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“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to
dwell together in unity.’’—Psalm CXXXIII 1.
Let the Seniors Lead
'T'ONIGIIT Hie class card question will be put before Hie
seniors, it will be their turn to decide, what to do about
the growing demands for universal suffrage in class affairs.
It will be their opportunity 1o really do something for the
University and to attain the distinction of being the first
class in ASUO history to give the vote to all its members.
The proposal which will be put before the seniors tonight
will be to sell all-year cards for 25 cents. While any reduction
in the price most certainly is to be welcomed by the students,
the idea of requiring class cards to vote is still inconsistent
wth democratic education. The poll tax still is there.
The Emerald mantains that the requirement of class cards
to vote is detrimental to the class because it restricts class
membership to a chosen few, because it makes the vast major
ity who do not purchase cards feel as if they are not a part
of the class.
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pOR years University heads and student leaders have dis
cussed the causes of the seeming lack of spirit among the
classes. Although' the problem is complex, it is the opinion
of the Emerald that the restricted class membership fostered
by the class card system is the cause of a great deal of this
lack of spirit. The vast majority of students, and it is easy
to prove that they are the majority, feel that without a class
card, wihout the right to vote, they have no voice in class
affairs and therefore are not a part of the class. The first
step towards any kind of class loyalty, we believe, is to give
everyone the right to vote in the class and thus assure them
that they are a part of that class.
Junior and senior class meetings have been conspicuous for
the lack of attendance. Each year when junior weekend rolls
around, when it comes time for the senior ball, or when there
are other class functions, only about thirty members show
up at the meeting.
This lack of spirit is deplorable- is in fact detrimental both
to the class and to the University. Usually from class spirit
springs school spirit—-a tiling which no University can, or
should, do without.
r|nil'j alumni department yearly complains of Hie lack of
class spirit, ami often school spirit, after graduation. The
average student seems to forget, all about his class. Who can
blame him when really he was never a part?
The seniors have little to lose, much to gain, in adopting the
new A.SUO model constitution and in voting an amendment to
give every member of the class of '41 the right to vote, liven
political mongers must admit that. lileetions are over. There
will be little, quest for power. On the other hand the class
stands to benefit a great deal by having the full cooperation
of all its members, liven the little financial gain which might
be had from the sale of twenty-five cent cards can not offset
this advantage.
The seniors have one major function left the senior ball.
Last year the senior ball failed, failed in many ways. In the
first place it did not bring the class together as was planned.
(Secondly it showed, rather embarrassingly, the lack of inter
est in the class. Thirdly, it failed financially, due somewhat
to the above two reasons. The seniors of 40 lost more than
they gained from the sale of class cards.
LTHOUG11 the adoption of the new constitution, aimed
x to clean lip polities, and the extending of class member
ship to all seniors w ill not improve the virulent political setup
on the campus, it, nevertheless, will serve as an example to
other classes.
Last week the freshmen had their chance to improve condi
tions and to do something for the University .They refused to
think, voted as all good politicians had instructed them to,
Sind muffed the opportunity.
Tonight the seniors with over three years in the University,
with over three years to observe and think, will lunc the
same choice.
The Center of the Universe
'J'ilK world is round, they say, and pretty big. But the
center of the universe is here.
Last summer while we lived in I’odunk and there was a
war going on in Europe it was unreal to us because the
center of our universe was I’odunk. We were there and we
were the center of all thought, all feeling, all being. Our mind
in I’odunk reached out and mingled with other minds, our
mind could fall.. the universe from where we stood. We
lived quietly in l’oduuk suspended in quite the center of the
pool of life.
One life, when it is not ours, counts for little there in our
center of the universe. Human beings were slaughtered last
summer. But lives that ceased to exist were remote things to
us for they were part of the outer rim of the round world.
The center of the universe was I’oduuk.
In September the center of the universe changed. It moved,
when we come back to college, from Podunk to Eugene. Now
the University of Oregon is in the very middle of all life.
There is v ct a war going on in Europe, over there on the outer
edge of.the world. Every day lives are ceasing to exist and
cectef.a of the uni er.e are being wiped out. But the center
of our universe is here.—PE.
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JN today’s Emerald, two student politieal groups challenge
each other to debate on problems of the forthcoming presi
dential campaign. These debates will he held in the form of
round-table student meetings, open to everyone.
These discussions are only one of many signs of increased
interest and participation of University students in national
and international politics. Posters ballyhooing various candi
dates are plastered about on walls and bulletin boards; stu
dent political leaders stagger under reams of leaflets; a few
half-hearted pamphlets have been distributed by socialist
and communist die-hards who try belatedly to hitch their ’ism
chariots to the cornet of an awakened American nationalism.
With all this about them, students are becoming suddenly
politieally awake.
Which is as it should be. For many years travelers have
decried the lack of politieal consciousness of American young
people. These observers stress the acute political consciousness
of European youth ; the deadly earnestness with which stu
dents debate (should we now say “debated”?) affairs in
Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Finland, England, Russia—an
interest fostered by years of living under acute political
pressure.
admit that their criticism is partially justified. The
American college youth lias heretofore taken very little
interest in things political. Iloweveiy under stress of changing
conditions, he is gradually awakening to his sense of responsi
bility and of ultimate power; becoming active and alert to
his possibilities for expression.
Because he is an American he will be under enough pressure
to bring home to him the seriousness of world conditions, yet
still be reasonably enough aloof from the grim hysteria of
war so that lie can do his own thinking with at least some
semblance of reason,
lie is fortunate.—K.»S.
From
All Sides
By COKIN IS LA MON
Pickets
Pickets marched up and down
outside the gates of Louisiana
Slate university last week pro
claiming: with signs, “L.S.U. is
unfair to organized labor.”
Members of a local carpenters
and joiners union objected be
cause the university refused
their demand that all members
of the maintenance department
of the school be union members
or be discharged. Daily Re
veillc.
Reformers
Promising a student election
“as politically honest as possi
ble, with no opportunities for
graft as in previous years,” the
campus commission at the Uni
versity of Denver set out to pur
ify politics. Chief change made
by the reformers are activity
tickets listing the class and
school of each student, thus pre
cluding the possibility of illegal
voting for officers of another
class. Brings reminiscence of
the Purity League for Oregon
Politics on this campus two
years ago. Denver Clarion,
Nign-M wipers
Five University of California
students were followed by
Berkeley police the other day
when they earned a large oil
company sign down the main
street of town at 1 o'clock in
the morning. On catching up
with them at their apartment,
the officers found their front
room decorated with dozens of
billboards of various shapes and
sizes. “We intended to return
them at the end of the semes
ter. We had all the addresses ”
reported tie culprits from a jail
cell.—Daily Californian.
A Daily Texan columnist at
the University of Texas advises
that the way to get rid of un
wanted females, Dogpatch style,
is to convince her that—
1. You don't want to stand in
the way of her career.
2. There is hereditary insan
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3. The best seats in the thea
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4. The car you have been us
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mate.
5. You have started eating
garlic and onions.
6. That you dislike to see
women eat.
7. That you notice her old
clothes instead of her new ones.
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By BILL MOXLEY
Next Friday night will see
Billy McDonald and his Royal
Highlanders at Willamette
park. While Laddie McDonald
has not as yet acquired a great
deal of national fame, he is
doubtless one of the best young
bands in the country.
They have a wonderful ar
rangement of “Loch Lomond"
as theme melody, and they play
a distinctive, crisp, type of mu
sic that actually succeeds in
making one think of Scotch
kilts swinging across the high
lands. . . . Well, maybe not quite
as realistic as that, but it is a
darn fine outfit and should pack
the park to overflowing.
No Dancing
WAR HITS MUSIC . . . The
Japanese government, almost
simultaneous with its German
Italo alliance, issued an official
decree closing all Japanese
dance halls October 1. Even
more significant was the far
reaching official edict that the
manufacture and sale of Euro
pean and American jazz records
would be banned on the same
date.
The New Japanese Music so
ciety has for ever a year been
urging the government to de
stroy the disturbing influences
of western jazz music while gov
ernment officials are urging the
people to abandon western danc
ing for native "shaku-hatchi,”
“samisen,” and “koto” studies.
The latter three words when
translated means bamboo flute,
and two types of Jap string in
struments.
Yes, it sounds just like Hitler
and his pals. Only catch in its
effect on America is that hardly
any American musicians work
in Japan, and the sale of U.S.
records to Japan is nearly neg
ligible. All of which puts the
Japanese edict in the “unfriend
ly gesture" category.
Beiderbecke Album
BIX BEIDERBECKE Album.
. . . Columbia comes forth with
an album of recordings by the
famous Beiderbecke including
such numbers as “Royal Garden
Blues,” “Goose Pimples,” “Thou
Swell,” “Sweet Sue,” and sev
eral others. There are eight
sides altogether, and they cover
every phase of Bix’s life, when
he played with Adrian Rollini,
and Paul Whiteman, and when
he had his own famous “gang.”
Judged by today’s standards
these records are off-the-cob.
But not the Beiderbecke horn!
Along with this album Colum
bia also released eight sides by
Louis Armstrong. With a swell
crew behind him Louis gives out
with the typically red-hot Sateli
mo’ trumpet.
The University of Michigan
track team has won the Butler
university indoor relays cham
pionship for seven consecutive
years.
A meter which measures the
adhesion of liquids to solids has
been invented by a University of
Idaho physicist.
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By RIDGELY CUMMINGS
Last night at dinner a gradu
ate assistant did his best to
squelch us when we read aloud
that Wednesday a week is the
day when an official poobah will
stick his hand into a goldfish
bowl and come u[5 with the first
number in the national conscrip
tion lottery.
The grad was no longer
studying for a bachelor's degree
and therefore not exempt until
next July, so he preferred not to
dwell on unpleasant subjects. It
interfered with his digestion, he
claimed.
The army will have to give
him a special diet if he wins,
we remarked unfeelingly, and
then drifted into a mental aside,
wondering what it is about hu
man nature that makes us take
pleasure in the slighter mis
fortunes of our friends. We
didn’t mention it aloud however
for the grad teaches psychology
and he would probably have had
an unpleasant explanation.
Unofficial Report
This is not official, but a us
ually reliable source tells us
that the local draft board will
have numbers stamped on all
our cards within a few days.
The same source says the num
ber will then be sent to the local
newspapers and will be posted
in the county clerk's office in
the court house.
Since 10,022 youths registered
from Lane county, including
667 from the University of Ore
gon, it is unlikely that all the
names will be published. So a
lot of us will be calling at the
court house in a few days to
learn our number, so we can
take a sporting interest in the
lottery.
Some of the boys who never
won anything yet are expecting
a change in luck.
rrom ns iu iur
Figuring 2806 men to go from
Oregon, and Lane county tak
ing about 6 or 7 per cent of
the population of the state, any
where from 148 to 196 should
have their numbers turn up.
Speaking of “usually reliable
sources” reminds us of a story
that appeared in the Oregonian
Monday morning. It said that
the army and navy's bomb sight
has been released to the Brit
ish and that the administration
has agreed to give Great Britain
half of the army's 46 flying
fortresses. The authority for the
story was “a usually reliable
source.”
We have scanned the wires
since for some sort of confirma
tion and found none, so it is
possible that this was one of
those unusual cases where the
source was misinformed. Or it
may have been a trial balloon,
to see how public opinion would
react.
‘I Object,’ Says He
As far as this column is con
cerned the reaction is unfavor
able, but we arc learning with
dismay that the opinions of this
writer arc not noted for popu
larity. The country is moving
much too hastily down the road
to war to suit us, but a person
whom we shall call, in order to
hide( his identity, Hal Olney,
told us that he objected to our
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CARY GRANT and
MARTHA SCOTT in
“The Howards
of Virgil lift”
tag line: “Peace. It’s wonder
ful.”
There are a lot of things more
wonderful than peace, this
anonymous person named Hal
said, and when questioned one
of the things turned out to be
“national honor.” We were sur
prised, too, for national honor
is one of those ambiguous things
over which a nation always goes
to war when there is no other
excuse. It is an equivocal term
that covers a multitude of sins.
No doubt Messers Hitler and
Mussolini are fighting for na
tional honor, as well as
Churchill.
Incidentally Churchill again
dragged his American friends
into his speech threatening Hit
ler yesterday. And British
sources credit the U. S. with
supplying planes and war ma
terials that made possible the
British aerial counter-offensive
against the Axis last night.
Closer td home, the U. S. navy
has commandeered the Panama
Pacific line’s fleet of five big
passenger-freight ships. A vice
president of the company, Ken
neth D. Dawson, said it was
okay. He pointed out that the
government “has the right to
take over any ships in an emer
gency.”
The nature of the emergency
was not made clear, but it may
be to help evacuate Americans
from the Orient.
Still closer to home, Bruce
Nidever made a suggestion. He
said we’ll soon have to change
it to:
Peace. It was wonderful.
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Onceover
Lightly...
By SALLY MITCHELL
and PAT TAYLOR
Wc were so busy gathering
dirt last week we didn't have
time to write it up, so we slight
ed our column to a consid’rable
degree. Would that make it
“Onceover Slightly?’’
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Stocks Report: Reason why
the Sigma Chi stocks were so
slow in going up last week was
because some considerate Chi
guy lost the keys. But every
thing came out all right and so
did the stocks—with Bill Brad
shaw in ’em for planting his pin
on Alpha Phi pledgling, Pat
Longfellow. And Len Surles was
surely surly about his stay in
the stocks. After all, it’s been
quite a spell since he did his
pin planting.
* * *
Crack of the Week: And then
there was the girl who said:
“Oh, the only resason you want
to play bridge is so you can hold
hands.’’
Odds Anens: Les Steers, high
jumper, is as much in demand
as Philip Morris wrappers . . .
Now that University street is
blocked for repairs, the office
girls in the extension building
call themselves the dead end
kids. . . . Didjaknow that Shir
ley Sullivan, Alpha Phi, now has
Taylor Bradford’s Beta pin ?
—Now ya know .... Bill
Kccken, law laddie, calls his
car (if you can call it a
car) Omar . . . the dent mak
er. .. . Leonard Kush, Sigma
halier, is rushing Mary Ander
son, drum majoress. . . . yes . . .
You could have knocked us over
with Butch Thompson when we
overhead that Barbara Todd and
Frank Schultz had tossed in the
towel. . . .
Wouldn’t It floor you. . . if:
You asked a girl to have a coke
and she said: "No, thanks, I’ll
just take the nickel.”
A lot of Sigmaneuvers went
on last weekend what with foun
ders’ day celebration, house
and the usual Sigmaneuvers. . .
Have Atkinson had a blonde
date for the Beta house dance.
. . . Jeanette Torney, Alpha Phi
and REALLY blonde. . . . Jean
Fridager, Tri Delt pledge, and
cousin of the well-known and
very active Jack Endors, seems
to be following in his footsteps
with leaps and bounds. . . . New
Two: Jane Hochuli and Don
Brooks . . . and your homework *
for today, kiddies, is how can
Leona LaDuke get such good
grades and still be so much fun.
We have to leave now . . .
We have to take our alarm clock
down to a tick-tockery to see
what’s been making it ring so
early in the morning.
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