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By RIDGELY CUMMINGS
New highs in slaughter and
destruction are impending as
what promises to be the great
est battle in man's unending
tale of squirming and crawling
over the earth’s surface like so
many restless maggots enters
its initial phase.
Advance guards of both sides
were in action last night on the
plains of Belgium, whose soil has
been fertilized' by much human
blood. The German news agency
DNB claimed nazi troops encir
cled Liege, strong Belgian for
tress 30 or 40 miles east of Brus
sels and not far from the famed
field of Waterloo.
Although France and England
were throwing large bodies of
motorized troops into Belgium to
halt the nazi invaders and pre
pare for the historic “battle of
the west,” the Allies were appar
ently not able to assist embattled
Holland very much.
Last night Holland was split in
two just south of Rotterdam by
a flying wedge of German motor
ized troops, the Dutch high com
mand in Amsterdam admitted.
This means that the industrial
heart of Holland is cut off from
Belgium and France to the south,
which was one of the chief aims
of the swift-striking nazi armies.
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Meanwhile close to home* just
across the border in Vancouver,
the war spirit is apparently ris
ing’. Sunday the First German
Baptist church of south Van
couver was the scene of two de
structive raids in which a win
dow' was smashed, the building
was broken into, and books and
papers were strewn about the
floor.
The pastor, Rev. A. S. Fen
ske, told a United Press report
er he hoped the attacks were
“boyish pranks.”
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The Dutch possessions in the
Caribbean and the Pacific pose
interesting problems. Several
days ago France landed marines
in the Dutch West Indies. Last
night more Allied soldiers were
reported in the harbor of Aruba,
preparing to land. *
This looks likfc a violation of
Roosevelt’s “hemisphere defehse”
doctrine, but if the state depart
ment has protested we haven’t
heard anything about it.
In the East Indies it looks like
Japan is as worried as Secretary
Hull that Germany may move in.
We’ve been reading Margaret
Mead’s book “Growing Up in New
Guinea” and wonder how the
poor Manus with their “dog
teeth” economy are taking all the
excitement.
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Queen Wilhelmina arrived in
Ixmdon yesterday, a refugee,
and it looks like the Dutch gov
ernment will be temporarily set
up in the British capital. That
leads one to wonder whatever
has happened to Kaiser Bill,
who has vegetated in Holland
these many years.
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Emma Goldman, 70-year-old
world famous anarchist, died of
a paralytic stroke in Toronto,
Canada last night. She was never
an anarchist in the popular
sense, judging from the autobiog
raphy she wrote a few years ago,
in which she seemed to be very
much of an idealist. If she had
been an anarchist in that sense
though, there would have been a
great deal of irony in her death
at a time when anarchy is riding
rampant.
Sweet Music, Glenn Miller, Art Holman Tops
On UO Campus, Band Box Survey Discovers
By BILL MOXLEY
Poll Results!
University of Oregon students prefer SWEET music! Glenn Miller
reigns both as KING OF SWEET and KING OF SWING! Art Hol
man walks away with all-campus honors!
These and other pertinent facts on the popular music tastes of
the average Oregon student have been revealed by an all-campus
music poll which has been conducted during the last week. With the
help of a dozen interviewers a cross-section of campus opinion was
reached after several days of strenuous question-asking.
Ginny Simms, singer with Kay Kyser’s band, is queen of the
nation's gal warblers as far as Oregon is concerned. She received 20
per cent of all the votes polled for girl singers, defeating her nearest
rival, Ella Fitzgerald, by 7 per cent. Other chirps received votes in
the following order:
Ginny Simms .20%
Ella Fitzgerald.13
Mildred Bailey .12
Bea Wain .10
Frances Langford . 9
Bonnie Baker . 9
Martha Tilton .•.. 8
Maxine Sullivan . 6
In the swing band division Glenn Miller polled 40 per cent of all
the votes, and in the sweet band ranks he garnered 27 per cent; both
of these percentages being large enough to put him miles ahead of
his nearest competitor. One house on the campus went straight Miller
without a single deviation, Benny Goodman gained second place
among the swing bands, and Tommy Dorsey holds down number two
spot in the sweet division. Other results:
favorite owing liana
Glenn Miller......40%
Benny Goodman .18
Tommy Dorsey .12
Artie (the new) Shaw. 9
Jimmy Lunceford . 7
Count Basie . 4
Bob Crosby. 3
Jan Savitt . 3
favorite Sweet Band
Glenn Miller.27%
Tommy Dorsey .14
Kay Kyser .11
Glen Gray.11
Fred Waring- .11
Guy Lombardo.10
Wayne King-.10
Dick Jergens .10
contrary to all the noisy publicity about swing music it seems
that when the issue is brought to a vote Oregon students would rather
have their music SWEET. Fifty-six per cent of those polled cast their
vote on the gentle side while 34 per cent stated that they liked their
music in the form of solid jive. Ten per cent were undecided and voted
for both SWEET and SWING. An interesting sidelight was the fact
that upperclassmen as a whole preferred SWING, v^iile the more
naive freshmen and sophomores cast their lot with bands like Kay
Kyser and Glen Gray.
Jack Leonard, who at present happens to be out of a job, won the
second spot with the male vocalists. First and third places, respec
tively, were taken by Bing Crosby and Ray Eberle.
Male Vocalist
Bing Croby .34%
Jack Leonard .30
Ray Eberle . 9
Kenny Baker . 8
Carl Ravazza . 4
Eddie Howard . 3
Bon Bon. 2
Benny Goodman just managed to edge out Harry James in the
instrumental soloist division. Others placing high in this section were
Bunny Berigan, Eddie Duchin, Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Artie
Shaw, and Count Basie.
By far the best record ever heard was Bunny Berrigan’s “I Can’t
Get Started With You.” A strong secdnd place went to Benny Good
man’s “Sing Sing Sing.’; Other all-time favorites in the order of their
popularity were:
Paul Whiteman’s “Stardust”
Artie Shaw's, “Begin the Beguine”
Glenn Miller’s “Tuxedo Junction”
Glenn Miller’s “In the Mood”
Tommy Dorsey’s “Marie”
Somewhat of a surprise was the terrific margin of popularity
which Art Holman showed over all other campus bands. Holman’s
consistently good music has gained a horde of followers as evidenced
by his garnering of 74 per cent of all votes cast for local bands. The
remaining 26 per cent was distributed among four other campus
outfits with Maurie Binford and Bob Calkins taking second and
third places.
Without exception the poll met with enthusiastic response and
evidences of genuine interest in the quesions.
From Our
Neighbors
News From Other
College Campuses
By PAT ERICKSON
Hey Sullivan—you missed one!:
There’s one thing that bothers
me,
A thing that seems uncanny:
How can anyone hold her age
As well as Orphan Annie ?
—Indiana Statesman.
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Newd
from Dallas, Texas, the other day
said a Texas college boy tele
phoned and said he and three fel
low students would try to capture
Adolf Hitler if the Carnegie In
stitute would finance them.
The paper said the students
were not attracted by the million,
dollar reward that had been of
fered for the fuehrer, delivered
whole, but they were only ham
pered by “lack of finances.”
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Military Maneuvers
in the Pacific evoked this casual
comment in the University of Ha
waii's “Ka Leo O Hawaii”; “Dis
traction ... or relief? Airplanes
zooming low over the campus dur
ing lecture series.”
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Then there is the Hollywood
janitor whose salary includes
room and board and any little
extras he can pick up.
—Swiped.
if! # Hs
There’s nothing more annoying
than having to play second fiddle
to someone else’s beau!
—Silver and Gold.
Dieting is the triumph of mind
over matter.
—Alabamanian.
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Oh Heart, Oh Gee,
I do love he
But he you see has love for she
And she ain’t me
And me ain’t she
And that's why he
And me ain’t we.
—W. W. Collegian.
Teacher of Letters
Makes Novel Study
By ELLIE ENGDAHL
“They don’t do so many things
of this sort,” smiled Frank Gees
Black, assistant professor of Eng
lish, yesterday as he told of his
latest accomplishment, a mono
graph entitled “The Epistolary
Novel.”
This monograph is one of the
University of Oregon studies
standing by itself, and has been
published recently by the Univer
sity of Oregon publication com
mittee.
According to Webster, episto
lary means (1) pertaining or suit
able to letters, and (2) contained
in or carried on by letters. This
study covers the history of the
epistolary novel from the last 20
years of the 18th century.
From 1780 to 1800
It was in 1741 that Samuel
Richardson wrote the letters of
Pamela, starting a vogue which
grew and gradually became more
popular until it reached its peak
about 1790. Mr. Black’s study
covers the period from 1780 to
1800.
A bibliography at the end of
the book and burlesques on the
epistolary idea are said by Mr.
Black to be the most readable
parts, with the bibliography be
ing an unusual feature in local
literary circles.
‘Fortunate Association
“The study grew out of a for
tunate association with a notable
bibliographical project and access
to some of the richest collections
of 18th century prose fiction in
America,” wrote Mr. Black in
his preface to the study.
“My first and greatest debt,”
he continued, “is to the late Pro
fessor Chester Noyes Greenough.
. . . The idea of the study was a
result of my association with his
projected ‘Bibliography of Prose
Fiction from 1740 to 1832’ un
happily left incomplete at his
death, and it was his enthusiasm
that first brought to life for me
the shelves of old novels which
he was so largely instrumental in
obtaining for the Harvard college
library,” wrote Mr. Black in the
preface.
It contains a chronological list
and also an alphabetical list of
epistolary fiction from 1740 to
1840.
‘‘Novels in letter form are
largely a feminine product,” com
mented Mr. Black. “They are
something any facile letter writer
may try a hand at. The 18th cen
tury literature of this kind fore
shadowed modern novels,” he
circumstances at particular
of circumstances at particular
which are interesting in the way
times affect the writer in his nar
rative. There are a few really
good novels of the 18th century
that have survived a lot of
ephemeral stuff.”
In his conclusion of the study
Mr. Black wrote, “After the year
1800 a gradually decreasing num
ber of epistolary novels are re
corded. . . . Increasing interest in
history and romance and the im
proved narrative technique (espe
cially after 1830) . . . were re
sponsible for the loss of interest
in what for so long had been one
of the accepted methods in pre
senting a novel.”
Students From 25
States Now Taking
Extension Work
Students from 25 states, the
District of Columbia, Alaska, Ha
waii, and Canada were enrolled
in correspondence study with the
University extension division, Mr.
W. G. Beattie, assistant director,
revealed.
Representatives of 166 differ
ent occupations were registered,
making the etension branch of
the state system of education
larger in numbers than any cam
pus of the state.
“The Yanks Are Not Coming”
was the theme of Hunter college’s
peace strike.
Campus
Calendar
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Kvvama will meet this after
noon at 4:30 at the College Side.
Very important.
Communion for Episcopal stu
dents will be held Wednesday
morning at 7 o’clock in the men’s
lounge, Gerlinger.
Beta Gamma Sigma will meet
today at noon at the College Side.
There will he an important
meeting of Theta Sigma Phi at 7
o’clock tonight in the journalism
building.
There will be an important
meeting of Phi Chi Theta, busi
ness women’s honorary, at the
College Side at 12 noon today.
Camera Takes
Place of Paints
As War Comes
Rollin Boles and George Kot
chik, traveling last year in Eur
ope on the Ion Lewis fellowship
in art, started to make sketches
and water colors of points of in
terest in their trip.
When the war broke out, how
ever; they saw that they would
not have time to finish the job
they set out to do, and so instead
began phQtographing quickly ev
erything that they might other
wise have drawn.
The results of their labors—
some 110 pictures and sketches—
have just been put on exhibit in.
the little gallery room of the art
school.
Of 75 students at Sam Hou
ston State Teachers college,
Huntsville, Texas, who were
asked to name the school song,
only six knew, says The Houston
ian.