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| Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrom, Pat Erickson, Helen Angell, Harold Olney, Kent
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' Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using
J>f strength.—Beecher.
Hurry With The Guide
/"OREGON'S annual open house, or in more popular campus
language, the “Bunion Derby,’’ is over. Hundreds oli
tired Webfoots found their way to class Monday morning,
most of them complaining of fallen arches, sore toes, or
“near broken legs.”
“Bunion Derby” was a success for most Oregon students.
Fellows straggled into fraternities, co-ops, and dorms with
notebooks full of names, addresses and phone numbers—pros
pective dates for the coming weekend. They met to discuss
this or that “queen” met at the Gamma Gamma bouse, just
as the girls were sitting around fireplaces discussing them.
No matter how many names and phone numbers the average
person copied down, no matter how many “queens” lie met,
lie probably soon discovered that the list was not as complete
as lie would have liked. So he doubtlessly began searching for
something more complete.
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E'ACII year the “Bunion Derby” brings forth a volley of
calls to “hurry with the Digger’s Guide” and ASUO
officials begin seeking new ways to speed up the popular
directory.
This year Educational Activities Manager George Root and
his assistant George Lunina have devised a system in which
the work on the guide will be divided among a number of
students. This, the activities heads believe, will enable the
guide to be off the press from four to five weeks earlier than
any previous year.
Whether or not this new “division of labor” system will
work out as planned remains to be seen. If the educational
activities department does succeed in getting the book out
within the next few weeks they will have curned the praise
of the entire student body.
Is It Constitutional?
'T'lIK two words, “politics” jiml “dirty,” have come to be.
closely linked in the minds of most Americans. It is
indeed difficult to find anyone who, when discussing politics,
will not chorus, “What is so rare as an honest politician?”
Itccogni/.ing this fact and deciding, as have many others
before him, to do something about it, Senator Curl A. ilutch,
Democrat from New Mexico, introduced a bill into the senate
a few months ago which has become popularly known as the
Hatch Pure Polities Act.
The purpose of the hill, as staled in an article entitled,
“Can We Afford Martyrs?”, in tin* September issue of Survey
Graphic, is to curtail “the political activity of federal em
ployees, and of state and local workers employed ‘in connec
tion with any activity which is financed In whole or in part
by loans or grants made by the United States.’ ” The bill
goes on to specifically exempt federal officials who hold
elective offices, and state executives who are directly con
cerned with the formation of public policy or arc elected, and
city mayors. The reason for such exemptions are, it would
seem, rather obvious.
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rJ~\lIK bill i’urtlief stall's that two political privileges are not
to be infringed upon—tin* right to vole, and I lie right
to discuss polities.
Apparently this would indicate that federal employees are
]irohihited from attending political meetings or actively
participating in political meetings or speaking before political
meetings.
Tbs would seem to be a curtailment of the right of free
speech and the right to peaceably assemble. Admirable and
desirable as the end may be it docs not .justify disregard of
* constitutional privileges.
Furthermore, Air. Hatch in a report to the senate on the
* bill said, in regard to section 1.»: “This section authorizes
and directs the civil service commission to promulgate rules
or regulations defining, for the purpose of this act, the lerm
‘active part in political management or in political cum
I puigus.’ After the promulgation of such rules or regulations,
* they will be controlling as to the meaning id' such term when
it is used in this act with respect to federal employees as
; well as when it is used with respect to state and local em
ployees. The commission is authorised to amend such rules
or regulations from time to time as it deems necessary.”
* * *
I MAV "P J)0’U< out tllis "OUld appear to he delegating
legislative powers to the commission. On this point, the
; constitution serais quite clear. In fact it would seem that not
* even a lawyer could question the interpretation of article
* one, section one of the Constitution, which savs, “All legis
lative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Coreness
of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and
House of Representatives.’*
Acs, that would not seem to allow for more than about one
interpretation. Maybe the Hatch act is okay but we believe
; that it v culgl talc a crackin' good to prove its eou
tututroujility.—H.O.
Epicurean Coeds?
JjVXTRA food and cigarettes cost University
of Oregon coeds $34,500 a year, accord
ing to a 1940 department of economic survey,
and calculators are counting on an ciglit per
cent buying increase during the coming
season.
At the above mentioned spending rate, the
girls here are yearly consuming 230,000 assort
ed hamburgers, say, and fiftecn-cent packages
of cigarettes.
Break it down even further. Suppose there
are 1500 women; each of that number can
individually purchase 115 hamburgers or
packages of cigarette annually.
Let us say that one woman doesn’t like
hamburgers. She uses her 115 quota entirely
on cigarettes; during the course of the year
at that rate she can tuch a match to 2300 of
them, or about 191.7 yards of cigarettes.
On the other hand, picture 115 hamburgers
laid end to end. They would stretch at least
57'/ feet, not counting the space taken up
by the pickles, olives, and potato chips that
generally embellish the delicacy.
According to the same survey, Oregon men
spend 92,000 for “cigarettes, extra food, etc.”
The “etc.” may cover the item of feeding
the girl friend after a date. Consider the extra
hamburgers and cigarettes that a girl can
consume this way, and still leave her quota
intact.
Maybe this survey doesn’t prove that Ore
gon coeds are epicureans. The same statistics
show that they spend $44,000 for textbooks
and supplies.—P.E.
International Side Show
By IMDGLEY CUMMINGS
G,.rman troops marched into
Rumania, Nazi planes bombed
London, British planes bombed
Berlin, and Newshawk Herbert
Mathews was ordered expelled
from Italy, but the biggest
since our daily dithyramb last
appeared in the Emerald is the
calling out of 27,000 U. S. naval
reserves over the weekend.
Here’s the build-up that led to
that step. Friday a fellow named
Larry Smith got an exclusive
interview with Yosuke Matsu
oka, University of Oregon grad
uate who is now foreign min
ister for Japan. Matsuoka
warned that his country would
declare war if the U. S. entered
the European conflict or per
sists in trying to limit Japanese
expansion in the Orient.
Smith works for International
News Service and all the papers
that buy that service bannered
the story, saying “Japan Theat
ens War on U. S.’’, or similar
headlines. Papers subscribing to
the more conservative United
Press and Associated Press ser
vices couldn’t touch the story,
of course. It was a scoop.
Knox Speaks
So when Secretary of the
Navy Frank Knox made a
speech the next day before some
graduating policemen who had
just finished training in combat
ing espionage, it was big news.
Knox departed from his pre
pared speech to call the axis
powers “international brigands"
and said that our country is ap
proaching an “hour of test"
with the totalitarian powers.
“God knows whether that
test will be on the field of battle
or will be a test of wills, ’ he
said.
Well, that was hot stuff.
Knox holds an official position
here only slightly inferior to
Matsuoka’s in Japan, so prob
ably his words created as much
disturbance for the Nipponese
as the Oregon grad’s did for us.
That same night, Saturday,
the naval reserves were called
out.
Tub Thumper?
Looks bad. Are they getting
ready to ask us to do or die
for dear old Sumatra? Or are
we supposed to be ready to
fight for French Indo-China,
which is already controlled by
the axis through Vichy cum
Berlin? Knox has always been
a tub-thumper and this writer
can’t figure what got into
Roosevelt to appoint him to
such a responsible position.
Incidentally Mathews, the
New York Times’ Rome cor
respondent, has been given ten
days to get out of Italy because
he wrote last week that the
axis “is out to defeat President
Roosevelt.’’ Official Italian
sources deny Mathews’ charges
and claim they are indifferent
to the results on November 5.
We don't know who is right, but
it is an example of freedom of
the press under fascism.
About Germany marching
into Rumania, they claim it is
to train the Rumanian army and
protect the oil fields from the
British, but we wonder what
Russia will think of it. The
Soviets, you know, just recently
grabbed a slice of Rumania for
themselves.
Peace. It's wonderful.
Beside the Point
Some people don't believe in putting their best foot forward. They
save it to kick their victim in the slats when they get him down.
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Oregon's "Bunion Derby" certainly is correctly named. It's prob
ably the only relay marathon in the country.
He's one of those fellows who goes through life on the yellow
light.
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As funny us your own joke.
"College is wonderful because it takes the children away from
home just as they reach the arguing stage."—Will Rogers.
* * *
“They say children in kindergarten must play in order to get
them to learn. What do you mean, children? Crossword puzzles
learned grown folks more words than school teachers. And what
arithmetic the women-folks know they got at a bridge table. Our
splendid English comes from attending the movies. My geography
comes from an airplane window. Yes sir, there is 120 million in the
American kindergarten."—Will Rogers.
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Glance
By CORINE LAMON
Exchange Editor
Men Speak Up
Men on the staff of the UCLA
Bruin, deciding that the male
contingent does not get enough
publicity on the Westwood cam
pus, have started a men’s page.
Editors of the innovation de
clared the following code will
rule the f>a,ge:
1. A college man is trustable
and inerrant unless of course
there is money involved.
2. A college man is loyal. He
is loyal to his fraternity. No
doubt.
3. A college man is helpful.
He must be prepared to offer
help whenever the pay is small
or large. Just so there is pay.
4. A college man is kind. He
is a friend to animals and coeds.
He will not kill or injure any
living creature willingly, but
will strive to save and protect
all harmless life.
That’s what we like to see!
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A Neighborly Place
This orientation
Is the birth of a nation
Of many uncultured brats.
1
They arrived with elation
And thought the creation
Was 'specially created for brats.
And then, in a slump,
They hit earth with a bump,
And found that this dump
Wasn’t home.
Now they all haunt the halls
Making telephone calls
Result is: All loose in the dome.
—Alabamian.
Advice to Chilluns—
A columnist on the University
Daily sagely advises these few
"don'ts” for freshmen: Don't
Cuss.
Cut classes.
Jitterbug.
He also advises them to abide
by the following pointers:
Avoid collcgiatism.
Study.
Get some sleep.
Attend lectures.
SflVO vrnil* ahnnlrnlc
ONCEOVER LIGHTLY
By PAT TAYLOR AND SALLY MITCHELL
We think it i8 right nice of
the llbe officials to have all the
chairs in the main reserve room
turned so’s they face the door.
Now you don’t have to turn
your head to see who’s coming
in, and so this way your study
ing doesna interfere with your
work.
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Side Seen: Jim Green, hans'm
Phi Delt transfer from OAC and
Nancy Stratton, Thetah-ah! The
likeliest looking OAC lad we’ve
seen in quite a spell is Dick
Draper . . . Janet Goresky, Al
pha Phi, and Don Turner are be
ing seen together again for the
first time since their Freshman
year (isn’t this where we came
in ?) . . . And we might as well
get all of our Beta-Alpha Phi
business taken care of at this
meeting, so we’ll mention that
when Bill Loud calls that same
house and asks to speak to the
“best-looking gal in the house,”
he means Marge McClain. . . .
Bob Broderick, one of our fav’
rite Taus, has been squiring
Betty McKall, Chi O, about abit.
. . , Hen Hall’s finest find is
Dorothy Fine, who gets rozez
from some Portland lad. . . .
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Ond now we’ll tend to our tips
in the Pi Phi house, and say
that there are two rematches
up that way, which help to re
store our illusions in troolove
. . . these are: elegant Ellie Col
lier, with Fred Ehlers’ Sigma
Nu pin once more, and Jean
Pauling, with Bed McNeely’s
Beta pin agin. . . . While Phyllis
Dube, da babe wid da bangs,
has Lou Torgeson’s Beta pin,
and in dis case fuh da foist
toime.
Today’s Bad Time Story: Pat
Keller, Phi Psi rally chairman,
got a letter from the rally
chairman at Washington, mak
ing arrangements for next
week’s game, and at the end
there was a PS that ran some
tiling like this: “And, Pat, I
understand you are 5’7” and
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have brown curly hair and blue
eyes. How about a date after
the game?”
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Hearsay: that Len Surles
planted his Sigma Chi pin on
Sigma Kappa Betty McNiece,
and that the brothers wouldna
let him have one leedle dance
with her at open house, they
rushed her so much. . . . Jim
Davidson, Chi Psi, is champ
when it comes to blowin' smoke
rings; wherever he is, you can
see O—O—O rising above. . . .
The newest thing in men’s jack
ets is Marilyn Ashley, Alpha
Chi. . . . Ever drive with Pearl
Buckler? . . . Don’t. . . . Oh, for
hair like Kappa Mary Word’s
... as the Phi Delts would put
it; Hallelujah! . . . Theta Chi
Duke Carterman, Yum! . . .
Connie Waldridge, Alpha Phi,
are we back there ugain? Owell,
and ennyhoo, she no longer has
Bill Kegner’s Beta pin. . . . ATO
Jimmy Pickett seems to be giv
ing Phi Delt Walker Treece a
run for his honey . . . darn nice
of the Sigma Nu’s to give the
dorms a big old break at open
house . . . there must have been
all six of them that got around
to going there . . .
Deadline's at six o’clock . . .
it’s six.
Oriental Collection
Given to Library
A reference collection of 3,500
volumes dealing with the history,
literature, life, and particularly the
art of Oriental countries, is housed
on the first floor of the Museum of
Art building.
The collection was presented to
the University and is managed by
Mrs. Gertrude Bass Warner.
Professor Don J. Kays of Ohio
State university has worn the same
pair of bowling shoes for 27 years.
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