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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1939)
The Oregon Daily Kmerald, official publication of the University of Oregon, '“«**^*^^*7 Kntole"™ Sundays, Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods. Subscription rates. $1.25 per term ami $3.00 per y<ar. i.ni nuriuay*, jmsnuttya, iivnunyn, . - Recond-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Ore. Represented for rational advertising by NATTONAT. A DV E RTISlNfSERVICE .INC college 420 Madison AVe.. New York—Chicago—Boston-Lo« Angeles—San !■ rar.ciscu Poitland and Sullb. publishers’ representative, Editor, BUD JERMATN Lyle Nelson, Managing Editor Manager, GEORGE LUOMA. Rita Wright, Adv. Mgr. UPPER NEWS STAKE Helen Angell, Nows Editor Ceorge Pasero, Co-sports Ediior Elbert Hawkins, Co-sports Editor Marge Finnegan, Women’s Editor Betty Jane Thompson, Chief Night Editor Jimmie Leonard, Assistant Managing Editor Hal Olney, Assistant Managing Editor Jark Bryant, Staff Photographer BUSINESS STAFF Jean Crites, National Advertising Manager Mary Ellen Smith. Assistant Frederick Ehlers, Classified Manager Jim Gleeaon, Assistant Karl Maize. Merchandising Manager Kay Cook. Assistant Herb Anderson. Circulation Manager Maurice Goldberg, Assistant Janet Rieg, Assistant Janet Farnham, Executive Secretary Charles Kenyon, Staff Photographer A Straight Line Is the Shortest Distance OT so very long ago these eolumns carried ^ a rather self-evident observation 1o tlie effect that, since it was only forty miles to Corvallis from Eugene and the same forty miles to Eugene from Corvallis, il would he only reasonable for key groups in each school to do a little traveling, and find out, how the other half lives. This, it was claimed, would work to the advantage of all concerned, through Ihe pooling of ideas and the result ant better understanding. Also, it is a well recognized principle that it is far more simple to get things done by open talk across the table than by any other method. Any other method loses effectiveness by its indirectness. This two-way forty-mile axiom had a chance to show what it can accomplish only last weekend, when AKIIO Proxy dohn Dick and Homecoming Chairman Burton Barr, without pre-announcements or fanfare of any kind, journeyed to Corvallis for a rather im portant discussion with some of the best heads at Corvallis, representing key positions there. They wanted to talk “better relations,” and they went to the two men who were best fitted 1o help, namely Ralph Floberg, presi dent of the ASOSC, and Don Drake, editor of the Barometer. And they did talk, with a re sulting two-way understanding which hears out the point that hotli sides are willing and eager to work things out. this idea of “better relations” is not exactly the pipe dream of only four men. Furthermore, it can be broken down into at. least two or three separate aims, each of which is justifiable on plenty of good grounds. For one thing, everyone wanted to leave no stone unturned to prevent the upsurge of such rabid partisanship as is likely to create business for infirmary patch-up artists. This is in keeping with the trend of the time. They used to have a legalized free-for-all at Cornell, under the guise of a “cane-rush,” but they jettisoned 1 hat without hesitation when one of the en thusiasts turned up dead after the smoke of battle cleared away. There is no such thing as a cane-rush in these parts, but no one can deny it is practically miraculous that blood letting around Webfoot-Beaver goal posts has not been fatal. Plenty on both sides will all their lives carry the scars of such spontaneous crushes, and what have they got to show for themV Nothing. And whenever “a bunch of the boys” take it into their heads to whoop things up a little by a raid into enemy territory, even if il is only with paint brushes, they are only taking out insurance that feeling will run high when their respective student bodies face each other across a field, especially when one of the stu dent bodies will have a winning and the other a losing team at the game. Somebody usually wins, and that is not calculated to make either the winner charitable or the loser friendly— this in spite of all the unwritten codes of good sportsmanship and “cricket” which should necessarily be mutually accepted if athletic contests are to stay within their true circle of importance. TInS was °n!y «ne of the things Proxies Dick and Floberg, Editor Drake, an>| ( hairman Barr were working on. Thev figure, reasonably enough, that the thing can be kept within reason, it it is emphasized enough. They decided that if both groups would sing Ilieir songs and leave immediately after the game, get away from 1 lit* stadium, they would still he able to have a pretty good lime and see a very good game; and there would be no nursing of bodily wounds afterward. Another thing Dick and Barr did in Cor vallis was to invite the Beaver si udent body to make the most of the Web fool Homecoming. They pointed out that the Homecoming dance will be such that any member of the student body will want to attend. And it does not harm for anybody 1o go to some other student body’s dance and see what it is like, beyond having a “good time,” as popular idiom has it. Tn the last few years the tendency has been increasingly for inter-school participa tion in Ihe bigger dances, a practice which has worked out very well both ways. So Dick and Barr invited the Beavers to make a day and a night of it, invited the Beaver Greeks to stay with the Webfoot Greeks to take in Ihe events. Boh groups agreed that it was to the best interests of both to pul this thing across, and both agreed to do all in their power to make the plan work out successfully. It would be a fine thing if every Webfoot could meet Ralph Floberg, for a more likeable person or belter man would be hard to find, while Barometer Hditor Drake has expressed his in tention of throwing all his resources on the side of this commendable project. That which is true of Beaver executives in relation to Webfoots is also true in reverse, for Webfoot executives in relation to Beavers—it would be worthwhile. JT must be understood, however, that there is no intent on anyone’s part to holy-holy if, or to moralize on the evils of red-bloodedness. It is certain that a 100 per cent observance of the rules of Alphonse-Gaston gentlemanlincss would result in so dull a situation as to be completely uninteresting. Rare is the collegian who has never at some time squirmed under the excitement of fierce partisanship toward his alma mater, and this is only natural. One should stick up for the things which are one’s own; it was written when man was invented that it should be this way. But University and State college student executives are on the right track when they seek to minimize the unpleasant results of that which might be gotten under way. The Franklinism “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’’ is neither lairy tale nor bedtime story. All in all, it would seem from any analysis that the program these leaders endorse is worth supporting, and they can do nothing without the understanding support of the out ire groups they each represent. That throws the responsibility squarely up to the individual. Greek houses could bring pressure on Ilnur members by cracking down on raid ing and the like—that would be one way. Others, of course, could not be restrained in this way, but in truth no one* should have to be restrained by such measures. It is good to see the forty mile axis in use for any kind of problem. Use of the axis is • he only way these irritants will ever be put in their place, which is the ash can. With such anticipations so capably and amicably pre pared there is no reason for Hayward field to become another battle of the Marne, come ten days from now. In fact, it bids fair to a tar better-rounded weekend, a preview to I riendlier. saner years to come. ■ Special Meal Tickets for the Student THE BIG APPLE CAFE BaHsaaaaiaagaaaaassasagg! STUDENTS! Acquaint yourselves with the only cafeteria on the campus. We appeal especially to the Inis ky appetities of college stinlents. With our jiffy service you eat when you want to and what you want to. One look at our appe tizing display of food will convince you that you’re missing out if you don’t indulge. On Alder between 13th and 14th Piggers' Guide (Continued from page one) Aii editorial page, dedicating the book to the business men of Eu gene. is the only new addition to this year's presentation. Included are the names, home addresses, col lege addresses, and telephone num bers of every University enrollec and faculty member. Besides the noon sales in each house. Kwama-sponsored booths in front of the college side, and a sales table in the Co-op this after noon will sell the remaining direc tories to students not in regular I organizations. Library Adds Case A new display case has been1 added to the Burgess room at the University library. Send the Emerald home to Mom and Dad for the whole year for the special price of $'J.2b per year, j The SHOW OFF By NORMAN FOSTER ‘Babes in Arms’ America’s boy and girl stars, present and future, have their day on the screen in "Babes in Arms” elaborate screen version of the Broadway musical which comes to the McDonald soon. Headed by Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, who are starred, "Babes in Arms" is set in the period that saw the pass ing of vaudeville and concerns those happy-go-lucky headliners and their children who saw that world totter when motion pic tures shoved their "two-a-day" into discard. Mickey plays the son of a famous vaudeville team who in herits his fathers talent plus a modern viewpoint. Judy is given her finest opportunity to dis play her talents as an accom plished vaudeville entertainer. The picture deals with these kids of vaudeville performers who save the day when they crash on Broadway on their own steam by the very talent that made the names of their fathers and mothers household words. The adult members of the cast are Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, Grace Hayes, Rand Brooks, and a host of old-time names such as Irene Franklin, Margaret Young, and George McKay. "Babes in Arms” is a snappy musical with entertain ment enough to please every one. Ginger’s Latest When Ginger Rogers refused dancing roles and demanded that she be given parts where she could "act,” critics unani mously agreed that her picture career was over. They soon found out however that Ginger could "act” as well as dance and with pictures such as "Vivacious Lady,” "Stage Door,” and “Bachelor, Mother” she was classed as a top-flight actress. Her latest picture, "Fifth Avenue Girl,” is screen current ly at the Heilig. This is a hilar ious comedy in which she has the solo starring role. A stellar supporting cast includes Walter Connolly, James Ellison, Verre Teasdale, Franklin Pangborn, and Tim Holt. “Fifth Avenue Girl” is a screen play about a sidewalk Cinderella who is paid a salary to upset a millionaire house hold. Walter Connolly is the lonely millionaire whose wife EMERALD REPORTERS: jmju jvirviiii (Jerry Walker Dorothy Dunham Earrell Lear Betty Jane Thompson Nisnia Banta Jim Schiller Mildred Wilson Jeff Kitchen Don (Joddall Betty Jane Bijrgs Janet Piper Norman Foster Connie Averill Alma Paksis i.-orine laimon Hob Flavelle Elsa Brownell Marion White Dorothea lvresky .lack Buker Betty Hamilton Howard Fishel Jim Banks Lois Bechdoldt Edith Oglesby Helen Sawyer Jean Adams Eleanor Engdalil Buck Buehwach Elizabeth Anno Harrison EXECUTIVE SECRETARIES : Arvilla Ratos Priscilla Gilmore BUSINESS OFFICE SECRETARIES: Billie Wade Boyd Copenhaver Sue Elirhart BUSINESS PROMOTION STAFF: Kathleen Brady, Chairman Joan Stinnette Dorothy Horn Kennett Lawrence Evelyn Nelson SPECIAL ACCOUNTS: Rhea Anderson, Chairman Lynn Johnson Don Brinton SPORT STAFF Ken Christianson Margaret Young Hob (Lofty) St it h jerry O'Callaghan Nancy Lewis Bernard Kngel Margaret Dake Mary Belcher Rav Si'hnek Ka\ Foster Milt Levy lint Schiller l et) Ballif Charles Boice Bob Flavelle Boh Pot win Copy Desk Stuff: Jimmie Leonard, Copy Editor .... Jane TempUn, assistant. Virginia Yost Marilyn Jones Betty Jane Biggs Helen Ann Huggins Elizabeth Harrison Bill Harpel Kelley Holbert Jonathan Kahananui Wes Sullivan Mildred Wilson Joan Chrystall Mary Ann Campbell Wednesday \d\ertising Staff: Fred May. Wed. Adv. Mgr. Jeanette Christiansen Jay Stott Bob Lovell Fred Welty Night Staff: Erros Penland, Night Editor Tom Wright Bernard Engel and children regard him only as a walking checkbook. He meets Ginger Rogers on a park bench in Central park and after visiting all the night spots in New York, he takes her home t.o his family. Ginger acts as a menace to their carefree existence and makes the spoiled wife and two grown-up children give some at tention to their husband and father. Ginger unites the spoiled and selfish family in a film that Is packed with comedy, fast moving romance and dramatic scenes. “Fifth Avenue Girl” furnishes a good 75 minutes worth of entertainment on a single feature bill. R. M. Scabbard and Blade To Make Pledge List Scabbard and Elade, national military honorary, will try out a new meeting time and work over a pledge list tomorrow when members get together at the ROTC building at 11 a.m. Meetings for years have been held in the evening, but because of the press of fall term activities, it was decided the new time might be more convenient, according to Harry Milne, captain of the local “company” of Scabbard and Blade. 'Smokey' Whitfield (Continued from page three) Fear and Trembling,” in “Noah,” and in “Stage Door.” "Smokey” also received a letter for his services on the University boxing team and was on the foot ball squad for four years. College Regalia (Continued from page one) Ask your alumni, the homo coming committee suggests, if they would like to see the graveyard, the midstream and all of the spots that they might remember. For three days, it will be their party and it’s up to us to show them a good time. “Remember when we first met on the library steps? “Remember the time I met you in the graveyard? “Remember the night of your house dance? “Remember how we studied for that econ final together?! These will be the thoughts of alumni when they return, and it is up to students now attend ing school to help them “Re member When.” There was a time in the early 1920's when a girl wore her go loshes fastened at the top, sig nifying her engagement. If a girl wore galoshes unfastened, it meant that she was open for dates. Do you suppose (the commit tee still has the floor) they ever sat on the senior bench when they were frosh ? Did they soap windows on Hallowe’en? Did they have political blocks? Did they marry their college sweethearts ? Ask them about it. The answers might be inter esting. fmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiimiiiiiiimuiiiiininiui^ RADER’S | BEAUTY SALON j I Eugene Hotel Bldg. Phone 2890 fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiininmniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuniiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiniiiiiimiiimiiiiiiniiis Carnival Abolished (Continued from page one) many for the past two years. Also at this meeting the Mortar Board plaque will he awarded to the girl who had the highest schol astic grades as a freshman last year. Tn the afternoon Phi Theta Up silon, junior women’s honorary, will honor the dean and coeds fr om OSC at a tea. A buffet supper for the guests will be given by Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, dean of wo men, in the evening. Making another drastic change in tradition, the AWS council vot ed to change the annual “dime crawl” to a “nickle hop” and set the date for November 21. Barbara Bamford and Margaret Young were named co-chairmen. Plans for the convention of AWS members from the 11 western states were under discussion. First welcome letters have been issued to the 50 colleges which will par ticipate. To advertise the event AWS will have its stationery printed with convention letterheads. Reviving Coed Capers, a party “for girls only" will be the other winter term function. It will be given in Gerlinger hall with all girls invited. Kwamas, with President Helen Angell in charge, will again be saleswomen for the “mums” - for the Washington State game Sat urday. P omelou s ASSOCIATED / Curb Service Now Management GRAND CAFE Sunday Special Turkey Dinner, 35c Private dining room J'or reservation 125 East 11th laiamminiininanaiiiiiiaiiaBBigJciiciieiigjeiMaEi GIVE YOURSELF A HOLIDAY ON WASH DAY Don’t bolli with washing and ironing but leave those drab details to us . . . it's onr business. Send yonr laundry out one day and gel it back the day after w i t h guaranteed satisfaction. LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANING NEW SERVICE LAUNDRY Phone 825 KNOTS YOU ALL 4 HAVE SEEN 1 The Door Knob Knot 2 The Pee Wee Knot 3 The Pump-Handle Knot 4 The Skew Gee Knot 5 The Arrow Knot v ARROW TIES SEE THIS WEEK'S POST / THROUGH THE IK[TIJVr/IT£ L £TT£liS ojHelm Hayes’ mother to Helm Hcyes 'daiujkter aland Here is a unique story: what the outsider does not see of Helen Hayes, the anecdotes the world hasn’t heard. Here, as Helen Hayes’ mother says, is “every little thing I can recall about my Helen Hayes” ...In a series of letters called Mary, This Is Your Mother, she reveals to her granddaughter (and to Post readers) the struggles and glamorous career of America’s great actress, who has spent thirty four of her thirty-nine years in the theater and “on the road.” First of eight parts—this week. IN THIS SAME ISSUE A half hour of excitement: Harold Channing Wire’s yarn Glory Hole about a cave-in 1700 feet down! (.Too bad they’d fired the lad they thought was “yellow,” the only man who had the key to the rescue ....) AND a lively story of a girl reporter who went out to cover the races and ran into a story with a real news angle— when she fell in love with a gentleman rider, and he walked away! MORE spine chills in the climax of Alec Hudson’s vivid and authentic submarine war story, Battle Stations. PLUS . . . an article, The Great Red Father, by W.G.Krivitsky, on the bloody undercover work of the Comintern in Germany; and If You Must Borrow—by Lowell Brentano. (Attention —students low on their pocket money!) Also stories by Zachary Gold and William Faulkner, poems, editorials, cartoons. ^US'SMuu Why isn’t a sh,J , Proflt ^ his schooi Vh°VVOrJfs r>y . Lno°i JUsf . or °n the return Sec^ies~-pa t^ »uch entitled ^ *** for Jrn f°r his Jab Jy since «•- - Pay fls **■ F^°*Z:ur --c: / le Unh °st reve«Ic> *l - Ce’ sDorf-o _ sser I ceiior B0U1 ! 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