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Oregon W Emer/uji The Oregon Daily Emerald, published daily during the college year except Sunday*. Mondays, holidays, and final examination period* by the Associated Student*. University of Oregon. Subscription rates: $1,116 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as second-clam matter at the postofflee, Eugene, Oregon. ____ Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., College publishers' representative. 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston —Lo* Angelea—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. LYLE M. NELSON, Editor .IAMES W. FROST, Business Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Hal Olney, Helen Angcll Jimmie Leonard, Managing Editor Fred May, Advertising Manager Kent Stitzer, News Editor Bob Rogers. National Advertising Manager Editorial and Business Offices located on ground floor of Journallsi i building. Phones 3300 Extension: 382 Editor; 363 News Office; 369 Sports Office; and 364 Business Office*. UPPER NEWS STAFF Pat Erickson, Women’s Wes SulHvan, Ass’t News Tom Wright, Ass’t Managing Editor Editor Editor Ted Kenyon, Photo Editor Betty Jane Biggs, Ass’t News Corrine Wignes, Executive Bob Flavelle, Co-Sports Editor . Secretary . Editor Ray Schrick, Ass t M anaging Johnnie Kahananni, feature Ken Christianson, Co-Sports Editor Editor Editor ____ UPPER BUSINESS STAFF Alvera Maeder, Classified Advertising Man-Bill Wallan, Circulation Manager a„er Emerson Page, Promotion Director Ron Alpaugh, Layout Production Manager Janet Farnham, Office Manager_ The Spirit Which is Oregon A great Oregon rally lias ended. This morning will sec Oregon students treking back to classes after a weekend of continuous celebration—a celebration which included vir tually everything in the hooks in the line of rallies. It was a great victory for the Oregon football team and it was a great rally which hailed their triumph. The vast majority of the student body celebrated in a manner of which the University can be proud. They did not leave the campus to parade. They did not try a trek to Corvallis to “rub jt in”— and incidentally, to cause trouble between the schools. They stayed at home and celebrated with an all campus rally, a pep assembly, and an all-afternoon dance. The morning rally was probably the best show of spirit by an Oregon student body in a good many years. The program and the parade really went over with a bang. Most of the houses on the campus cooperated to the fullest and they can be proud of the result. * # * 'T'HE “Bumpathon” in the afternoon, like the rally, topped ■*" anything seen at Oregon for a good many years. After over three hours of jostling each other around, students left with the expressed hope that more of these dances could be held. The Emerald, because this dance was such a success, joins in asking that the idea he continued. Today the celebration is over and it is time to settle down to the serious business of studies, grades, and exams. On „ the ability of students to get down to earth afterwards some » what depends the future of such celebrations. Finals are com l ing. Classes are here. No Seats for the Band RATIFYING as last Saturday’s game was from the view point of an Oregon student there were some occurrences that struck a definitely jarring, unpleasant note. Especially noticeable was the episode concerning the seats for the Oregon band. Usually, at ball games, a part of the student section is roped off for the band. However, through the negligence of someone, presumably the rally committee, no seats wore re served at the Saturday game with the result that when the band appared the student section was entirely filled and the Oregon band had no pluce to sit. Came much pleading with the students to move out and make room for the band. How ridiculous! Of course they weren’t going to move. Why should they? The students had come to the game, gotten their seats, and the student section was filled. Moving now meant giving up their good scats for poorer ones or giving them up for no seats at all. '1 hey d paid for their seats and they meant to keep them. So they held to their seats in spite of the frantic exhortations of the rally squad, the yell leaders, and Band Director John Stehn. # # # p'IN ALLY they managed to crowd the students a little closer together and cleared enough space, in the stands to seat the baud. In the meantime, the students were jostled around considerably, tempers were worn to the ragged edge of nothing, and a shameful exhibition of inefficiency and bickering had been displayed for the fans. Whose fault it was is of little importance. Whether it was the rally committee's duty to have the band section roped ott or if that job should have been taken care of by the Held officials makes very little difference now. Somebody should have taken care ol it. And the rally com mittee, if they had been on their toes, might have noticed that the band section was being filled up and gotten a place cleared before the stands were so filled that it was impossible, even if it was not their job. Had the rally committee done so they would have been truly serving the school.—11.0. Let’s Have Both Songs ^BOUT a year ago there was a great hue and cry raised m because Oregon had no fight song. Reams of publicity stories were printed on the desirability of obtaining a light song to relieve the strain on “Might Oregon the alma mater song. In order to satisfy the popular demand, John Dick, ASl O president, appointed a committee of seven to select a song The committee went to work at once. They asked for eoutri butions ami received them in great quantities. Some were simply not to be considered. Others were not bad. Finallv the committee sifted the contributions down to two tunes. These were presented to the students at an assembly and the stu dents enthusiastically voted to accept both songs. So Oregon had obtained two new fight songs. One of the songs was written by a member of the Univer sity band. We suppose that in the light of that fact it is only natural that member of the band should prefer the one written by their friend. U any rate, it seems rather obvious that they do prefer the one song rather than the other. But the members of the baud should remember that the students voted to accept both songs, that they wanted both, songs. Both songs are Oregon fight songs and both are a valuable addition to the songs of the University. One of the songs has been played so infrequently tins year that some of the student; didu t even realise v v had two s. mig.. Let’s Lave both of them, after this.—-H.O. Something About A Rally 'I MI ERE’ft something about a rally. There’s that infectious spirit, the excitement that grows from a rumble to a rolling thunder. There is a contagious joy to being, for the moment, lost in a crowd of fellow human beings. Who does not feel a prickle along Ihe spine as he listens to martial marching music? Who does not unconsciously stand straighter as he watches the drum major stiffen his back and step high, so proudly? So proudly . . . There is a. certain vicarious thrill in a rally or a parade. Somewhere someone has struggled, or is preparing to fight. We identify ourselves with the heroes, we are one with them. YW are pretty fine people. It is our fight, too, and we want to do something about it. If we are in the parade, we suffer ourselves to be herded. We can bear some slight discomfitures. After all, we arc heroes. If we are watching the parade, we see the band and the crowd of people, and notice the nervous excitement. We say, “How fine these human beings are. Look, they are all steamed up about an intangible ideal. They don't know why, but it is more important than anything else to them just now. How brave they are.” We don’t quite know what they’re excited about either, but it looks fascinating. Wc are ashamed of being left out, so we go and join the herd. Yes, there’s something about a parade, one Avitli military music.—P.E. A.W.O.L. A quick survey of the campus as the rally was starting yesterday was at least revealing, if not encouraging. While cheerleaders, coach, and a victorious team were trying to work up pep in the Igloo, small groups of students loitered around Friendly, the law school, and Deady. The Side had an average crowd. The library was about up to its regular 10 o'clock attendance. Most of the students at Ihe Side were engrossed in card games. At the library, there was a good number of students in the periodical, reserve, and study rooms. Many students were hurrying west on Thirteenth, presumably headed for a “coke” or for home. The main attraction of the pep assembly for these students appeared to be the fact that 10 o clock classes were dis missed.—K.ft. Parade o/ Opinion By ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS Between bomb-blasts in London and Berlin, Americans catch glimpses of another war. Many see in the Si no-Japanese conflict far-reaching influences on the western world. In the American college press, opinions differ as to the imminence of hostilities with Japan. But continued aid to China and ever stiffening resistence to Tokyo find vociferous Support. Fact that the recently reopened Burma Iload stays open is called “significant” by the University of Minnesota Daily. The road, comments Ihe Daily “symbolizes the remaining bonds between Free China and the democratic west. British reversal of policy therefore stiffened Chinese morale—and Secretary Hull’s overtures, which prompted the British action, strentghened Chinese faith in the United States’ Far Eastern policy.” American extension of credits to China is applauded by the Eastern Illinois State Teachers College News, which says: “Despite the fact that our chances of getting our money back from destitute China are slim, the loan will further spur her dogged resistance to Japan, at least delaying, if not prevent ing, our entry into a Japanese war. Far more important than the loan, however, is the embargo put on scrap iron. . . . We furnish the market for about 75 per cent of Japan s raw silk and we still buy most of her manufactured wares. Our own industry would benefit greatly and Japan might be brought quickly to her knees if a boycott was placed on her mer chandise.” At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Tech con cludes that “although the attendant risk is heightened, the steps we have taken in the east ought not to be revoked. This aggressive policy, of course, slices our security in the east. The Philippines are still highly vulnerable and the position of Americans in China becomes more perilous. Apart from these conditions, however, no major risk is involved. More concerned is the Daily Northwestern. “There can be no doubt,” declares this publication, “that a situation is fast developing in the east which could very possibly end in war with Japan. It certainly means that we have abandoned any pretense of neutrality in the Sino-Japauese struggle. It also means that wo are perhaps closer to war today than we have been since 1918.” W isconsin's Daily Cardinal believes recent developments indicate that “the seemingly inevitable conflict with Japan may be transformed from a long,"costly, possibly futile naval w ar into a matter of economic pressures skillfully applied.This country is now in a position to determine the outcome of both wars by her application of economic pressure in this hemi sphere ami in the Orient.” Summing up and appealing lor more aid to China, the Daily Texan points out that “the spirit of China is undaunted. There is no sign of weakening, no sign of surrender. The military might of Japan is at a stalemate. On the other hand, for tln> tens of millions of the Chinese people who are directly involved in this invasion the erudition is tragic. Let us help our own people and one another, but let us not forget the plight of a noble people whose wisdom and learning were ancient and great when the people of the western lauds were little short of savages.” The Poets' Nook (Editot s note Following are two short poems, one Roast Duck." was clipped from a recent edition cf the Oregon State Barometer. The other. "Beaver Dressing." was written by a staff member of the Oregon Daily Emerald m reply to the OSC ode.) KOAfcir DI CK Admitting that the Duck is good Perhaps he'd better knock ou wood Recalling as he struts and quacks 'last Deavcrs rda>h. caavss bachs. —P.NV.S. KtAtLli IWtMlAta We hate to admit we re like Beav ers. But I guess if you think so you're right For we've go* to admit when we play OSC V.'c do cur test work t. u duuu.te —J.W.S. wright or wrong With TOMMY WRIGHT We went right clown that field, we drove right down that field, we drove, drove, drove— for 20 big points, 15 knoak downs, and we finally got those goal posts. But that wasn't ail that happened. THIS WEEK . . . Four thousand, Webfoots cel ebrate the Technical KO of the Staters, five thousand Aggies attend a funeral for a badly skinned Beaver, and the OSC infirmary has the greatest rush of business in many a year. AT THE GAME . . . Gene Brown, pugilistic ATO, was the first on the field after the game, and the first to take a dozen Aggies to the infirm ary with him . . . Jack Boone also of hill boys, reached the regal spot on the goal post, but some rebels from the northern branch needed a pair of pants . . . Len Ballif, Theta Chi, made himself unnoticed on the rally squad, but obvious with the girl friend. . . . Jim Wilson was with Oregon Stater Dorothea Brown . . . Wally Hunter with his Hendricks hall steady . . . Lou Simonson with one of the defeated football players . . . Buzz Renick was really doing all right—but then came the dawn . . . Shirley Patton, who got wise and transferred to Oregon, dated by an Aggie . . . Art Wlggin made a lot of noise AFTER THE GAME for the benefit of his partner . . . saw one of the Schaefer boys after the dance with a likely looking blonde. . . . Didn’t know the lad with Helen Moore . . . Met the brother of our own Stan Watt—he offered some pretty fair excuses for the Webfoot win . . . DURING THE GAME . . . and immediately after . . . The ATOs go to the rescue of a brother on the way to the brig . . . incidentally they were the first on the field . . . Bud Salinardo made an awful lot of noise. . . Ralph Claybaugh, one of the Gamma boys, was really pepped up too . . . we looked in most of the ditches (they don’t have gutters over there) for Bill Fendall, but no could find . . . Dick Allen lost his watch, so everybody called time out to look, but when time was in EVERYBODY went at it again . . . some more of the cas ualties were Vic Collins, Butch Wilson, Morrie Sharp, Bill Fu git and Bud Vandenynde with various assortments of concus sions, black eyes, cuts, bruises, and depantsings. REBUKED . . . . . . By the Alpha Chi Omega girl, I mean the good looking one, for calling a persistent caller of their's Caleb, when the name should have been ‘iUa lif,” to quote a note from the AXOs—"it means an oriental potentate. This in turn is just a short form of his full title which is "Calif of Tler-Soheiss,” which in turn means "a master of the art of using many words l large) —unoqua-ote. CAMPUS WHISPERS . . . From closer to God’s country . . . Don Vernier gets a nice house bill for telephone calls to and from a nurse in Corvallis . . . Jean Routt, Campbell coed grabs an SAE pin from Wes Johnson . . . Movements of the hands adds a lot to the Hula dance but how many peopte have their eyes on Lulu rali’s hands . . . Who is this boy Gif fin. that Band Leader Stehn called on to help him blast a place for the MUSICIANS . . . wonder why so many cokes are consumed at football games . . . It’s a happ-happ-happy day at Oregon ... Ed Forester had to have some help to get out of Corn Valley, he picked the wrong place to yell “Poor Bea vers" . . . one of the dieting Alpha Chis Eadie Vturri and hooper Vic Townsend really stepping out at the Oregon State dances. CONCLUSION . . . OSC. My hat is off to you. You are tough, When there’s enough of you. Libe Displays Art \ selection of pictures which may be borrowed from the brows ing room of the library for one month are on display in showcases in the circulation lobby. The com plete collection includes over lf>0 paintings by old masters and mod ern artists of American. English. 3^**"''' !’»■ is ifo'i jw Russian and Meiooas nationality. International Side Show By RIDGELY CUMMINGS In a move that may be hailed either as a diplomatic victory for Britain or as another at tempt at appeasement, Great Britain yesterday signed a fi nancial agreement with Spain. Now this column's viewpoint is not anti-British, in spite of the fact that we are occasion ally hypercritical of the Brit ish strategy, particularly as pertains to this country. Rather, Nick Riasanovsky, history ma jor, is correct when he labels our outlook as isolationist, tinged with philosophical an archism. So with that preamble we may be permitted to say that we look upon this latest man euver by Britain with consid erable scepticism. Just before the downfall of France we re member reading about British economic consultations with the Italians. These were hailed with hope, but the attempt to buy off Italy was a failure. Are Unscrupulous Most governments appear to be unscrupulous in their for eign relations . . . more’s the pity . . . and this general state ment is especially true of the fascists. Francisco Franco, but cher of the Spanish Loyalists, is no democrat and his word has about the same market val ue as that of Hitler and 11 Duce. The news stories say that the pact is designed to free Spai^ ish funds now held in London and also to give Spain addition al money to purchase commodi ties from Britain. We could never see the logic of lending money to a customer so he can buy something unless the customer is a trustworthy object of credit. If the custom er is unreliable you stand a chance to lose both the loan and the goods. Shakespeare Says Shakespeare says “neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry." Of course me and Shake speare ain't authorities ®n in ternational finance, so maybe it's good business. But the way we see it, what’s to stop the Spaniards from col lecting the money now frozen in London and then jumping in on the side of the Axis? Well, time will tell about that one. Over the weekend the United States performed a very similar financial maneuver. Ar rangements are being made to lend $160,000,000 of U.S. money to China. President Roosevelt made the proposal Saturday, and yesterday the senate bank ing and currency committee and the house coinage committee agreed it was okay by unani mous vote. So it shouldn’t be long before the loan slides through congress. To Buy Supplies The way the money will be used is like this: fifty million from the import-export bank for China to spend in this coun try buying supplies, including armament; another 50 million from the U.S. stabilization fund to support the Yuan, the Chi nese monetary unit. We’re not sure, but think the Yuan is the same thing as the dollar Mex, which was worth about thirty cents the last time we were in the Orient. The other sixty millions will be spent by the Metal Reserves company, which is federally owned, to buy metals and ores from the Chinese. What Security The understanding is that the only collateral China puts up for the 160 million is the credit of the Bank of China and the pledged word of the Chiang Kai-Shek government. At least China's word ought to be worth more than Spain’s under Franco, but U.S. citizens ought to understand that the U.S. by making the loan is gambling the money on Chi ang’s side winning out in the struggle against the Wang Ching.Wei regime and Japan. It's okay with me. One hun dred and sixty million makes about a dollar apiece for each U.S. citizen, on a pro rata ba sis. I’m willing to bet a dollar on China, but I promise not to be a bad loser and insist that the navy go over and collect if something happens. s If the Shoe Fits—« m By J.E.M. Hep, hep, hooray for the Be tas! That goal post really added to the rally yesterday. Speaking of rallies and more rallies, some of the "duck” cer tainly have been showing the "farmers” what spirit really is —the result was black eyes— knockouts—and more spirit! The ATOs seem to have been right in there pitching-^more than one has been looking for raw beef—! But Morell Sharp got the worst of it, with black outs in both eyes! Seen at the rally dance— much jitterbugging, much cut ting in, good music, and— Gil Geitner making eyes at a redhead—Vernie Culp cutting up, as usual—Carl Little and Norma Poland—June Justice surrounded by Sigma Chis (and we mean surrounded!) — - Betty Wheeler and Pete Lamb whip ping up a few snappy steps— Hardy Sctzer and Jeanne Younger, with Bob Krebs fol lowing right behind—and last, but not least by any matter of means—the stagline! We hope this fine show of spirit lasts throughout the bas ketball season. Leaving the rallies for next term—What two Phi Psis have their pins planted on a couple of waitresses at Jack and Jill's in Portland? Why did the Alpha Phis hang up the phone when we called to ask them if it was true that Ernie Williams, Ci Psi, was go ing steady with Pat Larkin??? Speaking of Phis wc heard about the serenade a few millrace boys gave them Saturday night. Pat Nichols, Theta, conics home from Thanksgiving vaca tion with Tommy Williams', Chi Psi sweetheart pin. Have you seen Roberta Lem From All Sides By CORINE LAMON East Side Without finesse, three Har vard undergraduates attempted to chop down the Yale goalposts after the Harvard-Yale game last week. Armed with axes and spurred on by a wave of alcoholic enthusiasm, the mis creants ran into a dozen Yale watchman who were lying in ambush. They spent the night m jail. —Harvard Crimson. »■ * * North Side— Nearly $300 damage was caused when a fire broke out at the Sigma Fhi Epsilon house at the University of Washing ton last week. The fire depart ment switchboard operator had to call three times before the source of the fire was deter mined tis phOZJSCi in 3-1&T21 Wd-3 SO Ciw cited he forgot to mention the location—he just yelled "Fire!” — University of Washington Daily. And r.S.— The reason college boys don't put out their hands when they're making a turn in their cars is that they aren't octo puses. When a dashing young man is single he is generally thought of as a sport, but when he gets married he's a support. Sextus was pelted to death by the Gauls. Could we say that he died fro mGaul stones? —Daily Texan. Could they be referring to the WPA ? Q How is the work progress ing on the school building pro ject? a Slow b. Too slow c. Two ——— slow "Waiter, have you any wild duck?” "No sir. but we can procure a tame one and infuriate it for —W. V,*. Collegian. In the > Editor's Mail_ Dear Editor: Sportsmanship and school spirit dropped to a new low at the Oregon-OSC game Satur day. The humiliation which the school band suffered can in no way be minimized by our vic tory. Granted that it were a mis take on the part of the com mittee not to have roped off the center section for the band, there should have been no just cause for the refusal of the stu- ^ dents to give up their good seats for less desirable ones. The peak of humiliation was reached when the radio an nouncer was forced to plead with the Oregon students to make room for their own band. Whether the students in the center section should have re linquished their seats, or the other sections toward the goal zone should have moved further down is immaterial. The fact remains that the school band had to wander about and to wait for seats. It is safe to assume that ev eryone recognizes fully the tre- i mendous part which is played by a school band in any game. M It is secondary only to the cheers and the support given by the students. No one can deny that under the most adverse „ conditions, there is nothing like a good fight song by the band to keep up the morale of the men on the field. In the future, let us cooper ate more wholeheartedly to re instill sportsmanship and school spirit. Very truly yours, Paul F. Lee. Dear Editor: I am taking this way to thank everyone who so whole heartedly helped to get the spe cial edition folded Sunday eve ning. As this is probably the most important issue this term, I was very well pleased with the way everyone pitched in and cooperated, i:i getting the Em erald ready for delivery. I want to especially extend my thanks to the editorial, proofing, sports, news and pro motion departments of the Em erald. About all I can say is, just THANKS. Very sincerely, Bill Walian, Circulation Manager, Oregon Daily Emerald. en's Kappa Sig pin—she's wear ing it on the outside these days. We hear the Thetas fixed up their basement room for the house dance as a replica of the “Trees.” What sort of bever ages did they serve? New on the campus this year is George Boletoff with his fas cinating Russian accent! Bob Kendall, plants his Fiji, quote “badge.” unquote on Pat Lawson, AOPi. Dick Horne’s theme song: “Helen in the winter, Katie in the summer.” The Chi Psis break into print again (oh, how they love pub licity!) as Larry Courtright goes steady with Mary Word, Kappa. A gullible man is one who thinks that his daughter has been a good girl, because she comes home from a trip with a Gideon Bible in her handbag. We'd bettor end this while the ending’s good! We Are At It Again! We've found a clever se lection of new soft wools, coupled with colors good enough to rate, and styled fro m Mademoiselle and Vogue. So again — we are turning them over to you at $7.95 ■— and they are worth twice that. COLLEGE CQEEEK SOTi Will £t. Ptcns 633 A >