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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1939)
The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the University of Oregon, published daily dur ing the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods. Subscription rates: $1.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Ore. Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college pub lishers’ representative, 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston—Los Angeles—San Francisco— Portland and Seattle. Editor, BUD JERMAIN Manager, GEORGE LUOMA Lyle Nelson, Managing Editor Rita Wright, Adv. Mgr. Upper News Staff Helen Angell, News Editor George Paaero, Co-sporta Editor. Elbert Hawkina, Co-sporta Editor. Marge Finnegan, Women’s Editor. Betty Jane Thompson, Chief Night Editor. Jimmie Leonard, Assistant Managing Editor. Hal Olney, Assistant Managing Editor. Jack Bryant, staff photographer Upper Business Staff Jean Crites, National Advertising Manager. Mary Klien Smith, Assistant Frederick Ehlers, Classified Manager. .Tim Gleeson, Assistant. F.arl Maize, Merchandising Manager. Ray Cook, Assistant. Herb Anderson, Circulation Manager. Maurice Goldberg, Assistant Charles Kenyon, Photographer. Janet Farnham, Executive Secretary R.e.e.Vi—Wp T Vi in It TVioxr Aro /VS each victorious football Saturday rolls by in increasingly spectacular succession for Oregon, a rather inconspicuous but none theless present problem assumes increasingly serious proportions. We ask anyone, bow can you give an outfit like that, the best Oregon has seen in years, half the praise it deserves, without taking the chance of throwing a psychological monkey wrench into llicir hitherto “right,” mental attitude? It is not easy, it must be admitted, to re strain the perfectly natural jubilation which struggles to get into print when such a team “goes out and does” again and again. Three weeks ago Southern California looked like a steamroller coming this way, but it didn’t get far. The next week Stanford didn’t look like anybody’s setup, but the Indians found 1 hem selves scalped when the final gun sounded. Then Saturday, third, tough one in a row, California’s 13-year-old jinx over the Web l'oots looked pretty strong, but the nation knows what, happened. And still we hold back our plaudits. # * r 'J'.HERE is no denying it, there is a problem in the handling of these victories. Just let out anything which sounds like looking too far ahead, as far ahead as, say, January iirst, and you may have undermined a. very vital factor in this success story. These boys are good; Tex Oliver lias patiently "one to work and taught lliem they were as good as anything Ihey eould meet ; hut the minute they begin thinking their wins are likely to drop into the bag any easier now that they have established winning ways, the upward drive will begin to skip teeth in the wheels of success. Look at it from any angle, and what do you find? Only that here is a squad which has worked hard, knows what it is doing, and owes its success to a smart coach, sound preparation, and the old rule of keeping its mind on its work. b'or what has already been accomplished a flock of bouquets should be in order fox’ Tex Oliver and his crew of cleat-wearers. But in view of the fact that there are a few small obstacles between this point and January 1, such as UCLA, WSO, Washington, and Ore gon State, it; would seem that the safest plan would be to leave the mental attitude un touched, keep the old fingers crossed, and tell the boys such homelies as, “You are ter rible; you will probably even get waxed by Conzaga.” Then, come end of season time, it will be safe to draw a full breath, uncross the fingers, and form the line to the right for the honors. Then watch our smoke. It is all right to work right along with the team, but they should lx* given a chance. The Rule of the Four-Bit Vote A ranter ltercstmg study ot t he wonder 1 hat is college comes to the well-known fore front tomorrow again as another freshman class goes to the polls to elect from their ranks the four people who will hold class offices for the year. As usual, the elect ing"w.ill he done hy a minority, for various reasons, one of them being that so very few freshmen will take it unto themselves to get out and vote. But there is more to this minority business than a mere matter of going to the polls. It is likely that there never will be sufficient, inter est to get out half the class, under any condi tions, but as each new freshman class comes along it. is faced with the problem of deciding whether it shall further limit the vote by re quiring class cards. This year’s class has al ready adopted last year’s constitution, which automatically decrees that class cards shall be a necessary qualification before voting. Every year this choice must be made. Ev ery year onlookers watch hopefully for Ihe first sign that this freshman class will be dif ferent, will see its way clear to throw open the franchise to all freshmen, whether they have contributed their 50 cents to the class coffers or not. Verdi Sederstrom, ASUO first vice-president, as liberal a student executive as could be found anywhere, would have liked 1o have seen the Ihing llirown open, 1ml there was llic constitution, already adopted and very clear upon this point. * # # rjpiir,j whole question is open to some form of the well-known “IIow Come?” Why should these first-year babes-in-tlie-woods be trapped at the outset into a situation which has nothing in particular to recommend it ex cept precedent? What good reason is there for them to pay out half a dollar for the privilege, and this is all they ever see for their cash, of naming a set of officers they don’t even need, whose official careers are short, un eventful, and unfruitful as a whole. At least they should elect belore they adopt a consti tution, then they can decide if they need fees. No frosh class has managed to break clear this far. The old system prevails, and this year’s crop is already committed to the four bit vote. After the election there won’t be much to do but wait for spring, in all likeli hood nothing will be done to clear the way for next year’s class, so tin1 same thing will go on all over again. There is only an outside chance that the class of ’4.1 will show spark enough to give the class ol ’44 a better break than ten years or so of preceding frosh classes. Desk Staff: Don Goodall, Copy Editor Elizabeth Harrison Bill Borthwick Howard Caudle Johnnie Kahananul Jack Buker Bob Potwin Bernard Engel Wesley Sullivan Mary Ann Campbell Joan Chrystall Business Promotion Staff: Kathleen Brady, Chairman Dorothy Horn Evelyn Nelson Joan Stinnette Kennett Lawrence Business Office Secretaries: Billie Wade Sue Ehrhardt Boyd Copenhaver Tuesday Manager, Bob Millspaugh Tuesday Advertising Staff: Sam Peck Willis Harpel Mary Kay Kiordan Conrad Carman Executive Secretaries: Arvilla Bates Priscilla Gilmore Night Staff: Kent Stitzer, Night Editor Ruth Hall Fat Parker ,___ AWS Fair (Contmued from page one) Students Named Students who will have charge of their living organization's booths are: Eleanor Sederstroni, Carolyn Holmes, Fantelle Mitchell, Virgin ia Pyrell, Jeanette Harbert, Ellen Wachtel, Mary Gatewood, Ruth Whitmore, Alice Giustina, Dorothy Heck, Marguerite Sappington, Mary Peck, Ida Brim, Winnie Green, Phyllis Sanders, Barbara Johnson, Josephine Bullis, Betty McNieee, Darlene Warren, Lois Hosford, Ermine Stuart. Don Turner, Martin Schedler, Arthur Berg, Jack McGuire, Allen Bertz, David Zilka, A1 Sorenson, Carl Peetz, Bill Mudd, Leo Mar lantes, Dean Vincent, Reed Farrell, Ed Jamison, Bob Frink, Frank Hitchcock, Don Moss, Mack Hand, Bill Spenders, Les Thompson, Charles Kenyon, Don Kirkpatrick, Arthur Fagin, Ted Harmon, Wayne Kclty, Dick Armor. Photographs (Continued from page one) form en masse some time today so that their faces may be pre served for posterity in the pages of 1940 Oregana. Tentative list for the rest of the week lists Kappa Alpha Theta for Wednesday, Phi Delta Theta for Thursday, and Kappa Kappa Gamma on Friday. Officers of the various organiza KOAC to Use Local Talent Musical programs broadcast from the music building by remote control through station KOAC, Corvallis, will be held today, it was announced Monday by Profes sor George Hopkins, in charge. Lorraine Hixson, soprano, will be presented at 2:30 p.m. in a short recital, including Romberg's ''Ro mance,” Herbert's “When You’re Away," and Richard Hageman's “Do Not Co, My Love.” Phyllis Gray, pianist, will play a short program directly after. Her selections will be “Nocturne in F Major” by Chopin, and “Caprice Espagnol” by Moszkowski. Friday evening at 8 o’clock Vir ginia Tooze, soprano, will offer Cole Potter's "Night and Day” from "The Gay Divorcee,” Hage man's “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes,” Thomas's “Connais Tu Le Pays” from "Mignon,” and DeSyl va’s “Wishing" from the motion picture, “Love Affair.” Miss Tooze will be accompanied by Zoe Bras sey. tions who wish more information in regard to the schedule of the photographing may contact Clin ton McGill at the Phi Gamma Del ; ta house. Curb Cruising By ALYCE ROGERS Speaking of freshmen — well, they certainly catch on quickly. Never has Oregon seen such rapid dating. Nothing slow about these kids! For all campus affairs so far, house after house has been com pletely dated up. To got down to a little actual curb cruising, we notice it’s all off between the Si gum Chi sweetheart, Betty Anderson, Pi Phi, and Gordy Lowry. Someone should endeavor to determine the number of ro mances that summer-killed... .And what’s the deal with Joanne Van Cleve, beautiful Alpha Phi, and Elmer Hanson, another .Sigma Chi? No one seems to know. Any I way, . Elmer’s ..attending ..medical ! school in St. Louis, Missouri. * * * The two surprises of fall term: Handsome Tiger Payne and little Anne Stevenson, DO, are no longer —Anne not returning to school; and Tig’s “Pi Phiing” it with Jean Wilcox. Handy for the Sigma Nu, his being right there in Ihe kit chen! The other one? Barbara Mayo, Alpha Chi, and Bob Schulze, Fiji, through, and Bob's now a woman hater. Barbara has a Sigma Obi pin from Alabama. SPOTS: Theta’s blonde Mary Storkerson in town the other night —dating Jack Casey for the mo ment. . . . Annual repeat: those freshman asking for Mr. Staff; Breen Hall; some dreamy blonde wanting frosh information at the YMCA desk during registration. . . . Tabled information by the boys working at registration — wonder how they keep their lists straight—bad as open house. . . . Blonde Marie Gabel, Sigma Kappa pledge, giving an eyeful jitterbug glng at the hello dance Saturday night. . . . Beta’s Maurice Hunter with an OSC interest; also Bob Keene, SAE, who had a pin on the Kappa proxy for the summer— affair of convenience. . . . Blondes overrunning the place this year— the Tri licit one from John Day lieing quite a sensation in her own way. * * * At last Oregon is again honored with a former Rose Festival ruler. Evelyn Nelsen, princess two years ago, is a DG pledge. She's a neat little number and we noticed Dick Sears, ATO, didn’t waste any time. Big Stakes Up On Editor-prof Divot Tilt Rollie Dickie and Russ Cut* ler of the PE staff have accept ed the challenge of the demon divoteers, George Pasero and Elbert Hawkins, co-sports edi tors of the Emerald. The losers, besides being re sponsible for replacing all divots, : will be required to caddy for their conquerors the remainder of the month. The match will be played over the Laurelwood course Thursday and will be for the honor (if any) of the sports staff. . . . Mary Graham (no, not that one), has Jack Gavin’s Kappa Sig pin —taken this summer . . . We notice Hal Jahn, ’39 Junior Week end chairman is after Joyce Cof fee, sparkling brunette Alpha Gam pledge. Maybe it’s her southern ac cent—it’s getting them all. .. , The Eijis are proud of Ben Mc Carthy, future Olympic swimmer a recently acquired nugget. . . , Scott Corbett. Phi Delt dynamite didn’t return this year. Understand he went serious this summer, too Betty Hobbs, Tri Dell, no longei has tlie Kappa Sig ornament: be longing to Art VV’inetrout. Funny these sudden changes of heart.— Wonder why a large share of the campus males were over in Spring field last week? a-. * * Marriages featured this summei also: Phil Wallace, Sigma Chi, anc Marge Kepter, Alpha Chi O trailed the aisle; as did Carolyr Myers and Dick Grady, Delta Gam and Sigma Chi. a: * a: The fastest bit of work this sea son is the accepting of Willy Auld's Theta Chi pin by Lucille English Chi Omega. They say they jusl met two weeks ago. Whew!—Helen Gillum, DG, has Bill Pease’s Theta Chi emblem, so rumor has it. Pd, Adv. — Dan “Groan-Box" Garner will hire out for Piggers' Service. Results guaranteed. Call 2613WX. Professor Jesse H. Bond of the school of business administration conducted his third class in the new course, “Property Insurance" at the University extension unit in Portland. The course is sponsored by the State Association of Insur ance Agents. Sixty students are registered in the course. Fifty per cent of the Washington and Jefferson college student body are taking one or more courses in chemistry. The World At Large By JACK BIKER ! in spue oi sireamimea mernous of defense, piracy continues to be a lucrative business on Chinese waters. Hardly a week passes that does not see a bullet-ridden ,steamer pull into Shanghai or other large ports with a hair-raising tale of attack by heavily-armed pirates. Ancient but swiftly moving junks covered with machine guns slip out of the dark mist to block the escape of unwary ships passing in the night. Skillful seamanship on the part of Chinese pirates has forced manj 1 a British skipper to give up liis ! cargo while most of his crew is | being tossed over the side minus their heads. Of course, ships making out of the way ports, or steaming up river, are manned by half a dozer armed guards, White Russians, un able to find other work. But these men, having little or no protectior against a brace of machine guns being armed only with obsolete rifles, only serve to draw fire. Piracy on a large scale is liable to provide excitement for the traveler who is lured by tales ol intrigue and story book adventure to Macao a little Portugese islanc near Hongkong. Overnight ship service to this island from Hongkong is main tained for the benefit of tourists who desire a little gambling fla vored with the last existing bit ol real low-down Oriental night life If the ship brings back a boa1 load of “winners,” it is promptly boarded by an efficient pirate crew who gather up and deliver the "take” back to their gambling em ployers. Strangely enough, one of the most dangerous cities in the Orienl for the stranger who would be oui alone on the streets at night, is Manila. Sailors there have told me they would rather be A.W.O.L, than walk back to their ships alone at night. Singapore, Shanghai and manj other fictionized hell-towns are famous for their number of womer clubs and movie censors. Elbert F. Corwin of Rensselaei Polytechnic institute has inventec a new device to aid airplane safe ty. It determines the “up ane down” winds high in the skies. Girl Debaters Thp women's symposium debate teams will hold their second meet | ing in Friendly hall Wednesday at ( 4 o’clock in room 107. D. E. Hargis, instructor in speech and faculty leader of the | group, suggests that anyone inter ; ested in debate attend the meeting regardless of previous experience. There are at the present time 14 members, “Education” has been selected as I the subject theme of the year. The group will endeavor to discuss and evaluate modern trends and pre sent their findings from the audi ence’s particular viewpoint. Speak ers acquainted with the various phases that will be under discus sion by the teams will be heard at the weekly meetings and used as a source of information. An extensive program has been planned which outlines many en gagements and travel, Mr. Hargis said. An invitation from Washing ton university has already been re ceived by the group. Marksmen Bring in Deer; Sig Eps Have Venison Dinner Twenty-eight people sat down to a vpnison dinnpr at the Sigma Thi Epsilon house last Sunday. Two 130-pound deer brought down by Hank Evans and Fran Gray's fa ther were the reasons for the treat. The three, Fran Gray made up the third member, were hunting about 30 miles down the Willam ette river when they shot the two black-tailed bucks. Steaks from the deer were more than sufficient to appease the appetites of those present Sunday, so a post-venison dinner was had by the Sig Spa last night. Among those present were Pro fessor Ford of the journalism school and his wife. 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