a stunt themselves, if the worst comes to the worst. Opportunity knocks one more day. The box is in the College Side in plain view for those who have entries. And unless something is done the Emerald will probably get a new pot of paste or a couple of typewriter ribbons, and the rally committee a complete supply of headache pills. philosopher replies To the Editor: How long, O Lord, how long! I 'sit, T fume, I fidget. Where am I? At my girl's house. We had a date, let's see, was it in the 17th century? She’s up stairs, thinks every minute while I sit fuming on the lumpy sofa that my anticipation of a pleasurable evening with her is growing apace. Is she right ? Again Let’s take in a show, honey. But Pete, I’ve seen them all except the one at the Bijou, and you said you couldn’t stand Beatrix Beatrice. Well, I can’t, but there’s a swell new western at the Broadway. Well I don't like western shows very well. Okay, if you don't wanna go, you don't wanna go 1 guess Beatrix Beatrice isn't too bad if you don't look too closely at her feet. We see Beatrix Beatrice. My male colleagues and 1, we fight for the favors of the fair sex. We let them trample over us, publish articles about us in the newspapers, take our money (when we have any) and our love and leave us what ? Pos sibly the blissful feeling that in our own bumbling fashion we have managed to give someone we like a pleasant evening, at considerable cost and sacrifice to ourselves. And they the objects of our sometimes misguided affections regale us with tales of form er. greater loves, keep us hang ing in the air innumerable eons of time, kick us from pillar to post, and, in the end marry us. W. P. VIVE LA (OKI) To the Editor: Headline in Tuesday's Em erald "UO Men Too Sloppy, Unkempt. Say Coeds." Oregon men parade the campus with baggy pants, dirty cords, and the odor of tobacco about them, lament the demure coeds in later paragraphs. So what! After waiting two full years, six whole terms, males are per mitted to wear cords. Cords, the mark of distinction; cords, the symbol of maturity; cords, the object of freshman worship! And the gals say they are cjirty and unkempt! Of course thej Wie geht’s iiniiiimiiiimmimimiiiiHimmniiiiiiimiiiminiiiiimimiiniimiiiniimiiiu By V. GATES If the Japanese dispose of the Chinese entirely what is going to become of the laundry busi ness? A dispatch tells us that Hit ler is now accepted as a demi god. Eut this isn't the first time in history that people have diefied an image. The American Eegion is find ing true the adage that you can’t cross Bridges until you get to him. * ?! » Governor Martin continues his was on goons, but refuses to do antyhing about the Vandals that will be on the Oregon Homecoming program. The Homecoming committee promises the biggest crowd since the Sudeten alumni re turned to their campus. We trust it will be more academ ically approved move. There is a suggestion from an unimpeachable source that the Oxford Group is not a low heeled organization. Coiffure stylists decree hair must be dressed high on wo men’s heads. Isn’t it time some thing showed up there ? are! Which wine is best, the fresh or the aged? Which cheese is the best, the new and fresh or the old and musty ? Which cords are best, the clean yellow ones that advertise their recent purchase, or the ancient, brown cords with the sweat and grime of honest toil enriching their appearance ? The female sex then condemn the serious, determined look on the males' countenances. Would they have their men with silly grins instead? No, for college men are serious! (At least be tween classes.) Then comes the crowning out rage! Trying to drown out pleasure on earth with the rustle of their skirts, the fe males condemn the male for his “walking tobacco factory appearance.’’ The female con demns smoking. What could be more aromatic than the pungent smell of fresh tobacco ? What could be more enticing than the sight of a male leisurely blowing smoke rings through his nostrils? Smearing the countenance with paint, rouge, and mascara, perhaps? BUCK BUCHWACH What Other Editors Believe i We’re Not Communists Long has it been proclaimed that our American universities are the hotbeds of radicalism, Com munism in particular. Yet in a straw vote taken on numerous cam puses just before the last presidential election the communist candidate received only one-half of one per cent of the total votes. For the most part our universities are shining examples of old-fashioned democracy with a few trimmings added. The undergraduate is typically characterized by a comfortable compliance. They differ from their conservative middle class parents in little but conspicuous dress and manner. They are much inclined to talk but little to action. They do not look forward to public ca reers in behalf of their convictions. Uniformity and conformity are unparalleled virtues in their eyes. Many people have looked with alarm on stu dent pacifism, regarding it as the harbinger of destructive radicalism. Yet it is not the aim ot countries in which nationalism is supreme. Pa cifism supported so generally among students is their plea for a chance to attain their ambitions, their hope of reviving the profit-system for their benefit. When its agitation has ceased, then there 1 is cause for alarm. Faith will be gone. The citizen who sees a radical behind every collegiate grin had better turn his attention to the tendency toward political control and regimenta tion of our schools. There is the beginning of a totalitarian state. Surest means, however, of lessening even the minor inroads of the “isms” philosophy is to dis cuss them freely. And not to suppress such dis cussions as is being done on some campuses. Radicalism isn’t running rampant in American universities. We’re not Communists! We’re loyal Americans still clinging to the worthier, older ideals.—The Skiff—Texas Christian. The CALLIOPE By BILL CUMMINGS Those interested in applying for the 1988 Rhodes scholar ships have only two days in which to prepare their applica tions—with the deadline set for Thursday, October 27—and oral examinations are scheduled Sunday, October 30. So far only about five students halve ap plied. That number of applicants should at least he tripled before Thursday. Every eligible stu dent should think twice before he passes up the opportunity of taking the exam, which is a good test to take even though the chances of winning one of coyeted scholarships are rela tively slim. Applying can do no harm, for even though a student fails to make the grade he us ually comes out of the oral ex amination with a clear idea of what is lacking in his makeup and in what fields he needs to stretch his mind. In, a school the size of Ore gon there should be more than five students with enough am bition to try at least for the honor of a Rhodes scholarship, especially when the act of try ing is a fine educational oppor tunity. Taking a cross examin ation by some of the more bril liant persons on the campus is bound to indicate pretty clearly whether or not a student has anything on the ball. The question of who is the sloppier, Oregon coeds or Ore gon males, not only makes good newspaper copy (see yester day’s Register-Guard) but also brings to light again, a problem which is annually bemoaned on the campus. Every two or three terms someone starts it and the fight is on between the sexes. But grounds for a few com plaints do exist, despite the fact that most of the mud-slinging involves totally unanswerable questions. For example, when a nationally known authority visited the campus last year, she exclaimed that Oregon stu dents do dress more sloppily than most college men and wo men. And she is probably right. GRADUATE ASSISTANT ILL Mr. Charles Edgar Rasor, a graduate assistant in the B.^.. school, is in the infirmary this week. Other staff members are taking his classes. 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Mrs. Skade, 1422 Ferry. Phone 3423-R. * Radio Repairs MOVING!! Economy Radio Lab is moving to 678 E. 11th by the Mayflower theater on Novem ber 1. * Student Service_ FELLOWS . . . Bring your car to Jim Smith's Richfield Station at 13th and Willamette for A-l service. * Expert Plumbing -HASE company plumbers. Repairs and installations of all kinds. Servicemen always ready. Phone 243. Inquire 936 Oak.