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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1940)
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: $1.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered aa Second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Ore. 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston—Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college publishers’ representative, BUD JERMAIN, Editor GEORGE LUOMA, Manager Lyle Nelson, Managing Editor Jim Frost, Advertising Manager TTPPir.ll NFWS ST AFP Helen Angell, News Editor George Paaero, Co-aports Editor Elbert Hawkins, Co-aports Editor Betty Jane Thompson, Chief Night Editor Jimmie Leonard, Assistant Managing Editor Hal Olney. Assistant Managing Editor Ralph Woodall, Cartoonist Marge Finnegan, Women’s Editor Ken Christianson, Assistant Sports Editor UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Jean Crites, Tuesday Mgr. Fred May, Wednesday Mgr. Majeanne Glover, Thursday Mgr. Betty Mae Lind, Jay Stott, Friday Mgrs. Stew May ward, Saturday Manager Mary Ellen Smith, Nat. Adv. Mgr. Lynn Johnson, Merchandising Mgr. Rhea Anderson, Special Acct’s. Mgr. JJoug JParker, Classified JJept. Mgr. Kathleen Brady, Promotion Ted Kenyon, Photography Bill Ralston, Layouts The Light That Fails.After Election Day HEN the polls closed at 3 o’clock Tues day in the ASIJO elections 776 ASTJO next year’s student leaders. Although this total is slightly under the 843 mark set in last year’s hotly-contested campaign it proves that at least for a day over half the ASTJO members on the campus were interested enough in their government to come out and choose their officers. That more didn’t vote may, in part, be attributed to the fact that only four candidates were running for the four positions on the executive com mittee. Now that the campaign is over there seems to be a tendency on the part of most of the voters to settle back to their daily routine and take their government much for granted. Poli ticians have gone back into their shells, and card holders had registered their choice for like the hibernating bear, probably won’t come out again until the next season. * * * ^^TIAT few citizens of the ASUO seem to realize is that student government and the rights it conveys does not end when the polls close on election day. An aroused and en lightened student body can do a great deal towards influencing the course taken by its leaders. Student opinion, be it voiced through or ganizations, all-school assemblies, in personal calls, or through the Emerald, is vital to the very existence of good government. This inter est, manifested for a day at the polls, should not be left to die over night. Rather it sljould be a continuing and self-perpetuating force— the beacon light by which the ASUO pilots can steer the ship.—L.N. Hot off The Wire By RIDGELY CUMMINGS Wednesday morning papers carried banners to the effect that German troops were on the way to invade The Netherlands, but by Wednesday night it appeared to be just another false alarm in a war that is only too full of alarms and excursions. Not that this column is complaining over the lack of definite action. There appears to have been too much of that since August 2, 1939. Czecho slovakia, Poland, Finland, Nor way—one wonders where the blow falls next. The Dutch are reported main taining readiness to resist inva sion, but from this corner it looks like military folly, to say noth ing of the moral aspects, for the Nazis to extend their fronts any further. Hitler must maintain le gions to police the Czechs, Poles, and Norwegians, and the English would probably like nothing bet ter than to have a few more small nations fighting for the British Empire. Chamberlain and his cabinet came through with their political life but little else last night when he won a vote of confidence from the house of commons by a very slim majority. The vote was 281 to 200, and came after the labor ites and Lloyd George had de manded his resignation. A few weeks ago Chamberlain had boasted before Commons that Hitler had “missed the bus” in the Norwegian campaign, but, as a member of His Majesty’s loyal opposition remarked in the course of the two-day debate: “Hitler took a taxi instead of waiting for a bus and the man with the imbrella was left at the stop sign.” That doesn’t sound much like parliamentary debate talk so maybe we made it up, but it sounds familiar so we must have read it somewhere. The Columbia Empire indus tries prosperity quiz closes May 35, and all entries must be turned in to the Emerald before midnight of that date. District judges will announce the district winners in Ibis paper on May 22 and all dis Bob Brooke Wins Geological Award Bob Brooke, geology major, was selected by the geology and geography faculty, as the stu dent who had accomplished the most in the geological field dur ing the past year. He was award ed a recently published book on minerals at the Condon club pic nic Monday evening. Dr. L. W. Staples, geology in structor, who made the presenta tion cited Brooke as being a per son who didn't work for grades or credits but merely because he found pleasure in the field. The award is an annual feature of the Condon club picnic. trict prize-winning entries will be forwarded to the grand prize con test at once. Campus Calendar Tonight will be the last time for Amphibian tryouts. They will be held at 7:30 in Gerlinger pool. 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