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BUD JERMAIN, Editor
Lyle Nelson, Managing Editor
GEORGE LUOMA, Manager
Jim Frost, Advertising Manager
Helen Amrcll, News Editor
George Pasero, Co-sporta Editor
Elbert Hawkins, Co-sports Editor
UPPER NEWS STAFF
Betty Jane Thompson, Chief Night Editor
Jimmie Leonard, Assistant Managing Editor
Hal Olney, Assistant Managing Editor
Marge Finnegan, Women’s Editor
Jack Bryant, Staff Photographer
Jean Cri'tcs. National Advertising
Frederick Khlcrs, Classified Manager
BUSINESS STAFF
Bay 0>nk. Merchandising Manager
Her!) Anderson, Circulation Manager
Janet Farnham, Executive Secretary
Charles Kenyon, Staff Photographer
Unaccustomed As He Is—Bruce Baxter
pOK a five-year record of achievement and
popularity at liis post it would be no
easy job to find one who would surpass Bruce
R. Baxter, president of Willamette university
and guest of the University of Oregon at this
morning’s assembly.
Coming to Willamette comparatively un
known, at least in these parts, l)r. Baxter's
light was harder to keep hidden than a Klieg
light under mosquito netting.
Probably his greatest medium of associa
tion was through his numerous speeches. Like
the University of Oregon’s own president,
l)r. Erb, Bruce Baxter perennially found him
self before one group or another, never having
learned to say no to a request for an appear
ance. And repeat performances were always
urged by these groups after it was all over,
one of the surest tests of a good speaker.
It is such a man who will take over Gcr
linger stage this morning at assembly hour,
and the University may indeed congratulate
itself on a true “catch.” This Willamette
president is no run-of-the-mill orator, no plat
form time-killer. That University of Oregon
students and faculty will like him is a fore
gone conclusion.
Whenever Dr. hub has made an address
at Willamette, and In; has appeared there two
or three times, Willamette-ites have packed
and jammed in to hear him.
Accordingly, University of Oregon people
have two distinct reasons for packing today’s
assembly. First, as a return favor for the
courtesy shown our own president in Salem;
and second, because speakers as good as Bruce
Baxter are scarce as lien's teeth. Anyone owes
it to himself to take advantage of this oppor
tunity.
Drowning War With^Floods of 'Fronts’
JT did not take very long after the opening of
hostilities in Europe two and a half months
hgo for it to become evident that there was
considerable apprehension on the path, of the
American people that the United States might
be drawn into the war.
From the start it was clear the war had
no friends on this side of the water. Almost
with the first declarations of war groups of
individuals began to band together to form
various “fronts” to keep America out of the
war, completely and uncompromisingly, dust
how many of these unrelated “fronts” there
might be is probably a problem calling for
big-number arithmetic; the Emerald itself can
vouch for the existence of a dozen or more.
Every week brings at least two or three letters
bearing the platforms and programs of more
“fronts” against war.
For example, in the eastern pari of the
United States there are the headquarters of
the American Mothers, who don't raise their
boys to be soldiers. They figure they would
just as soon not wear the gold star emblem
izing war-sacrifice motherhood.
# # #
rJpilEN there are at least half a dozen college
groups, both men and women, who figure
war is just plain no good, who can see no
future in bleeding and dying for country.
rl hey want to look at the thing intelligently,
and their vote is a pre-calculatcd “no.” Cir
culars arrive in the mail with such lilies as,
“What Are We Willing to Die For?” There
are also unclassified groups.
The list is not short, and it grows each
week. Locally there is the rather retiring, self
styled “Leavenworth Club,” whose only
manifestation to date lias been three or four
“bulletins” printed in yellow paper in highly
colorful language. The Leavenworth club per
haps outstrips all others in its choice of the
juciest, time-tested terms, such as “organized
murder,” “robber barons,” “mental goose
stepping,” and “imperialism,” to name but a
few. The aim of the club, according to bulletin
number three is “brotherly love.” Beyond
that the group does not seem to have made
up ils mind what to want.
Now all these movements have purpose;
their fears are perhaps justified, and their
efforts are undoubtedly expended in good
faith. This sort of thing is going on all over
the nation; with what effect remains to be
seen.
•» »)(•'
jyjOKL than that, this is no new idea. Every
war since the invention of the printed
word has brought out unrest, although of
course not nearly to this degree. Perhaps the
present generations are above their predeces
sors in intelligence in discovering that pro
paganda can work both ways; they now fight
fire with fire.
What is to come out of peace “fronts” is
still veiled in the future, but it is doubtful
that all the Leavenworth clubs, peace fronts,
and such gestures, which could he devised,
could keep a nation out of war, regardless of
manifest good intentions. Plenty of fabulously
hot territory is paved with good intentions,
according to the well-known old bromide.
No one wants war, here or there, then or
now. That much all are agreed upon. Where
the disagreement comes in is just bow to pre
vent it. “Fronts” may or may not be the
answer.
Wanted: An Interpreter
OK prize-winning communicnlions arriving
fit these editorial desks hero is one fop
tire reader to figure out.
Bearing a Corvallis oaneollation of Novem
ber 14, (lie envelope contained nothing but a
elipping torn from the Oregonian sport page
ol Friday, November 10 . . . a pre-game slorv
about enthusiasm in Bugone.
Tnuphasis seemed filmed fil <1 pragraph
down near the bottom where mention w;is
made id' the “aeute attaek of fool ba I lists”
noticeable in “this thriving hamlet/’ . . . Ku
gene. 1'nderlined in red pencil was: “There
is no official roatlinjr, Inil I (Slob Nelson) veu
ini'(> to say the patients’ temperature is hov
ering around 111) and about to send the mer
eurv right through the head of the bulb.”
I lie only original contribution included,
in addition to the underlining, was the fol
lowing, scrawled over the columns verticallv
in the same red pencil: A sudden drop in
temperature is apt to give the children pneu
monia. Keep them wrapped up.”
No signature, no identification whatsoever.
No nothing.
It would seem a translation is in order.
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In the
Mail
n,i«; for thk i:.mi:k \i,i>
1802 Fulton, Palo Alto, Cal.
Nov. 13, 1939.
Oregon Emerald,
Eugene, Oregon.
Dear Editor:
Congratulations o n y o u r
Homecoming edition and on all
the other editions of your ex
cellent paper! We have the op
portunity to compare it with
the various papers of Califor
nia colleges and the Emerald
outshines them all. ll is very
helpful to loyal Oregonians
temporarily domiciled this dis
tance from home.
One bit of news 1 have
missed seeing, however. How
about that girls' hockey team.
If tiie writeups have been there
and we have merely missed
reading them— please excuse
us.
Best wishes for your contin
ued success.
Sincerely yours,
Florence West.
(Mrs. K. B.)
Anderson Offers
Instruction for
Calculating Machine
0. R. Anderson, instructor in
business administration, is offer
ing instruction in the use of add
ing machines and calculating ma
chines to all students in business
administration courses. The stu
dents will use the machines in
their courses while they are in
college, and afterwards t h e y *
should be fairly competent, An- ^
dersou declared. t'i
Behind the
With JACK BRYANT
ALPHA hall’s Jack Miller
saw the cars coming as he
strolled across the street in
front of Johnson the other day.
"But, this is a safety zone,”
ho rationalized. So he contin
ued to cross with no increase
in speed. As the car barely
missed him the driver shouted,
"WHY DON’T YOU GO SOME
PLACE WHERE YOU CAN
GET AN EDUCATION?” . . .
NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN is
Bobby Anet’s BETTY FUNK
HOUSER. Two more not to be
overlooked are Morris McCler
non and Ned Johnson, who
came to visit old acquaintances.
* * *
Stewart Brown, a Delta Chi
from OAC, dated Ann Gardner,
ADPi pledge during homecom
ing . . . Sue Falkell, Susie, is
the reason the Sigma Chi stocks
were out Tuesday. Bill Potter
is the planter . . . Contributed:
“Don Thomas changes his
theme song from, ‘Theta Ups”
to ‘Down by the Old Mill
Stream,’ as Mills college tem
porarily (?) takes a back
seat. . .
He Calls Her “Dotty”
QUESTION OF THE
WEEK: Who was the beau
teous blonde that Theta Chi’s
Paul Cushing was sporting
around last yeekend? . . . Sig
ma Kappa's MARY BELCHER
is going to the Sig Ep (SPE)
house dance Friday and the
Sigma Chi dance Saturday. The
complications are that WIL
LIE RENOLDS’s Theta Chi
house dance is also this week
end .. . EMERALD’S Elly
Engdahl, Gamma Phi pledge,
shows up all ages with her ex
cellent feature stories . . .
ABE HELON, Sig Ep, keeps
from making news Saturday
night . . . Betty McNiece had
her usual 4 dates over the
weekend . . . question to ask
here is where does John Schaef
fer stand? AVERAGE of at
least one sleeper all the time is
maintained by the browsing
room . . . SHE IS POPULAR:
Elcajnor Sederstrom, Alpha Phi,
sister to Sigma Chi’s Verdi . . .
Larry Hopkins has been dating
Ermine Stuart ever since open
house. . . .
VIRGINIA VINTON, the Su
sies’ 80 pounds of joy, is in the
(Eugene hospital in serious con
dition.
M A It Y J A N E HOItTON
dashes home to Chicago to he
with her father who is very ill.
CORRECTION: Etna John
son. Gamma Phi, gets most of
her dates from Pete, an ATO,
instead of houses previously
mentioned.
MET TWICE: Dorris Sims,
Susie, of the two Sims on the
campus. . .
FROM OREGON COLLEGE
OF EDUCATION: Glen and
Pauline Holliday . . . They have
homecoming up there (Mon
mouth) this weekend. . . Those
who PLANNED ON going up
for the celebration were Billie
Muckier, Ted Jaross, and pos
sibly the 8-Ball.
FAKE
Bob Elliott's hair cutting by
the OAC yell leader. Just how
Elliott got out of it is a mys
tery to most . . . BUT you can't
stop people from guessing. . . .
RACKET
MUM selling . . , one of the
biggest grafts that hit the
campus . . . Even 40 miles down
the river the best mums sell for
"only” $1 . . . which is 25 cents
less than those of the same val
ue sold here . . . THERE
OUGHT TO BE A LAW.
CLEVER?
Don, the perfect man, Gilbert
has managed somehow to keep
his name out of this column
twice now. The first time he,
or his friend, threw out the
type that was all set. It’s story
was of “The perfect man’s” vis
its to the Alpha Phi's Patty
Carson. The second was a story
that commented on the fact
that his “brains and muscle”
had kept the first story out.
this time this |>aragraph is go
ing to he printed if the editor
has to do it by hand.
"Conceit is to nature, what
paint is to beauty: it is not only
needless, but it impairs what it
would improve.”-Pope.
Special rate on the Emerald.
1.25 for the balance of the year,
ubscribe for the folks at home,
>r first band campus news.
Lomax Recalls
Trip to Hawaii
Addresses Group,
Shows Movies at
Business Ad Fete
Professor A. L. Lomax showed
i pictures and spoke on his visit in
j Hawaii last year at the Beta
Gamma Sigma banquet held at the
Del Rey cafe in honor of 11 new
initiates.
Dean Victor P. Morris acted as
toastmaster at the banquet. Each
member and all the initiates intro
duced themselves, and musical
numbers made up the program.
Mrs. Hale Thompson was in charge
of all arrangements for the ban
| quet.
New members are as follows:
Edyth Williams, Bill Rosson, Al
lan Shepard, Dwight McFaddin,
Oswald Burghardt, Paul Stivers,
| William Essary, Blanche McClel
lan, Robert Horning, Dorothy L.
Clark, and George Jackson.
McDonald Songfest
Hears Alpha Phis;
| Pi Kaps Fail to Show
When Alpha Phi sang last
night in the fourth weekly Uni
versity song contest at the Mc
Donald theater, their numbers in
cluded “My Tani," “Sweetheart of
Alpha Phi,” and a medley of
“Come Away With Me Lucille,”
“School Days,” and “Daisy.”
Pi Kappa Alpha, the fraternity
slated to enter last night's song
meet, was unable to attend.
Subscribe to the Emerald for the
folks at home.
EMERALD REPORTERS:
Bob McGill
Earrell Lear
Betty Jane Thompson
Nisma Banta
Mildred Wilson
Jeff Kitchen
Betty Jane Biggs
Janet Piper
Norman Foster
Connie Averil]
Corine Lamon
Elsa Brownell
Jack Buker
Howard Fishel
Jim Banka
Edith Oglesby
Helen Sawyer
Jean Adams
Eleanor Engdahl
Alma Paksis
Elizabeth Anne Harrison
B US I N ESS D E PT. A SSI ST A NTS :
Mary Ellen Smith, National Advertising |
Janet Rieg, Circulation
EXECUTIVE SECRETARIES:
Arvilla Bates Priscilla Gilmore
BUSINESS OFFICE SECRETARIES:
Billie Wade Boyd Copenhaver
Sue Ehrhart
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
Bob (Lefty) Smith
Jerry O’Callaghan
Nancy Lewis
Bernard Engel
Margaret Dake
Mary Belcher
1
Ray Schrick
Ray Foster
Milt Levy
Jim Schiller
Lcn Ballif
Charles Boice
Bob Flavelle
Bob Potwin
Copy Desk Staff:
Hal Olney, Copy Editor
Wesley Sullivan, Assistant
Mary Ann Campbell
Joan Chrystall
Orabelle Vulgamorc
Marilyn Miller
Bob Hancock
Jonathan Kahananui
Elizabeth Harrison
Thursday Advertising; Staff:
Majeane Glover, Manager
Helene Wilmot
June Dick
Barbara Minahan
_
Night Staff:
Tom Wright, Night Editor
Lois Hulser
Priscilla Gilmore
Kent Stitzer
Henry Wilde Poems
Are Released in Italy
Professor C. B. Beal of the de
partment of Romance languages
has just published, in Italy, a
small volume of poems by Rich
ard Henry Wilde.
Mr. Wilde, an American author
of the last century, was interested
in the Italian poets. The poems,
consisting of translations from
famous Italian authors, were tak
en from a manuscript now in the
Library of Congress.
The University library has ar
ranged to have the manuscript i
protographed on microfilm and to
furnish one of its new projectors
for the study of the text.
Baxter lakes
(Continued from fiarjc one)
Known to many college students
as a lively, informal speaker, Dr.
Baxter has also received recogni
tion for work done outside of edu
cation and religion, which are his
main interests. He is a member of
the University club of Portland
and the Salem Rotary club, and
also holds a membership in the
Los Angeles Breakfast club.
Dr. Baxter has traveled exten
sively, having held the pastorate
of the Highbury Quadrant church
in London during the summer of
1925. During the first World war
he served as secretary of the War
Work council for the YMCA.
H1I IMII1AI.II
CHARLES LAUGHTON
in
“JAMAICA”
plus
“Heaven With a
Barbed Wire Fence”
with JEAN ROGERS
chuei
THREE MESQUITEERS
in
“New Frontiers”
plus
‘Espionage Agent’
with
JOEL McCREA
ANNA NEAGLE
GEORGE SAUNDERS
“Nurse
Edith Cavell”
ATTENTION
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Rare perfumes by
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and LENTHERIC
$1.00 to $20.00
Beautifully fitted weekend travel
cases in genuine leather and re
movable mirrors—
$5.00 to $27.50
Make your selection now on our
lay-away plan
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Girdles, $3.50, $3.95 to $7.50
Parity Girdles, $3.50 to $5.00
All in one $5.00 and $7.50
Eugene’s Own Stoye
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THRU THE MADDING
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with M A JEAN 15 GLOVI5II
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Klassics &
You’ll adore the ^
bright colored
gabardine shirt
maker campus dresses witn an
around pleated skirts which
KAUFMAN'S feature. There
are one and two-piece styles in
soft colored jerseys. You'li de
light in the elastic waistbands,
zipper plackets, pockets and
stitch-gored skirts with plenty
of motion. . . . There are jaunty,
clan plaid dresses in light weight
wool, soft and scratchless. No
one will ever guess they cost as
little as $7.95—unless of course
you brag about it.
Simply Ripping!
Breath-taking — stunning
exotic are not even enough to
describe the very new Downing
Street set with the -Chamber
lain umbrella handle and port
folio-like bag being shown at
RUSSELL’S. A flaming felt
cover for a silk umbrella, and a
felt Koret bag, leather fitted
with coin purse and separate
compartments make up this un
usual set.
'I Junior
j 'Guild
Original
iA splendid se
lection of darling
silk afternoon dresses confronted
us at BEARD'S, but one which
especially attracted us was a
Junior Guild original. In the
new fall colors of butternut and
cognac this dress has a full
blouse in butternut fitted on a
yoke, long sleeves with a clever
cognac leather belt which looks
like a cartridge belt and buttons
to match. The skirt in cognac
is extremely full. Price, $19.75.
Peel the Cold
Cornin’ ?
How wonderful nice warm
robes feel on these cool even
ings! That’s why HADLEY’S
selection of soft chenille and
cuddle-down robes is always so
appealing. There are zipper and
wrap-around styles in white,
light blue, dark blue, chamois,
baby pink, red, and wine at
$3.95 and $5.95.
Just "Fur”
Vou ^
Our cold hands
problem for this
nippy weather
was solved when
we saw at MILLER'S the very
bright and fuzzy looking' mit
tens which are really electric
ally treated lamb skin but look
like fur. Some styles are all
lamb skin in gold, blue, and red
and are $3.50. Other styles in
green, red, and blue have a
leather palm and a knitted wrist
band and are $1.59.
You Cut Ups
Did you every try to borrow
a pair of scissors? Then you'll
realize that it’s best to have
your own. We couldn’t miss the
large display of scissors at the
EROADWAY. There are twelve
types from manicure to the big
dressmaking shears. Each pair
has a dated tag and a two-year
guarantee. Price, 59c or two
pairs for $1.00.
For the
“Strides”
Just tops in con
venience is what
we thought when
we saw at TIF
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pouch bag that can so easily be
carried right on your other
books. This bag has three com
partments, a coin purse, and
quickly opens with a zipper. In
colors of blue, maroon, brown,
and black, it is $1.00.