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Dregon® Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Subscription rates: $1.25 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. __ Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., College publishers’ representative, 420 M.adison Avc., New York—Chicago-Boston — Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. __ LYLE M. NELSON’. Editor JAMES VV. FROST, Business Manager Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrom, Pat Erickson. Helen Angel!, Harold Olncy, Kent Stitzer, Jimmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, advisor. Jimmie Leonard, Managing Editor Kent Stitzer, News Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Fob Rogers, National Advertising Manager UPPER NEWS STAFF 1'at Erickson, women s Editor Ted Kenyon, Photo Editor Hob Flavelle, Co-Sports Editor Ken Christianson, Co-Sports Editor wcs .''innvan, ass i acws Editor Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t News Editor Kay Schrick, Ass’t Managing Editor lom >viigni, i lMdimKnis Editor Corrine Wigncs, Executive Secretary Johnnie Kahananni, feature Editor “I wholly disapprove of what you say but will defend to the death of your right to say it.”—Voltaire. This week is National Newspaper week. A Message for Democracy A few years ago the name Bones was unknown to the aver age American. Today it would probably be difficult to find an American who would not instantly link the name with Munich and sympathetically shake his head. For it is hardly to be questioned that Americans as a class were stunned, amazed, and hurt at the fall of Czechoslovakia. And it is also hardly to be questioned that most Americans firmly believe that the Czech nation will rise again to become one more one of the most liberal, progressive, and democratic of all European nations. University students, as a class, were probably more pro foundly impressed by this unprecedented international de velopment than the average American. Certainly they were no less sympathetic. * # # 'jpiIUS it is that when Vojta Bones, brother of President Eduard Benes, steps to the speaker’s platform tonight lie .will undoubtedly have, as be has had all over the nation, an audience which is deeply sympathetic. Not that Benes is likely to hold a post mortem over the Czechoslovakian nation. At least there is no indication of any such intention from the subject of his speech as announced in the press releases. Rather, he is more likely to trace the developments leading to Munich and show why the trend of events swung as they did. Benes is probably as well qualified to trace and interpret this trend as any contemporary European statesman. Besides being well educated, and in intimate contact with the head of the Czechoslovakian nation, lie was a government official himself and is therefore, a statesman on his own right.—11.0. Uncertainty Fails to Stop Ducks CULMINATION of the first week of the 1940 fall term at the University shows a lot of conflicting figures and sta tistics . . . and not a few surprises as far as the increases and decreases in the influx of college-minded souls is concerned. Rush week chieftains reveal that about 20 less boys took part in rushing activities than last year, with the number of girls interested in pledging slipping down even more. This marked reduction in housing at (ireek organizations led to a congested condition in the dormitories. Even now personnel deans are attempting to find suitable living quar ters for the overflow from dormitories. Sixty-five wen; on the waiting list for women’s halls when they arrived last Wednesday, although boarding houses have now been com mandeered to help with the excess students. With predictions coming thick and fast as to the probable turn of total enrollment, registration heads announced last night the greatest enrollment in University history . . . well over the 11000 mark. Although this approximate 'l/i per cent increase is certainly nothing startling, nor does it even com pare with the larger leaps and bounds of enrollment in tlie past few years, it at least shows that Oregon is ''holding its own” in the face of adverse conditions. # * * rJ~\HE adverse conditions go without saying. Mainly they consist of the unsettled condition of the times, and of the future of the male cnrollecs. With registration for draft ing set only two weeks hence, the large number of students in the ‘‘over 21” bracket is surprising. Many school all over the country have noted at least small drops in their student bodies. - It is only a matter of speculation as to why there is less interest in (Ireek membership than before on a campus known to be fraternity-minded. One might suppose that the younger generation is gradually turning from the more frivolous aspects of getting an education. Or he might dsieover that economic conditions in a war-frightened country are lighten ing up and the cash outlays that accompany a (Ireek member ship arc becoming impossible for the average collegian. It might be, too, that many farsighted students are feeling their way ahead by waiting for actual conscription to take place in order to discover the permanency of their place here at school. Any way you regard it, the whole week was a series of upsets that, put a definite crook in the normality graph of educational trends on the coast.—11.A. Beside the Point The way some fraternities go about it wc suggest that the name “rushing" be changed to “rustling." That bulge in the average student's poeketbook isn't money—it's receipts which he's carrying around to prove he's a student. • * * * We nominate for the “forgotten man" the fraternity pledge—the rushec of last week. * » » In these days when practically everything on the radio is a news broadcast wc suggest a new game called “Dodging the News Broad casters.” * <t * Someone ought to put a muffler on- the v at tie geatmg' plant. Its one o clock blasts area t appreciated around thi campus. You Can t Beat the Band A short time ago, a neglected stepchild of modern music, today, a star—that's the latest chapter in the history of the band—so reads a recent article in Popular Mechanics. The University football band has long been the most un heralded, most taken for granted, yet in many ways the most important, part of the University pep raising department. The band members have “tooted their own horns” for the benefit of the University, but seldom for themselves. The band, like any other extra-curricular activity, requires a great deal of work, work for which credit is not given and which sometimes receives little in the way of praise. Hours of practice, with no audience to applaud, and hours of march ing through city streets arc familiar things to some sixty members of the Lemon and Green liorn tooters association. # # * JT is almost impossible to picture a football game without a band. Somehow it is an intrinsic part. The sound of a band playing some famous march seldom fails to bring a show of excitement from the crowd. The U. of 0. band and the students who have made it pos sible deserve a great deal of credit. Students have consistently turned out year after year. If they were lucky maybe they saw their picture in some newspaper or on the pages of the Oregana, otherwise they received little recognition. It takes more than an attractive uniform, a free trip to some Portland game, or an admission to an athletic event to maintain that kind of an organization. Director John Stehn deserves a great deal of the credit for the showing of the band. lie lias built an organization, with little to start with, of which the University and the music school can be proud. You can’t beat that kind of a band. Chicago Action Launches NewDebate on Football By the Associated Collegiate Press Echoing anew at scores of colleges as the 1940 football season gets under way is the white-hot pro and con argument about foot ball: Is the University of Chicago on the right track in sharply de-emphasizing the sport, or should football as a big business be given even further impetus? Scores of college editors have spoken out on the subject last term and this. Many are convinced Chicago’s President Robert M. Hutch ins has courageously struck out against a national evil. Many, but not all. At the University of Illinois, the Daily Illini expressed opinion that "When President Hutchins told the world that subsidization of athletes was a prerequisite to gridiron glory, he crawled far out on a limb. The Illinois boys still win football games in the toughest league in the nation, and they seem to do it without the aid of the subsidies which President Hutchins implied they received." The Purdue Exponent, while “admitting some faults and com mercialization in football,” declared it has "no desire that Purdue should ever ‘follow’ Chicago. Football contributes a certain ‘some thing’ to college life which we would not want thrown into discard." Likewise, it is the opinion of the Washngton and Jefferson Red and Black, that "collegiate football is of definite benefit to colleges, to students, and to numerous other ntercsts alike. If, as Dr. Hutchins alleges, football is a major handicap to education, the Red and Black feels that the American system of higher learning needs more such handicaps.” Contrasted with these opinions arc those of several college pub lcations that believe steps must be taken to curb commercialization. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Tech declares “the situa tion is so flagrantly non-amateur in both spirit and practice that the only logical thing o do is to abandon amateur intercollegiate football and declare it frankly as the professional occupation it is.” The Richmond Collegian poses for its readers the question, "Can we take the' spotlight from football and put it on scholarship, where it belongs? Chicago had the courage.” The Rice Thresher agrees that "in subsidization we arc defeating the whole purpose for the existence of football on our campus, a game of recreation for the students.” The Michigan Daily feels "it is just as well that Chicago saw fit to retire.” And at Chicago, the Daily Maroon itself expresses satisfaction with the Hutchins arrangement, saying, "Its educational function is the essential reason for a university’s existence. It is true that not having football any more will make autumn duller for a few people. But even those few were not able to become very enthusiastic about the games.” The Emerald is assisting this week in commemorating National Newspaper week. A series of pictures, articles, etc. is planned. Thursday a special section will be devoted to the U. of O. daily. A special display also has been arranged for the Co-op store. —Barker’s— 7G0 Willamette St., is the Bargain House for Musical Instruments For many years Barker lias served the public well, giving pood values aud pleasing the people, so w hy .not let me please yon iu some of these bargains. Uuitarx at $d.!>0. $4.90. $5.90, $(>.90. $12.50, $12.75, $10.00, $ 15.00, $20.00, and $25.00, and some still liner. Also Violins at $2.50, $5.50, $7.50, $10.00. $15.00. $17.50, $25.00, $00.00 and on up. Lots of these goods are left with me for sale. The owners want their money and that is why the prices are so lowr. 1 sell strings aud supplies for all musical instruments. Also do general repairing on musical instruments. See our fine trumpets and clarinets. Thev will please you. KBMLMBEK THE 1* L ACE — — M. S. Barker — 760 [Willamette Eugene, Ore. International Side Show By RIDGLEY CUMMINGS Time magazine, your colum nist, and numerous other "in fluential” writers have been calling it a world war since last year, but with the new German Italian-Japanese alliance signed, last week it becomes practically unanimous. By this action 250,000,000 people are allied against the British empire and any potential allies of the British. That in cludes the U. S., that word po tential. Already the William Al len White committee to get us into war is agitating for the transfer of part of the U. S. air force to Britain . . . not satisfied with the destroyer deal which was awfully close to a bellig erent step. Munich Anniversary Monday.was the second an niversary of the Munich pact, a date considered by many as the beginning of the end for Great Britain. In spite of the unpopularity of the word "appeasement,” we remember an explanation of the Munich pact by William Henry Chamberlain, American news paper man, which sounded very sensible to us. Author Chamberlain Chamberlain, in his recent book, "Autobiography of an In dividualist,” described his feel ing of relief on Sept. 30, 1938 when Czechoslovakia was given to the wolves and saw in it a move to turn Hitler eastward. He figured England was counting on an eventual collis ion between Adolf and Joe Stal in, between communism and fascism, and that was okay by him. England’s big mistake, ac cordig to W. H. Chamberlain, was when they guaranteed Po land’s territorial integrity. How the devil, he argues, is Germany going to get ahold of Russia’s throat if they can’t go through Poland ? Important Step Ignoring for a moment the moral aspects of the thing (dic tators don’t seem to worry very much about the right or wrong of their actions) C.’s analysis sounds reasonable. For England to go to war over Poland is a good bit like the United States going to war over French Indo china. Not at all impossible, but not very good sense from the point of view of saving either Poland or Indo-China. A couple years ago Pierre Van Passen writing in "Days of Our Years,” came to the same conclusion as C. He indicated that the only way British capi talism could survive was to pit Russian communism against German fascism, although his general tenor as we remember it was that British capitalism wasn’t worthy of surviving. Anyway Churchill made a speech Monday in which he promised to remedy the error of Munich by restoring Czechoslo vakia when and if England win.s the war. You can't turn back the hands of the clock. Peace. It’s wonderful! Lecture note*, lab reports, term papers . . . all suc cumb to your eloquent Parker point. Greater ink mileage, one-hand filling, smooth styling. Many models GUARANTEE D for LIFE. Pay for them the easiest nay imagin able— 50c a week. 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Berkeley police finally stopped the tomato barrage. * * $ Frantic Frosh Query— "We aren’t allowed to skip meals, are we?" To a senior: "Are you homesick too?” “Are the lectures important?” Boomtown on Campus— Four oil wells on the campus of Louisiana State university have brought the school about $4500 per month for the past few years. The field has now reached its height of productivity, and fur ther drilling will prove futile, offi cials revealed. — Daily Reveille I111*.. 1 1 Dreedn^ Emerald Tuesday Advertising Staff Fred Welty, Day Mgr. Jeanne Routt Jim Thayer Bob Nagel. National Advertising Staff Bob McClellan Gordon Childs Night Staff: Lois Hulser Mary Ann Campbell Betsy Hanchett Tom Wright Johnnie Kahananui Jeanette Eddy Art Sprick Copy Desk Staff Tommy Wright, City Editor Betty Jane Biggs Ida Lesser Art Sprick Joanne Nichols Ray Schrick Jeanette Eddy Mildred Wilson Elsie Brownell Hunter Van Sicklen Ep Hoyt Mimi O’Donnell Frances Oliver Corrine Lamon Barbara Lamb Lcland Flatberg THE GHOST AND I By J. SPOOK It is not generally considered dead to become unduly excited. Emotions are out! But thi* morning (while eating a dino saur's egg poached in Tweed) this column’s namesake whirled into my ayem sanctuary screaming like a tobacco auc tioneer gargling kerosene. "Spook,” he broke out, “I have gained a niche in the hall of blame.” "Yeh,” I retorted sinking my three-pronged fork in the two minute egg, "What’s the lat est?” "A house — I haunted a house,” G. continued. "Really, Spook, you have no idea what high-class skeletons can be found in the Tri-Delt house.” By this time Your Friend and Our Friend was frantic with ex citement. He quickly sobered when I threatened to cut his salary and told me his latest achievement in haunting houses. First off, Mr. G. reports that the SAE pin that Delta Delta Delta B. J. DeArmond is wear ing bears the name of a first love. The engraving on the back side might easily be the source of no little embarrass ment. The unseen little man also points with glee to this one . . . the No. 1 house on the Tri-Delt leper list is the Phi Psi Frat, as Columnist Bill Fendall, ex-Ore gon Stater, might say . . . rea son: one of the Psi’s diamond mounted nuggets failed to show for Tri Pledge Stephanie Peter son on the night of the pledge ball. 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