Oregon w 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 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston —Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. LYLE M. NELSON, Editor JAMES W. FROST, Business Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Hal Olney, Helen Angell Editorial Board: Roy Vernstrom, I’at Erickson, Helen Angell, Hal Olney, Kent Stitzer, Jimmie Leonard, and Professor George Turnbull, adviser. UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Alvera Maedcr, Classified Advertising Man- Bill Wallan, Circulation Manager ager Emerson Page, Promotion Director Ron Alpaugh, Layout Production Manager Janet Farnham, Office Manager Jimmie Leonard, Managing Editor Fred May. Advertising Manager Kent Stitzer, News Editor Bob Rogers, National Advertising Manager Wanted: Pennies From Heaven glNCE time immemorial budgets have been a headache to educational leaders. They have had to learn all the ins and outs of the word economy before they learned how to teach. Oregon’s six institutions have been no exception to this prob lem of “money doesn’t grow on trees,” particularly since the beginning of the depression era. After ten years of existence under a slashed budget, the state board of higher education last, week received warning of another possible setback. Their 1941-42 budget request was reduced $440,000 by the state budget director before it was sent to the legislature. The state budgeteer is not without reasonable grounds for his recommendation of cutting the allocation : if the educa tion fund remains the same as last year, which is his present suggestion, the state budget will be within $500,000 of a bal ance this year. Such a feat in these troubled times would be a constructive one in state finance. # * * the other hand, one asks if the budgeteer has fully grasped the situation in Ihe field of higher learning. Since the depression state-owned colleges have had a hard struggle to keep going in the face of decreased funds and increased enrollment. The six schools of the state system care for 23 per cent more students today than in 1930, according to the 1940 report. They operate on three per cent less funds than 10 years ago, while expenditures for state functions as a whole have increased more than 40 per cent. Evidence that the state board has followed an economical policy in major improvements is shown in the report, with figures quoted to show that the (tost of administration and service in Oregon is one-seventh lower than the average re ported by the United States commissioner of education. No special appropriations for new buildings at higher educational institutions have been noted during the past four years. Living on short rations for a time is quite possible. Soldiers often do it in wartime with no real detriment to their health. Sometimes it may even be good for one. But when a point is reached where slashing of the food ration occurs over too long a period, and there are more mouths to feed, results may be detrimental to the success of the army. # # # gJO it is with education. A tight budget won't hurt any group—it fosters economy. But when a point is reached where facilities begin to feel depletion, adequate educational instruction cannot be provided. Into the lap of the legislators goes the puzzle. They must decide if that, danger point is reached. Many on the University of Oregon campus seem to feel that another cut would tear at the very core of college education in the state, that it would be more than an inconvenience, that increased enrollment and decreased instruction facilities would impair the efficiency of the whole education program. The legislature must de cide.—II.A. Salute to Thinking Women rJ''lIE right to speak . . . tile right to work . . . the right to think. Liberties sueh as these women have battled and campaigned for since the first dawn of the idea of emancipat ing womanhood from the home. These rights and privileges tonight Avill be the theme of the aunual meeting of 400 out standing women of the state of Oregon . . . women who have proven themselves worthy of that right, to speak, to work, to think. Matrix Table, annual formal banquet honoring leading women in the fields of journalism, literature, and the arts, brings to the campus two writers who have proven them selves. Each will speak to the gathering. The first lady of the state. Mrs. Charles A Sprague, will b? here, along with a host of other leaders. * •* # TOUT the .fact that these women are coming to the campus for a visit isn't the really great thing about Matrix Table. The true value of such a gathering of women interested in the cultural betterment of mankind is in the gathering itself. It is in the interest of 4U0 women of the state in developing their minds and personalities through higher education, through writing, or throuh creative doing. Theta Sigma Phi's Matrix Table might be termed a salute to all those women who have come before us. To those who have considered the right of thinking so important for women that they have been willing to sacrifice and fight for that right. Tonight's banquet may honor popular young coeds, stu dents, mothers, real career women, wives . . . but whatever her place in life, each honored guest is invited because she has taken real advantage of that inalienable right of Amer ican worneu to think.—H.A. SELECTIVE SERVICE? Are you puzzled about selective service? Write your questions bout the draft procedure on this blank below, turn same in to a : .ember of Kwama or Skull and Dagger, or to Roy Vernstrom, the aumni office in Friendly hall, today before f> p.m. The Emerald will have these question answered in Salem Friday. A feature next Tues day will pass the information requested back to you. Questions:___.... International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS It is Lloyd George who is re puted to have told the great American idealist, Woodrow Wilson that when war is de Cummings uiai v., uuui 10 the first casual ty. Wilson was in Paris for the Versailles trea ty and was hav ing a tough time with the European shy sters when, so the story goes, UiUj UCUlttiiUUU come through with secret pledg es that hacl been the deciding forces in getting her in the war on the Allied side. Wilson was shocked at the duplicity and Lloyd George, crusty old realist, was quite frank in set ting him right. Hitler and Wilson Forecast Our generation has learned with Wilson. The disillusion hastened his death but we take propaganda in our stride. Even if we have forgotten the Welsh man's warning we can read in Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” that lies, repeated and repeated un til they are dinned into one’s subconscious, are a recognized weapon of modern war. Consequently we take the news with a grain of salt, read communiques from both sides and try to find the truth some where in the middle. But the absence of bulletins from Rome last night indicate that the British may be cor rect in claiming a major sea victory in the Mediterranean. The London version is that 12 Italian warships and supply vessels were sunk, crippled, or damaged in two pitched battles Monday while we were having an Armistice day parade in Eu gene. Half Gone Italy is said to have only six battleships and Great Britain put three of them out of com mission by this blow, which was struck at the heel of Italy's boot, at Taranto, thus leaving an opening for a pun about Achilles' heel. Reports from the three “B's”, Belgrade, Bucharest, and Buda pest, were all giving the Greeks tire better of the fighting along the Greek-Albanian frontier. A report from Belgrade, Jugosla via significantly mentioned the casualties: 42 Italians killed, 100 wounded near Mesaria. This is small potatoes when one remembers the number of men that died at Verdun. One million and fifty thousand were the figures for that slaughter house, probably the greatest number of men killed in one battle in human history. Due to the mountainous na ture of the battlefields down there in southern Europe it is probable that the campaigns that are making headlines do not involve excessively large numbers of men. Forty-two Corpses But big or little it meant the end of the world for the 42 Ital ian corpses. What Hitler and Molotov were talking about in Berlin no longer is important to them. Nor do they care any more that their bambino cut another tooth. It won’t even make them angry to learn that Elsa, the wife, went to a night club with the third assistant secretary to some little big-shot who is safe behind the lines, do ing paper work for a lira a year. Gordon Link and Carl Huffa ker and some more of my “sophisticated” friends will tell me that they’re dead so it does n’t make any difference. But I think it does. They’re dead and they died in vain, for the world will wag on without them and a hundred years from now it won’t make much difference; but meanwhile they’ve missed out on a lot of happiness and sorrow, smiles and tears. Alas for the 42 corpses in fascist uniforms who lie twist ed grotesquely in some obscure mountain pass. May they rest in peace, for they are even as you and I. Gullible. The world is just beginning to use electricity intelligently, ac cording to Dr. Frederick P. Woellner, professor of education at the University of California. Enrollment at Los Angeles City college, restricted because of crowded campus conditions, is down 12.8 per cent. More than 80 university-given scholarships were recently awarded students at the Univer sity of Texas. in a— GLAMOUR TIME FORMAL Brocades, jorsevs for 1 lie sophisticate, chiffoif, nets for the demure. Sequins for enchantment. Bee our new selection! *14.95 up ★ BliM'k ★ White ★ Eggshell ★ Ke<l ★ Blue ★ Green ★ A<]uii ★ Gold \ White Bunny Chubbies Velvet and Wool Wraps B£QRD7 OkSUNCTl^T VFPAPfl »KO AOCESSUKOT M »IUAMIU I4U wright or wrong With TOMMY WRIGHT Strive an I may And my efforts are slight; For something to say Is beyond my might. If the eolm’s bad today. The reason is—Wright. REBUKED . . . ... by 4,000 ducks for not call ing this collection of trite tripe "Tommy-rot.” THIS WEEK . . , Fast towards completion moves the work on the BUILDING or whatever it is on Eleventh street. Some competent sources say it is to be a garage for the Sigma Nus. Others convince me it shall be a boat house for a possible Duck - back - to - the . water movement. Some one said it was going to be a recreation center for the Phi Psis, with a built-in bar and a dark room (not for photogra phers) but for house dancing convenience. Our own conclu sions are that it will be a cen ter of subversive activities to ' undermine something or other. WHISPERS IN THE DARK . . . Met Sue Brogan, Alpha Phi, last weekend—she was stepping high with Bill Norene, Kappa Sig wonder boy. . . . It’ll be a military wedding for Don Youn ger if the Sherry Ross lad’s ac tions at the frosh-rook game are any indications; what about the steady in Portland, Don? . . . Nick Notos, son of Gamma, tangled with June, July, and August; only July was daugh ter of the D.A., Mary Ray . . . Elliott “Lil Abner” Wilson, of Do You Like Home Cooked Foods? TRY OUR NEW Streamline Fountain When, you think of drugs think of Rite Price —o— New Oil Silk Shower Caps, assorted colors, 23c 50c Hinds Honey and Almond Cream, 2 for 40c —o— Orange Incense Burners, complete, 50c RITE PRICE DRUGS INC. (Formerly Stevenson’s) Next door to McDonald Theater ll the Sigma Nus on the race, try ing to get fraternity brother Doc Henry to get him a date for the Homecoming dance . . . Ralph Davis, Phi Delt, with Pifi Phyllis Foster . . . some thing about a cockeyed triangle with Aldeen Gates, pifi, and best friend of Helen Jane Kerr, Theta, steadying with Dave Browning, who just got his pin back from Helen Jane . . . little Jo Ann Godfrey citing the qual ity of daddy’s wine during a Sunday school lecture against same . . . Ann Hawkins, of the gammafis, takes Kim McKim's ATO pin. . . . Sally Murrow an other gammafi glamour girl gets Frank Hitchcock’s phi sig pin. . . . Marion White with Florence Anderson and others . . . George “Publicity” Luoma strutting his none-too-good best with Ruth Kokko . . . Charles Woodruff of the canary voice, haunts the Side with a brunette . . . unprintable tidbits from the exclusive Wednesday Night club: Peggy Myll and Alice Lu cas and dates incorporated . . . Jane Meek, Alpha Chi redhead, still puts up with Richard Bert Thierolf, sig ep. OVERHEARD. . . A couple of Sig Ep lads, who like their liquid lethal telling “8-ball” Bryant that there had not been a good gossip column since last year. CONCLUSION . . . We will agree that like most painter’s canvas, this column would undoubtedly have been better had it not been used. SO LONG FOR AWHILE. For the first time in its recent history, Harvard university showed an operating deficit, amounting to 558,605, for the last fiscal year. SAFE - FAST COMFORTABLE ECONOMICAL • LOW-COST MEALS • AIR-CONDITIONED COACHES AND SLEEPERS • CONVENIENT SERVICE • FREE PILLOWS AND PORTER SERVICE IN COACHES ^ Foi information as to fares ^ and other details inquire |>hB of your local J£er>» II Odora Storage Closets Solve tke problem of what to do when you need extra closet space. They're mothproof, dustproof, serviceable, and light as a feather. Nice to keep your formal in—holds 10 to HO garments. 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