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Oregon S' 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 : $1.26 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. IjYLfe M NELSON, Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS: JAMES W. FROST, Business Manager Hal Olney, Helen Angell Jimmie Leonard, Managing Editor Kent Stitzer, News Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Bob Rogers, National Advertising Manager Editorial and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journalism building. Phones 3300 Extension: 382 Editor; 353 News Office; 359 Sports Office; and 854 Business Offices. i> h.nck»oii Women’* Krti>.»i. Photo Edito' Flavelle Co-Sport* ’’T'lf 1 Co-Sport* UPPER NEWS STAFF Wes SulHvan. Ass’t News Editor Hetty Jane Biggs. Ass’t New? Hay Schnck Ass’t Managing Tom Wright, Ass't Managing Editor Corrine Wignes. Executive Secretary /ohnnie Kahananm, feature Editor UPPER BUSINESS STAFF »'vera Maedci Classified Advertising Man ager <<*n Alpaugh Layout Production Manager Kill Wallan, Circulation Manager Emerson Page, Promotion Director fanet Farnham. Office Manager At Home r I 'HIS is an institution of student government. We know—it says so in the student body constitution. But for a long time, the lack of a center for that govern ment has undermined its true worth to ASUO, and because there has not been a nicely-furnished center of student body activity too many members of the school have scarcely real ized that this thing called the ASUO exists. The women’s organization, AWS, has suffered a similar plight. They haven’t even had any place to file their letters except in Prexy Betty Buchanan’s dresser drawer. The action taken by the executive committee yesterday, designed to actually centralize student government in the ASUO offices in McArthur court is a step toward greater things. It, is entirely possible that if this office becomes a beehive of activity a larger and better-ecpiipped one may be financially possible for future student governors. President “Tiger” Payne will have a regular secretary, Vice-President John Cavanagh and Secretary Harry Berg tholdt will both have desks . . . and AWS will have a file. # # * rJ'vHE advantages of such a plan are manifold: (1) Student government meetings and committee head quarters will have a regular place to be organized. (2) ASUO and AWS official correspondence will have a definite place to be filed, and will thus be unified for informa tion purposes. (3) Such a system will provide a better and more stable agency of contacting interested students. (4) The executive committee will not have to hold its meet ings in campus cafes . .. which is a present inconvenience. (5) The office staff to be organized will provide around 10 workers a year with closer contact with student leaders . . . in other words, will broaden the activity field. True, the office is small arid will be crowded if it becomes too active. But if a small office staff can be effective and really do some good organizational work . . . that will be proof that a larger, pleasanter offijy; would be worthwhile as a beneficial addition to student facilities.—ll.A. Another Honor for Oregon £|ECOND in a field which included most of the major colleges and universities in the nation. That was the award brought back to Eugene yesterday by the delegates of the University of Oregon chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism fraternity, who returned from the twenty-fifth annual con vention in Des Moines, Iowa. The only chapter to rate higher than the Oregon group was at Northwestern in Illinois. The ratings were made on a point system for determining the efficiency of the chapters. National officers and professional men in the journalism field made the selections. The award brought national recognition to the Eugene fra ternity for its work in the journalism field. The members of Sigma Delta Chi are chosen on a basis of interest and work in journalism. They supposedly represent the top undergraduates in journalism. The Oregon chapter's rating of second in the nation not only speaks well for members of Sigma Delta Chi, here, but is another tribute to the University and the school of journalism. The school of journalism—although refusing to take full credit—has been recognized by many authorities as one of the outstanding schools of its kind in the nation. The award made to the Oregon chapter of Sigma Delta Chi somewhat, confirms their judgment. Student Prank? | T AST Saturday morning Oregon students who happened to walk through the women's quadrangle noticed, with • mingled emotions of amusement and disgust, that campus • pranksters had scored again —this time upon the pioneer . mother. A bucket of yellow paint had been poured over the . pioneer mother s head and had run smearilv down the whole statue. On the base of tlie statue hud been painted in huge ! green letters “44.” "Whether the freshmen are responsible for the act can. prob ably, never be accurately determined. Probably it doesn't make much difference who is responsible for the depredation, * for such an act cannot be called by a milder term. Now we don't mind if playful freshmen decide that in the • interest ol school spirit they should paint the senior bench ~ and thereby issue a lusty challenge to the special privileges of * the upperclassmen. Such uproarious behavior n. probably the ; college students' heritage and far he it from us to deny them * this privilege. But. after all. isn't it going a little too far when I, student must besmear with paint a symbol of motherhood: The pioneer mother and the pioneer father are an invaluable part of the Oregon campus. They are landmarks. They are closely interwoven with Oregon traditions and will uudoubt . cdly be remembered by Oregon students long after many of . their experiences on the cauipm have been forgotten Of course, the paint didn't stay there long. Campus painter., went to work at once to remove the work of the “vandals” but the damage had been doin'. It was an aet unworthy of an : Oregqn student. Let tn. h p; that nothing suuiUr ever occur* again-~H.O. I Want to Know About Conscription * Will my boy friend be exempt if I have his pin? From the trivial drivel,' expressed above by one coed, to the profound ran the question naires in The Emerald’s survey on selective service last week. Reduced in number by con solidation with other affinitized questions, the following indicate undergraduate queries on the chief topic of today’s conversation. What is the purpose of selective service, in general terms? Volume I, Selective Service Regulations, anwers this. “. . . to secure an orderly, just, and democratic method whereby the military manpower of the United States may be made available for training and service in the land and naval forces of the United States . . . with the least possible disruption of the social and economic life of the nation.” Are married men exempt? Men of draft age are not exempted if mar ried after a given date (expected to be some time between September 15 and October 16). However they are in Class III, “deferred be cause of dependents.” A dependent, is de fined in the Selective Service Regulations as “the registrant’s wife,” in one instance. Not only must this dependent be a United States citizen but she must depend “in fact for sup port in a reasonable manner ... on income earned by the registrant by his work in a business, occupation, or employment.” How long are college students exempt? Assuming a college student means one who has “entered upon attendance in a college or university. . . . for the academic year 1940-41, ad before January 1, 1941. . . . and is in sub stantially full-time attendance . . . and is there a bona fide student pursuing a. course of in struction which the, . . . university requires be satisfactorily completed as a requisite to conferring degrees in the arts or sciences . . .” — if that is meant — a college, student shall claim deferment until the end of the academic, year 1940-41, at least not later than July 1, 1941. How long is the procedure to continue? As approved by the president, September 16, 1940, 9:08 p.m., E.S.T., the act, as far as we are concerned, shall beconje inoperative after May In, 1945, “. . . unless this Act is con tinued in effect by the Congress.” (Quotes from provisions of the act: S. 4164, third ses sion of 76th Congress.) What method will be used in drafting those who become 21 a week or a month after the registration period? Subsequent registration dates will bo de eided upon and announced by Director Dyk stra at which time such will be registered, later classified and selected, later possibly inducted. How will selective service affect enrollment in universities and liberal arts colleges in Sep tember, 1941? Who knows? Barring a state of war, one might guess that many students without being drafted may enlist voluntarily and in that way serve their time. That’s only one specula tion, however. Will those boys taking junior and senior ROTC be called? Such a student is not required to register under the provisions of the Selective Service Act. Should he drop out of advanced ROTC, he would be required to register. Should he remain in such military classes until receipt of his commission as a second lieutenant in the officers’ reserve corps, lie would become subject to army regulations. Senior law school students: if drafted be fore the state bar examinations in July, would the desire to take such examinations be suffi cient cause for deferment until after such ex aminations are taken? July is eight months away. The regu».tions do not say senior law students will have such deferment. There is nothing to prevent • law school student body or its seniors from plead ing for such deferment. • How many numbers will be taken in 0*«gon the first year? Again, who knows? At present so many volunteers have presented themselves for ser vice that one may hazard this guess: no one will be conscripted until next summer. Maybe not then should the number of present volun tary enlistments be any criterion for the future. I am a CAA flight student, 20 years of age. If I enter Randolph Field, will the draft get me? As a. flight cadet at Randolph Field, you will not be subject to the draft during the continuance of such training. Many other questions of lesser importance remain unanswerable because of space limita tions. One might well remember the words of Director Dykstra in a statement made Novem ber 9: “The test is the welfare of the nation and the community. Although individual hard ships should be dealt with in each case with, the greatest consideration, sacrifices are ex pected of everyone, and the fact that a little more sacrifice is asked of some than of others is inevitable/’—R.N.V. A Line or Two By WEN BROOKS Alax Eastman in his book "The Sense of Humor” com ments on the fact that courage is required to take life playfully, but even more courage to take death in the same way. Regard ing Sir Thomas More's execu tion . . . “As he set foot on the scaffold it shook a little, and he said to the executioner who of fered him a hand: ‘Help me to ascend ... I will shift for my self coming down.’ ” * * « And a classic example of wit from the same book, how Cic ero’s friend Nasica avenged himself upon a Roman gentle man by the name of Ennius, upon whom he'd paid a call. (We’ll change the names to Bill and Joe.) Well, Bill had been in formed by the maid that Joe wasn’t at home when he called. So when Joe came to call upon Bill one day. Bill simply stuck his head out the window and said, "I am not at home.” “What are you talking about?" from Joe. "Don't I know your voice?" "Why, you rascal! 1 believed your maid when she told me you were not at home,” said Bill, "and you won't believe me even when I tell you myself!” * * * Eastman included this ex ample or repartee in his book. It was the reply Charles Sumner made to a minister who asked him why he did not go into the South with his anti-slavery speeches . . . the South where livery actually existed. Sum ner eyed the minister shrewdly. ' You are trying to save souls from hell, aren't you? Why don't you go there?” Graduate students greatly in creased in number at Oregon dur ing 1939 summer sessions. The rise is credited to higher requirements for post-graduation credits fo: teaching certificates. From All Sides Exchanges by Corrine Lamon Swing With Santa Fe Excerpts from a column on the University of California special train trip to the Cal USC game: ‘‘That train trip was rugged to start with. "Swing and sway with Santa Fe—17 hours” as someone com mented. And rallies at every five-minute stop and five min ute stops every five minutes. . . . And then there was the Biltmore operator who woke people up in a cherry voice with "Good morning; nine thirty; temperature 61; would you like to be called again?” That was Saturday morning. Sunday, the. temperature was 62. . . . One of the better cracks of the whole weekend came from the lad who figured he's had eight hours sleep in 61 hours. ‘You know, statistically, I'm VERY tired,' he said.” Daily Californian. * * * Anti-Football Ordinance Three University of Washing ton students were arrested for violating a city ordinance playing football in the street. “You have been warned many times. . . . We cannot issue the ordinance with every football sold in the city,” the judge said. One paid the $5 fine—the other two spent a night in jail. —University of Washington Daily. * • * Land of the Free A taxi driver, while parked at the curb, was accosted by a lady. "Are you .free?” she asked. He raised his calm, old gray head and answered, "Mad am, as Plato said, ‘No man is free'.” —Daily Texan. * * * And P.S.— Breathes there a man with soul so dead who never to him self has thought about doing anything for it, like gargling or something ? Dear Ma 1 spent the $15 you gave me at the beginning of the quarter to use as a fee when I got tapped by Phi Beta Kappa. They don't take freshmen. Elmer —Silver and Gold. In the Editors Mail To the Editor: Homecoming week this year revived a number of old tradi tions that created a great deal of enthusiasm and school spirit for the continuance of these customs. Many of us ate of the opinion that a school cannot have too many traditions because it is through these aides that we build up school spirit. Oregon, as we all know, does no* have that certain unity among its students that every university and col lege should have. We have a cer* tain amount of it, of course, but not as mueh as we should have. Those of us who are inter ested in seeing ‘Oregon as a school with a great deal of spirit have this suggestion to offer As soon as the whistle has blown on the last quarter of an Credos \; Lin- 'ry feetts*' - *" and Oregon has won the game. the entire student body section should immediately cross the field and serenade the losing team. This tradition has been ear ned on for many years in uni versities and colleges in the south. They say that it has helped to build up their school spirit and at the same time to break down hatred between schools. Naturally, when a win mug team consents to serenade the losing team their sportsman ship seems to rise in the eyes of all. At the present time many older people and also many col leges aren't too sure that we arc very good sports. Let's show them by adopting this new tradition, what a pow erful and unified school we real ly are and .at the same time take a big step towards display <>> i* V> <e, pun* ' Eleanor Sederstrom wright or wrong With TOMMY WRIGHT Wright or Wrong, we make our suppositions and jump at our own conclusions. If you read it with the same conclu sions, you’d better get your mind out of the gutter. THIS WEEK . . . Five gals from Oregon Ag gie Cow-lege; a Kappa, 3 Gam mafis and a Waldo dorm coed invaded the Oregon campus and did Willamette park with the Theta Chi boys. One of the Gamma Phi girls went to corn valley sporting Bill Rickman’s pin. AT THE CAL GAME . . . Alpha Chi Janet Goresky misses the Cal game to watch an Oregon State end named Johnny lose to Stanford. . . . Paul Bocci, Bill Fuglt, Kerin Storli, Frank Bosch, Bob Mc Donald, and Pete Lamb in a merry pugnacious mood offer ing to take on an equal num ber of Cal rooters. . . . Erling Jacobsen of the Kappa Sigs, pacing the lobby of the Palace hotel like an expectant father, waiting for Sue Cunningham, Alpha Phi. . . . Sue stood him up until eleven just one-half hour before closing time for the football players . . . Buck “Scoop” Buchwach, Scotty Wil son, and Doc. Henry really cov ering (the city) . . . everybody was at the pre-game rally at the Pink Hat . . . among every body was Prexy Tiger Payne, yell king Earl Russell, Bud Van denynde, Bill Friewald, Helen Howard, and Edith Borda . . . Jim Gleeson, Sigma Nu, and Jean Baker doing the spots to gether . . . hinted that the two skipped over to Reno and vis ited a judge . . .and from the two, a denial . . . OVERHEARD . . . Something about some of the girls at the Kappa house not getting to be bridesmaids if Bette Morfitt and SAE gradu ate Chuck Coffin have a secret marriage this year. . . . 3 MINUTE POME . . . My poetry smells, they say, But I don’t give a darn. If they don’t like the Wright way —Hey! W’hat rhymes with darn ? WHISPERS IN THE DARK It’s Frank Herbert one week end and Tom Watts the next for Adele Say, Hendricks hall . . . Brian Thompson, Canard club with AOPi Donna Williams more than once. . . . Betty Phil lips with Harold Handshuh . . . Anne Brown whispering over a cup-a-cawfee with Dick Phil lippi of the Phi Delts . . . Bet ty Jane Biggs, AOPi adds a Delt pin with Ray Schrick on the losing end . . . Carl Reiter and Anita Galton make a 30 day compromise to get some studying done . . . Frances Cox, Pi Phi, wishing the profs would take it easy on assignments so she could have some mor? spare time; for what? . . . Lulu Pali gets a lei from the boy back home in Honolulu . . . Lorene Marguth of Hiland house with an alum from OSC . . . Bill Hilton with a brunette at the Skinner performance . . . The “Little” man of the ATOs keeps the telephone lines clear for La Grande and Seattle. . . . CONCLUSION . . . When WRONG comes, Can Wright be far behind. Jean “Blonde” Pietarila of Hen hall won't be back at school next term because of a marriage ceremony . . . Roberta Buckingham takes an ATO pin from the lad at Stanford . . . Alvera Maeder goes noble with a family crest pinned some where. READER ADS Ten words minimum accepted. First insertion 2c per word. Subsequent insertions lc per word. DISPLAY ADS Flat rate 37c column inch. Frequency rate (entire term): 35c per column inch one time week. 34c per column inch twice or more a week. Ads will be taken over the telephone on a charge basis if the advertiser is a sub* scriber to the phone. Mailed advertisements must have sufficient remittance^ enclosed to cover definite number oflnsertions. Ads must be in Emerald busmes- office no later tlwu 6 p m. prior to the day of in scrtioo. • Teaching TUTORING GERMAN - Trans lations by experienced teacher educated in Germany. 00c an hour. Miss Anna Gropp, 1793 Columbia St. Fhone 2S19-J. • Lost RED WINE zipper purse. Ha. *: _ca ♦ - vlx c> r>H *■*>£•*> e. » »e~i H £43 Alder. Fber.e I25-J. International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS Pacifists will gain cole) com fort from the speech John L. Lewis made to the CIO con vention yesterday. The occasion was President Roosevelt’s call Cummings for a "just and honorable peace" between the A F of L and the CIO. The amalgam ated clothing workers union, one of the un ions in the CIO. suggested that "exploratory ne gouauons uu luaumcu wiui AF of L peace committee. Lewis takes the rostrum: “Now comes the piercing wails and lamentations of the amal gamated clothing workers and they say ‘Peace, ain’t it won derful!’ ” His voice, according to Bill Lawrence of the United Press, dropped to a contemptu ous pitch as he repeated this column’s theme song. Then Lewis, who is adept at playing the organ of mass emo tion with all stops open, thun dered on—"Peace—and there is no peace. There is no peace be cause you (the CIO) are not yet strong enough to command peace on honorable terms. No, and there will be no peace until you possess the strength and sinew to bargain on equal terms." For John Only From reading that statement it is evident that the only kind of peace John L. Lewis will go for is one that he dictates him self. We don’t blame the CIO for refusing to dissolve its unions and go back into the AF of L piecemeal. Industrial unionism is the next evolutionary and logical step after craft union ism and it would be ^ step backward to dissolve the big unions that the CIO has built up in the mass production in dustries. But it is a shame, in our opinion, that the settlement of costly jurisdictional disputes— arguments over who shall col lect the dues and not over wag es and working conditions— should be dependent upon the agreement of a couple of wind bags like William Green and John L. Lewis. Where Is Democracy The fact that these two men exert such an influence over American labor makes one doubt if there really is any democ racy in the labor unions. It ap pears as if these two have re tained their power through bu reaucracies and the spoils sys tem. In spite of the fact that Lewis has resigned as president of the congress of industrial organi zations he still remains the dominant figure in the CIO be cause of his control of the unit ed mine workers union, the larg est and wealthiest union in the CIO. Any president elected at this convention will probably be a Charlie MacCarthy sitting on Lewis’ knee. In the President’s Footsteps Philip Murray, Pittsburgh la bor leader and already CIO vice-president, has declined the honor but may follow Roose velt's example and allow him self td be "drafted.” Because Bruce Hammond, one of our most faithful critics and a self-admitted imperialist, has complained that we don't have enough "international” news in this space, we make brief mention here that Bir mingham, great industrial city in the heart of England’s mid lands, suffered a terrific aerial assault last night. Fury of the attack was said to equal or sur pass that which devastated Cov entry last week. There is not much that can be said about these mass air raids, unless one gives the gory details. We hate to read about them and have no editorial com ment to make except that war is hell and peace is wonderful, even if John L. Lewis does dis agree. > For Discriminating $1.98 Doeskin mittens to keep you warmer than warm. “Wear-Rights” come in all colors, are soft, and wear forever. 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