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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1940)
Oregon If Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the University of Oregon, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods. Subscription rates: 11.26 per term and $3,00 per year. Entered aa tecond-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Ore. 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston—Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. He presented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college publishers* representative. BUD JERMAIN, Editor Lyle Nelson, Managing Editor GEORGE LUOMA. Manager Jim Frost, Advertising Manager Capital Punishment for Old Battle TF tlie high spots of Junior "Weekend were to be named it is almost certain that first mention would go to the paying features such as campus luncheon, tlie prom, and the canoe fete. Here is where the publicity and the preparation go in the, largest quantities. More or less unsung are the purely tradi tional non-paying shenanigans like the paint ing of the “0” on the butte and the organized mayhem project known as the tug-of-war— two events which are the particular property and joy of the male members of the underless. In past years the tug of war has been a happy misnomer, being merely an excuse to get most of the underclass rolled in mud and dumped into the millrace, where the battle is fought. There is a rope, it is true, but there are no teams, and the freshmen outnumber the sophomores about five to one. Sophomores do not stay dry for very long; neither does anyone else. • * * rp'IIIS year, however, new slants are planned which if carried out will remove 99.44 per cent of the joy and color of the thing. It is proposed by those in charge to take the battle away from the millrace, choose up even sides for a real tug of war, and stage it on one of the athletic fields, away from water. Where the idea for change originated is not known, but a quick poll taken yesterday indicated that the move would not be popular among student older hands. Such a reaction is not in the least surpris ing to anyone who has ever witnessed one of the bedraggled classics. The idea of teams is all right, for it would make it a contest for a while; the one reservation to the team idea is that the contest should end in the tradi tional fashion, with hundreds of men involved. But take the even away from the millrace and the juniors might just as well forget about the whole thing, for at one swoop they have hanged, drawn, and quartered the spirit of the traditional tug-of-war. The only answer so far offered in response to tentative protests is that the idea is to protect life and limb, that the old style con test was too dangerous. But this argument melts in the face of facts. Men have been cut and. seratiched and bruised, and even a leg broken, but drowning has never happened, nor is it likely amid such a crowd. Besides, in cluded among the lettermen police are com petent lifeguards watching for that very thing. * # # JNJURIES could be reduced by preparing the ground somewhat in advance, by pick ing out some of the boulders and cutting the blackberry bushes. With lifeguards ready the other possibility seems remote. The juniors have plenty of time to revent to the traditional, the millrace way. If they do not the upperclass will probably steal their thunder by putting on a show of their own at the millrace, and in view of the view of pres ent tendency to surround everyone available with millrace water it is likely that the upper class will get into it anyway, even if it is held at the customary scene. The juniors should lose no time swinging the battle back to the millrace. The ASUO Is Bia Enouah for More Candidates TUDENT offices, while not particularly substantial, have nevertheless in past years not gone begging. There have always been plenty of likely persons interested in holding down the executive committee seats, and there have been some good hot races run for the positions. This year, however, it is a different story. After a whole day in which not a single name was added to tlie list of candidates for ASUO office it begins to look as if the ballots next Thursday will offer only four names. Voters will choose where those names will stand in filial tabulation, but they will not be able to choose as to whom they can have on the com mittee—that is, unless other hats enter the ring today. It takes only 50 names of ASUO members, plus the other usual eligibility requirements, the whole to be turned in to John Dick not later 1han midnight tonight. After midnight there is not a chance to crack into the running. rJ'MlE hesitation to enter the race might be explained by several reasons. The pre selection indulged in by the blocs is one, for their support long before they make any overt the politicos hand-pick their men and line up move, and a potential officeholder who was not bid by a bloc has a wall of no mean pro portions to get over. But lack of bloc support is not an in surmountable obstacle, although some device would have to be found to take its place. This might not be so hard to find. To take a look at the system, in the first place candidates are put up and managed by blocs. Ability, program, experience arc not prime considerations, and if they were the pre-commitments necessary in pre-election horse trading would eliminate any chance for real qualifications to make any difference. Names are simply put up and voted on me * chanieally according to prearrangement, al though it takes a pretty respectable sort of candidate to make much of a showing. * # * this stage of the game, with party lines all drawn and elections only a matter of days, the lineup would be hard to break into —but it could be done. It would be interesting to see what would happen should someone toss a hat into the ring supported by something never heard of around here, namely a platform, or program of what he would try to do and is interested in. In the current campaign nothing has been said about programs. The candidates did not even have a chance to speak at the assembly— instead nominators said that which was al ready known, and no more. * # * JK definite platform on which to run would work for good in two ways, both to offer voters a chance to choose what they want done next year and to prepare the candidate for what he is facing. And the idea is a sound one. Appointive positions on the campus in many cases require carefully worked out peti tions. which demand crystallized thinking. In view of the fact that elected members consti tute five-sith of the executive committee it would seem a good investment to prepare them also for the work they will have to do, work to which warming up takes a long time, usually the full year of service. It would do no harm for all candidates to offer their ideas, whether to expand the executive committee, balance the educational activities board, al low for more student participation, or what ever they feel. Candidates entering the race late, as they would lie by the petition method, are not so far behind as it might seem. Instead of four candidates there should be at least double that number. i , , , I The BAND BOX By BILL MOXLEY Oregon is soon to have its own Gallop (vote while you run) poll on popular music. Plans are being made for taking a cross-section of the music tastes of the campus. Please treat question askers kind Bill Moxley ly, and by next week we’ll be saying that the students at Ore gon prefer such and such when it comes to pop ular music. This isn’t ex actly music . . . but it’s a very interesting note on the terrific job of radio news coverage. Mr. Linton Weils is covering the world by radio for CBS nowadays. From the point of experience this gentle man is probably better equipped to handle this job than any other news analyst in the world. A newspaper reporter before he was twenty, he has visited all but five of the countries in the world. Mr. Wells has travelled over two mil lion miles, been eleven times around the globe. The Japanese foreign office accused him of try ing to start a war. Bolshevists imprisoned him. Mussolini ex pelled him from Italy. He was in China during the revolution, Mexico during a civil war, Ethiopia during invasion, Japan during the earthquake! In 1926 he went around the world in 28 days, setting a new record. . . . What a background for a news coverage job! Alice Faye Voted Number 1 Song Plugger Did you know that the late George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin all rate Alice Faye as America’s No. 1 song plugger and would rather have her introduce their numbers than anyone else in the entertainment world? Yet movie actress Faye learns all her songs by ear, can not read a note of music, and doesn't even play the piano with one-finger technique. She must have that certain “oomph” that makes a song live and breathe and have that personal meaning for which singers strive so hard. A few rhinoceros bones from the University of Nebraska swung out last week on the “Strange As It Seems” radio broadcast. The bones are a million years old, and they've been made into a musical instrument which owner Henry Reider, paleontologist of the University of Nebraska, calls a “bonaphone.” . . . Seems like the modern hep cats are even get ting swing out of the stone age. Back to Bach Albert Tepper, a second-year student at the New England Con servatory of Music, has composed a jazz blues song done in classical form of the fugue in the Bach tradition. It's going to be put on popular records and is called “A Chip Off the Old Bach!” Faculty Attends OAC Installation Chancellor and Mrs. Frederick M. Hunter and Dean and Mrs. James Ralph Jewell attended a formal reception at Corvallis last night given by President and Mrs. George W. Pe -vy in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ballard. Dr. Bal lard is the newly selected presj,? dent of Oregon State college. Sorority Girls Steal Sister's Water Quota By PAT ERICKSON What kind of hands does a ra dio announcer have? Wee paws for station identifi cation.—Silver and Gold. The Harvard Tutoring bureau is having quite a time as defendant in a suit filed by Mac Millan publishing company charg ing violation of copyright laws. The bureau paid $1000 in 1933 to four publishers and is now be ing charged with continuing vio lation, as well as for contempt. Five Sorority Girls at the Univer sity of Kansas rushed into the bathoom with wastebaskets, scooped water from a tub wherein Jeryn Ann Green reclined. The crisis was precipi tated by a fire, which some coed had already put out with a blan ket. Screeched Jeryn Ann "Bring that water back. That’s my whole week’s allowance!” Southern Politics, those at Chapel Hill, North Car olina, are divided according to parties—the University party, the student party, and the Caro lina party. This spring they are electing forty students to offices. * * * Some men smile in the evening, Some men smile at dawn. But the man worth while Is the man who can smile When his four front teeth are gone. —Brooklyn Poly Reporter. The little girl who used to cry for an all-day sucker is now the coed who wants one for the eve ning.—The Aquinas. * * *• 27 Cows were eaten last year by Univer sity of Minnesota students, ac cording to men who dish out the hamburgers on the campus. Last year 542,000 hamburgers were sold at two campus “Wimpy” shops. With them went 2,000 gal lons of mustard, 1,500 gallons of pickles, 10,000 pounds of onions and 1,000 gallons of catsup. Oregon WEmemld 1939 Member 1940 Associated Collegiate Press SPORTS STAFF Nancy Lewis Bernard Engel Don Gibons Tommy Wright Marge Dibble Nancy Wilson Jeon Spearow Kathleen Brady Bob Flavelle Austin Chaney Mary Belcher Ray Foster Len Baliff Milton Levy Lee Flatberg Bob Robertson BUSINESS PROMOTION: Circulation: Janet Reig Nat. Advertising: Emerson Page Special Accounts: Alvera Maeder Office: Emily Tyree Ale Gray Kent Stitzer Layouts : Ron Alpaugh Milton Levy Asst. Adv. Mgr.: Jean Crites Promotion : Joan Stinnette Asst. Bus. Mgr.: Bob Rogers Thursday Adv. 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