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Oregon It 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 postofifice, Eugene, Oregon. Represented for national advertising bv NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., College publishers’ representative, 420 M.adison Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston —Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. LYLE M. NELSON, Editor JAMES W. I'ROST, Business Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Hal Olncy, Helen Angell Editorial Board: Roy Vcrnstrom, Pat Erickson. Helen Angell, Harold Olncy, Kent Stitzcr, Jimmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, advisor. Jimmie Leonard, Managing Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Kent Stitzcr, News Editor Bob Rogers, National Advertising Manager UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Alvera Macder, Classified Advertising Man- Bill Wallan, Circulation Manager a,,cr Emerson Page, Promotion Director Roll Alpaugh, Layout Production Manager Janet Farnham, Office Manager Pat Erickson, Women’s Editor Ted Kenyon, Photo Editor Boh Flavelle, Co-Sports Editor Ken Christianson, Co-Sports Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Wes Sullivan, Ass’t News Editor Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t News Editor Ray Schrick, Ass’t Managing Editor Tom Wright, Ass't Managing Corrine Wigncs, Executive Secretary Johnnie Kahananni, feature Editor The great hope of society is in individual character.— Channing. No WPA Here C1X members of tlie ASUO executive committee rolled up ^ their sleeves yesterday and dug into a stack of new and unfinished business—a stack which seemed without end. The result after a two-hour session may bo the largest amount of legislation ever passed by an ASUO executive committee. AVitli only a few minutes out to eat and to have pictures taken the committee wont from one item to another with methodical precision. Each member of the committee had some piece of business which he presented. A glance at the list of business transacted by the commit tee, which appeals on the front page of tliis morning's Em erald, should reveal the vast field covered by the legislation. Some of its rules and regulations will probably have a far reaching effect on ASUO affairs, some may be only an idle dream on the part of the committee, and some may die because of lack of enforcement. A great, many minor items were brought up, discussed, aiul dropped. Most of these did not appear in the minutes of the meeting. They did, however, consume a great deal of time. For years some students have criticized the executive com mittee for failure to do anything, have accused the committee of being everything from a “political machine” to “yes men for the faculty.” If these accusations characterize the ASITO executive family—and we think 1hoy don’t—this new off spring is well on its way towards being the black sheep. The Face—Your Misfortune? 'T'HOSK who profess ancestry with the impressive 100,000 who shipped westward on the midget May!lower, may well praise their English cousins who chirp “it s ‘bomb marche’ in Oxford street lids week,” and pass off demolished quarters with “lots of our buildings were dirty anyway.” As Time magazine intimates their amusement increases with their amazement, although we hasten to add this paragraph is not. meant to promote pro-British sentiment. Rather it is a testi monial for the value of a smile. Many a sense of humor is being put. to test these days with crazy conflicts of a political and military nature holding the individual’s attention. Such is disturbing to complacency con ditioned during lush hey-days when youth could plan more than three months in advance. Without resorting to such Pollyana-like platitudes as 111 e man who can smile is the man worth while,” one can slid chirp about holding his own pleasant demeanor in a world gone cock-eyed with conscription and iniiue-ealling. Without resorting to ribaldry, one can provoke laughter as a healthy habit even though it bo at his own expense. If he is to con sider “the shape of things to come” wholly from the threaten ing status of dictators and doctrines, he will soon lose faith, ambition, and worst of all his ability to smile. * # # f^Bl’LOliABLE arc the increasingly morbid tones of “eouiie strips”—a misnomer title—the great number of mid-day radio dramas with unhappy endings, the popularity of slick paper horror-story magazines. If publicists and broadcasting moguls can’t encourage laughter, then maybe the simple citizen must. Even a cheery “hello” thrown at a strange student, a turn of the mouth-lines heavenward instead of contrary-wise are improvements. The punster may return from his ignoble ranking of moron pul there by fiat of envious friends. Above all, the face should play a more im portant, role than that of background for splotches of paint or as splash-boards when soup is inhaled to the tune of a tcrsc-voiced news commentator. So, Smile, Darn You, Smile! —B.N.V. A Challenge To The Frosh rJ''llL as yet unorganized freshman class lias received its first box on the ears. They have been told that there’ll be no frosh bonfire the night before Homecoming. Reasons, it is said, are: that it would detract from the frosh-rook game Friday night, and that past fires have, year by year, been growing feebler. 'Well, that blaac last year was pretty hot. It's been fun to yell oneself hoarse during the noise parade, inarch out to the wide open spaces on Nineteenth, and watch Oregon spirit send invaders’ hopes skyward in the flumes. There are those who lament the so-called extinct NYcbfoot enthusiasm. No one ever heard such a remark on Homecom ing eve. Maybe an ‘'authority” or two had reasons for clamping down on the first-year-men s fire. Rut we believe that they should have reckoned with the freshman class. It's a big class this year—larger than in several years The no-boufire decree is a direct challenge to the frosh. Let s see them accept it, uiay they urn.—J.L. A Battle Without a Battle Cry 'JpiIE word “fight song” has come to be almost a standing joke on the Oregon campus this week. For after a year of struggle to obtain words and music for a suitable Webfoot battle hymn—someone misplaced the musical score for one of the two selected .just in time for the first, 1040 rally! It would appear that the same plight which befell “Mighty Oregon” in its infancy—copyrighting by another concern before University activities heads could get around to doing the job—might be in store for one of the new Webfoot tunes unless it is found soon. Even today, “Mighty Oregon” is still restricted in its use on the air. The struggle for a new fight song for Oregon has been a long one. Back in 1939, the Emerald instituted one of its periodical campaigns, without which a newspaper is lacking in spirit. Object of the campus “rouser” program was to have a committee appointed to secure a new fight song for the University, to back up the much-used “Mighty Oregon.” # * * JOHN Dick, ASUO president at the time, pulled a polished “coup d’etat” on the Emerald staff and threw the whole problem back into their laps, by appointing a committee made up only of Emerald workers. They were delegated to present a new fight song. Not a little surprised by the “table-turning,” the journal istically-inclined committee went to ,work. Before spring term was over, two of the best songs turned in to the committee were given to John Stchn, director of the University band, for practice purposes. A rally assembly served as the setting for their presentation to the student body . . . and since Oregon couldn’t choose between them, both Webfoot chants were officially adopted. One had been written by a Cali fornia alumnus, one by a student. Last week, when the two songs were to be sung at the rally before the Stanford game, the student-composed tune was nowhere to be found. Someone lamely suggested it was at a publisher’s, but this report is so far unsubstantiated. The fact is, there just isn’t a fight song. For the Emerald born committee, it is a little like building castles in the sand. Ere they’re flushed, the tide washes them away . . . and someone must begin building again.—11.A. so be it.. by bill fendall mmmmmmmmmmmmmw back clown the highway 40 miles or so is a BcavPrette who clips columnlar material from papers on the collegiate circuit for the Barometer gallies . . . her byline, Bettie Abraham, runs under the title of exchange editor . . . Betts really tied a can to so be its tail last Satur day in her With Other Editors clippings . . . for a columnist who does her colm in others’ quote marks, Betts old dear, well, you should consider this culm's inferior ability and let me rehash an old crack or two . . . so, shhhh , . . * * * Buck Buehwach, of the Keg iater-Guard Buchwaehs, slapped himself on the cheek with his typewritercal mutterings in the Guard last Saturday when he admitted (in a roundabout man ner) that the opposition was a bit smarter . . . write on Buckie, but don't forget to turn the oth er cheek . . . * # * striking while the irony is hot, so be it sums up open house as that crusade where a miss is as good as a male . . . some post-derby observations . . . why does one only meet freshmanesses at the Kappa Kappa Gamma open house . . . the Alfa t'his as usual showed the boys a good time , . . the Theta house reminded some of a wax museum the contents were beautiful but uncongenial . . . best music—DG . . . worst music, best floor- the HENs hall . . , largest gate Nu/.y’s place . . . the Awful Phis are nice girls but they are inclined to speak too much Beta lan guage and their own ... the deeps failed to pay for the last ad so they din't get a plug this time ... as a meet-me-quick function the derby served its purpose . . . along with this you could ask Chuck Putman what her name is . . . where were all the saddles the Emerald predict ed .. . the switch-button smiles at the ADP and the well-I’U-be a-sport attitude at the Chi O . . . overheard at the Alpha O house—“why, the law students are all sober’’ . . . the couple a-dancing with one another . . . the couple a-dancing against one another . . . that redhead who could stand some breath control .... ole Lyle Nels ' the lazy lout reads the colm an cuts it out the more J write the more I’m inclined to think he has a dirty mind. . . . campus quips ... the lads and lassies in a library study room with a portable going doing the Oregon-Stanford game . . . Noel linker of the Pit, who southern accentuates his speech . . . “no wonder there is a lot of knowl edge in the colleges—the fresh men always bring a little in and the seniors never take any away,” Abbott Lawrence. Low ell, president emeritus of Har vard . . . over for a noon bib and tucker at the Kap Sig house where there is certainly lots of pepper in the goings on . . . the freshmanite chasing after a model airplane in front of the library and stumbling into the pool . . . Hen Scratches which really laid an egg on the sports page the other edition . . . aren’t the DirT-DELTS serving meals any longer their frosh are put ting noon lunches on a paying basis at the Anchorage . . . how does <J. Spook do it?—it’s his quadruplicate personality . . . this race of coeducation is get ting to be a neck and neck af fair .. . the ATO’s small red dog that wags everything from his ears on back . . . now that Steve Bodner is back Sal Mitchell won’t have to just look at that picture on her wall . . . Dick Hark, Dl’, who got his jew elry back from his Chi O on a A Neighborly Glance B> CORIMi LVMONi-KvcJiangd bditor Norman Thomas, four-time Socialist candidate for presi dent, expressed the view that the United States is rapidly moving toward Kacism when he addressed students on the cam pus of the University of Califor nia at Los Angeles recently. Thomas aired the beliefs that the present trend toward totali tarianism is due to "prevailing war hysteria, the curtailment of civil liberties, and peacetime conscription.” Scott hall, new student union at Northwestern university, was formally dedicated by President Emeritus Walter Dill Scott, who pronounced the budding to be a great step toward one of the ideals of education—toward the student as a socially adjusted personalty. » V « 'lluukc to tire student place-. meat bureau, 3So graduates of the class of '-10 at the Univer sity of Colorado have secured positions in industry and pro fessions since June. This num ber set a new high in percent age of students finding employ ment immediately after gradu ation. enrollment at the University of Kansas has decreased by 26$ students since last year, when an all-time record was set at registration. * * * Several stray skunks held a blitzkrieg on the Louisiana state university campus and caused an entire section of the infantry to evacuate temporar ily. The bombardment only last ed a few minutes but re dub: U titioc could not begin for sev eral hours. .aijJ The BAND BOX By BILL MOXLLV The Ground Running It in So that the great American public of the year 2000 will get a chance to hear authentic dance music of the 1930’s, a time cap sule of recorded music was bur ied a week ago last Wednesday (September 25) in Hollywood, California. The occasion was the dedication of the film colony’s new Million Dollar Palladium ballroom to be opened next month by Tommy Dorsey. The capsule contains works by Whiteman and Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman’s "Sing, Sing, Sing,” Tommy Dorsey's "Ma rie,” Artie Shaw's "Begin the Beguine," and other famous rec ords by Larry Clinton, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, and oth er popular bands. Recording Night A special bandstand has been constructed for Holman’s outfit at the Holland. Art is now thinking about having a “re cording night” every once or twice a month. The idea would be for the band to record a num ber with a picked-from-the-au dience singer as soloist. The band gets many requests from boys and girls who would like to sing with the Holman crew for a night or two. This is their chance, and they'll be presented with an honest-to goodness record of their own voice with a 12-piece orchestra as accompaniment. Bands Like Goodman Sextet Artie Shaw has formed a very nice six-man instrumental jazz combination from the ranks of his full orchestra. The roll call almost reads like Benny Good man’s former sextet. The Grammercy Five, as Ar tie calls his gang, lines up with Shaw on clarinet, Billy Butter field on trumpet, John Guar nieri at piano and harpischord, A1 Hendricken at guitar, Nick Fatool at drums, and Jud De Naut at bass. The group has al ready recorded a couple of Shaw originals, "Special Delivery Stomp” and "Summit Ridge Drive.” wedding announcement . . . back to the Spook—those dim lights he spoke of in a certain barn last week sure carries a lot of scandal power ... a slow leak is that person who, when you greet him with a “how are you," proceeds to tell you . . . so be it. . . . * * * . . . EUGENE is the typical university city—there is no place to go where one shouldn't. ...(???)... two AWFUL. GOONS exceeding the feed limit in a campus restaurant . . . life is what you mate it . . . iwho flang that) ... the WILLKIE for-president campaign picture on a bulletin board with lipstick imprints left by some willing coed over the pictured lips of WILLKIE . . . judging from a loud conversation overheard in a SIDE booth, those getting the slams weren't the ones playing bridge . . . BRAHMS’ FIFTH HUNGARIAN is a dance and not a EUROPEAN cavalry reg iment . . . the boys a-sitting on the benches in front of the CO-OP who have the comfort ing idea that the coeds a-pass ing by haven't the vaguest no tion what same boys arc talking about . . . and so on ... so be it. Next Time You Are Down Try a Rite Price Milkshake Made With Swift’s Ice Cream 10c or a Rite Price Ice Cream Soda With Whipped Cream for 10c AT OUR NEW STREAMLINE FOUNTAIN RITE PRICE DRUGS INC. Formerly teteveusou’s door to McDonald Theatre International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS Sudden as a typhoon sweep ing down over the leaden waters of the Yellow Sea has come an alarming increase of tension be tween the United States and Japan. True the barometer has been falling since 1931 when Great Britain left Secretary of Slate StimjSon out on a limb over Japan's Manchurian gobble. Noticeable sags came with the unofficial attempt to boycott Japanese silk, the Panay bomb ing, and more recently the U. S. embargo on scrap iron and avia tion gasoline. Japan’s lining up with the axis powers two weeks ago, which came “as no surprise to the U. S. state department,” was another memorable step; and last weekend occurred the exchange of threats between Matsuoka and Knox. Then yesterday England’s Churchill, in one of his periodic perorations, declared Great Bri tain’s intention of reopening the Burma road on October 17 to carry war supplies to China. In his speech, which had a lot of poetic merit (example : "Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; con stancy and valor our only shield!”) Churchill managed to get the U. S. navy all tangled up with the British and said in effect, “Me and the American fleet ain’t afraid of Japan.” Almost simultaneously came orders from the state depart ment to U. S. consulates in the orient to evacuate U. S. citizens as soon as possible. Within a few hours the Shanghai office of the American President lines, principal U. S. shipping com pany on the Orient run, reported all their reservations until the end of the year were booked out. At the same time the depart ment of agriculture announced the suspension of its wheat sub sidy program to all far eastern points except the Philippines, which looks like the beginning of drastic economic moves against Japan. The reaction of the Japanese 'press to the Burma road an nouncement was bitter. Domei, official Japanese news agency, blamed the British decision to give Chiang Kai-Shek's long suffering armies war materials on “Chinese - American man euvers.” There have been a lot of de velopments in the last few days, and none of them in congress. The state department operates in a curious way and it m.ght be a good idea to keep congress from adjourning this week, as Barkley says it will, so the rep resentatives of the people can keep a restraining eye on the state department's “career boys.” Banzai! Rally Parade (Continued from page one) in Portland early Friday in order to find Oregon sympathizer in the high schools who are willing to help swell the number of the “invaders” in the column. Mayor Joseph K. Carson of the metropolis has been asked to speak at the end of the serpentine trail where a short rally is planned. Also slated for appearances at that time are the presidents of the ASUO and ASUVV. Yell Leaders Slater, Bob Greer, and a newcomer, Earl Russell, will be pep agitators at the rally, Keller announces. Free Megs Contrary to previous announce ment, Saturday morning is the only time when Charles F. Berg's store will be handing out mega phones to Oregon rooters in Port land, as arranged for by the rally committee. Other plans for an “Oregon” weekend in Portland include a climaxing dance for University students at Jantzen beach Satur day night. Bob Mitchell and his 15 piece orchestra will be on hand to produce dance rhythms familiar on this campus. His band played for the Junior prom and for the Scab bard and Blade dance here last year. Dr. H. C. Byrd of the University of Maryland has announced plans for construction of a football sta dium to seat 25,000. FRANK MEDICO PIPES sold at your “CO-OP” STORE LET MEDICO BE YOUR NEXT PIPE The wisest dollar you ever spent With its 66 Baffle filter, | FRANK MEDICO | accomplishes what no | other pipe has ever 1 achieved. 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