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“Jails and state prisons are the complement of schools; so
many less as you have of the latter; so many more you have
of the former.’’—Horace Mann.
In Class of Their Own
r|~vIIE addition of around -00 names to the petitions askin''
for a rehearing on the model constitution with an amend
ment giving the vote to all again brings tin; freshman ques
tion squarely before the student body. The number of peti
tioners now lias grown to around 400 or almost as many as
have class cards.
The class of ’44, the largest freshman class in U. of O.
history, numbers around 1172. Of these only around 470 have
cards and hence a voice in the class. If independent leaders
succeed, as'they plan to do, in getting the majority of the
class to sign the petition asking for equal rights for all then
the movement will have grown to such an extent that it
cannot be denied a hearing.
The diligence which these leaders have shown in canvass
ing the campus displays something which we thought was
long dead in classes—class spirit. If these freshmen can keep
up that kind of a spirit throughout the year—devote it to
their class or independent class organization and to the Uni
versity the card issue will have done the school a great deal
of good.
* * m
'JM1E “Oh let the other fellow do it, I’m busy’’ attitude
which has been prevalent among students for so long is
just as anti-democratie as is the attitude of the power-seeking
politician. At least it brings the same result.
The world will fall, President. Donald M. Erb said in a
commencement speech two years ago, when people either
think everything is perfect and do nothing about it, or when
they think everything is so bad there is no use doing anything
about it.
If the independent leaders can succeed in keeping up the
present spirit—either in the freshman class, or failing to get
the vote for all in a class of their own—they will be succeeding
where many leaders have failed. .^ _
Ghosts?
L. Rhinesmith, campus policeman, is very unhappy.
Really, lie can’t he blamed much at that, for judging by
all the facts available, Air. Khinesmith lias competition in this
little matter ol' handing out tickets on the Oregon campus
for traffic violations. This competition does not come as it
has in the past from the downtown police 'force nor is it the
state police who are giving the campus cop a headache.
Apparently some super-intelligent “smart guy’’ is doing a
private business in this matter of fining traffic violators,
if the sport pages of the Oregonian are to be believed.
In the Thursday morning edition the following quip was
included in an Oregonian sports story. “Even the police
department helps guard against enemy scouts at the Uni
versity of Oregon. Eon Stiner, Oregon Stale coach, drove
over to see Oregon play the other day, and when he returned
to his car found he’d been given a parking ticket.
“When he got back to Corvallis, he mailed the ticket and
one dollar to the Eugene police department. Hack came the
reply, informing him the unfixable price of the ticket was
$10, and please remit.
“From (Jail Fowler, AH, Seattle.’’
# * #
VfERY interesting, Air. Fowler, but just when was it that
all this occurred? You say simply, “the other day.’’ The
Duck grid squad has not played on Hayward field since the
Alariue game on September “7. Furthermore, Air. Eliine
smith reports they gave no ticket to Coach Stiner. The city
police say they have no record of such a ticket. City Judge
Cal Bryan, who is the only one who can settle such tickets,
says, “There is absolutely no report in this office of any such
ticket being issued.”
Now, just who did issue this mysterious truffle ticket?
Maybe Air. Stiner got the old, familiar “shakedowu.” Ur
maybe Air. Fowler is simply “all wet.”—11.0,
This Way to the U of O
^^LuUOST every year alter some high sehool conference ou
the campus a number of stories eoiue in to the Emerald
telling how some high school student in his search for the
University of Oregon campus has gotten lost in the wilds
dow n South Willamette way or over on the west side of town.
The stories have come in with such regularity' that it has
become impossible to lay I lie blame on the student. A recent,
checkup revealed that there are but. very few signs in the
town pointing the way to the campus. The newcomer to
Jvugeuc is left to iucpiire or by chance find the UO.
Of course various University organizations—as in the ease
of Sigma Delta Chi, journalism fraternity- -have tried to
meet all delegates to conventous at the lms terminal or the
depot. Naturally they have not met all some early or late
delegates have been left to take a taxi or find their way to
the U. of O.
In additiou tourists and others looking for the campus have
had to stop and inquire or guess ou which side of town the
campus is located.
The answer is apparent—a couple of dozen w ell placed
streets iigno around the aty would ea.e much shoe* leather,
much automobile rubber.
Dear Mom: I’m on a Committee
JT is better to have loved and lost, they say, than never to
have loved at all. . .
The same logic seems to carry over into other student
reasoning processes—witness, for instance, the general cam
pus attitude toward activities. The local concensus seems to
be that it is better to have tried to be “in activities” and
failed the rest of your work than never to have been on a com
mittee at all.
The Greeks consider a prospective pledge: “Is he good
activity material?” “Will she be our next year’s Kwama?”
The freshman thus pledged has scarcely got his or her hat
hung on the nearest hook before his house begins “pushing”
him. Upperclassmen reveal to him the sly arts of politics,
the glory to the group resulting from his Emerald by-line,
an AWS office, or a donut sale. If he is the obliging sort
the freshman is irretrievably (it seems) sucked into the center
of a whirl of selling donuts, mums, loggers’ Giudes, pompoms,
and doing the menial tasks of several committee.
# # «
HPIIE activity group sees two kinds of people on the caift
pus: (1) those who “grind,” and (”) those who “don't
have to study.” The real activity fiend then must either grind
and perform his social obligations at the same, time, ending
up as a highly respected nervous wreck, or do his active jobs,
get some sleep, listen to an occasional lecture, and not bother
with any disturbing thoughts.
There are those who believe that the second group are
ignoring the tremendous wealth of college that is theirs for
the seeking.
But then maybe the folks back home prefer to have every
other letter begin, “Dear Mom: I’m on a committee...”—P.E.
If the Shoe Fits™:
;
By J.E.M.
T.G.I.F. anil a big weekend
ahead for all.
Conscription news: Bud Wim
berly, Phi Delt, drafts his pin
on Frances Cox, Pi Phi. Helen
Wertenberger, Sigma Kappa,
conscripts Jack Leighton's Phi
Psi pin. Evidently the Pi Phis’
requirements for service are too
high as Barbara Pierce returns
Brad Fancher’s SN pin, and
Jeanne Wilcox gives back Bill
Fugit’s ATO—a call is now out
for new recruits. Last minute
flash! Another Delt pin called
into service as Jack Daniels
shoulders arms for Connie
Ryals, DG.
* * *
Betsy "Ima” Panton, Theta,
got her wires crossed and volun
teered for the White Cross in
stead of the Red Cross. More
news from the front: Mary Jane
Dunn, Tri Delt, is steadying
with Jim Richmond, Pi Kap,
Chevy and all. Stanford trans
fer, Bill Magrath, Chi Psi, is
going steady with Edic “Mum
my” Bush, DG. Milo Daniels,
Gamma Phi, STEERing Lcs
around the libe. Cute Alpha O,
Pat Chalmers, having trouble
with Theta Chi quota system.
We’re not curious, but, where
is A1 Hunt’s crested Phi Delt
ring ? We hear more news about
a certain Beta who commutes
regularly between Portland and
the DG mansion just ask Ma
jeane. In spite of the fact that
Bill Carney got his SN pin back
over a year ago, he’s still being
seen with its former wearer,
Gerry Tripp, Gamma Phi.
“Hangover” Eaton looking as
suave as ever this season. Ha
waii’s beauteous Annabelle Dow,
Theta, and A1 Silvernail, Chi
Psi, seen together these days.
Oh, for more darkness on the
smoking porch of the libe —
Helen Howard and Dick Horne,
Kappa Sig.
* * *
Suggestion for most eligible
bachcHor on the campus—hand
some Ed Storli, ATO. Cis Steel,
DG, takes up childhood games —
eenie, mecnic, minic, mo, Beta,
Fiji, Chi Psi.
From the looks of things we
arc beginning to wonder if
sneak dating is still a campus
offense. The morning after Hal
lowe'en minds most of the sor
ority pledges repairing damages
caused by playful masked
pranksters.
From All Sides
Exchanges by t’orrinc Lamoii
Vicious Circle
Five coeds at the University
of California have been eating
lunch at the Co-op every day be
cause ttiey arc fascinated by
the way the waiter juggles
three sundaes, a soda, and a
chocolate milk shake without a
slip. This procedure so enthralls
them, that one day last week
they left a tip two cents. Our
hero was perplexed, and re
turned the two cents the next
day, making his juggling act
even more spectacular. The next
day, said girls hopefully left
two more pennies, accompanied
by this note:
Dear Ordle:
We like your waiting very much,
It has that certain gentle touch.
You are a gem tone out of
manys)
So here they arc, your little
pennies.
And the next day the pennies
were returned again. It's a vi
cious circle.
—Daily Californian.
* * *
P.S.
A good Republican is one who
would welcome a plague if he
could blame iL on the Demo
crats.
* * *
A reader wants to know the
stale of education in Russia.
The country is full of little Reel
school houses.
A noted scientist says that
the brain is an electric dynamo.
It’s our opinion that a lot of
them arc suffering from short
circuits.
* * *
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so be it..
by bill fendall
with a downdraft of thought *
in an updraft of conversation, j
SO BE IT reprints mental notes •
jotted down in moments of
stress and unrestraint in its 9
o’clock class. . . .
it is in this be-chaired mecca
of knowledge with its five-pil
grimages-a-week that one can
see—can hear—
DEAN ALLEN’S lectures
rear back five mornings out of
every five, roll up their
sleeves, spit on their hands, and (
really go to work on anything
from the burning of civilization
by the DEVIL on the grates of j
EUROPE to the case history, of
JI.MINY CRICKET. ... (
the student with a jigger of
understanding and a lump of
‘T'a| whose sentences are as
long as a pulp serial—with the
continuation coming up next
class period . . . the glances
-shifting from one speaker to
another like machine gun cross
fire in no man’s land . . . this
one class room where the dumb
eggs don’t hatch . . . the cracks
in the once-a-week radio script
that sound as dull as last week’s
TIME reads . . . the student lis
tening slower than the DEAN
is talking . . . the coecl whose
disinterested head tells her
mouth what to say—and her
conversation is very hollow. . . .
JEAN CRITES on the edge of
her seat—her favorite perch . . .
CHARLES GREEN who reveals
by his conversation that he is
merely down on some
thing he isn’t up on . . . MARI
MEDILL who’s red hair looks 1
like a sundown-lit sky ... a
recent crack by the administra
tion that caused a crisis in the
vocabulary of one chair-tilter.
. . . BETTY MAE LIND filling
up an empty glance . . . the lit
tle job done up in blonde in the
second row, four seats over.
in conclusion, SO BE IT
would like to add that although
the members of 9 o’clock editing j
stumble over their explanations
and trip on their statements,
the pendulum of thought gen
erally swings from the obvious
to the worthwhile. . . .
with apologies . . .
it causes me never a stab nor
squirm
to tread by chance upon a
worm.
"aha, my litUe dear,” I’ll say,
“Your dan will pay me back
some day” ....
* * *
campus quips (censored) . . .
so be it. . . .
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By RIDGELY CUMMINGS
It’3 a funny thing how when
’ou get a bunch of pacifists to
other the odcls are favorable
hat a fight will result—a ver
Cummings
bal fight any
way. That's a
paradox, of
course, and par
adoxes while at
tention - arrest
ing are not al
ways as true as
they seem. But
they sound nice
and that’s why
we started the
:olumn off with one.
We (that’s the editorial plural
md means 11 went to a peace
neeting yesterday and there was
l't a single blow struck. The oc
;asion was a luncheon held at the
Vnchorage with Frederick J. Lib
jy, executive-secretary of the na
tional council for the prevention
)f war, as the main speaker.
. Libby There
Mr. Libby, who just stopped off
Detween trains, turned out to be
i short, squarely built man with
grayish-white hair, bright eyes,
ind deeply graved lines in his face,
de was visible proof that a paci
fist is not necessarily an ineffec
tual-looking person.
We were a little disappointed in
Mr. Libby’s talk, for a stranger
valking in might have thought he
vas listening to a military board of
strategy. There were troopships
crossing the channel (the table
;loth), and airplanes zooming over
read, and discussion of compara
tive munition production in the fac
tories of "the combatants, while the
geographical advantages of various
lations were carefully weighed. We
(meaning the 14 of us present)
vere being “realistic.”
Mr. Libby’s thesis was that the
vay to prevent U.S. involvement
n the war is to stop the war.
Not Military
"Hitler cannot be overthrown by
nilitary means,” he said, and then
ittempted to prove that point by
liscussing the impossibility of an
nvasion of the European continent,
:ven with direct U.S. participation.
There is no place to land troops
md equipment, he said, except
Portugal and that will soon be un
ler axis control. He emphasized
.he disastrous British attempt to
and an expeditionary force in
inlanders and pointed out that the
Vi miles of the English channel
las not yet been crossed by Nazi
.roops.
“It’s a physical impossibility,”
le said, “but granting that a force
arge enough could be landed in
Europe and succeed in driving Hit
ler’s armies back to Berlin? Still
the United States would have
nothing to gain in this move be
cause the destruction in Europe
would be so great that only Stalin
would win.”
No Such Case
"Sweetness and light will not
result from beating Hitler,” Mr.
Libby affirmed. “The result would
be a Bolshevist revolution.”
It was about at this point that
the writer began heckling. We
maintained that although that
might be a good argument for
peace from the point of view of
the militarist, still the whole va
lidity of the argument depended
upon the soundness of the military
analysis. We argued that military
strategy was a poor prop to sup
port a pacifist.
We said that the reaction of the
average American to a statement
that it's no use going to war be
cause you can't lick Hitler is very
apt to be one of "Oh Yeah! Is zat
so!’’ And we admitted that if
there were no moral issues involved
that would very probably be our
own.
Mr. Libby answered that he whs
talking as a “realist’’ but that per
sonally he rejected the whole phil
osophy of force. From here on we
were inclined to agree with him.
Built on Sand
What is built on force is built
on sand, as Britain and France are
finding out, Mr. Libby said. Force
is futile because a stronger force
will eventually arrise to overthrow
the first, he maintained.
Mr. Libby saw a limited victory
in store for the Axis powers but
predicted that if they get hoggish
and try to consolidate their gains
on the basis of force instead of
justice then they too are due for
a fall.
Well, these peace meetings are
a good thing even if one takes
away the same prejudices one
brings in, and we wish there were
more of them held around the
campus.
Wouldn’t Talk
An interesting sidelight arose
after the meeting. We asked Libby
who he was going to vote for for
president. He wouldn't say, said his
organization had not taken a def
inite stand on that although opin
ion in Washington, he said, is that
Willkie will be less likely than
Roosevelt to make moves that will
inevitably involve the U.S.
Then we asked about his organ
ization’s policy on congressmen and
he said the policy is:-1. vote for
the men who opposed conscription;
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