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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, (NC 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_ 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 8300 Extension : 382 Editor: 363 News Office; 359 Sports Office; and 364 Business Offices. ►'at Erickson, Women's Editor i cd Kenyon, Photo Editor -fob Flaveile, Co-Sports Editor \en Christianson, Co-Sport» Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF 4 „ Wes Sulhvan, Ass’t News Tom Wright, Ass t Managing Editor Et!itor.„. Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t News Corrine Wigncs, Executive Editor Secretary ' Ray Schrick, Ass’t Managing Johnnie Kahananm, feature Editor Editor UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Uvera Maeder. Classified Advertising Man Roll Alpaugh, Layout Production Manager Janet Farnham, Office Manager Your Part In The War On 'Flu JNFLUENZA has spread very rapidly on the campus during the past week and now is assuming the proportions of a minor epidemic. The infirmary with limited space has been turning away patients daily with only the most serious cases being admitted. The situation is nothing to be alarmed about. Usually every year with the first rains a number of cases are reported. The vast majority of these cases can be cleared up by simple hospital treatment. There are, however, some very definite measures students can take to prevent getting influenza. In a letter to the Em erald Dr. Fred N. Miller of the University infirmary sets down a few of them. Most of tin; measures are simple stu dents have probably heard them before—but it lollowed they will greatly lessen the chances of picking up the llu bug. These measures are: (1) Get plenty of sleep (2) Prevent fatigue or exposure, (U) Keep hands away from the nose and mouth (4) Be certain to wash hands in very hot water before meals (f>) Don’t visit those who are ill (6) If ill call a doctor immediately. # # * JN addition Dr. Miller makes the suggestion that house presi dents and house managers make certain that all dishes are washed thoroughly in very hot water. Dishes should be leit in water at least two minutes to be certain of killing all germs, he says. If this is done it will greatly eliminate the spreading of the germs in that manner. House presidents also should report immediately all eases where students are feeling ill. A daily checkup would be an excellent precautionary measure, he writes. Unfortunately “cold shots,” gargles, and mouth washes are of no value against the “flu” germs. In some eases gargles irritate the mouth and throat and make the student more susceptible to the germs. While most of the preventive measures suggested by Dr. Miller are very simple and doubtlessly have been told to stu dnts before, printing them here may serve as a reminder. By cooperating with the infirmary—by following these pre cautionary measures—students can help a great deal in cheek ing this epidemic. A Defense of a Privilege /'ABJECT of much criticism from harassed sports writers of ■ ^ late lias been Oregon’s football mentor, Tex Oliver. The reason—Tex has been holding secret practice in preparation for the big game of the year, the annual “civil war.” A few days ago a story appeared in the Oregon Journal sports section ridiculing i'ex, with the light, flippant, journal istic touch, for his rather long, unbroken string of secret practices. The story rambled on at considerable length to point out a few of the things that were definitely known about the Oregon squad, among which were such profound bits of wisdom as the following: (1) Oregon has a football team, and (2) A game will be played at Corvallis next Saturday between Oregon and Oregon State, and (11) Oregon has been practicing for the game, and so on endlessly. Now that is all very well. Far be it from us to deny the worthy gentlemen of the press the privilege ot having their fun. But aren’t they forgetting something? Aren’t they forgetting that holding secret practices is a coach’s prerogative? Every coach does it. Possibly not as much as Tex has done of late but. never the-less, we insist that that is Tex’s privilege. Why shouldn't he have the right. to hold secret practices as much as he pleases? # # # AREN'T they forgetting that Tex is an acknowledged master when it comes to football tactics? Even the Cali fornia papers have conceded that much—>' • anti-Oregon as they are. Admitting this then, wouldn’t it seem that Tex is deserving of a little respect? Aren’t they forgetting that Oregon is approaching one of the most important games of the year—the annual “civil war”? And aren’t they forgetting that it is more or less customary for teams to hold secret practice before the big game of t he year ? Two things are certain. One—the old saying, 1 Lie who laughs last laughs best is still true. Two—Oliver will ha\c the last laugh if his underrated squad should dump the Beavers today. We feel confident that the Duck squad is not going to be such a weak, unresisting victim of the highly touted Beaver attack as some people seem to think. We have never, in the three years that Oliver has been here, seen an Oregon team that wasn’t plenty :-crappy and wasn’t likely to hr a big headache for any team in the conference As a filial point might we point out that thc.-r journalistic artists would be highly offended if Tex were to try to tell them how they should write their stories or what kind of . headline* they should put cu th-gi. V, by then .h,uld they expect to tell Oliver how to coach his team .—H O. Coeds Look at a War college campus might be defined in one sense as a “group of people living together in an artificial world all their own, where the immediate problems of studying and social contacts cast most of the important crises of the outer world into a shadow of unreality.” It is unusual then when a cam pus organization—particularly a coed group—comes out with a material contribution to a disaster in that “outer world.” The organization was the Associated Women Student coun cil . . . and the contribution is $30 to he donated to British war relief for use to buy three cots for English babies in the air raid shelters. Such action produces a startling train of thought. The war is becoming closer and closer to home. The conscription, which directly affected a large percentage of male Webfoots and in an indirect way a large number of coeds, was the big-scale step that changed the war from something to provide good reading over the morning coffee to a war with a personal angle. '^piIE step of the AWS council does not, it would appear. indicate that the University is becoming more strongly pro-British. It does not indicate that the large percentage of anti-war believers famous on the Oregon campus have changed their minds. It does not mean that we believe it is America's fight, even now. It seems to be only an indication of a realization by Uni versity students that there is the fiercest war the world has ever known now in progress . . . and that there is suffering and disaster that follows in its wake. Americans are full of humanitarian principles . . . and Oregon coeds, just as thou sands of others all over the country are doing, made a contri bution to relief for suffering, not to war itself.—II.A. The Broadcaster s Serenade nPHF American public certainly is well informed—I just jumped at that conclusion after dodging, or 1 should say trying to dodge, ten news broadcasters on my radio. The people in other countries arc forced to get their news through an official newspaper and thereby get only one side of it. They listen only to a few special news flashes, but not so we Americans. We have 976 news commentators on the air by courtesy of 976 advertisers to tell us that Mussolini piddled while Athens spurned. We must be well informed at any cost, even if every news commentator docs say practically the same thing. Usually at night when I come home J enjoy settling down beside the radio and working with some kind of a musical background. It does not hinder my concentration, but the minute a speaker starts I can no longer study. Never has there been a night that I could study for much longer than half an hour without having to get up and turn the radio of some behind the headlines or Hollywood gossip reporter. It seems that my static inhaler is infested with these fast talking, ear-splitting reporters, but 1 know that others are experiencing the same thing. A friend of mine in Chicago recently told me that he could tune some kind of a news broadcast at every hour of the day from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. # # # £ recently counted 1101 special news broadcasts listed in one of the national radio magazines. This did not include 12 or more special network programs and about as many special Hollywood gossip reporters. Perhaps it will be charged that this is a tirade by a news paperman against the newspaper’s competitor —the radio. Perhaps it is, but a newspaper can be read whenever con venient. Furthermore, a new edition isn’t pushed before you every half hour. “Good evening ladies and gentlemen this is Tommy Rot bringing you the latest news pf the day through the courtesy of Big Ben your local plumber ...” have become familiar words to every American radio owner. Americans are great people, they must have something to do, some fad to follow. First it was yo-yo, then miniature golf, jig-saw puzzles, and “Confucius say” . . . now it is a new game called “Can You Take It” or “Dodging the News Broadcasters. ’ ’—L.N. Biography in Crisis By J. PARKK If it is a prerequisite for as piring' leaders who wish to join the "new European order” to have spent some time in prison or exile, then Premier-General Ion Antonescu of Rumania, too, is well qualified. For only three days after his release from prison, September 5, 1910, Antonescu was made premier by King Carol II. Not only was parliament dissolved and the constitution abolished, but Iron Guardist and other pressures forced Hohenzollern Carl II to leave, as well. Assuming the ministries of war, armaments, navy, and in terior to himself, Premier An tonescu started his rule with the intention of establishing a broad national government, with a strong army flavor and in which all parties and the Iron Guard were represented. Among his first acts were the lifting of the press censor ship and the cancellation of ex traordinary police measures which had been in effect under Carol But to smooth over the difficulties caused by Ruman ia's territorial losses lo Hun gary proved not easy. In the spirit of the Vienna agreement, however, Antonescu sent mes . ages of assurance to both Hit ler and Mussolini. Antonescu. described as hon est, serious, clever, well-in formed, pro-German and pro K-'t'sh v as educated at mill tary academies in France. At the end of World War I he was a colonel and later served as military attache in Rome and London. In the summer of 1938, An tonescu, then chief of staff, fell into disgrace. At a social func tion he refused to kiss the hand of Magda Lupescu, King Car ol's mistress, and was thereby demoted to a minor command. Shortly after Antonescu's resignation from the army in November, 1938, an abortive revolt against Carol broke out and Antoneseu was imprisoned for a short time. Opposing the cession of northern Bukovina and Bessarabia to the Soviet Union in July, 1910, Antoneseu was again imprisoned until his appointment as premier. Recent developments in Ru mania would indicate that the country had experienced one of the first phases of all strong dic tatorships, that of political purges. TWO TOP FEATURES! “Three Men From I exas with William Boyd and Russell Hayden — plus —» Boris Karloff in 4'The Ape With TOMMY WRIGHT Pan mail continues to come in and we're becoming not a lit tle worried. Maybe we wouldn't look so good without any hair, and with cold weather coming on we might catch a death-o cold from a dip in the race. REBUKED . . . ... by Vic Sears, Oregon Ag gie tackle (as quoted in one Portland paper) “Some writer for the Oregon Emerald has re ferred to us as a bunch of Ag gies from the Cowlege. Unless I miss my guess, he’ll regret that statement.” Help me out please, Ducks, and bring me a couple-o-dozen beaver pelts. ... by the Phi Delts, for put ting one and one together and getting one-half. Carl Jantzen’s ring is on the digit of Esther Horstkotte not on her sister Mary’s. ... by friends of Pat Taylor. The lad she is seeing is in the army air corps, not a marine. WHISPERS IN THE DARK Who is the law school chum they call Caleb, we’ve seen hanging around the Alpha Chis lately? . . . ADPi’s Beverly Sut lon gets a Delt pin from OSC —the loser Roy Boats of the northern branch . . . (note: George Varoff is out of town) so it's Jim West for Alpha O's Penny Mullen . . . and what hap pened to the Howard Cavan agh-Yvonne Torgler affair . . . Sigma Kappa Peggy Carnie drafts an SAE pin from a Cali fornia institution and how is she. going to wear it with the Kappa Sigma pin she has from deare olde Oregon? . . . Anoth er late pin wearer is Milo Dan iels of the Gamma Phis with one from a fellow named Hunt . . . Freshmen spent a half hour be fore they discovered they were at a sophomore meeting. THIS WEEK . . . University of Oregon stu dents move en masse to Corval lis to view the great game of punt, pass, and prayer—and to consume any other experience and stuff available. Here is a warning to Oregon Piggers who desire to do a lit tle fussing on the State cam pus. It isn’t easy to take those girls. If you have any such plans. Expect to sign your name and life away on the house reg isters, and if you don’t make the curfew deadline, get ready to make a pass at your pocket book and pay for your over time pleasure. And you had better keep one eye open for this columnist unless you want the friend back home to hear about this weekend fling. And please don't point me out to any vicious looking Staters, ‘‘Cause I love life, and I wanta live.” And I hear that some times they have some pretty tough farmers patroling Bell field on Saturday afternoons. OK. We're all going to the game, and we're going to watch the Webfoots flop a spot of cockiness out of those funny creatures with the pelts. To fuake it a big day bring along your Echo, and Shadow. OVEKHEAKU . . . The coed who says she has a very good reason why we shouldn't have to register on January second — Quote — I won't be awake before then— unquote. CONCLUSION . • • Oregon I pledge to thee. That where there's dirt, Well there I'll be. Both now and in the days to be, I'll write it down for history. At a recent tournament at Mar quette uuiversity, in which 1,000 youngsters participated, a human chessboard,” with children as pawns, was used to popularize the game. The original manuscript of a a report signed by Hernando Cor tez. sixteenth-century governor of New Spain, is in the University of Texas library. International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS It is 1:45 p.m. Saturday af ternoon. You are sitting in Bell field, Corvallis, waiting for the game to start. You are holding the Emerald in your hand. The reason for that is you brought it over with you so you can look up the players’ numerals on the sport page. You have been sitting in the bleachers for about twenty min utes and you have read the game story very thoroughly, looked over the front page, and digested some of the editorials. You exchange greetings with some passing acquaintances, murmur a remark about the weather to your seat-mate, and finally in desperation turn back to the edit page. Let’s see if that guy Cum mings has got anything to say today, you think, and then you read the first line and say “how does he know that?” and we’ve got you hooked. Dangerous Point But if we have got you to read this far then this is the dangerous point where we may part ways. We could be coy and make a play on “civil war,” ty ing Oregon-OSC up with the fact that fighting in Rumania between the Iron Guardists and the army verges on outright civil war—but it is not a joking subject. r From All Sides By CORINE LAMON Draft Evader Declaring that his conscience refused to let him register or have anything to do with the national draft, a former Univer sity of Kansas student awaits arrest and conviction. A philos ophy major, the student with drew from the university a week after registration day and made complete preparations for the arrest. ‘‘I am utterly against any thing to do with war ... I couldn't permit myself to reg ister . . . When I get out of the coop I intend to re-enroll at KU and get my degree,” he stated. Punishment for violators of the selective service act is a $10,000 fine or five years imprison ment. —University Daily Kansan. Rubber Maps Hitler isn’t the only one who is changing the map these days. An assistant to the dean of stu dent affairs at the University of Minnesota has invented a sponge rubber relief map which will be much cheaper than the cumbersome plaster of paris maps now in use. ‘‘A kid could throw an eraser at Pike's Peak on a plaster map and it would break off,” the inventor ex plained. "But these rubber ones, you can bounce on ’em!” —Minnesota Daily. And V.S. Enrollment in French has fallen off sharply at the Uni versity of Texas. Students seem to think it's a dead language. * * * An English psychologist says: “When a man is so ill as to be lieve he is ill when he is not ill, he is very ill indeed.'' # * * Moscow youngsters average a bath every eight days. It's things like that that attract some people to Communism. —Daily Texan. DRAMA AND ACTION! “Men Against the Sky” with Richard Dix and Kent Taylor — also — “Law and Order” with Johnny Mack Brown Carefree and Collegiate! “TOO MANY GIRLS” with LUCILLE BALL ind RICHARD CARLSON The Iron Guardists have been running amuk these last few days, breaking into jails and murdering their political ene mies, mostly men who were supporters of the former King Carol. Some 2000 persona are reported slain during the last three days. The Iron Guard is pro-Nazi and many of the vic tims are Jewish. Premier General Ion Anton cscu is having a hard time try ing to restore order. His army is reported fighting sharply with the Iron Guardists at Brasov and several other Rumanian cities with unpronounceable names. inierveniiuii Hitler’s army is expected to intervene if Antonescu can’t put down the insurrection. Al though the rebels are pro-Nazi the chances are Hitler will take the government’s side because fie needs a stable regime that will insure the continued ship ment of important supplies to Germany. On other fronts, the Greeks are reported to be continuing their drive into Albania. The Greek island of Corfu, which lies off the coast of Epirus close to Albania, has been un der merciless air bombardment and residents of a lunatic asy lum in the city are said to have fled after a bomb damaged their building. If the lunatics could just cross the Adriatic and visit Mussolini they ought to feel right at home—although maybe that’s unfair to II Duce for though he is bitten by the war bug he’s not the only one suffering from the disease. Kennedy’s Theory Joe Kennedy, U.S. ambassa dor to Britain, has been vac cinated. In a statement last night he denied that Britain would lose the war and added, “What I am concerned with is keeping America out of the war. Everyone has known from the beginning that I have been against American entry into the war.” Wendell Willkie addressed an interfraternity conference last night and said he did not believe that a man should be called a “war-monger” because he ad vocated aid to Britain or a “fifth columnist” because he believed that we should defend only our own shores. The de feated presidential candidate called for continued aid to Bri tain. London Bombed London took a serious bomb ing last night, one of the heav iest raids in weeks. On the other side of the world Japan formally recognized the puppet regime of Wang Ching Wei in a treaty signed at Nan king. Spokesmen of the Chung King government described the action as "illegal and meaning less.” Chiang Kai-Shek probably laughed in his sleeve. Manchu kou, a puppet itself, promptly recognized the Wang regime, but it is very doubtful that Washington or London will fol low suit. Harriet Elliott, only woman member of the national defense advisory commission, is on leave as dean of women at the Univer sity of North Carolina. The BAND BOX By BILL MOXLEY Snaring a big name band for a campus dance is like looking for a needle in ten hay stacks with somebody continually mov ing the hay. Orchestra-getter Pete Riley and his dance com mittee have been ransacking the country in search of a big name for the sophomore inform al this December 7. Telegrams have been flying thick and fast, but fate, fail ure, and the school authorities have dogged the heels of the dance committee from the start. Two of the nation’s top negro bands were available for the 14th. We could have had out choice between Floyd Ray or Lionel Hampton. But no soap because exams will be lurking just behind the door by the 14th. Sophs Are Stymied So at present the sophomores are stymied. But with a dying gasp they swear that they'll pick off the best campus talent available. Hurrah for a good try at least. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Pub lishers sends a special bulletin to the University regarding the second year of its $720 Fellow ship award. Last year ASCAP started its nation-wide Fellow ship Competition for Compos ers and Authors of College Mu sical Plays in the belief that improved standards of college theatricals and musical shows will reflect in better work for the professional stage, and that the entire entertainment field will benefit. The nation is divided into eight districts with a $720 prize going to the best college show in each district. The Northwest section includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyo ming, Utah, and Colorado. Last year the University of Wyoming won the award with its student show, “Here We Go Again.” Longest Trip STUFF . . . The New York Philharmonic - Symphony or chestra is this year going to take its longest trip since 1930. In fact its going to come way west to Pittsburgh—practically on the Pacific coast. . . '. Peo ple who conduct public opinion pells are finding a new and very fertile field among the many products that sponsor ra dio shows. Radio selling is be coming a science, and what the poor mute listening public thinks of the air wave pro grams is a vital problem to the sponsors. ... If 1 have one half hour a week to convince you that my hair oil is better than somebody's else, I want to make the most oi^t of those thirty minutes and the five thousand dollars that they'll probably cost me. So I hire a poll to tell me whether you would rather hear screeching sopranos, sports commentators, soft chamber music, mystery dramas, or wild swing bands. Then I'll know how to sell more hair oil and make more money. 1 FOR HOLIDAY GLAMOUR dress for every-holiday You're bound to find a need in this wonderful collect ion . . . 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